Sperry to Quit Command Rumors Greet Fleet Habits
Gossip in Washington and on the fleet says Rear Admiral Charles S Sperry will haul down his flag soon. The fleet prepares for routine yard stays until May 17 and possible reshuffling ahead of President Roosevelt selecting a new fleet commander before leaving office next Thursday.
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Charles 5. Sperry
San Francisco
Hampton Roads
Fort Monroe
Washington
Connecticut
Admiral Sperry
Roosevelt
Navy Yards
Fort Montec
Cape Cod
Stillwater
Navy Department
RULES FRIEND IN TRANCE INDICTED FOR MURDER IN HUTCHINSON
Orlvie Foland a 19 year old from Hutchinson Kansas was arrested on Wednesday charged with the murder of Jesse Haymaker a Wells Fargo Express clerk found dead in the express office Foland said he slept in the office with Haymaker who consented and that he shot him later confessed claiming he might have been crazy He admitted taking 37 25 from a till then forgot what he did with it
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Ninteen
Orlvie Foland
Hutchinson
Kan
Jesse Haymaker
Wells-Fargo Express Company
Stepo Thar
Foland
Haymaker
Jesse
Doctor Lund Dies of Blood Poisoning in Houston
Prominent Houston physician Dr. W. A. Lund died at his home from blood poisoning believed to be linked to a surgical case he had operated on three weeks earlier. He reportedly diagnosed his own condition and treated himself, predicting his death two weeks prior.
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Telly
W. A. Lund
Houston
Tex
Blizzard Fatalities Mount in South Russia Storm
A violent blizzard raged for days across a wide area in southern Russia. More than 600 people perished, many frozen in snowbound trains. Multiple wrecks are feared in the Black Sea region.
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Russia
Black Sea
Sioux City Live Stock Market Quotations
Thursday quotations show top beeves at 5.70 and top hogs at 6.35 on the Sioux City market.
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Sioux City
Taft to Visit Taft Ranch Near San Antonio Tex
Soon after his inauguration President Taft will visit Charles P Taft at his ranch near San Antonio Texas. A residence is under construction on the ranch and golf links have been laid out.
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Taft
Pexaa
Charles P. Taft
San Antonio
Tex
Dry Farming Congress Seeks Speakers Trans-Mississippi
Fragmentary OCR notes reference a Dry Farming Congress with mentions of sessions and speakers. The text cites Trans-Mississippi region and billing in Montana, but details are unclear. Further readable lines needed for a precise summary.
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Dry Farming Congress
Suffragettes intensify pressure on Asquith in Caxton Hall action
A line of more than thirty high status women including Mia Pethick Lawrence Lady Constance Lytton Stratford Dugdale Daley Solomon and Mrs Catherine Corbett staged a Caxton Hall protest to force access to Prime Minister Asquith. Police halted the procession near Caxton Hall, allowing only couples to pass and keeping demonstrators away from Parliament. Several leaders including Mrs Lawrence were arrested as the event concluded.
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Mia
Pethick Lawrence
Constance Lytton
Lord Lytton
India
Stratford Dugdale
Commander Dugdale
Wil
Caxton Hall
Lawrence
House of Commons
Train Hits Street Car in Cleveland Tragedy
A collision between two Pennsylvania trains and a street car in Cleveland Ohio on Wednesday night left three men fatally injured and twenty others hurt. The fatally injured include Henry C Schwartz Parker Lowe and C H Ball. The street car carried many passengers and was struck at a grade crossing where factory exhaust obscured the train view, despite the conductor pulling the derail lever. The impact split the car and hurled many riders, but the low train speed kept more deaths from occurring.
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Pennsylvania Railway
Cleveland
Henry C. Schwartz
Parker Lowe
C. H. Ball
Williamsfield
Girl reports kidnapping and drugging near Lincoln Park
Marie McInroe, 19, told Chicago police two men with revolvers grabbed her as she walked home. They forced her to swallow poison and carried her unconscious to a hotel near Lincoln Park where she remained for twenty hours. She did not know how they took her to the hotel.
