Cameron's Candidacy Splits the Republican Machine in Harrisburg
Harrisburg dispatch reports that Ex United States Senator J Donald Cameron weighs a gubernatorial run, risking a split in the party with Senator Quay backing Cameron while Governor Stone and Attorney General John W Elkin rally for Elkin. The outcome hinges on Cameron's decision next week and the loyalties of Durham and other key figures as the party fights for control.
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Harrisburg
United States
Quay
J. Donald Cameron
Quay-Cameron
Cooper
Delaware County
Cameron
Republican State Committee
Twain
Stone
John W. Elkin
Mr. Elkin
Senator Cameron
General Reeder
Pennsylvania
Reeder
Andrews
Commissioner Durham
Quay Durham
Marshall
General Koontz
Durham
Highbinders Suspected in Chinatown Murder Case
In New York prosecutors plan to prove an organized Highbinder gang operated in Chinatown in the murder of Ah Fee, a Newark man killed at 19 Pell Street as Sue Ling stands trial for the crime. District Attorney Garvin cites evidence linking the Ip Sing Tong Society to the case amid multiple Chinatown killings.
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New York
Sue Ling
No. 19
Pell Street
Foreman
Chinatown
Ah Fee
Newark
Sue Jing
Garvin
Ip Sing Tong’ Society
Highbinders
Tee
Lung Geo Gong” Organization
Pilot Caldwells Kenilworth Voyage Ends At Sea Reach
The bark Kenilworth under Captain Taylor arrived Friday morning after a record voyage from Queenstown. Aboard were 13 year old James Griffitt and his St Bernard Nellie from Germantown. Griffitt will remain on deck for a round world voyage, while Pilot Caldwell from Liverpool steered the ship past the Mersey bar.
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Kenilworth
Taylor
Queenstown
James Griffitt
Nellie
Germantown
Caldwell
Liverpool
Mersey
Maeee Young
San Rott Sr
Young
Kenil
Dismissal of Boer Jequest Against Mule Shipment
In New Orleans on April 13 Judge Parlange of the United States Superior Court dismissed the injunction suit by Boer representatives to block the shipment of mules and horses to the British army in South Africa. He ruled U S courts had no jurisdiction over transactions between U S citizens and the British Government conducted as private commerce. The animals were said to be bought in neutral territory.
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New Orleans
Parlange
United States Superior Court
South Africa
United States
Mckinley Western Trip Details and Itinerary Changes
Washington April 13 Several matters affect the President’s Western journey with plans arranged for Yellowstone Park access three days in the park. The tour will start in Butte May 28 and include Helena and an early park opening. The Ohio delegation will travel to San Francisco for the battleship Ohio launch, then Portland and Seattle, returning to Columbus by June 1. Some Senators and Representatives will not accompany the party.
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Washington
Carter
Bache
Yellowstone Park
Butte
Mon
Helena
Park
Anaconda
Salt Lake City
Kansas
Topeka
Emporia
Ottawa
Baldwin
Lawrence
Junction City
Pitcher
First Cavalry
Presidio
San Francisco
Goode
Ohio
Congress
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Portland
Seattle
Northern Pacific
Columbus
Hanna
Foraker
Messrs
Burton
Weaver
van Voorhees
Kerr
Imperial Private Car Dropped For McKinley Trip
The Chicago committee for President McKinley’s Pacific coast journey has sidelined the Imperial private car in favor of a different name. He is expected to ride in the Olympia, the other luxurious Pullman private car, on the trip.
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Chicago
Pullman Company
President McKinley
Pacific Coast
McKinley
Returned to Her Father Through a Constable's Strategy
A father regains custody of his two year old daughter Millie from relatives of the dead mother after legal aid and a constable's plan. Constable Moran used a front door ruse to seize the child from the Peterson home and deliver her to Christian Christenson.
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the Times
Terth Amboy
Millie
Christian Christenson
Christenson
Daniel Peterson
Petersons
Joseph Stricker
Moran
Gun lost in transit from Washington to Brooklyn Navy Yard
The Brooklyn Eagle reports a thirteen inch gun weighing over seventy tons and valued at more than 150000 dollars, shipped from Washington to the Brooklyn navy yard last Monday, has vanished en route between the capital and New York. Railroad officials cannot locate the two cars carrying the gun destined for the battleship Kearsarge.
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Kearsarge
Washington
New York
Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn Navy Yard
National Capital
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
United States
Clark Withdraws From Heinze Mining Bonds
Senator W A Clark and his two sons will withdraw their names from all of F A Heinze’s mining salt bonds, a move ordered by Clark from Europe to cripple Heinze. The action dissolves Clark and family from nearly one million dollars in bonds connected to the Heinze litigation.
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Butte
Mont
W. A. Clark
Europe
Clark Bank
F. A. Heinze
Clark
Amalgamated Copper Company
F. Augustus Heinze
Montana Ore Purchasing Company
Heinze
Tewksbury Plans to Settle Debts Dollar for Dollar
Gerson Oppenheim, attorney for Lewis G. Tewksbury the Joker who vanished from Tewksbury last June with $500000 in debts, says Tewksbury in Mexico will pay all creditors in full. He will advertise for creditors and honor every claim. Most creditors initially held back while awaiting repayment.
