Jamestown tercentenary fete greets Gen Kuroki in Hampton Roads
A 17 gun salute from Fortress Monroe opened Jamestown tercentenary events on May 13 1607. Gen Baron Kuroki headlined visits with Gen C E Wood Gen Grant and Maj Strong. A naval review in Hampton Roads featured American and foreign ships. Italian Duke di Abruzzi hosted a ball on the Italian flagship Varese and a grand night illumination followed.
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Norfolk
Fortress Monroe
Jamestown
Baron Kuroki
Exposition Grounds
C. E. Wood
Grant
Maj. Strong
Kuroki
Society For the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Joseph Bryan
Richmond
Bishop Randolph
Virginia
Gov. Swanson
Brycee
Gen. Kuroki
Duke di Abruzzi
Varese
Hampton Roads
Dick cancels Ohio Republican conference call
United States Senator Charles Dick who chairs the state central committee canceled the planned Columbus conference for Wednesday involving Republican leaders and officers. The move follows last week’s call to discuss reconciling conflicting party interests and maintaining harmony. Dick says he has done all possible and now leaves the matter to the party.
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Akron
United States
Charles Dick
Republican State Central Committee
Columbus
State Central Committee
Congress
Medical Unification Bill Reforms State Medicine Control
Gov Hughes signed the Medical Unification bill creating a single board of medical examiners under the board of regents. It replaces three boards representing allopathic homeopathic and eclectic societies with a broader definition of the practice of medicine and a unified regulatory structure.
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Albany
N. Y
Gov. Hughes
Assembly Committee On Public Health
Board of Regents
Mexican Mine Fire Claims Dozens Died at Velardena
May 14 reports state ninety miners were believed killed when a fire broke out at Guggenheimer's Tenares copper mine in Velardena Durango last Friday night. Thirty five bodies have been recovered and seventeen escaped. The fire remains out of control.
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City of Mexico
Guggenheimer
Tenares
Velardena
Durango
Builder of U S Navy Dead
Charley Haines Haswell, a renowned civil and marine engineer and former navy engineer in chief from 1836 to 1851, died at his New York home at age 98. His early ship designs and improvements influenced U S naval construction.
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U. S. Navy
New York
Charley Haines Haswell
United States Navy
Haswell
Navy
Wheat Reaches the Dollar Mark on Chicago Board
Wheat climbed to the dollar level on Monday amid heavy buying and a bull rush. September and December futures spiked to $1, while July opened near 95 to 95¾ cents and rose to the mid 90s. In New York, July opened at 1.00 to 1.03 with September at 1.01 to 1.03 and December edging from 1.04 to 1.05½ as traders joined the rally.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
New York
Chicago Board of Trade
City of Cleveland Destroyed by Fire in Detroit Shipyard
The passenger steamer City of Cleveland, built for Detroit and Cleveland Navigation, was destroyed by fire at the Detroit Shipbuilding plant. Loss estimated around 700000, with speculation of incendiary involvement. The vessel, 444 feet long, would have carried 4500 passengers and cost about 1250000.
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Detroit
City of Cleveland
Detroit Shipbuilding Company
Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company
Cleveland
Shipbuilding Company
Wyandotte
Strikers Run 50 Street Cars in San Francisco
Fifty street cars operated Sunday on two United Railroads lines from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the first time since the strike began. About 20,000 passengers, mostly women, used the service with little disorder. Five hundred police guarded the routes, but activity was light as many stayed indoors.
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San Francisco
United Railroads System
Ninety Miners Dead In Durango Mine Fire
Dispatch from Torreon reports 90 miners killed in a fire at the Cornebas shaft of the Ternera group in Velardena Durango. The blaze began Friday night in an abandoned shaft. Of 107 workers in another part, 17 escaped and 35 bodies have been recovered.
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Mexico City
Torreon
Coahuila
Cornebas
Ternera
Velardena
Durango
Corey Gilman Wedding in Gotham Hotel Royal Suite
William Ellis Corey of United States Steel and former actress Mabelle Gilman married after midnight Tuesday in a small ceremony. The wedding occurred in the Royal suite of the Hotel Gotham on Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street, New York, with a private group of friends in attendance.
