San Francisco Faces Resumption Of Wholesale Trade
San Francisco debates resuming wholesale business as Oakland expansion risks permanent relocation. Officials urge temporary San Francisco quarters with one story buildings while building laws frame permanent plans. Retail stock shortages and military confiscation fears cited. relief funds total 4.93 million with local contributions. Missing diplomats accounted for after reports of separations.
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San Francisco
Citizens’ General Committee
Thomas McGee
Oakland
Frisco
Phelan
Relief and Red Cross
Wind Topples Walls in San Francisco Ruins Tour
Strong winds toppled blank walls in San Francisco, endangering crowds viewing ruins. The northeast corner Stockton and Sutter building collapsed behind the Pacific Union club, while the Market and Geary corner wall of the former Richelieu saloon fell outward near Oakland ferries crowds. Several were struck but no serious injuries reported as relic hunters combed rubble in the Chinese and Japanese bazaar districts.
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San Francisco
Stockton and
Sutter Streets
Pacific Union Club
Market and
Geary Streets
Richelieu
Oakland
Market Street
Relic Hunters Probe Bay Ruins for Worthy Treasures
Visitors from across the bay comb the ruins where stirring ashes yields profits. Satsuma vases Cloisonne ware brasses and bronze ornaments fetch high prices, carried away by relic hunters in large numbers. Six shooters used by Chinese district assassins are found in great quantity.
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Satsuma
Robbers steal from Creal Springs Citizens Bank
Robbers cracked the Citizens' bank safe at Creal Springs in Marion County and fled by handcar along the Illinois Central with $5,000.
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Marion
Wil
Citizens’ Bank
Creal Springs
This County
Illinois Central Railroad
Repented of NER Act Woman Swallows Poison at Hotel
A New Orleans guest, Mrs. R van Dumont, swallowed two poison tablets at the Belleclaire Hotel and telephoned for help. She was taken to Roosevelt Hospital on a charge of attempted self destruction. Her condition was reported serious as doctors treated her.
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New York
R van Dumont
Hotel Bellecraire
Roosevelt Hospital
Lafay ette College hazing suspends students. plan strike warned
Easton Pa April 28. Eleven seniors one junior and two sophomores of Lafayette College have been suspended and ordered to leave town after being found guilty of hazing the freshman class. Upperclassmen are surrendering to resist the suspension and urge faculty to reconsider. If refused, seniors juniors and sophomores may strike and skip classes.
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Easton
Lafayette College
Floating Body Recovered in Superior Bay
A partial description reports a nude floating body with a crushed skull found in Superior bay. Officials believe the remains may be from one of nine Mataafa sailors drowned at the bay entrance last winter, identification is impossible.
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Superior
Wis
Superior Bay
Theft on steamer robs Kentucky man of gold
Arthur Miller, 60, of Kentucky reports being robbed of nearly $1000 in gold on a local steamer in Evansville port. Raymond Lackey, a young man, is arrested for stealing contents of a contribution box for San Francisco sufferers.
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Evansville
Ind
Arthur Miller
Raymond Lackey
San Francisco
Local Coshoeton Teacher Weds Rev John Eby in Surprise Marriage
Miss Lillian Cairnes a Coshoeton high school teacher and member of a prominent family married Rev. John Eby of Erwin county. The couple slipped away to East Lafayette to wed and then left for a trip east.
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Coshoeton, O
Lillian Cairnes
Coshoeton High School
John Eby
Erwin County
East Lafayette
Herriott Declares He Has Not Withdrawn From Governorship Race
Lieutenant Governor John T. Herriott of Stewart, Iowa, personally states he has not withdrawn from the governorship race despite losing his own county convention to Cummins. He affirms continued candidacy from Council Bluffs, Iowa, dated April 28.
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Herriott
Council Bluffs
John T. Herriott
Stewart
Cummins
Birchwood Fire Threatens Town and Losses
Birchwood Wisconsin a town sixteen miles southeast of Rice Lake nearly wiped out by fire with losses around 16000. In Washington a movement starts toward federation of patriotic societies. New York musicians protest German liner music. Charge that the contract labor law is violated.
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Birchwood
Rice Lake
Wis
Washington
Federation of Patriotic Societies
New York
Senator Lodge a Longtime Massachusetts Republican Leader
The article notes Senator Lodge as a prolific writer and scholar with Harvard degrees and membership in many societies. It highlights his third Senate term, nearly four House terms, and his role as permanent chairman of the 1900 Republican National Convention. It also credits him with leading the Massachusetts Republican machine.
