Senate and House proceedings mix Philippine bill and pensions
In the Senate on the 234th day Dubois and Patterson of Colorado spoke on the Philippine bill while the House focused on private pension bills and District of Columbia affairs. The Shattuc immigration bill passed the House as debate on subsidiary silver money and Philippine issues continued in both chambers.
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Senate
Dubois
House
Patterson
Colorado
District of Columbia
Messrs
Morgan, Clay and
Spooner
Explosion after lighted match伤 causes fatal dynamite mishap
A skiff accident left Seabee Chambers and Ed Engemier dead and Phil Roushe badly injured after a lighted match among dynamite sticks caused the blast. Separate notes report Maryland receiving $190,420 settlement for old debt, a Sunbury nail mill fire, and immigration records marking May with 88,500 entrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seabee Chambers
Ed Engemier
Phil Roushe
United States Supreme Court
Northern Central Railroad Co
Maryland
Baltimore & Susquehanna Railroad
Northern Central
Sunbury
American Steel Co
William Malcolm
Passaic
N. J
Mutual Loan and Building Association
Alcatraz Island
California
Dong Gong
St. Louis
Cape Town
Cape Colony
Congress
United States
International Emigration and Commercial Association
Chattanooga
Tenn
Charles Curtis
Kansas
United States Senate
W. A. Harris
Gov. Stanley
Chester I. Long
American Steel Foundry
Granite City
Ill
Kathleen Flanagan
Hudson River
New York City
Union Bag and Paper Co
Ballston
N. Y
New Jersey
Suffern
Ridgewood
Corbin, Young and
Wood
William
Julia Marlowe
Powers’ Theater
Chicago
Joseph Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Steel Foundries
American Steel Foundries Co
James A. Patten
Evanston
Patten
Tom Harless
Berkeley
Ala
Republican Congressional Committee
Roosevelt
Babcock and
Overstreet
Philadelphia
Lhe
Scranton
Mendelssohn
Philharmonic Society
Utica
Choral Society of
Wilkesbarre
Senate
Spooner
House
Meat Famine Roils Chicago Stock Yards Strike
Across Chicago and the stock yards a meat famine grows as packers refuse concessions to striking Teamsters No 10. Police guard deliveries while icing coal and ice teams join the stoppage. The strike spreads to Omaha Kansas City St Joseph and St Louis as union and non union factions clash and prices soar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Union No. 10
Union
Palmer House
Tce
Illinois Central
Randolph Street
Cudmore
James C. Irwin
Irwin Brothers Co
Alexander
John
Omaha
Kansas City
St. Joseph
St. Louis
Teamsters
Franklin McVeagh
National Civic Federation
Union Traction Co
Federation of Labor
James H. Eckels
Commercial National Bank
Fulton
Floods isolated Woodward as Santa Fe bridges wash out
Oklahoma rainfall causes major floods across western half of the state. Woodward reports 600 feet of South Canadian bridge destroyed and North Canadian bridges washed away. Water two feet deep in Woodward streets after a waterspout. Washita River rises near two feet with Rock Island track washed out between Anadarko and Lawton.
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Guthrie
O. T
Wooodward
Oklahoma
Woodward
Oklahoma City
Washita
Rock Island
Anadarko
Lawton
Four Drownings From Columbia River Boat Capsize
Four people drowned when a small row boat capsized on the Columbia River near Martin's Bluff 12 miles above Kalama. The victims include Mrs. Jones and Mrs. M. C. Martin with Ella Martin. Herbert Martin saved his mother and two others before drowning himself.
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Portland
Ore
Columbia River
Martin’s Bluff
Kalama
Jones
M. C. Martin
Ella Martin
Herbert Martin
Widow of James G Fair abandons claim in settlement
Mrs Net tie C Craven of San Francisco settles her bid to be recognized as James G Fair’s widow by accepting $50,000 to withdraw from lawsuits against the estate valued at about $2 million. The estate now vests absolutely in Charles L Fair and his sisters. Craven had previously been offered $300,000 and demanded $500,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Nettie C. Craven
James G. Fair
Charles L. Fair
Craven
Fair
New America's Cup Challenger Planned by Fife Watson
London May 30 William Fife and George L Watson have drafted plans for a new challenger to the America's Cup to be built by the Dennys at Dumbarton. Capt Robert Wringe, who sailed Shamrock I in the cup races with Capt Hogarth, will command the new yacht.
