Enveloped in a Big Storm Strands Wires Across East
A sweeping spring storm cuts telegraph and rail links from Canada to Tennessee and the Atlantic. Snow and high winds cripple Western Union and Postal lines, delaying trains and feared floods loom along the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers as weather bureaus warn residents to prepare for high water. Local reports from Zanesville London and Louisville describe blizzards and record cold across Kentucky and Ohio.
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Cleveland
Canada
Tennessee
Atlantic Coast
Western Union
Postal
Seaboard
New York
Atlanta
Coast Lines
Winnipeg
Buzverd
Zanesville
Bio
Zinesville
Columbus
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Dennison
Weather Bureau
Carnegie
Charteris Valley
Pittsburg
London
Kentucky
Louisville
Barcelona Socialists Plan May Day General Strike
In Barcelona on April 20 the socialist party announced a general strike for May Day while anarchists refuse to cooperate with them, signaling a division among leftist groups and preparations for the event.
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Barcelona
Assets and debts of Interstate Investment firm disclosed
Cincinnati April 20 Appraisers report the Interstate Investment company now in receivership has assets of 174000 while debts total 400000.
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Cincinnati
Inter State Investment Company
Shamrock launched from Glasgow in April
The Shamrock was launched successfully in Glasgow on April 20, with officials reporting a smooth start to the voyage. The ceremony highlighted the vessel's arrival and readiness for its upcoming journey.
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Glasgow
Kasson Leaves State Department Position
Washington reports John A Kasson is severed from his role as special plenipotentiary for reciprocity negotiations under McKinley but remains available to assist the department. In Des Moines Iowa the Iowa Butter and Egg Dealers' association discusses new meat packer depots entering the state and the resulting changes in distribution with cars stopping at small stations.
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John 4
Kasson
McKinley
Department
Posse
Des Moines
Iowa Butter and Eye Dealers’ Association
Iowa
Proposals for Property Seizure in Street Improvements
Supreme court rules abutting and other signer held property can be taken for street works. Firms from Chicago and Connersville face $5,000 extra charges on lots now claimed in tax sales after prior payments and $6,000 assessments. Columbus mayor fires civil service commission for incompetency amid city department staffing issues. French coal miners plan broad strike at end of April if terms fail.
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Supreme Court
Farson, Learh & Co
Chicago
Snix
Monk, Roots & Mount
Connersville
Columbus
Hinkle
Civil Service Commission
Swarts
Boy nearly dead locked in freight car in Illinois yards
Council Bluffs Iowa April 20 a station master found a 11 year old boy named Joe from Pullman Illinois in a freight car he had hidden in since Monday and the door was locked when the train started the boy nearly died from hunger and thirst.
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Council Bluffs
Tal
Joe
Pullman
Ill
Ben
Pullan
Filipinos Call for Peace as Aguinaldo Signals Change
Manila April 20 The address to the Filipino people urges an end to hostilities and lasting peace under United States sovereignty. Aguinaldo says peace, liberty, and protection by Uncle Sam offer the path forward and MacArthur orders the release of 1,000 insurgent prisoners to signal pacification efforts.
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Manila
Aguinaldo
Philippine Islands
Uncle Sam
United States
MacArthur
Ban on Illinois fraternal firm in Iowa
Des Moines Iowa April 20 Auditor Merriam announced that no fraternal beneficiary association of Illinois may transact in Iowa unless it amends by laws to bar writing beneficiary policies for an affianced wife or affianced husband. He denies retaliation, saying Iowa companies are unfairly treated in Illinois.
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Illinois
Des Moines
Merriams
Association of Illinois
Iowa
Merriam
Iown
Telegraph Briefs Roundup of International and National News
Morgan and Morgan & Co subscribe 1000 dollars each to the Victoria memorial. NYSE volume 2,193,200 shares, largest day on record. W Jessops & Sons plan a mammoth steel plant at Washington. German decree bars Polish instruction in Posen. St Clair River ice blocked. US exports likely to set a record in 1901. Colonel A H Belo dies in Asheville. Primrose Day passes in England without royal wreath. Snowstorm in eastern Kentucky threatens peaches. Consolidation of independent cereal plants proceeds. Dawson Alaska gold clean-up estimated at 30 million. General Felipe Yama assassinated by Maya rebel officers.