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Lincoln’ Park
Chicago
Marie McCiinrue
Tragic Shootout In St Louis Leaves Youth Dead
An unidentified about twenty year old was killed in a pistol battle between Illinois Central railroad detectives and thieves in St Louis. Edward Smith fired the fatal shot and surrendered to police who released him. The youth and his companions were robbing cars and opened fire on the detectives.
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Kmied
Trains Crashes in Ecuador Rail Disaster Kills Twenty Five
A passenger train bound for the northwest derailed and plunged about 100 feet into a ravine near Rio Bamba Ecuador. Twenty five people died and forty were wounded in the accident which investigators blamed on misplaced rails and track faults.
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Rio Bamba
Ecuador
Bryan Buys Fruit Ranch Shifts Winters to Texas
Former Governor Alva Adams of Pueblo Colorado says William J. Bryan told him he recently bought a fruit ranch near Brownsville Texas where he plans to spend winters.
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Bryan
Alva Adams
Pueblo
Coto
William J. Bryan
Brownsville
Tex
Theater Manager Eugene Tompkins Dies in Boston
Eugene Tompkins longtime theater manager and owner died at his Boston home after a long illness. He was a prominent figure in local theater circles for many years.
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Vtheater
Eugene Tompkins
Boston
Mass
Pardee and Jones in Exchange Brawl at Merchants Meeting
Former Gov Geo C Pardee struck B B Jones of Oakland during a Merchants Exchange meeting. The epithet lar angered Pardee and led to a heated clash. Police then removed Jones from the scene as tensions cooled.
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B. B. Jones
Oakland
Cal
Merchants’ Exchange
Geo. C. Pardee
Fisah
Jones
Tornado Plows Through Fister Arkansas Killing Thirteen
Thirteen killed and many injured as a tornado wrecks Fister Arkansas and neighboring counties. Town of 460 reports only two buildings standing. wire outages hinder details. Kentucky faces severe storm with heavy rains, swollen rivers, and livestock losses. Louisville recounts five inches of rain in 24 hours and widespread damage.
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Arkansas
Lonoke County
Lonoke
Prairie
Wondruff
Poinsett
Fisher
Kentucky
Louisville
Henderson
West Point
Louisvile
St. Louis
Frankfort
Carrolitor
Bear- Bram Creek
Odsining
Memphis
Nashville
New York Central Loses in Supreme Court Ruling
The U S Supreme Court affirmed a $108,000 fine on the New York Central Railroad for rebates to American Sugar Refining, ruling that a railroad not the initiator in a rebate scheme can still be criminally charged under the Elkins anti trust law.
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New York Central
United States Circuit Court of
New York
New York Central Railroad Company
American Sugar Refining Company
Supreme Court of the
United States
Elkins
Springfield primary showdown selects Sherman for mayor
In Springfield Alabama a tight republican primary that drew keen attention nominated former Lieutenant Governor Lawrence Sherman over Mayor Roy R. Reece by less than a dozen votes. Unofficial tallies show 10,000 total votes with Sherman at 3,109 and Reece at 3,100. Sherman, who moved from Macomb to Springfield two years ago, is retiring from the state office and campaigned on a law enforcement platform.
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Springfeld
Lawrence Sherman
Roy R. Reece
Sherman
Reece
Macomb
Springfield
Wellman Urges Carnegie to Fund Global Newspaper
In a Missouri speech Walter Wellman urged Andrew Carnegie to create a world’s greatest paper in Washington. He called for a non profit, mission driven newspaper to promote international peace and reform in America, while operating as a business enterprise.
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University of Missouri
Walter Wellman
Andrew Carnegie
Washington
America
Ten Years for Mrs Peck in New York Court
Judge Crain in general sessions court in New York City sentenced Ellen Peck a 79 year old Sharkhill New York woman to ten years imprisonment for obtaining $2000 from a brokerage firm by falsely claiming she owned 225000 acres of coal land.