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New York
Gerson Oppenheim
Lewis G. Tewksbury
Tewsbury
Oppenheim
City
Mexico
Salvation Army Colony Planned in Florida Coast Region
Jacksonville April 13 Commander Booth Tucker of the Salvation Army says a 5000 acre site near Miami will likely be used for a large colony. Mr Flagler gave a generous gift, amount not public. About 250 people will be brought south this spring, rising to 1000 by midsummer as Tucker leaves for New York.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Booth Tucker
Salvation Army
Miami
Flagler
Oes Tucker
New York
No Strike On Jersey Central As Engineers And Firemen Accept Offer
At 4 40 this afternoon the Jersey Central conference between officers and employees adjourned for lunch. Timothy Shea firemen's representative said there would be no strike and that engineers and firemen had accepted the company's proposal.
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New York
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Olhausen
Timothy Shea
Artesian Ocean Well Reaches 2220 Feet Without Water
Atlantic City April 13. Workers drilling an ocean pier artesian well led by Captain John L. Young have reached 2 220 feet beneath the sea bed without striking water. The project, begun over a year ago, aimed for mineral medicinal water at 1 400 feet. If no water is found, the contractor earns no pay. This depth is a state record.
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Atlantic City
John L. Young
Ocean
Secretary Gleason to Lead Y M C A Branches in Japan
George Gleason secretary of the Central Y M C A in this city has accepted a call from the International committee in New York to organize Y M C A associations in Japan. His field will cover Osaka Kyoto and Kobe and he will depart for Japan in September.
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George Gleason
New York
Japan
Gleason
Osaka
Kyoto
Kobe
Haverhill
Mass
Harvard
Y. M
Drove Her Child From Home in New Brunswick
Mrs. Georgiana Bernhardt allegedly drove her 14 year old daughter Clara Thompson from Remsen Avenue and the girl married Jacob Bernhardt, brother of her mother’s husband. The mother also drove out unsecured siblings, neighbors aided, warrant issued, investigators seek who performed the ceremony and whether the marriage is valid given the girl’s age.
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New Brunswick
Georgiana Bernhardt
Clara Thompson
Remsen Avenue
Jacob Bernhardt
William Bernhardt
Rev. W. W. Knox
New Jersey Children's Home Society
Justice Sedam
Senator Platt on duty toward Cuba sparks academy debate
The fifth annual meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in Philadelphia hosts sessions on race relations and Cuba policy. Orville Platt outlines U S relations with Cuba and Puerto Rico while W E Burghardt Du Bois and others debate the race problem in the South and the role of the white and negro communities.
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American Academy of Political and Social Science
Philadelphia
Hilary A. Herbert
Alabama
South
George T. Wilson
North Carolina College of Agriculture, and Mechanic Arts
Raleigh
N. C
W. E. Burghardt du Bois
Atlanta University
Booker T. Washington
Samuel McCune Lindsay
Academy
West Indies
Cuba
Porto Rico
Orville H. Platt
United States
Connecticut
Senate
Charles M. Pepper
Washington, D. C
Haddington Reunites for Historic Village Bell Celebration
More than 150 schoolchildren led the old village bell from Norris J Hoffman School to Sixty third and Hamilton streets. The bell will toll at Sarah D Cooper Church as Civil War veterans and survivors gather for all day services and a memorial tribute.
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Haddington
Sixty-third
Hamilton
Norris J. Hoffman
Fifty-fifth
Vine
Sarah D. Cooper
Old Village
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Panic on Ferries To The Narrow Escape In River Collision
Passengers on two crowded Delaware ferries were forced to abandon crossing a liner on midstream as Pennsylvania and Beverly met Pemsonanor. Engines reversed, a slight jar, and all three boats separated, sparing disaster though many feared a plunge into the river.
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Delaware
Pennsylvania
Beverly
Camden
Philadelphia
Pemsonanor
Big Coal Combination Controls 30000 Acres in Ohio
Louis F. Newman of Springfield announces a $5,000,000 coal combine to control 30,000 acres of undeveloped coal land in Southeastern Ohio. George G. Day of New York files a $150,000 attachment against Mr and Mrs Louis F Newman in a contract action over alleged services linked to the coal deal.
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Springfield
Mass
Louis F. Newman
Ohio
George G. Day
New York City
Trenton Potteries Face General Strike Threat
Trenton April 13. Crescent Pottery operations halted as kilnmen strike. Five hundred workers idle. Leaders warn a broader walkout may spread to all city potteries if blacklisting of kilnmen is confirmed.
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Trenton
Crescent Pottery
Boy Hurt in Ball Game May Die
Eleven year old Herman Fox of 102 Laurel Street was struck on the head by a bat during a ball game at Trent and Laurel streets. He suffered a fractured skull and was in critical condition at St. Mary's Hospital after being taken there following the accident yesterday afternoon.
