Murder for a Home in Brownville Trunk Death
In Watertown New York April 28 a brutal murder case emerges as the body of Mrs Sarah Brennan is found packed in a trunk at her home in Brownville near Watertown. James Martin and his wife are held after a hotel killing motive suspected robbery. Brennan learns his home had been deeded to the Martins, prompting a long search and a discovery of the murder scene.
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Watertown
N. Y
New York State
Sackets Harbor
George Allen
Auburn
Brownville
Sarah Brennan
Patrick Brennan
Litt
Barter House
Brennan
James Martin
Brennans
Farmer
Mrs. B Brennan
Columbus
Ind
Albert G. Omahn
Awakening of China Promises Western Style Reforms
San Francisco April 28 The awakening of China centers on government push for general education and codified laws harmonizing with occidental norms. Consul Williams notes reforms to abolish extraterritoriality, admit lawyers, trial by jury, and combined judicial administrative offices. In Tangier Mulai Hafid leads a swift southward push toward Fez alarming Abd-el-Aziz supporters as Fez reports mobs threatening foreign consulates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
China
Ite Keu
BR. Williams
Pos
Tien Tsin
Sorocca
Tangier
Mulai Hafid
Chaouia
Fez
Abd-el-Aziz
Fatal Plunge of a Chinaman in a New York Tenement
Despondent over finances Long Wando forty a prominent Chinaman and member of Long Song Ti Co dealers in art CARIOS committed suicide by jumping from the roof of a six story tenement in Eighth Avenue. Demand for his goods had nearly disappeared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Long Wando
Eighth Avenue
Long
Long Song Ti & Co
Art Carios
Drowning After Boat Capsize at Brower's Lake
Rockford Michigan April 28 White fishing on Brower's lake with Guy Knoll seventeen and his stepbrother Frank Peck. Their boat capsized Knoll drowned Peck clung to the overturned boat for nearly an hour and was rescued by neighboring farmers.
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Rockford
Mich
Brower's Lake
Guy Knoll
Frank Peck
Knoll
Peck
Prince Helie de Sagan Visits Pompeti Ruins
Naples April 28. Prince Helie de Sagan with Mme. Gould’s children and their tutor traveled by motor car to Pompeti. The weather was splendid and the party enjoyed a visit to the ruins.
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Anna
Helie
Naples
Prince Helie de Sagan
Mme. Gould
Pompeti
Markets Data From Chicago Board of Trade and East Buffalo
Commodity quotations for Wheat Corn Oats Park soybeans and live stock at Chicago and East Buffalo with May July and Sept figures. Cash sales and receipts for hogs cattle sheep and calves show price ranges and market tones from both markets.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Colorado
Ilinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
Battleship plan defeated as Senate adjourns on Roosevelt message
Washington April 28 The house failed to read President Roosevelts message due to filibuster and quorum issues delaying a return to the whole committee. The senate allowed a formal presentation but postponed further reading. The four battleships proposal narrowly failed with 23 votes for and 50 against. Norris testified for the American Newspaper Publishers association about paper price increases and possible price fixing, detailing publisher grievances and bid behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Roosevelt
Elis
Latta
Senate
Piles
Beveridge
Ankey
Borah
Bourne
Briggs
Brown
Burkett
Evidence of a Paper Trust
Washington April 22 evidence tending to show unity of action among paper mills in fixing prices and restricting sales to customers of other mills. The testimony states contracts could not be obtained for more than one year and mills had arbitrarily shut down or curtailed output, presented by John Norris.
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American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Select House
Norris
House
Mann
Williams
Publishers’ Association
Dringley Committee
Mann Norris
Washington
John Norria
Treasury Calls Up $45 Million for National Bank depts
Washington on April 28 reports the secretary of the treasury announced a further call upon the national banks for about $45,000,000. Some $20,000,000 is due by May 9 and the rest, $25,000,000, by May 23.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
National Banka
Weather forecast by region for Illinois Indiana and more
The forecast covers Illinois and Indiana for tonight with generally late conditions, lower Michigan expecting showers and cooler air, Wisconsin partly cloudy with snow flurries in the north, and Iowa described as fair.
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Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Portion
Iowa
Haitian Horror Recalls Executions In Port au Prince
The French cruiser d Estrees arriving from Hart reports in Portau Prince scenes of a March 15 nocturnal execution of rebels accused of stirring revolt after Nord Alexis crisis. Soldiers hurried burial left one merchant briefly alive, buried in too small a grave, then shoved under the earth as he tried to protest.
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New York
d'Estrees
Hart
Port-au-Prince
Nord Alexis
Crista
Guatemala
Cabrera
Eigne
Senor Bustillos
Honduras
Sence Kustillos
San Jose
Cuatetala City
Legation
Afaives
Record crowd at Waldorf Astoria surpasses daily toll
New York on April 28 saw nearly 19,000 people enter the Waldorf Astoria in a single day. Eight counters tracked the flow with individual devices, marking the first time a formal record of throngs passing through the hotel has been kept since it opened.
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New York
Waldorf-Astoria
Novel Divorce Case Arises Over Baby’s Dislike
New York April 28. Mrs. Etta Fries of Stonetown near Wynockie and Paterson New Jersey has fled divorce court citing an unusual reason stemming from her first husband’s baby disliking her second husband’s face and crying whenever he appeared.
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New York
Etta Fries
Stonetown
Wynockie
Paterson
N. J
Opening Chicago Hog Market Report 1908
Opening Chicago April 28 1908 hog market reports estimated receipts ten thousand leftovers five thousand ninety six markets strong at paper note light hogs five to six mixed five ten to five fifty eight hundred fifty to six five rou cattle five hundred average steady sheep fourteen thousand slow at yesterday's decline
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Papernom Savg
Chicago Market Report April 28 1908 Prices and Receipts
Official receipts yesterday 45162 shipments 15553 estimated receipts today 10000. Market movement 5 to 10 higher packers hold off. Cattle and sheep prices listed by grade including Texas steers Western cattle stockers and feeders native and Western sheep yearlings and lambs. Grain market noted with rates 544 to 545. Postal Telegraph Chicago report.
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Texas
John A. Babcock and North American Commission Company Contact
A fragmented notice cites John A. Babcock with The North American Commission Company based in Chicago Illinois. The message promises reliable service and a square deal to be provided on request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
North American Commission Company
Turmoil In Central America As Mexican Troops Move
President Diaz and cabinet met in session amid reports Honduran troops mobilize at the Guatemalan frontier. Mexican batteries and regiments were ordered toward the border but later denied. Washington expresses concern that war would undo the peace conference and threaten Central America.
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City of
Mexico
Diaz
Miguel Gil
Tapachula
Vera Cruz
Oaxaca
Juchitan
Farique
Creel
Martecal
Central America
Buchanan
United States
Cabrera
Guatemala
Washington
State Department
Tornado Death Toll And Food Shortages Hit Deep South
New Orleans reports about 325 graves across Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama from Friday's tornadoes with fatalities likely under 350 and about 1 000 more injured on the road to recovery. Surviving towns face hunger and shelter as Amite suffers its last meal while relief efforts begin with neighbors sending supplies and aid. Columbus Indiana recounts a separate poultry tragedy where a spring chicken loss follows rat poison exposure, forty dead.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Misssissippi
Alabama
Amite
Culea
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Rogers
New York Herald
Chicago Grain
Houses
Congress
House Select Committee
Alexis
Guane
Beach-Wickham Grain
Bia
Hicago
John A. Babcock
Chicago, Ill
Mechia
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