Fire Destroys Hull and Attacks Ottawa in Massive Blaze
Ottawa dispatch reports Hull burning from morning to afternoon with the city nearly wiped out. About 12 000 to 15 000 people homeless across Hull and Ottawa Chaudiere flats as mills, lumber yards, and major buildings burn. Government dispatches militia, adjourns Parliament as crews struggle to contain flames.
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Ottawa
Ont
Hull
Ottawa River
Chaudiere Flats
Canadian Pacific Railway
Ottawa Carbide Factory
Richmond Road
Rochesterville
Experimental Farm
Huntonburgh
Mechanicsville
Goulmer & Houston Lumber
City Mill
Gatineau Point
Hull Lumber Company
FE. B. Eddy
Bronson & Weston Lumber Company
J. R. Booth Lumber
McKay Milling Company
Ottawa Electric Railway Power House
Martin & Warnock Mills
Victoria Foundry
Ottawa Saw Works
Ottawa Specialty Company
Pain Plening Mills
J. R. Booth
A. W. Fleck
George Foster
Lewis Runnell
Mr. Bronson
Mr. Pain
Pain Mills
Murdered on the Highway at Hazleton
Special telegram reports a brutal murder on the road between Hazleton and Clifton. Joseph Moran a 45 year old junk dealer was slain for robbery his body found in a cave like hollow near the road throat cut bullet in head and arms scorched the robbers took Moran's money and will be pursued.
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Hazleton
Here
Clifton
Joseph Moran
Moran
Germany seeks American coal contracts as steamers chartered
Philadelphia exporters expect large coal shipments to the German Empire amid a 4 million ton shortfall against demand. Merchants hope to secure 600000 tons in a next twelve month contract, with four large steamers already chartered to load coal at Philadelphia for German ports.
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Europe
German Empire
Philadelphia
Germany
Hanauer
Frankfort
United States
Atlantic Seaboard
Gibraltar
Genoa
Mediterranean
Durbin Nominated for Governor by Indiana Republicans
Indianapolis April 26 After a long contest Colonel W T Durbin of Anderson was chosen for Governor by the Republican State convention. The final ballot left Durbin and Griffiths sole contenders and Durbin won as Griffiths moved to unanimous support. The ticket named Durbin for Governor Gilbert for Lieutenant Governor Hunt for Secretary of State Hart for Auditor Levy for Treasurer Taylor for Attorney General Jones for Superintendent Remy for Supreme Court Reporter Monks for Fourth District and Remy as assistant. Delegates and electors were also named with Fairbanks Beveridge Moyet Hanly Hanna and Miller among the slate.
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Indianapolis
Ind
W. T. Durbin
Anderson
Durbin
Griffiths
Winfield T. Durbin
Newton Gilbert
A. B. Hunt
W. H. Hart
Leopold Levy
W J. Taylor
F. L. Jones
Supreme Court
John W L. Jordan
L. J. Monks
C. F. Remy
B. E. Johnson
United States
Fairbanks and
Beveridge
Moyet
Charles 8. Hanly
The
Blican
State Central Committee
Nathan Powell
T. H. Adams
KE. A. Amsden
G. Brewer
Hugh H. Hanna
Charles Miller
Goshen
TENSION STILL HIGH OVER Tacna Arica DISPUTE
Lima reports continued high tension between Peru and Chile over Tacna and Arica. Chilean authorities allegedly anticipated failure of the Peruvian envoy Cha calana special mission. Chile opposes Peruvian influence and backs plebiscite as a settlement while pursuing neutralization efforts in Tacna and Arica.
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Lima
Peru
Chili
Tacna
Arica
Chacalana
Chill
Novelist James Barrie to contest Edinburgh vacancy
London April 26 The House of Commons reassembled this afternoon James M Barrie the novelist has accepted an invitation of a committee to contest the vacancy in the House of Commons for burgh and county constituency Edinburgh in the nation.
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London
House of Commons
James M. Barrie
House of Commons of Burgh
St.ener
Hospital Sights Make Mother Run Away With Child
Mrs Martin Wohl of 427 Brown street rushed from Pennsylvania Hospital with her injured 15 month old son Paul after an elevator accident on the doctors’ rounds. Elevator attendant Martin Wohl at 216 South Second street had been amusing the child when he was caught between platform and floor. Mrs Wohl, distraught, fled with the bleeding infant as doctors reported serious injuries and the mother did not return home.
