In Europe and America: Miscellany Tidbits
The column is a jumble of brief items and quips from The Press noting Marconigrams, Canada’s polar calm, charity, cheese theft, coal price cuts, a Madrid free library proposal, Carnegie's philanthropy, Buffalo Bill, ice cream unions, and witty asides about notable figures like Rockefeller and Hyde. It references a barbed wire fence on the Montana border, a Ping Pong named daughter, and Boer War length forecasts, ending with notices about U.S. Indians and spring delays.
Morganized England and the Morganizing threat
A 1900s era analysis discusses American capital’s spread into Britain and its empire, warning that Morganization threatens British industries and Canada’s railways. It highlights a surge of anti American takeovers in manufacturing, transit, and shipping, with Daily Express urging firm national resistance to curb the imperial risk.
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Bela
American Trust
maHne
Daily Express
Dominion of Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway
Conciliation Committee Meets to Settle Mine Dispute
New York April 23 a session of the Conciliation Committee of the National Civic Federation met to resolve differences between the Limited Mine Workers and Pennsylvania anthracite coal operators. The session adjourned without definite results. a sub-committee was appointed to report next Tuesday. President Gompers said no points were cleared up, keeping the situation in statu quo. The meeting remained courteous and conciliatory.
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Ion Comittee
New York
Natonal Civic Federation
Pennsylvania
Sn.1
Inca
Gompers
the Nations
Federation of Labor
War Department split over General Smith wartime methods
Adjutant General Corbin denied Washington guidance on wartime methods used by General Smith and General Chaffee. Senate Philippines Commission members debate authority and policy, with calls for court martial for Chaffee and Smith. Heavy responsibility blamed on War Department officials in Washington amid charges of systematic cruelty. Also reports fruit shipments in Madison and Crystal Springs and a grain of news on cotton picking by machinery in Greenville.
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Washington
Salih
Corbin
War Department
Ssick
Moafle
Chaffee
General Smith
Senate
Phillippines Commission
Rosling
The
Philippines Commission
Smith
Waller
Carmack
Dubois
General Chaffee
Senator Patterson
Philippines
General Bell
General Funston
Administration
Prisoner Confesses to Murder in East Feliciana Case
May Clear reports from Lake Charles say Thomas L. Jackson, jailed at Clinton, East Feliciana parish, confessed to murdering the Earl family. Doubt remains on the confession’s truth. Jackson, who had been away from home for some time, returned to East Feliciana and shot his brother. Officials cited possible insanity as the motive.
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Hataon
Lake Charles la
Lake Charles
Thomas L. Jackson
Clinton
East Feliciana Parish
Earl
Jackson
Hans
East Feticfson
Disorder in Meade leads to shootings and arrests
In Meade Kansas last Wednesday Homer Lanham and brother Jesse Lanham caused chaos when Homer fired a pistol at bystanders. Ed Kragh was wounded and may die while Lanham escaped arrest briefly before being disarmed during a public meeting. His sister or wife in the hotel was grazed by a stray bullet.
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Wieletta
Kas
Lanham
Lie
Jesse Lanham
Homer Lanham
H. W. Griggs
C. B. Campbell
Killer preacher shoots rival at church in Emporia
In Emporia Kansas Reverend W H Pollett pastor of St James Negro Baptist Church shot and killed Isaiah Edmonton a laborer during a dispute over alleged improper intimacy with Polletts wife. Pollett 45 years old and a known revivalist calmly fired five shots after a nearly hour long confrontation and planned church service for Sunday.
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Kaname Keelailet Bhot
Bis One
Emporia
Kas
W. H. Pollett
St. James
Naval training cruise sails along English and Irish coasts
The First Naval Squadron under Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia set out from Kiel on a weeks long training cruise along the English and Irish coasts. The battleship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse accompanied the squadron but returned with engine trouble and some damage. Nearby, John Craft, a Warrick County farmer, was found dead in a Hoornville field amid a coroner inquiry. In New York, Oriental Consolidated Mining Company, backed by Haggin and Ogden Mills, pursues Korean gold interests with a $5 million capital across 50 square miles near Chemulpo. Webster mass Putnam’s box factory fire damages plant and an adjacent section. river waterlogged the site after a two mile float.
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Evansville
Ind
John Craft
Warrick County
Hoonville
Korean Mines
New York
James H. Haggin
Ogden Mills
Oriental Consolidated Mining Company
Chemulpo
Korea
Borsley
Webster
Mass
Putnam's Box
Jewelry theft confession lands 20 year old in jail
Blanche Wellman twenty says Abe Ilven in West Thirty tink street New York stole jewelry from a boarder at 126 Academy street and is jailed for thirty days. In Chicago April 24 J Sterling Morton secretary of agriculture dies at Lake Forest home of his son Mark Morton.
