Lawyer Sues Over Panama Canal Construction Plan
Warren B. Wilson of Chicago files in district supreme court a bill in equity seeking an injunction against Secretary Shaw, the republic of Panama, the Panama Canal Company of France, and others to halt payments under the 1902 act claimed as authority for canal construction. He argues no law appropriation exists and that the act violates the U S constitution and is null.
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Sions
Panama Canal
Warren B. Wilson
Chicago
District Supreme Court
Shaw
Republic of
Ite
United States
Four Men Drowned After Lake Calumet Boat Capsizes During Duck Hunt
Four men perish when their boat capsize amid high winds on Lake Calumet while pursuing ducks. Witnesses say the craft overturned as they fired on a flock. attempts to rescue by a Pullman watchman and a fisherman failed. bodies unrecovered. Detroit special notes a separate court ruling.
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Chicago
Lake Calumet
Joseph Vought
Pullman Company
Edward Frazier
Detroit
Mich
Brooke
Wayne Circuit Court
Riverside Club and Plumbers’ Exchange
Mhis Ery
Hunt
Protest Emperor's Checks Sparks Tangiers Stampede
A ten day protest by imperial paper dealers in Tangiers against the emperor’s checks caused clashes. Officials say the emperor warned of punishment but some merchants stood firm, with few ears and noses reportedly spared.
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Tangiers
Tornado Sweeps Northern County Damaging Towns
A Conway Ark dispatch reports a powerful tornado crossing Kaulkner county. It hits Iran here Solvohachin Springfield and Martinville in Paulkwen county, causing multiple deaths and injuries. Two people dead and seven seriously hurt with two more feared dead. Vatican guards deny wider plot against the Pope and say security remains typical.
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Conway
Ark
Kaulkner County
Iran
Solvohachin
Springfeld
Martinville
Suai
Paulkwen County
Emperor William in frail health amid renewed threat panic
London dispatch from Paris Matin cites Berlin report claiming alarming news on Emperor William's health following a relapse of the threat turmoil for which he underwent surgery last year.
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London
Paris
Berlin
William
Kentucky Jailer Killed in Adair County Shooting
Deputy Jailer Marvin Conover was slain by Albert Burt during an attempted arrest with Deputy Sheriff Vaughn. Burt fled. Vaughn believes Burt was wounded. The report notes Vaughn fired after Conover’s death and mentions related court actions and a Fort Wayne theater schedule.
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Kentucky
Columbia
Marvin Conover
Adair County
Albert Burt
Tom Burton
Conover
Sheri Vaughn
Vaughn
Burton
Fire damages large Kansas City dry goods store
A blaze at Jones Brothers five story store at Twelfth and Main, Kansas City, caused about 130000 in losses, with 90000 on stock and 40000 on the building owned by Octave Chanute of Chicago. Lightning started the fire. Augustus Merrill, a packing house clerk, was fatally struck by a burst pipe nozzle. two firemen were overcome but recover.
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Kansas City
Jones Brothers
Twelfth
Main Streets
Octave Chanute
Chicago
Main Street
Augustus M. Merrill
Merrill
Miners Rescue Comrades in Brazil Indiana Flood
Twelve miners trapped by a flood from a dam break at Excelsior clay works in Brazil Indiana were saved by a human chain as rescuers reached the extreme end of the slope. Ten men were rescued safe. two were unconscious but recovered after being carried outside. twenty five men were in the slope and fifteen had left for meals. No one else was hurt.
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Brazil
Ind
Excelsior
Tve
Warld
William King
John Mooney
Otic Wes Laarrt
Explosion at Cedar Hill tunnel kills four workers
An explosion in the Cedar Hill tunnel on the Connellsville Central Railroad near Brownsville Pa kills four workmen and seriously injures six. The victims were all foreigners known only by numbers and three of the injured may die. The blast occurred when a worker struck a dynamite charge with a pick.
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Cedar Hill Tunnel
Connellsville Central
Brownsville
SECTION MEN IN BATTLE Foreman Murdered Suspected Caught
Oliver Peterson, Edmondson Arkansas section foreman on the Choctaw Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, was murdered in his cabin. Doc Brandon, a Negro, is accused. a mob of over a hundred exchanged heavy fire, Brandon wounded and surrendering after firing from under a trestle.
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Foreman
Oliver Peterson
Choctaw, Oklahum and Gulf Railroad
Edmondson
Ark
Doc” Brandon
Peterson
Brandon
Six Dead in Cyclone Strikes Caruthersville Area
A cyclone struck near Caruthersville Missouri with reports of six deaths and extensive property damage. The Shoe maker family near Portageville and Wesley Miller and his wife two miles north of Mount Peasant were killed as their homes were destroyed. Wires were down and news slow to come in as feared casualties rose.
