Good Citizens Convention Opens Third National Municipal Reform Meet
The Cleveland gathering of distinguished citizens marks the third national conference of the Municipal League of the United States. President James Carter of New York delivers the opening address praising practical municipal reform and calling for action to curb machine politics. The session elects officers including J. C. Carter as president and C. R. Woodruff as secretary. a mass meeting at the First Methodist Church features Bonaparte and Welsh.
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Cleveland
National Municipal League
Carter
James
New York
League
Municipal League of the
United States
Thors
Tammany Fall
Strong
Clinton Rogers Woolruff
Philadelphia
J. C. Carter
Charles Richardson
Samuel B. Capon
Boston
C. R. Woodruff
George Burnham, Jr
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Wilson M. Day
Chamber of Commerce
Charles A. Bonaparte
Baltimore
Herbert Welsh
An Australian Premier Protests Governor Appointment Delays
The Times correspondent in Melbourne reports New South Wales Premier G H Reid has cabled to Sir Samuel, the British governor general, a strong protest over delays in appointing the new governor.
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Lord Ripon
London
the Times
Melbourne
G. H. Reid
New South Wales
Say Samuel
Colonial Office Message to Marquis of Ripon on Appointments
A formal note to the Marquis of Ripon as secretary of the colonial office states that the colony may appoint a suitable candidate if he cannot fill the position. The message emphasizes readiness to proceed with an alternative selection.
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Marquis of
Ripon
Colonial Office
Chicago Faces Record May Heat as Cold Wave Forecast
Chicago May 2 The weather bureau reports no May day hotter in 25 years with downtown readings around 93 degrees. Officials warn of a coming cold wave from the northwest within 48 hours that could drop temperatures by as much as 40 degrees.
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Chicago
Weather Bureau
Spain Plans Rail Link in Cuba to Aid Unemployed
Havana May 2 Captain General Martinez de Campos announced Spain will fund 20 000 per month to build a railroad from Puerto Principe to Santa Cruz to employ about 700 workers as part of war measures. Rebels in Santiago de Cuba report weak arms as six of Miró's band surrender at Gibara and two at Holguín.
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Havana
Martines de Campos
Puerto Pringlipe
Puerto Principe
Santa Cro
Nuevitas
Santa Cruz
Spain
Gibara
Santiago de Cuba
Martinez de Campos
Miro
Glibara
Holguin
Glbara
Sandoval
Boca di Dol Rioa
Jose Marti
General de Campos
Charles Chacon
Boes dl Dos Rios
The Monroe Doctrine Speech at Washington May 29
James A D Richards of Ohio delivered the principal address before the Interstate Democratic association of the District of Columbia at Marshall hall in Washington. He defended the Monroe Doctrine as alive and vital, challenging British criticisms and urging vigorous enforcement of Monroe and Jackson principles.
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Washington
Interstate Democratic Association of the
District of Columbia
Marshall Hall
Potomac River
James A. D. Richards
Ohio
London Times
Quebec
Halifax
Esquimault
Pacific
British Honduras
Bermuda Islands
Bermudas
Atlantic
Monroe
Jackson
Shanghai Fables Denied By Washington Officials
Washington says no confirmation from Shanghai that Japanese warships off Formosa are cleared for action or that hostilities will resume. The State Department cable service reports no news and dismisses the Shanghai tale as another Bhanghal fable.
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Washington
Shanghai
Formosa
State Department
Pittsburg Bids for Republican National Convention
Pittsburg launches bid for the Republican national convention with a $100,000 guarantee fund by The Times to cover expenses. Newspapers and business leaders unite, receiving encouragement from national committeemen for the effort.
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Pittsburg
the Times
Explosion at Winchester Arms Plant Kills One Worker
A fulminate building at the Winchester Repeating Arms company in New Haven exploded at 2 10 this afternoon. Jeremiah Spillane was killed and no others injured. The blast caused great excitement in the city and was described as a terrific explosion.
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New Haven
Conn
Winchester Repeating Arms Company
Jeremiah Spillane
Murder Leads to Widow's Death Near Mount Holly
The murderous assault on Mrs. Samuel Burr near Bhamong yesterday led to her death this afternoon. Her body was found yesterday, an earlier report proved erroneous. Burr is traced to Buddtown and is expected to be captured soon.
