Senate halves battleship program to two ships
Washington reports the Senate rejected four battleships and approved a two ship plan. The action follows three days of debate led by Senator Beveridge and support from Senator Alden and others. The final bill allocates 12,115,059 dollars for two colliers and other naval provisions while delaying new battleships.
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Roosevelt
Senate
House
Piles
Mht
Sear Heveridge
Senate Naval Committee
Beveridge
Alliwon
Roosevelt approves Atlantic fleet world voyage itinerary
President Roosevelt signs off on a round the world voyage for the Atlantic Fleet. The schedule includes departures from San Francisco on July 7 and key stops at Honolulu Auckland Sydney Melbourne Albany Manila Yokohama. The fleet divides at Yokohama with squadrons toward Manila and Amoy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Atlantic
Philippines
China
Japan
Manila
Yokohama
Amoy
Witl E
Twelve Drown as Marion Show Boat Capsizes At St Francis Mouth
Twelve people die when the Marion show boat capsizes eight miles above the St Francis River mouth. Captain W A Joyce reports the sixty five ton vessel carried carnival performers from Helena, Arkansas. About 3 20 p m the boat lurched and overturned, passengers and crew clung to the hull while an engineer and a negro man swam for shore in a skiff, both drowned as ten foot waves swept the boat.
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Helena
Ark
Marion
St. Francis
W. Aoyce
Neward
China protests Japanese encroachment in Korea’s Chientao area
Pekin lodged a formal protest against Japan extending administration of Korea to include the Chientao district. China accuses Japan of surreptitious action that strengthens Marquis Ito’s position as resident general of Korea, with three Chientao officials representing the residency.
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Pekin
China
Japan
Korea
Chientao
Marquis Ito
Dream of army general ends in deadly jump at recruiting office
New York report says Edmund Hynes, while sleeping before a physical exam, leapt through a closed window at the army recruiting office. He fell fifteen feet into a basement, suffering a severely lac- erated head, contusions and internal injuries with doubtful recovery.
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New York
Edmund Hynes
Hynes
Army
Cabrera Orders Executions Amid Guatemalan Crisis
In Guatemala City President Cabrera says eighteen ringleaders in an assassination plot have been shot and more executions likely. He claims the military controls the city as revolutionary sentiment grows. earlier threats from students and arrests accompany a partial business suspension.
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Guatemala City
Cabrera
Storms across the South Leave Heavy Death Toll
A deadly two day tornado outbreak swept Texas Louisiana Mississippi and neighboring states killing hundreds and injuring many. Martial law looting and aid appeals followed as Purvis Mississippi faced dire losses with 2000 residents reduced to ruins and relief teams rushing in.
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New Orleans
Minalesippi
Texas
Louisiana
Alabama
Georgia
Arkansas
Tennessee
Amite
Mississippi
Noo
Pointe
Purvis
Misu
Lttle
Tornado Kills Three in Nebraska Regions
A noon Thursday tornado swept Cummings and Thurston counties Nebraska killing John Mangleson and his wife at Ponder. George Wacker's family suffered serious injuries as the storm destroyed homes. A baby died on a public road ten miles from Bancroft.
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Bancroft
Neb
Cummings County
Thurston County
John Mangleson
Ponder
Hancroft
Lynching at Skidoo Calif. Claims Joe Simpson
A small group of residents at Skidoo California hanged Joe Simpson, the gambler who shot James Arnold, to a telegraph pole after dusk on Wednesday. Simpson killed Arnold in his butcher shop Sunday. The vigilante act left the body swinging as dawn broke and locals denied knowledge of the event.
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Skidoo
California
Here
Joe Simpson
James Arnold
Simpson
Arnold
Tornadoes Ravage The Sunny South Killing Dozens
A pair of tornadoes swept Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama killing at least 260 people and injuring about 400. Villages such as Amite Natchez Vidalia Quitman Landing Purvis Landing and Winchester suffered heavy destruction with many Black residents among the dead.
Gold Strike Near Arctic Reported on Nolan Creek
Seattle bishop P. T. Rowe reports the first detailed information on a gold strike at Nolan creek at the head of the Koyukuk river, about 200 miles from the Arctic Ocean. The strike occurred at about 150 feet depth with an estimated summer cleanup of $1,000,000.
