Dying Fighters Unattended Fight in Mexican War Latest
Reports from Magdalena Sonora and Hermosillo describe a battle near Agua Prieta with rebels gaining ground against government forces. Eyewitness accounts claim ambushes, reinforcements, and high casualties, while officials quote differing outcomes and the Yaqui question remains unsettled.
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Boy Shoots Sister in Harsh Lansdowne Tragedy
Philadelphia March 31 Aisa Kerr 18 fired a shotgun at a noise in his Lansdowne home and mortally wounded his sister Nellie 16 who died 15 minutes later.
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Lansdowne
Aisa der Kerr
Nellie
William Twaites Taken by Death in Black Hawk County
Long time resident William Twaites dies at 4:50 AM at 1309 Commercial Street Waterloo of bronchitis after Christmas illness. Born May 3 1838 in Low Row England, he and Jane Tiplady married in 1857 and later lived in Dubuque County Lincoln Township and Waterloo. Funeral at home Sunday nine o'clock, burial in Dubuque. Rev Frank Cole to lead services. The Buehner death also noted.
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Yorkshire
England
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Jane Tiplady
Dubuque County
Lincoln Township
Black Hawk County
Waterloo
Mr. Twaites
Dubuque
James
Joe
Lincoln
Township
Mary
Methodist Church
Frank Cole
M. E. Church
Buehner
N. Buehner
C. D. Buehner
Adams Street
Germany
Prominent Attorney Paid Ransom For Kidnapped Baby
Las Vegas Cal March 31 The baby of A T Rogers a noted attorney was kidnapped and held for thirteen thousand plus? No the ransom demanded was 17000 dollars The money was paid by Rogers last night at midnight at a remote spot in the surrounding mountains and the child was returned to him.
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Cal
A. T. Rogers
Rogers
Major League Clubs Open Local Championship Series
Philadelphia opens its pro baseball season with a nine game series between the two city clubs. The Americans start with the world champions in the opener on the AL field and the Nationals play the following day at the NL club grounds. Coombs faces Moore in the pitching matchup as Cincinnati deal players appear in the Nationals lineup.
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Cincinnati
Coombs
Moore
Nationals
Temperature marks and times from Buchanan Optical Co
A fragmented item lists temperatures and times with markings from the Buchanan Optical Co. including a pre dawn time and a morning reading. It reads as a garbled internal schedule or chart with unclear intervals and a sequence of initials.
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Buchanan Optical Co
Pioneering Flight Paris to Pau Averages 80.2 mph
Imey Les Moulineaux France reports Pierre Vaderine flew from Poitiers to Pau in a monoplane. He departed Poitiers at 6 18 and landed in Moulineaux at 8 30, maintaining an average speed of 80.2 miles per hour.
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Pau
Imey
Nine Mile Tunnel Pierce Through Swiss Alps
Workers pierced the Loet ehberg tunnel through the Bernes Alps near Berne at 88:50 this morning ending five and a half years of work and a $20,000,000 expenditure. The tunnel is Europe’s third longest at about 1,500 meters.
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Europe
New Congressional Leaders Set for April 4 Special Session
Washington reports that when Congress opens a special session on April 4 the Speaker will be Champ Clark of Missouri and the Senate will see Boles Penrose of Pennsylvania take the finance chairmanship. Penrose heads the conservative bloc in the upper house as tariff revision and reciprocity with Canada loom as top issues.
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Joseph G. Cannon
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Champ Clark
Missouri
Boles Penrose
Pennsylvania
Aldrich
Penrose
Senate
Pénrose
Clark
Canada
French aviators begin Pau to Paris flight attempt
Military Men Fis at Pau France note Captain Bellager Lieutenant de Malherbe and de Rose start at 7 o clock this morning to fly about 600 miles to Paris via Bordeaux aiming for the aero club cup for best flight from Paris to Pau.
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Resignation Sparks Split Over Circuit Ten Clubs
Danville aligned with southern clubs against Quincy and Decatur while Chicago and the North contend with Tearney. A tie vote left the motion to form a ten club circuit unresolved. Tearney overruled northern demands, adjourned amid tension, and the issue heads back to the National Commission for final ruling.
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Quincy
Decatur
Chicago
Tearney
Johnson
Frank Boyle
Palmer House
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National Commission
Iowa House Advances Bills Amid Slaughter of Measures
Des Moines reports the Iowa House convened with bills for a state publicity bureau municipal courts and nomination of US senators at general elections among measures recommended for indefinite postponement. Other actions include tax plans for real estate agents, funding for an anti-toxin department, and shifts in prisoner feeding and coal mine inspections.
