Notable political and diplomatic moves in early 1900s
W D Hewerts to write the Lowzfellow for the 1American Letters series. Ex congressman Shielps of Missouri now law partner with ex Senator Henderson in St Louis. Large portrait of Senator George G Hoar to Worcester County bar. Felton of California and Scott of Pennsylvania reportedly unhappy with Congress. Gou nop increasing devotion to daily religious worship. Lucca singing in Vienna for 200 dollars a night. Roystan the French minister to Washington returns home for vacation. Sir Lionel West also goes. Struve to return to Russia family in France. British medical team for Pasteur hydrophobia inquiry includes James Pacer Jenner Roscoe Lawder Brunton Burden Sanderson.
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W. D. Hewerts
Shielps
Missouri
Henderson
St. Louis
M. Roystan
Washington
Sir Lionel West
England
M. de Struve
Russia
France
James Pacer
W. Jenner
H. Roscoe
Lawder Brunton
Burden Sanderson
British Commission
M. Pasteur
Benefactor Pledges £100 to Press Club Lot Fund
Grerce W. Corps sends a £100 check to the New York Press club lot improvement fund at Cypress cemetery. Joseph Howard Jr will lecture for the fund’s benefit at Wallack's theater on May 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grerce W. Corps
New York Press Club
Cypress Cemetery
Joseph Howard, Jr
Wallack
Costume details of Macready’s Virginia dress in Mr Irving’s collection
The account notes a pasteboard armor wrapped in tinfoil and a wooden dagger. It describes a red serge scarf, linen tunic, and sandals with a total value unlikely to exceed ten dollars.
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Macready
Virginia
Mr. Irving
Dinan Mutocx Clark’s Editor Husband and Fellow Notables
Mrs. Dinan Mutocx Clark’s husband edits Macmillan’s Magazine and is younger than his wife. Count De Lessers mocks the 1888 voyage plan through the Panama Canal. Prof. Meumorr marked the 60th anniversary of his Berlin University tenure and remains mentally sharp with a vast works list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dinan’ Mutocx Clark
Macmillan’s Magazine
John Halifax
Count DE Lessers
Panama Canal
France
Suez
Meumorr
University of Berlin
Noted Oriental porcelain collector Dana at Morgan sale
Cuarres A Dana a principal bidder at the Morgan art sale in New York is a renowned collector. Dealers say his vases plaques and similar curios would likely fetch a stronger return on market than Morgan oil paintings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuarres A. Dana
Morgan
New York
Roman Catholic figures noted in British politics and law
The article lists Roman Catholics within English governance and judiciary, noting Charles Russett as the first Catholic attorney general since the Reformation, andJudge Shea as the first Catholic judge since the Reformation. It mentions Sir James Mathew's Catholic status and the marquis of Ripon as the first Catholic in the cabinet, with stray anecdote about a Russian justice fined by his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kurganowski
Perm
Russia
Charles Russett
Hackney
Dundalk
England
Newry
Trinity College
Shea
Kilkenny
James Mathew
Chancery
Tipperary
Marquis of
Ripon
Admiralty
Von Butow’s extraordinary memory as pianist and conductor
The pianist Von Butow reportedly can memorize entire works. In London recitals he performed Beethoven’s thirty three sonatas from memory, five or six per night. He also conducted Wagner’s Niebelungen Lied without any printed score, guiding the orchestra soloists and chorus from the podium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
von Butow
London
Rossi in Berlin German play Amid Mixed Frenchified Roles
Rossi performed March 17 in Berlin in a German play with critics praising his acting more than his pronunciation. He played Thorane, a character delivering German with Frenchified accents, which felt Italian influenced. The piece notes the Mikado joke on English sisters in pairs or trios and Gilbert’s satire of British manners reflected in the London girls' behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sic. Rossi
