Roosevelt wolf hunt begins at Camp Roosevelt
April 10 1904 President Roosevelt starts a wolf hunt near Camp Roosevelt eighteen miles southeast of Frederick. A pack of forty dogs led by John Aberathy chases the wolves. Three wolves are killed before dinner and the hunt resumes at 1 PM with ten riders. No guns used. Governor Ferguson expected to greet the President and attend a banquet with Frederick businessmen Wednesday night.
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le Star
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Panama Canal
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Atverud
Osessun
Troma
Elo Ae
Toe
Hkel
Hns
Washington
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Dean
Atizens
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President’s Camp
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Pratuire Reserve
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Eighth Cavalry
Fort St
Murchell
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Ins
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Acking
Luvin Mity
Tusametan
United States
Guthrie
Colorado Hunt
Colo
Big Pack Iiin
Camp Post Outfit
Colorado
Jake * Botah
John Gort
Johnson Ranch
Newcastle
Roosevelt to witness novel Newcastle parade hunt
Citizens plan a Saturday morning reception for the President with a grand parade. A brown bear in a cage will lead the procession, then Goff and Borah will release hounds to pursue the bear into the hills. President Roosevelt, Dr. Lambert, Philip B. Stewart, and guides will follow in pursuit at the start of the hunt.
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Roosevelt
Frank Hillard
Goff
Borah
Bear
Dr. Lambert
Philip B. Stewart
Conspiracy Charged In Omaha National Life Case
Special to The Washington Fest Omaha Nebr April An application filed in district court seeks a receiver for the National Life and Trust Company of Des Moines and its successors The National Life Insurance Company of the United States of America of the District of Columbia and the National Life Insurance Company of the United States of America of Illinois Neva A Shipherd and Maude S Shipherd policy holders are plaintiffs P M Starnes promoter turned president of Chicago company is charged with profiting from asset transfers Louis G Phelps former president of Washington company is charged with conspiracy on the first transfer from Des Moines to Washington The company traced its origins to Des Moines 1889 and moved to Chicago through a series of transfers with Chicago links alleged to have been made by clerks in various offices to cover the business of the Washington company
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Nebr
District Court
National Life and Trust Company of
Des Moines
National Life Insurance Company of
United States of America
District of Columbia
Ilinois
Neva A
Chicago
Louis G Phelps
Washington Company
Washington
National Life and Trust Company
National Company
National Life Insurance Company
Cmeiso
Death by Own Action Under Car Wheels in New York
George G. Bauer, buyer for Arbuckle Bros sugar refiners and former manager at De Ford & Co, leaped to death under a Sixth Avenue elevated train at Franklin Street. He stood near the platform edge and, as the train neared, threw his coat and hat aside before jumping in front of the cars. Four cars passed over him and the line was blocked for about an hour. No motive is known.
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George G. Bauer
Arbuckle Bros
Sixth Avenue
Franklin Street
Meees Bauer
Bauer
de Ford & Co
Gaynor Greene case resumes with testimony and delay
Montreal April 11 The Gaynor Greene case resumed as Marion Erwin from Georgia and George R Johnson a national bank examiner testified to the accuracy of evidence copies taken by the U S commissioner After prosecution closed Judge La Fontaine said he was not ready to proceed without a prima facie case and set tomorrow afternoon for summation by counsel
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Gaynor-Greene
Marion Erwin
Georgia
George R Johnson
United States
la Fontaine
Posse After a Negro in Utica Shootout
News from Jackson Mississippi reports that a Negro, arrested at Utica today, confessed to assaulting Miss Marsh on February 22 in the city. He fled through a crowd, wounded C H Benton, and escaped into the woods as a posse hunts him. Governor Vardeman was asked for bloodhounds but none were available.