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A. Karper Dever
New York
Jutta A Harper
James Harper
Harper & Bros
Newark
N—3
Blanche Wellman
Abe Ilven
West Thirtytink Street
No. 126
Academy Street
J. Sterting
Chicago
J. Sterling Morton
Are Lest Cleveland
Mark Morton
Lake Forest
Wheat price push spurs county farmer movement
Farreens Flea o Trent, Arkansas City, Kas. April 28 The farmers of this county have started a movement to raise the price of wheat. They want the wheat growing States to cut down the average just one half Antiquities Cararthed. Paris, April 22 Many queer things have been seen In the Paris Bourse. Now come strange things have been discovered under it. In making excavations for a reconstruction of the building a quantity of antiquities have been discovered including very ancient pottery Renaissance ware and a finely chased bronze top with a Man's head and fleacr de lye decoration. The ground beneath the Bourse was formerly crossed by 48 small stream La Granee Batellere.
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Farreens Flea O
Trent
Arkansas City
Kas
Paris
Paris Bourse
Joplin Tornado Ravages City Killing and Wounding Dozens
A April 26 report from Joplin Missouri describes the most destructive windstorm in its history. At least two people died and many were injured as the storm damaged homes, powered lines, and mining plants. The event left the city dark with widespread flooding and debris, while other towns reported varied damage and relief from later rains.
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Joplin
Esther Hunter
Martha Cope
Kruger
Villa Heights
Bidwell Hunter
Moonshine Hill
Marian Hicks
Byers
M. W. Markham
Thomas Smith
Mr. Morrison
Bird Street
Nellie Bullivan
Bud Cole
West Seventh
Albert Brower
Seventeenth Street
Seventh Street
Sixth Street
Annie Hunter
Esther
Webb City
Carterville
Carthage
Galena
Kan
Trial of General Smith Opens in Manila Court Martial
The court martial of General Jacob H. Smith began in Manila with General Lloyd Wheaton presiding. Defense counsel Woodruff seeks simplification and may admit Smith ordered killings and burnings, targeting all over ten years old, to render Samar a wild wasteland, as witnesses Major Waller and Lt Day are set to testify.
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Ral Deere Imlib
Trinh
Manila
Jacob H. Smith
Lloyd Wheaton
Charles A. Woodruff
Smith
Waller
Lamar
Samar
David Porter
Marine Corps
Land
John H. A. Day
Major Little
W. T. Waller
Dofen
O‘cers
Ninth Infantry
Lieutenant Day
Island of
Samar Witout
Grand Jury Walkout Over Negro Substitute in McAlester
In South McAlester I T April 26 federal grand jury members, mostly Southerners, refused to work after a clash over appointing P S Weber editor of a local paper as a substitute juror. Judge Clayton jailed them briefly, then delivered a 45 minute lecture, and they resumed duties.
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Guard
South McAlester
I. T
Federal Grand Jury
P. S. Weber
Grand Jury
Jade
Clayton
Wind Sweeps Girl From Train Nose Upper Alton Platform
Miss Stella Ett an 18 year old passenger was blown from a Chicago and Alton train as it neared Upper Alton depot. A powerful gust hurled her 20 feet into an embankment, leaving her unconscious with brain concussion and multiple bruises. She was taken to St Joseph Hospital for treatment and is expected to recover.
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Trelo_ Alton
Stella Ett
Chicago and Alton
Upper Alton
Miss Ett
St Joseph Hospital
Ruling Hikes Duty on Young Mexican Cattle
El Paso April 26 Patrick Garrett, collector of customs, ruled that all imported Mexican cattle under one year old must pay 33.75 per head, up from 2. Corralitos Company protests and appeals to Washington. Appraisement by Inspector Dwyer under Garrett’s supervision. Open season will affect thousands of young cattle shipping to northern ranges.
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Raislng
Tarif
el Paso
Tex
Collector of Customs
Patrick Garrett
Corralitos Company
Washington
Dwyer
Garrett
Woman Prays Saloon Fire Destruction in Evansville
In Evansville Indiana last night a saloon owned by Gus Werzner in the West End was partially destroyed by fire. A strange woman appeared during the blaze and knelt in prayer asking God to destroy the saloon and the city because they ruin men and boys. She then vanished after the fire ended.
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Evansville
Ind
Gus Werzner
West End
Queen Wilhelmina’s Health Sparks Dispatch Debate
Reports on Queen Wilhelmina’s condition show no improvement and cast doubt on official bulletins from Castle Loo. Allegations claim royal dispatches conflict with medical statements, fueling public concern.
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Amsterdam
Wilhemmina
Castle Loo
White Star Line launches new Friday sailings from New York
Ships to Sal on Friday New York April 9 series of Friday sailings from seven ports. The Cymric inaugurated a new service marking a daily travel movement with a voyage involving Rethge and Sane af tha Utes Rae. The opening endge signals a freight service for regular passengers and a daily travel option.
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Sal
Frider New York
White Star Line
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