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Martin Wohl
Brown Street
Pennsylvania Hospital
South Second Street
Paul
Wohl
McKelwie
Boys May Make Records For Globe Trotting
Samuel Hahn seven and Samuel Segerman five left home on Third and Gaskill, reached Chester after five hours. Disappeared yesterday afternoon, reported to DeLancey station. Chester police held them in custody last night. Parents say they had no money. Segerman rode a midnight train to bring them home.
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Samuel Hahn
Third
Gaskill Streets
Samuel Segerman
Gaskill Street
Chester
DeLancey Street
Ogden
Segerman
Philadelphia
New York Central Railway Shop Workers Strike for Higher Wages
About 2,200 employees at New York Central Railroad shops in Buffalo walked out. They demand wage increases and reinstatement of about 200 union members allegedly discharged by Superintendent James McBeth. A meeting at Fillmore Hall, with 1,500 attendees, backed the strike after prior offers fell short of expectations.
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New York Central
Trgs
Buffalo
New York Central Railroad
James McBeth
Fillmore Hall
John T. Butler
Building Trades Council
Pierce
Bartenders’ Union
McBeth
Bridegroom in Cumberland Shoots Self After Wedding
Claude FE Watkins, 26, a Baltimore and Ohio day operator at North Branch near Cumberland Maryland, died by suicide today after marrying Miss Jillian M Lewis, 25, of Ithaca New York. He left the tower to buy tobacco, returned within 100 yards, and shot himself in the head. No premeditation found. His bride had visited him at the tower earlier.
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Cumberland
Claude FE. Watkins
Baltimore and Ohio
North Branch
Here
Jillian M. Lewis
Ithaca
N. Y
Watkins
Boyd's
Lewis
Charles E. Raym
Ps Street
Raymond
Coeds Face Backlash Over Biology Department Admission
Consternation at the University as seniors oppose women in the biology department and campus life. The Bennett estate funds a girls annex with Radcliffe like status, while coeds debate access and class divisions. Seniors push resolutions, faculty and trustees unlikely to act now.
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University
Joseph M. Bennett
Radcliff
Harvard
Record Price Paid For Sapho Seat In New York
In New York on April 26 broker William B Oliver paid a record one hundred dollars for a single theatre seat at the matinee of Sapho to aid the naval arch fund. The fund festival manager James W Morrissey received a hundred dollar check from Howard Gould and a zero dollar check from Miss Helen Gould for Daly boxes on the same afternoon.
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the Times
New York
William B. Oliver
Naval Arch Fund
James W. Morrissey
Fund Festival
Howard Gould
Helen Gould
Daly
Riots Continue Across Baltic German Towns
Anti Jewish violence persists in Konitz Baldenburg Prechlau Wandsburg Czersk and Wielle with a synagogue wrecked at Baldenburg. Police summoned to Bomberg and Dantzie to restore order as unrest spreads across the region.
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Berlin
Konitz
Baldenburg
Prechlau
Wandsburg
Czersk
Wielle
Bomberg and
Dantzie
Labor boycott put on Dewey Day in Curcano
The International Association of Machinists District No. 8 executive committee orders members to abstain from the Dewey celebration and brands its promoters as anti union. Reports suggest material men pressuring contractors to seek arbitration, threatening a long running building trades strike in Chicago.
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Contractors’ Association
Building Trades Council
Chicago
Threaten Chorus Girls At Dewey Day Rehearsals
In Chicago on April 26 a complaint described threats of violence against chorus singers for the Dewey Day feature. Union pickets and sympathizers have stood guard at Steinway Hall entrance, frightening some girls and alarming the celebration committee. Professor Gabriel Katzenberger, who leads the chorus, asked police for protection as unions oppose the grand stand built by non union workers.
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Chicago
Gabriel Katzenberger
Steinway Hall
Professor Katzenberger
Eight Hour Bill Passed By House Labor Committee
Washington April 26 The House committee on labor at a special meeting today directed a favorable report on the eight hour bill The vote was unanimous The bill as amended limits government contract labor to eight hours per calendar day and imposes a five dollar penalty for each day worked beyond eight hours.
