Dowie Defiant as He Faces Charges in Zion City
Dowie rails at wife and son accusing them of betrayal while denying misusing 2,529,000 dollars of church funds. He vows to regain control, condemns opponents, and declares forged letters from him to women as forgeries. Church officers plan to disempower him as legal actions loom, with a mass allegiance pledge set for Zion City.
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Zion City
Dowie
Lewis
Apostle
Thor City
Earth
Mexico
David and
Solomon
Chicago
Noston
Zion Church
Oversee Vola
Dowte
Dowit
Deacon Wilhite
San Antonio
Tex
Wilhite
St Louis
Deacon Lewis
Mexia
Denies Fraud in Deal Between Traction Firms
In a federal court filing the Union Traction Company denies fraud by its affiliated companies and the Consolidated Traction Company. It admits issuing bonds in exchange for Charles Yerkes stock but says the move protected stockholders and secured control of the underlying properties. The suit contends Yerkes had to cover $1,563,200 in doubtful securities before finalizing the deal.
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Hicago
Union Traction Company
Congol
Traction
Charles 1
Yerkes
Consolidated Companreal
Tin
And
Consolidated
Tinton Traction Company
Somnambulist Hangs Self in Akron Home
Jacob Stair aged sixty eight or sixty, long noted as a sleep walker, rose early while asleep and hanged himself to a floor joist with a tunic string in his Akron Ohio home. He was a prominent Mason in the community.
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Akron
Ohio
Jacob Stair
Moroccan Conference Ends In Algeciras With Reform Pact
The Morocco reform convention signed at Algeciras outlines a 16 column document of 423 articles. It opens with a multinational prologue by European and American leaders calling for order, peace and prosperity in Morocco. The policing chapter envisions a 2500 strong native and foreign staff across eight ports. Ambassador White and Samual R. Gummer are named in the credentials. White departs for Genoa after thanking the Madrid consul Srague for conference services.
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Paris
Foreign Office
Algeciras
Spain
Germany
Austra
Belgium
Great Britain
Italy
Portugal
Sweden
United States
France
Morocco
Netherlands
Ambassador White
Samual R . Gummer
Alrecco
Tommarders Frerch
Viogador Saff
Aszagan Rabat Tetvan
Larache
Tangier
Casablanca
Gibraltar
White
Genoa
Roon
Lhis
Sprague
Rail strike fears hit Northern Iowa coal supply
Webster City Iowa April 7 Northern Iowa division of the Northwestern Railroad has only fifteen days of coal on hand. All switch engines are off and live freight is hauled sparingly. Harrisburg Pa April 7 Pennsylvania Railroad orders out of service twenty eight heavy freight locomotives in constant use. Reading April 7 suspension of manning in the anthracite regions limits Reading Railway car shops to fifty five hours per week.
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Webster City
Iowa
Northern Iowa Division
Northwestern Railroad
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Reading
Floods devastate Central Wyoming towns and oil facilities
Heavy snow melt and ten days of moisture flood Central Wyoming causing unprecedented damage. Two men drowned as Belgo American Oil Company tower on the Little Popo Agile River is destroyed, with 160,400 barrels of oil reported from Libbey & Co. at 6th Street and N Avenue.
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Wyoming
Casper
Belgo American Ol
Great Oil Receiver
Little Popo Agile
Gorky Arrives in New York as Revolutionary Faces
New York April 7. Gorky the famed novelist also known as Alexei Preshkoff is expected to arrive in New York from Berlin this week. He will join Ivar Narodny and other Russian revolutionary leaders at the city’s headquarters to push sympathy for their movement While Narodny says force is needed to throw off Russian rule he warns the Douma is a money tool for foreign investors.
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Ivan Narodny
Military Revolutionary Party
New York
Black Sea
Alexei Maxumovich Preshkoff
Gorky
Berlin
Ivararodny
Narodny
Military Revolutionary
Rustian
Social Democratic Party
Mr ‘Ohaikoffsky
Social Revolutionary
Pary
Ugen
Dqama Ain
Russia
Robert Watchorn
Wil
Slander ruling fines Equitable Life Paris official
In Paris the Seine Correctional Tribunal found in favor of slander claims by Flex Duboin against Percy Peixoto director general of Equitable Life Assurance Society Paris. The court dismissed defamation charges, fined Peixoto 3060 francs plus 1 franc civil damages, and held the company responsible for actions of its local head.
