Chelsea Fire Destruction Destroys City Hall and Looms Over Waterfront
A massive blaze in Chelsea, starting near Cypress and West 3d streets, swept diagonally to the waterfront, destroying the Fitz Public Library, Masonic and Odd Fellows buildings, several churches, City Hall and hundreds of homes. Marines, militia and police aided evacuations as flames fed by tarred paper and oil tanks, with two bodies found and thousands left homeless.
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Boston & Maine Railroad
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Rosenfelt Brothers
Maple Street
Chaplin & Soden Car Company Works
Everett Avenue
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Boston
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Cambridge
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Shawiuut Avenue
Tidewater Oil Company
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No. 12
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Boston & Albany Division
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Standard Oil
Charles W. Parker
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Charles S. Hill
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Boston's Historic Fire Losses Across Centuries
Boston has suffered repeated blazes with major disasters in 1676 1679 1711 1760 1872 1889 and 1893. The 1872 fire on November 9 destroyed over eight hundred buildings covering fifty acres and valued at more than 76000000. Earlier fires in Chicago 1871 Baltimore 1904 and San Francisco 1906 caused vast destruction including 17450 buildings burned 200 deaths and an estimated 200000000 in losses for Chicago, and $400000000 for the San Francisco earthquake and fire.
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Governor to Push Food for Thought in Special Election
In Niagara and Orleans counties the governor will frame his anti gambling bills as essential food for thought for the state. Republicans worry about statewide chances as a faction rebels, with Senator Owen Cassidy facing renewed opposition for voting against the bills. Byram L Winters labels Cassidy a renegade, while Tompkins and Chemung counties lean Democratic or uncertain, signaling rising public pressure and potential party handicap if the governor’s line fails at the extraordinary session.
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Orleans
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Cassidy
Schuyler
Chemung
Tompkins
Tioga
Byram L. Winters
Tioga County
Tompkins County
Recount Begins In Long Contest Over Mayor McClellan Win
A recount starts today in Buffalo over Mayor McClellan's 190 victory after Hearst forced legal action. A special jury will review ballots from all boxes, likely taking days with possible delays from technical objections. The dispute followed appeals and court rulings on box openings and fraud allegations.
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Supreme Court
Buffalo
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Hearst
Court of Appeals
Mayer
Jackson
Eugene Lamb Richards
Board of Elections
Justice Gaynor
Brooklyn
Auburn Denounces Wilcox Over Anti-Gambling Bill Vote
Several hundred residents attended a mass meeting at the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Auburn on April 12 to denounce State Senator Benjamin M. Wilcox for voting against anti-racetrack gambling bills. Speakers included Rev. E. J. Rosengrant and Judge George Underwood. Resolutions demanded he reconsider his vote and pledged cooperation with Governor Hughes and supporters of the bills.
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N. Y
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Benjamin M. Wilcox
First Church
E. J. Rosengrant
Hughes
Wilcox
Rosengrant
B Cc. Mead
George Underwood
A. C. Thompson
George Black Stewart
Allen M. Dukes
Auburn Theological Seminary
Massachusetts for Taft at Republican convention
Senator Lodge and Representative Gardner returned to Washington after a harmonious Republican convention. Senator Crane travels west to consult with leaders. Lodge declares Massachusetts is for Taft and notes twelve district conventions and twenty four delegates remain to be elected. Crane supporters anticipate renomination to the national committee.
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Crane
Massachusetts
Taft
National Committee
Senator Wemple Denounced at Indignation Meeting in Schenectady
Nearly two thousand people gathered at the Van Cuyler Opera House in Schenectady to denounce Senator Wemple for his stance against anti-racetrack gambling bills. He declined an invitation to attend the protest.
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Schenectady
N. Y
van Cuyler Opera House
Senate
Wempl
Taft Returns to Washington After Western Trip
Secretary Taft arrived in Washington today after about ten days in the West where he delivered several speeches. He plans to stay in the capital until next Saturday then travel to New York City to address the Sphinx Club.
