Roosevelt Moody to Unveil Evidence in Packers Case
A Washington dispatch says President Roosevelt and Attorney General Moody will release dynamic documents this week detailing government actions in the beef packers prosecution. They will challenge Judge Humphrey's ruling, argue immunity limits, and call Congress to narrow the immunity statute.
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Chicago
Washington
Chicago Tribune
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Supreme Court of the United States
Department of Justice
Bureau of Corporations
Department of Commerce and Labor
Supreme Court
Aeronaut Fights Air Currents to Miss Train Collision
William Mattery a French aeronaut battled gusts while descending 5000 feet in a flimsy parachute in Chicago April 3. With 5000 spectators watching he evaded the Illinois Central express by two feet just before the train. He and W H McKinney had entered a balloon race at Sixty seventh street and Stoney Island avenue for a $1500 prize.
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Chicago
Illinois Central
William Mattery
Mattery
Ballonist
W. H. McKinney
Sixty-seventh Street
Stoney Island Avenue
Chicago Aeronauts
Securities Found In Bank Vault Linked To Wainwright Theft
About $50,000 forth of securities, alleged stolen from Dr. Nicholas J. Pinault in Minneapolis, were discovered today in a New York safe deposit vault. A detective who helped arrest Thomas J. Wainwright last night confirmed the find.
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Minneapolis
New York
Thomas J. Wainwright
Nicholas J. Pinault
Wainwright
Homestead Rules Made More Rigids by Secretary Ruling
Secretary Hitchcock tightens residency requirements for public land homesteaders. Entrymen must reside on the claim for eight months in the final commutation period, with the six month construct period to establish residence and a fourteen month window to pay and prove. Recent decisions from South Dakota Nebraska and Oklahoma set precedent. Officials anticipate broader compliance as enforcement spreads with Milwaukee extension developments.
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Washington
Hitchcock
South Dakota
Nebraska
Oklahoma
General Land Office
Interior Department
Milwaukee Railroad
Chamberlain and Evarts
S. D
Seattle
Famous Hoffman House Being Razed
Workmen began demolishing the old Hoffman House on Broadway facing Madison Square New York. The original structure will be cleared for a fourteen story fireproof hotel while the north wing continues operating. The hotel hosted statesmen artists and actors since 1864 with many notable residents and guests mentioned.
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New York
Madison Square
America
Hoffman House
Winfield Scott
Benjamin F. Butler
Roscoe Conkling
John W. Mackay
Larry Jerome
Epicures
Council Lashes Mayor of Burlington Over Track Tearing
Rock Island Ill April 3 The Rock Island city council adopted a resolution repudiating Mayor G W McCaskrin for tearing up railroad tracks. Two bondsmen withdrew their names from the mayor's bond as the measure denounced his erratic impulsive and irresponsible conduct causing mortification at home and ridicule abroad.
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Rock Island, Ill
G. W. McCaskrin
McCaskrin
Rock Island
600 Warrants Issued Over Padded Voter Registration
Governor Folk arrived in Kansas City with police and election officials as city prosecutors announced warrants for 600 registered voters considered illegal. Kimbrell said the investigation shows about 2,000 illegal registrations, and 600 warrants have been issued.
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Kansas City
Folk
Des Moines
Election Board of Commissioners
Kimbrell
Overthrow of Dowie Army Leads Zion City Split
In Zion City a meeting of 5,000 labeled Dowie’s leadership as over, with Overseer Wilbur Voliva taking control. Dowie was suspended from church membership and his estate was transferred to Deacon Alexander Granger as Voliva consolidates power. A separate note reports the death of Mrs. Carlos Romero, a Dowie follower, in Zion City after a prolonged mental illness.
