Legislature Adjourns as Extra Session Looms
Governor Hughes eyeing reforms in the waning session to extend ballot changes anti-gambling and Public Service Commission reach while bills on roads canals and water supply pass. Extraordinary session set for May 11 amid heated Assembly protests and boos toward the governor. Roosevelt nominates generals as new Army officers in Washington. Clergy non clerics form secret group promoting Christian socialism in New York City.
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Public Service Commission
Albany
Senate
Committee On
White
New York
Wadsworth
New York City
Prohibition Wave Reaches Newport As NY Snow Hits Major Cities
Newsy paragraphs report New York areas including Rochester Utica and Syracuse seeing heavy snowfall. Dr H W MacCracken NYU addressed a Copenhagen audience on American Ideals while Secretary Taft praised modern magazines at a Sphinx Club dinner in New York. Tulsa promoter group arrives in New York to boost Tulsa and Oklahoma Outfit attractions. Poughkeepsie rules Christian Science healers cannot plead privilege in testifying about patient communications. Antitoxin given to Olga Nethersole troupe in Syracuse due to diphtheria exposure.
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Italy
Newport
Washington, DC
Rochester
Utica
New York
H.W. MacCracken
New York University
Copenhagen
Taft
Sphinx Club
Oklahoma Outfit
Tulsa
Milla
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Olga Nethersole
Sanhe" Company
Syracuse
Recalcitrant Senate Omits Praise in Closing Session
In the final hours a memorial service for Senator Frinchot was held. Speeches praising Lieutenant-Governor Chanley and Senators Raines and Grady were read. Chanler received a silver flower dish. other silverware was given to Senators Raines, Gray White, and Armstrong. Governor ITT conveyed regret that many important measures failed to pass and offered no further recommendations at adjournment.
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Senate
Frinchot
Chanley
Raines
Grady
Chanler
Gray White
Armstrong
Assembly
Itt
Telegram tampering alters vote on race track bill
Washington to Albany telegrams misled Senator Cassidy during a legislative session. An operator altered a message to read Better not support, prompting an investigation and dismissal by the Capitol. Hassett admitted the error in a correspondence reviewed by the New York Tribune.
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N Y
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Albany
Day
Hughes
Cassidy
Washington, D. C
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N. Y
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J. Sloat Fassett
Ig Washington
Carola
Jaan
J. S. Hassett
John W. Dwigt
Tompsing
New York
Mr. Hassett
Passett
Fassett
Capitol
Bryan Urges Joint Publication Drive At News Men Dinner
At a Waldorf Astoria event for the Associated Press and American Newspaper Publishers Association, William Jennings Bryan urged bipartisan newspaper publication. The meeting drew about 600 editors and publishers from the United States and Canada as the AP and ANPA held their annual sessions. Mrs Bryan advised unity and press collaboration, with remarks by Mrs Wise and Senator Wrox of Pennsylvania alongside Bryan.
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William = Jenkings Bryan
Associated Press
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Waldorff Astoria
Bryan
United States
Canada
New York
Rachul Wise
Senator Wrox
Pennsylvania
Bishop Capers Dead A Confederate General and Bishop
Bishop Ellison Capers of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina died in Columbia. Born October 14, 1837, he joined the Confederate Army at the war’s start, became Lt Col of the Twenty Fourth South Carolina, rose to brigadier general in 1865 after three wounds, declined the Eastern Maryland bishopric in 1886, and was consecrated a bishop in 1893.
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Columbia
D. C
Ellison Capers
South Carolina
Bishop Capers
Charleston
S C
Twentyfourth South Carolina Infantry
Capers
Maryland
Hee
University of South Carolina
Price of Prunes May Jump as California Crop Damaged
Reports from California indicate late frosts damaged about half the prune crop. Chicago notes the reduced harvest may lift prices and threaten prune availability at restaurants and boarding houses. Last year 75 million pounds were produced. this year merchants expect around 50 million pounds.
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Chicago
California
Admiral Sperry Takes Command Of Fleet May Fifteenth
War Department ordered Admiral Sperry to assume command of the battle fleet on May 15 at the request of Admiral Thomas to be relieved. The fleet’s final day featured lavish entertainments in Los Angeles California.
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Admiral Thomas
War Department
Vaal Entertainments
Los Angeles
Cal
Freight rates rise as eastern railroad presidents act
Eastern railroad leaders announce an increase in freight charges, setting higher rates across the trunk line. The plan targets ALCS corridors and affects shipping by rail, with press notes indicating broad impact on goods movement and downstream markets.