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P. T. Rowe
Episcopal Church
Territory of
Alaska
Yucatan
Nolan Creek
Koyukuk River
Arctic Ocean
General Linevitch Dies After Illness in St Petersburg
Lieutenant General Linevitch, aide de camp to the Emperor Nicholas and commander of the First Manchurian Army, died of pneumonia on Thursday evening in St. Petersburg after a brief illness marked by heart failure. He had shown serious symptoms for several days and underwent an operation before his decline.
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St. Petersburg
Linevitch
Nicholas
Senator Clark Buys Coal Land Near Trinidad Colorado
Former U S senator William A Clark of Montana left Trinidad after inspecting coal property near Jerome Aris and said he closed a deal with Charles Francis Adams of Boston for 12000 acres west of Trinidad. He hinted the price was around a million dollars.
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Colo
United States
William A. Clark
Montana
Jerome
Aris
Charles Francis Adams
Boston
Mr. Clark
Attempt to Wreck Train Near Manayunk on Pennsylvan ia Rail Line
An attempt to derail the Pottsville express on the Pennsylvania railroad near Manayunk was thwarted Thursday night when a steel crossbar spanned the rails and a fish plate was removed causing a rail spread. Authorities believe dragged foreign trackmen planned the derailment.
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Philadelphia
Penneyvania
Manayunk
Schuylkill River
Cyclone Toll Reported in Southern States
Atlanta reports from Alcoon Mississippi indicate fifteen killed and many injured in Friday cyclones with extensive property damage. In Albertville Alabama a six year old child died from storm injuries bringing fatalities to eleven whites and two negroes there. A second storm struck Port Deposit Alabama on Sunday.
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Alcoon
Miss
Mia
J. C
Coleman
W. BE
Bobbo
Emmet Russell
Albertville
Rort Deposit
Ala
Taft Denies Resignation Rumor From Havana
Secretary of War Taft dismissed a Havana report as wholly unauthorized claiming Thomas P. Egan of Cincinnati said Taft would resign if nominated at the Chicago convention and that Governor Magoon of Cuba would take his place. Taft stated there was no foundation for the story.
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Taft
Havana
Thomas P. Egan
Cincinnati
Chicago
Magoon
Cuba
Thirty-mace tragedy: Gladiator crew missing after collision
Twenty-eight dead or missing from the Gladiator following the St Paul and British cruiser collision off the Isle of Wight. Shipping men and naval officers largely deem the accident unavoidable, one of the sea risks seamen must face. witnesses say both crews acted well under the disaster.
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London
St. Paul
Isle of Wight
Abandoned Train Hold-Up Foiled Near Butte
North coast limited train on the Northern Pacific paused after torpedo blasts between Welch's Spur and Homestake, fifteen miles east of Butte. Engineers Hanscomb and Gear spotted danger as four men with guns fled into the rocks, ending the attempted robbery without incident.
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Butte
North Coast Limited
Overland Flyer
Northern Pacific Railway
Welch
Homestake
North Coast
Frank Crow
Hanscomb
Gear
Vas
Lads Charged With Attempting to Rob a Great Northern Train
Two youths aged 19 and 16, George Long and Fred Anderson, were arrested at Basin Mont in connection with an attempted Great Northern train robbery. They carried a revolver and a rifle and claimed they were en route to the Basin smelter to seek work. They offered no satisfactory explanation for their heavy armament. Their home is Menderville a suburb of Butte.
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Hutte, Mont
Basin
Great Northern
George Long
Fred Anderson
Menderville
Butte
British Forces Clash with Tribesmen Near Simla
Sir James Wildheas led two columns from Peshawar against raiding tribesmen on April 24. After a sharp morning battle the British drove them off. British casualties total sixty. enemy losses are unknown.
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Simla
James Wildheas
Peshawaur
Secretary Taft Plans Panama Trip From Charleston
After Friday's cabinet session Secretary Taft will sail April 30 from Charleston aboard the cruiser Prairie to Panama for a three week stay. A Marine detachment will accompany him as negotiations between the United States, Panama, and Colombia are set for the isthmus.
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Washington
Taft
Panama
Charleston
D. C
Prairie
United States
Colombia
Employers Liability Bill Signed by the President
The President signed the Employers' Liability Bill after Attorney General Bonaparte ruled it constitutional. The act covers railroad and other common carriers in interstate commerce, offers damages for employee injury or death caused by carrier negligence or equipment defects, and limits actions to within two years.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Bonaparte
Territories
District of Columbia
Panama Canal Zone
United States
Supreme Court
Attorney General
Judge Kohlsant restrains express companies from issuing franks
In Chicago the United States District Court issued an injunction against National American Wells Fargo United States and Adams Express companies. It bars them from issuing express franks and from transporting property in interstate commerce in exchange for franks. The court holds such issuance violates interstate commerce law. Federal District Attorney Sims calls the ruling crucial for defining how Interstate commerce laws apply to express firms.
