Paris Bazaar Fire Claims Nobles and Guests
A disastrous Paris Charity Bazaar blaze killed over a hundred women including duchesses and countesses and injured many others. The wooden structure's single exit and rapid collapse trapped panicking crowds as firemen and police rushed to recover bodies at Palais de lIndustrie with Cabinet ministers and nobles among the mourners.
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Commercial Tribune
Paris
Hospital Beaujon
Duchesse d’Uzes
Palais de l’Industrie
France
General Boulanger
Duchesse d’Uges
Mme
Marie Dé Luines
Duc de Chaulnes
Geome
Besnard
Kentucky office seekers ride to Washington on Deboe trip
The Kentucky group led by Deboe heads to Washington with a delegation of candidates for federal posts. Key figures include C M Barnett seeking Revenue Collector posts, W J Hissem aiming for Newport postmaster, Charles Blanford seeking US Marshal, A B James after the same post, John W Yerkes targeting Revenue Collector, and Thomas L Neat seeking Louisville port surveys.
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Commercial Tribune
Lexington
Kentucky Brigade
Washington
Déboe
State Central Committee
C. M. Barnett
Louisville
W. J. Hissem
Campbell County
Newport
Charles Blanford
Breckinridge County
Kentucky
A. B. James
Muhlenberg County
John W. Yerkes
Danville
Thomas L. Neat
Frankfort Penitentiary
Adair County
Sam J. Roberts
Republican State Executive Committee
Internal Revenue
Internal
Charles H. Rodes
John Yerkes
Yerkes
Rodes
P. Wat Hardin
United States
Blackburn
Stone
George W. Long
Andrew Thompson
John Bennett
Richmond
Frankfort
Todd
Lyons in Washington Aide to Deboe Arrives
Hon. W. H. Lyons of Newport reached Washington to prep for Senator Deboe's upcoming work. He stayed at Hotel Johnson with F. J. Cheek and wife from Paris and Dr. Hunter, and met national figures while cautioned to avoid public statements and journalists. Cincinnati Rep. Bramwell conveyed tips at the depot.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
W. H. Lyons
Newport
Deboe
Lyons
Johnson
F. J. Cheek
Paris
Hunter
Bramwell
Mr. Lyons
Cincinnati
West
Willie
Kentucky
Mr. Bromwell
Deboe resigns State Senate seat in Kentucky
Senator Deboe submitted his resignation to Lieutenant Governor Worthington. The resignation was read and accepted during the Kentucky Senate session today.
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Commercial Tribune
Frankfort
Deboe
Worthington
Senate
Governor Answers Hanna on Ohio Convention Dates
Columbus likely hosts the Republican State Convention June 23 and 24 with Columbus as time and place. The event will nominate Governor Bushnell and indorse Senator Hanna for re election. Hanna advised dates while Bushnell suggested June 23 24 or early June depending on Ohio Day and G A R Encampment. Major C W F Dick arrives to open headquarters.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Toledo
Cleveland
State Central Committee
Bushnell
Hanna
Ohio
Nashville
G. A
Boy’s play shotgun misfires kills 4 year old
Marietta Ohio reports Raymond Scott eight years old pointed a loaded shotgun at his four year old brother at Belpre. The gun discharged instantly killing the younger child. Authorities investigate the accidental shooting incident.
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Commercial Tribune
Marietta
Belpre
Raymond Scott
Woman Arrested in Dynamite Rampage at Pike County Camp
Elitha Hunt, charged with wrecking a steam sawmill and several houses with dynamite at Hatcher Bros lumber camp in Pike County, was arrested and jailed in Pikeville yesterday.
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Commercial Tribune
Paintsville
Elitha Hunt
Hatcher Bros
Pike County
Pikeville
Plea for Durrant Filed in Behr Court
Theodore Durrant's attorney Couprey has filed a copy of his proposed bill of exceptions on appeal to the California Supreme Court. The document challenges the April 10 denial of a continuance and the order to San Quentin to await June 11 execution, arguing double punishment and sentencing without attorney Dickinson present.
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San Francisco
Couprey
Theodore Durrant
San Quentin
Durrant
Dickinson
City to distribute General Grant tomb bricks to G A R posts
Caillers at City Hall sought bricks from General Grant’s temporary tomb but were disappointed. Mayor said Brady sent 1,000 bricks and the city will seek Board of Estimates permission to transfer them to Grand Army Posts that requested them.
