Storm kills two in St Louis with eight injured
A severe storm swept St Louis on May 6 causing two deaths and eight injuries. The dead are George Denton seven years old drowned and Charles Kroeger a farmer from Edwardsville killed by lightning. Injured include James Roberts J J Grimm attorney Mrs Elmer Switch George Luehrman William Nichol and Mary O Connell and daughter. Attorney Roberta and Grimm were struck by a falling tree. They had survived the cyclone of 1806.
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William Nichol
Belleville
Mary O'Connell
Roberta
James L. Blair
Grimm
St. Louis
Hooker Case Delayed as Legislature Weighs Charges
Albany May 6 the judiciary committee paused presenting charges against Justice Warren B B Hooker amid postal probes involving Fredonia and banking. Chairman Fish sought more time to prepare charges and rescind an earlier plan. A new measure grants time to form rules and procedures, likely triggering a special legislative session. A praecipe was issued in Omaha district court.
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Albany
N. Y
Assembly
Warren BB. Hooker
Fredonia
Bankirk
Fish
Judiciary Committee
Suit Filed for $25 000 Damages Over Detained Letters
Mae C Wood sues William Loeb J Martin Miller and Robert J Wrenne for forcible detention and theft of letters. A praecipe orders summons to be served on one defendant, Secretary Taeh, with papers sent to Sheriff Power for service on Tavets.
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William Loeb
J. Martin Miller
Robert J. Wrenne
Mae C. Wood
Misa Wood
Taeh
Sheriff Power
Mine Cage Accident in Calumet Shaft Falls Fourteen Hundred Feet
In Calumet Michigan a cable in the Red Jacket shaft broke while thirty four men were lowered into the mine. The cage fell fourteen hundred feet before safety catches stopped it. Several workers sustained minor injuries, none seriously harmed. The shaft is about a mile deep.
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Calumet, Mich
Calumet and Heels
Senator Newlands Daughter Weds in Washington
The marriage of Miss Frances Newlands, daughter of Senator Newlands, to Lieutenant Leopold von Bredow of the German army took place at Woodley Washington the senator's residence. The ceremony was quiet with only family present.
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Senator Newlands
Washington
Frances Newlands
Leopold von Bredow
Curasser Iilands
Woodley
Senate Orders Labeling for Patent Medicines
Madison Wis May 6 The senate bills require formulas of all patent medicines to be printed on package labels. A bill for safer corn shredders was advanced. The termite committee will report on the appointive railroad rate bill.
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Madison
Wis
Senate
Equitable Life Assurance inquiry moves rapidly
May 6 report from New York notes Henry Prick left the city for Pittsburgh to open Sunday. He described the investigating committee as dating its work as rapidly as possible and the rooms as flying. The Boston transcript records a dramatic remark about a proposed press gesture and a tense moment.
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Equitable
New York
Henry
Pittsburg
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Marvelous Bird Migrations Stretch Across World
A nature piece details how various birds undertake long yearly journeys. The red eyed vireo travels from Mississippi to Nebraska then northwest to British Columbia, the chimney swift vanishes for months, and the golden plover migrates from the Arctic to the Antilles and Patagonia, forming an 8000 mile ellipse.
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Alaska
Argentina
Central America
Great Slave Lake
Arena
Slave Lake
New Orlena
Minnesota
Mississippi
Nebraska
British Columbia
Arctic
Eirele
Cheely
Labrador
Antilleen
South America
Sargasso Sea
Atlantic
Antilles
Patagonia
Guatemala
Texas
Pouth
Turpentine Evaporation Prevents Flu in German Watch Factory
In S90 Europe influenza raged as workers in three Madretsch watch factories fell ill and some died. One plant remained healthy because turpentine used in metal turning evaporated as workers inhaled air with the vapors. Since then turpentine has been evaporated on a stove, and no influenza cases have occurred there.
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Europe
Madretsch
Germany
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