Jerome Witness Bill Passes Senate Amid Gambling Debate
In New York, the senate approved the Jerome witness bill after five hours of debate. The measure allows courts to compel testimony from gambling house participants, overriding pleas of privilege. Critics call it a threat to individual rights. supporters say it rectifies unlawful gambling practices.
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Jerome
Dowling
New York
Senate
Yeas
Richard Canfield
Reginald Vanderbilt
Jesse Lewisohn
Canfield
Lewisohn
Court of Appeals
Derailed Express Delays Traffic East of Cornwallis
No injuries reported after the westbound New York and St. Louis express on the Baltimore and Ohio derailed three miles east of Cornwallis. The engine left the track and track was torn up causing several hours of delay. one person sustained no serious injuries.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Baltimore and Ohio
Cornwallis
Plant sale in Zanesville nets $170000 at auction
The Eastern Tube company plant in Zanesville was sold by a chancery commissioner to Edward Nugent of New York for $170,000. The plant, built three years ago at a cost of $1000000, operated two years before receivers took control.
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G. Mare
Eastern Tube Company
Edward Nugent
New York
La Morna Foundered In Southwest Hurricane
The Queen City and La Morna are believed lost after a southwest hurricane battered their routes. Wreckage from the La Morna surfaced near Cape Peale with documents found by Ucculet Indians, who delivered them to Bamfield Creek station. The Dominion steamer Quadra searched the coast but found no sign of the missing vessels.
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B. C
Dominion Government
Clayounot
Queen City
Quadrno
Cape Peale
Bamfield Creek
la Morna
Clallam Bay
Missing Queen City Sightings Cause Alarm at Hesquoit Bay
Reports say the steamer Queen City ran aground at Hesquoit Bay on the Vancouver Island coast with Indians sighting the vessel. Shipping men dispute the report, keeping search and rescue plans in uncertainty.
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Victoria
B. C
Hesquoit Bay
Vancouver Island
Smoot Case Delayed as Utah Mormon Question Probed
The Reed Smoot matter will not be decided this session. A subcommittee will be sent to Utah to investigate the Mormon question and its bearing on politics, society, and morals, with a committee member noting the issue has moved beyond Smoot.
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Reed Smoot
United States Senate
Congress
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Utah
Mormon Church
Airship Pioneer Santos Dumont Sails to Europe in Surprise
Santos Dumont, famed airship navigator, departed for Europe in a sudden move. Reports say he has fallen in love with Lurline Spreckels, daughter of the San Francisco sugar magnate, with Spreckels and her daughter sailing aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II. last week to distance the couple.
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Santos Dumont
Europe
America
Lurline Spreckels
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Spreckels
Poisoned by Hog's Liver Sparks Patient Plunge in New London
In New London Connecticut on March 23 Charles J Champion and Mrs Champion faced ptomaine poisoning after a hogs liver supper. The husband shows signs of recovery while the wife is not expected to live through the night as doctors treat them with antidotes.
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Charles J. Champion
Mrs. Champion
Admits a Grewsome Plot in Milwaukee Victims
Chicago March 23 A grewsome plot to obtain valuables from victims of the Iroquois fire was confessed to police by John Mahnken. He sought possession of the body of Mrs Amelia Mueller of Milwaukee and that of Mrs Frank R Greenwald. Mueller's body carried $400 and Greenwald had valuable rings on her fingers.
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John Mahnken
Amelia Mueller
Milwaukee
Frank R. Greenwald
Rumor Says Afghan Ameer Poisoned On Throne Change
A dispatch from Ashkabad reports a rumor that Ameer Tabibullah Khan of Afghanistan, who ascended after Abdur Rahman Khan’s death on October 1, 1901, has been poisoned. Poisoning is a common method of succession in Afghan history.
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ST. Petersburg
Ashkabad
Afghanistan
Tabibullah Khan
Abdur Rahman Khan
Arrest for Darlington Hotel Disaster Cranks Up
New York March 23 Eugene Allison of the Allison Realty Co and Pete and Schwandtner iron contractors of the collapsed Darlington hotel were held by the coroner's jury to be criminally responsible for the disaster that caused twenty one deaths. Warrants for their arrest were issued for immediate service.
