Bride Shot by Husband on Wedding Tour in New York
A Kansas City medical student and his bride, both on a wedding tour, were found dead in room 25 of the Sturtevant house New York. Mrs Thompson died from a back wound. Thompson survived briefly and later died. Officials note a possible clandestine marriage.
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New York
Kansas City
Sturtevant House
Winfield Lee Thompson
Thompson
Miss Kohli
Elder
Church of the Epiphany
Baptist
K Kohler
W. L. Thompson
New York City
Dr. Thompson
Second Presbyterian Church
City
Winfield B
Kansas City Medical College
College of Medicine and Surgery
Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules offices and profits taxable property
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that offices, profits, and occupation constitute property properly assessable for taxation. This ruling clarifies which incomes and roles are subject to assessment and taxation under state law.
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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Resignation Letter Foreshadows Manning Treasury Exit
Mr Manning's letter of resignation to the President, though not yet accepted, hints at retirement from the Treasury in the fall. A health restoration could alter his current firm determination to leave.
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Manning
Treasury
Senate
Post Office Department
Vance
Meier Berry
Call
Eustice
Harris
Jones
House
Stanton
Hepburn
Wheeler
Dow
Alabama
Kelley
Dyer
Massive Halifax timber raft bound for New York
A 410 foot by 50 foot by 35 foot timber raft at Halifax nears completion. It will hold 2,250,000 superficial feet and be secured by an elaborate chain system. If successful it could revolutionize the lumber carrying trade.
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Halifax
New York City
The Descent of a Noted Degenerate Woman
A century ago in a New England state a woman of marked depravity and physical vigor lived in a degraded community. More than three hundred of her descendants remain, all described as thieves, drunkards, and criminals. A sociologist calls the moral taint virulent through the lineage.
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New England States
Travelers in Canoes Reach Straits of Mackinaw
Dr. Leonard Freeman Dr. Fred Samson Mr. Harry Samson and Mr. Negley of Cincinnati embarked April 10 from Cincinnati in Indian canoes. They paddled along Lake Erie to Toledo then up the St Clair River and Lake Huron shore reaching the Straits of Mackinaw, planning Lake Winnipeg then down the Mississippi to St. Paul Cairo and finally up the Ohio back to Cincinnati.
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Leonard Freeman
Fred Samson
Harry Samson
Negley
Cincinnati
Canal
Toledo
Lake Erie
St. Clair River
Lake Huron
Straits of Mackinaw
Lake Winnipeg
Mississippi
St. Paul
Cairo
Ohio
Chinese Six Companies Plan South American Chinese Colony
The Chinese Six Companies, promoters of wholesale Chinese imports to California, consider buying vast tracts in Peru and Chile to establish a large Chinese colony. They aim to relocate a portion of China’s population to land with favorable climate and fertile soil, reducing pressure on the Pacific coast.
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Chinese Six Companies
California
Pacific
Peru
Chile
China
Surge in Chattel Mortgages Tied to Labor Strikes
Chicago records show a sharp rise in instruments filed in the Recorder's office with a great surge in chattel mortgages over six weeks doubling the usual number. A loan agent attributes the increase to strikes and labor troubles as unemployed laborers lack funds.
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Recorder’s
Chicago
Water storage advances by Nevada Land and Cattle Co
The San Francisco Bulletin notes the Nevada Land and Cattle Company stores irrigation water by a rock dam in Squaw Valley Elko County creating a basin of 2 000 feet depth an 8 500 000 000 gallons. It has built twenty eight miles of ditches with a main canal capacity of 25 000 000 gallons in twenty four hours and already a pile of alfalfa is growing along with grain and vegetables.
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Pacific Coast
San Francisco Bulletin
Nevada Land and Cattle Company
Squaw Valley
Elko County
View of the Bride Sparks White House Reception Record
The public reception at the White House drew about five thousand attendees from the line extending along the carriage way to Fifteenth Street. President Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland greeted guests in the Blue Room as Mrs Endicott Mrs Whitney and Mrs Vilas aided the crowding scene.
