Panic in a Pullman Sleeper at New Haven Station
Telegraphed items report a fire aboard a sleeping car near the rear of a New York, New Haven and Hartford train at New Haven Conn. Twenty passengers fled in night garments as flames and smoke filled the car. A woman suffered minor injuries. an elderly man narrowly escaped. Immigrants rescued from the barkentine Vera Cruz ill reach Newbern. Other items include a masked home invasion in Michigan, a derailment wreck in Ivorydale, a cardinal granting a Philadelphia man a marquis title, a Chicago banker near death allocating estate to hospitals, and various regional news briefs.
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New Haven
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Treasury Department
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Crop Outlook Mixed Across Regions With Late Planting
The weather bureau reports a cool week in the Ohio valley and mid Atlantic while northern districts show mild warmth. Corn planting remains late but progressing in central valleys. ground is hard and cloddy in Missouri and Ohio valleys delaying germination. Winter wheat varies from thrifty on the Pacific coast to needing rain in Washington California and parts of the south. oats, barley, and spring wheat show mixed results with rainfall improving some stands.
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Wheat Area May 1 crop bulletin shows slight decline
The May 1 crop bulletin from the Agricultural Department reports winter wheat area at about 34,107,000 acres remaining under cultivation, down 2.8 percent from last fall. Abandonment is low across major states except Kansas Texas and California. Conditions improved but some deterioration occurred, with notes on meadow lands pastures and plowing percentages and rye conditions compared with prior years. The report also notes a St Louis grand jury session and a tied case involving a $2,500 payment.
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Texas
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Miexauri
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Theos
Four Kokomo Men Arrested in New Feud Killing
Four men from the villages of Uemrock and Oakford were jailed in Kokomo Indiana on murder charges in the shooting of Lewis Yeager amid a feud rooted in a baseball rivalry and love affairs. Suspects include Louis Eades, Dillard Eades, and others. Yeager died at his home after visiting a sweetheart in Eemloc.
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Ind
Lewis
On Kokome Dis
Louis Eades
Yeager
Eemloc
Pleads for Expansion and Naval Strength Speech
Vintage dispatch recalls a public plea for expansion. It cites President Roosevelt urging a strong navy to secure Pacific routes and the Philippines and isthmian canal, with remarks on American destiny and national growth.
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Philippines
McKinley
Poison Kills Insueed Lary Fourth Death Casts Suspicion
The four year old child of Mrs. Alice Ne ausenhewer in Hannibal Missouri died from carbolic acid poisoning. The mother had bought small acid to clean bedcloths and the child drank it after seeing the bottle. Insurance policies on the children and later on the husband tie into a web of suspicion as authorities investigate repeated deaths. The case follows previous similar deaths and an earlier murder conviction later overturned by the Supreme Court.
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Hannibal
Neaaubener
Supreme Court
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Womm
Mra
Sulli
Nebraska Spreme Court
Lena Lillie
Earley County
Russia's Coup in China and Manchuria Invasion Report
A detailed World War I era dispatch notes Russian troops reoccupying New Chwang and forts on the Lia River, with a fleet gate at PeChiLi and 34,000 troops between Port Arthur and the Liao river. It cites new military works near Liao Yang and preparations to forestall actions along the Yalu frontier.
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PeChiLi
Liaw River
Vlcar Chwaty
Port Arthur
Lito River
Liao Yang
Yalu
Russia
Canarrice
Pastor Must Take Chances Not Liable for Pastors Salary
Missouri Court of Appeals rules a church member is not liable for paying a pastor's salary. The decision involved the First Baptist Church of Mount Moriah Missouri and Rev. Mr Stiffe of S5004 who was not fully paid. The trial court had favored the clergyman but the appellate court reversed.
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Western Missouri Court of Appeals
First Baptist Church
Mou- Mo
Stiffe
Daughter Reunited With Baltimore Couple After Kidnaping
Ethel Clarke, long believed kidnapped twenty three years ago, is identified as the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper W. Clarke. She was taken as a child by a rough man and housed in orphan asylums before living in Baltimore as an adult. Police and investigators confirm the reunion after a local newspaper ran a story.
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Anid
Jasper W. Clarke
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Clarke
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Alien felons for America and other early 1900s items
A jumble of brief dispatches reports plans to exile criminals to the United States, bribery attempts by Chinese gambling house operatives in Honolulu, Jacksonville flood damage, press freedom concerns in Pennsylvania, a deadly race clash in St. Tammany Parish, widespread Chicago strikes, a Pittsburgh wife shooting, a salt monopoly case, Christian killings in Monastir, a Mohawk and Malone rail crash, a St Louis acid attack, New Hampshire liquor license votes, a Cleveland girl’s suicide, a Southern wreck death, and Manchuria openness to foreign travel.
Mystery surrounds four York state girl tramps in New York
Reported four young women described as lecherous tramps travel through upper Westchester County New York and Connecticut carrying small amounts of salt they refuse to reveal details about themselves. They are said to be students from a Connecticut seminary and travel to study maturity. They stop at farms to milk water and cook on campfires while gathering flowers and birds eggs.
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Fourlech
Weetchester County
Connecticut
Explosion Devastates Indianapolis Mill Injuring Dozens
A boiler explosion on Madison Avenue Indianapolis wrecked a mill collapsing bricks and trapping workers. Charles Bowers remained buried while Paul Stern and others were rescued by ambulances as fire crews and doctors responded. The blast caused a fire and widespread injuries among the staff.
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Madison Avenue
Indianapolia
Ind
Charles Bowers
Paul Stern
Lost Boy and Tramp Arrested in Lawrence Case
A 13 year old Kansas City boy Archie Davies and a tramp were found in Lawrence after a kidnapping incident. The tramp claimed he commanded the boy to keep silent and led authorities to the location.
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Archie Davies
Kansas City
Ooil Davies
Lawrence
Peter J. Carr
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