Messina Suffers Dual Earthquakes Amid Dust Cloud
Messina endured two strong earthquakes around 7 am, with roaring sounds and a dust cloud over the ruined Old Town. At least two deaths are confirmed, a young woman and her infant, buried beneath debris after rushing to save the child and collapsing walls. Soldiers aided survivors while authorities cordon off the American quarter to prevent crowding, as thousands flee and cleanup begins along the waterfront.
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Messina
Reggio
Cal- Obria
Oon
Ensunter
Indictment in Sugar Refining Trust Conspiracy Case
The American Sugar Refining Co and eight individuals, including six directors Wineshington I Thomas Arthur Donner Charles H Senff John E Parsons John Mayer and Goo HW Fraxier, are charged by a federal grand jury with conspiracy to restrain trade under the Sherman Act. Gustave Rigel and Thomas B Harrett are also named. Fourteen counts allege conspiracy with penalties for individuals up to 9000 and possible imprisonment. corporations face up to 5000. The defendants will answer next Tuesday.
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American Sugar Refining Company
Federarand
Winehington I. Thomas
Arthur Donner
Charles H. Senff
John E. Parsons
New York
John Mayer
Morristown
N. J
Goo, HW. Fraxier
Philadelphia
Gustive Rigel
Thomas B. Harett
Adolph Beal
Altravon Water System for Clvinnati Completed
The Altravon water system and supply network for Clvinnati and suburbs was officially completed and transferred on Thursday after twelve years of construction at a cost of about 12 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altravon
Clvinnati
Sugar Prices Cut Across All Grades
Sugar prices were cut by 10 cents per 100 pounds on Thursday across all grades of refilled sugar, reflecting a broad price adjustment in the market.
Sioux City Live Stock Market Quotations
Sioux City live stock market review shows top beef cattle at 6.40 and top hogs at 7.76 as of Thursday quotations. The report highlights market leaders and price points for bidders and sellers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Washetub Laundry Death of Yung Yow at Stanton Street
A Chinese laundryman named Yung Yow was found strangled with a rope wedged in a Washtub inside his laundry at 124 Stanton Street New York. Police reported the death occurred Thursday in a case under investigation with authorities seeking clues about the killer and motive.
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Yung Yow
Stanton Street
New York
Ten Per Cent Wage Increase at Maryland Steel Plant
Wages of 5 060 men and boys employed at the Maryland Steel Company Sparrows Point were raised ten percent today in a company wide adjustment affecting workers across the plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland Steel Company
Sparrows Point
Steamer Ethelwald Detained by U S Customs
United States customs officers detained the steamer Ethelwald at the Brooklyn water front on suspicion of planning a San Domingo expedition. Amletant Secretary Mel Haig ordered the detention, with two officers aboard to prevent departure, as inspectors prepared a cargo search the next day.
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Huntieh
Ethelweld
Brooklyn
United States
San Domingo
Amletant
Mel Haig
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington
William Toots
New York
Hayts
State Department
Ethelwold
Jose &J. Pierre Giordani
Joan “Iminegx
Loeb
Capt. Brown
Dodge
Row
Reusberger
Nore
Light on Bomb Mystery Reveals Sharkey Confession
Chicago detective reports indicate former convict Sharkey provided details on a long series of bomb outrages. State's Attorney Wayman notes an embargo on the witness while reporters were barred. Arrests are expected as Sharkey admits receiving twenty five pounds of dynamite at Morgan Park.
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Chicago
Fox Shakey
Wian
Sharkey
Wayman
O'Brien
Mirchaceon
Morgan Park
Woman in Tent Warns Train Collision Near Missouri City
An elderly woman in a tent near Missouri City MO leaped aside as a westbound Wabash train clashed head on with a freight at the junction. One man killed, one woman badly injured, ten slightly injured. The passenger engineer slowed to avert further disaster. both engines wrecked and a sleeper car and a coach telescoped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Lewellyn
Missouri City
Bomb kills Marie Bakhtadze in basket of cherries
Marie Bakhtadze, a former political police agent, was killed Tuesday by a bomb sent in a cherry basket. She was the widow of a once prominent revolutionary who defected to the police and was killed in autumn. Her vengeance as a spy drove her to hunt those responsible. For weeks she rarely left the police station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Bakhtadze
Madam Bakhtadze
Reprieve Granted in Missouri Murder Case
Forty-five minutes before execution for the murder of Aidney Herndon, a wealthy former Tyler, Texas real estate owner, Claude Brooks, a Black man, was granted a thirty-day reprieve by Governor Hadley of Missouri on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aidney Herndon
Tyler
Tex
Claude Brooks
Hadley
Mixsouri
Tornado Report from Niles N D Claims No Fatalities
Report from Niles North Dakota states a Tuesday tornado killed eight people was mistaken and no deaths occurred while eight others suffered only minor injuries according to the latest dispatch.
