Bloodis Shed Further Trouble in West Virginia
Wilkesbarre dispatch reports President Roosevelt ally likely to be represented by Carroll D. Wright as miners in the coalfields of West Virginia and Virginia continue a strike. In Keystone, violence erupts with a mine boss killed and many wounded as strikers attack officials. Operators prepare for non union labor. deputy marshals mobilize to protect property. trains may carry non union workers amid ongoing disruptions.
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W. Va
Virginias
Thurmond
New River
New River City
W. P. Read
Keystone
Keystone A
Mees
Norfolk and Western
Hongaris
Thes
Uty
Samuel Smith
Omer
Hazlet
Freeland
Delaware, Susquehannas and Schoylkill Railroad
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Lehigh Valley
Hagleton
Cranberry
A. Pardee & Co
Lea Valley
Wilkesbarre
French Party Visit Derailed by Stop in Chicago
Comte de Rochambeau and Comte de La Fayatte led a French noble party visiting Chicago. They toured sights and were hosted by civic and educational leaders, then left for their next stop amid showers and scenes of hospitality.
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STOP
Chicago
Comte de Bochambeau
Comte de la Fayatte
Countess DE Rochambeau
George Washington
Lord Cornwallis
Yorktown
Comte Rein de Rochambeau
Kron Pring Wil hem makes best eastward voyage record
The Kronprinze Wilhem, Lloyd steamer, sailed June 3 from New York and arrived in Plymouth after seven days and 62 minutes, averaging high speed to Edystone Light. Local houses are nightly targets of stone-throwing mobs amid threats and placards reading Death to scabs.
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Plymouth
Kron Pring Wilhem
New York
Edystone Hght
Tobacco Killed Him at Last After 111 Years
Daniel Smith of Saginaw Michigan died at age 111 years and 4 months from a fatal heart stop after a day of chewing tobacco. He reportedly never smoked but chewed constantly and collapsed at 3230 am while reaching for a chew. He claimed to have fought in the Mexican and Indian Wars and recalled Nelson and Colingwood and the Shannon battle. His father and mother perished aboard the Shannon. He once lived in a hut on Hog Island now Belle Isle. A separate note in Glenwood records Earl Gar that pleaded guilty to attempted murder in a property dispute with his father and was sentenced to five years.
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Daniel
Smith
Erie
Secinaw County
Snatth
Michigan
Nelson
Collingwood
the Shannon
Chesapest
Hog Island
Belle Isle
Pontise
Tecunweh
Disastrous Wind and Rain Strikes Lafayette
A fierce wind and rain pass over Lafayette Indiana causing roof loss at Monon freight building and damage to several homes while floods wash away bridges north of the city. Indiana gold deposits investigated by State Geologist Blatchley in Morgan Johnson Monroe and Brown counties show paying veins. Memphis Democrats endorse Richard Olney of Massachusetts for president.
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Indiana
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Brown Counties
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Tenn
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Shelby County
Richard Olney
Massachusetts
Democratic Party
Grand Rapids Furniture Makers Back Separate Association
Grand Rapids Michigan June 9 local furniture manufacturers end talks on pooling plan and decide to keep their own association and raise furniture prices by 10 percent.
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Grand Rapids Furniture Makers
Grand Rapids, Mich
Rev Garrigan Appointed Bishop of Sioux City
The pope presided at a consistory this morning in the Sistine Chapel and assigned red hats to several bishops including Rev Philip J Garrigan, vice rector of the Catholic University in Washington, as bishop of Sioux City Iowa.
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United States
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Philip J. Garrigan
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Sioux City
Iowa
Nominations sent for brigadier generals and consular shifts
Washington June 9. The president sent nominations to the senate for brigadier generals Gens. John C. Bates and George W. Davis Cols Theodore F. Wint Frank D. Baldwin Jesse M. Lee and William H. Carver Maj Tasker H. Bliss to be brigadier generals Surgeon general with rank of brigadier general Col William T. Forwood. Consuls shifted Silas McFarland from Iowa to Nottingham to Nottingham Austria and Frank W. Mahin from Iowa to Nottingham England.
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Senate
John C. Bates
George W. Davis
Theodore F. Wint
Frank D. Baldwin
Jesse M. Lee
William H. Carver
Tasker H. Bliss
William Tl. Forwood
Silas
McFarland
Iowa
Nottnngham
Reichenberg
Austria
Frank W. Mahim
Lowa
Nottingham
England
Prison Mutiny in Oregon Penitentiary Kills Three Guards
Salem Oregon June mutiny at the state penitentiary leads to a wholesale escape attempt. Three guards are killed by mutinous prisoners in the morning disturbance.
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Oregon
State Penitentiary
Logansport
Ind
Panhandle
Jewell Station
Galveston
Thomas James
Harry Young
Will Patterson
Strike at Cilesco and Carterville Coal Mine Sparks Arbitration
A four man strike began at the Cilesco and Carterville Coal company shaft disrupting output in the eleventh district. At a Peoria state operators and miners convention the dispute was referred to the district for arbitration but no agreement was reached. Arbitrators’ verdict unsatisfactory, workers strike persists as operators’ association pledges to force U M W to honor proposed terms or shut the field.
