World Happenings Review Notes Major Disasters and Incidents
Great destruction at Canton from a gunpowder magazine explosion leaves twenty one dead and many injured. Guatemala apologizes to Mexico over extradition insinuations. Dam collapse near Chihuahua kills workers. riots and violence reappear in India and Europe. Several political and notable deaths and legal actions proliferate across the globe.
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Canton
Guatemala
Guatemala City
Cabrera
Chuviscar Dam
Chihuahua
Mex
Puerto Cortez
Honduras
Louisiana
Fullam
Marietta
International Kindergarten Union
New York
Monroe Salisbury
San Francisco
Scully de Robber
Chicago
Alexander Swettenham
Jamaica
Lawyers Ready as Haywood Murder Trial Nears
Boise crowds fill every room as court prepares to try William Haywood for the Steunenberg murder. Clarence Darrow and E F Richardson lead the defense while James Hawley and W E Borah head the prosecution. State funds already spent exceed fifty two thousand dollars with a fifty thousand dollar legislative appropriation added. The Mineowners and Miners Federation have supplied large defense and prosecution funds amid anticipated high costs.
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Boise
Idaho
William B. Haywood
Steunenberg
Clarence Darrow
Chicago
E F. Richardson
Denver
Haywood
James H. Hawley
W. E. Borah
Wood
Gov. Steunenberg
Gooding
Miners’ Federation
Japanese Eskimo King Returns To Lead Arctic Tribe
Mail advices say James Wada the released Nome detainee has gone to Ivy Cape to rule the Indians again. A famed musher and healer, he saved many lives, aided by medicine knowledge, and accepted chieftainship while declining most tributes.
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Arctic
James Wada
Nome
Ivy Cape
Edmonton
Seattle Times
Wada
Icy Cape
Herschell Island
DUG A GRAVE IN CELLAR IN PHILADELPHIA
Elva A Ellison a 25 year old maid employed by Stirling Johnson of 501 Allen Chestnut Hill killed herself after digging a deep grave in the cellar. House keeper Mary Snell found her later and the woman shot herself through a drain, dying instantly.
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Philadelphia
Elva A Ellison
Stirling Johnson
Allen Jane Chestnut Hill
Mary Snell
Miss Ellison
Dewey to preside at dinner for Japanese envoy group
Adm. Dewey accepts invitation to preside at a Hotel Astor dinner for Viscount Aoki the Japanese ambassador Baron Kuroki Vice Admiral Ikuin and officers of arriving Japanese ships. Kuroki already traveled across the continent arriving Seattle last week. date to be fixed on arrival. This marks a rare large international naval dinner.
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Washington
Dewey
Viscount Aoki
Baron Kuroki
Ikuin
New York
Baron Kurok
Seattle
Hotel Astor
Boston Labor Parade Protest Calls Out Moyer Haywood Pettibone
About 10,000 people joined a citywide labor parade and mass meeting protesting actions against Moyer Haywood and Pettibone. A Scandinavian social club at the rear displayed three plain red flags as a crowd of around 1,000 women marched in line.
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Boston
Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone
Man Ends Life By Jumping Before Rail Car In Dearborn
Dearborn May 5. T F Lundergan a man from Marlon Ohio suddenly leaped in front of a fast moving Detroit Ypsilanti Ann Arbor and Jackson rail road train and was killed. Both legs and one arm were cut off in the tragedy.
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Dearborn, Mich
T. F. Lundergan
Marlon
Detroit Ypsilanti Ann Arbor & Jackson
Hearse Accident and Other May 6 News Briefs
A Chicago hearse carrying Miss Christina Engelser’s body toppled after being struck by a streetcar. pallbearers escaped harm and the casket remained intact. In New York Frederick W Wertheimer 34 committed suicide in his Hotel York apartment. In St Paul Fred Hil and Darwin Truax drowned while attempting to cross a Bridge Island road bridge over the Mississippi River.
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Clarence R. Edwards
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Lawton
Indianapolis
Secretary of War
Adjt
Lauck
California
State National Guard
Edgar Macklin
Brownsville
Guatemala
Estrada Cabrera
Republic
Capt. C. Def. Chandler
United States Signal Service
J. C. McCoy
New York
St. Louis
Golconda
Wabash Avenue
Chicago
John Kells Ingram
Dublin
Royal Irish Academy
Mabelle Gilman
Paris
William E. Cory
United States Steel Corporation
Pabianice
Russian Poland
Libau
Marine Rikoff
United States
Athole B. Reader
J. A. Holinger
Chambersburg
Prince Edward of Wales
Prince of Wales
Royal Naval
Decatur
Frank K. Dunn
Charlestown
Supreme Court
Superior
Wis
Baltimore & Ohio
Pleasantview
W. Va
Michigan Supreme Court
Detroit
McMahon
Hammond
Ind
Indiana
Dearborn Park
Smith-Perry-White
Johnstown
D. Max Gregg
Col
H. H. Gregg
Joplin
Arkansas
Greensburg
G. R. Scrugham
International Policyholders’ Committee
New York Life Insurance Company
Jacob Prank
New York Life
President Cabrera
William January
Roosevelt
Jamestown
Christina Engelser
Frederick W .Wertheimer
Hotel York
St. Paw
Minn
Fred Hil
Darwin Truax
St. Paul
Rook Island Bridge
Inver Grove
Why He Burns Old Business Letters
A Wall Street businessman showed a visitor a bundle of old letters he planned to burn. He explained he once discarded them as junk until he learned female cleaners copied them from waste baskets and sold names to firms compiling mailing lists for various uses.
