Shot His Sweetheart Accused as Murder Suspect
Grace Ruth a 16 year old girl from Lancaster Pennsylvania was fatally wounded by a revolver shot fired by her lover F Emanuel Schroll 20. Schroll claimed accident but was placed under arrest after the incident on Park avenue reports show he boasted of jealousy and threatened to kill others Lottes joined them during the walk and Schroll tried to sell him the weapon. Also noted are claims by Ira Gillespie alias Dock Hill about a $500 reward and a report of heavy fighting near Panama with passengers on the Royal Mail steamer arriving from Colon.
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Lancaster
Grace Ruth
Amanda Ruth
F Emanuel Schroll
Schroll
Ruth
Park avenue
George Lottes
Lottes
Ira Gillesney
Krownie
Tenn
Ira Gillespey
Dock Hill
Sevier counary
Elenville
tormer
Goehl
Kentucky
Gillespes
Steamship Merger Detailed by Griscom Amid Subsidy Debate
Clement Griscom outlines a major trans Atlantic merger uniting American and several international lines under a new company with about 200 million dollars in capitalization. He argues the consolidation will curb rate wars, improve service, and distribute traffic, while subsidy prospects are limited to a few Pacific ships. Observers expect further absorptions of Cunard and allies.
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Clement Griscom
Philadelphia
American
Red Star
White Star
Dominion
Atlantic Transport
Leyland lines
Cunard, Wilson
Lloyd
Hamburg-American
Compagnie Generale Trans-Atlantique
Allan State
Anchorines
Clement A. Griscom
International Navigation company
trans-Atlantic steamship companies
J. Pierpont Morgan
Pacific
South Africa
Great Britain
Australia
New Zealand
far east
Mr. Griscom
congress
River Steamer City of Pittsburg Disaster at Ogden's Landing
The side wheel steamer City of Pittsburg burning near Ogden's Landing 11 miles from Mound City leaves 22 dead and 40 missing. Passengers panic hamper fire crews with life boats. many drown or perish in flames as rescuers struggle in the river and smoke. A mother recalls saving her own, others describe harrowing escapes and the delay of aid.
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Calvo
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Mampis
Ogden’s Landing
Olmstead
Mound City
ity
Sherman McCullum
Caruthersville
joi
Mount City
Al Pritchard
Mulher
Judge Mulher
Metropolis
Cafro
Richard Harding Davis Sees Rising Fame and New Purchase
Richard Harding Davis, the author, enjoys growing success as a dramatized version of Soldiers of Fortune premieres. A serial adaptation from another long story starts in a leading magazine while Davis buys a handsome country estate near White Plains NY.
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Richard Harding Davis
Soldiers of Fortune
Ispen
Davis
White Plain
A. A. McLeod Dead Former Reading Railroad President
Archibald A McLeod former president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway died Saturday afternoon at his home 12 West Fifty-first Street New York after an extended illness following an operation for appendicitis in March He was born in 1848 and rose from a rodman to chief executive guiding bonds that helped form the Great Northern and later led the Reading line through 1888 to 1940. His wife and 17-year-old son were at his bedside. Wilhelmina's Condition Unchanged. The Hague April 27 Queen Wilhelmina remains conscious and nourished though still feverish. The prince and physicians note favorable signs.
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West Fifty-iist street
Mr. Mcleod
Northern Pacific Railway
Nes Moines
St. Paul and Pacific
Great Northern
McLeod
Austin Corbin
Corbin
Manhattan Reach
Elmira, Cortland and Northern Railway
Philadelphia and Reading railway
Wilhelmina
The Hague
prince consort
lft Castle Loo
Whelmina
Immigrant Slur Sparks Battery Row Over Police Whips
A Brooklyn resident sent reports to President Roosevelt alleging immigrants arriving at the Battery are beaten by police with white whips. Officials deny this, blaming hotel runners and scavengers for violence and claiming force is needed to curb pests.
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Miche
anders
Washington
the
Battery
Brooklyn
Roosevelt
Flichie
Miners Strike Looms as WV miners seek conference
West Virginia United Mine Workers plan a final bid for a coal operators conference in Huntington this week. If ignored, a general strike could halt shipments along the Chesapeake and Ohio, Norfolk and Western, and Baltimore and Ohio rail lines.
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West Virginia
Huntington
W. Va
United Mine Workers of
Chesapeake and Ohio
Norfolk and Western
Baltimore and Ohio
Managua Blast Kills Hundreds In Nicaragua City
A major explosion at a two story barracks near Managua lakefront caused massive casualties. Reports say 106 to 200 officers and soldiers were killed with many more injured. Surrounding buildings including the National Hotel and Central Telegraph were damaged as residents fled. President Zelayа blamed conspirators while dynamite and gunpowder storage were cited. exact cause remains undetermined. Losses are estimated at 5 million pesos in property and cannon.
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Atoma
Managua
Nicaragua
ecity
National Hotel
Central Telegraph station
National Palace
Zeleya
Masaya
Tie
Trade with Mexico urged through young Latin salesmen
Frederic Emory announces a study showing U S goods travel better in Mexico when young Mexican or Cuban traveling salesmen are used for hard to sell items like dry goods hats and shoes The report notes Mexican business is cautious and prompt in debt repayment while Mazatlan has seen only one failure in 15 years American league results and two local railroad workers organize a union are also listed along with a fatal excursion train crash near Bolivar Tennessee and other brief items including a death in Oregon after a long illness.
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Washington
Frederic Emory
bureau of foreign commerce
United States
Mexico
Central Americas
West Indies
Mazatlan
Paris
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J. D. Robinson
Danville
WILLIAMSON’S
B. EBERT & SONS
Sargent Gem Cutter
Bes
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TNOBIA MARKET STREET
ERNEST HELFENSTEIN
W. Patrick St. Frederick, id
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Panama
Moesto
Bengers
Royal Mail
Colon
Colombia
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Trent
Releif
A. L. PEARRE
Weilding
GALT & BRO
Penn. Ava
Washington, U. S
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Potomac
P. Morgan
Chicago
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Lee Robins oz
coleret barker
James Jefferson
Rologer
London
Hackner
Wm. Campbell
Central
S.S.S
Tan SWIFT SPECIFIC CO
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Phoig
Burr McIntosh
New York
A. A. McLEOD
Reading Railroad
aArchibald
Philadelphia and Reading Raiload
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Prossels
councl
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Vienna
Balika
Franzdorf
Christian Moerlein company
Elm and
McMicken Streets
Andres Meverkin
Richard Porter
Jack O'Keefe
Lee
C ware
Carlos Marshall
f.neral
Mexico City
tmenmea
pachilz
Chapas
bitaro
St. Louis
Pitterburg
Boston
Baltimore
Milwaukee
Pennsy
Pennsylvania railroad
Trackmen’s Brotherhood of America
R. P. McNeal
L M. Jamison
Bolivar
Tenon
Loone
here
Dolph Irvin
Dolph Irwin
George Murley
Sarah Irvin
Hlinois Central
Osorego
Ida Hennesse
ben asteen
Ehi¢e
ohesiians
NATIONAL LEAGUE
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Yorkat
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