Chicago Keeps It Up in Merits War of Pitching
Chicago beat Brooklyn with Powell holding until Chicago tied it in the seventh and won in the ninth on McCarthy’s triple. Brooklyn’s McGinnity pitched well for a while but Boston later behind in a slugfest. Phillies beat the Giants as New York and Philadelphia combined for runs. Batteries listed include Powell, Creiger, Carrick, Warner, Maul, and McFarlan.
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Powell
McCarthy
Liveritt
Brooklyn
McGinnity
Boston
Phillies
Giants
New York
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Philadelphia
Carrick
Warner
Maul
McFarlan
Orth
Per Pia
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Pittsburg
Boston Sacs Bees
Minneapolis Pounds Patterson Then Fades In Tenth
In a May 1 game Minneapolis built an early lead over Chicago but erratic play in the tenth allowed Chicago to seize the advantage. Minneapolis surged in the sixth, chasing Patterson from the mound as Katoll struggled for Chicago. Batteries noted include Parker and Fishers for Minneapolis, Patterson and Katoll for Chicago. other matchups feature Buffalo, Indianapolis, Kell, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Detroit with various pitching lines. College action reports Iowa City with Iowa 10, Kansas 3.
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Minneapolis
Patterson
Chicago
Katoll
Boxing licenses in New York face delay as deadline nears
New York May 1 box ing officials delay action on licensing local clubs as the anti fighting bill nears effect on Sept 1. Police commissioners did not decide the boxing licenses at their meeting though all prior licenses expired midnight. Promoters expect licenses to be granted at least at one club, the Broadway club likely to be favored.
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New York
Tew
Cie
Broadway Club
Train halted by farmer fire threat near Farina
Farina Illinois May 1 Southbound local freight No 19 on the Illinois Central, Jerry Cavanaugh conductor, was stopped four miles south of Farina between Farina and Laclede at 3 pm yesterday by a 50 year old Dutch farmer named Bovungarien who fired at the train but did not injure anyone. He claimed he believed packages he was awaiting were on board and planned to hitch his mule team to retrieve his property in Farina.
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Fil
Minois
Jerry Cavanaugh
Here
Laclede
Bovungarien
Close of the Ecumenical Conference at Carnegie Hall
The Ecumenical conference concluded at Carnegie Hall New York with a capacity crowd. Former President Benjamin Harrison presided as delegates delivered speeches on foreign missions and denominational views. Notable speakers included Bishop Doane of Albany and Rev Dr Maltbie Babcock of New York with Rev W T Barker of London. Harrison noted unprecedented enthusiasm across meetings. A later Central Presbyterian church gathering themed Home church and the outlook for the coming century.
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New York
Carnegie Hall
Benj. Harrison
A. J. Behrens
Brooklyn
Doane
Albany
Maltibie Babcock
W. T. Barker
London
Harrison
Central Presbyterian Church
Robbery by Son and Woman Sends Mother’s Diamonds Quest
Montreal police were asked to arrest 17 year old Thomas Neveu and 28 year old Sadie Carroll after they allegedly left Chicago with property valued at 70000. Mrs M J Neveu reported her son and her valise containing diamonds gold dust and papers worth 76000 stolen after he poisoned her tea. The claim on Bonanza Creek was also cited.
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Chicago
Montreal
Quebec
Thomas’ Neveu
Sadie Carroll
Neveu
M. J. Neveu
Thomas
Arthur
Cape Nome
Bonanza Creek
Public Debt Statement Shows April Debt Rise
The monthly public debt report cites a debt total of 1,124,802,085 after cash adjustments, up 21,545,627 due to bond payments funded by cash outlays. It breaks down interest bearing debt at 1,426,490, and non interest bearing components totaling 892,873,972, with cash in treasury at 1,102,008,128 and demand liabilities of 805,890,580 leaving a cash balance of 296,117,548.
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Washington
Toal
READY FOR FENIAN RAID
Toronto leaders say frontier militia regiments prepare to muster quickly. Colonels report this is drill readiness but officials deny, while sources suggest a joint U S Fenian raid could be met with drumhead court martial.
