Bromine Gas Injures Dozen at Port Wayne Freight Yard
General Foreman Christ Rees and twenty one workers at the Port Wayne Pennsylvania freight house were overcome by bromine gas. Fifteen left hospital after a few hours. seven remained for treatment. Five bromine bottles were found in a car. a worker rescued as the cloud spread. No fatalities reported. A separate item notes a dynamite bomb incident in New York City injuring three and scaring neighbors.
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Christ Rees
Pennsylvania
Port Wayne
Ind
St. Joseph Hospital
Rees
Amon
Ife
Freiehit House
Bond
West Street
New York City
Patrolina
Tatrick McMahon
Gift for Taft Seized in New York Drug Trafficking?
Special treasury agents seized several hundred oriental art objects in New York from two Russians who admitted bringing them ashore. A finely wrought gold-hilted sword was alleged to be a gift for President Taft from Russian officials and many friends. Ten injured in trolley crash in Dayton, Ohio. About ten people were hurt when a Dayton and Northern Traction line car overturned near Main street and Fairview avenue. Five hospitalized. one woman in critical condition pinned under the car.
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Taft
Treasury
New York
Dayton and Northern Traction Lne
Bayton
Ohio
Main Street
Fairview Avenue
Boyle Declared Guilty in Mercer Kidnaping Trial
James Boyle convicted of kidnapping Willie Whitla in Mercer Pennsylvania after a short trial with no defense. Jury returned verdict quickly. penalty ranges from one year to life in the penitentiary, sentence not yet pronounced. Also reported: Great Sunol, a famed trotter mare, dead at Newton Square Pennsylvania, foaled 1886 in California at Leland Stanford’s Palo Alto stock farm.
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Boyle
James Boyle
Willie Whitla
Mercer
Sunol
Newton Square
Palo Alto
California
Leland Stanford
Electioneer
Panamanian leader, diplomats, and world events in brief
The record lists Tr. Amador as Panama’s first president, Robert McCormick in Brookline hospital, and various international items. Mutinies in Constantinople end. Turkish politics and European affairs unfold. American and European leaders, peace congresses, storms, and notable deaths appear in a rapid panorama of 1909 era news.
National debt grows as April statements show rise to 105125
The monthly public debt statement through April 30 shows debt plus cash in the treasury at 105 125, with cash in treasury around 1 2047 and demand liabilities totaling 3 00 This reflects receipts of 5 075 07 and expenditures of 55 050 020 for April and reports coinage of 0 15 0 0 in gold and 0 01 0 0 in silver. The national bank balance increased by 3 001 012 for the month, with the year set at Set TH.
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Ebt
Lake Sailors Strike Idle Lakes Fleet Amid Labor Turmoil
The Lake Seamen's Union and allied crews began a strike tying traffic on the Great Lakes as about 1 000 sailors plus 1 000 cooks and 5 000 mariners walk off across ports. Chicago hosts roughly 200 sailors quitting while engineers strike independently. Lake Carriers' Association lists 63 firms controlling about 70 ships active of 500 total vessels.
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Great Lakes
Lake Carriers’ Association
AXP
Lake Seamen
Chicago
Victor A. Olander
Lake Seamen’s Union
Marine Engineers
Lake Seamen's Union
Lake Carriers’ Aviation
Mine Explosion Injures Seven at Keystone Coal Mine
An explosion of forbidden fulminite powder occurred 201 meters underground at the Arona mine in Arona Pa owned by Keystone Coal Co. Seven miners were seriously injured and about 200 others panicked as trains moved workers into the pit. Injured men were taken to a Greensburg hospital. investigation points to smuggled five pound can ignited by a trolley spark.
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Arona m
Keystone Coal Company
Arona
Greensburg
Global Headlines and Policy Movements
Riots in Velasdena Mexico left fourteen men dead by government order and unburied near trenches. US Army Captains Golderman Gatter and Walker recruited by Cuba to build a disciplined island army. Plague deaths total sixty in Mwanza district adjacent to Victoria Nyanza. Emperor Nicholas frees marriage dowry rules for Russian officers, lifting 2500 dollar minimum. Helena Modjeska memorial efforts launch in Warsaw with a theater foyer statue. Russian censorship on books to Russia from abroad ends, signaling government confidence against revolution.