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Utica
Centenarian Under Knife
Special to The Washington Post Johnstown N Y April 10 4 week ago Pierre Lacomb a 92 year old French Canadian guide with acute appendicitis underwent an operation at noon He showed unusual vitality afterward asking for tobacco pork and beans and slept well After three days he insisted on going home and was discharged a week later to saw wood and continue working
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Washington Post
Johnstown
Pierre Lacomb
Clayton
Lacomb
Platt in Better Health Despite Pneumonia
Senator Orville H. Platt’s condition improved slightly after pneumonia diagnosis. Dr. W. J. Ford said recovery hinges on absence of complications and will depend on his strength. Washington April 10.
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Conn
Orville H. Platt
W. J. Ford
Senator Platt
Rumored sea clash near Singapore unsettles observers
Reports from Hongkong and Singapore describe a rumored clash between rival fleets near Singapore with claims that Tago lost five vessels. Other dispatches place the Russian squadron near Muntok and Batavia, with officials unsure of battle intentions and possible rendezvous in the Pacific as navies monitor Vladivostok and Saigon options.
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Chicago Daily News
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Singapore
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China Sea
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Herestvenskhy
St Petersburg
Baga
Adaural Rojestvensky
Associated Press
St. Petersburg
Russia
Rojestvensky
Admiralty
Neboatoff
Sunda Straits
Japanese naval move eyed at Pacific bases near Natuna
A dispatch from St Peters burg reports strong admiralty belief that the second Pacific squadron will seize Great Natuna to base operations, citing Japan’s use of the Miao Islands. It also notes expectation of action off the Pescadores Islands where Japan has a naval base.
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Bennet
Great Natuna
Miao Islands
Mafin
St. Petersburg
Admiralty
Pescadores Islands
Neutrality enforcement in Sulu archipelago patrols
Manila reports Rear Admiral Tran orders two destroyers and the dispatch boat Alava to join cruiser Raleigh in watching the Sulu archipelago amid possible use of Palawan as a belligerent base by Russia or Japan. Raleigh and torpedo boats have been sent to Palawan to monitor movements and prevent neutrality violations under broad earlier instructions.
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Tran
Alava
Raleigh
Sulu
Palawan
Philippines
Tram
Asiatic Station
Navy Department
Labuan
Adriatic
State Department
Saigon
Movement Against Kirin Raiders Reach Westward Route
Information from the Russian headquarters indicates Chinese bandits led by Japanese officers and some Japanese cavalry move west toward Tsitsthar to raid railroad lines. A real eastward movement of Kirin under Gen Oku is reported. Roads are muddy, affecting movement. Proclamations cite road conditions to push Harbin entry date from April 10 to April 30.
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Tsitsthar
Kirin
Oku
Frick Podium Talk in Roosevelt Cabinet Plans
Pittsburg reports Henry Clay Frick may join President Roosevelt’s Cabinet, with Treasury the leading possibility and Navy a secondary option if Morton retires. Frick has pursued political influence and tried to buy newspapers, though he denies entering national politics.
Harmony in Pennsylvania at quiet state convention
The Pennsylvania Republican State convention in Harrisburg on April 26 is expected to be tame with little contest. Delegates will largely be chosen beforehand, ensuring smooth election. Col. W R Andrews handles the roll as many districts have single delegate slates. Possible state chairmanship by Senator Penrose is uncertain, while focus remains on three Superior Court judges and a State treasurer, with Andrews pursuing a governor bid.
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W. R. Andrews
Penrose
Superior Court
Col. Andrews
Effort to reunite party eyed by Chamberlain
London April 11 A Brighton rebuff sparks a move toward closer Unionist unity between Balfourite and Chamberlainite factions. Joseph Chamberlain urges reconciliation, signaling willingness to drop tax plans on food and raw materials to unite the party, with details left to future agreements. The report notes the difficulty in aligning the wings and the need for party strength. The Amateur Cup for Gentlemen Riders and related races at Bennings are listed with the Penna R R special car advised for the track.
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London
Brighton
Treasury
Unionist Party
Joseph Chamberlain
Chicago Ward & Co Goods Reach Depots Amid Teamsters Strike
Chicago on April 10 reports continued Montgomery Ward & Co deliveries despite a sympathetic teamsters strike. Nonunion wagons ferried goods to railroad depots under police guard as crowds gathered and blockades were broken. Employers warned they will not tolerate interference and freight handlers briefly quit before police promised releases.
