Bandits Rob Train No 3 Near Spokane
Bandits held up Great Northern fast mail train No 3 nine miles east of Spokane between Colbert and Mead shortly before midnight. They rifled the mails, detached the engine and mail car, sent them down the track, and attempted a ditching after the mail was opened. Twelve passengers injured by a collision as the runaways returned to the other cars. engine crew forced at gunpoint to aid the escape, with $20,000 reported seized from the registered mail.
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Great Northern
Spokane
Colbert
Mead
Wiliam Miller
John Hall
Benjamin F. Stump
Wireless for the Navy set to advance ship and shore comms
Navy experts push wireless devices for telephone and telegraph use on ships and shore stations. Signal corps and army officials will join Brant Stock events starting June 15. A Washington tower project aims to install 600 feet of high power wireless gear with dual telephone and telegraph sets. Brig Gen Allen has about $80,000 for army apparatus. Atlantic fleet summer maneuvers will rely heavily on wireless telegraphy, with torpedo boats being fitted for a 200 mile radius, though only some vessels currently carry such gear.
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United States Navy
Navy
Signal Corps
Army
Brant Stock
Mass
Washington
Allen
Sioux City Live Stock Market Saturday Quotes
Sioux City live stock market quotations show top grades for cattle and hogs. Top cattle are listed at 6.25 per hundredweight and top hogs at 7.25.
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Sioux City
Deadly tornado outbreak hits Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma
A sequence of tornadoes across Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma Friday killed at least seven and injured fifty five. The storms destroyed Hollis near Concordia and caused a train wreck in Great Bend where engineer William Ackerly and conductor Frank Nicholson died. Widespread damage interrupted rail traffic and damaged farms as homes were flattened and wires went down.
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Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Mt. Washington
Fairmount Park
Kansas City
Hollis
Concordia
Ckstram
Great Bend
William Ackerly
Santa Fe
Frank Nicholson
Wkingsley
Ackerly
Santa Te Bridge
Hoisington
Izan
Pond Creek
Okla
Mystery in Little River killing case in Kansas
Mrs Myrtle Brewer, widow and daughter of wealthy Little River residents near Lyons Kansas, is jailed after confessing to killing Frederick Ann a bridge carpenter. Investigators found Ann shot dead in Brewer home yard with a bullet from a window. Brewer claims self defense saying Ann attacked her. she swore in at marshal’s office and later said she fired at a man on her roof.
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Myrtle Brewer
Little River
Lyons
Kan
Frederick Ann
Poison in banana mystery linked to Rizzo death
Detectives indicate a Black Hand plot against Salvator Rizzo fruit dealer of Cincinnati Ohio who died after eating a banana laced with poison. He had received threatening letters demanding money from Pittsburg accomplices and alerted police. An Italian community vigil saw a coffin mishap amid fear of ongoing threats.
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Salvator Rizzo
Cincinnati
Black Hand
Rizzo
Pittsburg
Rizo
Premier Clemenceau Wins Post Strike Ruling
The French chamber backed Premier Clemenceau on the postal strike by a 464 to 59 vote, asserting that postal workers have no right to strike, followed by a separate 350 to 159 vote of confidence for the government. Seething protests and cheers burst from the chamber as socialists sang the Internationale and royalists responded with Vive Henry IV. The session ended with Clemenceau ejecting d Asson and ordering the tribune steps closed.
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Chamber of, Deputies
Clemenceau
M. Barthou
Paris
Department of the Seine
M. Sembat
M. Jaures
M. Comberouse
M. Morel
d’Uzes
M. Brisson
M. Baudry -Asson
Chamber of Deputies
d’Asson
Rich Man Arbogast Murdered In St Paul Home
Louis Arbogast a wealthy butcher valued at $200000 was murdered in his St Paul residence early Thursday. His head was crushed and his bed soaked with oil and set ablaze. His daughter Ida, 22, reported smells of smoke and helped drag her mother from the flames, while Mrs Arbogast claimed she heard her daughter scream and found her husband unconscious in the burning room. An ax with blood was found in the cellar as detectives investigate motive and circumstances.
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Louis Arbogast
St. Paul
Minn
Ida Arbogast
Clark
Miller
National Farmers Union Weighs Western Growers Link Plan
A Springfield Missouri session of the National Farmers' Union continued Friday with a plan to foster closer relations between grain growers and cattle raisers in the west and southwest. The meeting, convened Thursday, remained active with executive discussions.
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West
Southwest
Springfield
National Farmers' Union
Record Pace Set In Kansas City Typewriting Test
I A Trefager of New York set a new speed record in Kansas City Missouri by writing an average of 100 words per minute from copy for fifteen minutes. He placed second in the recent New York international contest where Rose L Fritz won the hour test.
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Kansas City
I. A. Trefager
New York
Trefager
Rose L. Fritz
Will of Lady Beresford Reveals $960000 Estate
The will of Lady William Beresford of London discloses an estate valued at 960000 dollars. Lady Beresford was born Miss Lillian Warren Price, daughter of the late Commodore Price of the United States Navy, of New York.
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William Beresford
London
Beresford
Lillian Warren Price
Commodore Price
United State Navy
New York
French Insignia Conferred on Henry Vignaud
The French government elevates Henry Vignaud, first secretary of the American embassy at Paris, to grand officer of the Legion of Honor as a mark of high esteem.
