Dolliver Lecture in Kansas City Explains McKinley Ideals
Senator Dolliver of Iowa spoke at a Knife and Fork club banquet in Kansas City on April 27, delivering a lecture titled A Poor Man's Government and a Poor Man's Country. He praised McKinley as a model statesman, urged citizen participation, and argued for practical Christianity and philanthropy to aid the less fortunate.
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United States
Jonathan P. Dolliver
Lowa
Philip P. Campbell
The
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Ee Lyceum Bureau of
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Knife and Fork Club
Iowa
Totliver
Sanater
Scharacter
Cantes House
Clarence &. Palmar
Lab
W. ©. Cowherd
United States District Attorney
Willan Warner
John J. Tarsney
H. S. Hadley
G. B. Longan
Robinson
Stith. McKinley
William McKdinley
McKinley
Washington
Cleveland
Irce
Messinley
Canton
America
Chicago
Ameriur
Boards of Health
Tes
Missouri
Interstates Clash Over Grain-Rate Cuts in New Orders
Rail roads challenge an Interstate Commerce Commission order to cut grain rates. Chicago sources report Eastern lines opposing the reduction set to take effect before November 1, with an anticipated modest percentage decrease and ongoing litigation.
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Chicago
Abril
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Deliverance Through Labor Not Ease Says Speaker
In a speech tainted by rhetoric about liberty from competition the speaker argues that human life follows labor sacrifice and service. He cites a Methodist father’s view on earned reward and notes Roosevelt’s rise from rural roots, urging that even in New York politics a poor boy’s country forms its backbone. The talk praises burdened nations as strong.
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Herron
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Mirth Avenue
At and Pelni
New England Textile Leader Calls for Labor Law Uniformity
Massachusetts Lt Governor Curtis Guild Jr welcomed 400 delegates to the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association meeting in Boston. He argued Southern mills use cheaper labor and longer hours, urging nationwide uniform factory laws to curb child labor and avoid Maine commerce being dragged down to Alabama levels.
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New England
Curtis Gul Jr
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Alabama
United States
South Carolina
Putting Down Union Strike of Convicts in Indiana
In Muncie on April 27 a prison strike by convicts over rations led to solitary confinement and a bread and water diet. Turnkey Hughes reported the prisoners had formed a union with a speaker and president, vowing not to work without a larger bill of fare.
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Ind
Turnkey Hughes
Turnkey
Most on Royalty Inflammatory Address by John Most
New York April 27 John Most recently freed from Blackwell s Island prison addressed anarchists in a city meeting He called John Mitchell a fan or knave for boycotting the anthracite strike commission and railed at kings comparing rulers in Russia England and Italy with the pope and Bresci to claim anarchists are the only pure noble people.
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New York
John Most
Blackswell
John Mitchell
Anthracite Strike Commission
Ussia
England
Italy
Malatesa
Bresci
Shaw plans private trip ahead of Roosevelt meeting
Secretary Shaw arrived in Chicago to arrange private matters in advance of a visit to Clarinda to meet President Roosevelt the next morning. He stated the trip was not related to politics or official business.
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Windy Cuy
Iowa
Chicago
Roosevelt
Clarinda
Accouchement of Pringose Louise of Saxony
Munich dispatch reports the birth of Pringose Louise of Saxony. Her father has forgiven. the line of succession and status are noted as part of this quiet royal announcement amidst palace life.
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Louise
Saxony
Munich
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Feady
Flndaa
Knox voices view Tyner papers were irregular but harmless
Attorney General Knox told Postmaster General Payne that unless papers taken from Tyner’s safe showed government or private material, the case would be weak. Payne cited confidential nature of government sale papers and noted the decision to pursue further action rests with the Justice Department.
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Knox
Payne
Typer
Knuox
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Department of* Justice
Tyner
Hoss Pray
Tyners
Westmaester
Pray
Harrison J. Barrett
Barrett
Millers Demand Lower Flour Rates From Railroads
Northwestern mills face shutdowns as exorbitant transportation costs halt milling in Minneapolis and surrounding points. Great Western requests a high level meeting in Chicago next Wednesday with executives and traffic officers to push for flour-rate reductions to restart milling. Other roads back the millers, urging rate cuts to keep northwest mills open.