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London
William Fife
George L. Watson
Dennys
Dumbarton
Robert Wringe
Hogarth
Eisteddfodd Opens in Scranton with 2500 Singers
The National Eisteddfod opened in Scranton Pennsylvania with 2500 singers and 200 literary contestants entered for prizes totaling 5000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eisteddfodd
Scranton
Granite workers strike ends in Gloucester under 10 percent rise
The Cape Ann strike by 900 granite workers, starting May 1, ended on May 30 in Gloucester. The dispute sought about a 15 percent wage increase, but the settlement provides just under 10 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloucester
Mass
Cape Ann
Mule Camp to be Moved from Lathrop to Toronto
The British mule camp in Lathrop Missouri since May 1501 to supply 86000 horses and mules for South Africa will be relocated to Toronto Canada immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lathrop
South Africa
Toronto
Canada
Miners Strike Threatens Anticipated Shutdown
Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania June 2 The United Mine Workers order to call out stationary engineers firemen and pumpmen unless eight hour workday at current wages will take effect today. Both sides vow to fight to a finish with potential losses in coal properties and power in the anthracite region. An army of about 3000 armed coal and iron policemen stands ready to guard mines and workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway
Cedar Rapids
Rock Island
Union
D. C
Jonesville
Santac
Schuylkill
Lord Pauncefote
England
Olympia
Dewey
Manila
Brooklyn
Admiral Schley
Santiago Bay
James H. Burns
New York
New Rochelle
N. Y
Burns
Eldridge Street
Lexon
Pueblo
Col
Fountain River
Sante Fe
San Bernardino
Cal
Seligman
Ariz
United States
America
Ben Bowen
Manhattan Beach
Denver
Bowen
New York City
Thomas Kensett
Gertrude
Cornwall-on the-Hudson
Paris
Buffalo
Union Furnace Co
Chicago
John Novak
Walter Bolger
Paul S. Bolger
Yonkers
Franklin
Norfolk
John Jermyn
Scranton
Philippines
Senate
Secretary of the Navy
Texarkana
Ark
Christian Church
Oak Street Baptist Church
Methodist Church
Fairview Methodist
Episcopal Church
Baltimore
Thomas F. Griffiths
Brooklyn, N. C
Union Carriage Workers
Washington
American Packers* Association
Dover
Del
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
New Jersey
Wilkesbarre
United Mine Workers of America
Mitchell
Pennsylvania
Ascending Mont Pelee Aerial View of a Hazardous Summit
Prof Angelo Heilprin of the National Geographic Society and three Martinique guides reached the crater summit of Mont Pelee despite a thousand dangers. Ash clouds and violent eruptions drenched him in mud as vents vented steam. The ascent from Vive plantation followed days of study of new craters and activity.
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Fort de France
Martinique
National Geographical Society
Angelo Heilprin
Crater
Mont Pelee
Heilprin
Vive
Fernand Clerc
Mr. Reid
United States
Ayme
Kingstown
Island of St. Vincent
la Souffriere
Interesting Experiments With Rubber Balloons At Berlin
In Berlin on May 30 the international aeronautic commission observed Prof Assmanns rubber balloons with automatic registers to record high altitude phenomena. Three balloons were launched and two recovered. One balloon reached an altitude of 20 000 meters, the highest ever recorded for a balloon.
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Berlin
International Aeronautic Commission
Assmann
Yale to Open Kirtland Hall Minerology Lab Memorial to Prof Jared P Kirtland
New Haven Conn May 30 Prof R H Chittenden director of the Sheffield Scientific school at Yale announces a gift to the school of a new laboratory for mineralogy in organic geology and physical geography The building will be named Kirtland hall and serve as a memorial to the late Prof Jared P Kirtland of Cleveland formerly professor of the theory and practice of medicine at the Ohio Medical College and Western Reserve College.
