Congress Has No Right to Meddle in Mormon Polygamy
Washington debate centers on polygamy in Utah as Rev. Joseph Smith testifies about past voting exclusions and church leadership. Smith cites 12,000 polygamists excluded from voting around 1882 and discusses current leaders and plural marriages under constitutional conflict with national law. The testimony touches on revelations and obedience to church versus U.S. law as a broader legal clash continues.
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Washington
Joseph Smith
Mormon Church
A. & Worthington
Dubola
Smith
Mr. Smith
Worthington
Hiram Smith
John R. ‘Winder
Appeal of Dreyfus Granted for Trial Revision
Paris March 28 The criminal branch of the court of cassation granted Alfred Dreyfus's appeal for a revision of his Rennes trial. The court ordered supplementary investigation to settle doubtful points, marking another success for Dreyfus though not final until the additional inquiries are completed.
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Paris
Court of Cassation
Alfred Dreyfus
Rennes
Percentage Plan Is Now The Rule For Primaries
Allen County Democratic Central Committee adopted the percentage plan for the primaries with no dissenting vote. Delegates to the county convention in June will be apportioned by ballot results. reports from wards showed overwhelming support. A special committee of ten members and five nonmembers was authorized to draft operating rules. The group also nominated a county treasurer candidate and prepared other office slates.
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Allen County
Democratic Central Committee
Scherer
Nat
Lake
Marion
Milan
St. Joe
J. J. Bauer
Fourth Ward
Calvin Brown
Cedar Creek
Nuttle
Bauer
Central Committee
Grand jury resumes Schafer murder probe in Bedford
Detective Reed continues testimony as the McDonald crew remains the sole group under scrutiny. Miss May Guilbert plans to depart Monday evening for New York City.
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Bedford
Ind
Schafer
Reed
Mc Donald
May Guilbert
New York City
Said Now to Be Cruising in Search of Japanese Vessels
Tokio reports Austrian steamer from Vlndivostok says Russian squadron left Vindivo stock February 29 and may be cruising northern waters to seize Japanese merchantmen. Hakodate advices show no attacks on northern ports. Manchuria and other vessels declared prizes of war by the naval court at Sasho, appeal allowed within thirty days.
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St. Petersburg
Tokio
Hakodate
Vlndivostok
Vindivostock
Asuke Bay
Manchuria
Chinese Eastern Railway Company
Slhepner
Alide
Sasho
Peddlers' band vows to kill officials over Japan pact
Seoul reports twenty peddlers oath to slay officials favoring a Japan alliance. Four leaders arrested as Korea pledges to reopen Yongampho to Wifu railway. Elsewhere British gunboat ferries refugees to Chenmipo while Russia notes scarce troops and hints at minor NK patrols. A restless European scene mixes war talk with weather and a bold Czech naval note.
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Seoul
Japan
Korana
Yongampho
Wifu
Six Men Die as Bridge Collapses Over Yellow Creek
In Cleveland area, six workers drowned and four injured when a bridge on the Cleveland and Pittsburg line over Yellow Creek near Irondale gave way during two locomotives crossing. Most victims from Wellsville, Ohio. The collapse followed a cloudburst Thursday and left one flagman at risk.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Yellow Creek
Irondale
Cleveland and
Pittsburg
EF. May
J. J. Henderson
Freman
George Phillips
Thomas Kerr
J. Koontz
A. d. King
Emmet Ralson
T. Grafton
E. Doody
G. B. McDermott
Wellsville
Fatal Prison Fight Leaves Man Dead
In Trenton N March 6 Ilmer Durant and Henry Jones cellmates in the state prison fought in their cell today Durant was stabbed to death and Jones is in critical condition The bodies are covered with stab wounds
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Trenton
Ilmer Durant
Henry Jones
Durant
Jones
Miners Reject Compromise Proposal On Aye and Nay Vote
Indianapolis bulletin reports miners voted down the operators’ compromise after officers urged acceptance. A roll call is in progress and a strike appears almost unavoidable. Mrs. Mary Buckland is seriously ill at 306 Wallace Street.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Mary Buckland
Wallace Street
Bombardment Reported From Port Arthur Siege Details
New York reports a three days bombardment by Japanese forces of Port Arthur, via Herald dispatch from Tien Tam. Attacks occurred Saturday morning and continued Monday through Wednesday, with ships first at nine and three-eighths miles, then closing to four and three quarters miles. Also notes Miss Millia Thompson of East Lewis street recovering from illness.
