Abrogation Talk in Senate on China Treaty Clash
Senators Foraker and McLaurin pressed the Chinese exclusion bill as Teller urged treaty abrogation. McLaurin warned against violating sworn compacts while Sterner views tied trade to cotton, and a House subcommittee debated moving inauguration day to late April.
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Washington
Senate
Foraker
McLaurin
South Carolina
China
Far East
Ohio
South
Teller
United States
Burlingame
Blaine
Thurman
House Judiciary Committee
Littlefield
Thomas
Jens
Clayton
Alabama
Direct Evidence of an Fye Witness on Water Torture in Philippines
Senatorial hearings reveal Charles Riley testifying to the water cure used by United States troops in Iloilo Igbaras to force a town president to disclose insurgent knowledge. Captain Glenn Lieutenant Conger and Dr Lions were present as soldiers stood by while the victim endured prolonged forced intake of water.
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United States
Riley
Washington
Philippines
Charles 8
Senate Committee On the Philippines
Igbaras
Iloilo
Glenn
Conger
Lions
Presidente
Senate Panel OKs Increased Pensions for Disabled Soldiers
Washington April 15 the senate committee on pensions ordered a favorable report on a bill granting pensions to soldiers who lost limbs. The increase will be 15 per month each. The committee also favored a bill raising from 30 to 40 per month the pensions of those who are totally deaf.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Pensions
Brutal Indian Territory murder shocks Stilwell area
A white man named Dudley killed his 10 year old daughter and wounded three others near Stilwell Oklahoma. He confessed in jail after being moved to Fallisaw to prevent lynching. He planned the killings to silence his neighbors and attacked his sleeping family with an ax.
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Sallisaw
I. T
Indian Territory
Stilwell
Dudley
Fallisaw
Contract 15 Violated Union Pacific Lenores the Meaning of the Word Perpetually
A molders union committee urged Omaha officials to challenge Union Pacific over closing its local foundry and laying off many molders. The city had a contract to perpetually maintain shops here, and City Attorney Connell says the closure breaches it and may go to court if needed. Union Pacific officials declined to comment.
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Union Pacific
Omaha
Neb
Molders’ Union
Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Road
Connell
Grain and livestock market quotes across cities
Chicago hog and cattle markets show mixed prices with hogs ranging from 5.75 to 7.30 and cattle quoted from 4.40 to 7.40 for various grades. East Buffalo reports steers at 6.25 to 7.00, hogs 6.80 to 7.50, and lambs up to 7.50. St. Louis and Milwaukee offer wheat and rye prices with futures and cash bases noted.
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Chicago
Texas
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
St. Louis
Ohio inventor to contest Santos-Dumont at St Louis air show
Santee Dumont heads to St Louis for the Louisiana Purchase exposition airship races. Alanson Wood of Toledo plans a competing airship with a roller coaster fortune behind him and tests in Toledo. Leo Stevens of New York, with a steel framework airship and two automatic wings, aims for the prize within sixty days.
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St. Louis
Santee Dumont
United States
Hiragtlian
Ohio
Santos-Dumont
Alanson Wood
Toledo, O
Wood
New York
South Bend Man Aims at St Louis Prize With Flying Ship
Alvin W. Van Dorston of South Bend Indiana holds a patent pending flying machine he plans to use to win the World’s fair prize. The gasoline powered airship carries a 1600 pound weight and a 2500 square foot lifting surface with ninety six lifting wheels. Other inventors Gustave Whitehead and Hermann Ganswindt are also preparing airships to compete in the Louisiana Purchase exposition contests.
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Alvin W. van Dorston
South Bend
Ind
Dorston
Weasel
Gustave Whitehead
Bridgeport
Conn
Santos-Dumont
Whitehead
Charles Island
Milford
Hermann Ganswindt
Berlin
Germany
Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Ganswindt
Airship Division
German War Department
Stickney Announces Plans for Iowa Rail Expansion at Fort Dodge
President A B Stickney spoke with Fort Dodge businessmen confirming a division point at Clarion with yards shops and a round house to be built there. He denied a Sioux City line from Clarion and said the line would branch from the Omaha line south of Fort Dodge. He also confirmed a Wa verly to Celwein cut off to be built this summer.
