Martinique disaster reports and other brief items
A telegraphic digest from St Thomas reports St Pierre, Martinique destroyed by volcanic activity with nearly all residents killed and port ships lost. Roddam wrecked. captain burned. 17 crew dead. Roraima lost with all aboard. Seven youths drown near Toledo in a naptha launch accident. Survivors include Mr Hepburn and two girls. A Konstat tinograd revolt in Poltava region saw farms burned and a tonnage of sugar dumped. 76 killed, 100 injured. leaders flogged 800 strokes. Thirty five prisoners died in flogging.
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Martinique
St. Thomas
Roddam
Freeman
St. Pierre
Quebec Steamship Company
Roraima
First Baptist Church
Maumee
Toledo
Ohio
Arthur Woods
Great Lakes Company
Joseph Hepburn
Lake Erie
Lake Erie and Were Returning When the Accident Happened. Mr. Hepburn
Clara Marks
Grace Lowe
St. Petersburg
Konstantinograd
Poltava
Dnieper
Ivanovka
Vashilovka
Four Chicago Sailors Arrested in Trieste Cafe Incident
Four sailors from the cruiser Chicago were halted by civilians in Trieste as police intervened and arrested a civilian. Trieste Chief of Police stated the sailors ashore behaved with conduct above reproach.
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Vienna
Trieste
Chicago
Windstorm devastates Spencerville cemetery and area structures
A windstorm toppled 126 monuments in Spencerville Cemetery Indiana, leaving only four shade trees. a St Joe school roof and walls were torn, with barns and outbuildings wrecked. Across Paria France and Spain hail, snow, and frosts ruined crops in the northwest, northeast, and southwest regions.
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Spencerville
Ind
St. Joe
France
Spain
Paria
Armored Train Wreck Alert and Embezzlement Arrests
An armored train derailed on a curve from Pretoria to Pietersburg. Lieutenant Campbell of the Cape Garrison artillery and ten men were killed as an inquiry into the cause proceeds. H A Barrows, ex census disbursing officer, arrested in Washington for $7500 government embezzlement. Richard C. Davis, bank cashier, guilty of embezzling over $70,000 and sentenced to five years in Columbus prison.
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Pretoria
British War Office
Pietersburg
Campbell
Cape Garrison Artillery
H. A. Barrows
Census Bureau
Washington, D. C
Charles H. Holliday
American Surety and Trust Co
New York
Barrows
Embezzier
Richard C. Davis
People’s National Bank of Washington
Ind
John H. Baker
Columbus
Ohio
Richard ©. Davis
People's National Bank of Washington
John II, Baker
Federal
Indianapolis
Burial of Bret Harte in Surrey in quiet ceremony
The remains of Bret Harte were buried at Brimley Surrey on Friday in the presence of his widow son and daughter and a few friends. Many wreaths were placed on the coffin.
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Bret Harte
London
Brimley
Surrey
New Town Springs Up Near Rosebud Reservation
Bonesteel in southern Gregory County South Dakota rapidly grows as 800 residents now live there and builders rush to meet demand. A border town forms ahead of the Rosebud treaty opening 416000 acres with 5200 hopefuls already seeking land through speculation and a likely lottery system. Land values climb with plots selling from 300 to 800 dollars and quarters near the reservation changing hands for thousands.
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Rosebud Reservation
Rosebud
Rich Ranchman Murder Plot Leaves Graham Wounded
John Graham a wealthy coachman lies dangerously wounded at his home seven miles west of El Paso New Mexico. His wife 16 year old daughter friend Jim Crow and others are jailed on charges of attempting to murder him and binding him to a railway track before a passing train could kill him.
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John Graham
Il Paso
New Mexico
Jim" Crow
Graham
Southern Pacific
Crow
City Wins Traction Case in Ohio Court
Judge Strimple of the Cleveland common pleas court dissolved a temporary injunction preventing a new street railway line on Rhodes avenue and dismissed William Reynolds petition claiming illegality of the city franchise. The judge ruled the franchise was valid and property owner consent lawful, with notice of appeal filed by the plaintiffs.
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Cleveland
Strimple
The
Common Pleas Court
Ohio
Rhodes Avenue
William Reynolds
New Milford Fire Swept Business Center Blackened
Fire devastated New Milford Connecticut destroying the entire business section along Bank street Railroad street and Main Street. The blaze consumed hotels banks a telephone exchange and numerous structures with damages estimated between 300000 and 400000. No lives reported lost.
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Connecticut
New Milford
Conn
Bank Street
Railroad Street
Bank
Bridge Street
Main
Southern
New England Telephone Exchange
Lhe Juss
Purim Ball Mock Marriage Spreads in Yonkers
At a Jewish Purim ball in Yonkers New York about 100 couples participated in a mock marriage ceremony. The officiating rabbi reportedly stated the couples are bound in church law and civil law, prompting debate among attendees and rabbis over the true status of the marriages. Some say the tale was rumor spread for personal gain amid a family of eight unmarried daughters. Officials plan a consultative decision by multiple rabbis.
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Yonkers
Seek to Bar Middlemen in Kansas City Plan
Kansas City implement and vehicle manufacturers meet at the Cotes Trouse to form a direct sales combine aimed at bypassing jobbers. They plan a large Kansas City wirehouse and to refuse wholesale to jobbers, citing profit margins as the motive. I. K. Hays of Galva Illinois supports forming a nationwide direct sales network following a Minneapolis example.
