Ottawa Hull fire devastates Ottawa Hull losses reach 20 million
Dispatches report Ottawa and Hull suffered 20 million dollars in property damage with five lives lost. Fire destroyed 2,000 Ottawa and 1,800 Hull buildings. major firms like Eddy and McKay Milling exposed to heavy losses. Relief funds of 110,000 plus 10,000 from city and Bank of Montreal aid victims.
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Toronto
Ont
Ottawa
Hull
Booth Lumber Company
Eddy Company
McKay Milling Company
Hull Lumber Company
Electric Light Company
Dominion Carbide Works
Montreal
Bank of Montreal
Deluge of Rain Drowns Several in Waco Texas
In Waco and nearby areas heavy rain overwhelmed streets and basements. Searches by fire department teams recovered two white women and one man, with eight to ten people believed drowned in the city. Floodwaters hindered movement as boats ferried residents to safety.
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Waco
Tex
Nancy Caudle
Clara Caudle
Frank Walker
Provident Bank
Tom Padgett Company
Rockdale
Times-Herald
Ravenscraig Launch Marks Steel Steamer Birth in Port Huron
In Port Huron Michigan on April 28 the Ravenscraig the first steel steamer built there was launched. Ten thousand people attended and city schools were closed in honor of the event.
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Port Huron
Mich
Court Compliments in Texas Stabbing in Paris Courthouse
In Paris Texas yesterday the courtroom quarrel ended when lawyer E P Scott stabbed Justice J J Hooks in the stomach Scott is in custody and Judge Hooks is badly injured with his condition unclear.
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Texas
Paris
Tex
E. P. Scott
J. J. Hooks
Scott
Hooks
Grant Day at Galena Honors General Grant’s Memory
Galena Illinois April 28 annual birthday celebration honors General Ulysses S Grant. Governor Roosevelt of New York Mrs Nellie Grant Sartoris and family attend with civic leaders. crowds from nearby states greet the visitors as they tour Turner hall and Grant’s residence then depart by train to Chicago.
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Galena
Als
U. S. Grant
Roosevelt
New York
General Grant
Nellie Grant Sartoris
Miss Sartoris
Algernon Sartoris
Iowa
Wisconsin
Ilinois Central Station
Platteville
Albany
N. Y
Turner Hall
Chicago
Rockford
French at Thaba N'Chu Unites With Ian Hamilton
London reports from April 27 say General French reached Thaba N’Chu with cavalry and met General Ian Hamilton and General Smith-Dorrien’s brigade. The eastern outlet remained held by the enemy as they move to drive them out. Rundle’s division stood eight miles south. Private King of the Prince Alfred Guards was killed and two Royal Scots service corps taken prisoner on April 25. Yeomanry cavalry reconnoitered to Wepener before returning to Dewetsdorp.
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London
War Office
Lord Roberts
Bloemfontein
French
Thaba N’chu
Ian Hamilton
Smith-Dorrien
Hamilton
Rundle
Bethulie
Smithfield Road
King
Prince Alfred Guards
Royal Scots Service Corps
Brabanton
Wepener
Dewet’s Dorp
Crystal Oil sues Standard Oil for damages in Des Moines
Des Moines leads with Crystal Oil filing a $50,000 damage suit against Standard Oil alleging ruinous price cutting and customer inducements to drive Crystal out of business. Washington reports also note All Souls' Unitarian Church plans to hire Harvard professor Edward Cummings as pastor after rejecting a militant woman preacher, and Nicaragua cancels the Maritime Canal concession after five months of proceedings.
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Des Moines
Crystal Oil Company
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Crystal
Washington
All Souls’ Unitarian Church
Edward Cummings
Harvard
Ida Hultin
Moline
Hultin
Jones
Nicaragua
Maritime Canal Company
Baseball Scores From National League and American Association
Chicago saw Chicago 6 at home against St Louis 5 while New York defeated Boston 4 to 3. Philadelphia beat Brooklyn 9 to 4 and Pittsburg topped Cincinnati 19 to 5. In the American Association Cleveland downed Indianapolis 8 to 6 Buffalo beat Detroit 12 to 4 Minneapolis edged Kansas City 8 to 7 and Milwaukee defeated Chicago 6 to 2.
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Chicago
St. Louis
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
American Association
Cleveland -Indianapolis
Cleveland
Buffalo
Detroit
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Milwaukee
Chicago Theatres Face Higher Fire Insurance Rates
The Underwriters' association imposes a 25 to 60 percent premium increase on Chicago theaters lacking fire-proofing or modern extinguishing equipment. The new schedule shows an average rate of 6.56 dollars per building.
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Chicago
Underwriters’ Association
Prominent Springfield Businessman Oscar F. S. Shins Dies at 70
Springfield Indiana April 28 Oscar F. S. Shins a longtime resident and Ov Fellow died suddenly Thursday at his home of paralysis at age 70 He served as a director of the old Springfield and Northwestern railroad now part of the Chicago Peoria and St Louis line in Illinois.
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Springfield
Ins
Oscar F. S. Shins
Businss
Springfield and Northwestern Railroad
Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad
Ilinois
Evansville Coal Strike Eases After Month of Tension
Report notes coal strike tensions easing in Evansville as hoisting engineers reach agreement. April 28 observed with fears among Southern Indian operators over wages ranging from 50 to 75 dollars weekly.
