Trash-and-Chinatown Fight Ends in Tolliver Death at Store
In Indianapolis W L Resener’s West Washington Street store a frenzied assault led to William Tolliver, a Black man, killing a crippled 63 year old, injuring several, and being shot by Patrolman Askin and Dugan after a brutal stairwell melee. Tolliver died on the basement steps.
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Indianapolis
W. L. Resener
West Washington Street
William Tolliver
George W. Resener
Dugan
Askin
Askins
Jeffries
Resener Brothers
Tolliver
George Resoner
Crane to Succeed Hanna In 1904 RNC Chair
Washington dispatch reports Winthrop Murray Crane Secretary Root and Senator Lodge at the White House fueling talk over the Republican national committee chairmanship. Friends of Hanna suggest he may stay inactive in the 1904 campaign while a Star dispatch says Crane is certain to replace Hanna.
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Washington
White House
Winthrop Murray Crane
Root
Senator Lodge
Republican National Committee
Hanna
Ohio
Star
Crane
Bible Sunday Observance Acknowledged Worldwide
March 7 1904 is set as Bible Sunday by the British and Foreign Bible Society and approved by the American Bible Society. The centenary of the American society marks about 180000000 scriptures distributed in 3706 languages at total expenditure over 70000000 dollars.
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New York
British and Foreign Bible Society
American Bible Society
Talis
Ted Sloan Case Appears in Paris Jockey Club Appeal
The French Jockey Club stewards appeal a verdict of costs won by American jockey Ted Sloan. Sloan sought 40000 damages claiming he was warned off the turf after Rose de Mai won the Prix de Diane at Chantilly in May.
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Paris
Jockey Club
Ted" Sloan
Rose de Mai
Chantilly
Poultry Dealer Fatally Injured In Freight Hold-Up Struggle
James Rawson of Ladoga Indiana fought hold-up men on a Cleveland fast freight late Friday night. He was hurled from the caboose over a trestle and found on the ground thirty feet below. Rawson died of fatal internal injuries.
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Cleveland
James Rawson
Ladoga
Ind
Rawson
Friars Lands Settlement Nears Final Approval
Manila cable reports an agreement between Governor Taft and the friars to settle land questions. The plan buys 403000 acres of friar lands for 7250000 dollars, excluding 12000 acres sold to a railway and one sugar plantation. The Pope approves the terms. War Department approval awaits.
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Manila
Taft
War Department
Honest postal reforms urged by Payne and committee
Washington report notes Postmaster General Payne will propose major improvements to the postal service in his upcoming annual report. The House committee on post offices is organized and ready to act in January. The Bristow report as background shows decades of mismanagement and calls for an honest, modernized system with centralized disbursement authority.
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Washington
Payne
House Committee On Post Offices
Congress
Bristow
Machen
Ringsters
House
Wealthy Nebraskans Indicted in Federal Case
Seven of Nebraska s most prominent citizens were indicted by the U S grand jury on charges including illegal leasing of government property embezzlement and perjury Several true bills extend the cases against Senator Dietrich and his political allies The list features high officials and millionaire ranchmen from Omaha and the state
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Omaha, Neb
Nebraska
United States Grand Jury
Dietrich
Porte Orders Alexandretta Governor to Apologize to Consul Davis
The Porte has met U S demands and ordered the Alexandretta governor to apologize to Consul Davis for insults and an assault by Alexandretta police. The incident occurred while Davis escorted a departing steamer carrying Attarin, a naturalized American freed from prison through Davis’s intervention.
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Constantinople
Porte
United States
Alexandretta
Davis
Alexaundretta
Attarin
Big Profits at Monte Carlo Cable
Monte Carlo cable reports record profits for the year with profits rising from 5.66 million dollars to nearly 7 million. The Ostend Spa closure boosted clientele and a wet summer drew visitors during the off season.
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Monte Carlo
Ostend Spa
Attempt to Kill Nordau at Zionists Ball in Paris
A poorly dressed man fired two shots at Max Nordau the Zionist leader and vice president during a Zionists ball at Salle Charas Paris around midnight Saturday one bullet grazed Nordau and the other wounded guest Asso wedski authorities describe the attack as an assassination attempt with Nordau surviving the incident and Asso wedski seriously injured
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Paris
Max Nordau
Congress of Zionists
Salle Charas
Nordau
Assowedski
Airship For St Louis Exposition Built By Nyberg
Carl Nyberg of Sundbyberg has completed a novel flying machine for the St Louis exposition. It features a four wing aeroplane, a steam condenser for two four bladed propellers, and a gasoline powered condenser, yielding eight horsepower.
