Defeat of Moros as Pershing Captures Bacolod Fort
Manila special reports Captain Pershing's force capturing Bacolod on Minad island. About 100 Moros killed, including the Datto of Panandungan, with many wounded as Americans from Slaw's Twenty-seventh Infantry Kilpatrick's Fifteenth Cavalry and MacNair's Battery attack the fort after shelling. Three Americans wounded. Pershing's units surrounded and stormed the fort, then destroyed it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Pershing
Bacolod
Minad
Slaw
Twenty-seventh Infantry
Kilpatrick
Fifteenth Cavalry
MacNair
Krisses
Datto
Panandungan
Attempts to Burn the New Cup Defender in Bristol
Indications show two arson attempts near the Herreshoff boat shops and the new cup defender Reliance in Bristol. The incidents were not reported to police, but extra guards were ordered. A previous two year attempt to burn the boat shops and the Constitution was tied to an insane individual. officials suspect a similar motive this time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
R.J
Reliance
Admirals Turbine Warship Planned by Navy Bureau
Admiral Melville, engineer in chief, and his bureau have quietly studied a turbine propelled warship. Experts consulted, plans advanced, and results believed satisfactory. details will be published soon. The move parallels the impact of his triple screw achievement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melville
Navy
Saxon Crown Prince May Remarry Louise at Linden
A Salzburg dispatch from Berlin says the crown prince of Saxony may visit former crown princess Louise at Linden near the coming peaks. Reconciliation is probable and a remarriage could restore their life before Louise eloped with M. Giron, aided by the Saxon people's friendship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeeas
Salzburg
Berlin
Saxting
Louise
Linden
Dds
M. Giron
New Biscuit Concern Incorporated in New Jersey
The United States Biscuit company with authorized stock of 4.5 million dollars is incorporated at Trenton New Jersey. It has 1.5 million dollars preferred stock drawing 7 percent cumulative dividend and 3 million dollars common stock. The object is to sell and manufacture biscuits crackers and other food products. Incorporators are Louis B Bailey K K McLaren and Jos M Mitchell of Jersey City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Biscuit Concern
United States Biscuit Company
Trenton
N. J
Louis B. Bailey
K. K McLaren
Jos. M. Mitchell
Jersey City
Locomotive Overturns in Elizabeth N J Killing Three
A Central railroad locomotive overturned in Elizabeth New Jersey killing engineer Arthur Bogart and brakeman Theodore Leach after rails spread. Fireman Charles E Brooks was probably fatally injured as the engine left the house and plunged over an embankment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Bogart
Theodore Leach
Central Railroad
Elizabeth
N. J
Charles E Brooks
Foxy Joseph Coming to America This Autumn
Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain signals to US ambassador Joseph Choate his plan to visit the Americas in the autumn. He wishes the trip to be viewed as a strictly domestic affair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foxy Joseph
Manchester
Eng
Joseph Chamberlain
United States
Joseph Choate
Americas
Indiana to Appeal Wage Law Suit
Attorney General Miller says Indiana will appeal the weekly wage law case after the Indian supreme court ruled the act unconstitutional. He asserts the case involves both federal and state constitutions and will proceed through higher courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller
Indiana
Indian Supreme Court
National Anti Mormon Missionary Association Formed
The Church of Christ in Mc Arthur Ohio founded the National Anti Mormon Missionary association to carry on the work of the Lord Jesus Christ in every community where the Mormon delusion has footholds or is likely to do so.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National
Anti- Mormon Missionary Association of the Church of Christ of
Fort Wayne Theater Listings April 24 25 27
Coming Attractions at Temple Theatre Fort Wayne Indiana feature Richard and Pringle's Minstrels on April 25 James Hackett appears April 24 Veronee Stock Company performs the week of April 27 with shows announced by local theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hilet
Coming Attractions
Temple
Fort Wayne
Ind
Richard & Pringle’s Minstrels
James Hackett
Veronee Stock Co
Salooners Offer Beer By The Pound In Brooklyn Buckets
Brooklyn saloonkeepers plan to sell beer by the pound when served in buckets. A high license prompted the change. Two pounds will be given for ten cents, up from the previous three to four pounds per ten cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn N. Y