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Fort Dodge
A. B. Stickney
Clarion
Sioux City
Omaha
Ile
Waverly
Celwein
Taft to Visit St Louis and New York Officials
Governor General Taft of the Philippines travels from Cincinnati to St Louis to confer with President Francis and exposition officers. He will meet Yale friends at New Haven, then proceed to Washington and New York before returning to Cincinnati and sailing via the Suez Canal on May 17.
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Cincinnati
Taft
Philippines
St. Louis
Francis
Washington
New York
Old Yale
New Haven
Suez Canal
Paris man fatally shoots Newton Jett in Jacksonville porch
Paris Kentucky April 15 reports Joe Johnson shot Newton Jett in Jacksonville county. Jett sat on a porch when Johnson fired twice. Authorities note no quarrel and no motive given for the fatal shooting.
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Paris
Jacksonville
This County
Joe Johnson
Newton Jett
Jett
Johnson
Road managers push to end second class fares
Chicago to New York carriers seek abolition of second class fares. The Republic Iron and Steel Co and Amalgamated association reach a wage scale through July 1, 1903. A machine shop strike on the Southern railway is officially declared, with grievances to be settled later.
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Chicago
New York
Republic [Ron and Steel Co
Amalgamated Association
Southern Railway
Budget Sparks Peace Hopes in Britain as Tax Plans Unfold
April 15 Lennen Great Britain's budget discussion centers on a £32,000,000 treasury loan, restocking Boer farms, and expected reminders that war end may reduce needs. Sir Michael Hicks Beach faces mixed reactions as he outlines taxation on sugar coal wine tobacco and death duties to cover a projected annual expenditure of £174.6 million with a large deficit.
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Lennen
Great Britain
Michael Hicks Teach
Botha
Kitchener
Treasury
Michael Hicks Beach
Michael Hicks
House of Opi
Mons
Pretoria
Michael Hicks-Reach
Peace Proposals in Scope at Pretoria and The Hague
Secret dispatches outline Boer peace talks with British lord commissioner and Boer executive based in Pretoria. Key points include district governance with British officers, Boer polls, British veto, Johannesburg retaken by Britain, a £10 million indemnity, disarmament after Boer prisoners return, dual language recognition, no war tax, and retention of Boer leaders where possible.
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Hague
South Africa
Pretoria
Johannesburg
Great Britain
Russian Saghalien graft probe widens on island off Asia
In Saghalien the court opens an investigation into numerous thefts and embezzlements by government officials. So far only minor officers are accused, but the case is expected to develop into a sensational affair.
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St. Petersburg
Saghalien
Asia
Russia
Massae Republicans Split Over Primary Fraud Allegations
A mass convention in Massae county by a Republican faction nominated a "Peoples" ticket likely to win Democratic support. The faction alleges fraud in the regular primary and seeks alternative leadership.
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Metropolis, Fill
Republican Party
Massae County
Peoples
Five Daughters Born to Ulster County Family
Isaiah Rhodes of Stailey's Gap Ulster county announced in Poughkeepsie that his daughter Mrs. James McGowan of Tucker's Corners Ulster county has given birth to five girls all thriving.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Isaiah Rhodes
Stailey’s Gap
Ulster County
James McGowan
Tucker's Corners
Ingenous Crooks Escape From Jail in Carbondale
Homer Cox wanted for desertion Charles Shelton indicted for larceny and John Coker charged with counterfeiting escaped from the Wabash county jail using a case knife made into a tool. They cut through the window covering to flee.
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Carbondale, Is
Homer Cox
Charles Shelton
John Coker
Wabash County
Prisoners Escape Through Bar Channel in Night Break
The West side of the jar was pried, allowing escapees to slip through bars after an unseen period of work. The break happened in darkness and was found in the morning. Cox's brother did not attempt escape. Officers had not learned of the escape when initial pursuit began, making recapture likely difficult.
