Roosevelt Hunting Party Reaches Newcastle Colorado
President Roosevelt and party arrive at Newcastle Colorado after a night journey along the White River. He meets about 400 residents, is greeted by Mayor George H. Norris, and views the decorated train engine amid bonfires while the bear hunting party prepares in the mountains.
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Commercial Tribune
Newcastle
Col
Roosevelt
White River
Red Stone
George H. Norris
Colorado Springs
Gun Blows Up on Battle Ship Iowa
A Navy telegram reports the muzzle of an eight inch gun on the Iowa blew off during target practice at sea. No injuries. After 103 successful firings the 104th produced the burst. Similar failures in the same class prompt replacement with thicker tubes and a Navy investigation is ordered.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
North Atlantic
Navy Department
Iowa
Death of General John Palmer Former G A R Chief
Albany April 15 General John Palmer longtime G A R leader and former Commander in Chief died in Albany after a long illness. He suffered a Civil War wound that haunted him since the conflict and he later served as Secretary of State of New York beginning in 1890s. He was a prominent Albany citizen and held multiple trusted posts.
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Commercial Tribune
Albany
N. Y
John Palmer
New York
Three Men Die In Pitched Battle At Ten Mile Creek
Word arrives that H. S. Adams William Hech and Riley Henson were killed in a fight at Ten Mile Creek ten miles west of Poplar Bluff Missouri. Circuit Clerk L M Henson, Riley's brother, witnessed the shooting and says the quarrel arose over a strip of land. Authorities have placed someone under arrest as the Coroner reviews the case.
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Commercial Tribune
Poplar Bluff
Ten Mile Creek
Here
H. S. Adams
William Hech
Riley Henson
L. M. Henson
Riley
High Packing Indictment Hinted For Chicago Official
A grand jury probing the Beef Trust pressed to secure evidence from two women and one man to indict a high Chicago packing firm official for attempting to influence government witnesses. Five people already charged. others linked to Swift & Co. questioned. Husbands reportedly in Canada. subpoenas issued for six women linked to packers.
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Chicago
Beef Trust
Canada
Vanit
Howes
Vesella Verdict Question Drags In An Old Debt
Statements from Thomas Egan deny aiding Sig Vesella to pay a ten thousand dollar judgment. Vesellas claim they have no funds while Mrs Vesella says her husband cannot pay. The dispute centers on support from the Egan family as Mrs Vesella remains in Atlantic City amid the case.
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Thomas P. Egan
The
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Virginia
Cuba
Cincinnati
Oreste Vesella
Powder Explosion Kills Three In Trenton Storehouse
Three men are dead and three injured after a powder explosion in a rear storehouse behind a hard ware store in Trenton Tennessee. Victims include Robert Phelan owner, Dr Parker, and Mr Arnold Crockett County. Injured John K Pearce probably fatally, John Klopp and Tom Jones colored. The blast wrecked the storehouse and damaged Pearce Klopp meat market and much of the town.
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Trenton, Tenn
Robert Phelan
Parker
Trenton
Arnold
Crockett County
John K. Pearce
John Klopp
Tom Jones
Phelan
J. A. Landis
Pearce & Klopp
Idle 979000 Now Surrenders
Charles M. Chamberlain, cashier of the Chamberlain Banking House in Tecumseh Nebraska, who fled after a bank failure and embezzling about 75000, surrendered in Lincoln and was jailed in Tecumseh after being tracked down by the sheriff. He had wandered mainly in Cuba while evading the law.
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Commercial Tribune
Lincoln, Neb
Charles M. Chamberlain
Chamberlain Banking House
Tecumseh
Neb
Lincoln
Chamberlain
Cuba
Brutal Chicago Strikers Attack Wagon Caravan Near Kinzie
A mob of nonunion teamsters assaulted Montgomery Ward and others near the Northwestern freight house, dragging a driver from his wagon and injuring another with a brick. Police intervened as guards escorted a Marshall Field and Co. caravan. glass shattered from a Hepworth Building window injuring officers. A second peace conference at City Hall failed.
