Hold Their Own As to Both the Greeks and the Turks
Dispatches from Athens report Greek advances into Turkish Thrace near Reveni Botthazi and Damasi with gains at Mati and Salagora and captured artillery. Turkish statements claim Naim Hakki and Osman Pashas secured positions and attacked Greek forces near Milonia Siulva and Karadja Garbika. Greece also plans broad landwehr mobilization with nineteen year service terms.
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London
Skouzes
Athens
Thessalian
Thessaly
Reveni
Botthazi
Damasi
Gritzovall
Mati
Nezeros
Derchi
Epirus
Imaret
Filliplada
Salagora
Constantinople
Naim Pasha
Milonia
Siulva
Hakki Pasha
Neraly
Korkrena
Karadja
Viran
Hamdi Pasha
Gordonan
Garbika
Ghezi Osman Pasha
Edhem Pasha
Trade conditions improve slightly says Bradstreet
Bradstreet notes a mild uptick in general trade this week with mixed signals across sectors. Iron and steel face continued weakness with Bessemer pig and steel billets up 26 cents per ton, while coal mining lags behind and rumors of strikes threaten wider impact. Wool trading slows, wholesale dry goods weak despite a large cotton goods sale, but retail demand rises in the northwest for dry goods hardware and millinery as weather firms. Floods ease in the Mississippi creating cautious optimism. interior trade benefits road improvements. U S business failures total 216 this week, up from 195 last week, with 22 reported in Canada versus 39 prior week.
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Werther
New York
Bradstreet's
Bessemer
Agricultural Department
United States
Dominion
Solons Take Another Rest In Minor Business
Springfield reports a light senate session with several bills introduced to curb foreign insurers lacking licenses and require annual statements published in Chicago and Springfield. A city education board licensing bill and an architects licensing measure passed. The Torrens land title bill moved to next Tuesday. Governor Tanner signed the judicial apportionment bill. its emergency clause was struck, delaying full effect until July 1 with new circuits for circuit judges chosen June first.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Senate
Chicago
Tanner
Man shoots motorman at city hall clash in St Louis
In St Louis on April 24 Ira Stansbury, a 77 year old resident, shot motorman James H Thorp after Thorp tried to move an electric car off a buggy blocking a track. Stansbury claimed street rights and remained calm after arrest.
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St. Louis
Stansbury
Vassos to Open in Crete and Greek Victory Report
A London dispatch notes Colonel Vassos has orders to attack the Turks. The Athens and Canea reports describe Greek fleet actions at Katerina and Ligeria, Turkish stores destroyed, and villagers rising between Katerina and Veria. Wounded Greeks recount a church fire set by Turks after a retreat.
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London
Daily News
Canea
Vassos
Times
Athens
Daily Chronicle
Constantin
George
Ligeria
Nezeros
Rapsani
Katerina
Chronicle
Litochorion
Sachtouris
Mount Olympus
Edhem Pasha
Salonica
Verri
Blassona
Crete
Volo
Veria
Gritzovall
Prevesa
War clouds over Bulgaria and the Sultan face off
A Constantinople dispatch reports Bulgaria will mobilize unless five Bulgarian berats and clerical appointments are granted by the Porte. A Journal dispatch notes rumors the sultan may refuse, risking war, while Roumanians issue 8.67 million francs for a war credit. In Greece olive groves near Prevesa see fighting as Greeks press toward Pillipada.
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London
The
Standard
Consstantinople
Bulgaria
Porte
Berats
Macedonia
Uskub
Monastir
New York
Constantinople
Duchess of York Reported Dead in Confinement
London April 24 reported the Duchess of York died at Sandringham House at 3 o clock this morning during confinement. George of England's wife was said to have paused away.
