Important Move In Beef Trust Probe Subpoenas Sent
Federal officials subpoenaed vice presidents and cashiers of four Chicago banks seeking accounts and records of Aetna Trading Company and S. Oppenheimer & Co. The checks, many bearing fictitious names, were traced across banks and through clearinghouse records. Discoveries in trunks seized by detectives triggered the latest action, tying packers to the Aetna operation.
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Chicago
Beef Trust
Aetna Trading Company
S. Oppenheimer & Co
Aetna
Starck
Judge Jenkins Says Peaceful Strikes Are Like Bloodless War
Milwaukee April 24 Judge James G Jenkins recently retired from the U S circuit bench writes in the Milwaukee Journal that peaceful strikes are ineffective like a bloodless war and that only through violence can a strike succeed He cites the Northern Pacific injunction decision and argues the law must be upheld to safeguard society and property against both capital and labor Supporters must accept ongoing conflict to establish lasting order
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Milwaukee
James G. Jenkins
United States Circuit Court
Milwaukee Journal
Jenkins
Son Pleads Guilty to Murdering His Father
Fergus Falls Minn April 24 Peter Ziolkowski in jail on murder charge changed plea from not guilty to guilty and sentenced to St Cloud reformatory for life. Family tensions described with a surly drunken father in a room. son shot him later disposing of the gun and claiming his father killed himself.
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Fergus Falls
Minn
Peter Ziolkowski
St. Cloud Reformatory
Hyde Says He Faced Injustice Over Resignation
New York April 24 Vice President Hyde replies to agents urging resignation and claims injustice. He says he alone has sacrificed for the society and that agents have no authority to challenge him. the matter is for the board of directors to decide.
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New York
Hyde
Ex-Aldermen Lozier and McLachlin Sentenced in Lake Michigan Bribe Case
Grand Rapids report says ex Alderman Daniel E Lozier and John McLachlin pled guilty to bribery in the Lake Michigan water deal scandal and were sentenced by Judge Newham. Lozier received a $500 fine and McLachlin was fined an amount not fully shown in the text.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Daniel E. Lozier
John McLachlin
Lake Michigan
Newham
Losier
McLachlin
Russian Second Pacific squadron sighted in Kamranh Bay
Tokyo reports from indisputable witnesses describing the Kamranh Bay harbor scene. Two Dmitri Don stski class cruisers, one with three masts and two funnels and another with two masts and three funnels were seen outside the harbor. Inside lay five vessels resembling battleships and six warships in single formation off the southern entrance with heavy smoke inside the harbor. Rear Admiral Rozetsvensky is believed to be using the harbor to coal adjust torpedoes clean guns prepare ammunition and receive fresh stores.
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Tokio
Navy Department
Kamranh Bay
Rosestvensky
Moros Defy Americans of Jolo
Manila reports the walled city of Jolo was attacked by Moros on April 9. They fired into the officers club and disrupted a ball. Secretary of Governor Scott was ambushed and killed on April 10. A Borneo refugee-datto leads the Moros as General Wood arrives to demand surrender within ten days or face concentrated force.
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Manila
Jolo
Scott
Borneo
Leonard Wood
Zamboanga
Datto
Fanatic Dies On The Cross In Penitentes Rite
Trinidad witnesses report a Penitentes member nailed to a self made cross and dying in religious fervor at Torres Las Animas county Colorado. Eyewitnesses spoke privately. details remain unclear though Henry D. Robinson corroborates the crowd scene. The practice, once common, is said to have faded but self torture during Holy week persists among the order.
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Trinidad
Colo
Penitentes
Torres
Las Animas
Henry D. Robinson
Marchioness Pallavicini Suicide In Milan Cathedral
In Milan at the Duomo 15,000 devout Catholics were gathered when Marchioness Maria Pallavicini shot herself in the brain. She died minutes later en route to a hospital. The 30-year-old beauty from Austria reportedly acted amid domestic unhappiness after separation from her husband.
