Massive flood damage cripples St. Marys Canal lock
The Sault Ste. Marie canal on Lake Superior suffered major destruction when the Perry G. Walker rammed the lower gate, tearing upper gates and causing two waterfalls and a whirlpool. The Crescent City and Assiniboia were damaged, with repairs likely to exceed 350,000 dollars and the lock out for the season.
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Assiniboia
Canadian Pacific
Crescent City
Pittsburg Steamship Company
Lake Superior
Walker
Mosher
Ellison cites rising river traffic despite declines in through tonnage
Captain J F Ellison of Cincinnati and secretary of the national rivers and harbors congress argues that inland waterways show increased local and way tonnage on the Lower Mississippi. He notes Memphis, Vicksburg, and Natchez as hubs, praises Western steamboat design, and calls for river improvements to restore rivers as main commerce arteries.
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Washington
J. F. Ellison
Cincinnati
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Mississippi River
William E. Curtis
Inland Waterway Commission
Ellison
Curtis
The
St. Louis
New Orleans
Memphis
Vicksburg
Natchez
South America
Magdalena River
Pittsburg
Magdalena
Canadian canal accident won’t halt Great Lakes steamship traffic
The Sault Ste. Marie incident will not disrupt Lake Superior to lower lakes service as the American canal remains intact to handle traffic. The Canadian canal, 1 1/8 miles long and 150 feet wide, has a 900 by 60 foot lock. built 1888 to 1895, its earlier lock dated from 1778 and the canal cost 4 million dollars.
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Chicago
Sault Ste. Marie
Lake Sflperior
Lower Lakes
St. Mary’s River
Hudson Bay Fur Company
Mackinac Island
Prisoner Makes Escape Under Guns of Guards
In Joliet Illinois on June 9 a jail escape plan involving over 100 prisoners was blocked when 150 convicts were held at gunpoint after one man broke from the quarry line. August Walter the running convict fled beside a speeding trolley before being captured after a two hour manhunt. He was trapped in a shed by a farmer’s daughter alerted by telephone.
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Joliet
Ill
State Penitentiary
Walter
Liberty
Williams
Walter Wright
Richland One
Wright
Martisi
Dennison
Secret Service
Marfisi
Antonio Viccarrio
Carmton
United States Commission
Woman preacher resigns from Kansas City church
Rev. Miss Mary Andrews resigns after seven years as pastor of the First Universalist church of Kansas City. She plans years of study abroad and possible return to ministry. She is daughter of R N Andrews former superintendent of the Hamilton electric plant and sister of W N Andrews paving contractor.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Mary Andrews
First Universalist Church of
Kansas City
R. N. Andrews
Hamilton Electric
W N. Andrews
Barn Dance Replaced by Graceful Gaiety Dance
Milwaukee convention of the Professional Teachers of Dancing votes to replace the barn dance with a gaiety dance deemed more graceful. Officers elected include President J R Shackne Toledo. Vice President G D Schultz Chicago. Secretary John Davis Toronto. Treasurer Samuel M Earry Toronto. School Director D R Ross Toronto. Next convention heads to Chicago.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Professional Teachers of Dancing Association
J. R. Shackne
Toledo
G. D. Schultz
Chicago
John Davis
Toronto
Ont
Samuel M. Earry
D. R. Ross
Heney Completes Calhoun Case in San Francisco Trial
Assistant District Attorney Heney announced the prosecution will finish presenting its case in the Patrick Calhoun trial by adjournment tomorrow night. He said he has reason to believe all intended evidence can be before the jury by then.
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San Francisco
Cal
Heney
Patrick Calhoun
Widow of Cincinnati ties tragedy to newspaper report
Mrs. Jane Clark Procter Jones aged 69, widow and former Cincinnati resident, died in Toledo after ingesting three teaspoons of carbolic acid in a suspected act of self harm. Coroner Henseler cites melancholia triggered by a Cincinnati newspaper account of another death by own action. Her daughter Edith witnessed the disclosure and hurried medical aid failed. The acid was bought in Cincinnati and the body returned for burial.
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Toledo
Cincinnati
Jane Clark Procter Jones
Lucas County
Edith
Thirteenth Street
Jones
Henseler
Todd
A. Lotze
Heusler
Lebus Reassumes Bywley Tobacco Leadership at Winchester
Clarence Lebus returns as head of the Bywley Tobacco society after a Winchester meeting, with a salary package for past work and future services funded from society fees. The tale follows a tense prison breakout by George Williams, a convicted burglar, who escaped by roof routes and a rope, aided by his bold streak and minimal guard response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
Louisville
Clarence Lebus
Bywley Tobacco Society
Winchester
Lebus
Burley Tobacco
American Tobacco Company
Marion Officials Relieved Amid Italian Captive Demand
Marion authorities face persistent pressure from friends of Italian detainees who demand access to the captives. Citizens outside the bars press for insight while officials guard the prisoners.