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Corey-Gilman
New York
William Ellis Corey
United States Steel Corporation
Mabelle Gilman
Hotel Gotham
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-fifth Street
Minnesota Mayor Dead in Winona Pioneer Leader at 83
John A. Mathews longtime Winona mayor and pioneer resident died Monday at age 83. He arrived in Minnesota in 1855 from Pennsylvania and served four terms as mayor in the 1860s and 1870s.
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Minnesota
Winona
Minn
John A. Mathews
Pennsylvania
Tree Fruit Crop Dead in Southwest
Reports from Kansas, western Missouri, Oklahoma and Indian Territory indicate near total frost destruction of tree fruits and serious damage to bush fruits grapes and strawberries. Michigan reports variable damage with signs of a late crop while Indiana expected delays and a 30 to 40 percent loss overall and a 75 percent wheat crop.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Looks for an Alliance
Baron Ozawa, a representative of the emperor, said Japan seeks a US alliance if misunderstandings like anti-Japanese sentiment in San Francisco can be avoided. He reported no such feelings exist elsewhere and stated Japan has no expansionist aims in the Pacific.
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New York
Japan
United States
San Francisco
Baron Ozawa
House of Peers
Pacific
European wheat outlook driven by demand and supply
London reports the European wheat situation hinges on supply and demand. Germany buys Australian and Argentine cargoes amid low stocks from rye and wheat sales to Russia, seeking about 4,000,000 quarters more by July year over year. Winter crops damaged across Germany Romania Hungary and along the Danube, up to forty percent and up to eighty percent in some Bulgarian areas. France remains an exception with unfavorable advices from Europe-wide reports.
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London
Germany
Russia
Roumania
Hungary
Danube
Bulgaria
Europe
France
Imperial Conference Declared a Failure by Premiers
London May 15 The imperial conference wound up with colonial premiers dejected, having voiced disappointment at the lack of a formal preferential trade plan and sweeping imperial legislation. Only a few minor projects emerged, leaving leaders to deem the gathering a failure.
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London
Hosiery Makers Condemn German Reciprocity Treaty
The National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers condemned Germanys proposed reciprocity treaty with the United States in Philadelphia on Tuesday. They drafted a formal protest opposing the provision that German hosiery be admitted free of duty and will forward it to the State Department in Washington.
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Philadelphia
Germany
United States
National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers
State Department
Washington
Major strike at Kenosha tannery over wage dispute
A general strike began at the N. R. Allens Sons tannery in Kenosha Wisconsin on Tuesday morning with 1,200 workers leaving in solidarity with 16 burners demanding higher wages. The plant shut down entirely and director Cr W Allen said the stoppage would be indefinite. The tannery is the largest in the leather group and was acquired by Central Leather recently for 8 million dollars.
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Kenosha
Wis
N. R. Allens Sons
Cr. W. Allen
Central Leather Company
Illinois State Senator Hughes Dies After Horse Accident
Dixon Illinois May 13 State Senator Charles H Hughes died Sunday after noon at Excelsior Springs Missouri from injuries suffered when thrown from his horse two weeks earlier He was about to begin his third term as state senator He was a Mason and an Elk and cashier of the Dixon National Bank
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Dixon
Charles H. Hughes
Excelsior Springs
Hughes
Dixon National Bank
Interstate Commerce Commission rules lower shipper rate prevails
The interstate commerce commission declares that when two freight rates are in effect between the same point the shipper must receive the lower rate. This ruling, issued in Washington on May 15, stands as a significant clarification for shipping customers seeking rate relief.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Missouri Supreme Court Deafends Auto Law Nine MPH Limit
The Missouri supreme court sustained the constitutionality of the state automobile law fixing the speed limit at nine miles an hour. The ruling came from Jefferson City on May 15.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Supreme Court
Bryce Will Deliver Address At Illinois Commencement
President James announces that James Bryce, British Ambassador to Washington, has accepted an invitation to deliver the commencement address at the University of Illinois in Champaign Urbana on Wednesday June 12.
