Deadly City Fire Destroys Jacksonville Hotels and Homes
A massive blaze in Jacksonville on May 4 burned for hours, destroying parts of the Residence and Business District. Officials estimate property damage between 10 and 15 million dollars as 199 blocks burned, leaving 10,000 to 15,000 people homeless. The fire, fanned by wind, ruined Bay Street commerce and many public buildings. casualties are feared, including the fire chief. The city plans council and charity meetings to coordinate relief, with relief appeals likely.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Laura Street
Bay Street
la Villa
Devastating Fire Ravages Jacksonville's Business District
A fire started by a misrouted wire at the American Fibre Company shredding plant in Jacksonville on May 1 destroyed a six to eight block area. Fire swept from Davis to the river, consuming hotels, banks, theaters, and hundreds of shops. Dynamite and powder stored in Hubbard hardware exploded as crews battled the flames, with 15 million dollars in property lost and many residents made homeless.
Armour & Co Beef House Fire Damages Chicago Stockyards
A major blaze at Armour & Co beef house in Chicago's stockyards damaged the five story brick building, with 1,600 live cattle on the fourth floor rescued amid heavy flames and water damage valued at about 10000 dollars. A large ammonia pipe burst feeding stifling gas that forced 100 firemen to retreat to fresh air under Chief Sweeney, as 4600 dressed beef carcasses were stored in the premises.
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Chicago
Armour & Co
Sweeney
Four Foster Children Die In Blaze Near Muskegon Farm
Four young children Thomas Wertman aged three John Wertman aged four and a half Jennie Koote aged four and Hennehey Kooie aged four months perished in a fire at a rural Muskegon area farmhouse. The blaze occurred today as the family was reportedly alone in the structure. Investigators are probing the cause of the fatal house fire and its rapid spread.
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Muskegon, Mich
Thomas Wertman
John Wertman
Jennie Koote
Hennehey Kooie
Cincinnati Cold Storage Plant Fire Ruled Total Loss
The Cincinnati Abattoir Company cold storage plant on Spring Grove Avenue burned tonight causing an estimated loss of 75000 dollars. The damage was fully insured.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Abattoir Company
Spring Grove Avenue
Fire Ravages Center Street Businesses in Gridley
Gridley Ti May 2 Two entire business blocks facing Center street were burned this afternoon causing a loss estimated at. Mrs H Cohn wife of a clothing merchant started to burn a pile of rubbish this afternoon. She lit it and then left it. In a few minutes it had spread to a butcher shop owned by William Setle. A brisk south wind carried it across the street to the new Commercial Hotel and from there it jumped to the new Grid ley State Bank. By this time it was seen.
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Gridley
Center Street
H. Cohn
William Setle
New Commercial Hotel
Gridley State Bank
Townwide Fire Destroys Thirty Buildings
A blaze swept through the town causing two blocks of buildings to burn before help from Peoria could arrive. An engine and hose cart were dispatched but arrived too late. In all, about thirty buildings were destroyed as residents faced an urgent call for aid.
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Peoria
Illinois Central inaugurates broad liberal pension plan
Chicago May 3. President Stuyvesant Fish announces a new pension system for all 40,000 employees. Effective July 1, it starts with a 250000 dollar fund and annual appropriations up to 100000 dollars. Benefits equal 1 percent of average pay for each year of service. The plan preserves continuity of service through leaves and suspensions. Retirements begin at age 70 with ten years service. ages 61 to 70 may retire if incapacitated after ten years. Eligibility caps exclude law and surgical departments.
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Chicago
Stuyvesant Fish
Ilinois Central Railroad Company
A. J. Harahan
Conger Describes Boxers Crusade and Chinese Cowardice
Minister Conger tells Des Moines crowd of Boxers rising from a religious movement revived in Shan-Tung by two Buddhist priests. He says General Yu Shen funded and encouraged the uprising to drive out foreigners, while nationalists and natives faced fear and death. In Seoul, Korea, the government orders McLeavy Brown to relinquish control of customs as Britain’s rep presses the issue.
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Des Moines
Conger
Grand Army
China
Shan-Tung
Yu Shen
Shan-Thng
Brooke
Chi-Li
Peking
Meyer
Legationers
Statehouse
City Federation of Women’s Clubs
Seoul
Corea
McLeavy Brown
Great Britain
Cardinal future eyed for American church leaders
The Rt Rev James K Quigley bishop of western New York told a Buffalo Tribune special that within twenty five years the United States will likely have at least six new cardinals. He noted the rapid American growth could ease the path for American prelates to reach the rank, predicting cardinals in cities including New York Chicago St Louis New Orleans San Francisco and Pittsburgh.
