Taft Enjoys Long Auto Ride Through Pittsburgh Parks
President Taft toured the Pittsburgh park system for about two and a half hours, covering fifty to sixty miles by car. Police and Secret Service struggled to keep up as he laughed off the dust of the convoy. The day also included plans for founders day at the Carnegie Institute and a visit to the Laughlin home.
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Pittsburg
Asso
Ciated Press
Allegheny
Lice
Secret Service
Archibald Butt
Laughlin
Ty Miles
Associated Press Dispatch
Carnegie Institute
The
Americas Club
Taft
Thomas K. Laughlin
Buffalo
Knox
Allegheny County
Phil
Mr. Knox
Magee
Committee of the Americas
Bad Liberty
Unitarians
Rus
Esident
Woodland Road
Carnegie
Institute
America
Alfred East
England
Insurgents Aim to Attack Steamship Venus Off Nicaragua
The Estrada forces on Nicaragua's east coast plan to capture or sink the steamship Venus, sailing from New Orleans to Greytown with Madrid army supplies. Insurgents, armed with small vessels, are said to pursue the Venus before it reaches Greytown, raising fears of international intervention due to its British registry and flag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New Orleans
Estrada
Nicaragua
Venus
Greytown
Madrid
Tega
Enus
Hyland
Union Car Conductor Shot in Philadelphia Fight
John McGuicken a union street car conductor was shot and killed during a clash between union and nonunion motormen in Philadelphia. Victor Farrell a nonunion man from Washington admitted the shooting but says it was self defense. He was held without bail.
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Philadelphia
John McGuicken
Union
Victor Farrell
Washington, D. C
Two Kentucky Boys Duel With Knives in Whisky Fueled Fight
Report from Glasgow Kentucky details a bloody knife duel between Ira Sherrill and Roy Madison from Alvaton Warren County. Both boys reportedly cut each other and fell until lifeless, with alcohol stated as a contributing factor.
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Glasgow
Ira Sherrill
Roy Madison
Alvaton
Warren County
Ten Thousand March in Parade as Columbus Strike Rages
A May Day march in Columbus sees about ten thousand union workers parade through the city led by a 199 piece union band. Traffic halts with streetcars idle as workers demand arbitration, banners urge action, and socialists join the demonstration while arbitration talks proceed.
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Columbus, O
Columbus Street Railway
Death claims J. Q. A. Ward the sculptor
John Quincy Adams Ward renowned American sculptor dies at his New York home in his eightieth year. Survived by his widow and brother Edgar Ward, his funeral will be held Tuesday and he will be interred in Urbana, Ohio. Ward created famous equestrian and public statues including Washington in Union Square and Hancock for the Smith memorial.
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Associated Press Dispatch
New York
John . Quincey Adams Ward
America
Edgar Melville Ward
Urbana
Mr. Ward
New York City
Ohio
Henry K. Brown
Washington
Union Square
Sheridan
Hancock
Phiadelphia
Pilgrim
Shakespeare
Central Park
Henry Ward Beecher
Borough Halls Park
Brooklyn
Commodore Perry
Newport
R. I
Israel
Putnam
Hartford
Conn
Smith Memorial
Philadelphia
Daniel C. French
Ward
Edwin Booth
Mr. French
St. Gaudens
General Thomas
Sure Nough Coon Round Town Joy Ride
Police searched the city for four hours last night after a drunken woman, claiming to be a “coon,” drove away a milk wagon with a man present. Don Biiliott, 26, homeless, registered at Central with a drunkenness charge.
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Iriarte
Sachs
Nairomarite
Tlee
Central Station
Dillon
Fifth District
Don Biiliott
Beveridge to Revive Child Labor Crusade Bill
Senator Beveridge will introduce a measure prohibiting interstate railroad transport of goods produced by factories or mines employing children under 14. The proposal aims to revive the anti child labor crusade with new enforcement.
