Ohio Political Harbingers Show Hanna's Rise at Convention
Columbus dispatch reports Hanna's arrival signals distribution of unsalaried honors as the convention nears. Grosvenor Dick and Cox vie for national committeeman while Foraker suspends indorsement awaiting next year's action. McKinley looms as Ohio's re election candidate. Philadelphia convention to decide the platform.
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Commercial Tribune
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Cox
Grogvenor
Grosvenor
Philadelphia
Washington
Byron Lutz
Chillicothe
Joe Blackburn
William McKinley
Ohio
McKinley
General Grosvenor
Senator Foraker
George B. Cox
Garry Herrmann
Norman Kenan
Hoffheimer and
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Cincinnati
Caldwell
United States
Viv Fagin
Peter Durr
State Central Committee
Charley Kurtz
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M. A. Morris
Youngstown
Marshal Fagin
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State
National Committee
Lewis C. Laylin
John R. Malloy
Prosperity Envelops Huron Beadle County South Dakota
Special Despatch reports Beadle County and Huron filled with new settlers and rising prosperity. Railroads bring families to vacant houses, occupancy normalizes, and carpenters and builders find steady work. Farmers also note strong demand for labor during seeding and farm tasks.
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Beadle County
Northwestern
Great Northern
Pollard Sues Three Men Over Boiler Soup Horse Runaway
Abner Pollard files a damages suit for $1000 after his horse ran away in Bowing Ohio. He alleges George Hist Albert Dran and Charles Brown caused the fright by blowing the mill whistle tossing cobs and covering the animal with a chemical used to soup boilers, injuring Pollard and a companion.
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Commercial Tribune
Bowling
Reunited Lovers After TwentyFive Year Separation
In Madison near Ashtabula Ohio, N B Lathrop and his first wife who believed him dead were remarried after a long estrangement. He had left during the Civil War era, remarried, divorced, and learned she was alive guiding a romantic reunion at the National Woman's Relief Corps.
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Commercial Tribune
Ashtabula
National Woman’s Relief Corps
Madison
Here
N. B. Lathrop
Vermont
Lathrop
Noonan Resolution Targets Steel and Wire Stock Coup
Chicago reports estimate millions lost as Steel and Wire stock manipulation collapses after directors Gates and associates urged purchases. Congress aspires to probe mill shutdowns, NYSE regulation, and corporate conduct with a seven member special committee empowered to subpoena witnesses and examine records.
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New York Stock Exchange
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Castellanes Open Charity Bazaar Salesrooms in Paris
In Paris on April 23 the charity bazaar built by the Count and Countess de Castellane opened and was blessed by Cardinal Richard. Count Boni dé Castellane escorted the Cardinal to a throne as Wagner melodies played, and the Cardinal gave the benediction.
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Pierre Charron
Champs Elysee
Count Boni Dé Castellane
Wagner
Couple Reunites After Twenty Years In Wisconsin
A wife wrote to the Government Pension Department and learned her husband was in Vernon County Wisconsin. He traveled to meet her in the Relief Corps Home where they were married by Rev. C. M. Kessler of Painesville. They departed for Wisconsin to start their life together again with a comfortable home and support.
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Vernon County
Wisconsin
Relief Corps
C. M. Kessler
Painesville
Swiss Engineer Henri Hoer Dies in Berlin Duel
Berlin reports Henri Hoer a young Swiss civil engineer from Glarus died by his own hand today. Police call the death a victim of an American duel and describe the act as a self inflicted kill in the German capital.
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Henri Hoer
Glarus
Japan to Restrict Emigration of Japanese to United States
Washington reports the Japanese Government plans to curb emigration of Japanese workers to the United States without awaiting U S requests. Government action aims to limit migration channels and affect labor movement.
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Washington
United States
Reform Calls Shake Wire Trust After Mills Closed
The piece describes Gates' actions unmaking those he had formed in the Federal Steel and Wire Companies, netting him about 5 million per instance. Wire Trust officers allegedly ignorant of the mill shutdown injunction. Looming political response from Washington and financial tremors across New York and state counties.
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Wire Trust
Lambert
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Joliet
Heroic teen saves sister in Dayton assault attempt
Harry Frank, a Dayton high school pupil and son of Judge J L H Frank, shielded his sister Daisy Frank a teacher in the public schools from a armed assailant on Huffman avenue. The negro fired wounding Harry, who is not expected to survive, as police pursue the suspect. Daisy is shaken but unharmed. The community braces for possible lynching rumors as officers search for the attacker.
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Dayton
Harry Frank
J. L. H. Frank
Daisy
Frank
Huffman Avenue
Smithville Road
Corporation
Harry
Miss Frank
East End
Xenia
New Law Punishes Theft of Electrical Power
Berlin reports from the Reichsanzeiger that a new law targets the theft of electrical power with penalties outlined in the formal publication dated April 23. The measure signals a tightening of controls over energy usage and related offenses.
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Berlin
Reichsanzeiger
Conspiracy Alleged Over Boers Plot Targeting Welland Canal
Ottawa dispatch reports a claimed anti British plot blamed on Boer sympathizers in the United States aiming to wreck the Welland Canal. Buffalo reaction cites possible U S motives tied to Canadian wartime stance with Chicago said to host the conspiracy’s headquarters.
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United States
Canada
Chicago
Inquiry Clears Buffalo Hullers in Welland Canal Plot
A telegraphic report from Consul Brush of Clifton, opposite Niagara Falls, says Buffalo grain handlers are exonerated from the Welland Canal wreck attempt. It suggests a U S conspiracy linked to Irish secret societies. The State Department awaits Canadian evidence for possible prosecutions and extradition.