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New York
Port Arthur
Tien Tam
Death of Count Von Waldersee in Hanover Prussia
Fields Marshal Count Von Waldersee, born in Potsdam in 1832, died after 8 PM in Hanover. A German soldier, he served in 1866 and the Franco German War, became quartermaster general in 1882, succeeded Moltke as field marshal in 1888, led the ninth army corps from 1891, and commanded allied forces in China during the Boxer uprising. He married Princess Maria Von Noer in 1874, a New York born widow, and was a favored confidant of the imperial family.
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Count von Waldersee
Pottsdam
Count von Moltke
Stettin
Maria von Noer
Prince Frederick of
Schleswig-Holstein
Mary Esther Lee
New York
Countess Waldersee
Emperor Frederick
Empress Victoria
China
Convict Wins in Fight for Parole at Indiana Reformatory
Charles Terry, from Allen County, secured parole after a long dispute rooted in a habeas challenge by Attorney H R Robbins. The Indiana Reformatory board granted Terry and twenty-one other paroles, ending a fight over a modified sentence and release order amid earlier contempt threats against officials.
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Ind
Board of Romnagera
Indiana Reformatory
Charles Terry
Allen County
Terry
H. R. Robbins
Knox
Circuit Court
Elted
Whittaker
Jeffersonville Reformatory
Charles McCulloch
Board of Pardons
Win Robbins
Clark Circurt
Traffersonville
Reformatory
Snow
P. B. Calerick
Desperate Murderer Hanged After Escapes and Delays
In Opelika Alabama on March 5, Hs Sparks, a Black murderer, was executed after a dramatic sequence in his cell. He assaulted a guard with a knife, was pinned to the wall with pitchforks, and overpowered by deputies. After initial failed rope drop due to excessive length, Sparks mounted the scaffold again and the shortened rope finally broke his neck.
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Opelika
Aln
Hs Sparks
Sparks
Ony
Shipplee admits many marriages in bigamy case
James H. Shipplee a 32 year old street car conductor faced arraignment in Elizabeth New Jersey on bigamy charges He surprised the court by saying he had been married about forty seven times with two wives present and four other women known to be his spouses One wife lived in San Francisco and others in New Jersey He was held to the grand jury
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Elizabeth
N. J
James H. Shipplee
San Francisco
Priest Killed and Two Wounded in Long Island City Church Fire
A fire at St Patrick's Roman Catholic church and adjoining rectory in Long Island City killed Rev Father Ernest and Mary and Margaret Brady and badly burned two other priests, Rev Father Hendigan and Rev Father Kearney, who escaped by window. Loss estimated at 35000 dollars. Cause undetermined.
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New York
St Patrick’s Roman Catholic
Long Island City
Ernest and Mary
Margaret Brady
Joseph Kearney
Father Hendigan
Pather Ernest
Father Hennigan
Father Kearney
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church
Father Hennigen
Margaret
Mary Brady
Smallpox Epidemic in a Mining Town Gilmour
Indianapolis reports the state board of health unable to cope with a smallpox outbreak in Gilmour a mining town between Sullivan and Greene counties nine near one hundred cases recorded residents refuse vaccination and doubt the diagnosis though no deaths occur cases are mild but feared to spread a harsher form.
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Indianapolis
State Board of Health
Gilmour
Sullivan
Greene Counties
State Board
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Song Chen
North Korea
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Chemulpo
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Vyavensy
Madame Pousep
Red Cross
Novest
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Siberia
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Millia Thompson
East Lewis Street
International Army
Hanover
Prussia
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Lima
Schaarwachter
Berlin
General von Waidersee
Mormon Smith
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