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Milan
Duomo
Marchioness
Maria Pallavicini
Trent
Austria
Italy
Child actress Ethel Hamline vanishes from Wisconsin home
Ten year old Ethel Hamline who appeared on Southern stages especially in Atlanta has disappeared from her Racine county home. Her mother Mrs. George Crossman of Silver Lake suspects a relative in the East lured her away and has started toward Chicago to search for the girl.
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Racine
Wis
Ethel Hamline
Atlanta
Here
George Crossman
Silver Lake
This County
Chicago
France Demands Russian Fleet Stay Out of Waters
Paris reports that instructions to Admiral Rojestvensky require his squadron to remain outside French waters to respect neutrality. Emperor Nicholas ordered the fleet to depart, with officials noting the Diana cruiser is immobilized in Saigon, while Indo China governor general Beau is to confirm the Russian location near Kamranh Bay.
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Paris
Foreign Office
St. Petersburg
Rojestvensky
France
Japan
M. Beau
Indo-China
Saigon
Hanoi
Tonquin
Diana
Haifong
Nicholas
Rorestvensky
French
Chamber of Deputies
Kamranh Bay
Death of Senator Orville Platt in Connecticut
United States Senator Orville H Platt of Connecticut died at his summer home in Washington New York state capital area from pneumonia complications He was seventy eight years old and served twenty six years in the Senate where he chaired the judiciary committee and sat on Cuban relations finance and revolutionary claims He presided over senate sessions including the Swayne impeachment trial in later years
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Washington, Conn
United States
Orville Hitchcock Platt
Connecticut
Platt
Senator Platt
Congress
Senate
Swayne
Cruising Outside Harbor for Diversion at Vladivostok
Private dispatches report Russian armored cruisers Russia and Gromoboi and the protected cruiser Bogatyr patrolling near Vladivostok ready to divert support for Admiral Ro jestvensky. The admiralty is sending vast repair materials and hundreds of dockyard workers to Vladivostok to refit Ro jestvensky’s ships if victory comes.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Gromoboi
Bogatyr
Vladivostok
Rojestvensky
Admiralty
Popular Feeling in Japan Grows Tense Over Kamranh Bay Incident
Tokyo reports show Japanese newspapers voicing unfriendliness toward the French government over the Kamranh bay affair despite conservative efforts to curb unrest. Popular sentiment increases in intensity as negotiations proceed.
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Tokio
Kamranh Bay
Shipping crews recalled as Hong Kong wards ships for sea
A Hong Kong dispatch reports all shore leave for British warship crews is halted and dockyard workers on Easter leave are recalled to ready ships for sea at the earliest moment.
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London
Hongkong
Japanese Admiral Yogo Squadron Assembles Reported
Mania April 24. Marata Goro Japanese consul reports a telegraph stating Admiral Yogo's main squadron will assemble south of Formosa. Details limited. Unknown date or location of gathering.
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Marata Goro
Yogo
Formosa
Jefferson's Condition Steady Amid Night of Restlessness
West Palm Beach April 24 Joseph Jefferson spent a restless night but shows no critical symptoms. From 3 to 5 a.m. he was uneasy and the chances against him are a little, yet at 11 a.m. there is no perceptible change in his condition.
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West Palm Beach, Fla
Joseph Jefferson
Mr. Jefferson
Circus parade horses cause crash injuring bystanders in Columbus
During a Sells-Forepaugh parade six horses attached to an empty animal wagon were frightened and dashed into the storefront of A. G. F. Howeld and Andrew Morden. The incident caused a panic among hundreds onlookers and three women and children were seriously hurt in the escape rush.attributed to a Columbus, Ohio parade on April 24.
