Easter cocking main on Wabash features regional cocks
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports an Easter cocking main held on the Wabash near Vincennes with seven town entries. A large crowd of sporting enthusiasts witnessed the matches as cocks battled in the banks of the river this morning. Meanwhile Evansville announces a 5 percent wage increase for all skilled labor starting April 1, with no raise for coal miners.
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Indianapolis
Vincennes
Ind
Wabash
Indianapolis Journal
Evansville
Madison man George Ray marries Miss May Torrance before death
In Madison, George Ray who died by his own hand at Indianapolis married Miss May Torrance. His death shocks friends in Madison where he will be buried. In Vincennes, Lawrence Martin, fifteen, is believed drowned after an incident Sunday.
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Madison
George Ray
Indianapolis
May Torrance
Vincennes
Lawrence Martin
Largest Rose Tree Owned by Mrs Gilbert in New York
The largest rose bush in the United States is owned by Mrs Kate J Gilbert of Patchogue Long Island. The plant grows in a custom hot house twenty by twenty feet that can be dismantled for summer growth outdoors. The bush has more than 900 roses on it currently and over a hundred have been cut for sale.
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New York
Kate J. Gilbert
Patchogue
Long Island
Attempted train wreck near Trenton shocks town
In Trenton Missouri on March 9 two men, George Buseh age sixteen and George Young age twenty, tried to derail an eastbound Chicago Rock Island & Pacific passenger train five miles east of the city. They were arrested after confessing motive tied to being removed from a previous train and possibly influenced by dime novels.
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Trenton
George Buseh
George Young
Here
Rathbone Seeks Liberty Before Supreme Court
Estes G. Rathbone will appear before the Supreme Court tomorrow after a writ of habeas corpus was granted. Senor Lanuza, Rathbone’s counsel, will request bail under Article 6 of the postal code, arguing the Audencia Court's reasons for imprisonment without bail do not apply.
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Havana
Estes G. Rathbone
Supreme Court
Senor Lanuza
Rathbone
Lanuza
Audencia
E C Manh founder of Town Topics dies in Phoenix
E C Manh founder and late owner of Town Topics New York died in Phoenix Arizona after arriving to seek renewed health. He had resided in Paso for some time prior to his move.
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Phoenix
A. T
E. C. Manh
Town Topics
New York
Paso
Weather forecast for the Midwest and Ohio regions
West to northwest winds bring fair skies to Indiana Illinois and Ohio with brisk winds noted on Tuesday for Indiana and Illinois. Oregon? The report lists temperatures with a maximum near 75 and a minimum around 36, plus traces of precipitation and a flood warning issued by the Weather Bureau for the Cumberland River and frost warnings for several southern states including Texas Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Georgia Tennessee and Kentucky.
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Washington
Indiana
Illinois
Ohio
Weather Bureau
Cumberland River
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Movements of Steamers Reported at Major Ports
Shipping notices from March 3 list arrivals at New York Rotterdam St Paul from Southampton Cherbourg Umbria from Liverpool Queenstown sailings to New York New England Boston and ships passing through Queenstown Dover Liverpool and Gibraltar with Bremen Cherbourg Naples and Bremen routes. Bermuda Hamilton reports Trinidad sailing to New York.
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New York
Rot
Rotterdam
Boulogne sur-Mer
St. Paul
Southampton
Cherbourg
Umbria
Liverpool
Queenstown
Lucanta
New England
Boston
Dover
Friedrich der Grosse
Bremen
Comeaevenitis
Tauric
Newark
Gibraltar
Phoe
Naples
Prawle Point
Rhein
Hamilton
Bermuda
Trinidad
German Trade Decline Shocks 1901 World Report
A Berlin commission fixes 1901 Germany foreign trade at imports 5,790,000,000 marks down 235,000,000. exports 4,512,000,000 marks down 240,000,000. U.S. imports rose 21,100,000 marks from 1900, while exports to the U.S. fell 54,000,000 marks. Also noted: Hamburg America dividend issues and royal coronation preparations in London and Paris budget battles with tight schedules.
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Berlin
Germany
United States
Hamburg- American Steam Packet Company
China Grants Foreign Mining Concessions Under New Regulations
Peking reports government mining rules allow foreign concessions across China. Government to take shares from profits and varied output taxes including diamonds gems gold silver mercury copper lead zinc coal iron. Regulators deem measures protective and beneficial.
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Peking
China
Protests in Moscow Lead to Student Arrests and Siberian Sentences
In Moscow last Wednesday twenty six people mostly students were arrested for disrespecting the governor general regulations and sentenced to one to three months in prison. St Petersburg university students estimate twenty five classmates were sent to Siberia. A prep school teacher in St Petersburg was shot by a student over an alleged unjust rating.
