Kidnapped Boy Murder Case Sparks Mob Violence Fears
In New Orleans a headless seven to eight year old Italian boy found in a swamp after kidnapping for ransom. Five Italians held, two women among them, with one suspect confessing to murder. Police and vigilantes keep order as mafia fears rise and several suspects named in a staged crime.
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New Orleans
Walter Lamana
Tne
St. Rose
Ignazio Campigliano
Campigciano
Nicolani Gebbia
Stefano Monfre
Tony Gendusa
Angelo Cacatari
Incanterra
Campigelano
Frank Gendusa
Leonardo Gelovin
Italian claims dream motive in Rock Island train shooting
Odland Kansas June 24 Italian Bello told through an interpreter he killed a man and wounded two women in his sleep during a train ride toward California. He said a dream caused the attack, claiming he fought a man with a white handkerchief over his face and fired in his slumber. Bello remains in the county jail as he mutters and rocks.
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Odland
Kan
Jo Hove
Rock Island
Here
Bello
Patsy Leganbradi
Genoa
Boston
Symric
West
California
Carl V. Topp
Five Thousand Homesteads Perfected in State
Reports from land offices to the state auditor show early five thousand proofs for taxation this year. Pierre June 24. The figures indicate steady progress in homestead filings across districts and the tally reflects widespread settlement.
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Pierre, & D
Pew Lands
Missouri River Floods Rise Across Kansas and Missouri
Mansas City reports the Missouri River rising from Leavenworth to Omaha due to heavy rains and the June rise. Flood stage reached, overtopping banked bottoms and submerging hundreds of acres of wheat and corn near Leavenworth. Water threatens rail lines and farms as land loss grows daily in the Missouri bottoms across Kansas.
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Mansas City
Missouri
Leavenworth
Omaha
Missoun
Missouri Pacific
Burlington
Maple Leaf
Rock Island
Liwood
Kan
St. Joseph
Storm Damage in Kansas Leaves Homes Destroyed
Severe Kansas storms injure at least three people, demolish farmhouses, uproot trees, and devastate crops. In St John eight square miles suffer heavy loss with a dozen farms ruined and Mr. Thurnett and two children wounded. Livestock perish as hail and wind damage wheat and corn. Emporia and Lincoln Center report roofs torn and waters rising.
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Kansas City
Kansas
St. John
Thurnett
Emporia
Lincoln Center
Storm in Indian Territory Destroys Oil Tanks
A violent storm swept Indian Territory near Tulsa on June 24 causing property damage near 500000 dollars. Lightning struck oil tanks across the mid continent field, including a 66000 barrel Victor Oil and Gas storage tank and about a dozen smaller tanks. William S. Mowry reported losses at Cooy Bluff and the Standard Oil tank farm near the same location suffered near total destruction.
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Tule
I. T
Indian Territory
Mid-Continent
Tulsa
Victor Oil and Gas Company
Hghtning
Rnve
William 5. Mowry
Cooy Pliff
Standard Oil Company
Rail wreck near Pittsford kills four, injures eight
Four people died and eight were badly hurt in a head on collision between a passenger train No. 200 and a freight near Pittsford east of Rochester on the Auburn branch of the New York Central railroad. The incident occurred June 24.
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Rochester
N. Y
Pittsford
Auburn
New York Central Railroad
Baseball results from major leagues and minors
American League games included St Louis 1 Detroit 2 and Chicago 5 Cleveland 7 in 12 innings. National League: Cincinnati 3 Pittsburgh 0, Chicago 2 St Louis 1 in 10 innings. American Association: Kansas City 0 St Paul 4, Toledo 8 in Manapoly Louisville 1, Columbus 0. Western League: Denver 10 Omaha 4, Des Moines 3 3 Sioux City 0, Pueblo 2 Lincoln 1 1.