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Toronto
Ont
United States
New York Governor Signs Corporate Name Restriction
Albany March 11 Governor Roosevelt signed the amended general corporation law prohibiting foreign stock corporations from doing business in the state if their title includes words such as trust bank banking insurance indemnity guaranty fund bank savings investment loan or related terms unless they conform to state banking or insurance law This action targets firms using those terms in their corporate titles to avoid state regulations.
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Albany
N. Y
Roosevelt Sodar
Funl
Beneft
Pleased with Irish Visit and Yorktown Ceremonies
Berlin reports General Von Steuben who toured the United States during Yorktown commemorations has died. The news notes his celebrated visit and linked praise from observers.
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Berlin
General von Steuben
United States
Yorktown
Flowing Mill Plant Burns in Marietta Fire
A blaze at the Phoenix Flouring mill and grain elevators in Marietta Ohio destroyed the setup today causing an estimated loss of 100000 dollars. Firefighters battled the flames, with the blaze raising alarms over potential secondary damage to nearby structures and stored grain. No injuries were reported as crews contained the fire to the mill and associated storage facilities.
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Phoenix
Marietta, C
Marietta, O
Inauguration of Porto Rico's first American civil governor
Charles Herbert Allen, ex-assistant secretary of the US Navy, was inaugurated today as Porto Rico's first American civil governor. His address pledged honest government, shared purpose with the island, and a national plan to develop the island under US sovereignty with equal rights and protection for all citizens.
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San Juan de Porto Rico
Charles Herbert Allen
United States Navy
Porto Rico
Allen
United States
United States of America
Act of Congress
Legislative Assembly
Antilles
Gates Faces Criminal Charge as Steel & Wire Official
New York March 11 John W Gates chairman of the board of directors at American Steel and Wire was served with a criminal summons alleging wrongful action as an official. Gates acknowledged the service with a smile. The summons is returnable May 14.
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John W. Gates
Steel & Wire Company
New York
American Steel & Wire Company
Gates
Roberts Jury Disagrees in Unlawful Cohabitation Case
Salt Lake Utah May 1 The jury in the I H Roberts unlawful cohabitation trial disagreed and was discharged.
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Salt Lake
Utah
I. H. Roberts
President signs Porto Rico officials continuation resolution
The president signed a joint resolution on May 1 preserving current administrative officials in Porto Rico until new appointments are made under the civil government law. The item appears in The Daily Republican.
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Washington
Porto Rico
Stomach Ailments Trigger Spring Health Push
The ad touts Heads Sarsaparilla as a cure for spring stomach distress including sour stomach bad taste headaches and sleeplessness. It features a testimonial from Mrs D H Shelly praising relief from sour stomach eczema numbness and weight loss after starting Hood s Sarsaparilla and credits regained health and normal weight to the treatment.
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Hood
Hiood
D. H. Shelly
Yeeman Street
Tonia, Mich
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promoted Over Substitutes
The ad urges buyers to choose Hood's Sarsaparilla from every druggist, warning against substitutes and noting Hood's is peculiar to Steelf.
FIGHT FOR MORE WAGES ON NY CENTRAL STRIKE
About 700 more car repairers join the New York Central strike as the ultimatum lingers until tomorrow. Superintendents Wraitt will confer with striker executives in New York to decide next steps. The walkout by the Lackawanna and sickle Plate shopmen follows the demand to repair crippled Central trains.
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New York Central
Wraitt
Motive Power Department
New York
Lackawanna
Strike To Affect Twin Cities Sash and Door Industry
Morning to strike today as 806 men attend a unanimous vote. The action affects all sash and door, bar fixture and showcase factories in the twin cities with eleven hundred workers impacted. The dispute stems from manufacturers refusing to hire only union labor.
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Twin Cities
All the Men Out in Omaha
Omaha carpenters idle as union demands press for an 88 hour day and wage rise to 40 cents an hour with exclusive union label on planing mill material. Contractors ready to concede all but the label demand.
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Omaha
Eight Hour Day In Force Across New England
Boston reports the eight hour day taking effect today across most New England building trades districts with minimal strikes. Major action appeared in Barre Vermont where polishers walked out. Lowell saw an incipient strike settled. smaller strikes persisted in Milford New Hampshire Sullivan Franklin Maine and Fall River Massachusetts with Providence Pawtucket and basion showing limited activity in other trades.
