Ottawa Hull Fire Toll Tops Twenty Million Losses
Toronto dispatches detail Hull and Ottawa fire damage with 20 million dollars in losses and several inferred fatalities. casualties include workers from Eddy, Hull Lumber, McKay Milling and others. relief funds pledged by government and banks. Governor Roosevelt visit in Illinois cited.
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Toronto
Ont
Ottawa
Itll
Ltill
Booth Lumber Company
Eddy Company
McKay Milling Company
Hull Lumber Company
Electric Light Company
Dominion Carbide Works
Deluge of rain in Ten as flood hits Waco Texas
Waco suffers record rainfall with eight to ten drowned in the city and floods blocking streets. Bodies recovered include two white women mother and daughter and a man named Frank Walker. Provident Bank basement and Tom Padgett store basement flooded. search parties use boats. Mining town Rockdale reports four drowned as high water rises. Ravenscraig launched in Port Huron with ten thousand attendees and school closings.
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Waco
Tex
Nancy Caudle
Ara Caudle
Frank Walker
Court Compliments in Texas Stabbing in Paris Courtroom
Paris Tex April 28 In a quarrel a courtroom yesterday lawyer 4 1'. Scott stabbed Justice J J Hooks in the stomach Scott is under arrest Judge Hooks is badly injured
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Paris
Tex
Lawyer
Scott
J. J. Hooks
Judge Hooks
Birthday tribute to General Grant in Galena Illinois
The region marks General Ulysses S Grant's birthday with an annual observance in Galena Illinois where he once lived and in which the Civil War era era memory is honored by residents and local authorities.
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Wook
Roosevelt
New York
Platteville State Normal Band
Turner Hall
J. C. Spare
J. W. Spenley
Albany
N. Y
General Grant
Chicago
Rockford
Galena
Als
U. 8
Grant
Hefabe
Etter
Eivil
French and Hamilton push to clear Thaba N'Chu
Flash dispatch from London reports General French reaching Thaba N'Chu with cavalry, meeting General Ian Hamilton and Smith-Dorrien's brigade as they move to drive the eastern gate out. Rundle's division was eight miles south. patrols and skirmishes, plus a separate Des Moines suit against Standard Oil over alleged ruinous practices. Also notes church and canal concessions, and multiple baseball scores across cities.
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London
War Office
Lord Roberts
Bloechfontein
French
Thaba N’chu
Ian Hamilton
Smith-Dorrien
Hamilton
Rundle
Bethulie
Smithfield Road
King
Prince Alfred Guards
Royal Scots Service Corps
Brabanton
Wepener
Dewet
Dorp
Des Moines
Crystal Oil Company
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Crystal
Chicago Theatres Face Higher Insurance Rates
The Underwriters' association introduces a new schedule raising premiums for theatres lacking fire-proofing or modern extinguishing equipment. Rates advance 25 to 60 percent, with the average property value around 6.56 dollars per hundred dollars of coverage on existing buildings.
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Chicago
Underwriters’ Association
Indiana Coal Miners Reopen as Wages Rise to 75 a Month
Evansville Indiana April 28 all fears of a coal strike in southern Indiana have abated as operators agree to raise hoisting engineers wages from fifty to seventy five dollars a month. Mines are now running.
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Evansville
Ind
Indiana
Trusts seen as benefit to poor and consumer
Andrew Carnegie defends large capitalist aggregations in an essay, claiming trusts lower prices and improve production, while competition remains the corrective force. The piece argues trusts aid the poor and that monopolies cannot be easily suppressed or legislated away.
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New York
Andrew Carnegie
American demand tightens on Turkey over indemnity
Constantinople reports the American note to Turkey’s foreign minister Tewfik Pasha demands immediate payment of the promised indemnity. The note implies an ultimatum, while the porte resists responsibility and hints at no compromise. Washington weighs steps to enforce the demand amid talks on duties and ransoms.
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Constantinople
Tewfik Pasha
Straus
Porte
United States
Turkey
America
Engineer Warns of Fox River Flood Losses
Captain I M Mann in charge of Fox River valley improvements reports a large water volume reaching Oshkosh after Portage levee break. He fears heavy damage to mills at Neenah and Menasha as the Fox River overflow accelerates.
