American Ship Sails for Smyrna to Protect Citizens
Washington April 6 Secretary telegraphs orders to Admiral Kirkland to sail immediately for Smyrna with the squadron to visit Alexandretta and Adana and warn local authorities the United States will protect American citizens under treaty guarantees. Britain will not seek Nicaragua territory but will obtain indemnity for victims of Bluefields troubles.
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Washington
Herbert Telegrapher
Kirkland
San Francisco
Palermo
Sicily
Smyrna
Asia
Alexandretta
Adana
United States
State Department
Constantinople
Nicaragua
Great Britain
Gresham
Nicaragua Bay
Nicaraggua
Bayard
Bluefields
Mosquito Reservation
Greytown
Delaware Valley Electric Road Sold to Middletown Firm
Stroudsburg April 5 receivers appointed by the court after Mr Freidberger of the Delaware Valley Electric Road said he sold the line to the Middletown and Goshen Traction Co. Creditors were offered about 50 percent and some consented though no agreement was signed. The road will be sold at public auction with notes totaling nearly $6,000 in question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delaware Valley
Middletown Company
Scranton Tribune
Stroudsburg
Freidberger
Delaware Valley Electric Road
Middletown and Goshen Traction Company
Ellicott Fisher
Wi J
American citizen serves three years in German navy
Richard Wachsmuth, a Milwaukee resident and life saving crew member, followed orders after visiting his parents on the Island of Spilt in the North Sea and served three years aboard the warship Alexandria in the German navy despite holding American citizenship.
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Milwaukee
Richard Wachsmuth
Wachsmuth
North Sea
Alexandria
Wages Advance At Connellsville Coke Works
Notices posted at W. J. Rainey mills in Connellsville Pa announce Frick scale raises dating from April 1. Elm Grove and Mount Braddock plants remain idle for weeks as shutdown continues amid wage dispute with workers claims of promised earlier increase.
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Connellsville
W. J. Rainey
Frick
Rainey's
Elm Grove
Mount Braddock Works
SANE REPORT FOR STATE HOSPITAL STAFF
At Orristown Pennsylvania on April 5 the lr meeting of the hospital team heard that Professor Shortridge of Media has been sane since November 1 and that further detention would harm his health. A letter urged separation from children and the trustees adopted a minute to seek Antonnne Shorted?
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Mis Nock
Orristown
State Hospital
Physis Richardson
Swithing
Chartridge
Media
Shortridge
Err
Shorteds Antonnre
District Attorney Seeks Release in Habeas Proceedings
Professor Shortlidge, who killed his wife on December 31, 1894, was acquitted by reason of insanity in a murder trial. He owned Shortridge's academy, a preparatory school at Media, and now faces a habeas corpus hearing in Delaware County.
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Delaware County
Shortlidge
Shortridge
Media
Edison and Westinghouse Pool Their Issues
The General Electric and Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing companies will manufacture under each other patents and share earnings in a common fund to defend their patents against infringements. Their litigation costs run about one million dollars annually.
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New York
General Electric Company
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Trade improves across lines in Dun and Co weekly review
Dun and Co weekly trade review reports March retail trade gains vs 1893 with Easter timing and weather effects. Wholesale centers show hopeful gains, payments at clearing houses up 7 percent from last year but down 18.8 percent from 1895. Railroad earnings, ore sales, and industry restarts noted. 202 failures in Q1 1896, including five banks.
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New York
R. G. Dun &Co
Wronths
Mahoning Tron
Lebanon loan agent Ohmit vanishes with cash
B C Ohmit a Lebanon loan and collection agent disappeared during a frauds scheme with partner C Detwiler. Applicants paid sums upon signing, with Ohmit taking about 500 dollars and promising loans never materializing as negotiations for hundreds of thousands continued. He left a note claiming to travel to Columbia for his wife’s illness.
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Lebanon
B. C. Ohmit
Nia
C. Detwiler
Ohmit
Mutual Fire Insurance Company
New York
Philadelphia
Columbia
Legislature Opens With Senatorial Courtesy Noted
In Harrisburg the House met at 9 am and set special orders for several bills. Speaker Walton praised senatorial courtesy and said local and special bills calendars would be prepared soon, avoiding disruption of regular business. A bill to add two draughtsmen in the internal affairs department and set the deputy secretary salary at 3000 dollars was granted a special order. The Andrews fence bill was negatived and placed on the calendar, and the first reading calendar was cleared.
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Generosby
Harrisburg
Walton
Department of Internal Affairs
Andrews Fence
Oscar Wilde Loses Libel Suit in Queensberry Case
London April 6 Oscar Wilde lost his libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry. The jury found the defendant not guilty of libel and that the Marquis’s charges were true and public-spirited. Wilde faced arrest over further inquiries as theater managers pulled his name from bills and ads.
