Bold highwaymen rob Union Pacific mail near Uinuba Neb
The May 26 robbery on Union Pacific Overland Limited near Uinuba, Nebraska, saw four masked men force engine crew and mail clerks to open the mail car and load seven sacks of registered mail into a waiting automobile. Passengers and locals recall shots fired, but minimal delays occurred and the robbers fled north. Authorities pursue with post office and Union Pacific inspectors, aided by officers from Omaha. John Maurer of New York identified the scene and aided the investigation.
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Uinuba
Neb
Union Pactic
John BE. Maurer
New York City
Maurer
John Faville
Ralston
Hom
South Omaha
Favyule
Omaha
Tane
Seymour
Ellick R. Michel John
Hermn
iNex
Sanatone
Haine
M.G. Wallace
Pain” Wallace
Mrs Longstreet Fends Off Burglary In Her Home
In Gainesville Georgia on May 26 Mrs Bolen Longstreet widow of a Confederate general and postmaster fought a morning duel with a burglar found in her dining room. She fired a pistol as the man fled toward a window and he returned fire before she exhausted her ammo. She believes she struck him as he stumbled and nearly fell.
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Gainesville
Bolen Enqulfed
Longstreet
Sire
Bouquet For The Ladies In Roost Of The World
May 26 in New York remarks on American women as chummable and adorable. Rosnye Alfred East, president of the Royal Society of British Artista, praises U S daughters for peculiar faculties and charming companionship. In Huntsville Missouri Irving Carter 23 kills Thomas Bagby in a murder case after alleged injury to his sister.
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Boquet
New York
Rosnye Alfred East
Royal Society of British Artista
United States
Huntsville
Irving Carter
Guidite
Earso
Thomas 2
Baal Bagby
Bagby
Wyoming vs Canada in $10000 Outrace
Laramie Wyoming on May 2 reports Colezil Heil of Laramie bets $20000 he can raise more oats per acre on his farm than any Canadian farmer. A syndicate led by Professor W H Fairchild of Lethbridge Alberta accepts. The international contest pits two farming systems with harvest slated for September and a championship by the National Corn Association after threshing.
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Laramie
Canada
United States
Roosevelt hunting second hand lions
Boston reports two European animal dealers Calignari and Hagenbeck have bought animals from European markets for the past year and shipped them via Malta to British East Africa. Giovanni Locatelli claims many large beasts were sent to Mutts basn near Malta for exchange, including decrepit hippos and leopards fed hand to trained keepers.
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Boston
Europe
Calignari
Naples
Hagenbeck
Berlini
British East Africa
Giovanni Locatelli
Hunope
Malta
Locatelli
Mrs Gibson narrowly escapes as hat catches fire
New York May. Mrs Charen P Gibson at a lawn fete near Knox Library Meld on Kirth Avenue and Seventy First Street for Hope Farm. A lighter flame touched her ostrich hat plume at a booth run by Mrs Richard Stevens and others. Mrs Stevens quenched the blaze with no injuries.
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New York
Charen Pana Gibson
Knox Library
Kirth Avenue
Seventy-first Street
Hope Farm
Gibson
Richard Stevens
Joseph Harriman
Joseph
Stevens
Gibe
President's Wife Drops Out of Washington Society
Washington May 26 Mrs Taft wife of the president will not take part further in the social gaieties this season. Mrs Lewis More of Cincinnati sister of Mrs Taft will remain in Washington until May to act as hostess at the garden party next Friday afternoon for which Mrs Taft issued activations some weeks ago. Mrs More who was Miss Eleanor Herron a younger sister of Mrs Taft and wife of a professor at the University of Cincinnati has charmed society here by her graciousness and ease in the White House hostess role. Mrs Patt is not seriously ill but is all used up. Mrs More was accompanied to Washington by Judge Herron her father who is still a guest at the White House. Mrs More will remain here until May 2 when the social calendar at the White House will be exhausted.
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Washington
Taft
Lewis More
Cincinnati
Mra. Taft
Mra. More
Mias
Eleanor Herron
Morse Mansion to Go Under Hammer
New York May 26 The Charles W Morse mansion at 728 Fifth Ave will be sold at auction on June 10 to satisfy creditors with claims over 400 000. Mrs Morse wife of the imprisoned magnate faces loss unless friends raise more than half a million to save the residence once part of a vast fortune. The five story West Side show place on Millionaire's Row adjoins Harry Payne Whitney.