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Oshkosh, Wis
I. M. Mann
United States
Fox River Valley
Portage
Fox River
Neenah
Menasha
Des Moines and Northern Iowa Railroad Incorporation
Des Moines Iowa April 28 the Des Moines and Northern Towa Railroad company is incorporated to build a 200 mile line from Des Moines through Boone Webster City and Clarion to the Minunegou line.
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Des Moines
Des Moines and Northern Towa Railroad Company
Boone
Webster City
Clarion
Bank Robbery Strikes Monticello in April Night
In Monticello Wisconsin on April 28 a bank is robbed as the vault is blown open. The robbers flee before securing any money and escape unseen amid a blaze of confusion and smoke. Local authorities investigate the break in.
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Monticello, Wis
Bank of
Sensation at Peabody Normal reveals student Parmelia Williams
A Tennessee article reports Parmelia Williams, a light skinned student at Peabody Normal College, revealed as a negress. Faculty question her, she confesses, and potential actions are unknown. Other briefs include Wisconsin land dispute and bankruptcy filings in Milwaukee, and a post office envelope contract awarded to a Centralia company worth about 67000.
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Nashville
Tenn
Peabody Normal College
Peabody Fund
Parmelia Williams
Institute
Parmelia
Madison, Wis
Supreme Court
J. L. Gates
Milwaukee
State Land Commissioners
Washington
Post Office Department
Centralia,rs
Springfield Man Oscar F Stebbins Dies Weighed by Paraly sis
Springfield resident Oscar F Stebbins 70 prominent businessman and Odd Fellow died suddenly at home from paralysis. He directed the old Springfield and Northwestern railroad now part of the Chicago Peoria and St Louis system. Carl Kernig wife and son found dead by hanging near Cambridge Maryland. Eau Claire mayor orders saloons closed 11 pm and on Sunday.
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Springfield
Oscar F. Stebbins
Businss
Springfield and Northwestern Railroad
Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad
Illinois
Carl Kernig
Cambridge
Eau Claire
Wis
Chicago Live Stock and St Louis Grain Prices Report
Market report lists cattle hogs and sheep receipts and prices from Chicago and St Louis. Hogs ranged from 5.40 to 5.85 for various weights, cattle mixes showed steers and cows prices, and sheep lambs noted. Grain quotes in St Louis include wheat at 70 to 72 cents, corn 39 to 41 cents, oats 23 to 28 cents, rye around 55 cents.
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Chicago
Texas
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
East Buffalo
N. Y
St. Louis Grain
St. Louis
Detroit Grain
Pril
Chicago Board of Trade Today
Illinois
Merriam Evidence Denies Most Charges In Idaho Inquiry
General Merriam testified before the House military committee in Washington describing his orders, troop deployments, and prisoner handling at Wardner Idaho. He denied meeting mine owners, stated troops guarded prisoners under state authority, and noted ongoing martial law with limited garrison duty and possible outbreaks.
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Washington
Merriiam
House Military Committee
Coeur d'Alena
Meriam
War Department
Tie
Wardner
Robertson
Merriam
Taoat
Idaho
United States
German Ban on U S Meat Imports Affected by Subsidy Claim
Cable reports from Berlin say North German Lloyds was barred from bringing fresh meat dairy products and cereals to German ports though German officials dispute the order claiming no subsidies exist for German ships trading with the United States. Other dispatches note changes in religious congress naming and local investigations into deaths and shootings across Abilene and Gladstone.
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Washington
Berlin
Lloyds Steamship Company
United States
Prince von Hohenlohe
Germany
Sugar Refineries Unite in South Germany Syndicate
Carrie Stielow of Kimberly Clark paper mills Neenah Wisconsin found 260 sewn inside a corselet lining in a bag sent from the East. The discovery follows the union of all South Germany sugar refineries into a syndicate.
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South Germany
Carrie Stielow
Kimberly & Clark Company
Neenah, Wis
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