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Inc Pease
Freigsni Alcs
Global union activity and protests around the world
Reports from Minneapolis and Lynn show new and reorganized unions across several trades. Strikes occur in Thursday Island and Wellington over wage cuts while immigrant workers form protective unions in New Zealand and Porto Rico contemplates labor reform. A Boston marble workers group completes reorganization as Birmingham unions move into politics.
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Minn
Thursday Island
Australia
Wellington
New Zealand
Lynn
Mare
Pennsylvania
Paterson
Tornado Toll Tops 350 Dead as Wreckage Spreads
Report outlines about 350 killed across Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama with around 1200 injured and several thousand homeless. Cities such as Amite Purvis and nearby towns face devastation as relief efforts mobilize. Roosevelt offers aid and Jackson tents are deployed to Purvis.
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Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Fool
Amite
Purvis
Georgia
cMies
Tudor
Lucerne
Kenmore
Jamourie
Richland
Essie
Pine
Angie
Franklinton
Sheridan
Avard
Eunice
Giiles
Bends
Purvia
Churchill
Lorman
Tillman
Melton
Baxterville
Braxton
Sunflower
Wabalat
Wingate
Columbus
Walls
Fairchilds Creek
Quitmans Landing
Arkansas
Roosevelt
Govenor Noel
Miesisay
Noel
Jackson
Amite City
Roosevelt urges Congress on financial reform and postal banks
President Roosevelt's message to Congress calls for limiting injunction power, strengthening national control of interstate commerce, and an expert commission to study financial systems. He reiterates support for postal savings banks, enhanced ICC authority, and a national incorporation framework. The address also condemns greed in business and wealth ostentation, urging honesty and opposing extreme laissez faire.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Finance Commission
Gill Connell
Boston
Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court
Minnesota
North Carolina
Pilgrimage of Unemployed Ends in Despair
In Grantty City St Louis fifty men, mainly foreigners, trudged church to church begging for work. After a failed pilgrimage Christo Antonine, a Hungarian, shot himself in the abdomen as they faced rain mud and hunger.
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St. Louis
Grantty City
Christo Antonine
Roosevelt plans big game hunt in Africa
Roosevelt plans a major African hunting trip next year, sailing from an English port and avoiding a work tour or visits to European capitals. The plan hinges on re election and safety considerations. Also reported: Kin, Cleveland, and others tied to political and civic events. various local notes from Washington to Omaha and Fall River across multiple brief items.
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Roosevelt
Africa
Washington, D. C
South
Tie
England
Europe
Australia
New Zealand
Tks
Astor buys Crimean flag for Royal United Service Museum
London reports the Chesapeake flag captured by HL MS Shannon on June 1, 1813 was donated to the Royal United Service Museum by Willan Waldorf Astor. Astor also acquired the Haltelava charge bugle and Crimean medals for the same museum, with a note that the buyer acted on behalf of an American.
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Chesapeake
London
Shannon
Willan Waldorf Agtar
Hare
American Ship St Paul Rescues Gladiator Survivors in Solent Crash
In a dense snowstorm the American Line steamship St Paul collided with the British cruiser Gladiator off the Solent. Gladiator beached, many crew saved by St Paul including officers. about 36 dead, possibly more. St Paul underway to New York, damaged bow, dry dock for weeks.
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Solent
Admiralty
London
Graver
New York
Gladiator
Portland
Portsmouth
Lumsden
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Yarmouth
Isle of Wight
Needles
Yarmouth Beach
St. Pauls
St. Paul's
Mountain slide devastates Notre Dame de Latette hamlet
A massive landslide near Notre Dame de Latette on the Lievre River buried half the French hamlet and killed Camille La Pointe and his eleven family members. Eight or more are missing as twenty houses were engulfed and many residents were swept away or drowned. Rescue teams rushed from Buckham and Poupere with local physicians to aid survivors.
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Ontario
Notre Dame de Latette
Lievre
Camille la Poimte
Poupere
Bucklanham
Colting
Partler
Officials Fall Papal Chirk W May Dies in West Virginia
Huntington West Virginia Attorney General Clark W May died at his Stamlin home after a fall from a horse ten days earlier. His leg was broken and an amputation followed by blood infection and death.
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Huntington, W. Va
Clark W. May
Stamlin
Buckalew fortune tale spawns duo of rival wives in New Jersey
Reports claim Harry Buckalew of Trenton inherited a fortune from uncle John Buckalow, but rumors collide with denials as two women, Bertha Palmer Buckalew and another claimant, press annulment and divorce actions. A Jamesburg estate turn lacks confirmation, while a stray Scotch terrier named Sandy dies after wild automobile escapades. The tale widens to a dentist visit delaying Colonel Roebling and Mrs Cornelia Farrow’s secret honeymoon plans in Dalton and Charleston with a May reunion anticipated.
