Notable Telegrams Span Crime Politics and Policy
A mix of brief items reports Rose Beckett found dead in New York likely a murder, secretary Cortelyou delivering an address in Philadelphia, Roosevelt era political notes from the Oregon Republican convention, and church scandal notes. Other items cover European diplomacy, mining wage talks, gas pipeline plans, academic inquiries, and congressional actions.
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Rose Beckett
New York
Cortelyou
American Academy of Political and Social Science
Philadelphia
Oregon State Republican Convention
Theodore Roosevelt
Messmer
Milwaukee
Walter Wellman
London Times
Giantze
Tibet
Younghusband
Albert A. Ames
Minneapolis
Bessie Lee
Great Britain
France
Morocco
Egypt
Republic
Ohio
West Virginia
R. M. Snyder
Independence
Kas
Kansas City
Borden P. Bowne
New York East Conference
Boston
Cecil Rhodes
Nebraska
University of Nebraska
Oxford
General Conference
Methodist Episcopal Church
Bliss
Department of Mechanical Engineering
New York University
St. Louis
House Committee On Military Affairs
District of Columbia
Prince Celewayo
South Africa
London
House Committee On Industrial Arts and Expositions
Jamestown
Congress
Roosevelt
Moody
Baltimore Equitable Life Insurance Company
Wilkinson
Leishman
Department of State
Turkey
Benton
Richmond
Cassius M. Clay
Nora Clay Brock
Frye
William E. Curtis
India
Japanese Victory Off Port Arthur Reported
Rear Admiral Uriu announces a major Japanese victory at Port Arthur with no Japanese losses and the sinking of a Petropavlovsk class battleship and a torpedo boat destroyer. Forty five officers and men died on the Bezstrashnn. a detailed report is awaited. Admiral Makaroff is mourned by both sides.
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ST. Petersburg
Bezstrashnn
Tokio
Uriu
Port Arthur
Togo
Petropavlovsk
Toxic
Petropayovsk
Makaroff
Missouri Battleship Turret Explosion Kills 29
A powder explosion in the Missouri battleship’s twelve inch left-hand gun and handling room in Pensacola kills 29 and injures five, with Captain William S. Cowles praising prompt flooding that prevented further catastrophe. Lieutenant Hammer provides the official account of the incident and its cause, noting ignition from gases or cloth during rammed charges.
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Pensacola
Fla
Missouri
William S. Cowles
Texas
Brooklyn
Cowles
Hammer
Navy expects Togo advices after Port Arthur engagement
Washington reports a dispatch from Japan citing Admiral Urmnu on the April 13 Port Arthur action. The fleet sank a Petropavlovsk type battleship and a torpedo destroyer with no damage to Japan. In St Petersburg, Vice Admiral Stark says the Petropavlovsk likely hit a mine drifted from storms near Cape Liao Shan, not near the harbor entrance.
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Navy Department
Togo
Port Arthur
Washington
Urmnu
Port Athur
Petropavlovsk
ST Petersburg
Stark
Cape Liao Shan
Duty on coal must remain says Chancellor Chamberlain
London reports that Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, refused to repeal the coal duty after a deputation of coal owners, exporters, shipowners, and miners argued the duty harmed related industries and let rivals displace British coal. He noted last year’s expert assessments showing no abolition is needed.
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Austen Chamberlain
London
Chamberlain
Turret Explosion Kills Most Crew in Navy Vessel
A catastrophic explosion in the turret and handling room of a U S ship killed nearly all hands. 1,600 pounds of powder ignited, two magazine blasts followed, and officers and sailors fought flames while volunteers and surgeons tended the injured. Only a handful survived.
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Cowles
Missouri
Texas
Brooklyn
Davidson
Maine
Havana Harbor
Senate Week Focuses on Statehood and Ship Subsidy
The Senate will consider appropriation measures with the sundry civil bill Monday and push the pension bill next. Debate may touch Indian agreement and a new executive building. House plans center on statehood legislation with a four hour debate, then a ship subsidy joint commission measure. Alaska delegate bill remains a continuing order.