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George of England
London
Duchess of York
Sandringham House
Weaver Named Embezzler At Savings Loan Body
Springfield April 24 Auditor McCullough was notified by the Citi zens Savings Loan and Building association of Pana that I N Weaver secretary is an embezzler to about $3000 and possibly more. Inspector Morrow is appointed to examine the association’s books in Pana. Weaver is said to have been short thrice before this act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weaver
Springfield
Tus
Auditor of Public Accounts
McCullough
Citizens’ Savings Loan and Building Association
Pana
I. N. Weaver
Morrow
Chicago standings slip as two league games featured
Chicago fell 3 to 4 at Cincinnati while Brooklyn beat Washington 8 to 7 and New York topped Philadelphia 12 to 7. Baltimore beat Boston 7 to 5. Milwaukee edged Minnesota 3 to 1 and Indianapolis defeated Grand Rapids 8 to 7, Columbus beat Detroit 9 to 4.
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Chicago
Cincinnati
Washington
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
New York
Baltimore
Boston
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Indianapolis
Grand Rapids
Columbus
Detroit
Verdict Links Pugilist Billy Vernon's Death to Brain Hemorrhage
Philadelphia on April 24 reports the coroner's jury found Billy Vernon died from a brain hemorrhage caused by an injury sustained in a fight with Leslie Pearce. The verdict assigns no blame and censures no person.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Billy” Vernon
Leslie Pearce
Indiana Coal Miners Set 51-Cent Scale in Indiana District
Indiana bituminous operators and miners reached a 51 cent scale last night in Terre Haute Indiana. The price level was proposed by operators with a conditional advance tied to action by the Hocking Valley and Illinois miners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Terre Haute
Ind
Hocking Valley
Illinois
Samaria Lost Off Coast With 21 Perished
A life buoy marked Samaria washed ashore at Long Beach Washington. The British bark Samaria, overdue from Puget Sound for San Francisco, carried twenty one souls all of whom perished.
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Astoria
Ore
Long Beach
Wash
Puget Sound
San Francisco
Colonel Mosby Severely Hurt in Virginia Buggy Accident
Colonel John Mosby was thrown from a buggy at the University of Virginia yesterday afternoon and sustained a cut that may severely injure one eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mosby
Richmond
John
University of Virginia
Parish in danger as Biggs crevasse threatens Fifth Louisiana
Reports from Natchez and Memphis detail the Biggs crevasse at 8,000 feet wide with 17 feet water depth and the levee system across the Fifth Louisiana district under threat. Yazoo River rises to 31.5 feet, water tunnels toward Lake Centennial, and refugees crowd Natchez as crevasses widen and rain crises loom.
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Memphis
Natchez
Vicksburg
Miss
Ensus Parish
Louisiana
East Carroll Parish
Madison
Yazoo
Yazoo City
Yazoo River
Lake Centennial
The
National Cemetery
Providence
W. B. Shields
Ben Lomond
Vidalia
Seed
Black
Tensas
Flood relief advance and river levels ease north of Memphis
Report from Memphis notes no new levee crevasse with river currents abating southward. Delta flooding has inundated 75,000 acres of southern Louisiana crops while Arkansas conditions improve. Government relief ships will depart to northern districts. weather bureau bulletin records steady falls along the Mississippi and tributaries, with widespread distress noted among Spain’s unemployed.
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Memphis
Delta
Louisiana
Greenville
Arkansas
Davis
St. Francis River
United States Weather Bureau
Mississippi
Cairo
Vicksburg
New Orleans
Shreveport
Missouri
Kansas City
Omaha
Nashville
Chattanooga
Weather Bureau
Indian Bill To Conference After Senate Amendments
Washington April 24 The House completed consideration of Senate amendments to the Indian appropriation bill and sent it to conference. A key issue was opening the Uncompahgre Indian reservation under mineral land laws. An amendment limits private possession of silsonite deposits by leasing lands in small areas and for short terms. The Senate’s strike on oil and gas lease provisions by the Seneca Indians council was disagreed to. A 25 member committee was appointed to attend Grant Tomb dedication in New York on Tuesday and the House approved three days of adjournments for next week.