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New Haven, Conn
R. H. Chittenden
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale University
Kirtland Hall
Jared P. Kirtland
Cleveland
Ohio Medical College
Western Reserve College
Double Tragedy in Gotham at No 50 Second Avenue
Police found J. S. Keldan a cigarette dealer dead with a crushed head in a Second Avenue flat. Nearby M. Caraman tobacco merchant lay fatally shot in the head, a pistol in one hand and a hammer nearby. Police suspect Caraman killed Keldan with the hammer then shot himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gotham
New York
Second Avenue
J. S. Keldan
M. Caraman
Caraman
Keldan
Decoration Day Honors Across Cities and Presidents
Decoration day observances spanned the nation with parades and tomb ceremonies. Roosevelt's Arlington address drew vast crowds in Washington while Philadelphia unveiled a 20 000 memorial to McKinley. From St Louis to Muskegon and Springfield crowds decorated graves and honored veterans and Civil War era figures.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Arlington
A. R
New York
National Guard
United States
Navy Yard
Miles
Barker
Nixon
Low
Howard
Brooke
Riverside Park
Grand Army of the Republic
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
McKinley
Post Office
St. Louis
National Cemetery
Jefferson Barracks
Kansas City
Forest Hill
Daughters of the Confederacy
Westport
Chattanooga
Tenn
Memphis
Muskegon
Mich
Charles H. Hackley
Springfield
Lincoln
Oak Ridge
Lincoln Monument
Frank C. Bruner
Beardstown
Two Men Drown as Ferry Capsizes Near Burlington Island Park
In Philadelphia on May 31 John Heizer and a youth named Cook of Tacoma drowned when a batteau ferry capsized crossing the Delaware from Bristol to Burlington Island Park. Ten others were rescued. Ferryman Charles Waters was arrested for criminal negligence.
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Philadelphia
Delaware River
Bristol
Burlington Island Park
Here
John Heizer
Cook
Tacony
Charles Waters
Taft Mission Seen Aiming for Success in Rome
London reports the Taft mission to Rome has strong prospects of success. The Vatican may place Philippine monasteries under civil law and allow expropriation of their property. The United States plans to authorize new dioceses in the Philippines to be led by American bishops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Tiger killed in circus train clash with horses near Poughkeepsie
A two year old tiger recently imported escaped from its wagon den on a Goshen to Poughkeepsie circus train. It crawled over four wagons into a car with 30 horses. The horses stomped and kicked the intruder. The tiger was found dead under the horses when the train stopped in Poughkeepsie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Goshen
New York District Attorney Seeks Delay in Extradition Hearing
Columbus Ohio May 31 William Travers Jerome district attorney of New York telegraphed Gov Nash asking to defer the hearing of the requisition for William Hahn of Mansfield until next Wednesday Hahn will make a hard fight to prevent extradi tion
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, O
William Travers Jerome
New York
Nash
William Hahn
Mansfield
Hahn
Ex Gov Pennoyer Dies in Portland Home
Ex Oregon Governor Sylvester Pennoyer, who led the state from 1886 to 1894, died suddenly yesterday at his Portland residence from heart trouble.
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Pennoyer
Portland
Ore
Sylvester Pennoyer
Oregon
Jockey Pat Meagher Killed in Toronto Steeplechase
In Toronto on May 31 Pat Meagher a renowned steeplechase jockey died after his horse St. Sulpice fell at a jump opposite the grandstand Meagher was crushed under the horse and suffered a broken back, ending his career.
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Toronto
Ont
Pat Meagher
St. Sulpice
Grandstand
Meagher
Grand stand destroyed by Hawthorne fire at Hawthorne
The grand stand at Hawthorne Race Track in Chicago burned last evening just after the final race. Loss estimated at 75000 dollars. {entities: Hawthorne Race Track, Chicago}.