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J. Mierpont Morgan
J. FP. Morgan & Co
London
Victoria Memorial
New York Stock Exchange
W. Jessops & Sons
Posen
St. Clair
United States
A. H. Belo
Galveston News
Dallas News
Asheville
Earl of Beaconsfield
England
Hughenden
Kentucky
Aesuer
Dawson
Alaska
Felipe Yama
Mexico
Robbers Steal Ten Paintings From Museum
Burglars broke into the Museum of Arts in Santiago de Cuba on April 20 cracking frames and taking ten of the finest paintings valued at about 100000 pesos.
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Santiago de Tuba
Museum of Arts
Albion college expels two students over social rule violations
In Albion Michigan on April 20 Acting President Samuel Dickie announced two Albion College students a coed and her steady companion must leave campus and not return due to repeated social rule violations. College officials warn further expulsions may follow if violations do not stop. Monument to Lincolns Mother in Indianapolis will include Lincoln body removal from Springfield Illinois and the temporary vault stone to Spencer County Indiana for the foundation in Nancy Hanks Lincoln monument plans.
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Abion
Mich
Albion College
Chapel
Samuel Dickie
Lincoln
Indianapolis
Durbin
Culver Construction Company
Springfield
Ills
Abraham Lincoln
Spencer County
Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Land for Home Seekers to Enter Indian Lands via Lottery
Washington April 20 President McKinley to issue a proclamation opening the Kiowa Comanche Apache and Caddo reserves for homesteading under a lottery based system. About 3 800 000 acres in Oklahoma to be opened with eligibility rules. veterans receive preference. Applications filed with land registrar then drawn from a revolving cylinder. 160 acre limits apply. restrictions protect titles and rights.
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Washington
McKinley
Mcimley
Retary of the Interior
Hite
Oklahoma
McArthur Reports on the Scandals
Washington April 20 The following telegram was released yesterday from MacArthur regarding theft of commissary stores The army says the amount was grossly exaggerated and drastic actions have been taken Three officers and several enlisted men face court martial and a number of citizens are to be tried by a military commission
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Washington
MacArthur
Two Men Die in Mine Foreman Slaying and Suicide
Milton California and Copperopolis report a foreman John H Gorham shooting George B McCarthy a Copperopolis figure at the Union Copper mine then killing himself with giant powder. In New York a meeting at Carnegie Hall forms a new political party the Greater New York Democracy to oppose Tammany Hall.
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Milton
Cal
John H., Gorham
Union Copper Mine
George B. McCarthy
Copperopolis
Marty
Nw York
Carnegie Hall
Greater New York Democracy
Wimany Hall
Despot plots thwarted as Rosario raids reveal murder plan
A Buenos Aires dispatch reports police in Rosario seized papers showing an anarchist plot to kill Emperor William, the Czar, and Italian rulers. Romagnoli, from Rosario, acted on Paterson street orders to travel to Berlin, then Rome, then New York, before arrest in Germany. Police say the plan remains under investigation.
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New York
Herald
Buenos Ayres
Rosario
Santa Fe
Germany
Trussia
Italy
Turin
Paterson
N. J
Berlin
William
Argentina
Mame Magnoli
New Jersey
Romagnol
Sec
Romasnoli
Lot
Rome
Paterson Society
Russia
Mrs Bell Wins Large Alimony After Supreme Court Ruling
Bloomington April 20 The U S supreme court affirmed a New York divorce decree awarding Mary Gridl Bell alimony dating from eight years prior totaling about 25 000 Frederick E Bell a Rochester coal operator was the wealthy defendant Bell is the daughter of the late General Asabel Bell a Bloomington banker and lawyer whose death occurred two decades ago Bell values the ruling for justice as much as for money.
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Bloomington
Als
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court of New York
Mary Gridl Bell
Chicago
Frrederick A. Bell
New Yé
Rochester
Bell
New York
Frederick E. Bell
N. Y
Alliance formed to curb fake insurance schemes
Indianapolis April 20 Ohio Indiana and Milheis through their attorney general have formed a friendly alliance to eradicate fake insurance companies. Attorney Generals Sheets and Taylor discussed schemes to rid the people of these blood-sucking enterprises. Cooperation of the three states is seen as more effective in quashing the evil.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Ohio
Indiana
Milheis
Gene Hve
Sheets
Taylor
State House
Copper discovery in Wisconsin farm sparks mine plan
In River, Wisconsin, Thos Andrews, visiting with western horses, found nearly pure copper on C Severts eighty acre farm. He bought the land for 70 dollars an acre and plans development this fall. A Stevens Point beet sugar project promised five hundred thousand dollars from Milwaukee capitalists, with a possible factory by 1902 if local beet yields prove profitable. Also Pittsburgh called a window glass workers wage committee meeting for Monday.
