Notable Miscellany of Early 20th Century Headlines
A collage of brief items spans royal rumors, crimes, disasters, and political moves. Mabel McKinley exits the stage amid family objections while King Alfonso life-risk rumors are denied. a drunken Kansas City man assaults his wife with a chair and is shot. a six-man sailboat capsizes near Vallejo with four drowned. Cripple Creek strikes loom as miners seek action. a manhunt follows an alleged assassination in Straight Street. a nitro magazine explosion in Bluffton destroys property and kills three. Jewish immigration from Russia rises with July transit. Pittsburg mother bears triplets named Theodore Roosevelt Grover Cleveland and Alice Roosevelt. a severe Ind. storm wrecks, injures, and damages. a Mississippi duel claims Sheriff Williamson. Nebraska delegates named to Farmers Congress. Salonica dispatch notes a governor’s assassin. a Tucson bank robbery nets $700. a naval commander’s death in a fire and a floor collapse at La Crosse injures several. Osage Nation gunfight leaves outlaw dead and marshal wounded. Br yan linked to Nebraska delegation. Bulgarians massacre Turks in Okhrida vilayets. Boston treasurer’s embezzlement mystery. Folsom prison fugitive James Roberts captured. Servian debt payments arranged from royal estates.
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Alfonso of
Spain
Newt Faris
Kansas City
Vallejo
Benicia
Cal
Cripple Creek
Colo
Sherif L. M. Williamson
de ‘Soto
Mississippi
Moody
Governor Milkey
Nebraska
W. J. Bryan
National Farmers’ Congress
Niagara Falls
Dispatch
Salonica
Saya M.monastir
Gue Ares
Tucson
Arizona
State Bank
Ronkonkama
1. I
CO. Stuart
Navy
Russian consul murdered in Monastir. czar demands punishment
The czar calls for exemplary penalties not only for the killer of the Russian consul at Monastir M Rostkovoski but for all officials deemed responsible. The gen d arme shot the consul in the head and hip after the defender failed to salute. The attack also wounded the coachman and the horse. Russians demand full reparations to prevent further trouble.
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Czar
Monastir
D’armes
M. Rostkovoski
Macedonia
St. Petersburg
Gen-D’arme
Hurricane devastates Martinique with extensive roof loss
A severe hurricane hit Martinique on Sunday night lasting ten hours, with two hours of peak destruction at Fort de France. Hundreds of houses lost roofs and ships were damaged, though no fatalities were reported. Debris clogged streets as fallen trees blocked roads. towns like St Marie, Carbet, St Joseph and Francois were affected. The storm moved northwest.
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Martinique
Fort de France
St. Marie
Carbet
St. Jospeh
Francois
Miners Seek Injunction In Georgetow n Dispute
Judge Frank Owers issues an injunction against the Citizens' Protective league restraining them from interfering with Idaho Springs Miners' Union members driven from town after a mine compressor blast. Attorneys file criminal complaints. warrants issued. sheriff to Georgetown to appear before the judge.
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Georgetown
Golo
Frank Owers
Citizens’ Protective League
Idaho Springs
Owers
Sensational Montana Case Probes Havre Justice Meili
Judge Hiram Knowles orders United States Commissioner H J Meili of Havre to show cause why his federal appointment should not be revoked. The hearing will explore Meili activities as Havre township justice of the peace. Accusations claim Meili took money for dismissing celestial forgery charges.
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Montana
Hiram Knowles
Federal
United States
H. J. Meili
Havre
Mont
Meili
Whitecapped harvesters accused by man in Washington
Ray traveled from Hadley Station to Walla Walla to obtain warrants against harvesters he says attacked him for an alleged crime. He claims the crew tied him to a header wagon at night, horsewhipped him, rolled him in tar weed, and expelled him from the camp after an elderly cook accused him of attempted assault.
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Ray
Walla Walla
Wash
Hadley Station
Feud Ends in Double Killing Near Oleta OK
Farmers William Cooper and son James Cooper are dead after a feud with Sam Barrett severely wounding him. Barrett killed the two Coopers at a public well in Woodward county, Oklahoma. Barrett is jailed in Woodward.
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William Cooper
James Cooper
Sam Barrett
Oleta
Woodward County
Oklahoma
Young Cooper
Barrett
Coopers
Woodward
Root to resign as secretary of war amid Taft succession
Oyster Bay reports Elihu Root will resign as secretary of war around January. The likely successor is William Howard Taft, then governor of the Philippines, with Root delaying resignation until after his England trip for the Alaskan boundary work. The president reportedly favors Taft, a trusted ally, for the post.