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Chicago
Kohlsant
United States
National
American
Wells Fargo
Adams Express
Federal
Sims
Labor claims forced Littlefield to retire from Congress
President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor asserted that labor protests years ago against Congressman Littlefield of Maine forced his resignation. Gompers said Littlefield promised another election after protests but faded in prestige and chose retirement to private life.
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New York
Littlefield
Maine
Organized Labor
Samuel Gompersa
American Federation of Labor
Labor
Congress
Gompers
Trains Collision Near Melbourne Kills Many
At Braybrook Junction eight miles from Melbourne a collision between trains from Ballarat and Hendigo killed dozens and injured eighty six. Forty two bodies were recovered with many more buried in debris as passengers were boarding at Braybrook.
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Melbourne
Australia
Ballarat
Hendigo
Braybrook Junction
Braybrook
Attempt to Secure Thaw's Release from Matteawan Asylum
James G. Graham of Newburg Thaw's counsel has filed for a writ of habeas corpus. Justice Marschauser in White Plains granted an order directing the asylum superintendent to permit Thaw to sign a formal application. A hearing before a justice will likely follow.
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Poughkeepsie
H. K. Thaw
Matteawan Asylum For
James G. Graham
Newburg
Marschauser
White Plains
Plague Fear Clamps Venezuelan Ports Stirring Ship Lines
In Caracas and La Guaira a suspected bubonic plague outbreak leads several steamship firms to bar passengers or halt calls at the port. Doctors label the illness pernicious fever. Dr. Peraza, who diagnosed the disease months ago, was jailed and released this Monday.
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Caracas
Venezuela
la Guaira
Peraza
Mountain Slide Tracks Notre Dame de Salotte Hamlet
A mountain slide buried half of the Notre Dame de Salotte hamlet on the Lievre river in Buckingham Quebec. At least thirty residents are dead with twenty houses engulfed and eleven bodies recovered. telecommunication was cut when the only telephone house fell.
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Buckingham
Quebec
Notre Dame de Salotte
Llevre
de Salette
de Saleitte
Lievre
Poupere
Campaign Against Yaquis Moves into Sonora
Nogales Ariz It is announced a vigorous campaign is to be inaugurated against the Yaquis in Sonora The Twenty second battalion arrived at Guaymas from the south on the steamer Alamos and the gunboat Tampico is en route with the Twenty fifth battalion General Lorenzo Torres will assume command About 1000 Yaquis are held under guard at Hermosillo and will be deported to Yuentan on the Tampico and the Alamos Fear of the Yaquis has slowed mining and other enterprises in the region Infested by the Indians.
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Nogales
Ariz
Sonora
Guaymas
Alamos
Tampico
Lorenzo Torres
Hermosillo
Vyuentan
Sii
Indiana
Explosion on Battleship Missouri injures no one
An explosion on the battleship Missouri during a Saturday voyage from Santa Monica toward Santa Barbara caused a high pressure cylinder to blow out and steam to escape from the engine roof. The incident was not injurious and steam supply was restored after engine room efforts.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Missouri
Santa Monica
Corriente Governor Charged Treason Amid Provincial Unrest
News from Corriente reports the provincial chamber approved bringing the governor to a local court on treason charges as anarchy looms. In Santiago a revolutionary outbreak forced the governor and ministers from office and a provisional government was proclaimed.
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Buenos Ayres
Corrienta
Corrients
Santiago
Russell May Not Return to Venezuela
The gunboat Du buque is placed at the disposal of United States Minister Russell to depart Venezuela on a sixty day leave of absence if bubonic plague prevents passage on regular steamers. Rumors suggest Russell may not return to his post and could be reassigned after the leave ends.
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Russell
Venezuela
Washington
Dubuque
United States
Blizzard brings ruin to south of England farming and transport
A severe blizzard battered the south of England and spread across the UK, with a violent north wind and record cold. Snowdrifts reached eight feet in places, halting traffic, crippling telegraph and telephone networks, and causing extensive damage to young fruit crops.
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London
England
United Kingdom
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