Fire Devastates San Francisco Area and Relief Grows
A well known engineer estimates the San Francisco fire scorched about 10 000 acres, with nearly 100 banks and 230 000 inhabitants in the affected zone. Relief receipts reach about 4.42 million dollars from out of town and local subscriptions as Japan and Hong Kong donors send aid.
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Burnham
Association For the Improvement and Adornment of
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Quincy
Hong Kong
Japan
Tokyo
Osaki
Jacob
Herman Eppinger
Dewey
Union Square
Victory
City to lay out streets after great fire in San Francisco
A committee of engineers architects builders and lawyers will plan streets and boulevards to reconstruct San Francisco. Mayor Schmitz warned of a food shortage despite recent relief and noted 700 car loads distributed since the April 18 earthquake while only 108 cars are reported en route. Industrial renewal appears in burned districts as debris cleared and plans for over 30 large buildings await new building laws. Many physicians and dentists faced ruin with libraries instruments diplomas and practices lost and measures for relief are being taken.
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General Municipal Committee
Schmitz
General Committee
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe
Board of Supervisors
Congress winds through busy session with many laws
Washington reports a busy Senate and House as general legislation like railroad rate measures and pensions flood the process. In five months the session enacted 130 public laws of general nature and about 2250 pension bills, signaling a record in pensions. Monday featured field and seed days with a $90,000 seed purchase amendment possible. The Senate planned to vote on railroad amendments May 4 as Benjamin Barnes' postmaster nomination faced post office committee hurdles before adjournment.
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Voliva
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Moscow
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Windber
Washington
Congress
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Roosevelt
Culberson
Committee On Post Offices and Post Roads
Miners and Troopers Clash in Mt Carmel Riot
A large mob of idle miners attacked a patrol of the new state constabulary in Mt. Carmel Pennsylvania. Police fired on the crowd injuring an estimated 200 men with three feared dead as thousands swarmed the district. By nightfall the area settled somewhat though tension remained high in the Southern coal fields.
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Mt. Carmel
New State Constabulary
National Congress of Mothers Meeting Postponed Indefinitely
A telegram from Mrs. Frederick Schoff, president of the National Congress of Mothers, announces the next meeting, scheduled for May 7 to 11 in Los Angeles, has been indefinitely postponed.
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Cal
Frederick Schoff
National Congress of Mothers
Americans and Cubans Clash at Guantanamo
Louis Schmidt a sailor from Newark New Jersey was seriously wounded by a pistol shot in the right breast and another sailor was slightly wounded in a clash between sailors from American warships and Cuban police at Guantanamo Bay Havana.
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Havana
Louis Schmidt
Newark
N. J
Guantanamo
Police stop in fifth round saves Corbett in Ogden bout
In Ogden Utah police halted a planned 20 round match between Dick Hyland and Young Corbett in the fifth round, preventing what would likely have been a knockout. Corbett remained in the ring under police supervision as the crowd reacted.
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Ogden
Utah
Dick Hyland
Young Corbett
Rouse Dies in Cleveland at 56 After Pneumonia
Rouse aged 56, chairman of the board of decile of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and president of several western railroads, died in Cleveland of pneumonia. He was a confidential friend of John D. Rockefeller.
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Cleveland
Henry
Rouse
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Decile
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Western Railroads
John D. Rockefeller
Anglo Tibetan treaty publication noted
The excerpt records the publication of an Anglo Tibetan treaty after its ratification. It references Britain and China and notes sovereignty implications in the eventful accord. Details are fragmentary but indicate a formal international agreement affecting imperial relations.
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Great Britain
China
Fixing Time Liability of Stockholders Under New Law
In Urbana Ohio Judge Middleton ruled the single liability stock for Ohio stockholders became effective November 23 1903 and cannot be assessed for debts contracted after that date in a Sheets Manufacturing Co versus Neer Manufacturing Co case. The decision fixes when the constitutional amendment altering stockholder liability was operative.
Akron man’s insanity case. wife found raving about town
In Akron Ohio on April 28, George P Wheeler, 52, was judged insane and sent to Massillon asylum after his sanity hearing. His wife, Mrs Wheeler, was found wandering demented in Newburg during the proceedings and confined in Akron. The couple have several children. Wheeler, a traveling man, reportedly broke down from overwork but is not violent.