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Caruthersville
Shoenaker
Fone
Portagevilly
Wesley Miller
Mount Peasant
Miller
Boy Stolen by Gypsies Claimed by Baltimore Police
John Lidey of Steubenville Ohio said a boy claiming to be his son aged 18 was found by police in Baltimore. The youth described being seized by gypsies during a summer night, taken through Washington New York and Norfolk before traveling with three gypsy families to Baltimore where he was detained. He named Samuel Lidey of 686 North Main Street as his father and claimed a route toward Pittsburgh.
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John Lidey
Steubenville
Ohio
Lidey
Baltimore
Samuel Lidey
North Main Street
Washington
New York
Norfolk
Pop
Pastor sparks riot at Cleveland church service ends in clash
During a Sunday service at Franklin Avenue Congregational Church in Cleveland a pastor’s break with Bible authority sparked a riot. Parishioners clashed over his announced resignation, with attempts to remove the pulpit and a fight breaking out as the service was halted.
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Franklin Avenue Congregational Church
Cleveland
Piaster
Ikev
Dor. Gloa
Fisher
Nounee
Simomtroef
Hans
Whiet
Warren
Baltimore boy undergoes rare rib removal surgery
Surgeons at Johns Hopkins or nearby hospital in Baltimore perform a complex operation on Raymond Moore, 18, removing the seventh ribs on the right to collapse the chest and allow tube access. Doctors expect about sixteen ribs to reform, and the patient is recovering.
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Baltimore
Raymond Moore
Hiddimore University Hospital
Pentonia
Bank President Pleads Guilty in Defunct National Pick Case
Bank president pleads guilty in the defunct Edhar National Pick case as the federal prosecutor's team presents evidence of fraud and conspiracy. The case culminates after a lengthy investigation, with key figures indicted and court proceedings underway in Tevlignutpedis.
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Bank
Vrestlent Prederteh
Edhar National Pick
Federsh
Gailes
Gant Broderick
Eastern War Dispatches Mention Russian Squadron Return
Reports from Vindivostok state the Russian squadron returned with reprieves and a Japanese warship named Mikiide. The Mikado land forces defeated the Cossacks near SNuju and OClmigedi after engaging Ti tty Nsilleut.
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Vindivostok
Snuju
Oclmigedi
Titty Nsilleut
Turbulent Political and Crime Headlines Stir St Louis Era
Harriman opposes in courts Morin plan for Northern Securities distribution while Sen Burton of Kansas is convicted in St Louis for pressuring the Post Office to block a mail to a bucket shop. Dickens edition valued at 1.3 million prepared for Morgan and nine subscribers. Nine African Americans lynched at Rt Charles Arkansas amid racial unrest.
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Harriman
Hn- Morin
Uinsan Pye eHie
Senator Burton
Kansas
St. Louis
United States
Postatiive Department
Dickens
Bonston
J. C. Morgan
Luxury Takes Its Leave Former Rich Merchant Becomes Charity Patient
Louis Buchen once the Darmstadt merchant prince with three department stores and a leading newspaper, later traveled to seek health then lost his wealth. He arrived in Cincinnati, became a crippled charity patient at the city hospital, and now supports himself by noshoe cutting wages at 52 years old.
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Louis Buchen
Cincinnati City Hospital
Buchen
Darmstadt
Grand Duchy of Hessen-Darmstadt
Ems
Neuheim
Baden-Baden
Zurich
Switzerland
Waterloo
Ife
Noshoe Cutter
Rival to Western Union Forms United States Telegraph and Telephone Co
Springfield news reports the incorporation of the United States Telegraph and Telephone Company a rival to Western Union. It combines the National Telegraph News Company Chicago the Sempire Clock Company St. Louis and the Chicago and Milwaukee Telegraph Company with incorporators Col G Watson French Henry KE Weaver Harry Rohers Col Henry L Turner and Harry J Critchfield.
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United States Telegraph and TelePhone Corporation
Springfield
Western Union and Postal Telegraph Companies
United States Telegraph and Telephone Company
National Telegraph News Company
Chicago
Sempire Clock Company
St. Louis
Chicago and Milwaukee Telegraph Company
Col G. Watson French
Republic Tron and Steel Company
Henry KE. Weaver
Henry E. Weaver Coal Company
Harry Rohers
Atlarney
Henry L. Turner
Henry J. Turner & Co
Harry J. Critchfield
The
Automatic Electric Company
Finds His Lost Relatives Seventy-Two Years Later
Joseph Corrigan of Hamilton Ohio learned his mother and sister were alive after seventy two years. Separate in Chicago as a child they had been taken to a Catholic institution. Buffalo police confirmed Stella Corrigan lived in Buffalo and his mother had remarried and resided in Chicago Yale avenue. Corrigan planned to travel to Buffalo and then join his mother in Chicago.