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Burr
Mount Holly N. J
Samuel Burr
Bhamong
Buddtown
Senate Republicans form panel to draft apportionment bill
Harrisburg May 9 The senate Republican caucus adopted a resolution to elect a nine member committee to prepare an apportionment bill. The Judicial apportionment bill passed 3 to 0 and goes to the house for concurrence. Separate house and senate caucuses named seven member committees to harmonize measures. Senator Quay remains opposed and is expected to attend tomorrow.
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Harrisburg
Senate
House
Upperman
Thomas
Penrone
Kennedy
Vaughan
Critchfield
Hackenberg
Kauffman
Walton
Meredith
Mitchell
Bradford
Mesara
Niles
Riter
Focht
Lytle
North
Culbertson
Comly
Harrison
Smith Distribution Bill Passes in House for School Funds
Harrisburg May 29 The Smith bill to distribute the school appropriation gives $50 to each teacher and divides the remainder by taxable counts, benefiting sparse districts while city districts lose share. The Fritz bill for per child distribution failed. other bills on brewers licenses and county lands for oil and gas passed.
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Smith
Fritz
Scranton Tribune
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Allegheny
McDonald
Southern generals attend Chicago Confederate monument dedication
Southern generals and thirty female relatives arrived in Chicago via a Baltimore and Ohio express to witness the Oakwoods cemetery Confederate monument dedication. Notables listed include Generals Wade Hampton, Butler, Hunton, French, Marcus Wright, Hethe, H. D. Douglass, Lomax, and Green, plus spouses and descendants. The party was greeted at Grand Central and hosted at the Palmer House.
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Chicago
Baltimore and Ohio Express
Washington
Oakwoods Cemetery
Grand Central Station
Palmer House
Wade Hampton
South Carolina
Butler
Eppa Hunton
Virginia
French
Florida
Marcus Wright
Hethe
H. D. Douglass
Maryland
Lomax
Green
North Carolina
Ohio's State Ticket Formed at Zanesville Convention
Zanesville Ohio May 2 Following in the ticket adopted by the Republican State convention Governor Asa Bushnell Springfield Lieutenant governor William Jones Youngstown auditor of state W D Guilbert Caldwell supreme judge Thaddeus A Minshall Childs clerk of supreme court Josiah H Allen Athena attorney general Frank Monnett Findlay state treasurer Barnum Campbell Steubenville member of board of public works Be L Lybarger Coshocton After adopting the eagle as the party emblem and local resolutions of thanks the convention adjourned at 210 p m
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Zanesville
Asa
Bushnell
Springfield
Ww. Jones
Youngstown
W. D. Guilbert
Caldwell
Thaddeus A. Minshall
Childclothe
Supreme Court
Josiah HB
Allen
Athena
Frank
Monnett
Findlay
Bamnuel
Campbell
Steubenville
Board of Public Works
BE. L. Lybarger
Coshocton
Portsmouth Man Shoots Wife and Intruder in Early Morning
John Roberts, owner of a Portsmouth saloon and lodging house, shot his wife and Edgar D. Stoddard after finding them together. Stoddard was wounded in the arm and Mrs. Roberts, struck in the head, was expected to recover. Roberts was jailed on charges of assault with intent to kill.
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Portsmouth
N. H
John Roberts
Edgar D. Stoddard
Stoddard
Roberts
Carved His Relative A Quarrel Ends Fatally in Indiana
Princeton May 20 Jamen Copeley murdered his father in law Philip Givens near Patoka after a dispute over rented land. Givens approached unarmed while Copeley drew a knife and began carving his father in law, inflicting fatal wounds including a severed jugular vein.
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Indiana
Princeton
Tnj
Jamen Copeley
Philip Givens
Patoka
Givens
Copeley
Givens Killed After Attacker Seizes Axe
Givens, described as a powerful man, ran to a house and collapsed. The assailant grabbed an axe and aimed to kill, but women in the room intervened. Givens died shortly after from blood loss and injuries at the scene.
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Givens
Gresham Funeral Train Reaches Pittaburg En Route to Chicago
The Gresham funeral train arrived in Pittaburg at 9 45 PM and departed at 9 50 PM for Chicago. Everyone aboard was well. The train is due in Chicago at 2 PM tomorrow. Mrs Gresham is improving in health and Secretary Lamont said the President had recovered from a bilious attack. At Laughlin station on transfer, the president declined handshake with the crowd.