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Washington
House
Senate
Congress
Grosvenor
Alaska
Hansbrough
Fairbanks
Court Rules With Cryan Executor Stay Denied
Probate Judge allows William J. Bryan to remain executor of Philip Sennett estate. decision denies removal as to probate court and sends appeal to higher court. Residual heirs claimed Bryan acted contrary to estate by appealing as individual and trustee over a sealed $50,000 letter from Mr Bennett.
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New Haven
Conn
William J. Bryan
Philop Sennett
Cleaveland
Grace Imogene Bennett
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Probate
Probate Court
Bennett
Government investigates western beef packers for restraint of trade
Prompted by ranchers complaints via Representative Martin of South Dakota the government opens an inquiry into a possible beef trust among western packers. James A. Garfield heads the investigation in Chicago with Inspector Carroll and other agents sent to Kansas City Omaha and northwest cattle centers.
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Chicago
Northwest
Martin
South Dakota
James A. Garfield
Bureau of Corporations
Department of Commerce and Labor
Cortelyou
Inspector Carroll
Department Agriculture
Kansas City
Omaha
Garfield
Russians Trust Kuropatkin To Drive Japanese From Korea
Paris dispatch says Russians have fullest confidence General Kuropatkin will soon push Japanese from Korea. A main army blocks Ping Yang while another corps advances on Seoul amid expected resistance. The empress mourns Petropavlovsk disaster and remains bedridden. the emperor works and receives no one.
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Paris
Mafin
St. Petersburg
Kuropatkin
Korea
Ping Yang
Seoul
Petropavlovsk
Panama Canal Transfer Papers Near Completion
All papers required for the transfer of the Panama Canal to the United States are finished. W W A Day and Charles W. Russell reviewed inventories and schedules, with the sale contract valued at 40 million dollars. Signing may occur after the stockholders meet next Saturday, possibly Monday, with President Bowl to sign for the company.
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Paris
Panama Canal
United States
Panama
Www.a. Day
Charles W. Russell
Washington
Bowl
Japanese Submarine Claims Reach Russian News
Suverine of Novae Vremya reports receiving a March 19 letter from Dr. Volkovitch, drowned at Petropavlovsk, alleging Vice Admiral Maktaroff and staff claimed Japan used submarine boats and that Port Arthur was not defended by Russian mines.
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ST. Pethersburg
M. Suverine
Novae Vremya
Volkovitch
Petropavlovsk
Maktaroff
Port Arthur
World's Fair to Use Electrical Turnstiles at Lindell Gate
St Louis report says the World’s Fair will replace ticket sellers with electrical turnstiles during the exposition. The Lindell entrance will be the main gate with 32 turnstiles, capable of about 500 people per minute. Admission requires a half dollar dropped into a slot to unlock the gate, then the system locks behind the entrant. Separate gates for children use a quarter slot.
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ST. Louis
Lindell
Lockee
New York Bank Shuts Down Amid Resignation
New York federal state bank closed with state banking officials in charge. Former president David Rothschild resigned after reports tying the bank to Globe Securities, which loaned on salaries. William Woods and Doolittle gained control of the bank. Capital listed as 250000.
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New York
Federal Bank
State Banking Department
David Rothschild
Eports
Globe Securities Company
William Woods
Doolittle
Senate Confirms Baxter as Nebraska U.S. Attorney
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Irving F. P. Baxter to be United States Attorney for the District of Nebraska. Baxter appointment follows his nomination and approval in Washington.
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Washington
Senate
Irving FP. Baxter
United States
District of Nebraska
Pension Deficiency Bill Raises Deficit Question
Commissioner Ware told the sub committee of the Appropriations panel that the general deficiency bill asks 1,500,000 to cover pensions under order 65 age pension. The amount covers expenditures to July 1 this year and is part of the bill, but Democrats notify a minority report and a contest over the item.