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Henry
Vignaud
Paris
Legion of Honor
Superintendents Advance Resolution Against School Treasurer
Iowa county superintendents in Des Moines unanimously adopt a resolution criticizing current funds handling and urging reform. They call for recodification of school laws, larger school units, broader high school access, improved rural school supervision, and reorganization of the state board of educational examiners with more power for city and county superintendents. The convention adjourned Thursday afternoon.
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Iowa
Des Moines
State Board of Educational Examiners
Iowa Workmen Adjournat Burlington A O U W Convention
The grand lodge of the A O U W of Iowa closed its Burlington convention as the most successful yet. Insurance rate plans were postponed, the level rate defeated, and members opposed. Officers were installed, the local deputy system adopted, and no state districting for district conventions. Degree of Honor kept independence, to hold semiannual elections, districts for separate conventions, higher grand chief pay to 200 dollars and recorder to 64 per month.
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Burlington
Grand Lodge
Iowa
Degree of Honor
Young farmer's son Dick Greff ends life by shooting
Henry Greff, 23, son of a Remsen area farmer, shot himself in the head with a shotgun Thursday evening. Described as healthy, popular, and of good habits, he left no clear motive though he spoke of trouble to his father. He used a violin bow to pull the trigger while others were in the house.
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Remsen
Henry Greff
Dick’ Greff
John Greff
Greff
Teachers Under Arrest In Des Moines Case
Two Des Moines teachers Ida M. Lilden and Maude King are jailed on assault and battery charges for beating pupil Davie Kaplin. The father who filed the information says the boy bore welts and a swollen cheek after a half hour whipping over a disputed $5 bill. The teachers admit a severe whipping but deny excessive punishment.
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Des Moines
Ida M. Lilden
Maude King
Davie Kaplin
Billion Kisses Trial Shocks Des Moines Society
Prominent Des Moines man Charles Morgan on trial for wife desertion after sending one billion kisses by mail to Margaret Tarney a 16 year old foster daughter of James and Mrs Winsor. Letters were produced by Morgan's wife and had been returned to her.
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Des Moines
Charles Morgan
Margaret Tarney
James Winsor
Morgan
Property Owners Attacked by Civic Federation in Davenport
Citations issued against eighteen saloon property owners after they rented to new tenants following a court injunction. They must appear in court May 17 to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of court as civic federation warns of ongoing actions.
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Civic Federation
Davenport
Rock Island Depot Burns at Estherville
A Rock Island depot in Estherville burned on Thursday causing about 5000 dollars in damage. The loss was insured and the cause remains unknown.
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Rock Island
Estherville
Pistol Duel In Street At Council Bluffs
Police Officer Charles Warner and a man known as Alkali Ike were shot in a pool hall duel near the Northwestern station area. Officer Horner was wounded in the arm, the assailant fled but was later captured. both sides suffered multiple gunshot injuries amid escalating clashes with blacks in the neighborhood.
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Council Bluffs
Cl.rles Warner
Alkali Ike
Horner
API
Hoe
Taylor
Arnold
Sunday School Convention Heads to Des Moines in June 1909
The forty fourth annual Iowa state Sunday school convention will meet at Plymouth Congregational church Des Moines June 2 3 and 4 1909. Dr A C Dixon of Chicago Moody church will give eight addresses with national speakers W G Pearce William A Brown W C Merritt A M Locker and other strong state speakers. Denominational secretaries lead conferences as Des Moines plans Harvard plan lodging and breakfast for delegates and all denominations are invited.
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Plymouth Congregational Church
Des Moines
A. C. Dixon
Chicago
Moody Church
W. GC. Pearce
William A. Brown
Board of Control Probes Fitzgerald Overreach at Mitchellville
State board of control investigates charges that Superintendent PF Fitzgerald of the state industrial school for girls at Mitchellville acted improperly with female inmates. Chairman ee Cownie says evidence so far favors rumor-driven claims by disgruntled staff and Mitchellville residents. Fitzgerald left for St Anthony, Wyoming, as his son is ill. Downie oversees Mitchellville temporarily. Witnesses remain to be examined and Fitzgerald will be asked to present testimony. The board faces criticism for appointing a man to head the girls school, noting only three other states place men in similar roles.
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PF Fitzgerald
State Industrial School For Girls
Mitchellville
State Board of Control
Ee Cownie
Fitzgerald
St. Anthony
Wyo
Downie
Gownie
Board of Control
Girls’ Industrial School
Crowds Rally as Sunday Campaign Sets Giving Record
Marshalltown revival led by Billy Sunday marks a new high in offerings with over 3000 dollars from a single morning and 8565 dollars in total Sunday collections. Over 18500 attendees joined seven meetings Sunday, totaling 69300 in two weeks. Third week opens with 241 expressing desire to become Christians.
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Marshalltown
Billy
Tabernacle
Orleans Hotel Burns Near Completion on Spiritlake
Fire destroys the Orleans hotel on Spiritlake at noon Monday destroying a near finished structure. The hotel had every room engaged for Friday’s opening. Estimated loss is 15600 dollars with 10000 dollars insured.
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Orleans
Tire
Spiritlake
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Great Northern Train
Tivo
National Farmers’ Union
Lady Beresford
Fourty
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