Reds Are Responsible For Wall Street Bombing Blast
Western Newspaper Union reports receipts by justice agents of five circulars signed American anarchist fighters found in a Cedar Street New York commit box linking to the Wall Street blast that killed 35 and wounded 200. The circulars warned to free political prisoners and claimed anarchist fighters. Officials say June 2, 1910 nationwide bath plot. Palmer and Gurven assist Flyyn with New York radicals sought. Dr. Munroe assists on hazardous materials.
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New York
Department of Justice
Cedar Street
Broadway
Wall Street
William J. Flynn
Bureau of Investigation
Mlyne
Palmer
Gurven
Flyon
Charles I. Munroe
Bureau of Mines
Munroe
Capitol
Mystery death mix up delays kin’s hope in New York
A woman identified a morgue body as Robert Westday of 284 West Twenty-fourth Street. Undertaker moved the body to the Westday home where it was found not to be the youth. The body returned to the morgue, and while the family hoped he lived, the youth died at the volunteer hospital. The undertaker then retrieved the body from the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Robert Westday
West Twenty-fourth Street
Westday
Robert
Bond theft arrest linked to mail pouches near Cornelia
Rufus Knight, a World War I veteran, was arrested in Homerville Ga in connection with the theft of Liberty bonds from a Southern railway train near Cornelia Ga. Bonds and New York exchange valued at 205708 were recovered from Knight's suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valdosta
Rufus Knight
Homerville
Southern Railway
Nea Cornelia
Liberty Bonds
New York Exchange
Knight
Woman Gets Ten Years for Manslaughter in Rotan
Myrtle Lilles was found guilty of manslaughter in the slaying of her divorced husband Roy Winters near Jayton in September 1915 and sentenced by a jury to ten years in the penitentiary. Jewelry thieves nabbed in Detroit. six men and four women arrested for stealing thousands in jewelry linked to Detroit New York and Chicago. over $20,000 recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wort Worth
Texas
Myrtle Lilles
Rotan
Roy Winters
Winters
Jayton
Detroit
Polic
New York
Grocer Slaughters Chickens to Retrieve Lost Diamond
Davenport Iowa reports H L Walbourne a local grocer and butcher sought a missing diamond valued at $000 after unloading ten chickens from crates into a coop. He suspected a bird swallowed the gem and finally found the jewel in the discard of the fiftieth fowl he slaughtered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Iowa
H. L. Walbourne
FARM LOANS AT COLORADO BANKERS MEETING
Denver hosts the nineteenth annual Colorado Bankers Association convention with 400 bankers in attendance. Miss Maude Sheridan outlined boys and girls club success with high value products and stock improvements aided by loans, noting Colorado youths contributed to corn, potatoes, pork, and canned goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union News Service
Denver
George T. Wells
Denver National Bank
Vestock
Ouit
United States
Boulder County
el Paso
Table Rock
Ordway
Robert Je. Aur Vey
Atlanta, Ga
Federal Reserve Banks
Federal Reserve System
United Mine Workers Urge Loyal Members to Return to Work
Policy committee of the United Mine Workers in Hazleton Pa urges all loyal union men to return to work in the anthracite coal region. They accuse a few unthinking men of causing the current situation and call for vindication of fidelity to contracts and the union’s cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazleton
United Mine Workers of
Seaplanes Aid Chesapeake Bay Fishermen In Record Hauls
Naval seaplanes patrol Chesapeake Bay waters locating immense schools of fish. Fishermen report their biggest hauls on record as flashing fleets are guided by radio, signals, or sighted cues from the patrol planes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chesapeake Bay
Texas Legislature Convenes to Protect Voter Rights
