Wheat rush drives July option above eighty nine cents in chaos
Panic as wheat brokers flood the Chicago board with buy orders for July and other months. Traders cite expected short crop, cold weather, and Canadian seeds delays. Prices surge with July near 91 cents and December near 95 cents as bulls predict export demand and possible exceedance of the dollar mark.
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Northwest
Canadian Northwest
Winnipeg
Manitoba
F.l
Shorts
New York
Pittsburg
Minneapolis
Kansas City
St. Louis
Paris S fire sweep cripples two factories
Two blazes in Paris on May 11 required the entire city fire department. A Aubin's cartridge factory in St Denis and Hermann La Chapelile's metal works in Montmartre burned rapidly. Thugs attacked hoses, robbing homes evacuees. Damage estimated at 2 million dollars. injuries reported and feared deaths of two firemen.
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Paris
Aubin
Mrs. Russell Sage Donates 200000 to YMCA
New York on May 11 reports Mrs. Russell Sage donated 200000 dollars to the Young Men's Christian Association. The funds will aid the enlargement of the Naval Branch Building.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Russell Sage
Young Men's Christian Association
Naval Branch
Sermattaten Grattte Broek
Bryan and Woman Dissatisfied With Damages Verdict
In Xenia Ohio Mrs Mary G Stueler awarded 1200 in a 25000 breach of promise suit against John Bryan. She vows to pursue a Supreme Court appeal, criticizes a juror, and says she plans to publish her life story. Bryan seeks a new trial claiming the verdict excessive.
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Commercial Tribune
Xenia
Bryan
Supreme Court
Mary G. Stueler
John Bryan
M. J. Hartley
Turing
Mr. Bryan
Madison, Square Gardens
New York
Riverside
Arcade
Springfield
Frederica Murphy
Cincinnati
Miss Murphy
Frido Cars Run Despite Strikers in San Francisco
United Railroads resumed passenger service for the first time since the street car strike began a week earlier. About 1,000 riders were carried by ten to fifteen cars on two lines with five minute headways. One hundred twenty five nonunion motormen and conductors operated the cars as 500 police guarded streets amid scattered jeers and cheers but no major incidents.
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Commercial Tribune
San Francisco
United Railroads
Stanyon
Page
Presidio
Sutter
Engineer killed as pipe draws blood at Armour plant
Chicago May 11 Walter Hunter an Armour & Co engineer was killed early today while repairing a power plant when his legs were caught in a suction pipe nearly every drop of blood was drawn from his body and four other workers could not release him a post mortem showed his heart had shriveled from the pressure.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Walter Hunter
Armour & Co
Hunter
Closed on account of death ties two victims together
Harry Thomas barber of 1801 Eastern avenue died in a wreck on the Cincinnati Flemingsburg & Southeastern Railroad near Flemingsburg Kentucky. He had posted a shop sign “Closed on account of death” and planned to accompany his wife’s father Dallas Rankins to Hillsboro Kentucky for the funeral. His death follows a misfortune suffered by his wife’s family, as he becomes the second victim in two days.
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Harry Thomas
Eastern Avenue
Dallas Rankins
Hillsboro
Thomas
Cincinnati, Flemingsburg & Southeastern Railroad
Flemingsburg
Hargis Trial Hearings Reveal Murder Plots and Pardons
John Smith testified as principal prosecution witness in the Hargis case, detailing plans to kill Dr. Cox and other targets in Jackson. He described talks with Jim Hargis and Callahan, including an offer of an advance pardon from the Governor, and noted gun supply and involvement by Abner, Spicer, and others.
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Commercial Tribune
Lexington
John Smith
Hargis
Callahan
B. D. Cox
Jackson
Jim Hargis
Frankfort
United States
State House
John Abner
Alberry Spicer
Elbert Hargis
Bill Britton
Dr. Cox
James B. Marcum
Cockrill Boys
Cardwell
Cockrill
Hargis Bros
Beverly Jouett
Jouett
Ed Callahan
Curt Jett
A. H. Barkley
John Patrick
Charleston
W. Va
Farmers Called to Try Haywood Trial Panel
Sheriff Hodgin and seven deputies served Ada county farmers with notices to appear in Boise for jury examination in the William D. Haywood trial. A 100 person panel is expected to yield 12 qualified jurors for the case of the Western Federation of Miners. Subpoenas targeted Acting Secretary Kerwin, who indicated willingness to testify if needed.
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Commercial Tribune
Boise
Idaho
Shad” Hodgin
Adamunty
Bolse Cee
William D. Haywood
Western Federation of Miners
Kirwin
Kerwin
Denver
Federation
Wabash Debt Fixed by Master in Toledo Case
William H. H. Miller, former United States Attorney General and Special Master Commissioner, filed his report in the Ohio foreclosure proceedings of the Wabash system. The accounting traces back to liens on the old Pacific Road, with $5,218,820 due as of June 30, 1903, potentially prolonging twenty years of litigation in federal court.
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Commercial Tribune
Toledo
William H. H. Miller
Indianapolis
United States
Ohio Division
Wabash Railroad
United States Circuit Court
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad
Thomas Cooley
Thomas B. Atkins
United States Court
James R. Jessup
Isaac Knox
James Compton
New York
Ohio
William H. Taft
Taft
Wabash
Pacific Company
Miller
Toledo & Illinois Railroad
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
Toledo & Wabash
Illness Relieves Admiral Evans of Humiliating Duty
Washington May 11 naval officers note the amusing coincidence of Rear Admiral Robley D Evans falling ill and avoiding the first call to Vice Admiral Ijuin who commanded Japanese cruisers at Hampton Roads for the Jamestown Exposition. Evans would have met Ijuin at the flagship Connecticut, but gout and absence altered customs. This episode spares Evans any personal affront and prompts discussion of maritime etiquette and national pride.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Robley D. Evans
G. Ijuin
Tsukuba
Chitose
Hampton Roads
Evans
Atlantic
Japan
Dewey
Bob” Evans
England
France
Ijuin
Togo
Connecticut
Bob
Davis
Wreck Kills 21 on Coast Line Shrine Train
A Pacific coast wreck five miles south of Surf on May 11 killed 21 Shriners and severely injured 22 others. The engine wheel broke causing the locomotive to derail and overturn. cars were smashed and many passengers burned or scorched. Survivors aided by rear coaches prevented further loss as fire was fought, and victims were taken to Santa Barbara or San Luis Obispo for care.
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AL Koran Temple
Cleveland
Board of
Trace
Naval Y. M. C. A
Helen Gould
Woman
Fea
Fridgo
Federal
Ohio Railroad Company
Admiral Evans
Goat
Lewis Bernard
Tut
TUT Boys
OWLS
Howe
Thain
Lompoc
Cal
Coast Line of the Pacific
Surf
Seri
Cocahes
The
Déwa
A. Wasson
Buffalo
Henry J. Fisher
Cleve
Cora Young
T. Roth
Reading
Henry
Lebanon
O. J. W. Gutler
Bing
Hamton
A. L. Rother
Charles Lowing
W. Stoffer
Oliver Kauffman
Albert Siesse
Harry Lebo
J. Douglas Hipple
Rajah Temple
Hipple
Los Angeles
Gars
Santa Barbara
San Luis Obispo
Imperial
Mystic Shrine
Alvah P. Clayton
W. H. Brown
Brown
Ismalia Temple
Pennsylvania
Ban Luis Obispo
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