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Judge Taft
The
Philippines
Oyster Bay
L. I
Elihu Root
William H. Taft
England
Alaskan Boundary Commission
Bob Meeks at Liberty and Insanity Adjudication Reported
Bob Meeks, once linked to the Hole in the Wall gang in Wyoming, was convicted for robbing the Montpelier bank and sentenced to thirty five years in Boise penitentiary after two sensational jail escapes from Bear Lake County. He has been declared insane and removed to the state insane asylum at Blackfoot.
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Bob Meeks
West
Wyoming
Boise, Idaho
Montpelier
Bear Lake County
Blackfoot
Escape Artist Meeks Defied Jail and Capture History
Meeks eluded pursuers after bank robbery in Montpelier and Paris confinement. He escaped Deer Lodge twice, leaped from prison walls in Boise, broke his leg, then feigned insanity to reach an asylum before final capture and a 35 year sentence.
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Meeks
Bear Lake County
Montpelier
Paris
Eer Lodge
Mont
Butte
Deer Lodge
Butch” Cassiday
Standrod
Boise
Demented Man Shot Dead in Davisville Hunt for Folsom Escapees
An unidentified man, described as mentally deranged, was killed by officers near a Davisville farm house Friday night while officers pursued convicts from Folsom prison. The man, seen acting oddly, failed to surrender and was shot when he ran. He had been in the area for days seeking work. authorities exonerated the officers.
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Folsom
Davisville
Cal
Paris subway disaster leaves hundreds dead in tunnel blaze
Eighteen forty four bodies have been recovered and the death toll will likely exceed one hundred after two trains caught fire in a Paris Metropolitan line tunnel. Panic and wrong-direction escapes caused many suffocations as firemen battled smoke and officials lost control. Volunteers rescued the half suffocated and carried them to hospital.
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Eighly
Paris
Mrench
Raiding New York Pool Rooms By Police
Police raided a Sixth Avenue pool room allegedly run by The Adiion on Tuesday night the eighty eighth time. About 300 men were inside, both whites and blacks, but only four were arrested. The place boasted iron bars at doors and windows until detectives burst in through a slightly ajar front door to seize the lookouts.
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Sixth Avenue
New York
Pope Pius X Crowned Amid Roman Splendor
The coronation of Pope Pius X occurred Sunday at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome with Cardinal Macchi placing the triple crown. About seventy thousand spectators filled the basilica as bells rang and choirs sang, marking a rare, grand rite. The basilica looked full, unusually without galleries, and the papal throne stood before the high altar amid rich decorations.
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Pius X
St. Peter’s
Cardinal Macchi
Rome
Europe
St. Peter's
Islands of Tuamotu Struck Again by Severe Seas
The Tuamotu archipelago faces renewed floods as southwest and southeast gales sweep the islands. Previous January flooding drowned nearly 600 people and wrecked $500,000 in property. Now four deaths are reported with fears of a larger toll as more islands report inundation and the steamer Excelsior sustains damage on a Tahiti to Marquesas run. Coastal residents climbed cocoanut trees for safety as homes stores and crops were ruined.
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Low Archipelago
Tuamotu
Excelsior
Tahiti
Marquesas
Roosevelt on Finance with Senators Millard and Heyburn
President Roosevelt outlined his views on finance for the coming Congress session. Senator Millard agreed that currency should be more elastic but insisted the government must back every dollar issued. He believes current government bonds could support currency expansion and favors a right kind of measure while rejecting some proposed plans as unsuitable for the country.
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Millard
Heyburn
Roosevelt
Congress
Carolina Race War Threat At Henrietta Mill
Reports say serious trouble between blacks and whites looms at Henrietta North Carolina home to a major cotton mill. Two black men were injured Friday night with one expected to die after a dispute over a colored meeting and a white boy. An armed crowd was dispersed by police. In Kansas Pittsburg area a wind and rainstorm destroyed miners housing injuring several and killing one. In Central Coal mine 31 and mine 37 twenty three houses were demolished damaged and several more collapsed or shifted. About twenty five to thirty people suffered minor injuries across camps.
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Henrietta
North Carolina
Pittsburg
Kans
Vicinty
Central Coal & Coke Company
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E. G. Beds
Logan
Utah
Mabel McKinley
Thomas Arthur
Andrew Collins
Bluffton
Ind
Russia
America
Land of the Free
John Scott
Theodore Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
Alice Roosevelt
Mishawalea, Ind
H. Kaulfus
la Crosse
Wis
Osage
Wiley Haines
John W. Bookwalter
Springfield
Hanna
Harvey Gerber
Vilayet
Okhrida
Lagrove
Willam §. Allen
Boston
Preachers’ Aid
Mr. Church
James Roberts
Folsomi Prison
Alexander
Draga
Colorado
Whitecappers
Washington
Root
Eaves
Liberty
Idaho
Desperado
Pope Pius X
South Sea Islands
Finance
Millard and Heyburn
Carolina
Kansas
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