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New York
Grant
Brady
Board of Estimate
Five Anarchists Executed Near Fort Montjuich
In Barcelona on May 4 five anarchists convicted for the June 7 bomb outrage were shot outside Fort Montjuich. They shouted Long live anarchy before the firing squad.
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Barcelona
Fort Montjuich
Driven to the Altar as Gunmen Force Marriage in Louisville
Emmett Burch and Mattie Middleton wed after attendants with pistols a shotgun and a knife escorted them to a ferry and to Jeffersonville where Magistrate House joined them. Burch fled after the ceremony and his father contends the union is illegal, planning annulment.
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Commercial Tribune
Louisville
Emmett Burch
Second Street
Mattie Middleton
Burch
W. E. Burch
Miss Middleton
Dick Geesling
Jeffersonville
Young Burch
Cuban War Dying Promises Rapid Rail Restoration
Colonel C Schiff owner of the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad says the Cuban revolt is practically ended after visiting interior lines. Insurgents have retreated inland and the railroad property was heavily damaged requiring hundreds of thousands to rebuild depots engines and rolling stock.
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Commercial Tribune
New Orleans
C. Schiff
New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad
Cuba
Schiff
Annual Meeting Opens at Parkersburg Grand Lodge
The Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen begins its annual meeting at Knights of Pythias Hall in Parkersburg with delegates from many districts. Councilman Watson welcomes, Grand Master Workman McCleary responds, and the Degree is conferred. The three day gathering opens with routine reports and committee work.
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Commercial Tribune
Parkersburg
W. Va
Grand Lodge of the
Ancient Order of United Workmen
Knights of Pythias
Thomas
Watson
McCleary
Grand Lodge
Drowning of Two Farm Girls Near Wickliffe
Misses Mattie and Kate Steel, living with their parents on a Mississippi River farm near Wickliffe, drowned last night when their skiff overturned in a swift midstream current while returning from a party. They were accompanied by Andrew Brogar.
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Wickliffe
Mattie
Kate Steel
Mississippi River
Andrew Brogar
Williams Medal junior declamatory contest winner
MT Vernon Kentucky May 4 The junior declamatory contest for the Williams Medal was held April 30 at the college with ten contestants Risse Williams daughter of C C Williams won first prize Della Arnold took second prize.
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Commercial Tribune
Mt, Vernon
College
Risse Williams
C. C. Willams
Della Arnold
Scaffold Erected for Henry Jones Execution in Indiana Prison
Special Dispatch reports Henry Jones, condemned Indianapolis murderer, awaits execution at Michigan City Prison. The scaffold was erected in the insane ward and Jones will be led from his cell Friday morning for the first Northern Prison execution under the new law, witnessed only by the Warden, the prison physician, and a guards detail.
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Commercial Tribune
Laporte
Ind
Henry Jones
Indianapolis
Michigan City
Jones
Tolleston Gun Club guard guilty of simple assault
Crown Point Ind May 4 The jury found Bar ney Whitlock guilty of simple assault and battery in the Tolleston Gun Club case and fined him 500 dollars while sentencing him to six months in county jail. He fired on five former boys on the Calumet Marsh last January who were alleged trespassers. the jury believed he did not intend to kill.
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Commercial Tribune
Crown Point
Ind
Tolleston
Girl Outlaw Jennie Davis Captured In Kentucky
Constable Aaron Cobb and deputies arrested Jennie Davis a sixteen year old leader of a gypsy gang after a chase to Rockhouse Cave. She faced vagrancy charges and, with farmer William Lowry, was jailed in Nicholasville pending Circuit Court trial amid a wary crowd and potential trouble.
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Commercial Tribune
Nicholasville
Aaron Cobb
Jennie Davis
Madison County
Davis
Jessamine County
Cobb
Hughes and
Palmer
Rockhouse Cave
Wm. Lowry
Mt. Lebanon
Lowry
Pabst to Wed Again Miss Hilda Lemp's Milestone Match
Engagement announced in Milwaukee between Miss Hilda Lemp daughter of St. Louis brewer W J Lemp and Colonel Gustav G Pabst of Milwaukee First Vice President of Pabst Brewing Company The marriage date is pending Colonel Pabst aged 30 previously on the Governor's staff and recently divorced from Margaret Mather The match links two major brewing families in St Louis and Milwaukee
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Commercial Tribune
Milwaukeer
Wis
Hilda. Lemp
W. J. Lemp
St. Louis
Gustav G. Pabst
Milwaukee
Colonel Pabst
Gustav Pabst
Fred Pabst
Pabst Brewing Company
Margaret Mather
August Uihlein
Schlitz Brewing Company
Pabst Company
Lemp
Prominent Ohio Treasurer Accused of Major Shortage
Ingle Rush of Logan County is alleged to be short about 30 000 in township funds He invested township money in Tennessee oil and mineral lands hoping to recover after re election He faced defeat and now faces questions over missing school funds church money and guardianship assets No arrest yet.