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Beveridge
Child Labor
Commercial
Tribune
Washington
Eight Year Old Hungarian Girl Reported Missing
Eight year old Mary Likin of 2008 Central Avenue was reported missing by her father after leaving home at 1 PM and not returning by 10 30 PM. Police were notified last night.
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Mary.Likin
Central Avenue
Assessments Reach 23 Million Dollars In Corporate Tax
The Internal Revenue Bureau reports corporate tax assessments total 23,954,536 dollars to date with 132,433 dollars collected so far.
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Washington
Associated Press
Internal Revenue Bureau
Death Claims Rear Admiral Hichborn
Rear Admiral Philip Hichborn U S N retired died at his Washington home at 71 after two months of arterial sclerosis and a cerebral hemorrhage. He served 32 years active duty ending in 1901 as chief constructor and helped prepare ships for the Spanish American War. He devised the Hichborn balanced turrets and the Franklin life buoy and authored naval construction works. Interment will be at Mount Auburn Boston near his former Charles Town home.
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Washington
Associated Press
Philip Hichborn
P. S. Pearson
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Boston
Admiral
Charles
Hichborn
Navy
Cold Wave Forecast For Northern and Middle States
Weather bureau predicts cool conditions in the northern and middle districts through the week with frost likely over the lower Missouri middle Mississippi and Ohio valleys. unsettled weather to spread in central regions but southern states stay mostly dry as western disturbance approaches the Atlantic coast mid next week.
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Washington
Associated Press
United States
Weather Bureau
Missouri
Mississippi
Ohio
Atlantic
Nord Alexis dies in Jamaica after exile from Haiti
Nord Alexis, ex president of Haiti, died in Kingston Jamaica at 8:00 am after a brief illness. A former ruler deposed in 1908 and exiled, he lived in refugee status amid Kingston property interests. His death follows a turbulent career marked by revolts and harsh reprisals against rivals.
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Nord Alexis
Kingston
Jamaica
Haiti
Alexis
Hayti
Port Au Prince
Revolune
A Simon
Pntalias
Nord
Hippolyte
Pre
Port Ab Prince
Antoiné Simon
Simon
Port Au
Duguy Trouin
Pickpockets Strike Downtown Crowds
Police investigated a trio of light fingered men suspected of robbing Sun day crowds. E C Fricke reported his pocketbook stolen after a jostle on a car near Freeman avenue and Liberty street. Alfred Wheaton, watching visitors in Government square, discovered his wallet gone from the railroad mail car.
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E. C. Fricke
Race Street
Freeman Avenue
Liberty Street
Fricke
Alfred Wheaton
Eighth
Baymiller Streets
Government Square
Central station policeman shoots self on beat
Francis E. Heavy of Central station police, patrolling his beat in Chicago on May 1, suddenly drew his revolver and shot himself in the right temple. He died a few minutes later. He was believed to be temporarily insane at the moment of the act.
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Chicago
Associated ® Press
Francis E. Heavy
Ent Engler
Amman Street
Falls 75 Feet Not Badly Hurt In Early Morning Plunge
George Pack, 38, a woodworker from Battle Creek Michigan, fell five stories from a Spencer house window as he slept. He landed on ashes, survived with serious bruises and shock, and possible internal injuries undetermined. He had been staying across the river.
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George Pack
Battle Creek
Mich
Spencer House
Pack
Eagles Forced To Flee From Home Amid Blaze
Family of Anthony evacuates as flames threaten their residence. Eagles rescue their mother with volunteers aiding firefighters to prevent the blaze from spreading.
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Anthony
Fire destroys three plants and home north of Chester Park
Incendiary origin fire yesterday leveled the Jacob Freund Roofing plant and the Cincinnati Roofing Tile and Terra Cotta plant, plus a nearby cottage on Ammann avenue. Loss estimated at 150000 dollars with 75000 coverage. The Engler family narrowly escaped as flames spread across the block aided by winds. Firefighters and volunteers battled the blaze despite low water pressure, while surrounding properties and a plumbing goods firm faced threat from the flames.
