Chicago Faces Troop Call as Labor Strikes Spread
May 17 report shows Mayor Dunne warning that further strike extension and riots could trigger state militia. Drivers and school workers strike amid violence, with eight schools affected and police kept busy. Eight suspects in Carlstrom killing arraigned as police accuse labor leaders of conspiracies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Dunne
Labor Committee
J. W. Fernald Company
Fallon
West Forty-second
Wallace Streets
Graham
West Forty-fifth
Union
Peabody Company
Montefiore
Washington
Carpenter
Herman Raster
Harry Grady
Emerald Avenue
Provident
William
Union Labor Organization
Justice Prindivilie
Charles J. Carlstrom
O'Neill
Healy
Lavin
Loycotts
Two Bottorff Sisters Drown Near Goshen
In Goshen Kentucky Edna and Irene Bottorff were found drowned after their buggy was swept away by floodwaters in a stream near their home during a heavy rain. The sisters attempted to ford the stream when water reached five to six feet. both bodies were recovered from the stream bed. Evensville Evansville Indiana May 17 Judge John B Foster elected to Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Edna
Irene Bottorff
Goshen
Evansville
Ind
John B. Foster
John W. Foster
Indiana
Maj
G. V. Menzies
Mount Vernon
James A. Hemenway
United States
Isthmian canal commission to buy world market materials
Washington May 16 The executive committee of the Isthmian canal commission decided to purchase in world markets the material and chips needed for building the Pangma canal. Sheridan May 16 Attorneys for Col Buffalo Bill Cody filed in district court a motion for a new trial in his divorce suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
The
Isthmian Canal Commission
Pangma Canal
Sheridan
Wyo
Col
W. F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
Weather bureau reports cool week harms crops across regions
The weekly bulletin notes May 15 conditions were cool for germination and growth from the upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys to the Pacific coast. Excessive rains delayed corn planting in the central and western states, with Iowa and nearby areas needing drying weather to resume. Wheat and oats show mixed progress while tobacco transplanting begins in Virginia, Kentucky, and Indiana. Hay growth remains slow in the upper Missouri Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
The
Weather Bureau
Mississippi
Missouri
Rocky Mountains
North Pacific Coast
Central
West Gulf States
Iowa
Hinois
Indiana
Ohio
Wisconsin
Michigan
Middle Atlantic
Kansas
Imotis
Dakotas
Minnesota
North Dakota
Nebraska
Texas
Virginia
Kentucky
Missouri Valley
Ex-Wooster Bank Official jailed for draft fraud
L P Obliger former Wooster bank president pleads guilty to issuing a draft with no funds and is sentenced by Judge Taylor to eight years in the Ohio penitentiary. Obliger has held posts as congressman county treasurer Wooster postmaster and U S internal revenue collector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland, O
L. P. Ohliger
Wooster (O.) National Bank
Taylor
United States District Court
Obliger
Ohio
Wooster
Cleveland
Noted Singer Jessie Bartlett Davis Dies in Chicago
Jessie Bartlett Davis, a leading comic opera star, died at her home 4740 Grand Boulevard after a two day illness from araemic poisoning and heart weakness. Survived by husband Will J. Davis son Will J. Davis Jr and sister Mrs Birdie Quackenbos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Grand Boulevard
Will J. Davis
Will J. Davis, Jr
Birdie Quackenbos
Dam Bursts Flood Kalamazoo Valley After Dam Failure
May 16 Kalamazoo Michigan reports the Kalamazoo River valley from Kalamazoo to Galesburg forms a ten mile long lake up to a half mile wide due to Saturday rains and a dam break at Galesburg. Hundreds of farms submerged. livestock drowned. Also notes a gun attack in Ufa Russia on Maj. Gen. Sokolovsky with his life in peril. In Iowa Oskaloosa hosts the 31st annual Grand Army encampment as heavy rains hinder attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalamazoo
Mich
Kalamazoo River
Galesburg
Ufa
Russia
Sokolovsky
Iowa
Oklahoma Tornado Toll Rises to 125 in Snyder
Snyder Oklahoma reports confirm at least 125 killed from a May 10 tornado that cut a 35 mile path and destroyed farmhouses. Up to 40 more killed nearby. 400 injured claimed though many with minor injuries. 45 hospitalised. A relief drive appeals for nationwide aid to help 300 families and 1,500 affected residents.
