FIGHT GOES INTO COURT OVER ZION CITY CONTROL
Lawyers for John Alexander Dowie announce plans to file a bill to set aside the transfer of Zion City and Zion church properties to Deacon Granger by Overseer Voliva. A receiver may be sought while the dispute is settled. Dowie and his backers vow to wage legal warfare to regain control amid ongoing negotiations.
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bin Wit
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Mexico
Dowle
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Annex
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Wetten
Deowies
Justice Ricks Ill With Terminal Cancer at Home
Justice James B. Ricks of the supreme court lies critically ill at his Taylorville home from bowels cancer. He is confined to bed, cannot take nourishment, and is slowly starving. Also, King Alfonso and Princess Ena set to wed June 1 in Madrid with ambassadors arriving May 28.
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James B. Ricks
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Ena of Battenberg
Wife Graft Prompts Storm in Northwestern Mutual Probe
Milwaukee April 13 legislative committee hearings reveal Mrs Henry L Palmer wife of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance president as a frequent investor in policy loans. One loan traced to 1889 shows she received interest at a substantial rate, prompting sensational charges in the examination.
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Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Legislative Investigating Committee
Henry L. Palmer
Northwestern Mutual
Prominence of Parties Causes Sensation in Western Iowa
Sioux City April 13 arrests reveal Pelletier dry goods theft ring. Mrs Elizabeth Morrell John Shields C C Waud and E G Bender charged with conspiracy larceny and receiving stolen goods. Stolen loot found at Dr Charles Wade's home. Waud ill and attempted self harm. Morrell connected to northern Iowa families. Waud taught Sunday school. Naples reports sun after ash fall but Vesuvius remains active.
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Elizabeth Morrell
John Shields
C. C. Waud
E. G. Bender
Bender
Charles Wade
Waud
Wade
St. Joseph's Hospital
Wand
St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church
Kossuth County
M. J. Morrell
Cedar Falls
Tornado Rips Briggs Texas Destruction and Deaths
Tornado swept Briggs Texas nearly destroying the town. Two killed and thirty injured, six fatally, including Hickman and daughter Arnott Taber and wife. Wires down, grand stand blown at Cleburn. injuries reported and multiple buildings destroyed. Stafford Kansas tornadoes injure several and damage churches and farms. Albany shows insurance reform bill passed unanimously by the Senate.
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Hickman
Arnott Tabor
Dallas
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Operation Fatal to Capt Kennedy
Washington reports Captain Duncan Kennedy, commanding the cruiser Colorado, died at Guantanamo yesterday following an operation for appendicitis.
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Bates Ready to Leave the Army
Washington April 13 Lieutenant General Bates will retire tomorrow and Major General Henry C Corbin will succeed to the rank of lieutenant general He will serve in that place only during the summer and will in turn be succeeded by Major General MacArthur who will probably be the last of the lieutenant generals until another war
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Bates
Henry C. Corbin
MacArthur
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Homen
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Mitchell
President Roosevelt to stop hunting during term
In San Antonio on April 13, Roosevelt says people mock wolf hunts and they will not occur again while he serves. The note to Colonel Cecil Lyon explains public opinion makes such hunts bothersome for him. Also dated Boston April 13, news that armored cruiser Washington passed speed trials at 22.72 knots, exceeding the 22 knot requirement.
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Texas
Roosevelt
Cecil Lyon
Republican National
Speedy
Boston
Washington
Peoria Prep The Warpath Plan For August Convention
Peoria hosts 6000 Sons of Veterans in August with entertainment plans including boat rides on the Illinois river a 20 mile trip to Fresno beach for a dance open air suppers concerts and a grand ball at the coliseum. An executive committee oversees arrangements while the finance group reports strong public support. Delegates receive badges as souvenirs.
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Ilinois
Thrush
Committee On Entertainment
Three Prominent Kansans Indicted on Land Frauds
Topeka Kan April 13 Fourteen indictments were returned by the federal grand jury yesterday Three are said to involve prominent men already charged with conspiring to defraud the government in land cases S Dean former United States district attorney commented that the dismissals were a wholesale jail delivery One indicted man was a bunkmate of Roosevelt and the talk of a 60 days notice to remove fences and the square deal is called nonsense.
