Senate action on memorial for Lincoln birthplace and other items
The Senate passed a $50,000 line item for a Lincoln birthplace memorial in Kentucky, plus bills for mining education endowment from public land sales, and defense of the U S flag rules. Other measures authorize Alaska land sales, Brazilian embassy property moves, and navy gifts care. House tariff revision steps begin with Ways and Means recess data gathering. Treasury assigns agents across six districts with personnel moves.
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Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Kentucky
Senate
Cordova Bay
Alaska
Brazilian Chamber of Deputies
Washington
United States
Bureau of Supplies
Navy
House
Secretary of the Navy
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Notable Figures Mourned in Sudden Deaths and Appointments
John H. Bradford, famed New York horseman, dies of pneumonia. Eugene, ninth duke of Harcourt, dies in Paris. born 1864. Clarence R. Paul, 56, editor of the Ohio State Journal, found dead in Springfield Missouri. J Scott Richman, long serving Iowa lawyer, dies at Muscatine area home. Capt John A. Rodgers ordered to prepare for Bremerton yard command, replacing Admiral Burwell retiring in July. John A Hamlin, Grand Opera House owner, dies suddenly at Virginia Hotel Chicago. 71.
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John H. Bradford
New York
Eugene Francis Marie Henri
Duke of Harcourt
Paris
Clarence R. Paul
Ohio State Journal
Springfield
J. Scott Richman
Iowa
Muscatine
John A. Rodgers
Bremerton Navy Yard
William T. Burwell
John A. Hamlin
Grand Opera House
Chicago
Virgina Hotel
Hamlin
Abandoned J H Chaffee. storm repairs at Fort Crook
The J H Chaffee with five men aboard is abandoned after galling from Perth Amboy to Boston. The War Department allows repairs for Fort Crook Neb damage estimated at 100000. A Kansas City area collision near Muskogee leaves two trainmen dead and fifteen injured. Three youths drown in Sandusky bay after a squall. A cannon explosion at Eureka Cal injures several, one killed.
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J. H. Chaffee
Perth Amboy
N. J
Boston
War Department
Fort Crook
Neb
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Muskogee
Okla
Eureka
Cal
Death and ruin in Texas floods and rail dislocates
Fort Worth and North Fort Worth faced the Trinity river flood with seven confirmed dead and 5,000 homeless as six inches of rain burst the river’s record. Oklahoma towns suffered no rail service and gas supply to Indian Territory cities was cut off, crippling business across Muskogee and Jenks.
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Fort Worth
Tex
North Fort Worth
Trinity River
Muskogee
Okla
Oklahoma
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Eufau Ja
Indian Territory
Clarksville
Arkansas
Jenks
Three Men Die After Brook Haven Fight
A four handed fight in Brook Haven Mississippi leaves William Hilton, Thomas Hilton, and Benson Nation dead. Thomas Nation is fatally wounded. The altercation began when the elder Nation was beaten by a negro farm hand, an employee of the Hiltons. The Hiltons encountered the Nation home as they returned from town and the elder Nation renewed the dispute. A shotgun and pistol exchange followed.
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Brook Haven
Miss
William Hilton
Thomas Hilton
Benson Nation
Thomas Nation
Nation
Hiltons
Hilton
McDermott Pays $4,705 to Close Oil Inspector Account
In St Paul on May 26 former state oil inspector J A McDermott paid Attorney General B T Young 4705 20 to settle the deficiency revealed by the Public Examiner Schaefer second review.
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St. Paul
J. A. McDermott
B. T. Young
Schaefer
Airship Morrell bursts on trial injuring sixteen in Berkeley
The Morrell airship the largest ever built burst 200 feet up during a trial above Berkeley drawing a crowd of 10 000 spectators. Sixteen aboard including five engineers the inventor C A Morrell and an Australian aeronaut were injured with broken limbs and internal injuries. Two may die. The craft settled to the ground as panic spread among onlookers. The injured are reported all to be doing well.
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Oakland
Berkeley
C. A. Morrell
Morrell
Priest Stabbed by Crazed Man in Salisbury Church
The Rev. Father Joseph F. Lubeley aged 33 pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church Salisbury was stabbed twice with a pocketknife by Joseph Schuette a farmer near here in view of 400 worshippers. He was rushed to a nearby residence and given medical care with critical condition. Mrs Barbara Ginter and John Gates restrained the attacker as Schuette wounded Ginter and Gates before other parishioners overpowered him and jailed him. The incident appears the result of sudden derangement.
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Salisbury
Joseph F. Lubeley
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Joseph Schuette
Here
Lubeley
Maniac
Schuette
Barbara Ginter
John Gates
Three Die in Philadelphia Streetcar Crash
Three persons were killed instantly and at least five others were fatally injured in a collision of trolley cars on Germantown Avenue Philadelphia on May 25 Forty five people were taken to Chestnut Hill and Germantown hospitals and others were treated by private physicians. The north bound car jumped the track on a steep hill near Chestnut Hill and swung into the south bound car, both crowded with passengers.
