Mrs. McKinley Dies in Canton at 1:05 PM
Mrs. Ida McKinley, wife of President William McKinley, died at her Canton Ohio home at 1:05 Sunday afternoon after years of illness. The national government will be represented at the funeral by the president and four cabinet members. The funeral will be private with relatives and prominent friends present.
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Ida Saxton McKinley
McKinley
Cortelyou
Canton
Root
Garfield
Wilson
Lawton
Indianapolis
The
Agricultural College
United States
Washington
Ohio
Joseph M. Biechele
Robert A. Cassady
George B. Freeze
Austin Lynch
R. S. Shields
Co. Bow
Willam R. Day
W. A. Lynch
Meeting Tonight Discusses City Bond Issue At City Hall
Citizens are urged to attend the tonight meeting at city hall to hear discussion of the bond issue question and share their views. A separate notice offers a liberal reward for a stolen Berkshire pig from Maple Shade farm, with the thief to be apprehended and the animal returned.
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Maple Shade Farm
Berkshire
Last Notice to Tax Payers Delinquent Tax List Soon Closed
Deputy Sheriff W P Hawley warns all tax payers that the delinquent list will close shortly. Those who did not receive notices should contact him immediately to be informed of due taxes. He cautions against public advertising delinquency and urges prompt payment. Also mentions a week of polite vaudeville starting next Monday on the Red Lot.
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W. P. Hawley
Red Lot
Triad Revolt in Kwantung Province Sees Mass Killings
May 27 report from Canton and Swatow describes a large scale Triad Society uprising in Kwantung province with thirty thousand rebels, widespread assassinations of civil and military officials, and arson. Foreign ships move to protect nationals as police ready measures. An uprising began Wednesday with no relief yet and calls for viceroy aid.
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Canton
China
Kwantung
Triad Society
Wong Tong
Swatow
Lien Chan
Uncle Sam Targets Anti Japanese Mob Attacks
San Francisco May 27 United States Attorney General Devlin ordered a full inquiry into the assault on a Japanese restaurant and bath house by a mob. The disorder followed police shortages caused by anti strife and labor strife in the city south of Market Street. Governor Gillett urges San Francisco businessmen to form a movement to restore order amid chaotic city government.
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San Francisco
Cal
United States
Devlin
Market Street
Gov. Gillett
Dog’s Trick Saves Family From Cremation
In Oxford Pennsylvania on May 27 a collie trained by the Beattie children woke the household by pulling the dinner bell rope after a midnight fire broke out. The family barely escaped as William Beattie fought the blaze with Mrs Beattie struggling through smoke to reach two sons on the third floor. Furniture was lost and neighbors were alerted by the bell.
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Oxford
William Beattie
Baseball results from Virginia and National Leagues
Danville defeats Richmond four to nothing while Portsmouth and Roanoke games were rained out. Norfolk wins over Lynchburg. In the National League Philadelphia hosts Brooklyn and New York rain. Cincinnati edges Chicago three to two and St Louis defeats Pittsburgh. American League games at Washington Philadelphia and Cleveland Boston were affected by rain or wet conditions.
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Phildelphia
Brooklyn
New York
Boston
Cincinnati
Chicago
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Washington
Philadelphia
Cleveland
News Briefs From Across the Nation May 27 1906
The Supreme Court term for 1906 07 closed with no session until October 14. Reports note heavy snow in central and northern Michigan with subzero readings at several straits. Paris marks royal visitors King Haakon and Queen Maud of Norway. Tokyo honors the Sea of Japan battle with emperor and crown prince present. Carrie Hattison 21 dies after taking strychnine in Sioux City. Lee Akers of Wytheville split by an explosion while mixing lime and water. facial burns may cost him sight in both eyes.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Detroit
Mich
Michigan
Straits
Tokio
Sea of Japan
Sioux City
Carrie Hattison
Wytheville
Lee Akers
Akers
Caesel
King Edward Sets a New Style in Dross
London May 27 King Edward introduces a bold fashion stirring Swells clubland. He wears a cray suit a town derby a pink shirt and vivid blue silk tie and inspires color in daytime outings while long canes become common. He still favors black at night.
