McKinley Returns Home After Two Week Stay
President McKinley travels by train from San Francisco toward Washington with Mrs McKinley feeling well and under care of Dr Rixey and two nurses. Crowds bid farewell at ferry depot as the train passes Port Costa Tracy and Stockton. Secretary Cortelyou says stops will be minimized for direct, quiet return. Captain Brice accompanies the party aboard en route to the capital.
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Sacramento
Cal
San Francisco
Port Costa
Tracy
Stockton
Washington
Cortelyou
Chicago
McKinley
Rixey
Stewart M. Brice
New York
United States
Brice
General Shafter
McKinley Departure from San Francisco After Illness
The presidential party left San Francisco for Washington after two weeks in the city. Mrs. McKinley, after a rest, was conveyed to the Oakland ferry in a closed carriage amid a cheering but orderly crowd. She rode with Dr. Rixey while the President and others proceeded by train, with guards ensuring a quiet departure. The escort included General Shafter and Mayor Phelan, and ships at the harbor saluted as the party left. The train to Ogden and onward to Omaha and Chicago is planned with no mishaps anticipated, as per Southern Pacific arrangements.
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San Francisco
Cal
Washington
Oakland
Rixey
Ferry
Southern Pacific
Market
McKinley
Citizens’ Committee
Iowa
Naval Station
Wwever
Nurace
McKinney
Rutschnitt
Ogden
Sacramento
Union Pacific
Omaha
Chicago
McKinley Addresses Epworth League Guests in San Francisco
President McKinley spoke at an improvised reception at the California Street M E Church, praising Epworth League and Christian Endeavor members. He urged character, service to God and country, and noted the July hosts, plus a $2,000 gift from Chinese Consul Hoyow and Six Companies president.
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San Francisco
Cal
McKinley
California Street
M. E
Epworth League
Christian Endeavor Societies
Christian Endeavor
Union of the Baptist Church
Hoyow
Luncheon to Milner honors and vow to push conciliation
London May 3 Joseph Chamberlain hosted a lunch for Lord Milner at which a high‑ranking gathering pressed for a united South Africa after war. Chamberlain praised Milner’s task of reconciling two hostile races and laying foundations for a prosperous, loyal federation like Canada and Australia. Milner warned against premature calm, saying tact and forbearance will be needed to conclude the drama.
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London
Joseph Chamberlain
Lord Milner
Cape Town
Duke of Cambridge
Lord Salisbury
Gwendon Cecil
Earl of Halsbury
Roberts
Curzon
Wyndham
Ireland
Balfour
Treasury
Dalfour
William Brodrick
South Africa
Chamberlain
Canada
Australia
Waterloo
Argentina Day Opens At Buffalo Exposition Exhibits
Argentina marked its formal opening day with a 4000 square foot showcase in the Agricultural building. Governor F W Hunt of Idaho visited the grounds to inspect Idaho displays in Mines and Agricultural halls and will stay a week before visiting Rochester friends. Idaho presents minerals oats wheat and corn. Horticulture shows fruit. forestry features timber display.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Argentina
Republic of Fourteen
F. W. Hunt
Idaho
Hunt
Exposition
Rochester
New Traction Merger Slated With Philadelphia and Consolidated Firms
Reported unofficially in New York that the Philadelphia Company and Consolidated Traction Company will merge under New Jersey law with 46000 capital stock. The plan includes 5 percent preferred stock and issuing 5 percent bonds secured by stock trust. Exchange terms propose Philadelphia shares converted to preferred and common in the new company, with Consolidated shares exchanged for preferred and common allocations.
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New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Consolidated Traction Company
New Jersey
Sra
Rivalry Triggers South Carolina Dual Senate Resignations
In Columbia on May 25, Senators B R Tillman and John L McLaurin resign with Governor McSweeneys approval to let voters decide in a November Democratic primary. The plan aims to fill Tillmans short term or McLaurins long term depending on the outcome. The pair agreed to a joint canvass, with sessions planned across all forty counties as the General Assembly validates the primary results.
