Murder near Allentown: man killed by blunt instrument
Andrew Lasko a 25 year old cement worker from Newport Northampton County was found dead along the Lehigh Valley railroad near Cementon. He showed blunt force injuries with a fractured skull and torn clothing blood stains indicate he was moved half a mile to the scene. The coroner suspects he was followed and clubbed to death after a disturbance at a boarding place during Easter observances by Greek Catholics.
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Allentown
Andrew Lasko
Newport
Northampton County
Cementon
Lasko
Bechtels Acquitted in Bechtel Murder Case
In Bechtel murder case at Alicetown Pennsylvania the Bechtels involved were cleared after nolle prosequi was entered on charges against Mrs Catherine Bechtel Miss Martha Bechtel and brothers John and Charles Bechtel. A separate murder indictment against the mother was dropped.
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Alelntown
Mabel Bechtel
Lichten Warner
Catherine Bechtel
Martha Bechtel
John
Charles Bechtel
Ali
Martha
Charles
Russia Maps War Plans for Baltic Squadron to Port Arthur
Reports detail extensive Russian mobilization toward summer, with 500000 men planned for Manchuria reinforcements. Baltic squadron under Rear Admiral Rojestvensky to sail in July to Port Arthur with battleships Slava Borodino Orel Kuiaz Sonouroff and cruisers including Aurora Donskoi Svietland Almaz Jemtvhug Izumrud.
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Newchwang
St. Petersburg
Kuropatkin
Russia
Turkey
Makaroff
Baltic
Manchuria
Volga
Rojestrensky
Port Arthur
Slava
Borodino
Orel
Kuiaz Sonouroff
Alexander III
Oskabia
Cherbourg
Aurora
Dmitri Donskoi
Svietland
Almaz
Jemtvhug
Izumrud
Yalu River
Rennenkampff
Yalu
Fourth
Harbin
Vladivostok
Surprise Fire at Newchwang Follows False Alarm
An official explanation shows forts at Newchwang fired on pilot boats and outbound merchantmen after misreading signaling at the river mouth. Two Chinese sampan men were killed during troops firing as alarms spread among residents and officials. Russian army expansion in Manchuria and Siberia noted in dispatches from Paris.
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Newchwang
Korea
Kept forces to 460000 by May end for Far East war
The 10th and 17th army corps with Cossacks in the Far East and Caucasian cavalry mobilized will raise overall forces at the seat of war to 460000 by the end of May. General Kuropatkin plans Caucasian mountaineers in Korea and to deploy them when decisive moment to drive out the Japanese arrives, likely not before August.
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Far East
Kuropatkin
Korea
Negotiations Begin for New Britain Denmark Russia Treaty
London reports King Edward’s Copenhagen visit sparks talks to replace the Alexander III era Denmark conventions with a new trio pact among Great Britain Denmark and Russia. The plan aims to keep Denmark neutral in a potential Anglo Russian war and to demilitarize the Great Belt and the Sound in wartime.
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Russia
Denmark
London
Edward
Copenhagen
Daily Mail
Alexander III
Baltic
Fuenen
Zealand
Sound
Sweden
Confessed Murder Ties to Houston Club Watchman Killing
Lawrence Gibson alias John Oakley, a former Houston Hall utility man, confessed to killing John Thomas the night watchman at the Houston Club of the University of Pennsylvania. He claimed self defense after a struggle with tongs, then fled and partly burned a shirt sleeve. Police question motive and note Gibson’s Jamaica origin and past deception.
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U. of P
Philadelphia
John Thomas
University of Pennsylvania
Lawrence Gibson
John Oakley
Houston Hall
Gibson
Jamaica
Thomas
Tabbery Gibson
Houston
Hallview
Judge holds officers in contempt over Moyer case sparks Colorado crisis
District Judge Theron Stevens in Ouray finds Adjutant General Sherman Bell and Captain Bulkley Wells in contempt for not producing Western Federation of Miners president Charles Moyer. He orders arrest of the officers, censures Governor Peabody and the state guard, and imposes fines while noting a possible military despotism undermining civil authority. Bell vows resistance, claiming too few troops to justify surrender and warning of dead bodies if forced to move.
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Ourny
Colo
Theron Stevens
Sherman M. Bell
Bulkley Wells
Stevens
James H. Peabody
General Beil
David Howe
Telluride
Mr. Moyer
Moyer
Ouray
San Miguel County
Bell
Captain Wells
Cologado
National Guard
Charles Ti. Moyer
General Bell
Cola
Tudee Stevens
Ouray County
Sherritt Corbett
Mover
AF of L Board to Meet in Denver on April 18
The executive board of the American Federation of Labor will convene in Denver on April 18. General J. J. Jiminez, a rebel leader who fled Santo Deming, has arrived in New York. The House passed the river and harbor appropriation bill granting 3,004,004 dollars for improvements. The strike on the Panama railroad in the Republic of Panama has ended with workers returning to old conditions.
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American Federation At Labor
Denver
Cola
J. J. Jiminez
Santo Deming
New York
House of Representatives
Panama
Repubic
Hecisonsen Mine Cases Partially Sustained By Umpire
The April 12 decision by umpire Carrell Wright sustains two rockmen complaints at Dunmore and Plymouth, but finds most miners’ grievances unproven. He orders proportional check weighman wage collection if the majority of miners vote so, and allows union and non union workers to share.
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Wilasberre
Pas
Plymouth
Vis
Delaware and Hudson Runners
Charles Dixon
Oxford
People's Coal Company
The
Iminers Union
Wright
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Condition of winter wheat shows big decline from last year
Washington reports the April 1 average condition of winter wheat at 76.6 down from 97.3 in 1903 and 84.1 average of the last decade. Winter rye stands at 82.3 versus 97.7 in 1903 and 89.1 over the last ten years.
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Washington
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Agriculture
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