Toledo Cincinnati & Westwood Line Promoters Seek Franchises
Financial circles report the Toledo Detroit Cincinnati Railroad aims to run from Cincinnati through Hamilton and Lucas counties to Toledo. The C W Road currently runs Brighton to Glenmore five miles and could host a steam or electric line parallel to the Big Four toward Detroit. Promoters and the Gambles firm up rights of way while Gardner seeks city entry amid traction rumors tied to Procter & Gamble interests.
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Toledo, Detroit & Cincinnati Railroad Company
Columbus
Cincinnati
Cincinnati & Westwood Railroad
Hamilton
Butler
Preble
Darke
Mercer
van Wert
Paulding
Defiance
Williams
Henry
Fulton and
Lucas
Toledo
State Line
Hamilton County
Westwood
Cincinnati & Westwood
Brighton
Glenmore
Gambles
James N. Gamble
California
Union Trust
C. J. Gardner
Gardner
Big Four
Detroit
Montgomery
Widener- Elkins Traction Syndicate
Procter & Gamble
Peace in Teamsters Strike Yet to Be Settled
Chicago dispatch reports peace in the teamsters strike remains unsettled as disputes over arbitration persist. Team Owners' Association claims union leaders agreed to arbitrate deliveries to boycotted houses, while Teamsters President Shea denies any such agreement. Clashes erupt on the South and Near North sides with police dispersing rioters. Gompers leaves Chicago with hopes for a forthcoming settlement.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Teamsters
Team Owners’ Association
Shea
Teamsters’ Union
Twenty-sixth Street
Wentworth Avenue
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Dayton
Gompers
Foreign Agents Ordered to Quit Ports as War Looms
Tokyo reports the Japanese Admiralty believes several ships at Port Arthur can be raised and repaired for about 750000 dollars. In Washington, Richard Greener notes all foreign commercial agents in Vladivostok have been ordered out and may settle in nearby maritime provinces, signaling a broader war expansion.
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London
Daily Telegraph
Tokyo
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Richard S. Greener
Vladivostok
State Department
Maritime Provinces
Greener
Haborowski
Port Arthur
Union Official to Be Arrested Over Meeting Assault
A warrant was issued for Adam Huebner National Secretary of the United Brewery Workers of America Local No 12 charging assault on Leopold Steinbach a fellow executive committee member at a meeting held last Sunday at Workmen's Hall Son Swears Warrant Steinbach accused Huebner of aiding in a fraudulent discharge of Ernest Trautman Steinbach moved toward him and fell unconscious after the altercation Steinbach an elderly man has suffered greatly as a result the warrant had not been served by late last night
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Adam Huebner
United Brewery Workers of America
Leopold Steinbach
Workmen’s Hall
Steinbach
Ernest Trautman
Brewery Workers
Huebner
Steinpach
Ex-President of Union Slugged By Striker Over Strike
Henry Wamboldt former president of Local Union No 44 of the Structural Iron Workers was attacked Wednesday night by a striker near Vine and Ninth streets while leaving Schreiber and Sons plant. He may lose an eye. He identified the assailant and will seek arrest warrants. The incident is seen as violating judge Hosea injunction orders and may lead to proceedings.
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Henry Wamboldt
Structural Iron Workers
Wamboldt
Vine
Ninth Streets
Schreiber & Sons Company
Charles F. Williams
Iron League
Hosea
Startling Confession at Salvation Army Meeting in Middletown
In Middletown, May 18, Valentine Baily confessed to breaking into fourteen box cars in the Big Four yards over six months and stealing hundreds of dollars in goods. Chief Thomas Kelly, initially skeptical, verified the haul at Baily’s home, then jailed him for burglary, solving a yearlong theft mystery bedeviling city officials and Big Four detectives.
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Commercial Tribune
Middletown
Thomas Kelly
Salvation Army Hall
Valentine Baily
Heroic Sister Nurses Dying Family Amid Diphtheria Blues
Henry Erickson family on East Twelfth Street endures diphtheria scarlet fever and meningitis as two children die and the father and mother fall ill. Sister Elizabeth Erickson travels from Louisville to Cincinnati to nurse the stricken brood despite the danger of contagion.
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Henry Erickson
Erickson
Hilda
Natalia
Alvera
Newport Jail Holds Man Linked to Serial Threats and Robberies
Police allege Edward Johnson, a Newport resident now in jail on a technical charge, authored confessional letters linking him and Henry Williams to a string of robberies and fatal assaults from 1896 to 1903. The document details killings near Chester West Virginia Roanoke Virginia Uniontown Pa Hyndman Pa Portland Oregon and other incidents as part of a broader pattern of violence and threats.