Berlin
Tie
Thorane
London
Iowa News Items From Across The State
Cedar Rapids packing house now kills about 1000 hogs daily. Ed Glaze arrested at Centerville for robbing U S mail. Moingona claims wealthiest Odd Fellows lodge. Ottumwa plans a 100000 stock hotel company. Fairfield reports only four drunken arrests since January 1. Kate Canins of Ozark commits suicide by shooting. Mason City health board condemns wells incl high school site to boost water works. Kate Shelley Lodge No 204 honored at Boone railroad lodge. Twin Lakes near Rockwell City rising as a 1700 acre fishing resort. Lindle near Muscatine tried to dynamize a lake, failed. Mrs. John Greene injured by sidewalk, sues city. Robert Styles, Mahaska teacher, receives county certificate at 71. John L Brandall of Sigourney shoots self, life insurance cited. John Holt found dead, neighbor cut him down. multiple life struggles noted. Lightning strikes Burlington boarding house killing Gustave Wulf. Geiger home struck. May 8 tornado in Jones county damages barns and trees. many farms hit. May 9 storm damages Oskaloosa. church unroofed, schools damaged. no deaths. Osceola court house talks. Creston firms close at 8 pm. Osceola commencement to charge admission. Ramsay killed at Excelsior mines. Charles Smart at Revere charged with theft. State payrolls and contracts paid. Davenport licenses lemonade stands. High M Brooks case heard in St Louis court. Newark fur hat firms halt sizing, 600 jobs affected.
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Cedar Rapids
Ed. Glaze
Centerville
United States Mail
Ottumwa
Fairfield
Kate Canins
Ozark
Jackson County
Board of Health
Mason City
Kate Shelley
Boone
Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen
Twin Lakes
Rockwell City
Calhoun County
John Lindle
Muscatihe
John Greene
Council Bluffs
John L. Brandall
Sigourney
John Holt
Robertson
Mr. Holt
Holt
Peru
Winterset
Brown
Lis
Creston
Burlington
Gustave Wulf
Frank Geiger
Iowa
Jones County
Castle Grove
Cass
al ‘Fairbank
C. Pfield
Thomas Simpson
J. Ketchum
Albert Siebel
Oskaloosa
Friends’ Yearly Meeting
First Ward
Peac Werege
Beacon
Pennsylvania Road
Conneaugh
Allegahny
E. P. N. Packard
Kankakee County
Ill
McFarland
Jacksonville
Newark
N. J
Sunday Call
Boston
Winslow
Argentine Republic
England
Edward Pierrepont
United States
Buenos Ayres
Evansville
Ind
African Baptist Church
Sinzich
Daniels
John Most
New York
Byrnes
Apostle of Anarchy
Most
Jersey City Heights
Wissahilton Creek
Riverside
Scuylkill River
Patrick Brioderick
James O’ Hearn
William Ryan
Pat Fuery
Ohio
Leavenworth
Kansas
Second Street Court House
Isore
Court House
Ed. Hodges
Will Hodges
Jos. Walden
Steinburge
Main Street
Henry Dougherty
James Chase
Recorder’s
Santa Fe Company
Smith & Moffat’s
Spice Mills
Ed. Miller
Mr. Smith
Thomas Herr
West Third Street
Kansas City
Jennie Phipps
West Bottoms
Mina Crane
Grand Avenue
Willie Agerman
Bottoms
Kate Moran
Lathrop
Margaret Houser
Tivoli Hall
May Bishop
West Twelfth Street
Nellie Ellis
Katie Smith
Broadway
Eva Hartzell
Washington Street
Ruth Jameson
Beatrice Terry
Ninth
Jefferson Streets
Nellie Carey
Frankie Matterson
Penn
Jimmie Bailey
West Seventh Street
Bessie Inebo
Tenth and
Central
Robert Sprague
Mr. Sprague
Fort Scott
Mertie Moore
Gardener County
Alice Frock
L. T. Moore
Bullene, Moore, Emery & Co
Hannibal and St. Joe
Missouri River
Missouri Pacific
Sedalia
Morse School
New Market House
Easton
Kansas Central
Fairmount
Union Pacific
Salt Creek Valley
Petition from Ulster Women Beseeches Queen on Home Rate Bill
A 371 yard petition signed by 3,009 Ulster women will be handed to the Home Office addressed to the Queen, urging rejection of any home rate bill. The first signers are the Duchess of Abercorn, the wife of Bishop Knox and Mrs. Henderson of Norwood Tower Belfast, representing Nobility Church and People.
