McKinley to tour West coast in summer trip
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune reports President McKinley plans a midsummer journey beginning around July 15, circling nearly the entire nation. He will start from Washington, travel through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, California, and return via Texas and New Orleans, aiming to show bond with the people and inspect key resources and regions.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
United States
McKinley
National Capitol
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Peninsula
Michigan
Alger
Badger
Northwest
Montana
Puget Sound
Oregon
California
Texas
New Orleans
Senators Plan Extended Alaskan Klondike Trip This Summer
A party of United States Senators including Gray of Delaware Gallinger of New Hampshire Bacon of Georgia Hansbrough of North Dakota Clark of Wyoming Heinfeld and Turner of Washington and Rep Gordon from Ohio St Marys and Bernard Layton assistant sergeant at arms will undertake a 90 day pleasure trip to the Klondike this summer departing Seattle June 1 by water to Skaguay Bennett Lake and Dawson City then down the Yukon to St Michaels and back to Seattle covering about 10 000 miles
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Wapakoneta
United States
Gray
Delaware
Gallinger
New Hampshire
Bacon
Georgia
Hansbrough
North Dakota
Clark
Wyoming
Heinfelt and Turner
Washington
R. B. Gordon
Ohio
St. Marys
Bernard W. Layton
United States Senate
Klondike
Seattle
Skaguay
Bennett Lake
Dawson City
Yukon
St. Michaels
Tired of the Army Reenlistment Low
A Washington report shows only about seven per cent of volunteers offered over $500 in travel bonus will reenlist. Volunteers prefer to come home by organization rather than individually. Congressional pressure has pushed some discharges, but General Otis generally disapproves all discharge requests except for sick, wounded, or disabled soldiers.
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Washington
Otis
Feigned sickness: Bear Creek leader escapes hospital
Joseph Manley, leader of the Bear Creek free love group raided last week, escaped from Infirmary hospital in Portsmouth Ohio after being court ordered for treatment. He reportedly feigned illness and cut a panel from the ward door to gain liberty.
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Commercial Tribune
Portsmouth
Joseph Manley
Bear Creek
Free Love
Dendant in Nebraska Poisoning Case Returns for Bond
Miss Viola Horlocker arrives in Hastings with her mother and friends to face charges of poisoning Mrs. C F Morey with arsenic tainted bonbons. She will be arrested by sheriff after a court appearance the next day and will provide bond for her preliminary hearing. A watch is kept to prevent self harm. She had planned to resign as stenographer to pursue music teaching and study in the East. Analysis shows each bon bon carried four grains of arsenic. Mrs Morey and Mrs Gaslin are unharmed.
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Hastings, Neb
Viola Horlocker
Hastings
Tibbetts &Morey
Morey
Gaslin
Filipinos Concentrate Forces Near Pasig in Union of Rebels
The Filipinos are concentrating their forces near Pasig as thousands gather. Meanwhile General Lawton's expedition to Santa Cruz is returning, signaling shifting operations and reassessment of allied movements.
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Pasig
Chinese Seek Refuge Fearing Rebels Threats in Philippines
In Manila on April 16 reports say Chinese residents from Santa Cruz have fled to Manila as insurgents gather near Pesig on Laguna de Bay. General Lawton's expedition returns while about 250 Chinese escape to safety fearing vengeance for aiding Americans.
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Lawton
Santa Cruz
Killed And Wounded In Manila Fight Lists Otis
General Otis reports deaths and new wounds from Manila including several named soldiers. Deaths list recruits and privates from the Eighteenth Thirteenth First South Dakota First North Dakota and other units. Wounded include multiple privates and officers from Nebraska Washington Oregon North Dakota and others with limbs wrists and forearms affected.