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Columbus
Sells-Forepaugh Circus
A. G. & F. Howeld
Andrew Morden
Riveters Strike at Pressed Steel Car Plant in Pittsburg
About 300 workers at the Pressed Steel Car company in Pittsburg have walked out seeking higher pay. In other news, J Pierpont Morgan met privately with the pope, then with Cardinal Merry del Val. Charles M Schwab and Charles R Flint arrived in St Petersburg to discuss building new warships with the Russian admiralty. Harry Sanford, famed theater figure, died in New York. Edward Kennedy, 70, a Great Northern fireman, collapsed at Havre after boasting of never being sick. Colonel John Harrison Jack, Indiana governor aide and veteran of the Seventy third Ohio infantry, died in Lafayette at 65.
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Pressed Steel Car Company of
Pittsburg
Charles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Works
Charles R. Flint
New York
St. Petersburg
Harry Sanford
America
Europe
New York City
Edward Kennedy
Havre
Mont
Minneapolis
John Harrison Jack
Indiana
Seventy-third
Ohio Infantry
McKinley
Lafayette
Ind
Baseball scores from Chicago Boston and Louisville games
National League game in Chicago saw Cincinnati defeat Chicago 5 to 2. In Boston Philadelphia edged past the Red Sox 5 to 4. Western Association play in Louisville ended tied 1 to 1 with St Paul after seven innings halted by rain.
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National League
Chicago
Cincinnati
American League
Boston
Philadelphia
Western Association
Louisville
St. Paul
One Hundred Vessels Stuck in Ice Near Soo
Sault Ste. Marie Michigan reports about one hundred upbound boats stranded in ice between Emerson and Shelldrake, forty miles above the Soo. Eight feet of slush ice blocks the channel as a cold wind drives the ships into the ice.
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Sault Ste. Marie, Mich
Emerson
Shelldrake
Soo
al Bars Po
Meningitis Claims Second Victim at Newport Naval Station
The second death from cerebro spinal meningitis in a week occurred at the Newport naval training station. The victim was Frank J. McKinnon of Detroit Michigan. Officials say precautions are in place and no further spread is anticipated.
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Newport
R.L
Naval Training Station
Frank J. McKinnon
Detroit
Mich
Empire council enacts tax law for war funding
The Imperial council promulgated a first law to raise funds for war. It includes higher taxes on matches and petroleum and introduces a graduated tax structure.
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St. Petersburg
the Council of the Empire
Loss of Eleven and Half Cents in May Wheat Option
Chicago April 24 May wheat fell sharply with a 23 cent drop from $1.21% to around 98% cents, closing near $1.00. Brokers linked to John W. Gates reportedly withdrew support and may have liquidated holdings amid wild pit scenes and loud throngs in the boulevard air.
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Chicago
John W. Gates
Gates
Armour
Gates and Armour
May Holdings
Railway promoters announce Gould backing for Salt Lake to San Francisco line
The Western Pacific Railway company declares George J. Gould and his overland system back the project to build from Salt Lake to San Francisco without delay. In Coshocton Ohio, George Ashcroft dies suddenly in bed while tending to his wife who falls dead within hours.
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San Francisco
Western Pacific Railway Company
George J. Gould
Overland Railroad System
Salt Lake
Coshocton, O
George Ashcroft
One-way Second Class Rates to Midwest and West 1905
Settlers may travel on the Northwestern Line to Minnesota North Dakota Black Hills Manitoba Western Ontario Saskatchewan and Assiniboia via Tuesdays in March and April 1905. Tickets and full rates available.
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San Francisco
Los Angeles
North-Western
Woodmen of the World
California
Overland Limited
California Express
Chicago & North-Western R’y
Minnesota
North Dakota
Black Hills
Wyoming
Manitoba
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Assiniboia
North- Western
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Columbus, O
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Mr. Morgan
Papal
Cardinal Merry del Val
Naval Station
Lifornia
Lauifon
Washington
Missouri River
Iowa
Dakotas
Portland
W. B. Kniskernassenger
Mele
Orice
Perist
C. S. Jones
James Valley Bank Building
Nelson Goranson
Third Street
Nels Paulson
Pytter
Scheel
Dakota Avenue
Sca BT
Parker
Chichester
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