Witness Taylor Voices Tariff Defense Against Trusts
Washington dispatch reports Representative Robert W. Taylor testifies before the Industrial Commission citing the Dingley tariff as equitable and opposing trusts. He argues tariff benefits labor and farmers, warns against tariffs discussion now, and contrasts with Dr. George Gunton who defends freer trade and warns of bankruptcy if Atkinson’s theories are enacted.
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Industrial Commission
Robert W. Taylor
Ohio
McKinley
Congress
Taylor
United States
Livingston
George Gunton
New York Institute of Social Economics
Edward Atkinson
Gunton
Atkinson
Soldiers Need Full Ration In Northern Luzon
Commissary General Weston reports on subsistence for 25 000 troops in 238 stations in Northern Luzon. Troops crave acids and sugar while frozen beef currently satisfies the diet. full army ration including fresh beef is essential for health.
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Philadelphia Times
Washington
Weston
G. W. Ruthers
Luzon
Islands
Movements of Warships Reach Various Ports
Navy notices Rear Admiral Kempf aboard the Kentucky at Woos ing today and training ship Lancaster sailing to Boston. Hartford arrives Leith. St Marys prepares a cruise from New London visiting Azores Lisbon Gibraltar Tangier and Funchal with return planned October first. Battleships Kearsarge Alabama and Massachusetts to be joined by destroyers torpedo boats and other vessels as contractors report activity near the government’s forces.
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Navy Department
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Alaban
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Pardons Granted by President McKinley Across Several States
President McKinley commuted four sentences and granted five pardons in fourteen pardon applications. Recipients include Randal Adams in Kentucky for murder, Barry Johnson in Ohio for embezzlement, and others involved in counterfeiting and a case tied to an American ship.
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Kentucky
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Ohio
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Navy officers to fill vacancies under pension act rules
The Navy announces two officers from the active list will proceed to higher grades to satisfy pension act requirements. Long’s appointment followed service at the Navy Department and assignments along the Pacific coast. A separate claim by Guillermo Machado for 200838 dollars was filed with the Spanish Treaty Commission regarding destruction in Cuba by insurgents.
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Territorial appointments amid 1891 revenue and naval notes
The report lists Isaac T. Stoddard as secretary of Arizona Territory succeeding Charles H. Akers and Henry G. Fisher named second lieutenant in the revenue cutter service. It also notes a letter from Naval Constructor Capps praising the crew for removing the Kearsarge’s large gun and crediting the men for the feat.
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Stoddard, Ariz
Arizona Territory
Sterday
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Henry G. Fisher
Revenue Cutter Service
Navy Department
Naval Constructor
Capps
Kearsarge
Army Appointments Listed for Cavalry and Infantry Officers
The President announced a wide array of army appointments across cavalry and infantry. Promotions include Colonel Albert E. Woodson and Lieutenant Colonel John B. Kerr with many first lieutenants and captains named, spanning numerous regiments and corps with urgent emphasis on senior ranks and key staff roles.
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John B. Kerr
Sajute
Bett B. Fuller
Robert P. P. Wainwright
East-sider helps drunk man home in Milwaukee tale
A well known East-sider encounters a drunken man leaning on a lamp-post and escorts him home. After safely delivering him, the drunk asks for the name of his rescuer, prompting a Biblical exchange as the helper explains his Christian duty and references Saint Paul and Corinthians.
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Shay
St. Paul
What! tenant balks at street sprinkling fund
A Chicago Post snippet shows a tenant objecting to a street-sprinkling fund. He questions if he has any other business and challenges the need for public expenditure in hot weather, prompting a terse exchange.
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Chicago Post
Masonic Ring Confirms Peg Leg Mine Tragedy in California
A New York Press summary details the discovery of a skeleton with a Masonic ring in the Carrizo Desert near Riverside California. The ring identifies Thomas Cover as the last known pursuer of the Peg Leg mine whose legend says only a guardian may reveal its location.