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New York
Charles W. Morse
Fifth Ave
Morse
America
Harry Payne Whitney
Belling Tragedy Claims Young Life in Indiana
North Manchester Indiana May 26 Shelby Partridge one year old died from a gunshot wound caused when a shotgun was accidentally discharged near here. The injury tore off his leg and he died several hours later in a local incident described as a chartvaria belling in rural vernaculars.
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North
Manchester
Ind
Shelby Partridge
Here
Partridge
Honore Sued for 450000 in Chicago Suit
Adrian C Honore brother of Mrs Potter Palmer and a noted society figure is named defendant in a 50000 damage suit filed in Chicago by James H La Penri over alleged infidelity involving his wife. Madame Marcella Semb rich cancels engagements due to ill health. Aguinaldo travels to Baguio as guest of Vice Governor Forbes for a week marking his northern tour since his retreat with American troops.
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Honore
Chicago
Adrian C. Honore
Aguinaldo
Manila
Emilio Aguinaldo
Baguio
George W. Cameron Forbes
Tabuntaing
Hunt Convict in Ohio Penitentiary
Columbus Ohio May 25 The hunter Harvey Johnson the desperate burglar who escaped from guard Wednesday night was captured in the Ohio penitentiary and the guards have been armed with rifles. Warden Jones said he would purchase two rifles to be fitted in the prison for emergency use. Search for the man continues with guards sent over the top of a stand pipe 160 feet high.
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Columbus
Ohio
Harvey Johnson
Ohio Penitentiary
Jones
Prindn Tor
Emergencien
Proclamation Opens 440000 Acres in Flathead and Nearby Lands
President Taft announces opening of about 440000 acres in the Flathead Reservation Montana 100000 in the Coeur d Alene Idaho and 60000 to 109000 in the Spokane Washington reservations for settlement and entry Registration runs July 15 to August 5 at designated offices with drawing to begin August at 10 o clock Applications must be mailed to the Coeur d Alene superintendent the drawing place for all three reservations and entries fixed for April 10 1910 for all lands Regulations will be available around June
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Washington
Taft
Flathead Reservation
Montana
Coeur D'Alene Reservation
Idaho
Spokane
Waah
Kallapell
Missoula
Mont
Flathead
Missouri Insurance Salary Law Upheld
Missouri supreme court sitting en banc sustained a state law denying licenses to insurance companies that pay officers salaries over 50000. The writs of mandamus from Equitable Life, Prudential, and Metropolitan Life were denied. The court upheld the statute but called it bad social legislation and urged repeal.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Supreme Court
State Insurance Department
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Prudential Insurance Company
The
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Judge in graft with bootleggers in Shawnee case
Virgil Biggers, suspended county attorney, testified in a bribery case implicating district judge William Maben and others in graft to protect bootleggers and joint keepers. County Commissioner Robert Hagar allegedly received sums in envelopes. Ost Johnson and L. B. Howell named in the payment chain as described by Biggers. Allegations claim about $126,000 paid for protection over the last year.
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Shawnee
Oklo
Virgil Riggers
William Maben
Biggers
Maben
Robert Hagar
Higgers
Hagar
Ost Johnson
L. B. Howell
Jointtsta
Johnson
Bulgin
Fire burning 50 years spreads at Summitt Hill mine
Tamaqua Pa May 26 Despite huge spend to quell a 60 year fire at Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co mine Summitt Hill the blaze spreads toward Spring Tunnel shoinkings. Read ing company's carpenters and masons rushed from Ashland to build concrete walls to halt flames. Vast sulphur in burning shafts makes works dangerous possibly filling shafts with water to continue battle.
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Tamaqua
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company
Summitt Hill
Spring
Reading Company
Ashland
Uncle Billy Gray, Dearbon, Michigan Dies by Poison
Dearbon Michigan May 25 Uncle Billy Gray S8 years old patriarch of this section chose to end his life by drinking Paris green from a tin dipper at his well. His 80 year old wife found him and the physician failed to save him. The widow, aged about 50, has no living relatives and faces an uncertain future though she is financially comfortable.
