Controversy Over Theatres And Morality In London
London discussions on theatre morality stir Parliament as Samuel Smith attacks stage purity. The Bishop of Wakefield leads the crusade, but MPs dismiss radio calls for council control of theaters. The piece contrasts Pinero’s Quex with Tanqueray and notes the public and Conservative stance against restricting the stage. A royal wedding and Stella disaster update sit alongside.
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Bishop of Wakefield
London
House of Commons
Purity Brigade
Samuel Smith
Smith
Pinero
Quex
Bishop of
Wakefield
Home Secretary
Arthur Balfour
Duncombe
West Cumberland
Mr. Balfour
the Treasury
St. Paul’s
Councilman dies from buggy crash in Washington
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune reports in Washington Indiana on April 20 that council member William A Healy was thrown against a curbstone during a runaway buggy attempt and suffered a fractured skull dying minutes later. Driver William Wykoff was seriously injured.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Ind
William A. Healy
William Wykoff
Whites burn down Owells Valley home and drive family out
In Owell's Valley, Kentucky, white assailants forced Lucinda Davis and three daughters from their home after beating them. They burned the house and warned the family to leave the county within 24 hours. The attackers numbered ten, with two men firing on the Davis residence from ambush. no one was reported killed as they fled.
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Dispatch
Commercial Tribune
Iddlesboro
Kline Seeks Prelim Hearing in Squires Contempt Case
E B Kinkead the assistant counsel for contempt against Standard Oil appeared in the Supreme Court at Columbus on April 20 requesting a hearing date for contempt proceedings against F B Squires Secretary of the company. Mr Neal for Standard Oil asked to defer setting a date until Tuesday next when he expects word from Kline. The Court adjourned the matter to Tuesday.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
E. B. Kinkead
Standard Oil Company
Supreme Court
F. B. Squires
Neal
Standard
Kline
Lecturer in Ohio Farmers Institute cuts throat in attack
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune from Sandusky Ohio reports J Fletcher Greene state lecturer for the Ohio Farmers Institute attacked by temporary insanity due to mental overwork. He cut his throat at his residence near Sandusky today. The injury may prove fatal.
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Commercial Tribune
Sandusky
J. Fletcher Greene
Ohio Farmers’ Institute
Here
Sued by a Logansport Dr. Jordan for breach of promise
Miss Cora Cromer, formerly a city stenographer now in Chicago, filed a breach of promise suit in Indianapolis against Dr. M. A. Jordan, wealthy Logansport physician and hotel owner, seeking 30000 damages. Attorneys include State Senator Winfield and D. C. Justice. Cromer is described as a blonde about 2 years old.
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Commercial Tribune
Logansport
Ind
Cora G. Cromer
D. C. Justice
Chicago
United States Court
Indianapolis
M. A. Jordan
Cramer
M. E. Marlock
Charles Foote
Illinois Central Railroad
Winfield
Miss Cromer
Jordan
Barnett Hotel
Young Oland Is Free After Acquittal In Murder Case
The trial of a Whitely suburb boy concluded with a swift acquittal after jurors deliberated briefly. The defendant, who admitted and then denied killing five year old Andy Bodenmiller, returned home with his mother as news of the verdict spread.
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Commercial Tribune
Muncie
Ind
Oland
Andy Bodenmiller
Whitely
Young Oland
Whitely School
Fire at Blackwell's Island penitentiary hospital
Fire broke out in the hospital at the Blackwell's Island penitentiary in New York. About 20 000 dollars in damage. Twelve men and six women were in the hospital. convicts and attendants quickly evacuated them to safety with no injuries reported. The dome burned and collapsed onto the main building but flames remained confined to the southern end.
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New York
Blackwell's Island
T Te
Verdict Against Sterling Oil Co in Marion Suit
In Anderson Indiana on April 20 a jury awarded Dr J H Forrest of Marion five thousand eight hundred dollars against Sterling Oil Company. Forrest had sold wells and leases to the company for sixteen thousand dollars during Marion’s oil boom. The firm refused the five thousand dollars claiming the wells were not as productive as represented.
