President Roosevelt visits Iowa on a fast tour
President Roosevelt travels through Iowa with Gov. Cummins and Gov. Dockery, greeted by 20,000 in Keokuk. He stops in Ottumwa and Shenandoah for speeches praising Secretary Wilson, then proceeds toward St. Louis accompanied by political figures Hull Hepburn and Shaw. He departs Keokuk at 4:30 am after an evening arrival.
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Keokuk
Iowa
Burlington
Quincy
St. Louis
Cummins
Dockery
Missouri
Ottumwa
National Guards
Roosevelt
Acre
Westin
T A. m
Shenandoah
S P. Mu
Wilson
U Agriculture
Shaw
Hull
Hepburn
President Kissed Babies as He Visited Des Moines Stops
A large Des Moines crowd welcomed the president on a long city drive. He addressed Mystic Shriners and later gave an extended talk on good citizenship at the capitol, praising Representative Hull for militia law progress. He kissed several babies offered by four mothers and noted the many schoolchildren waving flags during stops at Shenandoah, Clarinda, Sharpsburg, Van Wert, Osceola, Des Moines, Oskaloosa, and Ottumwa.
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Des Moines
Mystic Shriners
Capitol
Hull
Iaw
United States
Shenandoah
Clarinda
Sharpsburg
van Wert
Osceola
Oskaloosa
Ottumwa
Yellowstone Park
Forest Fires Endanger Onaway Town in Michigan
Onaway Michigan faces grave danger as surrounding woods burn in all directions. Firefighters fear heavy damage unless rain arrives tonight to halt the flames. The situation prompts evacuations and urgent appeals for resources as residents brace for possible loss.
Edgewood blaze wipes out four Edgewood businesses
Cedar Rapids Iowa April 29 four business buildings in Edgewood Clayton county were burned this morning. Loss is estimated at 25000 dollars.
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Cedar Rapids
Towa
Edgewood
Clayton County
Assassination Most Foul in Nature near Kokomo
At a farm south of Kokomo Indiana Francis Sutton 22 was found shot dead early Monday with a bullet to the forehead. He planned to marry Miss Stella Mabel Peters 18. Sutton was last seen Sunday night after bidding farewell to his fiancé. Coroner Harrison investigates noting no suicide motive.
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Kokomo
Ind
John Peters
Francis Sutton
Sutton
Stella Mabel Peters
Peters
Harrison
William Sends His Equipment to Rome by Train
Berlin April 29 A trainload of Emperor William s horses and equipage left for Rome today as the emperor prepares to visit the pope The emperor will not use the carriage of King Emanuel whose life has not yet been seen inside papal grounds.
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Berlin
William
Rome
Kingstor Emanuel
Papal
Hase Bad Samarton Duluth
Minn
Benjamin Campbell
Imperial Council of the Modern Samaritans
Need of Good Roads Emphasized at National Convention
At the last day of the good roads convention in St. Louis on April 2 resolutions urged building of good roads as paramount to national priority and commercial supremacy and recommended establishing a complete national organization across the United States.
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St. Ovis
United States
Woman Accused After Granger Body Found in Iowa River
Cresco Iowa April 29 The body of Gus Kruger was found near Granger weighed down with a stone in the Iowa river near his farm His head was crushed and mutilated His wife has been arrested but protests her innocence.
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Cresco
Towa
Gus Kruger
Granger
Iowa River
Russia Manchuria Evacuation Report Suppresses Privilege Claims
Washington reports the government rejects exclusive privileges in Manchuria and confirms Russia has evacuated Shing King province. Telegraph from Yokohama notes the development amid broader East Asia tensions. Elsewhere, in Illinois and Iowa, local conventions nominate circuit judges, a Hearst marriage is announced, a Carnegie library dedication set, and Clark Howell addresses a Des Moines grant club on Grant’s life as a peace lesson.
