Rescue at Sea Aboard Helios By Majestic Crew
The Majestic under Capt. Hayes rescued 25 sailors from the burning Helios after two days of mounting seas and oil tank ruptures. Helios, en route from Philadelphia to Bordeaux with 2490 tons of oil, faced imminent explosion as tanks burst April 2. Lifeboats and daring volunteers completed a perilous transfer to safety amid roaring waves and fumes.
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New York
C. F. Hlayes
Majestic
Philadelphia
Bordeaux
Kjorboe
Azores
Kioarboe
Hayes
Helios
Thc
Iieldos
Jacek” Walker
Ah Omce
Walker
Hiel
Kjerboe
Joseph Leiter to Marry in Secret Union
Washington Special Joseph Leiter millionaire of Chicago and Washington, son of the late L Z Leiter, will wed Miss Juliette Williams of this city, daughter of an army officer. The date is undisclosed but expected within two to three months. Leiter gained fame for a record 1897 Chicago Board of Trade wheat purchase. his sister married Lord Curzon and another is Countess of Suffolk.
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Washington
Joseph Leiter
Chicago
L. Z. Leiter
Juliette Williams
Mr. Leiter
Chicago Board of Trade
Lord Curzon
India
Countess of Suffolk
Mob at Skidoo Hangs Gambler After Sheriff Guard Overpowered
A self formed mob at Skidoo, California, 65 miles south of Rhyolite, overpowering the sheriff's guard, hanged Joseph Simpson, a gambler, from a telegraph pole after he shot James Arnold last Sunday.
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Skidoo
California
Here
Joseph Simpson
James Arnold
Simpson
Growth of Christianity in Corea Reported in Chattanooga
Rev. J. Anderson told the Methodist layman's conference in Chattanooga that Christianity has spread greatly in Corea. In the past twenty five years churches have been established and about 120000 natives are said to have embraced the faith.
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Corea
Chattanooga
Tenn
Parents petition Rockefeller for Collinwood memorial
In Cleveland, Ohio, parents of Collinwood school fire victims urge John D. Rockefeller to fund a memorial. They seek recognition and a lasting tribute to those who perished in the disaster.
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Rockefeller
Cleveland
Ohio
Collinwood
Poem Cited in New York Suicide Sparks Third Death
A poem titled death by own action by Nora May French is linked to a third death in New York after Ros sale Peck shot himself on a Prospect Park bench. French died by suicide last November at Mr. Stirling’s Monterey home, and copies of her poem circulated widely.
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New York
Nora May French
Rossale Peck
Prospect Park
Brooklyn
Miss French
Peck
George Stirling
Mr. Stirling
Monterey
Cal
Roosevelt Jr and aides endure turbulent air balloon journey
The President's son Theodore Roosevelt Jr, aide Captain Fitzhugh Lee, and Captain Chandler piloted a war balloon that mounted a dangerous ascent. Balloon sickness, a near collision with an embankment, and a rough landing followed. Lee sprained an ankle and Roosevelt fell ill as authorities refrain from discussing details despite reports of a "great success."
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Washington, D. C
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Fitzhugh Lee
Chandler
War Department
Roosevelt
Baltimore
Captain Lee
Theodore, Jr
Lee
Young Roosevelt
Duc de Chaulnes Found Dead in Paris Hotel
The Duc de Chaulnes husband of Miss Theodora Shonts was found dead in bed at the Hotel Langham Rue Boceador Paris. Officials report death by embolism natural causes after inquest. The couple had lived at the hotel three weeks awaiting their private residence completion.
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Paris
Duc de Chaulnes
New York
Theodora Shonts
Theodore Shonts
Interborough Metropolitan Railway Company
Hotel Langham
Boceador
United States
Duke
Hotel
Langham
Oldest Peoria couple wed in county history
In Peoria this week, John H. Faul hausen aged 81 and Amelia Benrends aged 75 married, becoming the oldest couple ever to obtain a Peoria county marriage license. The event marks a historic note for local records.
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Peoria
John H. Faulhausen
Amelia Benrends
Peoria County
Sir Campbell Bannerman Dies in London After Illness
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, former British premier and Liberal leader since Gladstone's death, died in London on Wednesday after a lingering illness of more than two months.
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London
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Gladstone
Avalanche disaster wipes out Notre Dame de la Salette residents
A landslide at Notre Dame de la Salette on the Lievre River in Ontario struck at dawn Sunday, killing 31 people and destroying six houses and more as spring rains loosened clay. Six dwellings were overwhelmed. Camille La Pointe and his 11‑member family perished. Dozens remain missing or unaccounted as crews search the remote village.
