Pacific Mail Steamship Siberia Founders Near Formosa Coast
Meagre information suggests the steamship Siberia with 700 plus aboard met with an accident off Formosa's southern extremity. The vessel apparently ran ashore before sinking while wireless distress calls were picked up by the G N Minnesota and the British cruiser Minotaur.
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Pacific Mail Steamship
Siberia
Formosa
Ioland
G.N
Minnesota
A. Williamson
Tamesui
Japanese Navy Department
Osezakai
Kiushiu Island
Great Northern Steamship Company
Nagasaki
Ail
Formosa Island
Siberia in Distress as Japanese Rush Aid and Piracy Rumors
Wireless calls signaled peril of the Pacific Mail steamer Siberia off Formosa after leaving San Francisco. The liner carried 71 cabin passengers including Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison and Mrs. J. B. Benders. A Japanese steamer was sent to her, Minotaur and Yarmouth raced to the scene, and pirates were suspected though not confirmed.
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Tokio
Pacific Mail
Siberia
Formosa
San Francisco
Manilla
Francis Burton Harrison
The
Phillppines
J. B. Benders
Formosa Island
Yokobhama
Nagasaki
Manila
Zeeder
Ben
Tai Peru
Japanese Navy Department
Okinawa
Kiushin
Washington
State Department
Tansui
Pacific Mail Line
Wiberia
Williams
Karenko
Kasho
Sland
Taito
Pacific Mail Company
Mitsu Bishi Company
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
John B. Bentiers
Zeider
Oriental Service
Huerta Releases Prisoners From Mexico City Prisons
Winnipeg dispatch reports dictator Huerta freed all political prisoners from Mexico City jails in a bid to unite factions against the United States. He allegedly funded the released prisoners and sent them across Mexico to spread his propaganda as the nation faces a common enemy.
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Winnipeg
Vera Cruz
Huerta
Mexico City
United States
Mexico
Hamburg America Vaterland makes world steamship debut
The Hamburg American liner Vaterland, the largest steamship in the world, completed trials in Norwegian waters on May 1. She achieved 25.1 knots into the wind and 26 knots with it, and her machinery produced an average of 90 000 horsepower.
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Hamburg
Germany
Nuer Vaterland
Bitter bye election looming in Londonderry City
A Belfast cable reports Liberal M. P. David Hogg of Londonderry City is critically ill and unlikely to recover. His 57 vote bye election victory last January against Col. Pakenham sparked bitter memories in a previously Unionist constituency.
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Toronto
Belfast
Londonderry
David Hogg
Londonderry City
Col
Pakenham
May Day Passes Quietly in Toronto and Province
May Day in Toronto ended peacefully with no strikes or disturbances. Officials report similar calm across the province with no labor action anticipated.
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Toronto
500 Americans Still Stranded in Mexico City
Washington reports 1,500 Americans remain in Mexico City unable to leave due to interrupted rail service. Most are newly arrived from the surrounding country after the last train to Vera Cruz departed. Consul Canada asks the Brazilian minister and Admiral Cradock to help restore rail links to the capital.
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Washington
Canada
Vera Cruz
State Department
Mexico City
Cradock
Dozens of Miners Perish in West Virginia Mine Disaster
Eccles West Virginia May 1 Seven and a half dozen blackened corpses were found in Mine No 5 of the New River Collieries Company. Rescue crews gathered thirteen bodies at the shaft and continue exploration aiming to locate all of the 172 men believed killed in the explosion last Tuesday afternoon. Pumps run through the night and the mine remains flooded though the force of the blast left earth and rock masses in the galleries. The death toll and rescue effort overwhelm the district as crowds gather in the village.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eccles
W. Va
New River Calleries Company
New River Collieries Company
Last Chance on Panama Canal History Offer
Tomorrow is the final day to join the educational program offering Willig J. Abbott's in depth book on the Panama Canal. The volume covers inception to realization with details from Zone officials and engineers. Clip the certificate and claim the book at once, or miss out.
