Parker Speaks on Democratic Policy at New York Banquet
At the Waldorf Astoria seven hundred Democrats hear ex Judge Alton B Parker set a reform agenda. He urges strict constitutional interpretation tariff reform and non inter interference in foreign affairs while stressing economy in taxes and unity to appeal to consumers and producers alike.
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Democratic Club
Waldorf-Astoria
Alton B. Parker
Jefferson
Parker
United States
Newlands
Nevada
Mayor McClellan
Henry T. Rainey
Illinois
J. J. Willet
Alabama
Senator Carmack
Tennessee
Turmoil in Chicago Streets
In Chicago on April 14 rioting by union pickets erupts after peace talks end. A non union employee is dragged from a Madison Street car, beaten, and hurls through a plate glass window near Montgomery Ward. Further assaults occur on State street as police and strikers clash. No arrests reported.
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Chicago
Teamsters
Michigan Avenue
Montgomery Ward & Co
Cottage Grove Avenue
Madison Street
Wabash Avenue
State Street
Will Not Give Up Her Child Report Denied
Rome April 14 reports the Italia Countess Montignoso denies the Saxony official press claim that she will relinquish her child. The denial emphasizes she will retain guardianship and challenges the tabloid style report.
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Rome
Italia
Montignoso
Saxony
Russian hospital ship Orel arrives in Saigon with wounded
Rear Admiral Train in command of the American fleet in Asiatic waters received a telegram from Saigon reporting the Russian hospital ship Orel arriving April 13. The vessel carried many wounded men aboard.
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al Train
Cochin
China
Orel
Princess Anna Monica Via Receives Saxony King Pension
The text notes Princess Anna Monica Via and the king of Saxony as parties in a deal for an annual pension of 15000.00. It mentions a former hushbomd and the arrangement appears as a monetary settlement tied to the royal figure.
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Anna Monica Via
Saxony
Body found on railway tracks near Rossville
Danville reports the discovery of a male body along the Chicago and Eastern Minors railway tracks at Rossville on April 14. The deceased is believed to be Thomas Bailey. Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death.
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Danville
Thomas Bailey
Chicago and Eastern Minors
Rossville
War Found Between United States and China in Boxer Outbreak
Judge Pot fark of the United States district court ruled that there was war between the United States and China during the allied march on Peking in the Boxer outbreak of 2000.
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China
Topeka
Kan
Potfark
United States District Court
United States
Peking
Justice of the Peace Meekin and Constable Mabie Arrested
Marshalltown officials Meekin justice of the peace and Geo Mabie a constable at St Anthony Marshall county have been arrested on oppression in office charges. Frank Buelan alleges they coerced him with arrest threats to sign an affidavit claiming illegal voting at the recent election.
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Marshalltown
Meekin
Geo. Mabie
St. Anthony
Marshall County
Frank Buelan
Good Roads Gospel Train Teaches Farmers In Illinois
The Chicago and North Western adds the Good Roads Gospel Train moving through Illinois towns. An expert lecturer promotes road improvement while farmers observe practical demonstrations at each stop.
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Chicago
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Good Roads
Philadelphia tug Peerless strikes mine in Hampton Roads
Norfolk reports the Peerless found to have struck a torpedo mine but sustained no damage. Government secrecy surrounds the laying of turbes in Hampton Roads ahead of the army and navy maneuvers in June.
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Norfolk
Peerless
Hampton Roads
Illinois Military Teacher Dead
Major George Ek Perry headmaster of the Ohio Military Institute for fourteen years died at the school in College Hill as cadets formed for parade. He taught in The nets, with home at Crete. Partial OCR leaves uncertainty but notes his Navy Academy background.
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Illinois
Cincinnati
George Ek, Perry
Ohio Military Institute
Naval Academy
Annapolis
College Hill
Crete
Tih
Mexico Sets May First Gold Standard into Effect
The gold standard will go into effect in Mexico without postponement on May 1. The grand jury in Chicago has returned two indictments in the beef trust inquiry. John D. Rockefeller donated 100 to the University of Virginia. The Finnish senate plans to petition the Russian emperor to withdraw the gendarmerie from Finland. The sultan of Morocco rejected French reform demands. Colonel Renard, director of the Neudon military balloon park and noted aeronaut, is dead in Paris. Foreign Minister Delcasse hosted a dinner for the German ambassador Prince von Radolin.
