Republicans divided over Tillman McLaurin punishment in Senate
Congress hours of debate reveal Republicans favor harsher rebuke for Tillman than McLaurin while Democrats resist discrimination. A subcommittee will draft a resolution for the full privileges and elections committee, with meetings set to continue to Friday.
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Repubican
Tilkwan
McLaurin
Committee On Privileges and Elections
South Carolina
Aho
Senate
Tillman
Senator McLaurin
Balle
Senator Tilman
Thimga
Burrows Hoar Foraker
Pettus and Bailey
Fwil
Flaming End to Progress Ship Burned in North Chicago Harbor
The 92 year old whaler Progress launched in 1809 in New Bedford for whaling met a dramatic end in North Chicago harbor. A mysterious fire destroyed the vessel, with no effort to extinguish it. The wreck was later blown to pieces by dynamite, leaving a dangerous debris field for navigation.
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Chicago
North Atlantic
Progress
New Bedford
Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discourse on Blood Purification
An old promotional piece extols Doctor Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a non alcoholic non narcotic remedy. It claims the product purifies blood by treating stomach and digestive disorders thought to cause impure blood and eruptions.
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Eaon
Nutrien
Deetor _ Pierce’s “siden
A. Wil
Barrer
Pierce
Port Angeles Sailors Certify German Bark Los Adelphes Plight
Port Angeles Washington February 26 The French bark Los Adelphes 162 days from Madagascar bound for Portland Oregon arrived today with most of the crew suffering scurvy They subsisted on one biscuit per man daily for days with little fresh water The cook F L Flech died of ague and exposure and was buried at sea Captain F Coffin wore a bandage to cover his nose and face A survey for supplies was hastily loaded aboard and the vessel rode out the storm with no damage
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Port Angeles
Wash
Los Adelphes
Madagascar
Portland
Oreg
F L. Flech
F Coffin
Senate Adjourns Amid McLaurin Tillman Controversy
Washington February 26 The Senate adjourned to 11 45 am tomorrow amid the McLaurin Tillman dispute over their right to participate. Senator Foraker moved the adjournment time and the measure was approved as the body moved to continue discussion on the contempt law and privileges questions.
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Tillman-McLaurin
Washington
Senate
McLerin
Tillman
South Carolina
Foraker
Ohio
McKipley
House of Representatives
Vir Burrows
Michigan
Crazy Snakes Sentenced to Fort Leavenworth Prison
Chatto Wargo known as Crazy Snake and nine followers were sentenced in Muskogee to two years in the United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth and fined for conspiring against the government. Leaders include Gilbert Johnson Chetka James Abraham McIntosh Louis Mitchell Louis Hargo Squirrel John Timothy George Simmons and Little Tiger in the Snake gang resisting Dawes allotment in Creek Nation.
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Leavenworth
Muskogee
Ind
Chatto Wargo
Crazy Snake
United States
Fort Leavenworth
Kana
Snake Gang
Dawes Commission
Gilbert Johnson
Chetka James
Abraham McIntosh
Louis Mitchell
Louis Hargo Squirrel
John Timothy
George Simmons
Little Tiger
Second Gusher Struck in Kentucky by Atlantic and Pacific
The Atlantic and Pacific Oil Company of New York strikes a second gusher at Barbourville Kentucky on February 26. It shows a flow of about four thousand barrels daily, the largest refilling oil well ever drilled in the United States. Managers arrive to arrange tankage and pipe lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic and Pacific Oil Company
Kentucky
Barbouraville
New York
Ith
United States
Sidell Faces Unique Municipal Predicament After Officials Die
Danville Illinois February 26 Sidell town is without officials ordinances or laws after Mayor Charles Goof died from a gunshot wound and County Treasurer George Clark Cohen resigned and left for Oklahoma A committee is to draft new ordinances and at the next council meeting a mayor and treasurer will be appointed This unprecedented situation marks a historic municipal predicament in Sidell.
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Danville
Ill
Sidell
Charles Goof
George Clark Cohen
Oklahoma
Sidelia
Rollins Bingham May Escape Forgery Case
Kansas City February 26 Rollins Bingham once a society man is charged with forging deeds to his mother’s property to gain 920000. He may go free for lack of evidence as two key witnesses are dead and others have forgotten details. Indicted thirteen years ago, he surrendered in Beaumont Texas last month and the case was postponed until the April term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Rollins Bingham
Bingham
Beaumont
Tex
Hadley
German tariff deal in Reichstag committee amid bitter debate
The Reichstag tariff committee approved a compromise amendment to corn duties despite strong government opposition. The vote was 12 ayes to 10 noes with critics arguing dissension would damage export trade and agriculture. The plan sets wheat and corn rates at 6 and 7 marks per 1000 kilograms and oats and barley at 6 and 7 marks per 1000 kilograms.
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Beran
Reichstag
Count von Sohtwerth
Reichsstag
Herr Moeler
Tariff Committee
Wage Advance Agreement Reported in Fall River
A February 26 notice from Fall River Massachusetts describes an agreement to voluntarily advance wages for miners. The document references a plan involving statements from manufacturer agents and the expected effect as planned.
