LOSS ON THE PITTSBURG STEAMER WRECK FATALITIES RISE
The Indianapolis Journal reports that 44 bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the Pittsburg near Cairo Illinois. The latest recoveries include a Burke boy and a colored roustabout. William Bodinger of Cincinnati, steward of the Pittsburg, was found near the wreck along with three other badly burned unidentified remains. Missing include L Hunter of Tidoute Pa and L Berther Magill. John Botts cook of the City of Pittsburg was sent to Madison for burial.
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Cairo
Burke Boys
William R. Bodinger
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
L. Hunter
Tidtoute, Pa
L. Berther Magill
Indianapolis Journal
Madison
Ind
John Botts
S Ua
General arrival reveals Samar treachery described by Lt Duman
The general found Samar towns deserted on arrival but encountered one worthy local who was sincere and patriotic. Lieut Van E Duman of the Twenty-first Infantry, who led the militia information bureau, cited records showing treachery by Samar natives, noting the only qualified man was born in Marinduque of Tagalog ancestry.
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Samar
Marinduque
Lieut
van E. Duman
Twenty-first Infantry
Taft Addresses Yale Audience In College Street Hall
Governor General William H. Taft of the Philippine lands spoke to about 2,000 students professors and others in College street Hall at Yale He was introduced by President
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New Haven, Conn
William H. Taft
The
Philippine Lands
College Street Hall
Yale
Taft Summary of Philippine Government and Army Conduct
Judge Taft reviews the Philippines history and government under American rule, detailing the Philippine commission's work. He cites the army of 40 000 to 50 000 men, dispersed across five posts, with field detachments outnumbering posts. He argues abuses were possible but emphasizes the overall humane conduct amid guerrilla warfare and provocations.
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A. T. Hadley
Philippines
Taft
Philippine Commission
Senate
House
New Investigators Named At Plaza Hotel Meeting
A citizen conference opposed to Philippine policy convened at the Plaza Hotel in New York. About sixty or seventy participants from across the country formed a seven member committee led by Carl Schurz to pursue full disclosure of military operations in the Philippines and to engage before the Senate committee for publicity and action. The committee includes Charles Francis Adams Andrew Carnegie Wayne McVeagh Herbert Welsh Edwin Burritt Smith and J G Schurman with Schurz as an ex officio member.
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New York
Philippines
Plaza Hotel
Charles Francis Adams
Boston
Philippine Islands
Pecs
Carl Schurz
Andrew Carnegie
Wayne McVeagh
Philadelphia
Herbert Welsh
Edwin Burritt Smith
Chicago
J. G. Schurman
Cornell University
Schurz
Cholera Statistics From Manila and Provinces
Manila reports 605 cholera cases and 483 deaths to date while provinces tally 1 754 cases and 1 281 deaths.
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Manila
Manilla
Provinces
Unknown Man Found Dead on Tracks Near State Fair Grounds
The remains of a man about 26 were found today on the Chicago Peoria and St Louis tracks near the state fair grounds in Springfield. The head was beaten and a section of air brake hose bound with iron was found beside the body, believed used in the crime.
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Springfield
Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis
OVAL BAKING POWDER CO. New York Address Note
Historical record notes the Oval Baking Powder Company located at 100 William Street in New York, reflecting a period business address for a major baking product firm. The entry lists the corporate name and street address without additional context.
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Oval Baking Powder CO
William ST
New York
Logansport Rail Battle Strikes Erie Avenue Amid Injunction
In Logansport Indiana the Boyd syndicate began laying tracks toward Peru on Erie avenue under orders from company president Blakeslee. Despite a federal injunction against city streets, officials claim no violation while spectators monitor the work and court action tightens the dispute over Fifth and High streets.
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Indianapolis Journal
Logansport
Ind
Indianapolis
Logansport Street Railway Company
Wabash River Traction Company
Boyd Syndicate
Peru
Erie Avenue
Fifth Street
John R. Lattini
Boyd
Logansport, Rochester, & Northern
Fifth and
High Streets
Lattim
D. A. Blakeslee
Larry & Mahony
McCulloch
High
Fifth Streets
Chase
Latuim
German M E District Convention to Meet in South Bend
The annual ministerial convention of the Chicago district of the German M E Church will be held in South Bend May 6 and 7 at the German M E Church. The district covers churches in Chicago and across Illinois and Indiana. About thirty five German Methodist ministers are expected, who will be entertained by local church members.