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Velasdena
Mexico
United States Army
Golderman
Gatter
Walker
Cuba
Island
Republic
Foreign Office
Mwanza
Victoria Nyanza
Nicholas
Poland
Helena Modjeska
Warsaw
Modjeska
American Post Office Department
Russia
State Strikes At Railroads in Anti-Trust Prosecution
Missouri Attorney General Major files quo warranto proceedings in the Missouri Supreme Court against sixteen railroads for conspiring to fix passenger and freight rates in violation of state anti-trust laws. The action follows a federal ruling that the passenger and freight rate laws were confiscatory and unconstitutional.
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Missouri
Major
Missouri Supreme Court
McPherson
Panama's Dr Manuel Amador Dies at 76 in Panama City
Dr Manuel Amador, first president of Panama, died Sunday afternoon at age 76. Secretary of War J Am Dickinson relayed the news at a reception hosted by Col Goethals, and the U S pledged sympathy. The United States will honor his memory by naming Pacific end fortifications Fort Amador. He leaves a widow, children, and grandchildren.
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Poelfle
Canali
United States
Canal
Pacific End
Sosa Ulall Fort Amador
Amador
Father and son indicted in bond embezzlement case
W J Hayes & Son Cleveland bond brokers are charged after county grand jury indicts Raimond Bonda Moyes and his son Marry EB Nayes for embezzling 227000 dollars in bonds of the Cincinnati Bluffton and Chicago Railway. It is alleged they converted 198000 dollars of bonds intrusted for sale. The son was arrested and released on bond. The father is at large.
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Raimond Bonda
W. O. Moyes
EB. Nayes
W. J. Hayes & Son
Cleveland
Cincinnati, Bluffton and Chicago Railway Company
Meet to End War Urges Campaign of Education
A National Congress calls for a nationwide education drive to banish conflict. The group urges organized meetings and public talks to promote peace and understanding across communities.
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National Congress
Taft Letter Opens Second National Peace Congress in Chicago
Leaders from across the states and Europe gather as the second national peace congress opens at Orchestra Hall Chicago. Dr A Eugene Bartlett chairs the welcome as Governor Deneen and Mayor Busse attend. Taft letter supports disarmament and world peace education. Public services and mass meetings precede sessions. Jacob Gould Schurman of Cornell predicts rising demand to cut defense costs.
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Ogan
Chicago
Boston
District of Columbia
Alexander I. Shepherd
Supreme Court
Yildiz Fesk
Uch
Abdul Wamid
Phiteen
Revent
Constantinopole
Alder Fey
Taft
Orchestra
Robert Treat Paine
American Peace Society
Charles S. Deneen
Fred A. Busse
A. Eugene Bartlett
Bartlett
United States
Sunday Evening Club
Jacob Gould Sehurman
Cornell
Sehurman
Copper Combine Planned by U S Steel Head Corey
William FE Corey of United States Steel aims to unite copper interests to regulate production and reduce competition. He has backing from Henry H Rogers and major copper sellers and recently met forty leading copper figures who largely favor the plan though some doubt its viability.
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Steel Corporation
William FE. Corey
United States Steel Corporation
Corey
Henry HH. Rogers
Amalgamated Copper and
Intel
Mr. Corey
J Hazen Hyde Sentenced in Paris for Road Collision
James Hazen Hyde former vice president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society and his chauffeur Landice were sentenced in Paris for injuring a taxi passenger. Hyde received one month imprisonment and $100 fine. Landice one month and $30. Hyde was abroad on a Riviera trip.
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Equitable Life
James Hazen Hyde
New York
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Landice
Paris
Mr. Hyde
Ladwice
Hyde
Riviera
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Tr. Amador
Panama
Robert 2. McCormick
Brookline
Mass
James Mazen Hye
Samuel Mberly Gross
Battle Creek
Mich
Orchestra Wall
National Peace Congress
Kassim Barracks
Constantinople
Abdul Tamid
Nordica
George Wy Young
Dablinag
Omatia
Kozolook
Dolliver
Lowa Mae
New Jersey
Frenchimen
Clemencent
Roosevelt
Cheage
Ginahafo
Des Maines
Barber
Diamond Match Company
Blor
Stettiuras
Spead World
Penes
Flt
Wegner
Au Madison
Wis
Sago
Stephenson
Wilhelmina of
Holland
Klaw & Erlanger
Belasco
Piste
Abdul
David Lloyd-George
Yenfik Pasha
Turkey
Amnyor Rose
Milwaukee
Dickie
John D. Rockefeller
Star Company
Parliaament
Adam
Lasen
Troosevelt
Mast Africa
Theristocrats
Incinnath Post
Manuel Amador
Copper Combine
J. Hazen Hyde
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