Charles Spore Found Dead in Wisconsin Weiland
Aberdeen May 13 Telegraphed notes reveal Charles G Spore immigrant from Vincennes Indiana was found dead in weeds near Watertown Wisconsin after a missing period. He carried about 67 dollars. bank deposits of 3500 dollars in Indiana remained untouched. No motive for suicide is established.
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Aberdeen
S. D
Charles G. Spore
Vincennes
Ind
Watertown
Wis
Chicago
Spore
Indiana
Receiver Appointed In Insolvent Harrison Telephone Co
Foreclosure suit by Royal Trust of Chicago against Harrison Telephone Co,Deadwood, S D, May 13. Clarence E Cook named receiver by Judge W G Rice after the company defaulted on interest. Bonds totaling 100000 secured by Royal Trust. bondholder dispute could complicate proceedings. company to be reorganized after foreclosure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison Telephone Company
Deadwood
S. C
Royal Trust Company of
Chicago
Trust
Clarence E. Cook
Telephone Company
W. G. Rice
Eighth Judicial Circuit
South Dakota
Royal Trust Company
Cook
Howard Daize
Thomas W
Missing Minneapolis Boy Found With Mason and Mason Show
A 15 year old Minneapolis youth missing from home was located with Mason and Mason's show. He traveled as advance agent and was brought home by his father J H Colotor of South Minneapolis after the boy joined the traveling troupe in Mitchell. He left home to see the world. The article notes other local departures for events in Lead, South Dakota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Mason
Colotor
Mitchell
Mason Tat
Lesterville
W. B. Tobey
Lead
The
Ira Cults
May Get New Trial in Grantz City Case
Deadwood South Dakota May 13 Several jurors in the case of Mrs Otto P Th Grantz against the city are accused of violating court orders by visiting the scene during a recess and conferring among themselves. Grantz seeks 25000 personal damages plus medical costs totaling 27200. Attorneys Hayes Beck er filed a motion for a new trial. If denied, an appeal to the supreme court will follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deadwood
Otto P. Th. Grantz
Grantz
Hayes & Becker
Supreme Court
Rain Lifts Jim River Valley Crops In Weekend Soak
The Jim River valley in Huron South Dakota received a soaking rain over Saturday and Sunday nights benefiting vegetation and crops. Farmers report good progress in crop conditions and corn planting advancing despite ongoing dry and windy weather with plowing for corn in full swing this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim River Valley
Huron
Cattle Train From Mexico En Route to Manitoba Destinations
A North Dakota report notes a train of thirty cars carrying cattle from Mexico passed through Huron headed for Manitoba. A Dominion government inspector accompanied the shipment, as heavy cattle movements northward continue over the past two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Mexico
Huron
Dominion
Mexico
Manitoba
Pershing's Column Encounters Moros Near Bacolod Mindanao
Washington confirms Pershing completed Lake Lanao circuit after a sharp fight at Taraca. Ten forts captured, prisoners freed, lantacas and rifles seized. Two killed and four wounded on our side. Moros chastised. hostile Lenao Datto driven away. no further large-scale hostilities expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pershing
Manila
Bacolod
Mindanao
Autegles
Washington
War Department
John J. Pershing
Lake Lanao
Camp Vickers
Taraca
Lantacas
Vickers
Root
Davis
Rock Island approves Frisco deal at Des Moines meeting
Rock Island directors back the Frisco merger terms in Des Moines Iowa. The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific files amended articles boosting capital stock to 145 million dollars. Exchange offers 60 dollars in collateral trust bonds plus 27 dollars in Rock Island stock for each Frisco share.
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Rock Island Railroad Company
Des Moines
Frisco Matter
Rock Island Railroad
Rock Island‘Frisco
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
Secretary of State
Rock Island
St. Louis
San Francisco
Rock Island Company
New York
Frisco
Arkansas Must Stay Monitor Heads to St Louis for Dedication
Lieutenant Chester, watch officer of the monitor Arkansas, arrived from St Genenvieve and said the ship cannot descend the Mississippi next spring unless an unexpected flood rises. The Navy Department will plan accordingly.
