Southern Pacific consolidates shops moving to Reno
Reno reports Southern Pacific plans to consolidate Bakersfield Truckee and Wadsworth shops at Reno. Over 1000 mechanics to be employed on about 3500 dollars daily payroll. Bakersfield will keep a small urgent repair force, with Reno as the main construction hub. The move cites Reno’s favorable climate and cost savings.
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Southern Pacific
Pakersfield
Truckee
Wadsworth
SAN FRANCISCO
Southern Pacific Company
Bakersfield
Reno
Nevada
Identified Booth Confirms Remains as Uncle John Wilkes Booth
A special from Oklahoma reports shontus Brutus Booth, nephew of John Wilkes Booth, fully identifies the remains known as David W. George II as his uncle. Booth says the dead man was John Wilkes Booth and cites sources including Joseph Jefferson and Clara Morris. He claims to have acted as Booths agent for nearly four decades.
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Oklahoma
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
ST. LOUIS
lnid
shontus Brutus Booth
Lincoln
David W. George
George II
Booth
kK. L. Bates
Memphis
Penn
Tie
Joseph Jefferson
Clara Morris
Mr. Booth
Garret Plantation
Virginia
Mr. Bates
Buddy
Garrett's
Kentucky
Glen Rose Mills
Texas
John St. Helen
Seamen Hanged for Murder of Veronica Captain
Gustave Rau a German and William Smith an American seamen aboard the Veronica from Ship Island Miss were hanged simultaneously today for murdering Captain Shaw and six crew members. Rau protested his innocence on the scaffold. London reports note negotiated shipments of gold to Europe and United States firms planning large transfers this week.
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LIVERPOOL
Gustave Rau
William Smith
Veronica
Ship Island
Miss
Shaw
Rau
Montreal Panic Follows Ames & Company Failure
The Montreal stock market plunged to year’s lows after Ames & Company of Toronto announced its failure. The firm carried a commercial rating exceeding $1,000,000. Camille Lankey of Verdi is in Reno today.
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MONTREAT
Montreal
Ames & Company
Toronto
A. Ames & Company
Camille Lankey
Verdi
Reno
Cruiser Tacoma to Be Launched This Afternoon
The United States cruiser Tacoma will be launched at high tide from Union Iron Works in San Francisco. Miss Julis Naomi Farris will christen the vessel with wine. About a thousand guests will attend. Governor McDride and Mayor Campbell are absent, represented by I. B. Gault and George H. Stone. The ship features light draught, teak and copper hull sheathing, costing about $1.5 million and carrying over 300 crew. A separate note states a venue change for Jett and White in Morgan county with a trial set for June 23.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Tacoma
Union Iron Works
Julis Naomi Farris
Beattie
McDride
Washington
Campbell
I’. B. Gault
Whitworth College
George H. Stone
Flood waters subsiding as Missouri river floods ease
Wide Mississippi flood reports from Keokuk to St. Louis show levee breaks, 600 square miles under water, thousands displaced, and losses estimated up to 25 million. Kansas City gauges fall, relief work underway, and Federal aid urged as epidemics feared.
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ST. LOUIS
Post-Dispatch
Keokuk
IoWa
Mississippi
Alexandria
bluffs
Hannibal
Des Moines
Warsaw
Quincey
Illinois
KANSAS CITY
Ferris Wheel Selloff At Public Auction
The massive 1893 world’s fair Ferris wheel was sold at public auction in Chicago. A junk dealer bid $1800 for the building and boilers, far below its original $362,000 cost. Outstanding liens include bonds of $300,000 and a floating debt of $100,000.
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CHICAGO
Detroit Manager Fines Elberfield in Rule Violation
Detroit on June 2 reports manager Bar Row of the American League club fined shortstop Norman Elberfield 200 dollars and suspended him indefinitely for disobeying club rules and careless play.
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DETROIT
Barrow
Detroit American League Baseball
Norman Elberfield
Roosevelt in Iowa on train trip amid flood distress
President Roosevelt arrived in Iowa by train and spoke to a large crowd in Denison area. He acknowledged flooding in Iowa Kansas and Missouri, urged patience and resilience, and pledged help while noting suffering will occur. Secretary Shaw Senator Allison and Dolliver accompanied him. The train's passage was watched and slowed through flood districts.
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Iowa
Union Pacific
Illinois Central railroad
Denison
Shaa
xtra
Shaw
Allison
Dolliver
Roosevelt
Kansas
Missouri
Georgia
Freight Wreck Near Tulare After Irrigation Fail
A freight train derailed one mile south of Tulare California at 6 30 am when a water release from an irrigation hole washed out the road bed. The engine and eight cars passed over but an oil car broke through causing a spill and wreckage. No crew injuries reported though tramps on the freight may be buried.
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KANSAS CITY
Kans
Leavenworth
Wichita
Taft
TULARE
Cal
Tornado Leaves Gainesville Area in Sombre Wake
A Georgia tornado yesterday hit Gainesville New Holland and White Sulphur killing about eighty five people and injuring many as homeless tens of thousands face losses. Two hundred houses and mills were destroyed with property damage around three hundred thousand dollars. A relief fund of five thousand dollars was raised and calls go out for tents and public aid.
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GAINESVILLE
New Holland
White Sulphur
armory
court house
messag
Secretary of War
Treasury balances in general fund report from Washington
Treasury report shows available cash balance of 224,109,180.00 in the general fund excluding the 156,000,000.00 gold reserve in the division of redemption and gold receipts totaling 105,998,653.00.
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WASHINGTON
treasury
Mail service crippled by floods in Kansas City area
A government dispatch reports flood conditions worsening for mail routes centered on Kansas City. Trains halted. Atchison and Lenora distressed. Des Moines cutoff. Mail redirected to St Louis for eastward dispatch as rising water eight feet above depot floor floods the round table area.
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WASHINGTON
Fost
Norton
Railway ioil
St. Louis
Kansas City
Atchinson
Lenora
Atbia
Towa
Des Moines
dispatch
City
Springfield
Taft
Canada Influenced by Chamberlains Speech
Washington reports that hopes for reassembling the High Joint Commission fade as British Prime Minister Chamberlains speech shifts Canadian attitude away from reciprocity with the United States. Ottawa shows no interest in reviving talks, and no new sessions are planned.
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WASHINGTON
High Joint Commission
Chamberlains
Canada
England
United States
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Europe
YORK
Lanerd
naling, Magoun & Company
Kidder, Peabody & Company
Heston
Jett
White
Morgan county
Gray, Reid
Wright Co s
Gray, Reid &Wright
GRAY, REID & WRIGHT Telephone Brown
Virginia Street
TOPEKA
Gazette
Alliance
ST. PAUL
Minnesota
Big Stone Lake
LAWRENCE
west bottoms
Harlem
Joseph L. Keenan
Sardou bridge
Tokepa
Bailey
Mound City
Mississippi river
signal service bureau
middle west
Ilinois
Sacramento
Cann Drug Co
Virgini
TROY LAUNDRY
Reno, Nev
Golden’s Jewelry Co
G. A. KOPPE
Virginia City
Rosenthal & Armanko’s
Commercial Row
Joe Jarvis Seet
RIVERSIDE
Virginia St
F. P. DANN
Wigs
Kinney
ALFRED NELSON
Free employment bureau
SPORTING GOODS
Golden Eagle Hotel
Sierra St
Opera House
Dennison
Treasury Statement
UNITED STATES MAIL
CHAMBERLAIN
The
Reno Jewelers
N-Nevada St
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