Opium Smuggling Safe Inquiries Find Empty
Detectives report three safes used by smugglers were found empty with only sand bags for weight. About 350 pounds of opium were believed ready for shipment from Seattle to San Francisco, with two safes containing sand and one containing opium. Investigations continue to identify accomplices and operators behind the ring.
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Ais
Alfred Frank Burke
San Francisco
Seattle
Burke
Mangeters
Detective Burke
RK. Stevens
Billy Cree
Alfred Larsen
Smusglere
Victoria
Steamer Collision Sinks Small Vessel Near Kieff
In Kieff on May 25 a steamer collided with a small vessel, which sank with seven aboard. The steamer escaped damage and the other crew members were rescued.
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Kieff
Darrow
County officials plan court room expansion and new clocks
The county commissioners will add a new 600 sized courtroom by resizing the department area and moving the partition in the county courthouse. Special judges will use the enlarged space. They also intend to buy new clocks for the county recorder clerk and county auditor offices.
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Superior Court Grand Jury
County Rer
County Clerk
Cou
Potter reaches 706th year milestone, New York
New York May 25. Messages report Henry C. Potter, the eminent prelate, has reached another milestone in his journey. The bishop is now upon his 706th year. Get the good clothes habit.
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New York
Henry C. Potter
City Officials Seek Additional Clerks and Park Board Work
Patch ed Up City Comptroller Riplinger plans to ask the council for two more clerks for his department next month. One will devote part time to duties as secretary of the park board. A virtual agreement funds desk and stationery for the secretary and back taxes on park property, while park improvement taxes will come from the general fund. The park board awaits Corporation Counsel Gilliam’s reply. A committee of Commissioners Smith and Clarke studies vacations for park employees, a policy the board may consider before department heads grant time off.
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Riplinger
Park Board
Gilliam
Smith and
Clarke
Thompson
Democrats Meet in Montgomery on National Convention Delegates
In Montgomery Alabama the Democratic state convention gathers to formally nominate candidates for state offices and select delegates to the national convention in St Louis. Delegates discuss Parker but a strong move favors an uninstructed delegation to the national convention.
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Montgomery
Ala
St. Louie
Parker
Tennessee May Go For Parker in Nomination
Tennessee may become the first Southern state to declare for Judge Parker for the presidential nomination. Senator Carmack leads the Democratic state convention with Parker as the probable favored candidate. No opposition to the renomination of Gov. Frazier and other incumbents is noted.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Judge Parker
Carmack
Parker
Frazier
Anarchist Plot Aimed at Czar Train Near Krementzchug
May 26 report says foes attempted to wreck the imperial train near Krementzchug by tearing up rails. A pilot train was wrecked ten minutes before the czar's arrival, signaling a planned assassination during the monarch's journey.
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Berlin
The
Lokal Anziegar
Krementzchug
Heavy White Metal Tea Spoons Regular Set of 6
Listing notes six regular size tea spoons in white metal. Compact set suitable for everyday use or gifting.
Canton vice roy seeks fugitive. Portugal may resist
The vice regal authorities demand the extradition of a fugitive from Maceo, triggering possible trouble with Portugal. Chinese gunboats and two destroyers arrive at Maceo to back the demand, while the Portuguese prepare to resist.
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Honqgkono
Canton
Maceo
Portugal
Risked Wrath of His Church Over Dancing Dissent
Dr Henry Rasmus of the Fret Method ist church in Spokane advocates leniency on dancing and card playing as harmless amusements when done within moderate bounds. He argues church rules were made in a stricter era and should be left to personal conscience, stirring debate among his congregation and supporters of liberal reform ahead of Los Angeles conference action.
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Spokane
Wash
Henry Rasmus
Uberal
Rasmus
Los Angeles
Custody owner faces habeas challenge over adoption hand
In Seattle a father with court custody seeks to transfer his child to adoption, prompting Mrs. Josie Martin to sue the Washington Children's Home Society. The case, argued in habeas corpus, questions if a custodial parent can surrender a child against the other parent’s wishes.
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Seattle
Josie Martin
Washington Children's Home Society
Martin
Washington Children’s Home Society
Whatcom County
United Presbyterian General Assembly Opens in Greenville
The 46th General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America convened in Greenville with several hundred delegates from across the country. Top agenda includes a proposed union with the Associate Reformed synod of the South, reflecting shared doctrine. the slavery question caused a breach decades ago.
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Greenville
General Assembly
United Presbyterian Church of North America
Associate Reformed Synod of the South
Latona Improvement Club Backs Underground Crossing Plan
The Latona Improvement club discussed a Sixth Avenue crossing over Northern Pacific tracks. Residents split on overhead versus underground crossing as grading proceeds. city officials oppose a grade crossing as dangerous. The street committee handles the issue and an underground crossing is likely.
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Latona Improvement Club
Northern Pacific
Sixth Avenue
Point Oa
Venezuelan vice-consul Quivre suffocated after explosion
Paris dispatch reports Senor Quivre Venezuelan vice consul died from asphyxiation due to fumes from an explosion in his apartments this morning.
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Paris
Senor Quivre
Sidewalk program discussed by Green Lake club
The Green Lake Improvement club meets to discuss car service ventilation and district improvements. Residents push city engineering to advance 25 miles of wooden sidewalks costing 28000 dollars, with urgent need and possible committee action to press the matter and condemn the shoreline.
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Green Lake
Lakefront buoyed by donation offer for boulevard
Judge W. J. Wood, owning about half the property along the lake, has offered to donate the land for a boulevard to the city as soon as the remaining ground is secured.
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Green Lake
W. J. Wood
Homeless Couple Lost Home in Tacoma Fire
A four room house on White's ranch near Sixth Avenue beyond Danforth Place in Tacoma was destroyed by fire yesterday noon. The aged couple, the husband blind and the wife 79, were left homeless with only a mattress and a violin saved from the structure.
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Sixth Avenue
Danforth
Yester
Prohibitionists of Maine Convene in Portland
The Maine Prohibitionists met in Portland with wide attendance as delegates and visitors gather to select candidates for state offices and designate representatives for the national convention in Indianapolis next month.
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Portland
Maine
Indianapolis
Hartford Seminary inaugurates new president Mackenzie
The Hartford Theological seminary held its commencement today with the inauguration of Prof. W. D. Mackenzie D D as president. Leading Congregational and Presbyterian seminaries were represented at the ceremony.
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Hartford
Conn
Hartford Theological Seminary
W. D. Mackenzie
D. D
State Bar Association opens annual Illinois meeting
Eminent rights of the legal fraternity throughout Illinois were present this afternoon at the opening of the annual meeting of the State Bar Association in Bloomington UL.
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Bloomington
Illinois
State Bar Association
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