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Crain
General Sessions
New York City
Ellen Peck
Sharkhill
N.Y
One Killed and Nine Buried at Seattle Expo Construction
A cave-in on the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition grounds in Seattle Washington traps nine men and kills Daniel Roberts during sewer work. The eleven workers were buried under thirty four feet of debris but the rescued crew were not seriously hurt. The incident prompts rescue efforts and investigation into the cave-in.
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Seattle
Wash
Daniel Roberts
Mardi Gras Gaity in New Orleans Celebrations
Mardi Gras is observed as a legal holiday in New Orleans with festive gaiety and revelry. The day features a suspension of business and a focus on mimicry and fun in the city.
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New Orleana
New Orleans
Sharp Earthquake Shocks Algeria On Wednesday
A sharp earthquake struck Conastantide Algeria on Wednesday causing subterranean rumblings and lasting several moments. No further details on damage or injuries were available in the readable text.
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Conastantide
Algeria
Simon Exhausted All Means To Find Missing Wife
Two weeks of unrelenting search by BE. F. Simon and police ends with him reporting no clues to the disappearance of Olive Almon Simon, a department store clerk. He notes no cause for the departure and cites a suspicious man seen near their Oriel block home as a possible lead. The couple married ten years ago in Sioux City.
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BE. F. Simon
Mra
Olive Almon
Tayniry
Oriel Block
Sioux City
Judge rules Sears Roebuck cannot be punished in Iowa case
Judge McPherson sides with Sears Roebuck & Co noting it is an artificial person with no property, agents, or credits in Iowa. The Des Moines ruling says the company cannot be reached by the U S court and suggests possible legislative remedy and alternative indictments in Texas.
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Sears- Roebuck Care
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Chicago
Mall’ Order House
United States Court of the Southern District of
Towa
Des Moines
United States
Tiinais
Violent insanity grips ex Gov Packards daughter
Blanche Packard of Marshall daughter of ex Governor B. Packard a state board of agriculture member has become violently insane. A paroled patient from Independence hospital she had been improving since last fall Gov Packard plans to leave for Seattle and the sale preparations are blamed for the strain. Packard woman volunteered as a nurse in the Spanish American war and Cuban fever camps led to her breakdown.
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Blanche Packard
Marshall
Town
B. Packard
Astute
State Board of Agriculture
Miss Packard
Independence Hospital
Seattle
Wash
Cuba
Great Interurban Scheme Links Des Moines to Region
Des Moines would become the center of a vast interurban system with a proposed capital stock of 40 million dollars. C J H Krien, former geology professor at Des Moines College, outlined plans to connect Sioux City Dubuque Ottumwa and other thriving cities to Des Moines via an elevated interurban network.
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Des Moines
C. Jh. Krieen
Des Moines College
Sioux City
Dubuque
Ottumwa
Rockford man killed by buzz saw accident
Tuesday morning near Rockford, twenty miles west of Charles City, Dan Welchans, 56, was cut nearly in two when a buzz saw severed him after he fell while cutting wood. He died almost instantly, leaving a wife and several married children.
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Rockford
Charles City
Dan Welchans
Berry Reappointed and Hoxie Named Inaugural Escort
Gov Garrell reappoints W J H Berry of Indianola to the pardon board and selects Gen Hoxie of Iowa City as his personal escort for the Taft inauguration. Suspect held in Pusa on Ottumwa assault case. Mining interests plan Dubuque consolidation with five properties under J W Welsford. Edward Braddock of Marshalltown dies after being run over by train wheels near Eldora.
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Gov. Garrell
W. J H. Berry
Indianola
Gen. Hoxie
Iowa City
Dubuque
J. WY. Welsford
Hnance
Iowa Central
Eldora Tuesaday
Edward Braddock
Marshalltown
Woman's Narrow Escape After Cruel Assault in Ottumwa
A mob blocked police headquarters as violence erupted over a brutal assault on Mrs. AM Johnston wife of a merchant in Ottumwa. A 1,000 strong crowd prevented lynching of three accused Negro men. Johnston's injuries may be fatal. The American Commercial Traveler group offered 1300 reward for the suspect.