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House
Senate
Washington
Council of the Seneca Indians
Bland
Union Pacific Railroad
Grant
New York
Committee Catches a Tartar in Pittsburg Mining Probe
J B Cory, a wealthy coal operator, attacked a legislative committee probing Pittsburg district affairs. He condemned the inquiry as an outrage, mocked the room’s atmosphere, and claimed miners suffer while cigars are funded. He offered to donate his mine and equipment for six months to prove business conditions. He denounced labor leaders and touted iron clad contracts.
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Pittsburg
J.B. Cory
Cory
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Des Moines Weather Destroys Homes and Rail Bridges
A major Iowa rainfall and high winds Thursday night caused widespread damage across Des Moines and state areas. Roofs were ripped off, trees uprooted, and several structures moved or destroyed including two bridges on the Chicago Rock Island line near Holly Junction and a Chicago Great Western bridge at Berwick. Residents fled flooding as the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers neared flood stage with water still rising.
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Des Moines
Here
Holly Junction
Chicago Great Western
Berwick
Raccoon
Arbor Day Observance Grows in Iowa With Planting Rules
Des Moines April 24 Arbor day marked the fifteenth year in Iowa following Nebraska’s lead in 1882. The law directs each district to plant twelve or more shade trees at every schoolhouse site as part of the state observance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawkeye
Des Moines
Iowa
Nebraska
J. Sterling Morton
Hanging at San Quentin for Saloon Murder
Frank Kloss was hanged yesterday in San Quentin Prison for the murder of William Deady two years earlier. An old quarrel in a saloon led to the crime as Kloss, intoxicated, returned to stab Deady while he slept. No statement was made on the gallows.
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San Quentin
Cal
Frank Kloss
William Deady
Kloss
Peady
Sewer Pipe Makers Form Price-fixing Group
Cleveland April 24 after many attempts the sewer pipe manufacturers of the country formed an organization to maintain prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewer Pipe Men Combine
Cleveland
Storm hits William Apsley residence near Newton Kansas
A wind storm demolished William Apsley’s home one mile southwest of Newton Kansas. His wife and children were hurled from a bed for about a quarter mile. The report lists other disasters and events including Chicago firemen escaping a collapsing floor, saloon war plans in Chicago, Grecian women arming against Turks, a Whitney Point fire loss, a large railway disaster casualty list near Evergreen Alabama, Bellamy Storer appointed minister to Belgium, Arbor Day observances, Pretoria forts planned in Transvaal, and the hanging of R H Straub in Friday Harbor Washington for a 1895 murder.
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William Apsley
Newton
Kan
Chicago
Yolo
Whitney's Point
Binghamton
N. Y
Evergreen
Ala
O. Adams
Jordan Jones
Wocke
Bellamy Storer
Belgium
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Transvaal
Pretoria
R. H. Straub
Friday Harbor
Wash
Leo Lanterman
Blakely Island
Hartsville College Presidents Heal with Pink Pills Story
President Alvin P. Barnaby and Prof. Bowman of Hartsville College tell how health collapse and recovery were achieved with Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. They credit nerve and blood restoration, weight gain, and renewed vigor after using the medicine as directed.
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Barnaby
Prof
Bowman
Hartsville College
Williams
Tom
Lyman J. Scudder
Prof. Bowman
United Brethren Church
Charlotte
Mich
Hartsville
Dr. Williams
Professor Bowman
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
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Greece
Landwehr
Solons
Iminors
Spain
Committee
Elemental Havoc
Republican
West
Central West
Alvin P, Barnaby
Alvin P. Barnaby
United Brethren
Kent County
Freeport
Gibler
Fred
M. McHenry
Stephenson Street
Court House
Stephenson St
Brewster House
Castoria
Ilinois
Woman’s Relief Corps
Galesburg
Ill
Illinois Central R. R
H. W. Rowigy
T. A
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