Mellen Plans a Great Combine
Washington May 29 news outlines a vast railroad merger centered on the Panama Canal. The greater Pennsylvania system would absorb four networks with over a thousand million dollars in capital, spanning New England to the Gulf and linking eastern seaboard lines to Ocean ports and Orient trade. Charles S. Mellen is named as mastermind and dựates no strong opposition anticipated from the administration.
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Deny Merger Report Between New Haven and Pennsylvania Roads
In New Haven on May 29 the absence of President C B Mellen prevented a direct statement about a merger or working agreement between the New York New Haven and Hartford and the Pennsylvania railroads. An authoritative denial from another high official source asserted that the report is false.
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85 000 Men Get Advance at New England Mills
A broad wage increase took effect across New England cotton mills, affecting about 85,000 operatives in Rhode Island and parts of Massachusetts. The raises, reported from Amesbury to Pownalville and other Southern New England locales, reach roughly 10 percent in the listed sectors.
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Sympathy for Embezzler in Bloomington Stirs Mercy Move
Bloomington May 29 Helen Dixon who stole funds from a church organ fund may escape the penitentiary as public sentiment backs a move to modify her jail sentence. The case has drawn wide community support for leniency.
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Helen Dixon
Christian Church Organ Fund
Robbery Suspected After Shrine Train Crash Killings
In Allentown Pennsylvania on May 29 gems valued around $2000 and accident insurance policies totaling about $50000 are missing from the effects of Mr. and Mrs. Louis M Ellenbogen both members of Rajah temple who were killed in the Mystic Shriners train wreck at Honda California It is believed the items were stolen.
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Frozen frost ruins fruit crops in Vermillion and Menominee
A heavy white frost last night damaged fruit crops with strawberries proven ruined and plums and apples affected in Vermillion D and nearby. In Menominee Mich electric worker Jack Miller suffered severe facial arm and hand burns while repairing a motor at the electric light company.
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Jack Miller
Electric Light Company
Firearm suicide and accidental death reported in Stillwater
In Stillwater Minnesota on May 29 Guataye Firschow reportedly pressed a shotgun to his heart and fired with his toe after days of illness. Abr Java, 8 D, May 28 notes a separate accident near here where seventeen year old Gottied Kuensia was killed by her mother while working on a farm.
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Kilts
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Rusutle
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Ieng Stesimilea Eouth
Here
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Mont
Samuel Miller
Shirley
Mexico braces for confrontation as troops mass on border
In Cith City of Mexico on May 29 Mexico reports 4000 troops fully equipped on a war footing along the Guatemalan front. 8000 more are positioned south of the capital, ready to move to the border within 24 hours. Officials weigh possible retaliation if Cabrera proceeds with his plan to execute nineteen accused in the alleged assassination plot. Washington monitors Guatemala amid a panic and arrests tied to the case.
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Rebellion and Assassinations Hit Wongkong China
May 29 reports from Swatow describe a local rebellion in the Uping district of the Chnchn prefecture. Civil and military officers at Wongkong have been assassinated and their names banned as revolutionaries, aided by natives from neighboring provinces. The military commander has moved guards toward the outbreak. Berlin reports say rioters destroyed the German mission station at Lienchow near Pakhol. Italian and British naval aid may be sent as disturbances spread to Pakhol.
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Notables At Funeral for Mrs McKinley In Canton
Notables including the president and cabinet, vice president, and Ohio governor will attend a state like funeral in Canton. Arrangements were changed to allow viewing of the remains for Canton friends from 3 to 6 o clock today.
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Delmas Graft Defense in California Bribery Case
Delmas M Delmas has been engaged to defend Louis Glass and T P Halsey two Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph officials indicted for bribery in San Francisco. He made his first court appearance yesterday morning.
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Delphin M. Delmas
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Father fatally injured trying to save boy hit by train
Philadelphia May 25 A father William Johnson died from injuries after attempting to rescue his eight year old son who was ground to pieces under a locomotive at Fort Richmond. Physicians say the father cannot recover.