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Ottumwa
AM. Johnston
Evelork
Johnston
Ofttumwa
George McBride
Sherman Phillips
Mary Mahoney
Oscar Hogan
Ufe
Anamosa
Agnes Yates
W. S. Stevens
LeRoy Edwards
John Erwin
Clara Rosen
Wapello Wreck Kills Traveling Man and Injures Five
Frank Nadler of Davenport aged 45 dies when a day coach on the Muscatine Northern and Southern Falls dislodges from a trestle over Turkey creek and plunges into torrent. Twelve aboard. five seriously hurt. Roadmaster Ferriel escapes. cause blamed on spreading rails. Injured taken to Grandview except H. C. Pease sent home to Wapello. Nadler's neck reported broken.
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Frank Nadler
Brown Street
Davenport
Muscatine
Grandview
H. C. Pease
Nadiler
Anti-Saloon League Wins In Carroll County Injunctions
The Maryland Anti-Saloon League won permanent injunctions against six Carroll County saloon proprietors and owners, closing properties for a year with $1,000 bonds to reopen and potential contempt penalties. Two temporary injunctions set to become permanent in March. Also permanent injunctions against two druggists in Glidden with revoked permits and $1,000 bonds.
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Carrill County
Anti-Saloon League
Carroll
Coon Rouids
Dedham
Lanesboro
Maple River Junction
Lutterdale
Glidden
Fitch Mystery Clears Ur Council Bluffs Man
Charles O. Fitch of Council Bluffs, long sought by state and diplomatic officials from three countries, surfaced with a Naples Italy cablegram saying he is destitute and returning home. He requested immediate remittance via the consul at Naples, which was sent. His sisters in Council Bluffs have endured worry over his fate. He is about 40 and well-traveled.
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Counc! Bluffs
Naples
Italy
Charles O. Fitch
Council Bluffs
Olmatead
Western Union Telegraph Company
Omaha
Fitch
Engineer Maurice Heneilh Injured In Milwaukee Engine Crash
An engineer on a Milwaukee locomotive was severely hurt when a broken side rod shattered the cab, breaking his arm in two places and injuring his face and body while the engine ran at full speed.
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Maurice Heneilh
Milwaukee
Pioneer Cedar Rapids harness maker dies at 83
Geo W Westlake of Marshalltown aged 83 died at the state hospital for the insane in Independence where he was taken last October after an mental breakdown. Westlake was noted as the first harness maker to engage in business west of the Mississippi River and a pioneer grain man in Cedar Rapids.
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Tosang
Geo. W. Westlake
Marshalltown
Mississippi River
Cedar Rapids
State Hospital For the
Independencve
Burlington baggage man charged with stealing trunks and salt cases
George Kautenberger of Burlington, a route baggage porter, has admitted traveling from Chicago for twenty two years and was arrested there on charges of stealing trunks and salt cases entrusted to his care. Eugene Vader of Council Bluffs, an employee at the Wabish railroad, drowned Sunday afternoon after falling through ice while attempting to walk a hole in the ice.
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George Kautenberger
Burlington Route
Burlington
Chicago
Eugene Vader
Wabish Railroad
Council
Large Congressional Push With Sweeping Appropriations
Congress passed vast funding measures including $192,625,050 for army appropriations and $160,869,000 for pensions with $160,000,000 for pensions and $869,000 for fees. Many bills moved, fortifications and sundry civil measures advanced. a filibuster blocked only the river and harbor bill briefly.
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Congress
Renate
Army
House
Senate
Special Commission
Onmp
Special
Sparks From The Wirks Revised Leaseond Loss At Princeton
Revised estimates place the fire damage at Princeton New Jersey between 60000 and 70000 dollars. Frame buildings were destroyed. The Oregon Senate passed a measure. A candidate pledged to support certain disqualified from holding office. James Seheuer, 27, of New York. Pipes from the liner.
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N. J
Oregon Senate
James I. Seheuer
Ges York
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