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Commercial Tribune
Anderson
Ind
Sterling Oil Company
J. H. Forrest
Marion
Forrest
Negro Troops Chosen as Mounted Police
The Gallant Tenth Regiment is selected to serve as mounted police. Regulars for the Philippines II will require fourteen thousand men to replace volunteers returning home.
Cavalry to be sent to Cuba to combat guerillas in island
Washington dispatch reports the War Department plans to deploy regular cavalry, starting with the Tenth, to Cuba to pursue and disperse bandits and guerrillas now infesting the island. Regulars will replace some infantry, with 14,000 troops expected to serve in Cuba as volunteers return from the Philippines.
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Cuba
Commercial Tribune
Washington
War Department
Las Quasimas
Santiago
Eeach
Philippines
Vol
Otis
Vdteer
Archipelago
Alger
United States
Puerto Rico
Eleventh Infantry
Fifth Cavalry
Nineteenth Infantry
Corbin
Europe
Sea Moss Nomenclature Sparks Treasury Inquiry
In a fragmentary report, substances used for upholstery are discussed under various names such as eel grass and sea moss. Mr. Voight receives a Treasury explanation on botany. Indiana Republican Col. Durbin seeks War Department order to move his Savannah regiment to Washington for a presidential review, while declining a run for governor.
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Zestern Marina
W. T. Durbin
Indiana
Republican National Committee
161St
Indiana Volunteers
War Department
Savannah
National
Durbin
German Officer Charged With Supplying Russian Agents
Berlin reports Setit Major Albrechts of the 129th Regiment arrested at Bromberg and sent to Spandau in high treason charges. He is accused of furnishing Russian agents detailed plans of German fortifications and mobilization of the army.
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Berlin
Setit
Albrecht
Bromberg
Prussia
Spandau
Court of Inquiry Finds Seventy-First NY Officers Guilty
Albany April 20 Governor Roosevelt heard the report on the Seventy first Regiment of New York City at Santiago. The court found Major Smith Lieutenant Colonel, Captain Whittle Major, and Major Austin guilty of lack of bravery and incompetence. The hearing lasted about three hours. Roosevelt indicated Whittle may face a military court for fitness to remain in the National Guard, debated Smith’s future duties, and planned a severe reprimand for Austin in a National Guard order.
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Albany
Seventy-first
New York City
Santiago
Roosevelt
Smith
Whittle
Austin
National Guard
General National Guard
Wealth of a Baroness Bequeaths Large Charity Sums
Baroness Hirsch leaves about 124 million dollars. She bequeaths 20 million to relatives and taxes 4.8 million to the state. Donations include 1.2 million to the Hirsch Foundation in New York, 600 thousand to London’s Board of Guardians, 2 million to the Jewish Colonization Association in London, 120 thousand to the Hirsch Institute in Montreal, with the remainder to charitable institutions in Vienna Budapest Brussels and other cities. Details appear in the Vienna Neue Freie Presse.
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Commercial Tribune
London
Hirsch
Hirsch Foundation
New York
Board of Guardians
Jewish Colonization Association
Hirsch Institute
Montreal
Vienna
Budapesth
Brann
Brussels
Vienna Neue Freie Presse
Kaiser to Attend Elaborate German Maneuvers on Bicycle Regiment
Berlin reports this year’s German army maneuvers will stretch along the Wuertemberg Baden boundary between Bretten and Pforzheim with 90 battalions and 70 batteries totaling 75 000 men and 17 000 horses. Kaiser and princes plus foreign guests will review the sham battles while balloon divisions perform and a bicycle regiment showcases mobile warfare capabilities.
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Commercial Tribune
Berlin
Germany
Wuertemberg
Baden
Bretten
Pfoezheim
Open letter rebuts Jordan lecture over Paris banquet tale
Mrs Williams P Frye of Lewiston replies to Prof David Starr Jordan’s Stockton High School talk. She denounces the Paris banquet tobacco juice tale as vulgar, untrue, and lacking freshness, defending the administration and its policy amid campus debate.
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Lewiston, Mo
Wiliams P. Frye
Today
David Starr Jordan
Stockton
Paris
Crook to Sail From Guantanamo with War Dead
The Crook currently at Santiago will depart for Guantanamo tomorrow to take aboard the dead Marines. It will then sail to the United States carrying 414 soldier dead.
