New York Man Slays Wife and Children Then Commits Suicide
A retail grocer John Matthews killed his wife and two children aged 10 and 12 with a hatchet after waiting for them to sleep, then shot himself. A gas odor alerted a milkman who called police. investigators say letters suggest premeditation and motive linked to family tensions.
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Hite
John Matthews
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Bafora
Stors
Pghh
Uy Mra
Widespread Cotton Mill Reductions Trigger Strikes
A wage cut affecting about 126000 operatives hits mills across New England and nearby states. New Bedford Lewiston Saco Milford Fall River Portland and Lawrence mills stalled production as workers refuse to accept the reduction. Additional cuts are planned for Monday by the Atlantic and Pacific mills and others in New England and New Hampshire.
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Boston
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Quean City
Burlington
Maine
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Bedford
Lowell
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Atlantic and Pacific Corporation
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Secretary Wilson on Hawaiian sugar import impact
Secretary Wilson states that Hawaiian sugar imports totaled 9,073,024 dollars over seven years, while total imports averaged 101,875,293 dollars annually. He argues Hawaii will not seriously compete with U S sugar producers and comments on domestic production and import effects.
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Wilson
Senate
United States
Hea
Hawaii
Chicago firms suffer heavy losses in Market and Quincy fire
Eight firms with stocks valued near 500000 were burned on Monday morning at Market and Quincy Streets. Losses totaled about 200000 as wholesalers of clothing woolens hats caps and dry goods were affected. Ex Congressmen Hooper dead in Farmville Virginia. Weavers union rejects arbitration offer and votes to strike.
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Chicago
Market
Quincy Streets
Dying Rumor Over Panicat Millionaire Tramp
Tierry thinks he is dying as Panicat Kentucky damsel A Berry described as the millionaire tramp suffers a broken leg while drunk and is believed hopelessly ill. A note from a Rev. Mr. dcincon accompanied by a religious pincher was sent Friday claiming imminent death.
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Panicat
Ky.j Dames A. Berry
Dcincon
New Party Born at St Louis Conference Forms New Organization
A St Louis gathering of Populists and the People s party created a new political organization. The People s party cut ties with the national Populist committee and plans to run its own affairs. Delegates favored a national presidential convention this year and proposed referendum use for national issues. The meeting, with seventy four members, passed rules limiting committees from acting without party petition and reported forty states in support.
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People
St. ‘Louis
St. Louis
People’s Party
National:organization Committee
Sthacconfereties
National Committee
Exposition Stamp Series Illustrates Trans Mississippi West
Authorities announce stamps for the Trans Misssissippi and International Exposition to open in Omaha. Nine denominations depict western history from discovery to present, including Marquette, a chief, buffalo hunt, Fremont, emigrants, mining, a cowboy and cattle, and the Union Pacific bridge in Omaha.
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Ostosics Departiment
Pew
Department
Omaha
Mississippi River
Marquette
Fremont
Plains
Union Pacific
Estate Inventory Filed in Pullman Probate Case
An inventory of the late Gore M. Pullman’s real and personal property was filed in probate court. Executed by Norman D. Beam and Robert T. Lincoln, the filing lists real estate near 1.0 million and personal assets about 500000 with an overall preliminary value around 2000000 to 2500000 depending on market values of stocks and securities.
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Gore M. Pullman
Norman DB. Heam
Robert T. Lincoln
Ian Weth
THA
Gand
Debated Cuba Policy Shelved by House Managers
House managers postpone consideration of the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill to avoid a heated Cuba debate. Insiders expect rival speeches could inflame tensions in Havana and complicate state affairs.
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House
Havana
Perkins
Town
Geological Survey
Alaska
Fire at Louisville plow plant causes substantial damage
A Thursday fire at the B. F. Avery & Son plow factory in Logiaville inflicted about $75,000 in damage. Operations were not halted and the boss is fully insured.
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Logiaville
B. F. Avery & Sone
German Warships Disabled Sighted By Bombay Steamer
A Bombay steamer reports sighting two German warships in a disabled condition. The vessels named Duetsels land and Gefton are now heading toward China after being last heard from at Port Said.