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White House
Washington
North Way
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fifteenth Street
Cleveland
Endicott
Whitney
Vilas
Vancouver Destroyed by Fire and Aid Urgently Needed
The dispatch says Vancouver is in ashes with three thousand homeless. Vancouver, formerly Joal Harbor, sits on English Bay near New Westminster and is a key port. The Canadian government plans $100 000 for fortifications and the imperial government $150 100 for guns and torpedoes as the town, recently booming from completion of the Pacific line, suffered major fire damage.
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Toronto
Ont
Vancouver
Joal Harbor
Canadian Pacific Railroad
English Bay
New Miles
Newestminster
Victoria
Esquimault
Iperial
Murders, bank scandal, and political standoffs in brief
Michel Kelly a tramp is arrested at Beams Falls Pa on suspicion of murdering James Kincaid of Mahoningtown Pa last December and a girl near Mansfield Ohio in September. Jasper says Kelly confessed both murders. James E Chandler of Bushner Ill pleads guilty to conspiring to defraud the government and is sentenced to two years in prison after fleeing with 10 000. Abraham Ross and James C Shielda face confirmation fights for federal posts. Military bills alter army records and transfers. Canadian Pacific must build five miles of shed in Selkirks at a cost of 1 200 000.
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Michel Kelly
Beams Falls
James Kincaid
Mahoningtown
Mansfield
Jasper
Kelly
James E. Chandler
Farmer's National Bank
Bushner, Ill
United States District Court
Mexico
Senate
Abraham Ross
Pean
Vinton
Iowa
James C. Shielda
Arizona
House Committee On Military Affairs
Wacken
Agnee
J.J. Silvernails
Mpany F
Company
Second Colored Cavalry
Canadian Pacific Railroad Company
Selkirka
Senate approves land forfeiture bill adjoining Northern Pacific route
The Senate passes a broad land forfeiture measure from Wallula Junction to Portland totaling about three million acres, covering unfinished Cascade branch lands. It allows purchase of forfeited tracts by current possessors at $2.50 per acre and taxes the road right of way in territories. The action follows Van Wyck’s amendment reallocating adjoining lands and limits future forfeiture and exemptions.
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Senate
Wallula Junction
Portland
Blair
van Wyck
Cascade
United States
Harrison
Committee On Territories
House
Land Department
Springer
Sparks
Interior Department
Interior
Democratic Party
Pension and Military Academy
Senate Committee On Public Lands
Ingalls
Senatee
Nelson We Aldrich
Rhode Island
Dearborn Park
Chicago
J. G. Flourney
Mississippi
Edmunds
Plumb
Secretary of the Interior
Senate Committee On Public Ands
Mitchell
Aia
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G J. O Macleod
Warner, Dakota
Condensed General News
England
Burmah
Church of St. Martin-in-the- Fields
London
France
Mme. Rossini
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Cambriddyre
Holmes
James Bryce
House of Commons
M. de Frevcint
New Caledonia
New Hebrides
Lake City
Col
Joseph Hart
Frank Hart
Theatre Comique
Harvard College
Princess of Wales
Prince of Wales
Christian
Mr. Gladstone
Edingburg
Gladstone
Lord Rosebery
Mr. Chamberlain
Lord Bartington
John Cowen
The
James M. Bacon
Dakota
Coees
Northwest
Duced
Elizabeth M.ilson
Proceedings OF Congress
Germany
Mediately
James
Nelson Strait
Wakefield
Minnesota
Hay
Arnot
Bliss
Campbell
Dowdnay Merriman
Muller
Pindar
Sprigg Stahlecker
Viele
York
Boyle
Curtin
Ermentront
Re Iall
Lowden
Pennsylvania
Bell
Ellsberry
Forran
Geddes
Regeney
Warner and Wilkins
Gay, Rion
St. Martin and Wallace
Louiana
Green
McAdoo
Pidcock
Jersey
Lawler
Ward
Illinois
Henry
Findlay
Maryland
Martin
Aiken
Bragg
Collins
Cox
Dock
Eldridge
Hall
Hatch
Ain
Murphy
Reid
North Carolina
Boywell
Burleigh
Caswell
Hanback
Haynes Hiesland
Hitty Hauck
Pettibone
Pires Stephenson
van Schaick
White
Frederick
Democrt
Town
Messrs. Wakefield
Nelson
Mr. Gil
Milo White
Mr. Hiestand
Hiestand
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