Known Dead in New Aveline Hotel Fire Investigation Opens
Eleven people confirmed dead with many missing or injured as fire sweeps the New Aveline hotel. Coroner begins inquiry. boiler room ignition and elevator shaft flames traced. hotel built 1852, expanded 1895, valued at 80000 dollars, interior timber tinder dry. Unidentified bodies recovered, multiple travelers and locals among the deceased.
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Enoch
Frank C. Baxsacurn
Ing.allowney
Miss Mar Hett
Mishanaka
Icd
Kencka Orphans’ Home
J. W. Deey
Camden
X. J
Craw& Lebepan
Nsgelyina
EL JI
el Chicago
Carson
Scorr & Serah Hathaway
Mishawana
Ied
Shawaka
Ind
Maurice Titrsch
Chicago
Paifie
Borax
Robert S. Johnson
Pane
Pana
J. B. Miller
Philadelphia
Brickner Woolen Mills
Sheberson Falls
Wis
W. A. Pischer
Duluth
Minn
Bowser Company
Fort Warne
Tnan
Kesler
Nore
Aveline
Bloody tragedy in Ohio ends with self-inflicted death
In Washington Court House Ohio Bert Devaney a 48 year old white horseman shot and killed Lida Bird 23 a colored girl and wounded her mother then killed Silas Shackelford before taking his own life. Authorities formed a posse fourth Ohio National Guard was called and the barn was surrounded but Devaney died by suicide shedding light on possible insanity.
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Washington Court House
Bert Devaney
Lida Bird
Silas Shackelford
Shackelford
Devaney
Te Vaney
Freight Rates to Rise on Western Trunk Lines
Milwaukee reports a near ten percent freight rate increase across all classes from class 1 to class 6, effective July 1, pending final signed agreement by top officials of the Western Trunk Line association. The advance mirrors the plan from western to eastern points and back.
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Western Trunk Line
Milwaukee
Western Trunk Line Association
Sears
Harmon Nominated by Ohio Democrats for Governor
In Columbus Ohio the Democratic convention nominated Judson Harmon of Cincinnati attorney general under Cleveland for governor and endorsed William Jennings Bryan while instructing delegates to vote for Bryan for president.
Michigan Man Heads Surgeons Appointment of Nancrede as President
The American Surgical Association closed its final session on Wednesday and elected officers for the coming year. The new president is Dr. C. B. G. Nancrede of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Michigan
Man Heads Surgeons
Washington
American Surgical Association
C. B. G. Nancrede
Ann Arbor
Mich
Webster City Dairy Tuberculosis Crisis Sparks Milk Prices
In Webster City a tuberculin test condemned 23 of 34 cows in O S Cleveland’s herd, about 68 percent, raising talk of central sterilizing plants and questioning test reliability. Milk price climbs to 10 cents a quart as the controversy reshapes local dairy fortunes and purity concerns.
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Webster City
O. S. Cleveland
Cleveland
United States
Des Moines
Stanley Conklin
Mrs Dolph Convicted in Clinton Manslaughter Case
Irene Rolph known as Dolph is found guilty of manslaughter after a 17 hour jury deliberation. The case drew unprecedented local interest due to peculiar facts including the defendant seeking counsel before police notice and fleeing to her mother's home before returning for inquest.
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Gul
Clinton
Irene Rolph
Hoe Kucksys
Clinton County
Dolph
Resd
Clifton
JoNet
Fred Delp
North Clinton
East
Old Main Streets
Hol- Teran
Baby shoots mother in Mason City tragedy
A 4-year-old boy accidentally shot his mother, Mrs Charles Hall, in Mason City while playing on a bed with a hidden revolver. The bullet perforated her intestines and doctors fear she may die. the child does not understand the tragedy and remains with the city saddened.
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Mason City
Charles Hall
Strike Breaks in Gypsum Mills Near Fort Dodge
Fort Dodge reports most gypsum mills are operating again with few exceptions. Cardif plant runs largely on former staff after threats of displacement. American Independent Gypsum workers sought reinstatement to prior positions but were refused by President B H Ward who cites adequate performance from strikebreakers. City insiders say the strike is broken and mills will soon be running.
