Fire destroys New Avelina Hotel in Fort Wayne death toll rises
A hotel fire at the New Avelina in Fort Wayne Indiana killed at least twelve people and left many missing. The fire was found at 3 30 am in the elevator shaft by night clerk Ralph Hopkins who evacuated guests and saved many lives as crews from National Guard units cleared debris and recovered bodies amid a smouldering ruin.
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Avelina
New Avelina
Fort Wayne
Ind
R.S. Johnson
Pana
Ill
M. Hidisch
New York
J. B. Miller
Sheboygan
Infantry
National Guard
Ralph Hopkins
Boat Sinks at Alexandria Wharf Tragic Loss
The steamer Trenton of the Potomac Navigation company capsized and sank at its Alexandria Va wharf on Sunday. Stanley D. Posey aged 18 months, son of Murray Posey of Brooklyn N Y, died after slipping from his mother’s arms as rescuers reached him. About a dozen passengers were saved. The accident is blamed on cage shifting. The Posey family of four was bound for Posey’s wharf when the tragedy occurred.
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Washington
Trenton
Potomac Navigation Company
Alexandria
Stanley D. Posey
Murray Posey
Brooklyn
N. Y
Potomac River
Posey
Posey’s
Polish Groom Shoots Girl After Rejection in Williamsburg
William Sekansky, a young Polander newly arrived from Europe for a wedding, shot and killed Annie Kockonna in a hallway of a Williamsburg boarding house after she refused his marriage proposal. He then shot Michael Kirsani, who tried to intervene, and Kirsani died at a hospital. Police captured Sekansky as an enraged crowd pursued him.
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Europe
William Sekansky
Annie Kockonna
Williamsburg
Michael Kirsani
Kirsani
Eight Die in Chicago Reduction Plant Explosion
A body found among the ruins at Thirty ninth and Iron Street brings the death toll from last Friday night’s explosion and fire at Chicago Reduction Company to eight.
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Chicago Reduction Company
Thirty-ninth and
Iron Street
Chicago
Rumors of Emperor Francis Joseph's Health End
Berlin rumors about Emperor Francis Joseph's health were unfounded. Official reports state his health is in all respects satisfactory.
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Francis Joseph
Berlin
Emperor Francis Joseph
Cleveland not as seriously ill as reports claimed
Former President Grover Cleveland is not as ill as recent reports stated, according to an Associated Press representative. The Sunday assurance counters earlier published claims.
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Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Associated Press
Man Drowns in Canal After Dog Attacks Rescuers
Henry P. Turpin, 32, drowned in the Steelton canal after an initial failed attempt to end his life. A bulldog attacked rescuers Edward McCord and Frank Magnellia as they tried to reach him. Turpin was saved twice before his final successful plunge with the dog’s aid. Police were alerted after a third attempt.
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Henry P. Turpin
Steelton
Turpin
Edward McCord
Frank Magnellia
Magnellia
McCord
Cabrera Faces Honduran Military Moves Amid Guatemalan Tensions
Travelers arriving from Guatemala report Honduras concentrating forces at the Guatemalan frontier amid a suspected coup plot by Gen. Domingo Vasquez. Honduras disarmament after conflict with Nicaragua fuels fears of foreign munitions aiding a push, and Guatemala’s situation is described as critical with executions among wealthy Central American families.
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Honduras
Panama
Guatemala
Domingo Vasquez
Senor ‘Bustillos
Cabrera
Bustillos
Guatemala City
Nicaragua
Castaneda
Blanco
Messrs. Hererra, Trigueras
Edwardo Rubio
Antonio Rubio
Troops Seize Consul in Guatemala City Turmoil
Rumor from Mexico City reports Juan Barrios Guevara Guatemalan minister of resign affairs leading troops to the Uruguayan consul general's residence. They seized the Hon duran consul Gen Mindente and his son who sheltered there. The Uruguayan consul fled to the American legation seeking protection. Guatemala's capital described as center of unrest.