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Lowans
Des Moines
Clark Howell
The
Atlanta Constitution
Grant Club
Grant
United Nation
Woman Indicted for Murder in Indiana
Evansville Ind April 29 Mrs Bonaparte Dixon of Perry county indicted at Cannelton for murder in the first degree. She is charged with poisoning her husband who died three weeks ago from arsenic. Dixon and his wife did not live happily together though Dixon was wealthy and prominent ponfeet ly.
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Evansville
Ind
Bonaparte Dixon
Perry County
Cannelton
Dixon
St Louis to Host Roosevelts at Big Exposition Event
Trains bring governors militiamen and crowds for the dedication of an inland expo in St Louis with President Roosevelt and ex President Cleveland due to speak. A 100 gun salute marks the centennial of Napoleon sold for a song as military pomp and diplomatic presence unfold.
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St. Louis
Minnesown
Nebraska
Indiana
Cardinal Gibbons
Gomez
Cuba
Roosevelt
Cleveland
Francis
New York
Ohio
Missouri
Iowa
Ilinois
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Napoleon
United States
Congress
Supreme Court
War Department
Henry C. Corbin
Benjamin B. Odell
A. M. Dockery
Leo Stevens
Stanleys
London
Paldwin Brothers
Rpstrum
Eberns
Long Ug Singing Societies
David BR. Francis
Grover Cleveland
Roosevelt to Speak at St Louis Dedication Pageant
President Roosevelt will speak at the choral entertainment to raise funds for a General Fran Siegel monument. He arrives the night before dedication and will review a two mile military parade through Forest Park and Lindell boulevard, with 335000 Lib Arts building seating and a 5000 grand stand seating for dignitaries.
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Arkansas
St. Louis
Blue Jackets
Roosevelt
Fran Siegel
Francis
Rolla Wells
Liberal Arts
Man and Brother Arrested After Fatal Henderson Quarrel
In Henderson last night a quarrel between Mrs. Ho ward Morrison and her husband ended with Morrison shot dead. The husband and his brother were arrested as suspects. The incident occurred during a domestic dispute in Galesburg HL.
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Galesburg
Howard Morrison
Henderson
Irving M. Scott Dies in San Francisco
Irving M. Scott long associated with Union Iron Works dies at his home in San Francisco after a period of illness. He had kidney trouble and was famed as the builder of the Oregon battleship, with health decline noted in recent days.
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Irving M. Scott
Union Tren Works
Mr. Scott
Oregon
Weather across plains reports severe blizzard impact
Severe blizzard affects South Dakota to Nebraska and Minnesota with heavy snow accumulations. Illinois and New York regions report thermometer readings and wind. Fruit trees and early vegetation suffer damage as April storms rage.
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South Dakota
Ming and
Min
Chicago
Nebraska
Kansas
Nesota
New York
Deering Works Closed by Strike at Chicago Plant
Chicago April 2 More than 1 000 recruits joined the strike at the Deering Works this morning. The Deering plant is closed indefinitely and about 7 000 employees are idle.
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Deering
Chicago
Deering Vesting Works
King Edward’s Vatican Visit Sparks Protestant Protest
In Rome King Edward met the Pope in secret, after a formal welcome by Vatican officials. In London the Protestant Alliance filed a protest, condemning the king’s planned audience with the pope as anti‑Christ, reflecting tense church tensions.
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London
The
Church Association
St. James’ Hall
Edward
Rome
Protestant Alliance
Bait Smuggling Report Faces Newfoundland Crackdown
Reports claim three U S vessels trapped by ice at the Ban Islands sold bait to French fishermen in St Pierre and Miquelon, risking forfeiture of bonds and seizure if Newfoundland waters are entered again. A colonial official probes the accusation for law enforcement purposes.
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St. Johns
United States
Baf Islands
St. Pierre
Mique- Jon
Customs Department of
Newfoundland
Terrible Northwest Earthquake and Mine Disasters
A Spokane dispatch reports a severe Northwest earthquake that destroyed a coal tunnel in Montana’s H L Frank development, burying miners and causing heavy casualties. Separate items note mine explosions near Buffalo and a quarantine-keeping incident in Vancouver, B C.
