Fire destroys Indianapolis home. two die in blaze
Nathan Morris a leading Indiana attorney and Dr Joseph Haas’s 12 year old son Frank Haas died in the early morning fire at 523 North Alabama street. Mrs Haas and several children were seriously injured as firefighters saved the rest. Judge Morris had lived in California and practiced in Indianapolis since 1877.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Nathan Morris
Indiana
Frank Haas
Joseph Haas
Belle Haas
Rose Haas
Louis Haas
Grace Lemon
North Alabama Street
Mr. Morris
Haas
Louis Hass
Morris
Morris & Newberger
California
Lima
Tragic Separation Ended By Double Strife
Buffalo on April 13 reports 55 year old George Denning shot his wife after she refused to resume marriage. Believing her dead he fled and later died by poison at a Salvation Army lodging house.
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Buffalo
N. Y
George Denning
Denning
Salvation Army
Bar Room Fight Near Kenosha Wounds Two Men
In Kenosha county Wisconsin two men Henry Vandusen of Madison and Joseph Van Est of Columbus were shot and fatally wounded after a bar room brawl Sunday night. Suspect Al Brown was arrested after a struggle and is jailed. Witnesses offer unclear accounts of the incident.
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Kenosha
Wis
Henry Vandusen
Madison
Joseph van Est
Columbus
al Brown
Sailor Goes Violently Insane and Drowns in Escape
In Newark on April 13 a sailor named John T. Larson aboard the schooner Mary A. Kall attacked crew members with a weapon. He slashed Andrew M. Johnson, and during the attempt to flee the captain and mate he fell overboard and drowned. Larson had shown melancholy for days.
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Newark
N. J
John. T. Larson
Mary A. Kall
Andrew M. Johnson
Hall
Larsen
Mob Cremates Porter Body After Killing of Mrs Matthews
In Shreveport on April 13 a mob of about 100 men carried Ed Porter’s body to the head of Texas Street. They placed him on a funeral pyre and cremated him after Porter killed Mrs Matthews and was killed by officers.
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Shreveport
Ed Porter
Matthews
Texas Street
Fire at Dysart destroys multiple downtown businesses
Fire in Dysart on Sunday morning caused by an explosion at the Fall store owned by J. A. Dayton. The blaze spread to Mayser & Lums den's drug store Weise & Schroeder's market and the post office, all being burned.
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Dysart
J. A. Dayton
Dayton
Mayser & Lumsden's Drug
Weise & Schroeder's Market
Fatal Inter-Colonial rail collision near Windsor Junction
Four persons dead, two fatally hurt, and at least one missing after a head-on collision on the Inter-Colonial railway near Windsor Junction in Halifax Nova Scotia. Several others are slightly injured.
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Halifax
N. S
Inter-Colonial
Windsor Junction
Polish citizen charged after boy killed and landlady shot
In Buffalo on April 13 Joseph Kwasikowski 51 a Polish citizen was detained at police headquarters charged with shooting his landlady and killing his 9 year old son authorities said the man was the boy's father and the landlady survived the attack.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Joseph Kwasikowski
Jealousy Sparks Fatal Shooting in Denver
Denver on April 13 reports John Watkins shot Irene Palmer in her room killing her instantly. Both are African American and had been engaged to marry soon. Watkins blamed jealousy for the crime.
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Denver
Col
John Watkins
Irene Palmer
Watkins
Death of Rev. William H. Milburn, Senate Chaplain
Washington reports Rev. William Henry Milburn, longtime blind chaplain of the U.S. Senate, died in Santa Barbara, California, at age 70. Milburn, born in Philadelphia in 1823, lost most sight early in life but served as Methodist preacher before being elected chaplain of the House in 1845 and later the Senate in 1893. He traveled with relatives to the West Coast about a year ago as health declined.
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Washington
William Henry Milburn
United States Senate
Santa Barbara
Cal
D. A. Ransdell
Senate
Milburn
Tinley
Pacific Coast
Congress
Philadelphia
Jacksonville
Methodist Episcopal Church
House of Representatives
Providence Photographer Beaten by Vanderbilt Escort
Regina C Vanderbilt caused a stir in Newport when she witnessed her fiancé Cath leen Neilson strike a Providence photographer who tried to take a photo. The incident occurred on Belevue avenue in front of the Reading room, Newport society hotly discussing the scene.
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Newport
R. I
Regina C. Vanderbilt
Cathleen Neilson
Providence
Vanderbilt
Belevue Avenue
Venezuelan Revolutionaries Capture Barquisimeto and Caracas Region
News from Willemstad reports Venezuelan revolutionists defeated government forces near Caracas and seized two cannons and ample ammunition. Barquisimeto fell to rebels, a key western city with many prisoners. Heavy fighting continues at Coro as direct cable to the United States is delayed by events in Santo Domingo.