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Ulster
Home Office
Duchess of
Ireland
Dayton
Xenia
Ohio
Little Miami
Winchester
Steamfitters Society
Chicago
Senate Proceedings Outline Pension Bill Opposed and Trade Bills
The Senate on May 10 received petitions including one from Arizona urging rejection of the Mexican pension bill as insufficient. Dawes offered a foreign trade bill clarifying privileges for American vessels, and resolutions requested the president’s information on the Canadian seizure of the fishing vessel David G Adams. Inter-state commerce actions advanced, and Dingley proposed a reciprocity bill. The day closed with local District of Columbia measures including lottery ad bans before adjournment at 4 40.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Arizona
Frye
United States
Dawes
Dingley
Maine
Brand
Missouri
District of Columbia
Senate Debate Over Interstate Commerce and Free Pass Proposals
The Senate advanced an amendment punishing conspiracies to hinder interstate train service, with a 49 to 3 vote. Teller expanded his free pass ban to cover subsidized railroads and all roads under the act. The House moved on land claims for New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, and endorsed California election committee findings. The Army appropriation bill faced a strike on the judge advocate general’s department, with debate over Lincoln and Stanton, and the session adjourned at 5 PM after the committee rose.
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Morgan
Hoar
Yeas
Dolph
Edmunds
Morwan
Plumb
Congress
Teller
Ingalls
Logan
Senate
HOUSE
New Mexico
Arizona
Colorado
Election Committee
California
Grosvenor
Ohio
Judge Advocate General
Wheeler
Alabama
Holt
Porter
McClelan
Heburn
Iowa
St {Ll
Lincoln
Bragg
Stanton
Abraham Lincoln
Hiscock
N. Y
Union
Mitchell
Oregon
Secretary of the Interior
Land Office
Frye
Staten Island
United States
Minnesota
Missouri
9Th Circuit
Joc Char
Labor Bureau
McCreary
Phelps
New Jersey
Clement
Georgia
Carey
Wro
Department of Agriculture
Weaver
Senate Debates On Interstate Commerce Bill And Other Measures
The senate debated the interstate commerce bill with clashes over the long and short haul clause. Edmunds restored a Camden amendment, and the bill passed amid a flurry of further amendments and adjournment at 6:47. The house tackled army and diplomatic appropriations, pensions, and public building bills, with executive session near 5:20 and adjournment until Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Riddleberger
Edmunds
Yeas
Brown
Colquitt
Morgan
Ransom
Hoar
Morrison's Budget Battle Over Steam Launch Funds
A heated debate over an appropriation for a steam launch split Republicans and Democrats. Morrison moved to cut to 1000 dollars, a lengthy discussion followed, and a letter from Minister Cox on the launch was referenced. The motion failed 58 to 57 as Morrison noted party members at the races and left the point of no quorum unraised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrison
Cox
Reid
Hiscock
Hewitt
House
Soldiers' Bounties Decision Limited to Late Enlistments
Second Comptroller Mainard rules under the 1856 act that soldiers enlisted after April 11 1861 serving two years and honorably discharged to accept a commission may receive an additional bounty of 59 dollars if they had any greater bounty at the time of enactment and filed claims by July 1 1880. Claims filed after that date are barred. Greece sends gunboat to Constantinople as powers order fleets to blockade Greek ports.