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Washington, D. C
Ware
Pension Bureau
Appropriations Committee
Iowa Man at Head of University
Danville reports Dr. Frederick W. Hinitt of Fairfield Indiana was elected president of the Central University of Kentucky to succeed the late Dr. W. C. Roberts and will assume duties soon.
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Iowa
Danville
Frederick W. Hinitt
Fairfield
Central University of Kentucky
W. C. Roberts
War censorship committee recesses for holidays
ST. PETERSBURG says the committee on wartime censorship sat for only an hour on the holiday and left its office at 10 o'clock. Later official dispatches from the war will not be released to the public until Tuesday.
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ST. Petersburg
Committee On Unitary Censors
Disease Among Jap Troops Reported in Korea
ST PETERSBURG reports from spies say Japanese troops in Korea suffer from diseases including imbion an intermittent typhus and souda causing premature senility with tooth loss weakness and curved nails. Dysentery is said to be widespread among Russians at Harbin.
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ST. Petersburg
Korea
Harbin
Desert Island Honesty Requires Good Will, Says Proverb
A thoughtful adage notes that with ample goodwill any man can stay honest on a desert island, implying character depends on mindset more than circumstance.
Death of a Guilty Couple in Chicago Hotel Deaths
James H. Johnson a railroad switchman and Mrs Mary McGrath said to have come from St Louis were found dead in a cheap Archer avenue hotel room. They registered as man and wife on Saturday and a gas jet in the room had escaped, investigators forcing the door to discover them in bed.
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Chicago
James H. Johnson
Mary McGrath
St. Louis
Archer Avenue
Carnegie Creates Five Million Hero Fund Trust
Pittsburgh reports Andrew Carnegie has established a five million dollar Hero Fund to aid dependents of those who die or are seriously injured saving others. A commission of prominent men will oversee the fund and issue medals for acts of heroism across the United States and Canada.
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Hero
Pittsburg
Andrew Carnegie
United States Steel Corporaton
W. L. Abbott
Edwin H. Andrews
W. W. Blackburn
Edward M. Bigelow
Joseph Buffington
W. E. Frein J B. Jackson
Thomas Lynch
Charles C. Mellor
N. Miller
Thomas Morrison
Frederick P. Perkins
Robert Pitcairn
H. Kirk Porter
James F. Reed
W. L. Scaife
William Scott
W. H. Stevenson
E. M. Wilmut
Mr. Carnegie
Harwich
New York
Taylor
Winmot
Carnegie
Messrs
Wii
Fund For
Europe
Commission
United States
Canada
Senate bill to create distinguished service list for army rewards
Senator Proctor introduced a bill to authorize the president to reward meritorious service by officers on the active list. The plan creates a distinguished service list limited to five colonels six lieutenant colonels eighteen majors ten captains and five first lieutenants. Appointments come on the recommendation of a five general officer board.
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Washington
Proctor
Committee On Military Affairs
India Cotton Crop Area Expands for 1903 04
Washington report shows British India cotton area at 670,599 acres, over 1,000,000 acres larger than last year’s corrected area. Official yield is 2,874,893 bales with total season output near last year, excluding Assam and Mysore which did not report.
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Washington
Government of India
British India
Assam
Mysore
Panama Demands Recognition from Unrecognized Nations
Panama announces a government decree barring consular representatives of nations that have not formally recognized the republic from maintaining official relations until recognition is granted.
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Panama
Republic of Panama
Filipinos Brought for St Louis Exhibit Arrive in Tacoma
Fifty Filipinos landed in Tacoma under contract to join the Philippine island exhibit at the St Louis exposition. Thirty nine were afflicted with trachoma. Attorney general ruling says natives of the Philippines and Porto Rico are not aliens under the immigration act and must be admitted. Congress will be asked to address such cases in the future.
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Tacoma
Wash
United States
Philipping Island
St. Louis
Philippine Islands
Porto Rico
Congress
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Ours
Baxter
Fund For Heroes
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