Insular Commission Report on Porto Rico Proposes New Government
The Porto Rican insular commission reports loyalty and wealth but widespread illiteracy. It notes poverty in districts, marriage costs driving concubinage, and hunger claims. Recommends a U S modeled government, currency replacement, bank reform, and public sale of concessions with bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Insular Commission
Orto Rico
Imada
Porto Rico
United States
Cleveland laments civil service order after McKinley change
Ex Governor Charles Foster quotes ex President Cleveland regretfully saying he should not have issued the civil service order. Foster notes President McKinley corrected the mistake without abandoning the principle, and Ohio Republicans will keep civil service in force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Cleveland
Charlea Foster
McKinley
Ohio
Ousting Gilbert Called for by Advance Editor
Chicago June 1 Broader charges of heresy against Professor George H Gilbert of the Chicago theological seminary are urged in an Advance editorial signed by Dr J A Adams editor. Adams cites Gilberts article on the apostles creed that rejects the supernatural origin of Jesus Christ and asks that Gilbert be expelled from the Congregational church.
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Chicago
George H. Gilbert
Chicago Theological Seminary
Advance
Congregational Church
J. A. Adams
Adams
Gilbert
Jesus Christ
Widow Jane Stanford Donates Vast Sum to Stanford University
Mrs Jane L Stanford widow of the late California senator conveys bulk of wealth to Stanford University. Principal stocks and real estate total about ten million dollars for the institution's improvement and perpetual maintenance in San Francisco on June 1.
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San Francisco
Janet L. Stanford
California
Stanford University
Prosperity in Chicago Lifts Iron Industry Wages
Chicago shows a strong era of prosperity with a vast army of laborers in manufacturing. In the last four months wages for about 30,000 workers rose by five to ten percent, signaling robust gains in the iron trades and related industries.
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Chicago
Prizes Awarded to Manual Training High School Field Team
The Sun trophy for interscholastic field events was presented to Manual Training High School by Prof Emmerich in a large ceremony at the school auditorium. Anton Vonnegut led with multiple firsts in pole vault and jumps, while Willis Coval Jack Shideler Clair Peck and others earned medals for track and field finishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manual Training High School
Anton Vonnegut
Emmerich
Manola
Willis Coval
Jack Shideler
Clair Peck
Manola Pickett
Fred Yeaton
Will Moore
Homer Tutt
Dreyfus to Return Home From Prison Island
The Journal correspondent from St. Pierre reports the Lafayette has arrived with officers and men to take Capt. Dreyfus from his prison on Isle du Diable to a new Paris trial. Guards will transfer to the Ville de Tanger for Cayenne with ten Republican guards and four gendarmes.
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New York
Journal
St. Pierre
Martinique
Lafayette
Dreyfus
Isle du Diable
French Guiana
Paris
Cayenne
Guiana
Colen
Republican Guards
Ville de Tanger
Petit Bleu
St. Nazace
Loire
De Roulede and Habert Acquitted in Paris Mutiny Trial
Paul de Roulede and Marcel Habert, on trial for three days in Paris for inciting mutiny in the army, were discharged Wednesday afternoon.
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de Roulede
Habert
Paris
Jume 1
Paul de Roulede
Marcel Habert
Mixed Court Tosses Fine to Cabbies for Attack
In police court Judge Cox fined Joe Lawson and George Thornton five dollars each for assault and battery on a tired woman traveler at Union Station. Thornton’s attorney, colored Lewis, was barred from practicing before the court, and the judge warned him not to return amid a quarantine remark.
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Joe Lawson
George Thornton
Union Station
Lawson
Cox
Lewis
Thornton
London Marquis to preside at tunnel plan meeting
London June 1 The Marquis of Londonderry will preside at a House of Commons committee room meeting within ten days. A statement will be made on a proposed tunnel project linking England and Ireland.
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London
Marquis of Londonderry
House of Commons
England
Ireland
State School Population Count Narrows, Vermilion Pulaski Grant Missing
The state school superintendent reports returns from all counties except Vermilion, Pulaski and Grant. The current total is 730,158, with last year’s total 754,945 and the three counties contributing 23,783. The overall population is essentially unchanged.
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Vermilion
Pulaski
Grant
Park Board Seeks Bids for Brookside Custodian Shelter
The park board will receive bids Friday for a shelter house and dwelling for Brookside park custodian. The following week bids will be opened for Riverside park improvements including a dam bear pits bicycle path and related work.
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Brookside Park
Riverside Park
Bath House Admission and Hat Trends Feature
An item highlights admission at Schissel's Bath House and notes Seaton's Hat Store offering the latest style hats at low prices. A monument is mentioned with an unspecified place and date context.
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Schissel’s
Seaton’s Hat’ Store
Dan Ransdell Named Mayor Candidate in City Race
The city buzzed with talk of Dan Ransdell as a tangible runnable mayoral candidate. Club leaders Marion and Columbia backed him, while others like Harry New J. C. Perry and Tom Taggart weighed their own health and political futures amid mayoral speculation. The incumbent mayor suffers stomach pains and fatigue, affecting duties and hosting obligations at the Grand as health concerns loom over the campaign.
