Hartford Deluge Floods Streets and Homes Across City
Hartford Ind. endured a cloudburst flooding streets to as deep as ten feet, with 18 inches to 8 feet in various areas. Second-story refuges, rescues by skiffs, and basements filled. about a hundred homes ruined. Similar flood and storm damage reported in Vincennes and Evansville, with trees and greenhouses damaged and traffic disrupted.
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Indianapolis Journal
Hartfori City
Ind
Public Square
John Crabtree
Lake Erie Station
Lick Creek
Jefferson Street
Receding waters at Portland threaten city floods
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports Portland Indiana seen receding floodwaters after a heavy cloud burst north of the city. Basements cleared and pumps started. Lake Erie & Western Railroad section washed out delaying trains for hours. Sidewalks washed away, property losses uncertain as drainage failed to cope with the torrent.
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Indianapolis Journal
Portland
Ind
Lake Erie & Western Railroad
Man and Wife Drown Near Henryville in Logue Creek
Jeffersonville Ind April 12 County Commissioner and Mrs T P Raymond drowned in Logue creek near Blue Lick while returning from church after a storm swollen streams. Their buggy overturned the horse driven downstream the bodies found later. They were long time Jefferson county residents with six sons and three daughters.
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Henryville
Indianapolis Journal
Jeffersonville
Ind
T. P. Raymond
Logue Creek
Blue Lick
Blue Lick Christian Church
Mrs. Raymond
Jefferson County
Kentucky
Morris Township
Thunderstorm Causes Fatality and Destruction in Pittsburg
A westward thunderstorm swept Pittsburg on April 12 flooding streets and cellars and causing thousands in damages. One man, Irvin T. Wilson of Bots, Pa, was killed by lightning while walking between buildings at the Dixmont Insane asylum complex where he worked. The article notes further damage and injuries among residents.
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Pittsburg
Irvin T. Wilson
Bots
Dixmont
Congregation of Christ Methodist
Storm floods paralyze city and suburb streets
A cloudburst swamped Center avenue flooding blocks of streets and suspending eastern streetcar traffic. Wilkinsburg saw the valley pour through, forcing residents to second stories. In Coal street a house was nearly swept away and Pennsyl vania Railroad yard lumber washed away. A Pennsylvania Railroad signal tower was struck as the storm darkened the Easter sky amid fears of a repeat hurricane.
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Church
Center Avenue
Wilkinsburg
Thirty-seventh Ward
Coal Street
Pitt Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburg
Tornadoes strike central Illinois wreck homes and injure many
Lincoln and Springfield reports describe tornadoes sweeping east of Lincoln and over Logan Dewitt and Platt counties. Homes of Samuel W Baldwin Adam Schanauer Gustave Knecht Clifford Halladarzer and J B Marnin were destroyed. One infant died and several residents were fatally or seriously injured. Deer Creek was dried out and three houses were lost in the district with many others injured.
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Lincoln
Deer Creek
Samuel W. Baldwin
Adam Schanauer
Gustave Knecht
Waynesville
Springfield
Logan
Dewitt
Platt
Clifford Halladarter
Halsadarzer
J. B. Mar UN
Logan County
Snow falls along eastern Rockies boosting grain and stock
Denver April 12 three inches of snow covered the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains in Wyoming and Colorado Springs last night and early today. The storm brought benefit to grain on the ranges and to stockmen and farmers with no accompanying wind and no danger to exposed stock.
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Denver
Rocky Mountains
Wyoming
Colorado Springs
Resignation of James Beck as Assistant Attorney General
Washington April 12 It is announced that Assistant Attorney General James M Beck tendered his resignation to President Roosevelt effective April next He will join Shearman Sterling in New York after leaving the department He cited pride in serving under the Roosevelt administration and highlighted his role in the merger case and other government suits
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Washington
James M. Beck
Roosevelt
West
Beck
Mr. Beck
Theodore Roosevelt
Shearman & Sterling
New York City
Philadelphia
Day
D. T. Watson
McKinley
United States
District of
Pennsylvania
Cuba
Indianapolis Journal
Treasury Department
Internal Revenue Bureau
Yerkes
Internal Revenue Service
Flooding the Mine at Dominion Coal Company
Sydney N S reports a dam sluice flood pouring into Dominion Coal Company colliery No 1 at nearly 3.5 million gallons per hour. The mine is flooded to the seventh level with four more levels to reach the fire, requiring about 460 million gallons. Water sits ~170 feet deep at the pit’s lower end, extending 2,500 feet toward the shaft. five days more are needed to submerge the fire area.
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Sydney
Atlantic Ocean
Dominion Coal Company
Woman seeks damages over dislocated shoulder from embrace
In Christian county Circuit Court Miss Stella Nichols of Palmer testifies that a man embraced her against her will causing a dislocated shoulder and damages of 2500 dollars. The defendant E F Colwell a 45 year old school teacher denies the claim saying the act was playful and done in her mother's presence.