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St. Louis
Detroit
Chicago
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Ameria Association
Kansas City
St. Paul
Toledo
Manapolly
Louisville
Columbus
Denver
Omaha
Des Moines
Sioux City
Pueblas
Lincoln
Riots pause as Portugal crackdown noted amid tensions in Shanghai
Telegrams report no further rioting since Wednesday and fear of disturbances with the opening of a new electric street railway in Shanghai in July. A Macedonian man Warne Stepp dies from bullet wounds near Columbus. Antime Pettine surrenders in Albuquerque after killing Henditto Carirdinelo. bonds set at 10,000. Thousands of students end the term as colleges begin farewell exercises nationwide. Over 200 delegates prepare to attend the Federation of American Zionists convention in Tanner, New York, next Friday through Wednesday.
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Portugal
Shanghi
Warne Stepp
Columbus
Antime Pettine
Henditto Carirdinelo
Albuquerque
N. O
Pattine
United States
Federation of American Zionists
Tannersville
N. Y
Haywood Defense Plans to Proclaim Innocence and Conspiracy
Attorney Clarence Darrow will outline Haywood's defense alleging a conspiracy to destroy the Western Federation of Miners. He will argue Orchard framed the crimes to save himself, while Haywood and others face charges in Boise Idaho, with trial likely into July.
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Western Federation of Miners
Orchard
Boise
Ilda
William D. Haywood
Idaho
Haywood
Darrow
Steunenberg
Mine Owners’ Association
Western Federation
Moyer
Pettibone
Adams
Hercules
Tils
August Paulson
Wallace
Caldwell
Wood
Brothers Drown While Trying to Save Brother in Mississippi
Fred Adler aged twenty and Augustus Adler aged twenty three, both athletes and capable swimmers, were swept to their deaths in the Mississippi opposite President street while attempting a rescue. A laughing companion in a skiff misread their cries as jests, failing to aid them.
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Misissippi
St. Louis
Fred Adler
Mississippi River
President Street
Augustus Adler
Wine fraud bill may ease Southern France growers crisis
Paris June 24 The wine growers situation in southern France is expected to calm this week as the wine frauds bill passes the chamber of deputies by wide margin. It requires annual declarations of vineyard area cultivation and stock, enabling the government to curb watering and sugar additions. Marcelin Albert, a revolt leader, visited Premier Clemenceau and was urged to surrender to the law.
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Paris
France
Chamber of Deputies
Marcelin Albert
Clemenceau
Ministry of the Interior
M. Alberts
M. Cleninceau
Industrial Juggernaut: Pittsburg Death Toll Exposed
In Allegheny County coroner records for 1906 nearly half of the fatalities are industrially caused. The volume cites six hundred sixty deaths with nine hundred nineteen from mill, mine, or rail accident, underscoring the peril of Pittsburg’s famed mills and rail networks.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny County
Commonwealth
President Asked to Aid Rail Safety Inspectors
June 24 President J Peonsevelt and state governors were urged by Shepard of Wort Scott Kansas to back stronger rail safety. The letter demands government or state inspection of railway tracks and accountability for track maintenance and patrols, noting existing inspections in factories mines milk and farming lack rail oversight.
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Masons City
J Peonsevelt
Sevt
Stiteg
Neon Union
Mion
Uetanpetgsit
Shepard
Wort Scott
Kan
Europe
Colorado land fraud indictments portend broad scope
Denver June 24 The special grand jury reported to Judge Lewis and handed up about seven indictments for land frauds involving men prominent in Colorado Nebraska New Mexico and eastern states. The panel also included mining fakirs and post office robberies. Routt county frauds target a Wisconsin coal company and a St. Louis firm faces Colorado coal operation charges. Other states appear in the indictment list.
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Denver
Lewis
Colorado
Nebraska
New Mexico
Wisconsin
St. Louis
Death of General Duffield in Washington
General William Duffield long associated with the United States coast and geodetic survey and reputedly Columbia College New York's oldest living graduate died at his Washington home. A brigadier general in the Civil War, his passing marks the end of an era for the era’s military and scientific communities.