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S. Dean
United States District Attorney
Roosevelt
Granite City strike closes steel plant over wage dispute
About 300 workers at the American Steel foundry in Granite City walked off the job, halting operations at the plant. The idle workers, mostly helpers, gaggers, pickers, and ram mers, demand higher pay as the dispute over wages unfolds. The facility employs 2,800.
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Granite City
American Steel Foundry
Epitome of Doings in Congress Yesterday
Washington reports summarize yesterday in both houses of Congress. Senate debate featured Latimer support for railroad rates and Foraker remarks. conference reports on urgent deficiency and five civilized tribes settlement. house ratified lower Brule treaty and adopted a privacy notice measure. adjourned after five minutes executive session. House featured Cochran speech on general debate and progress on post office appropriations. amendments kept funding intact. adjourned at 5 30 p.m. until today.
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Latimer
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Foraker
Greene and Gaynor Heavily Fined in Savannah Fraud Case
In Savannah Georgia on April 13 Green and Gaynor were fined 575 649 and sentenced to four years in prison each. The fine equals the amount they allegedly fraudulently obtained from the government.
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Green
Gaynor
Franco German Relations Better
Ambassador Speck Von Sternberg led about fifty German army veterans, many now American citizens, to the White House for a reception with President Roosevelt. The president delivered a brief speech congratulating the German emperor on Algeciras and stated the convention should foster friendlier ties between Germany and France.
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Speck von Sternberg
Roosevelt
White House
Algeciras
Germany
France
Russia Willing on Hague Conference Date Change
St. Petersburg April 3 Russia will not insist on July for the second Hague conference date and will accept a later date convenient to all powers. A note to Russian representatives abroad explains the tentative date and the reasons, noting U S objections due to the Pan American congress and allied powers concur.
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Hague
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Russia
United States
Pan-American Congress
Miners Advertise as Legislators Flee Springfield
Springfield April 12 parts of a primary law dispute create a rush to stage primaries for judicial candidates on June 4. Judge Cartwright’s interpretation links primaries to the socialist primary order, prompting lawmakers to flee the capital with copies of the new act.
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Wheelock
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Chicago
Famine Spreads as Durnovo Interior Post in Doubt
Reports from Kharkoff and surrounding provinces claim famine rages with peasants starving and children dying as grain vanishes. In St Petersburg conflicting accounts say Interior Minister Durnovo is dismissed while Shirana suggests he will receive a count title in the Easter honors.
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Revelation Aims to Explain Sanitarium Revelation At Independence
Independence, April 15. The Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints decided to observe fasting and prayer to obtain another revelation clarifying President Joseph Smith’s revelation on building a sanitarium at Independence. The recited revelation was accepted as binding by the church, with a clearing up expected Saturday or Sunday. In Minneapolis, April 13, Herman Koenig, 60, tried to kill his niece in a boarding house and then shot himself, the motive unclear.
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Tillman
Benjamin F. Barnes
Minor Morris
Barnes
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Joseph Smith
Self
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Herman Koenig
E. Boothman
Koenig
13 Inning Game Fatal to Spectator in St Louis
Henry G. Passhall died from heart disease after excitement during a 13 inning baseball game yesterday afternoon between St. Louis and Pittsburg.
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Henry G. Passhall
St. Louisand
Pittsburg
Party managers defy high court in Kansas City mayor race
The Democratic city central committee executive panel nominated W. W. Rose for mayor despite a Supreme Court order ousting him. Rose resigned to avoid removal, though the party presses on with the candidacy, citing the term ending in 1907.
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Democrats
W. W. Rose
Kan
Democratic City Central Committee
Supreme Court
Rose
Have eruption of our own smoke and cinders from a volcano
North Yakima Washington April 13 Word is received from Jack Campbell who is holding Yakima claims at Mount Tacoma that the mountain has been smoking since Tuesday night and on Wednesday threw out cinders The mountain has been shrouded in clouds for some time but rumbling was heard Tuesday morning and the disturbance has increased Meanwhile the steamer Barbarossa carrying American athletes bound for the Athens Olympics arrived at Gibraltar on April 16 and all team members are in good condition
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Mattucci
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Victor Emmanuel
Helmia
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Wash
Jack” Campbell
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Greece
Chief Justice Gabbert Grants Superseding Opinion in Moyer Case
Denver April 3 Chief Justice Gabbert filed a supplemental opinion in the Moyer case. The opinion takes precedence over the prior majority, declaring the governor may suspend habeas corpus at his discretion and that courts cannot review the action.
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Moyer
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