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Equitable Life
Pars
Paris
Correctional ‘Tribunal of the Seine
Flex Duboin
Percy Peixoto
Equitable Life Assurance, Society
New York
Peixoto
Equitable Company
Alger seat contest prompts June primary trial of strength
Detroit April 7 Senator Alger withdraws from reelection due to ill health, prompting a Michigan scramble for the seat. Congressman William Alden Smith and others including Townsend Hamilton and McMillan vie, with Smith planning a conference and formal declaration tomorrow to stay in the contest and unite candidates for a June primary endgame. Champ Clark renominated in Missouri. Travel ad notes April 21 to May 4 westbound trip with excursions and sleeper rates.
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Washington
Detroit
Mich
Russell A Alger
Holt Gaten
Waliam Alden Smith
Fifth Distret
H C Smith
Adriana Ferme
Townsend and
Hamilon
W . McMillan
Arthur Hill
Merrily McMman
Senator McMilan
William Aiden Smith
Michigan
Alger
Wi Smith
Sid Mr Smith
United States
Champ Clark
Washimpton
Mexico
Actress Louise Collier Sues Actor Husband in Riverhead
Louise Allen Collier testifies in a suit against her husband actor William Collier. She seeks strict performance of a contract to sell jointly held property after a separation and prior $100 weekly support. Justice William J Kelly ordered trial date and notified Collier to appear in Brooklyn on April 12.
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Riverhead
Long Island
Louise Allen Collier
William Collier
William J Kelly
Kelly
Abraham Laydecker
Howe & Hummel
Collier
Colter
Brooklyn
Bar of gold worth 15000 vanishes in transit mystery
Special to The Washington Post details a theft of 850 ounces of gold valued at 15000 from a British Guiana shipment. The box was tampered with using a lead pipe, with investigators on the case as officers and a customs inspector examined the sealed container after delivery to Van Rensselaer Cogswell and Donald McLean at the company offices. A private inquiry proceeds without identified suspects.
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Washington Post
New York
Demerara
British Guiana
Corona
Quebec Steamship Company
New Pork
Commpany, Limited
Milig
Guiana
van Rensselaer Cogswell
Donald McLean
Worthington
The Washington Post Circulation Statement April 8
The Washington Post announces today an edition of about 40,000 copies to be sold to subscribers agents and individual buyers at regular subscription price. It defends its circulation as real and not given away or left at homes without payment. Advertisers are protected from false claims and the paper cites steady six month gains.
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Washington Post
Andreleaso
Washington
Washington Fost
Clemency Refused in State Auditor Embezzlement Case
Investigating committee reports to Gov Hanly cite shortages totaling 390,894 dollars in the state auditor's office from 1887 to 1889. Alleged misappropriations involve James H Rice Bruce Carr J Henderson and A C Dailey with retained 5470 dollars in insurance and tax fees plus interest. Governor Apple-Gov Hanly rejects pardon or parole for David E Sner Tick who begins prison term for embezzlement of state funds.
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Hanly
James H. ‘Hiceaz
Bruce Carr
J. C. Henderson
A. ©. Darley
Indianapolis
Ind
Apple
Hany
Paiole
David E Sner- Tick
Sherrick
Bettt
Gor Hanly
State Auditor
James H Rice
Sif
Od Manger
Wolfe Ib
W HL Hart
James W Noel William B Durborrow
Warren Bigler
Bruce Carr Ysses
Suit Against G B Cox Seeks Recovery of County Interest
Prosecuting Attorney Hiram Rulison and County Legal Adviser Treton sue G B Cox and others for 2023873 interest allegedly illegally paid on county money during Schott’s term. Western German Bank faces 360164 interest at 6 percent for county funds from 1891 to present. The suits, tied to Cox era graft methods, herald further actions without garnish of gratuities.
