Warships Wreck Forts as Spanish Loss Said Heavy
Key West April 28 United States ships New York Puritan and Cincinnati under Admiral Sampson bombarded Matanzas harbor defenses. Batteries at Rubal Cava and Cape Maya were destroyed within 20 minutes. The Puritan and Cincinnati supported the New York while crews shouted Remember the Maine. Matanzas is a Cuban port city with sugar shipping and about eighty two thousand residents.
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New York
Puritan
Cincinnati
Sampson
Matanzas Harbor
Point Rubal Unva
Point Maya
Hattie
Cape Maya
Ruba Cava
United States
Chester
Maine
Matanzas
Bay of
Cuba
Havana
Havang
Saya
Key West
Fla
Blanco
Minor News Items Tied to Puerto Rico Fires and Political Moves
Week ending May 2 reports smallpox deaths in Puerto Rico, prairie fires destroying 630000 acres in Meckley and Pecos counties Texas, notable deaths including Fred Meyers and Brig. Gen Edwin Mason, political nominations in Illinois, court rulings on divorces in North Dakota, lake navigation insurance losses, storms at Hampton Roads, and multiple local disasters across the United States and Canada.
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Tex
Fred Meyers
Dentson
Denison
Twenty-first
Ilinois
Fred J. Kern
Congress
Edwin ©. Mason
U.S
Virginia
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Santa Cruz
Cal
Bull” McCarthy
Philadelphia
Griffo
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Flying Squadron
Hampton Roads
William Peters
Edward Linstead
Walter York
James Miller
Newmarket
Ont
John Y. McKane
Sing Sing
New York
Vive
R. Herschel & Co
Peoria
Ill
Antonio Auer
George
Cincinnati
Punta Gorda
Matanzas
Double Murder at Black Earth Ends in Arson
In Black Earth on the St Paul road two men killed Mr Andrew Nelson age 71 and his wife 16 at their home Wednesday night. They crushed the old man's head with a club and beat the wife into unconsciousness, then set fire to the house destroying the bodies. Robbery was the motive. Nelson had sold his property for 400 dollars recently and the killers likely sought the money but no finding is confirmed.
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Madison
Wis
Black Earth
St. Paul Road
Andrew Nelson
Nelson
Loscobel
Train Held Up in Comstock Texas Robbers Take $20000
Four masked men seized Southern Pacific passenger train No 20 in Comstock Texas at midnight. The robber crew detached the express car and engine two miles west, wrecked the through safe with an explosion, and stole the entire cash contents totaling $20000. No injuries or passenger disturbances reported.
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Southern Pacific Express
Texas
Paso
Tex
Southern Pacific
Comstock
Wind Brings Death in Midwest Tornado Outbreak
A tornado traced from Nebraska into South Dakota and Iowa killed one man, destroyed many homes in Maurice Sheldon Akron and Ashton, and killed two children near Sheldon. The storm caused extensive damage in Elk Point area and left several communities rebuilding.
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Nebraska
South Dakota
Elk Point
John P. Johnson
Iowa
Maurice
Sheldon
Akron
Ashton
Lemkahl
Congress Daily Summary of the Cuban Question
Reported daily dispatches from Washington detail Senate and House actions from late April into May. Key items include the confirmation of William R Day as secretary of state, naval and army appropriations, pension bills, and debates on war revenue measures and bonds versus taxation for war costs. The period notes several adjournments and conference reports on naval and army matters.
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William R. Day
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Thutler
N. C
United States
House
United States of America
Kingdom of Spain
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Young
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Dingley
Spain
Powder Mills Explosion Kills Six at Atlantic Powder Plant
In Dover New Jersey at Atlantic Powder works a series of blasts on Thursday afternoon reduced the plant to ruins. Six workers are dead and four others severely injured possibly fatally. Nearby, another fatality occurred in Appleton Wisconsin where Thomas Walsh and his wife were struck by a southbound freight train.
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Dover
Morris County
N. J
Atlantic Powder Company
Booker T Washington urges fair ballot by educating both races
In an open letter to Louisiana's constitutional convention in New Orleans, Booker T. Washington argues for ballot restrictions only if just to both races and urges expanding schoolhouses. He warns that laws harming the ignorant white or black would injure all and calls for broad educational opportunities to empower citizens and ensure reliable voting rights.
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Renee
Louis
Texas
Ohio
Wwe
Booker T. Washington Seida Vo
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee
Ala
New Orleans
South
Letter Unbroken for 124 Years Revealed by Massachusetts Society
At the February meeting of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts in Boston the group heard a 124 year old letter read. Written by Henry Pelham to Elihu Wall at Salem it recalls Walls hurried departure for England without paying for Pelham's portrait. Details include Pelham and Gromfield family papers and new notes on Mrs Velham and Henry Velham a Boston portraitist in 1774. Denison Rogers Slade broke the seal and presented the letter.
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Colonial Society of Massachusetts
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Boston
Henry Pelham
Elihu Wall
Salem
Mass
England
Pelham
Wall
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Gromfields
Denison Rogers Slade
Peter Velham
John Singleton Copley
Henry Velham
Mr. Slade
Smitherta
Copleys
Ilenry Pelham
DANCES IN COURT IN TIGHTS IN BOS TON
In Boston a court case ends with La Belle Frieda performing in tights before Judge Ely after a raid by Watch and Ward society officials. Frieda and Phil Pamberg are discharged, the judge deeming no crime in the couchee couchee dance and noting a gay day in the courthouse.
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Ely
Boston
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