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Indianapolis Journal
South Bend
Ind
Chicago
M. E
Karl Keck
Aurora
Blue Island
Frankfort
Champaign
Elgin
Danville
Sandwich
Miinois
Laporte
Michigan City
Indiana
Travelers’ Protective Association
Oliver Hotel
Oliver Opera House
Oliver Fiotel
Princi 1
Goshen Campaign Rife With Open Policy Debate
Goshen Indiana April 2 the city campaign centers on a wide open policy against a law and order administration Democrats back mayoral hopeful George F Alderman promising after hours immunity for saloons and gambling rooms if elected Republicans alarmed as plan leaks. Wabash Indiana April 29 tent planned for Eleventh district Republican convention with an unprecedented crowd and opera house deemed too small to hold all attendees the canvas to be raised in City Park if weather permits.
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Indianapolis Journal
Goshen
Ind
George F. Alderman
Harcall
Alderman
News-Times
Wabash
Logansport Interurban Franchises Sold to Northern Traction
Logansport and Kokomo Railway, aka Lau-Stoneman syndicate, absorbed by Indianapolis Northern Traction. McCulloch interests gain possession of all Logansport interurban franchises except Wabash River Traction, Boyd syndicate. Plans include consolidation with Lafayette Street railway and a Logansport to Lafayette line via Delphi.
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Indianapolis Journal
Logansport
Ind
Deputy Superintendent Charged After Infirmary Whipping
In Muncie Indiana on April 2 county officials discharged Deputy Superintendent Frank White of the County Infirmary and today pressed charges for whipping Lottie Johnson with a horse whip. The judge held the case for advisory ruling tomorrow. White allegedly whipped the woman for refusing to work. he gave a partial denial.
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Indianapolis Journal
Muncie
Ind
Frank White
Lottie Johnson
White
Miss Johnson
Strike at Singer Plant Arouses Federal Labor Call
Harry L. Burt head of the American Federation of Labor issued a call to all union men at Singer Sewing Machine Company to walk out. Foundry workers have joined. total employees about 1,700 with only fifty at work this week amid alleged manager discrimination against unions. In Princeton Indiana a separate five day strike at Nickey & Sons hardwood plant ended with owners signing the scale and sixty men returning to work. the mill will supply lumber for the world’s fair buildings at St. Louis.
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Indianapolis Journal
South Bend
Ind
Harry L. Burt
American Federation of Labor
Singer Sewing Machine Company
Foundry Department
Pine
Princeton
Nickey & Sons
St. Louis
Carnegie Gifts for Indiana Public Libraries Announced
Reports from Logansport Alexandria and Wabash detail Andrew Carnegie offers to fund libraries. Logansport would receive 5000 dollars with 2500 yearly city support. Alexandria plans 12000 dollars for a library house with 1200 annually from the city. Wabash notes Carnegie gift of 5000 dollars toward a new Carnegie library as construction proceeds.
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Indianapolis Journal
Logansport
Ind
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Alexandria
J. Challen Smith
Public Library Board
Wabash, Ind
Carnegie Library
Kentucky Republicans to settle near Munising colony planned
A syndicate in LaPorte Ind announces that a colony of Kentucky Republicans, prominent in state politics during the Goebel assassination era, will settle on lands adjacent to Munising in Alger county Michigan. The group will number several hundred.
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Indianapolis Journal
Laporte
Ind
Munising
Alger County
Michigan
Kentucky
Goebel
Deserters From Russell Comedy Company Spark City Jail Time
Reports from Richmond and nearby towns recount multiple incidents. Deserters from the Russell Comedy Company fled Centerville this morning taking funds, were arrested in Richmond, jailed, and fined for board bill violations.
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Indianapolis Journal
Richmond
Ind
Russell Comedy Company
Centerville
Nine opera company members stranded in Terre Haute
Indiana notes report nine members of an opera company stranded in Terre Haute. A boarding house keeper at the fair grounds is seizing their baggage. They arrived under engagement with Sam Pickett of Chicago who promised a summer season at Casino at the fair ends. He was last heard from in New York.