Bishop’s Rome Calling Sparks Special Propaganda Debate
A cryptic Rome calling message circulates noting propaganda and a bishop named Ba in Lin as NROb. The fragment hints at church communications and a reform debate affecting clerical orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
the ‘Propaganda
Lin
N Rob
Multiple Disasters and Violent Incidents Hit Nation
A roaring string of early 20th century incidents spans bicycle to boilerplate news: Pittsburg Screw and Bolt Co. executive AWS W. Card dies after being run over by a trolley in Wilkinsburg. Robbers dynamite a Rowley Bank safe at Ulysses securing $1,000. A New York harbor collision sinks the steamer Allegheny with 34 passengers rescued. Pennsylvania bans cigarette sales to under 21 with fines. Philadelphia fire kills Mrs. Yetta Brownstein and two children. two other relatives critical. Commonwealth lawsuits and political shifts scatter across states. Cyclone near Appleton causes one death and significant property loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethlehem
AWS
W. Card
Pitts
Burg Screw ‘and Bolt Company
Westinghouse Electric Company
Wilkinsburg
Rowley
Ulysses
Allegheny
New York
Pontypacker
Pennnsylvania
Yetta Brownstein
Cecilia
Yetta
Philadelphia
United Shoe Machinery Company
Harry E. Cilley
Boston
United States District Court
Cilley
New Jersey
Passaic
George Edward Mills
R. C. Flower
Mills
Garran
Dr. Flower
William Flower
Charles Lockhart
Pittsburg
Rockefellers
Eleanor
Charles Moulton
Clinton
Mass
Lillian Wheeler
Ayers
Miss Wheeler
Moulton
Czarina
Charles S. Bryan
Elizabethport
N. 5
United
St. Denis
Guy E. Howett
Wiliam Howett
Chicago
St. Vincent’s Hospital
A. R. Moyer
American Smelting and Refining Company
Argentine
Iran
Grand Trunk
Battle Creek
Clara Moorehouse
A. B. Rossman
Carter H. Harrison
Graeme Stewart
Smulski
F. C. Bender
Henry Haartwell
Alva Harrtwell
Bois Blanc Island
Round Island
Mackinac Island
John R. Wilson
Journal
Lake Geneva
S. P. Howland
Gardner
Kane
Bud Briggs
Briggs
Estelle Briggs
Roosevelt
Minneapolis
Civil Service Commission
W. W. Heffelfinger
Yale Guard
Heffelfinger
Webb
California
M. E. Ingalls
Cincinnati
Julius Fleischmann
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Sam Jones
Toledo
Michigan
Colorado General Assembly
Senate
House
Appleton
Wis
Percy M. Clark
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Hamlin University
Paul Rader
Rader
Asbury Methodist Church
St. Paul
Montgomery
Ind
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
United States
Northern Securities Company
Northern Pacific
Great Northern Railway
Susan Updike
Akron
Ohio
Drew Fasnacht
Fires and losses touch cities across states in brief item run
Fire destroys Duns muir business section causing heavy loss. Fort Leavenworth barracks suffer fire damage of about 5000. Hamilton Bank in Ohio closes. Andrew Carnegie offers 825000 for Mansfield Ohio library. Jens J. Barger of Chicago kills man in Huron South Dakota. Kesher Shell Barzel closes its endowment. Benjamin F. Ayer dies in Chicago at 78. Several political and railroad crime notes follow. Despondent professor Ernest A. Eggers commits suicide in Columbus. Incendiary fire razes Walters Hotel in Washington Indiana. Republican gains seen in Illinois and Missouri local races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunsmuir
Cal
Fort Leavenworth
Ixon
Hamiltn (Ohio) Bank
Thomas Edwards
Edwards
Chicago
Andrew Carnegie
Memorial Library
Mansfield
Ohio
Huron
S. D
Jens J. Barger
Hitsaelé
Bagger
Kesher Shell Barzel
Cincinnati
Benjamin F. Ayer
Chicago Corporation
Sinois Central Railroad
Astor Street
Henry L. Page
John P. St. John
Kansas
Fort Scott
Nan
George Howard
Burlington
Homestake
Mont
Duluth
Minn
Oscar London
Ars
Hanna Matson
Reorganized Church of the Latter Day Saints
Independence
Midland
Ernest A. Eggers
Columbus
Ind
Fire destroys Edwards College near Austin Texas
A Southern fire leveled Edwards College a Catholic school near Austin injuring no victims as 200 students escaped. The loss is listed at 175000 dollars. Alabama officials decide the state will not exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Rosie Bell Cowart allegedly killed her mother near Aberdeen Mississippi then shot herself. A grand jury returns a true bill against Santee H Tae for unspecified charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwards College
Austin
Tex
Alabama
Rosie Bell Cowart
Aberdeen
Miss
Santee
Riots and political results reported in multiple regions