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Dan Ransdell
Columbia Club
Marion Club
Allen
Harry New
J. C. Perry
Billy
Kathe
Bookwalter
Ransdell
District of Columbia
Harrison
Repub- Neen
Tom Taggart
Tom Taggare
Broken heart cracks G omez in Havana as illness deepens
Havana reports Gen. Gomez near collapse at Quinta de los Molinos from a severe asthma attack worsened by age. The general, worn by mental strain from Cuban politics and desertion by leaders, laments ingratitude and denies US government payments while surrounded by friends who fear his death stems from a broken spirit.
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Havana
Gomez
Quinta de Os Molinos
United States
Brooke
Explorer Arrives in Paris Amid Warm but Reserved Welcome
Maj. Marchand reached Paris at 9 a.m. Thursday to a crowd at the railway station. Officials greeted him while the day’s heat dampened expected excitement. He toured the ministry of marine and met President Loubet after a private audience with naval and government leaders.
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Paris
Marchand
Boulanger
Ministry of Marine
Maj
Loubet
Death sparks phone pension tale for local cabinet maker
William Cline, 63, of 104 Summit Ave, Indianapolis, died after news of a pension rise from 17 to 24 dollars. A cabinet maker for years, he collapsed from valvular heart failure after hearing the mail message. Survived by a wife and two children. Coroner ruled heart failure caused by excitement.
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William Cline
Summit Ave
Indianapolis
Excitime News
Dispute In Savannah Between Jacoby Household and Burges
A clash occurred Wednesday involving Savannah Jacoby and household members at 17 8 Senate avenue and Harry Burges of 19 S Senate. Details on motive and outcome are unclear from the fragment.
Epworth Leaguers Tent At State House Grounds Debate
Heated state house meeting over erecting an Epworth League tent on the capitol lawn. Rev Lasby and others clash over location and race remarks attributed to him. Knox defends the plan, asserts hotel access and city freedom for about 5,000 to 3,000 visiting colored leaguers and church members.
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Epworth League
State House
R. A. Brown
Supreme Court
Miltary Park
University Park
Lasby
Central Ave
Capitol
George Knox
Conference
M. E
Mr. Knox
Dr. Lasky
Union B. Hunt
W. H. Hart
R A. Brown
Knox
Sons of
Ham
Dr. Lasby
Brean
Cleveland
Lashy
Military Park
I. Garland Penn
Atlanta
United States
Mississippi
Better Work and Pay For Railway Mail Clerks Convention
Local railway mail clerks plan a national convention in Indianapolis on June 7 and 8 to discuss service improvements and salary raises. An auxiliary for visiting spouses is forming with active local leaders Mrs. Hitt, Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Wotan, and Mrs. Edmunds guiding efforts. About 100 clerks are expected. sessions at Denison. J. A. Kidwell of Columbus heads the division.
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Indianapolis
Railway Mail Clerks’ Association
W. F. Hitt
E. B. Cole
C. E. Wotan
A. R. Edmunds
Denison
J. A. Kidwell
Columbus
Gold Rush Sparks Rush For San Roque Bay Eldorado
Late advices from San Diego report rich gold dry placer discoveries at San Roque bay four miles offshore. Indians and Mexicans are extracting about 2 to 40 daily as water remains scarce. Hundreds of miners head toward the new eldorado and three vessels depart this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Cal
San Roque Bay
Tragedy and accidents reported in Mayville and Chicago
City incident in Mayville ends with a double shooting by a father while a son attempts suicide. A four year old dies under treatment in Chicago. Separate rail collisions kill an engineer and a tramp. A wagon collision injures a man on St Clair street. A jail fire causes sixty thousand dollars in damages as prisoners panic.
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Geo. Staalker
Mayville
Mich
Nathaniel True
Chicago
Herbert Garvin
Daniel Rouse
Ransford Pulliam
Mary
Ferdian Mintur
St. Clatr-st
Elliot
Drowning in Maumee River Tragedy Claims Several Lives
In Toledo Ohio on June 1 a boat with six people reportedly sank after being hit by swells from the steamer Pastime. Two bodies were recovered identified as John Chase and Ed Reiffert while police continued to search for others believed drowned. A prior sighting noted a boat with three men and three women missing.
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Siz
Maumee
Toledo
Maumee River
State of New York
John Chase
Ed Reiffert
Record Exports Break Previous U S Trade Peak in 1899
Washington reports that by June 1899 the United States exceeded its prior export records. Exports rose by over 100 million dollars monthly in the past 11 months led by iron and steel and cotton manufacturers, while farm product exports fell. Imports grew by more than 54 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
Europe
Young man held on suspicion in reading-room
Patrolman Tomlinson spotted a youth in the Haughville reading-room jotting about two War checks and a 20 year sentence. The man named Paul Hale was arrested. letters tied him to Clinton county Ohio. His portrait was sent to Sabina Ohio and Sheriff Wilson of Washington Court House Ohio ordered hold on Walter Hogue.
