Remains of Major L'Enfant Laid to Arlington in Ceremonies
April 28. Maj Charles L'Enfant, designer of Washington, laid to rest at Arlington. He lay in state in the Capitol rotunda from 10 to 11 and a memorial service was held in the presence of high officials, diplomats, and engineering societies. Ambassador Jusserand spoke of his foresight, noting France’s belief in a great United States. The casket moved to Arlington with military escort.
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Chas. L'Enfant
Ariington
Washington
United States
Green Hill
Congress
Arlington
L* Fafant
Capitol
Society of Cincinnati
Major Lo Enfant
Daughters of the American Revoluton
Columbia
Dent Dent Bherwan
Grand
France
Arlington Cemetery
War Department
Taft
Jusserand
Sheridan
Robber Died Cursing Priest in Indiana Shootout
Loganaport Ind April 28 A dying highwayman shot by a policeman shouted you go to hell as a priest bent over him in a confession bid. The officer was fatally wounded in a gunfight that followed a string of holdups. The captured accomplice Charles Pierce of Scranton is charged with firing the fatal shot.
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Loganaport
Ind
Kroeger
Charles Pierce
Scranton
Track prices and grain quotes at Portland market
Worth and Maerket Portland April 28 report shows club at $1.15 blue stem $1.25 to $1.27 per bushel, Turkey Red $1.18, Hed Ruvsian $1.15, Valley $1.10. Market listed milling quality notes and percent changes.
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Portland
Hed Ruvsian
Valley
Manufacturers Meet in Annual Session in Boston
The eighty sixth annual meeting of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers opened at the Mechanic Building in Boston for a two day session. Governor Draper welcomed members as topics vary from mill yard transport to loom improvements and cotton fibre properties.
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Boston
Mass
National Association of Cotton Manufacturersa
Draper
New York
New Orleans
Fear of more trouble after Ada lynching
Fearing further violence after the lynching of four cattlemen for the A. A. Bobbitt murder, Oscar Peeler an alleged accessory and Edward and David Johnson charged with killing a southerman were moved to Tecumseh for safety.
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Ada, Ola
A. A. Bobbitt
Oscar Peeler
Edward and
David Johnson
Souther
Tecumseh
Wooltex Fashion Bureau Styles in Ladies Home Journal
Distinctive refined garments blend Paris grace with New York smartness and WOOLTEX individuality as shown in this month’s Ladies' Home Journal. Wooltex reports dozens of imported models, eight designers, and expert tailors ensure perfect fit with warp-cut cloth, needling, flat collars, silk shields, and thorough fabric finishing.
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Paris
New York
The
Ladies’ Home Journal
Wooltex Fashion Bureau
American Missionaries Besieged at Hadjin Appeal for Help
Constantinople reports a telegram from Miss Rose Lambert, one of the besieged American women missionaries at Hadjin, describing constant shooting rioting and burning with nearly no food. The message, dated April 26, notes authorities ignore pleas for aid and lists the missionaries as Virginia Billings, Rose Lambert, Emily Richter, and a Miss Baldwin.
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Constantinople
Hadjin
Virginia A. Billings
Kirtland
Ohio
Lambert
Bishop Lambert
Emily E. Richter
Chicago
Miss Baldwin
Kidnapped Boy Returned to St Louis in San Francisco
Seven year old James B. Cabanne, smuggled from St Louis to San Francisco by step father Broughton Brandenburg, was taken from juvenile detention and given to his father James C. Cabanne. Cabanne plans to return home with his son that evening as authorities in New York consider the grand jury probe related to a forged Grover Cleveland letter sale.
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San Francisco
James
St. Louis
Cabanne
Boyle defense outlines travel alibi in kidnapping case
Mercer Pa April 28 James H Boyle awaits trial on kidnapping Willie Whitla. He aims to show he was in Youngstown the evening before the abduction and left there the morning of it, then went to Warren Ohio where friends had the boy. He says they said Sharon suffered smallpox and moved the boy to avoid it. He claims no knowledge of ransom correspondence. Mrs Boyle has no defense prepared.
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Mercer, Pa
James H. Boyle
Willie Whitla
Youngstown
Sharon
Warren
Ohio
Whitla
Boyle
Beach Hargis Sentenced for Life in Prison
Irvine notices that Beach Hargis has been sentenced to life imprisonment after a jury convicted him of killing his father, Judge James Hargis. The bench and county court had awaited the verdict and sentencing, marking a high profile crime case in the region.