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Pana, III
Circuit Court of
Christian County
Stella Nichols
Palmer
E. F. Colwell
Miss Nichols
Colwell
Henequin Hats Highlight Yucatan Exhibit for St Louis
Merida Yucatan April 12 The government plans a large exhibit at St Louis showing articles made from henequin including hats to rival Panama manufacturers with special attention given to hat production.
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Merida
Yucatan
Panama
Mazatlan reports city free of plague with quarantine seven nine
Mazatlan Mexico reports the city remains free of the plague and business returns to normal. Seventy nine people are in quarantine and no measures are omitted to prevent a recurrence of the illness.
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Mazatlan
Mex
World trade figures show U S lead in export growth
Tremendous changes in trade balances over 33 years. Immense growth of exports. United States leads all countries with a trade balance greater than the combined totals of every other nation.
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United States
United Staton
World trade figures show US growth amid global imbalance
The Statistical Abstract of the World Chapter I details long term trade shifts by region and country. It notes Europe often imports more, America exports more as nations develop, and Asia shows varied balances. Major data include Austria Hungary exports and imports, France, Britain, Germany, India, China, Japan, and the United States with specific yearly values and trade balances.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Treasury Bureau of Staistics
United States
Europe
America
India
Japan
China
Austria-Hungary
Belgium
France
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Russia
Spain
United Kingdom
Asia
Oceania
Australasias
Financial policy fight to shape next Congress
Washington observers see the main partisan clash in the coming Congress as over finance and currency. President Roosevelt will push reform in his winter message, with Republicans and Democrats already bitterly opposing the Aldrich bill. A Senate subcommittee Platt Aldrich Spooner works on a bill likely to adopt Fowler features.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Platt
Connecticut
Aldrich
Rhode Island
Spooner
Wisconsin
Unmitigated Blessing Court Decision in Northern Securities Case
A federal court ruling deemed the Northern Securities decision highly favorable, with a Southern Railroad official asserting the measure protects both major and minor rail lines and preserves broader railway interests.
Decision in Northern Securities case praised by rail head
Richmond April 12 John Skelton Williams president of Seaboard Air Line praises the circuit court of appeals ruling against Northern Securities as sound law benefiting railroad and national business interests He predicts the Supreme Court will not overturn it and says it safeguards minority stockholders and independent roads while protecting large systems from coercive mergers It strengthens public policy and promotes growth without oppression or forced absorption
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Richmond
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Northern Securities
John Skelton Williams
Seaboard
Williams
Supreme Court
Circuit Court
New Orleans
Trust-Company
American Bankers’ Association
Words of Commendation to Knox on Trust Law
An executive committee of the American Anti-Trust League has sent Attorney General Knox a letter through secretary H B Martin praising the Justice Department for its enforcement of the Sherman act. The note urges follow up injunctions with civil and criminal prosecutions against Northern Securities Company officers and the anthracite coal trust.
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Washington
American Anti-Trust League
H. B. Martin
Knox
Department of Justice
League
Northern Securities Company
Anthracite Coal Trust
Missouri packing firms appeal fine plan in Supreme Court
Five Missouri packing companies fined 4000 each for anti trust violations mailed drafts to the State Supreme Court through attorney Frank Hagerman of Kansas City. The firms named include the Packing Company Cudahy Packing Company and another Packing Company Co.
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Kansas City
Missouri Packing Companies
Frank Hagerman
State Supreme Court
Aene
The
Packing Company
Cudahy Packing Company Packing Company, A Co
Loubet to Algeria First French Ruler in Africa
Paris dispatch describes President Loubet's march to Marseilles and Algeria with Fallieres Delcasse and Pelletan, aboard Jeanne d Arc, amid vast naval displays. British Italian Russian squadrons salute in Algiers as the trip tests French sovereignty and aims to meet the Moroccan Sultan. The voyage continues to Tunis before return to Paris to greet Edward VII. In Moscow Easter welcome, the Czarina and Czar arrive with a simple, popular reception and a palm fair amid festive crowds.
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Loubet
M. Fallieres
Senate
Delcasse
M. Pelletan
Marine
Marseilles
Algeria
Elysee Palace
Lyons
Premier Combes
Jeanne d'Arc
MM. Fallieres
Pelletan
Saint Louis
Algiers
Morocco
Napoleon Lil
France
Jeanne D’arc
Tunis
la Goleta
Tor
Bizerta
Edward VII
England
M. Maurejouls
Mediterranean
Moscow
Kremlin
Isolation of Germany amid Anglo French rapprochement
London sees King Edward VII's visits to Portugal Italy and Paris as signals of a broader Anglo French rapprochement, with potential returns to London. The reportage notes Europe's arms race concerns and diplomatic disputes across North America Africa and Asia, stressing the need for prudent naval and military restraint.