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Chicago
Hawthorne
Favorable Conditions Across Trade Outlook Cited
B G Dun and Company Weekly Review of Trade notes easing money market favorable crop prospects and confidence abroad offset by labor conflicts and unseasonable weather for retail trade. It cites strong wheat and corn yields boosting agriculture, ongoing iron contract interest, mixed mill activity, quiet textile markets, and 194 US while Canada saw 20 failures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. G Dun & Co
New York
B. G. Dun & Co
New England
United States
Canada
Cornell Wins Triangular Eight on Cayuga Lake
Cornell easily won the two mile triangular race on Lake Cayuga with a time of 10 48. Syracuse finished second over three lengths back and Harvard Newell club eight trailed by more than four lengths. Owing to rough water the start was delayed two hours until 7 20 in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornell
Lake Cayuga
Pennsylvania
Schuylkill
Ithaca
N. Y
Syracuse
Harvard
Newell Club
Cornwell
Brandegee
Ithacans
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia
Schuylkill River
Fairmount Park
Dozen Passengers Injured In Electric Railroad Crash
A Paltz and Poughkeepsie electric railroad collision near Highland N Y injures a dozen passengers. Motorman Emory Ayer loses both legs. four women suffer leg fractures and severe cuts as car ends crush together. Cause cited: one car failed to stay on the switch until the other passed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
New Paltz & Poughkeepsie Electric
Highland
Emory Ayer
Burglars Loot Hardin County Treasury at Kountze
Burglars blew the county treasurer's safe in Kountze Hardin County and stole all county funds. A daylight battle with citizens occurred at Silsbee ten miles east, wounding one burglar. others escaped into a large thicket. The exact amount stolen was not disclosed.
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Beaumont
Tex
Hardin County
Kountze
Here
Silsbee
Kansas artillery battery accident wounds three on Decoration Day
In Wichita on May 31 a gun from Battery A Kansas state artillery exploded during preparations for a Decoration Day salute. George Hatter was fatally hurt, Burt Davis was seriously wounded, and G W Thomas was seriously hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Kan
Kansas State Artillery
George Hatter
Burt Davis
G. W. Thomas
Presbyterians prepare to debate membership covenant
In Pittsburg the United Presbyterian assembly opened with a brief session signaling a heated fight over the membership covenant. A clear push to defer action faces strong opposition as Tarkio Missouri is chosen to host next year’s assembly, surprising some who expected an eastern venue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
United Presbyterian Assembly
Special Committee
Tarkio
Brotherhood Engineers back warship building in government yards
Norfolk May 31 Friday session of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers adopts a resolution to President Roosevelt and Congress urging naval yards build warships and to insert a clause in the naval appropriation bill for three ships to be built in government yards. Los Angeles chosen as next convention site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Roosevelt
Senate
House of Representatives
Los Angeles
Cal
Brotherhood
Filipino leader Buencamino visits Mount Vernon tomb
Senor Felipe Buencamino head of the Philippine federal party, with Filipino delegation, paid a pilgrimage to Mount Vernon in Washington on May 31. He delivered an address at the tomb of George Washington.
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Buencamino
Mount Vernon
Washington
Senor Felipe Buencamino
Federal
Philippines
Senor
Bencamino
Tomb of
US Eagle crew decorates Maine wreck in Havana
In Havana on May 31 the crew of the gunboat Eagle decorated the wreck of the battleship Maine. President Palma and the Society of Veterans sent wreaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
United States
Eagle
Maine
Palma
Society of Veterans
Wife's Odd Revenge Slaughters Cattle in Pasture
Mrs. Foley of English Indiana devised a brutal punishment for her drunken husband Foley by binding him in a field and salt him, leaving him to be eaten by cattle. He was found the next day hair shaved and clothing eaten, skin raw from cow tongues. she faces potential divorce but townsfolk praise her cruel cleverness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Foly
Ind
Foley
Bible Worth $50,000 Seized From New York Appraisers
An eighth century manuscript Bible, claimed to be worth 50 000 dollars, is at New York appraiser stores. Owned by J S Morgan nephew of J P Morgan, the illuminated book features parcha ment with ruby studded covers. Deputy Collector Williams seized it temporarily as the appraised value could not be determined in time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
J. S. Morgan
J. P Morgan
Williams
Morgan
Editorial compares Sunday fishing to hunting in Kansas
A Kansas editor argues that a man with a hook and line on Sunday who catches nothing is not fishing. The Chicago Tribune counters that if a man carries a gun and wanders in search of game he is hunting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
The
Chicago Tribune
Peruna Restores Vitality and Strength, Mrs Taylor Says
Mrs Kate Taylor reports Peruna restores vitality and bodily vigor in a wonderfully short time, renewing health and strength. The claim highlights rapid benefits from the remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate Taylor
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