Buffalo area ads promote clothing store and boarders
A jumble of local notices advertises Buffalo One Price Clothing Store at 47 Center Street with cheap suits for youths and children, a 5 cent cigar from H. C. H. Smith, poultry and meats from YT. C. Jones Seda, and various boarder notices at 66 Deer Street. Also warnings to keep away from premises and a hat style push from Hamilton's Coal and Lumber yards.
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C. Jones
Buffalo
Fun Se
Buffalo One Price Clothing Store
Center Street
Crafty Van Retires From Presidency Of N C I U
Dartoy Ohio May 5 Intelligence reached here of Union City Indiana being totally destroyed by fire. The blaze began in Kunta's lumber yard and consumed the west half by morning. The entire population fled to the countryside as telegraph service failed and Union City 6 000 residents were left homeless.
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Union City
Indiana
Associated Preas
Dartoy
Kunta
Telegraphic Briefs From Around The World
Paris reports Von Moltke seriously ill. Chicago notes five leprosy cases. Oil City records seven million one hundred twenty six thousand barrels traded. Milwaukee reports a severe wind storm causing train delays and damage. Hamburg sentences five Socialists for pamphlet slander of Bis mark. Carrollton Lil burns key buildings. loss 860000. Greenfield Ill burns ten buildings. loss 317000. Franklin Pa boiler explosion kills Harry Fope. Detroit area train collision kills two women and a man Johnston. Richmond Va fires hit several firms. heavy losses. Brooklyn court awards 22800 to ferry company over embezzlement. Jamacia L. L. robbers loot Hendrickson & Co. Belport L. L. child dies in fire. mother and daughter burned. Nashville Polk rearrested on bond concerns. Princeton NY endows art school at Princeton College. four philosophy chairs. Belmont Ill Mrs Mannie Cawler burned to death. daughter fatally burned. Titusville Pa liabilities 200000 to 250000. 140 men unemployed. New York elevator incident causes fatalities including Gustav Schiff. Wyandotte Kan ex-City Clerk Sager books in disarray. flight to Geneva suspected. Elmira Charles Lantry pioneers press despatch transcription from Morse to print.
Married Man Sued for Breach of Promise Novel Lawsuit
Three O'clock Dispatches. An Editor's Snap. Chas F Peck of the Hornellaville Tribune, Chief of the Labor Bureau, reports on a novel lawsuit involving a married man accused of breach of promise.
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Chas. F. Peck
The
Hornellaville Tribune
Labor Bureau
A Railway Strike in Minnesota
May 3 dispatch reports in Norsenisville and Waterville on labor matters. Charles J Peek editor of the Horneillsville Tribune is named chief of the Labor Statistics Bureau. Hop prospects show wintered roots better than expected causing price drops from five dollars per bushel to one and two dollars.
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Evening Observer
Norsenisville
Charles J Peek
Horneillsville Tribune
Labor Statistics Bureau
Waterville
Terrific Explosion at Lehigh Valley Coal Shaft
Special to the Associated Press reports a deadly gas explosion at the Dorrance shaft of Lehigh Valley Coal Company in Wilkes Barre. Edward Ricker died from severe burns after igniting accumulated gas. Henry Becker was seriously injured. A second explosion at Stanton shaft damaged the beach house and injured ten miners as night shift arrived.
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Associated Press
Wilkesaarne
Dorrance
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Edward Ricker
Henry Becker
Mince
Bicker
Becker
Stanton
Fickle Love Frauds End in Four Thousand Dollar Verdict
Carrie Butterfield Jorlay won $4,000 against Edward Van Slyke for breach of promise of marriage. Van Slyke wooed Butterfield while married, hid this, then married another woman in Pennsylvania after obtaining a divorce from his prior wife. The jury verdict condemns him for the failed engagement.
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Evening Observer
Carrie Butterfield Jorlay
Edward van Slyke
van Slyke
Miss Butterfield
Pennsylvania
Struck In Manitoba Railway Wage Move Sparks Labor Action
St Paul May 5 six hundred laborers on the Manitoba Railway struck today seeking an advance of wages and improvements in conditions. The action involved a mass turnout of workers at key depots and signaling anticipated disruptions to service along the line.
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Evening Observer
St. Paul
Manitoba R’y Attuck
Vanderbilt Heads Lead of Vanderbilt Rail Giants
New York Central Lake Shore and Michigan Central directors elected officers. Cornelius Vanderbilt chairs the New York Central board with James H. Rutter as president and Chauncey M. Depew as second vice president. William K. Vanderbilt chairs Lake Shore and Michigan Southern with John Newell as president. Michigan Central names H. B. Ledyard as president and Henry Pratt as treasurer. Board reforms create a chairman with broader powers to supervise, easing workload on Vanderbilt family. William H. Vanderbilt remains director in all companies and on key committees.