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ST. Petersburg
Moscow
Siberia
Chinese Students Forbidden Entry Advised by Tokio Minister
In a dispatch from Tokio the Chinese minister urges Beijing to bar Chinese students from Japan as they may absorb revolutionary ideas. It follows news that fifty six students were to enter Tokyo's military school with expenses funded by the viceroy of ChiLi province.
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Yokohama
Tokio
Peking
Japan
ChiLi Province
Pretoria crack in talks with Steyn halts at West line
Acting President Schalkberger has failed to open communication with former President Steyn of the Orange Free State. Dewet and Steyn moved west along the main railway, escorted by Vanniekirk and Vandermerwe, traced to Paris near Heilbron road by Colonel Garrett.
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Pretoria
Schalkberger
Mr. Steyn
Orange Free State
Dewet
Steyn
Vanniekirk
Vandermerwe
Paris
Heilbron Road
Orange River Colony
Garrett
Russian officer allegedly sold pees to Austria and France
London dispatch cites Daily Mail correspondent saying Colonel Grimm facing trial for revealing Russian military secrets sold peas to Austria and France rather than to the foe as previously reported Madrid says US Spain friendship treaty will be signed upon Bellamy Storer’s return as US minister to Madrid.
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London
St. Petersburg
The
Daily Mail
Grimm
Austria
France
Madrid
United States
Spain
Bellamy Storer
Storer
Poet Thomas Dunn English Nearing Death in Newark
In Newark New Jersey March doctors report poet Thomas Dunn English unable to take nourishment for seventy two hours. Two physicians stay at his bedside as his family waits. Doctors fear no sudden collapse but expect death in his sleep.
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Newark
N. J
Thomas Dunn English
Immigration inspectors take Easter holiday detains nearly ten aboard liners
Owing to Easter Sunday holidays for immigration inspectors on Ellis Island nearly 10 immigrants were detained aboard the American liner St Paul and the Cunarder Umbria as they arrived in port. Steamship officials aided comfort while the detained passengers are to be landed at Ellis Island the next morning.
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New York
Firehie
Ellis Island
St. Paul
All Busy Ever Evidence of Prosperous US Industries
Special to the Indianapolis Journal Washington March 3 Manufacturers import over a million dollars of materials daily and export the same value of wares. For eight months to February 1902 imports totaled 270,202,774 and exports 257,907,430, showing growth in both imports and exports and a strong recovery in most manufactured goods despite declines in iron and steel.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
Bureau of Statistics
Survey underway for long Sierra tunnel at Auburn
A Southern Pacific team completed a survey for a proposed Sierra tunnel near Auburn California. The tunnel would be about five miles nine tens of feet long, remove nearly one thousand feet of grade and cut the snow shed length from forty miles to twelve. The project would cost millions and take years to build.
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Auburn
Cal
Southern Pacific Surveyors and Engineers
Sierras
Obituary: John 8 Long Dies at 64 in Louisville
John 8 Long, a retired capitalist with major interests in the Texas Pacific and Chesapeake and Ohio Southwestern Railroads, died this afternoon in Louisville at age sixty four. He led the Brooklyn Hills Improvement Company of Brooklyn New York and was survived by his widow and six children.
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Louisville
John 8. Long
Tragic Keokuk Student Found Dead in Chicago Park
Howard R. Miller, a Keokuk College of Physicians and Surgeons student, was found in Lincoln Park wrapped in snow and mud with a revolver in his hand. He had arrived in Chicago the previous Thursday and died several hours earlier, with authorities deeming his death a likely suicide due to overstudy.
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Chicago
Howard R. Miller
Keokuk College of
Deputy Sheriff Sam D. Smith Murdered Near East Lynne
East Lynne West Virginia March reports deputy sheriff Sam D. Smith was murdered south of town while attempting to arrest Walt Hite for a church disturbance. Smith, once in the revenue service, gained notice for a raid on gambling dens at Alexandria, Virginia.
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East Lynne
W. Va
Sam D. Smith
Here
Walt Hite
Smith
Hite
Church
Revenue Service
Alexandria
Mail Clerks Hurt In Head On Collision
Cumberland Maryland March 3 A head on collision at Sand Patch between a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train and a freight train injured mail clerks J Hunter and J H Gales and engineer Thomas Burton who jumped from his engine all only painfully but not seriously hurt Passengers were thrown from seats and some cut by flying glass but none seriously hurt
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Cumberland
Baltimore & Ohio
Thomas Burton
J. Hunter
J. H. Gales
Indian Steamer Aground Near Cuttyhunk Island While Immigrants Safely Landed
The iron steamer Indian from Philadelphia to Boston ran aground near Sow and Pigs lodge at Cuttyhunk Island in heavy fog. Four passengers were taken off, including one woman, and landed at Cuttybank. Prospect of salvage is poor. the Indian has long served the Boston Philadelphia route.