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Washington
House Committee On Labor
Express Trains Bump Together Near Croydon
Two sections of the New York and Pittsburg express collided near Croydon late last night in Bristol. No serious injuries were reported as one engineer braked to avert a severe impact and both trains damaged but service largely unaffected.
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the Times
Bristol
New York
Hawkins Granted Disbarment In Dover Court
John D. Hawkins, famed Delaware lawyer and former Secretary of State, was disbarred at his own request in Dover on April 26 1900. The court ordered his name stricken from the roll, citing personal spite and the need to protect clients while he retires from practice. Chief Justice Lore supervised the order and substitution of counsel in his ongoing cases.
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Times
Dover
Del
John PD. Hawkins
Delaware
Hawkins
Mr. Hawkins
Lore
Mawkins
Spruance
John D.D. Hawkins
John D. Hawkins
Priest Fights Fox in Reading. Injured Cleric Recovers
Rev. Father Malusecki of St. Marys Catholic Church was injured when a wild brown fox he had owned for two weeks attacked him. The fox, initially friendly, leaped at the priest breaking its chain and escaping before being recaptured about two miles away and returned to the priest.
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the Times
Reading
Father Malusecki
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Pricet
Backward Move in China Rumors Stir Teatry of Foreign Rule
Reports from Vancouver and Harrisburg describe a Chinese govt shake up aimed at abolishing the Tsung Li Yamen and transferring foreign relations to a Mongolian led body, seen as a bid to rebalance treaty powers. Mystic Shriners parade in Harrisburg with hundreds in uniform and about sixty admitted at a Lochiel banquet.
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Vancouver
B. C
Empress of China
China
the Times
Harrisburg
State
Lochiel
Frenchtown Sisters to Inherit After Brother's Death
Frenchtown New Jersey April 26 readers report that Misses Henaine two noted young women will inherit about forty thousand dollars each following the death of a brother in Galitele.
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Frenchtown
N. J
Galitele
Henaine
Forecast for Eastern states Friday through Saturday
For Eastern Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware and Maryland the forecast calls for fair weather Friday with partly cloudy skies Saturday and fresh north to northeasterly winds. Yesterday’s temperatures show the high at 72 and the low at 49 with a 61 reading for the day.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Federal Market Burning Ravages Seventeenth Street Fire
A two story Federal Market House on Seventeenth and Federal streets burned last night. Discovered just before midnight by a watchman, alarms summoned multiple fire companies. By 1.15 AM the blaze continued fierce and the structure was considered doomed.
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Federal Market House
Seventeenth
Federal Streets
Secret findings await Williamson School board meeting
The investigative committee report led by Samuel B. Huey, president of the Board of Trustees, was prepared yesterday. Huey declined to reveal findings and said they would not be public until submission at the Board of Trustees meeting on Friday May 11.
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Williamson
Samuel B. Huey
Board of Trustees
Huey
Board of
Clothing that Pleases Boys
A brief promotion notes that boys are discerning about clothes and that their mothers judge quality, sewing, linings, and finish. The author claims to cater to their own trade and to make clothing the best in the world.
New Lines of Tuxedo and Sailor Suits at Low Prices
Special attention today to our new lines of Tuxedo and Sailor Suits with a wide range of colors in Serges Cassimeres Worsteds and Cheviots. Silk vests detachable shields and trimmed lapels. Prices from 3 to 20 dollars with many items highlighted by blue serge and striped flannel options. Large display of three piece suits for boys 10 to 16 years and multiple vest styles.
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Cambridge
Oxford
Perry's Clothing Ad Promises Quality and Value
Wm H Wanamaker urges readers to try Perry's for the best ready made garments. The ad touts N B T patterns as top quality and asserts competitive prices with spring suits from twelve dollars and up and spring overcoats from seven fifty to thirty.
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Montreal
Peterboro
Brockville
Christ Church
St. John the Baptist Church
Indiana
James M. Berrie
University of Edinburgh
Claude Watkins
Sapho
New York Naval Arch
Dewey
Civil Service Office
Dover Court
Charles B. Lore, C. J
Priest
Malusecki
Reynard
Mystic Shriners
Queenstown
Rotterdam
Labo
Bremen
Mundell
Market ST
Cherry Gentlemen’s
Federal Market Burning
Williamson Trade School
Osha Pee Eee
Erie Ea A
Wm. H. Wanamaker
Twelfth and Market Streets
Perry's
Perry
Cheetaet St
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