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McClearey
Welland
Buffalo
New York
Washington
State Department
United States
Brush
Clifton
Niagara Falls
Canada
Three men arraigned in Canada for Welland Canal plot
Niagara Falls April 23 three men charged with trying to blow the Welland Canal locks were arraigned before the Police Magistrate on the Canadian side. They pleaded not and were remanded for eight days as crown collects evidence. A guard from the Forty fourth Battalion patrolled Clifton Town Hall and jail last night with no rescue attempt.
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Welland Canal
Forty-fourth
Clifton
Expert butcher Patrick ONeill dies in Indianapolis
Patrick ONeill a noted porkpacker slang as the fastest butcher in the world died from injuries linked to an incident at Brown's saloon. Walter Rutledge and James L Brown are held for murder after ONeill sustained a fractured skull in what Brown and Rutledge call a fall from a saloon doorway.
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Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
Patrick O'Neill
Walter Rutledge
Jas. L. Brown
Rutledge
Brown
Emperor William Rehearses Ceremonial for Francis Joseph Visit
Elaborate rehearsals in Berlin with Emperor William directing bodyguards and trumpeters for the welcoming ceremony. The Kaiser ordered three trumpet blasts as Francis Joseph ascends the stairway.
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Berlin
William
Francis Joseph
Three Kansas youths seek Paris Exposition voyage by skiff
Three young men from Atchison and Salina plan to travel to Paris Exposition by selling goods across the U.S. then securing steamer passage as crew. Clarence Haslet and Ralph Martin once toured with Beach a Bowers and Globe routes. Harry Bond also joins. Neighbors Harold Martin and Zeno Briggs pursued them to intervene.
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Atchison, Kan
Clarence Haslet
Ralph Martin
Atchison
Harry Bond
Salina
Midland College
Kansas City
Missouri
Bond
Harold Martin
Zeno Briggs
Leavenworth
Haslet
Dr. Flint
Fire at Big Show in Paris Exposition Grounds
A minor fire broke out at the English restaurant inside the Paris exposition grounds this evening. The blaze lasted three minutes before water could be brought, causing no significant damage or injuries.
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Exposition Grounds
Boy 17 Pleads Guilty To House-Breaking In Marietta
Harry Little, 17, arrested for entering R E Race store in Marietta Ohio. He pleaded guilty before Mayor Sykes and was bound over to the grand jury. His father was convicted of perjury and sentenced to the Ohio Penitentiary. The boy, orphaned by his mother's death, sought jail to join his father. He cannot post bond and remains in jail.
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Commercial Tribune
Marietta
Harry Little
R. E. Race
Sykes
Ohio
Columbus
West Virginia Supreme Court Rules Lump Sum Loan Premium
In Wheeling on April 23 the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled in M. L. Gray v Baltimore Building and Loan Association that loan premium and interest must be a lump sum. Interest may accrue while loan exists but any bonus must be fixed and payable at once or in installments, not indefinitely. Principal, interest and bonus end under a definite contract, changing state lending methods and likely increasing litigation.
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Commercial Tribune
Wheeling
W. Va
Supreme Court of West Virginia
M. L. Gray
Baltimore Building and Loan Association
McKinleys Headed for Canton on Visit
President and Mrs. McKinley left Washington at 7 20 PM for a several day trip to Canton. They rode in a private car with Secretary Cortelyou Dr P M Rixey George Barber a nephew of the President W M Hawk and a stenographer Leonard. They will inspect work on the Canton home and return to Washington likely Friday. Secretaries Hitchcock Wilson and Comptroller Dawes saw them off.
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McKinley
Washington
Boxers Massacre Chinese Catholic Converts
April 23 report from Tientsin notes the Boxers killed many Chinese Catholic converts in a violent wave of anti foreign activity.
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Commercial Tribune
Tientsin
Despondent Couple Jumps Canal in Dayton Tragedy
Albert J. Deady a 28 year old National Cash Register inspector and his 16 year old wife leaped from the Apple Street Bridge into the canal. Deady died and the girl was not found though later bodies were recovered. They had married recently and faced financial strain. The infant child is cared for by the wife’s mother and stepfather.
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Commercial Tribune
Dayton
Albert J. Deady
National Cash Register Company
Deady
Apple Street
Providence
R. I
Newcom Street
No Hope for Carter in Supreme Court
Washington April 23 Chief Justice Fuller delivered the court's opinion in the Carter case dismissing his appeal from the Southern District of New York. The court held no appeal lies since he chose the Circuit Court of Appeals, leaving the Circuit Court sentence to five years' imprisonment for court martial in effect. Carter remains at Governors Island awaiting next steps. the mandate was postponed until tomorrow.
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Supreme Court
Fuller
Oberlin M. Carter
Circuit Court
Southern District of
New York
Circuit Court of Appeals
Carter
Governor’s Island
Solicitor General
Cromwell Portrait Found in Newberry Library Volume
Assistant librarian Merrill discovers a rare Cromwell engraving by Thomas Jenner in a Commonwealth book at Newberry Library. The 1654 work, printed for Jenner at the Royal Exchange site, includes a full face cuirass portrait and Cromwell letters and parliamentary diary entries.
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Newberry Library
Oliver Cromwell
Protector
Thomas Jenner
Cromwell
Mr. Simmons
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