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Wood's Hole
Mass
Philadelphia
Boston
Cuttyhunk Island
Vineyard Sound
Cuttybank
Boston & Philadelphia Steamship Company
Crowell
Montenegrins May Invade Albania Over Ipek Province
A Daily Mail correspondent reports from Getuine Montenegro may invade the Albanian province of Ipek to aid oppressed Christians. Russian machinations and great power jealousies hinder Berlin treaty reforms, leaving a disquieting outlook.
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M. Sarafoff
Berlin
London
Get- Unje
Montenegro
The
Daily Mail
Ipek
Albania
Shooters to Begin Today in Grand American Handicap
In Kansas City 463 wing shooters entered the Blue River Park event with delegations arriving by rail. The Kansas City sweepstakes at twelve birds from thirty yards opens tomorrow morning, followed by the Nitro Powder handicap at sixteen birds on Tuesday. The large grand American handicap will start Wednesday, but the Blue River Park preliminary was cancelled. Cork stories note King Edward will award a £10 cup for the Cork international yacht race with crews including Columbia, Shamrock II, and Meteor among entrants.
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Kansas City
Blue River Park
Nere
Cork
Edward
Fitzgerald
Champion French cyclist tops world mile mark at Coliseum Park
Albert Champion, training with Tommy Hall, unofficially broke the world mile record on a six lap track at Coliseum Park with a 1 minute 25 4 5 seconds, beating Walthour’s prior time by a second.
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Washington
Albert Champion
Tommy Hall
Coliseum Park
Walthour
Umpires Named for Western League Season
President Whitfield of the Western League announced the season's umpires Danny Stearns of Buffalo Artie Latham of Philadelphia Robert O Cox of Rock Island I Gus Moran of Philadelphia for the coming schedule.
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Kansas City
Whitfield
Danny Stearns
Buffalo
Artie Latham
Philadelphia
Robert O. Cox
Rock Island, I
Gus Moran
Havoc of Storms Wreaks Homes and Churches
Report of severe storms causing structural damage across the county. Five William Campbell properties were blown down while the Roman Catholic and Third United Presbyterian churches sustained significant damage. Many residences lost roofs and windows. further losses expected as rural areas report in tomorrow.
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William Campbell
Third United Presbyterian
Disaster at Wellsburg church ruins amid deadly storm
A WV church four miles east of Wellsburg collapses during a fierce storm in the Ohio valley. The Franklin M. E. Church’s gable end blows in, killing Estelle Brady, 16, and Robert Gist, 10, injuring Rev Allshouse and Melvin Harvey, with others wounded.
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Wellsburg
W. Va
Ohio Valley
Franklin M. E. Church
Alishouse
Estelle Brady
Robert Gist
Rev
Allshouse
Melvin Harvey
Russell Gist
Bowling Tourney Date Set for Indianapolis in February
The American Bowling Congress list shows the national tournament in Indianapolis the week of February 2 to 7 19XX. Eight alleys will be built in Tomlinson Hall with possible expansion to ten. An Indianapolis Bowling Tournament Association will be formed to manage the event and articles of incorporation will be filed.
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Tomlinson Hall
American Bowling Congress
Indianapolis
W. W. Thompson
Chicago
Sam Karpf
Dayton
George M. Stearns
Des Moines
P. J. Hills
Cleveland
M. A. Phillips
St. Louis
F. L. Pasdel
George P. Straack
W. V. Thompson
Messrs. Stearns
Hills
Bookwalter
Indianapolis Association
Edna Earl Sunk Off Reedy Island In Delaware Bay
The fishing schooner Edna Earl outbound from Philadelphia sank in Delaware bay off Reedy Island as most of her eleven crew slept below. Three sailors William Smith Dennis Ford both of Philadelphia and Patrick Nolan of Baltimore drowned. The Norwegian steamship Romsdal from New York to Philadelphia in ballast rescued survivors and brought them to Philadelphia. Responsibility for the collision awaits determination.
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Philadelphia
Edna Earl
Delaware Bay
Reedy Island
Delaware
William Smith
Dennis Ford
Patrick Nolan
Baltimore
Romsdal
New York
Severe Michigan Storm Jolts Detroit Area
A March 30 storm swept Detroit with winds up to 48 mph and heavy rain. Telegraph and telephone lines were down across the suburbs, especially Highland, with widespread damage to wires and services along Lake Michigan shore towns like Traverse City, Manistee, Ludington, St. Joseph, and Benton Harbor. Weather brought snow and sleet. temperatures fell about 15 degrees as the storm continued, affecting Grand Haven and Muskegon utilities.