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Panama
Willig J. Abbot
Canal Zone
Redcliff Company Secures Government Gas Lease
J. M. Tindall A. C. Harris and W. D. Hale of Redcliff Securities displayed a government gas lease for section 29 township 13 range 6 west of the fourth meridian, part of holdings north of the CPR at Redcliff. They own a franchise to install water and gas on North Redcliff and City Park subdivisions and anticipate significant Redcliff development this season.
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J. M. Tindall
A. C. Harris
W. D. Hale
Redcliff Securities Company
C.P.R
Redcliff
North Redcliff
City Park
Dunmore Plans May Celebration Highlighting Gas Well Anniversary
The Dunmore Board of Trade schedules a May 14 celebration marking the first gas well. Events include cowboy and ladies horse races, football and baseball games, children’s athletic activities, a band concert, and a dance at the Dunmore hotel. An exhibition will showcase steel grain bins from Alberta Steel Products Company, Dunmore’s first industrial plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunmore Board of Trade
Dunmore
Dunmore Hotel
Dunmore’s
Aleberta: Steel ‘Products
Socialists' May Day Parade in Twin Cities
Port Arthur May 1. Socialists held a May day parade carrying the red flag. About fifteen hundred men women and children of the two cities, mostly Finns, were in line and the event passed off quietly.
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Port Arthur
Retlaw Station Becomes Regular Freight and Passenger Hub
On the Suffield branch of the P. R. Retlaw gains a regular freight and passenger station with an agent appointed this week.
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Retlaw
Suffield
P. R
Start Ballasting Operations Next Week
Ballasting operations on the medicine subsection of the department will commence next week.
Whites Murdered by Natives in Angola Uprising
Despatches report natives on the warpath in the Portuguese colony of Angola killing numerous whites and driving out missionaries. The Portaviese garrison fled and victims included men women and children according to dispatches received.
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Boma
Canga
Air Ny
Angola
Fort William Bartenders Strike Over Union Recognition
Fort William May 1. All bars in city hotels closed today as the local bartenders union strikes after the hotelkeepers' association refused to recognize the union. The union at a recent meeting declined recognition though other demands in the bartenders agreement were accepted.
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Fort William
Hotelkeepers’ Association
Bartenders Union
Bartenders
Schooner Jamieson Safe After Gale Sighting
Kingston reports Schooner Wm Jamieson and crew are safe after a heavy gale on Lake Ontario. The vessel was thought lost Tuesday night, but sheltered at Mimber Island and South Bay with no telegraph. it reached Napanee this morning.
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Kingston
Ont
Jamieson
Lake Ontario
Brandon Old-Timer John Brooks Dies at 73
John Brooks died suddenly at midnight in Brandon Manitoba at age 73 after a short pneumonia illness. An early settler, Brooks arrived in Brandon district in 1882 and was known for his rugged health and past as a Klondike participant in 1898 99.
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Almonte
Ontario
Canadian Forces
Brandon, Man
John Brooks
Brandon
Klondyke
Samuel Shaw Convicted of Manslaughter in Patient Death
Samuel Shaw, formerly a male nurse at Hudson Bay Junction hospital, found guilty of manslaughter for patient death due to blood poisoning from neglect to call medical help. Judge Newlands reserved sentence pending court en banc review. Invest Now on Bow Island.
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Prince Albert
Samuel Shaw
Hudson Bay Junction Hospital
Newlands
Lethbridge Publicity Commissioner Quits
Lethbridge, May 1. Joseph P. Tracy, the city's $6,000 commercial and industrial commissioner, has resigned taking one year's salary in lieu of fulfillment of a two year contract. Lethbridge follows other cities in deeming high priced publicity commissioners a delusion and a poor investment.