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Harry Buckalew
Trenton
Buckalow
Marta Carver Buckalow
Burlington
John Buckalow
Jamesburg
Jamesbury
Buckalew
Bertha Palmer
Asbury Park
Court of Chancery
Palmer Buckajew
Buckafew
Lionel Washington A. Roebling
Brooklyn Bridge
Cornelia W. Farrow
Dalton
Mass
Colonel Roebling
Charleston
S.C
Roeblings
Longtime Bergen Official Judge Aaron Garrison Dies
Judge Aaron G. Garrison, a Bergen County elder statesman and Pompton church chorister, died at his Oakland home in his eighty ninth year. He served as town clerk and committeeman, a Board of Education member, a justice of the peace for forty years, county collector, and lay judge on the Bergen County bench at Hackensack. He was known as a Ramapo Valley poet laureate.
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Bergen County
Oakland
Mr. Garrison
Board of Education
Hackensack
Ponds Reformed Church
Ot Pompton
Ramapo Valley
Fire Threatens Cape May Point Properties and Hits Eight Cottages
A major fire at Cape May Point destroyed about a dozen buildings and damaged more than $100,000. It began at the Lankenau Villa, the German Hospital's summer cottage, then spread to the Surf House. Cape May residents found the Episcopal Church and eight cottages ablaze as onlookers rushed to help. Terl Smith, 78, of Freehold, died from injuries after being kicked by a horse in a barn. his lantern sparked the floor, and bystanders extinguished the blaze.
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Philadelphia
Cape Maystremen
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Sears
Freehold
Smith
Thouights
Dogs Pursue Thieves in Park Chase After Burglary
A man hunt at Loiscoin Park involved about twenty men and fierce dogs pursuing burglars who looted the home of Wilfam Conroy of $2000. Conroy fired a shot. neighbors joined the pursuit aided by Aretemus Zeakind s dogs, the hounds forcing the thieves to drop the loot, though the men escaped.
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Wil Fam Conroy
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Aretemus Zeakind
Milk dealer fined for formaldehyde in milk
State pure food inspectors monitored milk dealers as Carl Berger of a Glassboro dairy farm was arrested and brought before Justice Paulin. He was fined $30 for using formaldehyde in milk.
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Glassboro
Justice Paulin
Wage Cuts Shake New England Mills Across Region
Wages were cut by ten percent across New England mills, affecting about 140 000 workers in New Bedford Lawrence and Methuen and extending to yarn and thread mills. Machinists face possible strike authority, while most unions accept reduced rates. Prices for cotton and goods fluctuated, with margins rising and falling. if current margins persist to May end, a 13 67 percent wage reduction under the sliding scale could result.
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Coats Thread Company
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Daborteaders
Textile Council
Fal Riyar
Tansey
McIntyre Firm Suspended By Major Exchanges
PT A McIntyre & Co, NYSE member and participant in the New York Cotton Exchange and other markets, announced the suspension of the firm. A representative said liabilities would likely exceed 1 million dollars. The firm operated branches in Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, Hartford, Binghamton, Syracuse, Rochester, and Hot Springs, Va.
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T. A. McIntyre & Co
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New York Caton Exchange
New York Produce Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
New York Coffee Exchange
Liverpool Cotton Association
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Hartford
Binghamton
Syratuse
Rochester
Hot Springs
Liability Bill Signed by Roosevelt as Constitutional
President Roosevelt signed the Employers' Liability bill after Attorney General Bonaparte opined it constitutional. The measure holds railroads and other common carriers liable for employee injuries or deaths partially due to carrier negligence or equipment defects in interstate commerce. An unrelated note from Naples reports Mme Anna Gould arriving and meeting the Sagan party. Governor Hughes, in Albany, says race track bills must pass at the special session or become campaign issues.
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Roosevelt
Bonaparte
Hughes
Albany
England Buried in Snow as Drifts Reach Eight Feet
A historic snow storm sweeps across the United Kingdom, the worst since 1482, with days of heavy snowfall and a fierce northerly gale. Large areas, including outlying towns, are isolated, causing widespread damage and disrupted travel.