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Fort Dodge
Sypsum
Oine
Cardif Plass
American Independent Gypsum Company
B. H. Ward
Rates Hearings Set In Ottumwa On May 20
Interstate Commerce Commission Commissioner Clark will visit Ottumwa on May 20 to hear three discrimination cases in freight rates against railroads. Brought by the Ottumwa Commercial Association, the actions include Ottumwa Brick and Construction Company vs Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad, Ottumwa Boxcar Spencer Company vs Milwaukee and other against Rock Island.
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Ottumwa
Clark
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ottumwa Commercial Association
Ottummwa Brick and Construction Company
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company
Spencer Company
The
Milwaukee
Rock, Island
Liquor Men Surprised by Civic League Absence
Al S. Odie attorney for the Anti-Saloon League arrived with a sudden claim of neglect by the Civic League to prosecute under the mulet law. He said, after four cases were recently dismissed, the league was to attend 10 masters but did not.
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Council Brufis
al S. Odie
Aitorney
Towa Anti- Saloon League
Civic League
Thomason Settles for Five Hundred Dollars
Boston mass Frederick O Thompson son of Des Moines Harvard law student acquitted of criminal responsibility for death of Afar Abimosh settled with estate of young women in the sum of fifty dollars. Settlement grew out of a damages claim of fifteen thousand dollars. Adjustment disposes finally of the entire matter Conner Makes Fort Dodge Happy Fort Dodge a communication from Congressman Conner of the tenth district assures Fort Dodge people an appropriation of not less than one hundred twenty five thousand six hundred dollars will be allowed by congress for an office building need in the city.
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Thomason
Boston
Mass
Frederick O. Thompson
Des Moines
Harvard
Afar
Abimosh
Wattown
Conner
Fort Dodge
Tenth District
Congress
Typhoid Epidemic Wells Up in Rockwell City
Forty typhoid cases reported in Rockwell City over the past three days, all among prominent men who attended an April banquet closing a Methodist revival. Two women are ill from a home lunch. Pastor Robert Reedy was hospitalized at Methodist in Des Moines. Nurses rushed to care for patients.
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Rockwell City
Robert Reedy
Bes Moines
Couldn't Stand Taunts Drives Boy to Box Car Return
Twelve year old Walter Anderson fled a taunting spelling lesson at school in Fort Dodge. Absent from school he slept in a box car in the Twin Cities Central yards and returned home seriously ill from exposure the next afternoon after hours of searching by police and neighbors failed to locate him.
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Fort Dodge
Polar
Walter Anderson
Twinois
Andersons
Train Robbers Strike Milwaukee Passenger Near Mason City
Three men assaulted E C Echenrole of Cleveland Ohio as a Milwaukee passenger train neared Mason City. They forced the traveling salesman into a vestibule, beat him and extract money and valuables before jumping from the moving train and fleeing.
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Mason
Milwaukee
E. C. Echenrole
Cleveland. C
Mason City
Echenrole
Waterlooan Dies of Nosebleed in Waterloo
Mrs Patrick Joyce died of a nosebleed in Waterloo aged 40. Hemorrhages began two weeks earlier and she bled to death gradually. She was the wife of a passenger conductor on the Illinois Central and leaves five children, the eldest aged 15.
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Waterlooan
Waterloo
Patrick Joyce
Hinois Central
Bairy Company Fined in Dubuane Milk Case
The Inn a Daly company was found guilty of selling milk not up to standard and fined $25 in Justice Shemp's court.
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Bairy Company
Dubuane
Inna Daly Company
Justice Shemp’s
Four More Bodies Linked to Guinness Farm Mystery
In Laporte Indiana police deepen the Guinness farm case as four more bodies are found in the barnyard. Authorities trace nine dismembered remains to Chicago ships and trunks labeled Mrs Belle Guinness reportedly held in an express office.
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Laporte
Ind
Guinness Farm
Tate
Chicaso
Draymen
Guinness
Belle Guinness
Chicago
Antone Olson
Indiana Avenue
Jennie Olson
Leo Olander
South Park Avenue
Ask K_ Heigelein
J. H. William Merer
Andrew Helgelein
Iola
Wis
Nishi
Budsberg
Laporte County
John A. Welker
Leo Wade
Clyde Sturgis
Foster & de Garmo
Wade
Oie
Welker
Sturgis
Demarest Captures International Amateur Billiard Title
Calvin Demarest of the Chicago Athletic Club won the international amateur billiard championship in New York at the Liederkranz Club. In the final he defeated Lucien Rerolie, a five time amateur champion of France, to claim the title.
