New York Calm Amid Currency Focus As Banks Stabilize
New York bankers indicate sustained financial stability through clearing house loan certificates and 30 to 60 day notice for savings withdrawals. President Roosevelt supports government aid while Cortelyou departs for Washington as Chicago adopts similar measures to curb eastward money drain.
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United Action
Wise Counsels
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Duluth
Cortelyou
Washington
Roosvelt
Clearing House
Skeleton tickets stolen bogs down rail travelers
A Santa Monica Southern Pacific station burglary escalated from minor to major loss last Thursday night. Thieves stole skeleton tickets valued over 15000 dollars along with stamps punches and ink pads that enable stamping hundreds of transcontinental railroad tickets.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Southern Pacific
Santa Monica
Rates in Mexico Expected to Rise Across Railways
Mexico City reports a general railway rate increase likely soon after sessions of the railway commission and railway officials. The commission approved a 12 percent rise, while a 20 percent proposal was rejected. shipment rates remain unsettled and to be decided shortly.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Railway Commission
Nome fire hits Pioneer Mining Company office building
A large blaze destroyed the Pioneer Mining Company office on Second Avenue in Nome. Officials report the fire caused extensive damage to the Best Structure type building worth around 50,000 dollars.
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Nome
Tacoma
Wash
Second Avenue
Pioneer ‘Mining Company
Navy spy cases stun French parliament at Toulon Vendome
Ensign Charlies B. Allmo of the French navy, arrested at Toulon on spying charges, confessed to stealing a secret naval signal book and cipher. Officer Berton arrested at Vendome for negotiations with an agent to sell military secrets. Ullmo offered documents for 30000 dollars and possessed full mobilization plans and harbor mine locations. The arrests fuel a national defense debate in the chamber of deputies tied to Humbert and Langlois criticisms of army disorganization.
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Paris
Charlies B. Allmo
Toulon
Vendome
Berton
Ullmo
Dreyfus
Ulmo
Minister of Marine
France
Chamber of Deputies
Charles Humbert
Cooke and McReynolds Lose In Embezzlement Appeals
Springfield reports the appellate court affirmed the criminal court of Cook County on John A. Cooke’s embezzlement conviction as circuit clerk and George S. McReynolds’ embezzlement conviction. Both were sentenced to penitentiaries with grain warehouse receipts used as collateral for bank loans.
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Springfield
Criminal Court of
Cook County
John A. Cooke
Supreme Court
George S. McReynolds
McReynolds
Roosevelt Quietly Marks Forty-Ninth Birthday
Washington Sunday marked President Roosevelt's forty-ninth birthday with no public celebration. He observed his usual Sunday routine at the White House, spending a quiet day with family and worship. Messages of congratulations arrived by mail telegraph and telephone.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Prominent Chicago Republican Dies in Auto Crash
James Reddick longtime chairman of the Cook County Republican committee was killed in an automobile accident near Half Day village on the Milwaukee highway shortly after 1 AM Sunday. The prominent Chicago politician died as his car left the road between Wheeling and Libertyville about 25 miles from Chicago.
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Chicago
James Reddick
Republican County Committee
City
Half Day
Milwaukee Highway
Wheeling Ar
Libertyville
Colorado Statute Held Void On Foreign Corporations
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Colorado's statute requiring foreign corporations to pay an annual license of two cents per $1 000 of capital stock to sue or defend in the state is unconstitutional if applied to corporations engaged in interstate commerce.
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Colorado
St. .Paul
Minn
United States Circuit Court of. Appeals
Monument Unveiled in Lincoln Neb for Brig Gen John
A Nebraska memorial ceremony in Lincoln unveiled a monument honoring Brig. Gen. John with a dedicatory event attended by local officials and veterans groups. The tribute marks the veteran’s service and preserves his memory for the community.
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Thayer
Lincoln
Rhs
John
Financial Markets Signal End of Crisis in New York
In New York the financial district indicated the worst of the crisis was over with no bank suspensions remaining and favorable signs for resuming normal operations. Gold imports from Europe rose to 18.75 million dollars as copper exports push US prices higher to 13 1/2 cents a pound.
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New York
Financial District
Europe
Stock Exchange
United Metals Selling Company
Navy to test new rank as Evans to lead grand fleet
Rear Admiral Robley D Evans is slated to command a powerful Atlantic to Pacific fleet if Congress approves creating a new rank for peace era cruisers. The plan aims to rank Evans alongside foreign vice admirals as the fleet visits Brazil Chile and Argentina, avoiding diplomatic humiliation. In New York Dr Walter R Gillete former Mutual Life vice president is convicted of perjury in the third degree with a mercy recommendation from the jury. He is remanded to the Tombs while a motion for arrest of judgment is heard.
