Three Army Officers Seek Discharge and Probe at Jamestown Exposition
Three officers from the Twenty third United States Infantry camped at Jamestown Exposition renew calls for discharge and an investigation into their conduct. They want an official transcript of Justice Backus court hearings and ask Gen. Grant to use governors to probe the fire chief's authority on smoking on the War Path. Kentucky State Building opens with ceremony and Swedish band, host Mary Taycraft, and permanent Kentucky commission staffing.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Twenty-third United States Infantry
Ton
Exposition Grounds
Backus
Exposition
Fure
Reynolds
Exposition Board of Governors
Frederick
D Grant
Fuather
Powhatan Guard
Kentucky State Building
Boonesville
Madison County
Ousiey
Kentucky State Commission
Mary Taycraft
Frankfort
Ousley
Explosion injures four in Lonaconing Maryland
Special to Tao Washington Post Cumberland Maryland May 17 four persons injured today by the explosion of a twenty five pound can of powder. The house where it occurred was wrecked. Mrs Henry Tracker and Lewis Hacker in critical condition. Two other family members burned. Lewis Tlacker of Lonaconing filled a paper funnel with powder prepping for work in the mines. the flash ignited the powder can.
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Tao
Washington Post
Cumberland
Lonaconing
Henry Tracker
Lewis Hacker
Mins
Lewis Tlacker
Catholic Benevolent Legion elects new officers at convention
At the Supreme Council annual meeting in Baltimore Maryland the Legion elected R B Tippett as president Edmund D Hennessy as vice president John D McGuire as chancellor John D Carroll as secretary and others for the ensuing year Cardinal Gibbons was chosen spiritual head and next meeting will be in Washington D C Delegates toured Steelton steel works and enjoyed a river crab feast in the afternoon.
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Bid
Supreme Council
Catholic Benevolent Legion
R. B. Tippett
Edmund D. Hennessy
Brooklyn
N. J
John D. McGuire
Chicago
John D. Carroll
Broooklyn
John . Dunn
Asurer
James J. Rowe
Newark
N J
Joseph
Ruppert
N. Y
Guard
Anton
Ethnos
Marshal
George M. Mullen
Buffalo
Inet
George R. Kuhn
New York
Cardinal Gibbons
Order
Charles E. McDonnell
James Roche
New Britain
Conn
William J
Baptists Hear Reports At Southern Convention Session
Richmond May 17 The second session of the Southern Baptist Convention opened with H E Pollard presiding. Abstracts from Home Mission Foreign Mission and Sunday School boards were read and adopted. Committees were formed to raise 300000 for the endowment of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville Ky. Treasurers report by G W Norton approved. Foreign missions night featured large contributions with pledges totaling over 100000.
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Richmond
Southern Baptist Convention
H. E. Pollard
Virginia
Home Mission
Foreign Mission
W. B. Hatcher
E. ¥. Mullins
The
Baptist Association
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Lollisville
G. W. Norton
PD. Hall
North Carolina
Brooks
Rome
Sears
Hotel Men Visit Annapolis From Baltimore
Members of the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association, fresh from their Washington annual meeting, arrived in Baltimore on two special B and O trains with many ladies. They registered then boarded the Louise for Annapolis, planned to be greeted by Gov Warfield at the statehouse and to tour the Naval Academy where midshipmen staged a special drill in their honor.
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Hotel Men’s Mutual Benefit Association
Washington
Taltimore
Maryland Hotel Men'a Association
Baltimore and Ohio
Light Street
Louise
Annapolis
Maryland
Statehouse
Gov. Warfield
Naval Academy
Proctor's Second Trial Opens in Maryland Case
Eugene Proctor, colored, on trial for attempted criminal assault of Minnie Spencer in April 1907, faced witnesses including the first, Minnie Spencer, who maintained her identification. The proceeding occurred before Judges Merrick and Crane, with notes of prior testimony repeated. Several unrelated appellate items from Annapolis and other cities were also reported, including court actions and executive notes.
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Circuit Court
Fairfax County
Lous C. Burley
Sixteenth Judicial Circuit
Blanche Parker
Rose Heyman
Trainmen Cleared in Childs Death Faulty Equipment Cited
A Washington Post report states a coroner’s jury found William Creegan died after being run over by an Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway car. Conductor and motorman were cleared. jury blamed defective brakes and crew ignorance of duties. Also covered are local obituaries, court notices, and civic questions.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
B. Moore
William Creegan
Michael Creegan
Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway Company
Leo P. Harlow
John S. Barker
Lewis H. Machen
Richard A. Acton
Walter Ti. Varney
Barker
William M. Smith
Raymond Smith
Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs Elects Officers at Lynchburg
The Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs adjourned after two days in Lynchburg and elected officers led by President Mrs J R Kyle. Other officers include second vice president Mrs Lucian Cocke and recording secretary Miss Bettie Conrad. The next meeting date to be set by the executive committee.
