Bangor Maine Devastating Fire Leaves City Under Martial Law
A major fire in Bangor Maine destroyed a large portion of the business and residence sections, causing five to six million dollars in damage. Officials report three dead, around fifty injured, and thousands homeless. The city is under martial law as state militia guard banks and aid supplies. Dynamite and neighbor aid helped stop the blaze, with a fire check at seven this morning and rain easing flames later.
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Bangor
Rlver
Cullom
New Tariff Schedule Becomes Effective Today
Panama May 1 The republic’s national assembly approved a new tariff schedule becoming effective today. The plan raises duties on most imports including luxuries by five percent and by two and a half percent on all others except flour, corn, rice and lard.
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Panama
National Assembly of the Republic
English Scullers Meet for British Championship on Thames
Ernest Barry the current title holder and William Albany of Cinpion will row from Putney to Mortlake for the sculling championship of Great Britain. Albany weighs 184 pounds to Barry 168, with cash prizes of 1000 dollars and the Sperteman cup. This is the first such championship since 1887 on the Tyne, and Thames racing last hosted in 1878 when W Billett beat R W Beyd.
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London
Ernest Barry
William Albany
Cinpion
Thames
Great Britain
Putney
Mortlake
Albany
George Perkns
W. G. East
Tyne
W. Billett
R. W. Beyd
Attorneys defer report to association after state case
The executive committee finished an investigation of charges against Attorneys Perry Bailey and Watts but will delay reporting to the local bar association until after the St Dennis v Watts case disposition. Most attorneys prefer no action affecting merits, and testimony is only half prepared by the stenographer Pruitt.
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Bar Association
Perry, Bailey and Watts
St. Dennis
WLC
Pruitt
Severa
Ecommitteemen
Oakland Fire Damages Downtown Block Worth 100000
Oakland Calif May 1 a half block of downtown section burned this morning causing about 100000 in losses. The Dietz opera house and polytechnic business college were among the structures damaged with five narrowly escaping death.
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Oakland
Calif
Dietz Opera House
Polytechnic Business College
Tou
Rainfall patterns show November excess and spring drought
Weather observer reports November heavy rains kept Pendleton precipitation above the baseline, though four months to May 1 remained below normal. Total Sept 1 through May 1 was 6.94 inches vs 10.75 expected, while April totals reached .18 inches with 21 clear days and a record April cold snap dropping to 19F.
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E. F. Averill
Umatilla
Drouth
Pendleton
Burke and Smith Aim for Olympic Club Main Event
New York May 1 Burke and Jim Smith, the Westchester Mehtor, go on in the principal event of the Olympic Athletic club program this evening Burke recently knocked out Montana Dilek Sullivan in the ninth round and is the favorite over Smith in tonight’s fixture session.
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New York
Former local man charged with assault with intent to kill
A well known former Pendleton resident, Thomas Purdy of Kimberly, Idaho, is charged with assault with intent to commit murder after allegedly firing at his wife and another woman and aiming at his child. Purdy, under liquor influence, was bound over to district court on $2000 bail after waiving preliminary examination.
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Pendleton
Kimberly
Idaho
Purdy
Wilcox Implement House
John Blohwedgson
Twin Falls
Thomas Purdy
Mrn
Severance
At & Min
Smith
Justice Court
William H. Hornibrook
John FE
Withhime
District Court
Portland Peel an Laborers Strike Over Wages
About 300 Tintin laborers employed by Baker and Searpelt went on strike in Portland on May 1 over wage cuts from 2 to 1.75 dollars per day.
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Baker & Sear Pelt
Paroled train robber Cris Evans released from Folsom
Sacramento on May 1 Cris Evans once famed California train robber was released on parole after 17 years in Folsom prison He will relocate with his wife and daughter to Portland Oregon to begin life under parole terms.
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Sacramento
Cris Evans
California
Wandit
Folsom
Evans
Portland
Oregon
Granite City Elects Socialist Mayor in Newfoundland
Granite City NL May 1 The city of 16000 inhabitants elected a Socialist mayor Marshal E Kirkpatrick who promised to keep to the water wagon for two years and to discharge and replace the police force He favors public ownership of gas and electric lighting power plants and the creation of a municipal coal and ice concern to supply at exact cost
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Granite City
Milwaukee
Marshal E. Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick
Healy
Chicago election cost Merriam 162480.22 million
Chicago May 1 Prof Charles E Merriam of the University of Chicago spent 162 480 22 to be defeated for mayor by Carter Harrison. Report says total including late primaries reaches about 230 000. Major contributors include Julian Rosenwald 37 100 McCormick family 26 000 Crane 15 000 Patten 100 000 and Lawson 10 000 with expenses itemized for printing advertising music hall rents salaries postage lithographs and ward HQs.
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Chicago
Charles E. Merriam
University of Chicago
Carter H. Harrison
United States
Merriam
Julian Rosenwald Wiz
McCormmick
Charles R. Crane
Chow
Taft
James A. Patten
Victor F. Lawson
Boston Socialists Observe May Day Mass Meeting
May Day was celebrated in Boston by socialist and labor unions with speakers Victor Berger of Milwaukee and Robert Hunter, socialist candidate for Connecticut governor, addressing a large Tremont Temple mass meeting. Socialists from New England sent representatives to the event.