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All River
Wis
Thos, Andrews
Salmon City
Ida
C. Severts
Stew Point
Milwaukee
Dr. Horton
Stevens Point
Pitsburg
Britons Bride Likely For Sartoris Heiress
Washington April Mrs Sartoris announces engagement of her daughter at Sartoris visiting relatives in England to Archibald Balfour of London. No wedding date set. expected to take place next autumn. Miss Vivir toris is eldest daughter of Mrs Nellie Grant Sartoris and granddaughter of General Ulysses Grant.
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Washington
Archibald Balfour
London
Miss Vivirtoris
Nellie Grant Sartoris
A. 3. Grant
Porto Rico Cuba Stories And Maritime Reform Urged
April 20 report notes Washington Gardner speaking to Leisure Hour club on Porto Rico and Cuba. He urges deep harbors dredging and modern sewerage, calls for American agricultural methods and educated workers, cites marriage costs and social customs, and mentions a wreck settlement of 20000 dollars with North Western Railroad. An assault incident is reported with a suspect arrested.
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Washington Gardner
Porto Rico
Cuba
Dle
Brooklyn Bride Receives 102000 Bond Wedding Gift
Miss Florence A Hicks of Brooklyn married Frank J Schafus of Montclair New Jersey last Wednesday night. A messenger delivered to the bride a package containing Panama Trading and Developing company bonds worth 102332 dollars and a note from an unknown Frank Wythbon stating the bonds were a wedding gift from the bride's father. A separate Paris item notes France seeks 200000000 francs indemnity from China, officials say.
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New York
Florence A. Hicks
Brooklyn
Frank J. Schafus
Mont Clair
N. J
Panama Trading and Developing Company
Colton Exporting and Importing Company
Frank Wythhon
Huge Stove Trust Forming Across the United States
Detroit report says a vast stove trust is nearly complete, bringing together all large stove manufacturers in the country. Officials deny knowledge of any such combination and efforts to keep it secret are reportedly underway.
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Detroit
the Evening News
St. Louis
United States
Boers Capture Cattle Train Near Monteno
East London April 20. Boers seize a cattle train near Monteno Thursday evening. The forward engine escaped to Stormberg and returned with troops. The train was found afire. A couple of natives were killed. Train hands were stripped and released.
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East London
Cape Colony
Monteno
Stormberg
Jerome B. Cable Dies at St. Paul
Jerome B. Cable, 47, president of the Ohio Coal Company and former division superintendent of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, died at his St. Paul home of Brights disease. A Wisconsin native, he was well known across the Northwest.
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St. Paul, Minn
Jerome B. Cable
The
Ohio Coal Company
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Bright
Cable
Wisconsin
Northwest
Capt Garnett Ripley Escapes Conviction
Frankfort Kentucky April 2 The jury in the case of Capt Garnett Ripley charged with being in the conspiracy that resulted in the assassination of Gov William Goebel today rendered a verdict of not guilty after being out only a short time.
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Garnett Ripley
Frankfort
Capt
William Goebel
Bishop Esher Funeral Held in Chicago
The funeral of Bishop Esher was held in Chicago today with services at his residence Evangelical church and Graceland cemetery where he was interred.
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Bishop Esher
Chicago
Evangelical Church
Graceland Cemetery
Double murder shocks Chicago as attorney kills wife
Chicago on April 20 reports I. J. Gillen aged 25 an attorney shot and killed his wife 22 after a brief marriage and separation. He appears to have fatally shot himself.
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Chicago
I. J. Gillen
Garonne Brings 1000 Soldiers From Manila
The transport Garonne arrived in San Francisco today from Manila with 1000 men of the 26th infantry. Other dispatches note Cobden Club opposition to taxes, a tax recovery probe in Shelby county, a broken minor league accord with the National League, and multiple early baseball results from Chicago Brooklyn St Louis and Boston.
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Manila
San Francisco
Reson
Chicago
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
St. Louis
S. Louis
Boseton
New York
Boston
Cinecunpati— Weaver
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