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London
Edward
Lord Dalmeny
May Irwin Marries Manager on St Lawrence Island
May Irwin the actress wed her manager and press agent Kurt Eisfeldt yesterday on an island in the St Lawrence River three miles above Clayton New York. The ceremony occurred at 2:15 pm with an Episcopal minister. The couple will honeymoon at Irwin Isle at a new granite cottage nearing completion. Irwin, a speedboat enthusiast, owns two racers the Delawana and the Twenty three. She plans to continue performing, switching from legitimate theater to vaudeville and has signed with the Keith Proctor circuit for next season.
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Clayton
N. Y
St. Lawrence River
May Irwin
Kurt Eisfeldt
Irwin Isle
Delawana
Twentythree
Miss Irwin
Keith-Proctor
Husband Supposed Dead Returns Crazes Wife in Kentucky
Ashland Ky May 27 Face to face with her husband whom she mourned as dead Mrs Alexander Van Wyth has become hopelessly insane. Van Wyth testifies he married Ella T Wymann in Martin county 35 years ago and joined the navy two years later. Believing him dead she married Herbert Pyle of Wheeling West Virginia who died leaving four children. She then married Elmer Wyatt with whom she had several children.
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Ashland
Alexander van Wyth
van Wyth
Ella T. Wymann
Martin County
United States Navy
Herbert Pyle
Wheeling
W. Va
Elmer Wyatt
Charge Against Loving Not Sent to Jury
In Lynchburg Virginia May 27 Judge W G Loving for the murder of Theodore Estes Oak Ridge the Virginia estate of Thomas F Ryan will face a grand jury after Judge Barksdale arrives from Nelson county The case may prompt a venue change as both sides attack reputations and the trial期待 a sensational Virginia court event.
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Daily Telegraph
Lynchburg
W. G. Loving
Theodore Estes
Oak Ridge
Virginia
Thomas F. Ryan
Loving
Lovingston
Arrested for Complicity in Death of His Father
John Ermoyian twenty six of West Pullman was arrested on suspicion of complicity in the murder of his father Kasper Ermoyian whose body was found in a trunk in a New York tenement police believe he and his brothers involved in a former Halstead Street restaurant. The prisoner admitted visiting the restaurant but denied involvement in the crime.
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Chicago
John Ermovyian
International Harvester Company
West Pullman
Kasper Ermoyian
New York City
Ermoyian
Halstead Street
Cara
Thermoyian
John Ermoyian
Halsted Street
Tornado Death Toll Tops Sixteen in North Texas
A North Texas tornado Saturday night killed sixteen people and injured twenty two, with nearly fifty treated for injuries and over one hundred thousand dollars in damage. Willis Point bore the worst impact with multiple fatalities, and Martins Mills Emery and nearby areas reported deaths and injuries.
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Dallas
Texas
Willis Point
Vis. T. C. Douglass
Jesse Douglass
Ric McClellan
Mamie Brissindine
Martins Mills
Wills Point
Damages at Gun's Point From Automobile Party
Hammond Indiana May 27 Standing guard with a loaded shotgun at the roadside John Ewing of Black Oak waited for a big black touring car that had spooked his horse earlier while returning from church with his wife and daughter. The carriage was wrecked after the auto pursuit.
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Hammond
Ind
John Ewing
Black Oak
Enting
Car owner pays after Chicago party scare
After a crash the car fled the scene for four hours. It then returned and Ewing threatened to shoot at two women if they did not stop. The chauffeur begged off, and the owner paid $75 to settle the damage. The farmer did not seek names. the owner said all were from Chicago.
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Ewing
Chicago
Steunenberg Murder Trial Interrupted by Jury Exhaustion
The Steunenberg murder trial in Idaho was halted as the jury panel exhausted. The last member of the second special venue was disqualified and Judge Freemont Wood postponed until Friday to assemble a new 61 member panel. Prosecutor Borah and S M Joplin opened bias examinations as the trial faces weeks before evidence. Two Cheyenne bartenders arrived as state witnesses said to test a draft for 1250 dollars linked to Orchard and signatures by Haywood and Moy er.