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Ilinois Central Railroad
Tornado strikes mining village in Pennsylvania
Tornado touched down at Jacksons near Mahanoy City causing major destruction. Homes unroofed, trees uprooted, lines down. Two girls Miss Mame Keating and Miss Marion Higgins carried into a field but unharmed. No lives reported lost. Similar storm hits southern Ohio damaging churches and injuring several as bricks and debris fell.
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Here
Mamie Keating
Marion Higgins
William Dowling
Columbus
Ohio
Chillicothe
St Peter's Church
Memorial Hall
Third Street Presbyterian Church
Square Deal for Pastors
The New York Methodist Conference postponed until tomorrow a vote on a resolution by Rev. Arthur Thompson calling for a committee on rights of the ministers to equalize charges. It notes country district preachers have been debarred from New York City churches for sixteen years. The committee cannot yet recommend adoption.
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New York City
Florida land grant award confirmed in 1830 case
Judge Locke of the United States District Court upholds the special commissioner report granting 1,200,000 acres along the Apalachicola River in West Florida to Miss Clementine Dalcour, the sole living heir. District Attorney Stripling notes an appeal and the matter proceeds to the U S Supreme Court for final decision.
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Locke
United States District Court
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Apalachicola River
John Forbes
Theodore Dalcour
Clementine Dalcour
Philadelphia
Evanses and bride sentenced to reformatories
Lee M Evans, from a West Virginia family, and his eighteen year old bride Florence pleaded guilty to forgery. Brookyn judge Aspinall sentenced Evans to Elmira Reformatory and Florence to Beaford Reformatory. The woman claimed she thought endorsing checks signed by her father W B Springer was not wrong. The judge said he had no discretion and she must go to the reformatory.
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New York
Lee M. Evans
West Virginia
Florence
Brooklyn
Aspinall
Evans
Elmira Reformatory
Beaford Reformatory
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W. B. Springer
Pope Benediction Sent To Notre Dame In Rome
In Rome on April 10 Pope Benedict XV granted a private audience to Reverend John A. Zahm from Notre Dame Indiana provincial of the Holy Cross. Zahm presented a 31000 offering from Notre Dame and the Pope wrote a Latin apostolic benediction. He praised Zahm for aiding religious orders expelled from France and Zahm will travel to Paris to aid Holy Cross members and arrange care for several hundred expelled persons. The article also advertises Bennings social event and safe deposit boxes.
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United States
University of Notre Dame
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France
Paris
Holy Cross
Secret Service Seizes Hidden Trunk Evidence in Beef Trust Case
Six mysterious trunks were hidden in a vault of the National Safe Deposit Co in the First National Bank building. District Attorney Morrison obtained a court order to seize them amid grand jury investigations of the beef trust and Sherman anti trust violations. Officials hint the trunks may contain books of account and other documents related to packers methods. A government witness allegedly disclosed information leading to the seizure.
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Speqia
Washington Post
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Federal Grand Jury
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Grand Jury
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Beef Trust
Peckham
Five Die in Rear End Collision at Kinsley Kans
Five persons are believed killed and many injured after a rear end collision between the Chicago express and the California Limited return train on the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe line at Kinsley Kansas. The Chicago train was stopped at the station when the second train plowed into its rear Pullman. Fire destroyed the wreckage and crews searched amid flames for missing enginemen. Both crews denied fault, claiming they were not told to move for clearance.
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Itinsley
Kans
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Chicago
Hollander Arrives for Santo Domingo Mission
Special Agent Jacob H. Hollander arrived aboard the U S cruiser Chattanooga to report on Santo Domingo’s financial condition. He presented credentials to the government as the country remains quiet. Fabio Fiallo sails for New York to take up consul general duties.