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Chicago
John Alexander Dowie
John G. Speicher
Tabernacle
Zion City
Dowie
Speicher
Zion
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
Jane Dowie
Gladstone Dowie
John Excell
Dowie Ocotlen
Jalisco
Mexico
Cinecinnati
Indorse Voliva
Stranger
Poylgameus
Grays
Fetter
W. G. Voliva
William H. Piper
H. E. Cantell
United Kingdom
H. B. Bradfield
Zion University
John Sexcell
Voliva
Zion City Church
Wilbur F. Voliva
Jamaica
Waukegan
Lake County
Alexander Granger
Deacon Granger
Granger
Chicago vote leaves city with ownership but not operation
Chicago voters backed issuing a $75,000,000 street railway certificate and favored municipal ownership as policy. They defeated the immediate operation measure by 17,792 votes though mayoral leaders vow to push for operation when lines are owned.
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Chiveago
Chicago
Mueller ‘Ar
Dunne
Roosevelt urged to veto tribal settlement bill over coal land lease
President Roosevelt was urged by Senator Lasallett e of Wisconsin to veto a bill settling the affairs of the five civilized tribes if a contested paragraph restoring coal land leases to railroad companies is included. The senator said the conferees planned to restore the paragraph he had struck. The president offered no decision but would study the measure upon arrival.
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Roosevelt
Five Civilized Tribes
Lasallette
Wisconsin
Worken
Schuylkil
Europe
Springfield
Winois
Perry
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United Mine Workers
Operiuion
Illinois Coal Operators’ Association
Chicago
Danville Distric
Wiliamson County
Pittsburg
Pittsburg Coal Company
Francis L. Robbins
Kansas City
Southwestern Miners’ Association
Missouri
Kansas
Arkansas
Territories
French Delegates Authorized to Sign Moroccan Protocol
Paris April 3 Foreign Minister Bourgeois has empowered French delegates at the Algeciras conference to sign the Moroccan protocol.
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Paris
Bourgeois
Algeciras
Begs Life Term for Governor Goebel Murder
Louisville reports James B. Howard begins life imprisonment in Frankfort after awaiting Supreme Court action on his case for the murder of Governor William Goebel.
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James B. Howard
Frankfort
Goebel
Louisville
James B Howard
United States Supreme Court
William Goebel
Anthracite Mine Strike News Across Regions In 1902 Pattern
Report covers multiple regions as miners walk out over wage demands. Indications point to possible settlements after meetings in New York and other cities. Induced shutdowns affect Illinois Ohio Indiana Pennsylvania and West Virginia with major operators signaling readiness to sign scales while others delay.
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Mitchell
Indianapolis
Ashland House
Thomas Haggerty
Pennsylvania
Miners’ Union
International Executive Board
Nicholls
Wahey
Dettrey
Dempsey
Gallagher
Hartlein
Gaer
United Mine Workers of America
John Mitchell
Lewis
Ohio
W. B. Wilson
Clearfield
Samuel N. Sexton
Mine Workers’ Journal
F. L. Robbins
Pittsburg Coal Company
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Des Moines
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Berwind- White
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Oklahoma
Wellington O'Connor
Indiana Miners’ Organization
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Pittsburg
Lewis Finlay
Colliers
W. Va
Fort Smith
Ark
United Mine Workers
CERES
Bettina Et Ae
Zion Property Transferred After Dowie Revolt
Chicago April 2 A day after a revolt against John Alexander Dowie church property of Zion was transferred to Alexander Granger a man Dowie dismissed via telegram from Mexico.
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Chicago
John Alexander Dowie
Church of Zion
Alexander Granger
Ben
Dowie
Mexico
Natal natives executed after murder of policemen
In Pietermaritzburg twelve natives condemned to death for murder during the uprisings against the poll tax postponement were shot. The event sparked cries of shame from Irish nationalists and labor liberals in London. A debate on martial law in Natal is planned in Parliament. St Louis report notes an ante nuptial contract from 1856 involving Maria Anna Schulte and John J. Hilger.
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Natal
Uprisig
London
Labor
House of Commons
St. Louis, Mo
Maria Anna Schulte
Herman H. Schulte
John J. Hilger
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