Global Briefs Blink Through a Turbulent World
A San Francisco man blames decayed rails for a fatal Bradley California crash amid Southern Pacific disruption. Chicago bank clearings top May at 1.12 billion, a new high. New York reports higher life insurance commissions. Folk of Missouri as 1908 Democratic presidential candidate with John A. Johnson as running mate. Wisconsin university wins a close track race against Syracuse. Berlin messages confirm Franco Japanese agreement basis via German office. Seven loggers drown above Idaho’s Payette rapids. nine others survive. Bavarian diet results split clericals 66, socialists 21, liberal 1, peasants 9. China revolt near Amoy. 40,000 rebels march. Santo Domingo ex-president arrives in New York. Nickle Shepard found dead in a Minnesota swamp. Salina bank president walks 186 miles to avoid breaking his daughter’s engagement. Roosevelt hints at Harvard as active member in May. Roosevelt lauds rural life at Lansing farm event. Howard Gould to testify about yacht incident. New York Society for Self-Culture forms with 100 women, 1 man. Walter Cheesman dies after stroke. British amateur golf crown won again by John Ball. Daulah government resists sale of Danish West Indies. Roanoke woman bears four children, two surviving. Pope reportedly adopts vegetarianism for gout relief. Harriet Hain of Wisconsin dies, sorrow over daughter’s death triggers apoplexy. Patting cap sulin advances credited to Man Currie Lajdiein. Canton sees revolts amid dynastic tensions in China. Guatemala’s president may spare accused plotters amid Mexican risk. Howard Gould noted.
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Southern Pacific
San Francisco
Bradley
Cal
Rand
Chicago
New York
Rnsurance Department
Tpem
Joseph W. Folk
Missouri
John A. Johnson
Minnesota
Lis
Wiucensin University
Syracuse
Pichon
Berlin
Foreign Office
Garden Valley
Idaho
China
Amoy
Santo Domingo
Unit
Nickle” Shepard
Salina
Kan
Harvard
Roosevelt
Agricultural College
Lansing
Mich
Howard Gould
Walter Cheesman
Denver Union Water Company
Denver
Mr. Cheesman
Hempstead Harbor
John Ball
Tve Times
C. A. Palmer
Palmer
Hrat Clisa
Daulah
United States
Frank Croxton
Roanoke
Ind
Rome
Harriet Matilda Hain
Feark
Edward Hain
Winconsin
Kenoeha
Nowell
Currie Lajdiein
Saginaw
Canton
Citrera
Guatemala
Mexico
Allico
Are
Runaway near Lopey Cal ends in deaths as rail strikes loom
Fragmented dispatches report a fatal runaway near Lopey California with two riders killed and two passengers fatally injured. A French navy sailors strike threatens port closures. U S leaders comment on rail policy, tariffs, Cuba, and Puerto Rico.
All Ready For Haywood Trial Jury Secured
Boise Idaho reports twelve men have been chosen to try William D Haywood on the charge connected to ex Gov Frank Steunenbergs death. The panel includes eight Republicans three Democrats and one prohibitionist with minimal labor union ties and objections to capital punishment noted. The court spent 16 days selecting 156 jurors from about 200.
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Boise
Idaho
William JD. Haywood
Frank Steunenberg
Haywood
Caldwell
Thomas B. Gess
Finley McBean
Samuel D. Gilman
Daniel Clark
Cnorge Powell
Oly. Sebatn
1. F. Messeck
Lee Heplvenor
A. d. Robertson
Levi Smilth
Notable Buffalo Citizen Killed In Auto Crash
Buffalo resident Harry Hamlin a prominent and wealthy figure dies in a collision on the Williamsville road when his car strikes a wagon driven by Jacob Schaller. A 12 year old boy, John Heckel, is fatally injured. Schaller and a second occupant are injured but recovering.
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Harry Hamlin
Buffalo
Buffalo, N
Williamsville
Hamlin
Jacob Schaller
Schaller
John Heckel
Mr. Hamlin
Anthony Gavin
Country Club
Schailer
Hamiln
Maj Gen Ruger Dies After Long Army Career
Stamford Connecticut reports the death of Major General Thomas H. Ruger U S Army retired at his Tila home. born April 2 1833 he graduated West Point in 1854 joined the engineer corps resigned after a year practiced law in Janesville Wisconsin until the Civil War began. He served as lieutenant colonel of the Third Wisconsin volunteers fought at Rappahannock and Gettysburg commanded a division, led forces during New York City draft riots, was colonel in the regular army in 1866, military governor in Georgia in 1888, superintendent at West Point 1871-76, commanded the Department of the South for two years, promoted to brigadier general in 1886, major general in 1895, retired in 1897.
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Stamford
Cons
Thomas Ht. Ruger
U. A
Tila
West Point
Engineer Corps
Janesville
Wis
Wisconsin Voluntears
Rappahannock
New York City
Georgia
West Point Academy
Department of the South
Holmes Trial Opens Over Cotton Report Leaks
Edwin Holmes former assistant at the Agriculture Department faced a Supreme Court start in Washington DC on charges he supplied advance cotton crop report information to New York brothers. The trial began Monday in the District of Columbia court.
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Holmes
Washington, D. C
Edwin 8. Holmes
Atlatician
Department of Agriculture
New York Brothers
Supreme Court of the Dietrict of Columbia
Airship to Carry Passengers Next Week in Toledo
A projected airship launch in Toledo, directed by Roy Knabenshue, will carry passengers next week. The craft measures 108 feet in length with a 17 foot diameter, promising a new era in aerial travel for the region.
