Great Fleet Sails to Meet Pacific Vessels at San Francisco
Admiral Evans leads the Atlantic Squadron from Hampton Roads where the fleet departs for a meeting with Pacific Coast ships off San Francisco. The article extols naval progress, details ship numbers, coal and provisioning plans, and highlights fire control and wireless innovations as the fleet sails from Virginia to join the expedition.
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Admiral Evans
Atlantic
Hampton Roads
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Wilmington bishop found dead in his bed
Leighton Coleman episcopal bishop of Delaware was found dead at his home in Wilmington. The report notes other world events, including banking closures, post office orders, and political unrest, but centers on the bishop’s death as the primary readable item from the fragment.
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Leighton Coleman
Episcopel
Delaware
Wilmington
Fairbanks Banking Company
Fairbanks
Alaska
Tts
Meyer
Santa Claus
Memphis
William Gordon
Jaume Bryce
United States
Elluax
Omaha theaters defy Sunday closing order amid law push
Omaha Nebraska reports show about a thousand people ignored a Sunday closing order affecting theaters offices barber shops cigar stores and bowling alleys. Fines could reach up to 15000 as warrants for arrests were prepared for theater managers ticket sellers doorkeepers and foremen.
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Omaha
Neb
Dee
Wille-Wood
The
Majestic
William
Judge Wallace
Wallace
Polic
New Orleans
White Laker
CUMMINS STICKS TO SENATE RACE DESPITE PRES NOMINATION TALK
Des Moines December 16 Gov Cummins of Iowa said he has no thought of surrendering his bid for the United States Senate. The idea of him seeking the Republican presidential nomination is new locally but he will not abandon the Senate race.
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Continental Congress
Congress
Tor
Tuiak
Congresa
Humphreys
Barbary States
Algiers
Tripoli
Washington
United States
Des Moines
Iris
Whittier Birthday Celebration in Amesbury Mass
Amesbury celebrates the centenary of poet John Greenleaf Whittier with services on Tuesday attended by notable New England figures. The Quaker poet lived in Amesbury for 56 of his 85 years, asserting local pride despite his Haverhill birth.
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Whittier
Amesbury
Mas
John Greenleaf Whittier
New England
Haverhill
Fatal Battle with a Posse near Bethlehem Indiana
One man died another fatally wounded two more seriously harmed a woman and a child lightly hurt in a shootout between two shantyboat men and a posse from Kentucky. The incident occurred near Bethlehem Indiana, a village above Louisville, Sunday morning.
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Louisville
Nec
Otis Hans
Keptexy
Bethlehem
Ind
Seuday
Lad Kills Playmate in Missouri House Incident
A young boy claimed to be a cowboy when he shot and killed four year old George Walkety in a St Joseph residence. Ned H Slaven, aged 11, faced authorities after the fatal incident using a double barreled shotgun. Witnesses report the two boys were alone in a Starmer house room at the time of the shooting.
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Lad
Litthé
St. Joseph
Duc
Yeneold Vonmanton Waaan Lulian
Ned H. Slaven
George Wlatkety
Starmer House
Stead’s Son Alfred Dies in London
Alfred Stead, son of W. T. Stead editor of the Review of Reviews, died Sunday in London. Born in 1877, he was involved in publishing work with his father on the journal.
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T. Stead
London
Alfred Stead
W. T. Stead
Review of Reviews
Steamers limp into port after Atlantic gale
New York reports seven transatlantic steamers reaching harbor after severe storms. Astoria suffered machinery failure and 24 hour stoppage, Lorraine and Breslau battled head seas, several ships sheltered off Sandy Hook. Pilot Thomas Shields drowned, wreck story of Thomas W. Lawson's crew emerges near Mugirtown. Mohican brings crew from the Augustus Walt foundering.
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Atlantic
Astoria
Sandy Bock Bay
Breslau
Bremen
Port End
Prager
Minnetonka
Locania
St. Paul
Aravie
Pennsylvania
Thomas Shields
Talisman
Mugictown
Scilly
Gands
Dow
Thomas W. Lawson
Fae
Uien
Engineer Rowe
London
Charleston
Clyde Line
Mohican
Banton
Capt. Marshall
FRAUDS ON KICKAPOOS REPORTED IN MEXICO LANDS SCAM
A Senate committee led by Teer Curtis and va Fotliette will submit a report naming parties alleged to have defrauded Kickapoo Indians who emigrated to Mexico and sold lands at Shawnee Oklahoma. The Chapman Grimes Conine group is named for brutal frauds, with alien deeds forged to Mexican Kickapoo lands. The report urges appointing a special attorney under the justice department to challenge titles.
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Washington
Teer
Curtis
Va Fotliette
Senate
Mexico
Shawnee, Oklo
Ie Fs
Thair
Department of Justice
Sults
Big Verdict for Personal Damages in Kansas City
In Kansas City Missouri on March 14 a jury awarded Charles W Yost of North Platte Nebraska three hundred twenty five thousand ninety dollars for injuries received while employed as a brakeman with the Union Pacific Railway Company. Judge E E Porterfield presiding in the circuit court division.
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Kansas City
Mes
Charles W. Yost
North Platte
Neb
Union Pacific Railway Company
President Roosevelt Sails to Hampton Roads With Fleet
President Roosevelt sails from Washington aboard the Mayflower with Mrs Roosevelt and guests for Hampton Roads. The Atlantic fleet will depart for the west coast, bound for the Pacific, with a formal departure ceremony and a brief reception aboard the Mayflower. The fleet will pass the Virginia Capes, then sail toward San Francisco Bay amid daylong ceremonies and lectures for sailors.
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Washinton
Roosevelt
Mra
Washington Navy Yard
Hampton Roads
United States Navy
Pacific
Virginia
Connecticut
San Francisco Bay
Sampion Roads
Old Point Comfort
Straits of Magellag
United States
Leek
Areve Taundly
Reblay BD
Ryans
Thie
Evans
Wade
Virginia Capes
Thimble Shoal
Brutal Murder by Robbers in Kansas City Store
Kansas City Missouri December 16 a grocer Louis B Stenberg and his wife Mrs Mattie Sternberg were killed and wounded by unknown robbers who attacked and robbed them in their fourth atreat end Welker Avenue store The pair were not found until 12 hours later. Arrests reported for forging notes in Little Rock Arkansas on December 14 Samuel Powell a former Arkansas state official with Metropolitan Life is charged with forging the signature of Wek Fardel Cleola. Cal G T Simonson dead in St Louis once owner of Mount Vernon Indiana Republican and civil War organizer. Embezzler Nat Caughe Walk er wanted for $565000 in securities for New Britain Co bank remains at large.
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Caliiurgia
Columbia
Be & Tred
Trinidad
Humrio
Punta Arenas
Callao
Magdalena Bay
San Fransisco
West
Virgina
Atlantic
Ave American
Son
Marcellus
Hannibal
Leonidas
Kansas City
Louis B. Stenberg
Fourth Atreat End
Welker Avenue
Kan
Mattie Sternberg
Little Rock Ark
Dee
Samuel Powell
Arkansas
Metropolitan Life Mesures Company
New York
Wek
Fardel
Cleola
Pawel
Lite Rock Society
Cal
G. T. Simonson
St. Louis
Mee
U.P. Simonesog
Mount Vernon
Ind
Republican
Migadech
Indiana
W. A. Simonson
St Santa
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