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Washington
Atlantic
Pacific
Robley D. Evans
Congress
Executive
Secretary of the Navy
Evans
Lord Charles Beresford
Dewey
Brazil
Chile
Argentina
New York
Supreme Court
Walter R. Gillete
The
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Gikete
Justice Dowling
Dr. Gikete
Gillete
Philadelphia
Russian prison head Maximoff shot by female assassin
Gen Maximoff sky, head of the prisons department in the interior ministry in St. Petersburg, was killed Monday by a woman. Officials say the killer acted as an emissary for the Northern Flying Section of the Social Revolutionists, punishing him for his stern treatment of political prisoners.
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St. Petersburg
Maximoffsky
Ministry of the Interior
Social Revolutionists
Gun fighters slain in Benton clash with city marshal
City Marshal George Adams of Benton shot and killed John Malone a famed gun fighter after Malone threatened him. Malone had a long violent record including a prior shooting in Hopkinsville Ky and alleged killings in Pope county Arkansas and East St Louis. He was tried for murder in several cases but acquitted each time.
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Benton, li
George Adams Monday
John Malone
Malone
Hopkinsville
Pope County
Galatia
Ill
John Hollehan
East St. Louis
Steamer Finland Disabled After Breakwater Collision
The Red Star line steamer Finland from New York to Dover and Antwerp struck the western end of the southern breakwater in Dover harbor. She sustained extensive bow damage and remained for repairs until Tuesday afternoon. One worker on the breakwater suffered leg injuries. The impact damaged the breakwater stonework and buckled the ship’s bows by about 20 feet.
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Finland
Dover
England
Red Star Line
New York
Antwerp
Pacer Yokum of Moore Brook Farm Dies at 38
Chester Pa Monday memorial reports state that Frank Yokum, known as a famous pacer, died at age 38 after equalling a speed mark and lowering to a half mile pace. The notice references Moore Brook stock farm as his associated location.
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Pacer
Chester
Frank
Moore Brook Stock Farm
Alfonso Faces Tuberculosis in Health Crisis
Madrid reports confirm alarm about King Alfonso's health. He will travel incognito as duke of Toledo to London for a tuberculosis specialist examination. An operation was recently performed to curb advancing consumption linked to his hereditary disposition.
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Madrid
Alfonso
Toledo
London
Automobile Kills $8000 Buffalo Horse in Pittsburg
An eight thousand dollar valued horse owned by H Vervack of Buffalo New York had to be shot after an automobile accident in Pittsburg Pennsylvania. The incident occurred Friday and involved the horse sent here for a forthcoming sale next week.
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Pittsburg
Germany Wins Balloon Race In Historic International Cup
From St Louis the second international balloon cup ended with Germany taking first as the Pommern landed at Asbury Park New Jersey and beating the French Lisle de France by a few miles. Herbertsville New Jersey hosted the drop of the second German Dusseldorf and the American entries finished fourth and fifth.
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St. Louis
Germany
Asbury Park
Lissle de France
Herbertsville
N. J
Atlantic Coast
Point Pleasant
Dussedorf
Weather Bureau Planned at Marquette College Milwaukee
The Alumni Association pledges funds to establish a weather bureau at Marquette College Milwaukee. Rev James McGeary, recently from Manila, will chair physics and astronomy and lead the service as one of the nation’s best known weather observers.
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Weather Bureau
Milwaukee
United States
Marquette College of
James McGeary
Manila
Canadian crops boost farmers as wheat rallies despite spring delay
A Winnipeg wheat market report notes Canada’s prairie farmers benefited from high prices despite a harsh 1906-7 winter. About 300,000 U.S. and Canadian farmers helped move 300,000 bushels of wheat, with two days’ receipts valued near $400,000. Early May sowing showed western Canada’s grain potential, while 1907 harvest is projected to yield 70–80 million bushels of wheat.
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Union
Dakotas
Texas
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Canada
United States
Fort
William
Winnipeg
West Ar
Mort William
Wheat market outlook amid late harvest and lake trade
The article notes a bright overall outlook for the wheat crop despite a late thrashing season with millions expected to enter farmers’ pockets as lake navigation closes. It predicts high prices and strong returns, while some western regions may see smaller yields and frost impacts.
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West
Alberta
Monton
Saskat
Chewan
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