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New York
Eugene Allison
Allison Realty Company
Pete & Schwandtner
Darlington Hotel
Electric road planned from Binghamton to Ithaca via Owego
Plans are under way to connect Binghamton and Ithaca by an electric road via Owego. Manager Clark of the street railway company says construction between Binghamton and Owego will move forward as soon as spring arrives.
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Ethacs
Ithaca
Owego
Clark
Schumacher Murder Trial Opens in Union Missouri
The hearing of testimony in the trial of William Rudolph, charged with taking part in the murder of Detective Schumacher during the bank robbery in Union, Missouri, opens.
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Union, Mo
William Rudolph
Poison Suspect an Epileptic
Agnes Massie, suspected of poisoning Daniel Bowdle s family causing one death and three illnesses, was ruled an epileptic by Probate Judge Nippert and ordered to the epileptic hospital at Gallipolis.
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Cincinnati
Agnes Massie
Daniel Bowdle
Russians Repel Japanese Attack At Port Arthur
Telegram from Viceroy Alexeieff details a morning bombardment by Japanese forces off Port Arthur. Russian ships and fortifications fired back, with five soldiers killed and nine wounded. Reports also describe Japanese troop movements near Anju and fortifications erected there.
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ST. Petersburg
Alexeieff
Stoessel
Port Arthur
Liaotishin
Golubinaia Bay
Pigeon Bay
Retvizan
Une Im
Askold
Makaroff
Embezzlement Warrant Issued for Riverside Bank Cashier
A warrant charging embezzlement believed to exceed $100,000 has been issued for H. T. Hays former cashier of the Orange Growers National Bank of Riverside, California. Hays, once the sales agent for Salt Lake railroad at Riverside, has not been apprehended.
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National Bank of Riverside
H. T. Hays
Hays
Salt Lake Railroad
Violent Storm Destroys Property Across Kentucky and Indiana
A violent storm swept western Kentucky and southern Indiana, causing heavy property losses. In Hopkinsville area damage ran into thousands of dollars with numerous tobacco barns and curing houses demolished, and at least one church roofed.
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Kentucky
Indiana
Hopkinsville
Jerome to Speak on Practical Municipal Politics at Yale Club
New York District Attorney William Travers Jerome will address the Yale City Government club in New Haven tonight. The event at the Yale Club centers on municipal politics with Jerome as the speaker.
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Yale Club
New Haven
Conn
William Travers
New York
Yale City Government Club
A New Airship Proposed For St Louis Exposition
William Roescher, a Middletown musician, says he has perfected an airship and plans to compete for the $100,000 prize at the St Louis exposition.
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Middletown
William Roescher
New Plan for Northern Securities Stock Swap Plan
President Hill announces a public plan after market turmoil. The 99 percent capital reduction will exchange each Northern Securities share for 39.27 dollars of Northern Pacific stock and 30.17 dollars of Great Northern stock, while remaining assets stay in treasury until a distribution plan is formed.
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Northern Securities
Northern Pacific Railway Company
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Northern Pacific
United States
Supreme Court of the
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Edward D. White
Rufus W. Peckham
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Cleveland For Governor Slogan Sparks Jersey Gossip
In Trenton on March 23 Grover Cleveland for Democratic governor of New Jersey became the talk of the state house. Legislators from both parties repeated the rumor, noting the influence of the so called Sage of Princeton on current political gossip.
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N. J
Grover Cleveland
New Jersey
Statehouse
Princeton
Yale Students Robbed at University Gymnasium
In New Haven on March 23 Yale University gymnasium was the scene of a large theft. Detectives withhold details, but students’ talk indicates about $2,000 in watches rings scarf pins and money were stolen from rifled lockers.
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Yale
New Haven
Conn
Yale University
Tornado Damage and Death Reported in Central Arkansas
A tornado in central Arkansas did extensive property damage and caused one death. At Fourche Dam near Little Rock a negro schoolhouse collapsed killing pupil Mellie Bogan and injuring several others.