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Virginia Federation of Women’s Clubs
Lynchburg
Washington Post
J. R. Kyle
Lucian Cocke
Roanoke
Elizabeth Gish
Bettie Conrad
Manchester
Walter Ryan
Bedford City
Penniless Hebrew Man Suicide in Norfolk Home
Frank Medley a seventy five year old Hebrew man, destitute and despondent, jumped from a third story window at I Silverman 143 Queen Street in Norfolk. He struck the sidewalk head first, died instantly. He had recently sought shelter at the Second Precinct and spoke of having nothing to live for. Once prosperous in Baltimore, he lost everything in the great fire three years ago. he leaves a wife and an adopted child in Baltimore.
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Spreial
Norfolk
Frank Medley
Cardinger House
I. Silverman
Queen Street
Medley
Silverman
Second Precinct
Baltimore
Infant Torture Case in Rockville Investigated
In Rockville Maryland on May 17 authorities investigate cruelty charges involving a twelve months old colored infant. A man and his common law wife quarrel reportedly led to the baby being thrown at the woman. the child’s arm and leg were broken. The man allegedly held the injured child against a hot stove and forced it to stand on the broken leg to taunt the grandmother. State's Attorney Peter directs the probe.
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Washington Post
Rockville
Peter
GIVES NELMS ONE YEAR
Gate City Va May 17 In the trial of James Nelms charged with murder of Dr Carl Anderson his mother and two sisters Mrs Anderson and Jennie Nelms testified Dr Anderson came home about 930 last night They said they heard him say he would be in ten minutes Going into the room where he was they pacified him The doctor straightened out his right arm and blood fell They did not injure him and all stated that James Nelms did not do so After being out over an hour the jury returned a verdict of guilty giving Nelms one year in the penitentiary.
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Washington Post
Gate City
James Wnelms
Carl Anderson
Mrs. Anderson
Jennie Nelms
Anderson
James Nelms
Dr. Anderson
Nelms
Gen Baker Dead in Clarksburg West Virginia
Gen Samuel B Baker longtime adjutant general of the West Virginia National Guard and business manager of the Daily Telegram died at noon in Clarksburg He was born in 1833 at Davis England emigrated to the United States in 1869 and earlier worked in Lafayette Indiana He helped run the State Journal at Parkersburg and planned a military funeral in Parkersburg for burial.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Samuel B. Baker
Baker
West Virginia National Guard
Daily Telegram
Davis England
Lafayette
Ind
Gov. White
State Journal
Parkersburg
Scientific visit to fair marks National Geographic Society event
Jamestown Exposition officials plan a dirigible balloon flight in honor of the National Geographic Society field meeting on June 1. If weather fails, a large monster kite will be flown with four to six horses to pull the line. Aerial photography may occur. Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Co. runs the Newport News steamer to the exposition. Depart May 31 at 5 p m from Seventh Street. return after June 1, around 10–11 p m. About 200 people travel. Excursion committee: Col. Henry F. Blount, Admiral Chester, Frederick V. Coville, Gilbert Grosvenor, L. M. Bynson, Otto Steblert.
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Washington
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V. Chester
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Gilbert Grosvenor
L. M. Bynson
Otto Steblert
Endowment and church conference notes from city items
Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page donated 20000 dollars to the Instructive Visiting Nurse Association to fund one permanent visiting nurse. The group operates from 2001 I street and is led by President Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge. Page, once Mrs. Henry Field, also donated rare paintings to Chicago’s Museum of Fine Arts. The Philadelphia and Baltimore Annual Conference of the A M E Zion Church met at Galbraith Church with delegates elected for the 1908 General Conference in Philadelphia.
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I Street
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Page
Henry Cabot Lodge
Senator Lodge
Association
Arnold Hagar
Mira
Thomas Nelson Page
Henry Field
Marshall Field
Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts
S. L
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M. L. Blatock
Harrsburg
B.J. Bolding
Baltimore
James W. Poe
Washington, D. C
H. A. Wisher
W. A. Blackwell
FF. Matthews
J. Q. Adams
G. M. Oliver
Ceagral Conference
G. W. Clinton
Attacks in Douma End in Session Closure
A right wing drive in the St. Petersburg Douma aimed to dissolve the body after Mussulman deputy Hassanoff challenged autocratic rule. Golovine expelled three deputies for defiance as the chamber erupted into pandemonium before he shut the session, signaling further punishments to come.
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Washington Post
St. Petersburg
Douma
Zuraboft
Russia
Musoulman
Hassanoff
Golovine
Kolopovsky, Sazonovitch
Pareshekivitch
London grafters convicted at Central Criminal Court
Almost all of the West Ham board of guardians and infirmary officials were found guilty of bribery after their April trial. Sentences ranged six months to two years hard labor. Justice Jelt called the evidence a curse to the country and warned of a widening decline in public standards. A doctor paid 500 for a hospital appointment. Prosecuted by Attorney General Walton and team.
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London
West Ham Board of Guardians
Central Criminal Court
Justice Jelt
Walton
Dublin Condemns Irish Bill at Special Meeting
At a Dublin corporation meeting the aldermen condemned Mr. Birrell's Irish bill. They argued it would expand British control in Ireland, breed dissension, and mocked the Irish parliamentary party for bringing it forward. An amendment to reject the bill was ruled out of order amid gallery disruption.