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Evansville
Mip
Pril
General Merriam Denies Most Charges In Idaho Inquiry
General Merriam testified before the house military committee on the Coeur d Alene disturbance detailing war department orders and troop deployments He denied conferences with mine owners said prisoners were sheltered adequately and asserted a state of rebellion existed in Idaho He noted letters to the War Department about troop withdrawals and that guards were not currently guarding prisoners as martial law continued
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Washington
Merriam
House Military Committee
Coeur d'Alene
Meriam
War Department
Wardner
Robertson
General Merriam
Idaho
United States
Germany denies meat import ban on U S goods
Berlin says no German subvention contract exists and no order bars North German Lloyds from importing fresh meats dairy products or cereals to German Dutch or Belgian ports. Washington notes legal right for a government to regulate its own trade but cites official contradiction.
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Washington
Berlin
Norce German
Lloyds Steamship Company
United States
Prince von Hohenlohe
Germany
Congress of Religion drops liberal from name
In Boston the liberal congress of religion, meeting for its sixth annual session, voted to drop liberal from its title and operate as The Congress of Religion. Officers elected include Rev. Dr. Hiram W. Thomas of Chicago as president, Rev. Jenkins Lloyd Jones of Chicago as general secretary, and Leo Fox of Chicago as treasurer.
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Boston
Liberal Congress of Religion
The
Congress of Religion
Hiram W. Thomas
Chicago
Jenkins Lloyd Jones
Leo Fox
Filipino Proposes Policy to Kill Off Older Natives
Sergeant Leander Clark travels with a Filipino chief Ansane who once governed a Philippine province. In San Francisco, Ansane urges U S action in the Philippines to kill the older natives and educate the young, saying the old will fight and pass on warlike ways.
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Kokomo
Ind
Leander Clark
Fort Wayne
Twenty-second
United States Infantry
Ansane
Hailo
Clark
San Francisco
Italy
Sergeant Clark
United States
Philippines
Centenarian Wolcott Celebrates 100th Birthday
Lorin F Wolcott of Sparta Illinois marked his 100th birthday by cooking breakfast He came from New York forty five years ago and has never left town He has been married three times His current wife is 45 and they wed fifteen years ago He has nine children seven living grandchildren and seven great grandchildren His first vote in 1824 was for John Quincy Adams He recalls early national leaders The Wolcott family has a pattern of longevity with parents sisters living near a century.
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Sparta
Ills
Lorin F. Wolcott
Wolcott
New York
Walcott
John Qincy Adams
Wolcotts
John Kortas
Illinois Steelwills
Chicago
Vivian Clerise
J. W. Cardownie
Lake Whitey
New Haven
Conn
Vincennes
Boyd Blackshear
South Germany
Carrie Stielow
Kimberly & Clark Company
Neenah
Wis
Red Cliff Lumber Company
Bayfield
Sand River
Carl Kernig
Cambridge
Eau Claire
Congress Must Fund War Expenses or State Pays
Lansing April 28 The War Department auditor told Governor Pingree Michigan mustERS may be declined for expenditures after mustering in. Hospital trains care for the sick and transport home will fall to the state unless Congress enacts reimbursement. SenateVotes Scott seat West Virginia three negative. House passed ninety one private pension bills including $40 monthly widow of Col John M Storsenberg. Hawaii government conference report adopted for president.
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Lansing
Mich
Morris
War Department
Washington
Pingree
Michigan
Senate
Nathan B. Scott
West Virginia
House
John M. Storsenberg
Nebraska
Philippies
Uniform railroad rate classification meeting adjourns empty
The Missouri Iowa and Illinois railroad commissioners met at the Southern hotel in St Louis on Monday to hear shippers proposals for a uniform rate classification. A small number of shippers from Iowa Illinois and Missouri attended and voiced grievances but offered no concrete basis for action, so the meeting adjourned without proceeding.
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St. Louis
Boards of Railroad Commissioners
Missouri
Iowa
Illinois
Southern Hotel
Noted Lawyer Thomas Harland Dies in New York at 70
Obituary reports Thomas Harland, famed legal mind behind the patent system, has died in New York at age 70. Other items include a hydrogen of news on a Brooklyn Saeng Erf fest expected attendance by 10,000 German singers, John Addison Porter’s serious illness, and political notes on Ohio leader Charles Dick predicting Hanna as national committee chairman again this year.
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Thomas Harland
New York
Brooklyn
John Addison Porter
McKinley
Charles F. Dick
Hanna
Marguerite Connette
Galveston
Tex
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Canada
Otawa
John Watkins
Cook
Canadian Pacific
Rochesterville
Broad Street
Bernaby Myers
Jobn Matthews
Daoust
E. B. Eddy Company
John Temple
Dann
Peter Hamilton
John Navan
St. Luke’s Hospital
James Merrifield
Notre Dame du Grace
Oblates of Mary the Immaculate
St. Mary’s School
Washington Street
E. B. Eddy
Duke of Connaught
England
Great Britain
Balfour
Empire
Tenas
Grant
Thaban'chu
Merriams
Coeur d’Alenes
Abilene
Kan
John Blagg
Farmers’ Alliance
Solomon River
Here
Lydia Barstar
Gladstone
Jacob Landis
Joseph Kohlman
Isabella, Mich
Huebert
Congress
Senate and House Transactions
F. A. Neidig
Second Street
Fois Thes
Rey
Freares
Weigus
Burdick
America
Smyth
Sears, Teebuck & Co
Sears, Roebuck & CO. (Inc
Mus. Lumber & Box Co
East Second Street
SEARS
Roebuck & Co
Geo, B. Fisch
Stewart
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