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Demarest
New York
Calvin Demarest
Chicago Athletic Club
Liederkronn Club
Lucien Rerolie
France
Aged Man in Wisconsin Ends His Life in Hospital
C H Johnson aged 76 of Eau Claire Wisconsin killed himself by shooting through the heart Tuesday afternoon while in Monners hospital. He had been in ill health.
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Himsel
Eau @laire, Wis
C. H. Johnson
Monners Hospital
Heith
Storm Sweeps the West Fatal Wreck in Illinois District
A severe thunderstorm with damaging winds and heavy rain swept the St. Louis district, washing out the Louisville & Nashville bridge near Belleville and wrecking a freight train. Engineer Carl Ward Fireman Chasm and two crewmen drowned. Edgemont Illinois flooded as American bottoms area submerged. French Village Illinois struck by a miniature tornado. Belleville lost power. In Memphis Tennessee three dead and multiple injured as storm impacts Arkansas Tennessee Mississippi cause extensive damage and disruptions.
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St. Louis
Louisville & Nashville Road
Belleville
Carl Ward
Chasm
Schoenland Creek
Edgemont
East St. Louis
French Village
Ilinois
Thaw Insanity Refuted By Matteawan Chief
Dr Amos 4 Baker acting superintendent of Matteawan state hospital, in return to habeas corpus writ for Harry K Thaw, denies Thaw’s sanity. Thaw under observation after slaying Stanford White. Floods in East Alton NJ Water rises four feet in four hours flooding five miles by one mile area. tracks washed out. factories closed. families displaced.
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Poughkeepsie. N
Amos 4. Baker
Matteawan State Hospital
Harry K. Thaw
Thaw
Baker
Malleawan
Stanford White
East Alton
Wood River
Chicago & Alton
Big Four
McKinley
Trafic
Three Killed in Family Feud Near Philpot Virginia
Martinsville dispatch reports James Nellie Sam Shelton and Charles Dod son were shot and killed near Philpot Henry County Tuesday amid a family feud. In unrelated Kansas news a jury found H H Tucker Jr not guilty of mailing fraud in promoting Uncle Sam Oil Co.
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Richmond
Martinsville
James Nellie
Sam Shelton
Charles Dodson
Philpot
Henry County
H. H. Tucker, Jr
Topeka
Kan
Uncle Sam Oi Company
Fleet Enters Golden Gate For Fleet Week
The Atlantic battleship Connecticut led the fleet through the Golden Gate into San Francisco Harbor as crowds in San Francisco and nearby cities paused. Rear Admiral Robley D Evans, in command of the Atlantic fleet, stood on the after bridge amid official dinners, band concerts, receptions, and a ball at the Fairmount hotel for invited guests marking opening events of the visit.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate
Oakland
Robly D. Evans
Connecticut
Fairmount
Jerome Refuses Jury Minutes In Street Railway Probe
New York District Attorney Jerome said he would go to jail rather than comply with an order to file grand jury minutes with the clerk of the court of general sessions. He spoke during hearings before Commissioner Hand in the King committee inquiry into his office duties. The minutes relate to the November Metropolitan Street Railway grand jury investigation and would become public if filed.
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New York
Jerome
Rosalsky
Court of General Sessions
Commissioner Hand
Gov
Hughes
King Committee
Grand
Mling
Ohio Troops Ordered Out To Quell Ohio Kentucky War
Gov Harris ordered Adjt. Gen Critchfield to patch troops to threatened towns Aberdeen and Higsinsport amid Burley tobacco district warfare. Troop B of Columbus left at five o clock Wednesday. Capt Krauss commands about 50 cavalry. First regiment units in Cincinnati and Batavia reportedly under waiting orders. Cleveland improves steadily, will remain indefinitely as climate aids recovery. Indiana man J C Brown of Elkhart dies by gas in Detroit hotel room. Secretary Taft arrives aboard Prairie at Colon. Manuel proclaimed King of Portugal after oath of allegiance.
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Columbus
Aberdeen
Higsinsport
Burley Tobacco
Ohio
Kentucky
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