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Chicago
Minneapolis
North- West
Great Western
Northwestern Mills
Fitzsimmons claims no money left after boxing career
Chicago reports Bob Fitzsimmons after nearly twenty years of duties says he has no money and that the Batt Beach house, once owned by his wife, is his only wealth. Title to the property passed to her children upon her death, leaving him with only a life interest.
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Chicago
the Chronicle
New York
Bob Fitzsimmons
Batt Beach
Fitzsimynons
Macedonian Fighting Report Near Petrich
Vienna April 1 dispatches report a large band of Macedonians surrounding and slaughtering forty Bagshi-Basouks and fifteen gendarmes near Petrich in Macedonia in retaliation for actions linked to the Otto leader. The battle caused multiple deaths in the volatile frontier area.
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Vienna
Bone
Petrich
Macedonia
Revengi
Baer
Two Children Tortured in St Louis Abduction Case
The Humane Society removed George Miggle, eight, and Morence Miggie, one, from John Marl on Wallington Avenue Harlin. They accuse Karl Miggle and his wife of abusing the children with hot pokers and burns as punishment for failing to perform feats. The boy shows facial burns hips, and eye injuries. the girl bears burns on her instep and four fresh bites on her left leg plus a scalp wound from a trapeze fall. The couple toured with a patent medicine shows and had adopted the children from an orphanage recently. authorities were alerted after an officer visited.
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St. Louis
The
Humane Society
George Miggle
Morence Miggie
John Marl
Wallington Avenue
Harlin
Wumane Society
Karl
Earl
Movement to form social club for General Corbin supporters
NEW WASHINGTON GLUB reports a drive to organize a broad based patriotic social club in the capital. Prominent figures including Secretary Hay and Secretary Roget aid discussions after Metropolitan club refused Corbin admission. Several army and navy friends plan resignations from the Metropolitan club.
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Rogt
England
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United States
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Navy
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G. L. Gilesme
Engineers
Board of Governors
Bates
Corpin
Crozier
Ordnance
M. Young
Clarence Edwards
Bureau of Rogular Affairs
Record Pay for a Book George Barr McCutcheon
George Barr McCutcheon receives 16000 advance royalty and 5000 for serial rights from David Mead & Co for The Sherrods to be published next fall. It marks the highest advance by an American house, surpassing Stevenson and Kipling except Kim. The novel is described as a contemporary, serious character study with settings in Chicago New York and Europe.
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Chicago
David, Mead & Co
Robert Loula Stevenson
Rudyard Kipling
Kim
Indiana
Moore
Insana
New York
Europe
Emperor to edit free labor paper in Germany
Berlin April 24 The emperor announces a government issued labor paper to be edited by the kaiser and distributed free to labor organizations. Editorials by leading labor figures will urge laws for mutual sickness and accident insurance and guide workers in legislative efforts. The move signals a shift from brute force to political strategy as the socialist party grows stronger.
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Emperor William
Government Bureau of Statistics
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Germany
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Bismarck
Fay
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Prevent Appendix Removal for Infants Debate
Missouri doctor Howard Andruss proposed removing the veriform appendix from infants shortly after birth to prevent appendicitis. At the Missouri Institute of Homeopathy in Kansas City on April 24 the idea drew mixed opinion with notes that a physician could gain fame by introducing such operations. Andruss argued Darwinian theory suggests the appendix could be eliminated by natural processes in time.
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Kansas City
Missouri Institute of Homeopathy
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Holden
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Andyuss
Protestant churches seek merger in four-way union
Delegates from Congregational, Methodist Protestant, United Brethren and Christian Union churches meet in Pittsburgh on April 24 to labor toward a fourfold union. Committees report today on doctrinal papers as talks press on despite tensions over faith and practice.
