Woman Belle Gunness Suspected in Nine Murders Uncovered
Dispatch from Laporte Indiana reports nine bodies unearthed linked to Mrs Belle Gunness murderer wife of farm owner. two identifications include Andrew Heldgren of Aberdeen South Dakota and Miss Jenny Olsen. many bodies too decomposed to identify as authorities probe further.
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Laporte
Ind
Smutzer
Mack
Belle Gunness
Andrew Heldgren
Aberdeen
S. D
Jennie Olsen
Gunness Farm
Gunness
Senate Sheds Paris Embassy Funding Amid Debate
The Senate struck out a 400000 appropriation for a Paris embassy building as the diplomatic bill faced amendment. The House moved ahead with sundry civil appropriations while debates touched Brownsville, cyclone relief, forestry, and immigration. The day featured several roll calls and a temperance gallery interruption as leaders argued over mining safety funding and canteen reinstatement.
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Forestry Service
Senator Heyburn
Idaho
Senate
Warner
Missouri
Brownsville
Messrs. Gaines
Tennessee
Chaney
Indiana
Tawney
Underwood
Alabama
Fort McKinley
Philippine Islands
Leonard Wood
Messrs. Fitzgerald
New York
Butler
Pennsylvania
Dr. Woog
Eleven Die In New Aveline Hotel Fire At Corner Calhoun
Coroner begins inquiry into Sunday morning blaze that killed eleven in the New Aveline Hotel collapse. Identified victims include J. B. Miller from Philadelphia, E. J. Ellis of Chicago, Miss Sarah Hathaway of Mishawaka, Miss Mary Burkett, Frank Baxter of Auburn, Morris Hirsch of Chicago, William Pitcher of Duluth, and R. Johns on of Chicago. others unnamed. Injured travelers ride out the flames. many patients reported improving. The fire swept floors and left outer walls standing as debris fills the center.
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St. Joseph’s Hospital
Emerson Medera Matthews
Kimbals & Matthews
Columbus
Ohio
Fort Wayne
Ind
Matthews
Aveline
Calhoun Street
Kesler
Aveline Hotel
J. B. Miller
Sheboygan
Wis
Landon & Brown
North Fifth Street
Philadelphia
E. J. Ellis
Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co
Chicago
Edson, Moore & Co
Detroit
Sarah Hathaway
Children’s Aid Society
Mishawaka
Mary Burkett
Frank Baxter
Auburn
Morris Hirsch
Pacific Coast Borax Company
Isaac Hirsch
Howard Club
Hirsch
William Pitcher
Duluth
Senate approves Indian appropriation conference report
The Senate approved the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill. William R. Wheeler of California accepted the assistant secretaryship of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Navy chaplains will face mental as well as physical exams like line officers. Representative Pollard of Nebraska introduced a bill to acquire watershed lands in the Appalachians and White Mountains. The Senate pension bill covers Texas volunteers and widows from 1855 to 186. A House-passed measure aims to improve safety during regattas and parades with new rules for navigable waters.
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Senate
William R. Wheeler
California
Department of Commerce and Labor
Lawrence O. Murray
Navy
White Mountain
Representative Pollard
Nebraska
Texas
House
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Financial review notes early spring improvement in money market
iNANCGIAL R. G. Dun & Co. reports a distinct money market improvement and stronger distribution in general merchandise, grain, provisions and five stock. Production remains largely unchanged, ore surpluses imply reduced furnace output, pork iron prices weaken, and melters buy only for actual needs.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Chicago
Trade Struggles Weigh On Industry and Rail Activity
Weather depresses distributive trade with jobbing firms quiet and orders scarce. Fall business stalls, collections slow, and extensions common. Industrial output stagnant with textile curtailment and 40 percent cuts in some centers. Iron and steel show little change as price reductions in crude iron emerge. Railway tonnage at a low point with idle cars rising to a record. US business failures total 282 for week ending April 30, while Canadian failures reach 22. Bradstreet's report notes broad economic pause.
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United States
Bradstreet’s
Market Prices for Cattle Hogs and Grains in Major Cities
The report lists commodity prices by city including cattle hogs and sheep across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York Toledo and Detroit. Wheat corn oats rye and barley quotes vary with grades and staples such as No 2 wheat around 1.00 to 1.10 per bushel and oats near 0.40 to 0.60 with butter eggs and clover seed also shown.
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Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Ste To
Ste. Milwaukee
New York
Toledo
Frisco Welcomes 46 Warships on World Cruise Arrival
A million spectators line the San Francisco waterfront as the Atlantic and Pacific fleets enter the bay after four months at Hampton Roads. Secretary Metcalf reviews the craft while guns salute, marking the first leg of the world cruise with 46 vessels in the harbor and accompanying escorts.
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San Francisco
Hampton Roads
Pacific Coast
Golden Gate
City
Otlcinly
Navy
Metcalf
Yorktown
Wil
Atlantic
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Atlantic Fleet Honors Admiral Evans With Flagship Parade
A historic naval review features Admiral Evans aboard the Connecticut leading eight ships in the first squadron and eighteen battleships in the following group, including the Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Wisconsin in succession under Rear Admiral Thomas and Admiral Dayton. Secretary Metcalf observes as ships dress overall and salute with seventeen guns.
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Evans Leadster
Admiral Evans
Connecticut
Kansas
Vermont
Louisiana
Georgia
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Virginia
Nebraska
Sycundromn
Minnesota
Evans
Dayton
Binetas
Pacific Fleet
Metcalf
Orr and Mackay resign from New York Life directorship
Alexander BE. Orr and Clarence B Mackay resign as directors of the New York Life Insurance Company. A Washington dispatch notes President Roosevelt plans a year long world tour after leaving office. Daniel R. Noyes, a leading Presbyterian layman, dies of heart disease at his St Paul home. Bayard Taylor autographs to be sold at New York auction. A silver set for the battleship Montana, made from Montana metal, is on display in New York and soon to Dillon Montana.
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Alexander BE. Orr
Clarence B Mackay
New York Life Insurance Company
Washington Dispatch
Roosevelt
Daniel R. Noyes
United States
St. Paul
Minn
Bayard Taylor
New York
Montana
Dillon
Mont
Global agricultural notes and notable incidents
The report covers a Nebraska officer’s warrant for 5227 dollars in the Spanish War, a poetry claim of a third victim in a New York park bench shooting, a Boston pastor ex-treasurer’s prison death, a Minnesota auto tax proposal for road-building, a Tennessee divorce suit, beet sugar production figures for Michigan and crop shifts in North Dakota and Minnesota.
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Shelton
Nebraska
Lincoln
W. J. Bryan
Spain
Nora May’ French
New York
Rossale Peck
Prospect Park
Brooklyn
Wallace N. Ham
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Boston
Mass
Massachusetts
Minnesota Automobile Association
William Cooke
Grace MacGowan Cooke
Chattanooga
Tenn
Michigan
North Dakota
Minnesota
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