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Duetselsland
Gefton
China
Port Said
Natives Take Khyber Pass Reported By Elgin
The Earl of Elgin wires India that Sakka Khoel Afridias have seized Ishyber pass and begun cutting wires and firing on escorts. A shooting star omen is noted as luck. The Ayerook is expected to be winged.
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Earl of Elgin
India
Salvation Army Leader Booth Arrives in New York
Gen. Booth head of the Salvation Army landed in New York from Southampton Saturday. A large Salvationist delegation greeted him on the pier. He will tour the United States and Canada before returning to England April 20. He discussed his relations with Ballington Booth and said full explanations were given at the time of the separation.
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Suicide at Masonic Temple after failed jump
Albert C. Greenleaf, a former Columbus merchant, leapt from the sixteenth floor of Chicago's Masonic Temple after an earlier aborted attempt at the Chamber of Commerce building. His body struck the rotunda area and was later identified by witnesses as Greenleaf, once a leading Columbus wholesaler.
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Albert C. Greenleaf
Wes
Columbus
Ohio
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Death of U.S. Patent Commissioner Butterworth in Georgia
United States commissioner of patents Butterworth died at 3 15 Sunday afternoon in Thomansville Georgia while recuperating from facial pneumonia. He failed after a relapse from arsenic convulsions two weeks earlier. He leaves a wife and four children.
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United States Commissioner of Patents
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Butterworth
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Freeman Escapes Jail for Second Time in a Year
Outlaw leader Matt Freeman, long a fugitive from justice, escaped from jail at Tasiga for the second time in a year. Authorities report Freeman previously conducted banditry in the Glass Mown mountains and led Ford County’s Sang Mra, with deputies briefly pursuing him before reinforcements and ammunition arrived. Freeman has since been reported traveling as an evangelist. In other news, a murder case unfolded when Afts Frokey, an elderly resident near Wells, was found dead with a bullet wound to the head and another wound to the side, with Italian peddlers suspected of the crime. A separate Wilmington case saw attorney J. C. Martin shoot George McMillan, who later died after weeks of complications. Martin faces possible murder charges. Also, Count de Penalosa predicted that Don Carlos will be king of Spain within the year after arriving in New York and meeting with arms manufacturers.
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York
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Flour rate cut proposed by Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad telegraphed the Interstate Commerce Commission that it will charge a proportional rate of 6 cents from St Paul to Chicago for flour and mill stocks sent to eastern territory, a reduction of 4 cents.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Interstate Commerce Commission
St. Paul
Chicago
New York Weekly Trade: Gold and Silver Exports and Imports
The week shows New York exporting 62 040 in gold and 577 585 in silver. Imports list gold 228 63, silver 41 050, dry goods 2 422 030, general merchandise 4 149 149.
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New York
Three Miners Die in Hirden Treasure Mine Disaster
In Nevaraville two miles away a tail of rack collapse at the Hirden Treasure mine instantly killed Col. James Doyte Joseph Perko and Andrew Westland. Daniel Munday was badly hurt possibly fatally.
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James Doyte
Joseph Perko
Andrew Westland
Daniel Munday
Hirden
Nevaraville
Municipal League Convention Set for Detroit in August
The executive committee of the League of American Municipalities announces the next convention in Detroit from August 1 to 4. The meeting will gather city officials to discuss policy, administration, and municipal improvements.
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Municipal League
New York
League of American Municipalities
Detroit
Chinamen Beaten in NYC Laundry Strike Turmoil
Hundreds of laundry workers march through Chinatown after John Bitterman dispatches Chinamen to work at Walker Street shop. Police permit leads to parade with a ten piece band. As Chinamen leave Bitterman's shop, fifty men target them in doorways, severely injuring and disfiguring several.