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Terre Haute
Fair Grounds
Sam Pickett
Chicago
Fair Ends
New York
Charles Cutright
Warbash
Fort Wayne & Southwestern Traction Company
Laugro
Huntington
Wabash
Lagro
Farmland
Farmland High School
M. E. Church
Hal Enloe Driver
Wilbur F. Pursley
J. Garver Bly
Ruby Avis Wood
Elsie Garnett Foster
Lee L. Driver
Winchester
Thorntown
Morley Riley
James Riley
Berkshire
Washington
Boone County
Wilson
Anderson
Indiana Avenue
M. E
Singer
Sullivan
Benjamin Eldridge
Shelburn
James Zink
Hymera
J. N. Hurty
State Board of Health
Scottsburg
Crothersville Canning Company
Shaffer Vindicated as Re-Election Seems Likely at Amalgamated
The Amalgamated Association convention in Wheeling West Virginia endorsed Theodore Shaffer’s annual report and indicated strong support for his re election. Assistant Secretary M P Tighe declined to run and veteran Thomas Williams may contest. Ex President M M Garland urged conservative fair play as sessions concluded. No release on the constitution and general laws report contents.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Theodore Shaffer
Amalgamated Association
Toto
Shaffer
Associated Press
M. P. Tighe
Friends
Thomas Williams
Zanesville
Amalgamation
Sons of Vulcan and the Rollers’ and Heaters’ Union
M. M. Garland
Carlsson Called To New York In Murder Case
Carl J Carlson, a Muncie tailor who claims a share of the murdered millionaire William Rice estate, was summoned to New York by his lawyers to press his grandson’s claim. He cites his mother’s death in New York as tied to Rice’s murder by lawyer Patrick.
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Indianapolis Journal
Muncie
Ind
Carl J. Carlsson
William Rice
New York
Carlsson
Rice
Patrick
Prohibitionists Miss Nomination Filing In Indiana
Portland Indiana April 2 discovery shows Prohibitionists failed to file their nomination list on time. They seek to be on Tuesday’s ballot and have appealed to the attorney general for an opinion.
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Indianapolis Journal
Portland
Ind
Uocket
Miers Wins Second District Democratic Delegates in Indiana
Official count from Sullivan shows Miers 1,575 delegates, Welman 1,136, Davis 74 with a 430 plurality for Miers. Welman carried three townships, Miers six.
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Indianapolis Journal
Sullivan
Ind
Miers
Welman
Davis
Sultana Survivors Meet in Fort Wayne Reunion
Fort Wayne hosts the Sultana disaster survivors for their annual reunion led by Township Trustee Louis Schirmeyer with about a score present. Banquet and camp fire follow addresses by Congressman J. M. Robinson Lieutenant Governor Gilbert Dr W P Madden and Mayor H Berghoff. The Sultana exploded near Memphis on the night of April 27 1865 killing most aboard.
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Indianapolis Journal
Fort Wayne
Ind
Louis Schirmeyer
J. M. Robinson
Gilbert
W. P. Madden
Xenia, O
H. ©. Berghoff
Sultana
Memphis
Tenn
Andersonville
Rev M M Binford Dies at 51 in Carthage Indiana
The Rev. M. M. Binford, aged fifty one, died in Carthage Indiana after a long ministry. Born at Walnut Ridge and educated at Earlham College, he served the Richmond yearly meeting of Friends and worked as a missionary to Mexico in 1873. He also toured the New Mexico Territory for the American Bible Society and led Friends churches in Linn Massachusetts and Brooklyn New York before retiring due to ill health.
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Indianapolis Journal
Carthage
Ind
M. M. Binford
Walnut Ridge
Earlham College
Richmond Yearly Meeting of Friends
Mexico
New Mexico
American Bible Society
Friends Church
Linn
Mass
Friends
Richmond
Brooklyn
N. Y
Crawe Rdsville prominent figures die in Indiana
Michael Price a longtime grain businessman and former city official dies at 78 born in Carlow Ireland in 1847 and immigrated to the United States in 186? He served four terms on the City Council and one term as county commissioner married Jane A Regan in 184? surviving children Mrs C N Van Cleave Mrs Mark Deering of Chicago and Margaret Jane and Bernard Funeral at the Catholic Church on Wednesday Also noted are the deaths of Imogen Brown a local artist Humane Society head and Evansville resident Augustina Cepello at 95 born in Italy and long resident of southern Indiana with surviving relatives. Bluffton brief mentions indicate another local manufacturer’s death.