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Cox
Len Fiwine
Divine healers linked to death in Kansas City case
County prosecutor reports Mrs. Nannie Ashley died last Saturday week under care of divine healers who kept the death secret for three days while attempts at life restoration were attempted by prayer. Coroner to hold an inquest. prosecutors may arrest healers for neglect of proper medical treatment if warranted.
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Kansas City
Hive Springs
Nannie Ashley
Myre
Ashley
Arkansas Counties in Want Parters There Need Pounds
Doss, a Hardy Arkansas farmer, arrived in Chicago with credentials to raise funds for destitute farmers in drought stricken northern Arkansas counties. From April 22 to December 12, 1901 no rainfall fell in Sharp Isard Baxter Stone and adjoining counties ruining crops and leaving farmers in want.
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Chicago
A. D. Doss
Hardy
Ark
Arkansas
Sharp
Isard
Baxter
Stone
Fulton
War veteran Colonel Elliott Shurtz dies at 74
Marshalltown Iowa April 14 Colonel Elliott Shurtz longtime war veteran dies at the Soldiers home aged 74 He served as a boy in the Mexican War in the Civil War with the Thirteenth Iowa infantry and was commissioned a colonel for gallantry at Shiloh He was wounded and captured during the Atlanta campaign.
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Marshalltown Ja
Elliott Shurtz
Thirteenth
Iowa Infantry
Shiloh
Ile
Catopaign
Atlanta
Case is One of Murder Now in Strike Violence
Thomas W. Smith of Michigan City Indiana died at county hospital Saturday after being attacked by several men said to be in sympathy with strikers at the Allis Chalmers plant. Smith, a machinist, had come here a month ago to take employment at the Allis-Chalmers works.
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Chienes
Allis Chambers
Thomas W. Smith
Michigan City
Ind
Smith
Allis-Chambers
Munele
Emma Sparr Brown Lummis
Jessie Nicely
Lummis
Nicelys
Interstate Distillery Sold at Sheriff Sale
Vincennes Indiana April 14 The Interstate distillery has been sold for 315,700 at sheriff's sale to W Tinker of St Louis. The plant will be run independently. Tinker will increase capacity by making improvements costing 75,000.
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Vincennes
Ind
Interstaute
To & W. Tinker
St. Louis
Tinker
Detroit Smuggler Lewis Busch Fined and Released
Lewis Busch was convicted in a United States court of smuggling 681 diamonds worth £20,000 from Canada in 1882. He was sentenced to pay a $1,400 fine, which he paid before being released.
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Detroit
Lewis Busch
United States
Canada
Busch
Appointment of canal commissioner in Illinois
Appointed by Governor Yates Henry C. Besse of Prophetstown becomes commissioner of the Illinois and Mississippi canal at Rock Falls on April 14.
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Yates
Rock Falls
Ill
Henry C. Besse
Prophetstown
Ilinois and
Mississippi Canal
Robbery at Hamlet Post Office and Memphis murder linked
North Judson Indiana April 14 burglars blew open the Hamlet post office safe with dynamite taking stamps worth $500. Ottawa Kansas April 7 A T Sharpe traveling salesman stabbed and killed at Memphis is son of the late Atmasa T Sharpe former Ottawa Daily Republican editor. The dead man's mother Mrs H R Sharpe lives locally and the body will be brought to Ottawa for burial.
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North Judson
Ind
Burelars
Hamlet
This County
Ottawa
Kan
Indian man shot at Oneida reservation in Wisconsin
Wilson Skenadore, an Indian, was shot while attempting to enter a neighbor's house on the Oneida reservation in Green Bay Wisconsin. A shot fired from inside the house struck him in the left breast and the wound is regarded as fatal.
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Green Bay
Wis
Wilson Skenadore
Piano and Organ Workers End Boycott at Krell Piano
Cincinnati reports the Piano and Organ Workers union No. 7 ends its boycott of Krell Piano after more than a year. In Washington on April 15 honorary pallbearers for Rev. Dr T DeWitt Talmage include Justices Harlan and Brewer, Senators Cullom Burrows Dolliver, John W Foster and Rep William Alden Smith.
