Recovering the Victims in Jacksonville Fire Disaster
Reports from Jacksonville dated May 6 describe recovery of Harry Bonnetheau and two unidentified African American victims from the St Johns River after last Friday's blaze. Martial law remains strict as citizens await verification of missing persons amid mass departures and ongoing relief efforts.
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JACKSONVILLE
Fla
Harry Bonnetheau
St. Johns
Bonnetheaus
New York City
whitch
Bawden
St. Johns river
Cuyahoga Savings Bank Suspends Payments in Cleveland
In Cleveland on May 6 the Cuyahoga Savings Bank closed doors after a notice blamed the continued absence of treasurer R. N. Pollock. Directors suspended payments pending examination, promising full repayment.Depositors gathered as President Pollock had left for New York ten days earlier and has not been heard from.
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Alcazar
St. Augustine
East Hay street
Bay street
Forsythe street
Main street
CLEVELAND
Cuyahoga Savings Bank
R. N. Pollock
Pollock
New York
Iron Works Group Promise Statement May Be Delayed
New York May 6 The official statement promised in connection with a 1 4 ration of Union Iron Works Bath Iron Works Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Company and Louis Nixon was made today by H W Poor & Company financing the group of bankers and brokers. The statement will be issued Wednesday and will outline a plan while withholding certain details until perfected.
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NEW YORK
Union Iron Works
sap itan ca
Bath Iron Works
Bath
Maine
Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Company
Newport News
Louis Nixon
Elizabethport
H. W. Poor & Company
China Rejects Manchuria Opening Report
A Shanghai Times claim that China urged a full Manchuria opening is denied. A high Chinese official floated the idea briefly, but no official move followed. Downing Street and St Petersburg view opening as against Russia, with Britain and the United States unwilling to act. Jamieson & Co. in Chicago suspends operations after failing to meet New York obligations.
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LONDON
Associated Press
Shanghai
London Times
China
Manchuria
Japan
United States
Great Britain
Downing
St. Petersburg
Russia
Timea
Downing street
Lord Lansdowne
Gazette
CHICAGO
Jamieson & Co
La Balle street
west
New York Exchange
Firebugs Arrested in Macon County Swindle Case
A six man and one woman alleged conspiracy to defraud insurance firms in southern Macon County led to five arrests. Reports say John Province and wife home burned March 22, with confessions by Donovan and the Province wife. The gang allegedly burned ten schoolhouses and terrorized Ardmore community, costing insurers about 400000.
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ST. T.Orls
Post-Dispatch
Macon
leriff Turner
John Provine
Grant Gipson
Ardmore
L. J Sumners
Milton Summers
W. D. Donovan
Leroy Summers
White
Donovan
John Frovince
Macon county
Joseph Heifner
Iowa State Insurance Company
Burlington Train Wreck Kills Engineer and Injures Dozens
A Burlington road passenger train struck a construction train at Thayer Iowa causing multiple wrecked cars. Five killed and about thirty injured include engineer Robert Brown and other crew. dining car and sleepers remained on track. Injured sent to Creston Hospital for treatment.
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OTTUMWA
Burlington road
Thayer
Burlington General Offices
Chicago
Brown
WRESTON
Robert Brown
Burlington
Simon McKenna
Creston Hospital
Cloud Burst Floods Fort Madison City
A cloud burst flooded Fort Madison streets to five feet. Mrs. Mary Carter, an elderly resident, drowned in her cellar as the city’s gas mains filled with water and darkness spread through the town. In Chicago arrangements were made for forming a major music publishers trust named American Music Publishing Company with capital of three to four million dollars.
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FORT MADISON
Mary Carter
CHICAGO
United States
New York
the
American Music Publishing Company
Poetic Justice For Once In Iowa Tragedy
Emil Mohr and Charles Reis were killed instantly in Davenport when a pulley rope snapped while they attempted to hang August Blunk from a pulley at Independence Malting Company. Gus Siems helped, the rope failed, and Blunk was only slightly injured.
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DAVENPORT
EMIL MOHR
CHARLES REIS
AUGUST BLUNK
INDEPENDENCE MALTING COMPANY
MOHR
REIS
GUS SIEMS
BLUNCK
New German Ministry Gazetted in Berlin May 6
The gazette lists the new German ministry appointments. Baron Freinhaben becomes Minister of Finance. General Podbijelski is named Minister of Agriculture. Baron Von Hammerstein takes Interior, Herr Moiler becomes Commerce Minister, Herr Kraetke is Secretary of State for the Imperial Post Office.
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BERLIN
Baron Freinhaben
Fi Nabee
Podbijelski
Baron Von Hammerstein
Metz
Herr Moiler
Herr Kraetke
Imperial Post Office
Double Tragedy in Pennsylvania
From Bellfont Pennsylvania Jesse R King fatally shoots his bride of two months then kills himself after a quarrel over her leaving. The injured Mrs King remains alive but is not expected to recover. Separate dispatch notes no presidential statement on Kruger’s reception and no promise on reception details.
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BELLFONT
Jesse R. King
Millhelm
Gazette
WASHINTON
State Department
Kruger
Sherman’s Headache Cure Promises Quick Relief
Headache cure claims to vanquish headache neuralgia with one dose. Sold in boxes for 25c and 50c by Hodgkinson, sole agent, with the advertising touting rapid relief.
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Sherman
Hodgkinson
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ALFRED NELSON
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