San Francisco Relief Efforts Advance Despite Water Fears
San Francisco reports smooth relief operations citywide and soon full gas service to homes. City chemist warns water taps show bacteria indicating possible sewer contamination. residents urged to boil drinking water and a state university lab analyzes supply points. Sewers reportedly overflowed mains and reservoirs may be polluted due to large camp populations.
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San Francisco
Gibbs
State University
Great East backing for San Francisco builders
San Francisco May 7 promises of support from major East manufacturing interests detail that structural steel will be supplied for three years as needed and riveted into frames for planned buildings. Credit extended on past work and long deferments on new orders are pledged, with insurance funds over 150 million to aid the operation.
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San Francisco
American Steel Makers
Receiver Appointed for Traders Insurance Company
Byron L. Smith, president of the Northern Trust, was named receiver for Traders Insurance Company in Cook County Circuit Court by Judge Julian Mack. Fifteen stockholders led by John A. King and Clarence Buckingham file the petition, citing about 3.748 million dollars in San Francisco quake losses and assets not exceeding 3.3 million.
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Chicago
Byron L. Smith
Northern Trust Company
Traders’ Insurance Company
Julian Mack
Cook County
John A. King
Clarence Buckingham
Charles L. Hutchinson
Abram Poole
William C. Seipp
George Sturges
San Francisco
Earthquake Damage Reported Across Sonoma Area
Communication with Healdsburg in Sonoma County was restored for the first time since the April 18 quake. Businesses and homes suffered heavy losses estimated around $500,000. Alexander Valley near Healdsburg saw ridged ground and landslides damming creeks to form lakes. Windsor and Sebastopol reported extensive destruction with Sebastopol hit by a major fire and ruins. Total damage is projected around $260,000 in the area.
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Oakland
Cal
Healdsburg
Sonoma County
Alexander Valley
Windsor
Sebastopol
Sopoing County
Supreme Court allows continuation of Standard Oil ouster suit
Jefferson City Missouri May 7 The supreme court en banc granted a motion by Commissioner Anthony to continue the ouster suit brought by the attorney general against Standard Oil and allied companies to the October term when testimony will be completed and this report filed.
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Jefferson City, Mo
Supreme Court En Banc
Anthony
Standard Oil Company
Allied Companies
Indiana to Start Inquiry Into Standard Oil Rate Violations
Indianapolis May 1 The Indiana attorney general and state railroad commission will investigate claims that Standard Oil charged secret shipment rates from its Willing refinery to Evansville and paid railroads about 10000 dollars less annually than open rates. The probe follows Commissioner Garfield reports alleging persistent state law violations against discriminatory shipping practices within Whiting Evansville and Indiana.
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Indianapolis
Commissioner of Corporations
Garfield
Standard Oil Company
Evansville
Indiana
Whiting
State Railroad Commission
Attorney General
Railroad Commission
Cabinet Reshuffle in Russia Elevates Goremykin to Premiers
The Official Messenger announces Count Witte’s retirement from the premiership and M Durnovo’s exit from the interior ministry. Goremykin becomes premier while Witte is named secretary of state and elevated to the empire council. Durnovo becomes secretary of state with senate status.
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St. Petersburg
Count Witte
M. Durnova
Ministry of the Interior
M. Goremykin
Witte
Durnovo
Alexander Nevsky
Russia
Council of the Empire
Washington clarifies rail rate amendment stance
The White House issued an authoritative statement on railroad rate legislation. It explains that the Allison amendment merely states what the Hepburn bill already contains, and the president would insist on including it if there is any doubt it is already in the bill to avoid making the bill void.
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Washington
White House
Italian merchants in New Orleans receive Black Hand demands
Seven of the wealthiest Italian merchants in New Orleans report Black Hand letters seeking sums from 3000 to 35000 dollars. Cedar Rapids pioneer Captain J J Snouffer dies at 81, veteran of the Mexican War. Governor Higgins signs a bill delaying mutual life insurer board elections in New York from November 15 to December 18. Eugene Renevier, Swiss Geographical Society president, killed in Lucerne by elevator shaft fall.
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New Orleans
J. J. Snouffer
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Higgins
Mutual Life Insurance Companies of
New York
Eugene Renevier
The
Swiss Geographical Society
Simplon Geological Commission
Lucerne
Switzerland
No Strike Of Miners To Resume In Anthracite Field
Scranton Pa May 7 1903 miners will continue work in the anthracite fields on the basis of the strike commission award provided operators agree to reinstate men who suspended April 1 or were dismissed for preparing for a strike. The convention urged immediate talks with operators in New York to settle terms and keep the scale committee active through Tuesday.
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Scranton
John Mitchell
Mitchell
Scale Committee
New York
Wilson
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Anthracite Coal Mining Companies
Indictments Under Elkins Anti-Trust Law In New York
A New York grand jury returns seven indictments against the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad company the American Sugar Refining company and associated executives including Nathan Guilford F L Pomeroy C Goodlee Edgar and Edwin Earle. Indictments cover rebates to rail rates and a conspiracy to violate the Elkins act. defendants likely to be notified to appear voluntarily for the June federal term.