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Monitor
St. Louis
Mississippi
Washington
Chester
Arkansas
Navy Department
St. Genevieve
Interstate Commerce Commission Investigates Peavey Grain Rebates
The Interstate Commerce Commission begins a probe into payments by Union Pacific to Peavey & Co. for grain elevator facilities and services and grain rates. Union Pacific must answer by May 25 and explain alleged rebates at a later hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
Union Pacific
Washington
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Peavey & Co
Kansas City
Council Bluffs
May Need New Law for Fair Trial in Jett Case
Kentucky lawmakers may convene a special session to resolve the Jett murder case after Curtis Jett was arrested in Madison county. The issue centers on where he should be tried, with requests to move the venue to Jackson challenged by concerns over local bias and potential judicial relief under existing law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Lexington
Curtis Jett
Madison County
J. B. Marcum
Jett
Jackson
Planned 300 Murders Linked to See Yup Conspiracy
In San Francisco on May 13 two Chinese High Binders society presidents admitted confessions alleging a See Yup led plot to eliminate 300 Educational society members. Other detainees dispute the confessions as false and label the Educational society a black mailing group. In Wisconsin a man named Cleveland killed his stepfather during a family quarrel and surrendered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Chinese High Binders Societies
Tom Vick
Chinese Educational Society
See Yup Society
The
Educational Society
Pamela Ed
Fon du Lac
Wis
Hime
Cleveland
William Stevens
Payne faces overhaul as post office scandal widens
The Postmaster General Payne contemplates a broad post office reorganization after resignations and suspensions in Beavers and Machen. Investigations expand to top bureaus amid calls for stricter auditing and new legal bureau control, with Bristow and Christiency among implicated figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Payne
A. W. Machen
Machen
Bristow
Post Office Department
George W. Beavers
August W. Machen
Beavers
Post Office
General Bristow
Free Delivery
G. A. C. Christiancy
Beaver
Tyner
Legal Bureau
Christiancy
Harrison J. Barrett
Barrett
Postoffice Department
Postoffice
Congress
Senate
Possible Ottoman Massacre Sparks Balkan Tension
A London cablegram cites The Times Salonica dispatch warning that Turkish anger toward Bulgarians could trigger a general massacre of Christians, signaling a potential large uprising as of May 11 in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
London
Times
Salonica
Made Them Respect Flag
Minister Bowen confronts Venezuela in Caracas over the improper use of the American flag by the commander of the gunboat Restaura tor. He demands an apology and a salute, warning of an immediate cable to Washington if unaddressed. The Venezuelan foreign minister seeks time to investigate, and the next day officials express regrets and the flag is saluted with twenty one guns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowen
Washington
Caracas
United States
Mr. Bowen
Venezuela
Immigrant ship wreck near Hatteras pits crew and buds at risk
On May 12 near Portsmouth four hundred Italian immigrants aboard the bark Vera Cruz were stranded at Octa ke inlet after the captain abandoned ship to evade port fees at New Bedford. The vessel ran aground and is without provisions, threatening starvation for the immigrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hatteras
N. C
Vera Cruz
Portsmouth
New Bedford
Mass
Smuggling More Active at New York Port Says Official
William H. Theobald former treasury special agent says smuggling is at a peak in New York. He cites four necklace seizures landed without duty in recent months, noting the cheapest was worth 30000 dollars and one bought in Paris cost 50000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William H. Theobald
Treasury Department
Paris
Dangerous meningitis threat hits naval recruits
In Philadelphia on May 12 three deaths and five critical cases of cerebro spinal meningitis are reported aboard the receiving ships Minneapolis and Puritan at League Island navy yard. About 1,200 recruits are aboard and exposed as officials plan to move men ashore for fumigation and shore tents to halt the spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Minneapolis
Puritan
League Island Navy Yard
The Gospel of the Toothbrush Says Washington
Booker T. Washington told a Chicago Women’s Club audience that the toothbrush is essential to progress. He cited Tuskegee Institute policy requiring students to own a toothbrush and observed personal growth as toothbrushes disappear, claiming it signals moral and civil development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Booker T. Washington
Chicago Women's Club
Tuskegee Institute
Indian baseball team loses clothes in quarantine
In Skewannee Nebraska Indians players, beaten by a local squad, faced quarantine at their hotel for smallpox. Their traveling clothes were kept at the hotel, leaving them with only their uniforms to wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Skewannee
Nebraska Indians
Boers Move Into Old Mexico 83000 Acres Set Aside
Generals Viljoen and Snyman arrive in New York from Mexico after arranging with the Mexican government to grant 83,000 acres of prime land for housing South African emigrants. They are prominent Boer war figures and members of the Transvaal political body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viljoen
Snyman
Mexico
New York
Benjamin Viljoen
Johannesburg
Transvaal
Kolksraad
W. D. Snyman
South Africa
Woman Entombed Alive in Baku Mason Story of Cruelty
A Baku stonemason describes being forced to wall up a slit in a wall where a terrified Mahometan woman lay hidden. Masked men drove him to perform the act with revolvers, then left him to seek help as police search the Mahometan quarter for the crime site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baku
Russia
Salvation Army Infant Drawn in Lofty Raffle
In Peoria Illinois on May 13 the 2 month old son of Major and Mrs Smith of the Salvation Army was raffled at a divisional meeting before a large crowd. A ticket bearing the name Lord won the baby and the child was dedicated to the Lord’s service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvation Army
Peoria
Shaw Refunding Plan Aims Big Interest Savings
Secretary Shaw's refunding scheme is shown to be highly successful as treasury notes report $64,490,000 of 3 and 4 percent war issue coupons converted to 2 percent bonds lasting until 1930. The move reduces interest costs for the government substantially.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaw
Washington
Treasury Department
Matter of Conscience Pastor Cannot Enforce Salary
Kansas City May 13 The Western Missouri court of appeals rules a church member may not be compelled to pay a pastor's salary. The minister must rely on congregational conscience for support and has no legal claim against members.