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Greece
de Lyannis
Suda Bay
DeLyannis
Comte de Mony
France
Valvia
Chamber of Deputies
Andros
Torpeeo Poat
Mainard
Devastating Ohio Storm Leaves Xenia in Ruin
A violent night storm raged through Xenia Ohio from 9 to 12 on the 12th likely waterspout flooding streets and sweeping away over a hundred houses. Twenty bodies recovered with many missing. Aaron Ferguson's family among those lost. Rail lines wrecked and town hospitalized as residents clung to survival amid the wreckage and fear. Other towns including Lebanon Dayton Williamsport Attica Eaton and Peru report extensive damage and casualties across the region.
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Xenia
Ohio
Aaron Ferguson
John Burek
Harbor
Pan Handle
Morris
Sss
Nellie Anderson
Lydia Casey
Barr's Bottom
Samuel Cochran
Sam Patch
King Street
Matt Evan
Orrin Morris
West Second Street
Stephen Dentin
Barr’s Bottom
William Powell
Detroit Street
Henry Breziiton
Powell
Lewis Anderson
Anderson
Ed. Lindsay
Indiana
Lebanon
Lebanon House
Dayton
Miami River
Main
Wolf Creek
Miami
West Baltimore
Geo. Miller
Williamsport
Ind
Attica
Chicago & Great Southern Railway
Wabash River
Henry Butt
Shawnee
Olie
Peru
Wilkinson
Samuel White
Joe Davis
James Idle
A. Nathan
Will Vanderverter
A. J. Mooreshead
Benton Gamble
John Bethel
Kirby
Reed Brady
Paris
John Ersinger
Secrecy factions push for Home Rule bill week debate
Reported secessions in the Glasstone section of the Liberal party follow Mr Campbell Bannerman's Home Rule remarks. Supporters urge Gladstone to promise withdrawal if the bill passes second reading. Debates set for the 26th. Petitions against the bill, including 12 000 Loyalists of Cornwall, are in Parliament. London Liberals back Home Rule principles while Chamberlain argues Ulster Protestants face two nations in Ireland.
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Glasstone
Liberal Party
Campbell Bannerman
House of
Exc-Ted
Corl
London
Liberal Unions
Chamberlain
Belfast Liberal Association
Ireland
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George G. Hoar
Worcester County
Massachusetts
Felton
Scott
Pennsylvania
GouNop
Lucca
Vienna
William Ramsay
Excelsior
Otumwa
Charles Smart
Revere House
Baker
Beardsley
Holmes
Auditor of State
Capitol
Davenport
High M. Brooks
W. H. Lennox Maxwell
C. Arthur Preller
Association of Fur Hat Manufacturers of
Brooklyn
Francis T. Horn
Nortonville
Times
Parkersville
Councy Bluffs
Wyandotte
Odessa
India
Manufacturer’s Association of Brass, Iron
Pittsburg
Pittsburgh
Allegheny
Atchison
Third Avenue Railroad
Cairo
Til
Illinois Central
Tas
Geo. Stacy
George Wilson
H. G. Miller
George Jett
Jeff
Stacy
Peoria
Chester
Arthur J. Grover
Granville G. Loomis
Bowling Green
Wood County
Ohio Penitentiary
Grover
Menomnee
Wis
Bayfield
Louisa Boutin
Boutin
Henry Conlin
Fisher & King
Conlin
Coplin
Crmeinnatl
Fair Grounds
Supreme Court of the United States
Canaan
John &. Williams
Treasury Department
Secretary of the Treasury
P. Werner
of &T Paul
Pacific Coast
West
Northwest
R. L. Spencer Novelty Company
Wallingford
Morrow
Knights of Labor
Knight of Labor of
China
Periko Ferandez
Hawthorne
Belle
Fernandez
New York Club
Springfield
Jordan Creek
Gulf Railway
Congressional Proceedings
Rockwell
Mass
Springfield Armory
Hatch
Cannon
Constantinople
House In Committee
Rock Springs
Rice
Allison
House of Lords
Committee On Commerce
Detroit
Lafayette
St. Paul
Denver
Fort Dodge
Marquette
Mich
Terre Haute
Internal Revenue
Cameron
Wichita
Henry J. Hurt
Turkey
Constant
Conduniott
the Tribune
Tribune
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