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Duffield
Washington
Wiliam Duffield
United States Coast,and Geodetic Survey
Columbia College
New York
Telegraphers Strike Quiet Across Coast Tieup Complete
President Samuel J. Small of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union says the strike tieup is complete with heavy backlog on the Pacific coast. He predicts brutal congestion by midweek rival bands report bundles mailed east. union to pay weekly strike benefits after July 1. Western Union and Postal say they will not negotiate. chaos expected few days.
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San Francisco
Samuel J. Small
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Ios Angeles
Portland
Pacific
Atlantic
East
Russell
Westvern Union
West Oakland
L. W. Storer
Postal Company
Postal Telegraph Company
A. H. May
The
Western Union
Western Union Company
Eight Men Die In New Haven Railroad Wreck
Eight workmen were killed and thirty five injured when a Highland division passenger train crashed into a work train backing into Hartford at the Sigourney street crossing. Two injured likely will die. rescue took an hour and a half for one pinned worker as doctors tended head and facial wounds.
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Hartford
Conn
Highland Division
New York
New York Central Guilty in Rates Filing Case
Rochester June 24 The jury in federal court found the New York Central railroad guilty of failing to file rates with the Interstate Commerce Commission for a shipment of oil from Norwood to Burlington. Muskegon Michigan June 24 Four locals Ola Hammer Lydia Olin Anna Jonson and Guy s Hammer drowned when a rowboat capsized while on a pleasure trip in Muskegon Lake.
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Rochester
N. Y
New York Central Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Norwood
Burlington
Muskegon Lake
Muskegon, Mich
Guys Hammer
Ola Peterson
Lydia Olin
Anna Jonson
Ality
Saengerbund to Admit Women at Northwest Saengerfest
Davenport Iowa June 24 The Arbeiter Saengerbund of the Northwest closed its saengerfest with 10000 attendees and voted to admit women to full membership in all societies of the saengerbund. The next meeting is slated for Chicago in 1910. Funston admits unwhipped mob amid statements to Fourth of July committee.
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Saengerbund
Davenport
Arbeiter Saengerbund
Northwest
Bund
Chicago
Funston
San Francisco
Frederick J. Punaton
Six Deaths From the Heat in Cleveland in June
Extreme heat over several days caused six deaths and more than twenty illnesses in Cleveland. Local rain and thunder storms brought some relief from the torrid temperatures.
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Cleveland
Teamsters End Strike Return To Work In Dubuque
One hundred fifty union teamsters who had been on a two week sympathy strike with striking millmen returned to work after being ordered to deliver mill products in Dubuque on June 24.
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Dubuque
Etriking
Rail line fights 2 cent fare and rate laws in federal case
TAneolfi June 24 The Union Pacific Railroad filed in federal court a transcript of state court proceedings seeking to restrain the state railroad commission from enforcing the 2 cent passenger rate and the 15 percent freight rate reductions. Edson Rich of Union Pacific argues the 2 cent rate is not compensatory and that lower freight rates would cut interstate revenue. He cites reduced interstate ticket sales to state buyers as an example of harm.
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Taneolfi
Undd ' Paific’ Railroad Company
Attorney General
Comany
State Railroad Commission
Dcross
Railway Commission
Lnto
Aldrich
Edson Rich
Legal Department of the
Union’ Pacific Land
Packers Agreement Changes Cattle Sales Rules
In St. Joseph arrangements are set to place inspectors at cattle scales today after a Chicago conference between the St. Joseph stock exchange and local packers. Commission men will market cows subject to post mortem examination and will sell dairy cows canners and dead cows. Kansas City stock commission men protested but the agreement was ratified.
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St. Joseph
South St. Joseph
Live Stock Exchange
Chicago
St. Joseph Exchange
Kansas
Gley Wve Stock Commission
New Ocean to Ocean Road Proposed From Maine to California
Articles filed at Pierre for United States Central Railway company announce a $60,000,000 cap, with headquarters in Huron Dakota and Paterson New Jersey. The route would run from Portland Maine to San Francisco California via New York and Chicago, crossing the Missouri at Pierre. Incorporators hail from Paterson and Delhi. Estimated cost runs to $500,000,000 for a 7,000 mile line.