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Joseph Corrigan
Hamilton
Ohio
Corrigan
Chicago
Due
Vane
Buffalo
Hamita
Cortigan
Stella
Yale Avenue
Will
Rajoin
Indictment in St Louis Policing and Politics Fraud Case
Pelmary grand jury charges seventeen from St Louis election upheaval. Fourteen policemen and three city workers face indictments for accepting polling fees, while three political figures including Lavin and associates are named. Indictments allege fraud with further actions pending trial.
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Pelmary Grand Jury
St. Louis
Central Committeeum Jdodin
J. Lavin
Tas
Mimathy
Lavin
Heoshmen
Rootes
Shimmie Tlalnies
General Artas Shot by Government Troops
In Yarn hee, Bebo a insurgent leader was captured after a tiring order caused the death of Miebtnisto C. dolioson of the American gambes at Yarn hee. He was tried by a drumkend court martial and sentenced to be shot.
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Artas
Cien
Nicolis Ariwee
Will provides for horse in St Louis trust
The will of Joho nlwee filed in St. Louis leaves 82 000 in trust for his horse Tarry. Income funds food and shelter for the animal during its life about twenty three years. On Tarry’s death the trust reverts to nlwee’s heirs.
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Johonlwee
St. Louis
Tarry
Liilwee
Tragic double murder suicide shocks Oak IA family
In Went Avenue Oak Iowa bonding house keeper Christian Wirschoiler killed his infant son and wounded his wife before he died by suicide. Police confirm the incident as self-inflicted gunfire ending a deadly family tragedy.
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Christian Wirschoiler
Went Avenue
Oak IA
Byearold
Aid
Deglousy
Two More Black People Fatally Hurt in Ark Clash
Report recalls a violent clash at St Charles Arkansas where two more Black individuals died, raising week total to thirteen. Mentions fire, President Roosevelt, and national alarm over floods and storms hitting Michigan and Indiana Harbor.
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St. Charles
Arkh
Congress Passes Indian School Attendance Bill
In a Thursday session the Senate passed the Indian appropriation bill with an amendment allowing Alaska Indians to attend the Salem Oregon Indian School and to cover travel costs. Debates covered civil service appointments and repeal efforts for desert land and timber laws. The House restored a post office salary increase and rules limiting rural carrier solicitations. several pension bills advanced.
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Senate
Salem
Oregon
Bacov
Gibson
House
Williams
Mann
Overstreet
Hansbrough
Dubois
Railroais
Newlands
Howse
Post Office
Committee On Rules
Ain
VostoMee
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Fremont, Indiana
Usth
Sultan
Rome
Papal C Palace
Natal
Emperor Williams
Ome
Fred E. Ntarvey
Preston National Bank
Masonic Temple Theatre
Fort Wayne
Lnd
Howard & Dorset Co
Pennsylvania
Hanna Memorial
Hanna Memorial Chair Association
Cheveland
Crissteoss Gray
Sherrick
Shute Tiny
Gov
Durbin
John Mitchell
United
Mitte Workers
Blom. Atterhedt
Akron
Ftev
JOS. Intledge
State Secutar
We Stewart
Bln
Eleni
Wo OR
Kins
FO. Zerke
Pudee
UNL
Disette
Mimer
Dover Woog
Oswald HE
Hateh U
Nellie Mingnire
Stoo
Ter Qaeeuser
Mies
Tfenvietta
Bo Crosby
Miss Maguire
Mrs. Crosby
Miss Maesui
M Crosby
Menkey
Dtalian
Fata
Teontite
Dagve
Wink Davis
St. Coir
Jamies Gordon
Burnt Mountain
Rooksdale
da. Gordon
Macy A. Troop
Pensacola
Rio Janeiro
Southampton
Hubbard
Labrador
Leooidas Hubbard
Starvaton
Middle West
Cape
Canada
Rt. Charles
Western Union
Roosevelt
Thant Aiqaiey
Unitioi
Michigan
Grand Rapids
Lansing
Indiana Harbor
Suter Station
Weat Newton
Duquesne Limited
Halimore and Ohio Railroad
Congress
District of Columbia
McCoumas
Foraker
Tate
Ehanine
Chris
Baker
Morulay
Caroline Tours
Carnish
Carmack
Dolce Lochren
Gillett Maas
Clark
Thas Tari
Marc Wallis
Noostreimg
Trimble
Ixyo
National Capital
Urinton
House Committee On Judiciary
Charles Swayne
District of Movida
Mano
Uilpols
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