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Kansas City
Western Missouri Court of Appeals
What Impressed Him In The United States
Paris Figaro correspondent Jules Huret notes two outstanding American sights Pittsburg steel mills and New York chorus girls. He criticizes city buildings for lacking art and dislikes most residences except those in Los Angeles and Washington.
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Chorus Girls
Chicago
Jules Huret
Paris
Figaro
United States
Pittsburg
New York
Los Angeles
Washington
Stirling Death Hoax Facing Publisher Quest by Sinclair
New York May 13 The so called death by own action of Arthur Stirling reported last June proved a hoax staged by Upton Sinclair and two to three friends. Sinclair said the ruse aimed to attract a publisher for his manuscript Journal of Arthur Stirling.
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New York
Arthur Stirling
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair
Gambling King Hankins Declares Bankruptcy
George V. Hankins once a Chicago gambling king with fortune estimated over two million dollars was yesterday discharged by bankruptcy in federal court. He had no remaining assets to cover debts totaling eight hundred fourteen thousand dollars.
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Geo. V. Hankins
Chicago
George V. Hankins
Georgia Idea. Purse to aid maid who refused Booker Washington bed
A movement begins in Georgia to raise funds for Louise Hadley the Indianapolis chambermaid who refused to prepare a bed used by Booker T. Washington and was dismissed for the refusal.
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State
Booker Washington
Atlanta
Georgia
Louise Hadley
Indianapolis
Booker T. Washington
Mechanical Navigator Advances in Navigation Inventions
May 13 report from San Francisco notes Cape tain Lawless of the Oceanic Steamsun company tested a mechanical navigator aboard the flagship New York during the Pacific squadron cruise. The navigating officer says the device marks a major advance for mariners, promising absolute accuracy in position and course with no mental miscalculation.
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San Francisco
Azimuth
Capetain Lawless
Oceanic Steamsun, Company
New York
NO RACE death by own action. Population rise in New York
The New York board of health reports a rapid population growth driven by natural increase. Births in Manhattan in the first four months exceed last year by about 2,000 while death rates fall. Overall city population rises from 3,848,720 in 1900 to 3,732,? today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Board of Health
City of
Manhattan
Grand Chief Conductor Opens 29th O R C Biennial
Nearly five thousand delegates and friends attend the Order of Railway Conductors convention in Pittsburg as Grand Chief Conductor O. E. Clark calls the meeting to order. Opening session emphasizes organization, officer reports, and committee readings with Chief Clark praising past work and future prospects. The Ladies Auxiliary also holds its first session with Mrs. J. H. Moore presiding and grand officers presenting addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
O. E. Clark
Order of Railway Conductors
Clark
Ladies’ Auxiliary
J. H. Moore
Toledo
Ready for the Race Shamrock Trio Set for Ocean Rigs
Lipton and Fife agree no more trials on this side of the Atlantic. Saturday's race will be the last before ships head to Greenock for ocean rig fitting. Racing continues daily all week along Gourock Rothesay Balloch bay course as Shamrock I trails Shamrock III by 7 minutes 25 seconds at Rothesay mark.
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Lipton
Fife
Gourock
Sir Thomas Lpton
Atlantic
Greenock Yard
Rothesay
Balloch Bay
Shamrock I
Shamrock III
Panic at Tetuan as Rebels Surround Moroccan Town
Advices from Tetuan report the town entirely surrounded by hostile tribes who have set fires to gardens and plantations. In response, troops are being dispatched by sea to Tetuan amid widespread fear and panic among residents.
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Tangiers
Morocco
Tetuan
Most Distinguished Men A German Newspaper Vote Edison Leads
The Berlin Tageblatt asked readers to name the ten most distinguished men alive. Tolstoi tops with 507 votes, followed by Mommsen, Marconi, Ibsen, Edison, Nansen, Roentgen, Meusel, Koch, and William II. Others range from 180 down to under fifty votes, with Mark Twain and several notables cited. The paper now seeks the five most distinguished women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison
Berlin
Berlin Tageblatt
Tolstoi
Mommsen
Marconi
Ibsen
Nansen
Roentgen
Meusel
Professor Koch
William II
Tageblatt
Bjornson
Chamberlain
Gorky
Hauptmann
Max Klinger
Leubach
J. Pierpont Morgan
Kruger
Pope Leo
Richard Strauss
Maeter
Plague Measures in Lima Prompt Large-Scale Food Burn
News from Lima reports drastic steps to stamp out bubonic plague spreading from Pisco toppling rice and wheat storage claims. Authorities burn $300000 worth of flour owned by Milnes company amid blame for origin of the outbreak. Suspect released in Medford murder case after Italian man Lombard cleared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. New York
Lima
Pisco
Milnes Company
Malden
Mass
Tomass Lombard
Nellie A. Sturtevant
Medford
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Charles & Spore
Wisconsin
Canada
Peavey Grain
Him
BIG O. R. C
Illinois
Berkeley
Cal
Joel Stebbins
University of California
University of Illinois
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