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Columbia
8. C
United States
B. R. Tillman
John L. McLaurin
Gaffney
McSweeney
McLaurin
Tillman
Democratic Executive Committee
South Carolina
Senate
General Assembly
Mc Laurin challenges Tillman to open race for Senate
In Gaffney D C Senator Mc Laurin responds to resignations by saying Tillman bluff and he called it. He desires a free fair open fight on differing issues and urges others to stay out of the race so he and Tillman may meet man to man and fight it out.
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Gaffney
D. C
McLaurin
Tillman
Beckman and Bliss Expected to Attend Lynch Report
Beckman of Kentucky and Bliss of Michigan are named as expected attendees. A mob of 40 broke into Pond Creek jail in Indian Territory at 10 o’clock, hanged Bill Campbell the accused murderer from a telegraph pole, after he shot Deputy Sheriff George Smith. Campbell drew two pistols amid a crowd, but Banker Joseph McClellan restrained him and helped drag him to the sheriff’s office before the mob acted.
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Wichita
Kan
The
Eagle
Bill Campbell
Pond Creek
O. T
Campbell
George Smith
Bill Fisher
Smith
Joseph McClellan
McClellan
Stay of execution granted for Harold Crowley in postal funds case
In San Juan on May 2 Judge William Holt granted a stay of execution pending appeal, releasing Harold Crowley on $5,000 bond. Crowley, a Lockport resident and son of ex-Congressman Crowley, was sentenced May 21 to four years hard labor for misappropriating postal funds. Also tried and found guilty were Ramon and Carlos Julia, former Juan Diaz postmaster and assistant postmaster. Carlos Julla received one year and one month, Ramon Julla four months.
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San Juan
P. R
William H. Holt
Ponce
Harold Crowley
Holt
Crowley
Lockport
N. Y
Ramon and
Carlos Julia
Juan Diaz
Carlos Julla
Ramon Julla
Atrocities by Rebels in Philippines Highlights Brutal Crimes
Official War Department papers recount savage acts by Filipino insurgents in the Philippines. A detachment led by Flores hacked three Chinese merchants to death while raiding Trocin, stole and injured others, and three Chinese captives were taken. A captain buried a Filipino alive. A Misamis policeman was beaten, stabbed, and left with an Americanista inscription. One victim stood at a grave brink before being killed.
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Washington
War Department
Philippines
Flores
Trocin
Sorsogon
Alejandrina
Misamis
Mindanao
Bank Robbery at Mineral Point Bank Nets $30000
First National Bank of Mineral Point Wisconsin was burgled early today with $30000 taken mostly in currency. Entry came through the shingled roof into the attic then to the vault where nitroglycerin blew the door. Police offer a $1 reward for arrests. Two strangers were seen near the bank a month earlier and fled by train toward Mississippi River towns.
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Mineral Point
Wis
First National Bank
Mississippi
Cuba Convention Committee Backs Platt Amendment Report
A five delegate report replacing the majority relation committee text backs the Platt amendment. It includes an appendix with Secretary Root’s explanation and Wood’s notes, clarifying Clauses 3 through 7 and stating Clauses 1 and 2 are internal constraints. The report faces a vote on Monday.
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Havana
Constitutional Convention Committee On Relations
Gibergs
Berriel
Quesada
Tamayo
Villuendas
Committee On Relations
Platt
Root
Wood
Cuba
Burial of John R. Tanner in Springfield
Former Governor John R. Tanner will be buried with full military honors in Springfield. A thirteen-gun salute will mark sunrise and sunset, the body lying in the Statehouse rotunda from 8 to 1:30, then escorted to St Paul’s Procathedral for services led by Bishop Seymour and Archdeacon Taylor. Committal at Oak Ridge Cemetery. Eulogy by Hon. I. N. Phillips. Taps, three volleys. Notable attendees listed.
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Springfield
John R. Tanner
Statehouse
St. Paul's Procathedral
Seymour
Frederick W. Taylor
St. Paul's
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Taylor
I. N. Phillips
Bloomer
Ors Shaw
Iowa
Lafollette
Geery
Missouri
Durbin
Indiana
Wealthy Chicago landowner robbed in barn attack
Lewis W. Stone, an 84 year old Chicago real estate owner, was beaten and choked into unconsciousness in his barn at 4316 Michigan Avenue while feeding his cow. Robbers targeted a month’s $1,000 in cash, but Stone had made deposits the day before. He injury recovery is uncertain.