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Herman Fox
Laurel Street
Trent
Laurel Streets
Fox
St. Mary's Hospital
Letter-carriers to host first annual reception at Music Hall
The general committee of letter-carriers has arranged a first annual reception for Wednesday evening at Musical Fund Hall. Invitations have been extended to the Postmaster General, Postmaster Hicks, and many prominent city and state figures.
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General Committee of
Musical Fund Hall
Hicks
Weather data from Philadelphia and Wabash area report
United States Weather Bureau notes for Philadelphia and nearby locales on April 1 1901. Report shows hourly observations with temperature 53 degrees at 8 p m and 41 at 9 p m with SW wind and cloudy conditions. Also records sunshine 48 percent for the day and rainfall deficits totaling 2 18 inches since January 1 and 0 93 inch since April 1.
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United States Weather Bureau
Philadelphia
Receiaaaas
City News Notes and Local Incidents
A mix of brief local items reports a missing young woman sought by friends, the death of Alexander Grant from heart disease, Bertha Stephens burned by a gasoline stove, and Henry McCally identified after a lodging house death. Also noted are two gambling arrests, a stabbing case, a vertigo incident aboard a bus, a coal office burglary, a boy injured on a fence, and three men arraigned for neck driving with witnesses detailing wagon speeds.
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Wishart Street
North Seventh Street
Yesireray
Henry McCally
Mischee Street
Willian Burnstein
South Pmifth Street
Isadore Mirbach
Ninily
Market Streets
Jefferson Hospital
M. Becker
Kensington and
Lehigh Avenues
Florence Moorehouse
John Smith
Walden
Presbyterian Hospital
Warren Herbach
Warren Allsten
Alexander Rilbach
Camden
Sproule
Little
Market Street
Delaware Stenne
Mass mill suspends operations idle thousands of workers
In Fall River Massachusetts about 17 000 employees of the cotton mill were notified there will be no work next week. The suspension will cause a wage loss of about 100 000. Six thousand operatives will be idle at Lowell.
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Fall River
Mass
Lowell
Fire at Kayton home sparks townwide alarm in Flemington
An engineer from the Central Railroad of New Jersey found Thomas Kayton’s dwelling afire early morning and citizens flocked to assist. Firemen arrived too late to save the structure, though Kayton’s belongings were nearly all saved as neighbors voiced fears of arson. In Toms River Bert Worth’s body was recovered by Jesse Grant with oyster tongs after a days long search. Worth, a Bayville resident and skilled bayman, likely capsized near shore and clung to his boat until the cold claimed him.
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Academy
Museum of Science and Art
University
Philadelphia Commercial Museum
Manufacturers’ Club
Herbert
Flemington
Whitehouse
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Thomas Kayton
Kayton
the Times
Toms River
N. J
Bert Worth
Bayville
Jesse Grant
Worth
Bayman
Saloon keepers soothed as date set for Miller law challenge
Gloucester City April 13 Judge Armstrong set a date for filing remonstrances against saloon licenses for June July and August. He will proceed on actions after remonstrances filed and before Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Miller law, easing local fears of forced closures.
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THE
TIMES
Gloucester City
Armstrong
Supreme Court
Thirteen Dine On The Thirteenth In Radnor Dinner
William Henry Sayen of Wayne was honored as president of the Radnor township Board of Commissioners at a complimentary dinner for thirteen at the Tammany Pea Shore Club house in Fishhouse on the Delaware. The gathering marked the number thirteen as lucky and all were connected to Sayen's recent election.
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William Henry Sayen
Wayne
Board of Commissioners
Radnor Township
Tammany Pea Shore Club House
Fishhouse
Delaware
President appoints board of visitors for West Point
Washington April 18 The President has named a board of visitors to the West Point Military Academy. Appointees include retired Lieutenant General John M Schofield General Daniel E Sickles Lieutenant Clair McKelway of New York Charles W Bullitt of Massachusetts Benjamin Ide Wheeler of California William H Upman of Wisconsin St George R Fitzhugh of Virginia
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Washington
Weat Point Military Academy
John M. Schofield
Daniel E. Sickles
Clair McKelway
New_York
Charles W. Bulliott
Massachusetts
Benjamin Ide Wheeler
California
William H. Upman
Wisconsin
St. George R. Fitzhugh
Virginia
Governor Stone Signs Bill Allowing Women to Acknowledge Text
The bill No. 35 of the current session lets a married woman acknowledge a deed or writing separately from her husband. It requires her acknowledgment to be treated as if she were single, removing the need for double acknowledgment.
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Stone
Removed by Experts and Local Prices Listed
An item listing shows a5¢ per unit for removed by experts and 25 cents for corn manicuring services by Fowler and Hanna at 1204 Coastant Street.
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Fowler & Hanna
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Tom Lee
England
M’kinley
President
Patty
Imperial
Timms
BIG Gun
Tewksbury
Florida
Jersey Central
Tom Times
C.H. Platt
du Bois
North
O. H. Platt
Naddington
BIG Coal Combination
Maryland
City News
Weat Point Board of Visitors
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