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Congregational
United Brethren
Christian Union
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Minnesota's War Governor Ramsey Dies at 88
Alexander Ramsey former Minnesota governor secretary of war under Hayes and two term U S senator died in St Paul at age 88 after a gout attack. He helped secure Mendota and Traverse des Sioux treaties in 1851 opening lands to white settlement. He offered 3,000 Minnesota troops to the Union at Fort Sumter.
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St Paul
United States
President Hayes
St. Paul
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Juynnsey
Wie
Ramsey
Pennsylvania
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Hayes
Garfield
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Traverse Des Sioux
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St. Peter
Minnesota River
Lake Traverse
Washington
Fort Sumter
War Office
Simon Cameron
Cameron
Capitol
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Japan Stands Pat As Warships Move To China
In Yokohama on April 25 report says three warships were ordered to Chwang. Premier Ito held a top level conference with party leaders. Russia presses for privileges in Manchuria trigger Japanese and press calls for strong action. An arrangement averts the political crisis though naval build up plans stay as is.
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Chwang
Marquia Ito
Menchuria
Japan
United States
Great Britain
Russians Demand Cession of Manchuria From China
Pekin April 26. Russia demands China sign an agreement ceding sovereignty over Manchuria and excluding other nations. Russian chargé d affaires Plancon told Prince Ching that evacuation preparations will pause until the agreement is signed. Ching refused the terms, a stance that likely pleases Russia regardless of outcome.
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Pekin
Rusela
China
M. Plancon
Prince Ching
Allce
Russia
China Trusts America Says Sir Chentung at Delmonico’s Dinner
Sir Chentung Liang Cheng the Chinese minister spoke at the American Asiatic Association dinner in New York. He praised U S policy toward China under McKinley and Roosevelt, noted China’s friendship with the United States, and urged continued support. The speech touched on Russian demands in Manchuria and praised Wu Ting-fang. Separate Kronstadt report says clashes between troops and marines left casualties and wounded including Vice Admiral Marakoff.
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New York
Sir Chentung Liang Cheng
K. C. AM
American Asiatic Association of Delmonico
D. Webb
China
United States
Hay
McKinley
Roosevelt
Wu Ting-fang
Manchuria
New Chiang
Russo-Chinese Bank
Russia
Hearst Attorney Demands Contracts In Rail Freight Case
Hearst counsel seeks contracts among Temple from company Lehigh Valley Delaware Lackawanna and Western and Philadelphia and Reading railroads as the Interstate Commerce Commission hearing opens. Complainant’s counsel asks for a dated April 10 189% between Iria Railroad and Temple Tron company showing guarantees on stacks and bonds. Judge Campbell suggests listing all papers, claims a pool of freight interests is involved.
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New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
Shearin
W. R. Hearst
Temple From
Lehigh Valley
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Philadelphia
Reading
Iria Railroad
Temple Tron Company
Tron Company
Campbell
Shearn
Oil Plant Blows Up in Minneapolis At Noon
A Northwestern Star Oil Company plant exploded at noon in Minneapolis starting a fierce fire. The plant was totally destroyed with twenty employees, and eleven unaccounted for or dead. Names listed include W H Davis president C H Downs general manager W R Mitchell Jacob Domb Colonel Harold Colborn David Dacey John Spetonsky Joseph Lawflair J B Jacobson Carrie Record Ella Roundhy.
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Minneapolis
Northwestern Star Oil Company
W. H. Davis
C. H. Downs
W. R. Mitchell
Jacob Domb
Harold Colborn
David Dacey
Tohn Spetonsky
Joseph
Lawflair
J. B. Jacobson
Carriq Record
Ella M. Roundhy
Chicago Orthodoxy Bank Official Tells What He Knew About Prayer
In Chicago on April 23 prominent financial figures discussed prayer and its relevance to business life. Cashier BH W. Manan of Stock Yards Savings Bank stated a business man may use prayer to aid conduct and judgment, comparing it to a father granting modest requests. The remarks framed prayer as a practical tool for success.
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W. Manan
Savings Bank
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Rex
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