Cleveland Street Car Strike Faces Deadlock and Riots
Detroit Avenue car dynamited near 108th street and a box with deadly explosive found near Broadway and East 55th street. Rioting continues with six trolley wires cut near Windmere barns and a woman severely injured by a brick on East Fourteenth and Woodland. Arbitration talks stall as violence persists.
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Cleveland
Detroit Avenue
108Th Street
Broadway
East 55Th Street
Windmere Barns
East Cleveland
Municipal Traction Company
East Fourteenth
Woodland Avenue
David Benjamin
Elizabeth Mayer
Mahon
Johnson
Madison Street
Tribesmen Routed by French Troops in Morocco Night March
Paris May 18 A telegram from D Amade the French commander in Morocco says with three brigades he conducted a forced night march and by daylight May 16 his front covered five miles to surprise the Molakea tribesmen driving them into the mountains The French suffered three dead and twenty two wounded and the tribesmen abandoned cattle and war munitions.
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Paris
D'Amade
Morocco
Rebellion in Yun Nan Province Escalates
Incoming reports from Hong Kong indicate the Yun Nan uprising grows more serious as revolutionaries seize a railway and rout government troops. The rebels push on with Peking asked to send reinforcements.
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Hong Kong
Yun Nan
Peking
Local man to sail airship
Hammondport New York May 18 Charles Oliver Jones of Cincinnati has been perfecting a dirigible airship here and announces a trial of the ship the Boom rang for the first week in May.
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Hammondsport
N. Y
Charles Oliver Jones
Cincinnati
Ten New Bishops for Methodists Revealed at Conference
Baltimore reports that the Committee on episcopacy will recommend ten bishops for election, a shift from eight, amid debates on church amusements. Senator Dolliver urged unity and urged Methodists to reunite with the mother church, drawing enthusiastic response.
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Baltimore
Methodist Episcopal General Conference
Pittsburg
Methodist Episcopal, Congregational and
United Brethren Churches
General Conference
Methodist Protestant Church
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
H. W. Werren
Methodist Protestant General Conference
Second Woman Among Gunness Victims Identified
Autopsy of seven unidentified bodies exhumed from Mrs Gunness private burial ground shows one victim is a woman. The case ties to Emil Greening and Jennie Olsen disappearance in 1906. Authorities plan to bury the remains as coroner opens verdicts while continuing digging for more skeletons and clues.
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Greening
Jennie
Jennie Olsen
Budsberg
Mrs. Gunness
Ray Lamphere
K. G. Ramden
Mansfield
N. D
John Moe
Elbow Lake
Minn
Moe
Lamphere
Potter’s Field
Ole Budsberg
Iola
Wis
Mack
David Havens
Gunness
Laporte
Michigan
Smutzer
Louis Schultz
Guiness Farm
Schultz
Tzer
Texas tax law declared unconstitutional by US Supreme Court
In Galveston and San Antonio Railway Co. v Texas the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the 1905 Texas railroad tax of 1 percent on gross earnings unconstitutional for interstate commerce regulation. The decision, delivered by Justice Holmes, reversed lower court rulings and drew a dissent from Justice Harlan warning of a blow to state tax law.
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Washington
Galveston & San Antonio Railway Company
State of Texas
Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
Travis
Third District of
State Supreme Court
Federal Supreme Court
Justice Holmes
Harlan
White
McKenna
Justice Harlan
Ohio Supreme Court tax law tainted by high court ruling
Ohio officials fear the U S Supreme Court decision striking down Texas public service gross receipts tax may invalidate Ohio's Cole law a 1 percent tax on gross earnings of express sleeping car freight electric gas water street railway and railroad firms The attorney general said the Ohio measure is not tied to interstate commerce and should not be affected yet the concern remains.
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Columbus
Ohio
United States Supreme Court
Texas
Ellis
Senator Foraker Illness Worries Friends
Washington May 18 Senator Foraker’s condition is worrying his friends He planned to return to the Senate last week but has not yet done so The latest phase is a severe intestinal trouble He tells visitors nothing about when he will be up It is doubtful he will leave before Congress adjourns.
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Comercial Tribune Bureau
Monsry
Washington, D. C
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Foraker
Senate
Congress
Odell
Miss Wood
Liss Wood
Threatened man wounded in Wilkesbarre shooting
William Caparona a young Italian of Hilde, near Wilkesbarre Pa was shot returning home and not expected to live. Two other Italians Morto and Angelo were arrested on suspicion of firing the shots. Caparona had earlier received Black Hand threats and police theorize the same assailant sent the letters. A mistaken identity possibility is noted.