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Gino
George B Cox
Flasenmann
Pleischmann
Tilden R French
Lee Schott
Hiram Rulison
Treton
Schott
George Schott
Cqunty
Senate
Street car derails in Kokomo injuring several
James Y Bruff an architect was killed and four other passengers injured when a street car jumped the tracks and rolled down a twelve foot embankment in Kokomo Indiana. The accident occurred today at about noon and the wounded were taken to local hospitals for treatment.
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Kokomo
Ind
James Y Bruff
Sons and Daughters
Mt Vernon Railway
Young Girl Saves Sister After Water Moccasin Bite
Louise Mitchell twelve acts quickly to save Grace five after a water moccasin strikes while playing near Mill Creek at Carthage Country Club. Louise sucks out venom, applies mouth-to-wound care, and doctors say prompt action likely preserved Grace’s life. The siblings reside in Edgemont.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Louise Mitchell
Grace
Carthage
Mill Creek
Attleel
George
Louse
Edgemont
New Evidence Emerges In Patrick Murder Trial
Special to The Washington Post reports new evidence to be submitted Monday in the Patrick motion for a new trial. Mira Ann Allen Wright of Cedar Bayon Tex testifies she has known Jones since boyhood and says Jones and Mayor Rice talked on a street car, contradicting Rice’s testimony that he did not know Jones. John G Glissberg swears he saw Jones and Rice together. Rice died of natural causes.
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Washington Post
New York
Alvert T Patrick
Recorder Golf
Baldwin Rice
Houston
Charles J. Jones
William M
Tex
Patrick
Jones
Tim
Rice
Wright
Major Rice
Jones 19
Rival worker kills contractor in Maryland tunnel dispute
Thomas M Rhinehart of Shoemaker and Rhinehart, contractor on a Baltimore and Ohio rail tunnel project west of Ellicott City, was shot and died at Maryland University Hospital after an argument with Al Carter, a laborer. A posse, led by Sheriff Hunt, chased the fugitive who fled toward Baltimore County. Rhinehart, a Virginian by birth, was unmarried.
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Washington Post
Ellicott Caty
Thomas M Rhinehart
Shoemaker & Rhinehart
Baltimore and Ohio Railrora
al Carter
Maryland
Stonehart
Baltmore County
Rhinehart
Huntwation Ya
Mount Vesuvius erupts over Bosco Reale village
Naples reports Mount Vesuvius in an explosive state as lava streams threaten Bosco Reale and surrounding areas. Officials, engineers, and soldiers organize relief while Cardinal Prisco and Duke of Aosta lead aid efforts and urge prayers for those in danger.
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Naples
Mount Vesuvius
Boscotrecase
Sorrento Penisula
Capri
Duke of Aeste
Joseph Prisco
Daspita
Prisco
Bosco Reale
Duke of
Aosta
Actire
Lves
St Ann
Boy Killed in Altercation at Pratt Letchworth Plant
Two apprentices Rudolphing aged nineteen and Frederick Oramun twenty clashed over a nickname. Oramun refused to be called by his surname and allegedly struck, prompting Schilling to defend himself with a sharp file, fatally wounding Oramun in the breast. Schilling was taken into custody and the incident occurred at the Pratt and Letchworth plant in Buffalo.
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Buffalo
Rudolphing
Frederick Oramun
Pratt & Letchworth
Oramun
Schilng
Tan
Schilling
Schillag
Sehiog
Gramun
Chancellor Buelow appears improving amid talks and rumors
Bertha April 1 reports Buelow sleeping well and in good condition, with Prof Reavers not issuing further paddling. The Emperor and Empress sent bouquets. speculation swirls about Von Barlow’s health and possible succession and diplomat service changes. Winnipeg strike ends with 1 cent wage raise, no union recognition. Passaic wine storage boasts long-lived stocks. old vineyards claimed. Grueby Faience on display at Corning and 13th Street NW.
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Bertha
You Buelow
Foreign Office
von Barlow
von Buelow
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