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Martin Storm
Niles
N. Dd
Lightning Fatality Kills Mrs. Newman of Mt. Vernon
Mrs. Charles Newman of Mt. Vernon Ti was struck by lightning while carrying her child. The mother died. the child escaped unharmed.
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Bolt
Charles Newman
Mt. Verdon
Madman Kills Two, Abducts Infant In Valley Junction
Calvin Lillenage, a farmer near Valley Junction Iowa, shot and killed Elmer Jamison and Mrs Jamison, then forced his former wife and her infant into a wagon. He fled toward Adel in a storm but was chased by officers. threats against his brother surfaced as investigators closed in.
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Valley Junction
Calvin Lillenage
Valley Juneston
Des Moines
Elmer Jamison
Mre Jamison
Adel
Doe Moines
Bute
Hage
Butler Farm
Con Pe
Ben Littlepagé
Butler Pines
KI Ale White
Baby
Not Guilty of Alundinn Chicago Man
A Chicago jury in Judge Kernstein’s court found Michael Pocelians not guilty of murder in the Serena case framed around alleged unwritten law motives and a betrayal involving the defendant’s sister Mrs. Josephine Fresco. The defense argued Serena persuaded Fresco to leave her husband and flee to New York, then returned with promises of a divorce and marriage after separation. The shooting followed after tensions escalated.
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Chicago
Kernstein
Michael Pocelians
Frank Sereno
Prowl
Josephine Fresco
Serena
Pacellano
New York
Sereno
Interchange of Students Scheme Gathers Momentum
A plan for interchanging university students among the United States Canada and Great Britain gains pace with backing from a committee led by Prime Minister Asquith Lord Strathcona and Canadian high commissioner. It seeks to expose students to life and culture of the three nations while minimizing disruption to studies and cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uiversity
United States
Canada
United Kingdom
Cecil Rhodes
le Td Progress
Aviators Ready to Ply English Channel for £5,000 Offer
Herbert Latham Count de Lambert and Henri Parman wait on the Calais coast for favorable weather to attempt an aeroplane flight across the channel. A London paper offers £5,000 for the feat while French torpedo boats standby to guide and rescue if needed.
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English Channel
Herbert Latham
Count de Lambert
Henri Parman
Calais
France
London
Well Known Baseball Man Dead
Charles Cushman aged 62 a well known figure in baseball circles and manager of various clubs died Tuesday in a Milwaukee hospital after an illness of several months said to have followed an accident Cushman managed teams in Milwaukee Toronto and Rochester New York
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Charles Cushman
Cireles Ax
Milwaukee
Cushman
Umea
Toronto
Rochester
Bombs Explode in Two Barcelona Theaters
Bombs exploded at midnight Monday in two Barcelona theaters. One theater was empty while the other, crowded, caused a panic and left one man dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barcelona
Spain
Plague Death Toll Reported in Amoy Fortnight
Official reports list 177 bubonic plague deaths in Amoy during the two weeks ending Monday. Native accounts note improvement in interior towns but several villages have been decimated this month.
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Amoy
Wichita Trades Waitt for Johns in Western League
The Wichita Western league base ball club traded pitcher Watt to Omaha for pitcher Johns a southpaw who had played with Dayton last year.
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Wichita Western League
Watt
Omaha
Johns
Dayton
Woman Lawyer Carrie Kilgore Dead at 71 in Swarthmore
Mrs. Carrie E. Burnham Kilgore aged 71 and the first woman admitted to the Pennsylvania bar died Tuesday at her Swarthmore home. She was a pioneering attorney and noted figure in state legal circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie E. Burnham Kilgore
Pennsylvania
Swarthmore
Fort Kearney park reunion draws large crowd despite weather
Nebraska state news reports a Fort Kearney National Park association reunion with a large daytime turnout and enthusiasm amid rain. Col. Maxon of Minden elected commander and Dr. Hoover of Kearney named secretary. plans set for another reunion next year.