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Spokane
Wash
Frank
Montana
GB. C
Conference of State Financial Reform in Madison
Milwaukee April 29 Senator Spooner arrived from the east en route to Madison for a high level conference with Senators Aldrich Platt and Allison on the financial situation. He said the aim is to frame a bill to ease the sub treasury system and introduce elasticity into the treasury system without major changes.
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Milwaukee
Spooner
Madison
Aldrich, Platt
Allison Learing
Treasury
Old Luetgert Case Photo Dispute Stirs Chicago
Lawrence Harmon, attorney for Luetgert, disputes a five year old story about a tintype said to show Mrs Luetgert. He confirms receiving the image in January 1898 from J C Sims of Spartansburg South Carolina. Sims claimed a farmer saw the woman with a gypsy group and that she wished to return to Chicago if the men released her.
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Chicago
Lawrence Harmon
Luetgert
Sims
Big suit over smallpox bills settled at Alton
Alton April 2 Judge Vaughn of Carlinville ruled against Granite City in a Madison County suit for 20000 dollars claiming county costs for smallpox victims. Demurrers to two counts were sustained limiting recovery to county charges for built facilities.
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Alton
Vaughn
Carlinville
Ing
Granite City
Madison
St Louis Woman’s Triple Names Mark A Day Of Law
In St Louis on April 29 Mrs Tengie Obleyer acquired three legal names after consecutive court actions. She was divorced from John Julian by Judge Wood, kept Tengie Heidbreder, and soon wed John Ohleyer under Judge Crews. Julian, jailed 40 years for a Kansas City robbery, prompted the chain when his son-in-law’s former wife remarried.
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St. Louis
Tengie Obleyer
John Julian
Wood
Circuit Court
Tengie Heidbreder
Crews
John Ohleyer
Julian
Ohleyer
Belleville
Kansas City
Obleyer
Harry Troll
Turks in Fierce Fight With the insurgents
Sofia April 29 A fierce fight between Turkish troops and a large band of insurgents occurred along the River Stramm in the district of Dschuna European Turkey.
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Sofia
Evans Daughter Weds in Tokyo Cathedral Japan
In Tokyo an English cathedral wedding linked two servicemen families. Miss Virginia Evans the daughter of Rear Admiral Bobly D. Evans U S N will marry Hazel Lugalls Sewall of this city in a ceremony held in April in Japan.
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Bob Evans
Japan
Boston
Tokio
Virginia Evans
Bobly D. Evans
Hazel Iugalls Sewall
Nat Hunter Sentenced to 25 Years in Iowa Farm Killings
Osceola Iowa April 29 Nat Hunter who a year ago shot and killed Homer Holland a college athlete of national reputation was today sentenced to 25 years in the penitentiary.
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Osceola
Iowa
Nat Hunter
Homer Holland
Lockout Hits Glove Makers in Gloversville April 20
Owing to refusal of table cutters to cut colored buckskins the Manufacturers' association orders a lockout of all cutters in Glove factory of Representative Littaver. Separately Poultrymen from many eastern states met secretly in Indianapolis to form an organization to set prices and secure better rail rates to protect themselves from rate cutting. Wholesale dealers attended from New York and Connecticut.
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Gloversville
N. Y
Littaver
Manufacturers’ Association
Snoversville
Poult
Indianapolis
Mississippi
New York
Connecticut
College Debate Date Fixed Between Iowa and Wisconsin
Iowa City April 29 to May 8 set for the annual debate between the Universities of Iowa and Wisconsin. This seventh meeting follows three wins each. The contest will take place in Madison Wisconsin. Pioneer merchant Jackson Lennon dies at 69 in LaCrosse after opening a LaCrosse store in 1854. Kingston Jamaica April 20 postal pact with Canada to boost inter colonial trade exchanges all mail at Canadian internal rates.
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Iowa
Wisconsin
Madison
Wis
Kingston
Jamaica
Canada
LaCrosse
Jackson Lennon
Northwest
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