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Way Companies
New York
Grand Jury
New York Central Railroad
American Sugar Refining Company
New York Hudson Gulford Vie Bemced
Satipany
Wenebans
Com
Sugaripany of
Edwin Earle
Detroit
Mich
New York Central
Hudson River
Railroad Company
Nathan Guilford
F. L. Pomeroy
American Sugar Refining Company of New York
C. Goodlee Edgar
Elkins
Guilford
Pomeroy
Edgar
Earle
Riots in Pasaic: Four Shot as Police Clash with Italians
In Pasaic New Jersey on May 7 Rioters demonstrate at the Daily Herald site Central avenue and Monroe street during a digger and shovelman strike About 150 workers confront concrete crews Four policemen are wounded and four rioters are shot after police bring in reinforcements Police officer Gustav Schmidt is badly hurt by bricks as 200 shots are fired to end the clash
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Pasaic
N. J
Daily Herald
Central Avenue
Monroe Street
Gustav Schmidt
President's oil freight rate message has little market impact
New York May 5 The president's message re tiow freight rates in relation to the oil industry was sent to Congress but caused no noticeable movement in oil stock prices on the market.
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New York
Congress
Head of the Lakes Feels Lake Marine Strike
Duluth reports the lake marine strike increasingly affects the Head of the Lakes as iron ore shipments drop from late April levels. Docks at South Chicago Milwaukee and Buffalo may absorb some ore. Two Harbors sees daily receipts cut by 25 000 tons. Train crews and seventy five upper deck men laid off. Virginia Minn iron works discharge fifty workers with more cuts anticipated.
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Duluth
Lakes
Chicago
Milwaukee
Buffalo
Two Harbors
Minn
Virginia
Iron Company
Train Crews Laid Off Amid Lake Strike Hits Duluth
Duluth reports widespread layoffs on ore hauling railroads as lake strike halts shipments. Open pit mines close. underground mines stockpile ore. Hundreds already out of work, with numbers rising toward a thousand. Port traffic dwindles as vessels depart for cargoes and arrivals slow.
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Duluth
Enrioynent Od
Bomb Wounds Russian Official. Two Killed Nearby
Warsaw reports M. Proskuriakoff chief of the Vistula railroad traffic department was seriously wounded, and M. Gutner chief of another department along with an office servant were killed when a bomb exploded as they left railroad offices. A cabman and nine others were wounded.
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Warsaw
M. Proskuriakoff
Vistula
M. Gutner
Wainwright Sentenced to Seven and a Half Years in Stillwater
Thomas J. Wainwright is imprisoned for seven and a half years in Stillwater after pleading guilty to a major robbery in Minneapolis. The crime involved a wagonload of household valuables from Dr. J. N. Pinault’s home and theft of papers and securities from Pinault’s safety deposit vault. Judge F. C. Brooks delivered the sentence in Hennepin County Court. Washington lawmakers propose a $50 million road fund to extend postal service and cut rail dependence for farmers and industry, with at most $10,000,600 to be spent annually.
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Minneapolis
Stillwater
Thomas J. Wainwright
J. N. Pinault
Washington
Hearst
New York
Shot in Chilton Man Killed by Woman at Home
George Sawyer, a 45 year old ditcher, was fatally shot by Mrs. Joseph Schultz at her Chilton Wisconsin residence during an attempted entry. Schultz, whose home lies on the city outskirts, is jailed in the county jail.
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Chilton
Wis
George Sawyer
Joseph Schultz
Sawyer
Schultz
Worst eczema doctors ever saw
A patient endured three years of severe eczema with rapid spread over the body limbs and arms. The scalp looked dreadful and suffering was immense. After treatment, condition improved notably within two months.
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Joes
Wheeler & Wilson
United States
Marvelous Cure by Cuticura Remedies
A caregiver recounts using Cuticura Soap and Ointment along with other remedies to treat eczema. After initial failure with various medicines, the patient improved within two months and was fully well after six months using the trio of Cuticura products.
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Cuticura
Anthracite Strike Likely Averted In Scranton Council
In Scranton on May 5, delegates referred the strike issue to the scale committee to decide whether to accept operators' proposal for continuing under the present wage scale. The executive boards of three districts will form a recommendation for the next session. The 36 member committee weighs the welfare of 160,000 miners as talks proceed toward a peaceful settlement and a possible return to work for men idle since April 1.
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Scranton
Branded Unfair and Unjust
New York May 5 The president's message and Garfield report prompt Stand ard Oil Company official M F Elliott to call the Garfield report astonish ing and untrue He argues the charges are unfair and vows the company's facts will vindicate it against railroad favors and unfair public dealings against competitors.
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New York
Garfield
Standard Oil Company
M F, Elliott
Despondent Wife Ends Life at St. Philomena Church
In Cincinnati on May 5 Emma Reybert wife of a local printer used carbolic acid to take her own life inside St. Philomena church. She died minutes after being found. Despondency over health cited as the likely cause of the tragedy.
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Cincinnati
Emma Reybert
St. Philomena Church
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