Governor Hobby calls special session for September 21 to consider safeguarding the general election and prescribing voter qualifications to prevent discrimination in exercising the franchise. The move aims to ensure fair access to voting in the upcoming election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Vex
Texas
Hobby
Plague Quarantine Enforced in Batum and Constantinople
Batum, an import port at the east end of the Black Sea, has been placed under quarantine due to a plague outbreak. Rear Admiral Mark J. Bristol, American high commissioner, orders that Americans must be vaccinated before traveling on American destroyers to Black Sea ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Batum
Black Sea
Haas
Mark J. Bristol
Alleged Red Lawyer Disbarred in Pittsburgh Court
In Common Pleas Court Judge J D Sha fer issued an opinion and order disbar ring Jacob Margelis accused of anarchism, prohibiting him from practicing law in Allegheny County courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
J. D. Shafer
Common Pleas Court
Jacob Margelis
Allegheny County
Soldier Kills Bond Dealer in New York Robbery
A corperal in the U S Army shot and killed Max Rabinowitz a 60 year old furrier and bond dealer at his office 288 West Thirty fourth Street near Pennsylvania Station while attempting to obtain 8000 dollars in money and 27000 in Liberty bonds. He also wounded Anna Rabinowitz the wife of the dead man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harry van Heed
United States Army
Max Rabinowitz
Weat Thirty-fourth Street
Pennsylvania Station
Anna Rabinowicz
Bomb Blasts Rocks Wall Street Killing 31 In New York
A massive explosion in lower Manhattan near Wall Street and Broad Street, likely from a huge T N T bomb loader, killed 31 people and injured over 200. The Morgan building, Treasury area, and assay office were badly damaged, with losses surpassing $1,000,000. Police and military units were mobilized as hospitals filled and streets emptied.
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Wall Street
New York
Broad
Department of Justice
J. 2. Morgan and Company
Sub(reasury
Assay Office
Lower Manhattan
Brooklyn
Governor's Island
Lahey
T. MN. T
Head of Coal Company Killed in Alabama Shooting
L. M. Adler, general manager of the Corona Coal Company at Jasper, Ala, was shot dead while traveling in an auto. Deputy Sheriff Edger and Brown were wounded fatally. both died later. The shooting is linked to a ten day Alabama coal mine strike, prompting Sheriff Guthrie to seek troops from Governor Kilby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jasper
Ala
L. M. Adler
Corona Coal Company
Edger
Brown
Alabama
Clark Guthrie
Walker County
Kilby
Overmilán plants seized as moderates beat radicals
Western Newspaper Union News Service reports in Milan that moderates defeated extremists at a conference. Many textile mills in Milan and Alessandria were taken over, with twenty six seized in Turin. Railway workers blocked troop trains in Bologna and Parma. Parliament action and labor demands followed, including calls for immediate convocation to pass laws allowing workers to take over and manage plants. The London Post framed this as part of a European conspiracy to topple governments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union News Service
Rome
Milan
Alessandria
Turin
Bologna
Parma
Railway Workers’ Syndicate
Italy
Dragona
General Federation of
Tabor
Confederation of Labor
Confederation
Socialist Party
Chamber of Deputies
Giolitti
London
Europe
Warsaw
Bolshevists
Great Britain
Germany
Bandits Rob Twenty Gambling Men in Omaha Heist
Two armed masked bandits robbed about twenty men in a private Omaha apartment, escaping with about $7,000. The report came to police not from the victims, but from another source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha, Neb
Gold Production Dwindles in 1910 Report
A joint mint and Geological Survey report estimates American gold production in the calendar year 1910 at 2,018,028 fine ounces valued at 60,880,400 dollars, with silver output of 6,082,445 fine ounces worth 803,088,082 at New York prices. California led with an output valued at 17,806,200 dollars, marking declines from 1918 levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mint
