Japanese press demands France explain neutrality to ease tensions
France offers assurances of neutrality but Russian and Japanese naval circles keep suspicion alive over May events. Moscow sources note Vladivostok squadron may have crossed Tsugaru Straits to test mine clearance and feasibility for Rojestvensky's fleet, while a Russian expert credits his leadership with influencing the East's fate.
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Tokyo
France
ST. Petersburg
Admiralty
Vladivostok
Japan
Rojestvensky
Tsugaru Straits
Pacific
M. Vronski
Novoe Vremya
Oyama
Sakhalin
Far East
Slovo
Sinal Guard
Russia
Citizens Demand Elimination of Grade Crossings
City business groups and citizens gathered at the Council Committee on Steam Railroads to protest the Cincinnati Lebanon Northern franchise ordinance. They oppose granting the railroad right to cross certain city streets and threats of voting on the issue at the next municipal election were noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern
WHS Death in Storm a Murder Michael Kinney Victim
Michael Kinney a 52 year old printer was found stabbed and beaten on Perry street and Central avenue after a reported drunken stupor. Initial diagnosis blamed delirium tremens but kinney’s brother says it was a murderous assault. Deputy Coroner Coe planned an inquest to find the responsible party. Kinney lived at Third and Broadway.
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Michael Kinney
Perry Street
Central Avenue
City Hospital
Coe
Kinney
Third and Broadway
Mob Hangs Suspect After Kidnapping Demands $600
Tom Witherspoon a Black man was seized by a mob in Belmont Mo and hanged in the public square. Earlier he forced Fred Hess a Missouri legislator to fetch $600 using Hess’s wife and child as hostages. Perpetrator pursued by bloodhounds and a posse before the lynching.
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Missouri
Commercial Tribune
Cairo
Ill
Tom Witherspoon
Belmont
Witherspoon
Missouri Penitentiary
Fred Hess
Hess
Iron Mountain
Columbus
First Lake
Charleston
New Move in Beef Probe
Twelve new witnesses subpoenaed to appear before the Federal grand jury investigating the beef industries. All writs issued target commission firm employees at the Stock Yards Chicago. Probing relations between commission men and packers aims to reveal links in the supply chain.
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Chicago
Federal
Chicago Teamsters Face Decision as Strikes Continue
Chicago May 12 Three blows shake the strike effort as the Teamsters Joint Council plans a meeting to decide if the strike should end. The Team Owners Association demands an immediate end, John C. Driscoll resigns as secretary, and the Illinois Manufacturers' Association vows to support the Employers' cause. The Employers' Association runs 1,900 wagons and plans a blacklist of 4,300 striking teamsters who must return by next week or risk permanent loss of employment.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Teamsters
Teamsters’ Joint Council
Teamsters’ Union
Team Owners’ Association
Employers’ Association
John C. Driscoll
Driscoll
Dris
Coll
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Auditorium Hotel
Employers’ Organization
Employers’ Teaming Association
Man Arrested After Midnight Attempt at White House Entrance
Daniel Costable, an Italian, was arrested by Policeman Hopkins near the White House rear door while forcing entry. He claimed a spirit ordered him to find his murdered wife inside the White House and was found hatless in a thin serge coat after being spotted climbing the iron fence.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Daniel Costable
Hopkins
White House
Francesca
Oconto Worker Louis J. Rens Found Dead After Financial Troubles
Louis J. Rens, a twenty year McEachron Company employee, disappeared yesterday and was found dead in a barn three miles south of Oconto Wisconsin. Authorities say he died by his own hand after an estimated eighty thousand dollars short in his accounts. He had bought ten thousand tons of hay from farmers, shipments of which were paid for by the company for only a few tons. Rens leaves a widow and two children.
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Oconto
Wis
Louis J. Rens
McEachron Company
Rens
Richard Croker's son dies on Kansas City train
Herbert V. Croker, son of Richard Croker, New York political leader, was found dead on an Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train between Kansas City and Newton. Authorities hunt a negro who allegedly placed him on the train after he appeared drugged. Coroner and jury take charge. son had recently visited Elm Ridge race track and a hotel.
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Dispatch
Commercial Tribune
Kansas City
Herbert V. Croker
Richard Croker
New York
Newton
Kan
Bliss, Oklo
Croker
Father
Richard Croker, Jr
Ireland
Frank
Elm Ridge Race Track
Charles Woodson
Coates
Woodson
Sixth Street
Nan Patterson Freed After Eleven Months In Tombs
Nan Patterson walked from the Tombs a free woman after over eleven months in prison and three mistrials on the murder charge of Caesar Young. About 2,000 bystanders cheered as District Attorney Jerome announced plans to dismiss custody amid the courthouse crowd.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Caesar Young
Nan Patterson
Young
Jerome
Dynamite to Dig Channel for Lima Reservoir
Lima, May 12. Dynamite will blow up blockading banks of a new Ottawa River channel to aid Lima's new $200,000 reservoir. Heavy rains forced a flood that the channel could not contain, inundating hundreds of acres of run lands and oil leases beyond the high-water mark.
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Dispatch
Commercial Tribune
Lima
Ottawa
Jones burial approved for Annapolis grave site
President Roosevelt approved Secretary Morton’s recommendation to bury John Paul Jones at Annapolis Maryland on May 12. The decision establishes the naval hero’s final resting place at the United States Naval Academy grounds.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Roosevelt
Morton
John Paul Jones
Annapolis
Burton’s Party Scheduled Here This Afternoon
Local reception committee plans to meet the Burton party from the Queen City on the Keystone State near Coney Island. A trolley ride is first on the programme followed by an informal dinner and speeches as the wind up storm provides an object lesson.
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Queen City
C. S. Watts
Commercial Tribune
Portsmouth
Pittsburg
Rivers and Harbors Committee
Ohio
Noon-Reception Committee Boards Keystone State for Coney Island Tour
The Noon-Reception Committee sails aboard the Keystone State to join the party near Coney Island. A 1 pm salute of seventeen guns at Ft. Thomas precedes a 1:30 pm arrival at Public Landing. A trolley trip circles Eden Park and Reading road to Winton Place and back to Harri son avenue. An informal zoo banquet follows at 6 pm with departure for the hotel at 9:30 pm. Sunday morning, the party and reception group head toward Lawrenceburg Indiana.
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Keystone State
Coney Island
Ft. Thomas
Public Landing
Pearl and Broadway
Eden Park
Park
Peebles Corner
Crosstown
Reading Road
Winton Place
Mitchell Avenue
Spring Grove Avenue
Harrison Avenue
Fairview Heights
Zoo
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Burnet House
Pearl
Broadway
Zoo-Exden
Fairview
Moohing
Congressional party arrival and reception plans at Cincinnati
The article details a 1 PM gun salute from Ft. Thomas for the Congressional party traveling by river from Pittsburgh to Cairo. It covers arrival at Portsmouth and Cincinnati routes, reception by the Queen City and Keystone State, hotel quartering at Burnet House, and a 6 PM informal dinner with speeches. It notes heavy Ohio River rainfall and a planned river tour including Louisville Falls.
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John L. Vance
Burton
T.M. Reese
J. F. Ellison
The
Council
Richard Kinney
Ganoalley
Patrick Kinney
Clark Street
Michael
Robb
Child
May
Herbert
Kansas
Ottawa River
Jones
Naval Academy
Congressional Party
Congressional
East End
E. W. Howe
Coney
Cincinnati
Ellison
Louisville Falls
Gallipolis
Vance
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