News briefs cover deaths in Rome and labor disturbances near Nishni Novgorod, a hangings in England, famine threats in Holland, and global political shifts. Notable items include William Waldorf Astor buying Hever Castle, dynastic rumors in Denmark, and detailed Illinois mayoral and township election outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Porter
Paris
Rome
St. Petersburg
Nishni-Novgorod
Kloshowski
Chapman
Southwark
England
London
Wandsworth
Holland
Royal Apartments
Windsor Castle
Villaloijan
Madrid
Saragossa
Datto
North
Lanao
P. I
William Waldorf Astor
Hever Castle
Kent
Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII
Astor
Frederick William
Cecile
Mecklenberg-Schwerin
A. A. Winslow Appointed Consul General at Guatemala City
State Department sources discuss naval stations in Cuba in exchange for recognition of Isle of Pines. Reports cover strikes on a Walkerville Ontario bridge, Admiral Belknap’s death, navy diphtheria outbreaks, Clara Barton era cuts, and diplomatic tensions over Miss Langham. Also notes Dukhobor emigration, Ottawa rail reform aims, and a Norwegian vessel incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. Winslow
Guatemala City
Legation
State Department
United States
Bahia Honda
Guantanamo
Isle of Pines
Canadian Pacific
Walkerville
Ont
Navy Department
Washington
Key West
George E. Belknap
West
Whipple
Clara Morris
Miss Langham
Kentucky
Baroness von Sternbers
Red Cross Organization
Clara Barton
John M. Wilson
John. W. Foster
Csary A. Herbert
van Reypen
Winnipeg
Swan River Colony
Railway Committee
Ottawa
Grand
Ohio and Wisconsin elections show narrow Republican gains
Ohio aggregate results show small Republican gains with many cities switching mayors while Democrats retain control in most large cities. Notable changes include Shelby flipping to Republicans. Youngstown Springfield Akron and Findlay moving to Democrats. Toledo remains independent with Republican city control except mayor. In Wisconsin judges and mayoralties swing Democratic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Columbus
Mansfield
Zanesfield
Defiance
Delphos
van, Wert
Shelby
Youngstown
Springfield
Akron
Troy
Findlay
Cleveland
Johnson
Lapp
Sontheimer
Schreiner
Wisconsin
Robert G. Siebecker
Madison
Supreme Court
O T. Wilson
O’neil
Silverthorn
Goodland
Janesville
A. O. Ison
J. Groves
B. Nelson
John Mulva
la Crosse
I.s
Eau Claire
Ripon
Oshkosh
Appleton
Neenah and Sheboygan Falls
Defaulter Pennell Tied To Burdick Case And Insurer Loss
Arthur R. Pennell identified as a major defaulter by the Buffalo Commercial, with alleged peculations ranging from 15 000 to 260 000 dollars. The dispute over two life insurance policies uncovered plans to provide 25 000 dollars to Mrs Edwin L Burdick. The report notes suicide considerations over two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur R. Pennell
Burdick
Buffalo
Pennell
Edwin ‘L. Burdick
Indiana News Roundup: Fatalities, Industry Growth, and Public Works
A scattered Indiana page reports a teen killed at Brownstown in a straw carrier accident, a man crushed by a crane at Anderson, and a suicide near Homewood. It notes new library openings, forest reserve petitions, patent grants, road improvements in Ripley County, and various local incidents, deaths, and business updates including peat deposits plans in Starke County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Wilson
Brownstown
Henry County
Carnegie
Wabash
Thomas Ganlon
Kouts
Lowell
Daniel Kauffman
Arcadia
Jacob J. Bravy
Fish and Game
Madison
Hamilton
Hansock
Tipton
Delaware
Henry
Will Mand
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Terre Haute
Big Four
Anderson
Frank Burkhart
James H. Green
Reelsville
John Prather
Albert Fribb
Roachdale
Putnam County
Greencastle
Blackford County
D. A. Bryson
C. Q. Shull
L. E. Maddox
Montpelier
Old
Godfrey
George W. Simpson
Bosey & Simpson Oil Company
Marion
Marion Hospital
Elias S. Witwer
Dodge Manufacturing Company
Mishawaka
Homewood
Penu
Prince
Munro
Indiana
William S. Beall
Harry C. Clay
Columbus
John Die
Indianapolis
Charles Tit
James J. Wood
Fort Wayne
Ripley County
Versailles
Osgood
Milan
Gideon R. Cruil
Hagerstown
Jacob Crall
Milford
Lll
Gideon Crall
Avent West
West
Gideon Crallis
Bach
Elor
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Osmond
Neb
Henry Albrieson
Langdon
N.D
Ing
Ge ‘Haliman
Sims
Capital City National Bank
Atlanta
Marshal Scott
Speer
the. Bank
Pensacola
Fla
Mess
Hanceville
Louisville and Nashville
Decatur
Western
Harrison
FF. Co. Bender
Harlan
Stewart
Iinois
Weaeeese
Silas Cook
George Shumwar
Meglio E. P. Skinner
Rock Island
William McConochie
Quincy
New Pennell Cloud
Starke
Ellen Ward
Greenfield
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