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Marquis of Queensberry
London
Oscar Wilde
Wilde
Costa
United Press
Hay Market
St. James Theaters
Morrell
the Evening News
Lord Alfred Douglass
Pigeon Shooting Contest Claims Large Purse at Willard Park
Paterson New Jersey April 6 great American handicap shooting match continued at Willard park. In Highland handicap sweep after five rounds shoot off awarded first money to Fulford Clasa Higginson Brewer Dubray Bennett and Dickey. J D Arnold withdrawn. Second money split among Coulston Melch Keller Simpson Sweeney Van Dyke Wright Sedam Thomas. White and Morley split third. Kitakinney handicap 150 divided among Captain Money Lindsey Bedam Sweeney. Big handicap won by Mesner Elliott Class with 25 birds. Purse 1620 split among winners. 24 birds shooters Kelsey Tvina and others claimed prizes.
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Keller
Simpson
Sweeney
van Dyke
Wright
Sedam
Thomas
White
Morley
Kitakinney
Captain Money
Lindsley
Bedam
J. G. Mesner
Pittsburg
J. A. R. Elliott
Kansas City
Frank Class
Morristown
N. J
Kelsey
Tvina
Leroy
N.mooney
Tde George
Democracy's fate and the 1896 direction of the Democratic Party
The Times editor argues the Democratic Party is in utter chaos with no hopeful states north of the Mason–Dixon line or in the west, condemns the party for dishonesty and calls for immediate reform centered on honest government money taxes and elections. It warns that without unity and integrity the party must die.
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Philadelphia
the Times
Democrat
A. K. MacClure
Mason and Dixon
Democratic Council
Congress
Cleveland
The
Times
Fourth Annual Republican League Convention Held in Grand Rapids
The fourth annual American Republican College League convention opened in Grand Rapids Michigan with sixty five delegates from U S colleges. Delegates chose Ly Vaughan University of Chicago as president and backed a bi metallic platform. Minneapolis will host next year as speakers including Warner Miller Burrows Smith and Pattan addressed the gathering.
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Grand Rapids
Grand Trapids
Mich
American Republican College League
United States
Cox
The
Universality of New York
William Alden Smith
F. E. Debberville
University of Vermont
L. J. Henning
University of Wisconsin
Vaughan
Chicago
Ly. B. Vaughan
University of Chicago
Thrat
F. B. Debberville
Johnson
University of Nebraska
C. E. Colland
Barlham
F. L. Edenbrough
University of Michigan
L. L. Twitchell
University of Minnesota
National League
J. Howard Frye
Princeton
W. D. McWilliams
Kalamazoo College
Minneapolis
Pine Hill colliery adds new breaker no hands needed
Minersville announces a new breaker at Pine Hill colliery that will operate without workers. Allegheny's Enterprise National Bank gains authorization to start business with 720 000 capital. L W Hart tracks his eloping wife across three counties and finds her in Jersey Shore. Two Mlowersheim mines resume production in southwestern Pennsylvania. Reading Times marks its 76th year as a leading Republican paper. About 150 witnesses were examined by senatorial investigators in Northampton County.
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Pine Hill
Minersville
Enterprise National Bank
Allegheny
L. W. Hart
Morris
Jersey Shore
Mlowersheim
Pennsylvania
Reading
the Times
Paene
Northampton County
Detective under arrest in danger of being lynched
Marshall E. Price, 23, a Harmony wheelwright and blacksmith, is jailed in Baltimore after being charged with the murder of Sallie Dean in Harmony, Caroline county on March 26. Rumors accuse him as the killer. mobs forced his removal from Denton and then from the city for safety.
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Marshall E. Price
Sallie Dean
Baltimore
Marshall EB. Price
Sallie FE
Dean
Harmony
Caroline County
Price
Denton
Hawkshaw
Brodis
Dorchester County
Athletic Exhibition Pleasing at Wilkes-Barre Armory
An April 5 program at Ninth Regiment Armory in Wilkes-Barre showcased gymnasts from Scranton Bucknell Pittston Lehigh Bloomsburg Normal and local celebrities. Highlights included a Kingston Scranton vs Wilkes-Barre Pittston basketball game won by the former, plus events like high jump pole vault mile run and various drills with music by the YMCA orchestra.
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Wilkes- Barre
Scranton Tribune
Wilkes-Barre
Ninth Regiment Armory
Yong Men's Christian Association
Scranton
Bucknell University
Pittston
Lehigh University
Bloomsbury Noraml School
Kingston
Kern
Stuart
H. Sutherland
Kid” Smith
Chicago Boy Dies After Police Custody Torture Inquiry
Chicago reports 18 year old Harry Kellogg died in custody after being subjected to the sweat box to force a confession. His mother says officers at Maxwell Street station caused the death, citing typhoid pneumonia from starvation and exposure. Police deny and claim consumption. Kellogg was implicated in shooting two officers and had been summoned before a higher tribunal.
