Dead Man’s Warning Against Swindlers Over Pension Lie
Washington reports Galusha A Grow, father of the homestead law, left a statement detailing his extortion by con artists. While ill in New York in 1905 they demanded $100,000, threatening a false paternity charge against him. He surrendered $55,000 in bonds and cash, hoping to protect his name and remaining assets.
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Washington
Galusha A. Grow
James T. Dubois
Grow
New York
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Tiponiné
Lal
Fools Not All Dead and Other City News Briefs
Pittsburg reports an Italian worker Demenco Falcone arrested after a fatal compressed air prank on Salvatore Ingleri at Woods Run plant. San Francisco sees 50 streetcars running amid a partial railroad strike easing. Grand Rapids reports bartender Marin Post dies from a stabbing by Mary Lewis, a former mistress, during a jealousy incident.
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Pittsburg
Aellow
Demenco Falcone
Pressed 26
Woods Run
Allegheny Polce
Salvatore Ingleri
Grand Rapids, Mich
Marin Post
Fletchy Hotel
Mary Lewis
Marriage Beats the Law in Evansville Case
Evanaville Indiana May 15 Garnet Lancaster who married August Michnick after authorities planned to compel his testimony in a mail fraud case against Lancaster and her mother Violet Lancaster. Michnick’s testimony would have forced jail time. the marriage now blocks that.
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Evanaville
Ind
August Michnick
Cortland Nebo
Garnet Lancaster
Violet Lancaster
Michnick
Cortland
Meenick
Evansville
Lancaster
Explosion Damages Montgomery Traction Car. Two Hurt
A Montgomery Traction car on the southern edge of Montgomery struck dynamite and was shattered. The motorman and conductor brothers Brunsen were slightly injured. One passenger, a Negro man, escaped unharmed.
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Montgomery
Ala
Montgomery Traction Company
Brunsen
Anarchist Gaidoff Arrested in Bucharest Plot
In Bucharest on May 13 an anarchist named Gaidoff was arrested on charges of complicity in a plot against King Charles. Police seized anarchist pamphlets a bomb-making machine dynamite and correspondence with Bulgarian anarchists.
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Bucharest
Roumania
Gaidoff
Charles
Fire destroys Saxman Supply complex at Bradenville
A Bradenville blaze of unknown origin destroyed the Saxman Supply company stable warehouse and meat market, and damaged nearby homes of George Saxman George Flickinger and Patrick Skelly. Total loss estimated at $100,000.
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Latrobe
Saxman Supply Company
Bradenville
George Saxman
George Flickinger
Patrick Skelly
Senate approves $10,000 statue for General Arthur St Clair
Harrisburg May 13 the senate passed a final bill appropriating ten thousand dollars for a bronze statue of General Arthur St Clair famed for his role in the American Revolution. The statue will be heroic in size and modeled after Peale’s oil portrait.
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General St. Clair
Harrisburg
Senate
Arthur St. Clair
Peale
Tragic Shriners Train Crash Kills Thirty-One
A special train carrying 145 Shriners and families from Buffalo Reading and other temples derailed at Honda California after striking a defective switch. Thirty-one dead and many injured, with a long list of victims and survivors named from Santa Barbara to Reading.
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Barbara
Cal
Southern Pacific Railroad
Los Angeles
Shriners
Ismalia Temple
Buffalo
Rajah Temple
Reading
Honda
Pacific Beach
Flinders
Defective Switch Triggers Fatal Santa Barbara Wreck
A train wreck near Santa Barbara at 2:35 p m after visiting party toured the area. The defective switch caused the locomotive and cars to pile into a massive wreck killing many in the dining car and injuring others. engineer Frank Champlain survived with a broken arm and severe burns. Rajah temple members from Reading were among the last to reach the diner before the catastrophe.
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Santa Barbara
Frank Champlain
Rajah Temple
Reading
Local Fire Injuries Reported In Various Incidents
Grummond of Binghamton New York suffers an ankle break. A W Reppole of Bennis Point New York badly bruised about the neck. FEn sineer Champlain badly scalded. Fireman Glenn Thompson with face arms and internal injuries. Mrs Hendel and daughter Helen of Reading Pennsylvania not serious. J Galvin Hoffeditg of Reading left leg fracture and scalp wounds.