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London
England
United Kingdom
Personal Blvets of Late President McKinley Divided Among Heirs
Personal effects of the late President McKinley are being divided among his five heirs. The Canton, Ohio home was transferred to Mrs. Rose Kioler for 20 000, with Miss Hate McKin toy electing to take the property under appraisement of 320 000. Presents from the 1906 porch campaign and White House years are included in the division and will be scattered.
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McKinley
Canton
Ohio
McKintoy
Narlath Maw Geld for Supplying Cocaine to United States Sailors
Norfolk Virginia report outlines a Navy case involving Narlath Maw Geld accused of supplying cocaine to U S sailors. The station secret service and enlisted members aided investigators uncover the narcotics ring. John W East, first arrested, faces charges tied to the cocaine supply.
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Saifors
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Shival
Naval Muithanies
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Tle
Celal Fuot
Prairie carries 440 men to the Pacific fleet
The auxiliary cruiser Prairie at Norfolk, Virginia took on 440 men bound for the Pacific to replace exhausted terms in the fleet. The Prairie will sail to Colon, pass the isthmus, and transfer the personnel to the Buffalo for transportation to San Pedro?eiger.
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Norfolk
Pacific
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Pea
Eiger
Puts Ban on Cuban Palace Venratelit Action
An official order blocks a Cuban palace venue as Venratelit imposes limits on Qun Lobaqro and signals government control over min ciba ge activities. (Note: source text fragmentary.)
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Venratelit
Fragmented 19th century baseball notes and trades
Fragmentary account mentions European and American clubs briefed in trades and roster moves. References to Beltimore and Joe Yearer Thomas Fleming Day andoutsiders hint at summer contest power and shifting rosters. Detroit team listed with eighteen players, ONeall Cidhorne sold to Montreal Club of the Eastern League.
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McGrutt
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Aydt
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Dbws
Nodam
Mike O'Neall
Montreal Club
Accused Pastor Of Heresy After 25 Years Faithful Service
The Rev I Cotton of St Paul is dropped from ministry after being charged with heresy. Bishop Entelneg refused to grant a license to preach as Cotton openly taught that the resurrection story is false. The case stems from Epkeopal church discipline in Minnesota where Cotton served for twenty five years and faced charges of heresy.
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Paul
Mine —Robel
Hamilton Cotton
Ain Epkeopal
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Christ
Baseball Gossip and Pitching Notes from Early Season
A garbled odds and ends bulletin reports thoughts on Conroy and Griffth as potential movers, Washington claims Case Patten as top, Detroit’s Ed Billlan cites Hughey Jennings yell meaning, Bears catcher with a broken finger, Gittine of Washington slow to recover, Clark of Cleveland developing a slow spitball grip.
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New York Hiehhiders
Chick Griffth
Ouelder
Claude Jones
Case Patten
Washington
Uthpanesha
Ed Billlan
Detroits
Hughey Jennings
Jemubige
Pleher
Billy Campbell
Che Cine Elmaul
Ocean Oceanic bought by J Sanders in Philadelphia
Ty All Parts of the State, The Hotel Oceanic in Ocean City sold to 3 J Sanders of West Philadelphia. A P O S A camp started at Panisboro with thirty five charter members. Game Warden Phifer notes Cumberland County ponds stocked with game fish. Mrs Brooks Hurff in Hurffville suffers serious injury after a dog attack. Cape May Court House to get a glass factory planned by Clarence Sheets of Paulsboro. Record shad haul by Leanders Tyler at 383 in one drift. Rev W F Nelson of Clayton Presbyterian Church sails for Europe with several companions, seven weeks away. Olympic steamship to be named for White Star Line, Liverpool. Esperanto promotion in Dresden prompts police to learn the language.
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3. J. Sanders
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P.O. S. of A
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Phifer
Cumberland County
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Hurffville
J. C. Wheaton Company
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Cape May Court House
Clarence Sheets
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W. F. Nelson
Clayton, Presbyterian Church
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Ethel Dubois
Mildred DuBuis
Ida Viking
Marguerite Henry
Resigned Cadet Lieutenant Ayres Leaves Army
Lieutenant H. Fairfax Ayres, once disciplined along with fellow cadets after the overcoat incident at West Point, has resigned from the Army.
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Army
Racing, tennis, and track news from Montreal and New York
Montreal A A A sets world sixty yard dash record with 6 1 5 seconds by P L Lukeman. Jas Gould wins court tennis match in New York against Eustace Miles. The Duke of Portland’s St Simon dies after an unbeaten career. Derby ancestor Diamond Tubuco and Persimon. National Polo Association lowers game time to ten six minute periods. Grim forecasts for horse racing clash with belief in its enduring code.
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Miles
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