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Ottawa
Ont
Notre Dame de la Salette
Lievre
Ottawa River
Iners
Camille la Pointe
Tornado TollRises Across Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama
A late Friday outbreak produced six tornadoes across Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama killing an estimated 225 people and destroying towns including Amite City Arcadia Independence Belle Grove Melton Lorman Pine Ridge Quitman Landing Fairchilds Creek Purvis and Lumberton. Whites and plantation owners were among the dead with hundreds of colored workers injured many crushed in debris. Dora Alabama suffered the worst with four or more killed including a section master’s wife and daughter and at least fifty injured.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Amite City
Arcadia
Independence
Belle Grove
Melton
Lorman
Pine Ridge
Quitman Landing
Fairchilds Creek
Purvis
Lumberton
Miss
Dora
Bergen
Moore
No More Canteen Says Landis Fights Restoration
Washington Special Representative Landis vows to oppose any effort to restore the canteen in national soldiers homes or in the army. He states he takes no stock in pleas to restore intoxicating drink privileges and believes Congress will not grant them directly or indirectly.
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Washington
Landis
Congress
Navy Abolishes Special Irons and Double Irons
Washington reports the abolition of Special Irons and double irons in the United States navy. No captain or rear admiral may punish crew members with this tradition once used in merchant marine and naval ships since Columbus era.
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Washington
United States Navy
Not a Million Dollar Baby. Clark’s gift to first grandchild questioned
Kansas City Special reports that ex Senator W A Clark of Montana was said to promise a million dollar gift to his first grandchild six years ago. John M Foster, grandfather of Mrs Charles Clark, claims the donor gave only a thousand dollars at birth and has sent a thousand on each birthday since, totaling four thousand to date.
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Kansas City
W. A. Clark
Montana
John M. Foster
Charles Clark
Clark
Rameses II Inspires 1908 Tea Gown Fashion
London fashion reports that the Rameses II inspired gown dominates this season with a war dress style echoed from ancient pharaoh attire. Shown at the Dress Designers' exhibition in the Dudley gallery, critics hail it as one of the era's artistic highlights and expect it to become popular. The design features a loose cut and a crossover bodice similar to a surplice bolero.
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London
Rameses II
Dudley Gallery
Farmers Go Farther North Ottawa Ont
Since 1900 about 300000 Americans have moved into the Canadian northwest. The emigrants are described as having capital, vigor, resourcefulness and good citizenship. They move to pursue better opportunities rather than fleeing hardship in the United States.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canadian Northwest
America
Canada
Bronx Zoo Curator Extracts Deadly Venom For Serum
Special report describes Raymond L. Ditmars at the Bronx Zoo performing a dangerous extraction from a Brazilian lance head snake to obtain 1734 grains of venom. The venom, diluted with milk and sugar, is claimed to yield enough for about seventeen million doses to aid treatment of insanity epilepsy and related disorders.
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New York
Bronx Zoo
Raymond L. Ditmars
Zoo
Ditmars
Brazil
United States
Buffalo Herd Prepares Epic Drive to Lamont Preserve
The world’s largest buffalo herd around Lamont Alberta wintered well. Since last year only about 46 of 400 head died in Montana roundups. Efforts to assemble 300 more head on Michael Pablo’s Montana ranch. Last year 400 Canadabound beasts shipped by train. several killed loading. This year aims to drive the herd eighty miles from Montana to Lamont. Government seeks bids for a wire fence extending 70 miles at an estimated cost of 80000 dollars.
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Lamont
Alberta
Montana
Michael Pablo
Canada
Major Magrew Dead in Indianapolis at Home
Major Harold C. Magrew a Spanish-American War veteran and former City Council member died suddenly at his Indianapolis home after an attack of acute indigestion. He served twice on the City Council and once as President of the Board of Public Works and was Commander-in-Chief of Spanish War Veterans in 1903 and 1904. He influenced the amalgamation of the Spanish war societies.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Harold C. Magrew
Board of Public Works
Magrew
Smith kills Rector then fatally shoots self in Parrsboro
In Parrsboro Nova Scotia James Rector greeted Lewis K Smith before entering Smiths butcher shop. Smith, rumored to have suddenly become insane, drew a pistol and killed Rector and then shot himself seriously.
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Parrsboro
N. S
Smith
James Rector
Lewis K. Smith
Rector
Shine Maybe: Greek Scholar Found as Barber Shop Bootblack
Alton Illinois Shurtleff College faculty say they found a perfect Greek scholar working as a barber shop bootblack and have made him a member of the faculty. The unusual appointment highlights a surprising academic talent.
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Alton
Ill
Shurtleff College
Beveridge’s Russian Advance Prediction Declared Flawed in Senate Debate
The Washington Special reports a lively U S Senate debate on Senator Beveridge's forecast in The Russian Advance that Russia would repeatedly defeat Japan. Hale Aldrich and others challenged the prophecy noting deeper causes behind the Russo-Japanese War and Beveridge's own later denials. The naval bill discussion continued at length with exchanges and laughter.