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Boston
Socialista
Tremont Temple
Victor L. Berger
Milwaukee
Congress
Robert Hunter
Connecticut
Joodie
New England
Robert Todd Lincoln Retires From Pullman Presidency
Chicago May 1 Robert Todd Lincoln son of President Lincoln retires from the presidency of the Pullman company and is succeeded by John S Runnels health and a desire to be freed from business cares given as reasons Lincoln who is nearing sixty eight served as a captain on Grant's staff and later held roles as secretary of war minister to Great Britain and ambassador to the United States before leading Pullman
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Chicago
Robert Todd Lincoln
Lincoln
Pullman Company
John S. Runnels
Tll
Abraham Lincoln
General Grant
Garrel4
Arthur
United
Great Beithin
George M. Pullman
The
Labor Leaders See Possible Indictments in McNamaras Case
In Los Angeles on May 1 information in Burns possession points to possible indictments of two San Francisco labor leaders over dynamiting links to the Times bombing. Chaplain and Schmidt allegedly told men of plans and sought shelter, as defense plans arraignment and possible special prosecutor placement unfold. Gompers in Indianapolis seeks fair trial while labor leaders convene on defense and records.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Burns
McNamaras
San Francisco
Chaplain
Schmidt
Times
Earl Rogers
Merchants’ Manufacturers’ Association
Plice Burns
Rogers
Andrew Gallagher
Labor Council
Eligor
Elisor
Labor Leaders Center
Indianapolis
Gompers
Inbor Wnions
Prank Gotch May Meet Hackenschmidt in Chicago
Frank Gotch world champion heavyweight arrives in Chicago to finalize a labor day match with George Hackenschmidt the Russian lion. A $20 000 share is guaranteed to Gotch while Hackenschmidt accepts a percentage arrangement. The Empire Athlete club handles negotiations as Gotch dismisses retirement chatter and plans a summer return to the U S to prepare.
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Chicago
Frank Gotch
George Hackenschmidt
Hack
Hackenschmidt
Cracow
Russia
America
Gotch
Empire Athlete Club
Carnegie Boy Retires From United States Steel
New York May 1 William B Dickson first vice president of United States Steel corp reti red from that position today Dickson rose to prominence in the steel trust through the influence of Andrew Carnegie and is about the last of Carnegies boys retained under the Morgan Gat y regime
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Carnegie
New York
William B. Dickson
United States Steel Corporation
Dickson
Andrew Carnegie
Morgan-Gaty
Fire at Hermiston Destroys Mercantile Firm and Residence
Special correspondence from Hermiston Oregon reports a blaze about 1 PM destroying the Hermiston Mercantile Company premises and James Means residence. Losses are estimated near 30,000 with insured coverage noted. cause under investigation as flames spread to adjacent buildings.
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Hermiston
Ore
Hermiston Mercantile Company
James Means
Heeuranes
Means
Situation at Canton grows worse amid rebel threat
Hong Kong dispatches report the Canton crisis worsening with about thirty thousand soldiers inside the city. Assassinations and executions are reported regularly as two British gunboats arrive and the American gunboat Wilmington proceeds to Shiamen to protect foreigners who have not fled.
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Hong Kong
Canton
Wilmington
Shiamen
State Supreme Court Convenes In Pendleton Session
The State Supreme Court opened its semi annual Pendleton session with Chief Justice Robert Eakin and Justices McBride Moore Bean and Burnett in attendance. About twenty cases will be heard over several days. Out of town attorneys include Ivanhoe Cochran Crawford Oliver Bowerman Weinke Hart Vanvactor and Attorney General Crawford. A bar admission examination committee of three judges was appointed to examine about six embryo attorneys.
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State Supreme Court
Robert Eakin
Thomas A. McBride
Frank A. Moore
Henry J. Bean
George H. Burnett
Pendleton
Supreme Court
Franklin Truax
Cochran
Turner Oliver
Morrow County
State of Oregon
E. C. Maddock
Stephen Lowell
E_ Cochran
la Grande
Sam van Vactor
Heppner
Ivanhoe
George T. Cochran
C. F. Cochran
T .W. Crawford
Jay Bowerman
T. A. Weinke
Echo Saloon Suffers Small Fire in Echo Oregon
A small blaze at 1:30 a.m. damaged the Louvre saloon on Main and Dupont in Echo. The fire threatened nearby wooden structures but was contained by the Echo fire department. Losses included 2500 for the restaurant contents and 400 for the building, with insurance on both.
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Echo
Ore
Louvre
Main and
Dupont Streets
Weed
Testaurant
Echo Fire Department
Gilbert
bin Hey
Harry Coyn
Ed Stover
R. Lisle
J . Thomas
Frank Cunha
Pendleton
No Betting in Ploridy Justice Scandal
A garbled report from Jacksonville Florida outlines a public betting dispute tied to a legal plea. The text mentions an antedoted event and an interstate legislative action becoming effective, but key names and details are unreadable. The fragment suggests ongoing legal or political controversy with no clear outcome.
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Juscksonville
Flo
Fire at Weston Hotel Injures Guests and Damages Town
A fire at the Hotel Royal in Weston destroyed the hotel and six nearby structures. Guests jumped from the second story, suffering serious injuries including broken hips and burns. A boy, Eph Williams, and others were injured. animals perished or scorched. The blaze lasted about two hours, with extensive damage to surrounding businesses and partial insurance coverage reported. The town’s baseball team aided efforts as venues and shops suffered shattered glass and flames.
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Teddy Klein
NorDean & Duncan
Walla Walla
Willie Jamieson
Young
Ohio legislature faces grand jury corruption probe
Columbus May 1 Three Burns detectives arrested E H Harrison A O Bailey and D D Perry amid an expanding inquiry into alleged boodling during the current session The detectives said to be acting as lobbyists were accused of attempting to influence Dr George Nye representative and the case centers on corruption allegations against at least two members of the Senate and House with bonds set under five thousand dollars
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Columbus
E. H. Harrison
A. O. Bailey
DD. Perry
Burns
Ohio
George Nye
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Monn
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Pure
Weston
Hotel Royal
Klein
Eph Williams
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Beer” Joint
Jarman Department Store
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Marshal House
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