President Opens Jamestown Fair With Pomp And Ceremony
President Roosevelt headlines the Jamestown centennial exposition opening with a royal pageant. Navy reviews, 88 American ships and 12 foreign craft parade before discovery landing as crowds greet the presidential party. Weather faults mar the ceremony but Tucker and officials praise the event as a milestone in Virginia and American history.
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Jamestown Fair
Norfolk
United States
Roosevelt
Hampton
Discovery Landing
Expoession
Exposition Grounds
How graft is collected from dives explained to Frisco jury
San Francisco report to the grand jury details police graft from vice houses. Captain Moony describes a weekly scale: patrolmen five dollars, sergeants fifteen, captains twenty five to a hundred for chiefs, with higher payments for Barbary Coast dives. Kid Sullivan noted as a collector, while police commission members deny direct sharing.
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Frisco
San Francisco
John Moony
Grand
Heney
Police Department
Pacific Street
Barbary Coast District
Moony
Grand Jury
Kid” Sullivan
Dinan
Police Commission
Iowa girl takes poison and dies just for fun
Sioux City April 26 Carrie Mattison 21 took strychnine in her home saying she did it for fun to see blood, death, and blue nails. She frothing at mouth, died within an hour despite medical help. She was daughter of R H Mattison of Battle Creek Iowa and had no stated loves or disappointments.
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American Republic
Virginia
Republic
Virginia Nile
Sioux City
Iowa
Carrie Mattison
Frank Richardson
Moyer and Haywood Refuse To Comment On President Letter
Boise Idaho April 26 Moyer and Haywood accused Western Federation men refuse to discuss the president s latest letter calling them undesirable citizens on advice of counsel The attorneys say they cannot involve their clients with the president and his supporters in a newspaper controversy and will not make any statements about the utterances to protect their case from further agitation
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Moyer
Haywood
Boise
Idaho
Western Federation
The
United States
Chicago Police Seeks Eddie Tate After Peoria Escape
Chicago officials blame former Chief Collins for lending Eddie Tate to Peoria authorities seven weeks ago. Tate, the so called gentleman burglar, reportedly fled Peoria in an automobile with money and headed toward Chicago. Police track Tate's movements along routes into the city and study his distinctive appearance, suspect wife involvement, and a prearranged escape plan evidenced by a registered Chicago-sent letter on the day of his disappearance.
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Chicago
Eddie” Tate
St. Francis Hospital
Peoria
Collins
Tate
Newton C. Dougherty
Westmire
Washington, Ill
Deliv
Details of Great Bond Theft Told Attorney
The letter promising $5 was unopened by Chief Wilson of Peoria. Tate showed Policeman Barrett $200 in bills and boasted of aiding escapes with his wife visiting him in prison. Accomplice Eddie Fay, a noted post office robber, is suspected of helping Tate blow the safe, with authorities actively seeking Fay.
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Wilson
Peoria
Tate
Mike Barrett
Chicago
Eddie Fay
Eddie” Fay
Fay
Consin
Jerome Supposed to Know About Trust Ge Securities
In New York on April 26 a sweeping exposure emerged on how bonds worth hundreds of thousands were stolen from the Trust Company of America. W. O. Douglas, an assistant loan clerk already jailed on the charge, and broker O. M. Dennett were quizzed by the district attorney as Dennett reportedly agreed to tell the full tale, with details unfolding the scheme.
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Jerome
Trust Ge. Securities
New York
Trust Company of America
W. O. Douglas
Trust Company
O. M. Dennett
Rhode Island executive admits long running embezzlement
Levi Cook Lincoln longtime secretary-treasurer and general manager of Woonsocket Machine and Power confessed to stealing about 82 000 from the company and channeling funds into Wall Street. He resigned from the Woonsocket firm Estabrook company and two local banks. Fraud included forged notes bearing the name George Batchelor and a $10 000 bond from Fidelity and Deposit of Baltimore.
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Providence
Levi Cook Lincoln
Woonsocket Machine & Power Company
Communds
Waileet
Lincoln
Woonsocket
Abani
Estabrook Company
Power Company
George Batchelor
Fidelity & Deposit Company of
Baltimore
Pure Food Board headed by Wiley
Washington April 26. Secretary Wilson creates by executive order a board of pure food and drug inspection to administer the national pure food law. The board includes Dr. Harvey Wiley chairing, Dr. Frederick L. Dunlap as associate chemist, and George R. McCabe as solicitor. Flora Wolff to sue Lord Beresford estate for over 500000 in Mexico and Texas.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Board of Pure Food and Drug Inspection
Harvey Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Frederick L. Dunlap
George R. McCabe
Department of Agriculture
Beresford
el Paso
Texas
Flora Wolff
D. F. Beresford
Mexico
Almshouse Photo Questioned in County Board Row
Freeport April 26 The county board adopted resolutions accusing the informant to the state board of charities of falsehood over a photo showing a girl chained by the ankles. Officials deny chains were used while the image was used to advocate care for insane paupers in Bartonville. Governor and lawmakers may be asked to act.
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Freeport
Chicago
Stephenson County Almshouse
Board of Supervisors
State Board of Charities
Virden
Bartonville
Tas
Jury Disagrees in Cockrill Murder Case Verdict Declared
In Lexington Kentucky on April 26 after twenty hours of deliberation the jury in the Bill Britton case charged with the assassination of Town Marshal Cockrill reported a hopeless disagreement and were discharged. The case was tied to Breathitt County feud involving Senator Hargis Judge Hargis and others.
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Bill Britton
Breathitt County
Lexington
Cockrill
Breathitt
Hargis
Sweden to cut duty on American corn
Stockholm April 26. A parliamentary committee recommends reducing the corn tax from about 92 cents to 38 cents per 1 kilogram. The action is expected to greatly boost imports of American corn.
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Sweden
Stockholm
Lawson Settles the Suit Against Burrage and Lawson
Boston April 26 The Copper Range Consolidated Mining company and Albert C Burrage Thomas W Lawson and others settled their lawsuit out of court ending the dispute over stock. Lansing April 26 Governor Warner signed a bill making railroads liable as common carriers for livestock shipments. Ithaca April 26 Cornell University marked the centennial birth of founder Ezra Cornell.
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Boston
Mass
Copper Range Consolidated Mining Company
Albert C. Burrage
Thomas W. Lawson
Lansing
Mich
Warner
Cornell
Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell University
Ezra Cornell
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Rooseveltt
United States Artillery
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Tucker
Adimiart Harrington
Fred D. Grant
Cherring
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Austria
Germany
Argentine Republic
Loeb
Henry St. George Tucker
Murmer
Liz Wirth
James
Rome
Greece
England
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Jamestown
Eddie Tate
Still City
Dennett
Douglas
Levi C. Lincoln
Machine and Powder Company
Rhode Island
Wall Street
Pure Food Board
WILEY
Almshouse
Stephenson County
Lawson
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