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Santa Barbara
J. Douglas Hipple
H. K. Gittleman
A. L. Roth
Gilbert Steefe
Reading
W. D. Wasson
Buffalo
N. Y
J. W. Cutter
Binghamton
Charles M. Lowing
Pullman
GC. W. Austin
New York
John Lacey
Snyder
Orwigsburg
J. Logan
H. A. Hartsel
Easton
Chas
McKinney
Binghampton
Fred
Grummond
A. W. Reppole
Bennis Point
Fensineer Champlain
Glenn Thompson
Hendel
Helen
J. Galvin Hoffeditg
Fire Traps 100 Miners in Durango Copper Mines
Word from Velar dena in Durango state reports a fire raging in the Tenares copper mines with 100 men believed trapped and without hope of rescue. The remote district and poor communications hinder any relief effort.
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City of
Mexico
Tenares
Velardena
Durango
Columbia Defeats Harvard In Historic First Race
Columbia outrowed Harvard on the Charles River in the first interuniversity race in twenty years. Open water never appeared between shells as Columbia led by about a half length over a mile and seven eighths. Time was 9 minutes 16 seconds.
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Columbia
Harvard
Boston
Charles River
Goosebone Weather Prophet Elias Hartz Dies at 92
Elias Hartz of Berks county known as the goosebone weather prophet died at Friends asylum after four months as an inmate. The 92 year old man drew national belief in his annual forecasts and was widely respected in his community.
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Philadelphia
Elias Hartz
Berks County
Friends Asylum
Market Report Chicago May 13 1907
Estimated receipts 42000 left over 1729 market prospects steady light 6 40 to 6 62 percent mixed packers 86 35 to 6 624g heavy ship s grades 86 15 to 86 55 rough 6 15 to 6 30 cattle 29000 sheep 20000 strong
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Chicago
Market Receipts and Prices For Yesterday And Today
Official receipts yesterday and past week totals listed along with estimated receipts for today and tomorrow. Market shows steady to lower trends across mixed packers ships and hogs with price ranges for beves cows steers stockers westerns and lambs. sales reflect light hogs and heavy shipper grades with varied rough and native cattle and sheep activity statewide.
John A Babcock Chicago Ad Teaser
Classified style notice from John A Babcock Chicago inviting readers to contact for services promising a square deal and accessible communication schedule.
Sister of Edmund G. Ross recalls $200000 Johnson impeachment bribe claim
Mrs. Whimple of Kansas City Kansas, sister of Edmund G. Ross, recalls his stand against Johnson's impeachment. She says Ross refused a rumored $200,000 bribe, faced fierce persecution, and predicted his political grave would be dug yet he would be vindicated as a patriot.
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Kansas City, Wey
Whimple
Kansas City
Kan
Edmund G. Ross
United States
Kansas
Albuquerque
N. M
Andrew Ronson
Ross
Johnson
Tle
Girls Boost Campus Hall Fund in Sororian Drive
Olivet Michigan May 13 The Sororian society plans a hall like male groups with 1200 dollars left to raise. Each member commits a fundraiser from mend and darning to shampooing heads and polishing napkin rings, painting, embroidery, pennants and button sewing.
Dyer Receives Special Mission Under Roosevelt
David P. Dyer Jr once a St Louis sub treasury teller and acquitted of embezzlement now serves a special foreign mission. Appointed by President Roosevelt, he will travel to Sweden to secure the return of Charles F. Grotefend, former Washington National Bank bookkeeper indicted on embezzlement charges.
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Dyer
St. Louis
David P. Dyer, Jr
Roosevelt
Sweden
Charles F. Grotefend
Washington National Bank
Federal Grand Jury
Purdue and Wabash Win In Indiana Track Meet
Purdue edged Ohio State 61 to 56 in a Saturday afternoon track and field meet at Lafayette Indiana. Wabash College won the fifth annual Indiana College Athletic Association meet with 644.5 points at Crawfordsville Indiana.
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Purdue
Wabash
Lafayette
Ind
Ohio State University
Crawfordsville
Wabash College
Indiana College Athletic Association
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Andrew Johnson
President Johnson
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