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Kansas City
Cotes Trouse
I. IK. Hays
Galva
Ill
Minneapolis
Shipping Figures and Public Losses in Early 1900s News
Census Bureau reports on shipbuilding and repairs showing total products valued at 874,578,158 with no capital stock from corporations included. US tonnage in 1900 stood at 826,094, a loss of 4,615,881 tons since 1890. Other notes cover orchards devastated by canker worm in Missouri, substitutes for saloons in Ohio, and a Springfield educator's death.
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Census Bureau
Census
Buoreau
America
ISOC
United States
Missouri
Molten metal kills four at Harrisburg steel works
Four Austrian workers were killed and two seriously burned when molten metal burst into an open hearth pit at the Steel ton plant near Harrisburg. The pit overflow turned to a pool of fire as ore boiled and the pit boss cried warning. two escaped as others were engulfed.
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Stes
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Steel Works
Steelton
Dewar Harrisburg
Che Wen
Charles I. Lockett
Immigrants Break Record at New York Ports
Immigrants arriving in New York reached a record pace in four months ending April with 178,004 arrivals, over 30,000 above the previous year. In one Week recently 25,120 were brought from European ports, Ellis Island saw 12,340 landings in a single day.
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America
New York
Ellis Island
Trains Crash in Dense Fog at North Topeka
In heavy fog an east bound Union Pacific extra freight struck freight No. 14 at a crossing in North Topeka Kansas, killing two men and injuring seven. No. 14 had stopped at the crossing. the extra, traveling about forty miles per hour, did not see its lights. The impact split the No. 14 caboose in two. Engineer Zimm erman of the extra could not avoid collision due to limited visibility.
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North Topeka
Kas
Union Pacific
Kan
Zimmerman
Extra
No. 14
Princess Beatrice De Berrove Attempted Suicide in Rome
Princess Beatrice De Berrove daughter of Don Carlos the Spanish pretender was rescued after attempting to throw herself into the Tiber at Rome. She arrived at the Sistine bridge in formal attire and jewels and after making the sign of the cross she was pulled from the water. She cited jealousy of her husband as motive.
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Don Carlos
Rome
Beatrice de Berrove
Beatrice
Sistine Bridge
Cleveland Depot Robbed by Masked Safe Crackers
Three armed safe crackers ambushed the night watchman at the Lake Shore freight depot at the foot of Wason street in Cleveland, binding and gagging him after a violent struggle, then drilled the safe and carried away about 500 dollars as the building and safe were wrecked.
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Lake Shore
Wason Street
Cleveland
Senate and House Debates on Philippine Civil Government Bill
Congress debate dominated the week with Philippine civil government discussions in the Senate. Conference on the Indian appropriation passed. Rosebud land sale amendment rejected and Oklahoma Arizona New Mexico statehood talks, along with Rocambeau statue funding, and district and White House repairs funding approved. Senate adjourned to several memorials. House action included Okla Arizona New Mexico constitutions and a monolithic Philippine focus with territorial consolidation debates. House memorials and the Rocherombeau statue funding also advanced.
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Senate
Hawaiian
District of Columbia
Republic of Cuba
Philippines
House
Anos J. Cummings
New York
Lodge
St. Louis
Washington City
Hall of Records
White House
Rosebud
Marshal de Rochambeau
Jones
Otey
Phiippine
Washington
Territory of
Hawaii
Sahnon
New Jersey
United States
Oklahoma
Arizona
New Mexico
Knox
Mass
Territories
Admiral Sampson
Messrs
Perkins
Gallinger
Quarles
Martin
Mallory
Grosvenor
Ohio
Washington Notes and Naming Shuffle in 1904 Era
Gerbert G. Squibes is named president to a Cuba post while burial amid mixed reports at Kirk Creek shows partial recovery. President Roosevelt plans to attend the Olympian games in Chicago in 1004, signaling high-level attention to upcoming events.
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Washington
Gerbert G. Squibes
Cuba
Smith Russell
Rirk Creek
Roosevelt
Chicago
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Goth
New Town
CITY
Almirante
Oquendo
Philadelphia
Mont Pe-tee
House of Representatives
Havana
Wood
Salvator Cisneros
Pedro Alburran
Newcastle
Shenango Tinplate Works
Jimenes
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Indiana
Corrigan
Sampson
William V. Sampson
Ohio Anti-Saloon League
J. M. Ruthrauff
Wittenbergs College
Springfield
Walton Weber
Grand Army of Ohio
Gov. Nash
Mina Fisher
Georgia Simons
Cuyahoga Wire and Fence Company
Akron
Capital Stock
Cuyahoga Steel Wire Company
Cuyahoga Falle
Hartman Manufacturing Company
Cuyahoga Stalls
Royal Family of
Greece
Chalkis
Europis Channel
Paul Leicester Ford
Malcolm W. Ford
Princess
Tiber
Cleveland Depot
South Branson Street
Marion
Fanslers
Rhowna
Wellsburg
W. Va
Eagle Glass Works
Paul Brothers
Salmon
J. S. Salmon
Boonton
Efe
Red Hrouse
Camberley
Aldershot
England
Frank Smith
Hany Harthunft
Keystone Athletic Club
Allentown
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
New York City
Ovas Incorporated
Gov. Davis
Arkansas
Masaachusetts
Congress
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