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Washington
Daniel S. Noble
Eighteenth Infantry
Nathaniel J. Prickett
Tweety-third Infantry
Julius Hohfeld
Fourth Infantry
Algernon Gardner
John Turner
Iowa
Charles Kaiser
Nebraska
Charles E. Chels
South Dakota
Albert H. Witaker
North Dakota
George Briggs
First
Wyoming Infantry
Harry D. Wicks
Otis
Manila
Deeds Forsberg
Ora Ross
Jesse Baird
Edward Matthews
Wm. L. Gilbert
Wm. L. Baehr
Herbertfasmussen
Frank A. Graham
Edward E. Southern
John J. Carlton
Fourteenth Infantry
Moses P. Pichard
Alonzo R. Johnson
Oregon
J. A. Young
Herbert Files
Axilla
Severe
Said Alger Ate It In Interview Attack On Transport Ingalls
Newport News April 16 Chief Steward John Hanhalan of the United States transport Ingalls was arrested on board by First Officer Englis after making alleged false statements about the commissary department and war secretary Alger’s trip from San Juan. He accused officers of incompetence and invited Washington inspection while the ship’s officers denied the charges and confined him pending War Department reply.
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Commercial Tribune
Newport News
John Hanhalan
United States
Ingalls
Englis
Ingalls’ Commissary Department
Russell A. Alger
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Hanhalan
Washington
Alger
Wright
Thomas Cruise
Woman's Relief Corps
New York
War Department
Hanrahan
Lawton in Manila Reaches City After Lake Campaign
Manila April 17 Major General Lawton's expedition to the Laguna de Bay district re embarked last evening and reached Manila this morning with all men and captured insurgent boats. The aim to seize boats and distribute proclamations was achieved and General Lawton began preparations for a land expedition. No lake battles have occurred for three days.
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Manila
Lawton
Laguna de Bay District
Pasig
Boone County Republicans Call for Civil Service Exam for President
In Petersburg Kentucky on April 16 the Boone County Republican mass convention ap pointed delegates to the Richmond railroad district meeting on May 2 and adopted resolutions opposing civil service laws. They urged applying the same exam to high paying federal posts and argued a civil service president should face an examination. They criticized Democrats for avoiding exams and praised Governor W O Bradley as party leader.
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Commercial Tribune
Petersburg
Boone County
Richmond
Z. T. Kelly
Cyrus Kelly
John Elliston
B. F. Zimmer
A. M. Edwards
John Oessner
Harry Blyth
Elihu Alden
W. O. Bradley
Compressed air motor tested on New York cross-town line
A compressed air motor designed for the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth street cross-town routes was tried with invited guests. The test car ran from the Twentythird street compressor house to East River and back, proving smooth starts and no jerks. The system relies on four compressors and a two-branch control with three levers and a brake, and twenty cars are planned to be ready by May Day weighing about 17,000 pounds each.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Twenty-eighth
Twenty-ninth Street
Twenty-third Street
Eleventh Avenue
East River
Death of Gladys Watson Ends Troubled Life in Prison
Indianapolis April 16 Gladys Watson a farmer's daughter once in Robinson Illinois died by her own action in City Prison. The young woman once known as Gertrwie Walters had a troubled psyche and a dramatic fall from a happy home to addiction and Institutional care. She sought relief in whiskey and morphine, faced multiple suicide attempts, and after fleeing to the Door of Hope she developed a violent mania toward Matron Carson. An attempt to kill led to imprisonment, and today she leaped from a gallery to a stone corridor forty feet below dying within an hour.
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Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
Gladys Watson
John Walters
Robinson
Farmer
Gertrwie Walters
Pentecost
River Styx Fracas Ends in Stabbing Over Serenade
Medina Ohio April 16 A farmer named Rolf of River Styx was arrested on a charge of cutting Sam Mangus of the same place. Rolf bound over by Mayor Van Epp to await grand jury action. Mangus and Rolf argued after serenades. Mangus struck Rolf under the eye. Rolf retaliated with blades, wounding Mangus multiple times.
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Commercial Tribune
Medina
Rolf
River Styx
Sam Mangus
van Epp
Bond
Mangus
Ben Hur to be dramatized with Wallace consent
Crawfordsville Ind April 16 General Lew Wallace agrees to authorize a stage adaptation of Ben Hur after pressure from managers and actors and after safeguarding the book's religious features. Lawrence Barrett Salvini Kiralfys had pressed for rights but Wallace feared the stage adaptation until now.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Ben Hur
Lew Wallace
General Wallace
Lawrence Barrett
Salvini
Telegram from Dennison faked death seeks embalming fee
In Dennison Texas a telegram claimed Miner Kirkpatrick was killed by the cars and asked $50 to embalm the body for shipment. The family learned the message was a hoax. a brother went to Texas and misled relatives in Montgomery and St Louis. The incident is under investigation and may lead to trouble for the perpetrator.