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Mexico City
Juan Barrios
Gen
Mindente
Legation
United States
Guatemala
Syracuse University seniors suspend class over dean removal
Chancellor Day informed the committee that reported resolutions by the engineering department senior class criticizing the trustees executive committee over Dean Kent’s removal suspended the class until the resolutions are withdrawn.
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Day
Syracuse
N. Y
Dean Kent
Doctor's Slayer Gets Ten Years
Robert W. Gott of Cincinnati pleaded guilty to the murder of Dr. Leo Danziger and received a ten-year sentence. Danziger was killed during a visit to Anna Spangler, Gott's 16 year old niece, three months earlier.
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Robert W. Gott
Cincinnati
Leo Danziger
Gott
Dr. Danziger
Anna Spangler
Yale Student's Auto Kills Eight Year Old in New Haven
Sophie Suderman eight is fatally injured when struck by an automobile owned by Huntington Smith a Yale student from St Louis in New Haven Conn on Friday.
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Sophie Suderman
New Haven
Conn
Huntington Smith
Yale
St. Louis
Oklahoma House Funds Anthony Income Tax Bill
The Oklahoma House funded a new income tax bill named after Anthony proposing a graduated tax on all incomes over two thousand dollars. The measure targets higher earners with progressive rates to bolster state revenues.
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Oklahoma House
Bandits Raid Fast Train Near Pittsburg
Two white robbers boarded the New York and St. Louis express at Union Station Pittsburg Pa left at 1005 PM Thursday and overpowered Express Messenger N Rodhen taking four sealed bags of currency. The stroke occurred near Walker's Station eleven miles west of Pittsburg with the messenger bound and gagged. Authorities from Pan Handle and Pennsylvania railroads city and county detectives are investigating.
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Pennsylvania Flyer
Pan Handle
Pennsylvania
Union Station
Pittsburg
Walker's Station
Pittsburgh
Steubenville
William Lafferty
Adams Express
N. Rodhen
Secret Service
Pennsylvania Railroad
Carnegie
Banker Bernard Warkentin Shot on Damascus Train
The body of Bernard Warkentin, president of the Kansas State Bank in Newton, Kansas, arrived in New York aboard the Kenig Albert. He was shot on a Damascus train in early April in what authorities deem an unprovoked attack by a Syrian passenger. Mrs. Warkentin and her son accompanied the body. Ambassador Leishman in Constantinople reported the case to Washington and vowed pursuit of justice if murder is proven.
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Victom
Kenig Albert
New York
Bernard Warkentin
Kansas State Bank
Newton
Kan
Damascus
Warkentin
Leishman
Constantinople
State Department
Washington
Carl Warkentin
Disaster sinks Japanese cruiser Matsushima in magazine explosion
The Japanese training cruiser Matsushima was sunk off the Pescadores by a magazine explosion Thursday morning. 141 crew rescued. over 200 feared lost including the captain. Most officers saved. two prominent cadets and sons of Baron Chinda and Prince Oyama among feared dead.
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Pescadores Islands
Matsushima
Baron Chinda
Foreign Office
Prince Oyama
Helena Alderman Inherits Home From Dog In Probate
Court names Alderman G D Beattie of Helena Mont co heir with a dog in Mrs Mary A Pryse will. After the pet dies Beattie becomes sole heir and inherits a valuable residence once owned by the deceased.
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G. D. Beattie
Helena, Mont
Mary A. Pryse
Widow of Twelfth Illinois Soldier Receives 70 Cent Back Pay
Mrs. H. M. Rutger of Belvidere Indiana, widow of Lieut. Rutger who died in 1878, was notified by the government that 70 cents is due on her husband’s pay and a draft for the amount was sent to her recently.
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H. M. Rutger
Belvidere
Rutger
Twelfth
Illinois
Germany to borrow 250 million dollars in five years
Secretary of the Treasury Sydow told the Reichstag appropriations committee on Thursday that the German imperial government must borrow 250 million dollars during the next five years.