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Lethbridge
Joseph P. Tracy
Passenger train derailment near Mainz kills several
In Mainz Germany on May 1 a passenger train derailed near Leid ersautheim killing many and injuring others. Several coaches rolled down an embankment as rescue crews responded to the accident with responders evacuating passengers.
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Mainz
Germany
Leid
Colorado mining districts face critical conditions
A War department report states Walsenburg in Colorado's mining district is critical under Captain Smith's troops. Restoring order in Trinidad and Canon City districts progresses, with Army efforts continuing to stabilize the area.
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Washington, Cay
War Department
Walsenbureg
Colorado
Smith
United States Army
Trinidad
Canon City
Mon tana to carry Vera Cruz sailors bodies to New York
Admiral Badger announced the battleship Montana would sail in two or three days with the bodies of sailors and marines killed at Vera Cruz. The ship will depart once refugee duties are finished and transport the bodies from New York to relatives' homes.
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Montana
Vera Cruz
Washington
Badger
Navy Department
New York
Grain market quotations across Winnipeg Minneapolis and Chicago
Market quotes for May wheat and oats from Winnipeg and Minneapolis show May wheat at 91 1 8 to 90 5 8 in Winnipeg and 89 1 8 to 88 1 4 in Minneapolis. Chicago postings list May wheat at 92 5 8 to 92 1 4 and July at 86 1 4 to 85 3 8 with mixed September prices.
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Winnipeg
Minneapolis
Chicago
Fine and Warm Weather Coming Across Canada
May Day brings summerlike conditions across the prairie provinces with Alberta posting highs of 70 to 76 and only light frost at Brooks. Manitoba and Saskatchewan report milder weather and little frost, with Humboldt noting 8 degrees and five Manitoba districts averaging two degrees. Prospects call for warm, settled conditions today and Saturday.
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Winnipeg
Prairie Provinces
Alberta
Brooks
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Humboldt
Oil Ports and British Ties Stir Tampico Crisis
Washington reports on May 1 details: Carranza pledges protection of foreign oil interests, chiefly British, at Tampico. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice discusses neutral zone aims with Assistant Secretary Osborne as gunfire hits the Ward liner Antilla and oil well pressures threaten the town.
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Oil Seaport
Cecil Spring Rice
Chihuahua
Mexico
Carranza
Tampico
Washington
Cecil Spring-Rice
Tambico
Antilla
Osborne
State Department
Tragedy Looms as Steamer Noble Search Continues
Five tugs scoured the lake from Duluth to Minnesota Point for the lost steamer Benjamin Noble of Detroit. The vessel vanished Tuesday or Wednesday with about 20 crew aboard. Relatives wire hopes. three ships, Frank T Hoffel finger, Sinaloa and Griffin, arrived after midnight and hid in shelter for up to 36 hours while storms abated. The steamer Troy is six hours overdue but expected today.
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Duluth
Mann
Benjamin Noble
Detroit
Minnesota Point
Frank T. Hoffelfinger
Sinaloa
Griffin
Troy
German Aeronaut Hans Berliner Sentenced to Solitary
Lad Berlin reports Hans Berliner, the German aeronaut, has been sentenced by the Russian soutien to six months of solitary confinement in an unspecified facility.
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Lad Berlin
Hans Berliner
Record Grain Exchange Swings Big $36 Million Day
Winnipeg reports a record day on the grain exchange with activities totaling about 36 million dollars. Traders hailed the action as unprecedented for the market and noted strong demand across shipments.
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Winnipeg
Exchange House
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Pacific Mail.Steamship Company
Life Boats
Hong Kong
Samasana Island
Yarmouth
Weenie
Little Pine
Battleford
United Mexico
Wajor
Wy TL
Ireland
Focles
Redcliff Company
Twin Cities
R. MW. McLelland
Royal Arcanum Society
Ontari
Fort William Goes
Brandon Old-Tewer
Invest
Bow Island
Federal Building
Garranza
CIL
City
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