Mormon Church Compared to Trust by Utah Judge Powers
Judge W C Powers told a Senate committee the Mormon church effectively controls Utah business and politics likening it to a trust. He cited church influence in the Moses Thatcher petition and the Provo contest favoring George Sutherland. He noted women influence in legislature and discussed polygamy’s decline and church authority fears.
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Washington
W. C. Powers
Utah
Senate
Smoot
Powers
Moses Thatcher
Senate of
United States
Provo
Raed Smoot
George Sutherland
Wberal Party
Overman
Judiciary
House
Smoothe
Dubois
Judge Powers
Breakers Move To New Work At Fort Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth Kansas April 23 77 Deresident Brodrick and ex Oxrhier Collins of the Indiana national bank at Elkhart spent the morning breaking stone with the stone squad. They will be transferred tomorrow to technical work related to the new penitentiary and placed in the brick making department with outdoor duty. Brawn remains in hospital but is improving and with his wife in the morning.
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Fort Leavenworth
Kas
Brodrick
Oxrhier Collins
Indiaana National Bank
Elkhart
Brawn
Moellering Named to Indiana Shippers' League Committee
Charles E. Moellering of this city has been named a member of the Shippers' League of Indiana which seeks legislation to create a railroad commission to settle rates demurrage and related railroad shipping disputes. He attended a meeting in Indianapolis as Fort Wayne Commercial club delegate. The league covers hay grain lumber coal lime brick producers and general shippers and is expected to push for railroad commission legislation in the upcoming session.
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Charles E. Moelering
Shippers’ League of
Indiana
Moellering
Fort Wayne
Laaders
Israel Hess, 86, Elkhart County resident dead at Goshen area
Israel Hess aged 86 longtime resident of Elkhart county died at his Goshen area home. He traced Revolutionary era roots to his grandfather Baltser Hess who served as a bodyguard to General Washington.
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Israel Hess
Elkhart County
Goshen
Hess
Baltser Hess
General Washington
Whooping Cough Relief Claim From Kansas City Family
Mrs Ellen Harrison of 300 Park Ave Kansas City Missouri reports two children suffered severe whooping cough with nosebleeds during paroxysms. After trying remedies they consulted a family doctor who prescribed Foley's Honey and Tar. With the first dose the children improved and the family says it saved their lives. Sold by Ureier & Bro.
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Ellen Harrison
Park Ave
Kansas City
Foley
Ureier & Bro
Nickel Plate offers $1 round trip to 100 miles
Beginning Sunday April 17 and every Sunday after, groups of five or more may travel at one dollar per person to any point within a 100 mile radius of the selling station on the Nickel Plate road. See agent or C A Asterlin TP A Fort Wayne Ind. Offer valid until May 28.
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Nickel Plate Road
C. A. Asterlin
TP. A
Fort Wayne
Ind
Citizens' Trust Co. Incorporation Vote Noted
The text reports that the Citizens' Trust Co. opposite the post office holds a $400,000 security organization transitine vote in Marshall County to incorporate and notes a location at 12-2-west Lapaz.
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Citizens’ Trust Co
Opp Poast
Lapaz
Marshall County
Struck oil hits two caves at Red Key well
Special to Thy Sentinel Red Key Ind April 23 Two distinct caves were struck in an oil well shot by Reliance Oil and Gas Co of which Senator Lew V Alrey of Fort Wayne is president and general manager The well flowed 9800 feet of oil in twenty minutes tallying the richest strike in the field The rig has leased about 2000 acres with thirty wells in the area and expected profits range from 50000 to 100000
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Red Key
Ind
Reliance Oil and Gas Company
Lew V. Alrey
Fort Wayne
Noother Cave
Wis
Indiana man commits suicide in Porto Rico official
Frederick V. Martin of Indiana and commissioner of immigration for Porto Rico killed himself by cutting his throat last night. His body was found this morning. The cause cited was brooding over private financial matters and the office’s affairs are believed to be in good shape.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
Frederick V. Martin
Indiana
Immigrant Commissioner Frederick Martin Dies by Self Inflicted Wound
Frederick Martin, appointed by President McKinley as immigration commissioner for Porto Rico three years ago, reportedly cut his throat. His Attica, Indiana home noted. His wife departed Wednesday from New York aboard the Philadelphia. Levi Harding, longtime Corunna resident in DeKalb county, dies at 77.