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Dearbon
Mich
Billy” Gray
Artist to Prison in Cincinnati Larceny Case
Henry Weidenbach the artist who burglarized homes where he worked pleaded guilty to larceny today and received a four year sentence in the penitentiary. Known nationally as a repairer of old paintings, Weidenbach was arrested in St Louis.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Henry Weidenbach
Weidenbach
St. Louis
Coney Island Showmen Protest to the Mayor
New York May 2 500 showmen gathered at a Boe pavilion in Coney Island to urge Mayor McClellan to withhold a general enforcement of the blue laws next Sunday until a test case can be carried to the courts A delegation of 25 will go in a body to the canal.
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New York
Coney Island
McClellan
Cartoonist to Join Roosevelt in Africa
Chicago's only woman elephant hunter Carl Akeley and her husband join John T. McCutcheon and the Roosevelt party in Africa. Most arrangements are finished and the expedition is planned to depart from Chivaga near the end of the month for duty in Africa.
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SI ‘Heon
Chicago
Carl Akeley
John T. McCutcheon
Roosevelt
Africa
Chivaga
Three Birthdays in a Year for Bennie Axelrod
New York reports Bennie Axelrod, a Odessa native who repeatedly attempts immigration to the United States. He has crossed the ocean 35 times, was previously deported after landing on Ellis Island, and has appeared at the doorstep of Uncle Sam more than a dozen times this year.
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New York
Bennie Axelrod
Uncle Sam
Bennie
Odessa
Ellie Island
Ellis Island
Woman slays three children then herself at Connecticut home
East Hampton Conn May 24 Mrs Carsten killed her three children then herself at the Carsten farm two miles from the village center. No motive is known for the act.
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East Hampton
Conn
Wouls Carsten
Carsten
Traveling to Russia with His Back Broken
Alexis Laudent, a Birmingham native, started two weeks ago for Moscow to visit his parents. He was badly injured in an Alabama mine weeks earlier with a broken back. Doctors doubt recovery, and he hopes to see his parents before death.
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New York
Alexis Laudent
Birmingham
Ala
Moscow
Ruaela
Jersey City
Alabama
E. F. Shaw Files Divorce Action in Salem
Boston May 24 A libel praying for divorce from his wife Nettle E. Shaw and custody of her son Eldredge F. Shaw was filed at Salem today by State Senator James F. Shaw of Manchester The suit alleges statutory offenses with H Kenn Marble the chauffeur who allegedly assisted Mrs Shaw to elope to California Proceedings followed an earlier attempt by the senator to gain possession of his son who was with the mother and Marble in California Mrs Shaw is now at Chatham Mass with her son and her father H Fisher Eldredge Senator Shaw said he would press to obtain the child’s custody
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Boston
Nettle E. Shaw
Eldredge F. Shaw
Salem
James F. Shaw
Manchester
Bel
H. Kenn Marble
Shaw
Woman Found Murderd Girl In Griffin Park Near Los Angeles
The mutilated body of Annie Potters nine year old daughter of a ranchman was found off a roadway in Griffin park near Los Angeles. She had been missing since last Monday and her throat was cut from ear to ear with clothing torn amid the outraged crime. In St Louis four railroads pleaded guilty and were fined nine thousand seven hundred dollars for violating Interstate Commerce Act rules on car care and feeding.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Annie Potters
Griffin Park
ST. Louis
Dyer
United States District Court
Captured suspect in Oklahoma assault tied to lynch fears
A 17 year old white bride Mia Cole was assaulted at home near Sharp Oklahoma. The assailant, a Black man, was captured today at Weleetka Oklahoma and jailed as crowds fear lynching. In Washington Helen Taft accepts invitation to unveil Gettysburg monument to soldiers of the regular Union army. Ceremony set for May 1.
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Okla
Mia. Cole
Sharp
Weleetka
Washington, D. C
Helen ‘Taft
Gettysburg
Union Sry
America Talks Peace Rivals Plan for War
Lake Mohonk New York May conference backs arbitration in a broad platform urging treaty limits and peace over war budgets. The call promotes Hague oversight, warns of war costs hindering reform, and suggests the United States lead in limiting armaments. Delegates Buchanan and Baldwin praised the adoption of the platform.
