Cleveland Illness Rumors Stir Public About Ex President
New York reports widespread talk that Grover Cleveland suffers from cancer of the stomach while doctors and family offer no confirmation. Lakewood officials and Mrs Cleveland deny seriousness, with medical pronouncements kept private and progress described as satisfactory.
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New York
Grover Cleveland
Lakewood
N. J
Evening World
Equitable Life Assurance Soelery
Cleveland
Joseph OD. Bryant
Mr. Cleveland
Bryant
Joseph T. Bryant
Daring Express Robbery Mystifies Pittsburgh Officials
Pittsburgh officials and Pinkerton detectives have little progress on the New York to St. Louis express car theft near Walker's Mills. Express Messenger Noah Roshen, 54, was cleared of blame after hours of questioning. About $600 was taken, mostly currency in three sacks, with merchants’ goods left behind. No large sums from New York are confirmed.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railway Company
Adams Express Company
Walker's Mills
Steubensville
Pinkerton
Secret Service
Railroad Company
Express
Noah Roshen
Express Company
Columbus
New York
Appeal to President Roosevelt on Cattle Interests
Washington May 2 An appeal has been made to President Roosevelt by cattlemen seeking federal action to improve welfare and market conditions for cattle producers amid mounting concerns over prices and regulation.
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American Humane Association
Association
Western Plains
Roosevelt
Washington
Unprecedented brain loss linked to fatal operation
Baltimore reports Albert M. Groff an eleven year old dies after a Maryland hospital operation. Doctors say nearly all of the left brain substance vanished and was replaced by fluid. A bat injury years earlier preceded blindness and progressive loss of the right side.
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Baltimore
Albert M. Groff
Maryland Homeopathic Hospital
Young Groff
Italian immigrant accused in double fatal shooting in East Liverpool
In East Liverpool on May 2 Rafael Fracca, an Italian, shot three people in a store over jealousy toward Cammit. Victims Christiana Pappendrea is critically wounded with lung injuries, Rafael Commit shot in the shoulder, and Peitro Nicollotta shot in the back. Fracca fled and remains at large.
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Liverpool
Rafael Fracca
Christiana Pappendrea
Rafael Commit
Peitro Nicollotta
Nicollotta
Fracca
Cammit
Sagl
Niccollotta
Fire Burns Tobacco Barn in West Milton Area
The tobacco barn owned by Ora McCarth in West Milton Ohio was burned nearly to the ground. Authorities suspect night riders caused the blaze. Loss pegged at about 15000 dollars.
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West Milton
Ora McCarth
Miner Kills Italian Woman Then Shoots Self
In Lethbridge Alberta on May 2 Melia Magaly a Servian miner shot and killed Mrs Mike Baroed an Italian woman on the road to the coal mine. He fired three times and slashed her throat severing a jugular vein before shooting himself three times. The woman had held Magaly’s money and refused to return it when he demanded it. Her nine year old son stood nearby with the money.
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Lethbridge
Alberta
Melia Magaly
Mike Baroed
Magaly
Secret Service Employes Restricted To Guarding President
Washington May 2 The house spent the day considering the sundry civil appropriation bill and adopted a paragraph limiting secret service employees to guarding the president and pursuing counterfeiters. The move faced opposition from the appropriations committee but the restriction was kept in the bill. Democratic filibuster blocked a separate measure to print 100000 copies of an Agriculture Department cattle disease report.
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Washington
House
Secret Service
Appropriations Committee
Department of Agriculture
United Christian Party Convention Nominates Turney and Coffin
The United Christian party held its national convention in Rock Island Illinois on May 2 nominating Rev Daniel B Turney of Decatur Illinois for president and L Coffin of Fort Dodge Iowa for vice president. The platform backs the decalogue and golden rule as law basis and supports female suffrage with Mrs Laura Fixen presiding.
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United Christian Party
Rock Island, Ill
Daniel B. Turney
Decatur
Coffin
Fort Dodge
Iln
Laura Fixen
Elkins Plan Delays Railroads’ Hepburn Clause Ties
Senator Elkins proposes a twenty month extension to suspend the Hepburn commodity clause to Jan 1 1919 while railroads seek buyers for coal lands. Debates with Culberson and Nelson focus on railroad rights and Congress power as the senate adjourns with the measure unsettled.
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Senate
Jeff Davis
Arkansas
Committee On the Judiciary
Elkins
Messrs. Culberson
Nelson
Culberson
Congress
Two youths Ned and Brack Tolan hanged for murder in Cayce
Ned and Brack Tolan two young Black men were executed at the Lexington jail for the brutal murder of Mrs. Paul Ellison at Cayce Lexington county two months earlier. The older Tolan struck the victim with a axe while the younger restrained her. the pair then robbed the residence of clothing and other items.
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Columbia
Ned
Brack Tolan
Paul Ellison
Cayce
Lexington County
Lexington
Minnesota Governor Johnson Speaks in Moline
Governor John A. Johnson of Minnesota delivered a lecture at the Moline theater. He was greeted by Augustana College students with a band and escorted to President A. Anderson’s home for a reception. A college banquet followed.
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Rock Island, HL
John A. Johnson
Minnesota
Moline
Augustana College
A. Anderson
Cambridge Men Debating Women’s Colleges Progress
In early Cambridge debates on female higher education, Arthur Clement Hilton, among others, favored the movement. Hilton quipped that once women earn degrees they would become spinsters of art and eventually attain the degree of M A. at last.
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Cambridge University
Arthur Clement Hilton
Hilton
Robert Edgecumbe
Need of Covers While Asleep
A physician urges ample coverings for sleep noting the heart slows about ten strokes per minute while lying down, saving nearly 5 000 heartbeats in eight hours, and explains warmth comes from circulation. A travel tale then recounts a man who split a black snake after an umbrella swallowed by the creature split in two.
Fooling the Youngster in a Matinee Mixup
In a light exchange Mr Popley asks his wife to take the youngster to the matinee. The child gently corrects him noting there is only one T in matinee, adding a small moment of humor to the morning plan.
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Mr. Popley
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