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Toledo
Roy Knabenshue
Train Tower Rescues Crossing From Collision Near Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo area tower Edward Egan acted quickly when a Michigan Central freight train lost control and barreled toward a crossing as a Grand Rapids & Indiana passenger train approached. Egan aimed a derailment device to send the freight into a ditch, sacrificing the engine but averting a likely fatal collision with no injuries reported.
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Kalamazos
Mich
Edward Egan
Alfmala
Michican Central
Grand Rapids & Indiana
Michigan Central
Towerman Ezan
Timon Ut
Snow Falls in June in New York Weather Shock
New York records snow on the first Sunday of June with temperatures at 45 F at 10:20 am and 43 F by noon. The local weather bureau notes the coldest June in years and millions in losses follow from unseasonable weather. Merchants, amusements, and summer clothing retailers report damage while winter conditions spread from the Catskills to mountain peaks snowcapped.
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New York
Mercury
Als O'Clowk
Jocal Weather Bureau
Catakula
St Louis man claims Titian painting St Jerome in Honduras theory
Edward Sells of St. Louis believes a painting bought for under 100 dollars a year ago is Titian's St Jerome from 1631. He traced a path from a priest in Honduras to Allison K. Stewart in St. Louis, with connections to San Geronimo and Gonzaga history, suggesting the work traveled via Honduras.
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St. Louis
Edward Sells
Frederico Gonzaga
Mantua
Charles I
England
St. Jerome
Cortex
Honduras
Gonzaga
Sella
Stewart
San Geronimo
S J. Jerome
Memorial Service for Mrs McKniey at Canton First Methodist
A memorial service was held Sunday for Mrs McKniey at the Canton First Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev B C Buxton, who conducted Mrs McKinley’s funeral, delivered the address as the crowded edifice observed the tribute with a large draped portrait placed before the rostrum.
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Canton
First Methodist Episcopal Church
McKniey
B. C. Buxton
McKinley
McKinney
Four Men Drown off Norwalk Sloop in Heavy Sea
Edward Ruth of Brooklyn was the sole survivor of five men led from New Haven by the tug Wyorming Sunday night. The sloop Helle, also of Brooklyn, capsized in a heavy sea off Norwalk in Long Island Bound, drowning four crew members.
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New Haven
Coun
Edward Ruth
Brooklyn
Wyorming
Helle
Norwalk
Long Island
Disastrous Floods Hit Texas and Colorado River Banks
Floods sweep Texas and Houston areas as river banks from the Colorado rise and fracture. Water inundates farmland along the Colorado watershed, undermining fields and threatening homes. No precise dates or official sources available in readable text.
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Texas
Houston
Tex
Colorado
End of Famous Warships Reveals Saratoga’s Fading Condition
The Saratoga, a former frigate used by the Pennsylvania Nautical School at League Island since 1889, shows a damaged bow three inches out of plumb after a 200 mile voyage north of Bermuda. Repairs are needed to restore her to a sea going vessel. officials debate future use as a receiving ship.
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New York
Saratoga
Te Pennsylvania Nautical School
League Island Park
Charles N. Atwater
Bermuda Islands
Kittery
Parry
Farragut
Mexico
Perry
Japan
Herr
Hampton Roads
Cumberland
Robley D. Evans
Atlautic
Jamestown
Pennsylvania Nautical School
Pineville social brief on Mrs Fluffy and Mrs Pluffy
In Pineville the newcomer Mrs Pluffy hosts a call from the most cultivated resident who notes her husband’s lawn duty and a prior lapse. Mrs Finity recalls being astonished when the husband’s count at the gate distracted her as she arrived. The remark ends with a light reflection on decorum and status.
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Mrs. Pluffy
Pineville
Indy
Mrs. Fluffy
Pinevilley
Weathered quip exchange and local gas meter fix scene
A playful local line features a couple debating rain and noise, a home cleaning plan leaving no carpet, and a joke about an Astrologist foreseeing trouble from a Helot man. A visitor credits the gas man who repaired the meter, tying the vignette to neighborhood happenings.
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Philadelphia Press
Markets Reported Across Cities on June 4 1907
New York markets show steady tone with grain and oil shares. prices listed for wheat corn and oats. Cleveland and East Buffalo yield varied reports on flour, butter, eggs, potatoes, and cattle prices. Pittsburgh notes cattle and lamb figures with limited ranges.
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Cleveland
Minniesota
Hest
Egee
York
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Oregon
George Goldraith
Porte
France
United States Independent Telephone Company
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William J. Bryan
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Foraker
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Cori Leadeybrush
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Filey
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Lowden
Joe” Cannon
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Ridgley
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Queen Maud
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Gen
Michel
Idndau
Hertha Bellatein
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New York Senate
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Long
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Excape
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Floyd Pegg
Washington
Thomas D. Jordyn
Equitable Life Assurance Society
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Jamestown Exposition Management
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Theodore Thton
Paris
Weather Bureau
Herman LeRoy
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Supreme Court of the United States
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Bordon P. Bowng
Methodist Theological Seminary
Cincinnati
Anancal Center
Eastport
N. Y
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Lfe
Mra
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Eddy
Misa Sprocking
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Titian
Eae
Cassie Corn
Onti
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