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Fort Richmond
William Johnsoh
Germany Hit By Danube Floods Across Bavaria and Hungary
Floods from the Danube burst dikes near Rudolsguad and Ter nel county causing hundreds of collapsed houses. Troops aid distressed inhabitants as emergencies unfold in Budapest and surrounding regions on May 29.
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Heavy Purchase of Beltram County Cutover Lands
Bemidis Minn May 29 six thousand six hundred nineteen acres of Beltram county cutover lands were sold and transferred this week with total consideration between forty five thousand and fifty thousand dollars.
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Dog Causes Fatality in Garnet Mining Man Accident
Helena Montana May 29 Davis Blackey well known mining man of Garnet was killed in a singular accident. He had just purchased a horse and was riding it for the first time when a dog dashed into the roadway and snapped at the horse heels causing it to bolt. Brackey was thrown violently to the ground and died soon afterward.
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Forgery Charged to Youth in Stewartville Minnesota
Peter Paulson, about eighteen, employed by farmer Ben Engle, is charged with drawing a $200 check and forging Engle's signature to cash it at First National Bank. The court will convene again October 14.
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Ben Engle
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Mystery in Death on Lake Superior
In Duluth Minnesota on May 28 a body of a young woman is found in Lake Superior near Seventieth Avenue East. The supposed name Mary Pierce appears on a letter to a sister Gertrude Pierce found with a handbag near the body. Her home or origin remains unknown and officials weigh whether death was self-inflicted or foul play.
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Gertrude Pierce
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Fire devastates Decorah dry goods and tailor stock in May blaze
A major Decorah fire last night ruined most of A Neish and Sons dry goods stock. Larsen Bros clothing suffered heavy water damage. Neishe Sons stock valued around 40,000 with 28,000 insured. Larsen Bros about 15,000 with 9,000 insured. Local insurers peg loss at roughly 75 percent of stock value. salvage expected higher for Larsen stock.
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Panic at picture show in Williston theater fire
A theater audience of mainly women and children panicked as the moving pictures on the machine caught fire. A few calm men helped steady the crowd at Williston North Carolina, May 28, preventing serious injuries.
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Lightning Strikes Party in Clyde Minnesota
A birthday party in Clyde near Winona Minnesota was disrupted when lightning struck the Ball residence on May 28. Davie Ball and guests were shocked but suffered no serious injuries. Other May 28 incidents include a child burned by a bonfire near Hopkinton Iowa and several deaths by poisoning, suicide, or accident across Minnesota Iowa and Montana.
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Davie Ball
Clyde
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North Dakota Notes A Busy State Calendar
North Dakota notes report a range of local happenings from Milton to Jamestown. The items name new and planned ventures, fires, fairs, livestock events, public works, and agricultural updates, highlighting civic projects, a bank charter, a militia encampment, and crop optimism across counties.
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Mystery Surrounds Gustave Thorne Death in Red River
Coroner’s jury in Fargo returns verdict of drowning for Gustave M. Thorne after his body is found in the Red River. Thorne’s wife arrives from Clinton Iowa on May 15 seeking him, while he had recently worked as a machinist at Northern Pacific shops and previously ran a launch on the Red River. No money was taken, suggesting no foul play, though questions linger if the death was suicide or accident. Thorne, about 38, believed Swedish, disappeared from his boarding house the day before his wife’s arrival.
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Gustave M. Thorne
Thorne
Red River
Northern Pacific
Clinton
Iowa
Hig
Body found in cistern at Merchants hotel Lidgerwood
Mrs Wallin, missing since November, is found dead in an open cistern behind the Merchants hotel in Lidgerwood. She had been in Minneapolis for medical treatment and, fleeing a blizzard after a mental breakdown, appeared to have wandered back home, then fell into the cistern while seeking shelter.