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Pittaburg
Chicago
Gresham
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Pitteburg and Western
Washington
Lamont
Laughlin Station
Veterans protest Chicago Confederate memorial as insult to dead
Boston May 29. National Association of Union ex prisoners of war executive committee denounces the Chicago memorial to Confederate dead-prisoners of war at Camp Douglas. They protest its dedication, calling it an insult to Union dead, to the flag, and to national unity, urging removal and warning against glorifying treason.
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Chicago
Boston
National Association of Union Ex-Prisoners of War
State House
Mass
Camp Douglaas
South
National Association of Union
Confederacy
Ste
Free America
Royal
North
Camp Douglass
Andersonville
Prominent Firms Indicted for Selling Fake Silverware
New York May 29 grand jury filed true bills against Bloomingdale Bros Simpson Crawford & Simpson H C Koch & Co Stern & Co Macy & Co Adams & Co Hearn & Son Hilton Hughes & Co Ehrich Bors Jamison & Co Daniela & O Neill & Co arraigned before Recorder Golf in general sessions court parole granted in the custody of counsel by District Attorneys Rattle and McManus.
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New York
Grand Jury
Bloomingdale Bros. Simpson
Crawford & Simpson
H. C. Koch & Co
Stern & Co
Macy & Co
Adams & Co
Hearn & Son
Hilton, Hughes & Co
Ehrich Bors
Jamison & Co
Daniela & O'Neill & Co
Recorder Golf
Court of General Sessions
Rattle and McManus
Lum Smith Found Guilty in Mail Fraud Scheme
L U M Smith publisher of the Philadelphia Agents Herald was found guilty in U S district court of carrying on a scheme to defraud via the mails through his paper The ruling deferred sentence and he faced a separate trial on trafficking information through the mails offering alleged fine absence literature.
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Philadelphia
L. Lum Smith
Herald
United States District Court
Smith
Governor Declines Intervention in Ranchman's War
Colorado Governor Moellntyre states he cannot interfere in the cattlemen versus sheepmen conflict in northwestern Colorado until the sheriff exhausts his peacekeeping powers and seeks state aid. Sheep owners may reroute their flocks north to Rawlins rather than south toward the railroad.
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Denver
MoelIntyre
Colorado
Rawlins
Marti Death Denied After Insurance Claim
Jacksonville May 29 news from Key West reports Marti's death status denied in Havana. The Life insured for 50000 dollars, widow seeks payout while Insurers demand proof of death from Martinez Campos who refuses to provide it.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Key Weet
Mascotte
Havana
Marti
Innaurance Company
Martines Campos
Wreck of the Colima Leaves Many Missing Near Manzanillo
The Pacific Mail steamer Colima wrecked off Manzanillo on May 27 after machinery failure. Of about 150 aboard, only nineteen saved. a small boat reached the Mexican coast with fourteen passengers and five crew who sent the first word.
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Pacific Mail
Colima
Manzanilla
Mexican Coast
San Francisco
Acapulco
Roach & Sons
Chester
J. F. Taylor
Pacific Mail Company
Mexican
Oersel
Mazatlan
San Blais
Paseen-Dera
Pacific Mall Steamship Company
Manzanillo
John Roach & Sons
Panama
Punta San Telmo
San Juan
Local man under arrest for alleged assault on stepdaughter
A man about 00 years old and father of a family is jailed on charges of attempting to assault a one year old girl named Strausser, step-daughter of John Karshier. All parties live at Laurelville near Adelphi. A preliminary hearing before Mayor Ebbe was set for today, but a mob threatened violence and demanded the defendant not reach the courtroom alive.
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Strausser
John Karshier
Laurelville
Adelphi
Ebbe
Prinon
Tunnel Roof Collapse Kills Two in Cannonsburg Pa
At Bell's tunnel four miles below Cannonsburg two men were killed and five injured when the roof caved in while workers, all negroes from nearby, labored inside the tunnel on the Carden Valley railroad last evening.