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Freund Roofing Company
Cincinnati
Terra Cotta Company
Ammann Ave
Mitchell Avenue
Chester Park
Pany
Jacob Freund
Anthony Engler
Plant
Engler
Louis’ Lipp
Cincinnati Roofing
Ammann Avenue
Spring Grove Avenue
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Cotta Company
William Engler
Young Engler
Jacob Kollmer
Phoenix Park
Summer Garden
Freund
Winton Place Fire Company
Volun
Ose
Louis Lipp Phumbing Goods Company
Lipp
Lipp Company
Ammann
Mitchell
Spring
1 Lipp Company
Pilgrims Return from Shrine with Crutches Evidence
Carey's Our Lady of Consolation church reports pilgrims returning from the annual voyage with crutches left as evidence of cures. Sylvester Reinstatler, 12, of 511 Central avenue, now at 824 Suire avenue, Price co, accompanied by his grandmother Mrs Catherine Macke, whose deafness improved after the pilgrimage. Mrs Macke had a prior improvement last year. Dispatches note Elizabeth Ducefeyer of 3637 avenue, troubled by nervous prostration, also journeyed to the shrine for relief with reported gains.
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Our Lady of Consolation Church
Carey
Sylvester Reinstatler
Charles Reinstatler
Central Avenue
Suire Avenue
Price Co
Catherine Macke
Reinstatler
Macke
Former G. A. R. Chief Gobin Dies at 73 in Pennsylvania
Major General J P S Gobin, retired head of the Pennsylvania National Guard and former commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, died after a long illness in Lebanon Pennsylvania. He was 73. Death was due to paralysis.
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J. P. S. Gobin
Pennsylvania National Guard
Lebanon
Associated Press
J. P. S.gobin
Pennsylvania
Grand Army of the Republic
Little Girl Narrowly Escapes After Streetcar Collision
Louise Mason a 13 year old schoolgirl of 748 West Fifth Street was struck by a Third and Fifth street car in front of the Fourth district police station. She was thrown to the street but escaped serious injury and was taken by Patrol 4 to the city hospital.
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Louise ‘Mason
West Fifth Street
Fourth District
City Hospital
Little Girl's Neck Broken in Farm Accident
A seven year old girl died after two children fell from a fertilizer spreader when frightened horses fled the wagon near Sidney Ohio. The incident occurred on the Vandemark farm two miles from Sidney and involved William Relston's children.
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Commercial Tribune
Sidney, C
William Relston
Daniel Vandemark
Sidney
Baseball Fans Fall Out Over St. Louis Reds Game
During an argument after the St. Louis Reds game yesterday, William O'Brien of 2188 West Highth Street and Charles Catanzano of 918 Baymiller came to blows. Police detained both men on disorderly conduct charges at the Fourth district station.
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St. Louis Reds
William O’brien
West Highth Street
Charles Catanzano
Baymiller
Gest
Berlin
Fourth District
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Joy Rider
William Howard Taft
Columbus
Commercial Tribune Bureau
Harrison Bros
High Street
Milwaukee
United Garment Workers
EB. K.stewart
J. Q. A. Ward
John Quincy Adams Ward
General Nord AxExis
Frickers
Westwood
Forster
Preston
Charley Morris
Canal
Walnut Streets
Sula
Kollmer
Miss Anna
Winton Place
Vine and
Charleton
Chase and
Hamilton Avenue
Rockdale Avenue
Avondale
Clifton
Ludlow Avenues
Hook and Ladder
Bunker
Birk
Millikin
Katherine Engler
Louis
William
Theresa Engler
Louis Engler
Our Lady of Consolation
Abel Add
Federal Grand Jury
Addison
Post Office
Canada
Mexico
Campbell
Nora Johnson
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