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Perry D. Cover
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Covert
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Leopardess claim by Chicago woman spurs Buddhist croppings
Mrs. Beatrice T. George, a Chicago resident now embracing Buddhism, says she recalls a leopardess existence. She feels instant sympathy with zoo animals and seeks Nirvana with the Brothers of Light while awaiting cremation to release her astral body. Her husband is a wealthy Spanish-Mexican relative of President Diez.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
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IT AIDED BY GAGE INSANELY RICH LOAN SEEKER
A Chicago News note says many cranks beg at the Treasury doors seeking money. Secretary Gage handles frequent audiences and once faced a man who offered a check for 135000 urging signature. The scene paints a lax threshold near the great marble Treasury building.
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Clever criminals expose jail escape trick from New Orleans tale
An old police view recounts a clever jail escape scheme where a crook used a lunch woman with white side whiskers a long coat and a slouch hat to impersonate a preacher leaving the jail. The real preacher later tried to identify the double and the pair fled town, never captured.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Jamestown Surrenders After Four-Hour Boer Attack
Jamestown garrison, 60 men, held off about 1500 Boers led by Commandant Krittinger for four hours before a flag of truce allowed British surrender. Casualties: Boers 12 killed, 15 wounded. British 4 killed, 2 wounded. Aliwal North dispatch notes pursuit and looted stores recovered.
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Krittinger
Aliwal
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Surgeon Gives Boy New Ears in Groundbreaking Operation
In Aurora a mother and surgeon restored hearing for S year old Paul Rae hm born without ears. Dr Nicholas Senn at Presbyterian Hospital completed the repair on April 9 by reconstructing ear flaps and opening the right canal. A second operation will insert wires to shape the new ears.
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America Cuts Her Claim and Other Dispatches
Cablegram from Pekin reports the United States agrees to halve its indemnity claim to cover only transport costs for troops. Britain follows suit. Edicts reforming civil service show concord between the Emperor and Dowager Empress. Li Hongzhang demands 10,000 Chinese troops to Central Chuli Province as allies evacuate. Governor Yuan Shikai’s forces brace for arrival. Franco-German rule in Pao Ting Fu ends. native authorities resume control. Von Waldersee departs Taku for Kobe aboard the Hertha.
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Paoting-Fu
Count von Waldersee
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Herthal
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Dugan Drugged With Opium After Kater Street Raid
Horace Dugan, 34, found unconscious on a pavement near Sixth and Barley streets, treated for opium poisoning, later recovered at the Second district. He identified John Malloy as the man who drugged him at a Kater Street house raid that yielded fourteen captured prisoners. Dugan, who claimed to be the coroner’s nephew, was later discharged to the police station.
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Frank H. Smith
Kater Street
Woods
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Michael Malloy
Malloys
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Doughton Street
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Edward Miles
Manning Street
Patrick Kelly
Delaware County
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Bridget Dough
South Twentieth Street
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BouVer Street
Bryan rails at Supreme Court in Kansas City address
William J. Bryan spoke to the Jackson County Democratic Club on The Outlook, denouncing recent Supreme Court rulings and arguing any decision affects constitutional liberty. He warned the Court should not alter the republic’s structure and compared current cases to historic rulings.
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William J. Bryan
Jackson County
Democratic Club
Bryan
Supreme Court
Abraham Lincoln
Dred Scott
United States
Crisis Deepens in Spain as Strikes and Unrest Grow
Madrid reports a critical situation with arrests in Corunna and a threatened general strike. Railway workers strike at Vigo and anarchist unrest swells in Barcelona, while Dissident Liberal leader Gamazeo urges firm government action on Catalan and Separatist movements to avert irreparable harm.
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Chaffee Arrives Manila as Province Dispute Grows
General Chaffee and two Ninth Infantry companies reach Manila from Taku amid mounting opposition to uniting Morong and Manila provinces. Morong delegates favor separate status while some delegates from both sides seek annexation. Commissioners delay province creation. Harold M. Pitt of Evans & Co. admits receiving fifty cases of bacon from ex-Captain Barrows as security for money, denying improper purchase.
