Lancaster Postmaster Nash Faces Bond Payment Over Shortage
In Lancaster, Dr. Horace M. Nash, postmaster for eleven years, suspended after inspectors found disorganized books and a $61 deficit since Dec 31. Bondsmen paid $1,699.12 to cover the deficit while Nash defends against alleged account errors and maintains his innocence. He is near 50, a physician, and was just re elected town clerk.
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Lancaster
Horace M. Nash
United States Post Office
Nash
Pendleton
Sarah Isabella Lyman
Post
William A. Kilbourne
The
Post Office
Dr. Nash
All Must Testify as Pa House Expands Inquiry
Pennsylvania lawmakers broaden the bribery probe by authorizing the committee to summon every House member for testimony. Some members oppose the scope, but the resolution passed, and the panel will begin calling members alphabetically to answer formal questions tomorrow.
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Harrisburg
Penn
House
United States
McCarrel
Row
Remains Found in Windsor Hotel Ruins Raise Death Toll
New York reports three more bodies pulled from the Windsor Hotel fire site near Fifth Avenue and Forty-sixth Street raising the death toll to eighteen with thirty-eight still missing. Workers recovered bones, clothing, jewelry, and a German letter from 1843 as investigators continue clearing debris into the night.
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New York
Windsor Hotel
Fifth Avenue
Forty-sixth Street
Warren Guyon
H. W. Schlemann
Equitable Life Insurance Society
S. B. Rh
Theodore Spuhler
der Schweiz Kreditianstalt
Zurich
Aoe
Forty-seventh Street
M. J. Kneeland
West
Kneeland
Miss Mahony
Mahony
McKinley Back at Hanna's After Jekyl Island Trip
President McKinley and Vice President Hobart return to Senator Hanna's home in Georgia after a trip to Jekyl Island. The visit included courtesy exchanges with Speaker Reed and a naval saluting at Brunswick. A Spanish flag presented by Rosendo Torras noted as the first saluting flag since peace with Spain. The President plans to visit Tallahassee then return to Washington next week.
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Thomasville
McKinley
Hobart
Hanna
Jekyl Island
Reed
Brunswick
Colfax
D. H. Raymond
Southern
Mal- Tory Line
Rio Grande
Jekyl
William McKinley
United States
Spain
Rosendo Torras
Tallahassee
Washington
Independent Telephone Interests Plan 7 Million Combine
In Chicago on March 22 independent telephone manufacturers organized to counter the Bell monopoly. A secret session prepared a launch of a seven million dollar combine led by W. T. Blaine president of Victor Telephone Manufacturing Company. Options reportedly exist for nine percent of factories making Independent apparatus.
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Chicago
Bell Company
W. T. Blaine
Victor Telephone Manufacturing Company
Generous Abner McKinley Reward Memoir Report
John T. Cleary and Daniel Horan display a letter signed by Abner McKinley certifying safe delivery of a box of jewels. They claim they saved the jewels and the McKinley daughter, and that Mr. McKinley gave them one dollar each as a reward.
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New York
Mareh
John T. Cleary
Third Avenue
Daniel Horan
Abner Fic. Kinley
Mr. McKinley
Boston medium Lottie Fowler in Bellevue ward
Lottie Fowler 55 once of Boston and famed medium is in Bellevue Hospital awaiting sanity examination. She had lived in poverty with an invalid brother after moving from Waterbury to New York two years ago and reportedly made twenty four trips to Europe at the request of prominent foreigners.
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New York
Bellevue Hospital
Lottie Fowler
Miss Fowler
Waterbury
Conn
Bellevue
Boston
Connolly
Fowler
Europe
Emile Osterberg Returns From Air Tight Box Experiment
Middletown, Conn. Emil Osterberg, janitor, emerged after nine and a half days in an air tight box under the supervision of Professor W. O. Atwater of Wesleyan University. He weighed 17 1/2 pounds lighter but reported good health and described his experience as enlightening on how food and energy function in the body. His wife and daughter May visited, providing cheer without affecting his steady attitude.
