Wanamaker under fire as bribery charges swirl in public eye
Washington May 10. The piece argues Postmaster General Wanamaker faces broad accusations linking him to the Keystone Bank failure and to alleged favoritism toward the Clay Pneumatic Tube Company. It notes that Leake and others pursue investigations, while Shoup survives bribery allegations as Democratic and Republican factions clash over his seat in Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bereau
Philadelphia
John Wanamaker
Leake Pneumatic Tube Company
Clay Pneumatic Tube Company
Quaker City
Leake Company
Clay
Clay Company
McHenry
Wanamaker
Leake
Wanamarie Tatter Ch
Post Office Department
Treasury Department
Dsy
Mr. Leake
Mr. Wanamaker
Democratic House of Representatives
Democratic Elections Committee
George Washington Shoup
Luzerne County
Pennsylvania
Dean
Ohio
Lawson
Snoup
Plymouth
Shoup
Tihe County
Delamater
Reynolds
Corswell
Massachusetts
Enloe
Tennessee
Holman
Ohio Legislator Skips After Pennsylvania Divorce Plot
Special dispatch from Communers Ohio May 10 details a Pennsylvania divorce case involving John H James who deserted his wife Mary E James in Mercer County and fled to Ohio to remarry. He faced a perjury plea, forged evidence deposits, and Governor McKinley authorized a requisition for arrest as rumors swirled around the Ohio political scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commuers
Pennsylvania
B. F. James
John H. James
Mary E. James
Mercer County
Ohio
Bowling Green
Morrow County
George James
George C. James
James
Venango County
Wallace Shorts
McKinley
Pattison
Famous Forger Dickerson Dies In Poverty At Philadelphia
William R. Dickerson, a principal conspirator in the long famous Whittaker will case, died Sunday night in obscurity at his Philadelphia home. The 12 year old dispute centered on a forged will that diverted a £1,000,000 charitable portion away from heirs. Dickerson, once a prominent lawyer for Robert Whittaker, served ten years after being convicted, and later sought to reopen the case without success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
William R. Dickerson
Whittaker
Robert Whittaker
William KR. Dickerson
William Whittaker
Dickerson
Whit
Sneak thieves strike in Lawrenceville ward
Two theft reports at Seventeenth ward police station reveal robbers stealing from residents. Mrs Costello on Harrison street reported a pocketbook with 15 dollars taken from her bedroom Sunday afternoon. Monday a thief entered Mrs Smith’s home at Forty seventh street and Plumaly street corner and took a pocketbook containing 9 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrenceville
Seventeenth Ward
Costello
Harrison Street
Mra Smith
Forty Seventh Street
Plumalley
Minstrel Eddie Manning Dies From Hyoscyamin Overdose
Coroner Foley rules death of Eddie Manning, famed minstrel, an overdose of hyoscyamin given by Dr. K A Thomas and an assistant at the Chicago Liquor and Opium Cure in Columbus. The ruling cites medical administration as the cause of death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Foley
Eddie Manning
Chicago
K. A. Thomas
Opposition to Bishops and Sunday opening at Methodist conference
At Omaha delegates debated Bishop Merrill’s floor privileges and the constitution report. The Columbian Exposition panel urged keeping gates closed on Sunday and endorsed a $5 million federal grant only if Sunday access is barred. Lay representation rights were defended as secure despite not being in the constitution, while calls to unite the North and South church wings continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Senate
Hatch
National Board of Trade
Omaha
Fitzgerald
Committee On
Central Christian Advocate
St. Louis
Mason
Breeder Masten
8. Louis
Bowman Young
Kansas City
Creighton
Nebraska Wesleyan University
Curts
Chicago
Maffield
Buckley
Merrill
Neely
Miley
Drew Seminary
Sam
Romania
United States
Congress
Committee On Constitution
Neeley
Little
Ilinois
Leonard
Ohio
Curtis
J. M. Buckley
General Conference
Kynett
Hughey
Methodist Episcopal Church
Mr. Field
Philadelphia
Constitution Commission
Indianapolis
Field
Hartzel
Bishop Morrill
Istitution Commission
Church
Italians and others to be sent back from Brazil and California works
Italians who arrived aboard the steamer Stura from Genoa under contract to toil in Brazil Indiana mines and California vineyards will be returned. Also six Englishmen and four Swedes from the Servia voyage are being repatriated. The Swedes were bound for Sheffield Pennsylvania and the Englishmen for Cleveland Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stura
Genoa
Brazil
Ind
California
Servia
Sheffield
Cleveland
City debt clash over bonds and park plans
Officials including Mayor Gourley and Chief Bigelow tour New York and Philadelphia for park and street improvements. A report claims a $5,000,000 bonds plan to fund parks bridges and pavements, opposed by some city leaders. Bigelow repudiates an interview while supporting bond policy. others press debt reduction. Contracts for cement and smoke prevention proceed with bidding review. land purchase near Highland Park linked to Bigelow, with Fite having recently sold the tract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parka
Gourley
Morrow
Bigelow
Paisley
New York
Philadelphia
Driseaton
A. F. Keating
Select Council
Brown
Samuel Garrison
Willams
Mr. Bigelow
Chief Bigelow
John Fite
Highland Park
Fite
Vatican approves Ireland school arrangement in Minnesota