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Evans & Co
Frederick J. Barrows
Barrows
School Officials Back $2 Million Loan for Buildings
The council’s committee on schools on Tuesday proposed borrowing $2,000,000 for new school buildings and gained strong support from officials. Dr. Edgar Anger noted city center schools have vacant rooms while suburbs grow and many dwellings are replaced by businesses, creating shifting demand and undersupplied outlying areas.
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Edgar Anger
Otmer
Sian Aesus
Fire at Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo causes scare
A fire on the Pan-American Exposition grounds in Buffalo started in the Orient midway show tonight. Two performers were badly burned while fighting the flames. Smoke appeared near a small concession building as the theatre crowd rushed for exits. no injuries reported after the exposition fire department extinguished the blaze.
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Proposed site near Holmesburg for new almshouse
Dr Ellwood R B Kirby member of the Bureau of Charities and Correction urges moving paupers and insane from Philadelphia Hospital to a 300 to 400 acre site near the filter plant at Holmesburg. He calls the hospital overcrowded and urges shifting hospital control to the Board of Charities while moving the almshouse.
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Ellwood RB. Kirby
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House of Correction
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Train Cuts Off Boy's Legs In Accident At Station
Frank Hess aged 14 of 3521 Bunnyside avenue Falle of Schuylkill stepped on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway track at Queen Lane Station to fetch change for his mother. A slipping shoe caused him to fall before a passing train and both legs were severed. He was rushed to Pennsylvania Hospital in very serious condition.
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Bunnyside Avenue
Falle
Schuylkill
Philadelphia and Steading
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Arm of Negro Found in Shark Attack Off Charleston
Special to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Near Charleston bar a ten foot shark brought up the left arm of a Negro from a drowning incident. A school of sharks has harassed the water since the Friday drowning of fifteen fishermen. no bodies or identifying marks were recovered.
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Two intoxicated youths found in downtown areas
Two incomplete sentences describe an 11 year old, Thomas Olllam of 2231 Pemberton Street, found drunk at Twenty sixth and South Streets and taken to Polyclinic Hospital by police. Another youth named Miates Gaonge Sapaoh is mentioned with no clear details.
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Puzzle Over Indicted Porto Rican Relative
New York June 6 Louis Moret Munoz said to be related to Luis Munoz Rivera ex President of the Puerto Rican Federal party was indicted by the grand jury on a charge of grand larceny in the first degree He was arrested in San Jose about States.
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New York
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Luis Munoz Rivera
Federal Party
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San Jhez
Knox Opposes Commutation in Federal-Prison Case
Attorney General Knox says Federal prisoners in Pennsylvania should receive uniform commutation. He notes the federal rule grants five days per month regardless of term, and intends to issue instructions to U.S. Attorneys. He argues current state variations create injustice and plans to address across districts.
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Philadelphia Times
Washington
Knox
United States
New York
Mrs Beckham Visits Trappists at Gethsemane Abbey
Mrs Beckham wife of the Kentucky governor visits the Old Trappist Monastery of Gethsemane entering the abbey despite a sign forbidding women. She is noted as the second woman ever to invade the monastic retreat. The welcome includes a brass band and Gethsemane College students.
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Noted Passengers on the Majestic
The Majestic brought Miss Kahne Beveridge the sculptress to visit her grandfather ex Governor Beveridge from California. Lord Kinnaird and Granville Waldgrave travel with him to Montreal as representatives of the Scottish Branch of the NSA.
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Beveridge
California
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Granville Waldgrave
Montreal
Re Weeigi Vee
N.S. A
Memorial Clock Displayed by Penn Class of 98
The University of Pennsylvania honors the class of 98 with a memorial clock presented Wednesday. T Y Brinton gave the dedication address and Provost Harrison spoke for the Board of Trustees. The clock, three feet in diameter, lights by electricity and chimes hourly and half-hourly in the dormitory triangle arch.
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T. Y. Brinton
Harrison
Board of Trustees
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