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Borah
S. M. Joplin
Cheyanne
Orchard
Haywood
Moyer
Fifteen-year-old Boy Kills Mother in York County
In York Pennsylvania on May 27 Ernest Doll aged fifteen killed his mother with a shotgun blast. The boy who had often seen his father load the gun obtained the weapon while the mother was outside and warned Look out mama I ll shoot you before firing. The mother died instantly. The boy is the son of Mr and Mrs Frank Doll of Airville.
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York
Ernest Doll
Frank Doll
Airville
Hhaw Bang
Chicago Seeks National Republican Convention
Chicago aims to land the next Republican national convention. The city council approved a resolution authorizing Mayor Bussey to appoint a seven member committee to officially pursue Chicago’s bid, coordinating with a newly formed citizens’ association seeking the event.
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Chicago
Bussey
Guatemala Nine Teens Face Court Review in Cabrera Plot
Mexico City May 27. Guatemala will not summarily execute the nine teen men in prison charged with complicity in the alleged attempt on President Cabrera. The state department received a note that the matter has been sent to the court of second instance for revision. It is believed Cabrera may instruct the court to acquit.
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Mexico City
Guatemala
Cabrera
State Department
Court of Second Instance
All Postmasters to Get Fifteen Days Leave
Acting Postmaster General Hitchcock ordered all second and third class postmasters to take a fifteen day leave of absence to attend the annual meeting of the National Association of Postmasters in Washington beginning October 22.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Orde Sd
United States
National Association of Postmasters
Michigan Senate Backs Roosevelt Run Again
Lansing May 27. The state senate passed a resolution demanding that President Roosevelt be renominated and re-elected for a second term.
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Michigan
Senate
Roosevelt
Lansing
Mich
State Senate
Mother and Son Slay Husband and Father near McFarlan
Parkersburg May 27 Word comes of a murder in Ritchie county near McFarlan where Mary Yoho and her son John Yoho shot Harvey Yoho as he slept. They surrendered at Harrisville and claim they will face punishment. They say they suffered years of torture and Yoho was father to ten living children.
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Parkersburg
Ritchie County
McFarlan
Harvey Yoho
Mary Yoho
John
Yoho
Harrisville
Disowned Heiress Pleads for Parental Pardon
New York May 27 Disowned and exiled from home after marrying a struggling attorney instead of a British nobleman chosen by her millionaire father Mrs Frederick K Clarke wife of a known New York lawyer has gone to Reading Pennsylvania for the fifth time to seek admission to her father Josiah Dives head of a Pennsylvania department store chain may move to England after he disapproved of the match Hello Dives had returned from a continental tour three years ago to fit her for a courtly role but her father favored a baronet life in England and a union with a count she later married F K Clarke of East Orange who worked in a New York law office
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New York
Frederick K. Clarke
Reading
Josiah Dives
Pennsylvania
England
Hello Dives
America
F. K. Clarke
East Orange
Iowans Robbed by Fictitious Judge Sheriff and Lawyer
Horace and Edward Napier of Burlington Iowa were defrauded in the common pleas court by men posing as the judge sheriff and a prominent lawyer They sought foreclosure on their grandfather farm and paid $50 for fake legal services in Marietta Ohio on May 27
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Marietta
Ohio
Banco
Horace
Edward Napier
Burlington
Iowa
Common Pleas Court
Erie Receives Applications for Jobs as Strikes Challenge
Erie railroad announces it has filled 500 of 700 machinist positions after a strike. Jobs are being assigned across seventeen repair shops from Chicago to Jersey City. Striker leaders claim high demand means many competent machinists are already employed and fills may be harder to achieve.
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New York
Erie Railroad
Chicago
Jersey City
Respected Farmer Proved to be Escaped Convict
West Plains Missouri May 27 A deputy warden of the Nashville penitentiary arrested G A Watkins a farmer near here on the charge of being an convict Watkins admitted the charge He had fled to North Carolina married and lived as a farmer in this community for seventeen years The arrest caused a sensation in the section
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West Plains
Nashville, Tenn
G. A. Watkins
Watkins
North Carolina
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W. H. Coffman
Bluefield, W. Va
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SL. A
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Uncle Sam
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Virginia League
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Norfolk
Associated Press Dispatches
Paris
Haakon and
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Norway
Dross
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Mary Burkwaller
George Avery
J. F. Littlejohn, Jr
Arbola
Pink Kirk
George Davis
William Pickett
Steunenberg
Erie
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