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Cannonsburg
Bell's Tunnel
Chardera Valley
Yeretatey
Trampled Children at Emerald School Runaway Horse
A maddened horse ran into a crowd during a flag raising at Emerald Street School in Philadelphia injuring nineteen children. Jacob Ernest, who rode the horse, broke an arm. Mrs. William Rogers broke an ankle. The horse was restrained after the incident with no fatalities.
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Philadelphia
Emerald Primary
Emerald Street
Susquehanna Avenue
Ecohool
Jacob Ernest
William Rogers
Ernest
Hot Winds Ravage Kansas and Neighboring States
May reports from Kansas Missouri and Nebraska describe scorching heat and hot winds up to sixty mph. Crops suffer with dust and sand storms, fruit dropped from trees, and some farmers losing hope. water supplies shrink as drought persists and rain remains absent.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
St. Joseph
Dickinson
Clay
Clay Center
Hope
Kan
Caldwell
Knights at Reading Elect Grand Junior Warden
At a Pennsylvania Knights Templar grand commandery meeting in Reading the vote chose Adam H. Schmehl as grand junior warden on the third ballot over Captain Linden by 163 to 140. Appointments followed and a public installation occurred at the Academy of Music. The next meeting is set for Scranton.
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Scranton
Reading
Knights Templar of
Pennsylvania
Adam H. &Schmehl
Reading Commandery
Captain Linden
Philadelphia
Spencer
Charles Carey
No. 53
Exra
Bartlett
No. M4
Robert P. Mercer
Chester
John A. Vanderslice
Phoenixville
Harvey A McKillip
Bloomsburg
Thomas Williamson
Academy of Music
Grand Commandery
Penn Street
Mystle Shriners
Germania Band
Order
Bimetalism Strong as Colorado Republicans Choose Delegates
The Colorado State league of Republican clubs met in Denver and elected full delegates to the National league meeting in Cleveland. A heated fight over revolutions ended with resolutions instructing the delegation to push for free coinage of silver at 16 to 1. The platform calls for strict loyalty and excludes anarchist, socialist, or nihilist dissent.
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Denver
State League of Republican Clubs
National League
Cleveland
Colorado
Anger Mounts as Mob Demands Featheroft’s Life
Telegram from Chillicothe reports Adelphi, Ohio, engulfed in frenzy as about 300 men surround the lockup demanding the execution of Nelson Featheroft, a prominent local farmer, amid a high tension crowd in May.
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Cleveland
Chillicothe
Adelphi
Nelson Featheroft
Featheroft
After the Companies Dramatizes Damages from Land Pollution
Schuylkill farmers seek damages for coal dirt washing into streams and farmland. In Pottsville and nearby counties, 32 new suits filed last Monday and 56 more suits today involve thousands of dollars, totaling over a quarter of a million. Also in Washington, Mary Abpots Dodge lx Pane faces rapid decline with no food tolerance, doctors fear she may not survive beyond a day.
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Pottsville
Gall Namilton
Washington
Mary Abpots
Weather Report for Eastern Pennsylvania
Eastern Pennsylvania forecasts call for fair skies and warmer temperatures with southwesterly winds. Highs rise through the day as humidity stays low and conditions remain tranquil.
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Pennsylvania
Silk Fabric Names Listed for Various Garments
A catalog of fabrics includes FINLEY'S Swivel Silks Kai-Kal Silks Habitual Silks Printed India Silks Brocade Taffeta Silks infancy effects for Waists Black Brocade India Silks Black Bro cade Taffeta Silks Armures Peau De Soie Satin Duchesse Satin Soleil and related varieties.
Special Low Prices on Wool Dress Goods
We offer unchanged qualities and prices and have set special low prices on a large line of wool dress goods this season to reduce stock at 510 and 512 Lackawanna Avenue.
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Cheney Bros
GLOBE
Globe Warehouse
Capes
Iz i
Velour
Third National Conference of Municipal Reformers
Woodyutt
Mercury
Cuba
James A. PD. Richards
Senator Quay
Public School Fund
Lum Smith
Knights AT Reading
Colorado Republican
Dermand St
Schuylkill
Weather Report
Finley
Lackawanna Avenuz
H. A. Kingsbury
Charles
Schieren & Co
Spruce St
Wyoming
Dorflinger
Weichel’s
Spruce Street
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