Roosevelt Tours North Dakota City Areas in 1904 Campaign
Vice Presidential nominee Theodore Roosevelt toured eastern and central North Dakota last Friday and Saturday, greeting large crowds at Fargo Casselton Wheatland Buffalo Tower City Valley City Jamestown and Bismarck with short platform speeches. He recalled his frontier days near Medora and called North Dakota his state. Friday marked hangings in the state with Tra Jenkins executed in Bismarck after a miner Stark murder confession found on him, and Hans Thorpe executed at Minot for murdering his wife.
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Man Hangs After Guilty Plea and Defiant Speech
A man died by hanging after admitting guilt and delivering a lengthy speech to the crowd claiming his mind was unsettled at the crime. Judge Winchester barred outside lawyers from handling blind pig prosecutions at county expense, sparked by Bosard and Bosard of Grand Forks and their bid to quash many blind pig cases in Stark County.
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Remains to be brought home from Philippines
Col William S Patton of the quartermaster department plans free transport to the United States for the remains of soldiers sailors and civilians buried in the Philippines and China. A burial corps will sail on the Hancock from San Francisco on the 1st to collect remains at Honolulu Guam and the Philippines with D H Rhodes in charge.
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Cleared Streets Under Military Rule After Galveston Disaster
The Galveston cleanup, organized under Adjt Gen Scurry, employs over 2,000 workers to clear debris. By Tuesday, 98 bodies were recovered, bringing total known dead to 1,861, though records are incomplete as bodies are buried or cremated with no systematic tally.
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Manila burials and McKinley plan for Philippines
Details on exhumations for 1331 remains to be interred mainly in national cemeteries with a preference for Presidio and Arlington. Ship Thomas sails for Manila with 1648 enlisted men and treasure. President McKinley's instructions to the Philippine commission outline municipal government, native public offices, education, courts, taxation and church-state separation. San Francisco dispatch notes vast relief, sanitation efforts, and Galveston fund progress with police contributions aiding the relief effort.
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