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Commercial Tribune
Delawa
E. O
John Kirkpatrick
Dennison
Tex
Miner Kirkpatrick
Wallace
Texas
Ella Kirkpatrick
Montgomery
Ala
St. Louis
Woman Hangs Herself in Stockwell Home
Mrs. Lucy Johnson wife of Fred Johnson residing at Stockwell near Lafayette hanged herself at noon today from a transom beam with flag bunting. No reason is given for the deed.
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Commercial Tribune
Lafayette
Ind
Lucy Johnson
Fred Johnson
Stockwell
Child Fatally Struck by Streetcar in Eaton
The eighteen months old child of John P. Fear a merchant in Eaton Ohio was struck and fatally hurt by a Dayton and Western Traction Company streetcar this afternoon. The car was operated by Valentine Winters the superintendent.
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Commercial Tribune
Eaton
John P. Fear
Dayton and Western Traction Company
Valentine Winters
Denies Bribery Story In Court Plea From Kline On Stand
Virgil P. Kline a counsel for Standard Oil said Attorney General Monnett is trying to stir a dust by alleging a $400 000 bribe and demanded the name of the men who allegedly made the offer. He called the claim puerile and said the Supreme Court will not join a wild goose chase, noting Monnett has not named any bribe offer and that officials deny the story. Kline warned he may seek to strike the information from court files if not clarified.
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Cleveland, C
Virgil P. Kline
Standard Oil Company
Monnett
Supreme Court
Mr. Watson
Germans Laugh At It On Chinese Imperial Plan
Official German circles in Washington dismiss as wild and baseless the claim that Emperor William intends to make his brother Henry a German king on Chinese soil. They reject the Paris Soir interview and the American cable report as unfounded, noting Americans are wrongly blamed for Samoa and overestimating their military status.
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Washington
William
Henry
Paris
Samoa
Jealousy Fatal Shootout In Cleveland Home
William Beatty shot and killed John Madden and wounded Mabel Day at the Day residence in the Tenderloin district of Cleveland at 3 AM. Madden died. Day is expected to recover. Beatty, 22, fled the scene and evaded police.
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Cleveland, O
William Beatty
John Madden
Mabel Day
Tenderloin
Beatty
Falmouth shootings leave two men wounded in barroom clash
At about 2 a.m. in a disorderly house in Falmouth Kentucky George R Greene of Warsaw shot and fatally wounded George Kells of Williamstown four times, including once in the face. Greene is jailed as Kells hangs between life and death. The men were drinking together when the quarrel erupted. Greene’s father is a Warsaw area Methodist minister and Kells’ family are prominent Grant County property owners.
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Commercial Tribune
Falmouth
George R. Greene
Warsaw
George Kells
Williamstown
Kells
Greene
Grant County
Honor to a Dead Soldier Five Thousand Attend Funeral
Five thousand people attended the funeral of Corporal Harry Whiteman of Company C 159th Indiana Volunteers in New Albany Indiana. He died at Washington Hospital from brain fever following a long sun march. Captain Coleman led Company C in the funeral with New Albany Military providing music. A grave salute and taps were rendered. During his illness his father and a brother also died.
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Commercial Tribune
New Albany
Ind
Harry Whiteman
Company C
159Th Indiana Volunteers
Washington Hospital
Coleman
Whiteman
New Albany Youth Struck Blind While Reading At Home
New Albany Indiana April 16 Jack Hammond a wealthy young man in New Albany was suddenly stricken blind while reading at his home last night doctors have yet to determine the cause and his condition is being watched closely by local physicians
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Commercial Tribune
New Albany
Ind
Jack Hammond
Mrs Lyles Career Story of Ohio Woman Drowned in New York
Barnesville Ohio April 16 Mrs J W Lyles daughter of William Bailey longtime drug clerk here died by her own hand in the Hudson River at New York. She had married telegraph operator J W Lyles who later divorced her and remarried. She had lived in Columbus and was deserted and despondent, with two uncles in this town noting the shock. Burial not expected here.
