Eiffel Tower Struck by Lightning Three Times
Paris reports a heavy rainstorm with brilliant lightning that struck the Eiffel Tower three times but caused no damage. The storm was followed by sunshine as provinces face winter weather with hail and deep snow. Crop damage reported in Perpignan and Pri vas. Roads blocked at Formigueres and livestock suffering from hay shortages.
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Pyrenees- Orientales
Privas
Ardeche
Formigueres
Parkhurst Criticizes Reform NY Police Administration
Rev Charles H Parkhurst, while sailing to Europe, condemned New Yorks reform administration for police laxity and moral incompetence. He said the force lacks discipline and that even under Tammany the system acted with more coherence. He warned a reform body that cannot govern the city is worse than Tammany rule.
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New. York
Europe
Wabash to Enter Cleveland on Big Four Tracks
Negotiations are pending between Wabash and Big Four managements for permanent track access into Cleveland for Wabash trains over Big Four tracks. The connection between these two roads will be made, it is said, at Wellington, Ohio.
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New York
Wabash
Big Four
Wellington
Backache and kidney pains prompt deadly risks advice
A patient recalls backache and kidney pains that worsened to vertigo and irregular nervous symptoms. After using a pharmacy promoted remedy from Dean’s Kidney, the treatment relieved the pains and he endorses it as a splendid remedy for the case.
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Bright
Dean
Henry Uder
Balloon flight over Berlin by international commission
May 24 Berlin hosted members of the International Aeronautical Commission as guests of the military balloon battalion. Balloons ascended and landed safely while the aeronauts heard papers on aeronautics. W von Bezold praised Abbott Lawrence Rotch of Boston for his atmospheric research and urged funding to continue studies over the Atlantic.
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Berlin
International Aeronautical Commission
Herr W. von Bezold
Abbott Lawrence Rotch
Boston
Mass
Rotch
Atlantic Ocean
Former hospital head turns violent insane case at Kankakee
Dr Emmett Enos, ex superintendent of the hospital for the insane, has become a raving maniac in Kankakee Illinois. Guards and three attendants watch him as experts say recovery is impossible and death may come within years. He resigned last February to ease duties and return home.
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Enos
Herschel
Here
Counterfeiter Chief Batchelder Faces Charges in Chicago
Austin J. Batchelder, a chemist and civil engineer, was arrested Thursday as alleged leader of a counterfeiters ring. Officers found tools and a quart measure with apparent freshly minted $5 and $10 gold pieces. He tried to take poison but was stopped.
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Chicago
Austin J. Batchelder
Batchelder
King Alfonso Seeks End to Bullfighting in Madrid
In Madrid on May 4 King Alfonso, amid a gala, told a foreign diplomat he dislikes bullfighting and finds it cruel. The diplomat agreed the practice is cruel and suggested a horse substitute. Mrs Curry, wife of the American ambassador, was so upset by the bull scene she could not attend the tattoo in the evening.
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Alfonso
Mra. Curry
Mysterious secret service men shadow Roosevelt trip
New York May 24 Police Captain Titus reveals two secret service detectives so unidentified they vex him. He recalls agents following President Roosevelt during his New York and Jersey City transit with one man described as short and stocky with a black beard. The other hid his features. both were seen at every stop, while five agents joined in New York and five more in Washington.
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North River
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Kinsler
Lewis Moves Away After Liquor Sale Injunction
Martin Hugg, attorney for William Tron of Fairbank, notes liquor sales at garden tables bypass the bar. An injunction last year by neighbor Zimri C. Lewis blocked waiter sales but the property change leaves no one to enforce. The law requires the direct party in interest to pursue contempt, so the injunction may remain in effect without enforceable action.
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William Tron
Fairbank
Zimri C. Lewis
Lewis
Hugg
Roosevelt receives $1000 Chesapeake spaniel Sailor Boy dog
President Roosevelt was given Sailor Boy a Chesapeake spaniel worth $1000 by an Indiana hunter friend. The red brown dog, from a famed hunting lineage, was trained by a renowned western trainer and has hunted widely, matching his ancestors’ records on expeditions.
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Roosevelt
Indiana
West
Sabor Boy
Accidently Killed at Butler's Mill Libertyville
Clinton Ind May 24 reports that 24 year old sawyer Hard Callister of Butler's mill Libertyville was struck by two pieces of timber Monday. He survived briefly then developed brain fever and died.
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Ind
Howard Callister
Sawyer
Butler's Mill
Libertyville
Gambler Canfield sells holdings for large sum found
Richard A. Canfield, famed as the Prince of American gamblers, accepts a 765000 offer from the Farrell syndicate for his houses and goodwill in Saratoga Newport and New York City. He donates 1000 to a Providence School of design and art fund while partner David Bucklin will retire with 500000 as Canfield claims four million earned in recent years.
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Richard A. Canfield
Prince of
Farrell Syndicate
Good Will
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Newport
New York City
Canfield
School of Design and Art
David Bucklin
Providence
Bond issue proposed for Fall Creek Boulevard plan
The mayor announced Friday that a $50,000 bond issue will finance Fall Creek Boulevard construction. The move would push the city’s bonded indebtedness close to the limit again, within a few thousand dollars.
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Fall Creek Boulevard
Alma-Bromo Salt Trial Offer From Michigan Drug Co
A period ad promotes Alma-Bromo Salt from Alma Michigan Mineral Spring waters as a home remedy for constipation stomach liver kidney and nervous diseases. It claims quick lasting relief and a clear complexion and notes the product is sold in drug stores for 50 cents a bottle with a free trial bottle by mailing a card to Detroit Michigan Drug Co.
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Mich
Michigan Drug Co
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