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Kinzie
West Water Streets
John Cox
Cox
Marshall Field & Co
Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co
Selz, Schwab & Co
J. W. Farwell
Market
Monroe Streets
Ward
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Wabash Avenues
Hepworth
Dunne
New Cortelyou Policy Shocks Post Office Appointments
Washington dispatch reports a Cortelyou policy change in the Post Office Department. Needham seeks tenure clarity and hints at political purges, while fourth class postmasters face federal removal rules. Anderson of Akron presses a Court of Claims candidacy amid Ohio political moves.
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Pataskala
Licking County
Washington Inquest
Cortelyou
Post Office Department
Ohio
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George M. Anderson
Akron
Court of Claims
Germany and France Seek Moroccan Understanding Amid Moderation
Paris reports indicate France and Germany in talks to ease Morocco tensions. Diplomatic shifts follow Germany's moderated stance after talks with Washington Rome Madrid St Petersburg Vienna as Taft's stance earns praise from French press. London supports cordial Franco American ties. Britain is seen to owe France greater influence in Morocco, including Newfoundland and Egypt arrangements.
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Morocco
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England
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Egypt
Snow Saves Fruit Trees In Nebraska Frost
In Lincoln Nebraska on April 15 the temperature dropped well below freezing but heavy snow covered fruit trees preventing damage and saving the crop.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Raiser Seeks Pact With Pope Amid European Tensions
An April report allege Emperor William plans to meet the Pope in Rome to settle church state disputes. Key issues include cemetery sectarian access, Polish Catholic rights against Prussian policy, and a potential Papal delegation in Berlin as Vatican and Berlin clash over nuncio presence.
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France
Orient
Berlin
Merry del Vale
Oberlin Oil War Spurs Commerce Inquiry
Oberlin Ohio April 15. S G Gibson a key local oil dealer claims Standard Oil wages price war to force him out for buying from independents. He has received a Washington Department of Commerce inquiry asking for full details of the rival action including the representative's name substantiated statements and prewar prices. Gibson to supply information.
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Oberlin
S. G. Gibson
Standard Oil Company
Standard Company
Department of Commerce
Washington
Cleveland
Herbert Knox Smith
Gibson
Dutch Ironclad Korte Maer Arrives at Willemstad
The Dutch ironclad Korte Maer arrived in Willemstad Curacao from La Guayra Venezuela and was ordered to cruise along the Venezuelan coast.
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la Guayra
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Judge Orders Seizure of Letters in Smith Extortion Case
Justice Gaynor of the Brooklyn Supreme Court orders District Attorney Jerome and Assistant D A Rand to surrender all letters and documents belonging to J Morgan Smith and his wife. The Smiths, in the Tombs on a conspiracy charge, seek access to their papers to aid in defense. Authorities could not serve the officials. The letters were seized with the Smiths in Cincinnati.
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Commercial Tribune
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Brooklyn
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Russian Fifth Division Aims for Suez Traverse in Summer
Reports from Port Said indicate the fifth division of the Russian Second Pacific Squadron under Vice Admiral Vessarago will navigate the Suez Canal in July or August. The force includes battleships Imperator and Alexander I, Slava, Paul I, armored cruiser Pamyat Arona, and cruiser Korniloff.
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Egypt
Second Pacific Squadron
Vessarago
Imperator
Alexander I
Slava
Paul
Pamyat Arova
Korniloff
Suez Canal
Japanese Navy Commissioning Ten New Torpedo Boat Destroyers
Information from Europe reports Japan has commissioned ten new torpedo boat destroyers built in local shipyards with eighty more under rush orders due to be in commission within six weeks. Mines planted before Port Arthur were removed and relocated.
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Europe
Port Arthur
St. Petersburg braces for renewed disorders amid unrest
In St. Petersburg reinforced Don Cossacks and troops guard the city as fears grow of a new peasant uprising near Moscow. Families flee to Moscow and properties along the Moscow Kazan Railway are protected after the Putiloff Tron Works shutdown, traced to employee schemes over burials of killed men.
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