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New 'York
New York
John Bitterman
Walker Street
Tom Lee
Chinatown
Bitterman
Statehood Convention in Kingfisher Backs Oklahoma Admission
Inter partisan gathering brings about a harmonious convention with about a thousand delegates and interested locals. It unanimously adopts a resolution urging Congress to pass a enabling act for Oklahoma to become a state, with future tribal voting on the constitution.
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Rusofisnen
Oklahoma
Kingfisher
Oklihoma Da.a
Tin Plate Combine Meeting in Pittsburg to Unite Mills
A national tin plate combine plan draws attendees from United States manufacturers in Pittsburg this week. Committees report on industry prospects after meetings in Columbus Chicago and Pittsburg. A New York syndicate seeks backing to unify 32 mills under one management similar to the wire trade.
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Pittsburg
United States
Pin -Plate Association
Columbus
Ohio
Chicago
New York
State plans new highway system across counties
A proposed statewide highway plan would fund construction while counties bear only the cost of detailed survey work under the direction of the state engineer. The project aims to create a network of roads following a standard routing metric with state financing for construction.
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Almany
N.Y
Starvation Crisis Reported From Cuba to Bay Area
A clipped wire reports 19 000 people starving with rumors of deaths. The informant in Cuba claims authorities say 12 000 perished by air raid and a jailed woman begs for bread as starving children stare. The piece mentions L Dunai of Alabama now in Cuba providing details.
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Clark Alata Albee
Wilhout
Oklahoma court voids school segregation rule under Fifteenth Amendment
An Auprerhe court opinion invalidates a rule barring a white child from attending a colored school. The decision labels the rule a misdemeanor and void, citing ambiguity and conflict with the Fifteenth Amendment and constitutional spirit.
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Girkiz
Oklahoma
Auprerhe Court
Jagt Winter
United States
Immense Cargo of Cotton Cleared from Savannah
The British steamship Hanza cleared for Bremen with 18 200 bales of cotton weighing 8 963 935 pounds valued at 440 052. It is the largest cotton cargo ever shipped from an Atlantic port, exceeding previous records by more than 7 000 bales. The Brooks Locomotive Works of this city has nearly completed a shipment of 92 cars of locomotives for Japan and Corea, including 32 for the Imperial government railways of Japan.
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Bremen
Ain
Atlantic
Orient Deurxumak
Brooks Locomotive Works
Japan
Corea
Imperial Government Railways of Japan
Seoul-Chamalpo
Commodity Price Quotes Across U S Markets
Regional market listings for cattle hogs sheep and grain show varied prices. Indianapolis and St Louis report cattle and hog ranges with corn and oats values. Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Western markets listed per-bushel and per-head figures along with butter eggs and clover seed pricing.
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Toledo
Corp
Milwaukee
Tre Boke
New York
Utter
Inside the Senate Restaurant Privileges and Peculiarities
A detailed look at the Senate restaurant in Washington revealing a private dining culture. It notes the Maine purveyor, the open public pie counter, and exclusive inner rooms for senators, with stories of meals featuring salmon from Oregon and Came from New England, plus occasional feasts and disruptions to public business.
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Congréss
Tll. Paze
Maine
Taurant
Washington
Ofster
Yentaurant
Northwest
Oregon
New England
Page
Wick
Scaslors
Renate
Inside the Capitol Kitchen and Ventilation System
A detailed tour of the Senate kitchen reveals its large ventilation system and basment engine room. The 100 by 15 foot main kitchen features white tile walls, refrigerated rooms, bakeries, and a pantry with nonperishable goods. Large ring stoves, a massive soup kettle, and extensive steam pipes underscore the facility’s scale for daily operations.
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Senate
Capitol
Crater
A Glimpse Inside a Capitol Kitchen and Other Notes
The article describes a vast Capitol kitchen with steam kettles, sauces kept warm, a steambox, grill for a pig or lamb, and a turkey roaster. It notes thirty servants run the kitchen, odd meal hours, and senators rarely dining there, with breakfasts at hotels in town. It also covers political tidbits on Hawaiian policy, naval discipline, and folklore on marriage trends among representatives.
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la Rotel
Ames
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