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Snyder
Okla
Frisco Railroad Company
Olustee
Texas Line
E. Dowden
United States
Nan Patterson Freed After Murder Trial Mistrials
Nan Patterson walked from the Tombs a free woman after 11 months in prison and three mistrials on the murder charge. District Attorney Jerome cited lack of belief in another trial's success and called the case a miscarriage of justice, noting press sympathy influenced public sentiment and jeopardized jury trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Caesar” Young
Nan Patterson
Young
Jerome
Three Drowned Near Huntington After River Flood
Daniel Crouse 18 and his wife 19 of Sheldon with his sister Miss Mary Crouse were drowned Friday night in the Little Wabash river near Mardenia, four miles east of Huntington. The party, seen in Zanesville earlier, rode to the swollen river when their horse spooked by high water backed down the embankment into the river.
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Huntington
Ind
Daniel Crouse
Sheldon
Mary Crouse
Little Wabash River
Mardenia
Crouse
Little
Wabash
Last Survivor of War of 1812 Hiram Cronk Dies at 105
Hiram Cronk aged 105, last survivor of the war of 1812, has died. New York City officials will hold his body in state before burial at Mount Victory Cypress Hills Brooklyn where many veterans rest. Also in St. Louis Cardinal Gibbons crowns John Joseph Glennon with the pallium as archbishop in a major gathering of church dignitaries.
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Hiram Cronk
Ava
N. Y
New York City
St. Louis
Cardinal Gibbona
John Joseph Glennon
Archdiocese of
Annapolis
Washington
Roosevelt
Morton
John Paul Jones
Sigsbee
France
Bad Gang Captured In Gilbertsville Bank Robbery Case
Detectives arrested two men and a woman on Tuesday as alleged ring leaders of a gang that robbed the private bank of E. C. Brewer in Gilbertsville New York recently taking about 10000 dollars. Death of a Giant in Red Wing New York Area reports the death of Sveer Davidson a seven foot two circus giant at his Roscoe home near Red Wing aged 46.
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New York
E. C. Brewer
Gilbertsville
N. Y
Red Wing
Minn
Sveer Davidson
Roscoe
Here
Night of San Diego killings ends with killer’s suicide
Five people killed and a sixth likely to die after W P Robinson, a house cleaner, wounded and killed during a morning spree in San Diego. He shot Mrs Emma Stewart, William and Harry Doddridge, H W Chase, then killed himself with a pistol as police closed in. Mrs Doddridge also wounded. The rampage began at Fourth and A streets and moved through the town before Robinson killed himself.
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San Diego
Cal
William Stewart
Harry Doddridge
H. W. Chase
W. P. Robinson
Emma Stewart
H. Doddridge
Robinson
William
Stewart
Chase
Fourth Street
W. H. Doddridge
Internal Revenue Collector
Second
H Streets
Young Doddridge
Doddridge
Notable Fatalities and Incidents From City and Nation
A roundup of deaths and disasters includes Julius Rosenthal run over by a cab in Chicago and Kirke La Shelle dying at his Bellport home from diabetes. Other items note a Big Four train collision in Indiana, a gas tank explosion in Philadelphia, and a Sigsbee/Olympia arrival at Santo Domingo.
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Julius Rosenthal
Chicago
Kirke la Shelle
Bell Port
S. 1
Beresford
United States
Great Britain
Henry Yanies
Columbus
Dunne
Big Four
Otterbein
Ind
Holliday
Eva Booth
Salvation Army
Convention Hall
Kansas City
Brooklyn
Sigsbee
Olympia
Bradford
San Domingo
Lindell Hotel
St. Louis
Gen. Greely
Valdyz
Alaska
Fort Liscom
Pius X
John Redmond
Charles DeGarmo
Lincoln
Oklahoma
Joseph Lewis
New York City
Lewis
William Buchels
Udall
Kan
United Gas Improvement Company
Point Breeze
Philadelphia
Calkins
Kenosha
Wis
John Smith
Lampert Niehaus
Henry Housack
Secretary of the Interior
California
Oregon
National Association of Manufacturers
Atlanta
Francis H. Palmer
Peconic Bank
Harbor, L. L
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Decatur
Ill
State Police Commission
Synder
Baseball
Cluts
Ivesvoes
Wee
Pittsburg
Detroit
London
Daily Telegraph
Tokio
Kokomo
Elgie Houser
Charles Ele
Cassville
Pennsylvania Railroad
Edward
Alfonso of
Spain
St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Baron Rosen
Thomas M. Fields
Washington Beneficial Endowment Association
Mason
Yoakum
Tex
M. A
P. A. Newman
Laws
Butte —Creamery
Milwaukee
Kanbas City
Omaha
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