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Associated Press
New York
New York Central
Lake Shore
Michigan Central
Cornelius Vanderbilt
James H. Rutter
Charles C Clarke
Chauncey M. Depew
J. H. Hayden
Jay, Tillinghast
Isaac P. Chambers
E. J. Worcester
William K. Vanderbilt
John Newell
E. D. Worcester
H. B. Ledyard
Henry Pratt
W. I. Vanderbilt
Mr. Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
William H. Vanderbilt
Metropolitan Finances and City Reports Across Nations
Special dispatch notes steady metropolitan finances with loans and deposits rising while circulation falls, signaling no crisis. San Francisco expects $500,000 in opium tax duties before July 1. New York clerks face theft allegations. Dublin reports arrest of Walsh and Sheridan tied to Tynan movements in America. revenue office planning reform and crackdown on private letter offices.
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Gbaerver
New York
San Francisco
Dublin
Walsh
Sheridan
Tynan
America
Post Offhe Department
Senate passes diverse bills and adjourns sine die
The senate approved limits on asylum incarcerations after trial, tax and harbor measures, and a prison contract labor question. It rejected discharge of Murtha as immigrant commissioner and debated insurance investments, civil service appointments, and newspaper security. Resolutions praised the speaker and clerk as adjournment arrived.
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Assembly
Senate
Civil Service Commission
Koch
Court of Appeals
Boyd
Liberal Medical Colleges
MacArthur
Aewspaper
Benedict
M. C. Murphy
House
Rosevelt
Erwin
Governor Signs Repeat of the River Law Penal Code N
The governor signs a repeat measure amending Penal Code N revealing a new River Law provision. Officials say the act reiterates existing penalties and clarifies jurisdiction, with effects on enforcement and public safety.
Campbell penal code amendments repeal Sunday blue laws
Special Dispatch to the Evening Observer reports that the New York Governor signed amendments repealing the Sunday blue laws in Lease No. 161. A Portncorn explosion in an English powder magazine caused total building destruction and killed six workers during shell filling.
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Evening Observer
Avast
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Portncorn
Eng
New York
Irish conspirator reports and regional market notes
English Vice-Consul confirms truth in Irish conspirators story with voluntary Irish informants noted. Irish unemployed viewed as selling information for money. Buffalo market items show flour and meal prices, slight activity in seeds, and quiet provisions amid varied grain quotes. Regional finance tickers mix railroad and utility listings with uncertain figures.
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Associated Press Dispatches
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Doe
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Observer Office
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Fredonia
Duggan
Forestville
Ohn Fons
Third Street
Business Gards
Stanley
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Cronyn
Deer and
Fifth Avenue
D* K. H. Emerson
Donkirk
F W. Krafet
Rentars
Studio Cor. Ruggles and Talcott Ats
Loeb
Tangovial
Lake Shore Bank
Center St
AK. Williams
Ias
Bradford
Titusville
Od City
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Masonic Directory
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W.P. Maltett
BF. W. Raikes
A. M
H. J. Gibbs, Jr
A. P.F
Lee
Dunkirk Council
B. L. Harrison
Charles Blood
Dunkirk Commandery
Wit. Wyman
F.W. Raikes
Peter Hermes
Buffalo Street
Second
H. C. H. Smith
ACIS
Hamilton
Deer Street
J. M. Dickinson
Mary Briller
Louis Hegls
Frank Hendricks
Dove St
Ham Iton
Wilkenbarre
Paris
von Moltke
Chicago
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Hamburg
Bismarck
Carrollton, Lil
Masonic
Odd Fellows
Southward
Greenfield
Masonic and
Odd Fellows Hall
Franklin
Standard Oil Company
Galloway
Harry -Fope
Detroit
Detroit & Lansing
Howard City
Johnston
Richmond
Braggs & Company
Kelly & White
Brooklyn
New York Ferry Company
John H. Moore
Jamacia
L. L
Hendrickson & Co., Coal and Lumber
Belleport
Nashville Polk
Princeton
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Frederick Marquand
Princeton College
School of Philosophy
Belmont
Mannie Cawler
Foster & McKay
Pittsburg Iren
Bryart Building
Gustav Schiff
Wyandotte
Kan
Edward H. Sager
Sager
Geneva
Elmira
Charles FP. Lantry
Western Union
Minnesota
Fagin” Vanderbilt
Michigan Southern
Metropolitan Finances
Geo. Shaw
Mexican Central Railway
AI Souls Church
Internal Revenue
Raum
Whisky
Fretinghuysen
Justice Committee
Murtha
Thompson
Orclock P.M
Portsmouth
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Lower Lakes
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Jody
Fura
H. K. Wittinss
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NEW York Stock Market
Canada
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Qohbe Central
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Pacific Mail
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Pullman
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