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Irvine
Beach Hargis
James Hargis
Men Arrested in Boston for Extortion Threats Over Willie Whitla
Two men identified as John W. Wright and Ernest H. Martin were arrested in Boston yesterday after being charged with attempting to extort $10,000 from James Whitla of Sharon, Pennsylvania, by threatening to kidnap Willie Whitla again.
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Boston
James Whitla
Sharon
Willie Whitl
John W. Wright
Ernest H. Martin
Miners Unanimous For Agreement In Scranton Meeting
In Scranton on April 28 the delegates of the anthracite miners union unanimously adopted the proposed renewal of the old agreement. The officers hope that the hard coal operators will sign it.
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Scranton
Anthracite Miners’ Union
Anarchist Planned to Kill Faller les in Monte Carlo
Verdier, an alleged anarchist, was arrested in Monte Carlo while visiting for the purpose of assassinating President Faller les of France. A loaded revolver and a letter to the Alpes Maritimes prefect explain the motive. Police deem him insane.
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Monte Carlo
Verdier
Fallerles
France
Department of the Alpes Maritimes
Record-bound Oregon immigration soars to 1478 homeseekers
Telegram reports a dramatic rise in Oregon travel into the region with 1478 homeseekers arriving by April 16. Portland received 248 newcomers, the area south of Portland 198, Pendleton 15, La Grande 11, Elgin 11, Baker City 15, Walla Walla 21, Lewiston 15, and Shaniko 123. The figures show this year surpassing all previous immigration.
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Oregon
Portland
Pendleton
LaGrande
Elgin
Baker City
Walla Walla
Lewinton
Shaniko
Telegram
Wheat Market Steady Gains Signal Opening Trade
Chicago reports wheat prices rising at the market open with early quotes up 3 to 13-4 from yesterday. May 6 at 1.22 3-4, July at 1.09 1-3, with a firm close: May 1.22, July 1.09 5-8, Sept 1.01 1-8 or 1.02, Dec 1.00 7-3.
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Chicago
Pendleton Fire Sweeps Chick Hatchery and Nearby Buildings
Four hundred chicks burned to death in Pendleton within 24 hours as an incubator explosion sparked a blaze in a chicken yard. A barn and a Main Street millinery store were also destroyed. Officials suspect one or two fires were the work of incendiarism.
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Pendleton
Turkish Sultan Mohammed V Alxtul Hamid Exiled News
Washington reports the Turkish ambassador Hussein Kimzim Bey formally notifying the state department of Mohammed Reshad Effen di’s succession as sultan Mohammed V Alxtul Hamid Exiled. Constantinople notes Abdul Hamid the deposed sultan left for Saloniki with eleven women of his harem.
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Washington
Hussein Kimzim Bey
State Department
Mohammed Reshad Effendi
Turkey
Mohammed V_ Alxtul Hamid
Constantinople
Abdul Hamid
Salonki
Kidder Avery Wedding Stirs High Society in New York Today
New York April 28 The wedding of Mrs May Clark and Mr James Kidder drew a large fashionable crowd to Grace Church with Bishop Burgess officiating and Rev W Huntington assisting A Plaza Hotel reception followed The bride a Clark daughter and Avery widow split time between New York London Mrs Kidder broker in New York and Boston Harvard graduate hunter Her sister Mrs Linsley Williams was formerly married to novelist Paul Leicester Ford
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New York
May Clark
James Kidder
Grace Church
Bishop Burgess
Long Island
Wm. R. Huntington
D. C
Plaza Hotel
John Terrill Clark
Frank M. Avery
Mr. Avery
Chicago
London
Kidder
Boston
Harvard
Siser
Linsley R. Williams
Paul Leicester Ford
Denial of Acquit Benson Case in Western Land Inquiry
Washington April 28 Justice Gould denied the defense motion to instruct the jury for acquittal in the John A Benson case. Benson of San Francisco is charged with bribing two former General Land Office employees to obtain information on a secret report about western land irregularities.
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Washington
Justice Gould
John A Benson
San Francisco
General Land Office
Dick Croker Ends His Visit to America
New York on April 28 reports that Dick Croker concluded the longest visit he has paid this country since he took up his rest.
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Dick Croker
America
New York
Croker sails home from abroad amid farewell crowd
Richard Croker former Tammany Hall leader departs abroad aboard the Lusitania returning home to a large dockside send off from many friends gathered to bid him goodbye.
Oregon hop grower predicts bill hike to aid industry
E. C. Horst, Oregon’s largest hop grower, says the new tax bill will raise the duty from 12 to 15 cents a pound. He claims most Oregon hop growers are “broke” and Senator Bourne fights hard to secure the increase in the Senate.
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E. C. Horst
Oregon
Payne
Senate
Horst
Bourne
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