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Detroit
Mich
Highland
Lake Michigan
Lake Shore
Traverse City
Manistee
Ludington
St. Joseph
Benton Harbor
Muskegon
Goodrich
Barry
Grand Haven
Immigrant Ship Lake Superior Grounded at Round Reef
The steamship Lake Superior from Liverpool with about 100 immigrants aboard ran ashore on Round reef while approaching upper quarantine. Attempts to refloat were halted by falling tide but will resume tomorrow morning. If refloating fails, passengers will be removed to Sand Point immigration building.
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ST. Johns
N. B
Lake Superior
Liverpool
Round Reef
Sand Point
Austrian cruiser Szigetvar arrives in Norfolk after rough voyage
The Austrian cruiser Szigetvar reached Norfolk from Bermuda this afternoon amid heavy seas. On Friday Quartermaster Rausch was swept overboard and despite boats being lowered and efforts to search the area for hours, no trace of him was found.
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Norfolk
Szigelvar
Bermuda
Rausch
Toledo Harbor Struck by Severe Lake Erie Gale
A heavy southwest gale churned Lake Erie all day, raising a big sea and lowering Toledo harbor water nearly four feet. Tug Lamb fought near Put-in-Bay and was nearly swamped, but Captain Walker reported the worst storm in years ended with a hard harbor passage to safety.
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Toledo
Lake Erie
Lamb
Putin Bay
Walker
Wind in Cleveland tops speed. ore bridge collapses at Mingo Junction
A powerful gust in Cleveland reached fifty miles per hour this afternoon. At National steel works in Mingo Junction an immense ore bridge was swept from its tracks and collided with another bridge, destroying both and causing about $50,000 in damage.
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Cleveland
National Steel Works
Mingo Junction
Senator Sullivan Ashore Off Egg Island Near Darien
The schooner Senator Sullivan under Captain Barter ran ashore off Egg Island near Darien. The captain and crew were landed safely and are not here. The vessel probably will be wrecked or, at least, be lost.
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Darien
Senator Sullivan
Barter
Egg Island
Est
Grave Trouble Imminent General Rising in Europe Turkey
A Times Athens cable reports rising tension in Macedonia and Albania with M Sarafoff planning a general Christian uprising in European Turkey for spring. Despite lacking Athens Belgrade support he presses on as Greek appeals prompt military mobilization in Turkey.
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London
Athens
the Times
Macedonia
Albania
M. Sarafoff
Turkey
Belgrade
Oe Ee Here
Wind Storm Ravages Buffalo Suburbs
A wind storm swept the eastern suburbs of Buffalo tonight causing extensive damage. Trolley poles were twisted and broken sidewalks torn up while small trees were uprooted across the area.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Thunder Storm Claims Two Men in Whidden Home
During a thunder storm today, which did considerable damage, Peter Low and Alonzo Whidden, two well known men, were instantly killed at Whidden s home near here.
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Zolfo
Fia
Peter Low
Alonzo Whidden
Whidden
Here
Illicit Distillery Raided in Philadelphia
United States internal revenue officers raided a southern Philadelphia distillery alleged to be operated by B. W. Raigel. Officers seized 900 gallons of whisky mash, numerous denies, fifty unstamped cigar boxes, and the paraphernalia associated with illicit production.
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Philadelphia
United States Internal Revenue
B. W. Raigel
Bank Safe Burglarized at Bazile Mills Nebraska
The Bank of Bazile Mills safe was blown open last night and $1,000 in cash and $700 in drafts were stolen. No crew was seen. After the haul the burglars stole a team and escaped across the country.
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Bazile Mills
Bank of Bazile Mills
Misunderstood Rhodes as English or South African Statesman
The Baltimore American notes that Cecil Rhodes was widely misunderstood, often mistakenly viewed as English rather than a South African statesman. It argues that actions seen as legitimate for Rhodes as a South African leader were judged harshly when attributed to an Englishman.
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Baltimore
Cecil Rhodes
W Grove Laxative Brand Named in Ad Copy
An old newspaper snippet markets a tonic for cold and grip relief. It highlights W Grove as the name behind the genuine Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets and promotes the product box and branding. The ad emphasizes effectiveness and recognizable household use.
Willimantic Man's Clever Collie Dog Prince
A. G. Turner of Willimantic, son of P. W. Turner of Turnerville, showcases a very clever collie named Dog Prince and takes him to Tur.
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Hartford Courant
A. G. Turner
Willimantic
P. W. Turner
Turnerville
Prince
Missed His Opportunity in Crime Says Joliet Ex-Convict
A Chicago highwayman who served time in Joliet penitentiary writes to a Chicago paper claiming crime does not pay after losing 16400 he might have earned and noting his stolen property was only 7. He suggests crime would have allowed him to join the Chicago Common Council to indulge his tastes without fear of detection.
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Rochester Post Express
Chicago
Joliet
Chicago Common Council
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Indianapolis, Ind
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