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Commercial Tribune
Barnesville
J. W. Lyles
New York
William Bailey
Food for Famishing in Puerto Rico War Ration Policy
The War Department restricts rations for Puerto Ricans and authorizes post officers to buy essential foods at up to ten centavos daily for each needy person. Bills are to be sent to Washington for payment from island funds. Aid should go to those unable to work or find work.
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Associated Press
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Department of
Washington
Beef for the Orient large army contract in Philippines
Kansas City April 16 one of the largest contracts for dressed beef ever placed by the United States Government has been arranged with a local packing house. The contract covers 1 500 000 pounds of best export dressed beef to be shipped to the Philippine Islands for government troops. All beef to be furnished from Kansas City twelve car loads for export will be started for the West at price.
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Kansas City
United States
Philippine Islands
Bee
West
British Flag Hoisted After Kow Loon Extension Clash
British troops fought rebels at Tai-Poo-Su in the Kow Loon extension near Hongkong on April 17. Fire was exchanged, several Chinese were killed, British casualties none. Governor ordered Brisk to land another regiment and raise the flag while a deputation from Chinese leaders apologized.
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Hongkong
Tai-Poo-Su
Brisk
Kow-Loon
Defense Week In Court Keeps Mrs George Case Open
Canton April 16 The State expects direct testimony against Mrs George to largely finish before adjournment tomorrow night with Monday a short session and corrobating witnesses to follow. Defense plans extend beyond a week with no firm outline of its strategy while Mayor Rice may testify as a privileged witness regarding the revolver matter and Mrs George may take the stand if the defense agrees.
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Canton
Saxton
Rice
Bank cashier commits suicide over $10,000 short
Humboldt Neb April 16 S W Grinstead aged 37 cashier of the bank here killed himself with a revolver after admitting to Bank Examiner Wilson that he was short in his accounts by 10000 dollars. The bank examiner took charge and reports the bank will continue business.
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Humboldt, Neb
S. W. Grinstead
Wilson
Grinstead
Grand Welcome as Man-of-War Led Naval Parade upriver
A grand welcome marked a naval parade led by the Man-of-War up the river toward Grant's Tomb. Spectators gathered to witness the ceremonial voyage honoring the memorial, with officials noting the historic display of naval power and civic pride.
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Grant
Raleigh Homecoming Marred by Rain Amid City Welcome
New York April 16. The Raleigh return from Manila drew huge crowds despite a drenching rain. The parade from Tompkinsville to Grant's Tomb and back featured two captured Spanish gunboats Alvarado and Sandoval, about twenty five excursion craft, and a salute at Grant's Tomb. Mayor Van Wyck headed the Citizens Reception Committee and joined aboard briefly.
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New York
United States
Raleigh
Manila
Tompkinsville
Grant
Anchorage
North River
Thirtyfourth Street
Riverside Park
Hudson
Tompkins
Ville
Alvarado
Sandoval
Navy Yard
Glen Island
Citizens
Mayor van Wyck
van Wyck
Coghlan
Alvarados
Governor's Island
Coast Survey
Pathfinder
Secretary of the Navy
Allen
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President McKinley
Golden Gate
Mrs. Shelton
Perience
By Hal. D. Landon
Pacific Coast
Hayes
Harrison
Rockies
Atlantic
Pacific
Song Branch
Arthur
Yellowstone Park
Florida
Cleveland
Chicago
White House
Lincoln
Alabama
Department of Justice
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Miss Horlocker
Union OF Rebels
Gen. Lawton
The
Santa Cruz District
Laguna de Bay
Lake
Pesig
General Otis Cables
I. Driscoll
Wagoner
J. Peter Tompkins
Alfred Almen
Wm. G. Lamb
George Schnelier
Steward Hanhalan
United States Transport
Civil Service Reform
I's Real
Neces
Sary
Kline
Mr. Monnett
China
Indiana
Lyles
Philippines
Hongkong Mainland
Ss. W. Grinmstead
Dewey
Mrs. Coghlan
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