Diamond Robber Confesses in Omaha Political Plot
Frank Shercliff, the diamond robber, confessed to a 1892 train robbery near Calliar oia Junction, naming Tom Dennison as the accomplice and originator. He claimed other crimes tied to the same source and led investigators to a buried revolver, though the gun was not found. Dennison denies the allegations as a political plot.
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Missouri Valley
Frank Shercliff
Pollock
Omaha
Sioux City
Tom Dennison
Snercliff
Madison
Logan
Dennison
Shercliff
Council Bluffs
Harrison County Grand Jury
Calliaroia Junction
Iowa
Walter Moise
Des Moines Adopts Segregated Gambling Plan
Des Moines Mayor George W. Mattern outlined new regulations to curb gambling while allowing limited operation in select spots. Proponents expect monthly fines to boost police revenue by about 25,000 annually, with enforcement aimed at segregating and gradually eradicating gambling in saloons billiard halls and cigar stores.
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Des Moines
George W. Mattern
Gambiers
Des _Moinnes
Mattern
Tha
Condition of Fruit in Iowa Des Moines April 21
Reports from Iowa fruit crop investigators compiled by Secretary Green of the Horticultural society show apples at 84 percent pears 80 American plums 93 European plums 73 Japanese plums 80 cherries 66 peaches 84 grapes not covered 76 red raspberries 61 black raspberries 4 blackberries 75 strawberries 2.
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Iowa
Des Mhines
Yowa
Secretary Green
The
Horticultural Society
Pardoned Negro Woman in Davenport Case
Des Moines reports Gertrude McDonald a colored woman convicted two years ago for holding up and robbing a Hebrew peddler. Governor Cumming pardoned her. Also notes tension as union men threaten to fight a 360000 bond plan for a new county court house after supervisors oppose continuing work.
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Des Moines
Gertrude McDonald
Davenport
Fort Madiazon
Cumming
Board of Supervisors
Iowa stock men challenge Chicago yards in letter
J. J. Ryan, secretary of the Corn Belt Meat Producers Association of Iowa, writes to Union Stock Yards and Transportation Co. in Chicago, urging an end to high charges and shrinkage. He cites losses of Iowa feeders, calls for better terms, and notes plans to build Chicago yards if grievances persist. The letter frames higher costs as unfair and urges westward cooperation to market dressed beef.
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J. J. Ryan
Chicago
Ort Dodge
Corn Belt Meat Producers’ Association of Iowa
Union Stock Yards and Transportation Company of
Iowa Railroads
Corn Belt
Towa
Iowa
West
Mr. Ryan
Post Office Safe Cracked In Quad City Burglary Spree
A gang burglarized J. S. Steadman’s Delphos general store and post office at 1 a.m. yesterday, wrecking the safe and stealing $105 in cash along with stamps. Postmaster Steadman reported the loss as the town’s post office funds disappeared. The crime follows recent break-ins in Mt. Ayr Delphos Redding Iowa and Grant City Missouri on this Burlington branch.
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Delphos
Mt. Ayr
J. S. Steadman
Redding
Iowa
Grant City
Burlington
State Board to Build Central Deaf School Structure
The State Board of Control plans a single central building for the deaf school in Council Bluffs costing 176000 to 200000, plus a connected chapel and an additional hospital building. Legislature has set aside 250000 for the project, which replaces the cottage system and directs plans by State Architect Liebbe. Pioneer druggist J T Merrill and his son Ralph Merrill are indicted in Mt Ayr for liquor sale, a first fruit of a county anti saloon league auxiliary. Merrill is eighty seven? years old and a pioneer druggist of the county, arriving about Port Arthur and Cincinnati in the same latitude.
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State Board of Control
Council Bluffs
School For Deaf
Liebbe
Pioneer
Mt. Ayr
J. T. Merrill
Ralph Merrill
Industrial War at Des Moines
Des Moines faces a planned clash as business leaders enact an open shop policy and bar nonunion workers from building materials and groceries. The dispute pits Employers League against labor unions, with starvation fears cited and both sides mobilizing funds for a prolonged fight in a city described as highly organized.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Trades and Labor Assembly
Supreme Court Sustains Fine Against Metropolitan Insurance
The Supreme Court rules insurance firms may not grant rebates. If an agent offers a rebate without company knowledge, the company is liable. Originating in Jackson County, the Metropolis Insurance Co was fined $500 plus costs by the circuit court and the ruling was affirmed.
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Supreme Court
Metropolitan Insurance Company
Springfield
A Supreme Court
Jackson County
Circuit
Fall of Nine Stories Fatal to Editor Hertzberg
H R RB Hertzberg dramatic editor of the Evening Journal fell nine stories in the Morton building. He had been playing billiards at the Press club and was found in the basement after leaving for home. It is believed he leaned over the balustrade and lost his balance.
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New York
H. R. RB. Hertzberg
The
Evening Journal
Morton
Hertzberg
Press Club
Printers Strike Shuts Lisbon Newspapers
Lisbon experiences a printers strike leading to no newspaper publication. The disruption affects the city on April 21 and is expected to last several days as printers halt work.
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Lisbon
Telegraphic Briefs From Panama and Alabama
Consul General Gudger reports to the state department that Mr. Russell the US charge d affaires in Panama has malaria fever but improving. Dock Cole a merchant and postmaster at Little River Alabama was murdered by negroes. Robert Tate and Rube Sims were captured by posse and danger of lynching is feared in the region.