In Rome on May 10 the Holy See releases the full text of its verdict on Archbishop Ireland's Faribault Stillwater education policy. The Cardinals examined the plan, found it prudent, and ratified their approval, while praising Ireland's obedience and aligning the measure with Baltimore Council principles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Vatican
Holy See
Ireland
Faribault- Stillwater
Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda
Baltimore
M. Cann
Lipocrowist
Senatius
DaMiata
Ignatius
Damt TaTa
John W Breckenridge Dead in Merced Age 43
A Merced report states John W Breckenridge died last night in Merced California at age 43. Once a lawyer and state legislator he was noted for learning and eloquence but battled drinking and gambling threats. He married Lloyd Tevis's daughter and later sought Tevis's children after a dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Merced
John W. Breckenridge
Buchanan
California
Breckenridge
Lloyd Tevis
Wells-Fargo Company
Tevis
Fred Sharon
Reckenridge
Sharon
Missionaire
Rustlers’ Vengeance Kills Deputy Wellman Near Buffalo
Deputy United States Marshal Wellman of Blair Cattle Company was shot and killed in an ambush while en route to Buffalo to serve an injunction on rustlers. Marshal Gibson survived the volley. The raid on rustlers had intensified since the start of the month. Wellman’s past actions and ties to a distressed reporter are noted in the aftermath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyo
United States
Wellman
Blair Cattle Company
Buffalo
Gibson
Lodz Under Siege as Rioters Attack Hebrew Quarter
A Lodz dispatch reports 30,000 strikers causing a state of siege with hundreds arrested and sent to Warsaw under military escort. Rioters loot burn and attack Hebrew residents and factory workers. Ten killed and about a hundred injured, fire brigade shielding the town from total ruin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Peterspurg
Lodz
Poland
Warsaw
Guarding the Paris Bourse and Global Flashes of May
Paris reports 300000 francs set aside for indemnities after dynamite outrages, with doubled guards at the Bourse and detectives scrutinizing every visitor. Zanzibar notes British East Africa Company forces under Captain Nelson defeating Mabura near Teita and recapturing slave caravans. Jaeger, a Messia Rothschild chief cashier, captured in Ramleh with 1 700 000 marks defalcation. Berlin cites Grand Vizier’s notice on the sultan’s health. Brussels records a 151 to 7vote to broaden the electorate. Fital Flashes From Afar ends with two poachers mortally wounded in an incident.
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Paris
Very
Zanzibar
Africa
British East Africa Company
Nelson
Teita
Cairo
Rudolph Jaeger
Messia, Rothschild
Frankfort-on-the-Mar
Germany
Ramleh
Egypt
Flood worsens as Mississippi overflows at New Orleans levee
Heavy rain raises river to 169-10 feet above low water. Levees around New Orleans are precarious with runoff guttering away waves. A 140 foot-wide, widening break at Little Texas Levee near Napoleonville threatens sugar country and Napoleonville outskirts. A 500 foot by six foot break at Hunt Landing above Grand Lake floods Chicot county Arkansas. Levee guards patrol night and day as flood risks mount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Mississippi
Napoleonville
East Carroll
Arkansas
Hunt Landing
Grand Lake
Chicot County
Unsafe Trip Up Mississippi Reported By Commander
Commander Edward White of the gun boat Concord at Memphis reported the Mississippi voyage to St Louis unsafe under present conditions. He may abandon the trip but was ordered to go as far as Cairo if possible. Also noted were Boiler Makers unions considering unity and a Philadelphia theater fire victim count rising with Hinchcliffe dying in hospital. The dispatch advertises rooms for rent at one cent per word.
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Hart
Holman
Cockrell
Missouri
Harvard College
Senate
Mr. Holman
HindTos
Edward White
Concord
Memphis
Navy Department
Mississippi River
St. Louis
Cairo
Philadelphia
William Hinchcliffe
Central Theater
Pennsylvania Hospital
James Pigeon
Daily and
Sunday Dispatch
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Wana
John
MR. Shoup
Elections Committee
Lightner
Gov. McKinley
William HK. Dickerson
Manning the Minstrel
Washington
Dollors
Minnesota
Cardinals
Committee of Cardinals
Limerick
Dyemixa
Samily Ruther
Emin Pasha
Kine Humseet
William
London Commissioner of Parks
Charles Dickens
Little Nell
Parnice GaeviLte-Nusest
London
Marion Lynetta Price
Bordeaux
France
Merijan
Christo
Constantinople
Vulkovitch
Turkey
Balfour
Dentsa
Lueck
Jaeger
Sultan of
Berlin
Bomans
Broussels
Chamber of Deputies
Fital
Risin
Eczemaon
Cuthura
Lan
Geo. B
Janetta Eeis
Webster, Ind
Whcra
Price
Esolvent
Otter Duce and Chemical Corporation
Boston
Boiler Makers
National Brotherhood of Boiler Makers
Ceticvia
French
Boggs & Buhl
Allegheny
Bayou Macon
East Caroli
Madison Parishes
Louisiana
Weather Bureau
Cincinnati
New England Oronator Company
St. Charles
Schenley Park
Greenfield Ave
Second Avenue
Greenfield Avenue
Peter Shields
Grant Street
Lydia Aineat
S. A. Dickie & CO
A. Dickie & CO
Kensington
Chambers Glass Works
Sloan & CO
4Th Ave. Telephone
Perrysville Ave
John K. Ewing & Co
Federal St
Dispatch
Smithfield and Diamond
Atlantic City
Atglen
Michigan
Pacific Avs
NS. J
Beseh
Otel Wiltshire
Virginia
Ocean
N.J
D. W. Chandler
Imperial
N.F
Maryland
G. W. Kenderick
Chalfonte
T. C.roserts & Sons
Mountain House
Cresson Springs
Allegheny Mountains
Penna
Sto
WM. R. Dunham
Sapt
Cresson
Cambria County
Saratoga Springs
Tompkins
Gage & Perry
Catskill Mountains
Riggs
Washington, D. C
Higgs House CO
G. Dewitt
Sturtevant House
Sturtekvant House
Broadwis
29Th Sts
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