Golden Invites and Lost Ore Bar Highlight 1903 San Francisco Visit
A Union League club gift plate bears Roosevelt’s monogram and a request for the president to visit San Francisco in 1903. A Philippine customs revenue table for 1902 is released by the War Department. A $20,000 to $28,000 gold bar vanishes from a Wabash express car en route to Buffalo after arriving in Detroit.
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Roosevelt
Union League Club of
San Fri
George J. Pipp
Union League Club
San Francisco
Cal
Amado County
Philippine
Bureau of Insular Affairs
The
War Department
Philippine Archipelago
Entom House
United States
Union Station
Petroit
Mich
Buffalo
Propery
Pacific Express Company
Detroit
Roof Collapse Kills Three At Crane Lumber Yard
A partially completed Crane bumber mill roof on Eastern Avenue Cincinnati collapsed trapping workers. Seilgrs died instantly while Sim Wagner and Marty Walters were fatally injured and Clark Gilbert seriously hurt. One more victim is feared buried in the ruins. The heavy timber roof collapsed without warning, burying the men. Washington special: the coal strike commission report will be released after the President reviews it and shares copies with labor and operator representatives. The President will host a dinner at the White House in appreciation of the commission members. Freight train collision at Sandusky Street crossing in Allegheny Pa. killed two men and injured two others. Cause cited fog and signal misunderstanding. Two horses died. Coroner rules railroad not to blame for the Erie petroleum explosion deaths at Olean N.Y. The victims’ families and onlookers warned to move from danger. Miners Edward Gerhart and Lawrence Miranda were injured in a C and O Kentucky incident. Gerhart, 27, unmarried, was killed. Miranda fatally injured, suspected consensual risk with rail.
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Eastern Avenue
Cincinnati
Seilgrs
Sim Wagner
Marty Walters
Clark Gilbert
Ana
Washington
Coal Strike Commission
Into
Mitchell
Ming
White House
Fort Wayne
North Side Transfer Company
Sandusky Street
Allegheny
Erie Railrard
Olean
Nho
Edward Gerhart
Lawrence Miranda
Gerhart
Miranda
King Not Well and Tragic Drownings Reported
A clipped Post summary notes King Bu nti appears unwell and officials comment on his tired expression. Also reported are coming attractions in Fort Wayne and a Joplin dispatch detailing five boys drowned after their raft capsized near Chant. The storm aftermath includes a Farrelly farm lightning strike near South Bend, killing John Sims.
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Bunti
Joplin
Chant
Raymond Croccroft
Ralph
Charles Oaks
Peter
Luther ‘Berry
Train wreck near Cyclone injures passengers
A passenger train from Chicago to Cincinnati collided with a freight at Cyclone Indiana. The sleeper cars Nicasia and Alabama were overturned or damaged, ten passengers suffered scalp wounds or bruises, but all continued their journey. A brakeman without a red lantern failed to signal the northbound crew, causing further damage to the northbound engine.
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Chicago
Manon
Cincinnati
Clone
Ind
Inet
Taain
Alabama
Nicasia
Population Shifts Across Ocean Drainage Areas
The census bulletin maps U S population by regions drained by oceans. It notes a shrinking share in the Atlantic draining area while Gulf of Mexico and Pacific basins gain relative population. The Great Lakes region also shows growth as coastal drainage patterns shift.
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Atlantic Seaboard
Census Bureau
United States
Atlantic Ocean
Wacilie Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
Great Lakes
Great Basin
Pacific Ocean
SLAIN AS KENTUCKY WOMAN MURDER LINK TO BLUEBEARD KNAPP
Reported in Lexington Kentucky the death of Mrs Martha Martin mirrors cases linked to Alfred Knapp the Bluebeard of Ohio Columbus. The strangulation left neck bones dislocated and fingerprints deeply indented visible after forty hours in water, drawing stark parallels to Knapp’s alleged methods.
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Martha Martin
Lexington
Alfred Knapp
Ohi
Columbus
Alaska Railroad Scheme Aimed From Resurrection Bay
Chicago Capital to construct a 415 mile Alaska Cent Itailroad from Resurrection Bay to Atwood on the Tanana River forty miles above Rampart near Pedra Creek. George Dickinson, former Northern Pac general manager, is securing funds in Congo for the project. The main line will be 415 miles, with plans to complete 115 miles this year amid broader imperial and commerce talks.
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Chicago
George Dickinson
Northern Pacnouncer
Congo
Resurrection Bay
Atwood
Rampart
Pedra Creek
Elevator shaft accident injures two guests in Ohio
A woolen cover over an exposed elevator shaft broke, sending Bernhart Buehrer to the shaft and Fred Kleinheim plunging in. Buehrer suffered a fractured skull and broken leg while Kleinheim had rib injuries, probable fatal outcomes feared for one guest and serious injuries for the other.
