Paris Strike Enters Second Peaceful Day
Paris reports a calm second day of the postal strike with 4278 of 11000 workers in Paris on strike. The cabinet dismissed 228 state employees and the government rushes a bill on state employee status while unions show little sign of joining the action.
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Paris
Miners’ Congress
Lens
Chamber of Deputies
Owline
Mets
S Meere
Porteaux
Lyon
Chambery
Turks Hang 24 Plotters in Public Executions
Constantinople records another round of public hangings as 24 mutineers from the army and navy are executed within the city. This lifts total capital executions since the April 13 revolution to 38, with four near the sultan’s palace, eight at the marine barracks, eight at Djinzi Meiden quarters, and four at the war office.
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Constantinople
Sultan’s Palace
Marine
Djinzi Meiden
Stamboul
War Office
Man Attacks Representative Schantz In Lansing
An unknown assailant attacked William S. Schantz of Barry county as he left a legislative session in Lansing. The assailant fled to a hotel, where he fainted in the lobby after slashing the representative’s throat with a razor.
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Michigan
Lansing
Mich
William S. Schantz
Barry County
Roosevelt luck continues captures two cubs in Africa
Theodore Roosevelt's expedition reports success near Machakos in British East Africa. He shot a leopard and captured its two cubs, plus a buffalo and two giraffes, during the ongoing hunt. Cable updates note restored French cable service to Venezuela at one dollar per word after years of isolation.
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Nairobi
British East Africa
Theodore Roosevelt
Machakos
Venezuela
New York
Cipriano Castro
Matos
Ferry boat disaster death toll rises in Pittsburg search
Ten bodies had been recovered when the search was abandoned at Pittsburg today with grappling hooks and boats scouring the river for the missing men. A revised list shows total deaths will be twenty three, up from twenty reported last night.
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Pittsburg
Gains in Insurance in Iowa Rise Near 5 Million
Des Moines life insurers show a large gain in in force policies for 1908 per the Iowa Auditor of State report. Total Iowa home-office company insurance rises from 41.7 million to 46.3 million, with 44 649 policies outstanding. Equitable leads, then Des Moines Life, Royal Union Mutual, and Central Life.
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Iowa
Equitable Company
Des Moines Life
Royal Union Mutual
Des Moines
State
Des Moines Rapanies
Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Council Bluffs
Equitable
Central Life
Woman candidate urged to lead Mitchellville state school
Des Moines May 13 Miss Gertrude von Petzold of England acting pastor of the First Unitarian church has launched a drive by Des Moines clubwomen to appoint a competent woman to head the state industrial school at Mitchellville to succeed F P Fitzgerald who is under investigation by the State board of control amid grave charges.
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Des Moines
Gertrude von Petzold
England
First Unitarian Church
Mitchellville
F. P. Fitzgerald
State Board of Control
Woman disputes board claim on Mitchellville school head
Miss von Petzold challenges Chairman John Cownie of the board of control who said a woman cannot manage the Mitchellville school and that good women lack sympathy for the girls sent there. She asserts the head of the institution should not be a man.
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Miss von Petzold
John Cownie
Board of Control
Mitchellville School
Mitchellville
Doctor Held for Murder in Clinton Case
Dr. J. D. Hullinger a prominent physician is jailed on second degree murder charges after the death of Miss Alice Kramer. An autopsy links the death to a criminal operation. The fiance John W. Johnson of Almont prompted the arrest following a conference.
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Clinton
J. D. Hullinger
Alice Kramer
Hullinger
John W. Johnson
Almont
Wessington
S. C
Johnson
Attorneys seek venue change for editor in assault case
In Mason City Iowa on May 13 lawyers for Sam S Sherman Thorn ton editor accused of assaulting Laura Parish fifteen seek change of venue to Hancock county claiming unfair trial. The state attorney counters with a petition arguing no prejudice warrants a venue shift. Judge Clyde will hear the change argument.
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Mason City
Sam S. Sherman
Thornton
Laura Parish
Hancock County
Clyde
Three Die In Texas Wreck Near Bonita
A Missouri Kansas and Texas passenger train derailed near Bonita Texas killing engineer Frazer and two flagmen and injuring twenty two passengers with one badly scalded. The hour was high speed when the engine left the track and all coaches except the rear were ditched.
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Denison
Tex
Kansas
Tariff Debate in Senate Focuses on Glass and Resources
In Washington on May 13 the senate spent hours discussing the window glass schedule of the tariff bill and agreed to other sections. Senator Crawford denounced tariffs that exhaust natural resources and urged no tariff on iron ore oil timber and coal while Senator Paynter backed removing the leaf tobacco duty to aid growers. The president sent nominations for Oscar S. Straus as ambassador to Turkey and W. W. Rockhill as ambassador to Russia.
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Washington
Senate
Aldrich
Crawford
Paynter
Tobacco Trust
Oscar S. Straus
Turkey
W. W. Rockhill
Russia
DAR to Honor Henderson Grave Marker in Marshalltown
Mrs D W Bushnell president general for Iowa of the D A R will be in Marshalltown to place a marker over the grave of Colonel W H Henderson who led Tennessee cavalry in the war of 1812. Henderson died in 1861 and the national DAR voted a marker. The Spinning Wheel chapter hosts the ceremony. Waterloo Chosen 1911 AOUW Iowa Convention City.
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Marshalltown
D. W. Bushnell
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Daughters of the American Revolution
W. H. Henderson
Tennessee Cavalry
Henderson
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Spinning Wheel
Chicago Livestock Market Report May 13 1909
Market showings and receipts by category hogs cattle sheep and lambs with price ranges and daily totals. Estimates for today and tomorrow, plus prior day leftovers and official figures, reflect a steady to slow trend across hogs and cattle with various grade listings.
Twenty Lives Blotted Out In Dynamite Quarry Blast
A massive dynamite explosion at Callanan Road Improvement Company quarry near South Bethlehem killed at least twenty men, including manager John Hoyte Callanan and brother Charles D Callanan. Italian workers aided in locating body parts brought to the engine house, serving as a temporary morgue.
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Albany
N. Y
Callanan Road Improvement Company
Bethlehem
John Hoyte Callanan
Charles D. Callanan
Leroy McMillan
John Hendrickson
Fred Snyder
James Maloney
William Baumes
Fred Za
Wrights Off to Dayton After New York Visit
The Wright brothers Wilbur and Orville left New York for Dayton after a day of tributes. At a luncheon the Aero Club of America had them on the program briefly and they refused a 35000 offer for a single flight at the Queensboro bridge celebration. Their schedule is filled with government contracts through June 28.
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New York
Wright Brothers
Wilbur
Orville
Dayton
Aero Club of America
Lawyers’ Club
Wilby
Wrights
Queensboro Bridge
Veteran Engineer Mose Arequette Marries in May
Mose Arequette, seventy, veteran Iowa Central engineer pensioned last winter, wed Sadie Ella Tebow. He began as a fireman on the Illinois Central at Dubuque during Civil War days and completed thirty five years on the Iowa Central before pension.
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Marshalltown
Mose Arequette
Iowa Central
Gnineer
Sadie Ella Tebow
Arequette
Iowa
Illinois Central
Dubuque
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Beach-Wickham Grain Company
John A. Babcock
North American Live Stock Commission Company
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