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Rival flour mills race to build in Williston
Two rival flouring interests announce plans for 200 and 300 barrel mills in Williston. Ex Mayor Dunn and R J Anderson inspect the site, while Rugby Milling's Jenkinson pledges a modern 300 barrel plant. He also vows to revive Missouri river wheat and flour traffic with tolls along a hundred miles.
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John A. Dunn
Grafton
R. J. Anderson
Lebstikow Milling
Charles W. Jennison
Rugby Milling Company
Williston
Missouri
Iife
Perjury Charge Follows Acquittal in Cooperstown Murder Case
Fred Smith was acquitted in the Eddie Corbett murder case in Cooperstown. Witness William O’Brien, who testified against Smith, was arrested on perjury charges and its trial began. Corbett and others had a drunken fight before his body was found in an alley. The case marks O’Brien’s alleged false testimony and Smith’s second trial after a prior hung jury.
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Eddie Corbett
Cooperstown
William O'Brien
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Corbett
Smith Oa
O’brien
Temperance law struck down by North Dakota Supreme Court
The North Dakota Supreme Court rules the temperance commissioner law unconstitutional and invalidates the office created by the legislature. The decision cites protection of elected public officers and notes the case involves E G Patterson and Judge Corliss before grand jury. Judge Spalding dissents on the temperance provision. The ruling ends the enforcement office and its deputy in Sherbrooke.
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Supreme Court
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Corliss
Grand Forks
State Supreme Court
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District Court
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Grand Jury
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B. D. Townsend
Corlise
Fisk
Sich
Spalding
George Murray
Sherbrooke
Farmer seeks warrant over wife selling liquor in sly scheme
A Fargo case involves a farmer who applied to Police Magistrate Ryan for an arrest warrant against his wife for Negalty selling Aquor. He says she bought liquor in Moorhead and resold at 10 cents a drink to him, amassing profits. she left for her father's home after a quarrel. Judge Ryan refused to issue the warrant, name withheld.
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Fargo
Here
Moorhead
Aquor
Historian Finds Ancient Mandan Village at Fort Lincoln Site
Field Officer B K Steinbrueck of the state historical society after eight days locates the Mandan village on the Fort Lincoln site. He identifies eighty lodges with twenty five likely destroyed by a landslide and notes a well preserved Mandan skeleton and spear among artifacts dating twenty to thirty years before Lewis and Clark.
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Lewis and Clarke
Constitutionality ruling halts grand jury compelment
Judge Winchester in Bismarck ruled the law forcing a non charged witness before a grand jury to answer potentially incriminating questions unconstitutional. When Witness Beer is forced to testify in the E G Patterson blind ply case he faces contempt and the matter goes to the supreme court via habeas corpus. The Patterson defense faces possible indictments as witnesses sympathetic to the defendant may be treated similarly. No indictments have been returned yet.
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Bismarck
Beer
Patterson
Supreme Court
Big cattle contract to deliver 8000 head to Fort Yates
Badger and Pakins of Manian will finish delivering 8000 cattle to the United States government at Fort Yates on July 15 as part of a treaty fulfillment. This year 25000 cattle will be shipped, with Standing Rock agency receiving a portion and the rest to other agencies. The contractors will be paid about 250000 dollars for the work.
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Badger & Pakins
Manian
United States
Fort Yates
Standing Rocke Agency
Fargo College Bulletin Highlights New Semester System
The quarterly Fargo College bulletin outlines major changes including adoption of a two term semester system and a published permanent recitation schedule. It notes elective junior and senior years with major and minor related subject groups, praises the college’s high standards, and emphasizes North Dakota pride and appeal to prospective students.
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Conservatory Wnd
North Dakota
Indian Hay Trial Ends With Hay Penalty Beset By Odd Ruling
C L Timmerman of First National Bank Mandan reports from Standing Rock that an Indian judge and jury found for the plaintiff in a case where one husband accused another of wronging his wife. The court ordered the defendant to deliver eight loads of hay while the husband must provide seven loads and the squaw tally loads as they pass. The interpreter noted the ruling touched home life questions.
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First National Bank of
Mandan
Standing Rock
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