Illinois House Riot Over Municipal Ownership Bills
Springfield dispatch reports a savage brawl in the Illinois House as members battled on the Speaker's platform during debate on municipal ownership legislation. The chamber resembled a tornado scene with chairs and desks wrecked as the session descended into chaos.
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Springfield
Illinois
Reichsrath
Isaac Miller
Chicago Street Railway
Union Traction Company of Chicago
Street Railway Company
Chicago City Council
House of Representatives
Chicago
Mueller
Harrison
Gream Stewart
Miller
Lindly
House
Roosevelt Finishes Yellowstone Tour Amid Snow and Pranks
President Roosevelt wraps up a Yellowstone Park visit greeting supporters at Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel. He joins Major Pitcher and John Burroughs on a wildlife study trip, with light injuries from a fall during a ski race and a mishap with a defective revolver cartridge.
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Cinnabar
Mont
Roosevelt
Mammoth Hot Springs
Yellowstone Park
Washington
Ft. Yellowstone
Pleiré
Mammoth Springs
Major Pitcher
John Burroughs
Pitcher
Mr. Burroughs
Geyserland
Bonaparte
Third Cavalry
Post Office scandal leads to Tyner's dismissal
The Post Office Department firestorm broadens as Mrs Tyner and Mrs Barrett steal papers from the high security safe with the help of a safe expert. Payne fires James N Tyner and says the case will be sent to the Department of Justice with possible arrests to follow.
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Department of Justice
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Post Office
James N. Tyner
Post Office Department
Barrett
Harrison J. Barrett
Payne
Postoffice Department
Tyne
Mosler Safe Company
United States
HH. C. Payne
G. G. Hamner
Christiancy
Tyner
Youth Blood Transfusion Planned for Grandfather
A Dayton despatch reports an operation at Miamisburg where blood from a young man will be injected into Thomas J. Kauffman Sr. to aid his serious illness. The procedure, pending the next day, involves removing blood by incision and transferring it into Jacob Kauffman's veins.
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Commercial Tribune
Dayton, O
Miamisburg
Thomas J. Kauffman, Jr
Jacob Kauffman
Poeene
Conny
British Scout Party Annihilated in Somaliland
Special Cable to Commercial Tribune reports a disastrous ambush in Italian Somaliland near the Abyssinian border. The Mullah's force, about 10,000, defeats Colonel Plunkett's column. only 37 Yaos survive from his party along with missing officers and men. General Manning moves to assist Cobbe, with limited water and transport.
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Commercial Tribune
London
Aden
Plunkett
Somaliland
King’s
African’ Rifles
Gumburru
Italian Somaliland
Berbera
Bohodle
Manning
Cobbe
Harding
Bombay
East Africa
Galadi
War Office
Walwal
Zareba
Olivey
A. W. V. Plunkett
Johnston
Stewart
Norris
McKinnon
Gaynor
Bell
Kings African Rifles
Vizey
Second Sikhs
Sims
India Medical Staff
African Rifles
Court frees Durham in Lawson death case
In the examining trial at Mt. Vernon Ky on April 23 County Judge Lewis dismissed Charles Durham citing that Lawson died by his own actions entering Durham's home armed on a hunt for trouble.
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Kentucky
John Lawson
Charles Durham
MT. Vernon
Lewis
Lawson
Durham
All German Blockade Commanders Decorated
RERUIN April 23 Commodore Schecter received the Order of the Red Eagle with oak leaves while other German commanders in the Venezuelan blockade squadron and ship officers earned the Red Eagle 3rd or 4th class and minor decorations. The delays stirred talk as Schecter faced Admiralty doubts over bombardment incidents, later resolved by his explanations to Admiral Von Tierpitz the Admiralty Jary Chancellor Von Buelow and the Emperor.
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Schecter
Admiralty
von Tierpitz
Jary
von Buelow
Twenty Five Jews Killed in Anti Semitic Riots
In St Petersburg on April 23, twenty five Jews were killed and 275 wounded amid anti Jewish riots sparked by an attack on Jewish residents in Kishineff, Bessarabia. The interior minister ordered special measures to restore order in the town.
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ST. Petersburg
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