Geological Survey
New York
California
Fighting Resumed as Poles Capture Kovel and Prisoners
Russians report heavy engagements east of Brest Litovsk and in Volhynia with Polish forces. Kovel in Volhynia was occupied, 8,000 prisoners taken, 36 guns and war material seized including four locomotives and three aircraft. Lithuanian forces advance toward Augustowo while peace talks proceed with Soviet Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Nons Service
London
Brest-Litovsk
Kovel
Volhynia
Moscow
Warsaw
Suwalki
Bolshevists
Pinsk
Prisoners Escape With Guard From Leavenworth Auto Theft
Two prisoners from the United States disciplinary barracks escape with their soldier guard after stealing an automobile from a Leavenworth farmer. Herbert A. Bilis, a three year robbery sentence, and Leslie A. Tibbetts of Wymore Nebraska, serving one year for desertion, disappeared toward Atchison following the theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenworth
Kan
United States
Herbert A. Bilis
Leslie A.tibbetts
Wymore
Neb
Atchison
Japan to Relieve Silk Industry
Tokio reports government action to aid silk in dustry with a 40 million yen grant and an additional 15 million yen from the Bank of Japan. The aim is to stabilize silk prices and regulate exports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Tokio
Bank of Japan
Robbers Dynamite Bank in Linn Grove Heist
Robbers dynamited the Pierce bank of Linn Grove, Towa, about 100 miles northeast of Sioux City, and stole 10000 pounds in United States bonds and 1000 dollars in cash. The bandits escaped in a motor car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Towa
Pierce
Linn Grove
Here
United States
Bandits Rob Dick Devaney in Council Bluffs Robbery
Two masked bandits waylaid Dick Devaney a Western Union employee, chained him to his car, and robbed him of 86 dollars. The money belonged to railroad colleagues whose checks Devaney had cashed at the bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Dick Devaney
Wabash
Railroad
Devaney
Flag Stops Meeting At Pittsburgh Convention
Delegates gathered at a Pittsburgh hotel paused business as a British flag hung above the platform. The convention urged British trade unions to demand withdrawal of British troops from Ireland and endorsed Irish freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
International Union of Steam
Ireland
Wyoming Brief Notes On Bridges And Incidents
Wyoming notes report a $70,000 concrete bridge over the Platte at Casper opening to traffic after a year of construction. Stack of stories include injuries at a Casper broncho event, dynamiting damage near Savery, Union Pacific bravery award for a Laramie switchman, the death of Cactus Lone Bear in Casper, two mail plane wrecks at Rock Springs, a grisly Niobrara murder mystery, a Cheyenne shooting involving Yee Geow, painterly embroidery by William Carlisle in Rawlins prison, a Rock Springs market death, and various livestock and electric shock tragedies across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Platte River
Casper
Salt Creek
Roy King
Los Angeles
King
Dan Leyhan
Savery River
Boggs
Rawlina
Joe Kruppa
Union Pacific Railroad
Laramie
Carnegie Foundation
Grand Avenue
Cactus Lone Bear
Sam Lone Bear
Lone Bear
Dragon
Utah
Rock Springs
Jireh
Niobrata
Johns. Federden
Cheyenne
Yee Geow
Holland
W. R. Mansfield
Geow
Canada
William L. Carlisle
Rawlins
Carlisle
William O'Donnell
Crystal
Nels Hougard
Portland
Ore
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U.S
Flynn
Western Newspaper
Miss Sheridan
Colorado Bankers’ Association
Minera
Red
Petaluma
Cal
Bomb Wrecks
Morgan & CO
Bond Bank
Morgan
Bandits
Paris
Wrangel
Russia
Don
Nazarof
Voronezh
Tvaritzyn
Malikov
Seyny
Augustowo
Kalwuarya
Danaig
Riga
M. Dombski
Minsk
Auto
Wyoming
Areen
Union News Berrios
W.N. W. Blayney
Hidgewater
Cole
Lincoln
Wyoming Highth
Wyoming Nine
Blayney Domine
KR. P. Belvins
Riverton
Wyo
Boysen
Belvins
Catherine Morgan
Henry Morgan
Union Pacific
Luranne City
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