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Chicago
Harry Kellogg
Elsdon
Winde
Maxwell Street
Kellogg
Civil trial promised for two American citizens in Cuba
Washington reports Consul Hyatt in Santiago de Cuba says August Bolton and Gustave Richelieu were granted a civil trial and the government pledged speedy action. State Department had urged protest against marine authority and demanded definite accusations and a speedy trial or release.
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Washington
Department of State
Hyatt
Santiago de Cuba
August Bolton
Gustave Richelieu
Department
Marine Authority
Anthracite Presidents Fail to Agree on Allotment Share
The presidents of the anthracite coal carrying and producing railroads met for over three hours in New York on April 6 to decide percentages of allotments. No decision was reached and the matter was referred to a five member arbitration board with authority to settle the issue. Rumors circulated that representatives of the Lehigh Valley and Reading companies argued during the session.
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New York
le- Valley
Reading
Arbitration meets over concessions in tonnage distribution
A meeting of representatives from eleven companies discussed concessions in the Way of allotments with Lehigh Valley people. All attendees declined to discuss the matter further. The arbitration committee will convene by the chair’s call to address the dispute over tonnage distribution.
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Lehigh Valley
Train derails near Summerfield in deadly wreck
Five miles west of Summerfield on the Bellaire Zanesville and Cincinnati line a westbound coach jumped a track before a trestle. Engineer Eli Lucis was killed instantly and fireman Jesse Johns fatally injured. Passengers Henry Brown, Mrs Nathan Young and infant, Joseph Dennoon, and Frank Hallard fatally injured. Nathan Young severely injured.
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Zanesville
Whig Ville
Summerfield
Bellaire
Henry Brown
Brownsville
Nathan Young
Joseph Dennoon
Barnesville
Frank Hallard
Explosion Kills Five in New Orleans Grocery Store
An early morning gunpowder explosion at Charles Salathe's grocery and adjacent saloon, the Fisherman’s Exchange, destroys both buildings. Five killed and eight seriously wounded, with several others missing. Fire follows collapse as rescuers pull survivors from the debris. Origin of the blast remains unclear.
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New Orleans
Charles Lalathe
Fisherman's Exchange
Charles Salathe
Charles Salath
Felix Regald
James Edwards
Charles Reiss
James Murphy
J. Vallenoor
Charles A. Hal Her
David Labar
Salathe’s
Lille
Edward Salathe
Furat Bismarck brings back few of 200 Mediterranean tourists
Hamburg steamer Furat Bismarck returned to New York after an eight week Mediterranean cruise with only about 50 passengers. In Piraeus and Athens she met Greek royalty and witnessed the sultan’s procession at Saint Sophia. The sultan gave boxes of confections and Turkish tobacco to the steamer’s guests amid reports of Muslim demonstrations against Christians in Constantinople.
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Sublime Porte
New York
Hamburg
Furat Bismarck
Mediterranean
Piraeus
Athens
George of
Constantinople
Mosque of
Saint Sophia
Clement
Boston Transcript
Bertha Hulinet Slain Herself After Mother Slap
In Milwaukee on April 5 1910 Bertha Hulinet 17 ended her life by shooting herself after her mother slapped her. She returned home late denied where she had been then a pistol shot finished the tragedy. Her mother found her daughter dead with a bullet through the head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
Bertha Hulinet
Bertha
Ex Priest Ruthven Lecture Blocked in Williamsport
In Williamsport on April 1 a lecturer Ruthven planned to address the question Shall Home Rule America from the courthouse. German and Irish Catholic delegates pressed commissioners to rescind the hall privilege, leading to police guarding the opera house where the talk occurred without incident.
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Williamsport
Ruthven
Court House
America
Young Men's Christian Association
Battle with Robbers Near Cimarron Ends Ambiguously
Marshal Medson and deputies engage five Rock Island train robbers at Cimarron five miles west of town. One robber killed, another wounded. The raiders fled into the brush after firing at the posse. no injuries reported among officers.
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Marshal Medson
Hennessy
O.T
Rock Island
Cimarron
Here
Weather Update for Eastern Pennsylvania
Increasing cloudiness and rain expected Saturday evening and overnight. Warmer temperatures, light to moderate east winds. Localized showers may affect coastal areas and higher elevations.
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Pennsylvania
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Sublime Forte
Electric Road
Germany
Edison
Westinghouse
Dun & Co
Queensberry
Oscar
Holborne
Westminster Bank
Ely Place
Cadogan Hotel
Seothind Yard
Treasury
Lewis
Haymarket
St. James
Frohman
Lyceum Theater
Detroit
Leslie
Misa Hose Coghlan
Mesner
Ellott
Elliott
Clase
A. K. McClure
Republican League
Ohio
Silly Girl
Finley
Eeru
Cleopatra
Regence
Alexandre
Abbott
Centurina Cexciavey
Children’s
Lackawanna Ave
H. A. Kingsbury
Chas. A. Schieren & Co.’S
Spruce ST
Fine Watches
Weiches
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