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the Treasury
Sydow
Reichstag
Special Agent Scriven resumes allotment work for Rosebud land
Special Agent John Scriven resumes duty in Tripp county to finish allotments for Sioux Indians and prepare for opening the 1,000,000 acre Rosebud tract to settlement later this summer. The process includes finalizing transfers, with no reallotments after local allotments are completed this season.
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Rosebud Reservation
Tripp County
John Scriven
United States
Roosevelt
Scriven
Milionacre
Kammel Trial Under Way in Arsenic Wife Murder Case
Gustave Kammel of Miller faces trial for poisoning his aged wife with arsenic at breakfast. Brookings chemist Prof Whitehead testified the stomach contents showed arsenic, comparable to rat poison. His son Fred testified to finding rat poison box, while Kammel, over 70, speaks only German.
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Gustave Kammel
Miller
Whitehead
Brookings
Kammel
Kammels
Sea
Germany
Fred
Fred Kammel
Troops to Watertown for Camp Roosevelt Rifle Practice
The Sixteenth Infantry of the U S Army will arrive at Watertown May 10 for a month of rifle practice on Camp Roosevelt at Lake Kampeska. One battalion stays until June 11 and is relieved by another until July 11, as Watertown officials seek a federal camp site and test the location.
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War Department
South Dakota
Adjt
C. H. Englesby
South Dakota National Guard
Sixteenth Infantry
U.S. A
Fort Crook
Neb
Watertown
Camp Roosevelt
Lake Kampeska
South Dakota Guard
Secretary of War
Federal Department
Coin Flip Decides Sixth Ward Alderman in Lead
City council in Lead chose alderman after a tied vote of 63 to 63 between Cooper on the citizens ticket and Thomas on the socialist ticket. A silver dollar flip determined the winner with Cooper calling the right side and gaining the seat while incumbent.
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Lead
Cooper
Citizens
Thomas
Steltz Pleads Guilty to Murder in Sioux Falls Case
John Steltz alias John Clark confessed to the murder of Theodore Lothman in a cabin near the Big Sioux river and was sentenced to life in the Sioux Falls penitentiary after arraignment before Judge Jones. Separately, 150 laborers mostly Italians walked off the Belle Fourche irrigation project causing contractor staffing concerns.
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Steltz
John Steltz
John Clark
Theodore Lothman
Big Sioux River
Sioux Falls
Jones
Belle Fourche
Feud Erupts Between Gregory County Officials and Indian Police
Conflict arises after Indian police arrest Sioux warrior Chasing Crane off Rosebud reservation land within Gregory county to enforce dancing prohibition ordered by U S Indian agent. Gregory officers then arrest Indian police near Dixon and jail them in Gregory.
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Gregory County
Bull Creek
Rosebud Indian Reservation
United States Indian
Chasing Crane
Rosebud
Daniels
Dixon
Gregory
Schley Day at Yankton Sets May 7 as Public Event
Admiral and Mrs. Winfield Scott Schley visit Yankton May 4 to 8 for Oriental consistory events. May 7 is Admiral Schley day with Gov. Crawford delivering the welcome and Judge Bartlett Tripp greeting guests. John Holman speaks on The Army and Navy. Schley will reply.
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South Dakota
Winfield Scott Schley
Admiral Schley
Yankton
Gov. Crawford
Bartlett Tripp
John Holman
Vienna Adopts Plan for Electric Lighting
Business men and residents of Vienna will meet next Tuesday to discuss installing an electric lighting system. A cost expert will present information on the proposed plant. The meeting aims to spur immediate action to secure lighting for Vienna, which is badly in need.
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Vienna
Fire strikes Mitchell business district injuring two stores
A Tuesday morning blaze in Mitchell destroyed W. H. Bason’s grocery and bakery and damaged Mrs. Anderson’s millinery shop. Bason’s loss is about 3400 dollars with 2000 dollars insured. Anderson carried 850 dollars insurance. Smoke and water saved much of Anderson stock.
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W. H. Bason
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Consul
Oklahoma
Prain
South Dakota State News
Schley
Mitchell
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