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Cilesco and
Carterville
Peoria
She Luakins
Virenio
Divernon
Cahillaml TH
Simers
Cau
GA. Burton
Virden
Operators’ “Association
United Mine Workers
Wagon overturn tragedy kills one at Denver high school event
Thirteen Denver high school students were riding a wagon when it overturned after wheels left a small bridge. Edith Withers died. seriously injured were Mphrey Smith and others with skull fracture shoulder injuries and arm fracture. A hayrick collapsed on revelers as the wagon capsized during a Mor tion trip. West Point centennial exercises unfold in New York with cadets graduating.
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Denver
Colo
Morrison
Sive
Edith Withers
M Phrey
Smith
Trom
Marvin Kitt
Denver High School
Mortion
Berlin Reichstag approves third reading abolishing dictatorship
Berlin story reports Reichstag passage of the third reading to abolish dictatorship in Reichsland Anti Anarchy Hill also approved. Washington note says the House passed an anti-anarchy bill. Wisconsin pioneer William Lee, an early La Crosse County settler, died at age.
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Reichstag
Reichsland
Washington
House Today
Wisconsin
LaCrosse
Wik
William Lee
LaCrosse County
New York Promoters Seek Permanent School of Practical Agriculture near Poughkeepsie
A group including Abrams Hewitt and R Fulton Cutting formed to establish a practical agriculture school on 415 acres near Poughkeepsie. Initial contracts for land were signed, with a Briar Cliff Moor facility having housed five students. Trustees discussed funding, equipment, and the aim to unite era and theory of farming.
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School of Practical Agriculture
Poughkeepsie
Abrams, Hewitt
R. Fulton Cutting
Weno
Law
Williany
Briar Clift Moor
J. van Norden
Abram OS. Hewitt
William E Dodwe
Falfon Cwting
T. P. Langner
van Ne
Powell
Sdool
Agricultural College
Hewitt Saint
Wilm E. Dodge
France
Three People Mauled by Wild Beasts in Cleveland Cage Incident
June 1 report from Cleveland details three circus attendants injured while handling bears and leopards. Herman Vedder suffered severe leg injuries from a bear bite likely requiring amputation. Madame Morelli was attacked by leopards as attendants fought to free her. Trainer McPhee sustained fatal abdominal injuries after a lion attack. rescue efforts failed to save him.
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Herman Vedder
Marke Mecary
Madame Morelli
Vedder
Cate
McPhee
Areve
McPhees
Meher
Tlutn
Five Points Advance in All Grades of Sugar
All grades of refined sugar advanced five points today. At Elmira College field day on Saturday Miss Bertha Burgett set a new U S college girls baseball throw record with a 181 feet effort, surpassing the previous 163 feet.
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New York
Emira
N. Y
Elmira College
Bertha Burgett
United States
Hensel Found Guilty of Murder. Life Imprisonment Met
Charles Hensel of Bureau county, dubbed the Luetgert of Illinois, was convicted of murder with a jury sentencing life at hard labor. The trial referenced five prior mysterious deaths alleged to involve Hensel including a stepmother, a baby, a grandfather, a pedlar, and a second wife.
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Charles Hensel
Luetgert
Bureau County
Adolph Luetgert
Chicago
Hensel
Hese
A. Gillen
William Ramsey
Charles Gross
Rev G H Hepworth Dies After Heart Failure in New York
George H Hepworth editor and Sunday sermon contributor to the New York Herald died at 11 p m in his West Twenty third Street apartment. He was born February 4 1830 in Boston of French descent on his mother's side. Mrs Hepworth was at his bedside.
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West Twenty-third Street
Hepworth
Boston
Brutal Whitecap Attack Reported Near Bloomington
A gang of about a dozen masked men assaulted Henry Deming and his wife on their Bloomington area farm. They were tied to a fence and whipped with a buggy whip over alleged neglect of their son. Mrs Deming identified two assailants. the couple were warned to leave the county.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Henry , Deming
Bloomington
Monroe
Prisoner Cain Shot While Attempting Escape at Port Sheridan
Cain a prisoner at Port Sheridan was mortally wounded by a sentry named Lawrence Dutt after Cain tried to flee with a companion. The shooting occurred as the litter bearing Cain’s partner was being halted. Cain died within an hour. Cain had been sentenced to three years and three months for a crime.
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Dunn
Cain
Tie
Fire destroys property in Oatoga with multiple casualties
A fire in Oatoga New York early today killed one person and fatally injured another. Two more were severely hurt and several others reported missing as flames destroyed property valued at about 200000 dollars. The dead include Mrs Mabie and Fire Chief Shailwick was among the injured.
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Oatoga
New York
Mrs. Mabie
Inj
Shailwick
Blind pig keeper killed in North Dakota robbery
In Iwen North Dakota the keeper of a local blind pig named Philip was robbed and killed. Authorities charge five suspects Thomas Davis Thomas Carr Albert Bowman Harry Cullom James Obrien with the crime.
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Iwen
North Dak
Ume
Rathbone calls for new trial in Cuba amid pardon delay
Estes G. Rathbone expressed disappointment with amnesty talks and urged a fresh trial in Cuba. He told reporters he would face charges through a legally constituted process if a new trial remains impossible, asking supporters to press for congressional action and assistance.
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Estes G. Rathbone
United
Cuba
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