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Ingle Rush
Bellefontaine, O
Commercial Tribune
Bellefontaine
Logan County
Stokes Township
Rush
Tennessee
Christian Union Church
Rhoads
Murder In Harbor: Body Found On Steam Barge Olympia
The body of R. B. Osborn of Detroit was found in the hold of the steam barge Olympia in Cleveland harbor. His head was crushed and his clothes stripped of valuables. Police believe the death was murder.
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Cleveland, O
R. B. Osborn
Detroit
Mich
Olympia
Osborn
Train wreck near Bluff City leaves 2 dead
Passen ger Train No 2 on the Southern Railway wrecked and overturned near Bluff City Tennessee about 100 miles from Knoxville. Two people are reported killed and others wounded.
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Tenn
Southern Railway
Bluff City
Knoxville
Buckeye Pike Toll House Burned. Toll Collected Halted
In Lancaster Kentucky on May 4 the buckeye pike president ordered no further tolls and refused reconstruction of the toll house after it was burned last Thursday night by raiders.
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Commercial Tribune
Lancaster
Buckeye Pike
Former theological student chops wood for transport
J. W. Williams once a theological student at Adasas City chops wood at the Wayfarer's Rest in Louisville to earn passage to Quincy Illinois.
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Commercial Tribune
Louisville
J. W. Williams
Adasas City
Quincy
Ill
Earthquake Felt Across Southwestern Michigan Sunday Night
Reports from many towns in Southwestern Michigan say an earthquake shock was felt for several seconds Sunday night. In Holland, the front of a brick building fell into the street.
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Niles
Mich
Michigan
Holland
Tariff Bill Faces Senate Action With Changes In Wool Rules
Washington May 4 The Senate Finance Committee reported the tariff bill and plans to bring it up May 18. Key changes cut retroactive provisions, scrapped reciprocity, and set new duties on wool and textiles including lower per pound rates for some wools, modified ad valorem charges, and updated classifications. The Hawaiian treaty provision is struck out, shifting sugar duties.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Aldrich
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Eee
Halstead On Cuba Urges Annexation After Tour
Springfield May 4 Murat Halstead spoke on Cuba at the Grand Opera House under the Third Presbyterian Church. He depicted martial rule under Weyler and Gomez, urged Americanization and annexation, and predicted Cuba would become American within five years with a population of five million and US commerce gains.
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Commercial Tribune
Springfield
Murat Halstead
Cuba
United States
Grand Opera House
Third Presbyterian Church
Halstead
Clifton M. Nicholls
Cess
Weyler
Spain
Gomez
Maceo
Crown
Ohio
General coal strike starts in East Tennessee and Southern Kentucky
May 4 report from Chattanooga notes a looming general strike as 2,000 Jellico miners already walked out and 1,000 more joined across Kentucky. 5,000 idle if operators at Lexington approve a 6 percent wage cut that took effect May 1. The dispute centers on the wage reduction and coal operators' session in Lexington.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Upper East Tennessee
Kentucky
Lexington
Stolen Drinks Lead to Death In Huntington
Perry Kaufman William Davis and John Darbenstott stole alcohol from E E Yoos drug store then consumed pyroxylic alcohol shortly after. Kaufman and Davis died overnight and Darbenstott is dying. the poison was meant for mechanical use only.
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Huntington, Ill
Perry Kaufman
Wm. Davis
John Darbenstott
E. E. Yoos
Kaufman
Davis
Darbenstatt
Reward Raised in Blakesley Robbers Case
Findlay Ohio May 4 County Commissioners boosted a 150 dollar reward for the Blakesley gang. They set 60 dollars for the first conviction 460 for the second and 250 for each additional robber. The action follows John Blakesley’s death from a clubbing. The family says seven were in the gang.