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Indianapolis
Fredericlk Martin
Porto
Rico
McKinley
Attica
Ind
New York
Philadelphia
Levi Harding
Corunna
DeKalb County
Russians Lose Twenty One Men In Mine Explosion
In Port Arthur harbor a Russian launch struck a mine while laying mines, killing twenty one sailors. The viceroy reports the accident as carelessness by defenders, with officials noting ongoing gloom after prior disasters.
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Launch
Port Arthur
St. Petersburg
Viceraz Alexieff
Maesty
Pell
Admiralty
War Commission
Family overcome by coal gas fumes
Mr and Mrs George Poyser and their thirteen year old daughter at 1117 Wall Street narrowly escaped death from coal gas fumes caused by a defective flue. Mrs Poyser awakened and crawled to the door for help as the others were affected. The girl was unconscious and revived after artificial respiration and hospital care.
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George Poyser
Wall Street
Budd van Sweringen
Memorial funeral for Mrs Mary J Baker observed in 1904
The funeral for Mrs Mary J Baker was held Monday afternoon April 18 1904 at her home. Rev J Webster Bailey of Plymouth Congregational church officiated delivering a sermon praising Baker’s devotion and selflessness. His remarks compared her life to the alabaster box scene and honored her children as her monument.
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Mary J. Baker
J. Webster Bailey
Plymouth Congregational Church
Bethany
Mary
Jesus
Jove
San
Panama Canal sale ratified by shareholders in France
Paris reports the Panama Canal Company votes to approve the sale to the United States with overwhelming support and two dissenting votes on the second resolution. The transfer is now complete and payment arrangements involve Secretary of the Treasury and Panamanian officials as tensions rise over the new state’s finances.
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United States
Paris
Panama Canal Company
Panama
Canal Company
Lille Des Agriculateurs
Council of Admin
Washington
State Department
Secretary of the Treasury
Ray
Senor Arosamena
Indiana Wheat Crop A Failure Reported In Indiana
Triianapolis Indiana April 23 The wheat crop of Indiana is expected to be a larger failure than township reports indicated State Statistician Johnson says the crop will not average more than 40 percent The article notes weather and planting delays contributing to poor yields.
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Triianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Johnson
Bank Robbery Suspects Nabbed in Clay City Indiana
James Bowen and George Ellis aged forty five and twenty five were arrested early today for complicity in the robbery of the Farmers and Merchants bank. They were taken to Brazil for safekeeping. A letter found in Briley's saloon at Jasonville allegedly named local suspects and listed participants in the plan. More arrests believed imminent.
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Clay City
Ind
James Bowen
George Ellis
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank
Brazil
Ellis
Jasonville
Briley
Iasonville
Roosevelt selects Judge Winthrop as Porto Rico governor
President Roosevelt has named Judge Beak man Winthrop of the court of first instance in the Philippine islands to succeed William R. Hunt as governor of Puerto Rico. The appointment, though not official yet, is expected soon. Winthrop, a Harvard graduate from New York, previously served as assistant executive secretary to the Philippine commission.
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Whehington
Roosevelt
Beakman Winthrop
Court of First Instance
Philippine Islands
Willam R. Hunt
Porto Rico
Winthrop
New York
Harvard
Philippines
Philippine Commission
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M’kinley
Bailey
Rachel
Feelystan
Ingelrlei
Fron Sin
Pollathun
Sie
Henry W. Longfellow
Mir
Baker
Lovely Bindenwood
Clay
City Enterprise
Judge Winthrop
Montana
Hunt
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