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Chicago
Beef Trust
John LD. Rockefeller
University of Virginia
Russia
Finland
aMrocco
Renard
Neudon
Paris
Delcasse
Prince von Radolin
Local social notes and poultry boom in Columbus Junction scene
Mae Miksch visited friends in town today. Riley Miller and H M Eicher were business visitors in nearby cities yesterday. Mrs J H Pearson and Eva Gookin were seen shopping and visiting. Farmers near Columbus Junction embrace poultry raising, with bronze turkeys at $10 each and Plymouth Rock stock selling well. many report strong profits.
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Riley Miller
Ainsworth
H. M. Eicher
Burlington
J. H. Pearson
Eva Gookin
Crawfordsville
Columbus Junction
Plymouth Rock
Judge Magoon Named Governor of Panama Canal Zone
Judge Charles E. Magoon, succeeding Major General George W. Davis, becomes governor of the Panama Canal Zone. Seen as one of the three top leaders, alongside Theodore P. Shonts and John F. Wallace, chiefly guiding canal construction and strip administration. Magoon previously served as general counsel for the canal commission.
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Panama Canal Zone
Judge Magoon
George W. Davis
Bie
Canal
Theodore P. Shonts
John F. Wallace
Canal Strip
Panama Canal Commission
Competing Lines Battle Over East St. Louis Rail Terminals
In Belleville Illinois Judge Hay ordered continued condemnation proceedings by the Illinois State Trust Company against the St Louis Valley and related rail lines to secure land in East St Louis for river terminals. A jury had been set to report April 26 on compensation, with history tracing to 1908 and a Supreme Court remand for further evidence.
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Belleville
St. Louis
Jealousy Fatal Shot At Cripple Creek Hotel
Mrs Vidler shot and killed Mrs Douglass in the National hotel after rapping on a door. Vidler and his wife were arrested. The couple have three children and had been separated.
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Cripple Creek
Colo
W. Vidler
H. C. Douglas
Colorado Springs
National
Mrs. Vidler
Dunbar Sees Meningitis Outbreak Quarantines Schools
An epidemic of cerebrospinal meningitis has broken out in Dunbar Pennsylvania. Homes of Professor Sheldon Smith and John McManus quarantined. Schools closed. Health officials plan to seek aid from the state board of health.
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Connellsville
Dunbar
Sheldon Smith
John McManus
Board of Health
State Board of Health
Verestchagin Painting Sold to Curzon for Calcutta Museum
Historical painting The Prince of Wales in India by Verestchagin has been purchased from Walter Mailey of New Haven and shipped to Calcutta. Mailey says Secretary Hay arranged the sale for Lord Curzon, viceroy of India, with the final destination an Indian museum.
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Curzon
New Haven
Conn
Prince of Wales
India
Verestchagin
Walter Mailey
Calcutta
Mailey
Hay
Lord Curzon
Old Clock Thomas Butler Dies in New York Home
New York reports the death of Thomas Butler born in Queenstown Ireland in 1800. He died at his home in the city on April 14.
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New York
Thomas Butler
Queenstown
Ireland
Lady Curzon Invites Earthquake Victims to Simla Hospitals
Simla April 14. Lady Curzon wife of the viceroy invites all Europeans and Indians injured in the recent earthquakes who can be moved to come to the Walker and Ripon hospitals at Simla as her guests. The invitation was sent via the lieutenant governor of the Punjab with an offer to defray expenses.
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Simla
India
Curzon
Walker
Ripcon
Leutenant
Punjab
Prisoners Escape at Morgunoza Reformatory in Pittsburg
On April 14 Chas Jackson and Albert Pander two colored youths aged 16 and 17 attacked guard John White with an ax at the Morgunoza reformatory in Pittsburg. They disarmed the guard and escaped. White was found unconscious and in serious condition.
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Pitteborg
Pittsburg
Chas, Jackson
Albert Pander
John White
Morgunoza Reformatory
White
Formosa Savages Must Suffer
Eight sailors died and others were badly treated when the American ship Benjamin Sewall wrecked in Formosan waters. The Japanese government plans measures through the Diet to punish the perpetrators.