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Fort Kearney
Col. Maxon
Minden
Dr. Hoover
Kearney
Frightened Horse Runs Into Moving Train Near Hoarvard
Two daughters of Conrad Schnell from four miles southeast of Hoarvard were badly bruised when their frightened horse collided with a moving freight train near Burling ton tracks on Monday afternoon. The accident occurred as they sought moodicing for their ill father, typhoid fever. They escaped serious injury by leaping from the wagon and were taken to a doctor and then home by automobile.
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Hoarvard
Conrad Schnell
Burlington Tracks
Erie
Betas
Engineers Gather for Lincoln Reunion in Annual Brotherhood Conference
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers held its Lincoln reunion Monday with about 200 engineers in attendance and hundreds more rail workers from nearly all states. An open session saw remarks by Grands Chief Stone and Daniel W Jord, with P H Morrissey and Mrs Mundock also featured. A later closed business session downplayed routine concerns and any potential trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Railwey Berociation
Mundock
Engineers’ Brotherhood
Fireworks Blaze Mitigated at Lincoln Store Window
A Sunday morning fire near 204 North Sixteenth Street Lincoln damaged a box of varicolored fireworks in a Dirt store plate window. Firefighters saved the remaining stock and contained the blaze. Another brief fire damaged a kitchen at 607 North Sixteenth Street caused by a stove flare up. firefighters arrived promptly.
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North Sixteenth Street
Lincoln
Morea Morcovits
Capital Stock 8750 000 Chicago Men Form Omaha Company
The Nebraska Securities Company of Omaha with capital stock 760,000 files for incorporation to take over and change the Omaha Independent Telephony Company. Incorporators include Walter Grover George E Shoemaker F M Kipps Charles P Flynn and Albert S Wilton all Chicago parties. Attorney for Joseph Hurrin a Chicago capitalist linked to Independent stock and plant materials.
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Chicago
Omaha
Nebraska Securition Company
Oriole
Omaha Independent Telephony
Aire
Walter Grover
George E. Shoemaker
F. MM. Kipps
Charles P. Flynn
Albert 5. Wilton
Wihison
Jozeph Hurrin
Alan
Local writer nets nine-pound channel cat on Nemahna river
Birth Head, a noted local piscatorial writer, caught a nine-pound channel catfish from the Nemahna river at Tecumseh on Monday morning. The fish is unusually large for a catch though carp and buffalo sometimes weigh more.
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Birth Head
Nemahna Rive
Tecumseh
Italian laborer trapped under gravel at Geneva incident
An Italian laborer on the Burlington construction train near Geneva Wes was buried under gravel from a dump car. He was quickly dug out but remained unconscious for several hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Geneva
Wes
Run Over by Mower Near Tecumseh
Albert Hester of the Tecumseh area was toppled from a mower by a runaway team. A wheel passed over his body and head causing severe lacerations. medical teams worked to close the wounds.
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Albert Hester
Tecumseh
Man Injured By Fall Through Trap Door at Higgins Shop
Balts Luotainger, Sr. was seriously injured Monday afternoon when he fell through a trap door into a cellar at Higgins' shop, located northeast of Harvard while looking around the premises.
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Balts Luotainger, Sr
Relding
Harvard
Higgins’ Tloshop
State finances improve as debt paid and new bonds sought
The article details Nebraska’s shift to debt freedom with warrants paid and a $76,000 transfer to the general fund. It notes a planned $4,000,000 in appropriations from the last legislature and upcoming taxes in December and January to fund claims, with a potential red ink balance next month. It also mentions bonds issued for a $4.5 million court project and future sales to cover outstanding obligations.
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Nebraske
Douglas
Nebraaka Ie
Debe
Betance
Nebraska Manufacturing Output in Fiscal Year Report
Labor Commissioner Maupin releases a Nebraska manufacturing report showing total output value at 160, a decline from the prior year. Material use and product values rise and fall across sectors with many small plants added. Douglas County leads in plant count gains, while overall state total still shows a net decrease.
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Maupin
Nebraska
Businom
Dourlan County
Atriot
Erourne
Lancaster
Arrest Unbalances Wife After Husband Pleas Guilty
A Omaha man jailed for a month after pleading guilty to petit burglary allegedly caused his wife, Mrs August Kinsehkof of Twelfth and Arthur, to be confined at home. Police report Mrs Kinsehkof was taken in Thursday night on complaint of Hemple and others. similar distress led to another arrest, Mrs Muttinger, of 1092 South Twenty second Street, with requests that her husband be locked up for the sake of the family and neighbors.
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Omaha
Petit Wheeny
August Kinsehkof
Arthur Atreets
Attan
Hemple
Mysterious gray wolf shot on hike ranch near Oconta
Walter Brown hunted a large wolf east of Oconto using his collie as a decoy. The animal measured 62 inches long and 12 inches high with a 64 inch length and weighed about 100 pounds. A $170 reward had been offered.