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Newport
Edward Johnson
Covington
Johnson
Henry Williams
Roanoke
Chester
W. Va
Uniontown
Hyndman
Portland
Amos Phillips
York Street
Eight Die In Kentucky Railway Wreck
Eight men were killed and four injured in a collision between two Illinois Central freight trains two miles south of Echols Kentucky. The dead include engineers and conductors from Kentucky and Louisville with several colored brakemen. The wreck involved a north bound fast freight and a Louisville & Central City local freight carrying passengers. Misreading orders by the south bound crew is blamed for the collision.
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Commercial Tribune
Louisville
Illinois Central
Echols
Foster Bell
Cordia Smith
George Hollis
Mat Owen
James Cranshaw
Knob Lick
Edward Craney
Columbus
Gus Fallinger
Cincinnati
Wallace Yates
Louisville & Central City
Officer Killed in Sham Battle at Ft Reno
Lt. Granville Chapman of Ft Reno was shot in the back during a field maneuver with six infantry companies northwestern of El Reno. Brig. Gen. F M Lee watched as the battalion adjutant died at the scene amid suspicions of foul play and a rigid probe was started.
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Commercial Tribune
EL Reno
Okla
Granville Chapman
Ft. Reno
F. M. Lee
San Antonio
Chapman
Secret of Imogene Porter's whereabouts deepens
The custody case of Dr. Elias H. Porter and Mrs. Alice H. Porter centers on the missing child Imogene. A court card lists Atlantic, Iowa, as her address, but Porter's attorney says she is not there and may be moved to a first class western school while efforts to bring her to Cincinnati continue.
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Army
Atlantic
Iowa
Elias H. Porter
Alice H. Porter
Atlantic, Ia
Harry Hess
Dr. Porter
West
Hess
Masonic
Athens Grand Jury Probes County Treasury Shortage
The Athens County Grand Jury opened a two day session to investigate the treasury shortage. One hundred witnesses including bank presidents and cashiers were summoned to verify if tax duplicate amounts were on deposit at five Athens County banks in Athens Nelsonville and Gloucester. Former county officials were notified to appear.
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Athens Grand Jury
Commercial Tribune
Athens, O
Athens County Grand Jury
Treasury
Athens County
Dif
Ferent
Grand Jury
Athens
Nelsonville
Gloucester
Naval junction of Russian squadrons reported off Saigon
Saigon reports a junction on May 8 between the squads of Vice Admiral Rojestvensky and Rear Admiral Nebogatoff. The meeting occurred outside territorial waters as the ships began moving seaward on May 14 in an easterly course.
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Saigon
Rojestvensky
Nebogatoff
Russian Fleet Spotted Near Cape Varella May 16
The Russian fleet was located at 13.30 north 111.30 east about 120 miles northeast of Cape Varella on May 16, with forty two ships sighted forty miles from Cape Varella by the German steamer Segovia on May 15. A Hong Kong report notes 150 deeply laden junks near Cape St. John at 11 p.m. on May 16 presumed to carry provisions for the fleet.
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Singapore
Cape Varella
Annam
Hong Wan I
Segovia
Hongkong
Kwangchau Bay
Cape St. John
Possible engagement by Rojestvensky near Formosa and Pescadores
Tokyo reports the departure of Vice Admiral Rojestvensky from Hon Kohe Bay as speculation grows over a near term battle. Observers expect a potential move toward Formosa and the Pescadores before a Pacific voyage to Vladivostok, with plans still undisclosed. In St Petersburg health concerns prompt sending Vice Admiral Birileff to Vladivostok to assume command if Rojestvensky succeeds, after Emperor Nicholas summons Birileff.
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Tokyo
Rojestvensky
Hon-Kohe Bay
Rosestvensky
Formosa
Pescadores
Pacific
Vladivostok
ST. Petersburg
Birileff
Far East
Nicholas
Tsarkoe- Selo
Taft to Hear Oral Testimony in Bowen Loomis Inquiry
Secretary Taft will hear oral testimony in his inquiry into the Bowen Loomis affair. At least one witness has been summoned from New York.
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New York
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Taft
Bowen-Loomis
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Brewers’ Union
Salvation Army
Baily
the Hospital
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Elizabeth Erickson
Teir
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Negro
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Edward Mooar
East Fourth Street
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Mooar
Mayor Beach
Paul C. Fratz
Maynard Wilson
A. Johson
Harry Deputy
Johnro
Echols, Ky
B. English
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Doc Turney
Ben English
Cecilia
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Charles ST. Clair
Louis
Ville
Sham
Imogene Porter
St. Louis
Clarence C. Ward
Porter
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