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Formosa
Washington
Benjamin Sewall
Formosan
Wisconsin Senate Backs Anti Firecracker Bill
Madison: The Wisconsin Senate concurred with an anti firecracker bill previously passed by the assembly. The measure prohibits dynamite crackers in the state and bans other crackers except those not exceeding five inches in length and five eighths of an inch in diameter.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Senate
Assembly
Anti Cigarette Bill Signed In Wisconsin
Governor LaFollette has signed the anti cigarette bill prohibiting the sale manufacture and gift of cigarettes cigarette tobacco and paper effective July 1 in Madison Wisconsin.
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Madison
Wis
LaFollette
Ham Lunch Fatality Reported in Saloon Incident
Free lunch in a Janesville saloon led to the death of William Conway who choked on a fragment of ham. The incident occurred April 14 with Conway aged unspecified. Authorities report the death as accidental after the ham piece obstructed his airway.
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Janesville
Wis
William Conway
Carnegie plan eyed for $12.5 million college gifts
Des Moines reports President Bradley of Lown college Grinnell says a proposal to Andrew Carnegie would provide about $12.5 million in gifts to fifty colleges across seventeen Midwestern states. The plan would allocate roughly $250,000 per school, with $50,000 for a science building and the rest as endowment.
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Bradley
Lown College
Grinnell
Andrew Carnegie
Middle Western States
Car
College fund gifts rejected after failed request
After a request for gifts of one million dollars to five college endowments failed, Lown College at Grinwell, Colorado College at Colorado Springs, Knox College at Galesburg, Beloit College at Beloit, and Washburn College at Topeka faced rejection of the proposed donations.
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Lown Colleg
Grinwell
Colorado College
Colorado Springs
Knox College
Galesburg
Beloit College
Heloit
Wis
Washburn College
Topeka
Kan
City Ownership for Gotham and Heat Policy Debate
New York shows the Citizens' Union debating municipal ownership of utilities at Cooper Union. They seek city control to ensure service and plan to form a coalition ticket with other groups. Meanwhile mass killings and odd coal thefts appear in Des Moines as a man is killed in railroad yards.
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New York
Citizens’ Union
Cooper Union
Pulse
Theos
Deg Watt
Des Moines
Banka
William Uf. Tulmeblen
Actor Joseph Jefferson Visited by Doctors in Miami
Mona special from St. Augustine reports Joseph Jefferson, famed actor, is at his Miami home with physicians summoned from St. Augustine to attend him. Mila confirms.
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Atlanta
Mona
St. Augustine
Mila
Joseph Jefferson
Miami
Market summaries from Chicago opens weak on cattle hogs
Chicago markets report mixed cattle and hog futures with receipts around 3000 cattle and 2000 hogs. Slaughter grades show slower demand while heavy shipments and light hogs price around mid 80s with mixed packers noted. Beefs and cows range near 4.40 to 6.75, western cattle and lambs listed with varied quotes.
Vladivostok Fortified For Siege As 100000 Men Mobilize
Reports from Tokio note a growing Russian garrison at Vladivostok with 100000 troops and 500 guns as fortifications and ammunition stocks expand. St. Petersburg says Admiral Rozestvensky plans to fight, possibly north to Formosa, awaiting Togo. Hong Kong reports Baltic fleet sighting near Saigon with two Japanese warships patrolling away from Sumatra rumor.
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Tokio
Vladivostok
Nuselana
Hong Kong
Royal Bishop Bank
Saigon
Noma
Sumatra
Odessa Police Commissary Olechevsky shot. assassin arrested
Odessa reports Police Commissary Olechevsky wounded in the chest by a revolver fire. The alleged killer was arrested but refused to reveal his identity.
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Odessa
Olechevsky
Mystery Prisoner Dies at Ohio Penitentiary
A prisoner at the Ohio penitentiary, sent from Cincinnati on a five year burglary sentence under the name William Johnson, confessed on his deathbed that his real name was Arthur Wallace from Macon Georgia. He said his family was highly respected and asked that his parents be notified before death.
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Columbus
Ohio Penitentiary
Cincinnati
William Johnson
Arthur Wallace
Macon
New York Votes Bond for Roads Under State Aid Law
A proposed constitutional amendment authorizing a New York state bond issue of 50 million dollars for building good roads under the state aid law has passed the assembly.
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New York State
Assembly
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