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New York
James K. Quigley
Buffalo
The
Tribune
United States
Chicago
St. Louis
New Orleans
San Francisco
Pittsburg
Priest Rev Father Rooker Named Monsignor in Papal Legation
Albany May 3 a private dispatch from Washington announces the appointment of Rev Father Fred Z Rooker formerly of Albany now with the papal legation in Washington D C as pres to the Pope The mission entitles Father Rooker to the title of monsignor
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Albany
N. Y
Fred Z. Rooker
Washington, D. C
Father Hooker
United States Tops World Exports in Race for Supremacy
The United States leads as the chief export nation, outperforming the United Kingdom in commercial power. For the nine months ending March, average monthly exports were $124,497, u53, while Britain’s were under $118 million.
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Great Britain
United States Leads World Trade in Nine Months Ended March
The Treasury’s Monthly Summary shows the United States averaging 124.5 million in monthly exports for nine months ending in March 1901, ahead of the United Kingdom and Germany. Ten of twenty four nations export surplus, thirteen import surplus, with the U.S. posting a 521 million excess of exports over imports for the nine months. Canada and Russia also show notable surpluses in defined periods.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Russia
British India
Austria-Hungary
Belgium
Italy
Argentine
Bulgaria
Canada
Egypt
Mexico
Philippine Islands
Uruguay
Cape of Good Hope
Cuba
Greece
Japan
Porto Rico
Portugal
Spain
Switzerland
Argentina
Views of London Statist Poised on American Finance
The Statist argues that a single group of financiers would control major U S corporations and global transport lines from Atlantic to Pacific and to Asia, Europe, and Africa. It questions whether such vast plans to direct production and trade can be carried out, and if the United States could become the most powerful country.
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London
United States
Atlantic
Pacific
China
India
Australia
Europe
Africa
South America
Tragic Search Finds Five Year Old on Horse Heaven Plains
In Prosser Washington on May 3 the body of W. B. Matthews's five year old daughter was found after a weeklong search. Dehydrated and exhausted from wandering the barren Horse Heaven plains she had eaten grass and flowers to stay alive.
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Prosser
Wash
W. B. Matthews
Horse Heaven Plains
Child found dead in prairie badger hole
The body of a young girl was found in a prairie badger hole after about thirty six hours since death. She had wandered barefoot for five days without food or water, bruised feet from rough travel, and had wrapped prairie grass around her feet for protection. A bouquet of flowers and grass lay beside her as evidence of sustenance.
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Badger Hole
Woman Gets Life Sentence in Rathbun Murder Case
In New Haven on May 3 the trial of Ann Maria Rathbun ended with a second degree murder verdict and life imprisonment for her. She poisoned her husband William Rathbun by lacing coffee intended for John F. Hart, her husband’s boarder and lover. Hart, who faced adultery charges, was sentenced to two years six months in jail.
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New Haven
Conn
Ann Maria Rathbun
William Rathbun
Rathbun
John F. Hart
Regulars to Return as Army Plans Philippine Reductions
Washington May 23. War Department traces a plan to substantially reduce U S forces in the Philippines within a day or two. Fourteenth, Eighteenth, Twenty third Infantry and a battalion of Third Artillery are expected to be among the first home. New levies will replace some units. Enlistments push total to 76 000 men while artillery remains short and may receive transfers from infantry and cavalry to reach 15 000 men.
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Washington
War Department
United States
Philippines
Artilery
Manila
Anderson
Department
Root
No Elections in Manila initiates civilian rule
Manila date May 3 Civil government established as preliminary to general civil government. United States Philippines commission bars elections for Manila for now though allowed elsewhere. Judge Taft says Manila municipal government will be appointed soon. Population 244 732 census completed. Trials of Lieutenant Boyer and Captain Barrows on commissary irregularities advance.
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Manila
United States Philippine Commission
Taft
Lepanto
Benguet
Board of Health
Boyer
Barrows
War Department casualty list from Manila report
General MacArthur's Manila record shows wounded and killed across multiple units in April and May with names such as George H. Glover Warren Faust Franklin H. Gross Louis Gregory William Schlager Clyde Ely Alfred Ballin John R B McDonald William Blake and Harry Warner. The report notes transport ships Bedford Wright arriving in Manila yesterday.