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United States District Court
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William R. Way
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Ravenna High School Fight Rages Across Day
In Ravenna Ohio on April 28 tensions between junior and senior and sophomore classes erupt at intervals. Two girls were tied to telephone poles while senior boys fired a shotgun at the flag, tearing it up by ten o'clock before juniors pulled it down. Numerous street scuffles marked the day.
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Ravenna
Dynamite Blast Wrecks Amish Farm House in Ohio
Plain City Ohio April 30 J B Muller an Amish farmer sought to blow out stumps with dynamite placed in a stove to soften them He removed a stick forgot a charge and when women started a fire to bake the dynamite exploded blowing up the stove shattering windows and badly damaging the house A daughter was hurled forty feet the wife was also thrown and her fingers were torn as iron fragments struck her hand
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J. B. Muller
Here
Cincinnati players win in national women’s whist tourney
In the National Woman’s Whist tourney now under way in St. Louis, Cincinnati residents Mrs. Howard Saxby and Mrs. Anna J. Wilder won honors. In Section B of open games they received gold trophies, qualifying them to play in the Brooklyn and New Amsterdam games.
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St. Louis
Howard Saxby
Anna J. Wilder
Saxby
Wilder
Brooklyn
New Amsterdam
Medina convict makes suicide attempt in prison court
Columbus April 27 Jac O Malley a Medina convict drew a handmade knife and stabbed himself in the throat in the prison court during trial. He was rushed to the hospital where he pleaded for the knife claiming he wished to go the route. He is expected to recover.
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Columbus, O
Jac. O’malley
Medina
Mor ris Murphy Found Dead In His Wagon Bed
New Burlington Ohio April 28 Mor ris Murphy 34 a farmer was found dead in the bed of his wagon by Jas Foley Foley saw a horse and wagon alone on the road and investigated He found Murphy dead There were no marks of violence on the body.
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Morris Murphy
Jas. Foley
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Murphy
Cleveland land purchase in Erie to Pittsburgh canal plan
Cleveland Ohio April 30 a key step in the Lakes Erie to Pittsburg canal project is the purchase of a square mile of land with a mile of lake frontage near Geneva Ohio the tract includes twenty farms and cost over a hundred thousand dollars
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Pittsburg
Geneva
Brakeman Lawrence Meyers Shot and Robbed in Yard
Youngstown Ohio April 30 Lawrence Meyers from Allegheny a Pennsylvania brakeman was assaulted and robbed in the company yards Sam Graham another brakeman was also assaulted Meyers is in critical condition.
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Youngstown
Lawrence Meyers
Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Sam Graham
Meyers
Jobe Refused New Trial In Dayton Painter Case
Hamilton April 28 The circuit court denied William Jobe a request for a new trial. Jobe, a Cincinnati lineman, had been convicted of causing the death of Richard Andrew Mackey, a Dayton painter, last July and was sentenced to 15 months in the penitentiary.
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Hamilton
William Jobe
Cincinnati
Richard Andrew Mackey
Dayton
New concrete dam to replace Steele dam on Great Miami
Dayton reports a handsome new concrete dam will replace the washed Steele dam in the Great Miami river. The structure will cost 7000 dollars.
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Dayton
Steele
Miami
Thousands For Hospital Site
Columbus Ohio April 28 Ralph E Westfall assistant attorney general left for Lima with a state warrant for 62500 for the purchase of 640 acres of land the state has selected as a site for the new state hospital for the criminal insane
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Ralph_ E. Westfall
Lima
State canal commission ends. duties pass to Public Works
Columbus Ohio April 28. The state canal commission expires by legal limitation and the work it has conducted for the last 14 years will transfer to the lands of the state board of public works.
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Columbus
State Canal Commission
State Board of Public Works
Knife Attack at Ravenna High School Flag Rush
In Ravenna Ohio on April 27 junior classmates attempted to display their flag when senior and sophomore boys attacked. Daly and Leroy Baldwin drew knives slashing at peers. Frank Beatty suffered a four inch back wound and fainted, Clif ford Grohe had a knife blade pass through his hand, Carl King was cut in the neck. No arrests yet. Beatty likely to recover.