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Senator Lodge
Harvard
Senate
House
Massachusetts
Operators Reject Miners Proposal in Anthracite Wages Fight
New York April 28. Anthracite mine operators refuse to modify the 1902 award and call on miners to renew for three years the strike commission’s award or accept arbitration of changes. They claim wage increases would raise public costs by 6.1 million dollars yearly with sliding scale, or 12 million without it, and argue profits remain too low to permit higher pay.
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New York
Mitchell
Anthracite Commission
Operators Reject Open Ended Duration in Agreement
The operators oppose a proposal to let any agreement continue for a period to be mutually determined and demand a fixed duration be agreed upon. They argue for clarity and enforceable terms defining how long the agreement lasts.
Murder Suspected In Death Of Danville Widow
The body of Mrs. Moore wife of a prominent meat packer was found in her Danville home with a neck wound. Authorities suspect murder but surgeons report death from brain hemorrhage after autopsy.
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Danville
Good Reason for Optimism in Trade Post Earthquake Aid
R G Dun weekly review praises American relief response as showing national resources and heart. Retail and building trades benefit from favorable weather while crop prospects brighten. planting delays and labor shortages persist in some areas. Manufacturing runs at capacity in iron, steel, footwear, and textiles with rail earnings up for April and foreign trade showing imports gains and small export losses.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Exports, A E Compared With The Sane Week Of LOO
Failures this week total 215 in the United States up from 204 last year while Canada reports 20 failures compared with 15 a year ago. The figures contrast with the prior period and suggest a shift in performance.
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United States
Canada
Pardon Hearing For Dan Kipley By State Board
Dan Kipley, nephew of Chicago’s late police chief, sought a pardon at Joliet after a murder conviction. The state board of pardons heard the case April 17 and returned it to advisement, with a decision likely within thirty days. The shooting occurred in an apartment shared with a woman known as Diamond Li, alleged self defense against a dangerous character.
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Springfield
Dan Kipley
State Board of Pardons
Joliet
J. A. Snively
Pardor Board
Kipley
Chicago
Hopkins
Diamond Li
Ripley
Professor Is Suspect In Harvard German Instructor Murder
Cambridge police issue warrant for Erich Muenter Harvard German instructor accused of murdering his wife in Cambridge about two weeks earlier arsenic suspected. Body sent to Chicago April 17 and case publicized last night. Muenter born in Germany formerly taught in Chicago and at University of Kansas Lawrence before Harvard. Decatur reports Dr. Byers seeking kidnapped son claim as Gypsies case eyed.
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Cambridge
Masa
Erich Muenter
Harvard University
Decatur, HL
8. L. Byers
Seeleyville
Ind
Charles Spencer
Insurance Commissioner Seeks Fire Loss Data in California
Lansing April 28 Insurance Commissioner Barry asked all Michigan fire insurance companies for a statement of their risks in San Francisco and their probable losses there.
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Lansing
Mich
Barry
Michigan
San Francisco
Chicago market report shows mixed hogs and steady cattle
April 28 1906 Chicago market bulletin reports estimated receipts of 9000 today with 855 left over yesterday and 35000 for tomorrow. Hogs show slight weakness with light to mixed packers 86 30 to 86 57, rough 86 20 to 86 30, and ships grades 86 45 to 86 65. Cattle and sheep receipts around 200 and 3000 with prices mostly unchanged.
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Chicago
Police raid uncovers documents tied to royalist and labor plots
In Paria on April 28 police raided offices of labor federations and homes of leaders, arresting royalists and Bonapartists including Count Durand de Beauregard and Prince Louis Napoleon ally Thouvenel. Officials claim captured papers show royalists and labor factions financing revolutionary strikes ahead of May 1. Public calm rises as troops mobilize.
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Paria
Labor Federation
Tts
Ecole Militaire
Galerie Des Machines
German planter Mismahl fined for brutal mistreatment in Africa
Trial of Mismahl owner of extensive estates in German East Africa concludes with evidence of brutal flogging and slavery like enforcement of contracts. Court imposes a $25 fine, defense argues such abuse mirrors colonial practice.
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Berlin
Mismahl
New York Law Students Face Expulsion for Gambling
Law school students in New York are warned gambling will lead to expulsion. A wage demand from the Boeckmen and Excavator's union threatens to halt all building work in New York on May 1.
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New York University Law School of
New York
Boeckmen and
Execavator’s
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