President Roosevelt to grill plotters in coming disclosures
Roosevelt sharpens disclosures on alleged conspiracies against his policies. Prominent rivals Harriman Hearst Rockefeller and others are named as targets in the unfolding political drama. A $3000 slush fund is cited as diminishing as investigators press for proof. Senator Penrose is implicated as the first to spread details of the plot.
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Roosevelt
Harriman
Hearst
Rockefeller
White House
Taft
Senator Penrose
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Penrose Faces Pressure Over 1904 Campaign Ties
The piece portrays pressure on Penrose amid revelations about corporate campaign contributions in 1904. It highlights George B. Cortelyou’s refusal of a tobacco trust donation and his reporting to the president, while noting ongoing federal probes and potential bad trust classifications. It mentions other corporations offering funds but having gifts rejected.
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Harriman
George B. Cortelyou
The
Tobacco Trust
New York
Repubican National Committee
Former Clerk Arrested Over Harriman Letter
Frank W. Hill former private secretary to E H Harriman was arrested in De Coppett and Doremus office on Broadway charged with publishing Harriman and Sidney Webster correspondence accusing Roosevelt of urging a 200000 national campaign contribution Hill confessed selling the letter to the New York World and was jailed without bail under penal code section 642. Alexander Millar secretary of the Union Pacific and Harriman confidant filed the complaint.
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New York
Frank W. Hill
E. H. Harriman
de Coppett & Doremus
Broadway
Edward H. Harriman
Sidney Webster
Harriman
Roosevelt
Hill
Alexander Millar
Union Pacific Railroad
New York World
LOCAL JOTTINGS OF INTEREST INDIANAPOLIS CITY NOTES
Brief items from Indianapolis including Gov Hanly return plans to mobilize state militia, court house space issues for new Marion County superior courts, and comments on city projects. Also mentions fishing method, police duty assignments, riverfront bridge work, and new transit bids.
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John McGregor
Hanly
Bookwalter
Court House
Marion County
City park tennis courts await summer opening
Spade's place blooms with trees and lawns as the city prepares for a summer of leisure. Young residents eagerly await the opening of tennis courts at the city parks and bids are invited for the livestock pavilion at the state fairgrounds with a 300 by 200 footprint. Auctioneer John Holtzman is preferred for the Andrew Sweeney sale over Lew Shank. Walton county records show Hugh J. McGowan's traction merger with deeds and leases for lines including Northwestern Martinsville Western Eastern Coal Traction. The Sweeney sale grossed 7714.65 dollars.
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Hugh J. McGowan
Walton County
Martinsville
Night cyclone kills and injures many in Alexandria
A cyclone struck Alexandria Louisiana at 2 am causing nine deaths and about 46 injuries. Houses and trees were destroyed, power plants and mills wrecked, over fifty homes damaged with several stores demolished. Identified dead include Rose Dudley, Cc White, John Breck, and M I Dunn.
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Rose Dudley
Fire Hits Santiago Town. Water Shortage Hinders Firefighting
Dispatches from Santiago report the town in flames with strong fears of total destruction. Details are scarce but indicate no water is available to combat the blaze as Havana cites the grim situation dated April 5.
Father Arrested After Kitchen Kittens Row
John Gregor of 9 Indiana Ave was arrested on a charge of drawing a deadly weapon after a domestic dispute over a basket of kittens. Gregor says his daughter Hattie owned the kittens and he ordered them moved to the cellar. she allegedly attacked him, he grabbed a hatchet in self defense as others arrived.
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Hattie
Bicgelmen Mullin
Stewart
John Gregor
Indiana Ave
Gregor
Wickard Discharged In Fraudulent Check Case
Willard Wickard was cleared in police court Friday as the charge of passing a fraudulent check was dismissed. Prosecutor Oran Hack said the case would not be pursued if the payee William Beck wished to drop it, allowing Wickard to leave the courtroom a free man.
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Willard S. Wickard
Oran Hack
William Beck
Wickard
Woman Asphyxiated in Chicago Wardrobe Room
Mary Naylor, 62, wardrobe mistress for the Peter Pan company, was found dead in her hotel room in Chicago this morning. A jet was slightly turned. officials say she was asphyxiated. Company members believe the death was accidental.