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Philadelphia
Germantown Avenue
Chestnut Hill
Germantown
Bell a Gunness Accomplices Identified in Wisconsin Case
Iola Wisconsin man Martin Gurholt says Bella Gunness had accomplices in the Henry Gurholt disappearance. A stranger lured Henry to Laporte Indiana in 1905 with the promise of work on Gun ness farm. Henry vanished after sending letters home. Witness notes a matching watch fragment found in ruins and a theory that Gun ness escaped in male clothing is presented by Arkansas informant to Lamphere’s lawyers.
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Iola
Wis
Kansas
Laporte
Ind
Bella Gunness
Martin Gurhelt
Iowa
Henry Gurhelt
Tola
Henry Gurholt
Martin Gurholt
Martin
Ray Lamphere
Rochester
Death on Home Run Ends Armenia Baseball Game
Albert Parker aged twenty from Hancock collapsed and died during a baseball game in Armenia Grand Rapids Wisconsin after ignoring warnings about heart trouble. He was hit by a home run attempt when his heart failed and he died without a word.
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Grand Rapids
Wis
Albert Parker
Hancock
Armenia
Armenia Nine
Menominee Man's Death Follows Robbery Claim
Menominee Michigan May 27 local authorities believe Charles Cornelius who killed himself yesterday was robbed of several hundred dollars two days earlier. He left for Europe Tuesday with 500 dollars and a steamship ticket in his wallet. after death search his remains showed 27 dollars and the ticket missing.
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Menominee
Mich
Charles Cornelius
Cornelius
Europe
Hay on Market Soon in Red River Valley
Recent rains and cool weather have good crops in Barnesville Minnesota with grain stooling well. Farmers expect new hay to hit markets in about four weeks as grasses mature and fields begin to harvest.
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Barnesville
Minn
Red River Valley
Soldiers of Northern Minnesota To Hold Reunion
We old soldiers of Northern Minnesota will hold their annual reunion in Akeley on June 17 to 19. Tents will be pitched in Lakeside Park by Eleventh Crow Wing Lake.
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Solsers
Akeley
Minn
Kintesota
Lakeside Park
Crow Wing Lake
Divorce for Mrs Vanderbilt over misconduct cited in New York
Mrs Helen French Vanderbilt obtained an interlocutory divorce from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt by Justice O Gorman after referee McClure reported misconduct. The decree allows Mrs Vanderbilt to remarry but bars Vanderbilt from remarriage during her life. custody of their son William H Vanderbilt awarded to Mrs Vanderbilt. No alimony ordered. Evidence included testimony from Vanderbilt's valet about conduct on a Virginia railroad trip last October.
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New York
Helen French Vanderbilt
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Justice O'Gorman
Supreme Court
David McClure
Vanderbilt
Girl Grapples Giant Maniac in Cook County Office
President Busse of the Cook County board and his secretary Miss Lillian Miller fought off a giant maniac who forced his way into the county building. A policeman and county attachés helped subdue the assailant after a long struggle. the prisoner was placed in the county hospital and ranted about Busse.
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Busse
Cook County
Chicago
William Busse
Lillian Miller
Mae Wood Free on Bail in Platt Perjury Case
Mae C Wood the Omaha woman who sued Senator Thomas C Platt for divorce was released on 5000 bail on perjury charges tied to testimony in court last week She signed the bond Mae C Wood Platt after the document was prepared News from New York May 27
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Platt
New York
Mae C. Wood
Omaha
Thomas C. Platt
Miss Wood
Mae C. Wood Platt
July cotton option hits new high record in New York
The July cotton option sold at 10.25 dollars, a rise of 1.50 dollars from Saturday’s close and over two cents per pound above last month’s low record, marking a fresh peak in the present movement in New York.
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New York
Innocent Man Released After Double Forgery Case
Pittsburg May 27 J C White fifty six from New York City was freed from the state penitentiary after serving a year and a half of a five year forgery sentence imposed on another man who used his double to commit the crime.
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Pittsburg
J. C. White
New York City
State Penitentiary of
Pennsylvania
Market Quotations From Major Grain Live Stock Centers May 27
Grain and livestock quotations from St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Milwaukee Chicago Bronx City and South St Paul show mixed prices for wheat corn rye and cattle hogs sheep and lambs. Notable levels include Wheat No 1 Northern at varied highs around 1.09 in Milwaukee and 1.07 in St Paul. Corn No 2 yellow around 70 control. Cattle beefs near 4.75 7.25 in Chicago. Hogs around 5.25 5.52 in Chicago and 5.25 5.35 in Bronx City. Lambs 4.75 7.20 in Chicago and 4.75 7.26 in South St Paul.
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St. Paul
Northern
Minneapolis
Duluth
Milwaukee
Chicago
Bronx City
South St. Paul
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Treasury Department
Chance
George T. Black
el Paso
Sandusky
Ohio
Arnold Wiedemann
William Schaefer
Fred Lambrecht
Sandusky Bay
Texas
M'Dermott
Sinteed
Man
Mrs. Vanderbilt
Alfred
Girl
Giant Maniac
Mae Wood
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