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Champaign
Uls
James
University of Ilinois
James Bryce
Washington
Shriners Train Wreck Kills Thirty One In Santa Barbara
A special Shriners train collided with a defective switch near Honda California killing 31 and injuring many more. The wreck trapped passengers in wreckage and the diner car caught fire as rescuers worked at the sand-strewn site. Many bodies were counted in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo morgues.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Southern Pacific Railroad
Los Angeles
Ismalia Temple
Buffalo
Rajah Temple
Reading
Honda
Pacific Beach
Flinders
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obigno
Here
Various early 1907 world brief items echoing tensions and events
News in brief reports scarce cotton seed in Louisiana prompting buyback calls from mills. Gov Magoon plans to improve Cuban roads with up to 5 million dollars. Horace Lavine travels via Seattle with a Japanese bride. Panama reports many steam shovel workers resigning. 75 to sail to New York. Sirocco plan to build a New York plant to dodge tariffs. Alfred Thoreson kills his sweetheart Amy Willard then himself. Brig Gen Meyer assumes Texas department command. Harrisburg's St Patrick cathedral dedicated with 130 bishops and priests. Dover jury finds Horace Marvin Jr died from exposure March 4, 1907. 1880 Grant third-term reunion planned for 36 ballots at national Republican convention. Col A M Hughes calls reunion. Consul George H Murphy studies treatment of a Central American state’s citizens. potential US Mexico protectorate hinted.
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Louisiana
War Department
Magoon
Cuba
Horace H. Lavine
Syracuse
Seattle
Wash
Panama
Isthmian Canal
Colon
New York
Sirocco Engineering Works
Belfast
Ireland
Alfred Thoreson
Epping
N. D
Amy Willard
A. L. Meyer
Department of Texas
Col. W. R. Hoyt
W. S. McCaskey
St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Horace Marvin, Jr
Dover
Del
Horace N. Marvin, Jr
Grant
Col
A. M. Hughes
Columbia, Tenn
George H. Murphy
United States
Canada
Mexico
Central America
South America
Diplomats Alarmed by Diaz Proposal on Central American Protectorate
Latin American diplomats in Washington condemn President Diaz idea of a joint U.S. protectorate over Central American states. Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatemala ministers Calvo Mejia and Toledo Herrarte met at the State Department with no official briefing. Discussions noted no formal exchanges with Mexico beyond Honduras Nicaragua hostilities settlement efforts.
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Washington
Diaz
United States
Mexico
Senor Calvo
Mejia
Senor Toledo Herrarte
State Department
Honduras
Salvador
Nicaragua
Street cars run in Frisco as service expands
In San Francisco on May 14 the United Railroads ran street cars to the ferry at Market Street with no disturbance. Officials plan to run many more cars today including Sutter Turk and Eddy lines as well as Valencia Mission and Western Addition routes. Special policemen have been ordered to assist the regular force.
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San Francisco
Market Street
United Railroads
United Railways
Sutter
Turk
Eddy
Valencia
Mission Street
Caruso Case Ends as Fine Paid and Appeal Withdrawn
Frederick W. Spelling, counsel for Enrico Caruso, paid a $10 fine from last November and announced the appeal to the appellate division of the supreme court had been withdrawn. The arrest stemmed from a disorderly conduct charge in Central Park. The complainant failed to appear and could not be found. Caruso was previously convicted and fined $19.
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Caruso
New York
Frederick W. Spelling
Enrico Caruso
Supreme Court
Central Park
Delay in Standard Oil Trial In Findlay Ohio
The initial trial against the Standard Oil company of Ohio, set for Monday before Judge Duncan, was postponed to possibly the week beginning June 10. The postponement aims to await circuit court decisions expected to ease technical objections and allow the trials to proceed.
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Findlay
Standard Oil Company of Ohio
Duncan
Circuit Court
Louisville Seeks 1908 Democratic Convention
Thomas Taggart chairman of the Democratic national committee spoke at the Commercial club banquet in Louisville. He declared Louisville could host the 1908 convention with adequate hotels and an auditorium. The club voted 5000 dollars as the nucleus of a fund to secure the event.
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Louisville
Thomas Taggart
Commercial Club
Taggart
Freichstag Passes Second Reading of German US Trade Compact
Berlin May 14 The Freichstag with few negative votes passed the second reading of the commercial modus vivendi between Germany and the United States.
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Berlin
Germany
United States
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