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Marion
Federal Black Hand Raid and Petrosino Mystery
Federal authorities report about two post office inspectors sent to Springfield to probe the Ohio Black Hand plot. Thirteen arrests were made in Columbus Marion and Dennison as the case expands with names like Ciccarro Marsesi Marfisi Lima Rizzo Batagalia. The Petrosino murder case looms as investigators seek letters and connections amid jail transfers and a possible imminent arrest.
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Marion
Toledo
Petrosino
Bellefontaine
Springfield
Lima
Rizzo
Battaglia
Amicon
A. Marfisi
Dennison
Ami
Belief Cited in Toledo Suspected Suicide Case
Dr William Herbert Bell nephew of Mrs Jane Clarke Jones attributes her death to self inflicted cause following a stroke like paralysis a year earlier. He says bodily weakness may impair the mind and that death by own action is not rare in such cases.
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William Herbert Bell
Jane Clarke Jones
Toledo
Taft Suffers Golf Defeat on Chevy Chase Links
President Taft and General Clarence R. Edwards lost to Senator Bourne of Oregon and John Hays Hammond on slow greens after a rainy spell. The match was played at the Chevy Chase course in Washington.
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Washington
Taft
Clarence R. Edwards
Senator Bourne
Oregon
John Hays Hammond
Chevy Chase Links
Venezuelan Plot Aims to Install Castro in Power
Secret service and diplomatic contacts in New York are chasing leaders of a filibustering scheme to smuggle 30,000 rifles into Venezuela. The plan seeks to overthrow President Gomez in favor of Ciprigno Castro, with suspected links across Atlantic and Middle states.
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New York
Secret Service
Venezuela
Ciprigno Castro
Gomez
Atlantic
Middle States
Violence Flare In Large Peck Williamson Foundry Strike
At the Peck Williamson foundry in Wellston Ohio a clash broke out as forty nonunion men from Cincinnati and Columbus arrived by train. Strikers attacked strike breakers with stones and clubs, injuring several including John Bilanni han who is hospitalized with a fractured skull and jaw. Pickets guard the plant and more trouble is anticipated amid wage and recognition disputes.
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Wellston
Molderg
Peck-Wiliamson
Cincinnati
Columbus
Hocking Valley
Hommon
John Bilanni
Han
Fire Hits Louisville Affects Street Railway Office
Early morning blaze in Louisville Kentucky began near the Louisville Street Railway offices at 12 45 damaging A Hirschberg Co furniture store for about five thousand dollars. The fire threatened telegraph service and drew help from Nobles of the Mystic Shrine aiding with hoses and gear before the alarm was struck.
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Louisville, Ky
Louisville Street Railway
Louisville
A. Hirschberg & Co
Mystic Shrine
Ot Wise
Fef Tyson
Fez
Preacher Seeks to Oust Foster at Baptist Conference
Chicago June 9 The Rev Johnston Myers reports eighty one ministers will vote to expel Prof George Barnam Foster of the University of Chicago over alleged atheism and infidelity as the Baptist conference prepares to hear the case next Monday The case centers on Foster author of The Function of Religion and other works at odds with orthodoxy.
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Chicago
Johnston Myers
Baptist Conference
George Barnam Foster
University of Chicago
Foster
Suspects in Ed Callahan Shooting Under Arrest
Elisha Smith and Levi Johnson were lodged in Jackson jail after being charged with shooting Ed Callahan. A special grand jury may be impaneled to investigate the charges as tensions rise with factions converging on Lexington. Reports indicate troops could be called to prevent clashes.
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Lexington
Elisha Smith
Levi Johnson
Callahan
Jackson
Jackspi Ete T
Avie
Quake Destroys Town of Koringhi in Sumatra
In Padang Sumatra a quake on the night of June 3 4 leveled the town of Koringhi about 185 miles southeast of Padang. Two hundred people were killed and many injured as a tidal wave swept huts away.
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Padang
Sumatra
Koringhi
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Low and
Canadian Canal
Mich
Gilchrist
Calhoun
Cincin
George Path
R.M. C. Hosford
Joseph Petrosino
Burley Tobagco Society
Harvey Johnson
George Williams
William Thomas
Ohio Penitentiary
Nic
Johnson
Dg Stygle
Beile@ fontaine
Cleveland
Ohio
Black Hand Piot
Tigate
Hosford and
Pate
Columbus, CO
Postoffice
Inspector Oldfield
Black Hand
Palermo
Italy
Portant
Carrio
Augustini Marsesi
Ter
Mini Imerce
Patrosirs
Collogero Ciccarrio
Marsesi
United States
Taylor
Marion, O
Samuel Lima
Salvatore
Joe Batagalia
United States Marshals
B. J
Jai Lima
Lars
E. F
Hutches of Cincinnati Inspector of the
Post Office Department
Onto District
John Ami
Con
John Amicon
Lieved
Oldfield
Police
Antoni Vicario
Joe Rizzo
Samuel Lime
Samuel Risso
Salvatore Batagalia
Castro
John Blannihan
Pany
Prof
George B. Foster
Ed Callahan
Korinchi
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