End of Abdul Hamid II Reign and Mehmet V Milestone
The Times reports Abdul Hamid II is deposed and his brother Mehmet V ascends the Turkish throne. Parliament condemns Abdul Hamid with a lengthy indictment. Mehmet V takes the oath at the war office, then to the Dolmabahce palace as empire head amid public cheers and relaxed martial law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mehemmed Reshad Hffendi
Mehmed V
Mahomet
Turkey
House of Osman
Constantinople
Sheik Ul-Islam
Ulemas
Abdul Hamid
Mohemmed Reshad
Galata
Dolma Bagtsche
Cel
Taft Praises Grant at Union League Grant Birthday Dinner
President Taft spoke at the Union League Club in Philadelphia praising General Grant as a man and as a leader. He recalled Grant’s wartime service and stressed Grant’s role in preserving the Union as voices critiqued his earlier remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Taft
Grant
Union League
General Grant
United States
Washington
New York Express
Independence
Horace Porter
New York
James F. Hope
Union League Club
Stuart
Pennsylvania
Reyburn
Experiment with Tea and Coffee Taxation Clause
Washington April 27 Numerous Republican Senate conferences consider a substitute for Payne bill features. A free list is set for taxed articles from countries not giving the United States best rate. a ten cent per pound tax on coffee and tea illustrates the provision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Payne
Senate
Committee On Finance
United States
Ohio and National Tariff Debates Fill Senate Dialogues
The article covers tariff and income tax debates with references to Bailey and Gore, the political clash over protectionism, and procedural moves. It notes the senate adjournment and outlines related state judicial appointments in Ohio including Metcalf and Hoyt, plus a quo warranto dispute in the supreme court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bailey
Senate
Scott
South
West Virginia
Gore
Oklahoma
Harmon
Burrows
Hoyt
Juge Metcalf
Supreme Court
Metcalf
Grand Master Hoskinson Welcomed by Ohio Lodges
Grand Master Charles S. Hoskinson of Ohio was greeted by multiple lodges during a city visit. He inspected Hanselmann Lodge and the Masonic building, observing M M degree work at Lafayette Lodge and meeting about 300 visiting Masons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles S. Hoskinson
Ohio
Hanselmann Lodge
Twelfth
Walnut Streets
Masonic
Third
Walnut
Miami
Lafayette
James K. Stewart
Joel Clore
James M. Ramsey
Scott Bonham
William B. Melish
Marquis Lafayette
Hoskinson
Fashionable Phoenix club brink of disbandment in Cincinnati
The ultra fashion able Phoenix club in Cincinnati faces dissolution and sale of its Ninth and Race clubhouse after a meeting next Saturday. The board plans to discuss transferring ownership to a buyer found by real estate agents amid waning membership and heavy debts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fashionable Phoenix Club
Phoenix Club
Queen City
Ninth and
Race Streets
Henry C. Davis
Forest Avenue
Avondale
Board of
City
Cincinnati Club
Walnut Hills
Cincinnati
Board of Directors
Board of Actors
Night rider boasts right to burn barns in arrest
New Albany Indiana April 27 patrolmen say Charles O Wade admitted setting fire to a barn owned by Thomas Nicholson and declared I am a night rider I have a right to burn barns when arrested on the arson charge Wade was taken into custody after the blaze damaged the Nicholson property
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
New Albany
Ind
Charles O. Wade
Thomas Nicholson
Outbreak of Murder and Looting at Adana
April 27 reports from Constantinople describe a fresh outbreak of fanaticism and murder in Adana with looting and fires. The crisis endangers the American mission. William Chambers wired that fires threaten the mission and relief funds are needed for Armenians and Mohammedans in the troubled district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Adana
William Chambers
Pest
Peet
Archbishop Matheson Chosen Primate of Canada
Winnipeg April 27 Archbishop Matheson of Rupertsland diocese, head of Anglican Church in Western Canada, has been elected primate of all Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Man
Matheson
Rupertsland
Western Canada
All Canada
Mrs Taft Goes Shopping Afoot
Special dispatch from Washington reports Mrs Taft walking from the White House to Pennsylvania Avenue and F Street at noon, carrying a pocket book in a gray walking suit, shopping unescorted and without an automobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune Bureau
Munsey Building
Washington, D. C
Commercial Tribune
Washington
White House
Taft
Executive Mansion
Pennsylvania Avenue
F Street
Two Held as Witnesses in Dayton Murder Probe
Columbus police detain Samuel Yates and Mrs. Evelyn Ballard at the request of Montgomery county prosecutor to testify before a grand jury investigating the murder of Elizabeth Fulhart in Vandalia. Ballard later arrested en route to the station. Carr's name surfaces in a Dayton case tied to the killings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, CO
Carl W. Lentz
Montgomery County
Columbus
Samuel Yates
Evelyn Ballard
Dayton
Elizabeth Fulhart
Yates
Ballard
Lange Meetings End Local Option Fight in Ross County
In Chillicothe Ohio on April 27 crowds rallied in Ross County as local option battle lines hardened. A 2500 strong nonvoter parade defied a ban while thousands watched, and final speeches by Rev Smilley of Kansas and Seaborn Wright of Georgia followed. Violent clashes and a severe eye wound to evangelist Rev George Packe were reported amid the exchanges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chillicothe
Ross County
Mr. Smilley
Kansas
Seaborn Wright
Georgia
George Packe
Portsmouth
Roosevelt Goes For Small Game In Kenya
Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit rested from travel and set out for small game near Nairobi in British East Africa. They bagged a Grant's gazelle and a hartebeeste at the Athi river ranch of Sir Alfred Pease. The camp will stay a week as the caravan consolidates at the Pease ranch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nairobi
British East Africa
Theodore Roosevelt
Kermit
Kapiti Plains
Sir Alfred Pease
Athi River
Grant
Roosevelt
Pease Ranch
Delaware County Votes Dry. Muncie Leads Outcome
Delaware county Indiana voters chose prohibition by about 2800 ballots. Muncie the county seat backed the drys by 213, making it the largest city to vote on the saloon question and prompting the closing of eighty-two saloons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muncie
Ind
Delaware
Printing blaze guts Krehbiel plant on Hunt Street
The c J Krehbiel & Co printing and bookbinding plant at Hunt Street and Broadway was gutted last night in a major fire costing an estimated 100000 dollars. Fire spread from the basement to the second floor and above, threatening Eagle White Lead Works nearby as engines and relays fought the flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. J. Krehbiel & Co
Hunt Street
Broadway
Eagle White Lead Works
Kearney
Krehbiel
Conway
Photo
Electrotype Foundry
Linotype
Monotype
Millikin
Carroll
Spring Street
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Young Turks
London
the Times
Chamber of Deputies
Saloniki
Abdul Hamid II
Appomattox
Rrant
Oikere Sart
Ilus
Metcale
Benge Harmon
Bailey Is Interrupted
Harris
Thaddeus E. Hoyt
Painesville
Hagman
Herris
E. E. Roberts
Warren
Harris Jerome B. Burrows
Roberts
Scott BorAarre Alopicw
Ludeke Pao
Scott’ Bonham
Brothers of Order
Phoenix Club Building
Wade
Acoh
Chosen Primate OF
Canada
Archbishop Matheson
Mrs. Taft Goeo
National
Fulhart
LANGE
Gazelle
Rouse Burns
Eagle White
Ing and Contents
Nies
Krehbiel Plant
Pany
William E. Kearney
John Sckrand
Har] Mein
Times
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