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Fall River
Mass
Panama Railroad Defends Monopoly at Canal Hearings
Washington February 26 E A Drake vice president and secretary and Charles Payne general manager of the Panama Railroad Company testified before the Interoceanic canals committee. Drake said transcontinental roads had no part in the contracts and the railroad could not fear canal competition while it nets about 9000000 annually. He noted twelve deaths in five years among about 398 employees, mostly from the United States, for health conditions.
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Panama Railroad Company
Washington
A Drake
Charles Payne
State Committee On Interoceanic Canals
Morgan
Panama
Panama Company
Drake
Panama Railroad
Queston
United States
Boy 14 Takes Poison to Die for Mother
February 26 report of 14-year-old Charles Anderson who killed himself by poison following his mother’s death. A childlike note to his father expresses despair and desire to die, mentioning the money left by his mother. An unrelated ad for Lazative Bromo Quinine Tablets references a cold cure and guarantees.
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Mamma
Chiedeo
Charles Anderson
Box
E. W. Grove
Students in Convention in Toronto With 2500 Delegates
About 2,560 delegates have arrived in Toronto for the student volunteer movement convention. The event aims to boost missionary spirit and strengthen links between United States and Canadian youth. Massey Hall hosted the formal opening led by John R Mott with welcomes from Toronto church and college leaders including Dr Sweetman Dr Cavan and Rev John Potts D D.
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Toronto
Student Volunteer Movement
United States
Canada
Massey
John R Mott
Inok
Sweetman
Cavan
Knor Presbyterian College
John Potts
Methodist Church In Canada
Defied by railroad men data refused to Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago February. Interstate Commerce Commission and western railroads locked in dispute over data on rebates paid during 1901. Traffic managers refuse to furnish the commission with the information, claiming lack of power to compel production. Rail officials say the commission seeks to punish the packers who accepted rebates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Color line in women clubs dispute move to states
Massachusetts women club presidents favor a state based compromise on admitting colored organizations to the general federation. The executive board rejects the compromise, while presidents urge reconsideration.
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Hack State
Boston
Women's Club
Massachusetts
General Federaton
Women's Cubs
Executive Board
State Federation
Boers Attack British Outpost in Transvaal Skirmishes
Lord Kitchener reports 600 Boers drove cattle at Bothasberg night of February 2 some penetrated line leaving fifteen Boers dead and six wounded. A convoy of empty wagons was captured near Klerksdorp on February 24. In a separate clash 600 Boers tried to breach Wrede dock house line under Byng and Rimington with British losses of two officers and eighteen men killed and five officers and thirty-three men wounded.
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London
Lord Kitchener
Bothasberg
Transvaal
Klerksdorp
Savage Rebel Captive and Ammunition Tools Found
Distrurbing reports from Washington detail the capture of General Lucban on Samar by Lieutenant Strebler and the destruction of his camp. Also seized were arms, ammunition making tools, and the deserter William Dunston. Eleven rebels died as the conflict intensified on the Philippine island.
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Washington
Chaffee
War Department
Strebler
Philippine Scouts
Lucban
Laguan
William Dunston
Company C
Eighth Infantry
Pratt
Caghayan
Samar
Dunstan
Luchan
Aguinaldo
Buchan
Insurgenta
Manala
General Smith
United States
Ecouta
Lucpan
Captita
Philippines
Abuke
Sale of Girls Forbidden Liberates Thousands in Japan
The Meth odist Protestant board of foreign missions met in Itsburg Pa on February 26 as U S Grant Murphy in Yokohama reported a court decision against the centuries old practice of selling daughters to disorderly houses. The ruling frees over 65 000 girls with about 11 000 already escaped bondage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Itsburg
Methodist Protestant Board of Foreign Missions of the
United States
Thomas Jefferson Ogburn
Summerfielda
N. C
Thomas Lewis
Board of
West Maryland
U S Grant Murphy
Yokohama
Japan
Mr Murphy
Supreme Court of Japan
Wyndham denounces United Irish League as menace
London February 26 Rt Hon George Wyndham chief secretary for Ireland spoke at the Carleton Club on the Irish question condemning the United Irish League as a political menace and corrupting Ireland’s moral fabric. He urged stern use of the Grimes Act, denied doom for small farmers, and outlined a cattle farming scheme to aid both large and small landholders.
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United States League
London
George Wyndham
Ireland
Carleton Club
United Irish League
Stubborn cold or bronchitis relief with Scott's Emulsion
A stubborn cold or bronchitis yields to Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil, soothing the throat and bronchial tubes. For immediate relief during nocturnal coughing, a dose provides quick relief where cough medicines fail. Send for free sample. SLCIT & BCWHS, Chemsta yoy Pear ot, v
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Scott
SLCIT
Chemsta Yoy Pear
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Relief From Rheumatism
An old notice touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for rheumatism and related pains. It claims the tonic removes the disease’s cause, enabling sufferers to move with less stiffness, even citing a Sidney Iowa reader and a farmer’s father who claims the medicine restored his ability to work.