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Chicago
Lewis W. Stone
Michigan Avenue
Hale
Stone
Hanna & Co secures options on Massillon coal lands
M A Hanna & Co have secured options on nearly the entire Massillon coal district in Ohio. Output exceeds one million tons annually. Lands sit largely on the Wheeling Railroad, tying to George J Gould’s control move. Pocock Coal values land as unreasonably high and others refuse terms. Accepted terms cover Massillon & Cleveland Coal Co, Howell Coal and Mining Co, James Mullins, Drake Coal Co, Aes Coal Co, J H Krauss Co, Ridgeway Burton Co.
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Toledo, C
M. A. Hanna & Co
Massillon
Wheeling Railroad
George J. Gould
Wheeling
Pocock Coal Company
Hanna & Co
Massillon & Cleveland Coal Company
Howell Coal and Minin Company
James Mullins
Drake Coa Company
Aes Coal Company
J. H. Krauss & Co
Ridgeway-Burton Company
Alleges $67,000 Insurance Fraud Case Unfolds In Chicago
In Chicago the Deferbach insurance fraud trial reveals a $67,000 stake, not $12,000 as indicted. State outlines proposed testimony on ante mortem statements by Marie A Defenbach, with Dr. Unger and Francis Wayland Brown implicated. Witness Olive Clement testifies on Unger, Smiley, and the will naming cremation of Defenbach.
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Chicago
Deferbach
Tuley Untier
Marie A. Defenbach
Olsen
Equitable Life Insurance Co
Marie A. D. Defenbach
August M. Unger
Francis Wayland Brown
Frank H. Smiley
Marie Defenbach
Independent Order of Foresters
New York Life Insurance Co
Knights
Unger
Miss Defenbach
Olive Clement
Smiley
F. Wayland Brown
Chicago Lines Seek Elkhart Competitor to Lake Shore
Stockholders in LaGrange Indiana and Angola Indiana the largest towns on the main line will draft articles of incorporation before next week's directors and officers election Promoters include H Leone Miller of Fairmount A Baker of Marion and O G Wales of Dowagiac Michigan A new airline project in Michigan seeks half secured right of way and may involve Grand Rapids Indiana behind the plan The Pennsylvania controlled Grand Rapids and Indiana is tied to the venture L F Loree of the Pennsylvania Railroad named president of the Ohio Railroad with formal word expected next week and effective June 1
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Chicago
Elkhart
Lake Shore
Lagrange
Ind
Angola
H. Leone Miller
Fairmount
A. Baker
Marion
O. G. Wales
Dowaglac
Mich
Sault Ste Marie
St. Ignace
Northern Michigan Railroad
Grand Rapids & Indiiana
Cleveland
Morrow
L. F. Loree
Pennsylvania Railroad At
More & Ohio Railroad
Gould plans cited for Atlantic to Pacific railroad links
In New York on May 25 Russell Sage said the Missouri Pacific system will extend from the Pacific to the Atlantic with amicable arrangements. He noted possible short spurs to towns, predicted absorption of Texas Pacific, and discussed potential Erie-Lackawanna moves with J P Morgan reportedly pushing rehabilitation efforts but with uncertain prospects.
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New York
George J. Gould
Atlantic
Pacific
Russell Sage
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Seaboard
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Pittsburg
Texas Pacific
Missouri Pacific
Sage
Gould
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Wabash
Buffalo
Lacakawanna
Erie
J. P. Morgan
New railroad planned Elkhart to Montpelier with branches
Local capitalists A R Beardsley M A Demarest Elliott Crall J W Fieldhouse and W B Pratt sign articles to form the Toledo Elkhart and Chicago Railway Company with 160000 capital. The steam line would run from Elkhart, Indiana to Montpelier, Ohio about seventy five miles, with a branch from Nance to Benton Harbor and links to Wabash at Montpelier and Wakabeta. The aim is to open up eastern country lacking railway connection.
