National Game Roundup Shows Several Baseball Moves
Manager Cantillon backs young players for Washington. Ollie Pickering shines with the St. Louis Americans. John Baxter signs with the St. Louis National Club. Flynn and Lauterborn sign with Wilmington. Carisch to Newark and Sabrie to Savannah leave Philadelphia. Jack McGrath inks with Springfield Connecticut League. Amherst’s Alan Storke impresses Pittsburg. Dreyfus hails him as season’s find. Cyrus Denton Young, age forty, a top winning pitcher, seen as Cap Anson’s worthy successor. Newport News fails to raise 6000 to buy Norfolk Club. franchise stays in Norfolk. Murphy signs Sheckard, Lundgren, Brown for three years. Evers for two. Lord of the Athletics shows three assists, throwing out two at the plate. Brady of Penn outs fourteen against Georgetown. Orth defends the spitball as harmless to his arm.
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Savannah
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Norwalk
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Murphy
Sheckard
Lundgren
Brown
Evers
Lord
Athletics
Magee
Titus
Brady
University of Pennsylvania
Georgetown
al Orth
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Taft Defends the Bachelor Girls at Cincinnati Speech
Secretary Taft argued against marriage as a duty for women at the University of Cincinnati. He said marrying to benefit mankind is a mistake and that proximity, not fate, drives matches. He praised universities for their role in bringing people together.
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Cincinnati, O
Taft
University of Cincinnati
Heaven
OCHMITZ CONFESSION STIRS SAN FRANCISCO graft case
San Francisco special report says Mayor Schmitz refused to discuss graft matters but yielded unnamed information to prosecutors about talks with Patrick Calhoun of United Railroads before the overhead trolley franchise ordinance. Boss Ruef allegedly handled the financial end. Schmitz may resign later as graft probes widen.
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Patrick Calhoun
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Calhoun
Boss Ruef
Foreign Affairs From Around the World
A summary of international news notes: Cuba debates a 12 000 strong standing army plan. Mexico seeks Guatemala extradition over Gen rillas killers confessals. Siam king visits Naples. Portugal Denmark sign arbitration treaty with Hague clause. Montenegro nuptials May 12 in Crimea.
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Anastasia
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Eucador
Fanine Relief Committee
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Protestant Missionary Conference
Constitutional Democrats
China
Revolutionary Party
Chili
Guns Roar at Jamestown Exposition Naval Pageant
The Jamestown Exposition opens with fifty ships from five nations in a grand naval pageant reviewed by President Roosevelt on the Mayflower. Foreigner and American vessels form a dramatic display at Hampton Roads as ambassadors, military officers, and 37 nations attend the opening ceremonies.
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Connecticut
America
Germany
England
United States
Jamestown Exposition Grounds
Hampton Roads
Monitor
Russia
Japan
Robley D. Evans
Exposition Grounds
Great Britain
Austria
Argentine Republic
Spain
Newport News
Washington
Exposition
Roadstead
Old Point Comfort
Supreme Court Allows Railroad Connections Under State Commission
The Supreme Court ruled that a state railroad commission may require a railroad to provide connections with another train. The court also dismissed the appeal of William Spauy Jr. under a death sentence in a separate case, reflecting the varied scope of its decisions at the nation’s capital.
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Supreme Court
William Spau Y, Jr
Poe
May Day calm noted by Gompers federation reports
Reports from leading cities reiterate President Gompers view that no disturbances are expected on May Day. A Rochester hearing on discrimination charges involving the Yawmen & Erbe Manufactures Combatacai q remains incomplete amid unclear details.
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Federation of Labor
Rochester
Yawmen & Erbe
Nelson County trembles over judge Loving trial storm
Fractious feeling runs through Nelson County as public opinion forms around the trial of Judge William G Loving for the death of Theodore Estes amid claims of ill treatment toward his daughter Elizabeth. Speculation swirls on trial venue and presiding judge Bennett T Gordon with a remembered clash between the two judges.
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Theodore Estes
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New York
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Blitzen
Robert Waddell
Chicago
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Moore
William W. Berkeley
University of Virginia
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O. T. Smith
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Norfolk and Western Railway
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Lynchburg
Richmond
Andrew Carnegie
Mary Curtis Lee
Home Board of Managers
Carnegie
Florida
Maggie B. Deadmen
W. H. Deadmen
Petersburg
Washington, D. C
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Motley
Anderson Public School
W. H. Somers
Spring Grove
Surry County
Clift Barnes
A. E. Heneberger
Harrisonburg
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William S. W
Peggy Stewart
Annapolis
George M. Fisher
Samuel
Cat saves home by alarm fire tale and bear encounter
A Georgia family learns their cat Thomas kept the fire from destroying the home by waking the mistress as the rug burned. In another note, William Woodruff the hermit in Winsted meets a bear at his cabin, and the bear lingers to threaten before leaving at dawn.
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Thomas
Hope
Shell
Tie
Bear
William Woodruff
Winsted
Dons
Woodruff
Blythe
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