Secret Service nets major Monroe counterfeit ring arrest
Chief John E. Wilkie and agents capture Arthur Taylor and Baldwin Beidel in Philadelphia, makers of Monroe head $100 certificates. Lancaster and Philadelphia seizures include plate varieties, three sets of stamp plates, cigar factory raids, seized bank accounts, and large quantities of counterfeit stamps and paper. About $140,000 of bogus stamps traced to Lancaster operations. several plates and equipment recovered.
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Washington
Secret Service
Philadelphia
John E. Wilkie
Arthur Taylor
Baldwin S. Beidel
Lancaster
Taylor and Beidel
Porto Rico memorial seeks end to exclusive military rule
Washinetox April 1 Dr Junho Henna and M Zeno Gaudia presented to the president a memorial by commissioners of the people of Porto Rico. It demands civilian control by Washington departments, reduced troops, full U S citizenship privileges, a territorial form of government or executive authority, a two member council per department, a census, and free trade with the United States.
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Washinetox
Junho Henna
M. Zeno Gaudia
Porto Rico
Washington
United States
District of Columbia
Congress
Missouri River Flood Reaches Historic Levels at Sioux City
The Missouri River near Sioux City Iowa rises to 18 feet above the low water mark, second only to the 18 41 flood caused by an ice gorge. A mile and a half of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul track near Mecklin South Dakota is washed out, dairy shipments disrupted, and cellars in the wholesale district flooded amid widespread flooding in the surrounding countryside.
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Sioux City
Missouri
Chicago
Milwaukee and
St. Paul
Mecklin
Si Oe
No Through Trains Run After Flood Damages Tracks
Fort Pierre area residents paddle in boats as the river backs up through a bayou washing out half a mile of Northwestern track twenty miles east of Pierre. No through trains are running and passengers and mails are being transferred.
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Pierre
Fort Pierre
McKinley Accepts Invite to State G A R Encampment
President McKinley has accepted an invitation to attend the state encampment of the G A R to be held in Younestown in the latter part of June, provided no other official engagements interfere.
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McKinley
Younestown
Ringleaders in Lancaster Counterfeit Ring Arrested
United States Commissioner Henry Edmunds swore warrants for Jacobs and associates including Henry Braller and Simon Kleinerdinger and Kendig and James Burns. Secret service agents seized bank deposits totaling 25,000 and found over a ton of government paper and plates for silver certificates and counterfeit notes in Kendig’s warehouse. Jacobs and Burns jailed after arraignment, Kendig released on bail.
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Lancaster
Jacobs
Henry Braller
Simon Kleinerdinger
W. T. Kendig
James Burns
John Doe
B. F. Searcher
United States
Henry F. Edmunds
Philadelphia
Secret Service
John E. Wilkie
Wilkie
Fulton National Bank
Farmers’ National Bank
Northern National Bank
B. F. Seercher
Br. F. Montgomery
James M. Beck
Kendig
Burns
Ex-secretary convicted in embezzlement case
In Pana Illinois on April 21 I N Weaver former secretary of the Citizens' Saving Loan and Building association was found guilty of embezzling funds from the association. He was sentenced to four months imprisonment to pay all trial costs and a 100 dollar fine.
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Pana
Als
I. N. Weaver
Citizens’ Saving, Loan and Building Association
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Gars
Jouan E. Wilkie
William M. Jacobs
William L. Kendig
DR. Williams Medicine CO
Schenectady
N.Y
Rani
Iloile
Clay. County, Ltd
Asia
Democrat
Brazil
Ind
NEW York Weekly Tribune
National Family
Hghest Merit
N. 7. Weekly Tribune
Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
Sherwin-Williams
Dunning
Lonestaff
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