Peace Plan And Public Duty In Roosevelt Address
President Roosevelt spoke in Portsmouth Virginia on Memorial Day praising veterans from the Civil War and urging leaders and citizens to uphold high character. He said the ballot and the gun decide national success, and stressed civilian and military leadership, duty, and integrity as the path to unity and progress. He will speak at Hampton Institute later and the Mayflower yacht carried him to Rhode Island and back.
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Roosevelt
Virginia
Army and Navy Union
United States Army and Navy
Army
Navy
United States
Grant
Lee
Sherman
Johnston
Stonewall Jackson
Sheridan
Farragut
Republic
Eer Shore
Hampton
Hampton Institute
Fort Monroe
Norfolk Harbor
Memorial Day Observed Quietly Across Nebraska and Nation
Memorial day in Nebraska marked by restraint under the new law banning outdoor games on soldiers day. In Washington, Arlington hosted an elaborate service with a large crowd, while Chicago observed Decoration Day with many businesses closed and cemetery services by Grand Army posts.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Washington
Arlington
Chicago
Grand Army
Diamond in Woman's Appendix Threatens Jewelers Claim
Mae Thomas swallowed a $300 diamond from Tinley L. Coombs & Co. after concealing it in her mouth. An X-ray shows the stone lodged in her intestine, risking murder charges if an operation is required to recover it.
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Omaha
Neb
Shylock
Tinley L. Coombs
Mae Thomas
T. L. Coombs & Co
Coombs
Thomas
Roosevelt Letter Be Attested by Alfonso Marriage Felicitation
King Alfonso received American envoy Whiteridge at the palace in Madrid. Whiteridge bore President Roosevelt’s letter congratulating the king on his marriage. The king thanked the envoy on behalf of Spain. Workers to Get Money. Supreme court upholds semi monthly pay in lawful money for manufacturing and mining firms. Davitt loses ground in Dublin. political condition deteriorates.
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Roosevelt
Alfonso
Madrid
Whiteridge
Indianapolis
Ind
Supreme Court
Seeleyville Coal Mining Company
Davitt
Dublin
Michael Davitt
Bombs for Governor and Cossacks in Revenge
In New York a special grand jury probes Mutual Life Insurance Company over fake bills paid to Andrew C. Fields for a so called confidential legislative fund. Witnesses include Olyphant Rogers McKibbin Preller and others as Fields aids the inquiry. Separately in Transcaucasia Cossacks attack Gov Alikhanoff after bombings, with mass killings and village destruction cited. In Riga eight murderers of Police Lieutenant Porzhitsk are executed.
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Mutual Life Insurance Company
Grand
Andrew C. Fields
Econfidential Legislative Fund
Armstrong Board
Grand Jury
Armstrong Committee
The
Mutual Life
Mutual
Fields
Jerome
Robert Olyphant
Committee
Edgar W. Rogers
Lysander W. Lawrence Company
George McKibbin
McKibbin & Son
Alikhanoff
Central Asia
Murghab River
Great Britain
Russia
Riga
Porzhitsk
Goremykin
No business done in the convention
Nashville May 30. Fist fights hoots and pandemonium marked the Tennessee Democratic convention ending in adjournment without temporary organization. A truce was declared at 6:10 pm after a day of turmoil as police kept order and leaders formed a plan for a temporary chairman by appointing four representatives each from the three gubernatorial candidates Cox Patterson and Bond. Contested delegations dominated the session with many counties challenged.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Tennesee
John I. Cox
Malcolm R. Patterson
John R. Bond
Congress Epitome Yesterday Report Shows Big Budget Moves
Washington May 30 brief resume of yesterday’s Senate and House proceedings. Senate passed the post office appropriation totaling 192 485 000 with a 2 461 637 increase by the committee bringing the total to 103 070 670. Adjournment until Thursday followed. In the House the day’s aftereffects of Monday’s filibuster led to arrests and a quorum effort that proved ineffectual.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Senate
Frisco Death Toll Reaches 418 After 11 More Victims Found
The morgue tally rises to 418 with 11 additional fire victims identified in San Francisco. In Riga, an excursion steamer overturned off the pier, drowning 65 people as authorities investigated the catastrophe.
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San Francisco
Riga
Russia
Fire damages Armour Co elevator and Colon stockpile
Blaze at Armour & Co in Fisk Street destroys elevator D and ruins about a million bushels of wheat, corn, and oats with 15 grain cars. Four workers hurt, one fatally, in a dust explosion spree. Another fire threatens the U.S. Commissary at Colon as kerosene stock ignites. origin cited as spontaneous combustion.
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Chicago
Armour & Co
Fisk Street
Colon
United States Commissary Department
Rebuff of minister tobacco use blocks secretary post
Richmond Ind May 30 The general assembly of the United Presbyterian church rejected a committee resolution to name Rev John A Burnett of Monmouth Ill as general secretary of the Young People's Society because he uses tobacco and instead nominated Rev W W Lawrence of Bellevue Ill for the post.
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Richmond
Ind
General Assembly of
The
United Presbyterian Church
John A. Burnett
Monmouth
Young Peoples’ Society
Burnett
W. W. Lawrence
Bellevue
Klugger Caught in Davenport After Metal Theft
Mundt of the St Paul company was wounded during a pursuit by detectives who tracked a theft at Nahant storehouse. About 700 pounds of metal were recovered from weeds 40 feet from the site. Klugger, with a criminal record, was arrested after a midnight run in which a revolver and cartridge pocketbook were found on him.
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B. F. Klugger
Davenport
St. Paul Company
Mundt
St. Paul
Nahant
Cowan
Independent lawmakers clash over journal阻
Kansas City May 4 meat inspection debate shows independents opposing approval of the journal. Speakers defend absences while Cannon sticks to his ruling. A $1,000,000 foreign envoy quarters amendment is struck, adjournment follows. Dr W P Cutler accuses meat inspections of being a farce, cites diseased meats and bias against small packers amid TB concerns.
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Cannon
Kansas City
W. P. Cutler
Floods Sweep Umatilla County as River Rages
Pendleton reports the county overtaken by a storm flood. Creeks and streams overflow low lands wash away crops gardens and alfalfa fields and houses. Umatilla River roars with fears of the levee breaking and flooding the town. Also note the battleship Montague ashore at Shutter Point Lundy Island with crew safe.
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Pendleton
Ore
Umatilla County
Umatilla
Lundy Island
England
Shutter Point
Memorial Day Proclamation from Governor Deneen
Springfield May 20 Governor Deneen issued a belated Memorial Day proclamation urging May 30 as Memorial Day. He asks citizens to recall soldiers valor and sacrifice and to participate in ceremonies decorating graves, stressing patriotism and national memory.
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Deneen
Charles 8
Tlinois
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