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Lor
Peter Pan Company
Ccompany
Mrs. Naylor
Pilot George Contant Dies At Wheel In Ohio River
In Wheeling West Virginia on April 5 pilot George A Contant aged 40 years old collapsed and died at the wheel of the Lorena a Zanesville and Pittsburg packet north of Wheeling The long serving pilot had forty years at sea and his death followed an aimless drift of the boat until the captain discovered him in the pilot house
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Scripps-McRae Press Association
Wheeling
W. Va
George A. Contant
Zanesville
Pittsburg
Here
Contant
Taft Favorite in Minnesota
A Minnesota legislature poll shows Taft leading with 45 votes, La Follette 18, Root 16, Hughes 6, Cannon 2, Dolliver 2, Fairbanks 1, Beveridge 1, Cortelyou 1, while the Democrats back Johnson 29 and Bryan 5. The body is described as strongly Republican.
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ST. Paul
Longworths to Visit Alaska for a Month
Across several cities, brief items note: Mr and Mrs Nicolas Longworth will depart Cincinnati around July 1 for a month in Alaska. six days of brewery strikes in St Louis cost owners about 500000. Bishop James H FitzGerald of St Louis dies of pleurisy while visiting missions in Hong Kong. Other notes cite Arkansas perjury trial revelations and a Des Moines public entertainment dress rule, plus Cincinnati Roosevelt Republicans backing Taft.
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Washington
Nicholas Longworth
Cincinnati
Alaska
ST. Louis
Hong Kong
James H. Fitzgerald
M. E. Church
Foreign Missions
Actress Impeached Howard Nicholas in Chicago Trial
The opening of the murder case for Howard Nicholas and Leonard Leopold seeks the death penalty for the killing of Mrs. Margaret Leslie. Actress Phyllis Campbell testified against Nicholas while revealing a scheme to impersonate a woman and plant diamonds. A deputy seized a long sheath knife from Nicholas during court and testimony recounted past theater ventures and a supposed marriage to Maxine Merrill.
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Chicago
Margaret Leslie
Indianapolis
Howard Nicholas
Leonard Leopold
Ball
Phyllis Campbell
Nicholas
Miss Campbell
Mr. Short
Tok
Daniel Baker
Nicholas’ Theatrical Company
Minneapolis
Baker
Maxine Merrill
Mar~ Rice
Foos
Getting the Cash for Masonic Temple Drive
The article notes Friday contributions totaling 9.16 toward a new Masonic temple and reports an active forenoon. Cumulative donations to date reach 66,601 dollars, reflecting strong community support for the campaign.
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Masonic Temple
Walsh Indicted for False Entries and Funds Misuse
Joan R. Walsh faced a 175 count indictment in Chicago charging misapplication of funds totaling more than 3.5 million dollars and false entries in reports to the US Comptroller of the Currency. The case stems from Chicago National Bank affairs examined by a special grand jury over weeks, with Walsh expected to appear for bond posting. The indictment cites three memorandum notes of about 679,900 and the sale of railroad stock securities worth several million as the alleged misapplications.
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Chicago
Comptroller of
United States
Joan R. Walsh
Chicago National Bank
Anderson
Walsh
Edward W. Sims
County awards boiler, bridge contracts in Marion County
County commissioners Friday awarded Atlas Engine Works a $21.83 contract for new boilers at the county power plant behind the jail. They also contracted Central States Bridge Company for an $11,000 bridge spanning Eagle Creek at Raymond Street.
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Atlas Engine Works
Central States Bridge Company
Eagle Creek
Raymond St
Jerome Gives Up on Thaw Lunacy Commission Fight
New York district attorney Jerome abandons contest of the Thaw lunacy commission report. Trial of Thaw for murder of White is to resume Monday morning. Jerome says he has until Monday to decide and will not waive his privilege. Unofficial notices circulate at the criminal court building but no official action is expected before Monday.
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New York
Jerome
Thaw
der of White
Criminal Court
Memorial Day Order From Grand Army of the Republic
General orders No 10 from Grand Army of the Republic national headquarters at Laneville Ohio urge posts to decorate Union graves on Memorial Day May 30. Public services encouraged and invitations extended to auxiliary groups and the public. Department commanders to set May 24 or preceding school day for observances in public schools. Posts to attend services as a body on Sunday May 26.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Lanesville
United States Weather Forecast Briefing Notes
Threatening weather with possible showers and little temperature change. Sunrise at 5 24, sunset 6 12. The remaining text appears garbled and not meaningfully readable.
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United States
Toa
Cabinet Reconsiders After Queen Wilhelmina Request
The Dutch cabinet withdraws resignations except Gen. N P Staal. Maj Gen Van Rappard becomes minister of war successor, in The Hague on April 5. The move follows a request by Queen Wilhelmina to halt the resignations.