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Cincinnati
Piano and Organ Workers’ Union No. 7
Krell Piano Company
Washington
T. DeWitt Talmage
Harlan and Brewer
Supreme Court
Cullom, Burrows and Dolliver
John W. Foster
William Alden Smith
Michigan
Two Wounded in Cherokee Nation Whisky Fight
In Bragges, Cherokee Nation, a dispute over whisky left two men wounded from a quarrel among about a dozen participants. Reports indicated four men were killed, but the injured are believed to recover.
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Muskogee
I. T
Bragges
Cherokee Nation
Murphy Family Dies of Pneumonia in Cripple Creek
D E B Murphy age 59, his wife 55, and sons George H 24 and William D 26 died in Cripple Creek over two days from pneumonia. They will be buried together in Colorado Springs today.
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Cripple Creek
Colo
D. EB
Murphy
George H
William D
Colorado Springs
Governor Sayers Urges No Outside Aid for Zapata Drought Sufferers
Trouston Texas April 15 Governor Sayers asks AP to say no outside contributions are needed for drought sufferers in Zapata county. He states Texans are able and willing to provide relief.
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Trouston
Tex
Sayers
Associated Press
Zapata County
Texas
Dynamite blast destroys storehouse in Sault Ste. Marie
A box and a half of dynamite detonated in a west end storehouse, owned by water power canal sub-contractors. The blast levelled the building and shook the entire city.
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Sault Ste. Marie, Mich
Strike End at Butte Mines as Engineers Lose Jobs
All mines of the Anaconda Parrott and Washoe companies in Butte Montana have resumed operations after the hoisting engineers strike. The striking engineers lost their jobs as mines reopened.
Lion Attacks Man in Ring Fight at BL Pano
A four year old man was beaten by a bull during a fight in the bull ring at BL Pano Texas. The incident occurred in the arena with spectators present and authorities were alerted for medical aid.
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BL Pano
Tex
Investigation into British Army horse supply at Lathrop post
Jefferson City dispatch reports Governor Dockery's secretary Gentry investigated charges that a British army horse and mule post operated at Lathrop. The firm Guyton and Harrington allegedly shipped 72 000 horses and mules. compensation cited is 45 cents daily per animal. Twenty one Sepoya workers arrived, heading to India with loads for the Huntieh army.
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Kaness City
The
Star
Jefferson City
Gentry
Dockery
Lathrop
Wheeler
Hiitieh
Benth Africa
Deckers
FM. Cockrell
Washington
Entr Srese
Guyton & Larrington
South Africa
United States
Sepoya
Soe
Peoria Man Arrested in 1807 Deputy Death Case
Gustave Miller, sought in Peoria for the 1807 deputy sheriff murder, was arrested in Chicago after causing a disturbance while intoxicated. He allegedly killed the sheriff with a hammer during transfer, following a prior incident where a gardener was struck with the same hammer.
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Chicago
Gustave Miller
Peoria
Miller
Higuer
Common Law Wife Case Sifts Inheritance Rights
In St. Louis on April 1 the United States circuit court of appeals ruled Alfred W. Fleming is the legitimate son and entitled to a share of the Fleming estate, recognizing a valid link between common law and civil marriage. In Springfield Illinois relatives contested the estate, claiming no issue.
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St. Louis
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Alfred W. Fleming
Fleming
Hokia
Philadelphia
St Paul Man Rescued After Suicide Attempt at Tower Bay Slip
West Superior police report Nels Johnson of St Paul attempted death by drowning in Tower Bay slip. He showed signs of insanity and had a bottle of carbolic acid in his pocket. He struggled and was rescued after jumping in.
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West Superior
Wis
Nels Johnson
St. Paul
Detroit Hopes to Tie Jones to Heywood Murder
Police bring in Charles Rymer from Lincoln to identify a revolver found near the Heywood murder but Rymer refuses to confirm it as Jones possession. Prosecutors say case strengthened by Jones’s statements though he still denies killing Heywood. The town sees renewed pressure as Newlands seeks to remove beef import duties.
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Detroit
Mich
Charles Rymer
Lincoln
Neb
George H. Heywood
William M. Jones
Rymer
Jones
Heywood
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Attorney-at-Law
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TY. J. Dempsey
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Itasca
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Mye
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