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Daly
Leroy Baldwin
Frank Beatty
Clifford Grohe
Baldwin
Carl King
Beatty
Girl Dies In Fire At Foster Homestead
Springfield Ohio April 30 Rose ten year old daughter of Charles F Schneider perished in a blaze at the old Foster homestead at National pike and Burnett road. The fire started from a defective flue. She awoke and sought refuge in a closet rather than flee down stairs and the door was shut behind her. Firemen found her half burned body crouched inside the closet.
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Rose
Charles F. Schneider
Foster Homestead
National Pike
Burnett Road
Thieves Drag 1000-Pound Safe, Loot Large Sum
In Columbus on April 28 a 1000-pound Becker & Bros general store and saloon safe was rolled along Hocking Valley tracks for three blocks and pried open. Thieves extracted 500 in cash and a 2000 certified check, with the cash register found beside the safe.
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Columbus
8Becker & Bros
Hocking Valley
Man Ended Life By Laying On Railroad Tracks
In Wooster Ohio on April 28 Alexander Hunter a Civil War veteran sat on a railroad track near Fredericksburg and waited for a train. His death came quickly with his body crushed. He had spoken of life in a dry town being unbearable and that death was preferable.
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Wooster
Alexander Hunter
Fredericksburg
Hunter
Receiver appointed for Lebanon College in Ohio
The National Normal University in Lebanon Ohio, facing a faculty resignation over trustee troubles, has been placed in the hands of a receiver. W Z Roll, a district representative, was appointed receiver and will begin clearing the school's affairs early next week.
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Lebanon
National Normal University
W.Z. Roll
Infirmary Directors Visit Blind Woman in Dayton
Dayton officials visited Maggie Lane, who has just become blind, and found she lacked food. When urged to seek aid, she sobbed and prayed for death, saying God would strike her dead.
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Dayton, O
Maggie Lane
Canton Contractors To Aid San Francisco Relief Drive
A Canton party of contractors and workmen prepare to leave soon for San Francisco to assist with rebuilding after the disaster. A house to house canvas for relief funds is under way locally and on Saturday the collected money, nearing $5,000, will be sent.
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Canton
San Francisco
Cincinnati Lexow Mandamus Test On Expense Fund
The Cincinnati Lexow committee files a mandamus suit in the state supreme court to force payment of its expenses from the legislature approved fund. The action names State Auditor Guilbert as the respondent and aims to determine access to the appropriation.
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Columbus
Cincinnati Lexow Committee
Supreme Court
Guilbert
Survey Finishes On Lima Trolley Connecting Link
The Connecting Survey for the Morgan Schoepf link to unite their trolleys in Northwestern and Central Ohio is finished. The line runs near an air course between Lima and Bellefontaine, using parts of the old C L N steam road right of way recently purchased.
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Lima
Morgan-Schoepf
Ohio
Bellefontaine
A Sure Case of Bug House at St Joseph’s Cathedral
A smoke cloud at St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Columbus Ohio turned out not to be smoke but a gigantic swarm of insects. The entire Columbus fire department from the city center was called out to inspect and control the swarm.
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Columbus
St. Joseph’s Cathedral
Matt Smalley Dying Reported in Washington State
Lima Ohio April 309 Matt A Smalley United States marshal for the Northern Ohio district and brother of the late Judge Allan D Smalley of Upper Sandusky is reported dying at Cheesaw Wash in a long illness.
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Lima
Matt A. Smalley
United States
Northern
Ohio
Allan D. Smalley
Upper Sandusky
Cheesaw, Wash
McDermott, Noted Democratic Leader, Dies in Zanesville
Thomas J. McDermott, a prominent attorney and Democratic politician with state-wide reputation, died Wednesday night in Zanesville Ohio. He served one term in the state legislature after being elected from this county in 1889.
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Thomas J. McDermott
Zanesville
Tragic Child’s Death From Bonfire Near Lancaster
Laura Borchers aged three burned to death while playing near a bonfire eight miles south of Lancaster Ohio. Her father, attempting to rescue her, suffered burns to his face hands and arms.
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Laura Borchers
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