Filipino Army Surrounded After Bold Manila Assault
Special Cable from Manila reports about 5 000 insurgents encircled near Polo as night fell. U S troops pressed a sixteen hour fight with 26 dead and 180 wounded, achieving a reckoned victory with heavy enemy casualties and a looming encirclement.
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Commercial Tribune
Manila
Polo
Kansas Third Artillery
Manila Bay
Wheaton
McArthur
B. G. Otis
Hale
Hall
U.S. Forces Suffer 26 Deaths 150 Wounded in Philippine Fight
In Manaila today American losses reported 26 dead and 150 wounded in a battle with Filipino forces. The Filipinos used entrenched positions and rapid retreats to frustrate American assaults, compelling long search for decisive engagement.
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Manaila
Searching inquiry began for census job seekers in Washington
Former Governor Merriam returning as Census Superintendent sparks a rush of applicants. An unprecedented civil service style examination will determine who qualifies, with a tough, inquisitorial process aimed at efficiency and impartiality over party. An official board will judge fitness, and applicants must complete a detailed form answering personal, residency, and political questions.
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Merriam
Census Bureau
Civil Service Commission
Congress
Washington
Civil Service
Extradition Granted for Kidnapped Boy Gerald Lapiner
Mrs Inger Soll and J Collins of Painesville face extradition to Chicago following Governor Bushnell's approval of Illinois requisition. No opposition, but planned habeas corpus and insanity bid. Also Governor honored requisition for J F Lurber from Cleveland, wanted in Chicago on larceny charge.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Ingersoll
J. Collins
Painesville
Gerald Lapiner
Chicago
Bushnell
Tanner
Illinois
Monnett to Campaign in Cleveland Fight for Attorney General
Columbus dispatch reports Attorney General Monnett will join Cleveland municipal campaign next week and may speak Friday and Saturday if timing allows. He denies seeking re election and has told allies he will not block other candidates. Delegates meeting to endorse Nash remains delayed two weeks amid party loyalty assurances. Lieutenant Governor Jones visits Columbus to gauge northeast support for governor bid.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Monnett
Cleveland
Ee McKissen
Senator Foraker
Paris
Chase Stewart
Springfield
Edgar B. Kinkead
George K. Nash
Polie
Schwartz
Nash
Jones
SICK MAN IS ARRESTED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT IN FT WAYNE
J F Schell president of the J F Schell Loan and Investment Co is arrested in Ft Wayne Ind on embezzlement and constructive larceny charges based on an affidavit by Appelina Gehart who paid 200 to the firm but was not credited. Losses to directors and creditors may reach 75000 with mortgages misused as collateral. The company operated across Northern Indiana and Ohio with major creditors including Union National Bank Chicago and Colonial Bank Cleveland.
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Commercial Tribune
FT. Wayne
Ind
J. F. Schell
Schell Company
Schell
Indiana
Ohio
Union National Bank
Chicago
Colonial Bank
Cleveland
France Gains Vast African Empire Across Wadai to Nile
Special Cable reports the Anglo French African Convention expands France’s hold from Wadai to the Nile, securing a commercial Nile outlet and demarcation that links French West Africa with its newly enlarged empire. It notes Britain retains Upper Nile sovereignty, Egypt remains European, and Italy’s Tripoli Hinterland shifts toward France, risking new Mediterranean tensions.
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Commercial Tribune
London
The
New York Times
Iserme
France
Nile
Bahr el Ghazal
Great Britain
Upper Nile Valley
de Casse
Morocco
Mediterranean
West Africa
Tripoli
Nile Valley
Paris
Wadai
Baghirmi
Africa
Two Men Fire on Court House Murderers Near Hoytsville
G H Westenhaver ex City Solicitor of North Baltimore is killed in Hoytsville as Paul and John Zeltner shoot him at the courthouse. The brothers fatally wound Clarence Wittenhaver and injure others, a posse closes in, militia called out, and a tense siege ensues with women and children in danger.
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Tuliahao
Gene Wheaton
Caloocan
Third Kansas Artillery
Kansas
Commercial Tribune
Toledo
G. H. Westenhayer
North Baltimore
Hoytsville
Paul and
John
Ettner
Clarence Wittenhaver
Chas. Koeschler
Paul Zeltner
Pennsylvania
Westenhaver
Zeltners
Paul
Hood
Zellner
Main Street
Tyner
Clarence Wedenmeyer
John Zeltner
Bloomdale Rifles
North Baltifridré
D. H. Jamea
Toledo Light Guards
Columbus
Wood County
Cith
W. M. Hoop
Biggs
Hoop
Bloomdale
Hoyts Ville
Zeltner
Arms for Two Wood County Companies Sent by Special Train
At midnight a special train carried 100 stands of arms and 3000 rounds to Welker for Wood County units H and K. Captain Slough ordered the move from Cleveland on Kingsley orders, with Colonel Freeman and guards en route. By 11 55 PM Company H had 30 Winchester equipped men ready to report to Sheriff Kingsbury at 12 30.
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Biowndale
Trom
Wool ‘Caunte
Hoyt's Corners
Bryant
Jones
Toledo
Toledo Company
United States Army
George D. Freeman
Welker
Company H
Slough
North Baltimore Company
Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Cleveland
Kingsley
Freeman
Wood County
J. P. Smith
State Arsenal
Ed Baker
Harry Ross
Winchesters
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Pasig River
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Syanila
PRO
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Wyodbattery
Cagle
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J. F. Schell Loan and Investment Co
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Radah
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