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Tomlinson
Haughville
Paul Hale
Clinton County
Ohio
Sabina
Sheriff Wilson
Washington Court House
Walter Hogue
Spittoon Pranks On Cap Itol-Age Bridge Crowd
Fred Wiley and Henry Spaan were sprayed by tobacco spit from three youths perched on the railing of Fall Creek Bridge in Cap itol-age. The offenders faced police court on assault and battery after witnesses were struck. Barr and Will Johnson were fined for the act while Wiley and Spaan denied plans to go to Fairbank.
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Fred Wiley
Henry Spaan
Fall Creek
Capitol-age
Health Board
Lawrence Barr
Sam
Will Johnson
Barr
Wiley
Spaan
Fairbank
Woman Bandit Robbery Near Globe and Florence
A man and a woman disguised as a man robbed four passengers and the driver on the Globe to Florence stage route. They relieved the party of 350 dollars a pistol and a gold watch before escaping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Ariz
Globe & Florence
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity June 2
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the 36 hours ending 8 p m reports fair weather. Thursday night and Friday may see showers. Temperatures at 7 a m and noon expected and 2 p m around 76 degrees. Ads claim most affordable watches jewelry and silverware at arcy's place.
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Indianapolis
Arcy
Insurgents Seize Lines Around San Fernando
Manila dispatch says insurgents occupied lines near San Fernando on Wednesday and attacked the Iowa regiment south of the outposts on Thursday morning wounding two men Capt French moved the Twenty second infantry to Canadaba as insurgents appeared in force in the area.
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San Fernando
Iowa
French
Twenty-second Infantry
Canadaba
Macabebe Scouts Enlisted to Aid U S Forces
Captain Wrenn of the Seventeenth Infantry completed the enlistment of Macabebe tribesmen as scouts totaling 260 volunteers. They join American forces in the war against their old rivals, the Tagalogs, under a new command arrangement around Manila with General Lawton directing lines from Caloocan to Pasay and General MacArthur overseeing the north.
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Manila
Wrenn
Seventeenth Infantry
Lawton
Caloocan
Pasay
Arthur
ED i. Keen
Native forces punish insurgents in Negros say Capt. Tilley slain
Cable from Gen. Otis reported by the War Department describes Smith punishing insurgents who murdered Captain Tilley on Negros. The eastern coast is under the American flag and inhabitants request protection from robber bands. Bands were pursued into the mountains by U S and native troops and severely punished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Otis
War Department
Manila
Smith
Negros
Tilley
United States
Ortis
Lincoln Park forms fund drive for Admiral Dewey monument
The Lincoln Park board has started a campaign to erect an Admiral Dewey monument in Lincoln Park Chicago. A committee has been appointed to raise the necessary funds.
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Dewey
Chicago
Admiral Dewey
Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park Board
Admiral Dewey to spend long Mediterranean voyage
The World reports from Hong Kong that Admiral Dewey aboard the Olympia will pass the Suez Canal on July 5 and spend most of the period through Oct 1 in Mediterranean ports and transatlantic crossings. He stays focused on his duties and praises his crew for exemplary conduct ashore at Victoria Peak.
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New York
the World
Hong Kong
Admiral Dewey
Suez Canal
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Victoria Peak
Ormpia
Street car crash injures nineteen in Wheeling
A Wheeling street railway car operated by nonunion workers overturned a wagon carrying 19 people on a Wednesday evening. Passengers sustained injuries including two serious cases for Miss Holbert and Miss King of Benwood, while Eva Lemons of McMechen was among the injured. The motorman attempted to crash the car into Ohio under US deputy directions and was arrested before crossing the river.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Eva Lemons
McMechen
Holbert
King
Benwood
United States
Ohio
Seances at Trial Highlight Spiritualist Advertising
The Maud Goodin trial features seance testimony as Frances Ruddick, a slate writer, testified that Mrs. Goodin had visited her, a claim she denied. The state offers rebuttal to counter defense claims that Mr. Goodin was not a spiritualist and to challenge Mrs. Klein’s account of seances in Goodin’s rooms.
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Maud Goodin
Frances Ruddick
Three Lives Reported Suicides in Chicago Area
Chicago reports two confirmed suicides and a third death suspected from the same cause. TL Wells of Arthur Illinois was asphyxiated in a Hayes hotel room. Witnesses say Charles Arnold and Walter Andersen shot themselves.
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Chicago
TL Wells
Arthur, IL
Hayes Hotel
Hitness
Charles’ Arnold
Walter Andersen
Reformed Presbyterians Sail From Seattle During Expedition
A report notes O Harriman led a voyage of reformed presbyterians in session and field from Seattle on a Wednesday evening as part of the Alaskan expedition.
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Field
O. Harriman
Seattle
John Lina
New York
Darche
London
Lake Michigan
Louisville
Tex
P. Cochran
Marietta
Leity
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Ered Wilson
SUN” Cup
Manual Training School
Freud
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Mammoth Tunnel
Dan
Explorer
Rev. Lasby
Epworth Leaguers
Judge Coz
Capt. French
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