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Wall Street
A Roland for an Oliver in Baltimore Note
A Baltimore note recounts a domestic encounter where a visitor reports fear after a mistress was seen peeping from a front window as the visitor approached. The exchange highlights suspicion and unease within a household.
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Baltimore
Its Strong Point. First Farmer and the touring cat
The dialogue presents a boastful claim about a powerful machine. A judge confirms the assertion noting it uses sixty units of skunk power. The exchange highlights a humorous rural scene with evaluative crowd remarks.
Cat next door seeks a nine shooter revolver
Local skit humorously centers on a cat neighbor Jokingly asks a dealer for a nine shot revolver The dialogue contrasts a six shooter option with the preferred nine shot to satisfy the feline neighbor's demand
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Hadsum
Humorous Exchange Echoes Courtroom Banter
Judge warns about bearing risk of social entanglements as Mrs Housefly-Now instructs on summer readiness. Miss Housefly coyly fears being teased by young men and quips about fate.
Fragmentary Milwauk ee Sentinel quote excerpt
A fragment from the Milwaukee Sentinel presents a terse dialogue about a person who became so overwhelmed he forgot to inquire how business was progressing. The exchange underscores a moment of lapse and concern.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
First American steamship on Pacific voyage to Hong Kong
Frederick R. Sterling recalls the Colorado, the first American flag steamship to cross the Pacific, arriving Hong Kong January 1, 1869. About 1,200 aboard a gala, side-wheeler voyage from San Francisco after 8,000 miles in 30 days, marking a new era of Pacific development.
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Pacific Ocean
Hongkong
Frederick R. Sterling
Isaac J. Allen
Pacific Mail Line
San Francisco
Pacific
A Sane Analysis
A dialogue scene reveals a tense exchange where one seeks forgiveness for an implied kiss and the other refuses. The pair debate repeating intimacy as one promises restraint and questions the value of forgiveness without change.
Friends Help St Paul Park Incident With Postum Testimonial
A reader recounts relief from coffee related health issues after switching to Postum Food Coffee. She notes improvements in heart and stomach symptoms and cites others who found benefits from quitting coffee and using Postum. The account emphasizes coffee cessation as a key factor and mentions a former state W C T U president endorsing Postum.
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Pepubiie
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Desperado
Willows
Cal
Count Otto von Waldstein
Austria
Arkansas House
P. Smiley
Warren (O.) Tribune
Ohio
Rawalpindi
Punjab
Ruth Nash
Flint
Mich
Grand Trunk
Peter Maytubby
Caddo
I. T
Pacific States Telegraph & Telephone Company
John L. Routt
Colorado
Gov. Deneen
Illinois
Russia
Overland Limited
Tampas
Dominican Congress
Carlos
Portugal
Brazil
L. J. Appleby
Silverlip
Annie Wheeler
Canada
Montreal
George H. Phelps
Findlay
Standard Oo Company
Charles D. Chandler
U. 8 Signal Corps
J. ©. McCoy
St. Louie
Whipple
West Virginia
Alarcon
Neuquen
Argentina
Missouri Senate
Otto von Waldstein
Charles J. Steedman
Steedman
Maggie Muchberger
Virden
Ill
Michael Finnegan
George B. McClellan
Army of the Potomac
Gen. Kuroki
Japan
Arcangelo Rossi
Conriec Opera Company
Milan
Italy
Mexico
Lima
Barrillas
Taft
Cape Hatteras
Liverpool
Maj
Gerald Rathbone
C. L. Schroeder
San Diego
Carrolina
Durham
N. C
China
Jere H. Cooke
Hempstead
L. I
Santa Fe
Streator
Anisia Louise de Massy
Simon
Kumerie
Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
Gov. Chamberlin
Oregon
National Irrigation Congress
Association
Sacramento
Oxford University
England
Alexander Graham Bell
Smithsonian Institution
D. C
Whiting (Ind
Navy Department
James E. Cann
Portsmouth
N. H
Arthur McEwen
New York American
Hamilton
Bermuda
Secret Service
Campeche
Levi C. Lincoln
Woon Vocket Electric Machine & Power Company
Mra
United States Navy
Waca
Roland
Oliver
Market Reports
Cincinnati
Louisville
Winchester
Nublacks
Rommel
Towes CO. Bostow U. A. Sa
Ely
Ely Bros
Warren St
N.Y
St. Paul Park
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