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Scripps-McRae Preae Association
the Hague
N. P. Staal
Wilhelmina
van Rappard
Amsterdam
Staal
Habich Bicycles and Tires Ad on Washington Street
Habich offers bicycles priced at 25 and 30 dollars. Tires priced at 2.59 dollars each. Located at 1 percent W Washington Street.
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Habich
W. Washington St
Canadian government buys Pueblo herd of buffaloes
MISSOULA Mont April 5 The Canadian government purchased the famous Pueblo herd of five buffaloes now on the Flathead reservation 53 miles from town The price is said to be per head though no appropriation existed to cover the purchase.
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Scripps-McRae Preas Association
Missoula
Mont
Pueblo
Flathead Reservation
United States
Gillespie Leaves Prison for Home
Jas Gillespie former life prisoner at Indiana State Penitentiary after supreme court release will reach home tomorrow. Papers reached Warden Reid at noon and at 3:40 p.m. J B Hurst assisted. Gillespie departs in charge to Ohio County sheriff. He has made no plans for the future.
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Gillespie
Indiana
Supreme Court
Elizabeth
Rising Sun
Reid
J. B. Hurst
Ohio County
Relics of White Sold at Auction in New York
The first day of the Stanford White belongings sale drew early bids from society leaders and business men. Sofa cushions sold for up to 170 and bric a brac fetched similar prices. A pair of antique Spanish silver lamps brought 840, the day’s top single item, totaling 29,505.50 net. Only smaller articles sold. tomorrow structural house parts go, with paintings slated for next week.
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Toomorrow
Folk commutes sentences of two city officials in Missouri
Gov Folk commuted the sentences of Julius Lehman and Emil Hartman, members of the Jefferson City municipal assembly, who were convicted of doodling while Folk was district attorney. They will be released June 15. Faulkner completed his term last week. Lehman had about four years left and Hartman three.
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Lehman
Hartman
Harry Faulkner
Municipal Assembly
Folk
Faulkner
Fairbanks Machine Afraid Of The People Exposed In Indiana
Lucius B. Swift of Indianapolis openly opposes Vice President Fairbanks for the presidency, arguing the Fairbanks machine controls Indiana politics and would threaten civil progress under President Roosevelt. He praises Roosevelt while warning that Fairbanks represents the past and would favor corporate interests over the people.
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Fairbanks Machine
Lucius B. Swift
Theodore Roosevelt
Indianapolis
Swift
Fairbanks
Hemenway
Indiana
Fairhirks
Joe Keeling
United States
Keeling
Washington
Mr. Fairbanks
Roosevelt
Tim
Daniel
Mrs Dorn vanishes then returns home to Chicago
Mrs Benjamin Dorn, visiting Indianapolis, left in a huff and was reported missing. Police searched through Thursday night and Friday before confirming she is safe at home in Chicago. Her husband received a telegram from Indianapolis and did not notify authorities.
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Miss Campbell
Nicholas
Grace Kimberlin
Chicago
Indianapolis
Illnoisst
Gram
Benjamin Dorn
Snedianapolis
Gid
Boy 19 Kills Himself in Chicago Morning Tragedy
Horace Ciome, 19, died by shooting himself after saying goodbye to his mother in Chicago this morning. Police and officials said motive is unknown. The act occurred at his home, and the incident is being investigated as a self inflicted death.
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Scrippe-McRae Press Association
Chicago
Horace Ciomé
Z Goodby
Aigself
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Cortelyou
Charles Gift
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Board of Safety
Bluffton
Ind
Metzger
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Metropolitan School of Music
C. H. Gabel
Southern Electric Railway Company
George J. Marott
Henry Kahn
Fall Creek
Meridian St
Walbott-ave
Roscoe
Teehee
Spade
Andrew Sweeney
John Holtzman
State Board of Agriculture
Alexandria, LA
Scripps-MecRae Press Association
Alexandria
Cc. White, John Breck and
M. I. Dunn
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Pital
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Santiago
Aire
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Havana
Mary Naye
Minnesota
Neripps-Mcline Press Association
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Seaton's Hat Store
Denison Barber Shop
Heal. Bros
Teddy
Scripps-McHae Preas Association
Michigan City, Ind
Stanford White
Harry Thaw
Scripps-McRare Press Association
Jefferson City
Gov
Julius Lehman
Emil Hartman
Husband
Soma
Ifer
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Mrs. Dorn
Atkins Saw
Fred C. Gairdner
Saw Works
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Claypool
Gardner
Mra
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