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Bus
Ohio
Bernhart Buehrer
Fred Kleinheim
Six Boys Rob Woman in Chicago Street Incident
Six youths aged nine to thirty six were held at Larrabee Street police station Chicago on robbery charges after a woman Misa Mae Sprok aged around 20s reported her pocketbook containing ten dollars stolen on Clark Street near North Avenue. A hatpin struggle followed but the thieves disappeared before police recovered the items. Justice Kersten sent the youths to juvenile court after questioning them and their parents.
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Chicago
Cella
Larrabee Street
Misa Mae Sprok
North
Clark Street
Miss Sp
Kersten
Boiler explodes at Toledo mill. one killed, two buried
An explosion at the East Toledo Mills of Republic Iron and Steel Company wrecks a large mill area. One worker, John Thompson of Findlay, is killed, two others are buried and may die. The boiler top weighing a ton was hurled half a mile, leaving a twenty foot crater and about $40,000 in damage.
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Toledo
Republic Iron and Steel Company
Dem
John Thompson
Whitecaps Take Wife Beaters in Northwestern Ohio
A band of about 200 young farmers calls itself whitecaps and enforces moral limits in northwestern Ohio. Over weeks they flogged or barred and feathered four men and issued warnings to many more with apparent local sanction. Victims include Marvey Histudder from near Trowbridge, flogged for debt neglect and spousal abuse, and Rollersville man Chub Sisale for drunkenness and threatening violence.
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Ohio
Whitecaps
Trowbridge
Marvey Histudder
Lawas County
Woman to be Tried After Supreme Court Ruling
The Supreme Court of the United States overruled a technical defense in a Wood County West Virginia case. A woman suspected of masquerading as a mill under the name Ellis Glenn faced trial after a prior jury disagreement. She argued double jeopardy and sought habeas corpus relief but the high court quashed the prior writ.
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United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jackson
Virginia
Glenn
Shinia man-wWwerman
Hans
Ellis Glenn
Wood County
West Virginia
Dindye Jackson
Wounds and Lumber News Across Wisconsin and Beyond
A man with a three foot scantling through his side walks home to his Sandstone, Minnesota mill area. Reports on lumber contracts, rising prices, and a pending special jury for alleged polygamy crimes. Levee breaks near Memphis and a rash of political and legal notes across the era.
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John Whiter
Sandstone
Minn
Break in the Levee Threatens Lower Mississippi Valley
Flooding along the Mississippi reaches Memphis area with the St Francis levee breach at Trice's Landing Ark. Temporary barriers fail as waters rise rapidly. Hundreds abandon homes and rail service suffers while Yazoo Mississippi valley lines lose tracks. Several key points from Hollymush to St Thomas see crevasses and looming further breaks.
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Mississippi
Memphis
North Memphis
Wolf River
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Ita Trai
Hollymush
Veean Point
Fagleman'a Landing
St. Thoma
Robbers loot Ohio farmhouse after binding inmates
Fourteen men armed entered Mrs. Jacob Reicholderfer’s Cridersville home, bound inmates for hours, and escaped with about $3,000 plus notes and drafts. They threatened a child with a shotgun, ransacked the house for a hidden door, and left the victims half dead from fright the next morning.
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Masgellana
Jacob Reichelderfer
Cridersville
Ohio
Reicholderfer
Mlanche
George James
John
Innes
Jim
Nnb
Lanies
Spectacular April 20 Celebration in St Louis
The 100th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase and the dedication of World’s Fair buildings in St Louis will be celebrated with President Roosevelt his cabinet and the diplomatic corps in attendance Former President Cleveland will give the principal address Cardinal Gibbons Bishop Potter and Bishop Hendricks will represent major church bodies Governors from many states are also expected National Commission listed as organizer
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St. Louis
Ovcasion
Stooservelt
Diplomatic Corps
Cleveland
Cardinal Gibbons
Bishop Potter
Bishop Hendricks
National Commission
City rescue crews overwhelmed by flood as aid pours in
Waterways overflow while hundreds of men race to save lives along the river. Appeals flood in from refuges on high ground as local packets dedicate resources to rescue efforts, but capacity is strained and many demands go unmet amid the rising disaster.
Senate in Extra Session Deliberates on Rules and Panama Canal
The Senate met in a brief session then moved to executive time to review rules and a cloture proposal. Maryland's Kean reported from the contingent expenses committee as Allison’s resolution authorized a recess to study rules.
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Senate
Mir. Kean
N. J
Allison
Committee On
Platt
Coun
Hoar
Teller
Judiciary Committee
Congress
Cullom
Seamen's Union Opens Pay Office at Hoboken
The Seamen's Union of Germany set up a pay office at Hoboken New Jersey for its members aboard German steamers sailing from New York to European ports. Seventeen sugar-Inden vessels arrived at San Francisco from Hayali in February, total receipts 5,148,000 pounds. For the first two months this port's receipts reached 87,306,000 pounds, up from 77,170,500 pounds a year earlier.
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Ken Limca
Seamen’s Union of Germany
Hoboken
N. J
New York
South Aner
San Francisco
Hayali
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Hebrew Union College
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Tendon and Globe Corporaion
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Knox
Aeeres
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Panuna Canal Company
Phema Canal Company
Ylar
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Panama Canal Company
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