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Middletown
Conn
Emilsterberg
W. O. Atwater
Wesleyan University
Osterberg
Insurance Bill Heard in Lawrence on Policy Contest Limits
Legislative committee on insurance held a hearing in Lawrence on House Bill 448 by Rep Cullinane restricting industrial insurers from contesting validity or reducing policy amounts after one year. About 200 spectators, mostly local industrial company employees, heard witnesses including policy holders Nicholson Dorman Hickey Sullivan. Additional testimony and another hearing were planned for Boston.
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Cullinane
Murphy
William M. Butler
Boston
Metropolitan Company
Charles T. Gallagher
Hancock Company
Choate Chooses Carlton House Terrace Home in London
Joseph H. Choate the United States ambassador will lease the London residence of Lord Curzon at No 1 Carlton House Terrace a grand mansion in the elite area of the capital marking a final relocation choice after consideration of options in the city.
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London
Joseph H. Choate
United States
India
Lord Curzon of
Kedleston
Carlton House Terrace
Featherless Easter Bonnet Exhibition in Boston Show
The Massachusetts Audubon Society hosted a featherless Easter bonnet display at the Vendome, drawing a large attendance of ladies from 11 to 6. Sixteen milliners presented 175 hats trimmed with tulle flowers and silks, with prices reasonable and many pieces sold early. Prizes were awarded to designers and shops, and a committee led by Mrs. Henry D. Burnham organized the event.
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Massachusetts Audubon Society
Vendome
Shepard, Norwell & Co
Jordan, Marin & Co
William C. Keen
L. P. Hollander & Co
R. H. Stearns & Co
Ford
McQuade
Walker
Miss Byrne
Sylvester
Taylor
Mme
Caroline
Henry D. Burnham
Oliver Ames
Boyistown A. Beal
Bayard Thayer
J. de Forest Danielson
Arthur T. Cabot
Eleanor Curtis
Minna Hall
Dudley I. Pickman
J. Arnold Lowell
Robert Treat Paine, Jr
Katherine Crowninshield
Roger Wolcott
Address to Filipinos outlines US plan for self government
Manila reports that the American government commits to developing Filipino self governance while maintaining stability under US oversight. A commission will explain President Wilson’s aims, invite insurgents to disarm, and propose a local autonomy under a central American military then civil system, to be tested.
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Manila
United States
Philippines
Demands for Shanghai Settlement Extensions From Pekin Trio
British German and American ministers in Pekin urge a settlement on Shanghai foreign settlement extensions. France agrees to withdraw protest if extensions exclude the French hinterland. The note asserts no territorial claims, allowing settlers to register with their consuls.
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Pekin
Tsung-li- Yamen
Shanghai
M. Pichon
China
France
Kidnappers confess in case of Gerald Lapiner
John Collins, arrested with Mrs. Ann Ingersoll in Paineville Ohio, admits abducting Gerald Lapiner in Chicago a year ago. He says he is an old soldier and met Ingersoll in Los Angeles. The pair claim they found the child in Chicago and later moved to Painesville. custody awarded to Mrs. Lapiner, who has taken the child to Chicago.
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John Collins
Ingersell
Chicago
Painesville, O
Ann Ingersoll
Gerald Lapiner
Collins
Los Angeles
Cal
Measles Hits Fifth Massachusetts In Greenville Quarantine
Greenville. Measles spread among the Third Battalion of the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment leading to quarantine after relief by two companies of the 201st New York. The 203rd New York Regiment will be mustered out Saturday.
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Greenville
8. C
Fifth Massachusetts Regiment
Two Hundred
New York
New York Regiment
Two Local Defendants Freed on Probation In Robbery Case
Jeanette Tenney, found guilty of stealing a watch chain charm and $18, received probation after a trial in the Superior Criminal Court. The court also acquitted Belle Berry in the February jewelry larceny case and Tenney awaits sentence on the first charge.
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Jeanette Tenney
Frederick P. Everett
Dewey
Superior Criminal Court
Everett
Temple Street
Belle Berry
Randall J. Ross
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