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New England
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Lowell
Milford
Manchester
Sullivan
Franklin
Maine
Fall River
Mass
Providence
Pawtucket
Basion
Carnegie to add billet mills to Duquesne works
Worcester reports Andrew Carnegie travels to acquire equipment for a great plant addition at Duquesne Pennsylvania. Morgan Construction of Worcester will build two continuous billet mills and a merchant mill in a contract near 500000 dollars. The move aims to expand rod production, influence rod pricing, and press independent firms to meet trust figures. Work will move quickly to have the mills ready soon.
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Carnegie
Duquesne
Carnegie Steel Company
Morgan Construction Company
Carnegies
American Steel and Wire Company
Wire Trust
Carnegie Company
Morrean Construction Company
Section Hands Quit Work In Strike At Seymour
Seymour Ind May 1 three thousand section men on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern went on strike for higher wages. Work between St Louis and Parkersburg West Virginia has been suspended.
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Baltimore & Ohio
Seymour
Ind
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
St. Louis
Parkersburg
W. Va
All Out At Minneapolis Wood Workers Union Decision
Minneapolis May 1 The Wood Workers' union of Minneapolis after an all night session decided early this
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The
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Plumbers Tinners and Glazers Win Higher Wages
In Youngstown Ohio on May 1 the union journeymen plumbers tinners and glazers won a wage increase from 25 to 50 cents per day affecting about one thousand workers.
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Youngstown, O
Prison Break Shocks Anamosa Aims to Flee
Anamosa story reports George Wrand a inmate serving six years for burglary escaped from the penitentiary between midnight and 1 a m Friday. He was a trusted worker in the dynamo room and had prepared skeleton keys aimed to sever ties with the prison. Guards learned Saturday his plan and the escape involved filing a bar from the door during a guard absence.
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George Wrand
Wrand
Estherville Man Shot While Out Hunting
Estherville May 1 Dr Will Davis who runs the Huntington elevator shot Mr Ben Johnson in the foot while hunting The shot entered the heel and rose upward making a bad wound Dr Adams was summoned and dressed the foot It is thought the foot can be saved Johnson has spent the winter studying medicine in Des Moines
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Will Davis
Huntington
Ben Johnson
Adams
Johnson
Des Moines
Embezzler Breckinridge Sentenced in Waterloo Case
A. S. Breckinridge, who confessed to stealing 20000 dollars from the Perpetual Building and Loan Association, was Saturday sentenced to five years in the Anamosa Penitentiary with hard labor. Prosecutions on a larger sum were barred by the statute of limitations. The theft covered five years of service as secretary of the association.
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Waterloo
A. S. Breckinridge
Perpetual Building and Loan Association
Anamosa
Accused of Horse Stealing Arrest Shocks Small Town
A young man employed by W. W. Frizzell one mile west of town was arrested last Saturday and jailed at Montezuma on an Illinois sheriff's order, who says the man is wanted for horse stealing.
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Brooklyn
W.W. Frizzell
Montezuma
Illinois
Four Bedford Boys Truant Run Ends In Accident
In Bedford on May 1 four schoolboys wandered to the woods with a pistol. The gun fired accidentally and one boy named Perry was wounded in the abdomen and is reported near death. Police and school officials investigate the incident as accidental.
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Bedford
Perry
Monona County Court Indicts Youths for Cemetery Vandalism
In Monona County, the district court indicts four youths for injuring and defacing two grave stones in Onawa cemetery. The group includes James Patterson Grover Davis Ty an Burdette and Sigwald Jettmundson. The oldest offender is 12 years old. Also indicted for larceny is a separate case involving Richard Harlan of Cooper Township whose team buggy and harness were stolen.
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Onewa
Monona County
Richard Harlan
Cooper Township
James Patterson
Grover Davis
Tyan Burdette
Sigwald Jettmundson
Onawa
Nearly a Centenarian Lavina Brooks Dies at 97
Lavina Brooks, a nearly centenarian resident of Independence, died at her home Saturday night after a fall two weeks earlier. At over 97 years old she was the oldest woman in the county.