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Taft
West
New York City
Sphinx Club
No Attempt To Block Election In 47th Senate District
Albany April 12 No attempt was made yesterday in the special term of the Supreme Court to obtain an order forbidding a special election in the 47th Niagara Orleans Senate district to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Stanislaus P Franchet. Secretary of State John S Whalen notified county clerks that a special election will be held May 12 1908 for a Senator to represent the 47th district comprising Niagara and Orleans counties.
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Supreme Court
Justice Betts
Niagara-Orleans
Senate
Stanislaus P. Franchet
John S. Whalen
Niagara
Orleans
Stanislaus P. Franchot
47Th Senate
Taft to Speak at Mission Meeting at Carnegie Hall
The Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church announces a layman's missionary mass meeting at Carnegie Hall next Monday evening. Secretary Taft will speak. A prior men's missionary gathering is set for Marble Collegiate Church at 3 p.m.
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Taft
Carnegie Hall
Marble Collegiate Church
Lancashire Spinners abandon Delta land purchase plan
The Lancashire cotton spinners decided not to buy cotton growing estates in the Mississippi delta due to legal barriers on aliens owning real estate. The association had formed a committee to explore creating a company to control a US cotton plantation, a result of a British delegation visit last year.
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Lancashire Cotton Spinners
Mississippi Delta
Cotton Spinners’ Association
United States
Double Tragedy Ends Hungarian Romance in City Tenement
A Hungarian couple’s romance ended in tragedy when Billa Was eh fatally wounded his fiancée Julia Szillagzi after she declined marriage. Wasch then killed himself in the rear room of 255 Hast 3d street as witnesses were questioned by Detective Gorman. The woman was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition.
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Hast 3d Street
Julia Szillagzi
Wasch
3D Street
Wash
Gorman
Harburger
Biellevue Hospital
Ex Army Officer Nabbed For Forged Checks
Clarence Eustaphieve, 30, homeless and jobless, was arrested at Mills Hotel No 1 in Bleecker Street on a charge of passing a worthless check to W C Muschenheim of Hotel Astor on November 28. A former U S Army second lieutenant, he claimed to be Arthur W Copp and to be a lieutenant, with forged checks and aliases connected to Buffalo and Watertown banks. he is said to have attended Cornell and NY Military Academy.
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Mills Hotel
Bleecker Street
W. C. Muschenheim
Hotel
Astor
Gegan
23D Infantry
United States Army
J. C. Eggieston
Buffalo
Eustaphieve
Muschenheim
Arthur W. Copp
Watertown
J. E. Johnson
Hrotzell Hotel
27Th Street
Fifth Avenue
Clinton
Will Need Negro Vote for October Ratification
James L. Mayson, candidate in Georgia’s 33rd District, released three affidavits from prominent Georgians alleging Congressman Jon Livingston urged voters to defeat the negro disfranchisement bill after checking for reporters in Fairburn. He reportedly said in eight years they will need him to beat "Tom Warsen and his class," the negro calling the poor white trash.
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Tribune
Atlanta
James L. Mayson
Jon Livingston
Livingston
Fairburn
Tom Warsen
Playful Kitten Ties Up Traffic on Lexington Avenues
A gray kitten caused a half hour of disruption on 6th street crosstown and Lexington avenue lines. It darted from a cigar store, was caught by a boy, handed to a woman, and carried away after two motormen briefly stopped trains. A fuse blew and a shoe loosened, prompting a wrecking wagon call.
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Lexington Avenue
Negro bishop attacks Roosevelt and Taft over Brownsville
Bishop Alexander Walters of the African Church in New York reads a letter at a Morris Brown College gathering in Bis Chapel AME, denouncing the Brownsville affair and urging African American support against Taft and Roosevelt. The letter questions representation cuts and calls for action to defend the honor of colored soldiers. The meeting, though presided by Dr Parks, focused on education with a statement of sympathy for Negro education amid broader political debate. The Emperor of Japan is noted to have thirty residencies across his domain.
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New York
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Taft
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1 Avenue
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Ohio
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