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Indianapolis Journal
Elkhart
Ind
A. R. Beardsley
M. A. Demarest
Elliott Crall
J. W. Fieldhouse
W. B. Pratt
Toledo, Elkhart & Chicago Railway Company
Montpelier
Nance
Benton Harbor
Michy Wakarusa
Wakabeta
Death by own action shocks Kharkoff banker in Russia
In St Petersburg on May 24 President Altschensky of the Kharkoff Chamber of Commerce died by his own action by stepping before a railroad train near Petersburg. A financier with influence he faced heavy debts including 4.1 to 5 million roubles to Volga-Karma Bank and about 10.9 million roubles owed to multiple creditors. He presided over the Agricultural Bank and controlled the undercapitalized Donetz Yuryeff iron works as the Imperial Bank vows protection for those hurt by the tragedy.
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ST. Petersburg
Altschensky
Kharkoff Chamber of Commerce
Petersburg
Volga-Karma Bank
Agricultural Bank
A. H. Meyer Discount Bank
Moscow Credit Company
Kharkoff Commercial Company
Donetz-Yuryeff Iron Works
Imperial Bank
M. Altschensky
Dowie Bank Faces Clearing House Shutdown in Chicago
Financial trouble grows for Dr John Alexander Dowie as the Zion Bank loses clearing through Commercial National Bank in Chicago. After May 20 the Zion Bank will no longer be serviced by the clearing house unless new arrangements are made, amid pressure from grand jury and health department investigations. James H Eckels, president of Commercial National, says the move stems from widespread public discussion and a prior courtesy to Zion Bank founder Charles Barnard.
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Chicago
Grand Jury
State Board of Health
City Health Department
John Alexander Dowie
Zion Bank
Dowie
Chicago Clearing House
Commercial National Bank
James H. Eckels
Mr. Eckels
Charles J. Barnard
Dowle
Barnard
Olympian games celebration lights up Chicago campus
Chicago University students led by Northwestern and Lake Forest delegations held a huge bonfire and parade to celebrate Chicago as Olympian games host. About 2,000 students marched while 6,000 spectators watched speeches by Professors Stagg and Thatcher and H J Furber. Laurel wreaths were awarded to victors as cheers and horns filled the night.
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Chicago
Chicago University
Northwestern
Lake Forset
Stagg and
Thatcher
H. J. Furber
Moe
Midn
Embezzlement Alleged in Siegel-Sanders Firm
Utley Wedge receiver of Siegel-Sanders Live stock Commission Co alleges Frank Siegel former president embezzled 145495.94 dollars across several dated transactions. Wedge files affidavit before a Kansas City justice and swears out a warrant for Siegel's arrest.
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Kansas City, Mo
Utley Wedge
Siegel-Sanders Livestock Commission Company
Frank Rockefeller
Too Fond of Champagne Claims Vaudeville Manager
Chicago on May 5 reports the death of Matthew J. Flynn a well known vaudeville and burlesque manager after he drank the contents of twenty three champagne bottles. He was moved to a hotel then to the Washingtonian Home but did not recover leading to his death announced today.
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Chicago
Matthew J. Flynn
Flynn
Colorado Springs Officials Held on Embezzlement Charges
Moses T Hale longtime city treasurer of Colorado Springs was jailed on 10000 bail to face misappropriation of city funds. Charles E a former city official was held at 5000 bail as an accessory to the alleged embezzlement.
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Colorado Springs
Col
Moses T. Hale
Justice Ruby
Charles E Et
Embezaie
Step Toward Revising Confession of Faith by Assembly
The Presbyterian General Assembly in Philadelphia rejected the minority substitute and advanced a plan to prepare a brief summary of the reformed faith related to the Confession. The vote was 271 to 24 as proceedings moved toward a broader revision while postponing final adoption to Monday.
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Philadelphia
Presbyterian General Assembly
General Assembly
Presbyterian Church of England
Minton
Vica
Pitcairn
J. G. Moffat
Herrick
Johnson
James E. Moffatt
Cumberland
Kiam MckKibben
Cincinnati
McKibben
Dr. McKibben
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Defenbach Insurance
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