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Corporation of Dublin
Birrell
Ireland
Irish Parliamentary Party
Secrets of Franco Japanese pact alleged to bind Japan
Paris and Russia report an authentic source says the Franco Japanese negotiation includes secretEuropean war clauses. Japan would deploy 360000 men to aid France while Britain transfers 163000 to 150000 troops and both powers guarantee Japanese territorial inviolability and float several loans. Diplomatic circles receive the claims with incredulity.
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St. Petersburg
Paris
The
Russ
Japan
France
Great Britain
CHECK TO SPECULATION Thirty Projects Dissolve in Japan
Advices from Japan report the speculative craze is cooling. Within weeks thirty projected companies dissolved with total capital of 250,000,000 dollars. Further relief expected as more concerns with 100,606,000 capital abandon plans. Large machine orders canceled, mostly in the United States. The government also declines to sanction thirty electric railways, opposing state ownership.
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Victoria
B. C
Japan
United States
Fulso
Thaw's Sister in England Silent on White Murder Case
The Countess of Yarmouth arrived in Liverpool on the Baltic from New York and refused to discuss her brother Harry Thaw's murder trial in New York. She evaded reporters by veiling her face and boarding a private compartment, with a railway label indicating reserved space. Passengers described her reticence during the voyage and her efforts to avoid comment on the case.
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Washington Post
London
Countess of Yarmouth
Liverpool
New York
Harry Thin
Stanford White
Countess of
Yarmouth
Baltic
Innocent Men Shot in Polish Terrorist Raid
In Warsaw and Lodz, Russian Poland, May 11 and May 17, terrorists attacked a Kuttner Spinning Mills wagon, killing 21 and wounding 47 Cossacks and workers, then robbed a wagon of $1,000. A separate raid on the Vistula Railroad office on Dluga street yielded $5,000 after a gunfight leaving four dead and nine wounded.
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Russian Poland
Lonkowa Street
Kuttner
Warsaw
Poland
Vistula
Dluga Street
Plague Death Toll Surges Across India in Six Weeks
Government figures show plague deaths in India totaled 451,898 for the six weeks ending May 11. Punjab accounted for 286,777 of these fatalities, amid a grim nationwide toll reported from British India.
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India
Punjab
Fortune Found in Ohio City Inn Ruins
In Cleveland on May 17 contractor B W Hollingsworth unearthed a tin box in the Ohio City Inn ruin on Detroit avenue northwest revealing Erie Railroad bonds valued at 116,740 and gold coins. The discovery ties to the 1874 disappearance of George C Moran and bones found earlier bolster murder theories. Bonds now rest with U S Judge Taylor for five years while Moran heirs are sought. if none are found Hollingsworth may reclaim one fourth of the value.
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Ohio
Erie Railroad
B. W. Hollingsworth
Ohio City
Detroit Avenue
George C. Moran
Hollingsworth
Moran
Erie Railway Company
Peary Reveals New Route Plan For Polar Quest
Commander Robert E Peary in Boston outlines a revised approach for his next attempt at the north pole He will push farther west along the North Grant Land Coast while staying windward to counter drift He vows no party separation and a perfected relay system to reload supplies and press forward with the pole party The 191st expedition will again rely on dogs and Esquimaux with a goal to win
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Boston
Robert E. Peary
North Pole
Peary
Grant Land
Chinese Reformers Win and Censor Sacked in Peking
In Peking Prince Ching is cleared of bribery, while Tuan Chih Kwei’s charges are dropped. The censor who filed them, Tsen Chun Suan, loses his post as new ministry of communications leadership shifts to a prominent reactionary. Paris Dog Show Opens at Tuileries Gardens drawing vast crowds with about 2000 exhibitors across many breeds.
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Prince Ching
Tuan Chih Kwei
Tsen Chun Suan
Ministry of Communications
Paris
Pens
Tuileries Gardens
Explosion at Ohio Valley Hospital Causes Severe Burns in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburg on May 17 an explosion in the Ohio Valley Hospital's drug room during gas meter work left three men severely burned and forty-two patients panicked. The blast shattered windows, toppled plaster, and caused about $5,000 in damage as the building shook and debris rained down.
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Pittsburg
Ohio Valley
Woman in Siegel Robbery in New York Scarce Detail
Mary De Rosa was arrested in Tombs prison on charges linked to the Siegel country home loot valued at 150000 including paint, silver, and jewelry. Police tie Oscar Miller and associates to the Bloomfield NJ burglary, with an informant alleging De Rosa assisted by distracting the watchman during the Siegel robbery.
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New York
Henry Siegel
Mamaroneck
Mary de Rosa
Tombs
Oscar Miller
Bloomfield
N. J
Miller
Siegel
Firemen Resilience in Explosive Brush & Stevens Blaze
Pittsburg May 17 two firemen injured as a boiler explosion follows a blaze at Brush Stevens Company plant. Five plants destroyed and several homes damaged as dynamite and oil stored in buildings intensified the fire. Capt Joseph Schloss and Willy Porter suffered injuries while battling flames amid collapsing timbers.
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Brush & Stevens Company
Joseph Schloss
No. $0 Company
Abris
Wilam Voler
No 0 Company
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