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Willemstad
Curacao
Caracas
Barquisimeto
Venezuela
Coro
United States
Santo Domingo
Structural Iron Workers Plan May Day General Strike
Baltimore April 11 Labor leaders report the executive board of the national structural iron workers ordered a general strike on May 1 unless the American Bridge Co accepts demands of striking employees. Building trades in the city may join to seek union card recognition. Nine thousand workers likely to be involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
National Body of Structural Iron Workers
Structural Iron Workers
American Bridge Co
Violent riot wounds police officer in Chicago saloon
Lieut. Maurice Moore of the Twenty second Street police station and four Italians were wounded by revolver shots in an early Friday riot that began with a post election argument in a saloon.
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Chicago
Maurice Moore
Twenty-second Street
Death of Yung Lu in Pekin
Pekin reports the death of Yung Lu controller of finances and first grand secretary after a long illness of dropsy. He had sought retirement months ago but his request was refused.
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Pekin
Pershing Captures Bacolod Moros in Mindanao Clash
Manila reports Captain Pershing's forces seized Bacolod in Mindanao on Wednesday after heavy fighting in which about one hundred Moros were killed and many wounded. Three Americans were wounded. The action is said to end Moro hostilities.
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Manila
Postal Receipts Rise at Major U.S. Post Offices
Postal receipts for March at fifty leading U.S. post offices totaled 5,720,200 dollars, up 449,479 dollars or 81 percent from March 1902, according to Washington reports dated April 11.
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Washington
United States
Weekly US business failures rise to 152 for week
The New York report notes 152 business failures in the United States for the week ending April 9, up from 145 the prior week and compared with 182 in the same week of 1902 and 243 in 1899, 225 in 1901, and 150 in 1906.
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New York
United States
Merger Decision Draws Prosecution Calls From Anti Trust League
An American Anti Trust league committee urges Attorney General Knox to pursue civil and criminal actions against Northern Securities officers and the anthracite coal trust. Richmond reacts as the United States circuit court of appeals decision on the merger is hailed as sound law for railroads and investors.
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Washington
American Anti-Trust League
H. B. Martin
Knox
Department of Justice
League
Northern Securities Co
Anthracite Coal Trust
Richmond
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Northern Securities
John Skelton Williams
Seaboard Air Line Railway System
Williams
Supreme Court
Missouri Packing Firms Pay Anti-Trust Fines
Five Missouri packing companies including Armour, Cudahy, Hammond, Swift and Schwartzschild & Sulzberger sent a draft for 27136 to the state supreme court through their attorney Frank Hagerman. The fines of 5000 each plus costs were issued March 20 for anti trust violations and the payment arrived before the due date.
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Kansas City
Missouri Packing Companies
Frank Hagerman
State Supreme Court
Armour Packing Co
Cudahy Packing Co
Hammond Packing Co
Swift & Co
Schwartzschild & Sulzberger
Topeka Board Maintains Separate White and Negro Schools
The supreme court ruled that the Topeka board of education can operate separate white and Negro schools and compel Negro children to attend the Negro school, confirming segregation policy in Topeka on April 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka, Kan
Supreme Court
Topeka Board of Education
Mazatlan Remains Free From Plague Despite Quarantine
Mazatlan Mexico on April 13 reports the city still plague free with 79 people under quarantine. Business returns to normal as authorities note no measures are omitted to prevent a recurrence of past outbreaks.
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Mazatlan
Mex
Soldier reports president well and many game at camp
A soldier travels from the president's camp to Fort Yellowstone reporting the president is well and that a large quantity of game has been seen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cinnabar
Mont
Fort Yellowstone
Adm Schley Heads to Washington and Chicago
Adm Schley and his party departed for Washington Sunday night after a two day stay in Chicago. The admiral has fully recovered from his threatened grip attack.
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Adm
Schley
Washington
Chicago
Two Boys Drowned in Seaside Park Sailboat Capsize
On Sunday in Seaside Park New Jersey Frank Miller and Harvey Neber two Philadelphia youths visiting the area were drowned when their sailboat capsized.
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Seaside Park
N. J
Frank Miller
Harvey Neber
Philadelphia
Miss Zach Harris Praised In Berlin Concert
Miss Zach Harris a pianist and songwriter from Louisville Kentucky gave a concert in Berlin on Wednesday earning favorable reviews from critics.
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Berlin
Zach Harris
Lowisville
Flooding a Burning Mine at Dominion Colliery No 1
Water floods into Dominion Coal Co’s No 1 mine in Sydney Nova Scotia through a sluice cut from a dam on the Atlantic shore. The pit is flooded to the seventh level with four more levels to go and an estimated 450 million gallons needed to submerge the fire. Water depth at the lower end reached about 170 feet, backed up 2,500 feet toward the shaft, with five days expected to flood the entire fire area.
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Sydney
N. S
Atlantic Ocean
Dominion Coal Co
Non-Union Firemen Seized After Steamship Arrival
The propeller William S. Mack docked at 1 am with five non-union firemen. Striking union members boarded the ship, seized four, one severely beaten, and a fifth man remained missing as police raided the union hall and recovered the other hostages.