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Independence
Lavina Brooks
Sunday closing ordinance tightens in Clarinda
A strict Sunday closing rule has been in force for about two years and will be more strictly enforced after tomorrow. No newspapers may be sold on Sundays in the city. Newspaper sales in buildings were suppressed and street sales were allowed, but the street privilege is being stopped. Bootblacks are ordered to cease shining on Sundays.
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Clarinda
Mayr
Sundar
Democrats state convention in Des Moines to select delegates
Des Moines on March 1 reports the state convention to elect delegates to the Kansas City gathering. J. B. Sullivan of Creston chosen as temporary chairman. Forenoon session at 10 a.m., business opens at 2 p.m. A sharp contest over delegates is expected due to a large field of candidates.
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Mar
Kansas City
J. B. Sullivan
Creston
Weather Summary for Iowa and Surrounding Regions
Des Moines reports a week warmer than normal across the state with daily excesses of 3 to 7 degrees. Rainfall was light in eastern and central areas and heavier in the southwest and west central regions, including 4.72 inches at Thurman, Fremont County. Showers daily in the Missouri Valley impeded farm work, but small grain and pasturage grew well with early sown fields showing strong stands and ample pastures for stock.
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Thurman
Fremont County
Missouri Valley
Greatey
Weather Helps Plowing and Early Planting Ahead
Frequent showers in the area kept soils receptive for plowing and planting preparations. In central and southern districts corn planters began on the 27th and 28th, with much of the crop likely to be planted the first week of May. Early fruit varieties in southern and central districts are blooming. northern areas near bloom. A cool front produced light frosts Sunday night and Monday morning with no damage. Overall fruit outlook remains good.
Elopement Shocks Fort Dodge Couple Flee Together
May 1 elopement in Fort Dodge draws police attention as Mrs L B Crucenbery and Will Brown disappear after she left her husband and two children. Mutual friends confirm they left the city together, marking a second departure for Mrs Crucenbery.
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Crucenbery
Will Brown
Thieves Make Big Haul At Weishaar And Fasig Co
Thieves entered the dry goods store in Waterloo on May 1 and stole about $2,000 in silk and related items. A light burned in the rear as the dust curtain was cut and stock along the west wall was scattered. The silk counter was the center of activity with complete bolts of black and brown pure goods taken, while other items were left behind.
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Waterloo
Weishaar & Fasig Co
Women Carry an Election in Iowa City
Women and men voted on a school district bond issue in Iowa City, authorizing 65,000 dollars for a new high school building, manual training space, and a steam heating plant. Turnout was heavy with 1,531 total votes. 435 men and 155 women yes, 555 men and 6 women no.
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Iowa City
Independent School District
Farmer Gustave Jackson Found Dead in Woodbury County
Sioux City on May 1 Gustave Jackson a farmer living in eastern Woodbury county was found dead in bed the likely cause heart failure He leaves a wife and several children to mourn his demise.
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Sioux City
Gustave Jackson
Woodbury County
Lyons Banks to Merge Forming Consolidated Lyons Bank
Clinton May 1 Lyons residents learn that First National and Citizens National banks of Lyons have effectively consolidated after a directors meeting. The move follows Wadleigh plan to exit Lyons to pursue cattle business in the Dakotas, with his controlling Citizens stake sold to the other bank.
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First National
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Dakotas
Wadlegh
Citizens’ Bank
Determined Tug Wilson Attempts Suicide in Cedar River
Waterloo May 11 Tug Wilson an elderly peddler and longtime town figure attempted suicide by leaping into the Cedar River. He clung to riverbed rocks in two feet of water until rescued. revival required strenuous effort.
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Waterloo
Tug Wilson
Cedar River
Harold McCormick Acquires Cedar Rapids Land Deal
May 1 report notes Harold McCormick of Chicago, son of Cyrus McCormick, closed a major Cedar Rapids real estate deal. He takes about 100 acres from the Judge Greene estate just north of the city for around $20,000, about $200 per acre.
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Cedar Rapids
Harold McCormick
Chicago
Cyrus McCormick
Harvester Fame
Judge Greene
Train Crashes Into San Francisco Bay
The Santa Fe engine and seven empty cars plunged from the new wharf into the bay during apron breaking operations today in San Francisco. No injuries were reported as far as known.
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San Francisco
Santa Fe
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