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Paul
Lincoln
Walter Brown
Oconta
Brown
Eye injury in playground incident shocks urban town
A young boy, son of a local Urbanen family, suffered a severe eye injury during a knife throwing game at a Sutton playground. The playmate’s blade struck the eye, causing loss of eye water and probable damage to the eye.
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Sutton
Arrest of 15 year old Warren Mayaztete in juvenile court case
Warren Mayaztete, also known as Warren Hayalott, a 15 year old boy, was arrested in Omaha after juvenile court proceedings with Bevera Amnes. Judge Estelle had considered sending him to Kearney last Saturday. he may be lucky if that option is not chosen.
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Warren Mayaztete
Warren Hayalott
Bevera Amnes
Omaha
Estelle
Kearney
Chicago Title and Trust Building Bomb Explosion
Seven people were injured and damages estimated at 150000 after a downtown explosion wrecked the Chicago Title and Trust Building and surrounding block. The blast at 8:20 pm shattered windows, damaged telegraph and telephone cables, and disrupted service across the loop district as police investigated the intent and location of the dynamite used.
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Chicago
Cials
Madison Apreet
Alunt Townes
Raddolph
Chicago Telephone Company
Loop
Thompson's
Bowtan
Dearborn Street
Cilut Schuetiler
May trade report shows rising imports and falling food exports
The May trade statement from the Bureau of Statistics in Washington notes a marked increase in imports of manufacturing material and a decline in exports of foodstuffs compared with the previous year. About fifty items appear in the import list and account for about two thirds of import value, while a similar number of items in the export list represent about three fourths of export value. The report highlights rising values in manufacturing inputs such as raw silk hides tanning India rubber wool copper lumber and chemicals, with most sectors above last year though food exports remain lower than 1908 in most cases.
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Bureau of Statistica
Washington
Wille
Bureau
Nephew of U.S. Grant Involved in San Jose Gun Deaths
A double inquest in San Jose California examined the deaths of W Evans Dent and Alfred Cleveland Urlin. Jurors ruled Dent died from a gunshot wound inflicted by Urlin who also killed Urlin. Mrs Ida Schley the woman in the case spoke a statement. Urlin’s body to be buried in Missoula Montana.
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W. Vans Dent
San Jose
Cal
W. Evans Dent
Alfred Cleveland Urlin
Bent
Urlin
Auleidé
Ida Schley
Sebiley
Dent
U. S. Grant
Julia Dent
John
Miesoula
Mont
Kill Five Filipino Bandits in Sulawesi Campaign
Moro band led by Jiksri reduced as Sixth Cavalry under Captains Bryalt Rhodes and Anderson, with Capt. Slenor, engage near Patataland Philippines. Five bandits killed, several wounded or captured. thirtyone killed or captured in 30 days. Jiksri remains at large.
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Jiksri
Bryalt
Rhodes
Anderson
Sixth Cavalry
Slenor
Patataland
Philo Points
Jikir
Turner Parade Delights Cincinnati In 40000 Strong Turnfest
The great parade in Cincinnati featured 40000 participants including turners soldiers and civic groups. It marked the climax of the thirtieth North American Gymnastic Union event with a four hour procession said to be the largest in turnfest history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
North American Gymnastic Union
Turnbund
Murder Mystery Surrounds Edith Woodill Case In Maryland
Chronicling a sensational tale, the report details Edith Woodill's murder linked to Lyman J. Gage's protegé, with Emmet Roberts or Roberta Fastman killed by a posse or suicide. It notes a letter to Miss Vinnie Braxcome, past marriage histories, and Woodill's complex ties to Baltimore Boston Paris and Los Angeles, ending with Eastman’s arrest and unresolved questions about his and Roberts’s fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith May Thompson Woodill
Lyman J. Gage
St Michaels
Emmet BE. Roberts
Roberta Fastman
Back Creek
Roberta
Vinnie Braxcome
Care Kiaw & Birlamgor
New York
Maryland
Roberts
Mra. Wooutt
McDaniel
Mra Thompson
Washington
Dr. Caswell
Baltimore
Harry Adama
Mount Vernon
N. Y
California
Leas
Gilbert, Woodill
Los Angeles
Gage
Woodlil
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Mrs. A. Klitschko
Gray Wolf
Bie Speckimery
Roy Lasece
Kills
Edith Woodill
Posse
Eastman
Mex
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