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Buffalo
N. Y
William S. Mack
Union
Frontiersman Dead in Salt Lake City
Col Bill Root longtime frontiersman and companion of Buffalo Bill died suddenly of heart failure in his Salt Lake City apartment at age 60. He settled in Laramie as a young man, helped form the Laramie Boomerang, and partnered with Bill Nye aiding Nye’s rise as a writer and Root’s fame as a hunter of wild animals.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Bill Root
Buffalo Bill
Bill Nye
Laramie
Col. Root
Secretary Moody Leads Brief Charleston Visit
Secretary Moody and a party of ten including Postmaster General Payne Congressman Cannon Senator Proctor Senator Hale and Private Secretary Fish arrived by dispatch boat Dolphin about 2 PM Sunday. They spent little time in Charleston with few citizens aware of the visit before departing at 5 20 PM for Washington aboard the Atlantic coastline liner.
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Charleston
S. C
Moody
Payne
Joseph Cannon
Redfield Proctor
F. J. Hale
Fishback
Dolphin
Atlantic Coast Line
Washington
Beck resigns from Assistant Attorney General post
Washington April 13 An assistant attorney general James M Beck tendered his resignation to President Roosevelt before the president's departure for the west He expressed pride in serving under the Roosevelt administration and is to resume law practice in New York and Philadelphia
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Washington
James M. Beck
Roosevelt
West
Beck
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago dredge workers vote to strike over outside-city scale
The local union of steam shovelmen and dredge men voted Sunday night to strike Monday to demand that Chicago scale pay applies to all men sent outside the city on dredging contracts. The action could spread to about 800 members on the Great Lakes.
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Chicago
Great Lakes
Robbers Board Street Car Near Garfield Park
Three masked men halted a street car near Garfield park on Sunday and robbed seven passengers, the conductor, and the motorman of $100, a gold watch, and jewelry. The assailants boarded the car near Sacramento avenue.
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Chicago
Garfield Park
Sacramento Avenue
Arkansas Monitor Arrives at Cairo Before Heading to Paducah
The U S monitor Arkansas arrived at Cairo Illinois on Sunday while en route to Paducah Kentucky. After collecting mail the ship left up the Ohio River stopping at Joppa Sunday night and resuming its voyage to Paducah Monday morning.
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Cairo
Ill
United States
Arkansas
Paducah
Ohio
Monitor
Joppa
Wage Increases Granted by Denver Railroad Manager
Denver April 13 reports Manager Ed son of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad has granted a five percent wage raise for engineers and firemen on ordinary engines and seven percent for those on compound engines.
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Denver
Col
Edson
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Chicago Officials Finish Mayoral Vote Canvass
Election commissioners completed the canvass of last Tuesday’s mayoral election. Official totals show Harrison with 146,208 votes and Stewart with 138,529, giving Harrison a plurality of 1,679.
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Chicago
Harrison
Stewart
Illinois tornado kills infant. homes destroyed across counties
A tornado swept Logan Dewitt and Platt counties on Sunday causing one death and many injuries. The Halsadarzer infant died 300 feet from his demolished home in Platt county while Mrs Halsadarzer and several guests were injured. Homes of Baldwin Schanaurer Knecht were wrecked and families took shelter in cellars. Waynesville and areas east of Atlanta also damaged with communications cut.
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Springfield
Ill
Logan
Dewitt
Platt
Halsadarzar
Atwood
Platt County
Clifford Halsadarzer
Halsadarzer
Samuel V. Baldwin
Gus Knecht
Lincoln
Deer Creek
Samuel W. Baldwin
Adam Schanauer
Gustave Knecht
Waynesville
Terrific thunderstorm rages over Pittsburg. one killed
A violent storm struck Pittsburg on April 13 causing floods and thousands of dollars in damage. Irving T. Wilson, an employee at the Dixmont asylum, was killed by lightning. Flooding closed streets and halted streetcar service while rail facilities and a Pennsylvania railroad signal tower were struck.
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Pittsburg
Irving T. Wilson
Dubois
Dixmont Insane Asylum
Christ M. E. Church
Center Avenue
Wilkinsburg
37Th Ward
Coal Street
Pitt Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
Torrential Rain Strikes Pittsburg Montour Valley
A telegram from Imperial reports a Sunday night storm causing the Montour river valley to flood with water and timber debris blocking tracks. Rail lines and coal traffic for Pittsburg Coal Co in Imperial are at a standstill for days while repairs proceed. no lives confirmed lost though farming losses loom as fields near planting.
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Pittsburg
Imperial
Montour Valley
Montour
Pittsburg Coal Co
Baltimore Man Supposedly L Manaffe Dies on Train
A man believed to be L Manaffe a cotton broker from Philadelphia died on a Pennsylvania railroad train Sunday night near Bowid Maryland He was traveling from Ozark Alabama to Philadelphia and his death was reported from Baltimore on April 13.
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Baltimore
L. Manaffe
Philadelphia
Bowid
Ozark
Ala
Emigration to Canada for Free Wheat Lands Draws Opposition
A letter argues railway and real estate interests push Americans to stay in the U S by denigrating Canada and suppressing land sales. It cites 87 000 settlers since 1897 in the Canadian West as proof Canada offers fertile reward. A government agent offers rates and land info.
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United States
Canadian Northwest
Canada
St. Louis
American Northwest
Canadian West
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