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Iowa House of Representatives
United States
Ways and Means
Appropriations Committee
State Board of Health
Senate
Taylor
Clarkson
House
Hicken- Jooper
Allen
108 Years Old Never Wore Specs Passes in Council Bluffs
Henry William Suits aged 105 years and 6 months died in Council Bluffs after 58 years residence. He never wore glasses and had used tobacco for 90 years. Survived by two sons a daughter 30 grandchildren and 36 great grandchildren. He lived with his daughter Mrs Payne.
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Henry William Suits
Council Bluffs
Payne
Farmer Dies Saving Horse as Barn Burns
Mount Pleasant Ta March 1 Valentine Hinkle a 65 year old farmer was burned to death today while trying to lead a horse from his barn which caught fire presumably from his pipe.
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Mount Pleasant
Valentine Hinkle
Drowning of Local Farmer William Whitaker Near Wapsie River
William Whitaker a 47 year old unmarried farmer drowned in the Wapsie river last night. Rescuers heard his cries but could not save him. He had no local relatives but a brother lived in O'Brien county.
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Independence
J—William Whitaker
Wapsie River
O'Brien County
Two Law Makers for Black Hawk County Redistricting
Des Moines March 31. Grout will introduce a four districting bill this afternoon. It would grant Black Hawk county two representatives based on current population and may set a separate senator. The Great bill would add a representative for Black Hawk and Wapello counties while removing one from Lee and Des Moines counties.
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Des Moines
Body of Capitol Fire Victim Found
The body of Samuel J. Abbott, the sole victim of the state capitol fire, was found on the building’s fourth floor in the southwest corner where flames raged fiercest. A volunteer salvage corps including state library officers and library directors continued to search the premises for valuable manuscripts.
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Albany
N. J
Samuel J. Abbott
State Capitol
State Library
Spanish War Hero Lawsuit and Escape From Army
Sidney S. Burbank once a lieutenant in the Siathc Infantry and a Spanish war hero is reported in Mexico fighting for the insurrectos. He was a social figure in Leavenworth after a Philippines service and an annulled marriage to a Filipino wife. He served a fifteen month embezzlement sentence and was released in 1907 wandering away from army posts.
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Kan
Sidney S. Burbank
Siathc Infantry
Mexico
Army of the Insurrectos
Burbank
Philippines
Ft. Leavenworth
Turmoil in Three-I League Shifts Amid Tearney Vote
Chicago March 31 A Three-I league meeting opened with suspicions over withdrawal details from Waterloo and Dubuque injunctions. Tears and votes split northern and southern clubs as Tearney backed the south, committees were formed, and a resignation demand against Tearney surfaced before adjournment.
Fire Devours Stahl-Urban Factory in Danville
Fire at 4 this morning leveled the Stahl Urban Overall factory on North Hezel street in Danville Illinois. The blaze, likely sparked by-crossed electric wires, caused about 175000 dollars of damage and was under control by 10 a.m. Insurance partially covers the loss.
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Stahl-Urban Overall
Hezel Street
Chief Assassin Defies Danger in Italian Court
Eccentric Camorra head Erricone denies charges in Naples court, branding accusations as yellow journalism. The alleged chief of the Camorra, once a flower shop errand boy, recounts a rise through grain markets and cattle speculation before ruling Naples’ underworld and evading multiple arrests.
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Errleone
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Camorra
Erricone
Caife Fortunio
Naples
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Luiigi Zucel
Vicara
Gennaro Cuocedo
Ciro Vitozzi
America
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Brooklyn
Lowell Accepts Postage Rate Commission Post
Announcement from the White House states Professor A Lawrence Lowell of Harvard has joined the postal rate commission. Associate Justice Hughes of the Supreme Court is the chief commissioner and Lawrence Maywell of Cincinnati is the other member.
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White House
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Postal Rate Commission
Taft
Hughes
Supreme Court of the United States
Lawrence Maywell
Cincinnati
Evam Sunday Campaign Draws Valides to Tabernacle
In Tima Ohio readers report confined by illness still attend Evam Sunday’s closing campaign. Arrangements let bedridden valids hear the service in the tabernacle with a Sunday set attracting about 4,304 converts.
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Valids
Tabernacle
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