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Stockholm
Carl Nyberg
Sundbyberg
First press-law suits filed in Pennsylvania report
A Northampton county banker has filed suits against three Allentown newspapers claiming defamation over reports that he dyed his whiskers. The actions mark the first use of the state press law passed a year ago.
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Allentown
Northampton County
Strikes Disrupt Funerals Across Chicago City
Chicago facing widespread livery and hearse strike troubles as 75 burials proceed with union pickets. Judge Jonas Hutchinson’s funeral proceeds amid protest while Mrs Anna Vieck's service sees crowds outside St Procopius Church. Police promise protection but dispute over vehicle use sparks tension and fears of epidemics if burials delay further.
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Chicago
Jonas Hutchinson
Superior Court
Judge Hutchinson
Oakwood
Anna Vieck
St. Procopius
Anton Linhart
O’neil
Joint Livery Association
Iverymen
Railway Casualties Rise In 1903 ICC Report
Washington special notes the seventeenth annual ICC report to Congress. The railway accidents chapter shows for year ending June 30, 1903, 164 passengers killed and 4,424 injured. 895 employees killed and 6,440 injured. plus other causes totaling 321 passenger deaths and 3,233 employee deaths, with 6,973 passenger and 39,004 employee injuries. Totals exceed those a year earlier.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
A Real Air Ship at Last
A successful trial of a flying machine near Kitty Hawk North Carolina by Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton Ohio flew three miles against a twenty one mile per hour wind and landed at a chosen site. The craft has no balloon attachment and uses propellers driven by a small engine.
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Norfolk
Kitty Hawk
WN. C
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Dayton
Automobiles Get Snow Plows In Kenosha Test
A local Kenosha company tests a new snow plow attachment on speeders to clear snow from an exercise track. The device is said to perform well and may be fitted to the firm’s automobiles for winter use.
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Kenosha, Wis
Five Years for Brutality in German Army Court Martial
A non-commissioned officer Franzki of the Eighty-fifth Infantry has been sentenced by a court martial at Rendsburg to five years in prison and a dishonorable discharge for mistreatment of soldiers on 1520 counts and abuses of authority on 100 counts.
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Berlin
Franzki
Eighty-fifth Infantry
Rendsburg
Chicago Double Tragedy Shocks City Suburban Craftsman Kills Wife
In Chicago a drunk man, Fred Pflugradt, a machinist, shot and killed his wife before taking his own life in a Sunday tragedy. The stabbing and suicide shocked residents and authorities investigated the incident.
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Chicago
Fred Pflugradt
Congress Adjourns for Holiday Recess
Washington reports Congress adjourned Saturday for the holiday recess until January 4 the first Monday in the new year.
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Congress
Washington
Roosevelt Will Take No Action On Postal Scandals
Washington report says President Roosevelt will take no action against Treasury Controller Tracewell Postmaster Merritt or other officials after a criticizing review by C J Bonaparte and Holmes Conrad. The President and Postmaster General deem the findings too severe and defer punishment.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
Tracewell
Merritt
Messrs. C. J. Bonaparte
Holmes Conrad
Fire at Walden University Kills Four, Injures Many
Four people are known dead and about thirty injured in a Friday night fire that destroyed the Central Tennessee College for Young Negro Women Walden University. Authorities fear additional victims may be found among the ruins and place property losses at twenty five thousand dollars.
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Nashville
Central Tennessee College For Young Negro Women
Walden University
Terrell Found Guilty of First Degree Murder at Bluffton
In Bluffton Indiana a jury found John W Terrell guilty of murder in the first degree for the July shooting of Melvin Wolfe, his son in law. The verdict grants life imprisonment. Terrell awaits sentencing as his lawyers plan appeals and a possible new trial.
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Terrell
Jacob
Johnson
Freeman Carlisle
Lucy
Smith
Melvin Wolfe
Wolfe
Dr. Saunders
Typhoid Epidemic Improves in Butler Pa
Typhoid deaths rose to sixty nine with three more on Sunday as three new cases were reported. City physicians note steady improvement overall, though deaths rise among relapse and recurrence cases as the outbreak subsides.
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Butler
Fire in Chinese District Kills Three in Portland
A blaze in Portland Oregon's Chinese district caused about 70000 dollars in damages. Three Chinese residents died as firemen battled the flames and rescued fifty inmates from the building amid opium smoking distractions.
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Portland
Ore
Special
Lipton Ready to Challenge for Americas Cup Again
London cable reports Sir Thomas Lipton declared readiness to again contest the Americas Cup. He spoke after the silver service funded by the people of the United States was presented at a dinner at the Hyde Park Hotel.