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Washington
Crook
Santiago
Guantanamo
United States
Woman in Mackintosh and White Sailor Hat Seen Near Saxton Case
Canton dispatch reports Lizzie Miller testified she saw a man in a long black mackintosh and a white sailor hat approaching Linden avenue near Saxton's death. The defense pressed to depose carrier Mrs. Barber while witnesses linked Saxton to Mrs. George through letters and replevin records.
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Lizzie Miller
Saxton
Linden Avenue
Althouse
Lincoln Avenue
W. O. Werntz
George
James Huddle
Hotel Federal
Allegheny
G. D. Smith
Teledo
Freeman Leeser
Canal Fulton
Funeral of Bishop Watterson in Columbus Attended by Dignitaries
The body of John Ambrose Watterson Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus was buried at Mt Calvary Cemetery after a major funeral at the cathedral. Archbishop W H Elder of Cincinnati presided the Mass with Bishop Ignatius Horstman of Cleveland delivering the sermon. Dignitaries from across the church and state attended along with thousands of residents. The Knights of St John led the processional to the cemetery where Henry Watterson and other relatives were present.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
John Ambrose Watterson
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Fitzgerald
Little Rock
Ark
Mons. County
Catholic University of Washington
D. C
Allen
Mobile
Ala
Richter
Wisconsin
W. H. Elder
Cincinnati
Ignatius Horstman
Cleveland
Knights of St. John
Henry Watterson
Louisville Courier-Journal
Women Carry Coffin At Funeral As Pallbearers Banned
Paris dispatch reports a sensational funeral scene where women refused to be carried by male pallbearers. Gendarmes restored order as women lifted the coffin, declaring a new tradition against masculine pallbearers amid protests at Avernes.
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Chicago Tribune
The
Commercial Tribune
Paris
Italy
Fournier
France
Mediterranean
Pailleron
Deroulede
Sweden
Germany
Lecigne
Catulle Mendes
Charles Lecogg
Opera Comique
Mme. Marchesi
Avernes
Aubert
Drugs Dogs and Tots Duel in Paducah Street
A sensational duel occurred in Paducah Kentucky at 1 PM when Dr W T Graves a physician and health board member faced druggist Wm Hank in front of Hank's drug store Graves fired first wounding Hank? No Graves was shot three times and seriously wounded Officials noted Hank had warned Graves to keep his children and dog away from the store The incident marks a violent street confrontation between two local men with pistols drawn and shots exchanged
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Commercial Tribune
Paducah
W. T. Graves
Board of Health
Wm. Hank
Infant Murdered: Body Found Sewed in Dress in Creek
Cambridge Ohio report states a white male infant was alive at birth, murdered with a crushed skull, then sewn into a woman's night dress and placed in a flour sack before being dumped in Wills Creek. Two weights attached to sink the corpse, inquest reveals.
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Commercial Tribune
Cambridge
Wills Creek
One More Battle Follows Washington Volunteers Repulse Rebel Attack
Washington volunteers repel a rebel attack with twelve enemy dead as calls rise for garrison forces on Mindanao Island amid fears of ongoing anarchy.
Minnesotans repulse Filipino attack near Taguig
A Manila cable reports the First Washington Volunteer Infantry repelling a Filipino attack near Taguig with twelve rebels killed and no American deaths. In Mindanao Spanish withdrawal pressures US garrisons and possible prisoner exchanges are discussed amid tense conditions.
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Taguig
First
Washington Volunteer Infantry
Fili
Otis Says 30,000 Reinforcements Sufficient for Manila Campaign
Secretary of War receives Otis reply approving 30,000 troops to relieve volunteers. Movement of regulars to Manila and volunteers homeward will proceed per Otis plan. Otis hopes for a soon improvement in the Philippines situation.
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Washington
Alger
General Otis
Otis
Manila
Philippines
Junta Split Over Manila Peace Talks with Washington
London reports a division within the Filipino Junta as four delegates Lasala Marti Lopez and Rivera depart for Manila after a dispute with Agoncillo over direct talks with Secretary of State John Hay. The majority favors peaceful settlement via Washington while Agoncillo opposes the approach.
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Washington
John Hay
Lasala
Marti
Lopez
Rivera
Agoncillo
Acuinaldo
Manila
Riego
Lunar
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