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Commercial Tribune
Findlay
Blakesley
John Blakesley
Painter John Lingler Falls Into Mesmeric Sleep
Hamilton Ohio May 4 John Lingler a well known painter and brother of Fire Chief David Lingler has fallen into a trance-like sleep lasting 36 hours He woke briefly to eat then sank back into unconsciousness with normal pulse and no fever Dr Jacobs notes the appearance resembles a mesmeric trance with no signs of illness or arousal.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
John Lingler
David Lingler
Jacobs
Greeks Won't Sue for Peace Ministers Return to Front
Greek ministers who traveled to the front return after reiterating Greece will not seek peace. The group confirms resolve amid ongoing tensions and reports of resumed operations with allied forces.
Greek Cabinet Rounds Reports. War Continuation Declared
Athens reports that after a cabinet meeting, the ministers from the front gave their reports and the government resolved to continue the war. General Smolenski declined the post of Chief of Staff to the Crown Prince, preferring his own brigade. Foreign ministers offered powers intervention, to which Greece reserved reply.
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Athens
Pharsalos
Smolenski
Greece
Edhem Pasha Probing Greek Lines at Pharsalos Likely Assault
London May 4 The Turkish commander Edhem Pasha appears to be probing the Greek position at Pharsalos in preparation for a general attack His repeated wing assaults aim to force Constantine to send reinforcements and weaken the center at Pharsalos The strategy suggests a strong strike may follow at the weakened point
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London
Edhem Pasha
Pharsalos
Constantine
Greek troop command changes in Crete amid recall talks
Athens reports deny appointment of an officer to succeed Colonel Vassos in Crete. The move is seen as signaling recall of Greek troops from Crete and a shift in command. Colonel Vassos replaces Colonel Manos in Epirus. Ex-Minister Metaxes takes over from General Macras and Major Constantinides is named chief of Prince Constantine's staff.
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Athens
Vassos
Crete
Manos
Epirus
Metaxes
Macras
Constantinides
Constantine
Porte Allows Protection for Greeks During Exit Period
The Porte has agreed with the French Russian and British embassies to protect Greeks only during their permitted departure window and suspended all treaties with Greece for now. Captain Scriven of the American Embassy in Rome arrived en route to Thessaly to monitor operations.
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Constantinople
Porte
Greece
Scriven
Rome
Thessaly
Turkey to Build 500000 Army as War Prep
Constantinople reports Turkey will raise forces in European provinces to 300000 men and, with Anatolian troops, reach 500000. Four transports carrying troops passed the Dardanelles Sunday en route to the Aegean. final destination not disclosed.
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Constantinople
Anatolia
Turkey
Dardanelles
Aegean Sea
Turkish Force Strong in Kephalo Capture near Velestino
The Times dispatch from Velestino dated April 30 reports Turkish forces have seized the village of Kephalo at the pass foot and, with reinforcements from Larissa, could force the defile and capture Velestino if needed.
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London
the Times
Velestino
Kephalo
Larissa
One Is Sunk and Eleven of Her Crew Drown
A collision off Girdleness Lighthouse between the British steamers Collymee and Gringoe sank the Collynee. Eleven crewmen were drowned.
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Aberdeen
Scotland
Girdleness
Greeks Engage Turks Near Pentepigadia
A 6000 strong Greek force led by Colonel Balrachtharis is advancing toward Pentepigadia and clashing with Turkish troops, with battle under way as reported from Arta.
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London
Arta
Balrachtharis
Pentepigadia
Greek king accused of bond speculation earns millions
Paris May 4 The Gil Bias reports that the King of Greece used his country crisis to speculate in Greek and Turkish bonds and has cleared 30 000 000 to 35 000 000 francs in profits.
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Paris
Gil
Greece
Royal Proclamation Urges Neutrality in Turkey Greece War
London authorities issued a royal proclamation directing all British subjects to observe strict neutrality in the ongoing conflict between Turkey and Greece. The edict was gazetted this evening and applies to all citizens.
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London
Turkey
Greece
Guernsey County GOP Renominates Joyce and Backs Hanna
The Cambridge convention renominated Hon. James Joyce for the Legislature by acclamation. A unanimous resolution endorsed Hon. M. A. Hanna for United States Senator and directed the representative to support his election.
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Commercial Tribune
Cambridge, O
Guernsey County
Opera House
James Joyce
M. A. Hanna
United State
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Palais d’Industrie
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Philadelphia
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Hissem
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PABST
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