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America
Missouri Appeals From S McPherson Ruling in Rail Fare Case
Kansas City May 24 Jeptha Howe of St Louis representing Seebert Jones circuit attorney led in federal court an appeal from Judge Smith McPhersons decision continuing to restrain the circuit attorney from prosecuting an injunction suit against railroads over the 5 cent passenger fare The appeal filed with Judge McPherons consent cites error in his ruling.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Jeptha Howe
St. Louis
See
Bert Jones
That City
Smith McPherson
Circuit
McPhernon
Actio
Colonel Astor Invents Peat Fueled Engine Patent
Colonel John Tacob Astor seeks a patent for a machine to use peat as fuel. The device aims to power a 150 horsepower plant at Rhinecliff on the Hudson connected to a stone crusher. If successful, the invention could mark a notable engineering advance with broad impact.
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Astor
New York
John Tacob Astor Haw
Scientific American
Anya
Rhineclift-on the-Hudson
Weather Man Witness In Important Suit
An affidavit from Henry J. Cox of the Chicago weather office was presented to Judge Wella to support a motion to set aside a 3,000 verdict in a breach of promise suit by Miss Mary Mattes against Hugh Crabbe. Cox testified no rain occurred on the evening of October 21 1906 at a Michigan avenue address.
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Chicago
Henry J. Cox
The
Weather Bureau
Wella
Sydney Stein
Mary Mattes
Michigan Ave
Hugh Crabbe
Mina Matton
Crabbe
Crabbe Gention
Breln
Cox
Cox Wre
Yankees as Designers of Oriental Rugs
Chicago May 24 practical commercial America supplies designs for Persian and Indian rugs through trained designers at top importing houses. Chicago houses center this work with Art Institute of Chicago providing formal training in design and historical ornament. Designs are sent to Boat for production by native workers then shipped back to Chicago.
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Chicago
America
Orient
Asia
Windy City
Earl of Granard Honored at Buckingham Palace Investiture
London May 4 The Earl of Granard received the insignia of Knight of the Order at Buckingham Palace from the King in the morning. The honor fills the vacancy caused by the death of the Earl of Powth. The Earl of Granard married Miss Hest-Noo Mills of New York in January this year.
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Earl OF Granard
London
Earl of Grana Waa
Order of
Brand of Cain Mark of Poison Ivy Confession Reed
A confession to murder is reported from New York on May 24. The accused Mulligan admits placing a revolver on his desk and firing, his forehead bearing a red streak and invoking the biblical mark of Cain as a motive. The incident occurred after a shooting in a wooded, brush-grown hill area near Pemboy police headquarters.
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New York
Cain
Jermeant Mulligan
Pemboy Poolice
Seoonaa
Keow
Decision Issued in Portland Gateway Case
The Interstate Commerce Commission handed down a decision in Portland gateway case, sustaining through routes and joint rates via Portland. Defendants must establish through routes and rates by July 1, 1909 and maintain them for two years, with Northern Pacific Union Pacific and Chicago Northwestern ordered to sell through tickets Seattle to the Pacific Northwest and eastern destinations via Portland. The case arose from Commission complaints prompted by traveler concerns.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Portland Gateway
Portland
Western and Northwestern
Northern Pacific
Union Pacific Lines
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Seattle
Pacific Northwest
Ore
Ttack
Rifts Reported on Mars by Lowell from Flagstaff
Boston May 24. Professor Percival Lowell reports two rifts in the south polar cap of Mars observed from Flagstaff Arizona. The rifts occur at longitudes 350 and 240, mirroring a prior phenomenon. The earlier event was followed by the cap's disappearance, likely snow.
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Mars
Boston
Mass
Percival Lowell
Flagstaff
Ariz
Lowell
Adam God on trial in Kansas City riot killing
James Sharp who calls himself Adam God faced trial for the killing of Patrolman Michael Mullane. Mullane was among five people who died in a religious riot on December 8. Sharp’s wife Melissa Shar was not tried today as separate proceedings were granted.
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Adam God
Kansas City
James Sharp
Michael Mullane
Sharp
Melissa Shar
Neparata Thiala
Frightened Young Man Sleeps Unaroused in Hospital
Philadelphia May 24 reports Louis Cohen a young Russian boarder at 608 Green Street in Roosevelt Hospital remains in a deep, unarousable sleep after distress. Doctors say he may sleep for days or weeks. attempts with electricity, ice baths, scalding water, and slight pricking have failed.
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Philadelphia
Louis Cohen
Hyman Weinstein
Green St
Roosevelt Hospital
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