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London
Thomas Lipton
United States
Hyde Park Hotel
Six People Die from Gas in San Francisco Accident
Six residents were asphyxiated by illuminating gas on Saturday night in San Francisco. The coroner ruled the deaths accidental.
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San Francisco
Tragic Cleveland Family Massacre Ends in Suicide
Roscoe W. Derby killed wife Della Derby and three children Harold 8 Alice 7 Thomas 5 in their Cleveland home early Sunday then shot himself beside his spouse. Motive linked to poverty and Christmas approaching. Evidence notes a struggle by two children and a final act of self destruction after the killings. Poolroom race checks found in the house.
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Cleveland, O
Roscoe W. Derby
Della Derby
Harold Derby
Alice Derby
Thomas Derby
Harold
Alice
Thomas
Derby
Wood Case Postponed by Senate Military Affairs Committee
The Senate committee on military affairs met Thursday to postpone action on General Leonard Wood. They plan to review all testimony from the investigation and allow time for the preparation of majority and minority reports. The majority report is expected to endorse Wood's record in Cuba.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Leonard Wood
Wood
Cuba
Alarm in Darien Coast as Colombians Order Americans Out
A Sunday night report from the Darien Gulf coast says tensions rose between Colombians and Americans. The note claims American arrivals were ordered to leave within twenty four hours by Colombian authorities, with the exact penalty for defiance unclear.
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Panama
Gulf of Darien
Whitechapel Horrors Recalled Amid New York Sighting
Sunday discovery of a mutilated woman in a sailor's resort on James Slip near the East River identifies Sarah Martin, a notorious Cherry Hill character, linking recalls of Jack the Ripper and the so called Old Shakespeare murder by the Arab Ben Ali to New York.
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New York
Whitechapel
Jack the Ripper
Ben Ali
James Slip
Hast River
Sarah Martin
Cherry Hill
Fast divorce and remarriage in Henry County court
Amanda Fegley was granted a divorce in Henry County Indiana on Saturday. Fifteen minutes later in Squire Koons office she married W. M. Flynn. The entire sequence from divorce grant to remarriage took nineteen minutes.
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Newcastle
Ind
Henry County
Amanda Fegley
Squire Koons
W. M. Flynn
Chicago May Lose Convention
Washington report says the Republican National Committee may move the convention from Chicago over high hotel rates during convention week. A hotel has raised prices fourfold amid complaints of extortionate charges.
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Chicago
Washington
Republican National Committee
Pension Bill Passes House for 138 Million Dollar Allocation
The House approved the pension appropriation bill totaling 138,150,100 dollars with no recorded division. During debate, discussions touched on Panama rural free delivery tariffs and pensions, with remarks from Messrs Scott Miers Sims and Burgess.
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Washington
House
Panama
Messrs. Scott
Miers
Sims
Burgess
Washington Social Season Opens with White House Dinner
The season starts at Washington as President and Mrs Roosevelt host a dinner in honor of the cabinet to mark the opening of the social season at the White House.
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Washington
Cabinet
White House
Roosevelt
Frederic Coudert Dies in Washington from Heart Trouble
Frederic R. Coudert, the well known New York lawyer, died in Washington on Sunday after years of heart trouble. The death removes one of the citys most widely known legal figures, noted for his influence in federal affairs and public service.
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Washington, D. C
Frederic R. Coudert
New York
Davis Returns On Battleship Seeks Apology
Washington official Davis sails from Alexandretta on a battleship to demand an unconditional apology for an assault by five Turkish policemen. The move signals a strong diplomatic response from the United States.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Davis
Alexandretta
Asiatic
Turkey
Heath Actions Center of Washington Post Office Scandal
Washington report by special United States Attorneys Conrad and Bonaparte harshly criticizes Perry S Heath and Charles E Smith in a long indictment over abuses in the Washington post office during 1898 to 1900. The panel finds a strong prima facie case of willful dis regard by Heath and notes Beavers’s role, while Smith bears responsibility for subordinate misconduct.
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Washington
Charles Emory Smith
Perry
Heath
United States
Conrad
Bonaparte
S. W. Tulloch
Washington Post Office
Smith
Payne
Tulloch
Crowelhi
George W. Beavers
New York Post Office
Perry S. Heath
George W
The Markets Oil Prices Across Towns
The oil market lists town by town prices with figures such as Tiona two dollars and five cents and Petrolea two dollars and thirty seven cents. Other locations show prices ranging from one dollar thirty three cents to two dollars and ten cents in various markets.
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Tiona
Pennsylvania
Newcastle
Corning
Whitehouse
Petrolea
North Lima
South Lima
Indiana
Somerset
S. Neodosha
N. Neodosha
Corsicana
Ragland
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St. Louis
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