Relief Corps Appointees in Iowa Falls
Iowa Falls June 24 Mrs Estella E Plopper newly elected department president of the Woman's Relief Corps of Iowa announces the appointment of department officers. Secretary Mrs Clara Carpenter of Iowa Falls Inspector Ray M Hanchett of Waverly counsellor Addie E. Angnst of Davenport inspection and installation officer Amanda Swic of Beckne.
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Relief Corps
Iowa Falls
Estella E. Plopper
Relief Corps of
Iowa
Mrg
Clara Carpenter
Iowa Falla
Inapedor
Ray M. Hanchett
Waverly
Addie EB. Anangst
Davenport
Amanda Swic
Beane
Locusts Drive Out Song Birds at Hep Hollow
A swarm of Seven teen year locusts settles in Hep Hollow near Alton Nebraska driving away song birds. The area, once known for picnics, is now under locusts with more arriving daily. Locusts occupy the field and deter visitors. Hastings banks refuse 3 percent rate on state funds after July 1, threatening to stop handling state money.
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Alton
Hep Hollow
Dr. Johnson Resigns as Beatrice Inspector
Beatrice Neb June 24 Dr A Johnson superintendent of the institution for feeble minded youth announced he would retire July 1. Johnson tendered his resignation to Governor Sheldon weeks ago but the governor has not appointed a successor.
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Dr. Johnson
Beatrice
Neb
A. Johnson
Institution
Sheldon
A Sly Thrust And Fadish Jests In Old Papers
A fragment from an old Philadelphia Press item mocks a young woman engaged to two men as shameful while a related quip from the Atlanta Constitution jokes about Adam and a sleepy moment. The brief notes resemble comic snippets and social commentary from early 20th century papers.
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Ann Teek
Cutting
Philadelphia Press
A View on Crime and Poverty From The Saint Louis Globe Democrat
The piece argues criminals steal not from hunger alone but by choice, preferring crime to work. It claims many offenders plan crime as a lifestyle, despising honest wages, while the penitentary gates await them. A sneak thief targets pockets in dives and groggeries to fund further theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onterimi
St.Louis Clobe-Democrat
Minute Luzon fish named sinarapan valued in native diet
The sinarapan, the world’s smallest vertebrate, is found in the Luzon mountain region. The fish measures under an inch, requiring about 6,000 to make a pound. It is caught with coarse muslin and dried with pepper and spices, serving as a valued native delicacy.
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Luzon
Philippini
Philippine
Beginning Well and the Art of Story Openings
An author advises a literary group on beginnings in storytelling. He notes a strong opening is half the battle and shares a humorous tale about a young man who wins approval to marry by starting with the line about money. The anecdote emphasizes brisk, direct openings.
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An Austhor
The Best Fiction. The fond husband sees a holiday
A fragment from a London Judy piece shows a couple on holiday in the country. The husband asks his wife to take fiction to read but she replies her letters from home will depend on him.
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London
Judy
Engagement Talk In Yonkers Statesman Style
A dialogue from Yonkers Statesman features a approaching engagement with a new girl. The applicant asks if exile is required in the morning and the lady questions the timing while the applicant offers readiness if needed. The exchange captures tentative social negotiations in a period style.
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Yonkers
Lesson in Physiognomy from Atchison Globe
A brief note remarks that XC is fine to praise Grecian noses in poetry but commends the sensible nose that stays out of others business. The column from the Atchison Globe offers a social tip on discretion and tact in daily life.
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Atchison Globe
Bone of us are made on the order of billboards
The excerpt presents a rough, fragmented line about a flashy front and a rear area described as a “rachut lot,” suggesting a promotional billboard setup. The text is obscure and lacks clear context or named entities.
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