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Imogen Brown
St. Vincent Hospital
Indianapolis
Brown Touk
Humane Society
Indianapolis Propylaeum
Evansville
Ind
Augustina Cepel
Sanity verdict for Indiana inmate and wife elopement case
Wade Cooper and Bert Lewis at a Kokomo jail scene as doctors declare Lewis sane after a week of feigned insanity by Lewis to avoid prison for robbery. Cooper remains insane, while Lewis will be taken to prison tomorrow. Evansville police hunt for Robert Jobe and his wife who allegedly eloped after she sold assets and bought clothes for Moll. In Annapolis, naval academy exams yield 36 admittees with Indiana men John F. Cox and George C. Coale among successful cadets.
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Indianapolis Journal
Kokomo
Ind
Wade Cooper
Bert Lewis
Harness
J. H. Ross
W. H. McClurg
Lewis
Cooper
Indianapolis’ Journal
Evansville
Robert Jobe
Matthews
John Moll
Jobe
Moll
Annapolis
Evansville Farmer Henry Plumpt Dies After Suicide
Special dispatch from Evansville Ind reports Henry Plumpt a young farmer from a wealthy family died this morning after shooting himself in the head four weeks earlier A physician stayed at the home day and night hoping for recovery Plumpt was unmarried.
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Indianapolixs Journal
Evansville
Ind
Henry Plumpt
Insane Shauver Brothers Committed in Portland
In Portland Indiana Eli Cook and Joseph Shauver, both farmers, were taken to the East Haven Insane Asylum this evening. An hour earlier their brother John Shauver was also locked up, declared insane.
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Indianapolis Journal
Portland
Ind
Eli Cook
Joseph Shauver
East Haven Insane Asylum
Shauver
John Shauver
St. Louis Man Tinker Files $150000 Suit in Vincennes
In Vincennes Indiana on April Tinker of St Louis has filed a civil action seeking damages of 150000 in a lawsuit filed against unnamed defendants arising from an alleged incident or dispute within the jurisdiction.
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Indianapolis Journal
Vincennes, Ind
Z. W. Tinker
St. Louis
Gompers Replies In AFL SF Labor Feud At Wheeling
President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor issues a statement amid the Shaffer led Amalgamated Association dispute. He notes his December federation remark on the steel strike as an historic fact, says Shaffer defended the AFL and offered a modified report, and mentions telegrams to Williams and Prynn directing action in Wheeling.
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Washington
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Shaffer
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
Williams
Amalgamated Association
Federation
Gompers Raonally
Prynn
Wheeling
Flynn
American Federation of Labor and I
Americas Federation of Labor
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Radical Health Cure
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a unique blood purifier and tonic. It claims superior efficacy, cites a customer with scrofula and vision improvement after two bottles, and links use to labor union integrity and steel strike context without direct outcomes.
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Hood
Helena plants shut by strike at AMSCo in Montana
About 400 workers at the American Smelting and Reduction Company in Helena were laid off as the plant closed following a strike order from the local union allied with the Western Federation of Miners. The closure was effective immediately as management refused to recognize union demands.
Journeymen Bakers Threaten Strike Over Night Work Ban
Minneapolis bakers inform employers they will strike next Monday to press for abolishing night shifts. The move follows rejection of their demand by management. The action underscores rising labor tension in the city bakery sector.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Big Four shops workers sign meat boycott plan
Bellefontaine Ohio April 3 four hundred employes in the Big Four shops here have signed an agreement to beat the trust by refusing to eat any meat for thirty days starting May 2 The pact aims to pressure meat suppliers amid labor tensions and larger economic movements in the region.
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Bellefontaine, CO
Beet Trust
Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Featured for Teething
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as a fifty year approved remedy for teething pain wind colic and diarrhea claiming it calms children soothes gums and eases discomfort. The ad suggests Winston’s soothing syrup and Glenn’s sulp hur soup for sun related issues and offers H s Hair and Whisker Dye in black or brown.
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Mi Bene
Winston
Glenn
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