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Washington
War Department
MacArthur
Manila
Company F
Fourth Artillery
Calbayog
Samar
George H. Glover
Warren Faust
Salsona
Luzon
Twentieth Infantry
Franklin H. Gross
Louis Gregory
Acloban
First Infantry
William Schlager
Clyde B. Ely
Cabugao
Third Cavalry
Alfred Ballin
Ae John RB
McDonald
Long
Tacloban
Leyte
William Blake
Lagoner
Comany M
Forty-seventh Infantry
Harry Warner
Buford and Wright
Patrick and others plead not guilty in Rice murder case
Albert T. Patrick David L. Short and Morris Meyers were arraigned before Recorder Golf in New York on forgery indictments and on Patrick's murder charge in the Rice case. They entered not guilty pleas pending demurrer arguments next week as counsel argued to dismiss the indictments over a date issue. Assistant DA Garvan said superseding indictments were filed to fix the defect.
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New York
Albert T. Patrick
David L. Short
Morris Meyers
Recorder Golf Today
Patrick
Texas
William Marsh Rice
Robert M. Moore
Garvan
Day in Texas President Wheisley Visit From New Orleans To Austin
President Wheisley travels from New Orleans through Louisiana into Texas greeted by Governor Sayres in Houston and welcomed by a vast Austin crowd. He addresses students and citizens at Prairie View and the Capitol, praising Texas growth, wealth, and loyalty to the Union while receiving a flag from the widow of Texas Republic’s last president.
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Austin
Tex
Dixie
Great Southwest
New Orleans
Bayou Teche
Louisiana
Texas
Plains of
Cotton
Brazos River
Black Prairie
Lone Star State
South
Sayers
Houston
Prairie View
State Normal School
Hempstead
Brenham
Colonel Geddings
House of Representatives
Elgin
Capitol
Congress Avenue
Confederate Veterans and Grand Army of the Republic
Capitol Building
Travis
Alamo
Republic of
Republic
Sam Houston
Ohio
Indiana
Nols
Kentucky
Tennessee
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Windsor
St. James
Placido
Girard
Bur
Bowden
Ted
Fila
American Fibre Company
Davis
Union Streets
Boston
W. W. Cleve& Son
Seine Dent Eee Tell
Davis Street
Hagen Creek
Bridge Street
Stansell
Windsor Hotel
Opera House
Hogan’s Creek
Atlantic, Valdosta & Western Railroad
Jones's
F. and H. Dowling Company
Muller & Co
Jones's Boat Yard
Law Exchange
McCoy
Hogans’s Creek
Mohawk
Gardner
Furehgott
Mammoth
Benedict & Poliak
Christie Drug Company
MacAllister
Cohen Brothers
R. D
McNeery
Coleman
Ss A Dozen Drug
Millin
Sumner 4 Fae Ooo
Oxford
Julia Street
Taliaferro
Riverside
Seulls House
Trinity Methodist Church
Richards
Livingstone
Baldwin Mansion
the Elks
Hubbard Hardware Store
Furchgstt
Gardiner
Market
Main Street
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Laura and
Bay Streets
Commercial Bank
Western Union Telegraph Office
Cleveland Manufacturing Company
First National Bank
Hubbard's Block
Industrial Savings and Trust Company
Seminole Club
Elks’ Club
Herkimer
Palmetto
Hotel Richelieu
Ely
Gilkes
Nedeman
Albemarle House
Christie, Groover & Co
McMurray Livery Stable
New York Steam Laundry
R. D. Knight & Co
A. B. Campbell Company
Heffley Bros
Cable Plano Company
C. C. Betts
Greenleaf & Crosby
Merchants’ National Bank
Jorida Hardware Company
East Florida Printing Company
Ritawoller Shoe Company
Belvidere Saloon
St. John Hotel
Smith Building
Barton Block
St. Mary’s
Church of the Immaculate Conception
St. Joseph's Convent
Cookman Institute
First Baptist Church
McTiere
W. S. Ware
Senator Taliaferro
J. S. Parrott
Mr. Pollock
Col. H. Bisbee
W. B. Owen
Illinois Central
Father Rooker
Pope
ING Nation OF the World
Morgan
Husband
Patrick, Short and
Myers
Gof
President Wheisley
Stark State
Sayres
Empire
Republic of Texas
Belles of
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