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Little Rock
Ark
Fourche Dam
Mellie Bogan
Hudson River Open From Newburg to New York City
Navigation of the Hudson between Newburg and New York City will be opened today by the steamer Homer Ramsey of the Central Hudson line as the river is about clear of ice.
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N. Y
New York City
Homer Ramsdell
Central Hudson Line
Football Captain Under Knife
Ithaca reports Captain James H. Byorah of the Correll football team underwent appendicitis surgery at General Hospital in Buffalo. He is listed as a patient with no further condition provided.
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James H. Byorah
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Bubonic Plague Death Toll Reported in Johannesburg
Johannesburg March 28. The bubonic plague has caused forty two white and forty colored deaths to date, tallying a total of eighty two fatalities.
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Dr F J LaRien Hero of Turkey Mountain Slide
Dr F J LaRien of Washington led his horse and carriage up Turkey Mountain when the animal slipped sending him and the rig down a ten foot gully. Both man and horse escaped with only scratches though the carriage remained undamaged. In Passaic a saloon fight left Michael Murry dead after a blow to the head during a card dispute. William Klinck is jailed on murder charges.
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William Klinck
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Martin O’ Brien
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Flynn
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Dining With Dead Husband
An undertaker in Burlington and his helper recovered from shock after a funeral when the corpse vanished from the ice box and reappeared propped in a dining chair. The wife of the deceased sat opposite, eating and talking to the dead man with a plate of food set before him. The undertaker notes the woman is eccentric.
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Burlington
Revolver Suicide of Richard Smith in Mt Belly Street
Richard Smith shot himself in the right temple on a crowded Mt Belly street after drawing a revolver from his pocket in front of Mrs. Kelly. He had been despondent, with friends suggesting mental distress. He and cousin Harry Smith ran a Morristown restaurant. Harry reported earlier threats by Richard.
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Richard Smith
Harry Smith
Morristown
Richard
Convict Charles Brown Dies by Own Action in Trenton Prison
Charles Brown an inmate at the State Prison at Trenton died by suicide using a rope attached to his neck and a cell chair. He was serving a five year term for horse stealing from Union County. In a separate incident John Brown and Charles Delano quarrelled on the third tier. Delano threw Brown over a railing, causing severe internal injuries though Brown is expected to recover.
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Charles Brown
Trenton
Brown
Union County
John Brown
Charles Delano
Delano
Gentleman Burglar Nabbed in Somerset County Robberies
John Waiters posed as a Southern gentleman of leisure at the Berkeley Hotel in Bound Brook and faces murder and robbery charges in Bound Brook Dunellen and North Plainfield. Identified stolen jewelry was recovered and a revolver, an electric pocket stamp, and five gold watches were found on him. He confessed to buying goods from a hotel jeweler who claimed to be a drummer in hard luck. Detectives say he struck while residents were at church or social events. He was jailed after appearing before Recorder Brampton.
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Berkeley
Bound Brook
Somerset County
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Dunellen
North Plainfield
Brampton
Walters
E R Thomas Takes Over Morning Telegraph
New York March 22 control of the Morning Telegraph passed from the Whitney estate to E R Thomas. The paper will maintain its policy and continue along the lines set by William Whitney when he acquired it eighteen months ago.
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Telegraph
New York
Morning Telegraph
William C. Whitney
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The Mighty Works of Jesus Lesson Overview
Review of Jesus life from youth to early public ministry. Topics include His temple wisdom at twelve, baptism by John, temptation in the wilderness, Nazareth synagogue teaching, miraculous draught of fishes, healings at Capernaum, Sabbath debates, the Mount of Beatitudes lesson, calming the sea, Herod’s response to Jesus, and feeding the five thousand.
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Woman's Club widow dies by own action at Lexington home
In Lexington Kentucky March 39 Matthew Scott widow of Scott of Louisville reports the death of Mrs Bassett president of the local banks who shot herself at her home. The incident follows a decade since the death of her husband and involves the Woman's club.
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Lexington, Ky
Matthew. T. Scott
Scott
Louisville
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