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New York
London
Evening Post
Portugal
England
Europe
South Africa
Italy
Rome
Lord Salisbury
Paris
Loubet
North America
North Africa
Far East
France
Russia
Edward
Petatian Weaeest
Market optimism amid Balkans fears and London gains
ParisTimes reports a cheerful London stock market mood despite Balkan tensions with strong demand for top investment stocks and firmer consols. Berlin notes a quiet week yet prices held firm, industrials rising and money rates easing on a broad recovery linked to extensive construction.
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London
Balkans
Berlin
Revolt by Women Students Sparks Quotas and Exclusions
ST PETERSBURG April 12 The Official Messenger details a women students revolt against new examination regulations at the medical institute. Three hundred seventeen students were reprimanded and twenty three severely punished and expelled. Sixty male students were expelled for attending a protest meeting. The institute and university reopened after a temporary closure. Strikes erupted at Morhine shoe works and Russo American rubber works, with violent clashes between strikers and police. The Czar's advisers warn him against travel to Italy due to anarchist fears. Amsterdam April 12 The strike collapses as Domela Nieuwenhuis proposes ending agitation. labor leaders meet until dawn and endorse the plan.
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ST. Petersburg
Medical Institute
Morhine
Italy
Postoffice Inspectors Probe Leaks On Rural Route Info
Washington April 12 Postoffice inspectors will investigate charges that wagon manufacturers and others received advance information about rural free delivery routes. Superintendent A W Machen says no advance notices are to be given and that about three hundred names are kept for early bulletins only to approved parties. He notes some firms obtain details by monitoring county deposits and local inspector visits.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Machen
National Conference of Charities and Correction Holds in Atlanta
The National Conference of Charities and Correction to be held in Atlanta May 6 to 12, with headquarters at the Piedmont Hotel. President Robert W. Deforest of New York will deliver the opening address on May 6. Notable speakers include Jane Addams, Hoke Smith, Florence Kelley, and Hastings Hart among many others from New York, Chicago, New Jersey, Kentucky, Alabama, and North Carolina.
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Columbus
National Conference of Charities and Correction
Atlanta
Piedmont Hotel
Robert W. Deforest
New York City
W. H. Alien
New York Association
J. J
E. E. Wilson
New Jersey State Board of Children’s Guardians
Elizabeth
N. J
George L. Sehon
Kentucky Children’s Home Society
Louisville
Hastings H. Hart
Children’s Home and Aid Socciety
Chicago
Florence Kelly
National Consumers’ League
C. Breckinridge Wilmer
Capital City National Bank Merges With Atlanta National
In Atlanta on April 12 Capital City National Bank completed a merger with Atlanta National Bank a week after collection clerk G Haliman Sims confessed a defalcation of 34000. Details remain private but Capital City’s affairs were reported in excellent condition despite the drain from the incident.
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Atlanta, Ga
Capital City National Bank
G. Haliman Sims
Atlanta National Bank
Capital City Bank
Sims
No word from Roosevelt in Montana dispatches
Secretary Loeb reported no news from the President today as lines from the park were down. Communications would require a messenger to Major Pitchers, while reports from Fort Yellowstone claim the President had seen a large quantity of game.
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Cinnabar
Mont
Loeb
Varters
Fort Yelowstone
Waa
Position of Body Indicates Clearly He Might Have Saved Himself
Police investigation suggests the decedent's posture points to a possible voluntary self rescue with little difficulty. The report notes the body location near the riverbank and statements from witnesses about his swimming ability and last-known movements before the disappearance. Further inquiry will determine if foul play is ruled out.
Fire destroys Haas home. boy and uncle die. many injured
A dawn fire gutted the Haas residence at Box 8 New Jersey Street and Massachusetts Avenue. Dr Joseph Haas lost his 12 year old son Frank and Nathan Morris perished while trying to warn others. Mrs Haas and two daughters were severely burned. Neighbors aided in rescue as coroner and city officials prepared burials and funeral arrangements. The alarm came from district patrols and nearby residents.
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New Jersey Street
Massachusetts Avenue
North
Alabama
Joseph Haas
Nathan Morris
Indianapolis
Frank Haas
Robert Keller
John Edmunds
Haas
J. B. Kaufman
East St. Clair Street
E. F. Hodges
Pantzer
Burkhardt
Goodwin
Towles
Hodges
Kaufman
Louis Haas
Tutewiler
A. Cohn
Park Avenue
Morris
Hebrew Temple
East Market Street
Messing
J A. Milburn
Chicago
Rabb
Aasodta
United Tes Court Room
Ind
Louis Newbrger
Morris, Newberger & Curtis
Box
H. M. Foltz
Hauses
Edmonds i
Mr. Edmunds
Flor
Haas Homestead
Fervar
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