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Santo Domingo
Chattanooga
Jacob H. Hollander
Hollander
Fabio Fiallo
New York
Clyde Line
Fine furniture and Easter offerings at Old Colony Co
Bennings track hosts a big racing day with ten events. The Southern Steeplechase for Hunters and the Amateur Cup for Gentlemen Riders headline a lineup expected to draw lovers of thoroughbreds. First race at 7 p.m.
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America
Bennings Tod
Old Colony Co
H St
Benninga
President Hunting Wolves and Rumor of Fleet Meeting
News from today’s issue notes President’s actions against wolves and rumors of fleet meetings. Includes reports on trunks seized in beef trust inquiry and Morgan Smith returning to New York.
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Beef Trust Inquiry
Morgan Smith
New York
Lawrence Weldon
Appomattox
Equitable
Garfield
Boston
Blue
Gray
Mart Two
Supreme Court
Alaska
Kansas oil inquiry seeks every available fact
Kansas oil inquiry under Commissioner James R. Garfield aims for a thorough, secret investigation into crude and refined oil prices. He plans field visits in Kansas and neighboring states, study freight and transportation, and apply national statistical data to assess production demand and anti trust implications. The effort mirrors past Ohio agitation and targets the Standard Oil defense. Garfield will report after surveying Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and California oil areas.
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Lewis Sperry Weds Heire ss Armbruster in Hartford Church
Former Congressman Lewis Sperry, a Hartford lawyer, married Carolyn Tyron Armbruster of Merion near Philadelphia last Thursday morning at a Presbyterian Church. The groom is a widower with two grown children. Armbruster, a millionaire heiress and former Potts descendant, is reported to be worth about $1,000,000.
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Merion
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George P. McLean
Sperry
Wiliam Potts
Shot Son to Save Family at Indian Diggins
In Placerville California on April 10 Eldorado County seventy four year old Austin Morgan Starkey killed his son Joseph Starkey to save his two grand children and himself after the son killed a ten year old niece with Anax. The Avante City Special via Pennsylvania Railroad inaugurates with first train from Washington at 1 10 pm April 16 to Atlantic City at 4 0 pm returning from Atlantic City at 2 15 pm April 17 to Washington 7 pm Daily except Sunday.
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Eldorado County
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Smiths Leap to New York as Trial Delayed
Cincinnati reports that J Morgan Smith and wife agreed to return to New York for extradition only to face the conspiracy charge, with assurances they would not be needed elsewhere. Nan Patterson murder case delayed a week due to extradition fights. 143 jurors appeared, 57 absent fined $100. A contempt ruling was handed to Broker Ballman, and Shay’s case proceedings adjourned.
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New York
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Shay
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Cogan
Thomas F. Shay
Smiths
Spiegel
Garvan
Ballman
Lurton
Baliman
J Morgan Smith
Gavan
McNaught
Quinn
Ward
Jett
Cleveland, Cincinnati
Chicago and St Louis
Patterson
Nan Patterson
Caesar Young
Recorder Goff
Court of General Sessions
Ka Wife
Clincmnati
Five Men Drowned in Hudson River Crossing
In Poughkeepsie on April 10 James M Malloy a Barrytown fisherman ferried six Polanders across the Hudson in a small skiff after the steamer failed. The boat capsized two-thirds across, killing Malloy and four Polanders. Two Polanders were rescued by a returning rowboat. one rescuer is in critical condition.
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Barrytown
Hudson River
Malloy
Albany
Kentucky legislator slain in London saloon row
J H Howard member of the Kentucky House from the Seventy first district was shot and wounded in a Clay County saloon by Tilford Benge after a quarrel. Scranton reports East German Methodist Conference closed, Baltimore to host next year with appointments for presiding elders Lange and Gressegen. Also noted are Southern Steeplechase hunters event, Amateur Cup, and Brown Tolson sale in Washington DC.
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Hougze
London
J. J . Howard
Seventy-first
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Tilford Benge
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Scranton
East German Methodist Episcopal Conference
J. Lange
Philadelphia
Wiliam Gressegen
Schenectady
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