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Washington
Beveridge
United States
Senate
Indiana
Russia
Japan
Hale
Aldrich
East
Pacific
Senator Aldrich
Eeven
Maine
Governor Hanly to Present Fairbanks at GOP Convention
Indianapolis special notes Governor Hanly will present Vice President Fairbanks’s name to the Republican National Convention for the presidential nomination. Indiana delegates meet next Friday and a formal announcement of the choice is expected.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Hanly
Fairbanks
Indiana
Two Die as Flywheel Crashes Through North Shore Plant
A massive flywheel broke from its bearings at the North Shore Electric Company plant in Waukegan. The wheel escaped when the belt burned, killing two men and injuring two seriously and several others lightly. Damage to the plant and several other buildings totals about 135000 dollars.
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Chicago
North Shore’ Electric Company
Waukegan
Picture on Uncle Sam’s dollar lands woman in almshouse
In Binghamton New York a Kirkwood resident Mrs Caroline Williams formerly Caroline Scott is said to have inspired the face on the national silver dollar. The article notes she has been taken to Broome county almshouse to end her days as a county charge.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Sam
Caroline Williams
Kirkwood
Broome County
Bloody Combat in Simla Dispatches from India
Dispatches report intense fighting between Mohiammed tribesmen and British and British Indian troops near Simla. The British side suffered about 60 killed and many wounded, while the tribesmen suffered over 200 killed with many wounded and captured.
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London
Simla
India
Formation of new firm plans Bridgeport hill project
A local company is formed in Bridgeport Ohio to undertake a hill project on Bee Wheeling Island above the 19 84 food line. The enterprise aims to push forward with the ambitious venture and its possible involvement is noted.
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Bridgeport
Ohio
Wheeling Island
HER MODEL HUSBAND IDEAS
Chicago read of a Chicago girl's column on ideal husbands. Miss Myrtle Bascom lists qualities: good meal ticket provider, moderate nights out, honest about whereabouts, adulthood wisdom, agreeable appearance for dogs and babies, American gentleman only. she cites Mayor Jim Dahlman as model but not the married cowboy type.
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Chicago
Myrtle Bascom
la Salle Street
Omaha
Jim” Dahlman
Countess Szechenyis Survive Boat Accident on Easter
In Buda Pesth a storm overturned a boat carrying Countess Szechenyi and her husband after a river outing near their castle. They swam roughly 500 yards to land by the Pussta farm. They were cared for at Ferenczy’s castle and later returned to Osermezee. the countess suffers throat trouble and required a doctor.
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Buda-Pesth
Szecheny
Gladys Vanderbilt
Laborcza
Pussta Farm
Ferenczy
Osermezee
Suckers Bite At Silk Scam In Morgantown Inquiry
Monessen residents paid two dollars to a Morgantown firm lured by ads promising ten yards of silk. Most got ten yards of silk thread instead. United States authorities and police are investigating the scheme.
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Monessen
Morgantown
W. Va
United States
Boy and Eagle's Prey? Search for Missing Norquay Boy
Medicine Hat Alberta reports hundreds of mounted men scour the prairie seeking James Norquay's two year old son who vanished from home last Saturday. No trace found and fear mounts he was carried off by an eagle, echoing a prior disappearance of a four year old last year.
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Medicine Hat
Alberta
James Norquay
Robbery at Indiana Club in Hot Springs
Four masked men robbed the Indiana Club gambling resort in Hot Springs Arkansas escaping with between eight and ten thousand dollars. They entered through a rear window while house detectives guarded the front to keep out officers.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Charley Miller Announces Candidacy in Indiana Race
Charley W. Miller of Goshen announces his Republican bid to succeed the late Congressman A. L. Brick in Indiana's Thirteenth District after a thorough canvass of the situation.
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Charley Miller
Indianapolis
Ind
Charlies W. Miller
Goshen
A. L. Brick
Miller
Osborn Sentenced to Life in Kokomo Case
In Kokomo Indiana Special judge J P Elliott gives Worley Osborn a life term for the slaying of Parry McClain Miller Osborn had anticipated the verdict and said he has no choice of work in prison but will strive to be a model prisoner.
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Kokomo
Ind
J. P. Elliott
Worley Osborn
Parry McClain-Miller
Government Printing Office Faces Six Hundred Thousand Deficit
Acting Public Printer Brian told the House Appropriations Committee that the Government Printing Office runs a deficit of about 600000 for the current fiscal year. The estimate comes as Washington reports on federal printing costs and budget gaps.
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Washington, Special
Government Printing Office
Brian
Committee On Appropriations
House
Grace Church Tops New York Easter Offering Record
The Easter offering at Grace Church Broadway and Tenth Street reached 158000 dollars, the largest single Easter church sum in New York and one of the city’s biggest one day gifts.
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New York
Grace
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