Kirby brands Roosevelt a Czar at manufacturing meet
John Kirby Jr of Dayton Ohio harshly criticizes President Roosevelt from the Astor Gallery Waldorf Astoria during the National Association of Manufacturers thirteenth annual session. He accuses Roosevelt of wielding power against Congress while courting labor, warning of a forced moderation of unorganized labor and loss of American rights. Leading topics include tariff ship subsidies and export freight issues. The next day President Van Cleave is expected to address labor questions.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Astor
Waldorf-Astoria
National Association of Manufacturers
John Kirby, Jr
Dayton, C
Roosevelt
Kirby
Federa
Gompers
Congress
South America
Orient
Committee of Interstate Commerce
Allen Ripley Foote
Ohio State Board of Commerce
Alfred H. Post
van Cleave
King Solomon Memorial Association Formed in Lexington
The King Solomon Memorial Association of Kentucky is organized in Lexington to erect a monument for William Solomon known as King Solomon of Kentucky for his 1833 cholera relief work. Historian John Wilson Townsend will oversee contributions. James Lane Allen may become president. General Samuel W. Price is named vice president. clinicians and historians will serve on the board.
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Lexington
King Solomon Memorial Association of
Kentucky
William Solomon
King Solomon of
James L. Allen
John Wilson Townsend
James Lane Allen
New York
Asme Ts
Samuel W. Price
Pouilla
Cliticians
Ane
Minill
Night riders damage tobacco beds in Kentucky incident
Night riders scraped twenty eight tobacco beds near Campbellsburg Henry County and cut a barbed wire fence to transport a rubber tired buggy. Local growers named include W N Taylor Bokeee John dbyons M K Scott M L John Ransdell William Brent James Clark and Charles Rowland. Judge Hill planned county patrols to curb further destruction as General Williams arrived to oversee Bracken County state guards.
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Commercial Tribune
New Castle
Campbellsburg
Henry County
Boke Edrington
Society of Equity
W. N. Taylor
Bokeee
John Dbyons
M.K
Scott
M. L
John Ransdell
William Brent
James Clark
Charles Rowland
B. F. Hill
Patrol by cavalry keeps tobacco district on alert at night
In Ripley Ohio on May 18 the cavalry patrols continue on roads in the tobacco district with arrests expected soon. Tobacco planting will start for farmers able to obtain plants. some fields show advanced planting while most plants are still small. Heavy rains fell today.
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Commercial Tribune
Ripley
Two Owensboro Bankers Arrested
In Owensboro Kentucky on May 18 T S Anderson president of the Daviess County Bank and Trust Company and James H Parrish president of Owensboro Savings Bank and Trust Company were arrested. Anderson charged with appropriation of 20000 to his own use and with receiving deposits while insolvent. Parrish charged with receiving deposits while insolvent. Both waived examining trials and were held to the grand jury in 15000 bond. The savings bank held deposits over 1000000 and the county bank over 600000. Both banks had recently assigned. Anderson previously presided over a Detroit bank and left after a religious scruple about a Sunday watchman.
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Owensboro, Ky
T. S. Anderson
Daviess County Bank and Trust Company
James H. Parrish
Owensboro Savings Bank and Trust Company
Anderson
Parrish
Savings Bank
Daviess County
Detroit
Owens
Platts Divorce Case Highlights Secret Marriage Claims
Mae Catherine Wood testified in New York court that she was secretly married to United States Senator Thomas C. Platt at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on November 9, 1901. She introduced a marriage certificate and letters alleged to be from Platt, while Platt denied any prior marriage and claimed the certificate was a forgery.
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New York
Mae Catherine Wood
United States
Thomas C. Platt
O’gorman
Supreme Court
Senator Platt
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Miss Wood
Lillian Jeneway
Chicago
Mies W
Platt
Manhattan Beach
Isg Wood
J. Martin Miller
John B. Stanchfield
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Municipal Street Railway
Meaders
State Board of
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Rehner
Carmen’s
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D’amade
Mr. Jones
Dolliver
Plea
Rae Réh
Hague
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Committee On Federation
Joint Commission On Federation
Episcopal Methodists
Churches of Methodism
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Federal Council
M. F. Hughes
St. Louis
Sparkes Cadman
Brooklyn
Douglas Dackenzie
Hartford
Carpenter
Olsen
Watch
Smith
Laporte County Grand Jury
J. C. Platt
Mae C. Wood
Omaha
U. S. Supreme Court
Capitol
Jown Kirby, Jr
Aspeegh
Czar
Ohioan
Ing Solomon
Williams
Augusta
State Guards
Lillard
Bracken County
Bradford
Kinney
Green
Owensboro
Platts
Mae Wood
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