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Gudger
State Department
Panama
Russell
United States
Dock Cole
Little River
Ala
Wss
Robert Tate
Rube Sims
Posse
Tata
Sas _ Emil Bay
Japanese Advance Foreseen as Yalu Entrenchments Grow
St. Petersburg reports Japanese ships near Polansi between Port Arthur and the Yalu. Experts expect a turning movement to begin at Takushan with Fungwang at the triangle base. Russian troops in Korea report detachment actions and fires at Sung Jin and Paek Cyong as war spans the coast. Washington notes AP’s Alexief withdrawal signals shift in Manchuria policy and hints at Witte’s possible return.
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St. Petersburg
Polansi
Gulf of Cheng Tai Tae
Port Arthur
Yalu River
Kuropatkin
Takushan
Fungwang
Yalu
Tokio
Yong Gan
Korea
Sung Jin
Gen San
Paek Cyong
Washington
Associated Press
Alexief
Far East
Russia
Alexieff
Bezobrazoff
Manchuria
M. Witte
Taku Shan
Taks Shan
Kuropatin
Ézar
Kashtalinsky
Golutsy
Wiju
Mi8tchenko
Sou Chou
Fire hits Toronto wholesale district in massive blaze
Toronto April 20 fire swept a Wellington street factory area and raced through the wholesale district along Bay street. Firemen failed to gain control as flames spread building to building. dynamite blasts blew up frame structures to curb spread. Losses estimated up to 19 million with insurance about 8.36 million.
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Toronto
Ont
Wellington Street
Bay Street
Lake
Aide
Wellington ’ Street
Lake Front
Whiting Texas to Chicago oil pipe line scheme revealed
Whiting Indiana April 2 news outlines a plan to link Gulf of Mexico to Atlantic coast with a vast underground oil pipeline network. The project, overseen by W P Cowan for John D Rockefeller, aims to render railroads less central to crude handling and cost over 200 million dollars as it connects Kansas Oklahoma and Texas fields to Chicago and New York through a 2500 mile system.
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Whiting
Indi
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic
Standard Oil Company
Rockefeller
Port’ ‘Arthur
Tex
Oklahoma
Kansas
Indiana Territory
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
New York City
Standard Oil
Ow. P. Cowan
John D. Rockefeller
Kansas City
Neodesha
Kan
Chanute Oil Fields
Gulf
Kansas, Indian Territory
Texas
Kas
Chicago
Lima
Wife-husband tragedy in Arkansas river incident
In Van Buren Arkansas on April 21 Mrs O J Ingram on Arbuckle’s island attempted suicide after her husband broke his pledge to quit drinking. He disarmed her then ten minutes later accidentally shot and killed her. He was exonerated by authorities.
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van Buren
Ark
O. J. Ingram
Arbuckle’s Island
Arkansas River
Bon Stops Family Quarrel
In St Louis on April 21 Elmer Ulrich aged 17 defending his mother fired a 32 caliber revolver at his parents. Five shots took effect injuring his father. Ulrich is in serious condition. He surrendered without resisting arrest and showed no remorse.
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St. Louis, Mo
Elmer Ulrich
Ulrich
Find Gold in the Caucasus War Discovery
Report from St. Petersburg on April 21 notes popular excitement over the war being dulled by reports of rich gold bearing sand in the Caucasus. A railway to the site is under construction but capital shortages limit immediate mining prospects.
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St. Petersburg
Caucasus
Fires Into Crowd at Ro shelle Depot in Grant Parish
At Roshelle, Grant Parish, April 21, as passengers prepared to board an Iron Mountain train, an unknown person fired into the crowd from darkness, seriously wounding three men including Willing, Oscar Nugent.
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Alexandria
Roshelle
Grant
Parish
Oscar Nugent
Chinaman Wins Fellowship at New York University
Fragmentary report states a Chinese student named Ching Yung en rego won a fellowship at Columbia University in April. The brief note appears to be the first fellowship of its kind for a Chinese individual.
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New York
Limbia
Ish Ta
Ching. Yung
Japanese Move to Flank Port Arthur in Chinese Theater
Reports from sources in St Petersburg indicate a Japanese landward flanking move toward Port Arthur. Japanese transports seen off Potin sa near Chinese gulf. Kuropatkin warns of landings and a strategic push, with Russians preparing to resist at Port Arthur and Taku Shan.
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St.Petersburg
Ars
Kuropatkin
Potinga
Potinsa
Gulf
Ching
Tai Tse
Corea Bay
Port Arthur
Taku Shan
Arthur
Cheng
Star Grimly
Average man eats too much says Yale scientist
Washington April 21 reports that Chittenden of Yale presented last year's diet experiments from the National Academy of Sciences findings. The work suggests diet adequacy influences health and a gold medal was awarded to Prof. George Hal Chicago for astrophysics research.
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Washington
Beteres
National Academy ‘of’ Sciences
Chittenden
Sheffield ‘Selekitie Ic Scho
Yale
George ‘Hal Chicago
Astrophysics
Nao Gye
Three Miners Injured in Kendall Mine Blast near Helena
An April 21 Kendall Kendall mine explosion in Montana injured ten miners likely fatally, with a third seriously hurt. The blast at the King gold mine near Helena was caused by an unexploded chat mine.
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Helena
Mont
Kendalliz
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Shercliffe
Post Office
Business Men’s League
Dramatic
Bo Yalu
Mikado
Salt
Salt Lake City
Utah
Half'an
Wife
St. Louis
Chicago Board of ‘Trade
Board of Trade
Chinaman
Czar
Vandir
Bays
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