Gospel era seeks colored bishop option at general conference
At the Methodist general conference in Los Angeles, leaders debated electing a colored bishop amid a church with 3,031,918 members and 3,124,644 Sunday school enrollees. Dr Elliott urged readers to expand trust, while Charles McClelland warned against race-centric agitation. The quadrennial address highlighted gains and challenges, including bank offerings and unity with the Southern church.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Elliott
Detroit
Committee On
Charles P. McClelland
New York
McClelland
M. E Church
General Conference
Cyrus D Fors
Philadelphia
John Wesley
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Memorial Box Placed In Capitol Corner Stone
Governor Pennypacker witnesses a cornerstone ceremony in Harrisburg for the west wing capitol memorial box. The box contains official reports, stamps, coins, laws, weather logs, university catalogs, and newspapers. Panama to appoint Obaldia as minister to the United States. he will depart Panama by early June.
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Pennypacker
Harrisburg
New Capitols Memorial
Capitol Commission
William Penn
United States
Jefferson Head
Laws of Pennsylvania
William A Kelker
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Inquirer, Ledger
Evening Bulletin
Pittsburg Gazette
Pittsburg Post
Erie Dispatch
Erie Herald
Lancaster
George F. Payne
Philadelphia
Capitol
Workman's Horrible Death and Miners Entombed
Reports from Chicago and Ashland recount deadly incidents. Hainey Anderson, an Illinois Steel Co. worker in South Chicago, fell into a boiling metal vat after losing footing, dying as his body burned away. In Pennsylvania, miners George Zueb and Joseph Osanshy were entombed by a coal fall at Continental colliery. rescue efforts failed due to further roof falls and tapping noises ceased by evening. Separately at St Asaph Junction Virginia an attempt to wreck the Chesapake and Ohio southbound train No 502 involved missing ties a bent switch light and a small stone wedged on the track.
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Chicago
Hainey Anderson
Ilinois Steel Company
Ashland Pa
George Zueb
Joseph Osanshy
Girardville
Continental
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
St. Asaph Junction
Chesapeake and Ohio
Lord
Jap invasion reported near Port Arthur during Liaotung action
Official reports say Japanese force began landing on the Liaotung peninsula with operations around Port Arthur. Japanese squadron positions behind Liao-Shan promontory south of Port Arthur and transports with troops reached Pitsewo to facilitate a landing near Kin Chowhay area.
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Mikado
Port Arthur
Tohio
Liao Tung
Liao-Shan
Pitsewo
Liao Tung Peninsula
Mukden
Harbin
Kin Chouhay
Hard Fighting Expected as Japan Seaborne Lift Near Port Arthur
Russian forces brace for a likely Japanese landing at Pitsewo near Port Arthur while Vice Admiral Togo’s fleet looms offshore. The war commission met without public briefing as Kuropatkin plans rapid troop movements along the Liao Tung peninsula and rail routes. Dispatches note Japanese radioless advances and North Atlantic press coverage of Port Arthur celebrations, amid missing Novosti correspondents.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
Togo
Port Arthur
Pitsevo
Yalu
Liao Shan
Pitsewo
Admiralty
War Office
Liao Tung
Kaiping
Siniuchen
Newchwang
Yang-Ti- Tien
Sanchelipon
Kin Chow
Takushan
Feng-Wang-Cheng
Kuropatkin
Kuroki
Novosti
Russ
Aleveff
Liao Yang
Feng- Wang-Cheng
Wettsveft
Alevieff
Rumor of Russian Vladivostok squadron battle circulates
Central News from Seoml reports heavy cannonading off Gensan and claims Rear Admiral Urin’s fleet engaged the Vladivostok squadron. A Paris rumor said four Russian cruisers were drawn into battle off Vladivostok, but no confirmation was obtained.
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Central News
Seoml
Gensan
Korea
Urin
Vladivostok
Paris
Port Arthur Sealed Up Threatens Isolation
London reports interpret Viceroy Alexieff departure from Port Arthur as signaling imminent isolation as Japanese forces prepare to land. Discrepancies in Russian and Japanese accounts of bottling the port are noted, with speculation of two separate 10 ship efforts and a broader plan to cut Port Arthur before Skrydlor arrives.
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Alexieff
London
Port Arthur
Russia
Japan
Skydlor
Daily Telegraph
Tokio
Fiji
Feng Wang Cheng
Keeping an Eye on China After Jap Victory
St Petersburg reports keen interest and apprehension over the Japanese victory and Russian concern about China as a powder keg. Moscow notes danger of antiforeign sentiment spreading, with Paul Lessar reporting to Pekin and major powers coordinating restraint on the Chinese government.
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St Petersburg
Paul Lessar
Pekin
Clais
Foreign Office
China
Russia
Debs Named President by Socialists at Chicago Convention
The national Socialist convention nominates Eugene V Debs for president with Benjamin Hanford of New York as vice president. The platform argues for true democracy and international socialism, opposing capitalism and private ownership of the means of production. A labor union plank passes 107 to 63.
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B. Hanford
Chicago
National Socialist Convention
Eugene V. Debs
United States
Benjamin Hanford
New York
Socialist Party
Heir to 100000 Found After Wide Search
George Miller, heir to more than 100 000, was found in Sacramento County Hospital California after a national search. He remains under treatment for typhoid fever and does not know his father is dead. A Brooklyn friend forwarded his letter to the executor ending the search.
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George Miller
California Hospital
New York
United States
Brooklyn
West
Sacramento County Hospital
Sacramento
Cal
Miller
Quay Faces Ill Health as Secretarial Role Near End
Senator Quay of Pennsylvania remains at home in Washington and shows weakness but continues to attend to official business with his daughter nearby. His secretary William F. Wright, named consul general to Munich, is viewed as a successor toward the end of Quay's congressional influence. Meanwhile Jersey Cattle Club officers were elected in New York with 44 present and 91 by proxy, representing owners of 24 900 Jersey cattle across the United States and Canada.
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Neming
Congo
Washington
Senator Quay
Pennsylvania
Congress
William F. Wright
United States
Munich
Wright
Wight
Quas
Jersey Cattle Club
New York
E. A. Darling
Henry Lippincott
New Jersey
John P Hutchinson
Canada
Jersey
Accused Woman Testifies In Dover Court On Albin Slaying
In Dover on May 6 Estelle Albin was found dead and Mary A Powell sobbed as she testified she fought to defend herself in a garret confrontation. She described striking with a bottle and a knife as Albin choked her, claiming self defense amid probing cross examination by Attorney General Ward.
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Dover
Del
Estelle Atbin
Mary A. Powell
Ward
Barret
Ridgely
Powell
Estelly Albin
Essie
Patsey O'Keefe
Mrs. Powell
Essie Albin
Justice Spruance
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Obaldia
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