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Hood
San Tate
Ana Dory
Sidney
Jows
Moud
Ananias His Superior in Patrick Rice Murder Trial
In New York on February 26 the Patrick murder trial continued with Charles F. Jones the valet under cross examination. He confessed to four stories about Rice’s death, three blaming Patrick and one claiming Jones killed Rice with chloroform. The defense pressed that Jones lied to gain immunity, and he admitted some statements were false while detailing hospital visits, signatures, and destroyed checks as a result of fear Patrick would be exposed.
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New York
Patrick
Charles F. Jones
Jones
Millionaire Rice
Osborne
Captain Baker
George Gorden Battle
Mr Battle
Moore
Battle
Rice
Mr Moore
Swenson
Madison Avenue
Mr. Rice
Mr Rice
Madison Avenue House
Fifth Avenue Trust Company
Fifth Avenue
Wes
Buffalo Robber Held as City Teller Charged with Grand Larceny
In Buffalo on February 76, Henry Baker a former waving teller in the city treasury offices was arrested today charged with grand larceny for the alleged misappropriation of 8,900 funds entrusted to his care. Louis Hickerts, a former city treasurer collector, was also whispered to be under inquiry as investigators pursued the case.
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Buffalo
Henry
Baker
Louis Hickerts
R. Fender
Ares
Illinois Mob Murders Man At Nortonville
In Nortonville, Illinois, a mob shot and killed Hughes after he had fled there from prior lynching threats. He had returned to buy cattle, despite a warning to avoid Nortonville, and was killed by bullets fired through his room window. Hughes, 27, had moved to the county from Kentucky four years ago, leaving a widow and one child.
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Jacksonville
Wooadford Hughes
Nortonville
Hughes
James Sweerey
Sweeney
Kentucky
Sparks From The Wires Collects Wide News From Across States
Iowa approves woman suffrage. Pennsylvania tunnel project sent to New York Senate and Assembly. Indiana sees fatal home explosion burying Harriet Achey and two others. Minnesota funds Northern Securities challenge. Chicago milk graded by distance. New York building strike involves 1500 workers. California storm floods rails, utilities suffer. Guthrie judges railroad right of way. North Atlantic squadron to depart Cuba for Colombia and Venezuela. Chickasaw Trust Bank formed in Oklahoma with national financiers.
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Allen
Iowa
Pennsylvania Hall Road Company
Borough of
Manhattan
New York City
New York Senate
Kokomo
Ind
Harriet Achey
Achey
Ida Achey
Blanche Barrington
Minnesota House of Representatives
Senate
State of Minnesota
Northern Securities Company
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Chicago
New York
San Francisco
California
Guthrie
Oklo
Burford
Chocotaw Railroad Company
Missouri, Kansas
Texas
Missouri
Kansas
Navy Department
North Atlantis
Cienfuegos
Cuba
Colon
Kearsarge
Alabama
Magrachvaetts
Indiana
Machias
Potomac
Golon
Colombia
Venezuela
Trinidad
Riots erupt amid Ukrainian student unrest in Kiev
London reports confirm student riots at Kiev beginning February 15 lasting three days. Some students killed and many injured in clashes with Cossacks. Riots may have spread to other university towns. Workers and laborers support the protests, signaling wider social discontent beyond academia.
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London
Bt Peterapure
the Times
Kieff
Cone Theta
Hieff
Curing Mem For 19 Years at Austell Building
A historical medical advertisement claims a unique method cures mem problems and related sexual health issues. It offers personal treatment by the author, with a promise of five to ten years for complete cure, and invites readers to write their case if a visit to Atlanta is unavailable. Consultation is stated as free.
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Sion
Austell
Atlanta, Ga
Rosebery forms new Liberal League with key Liberal leaders
London February 24 Lord Rosebery authorized creation of a new Liberal League naming himself president and H H Asquith Sir Henry Fowler and Sir Edward Grey as vice presidents. The move aligns with his Chesterfield speech policy as a test of Liberal strength among followers.
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Lord Rosebery
London
Liberal League
H H Asquith
Henry Fowler
Edward Grey
Preszea
Chesterfield
Superintendents to Meet Next Year in New Orleans
The National Association of School Superintendents decided to postpone the vote on the proposed new constitution until next year. Forenoon speakers included Dr W. H. Pulne from the University of Michigan and Dr W Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, with Superintendent Greenwood of Kansas public schools also addressing attendees. The next annual meeting is set for New Orleans.
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Crescent City
Chicago
Department of Superintendents
National Association
Ww H Pulne
University of Michigan
W . Harris
United States Commissioner of Education
Greenwood
Kansanity
New Orleans
Cole Confesses Forging Checks at Lawrenc eburg Bank
Robert Cole admitted forging a check on the Lawrenceburg Bank in Tennessee and said his father is the postmaster there He pledged to restore the funds and claimed a month in a mental asylum He traveled to Knoxville with 124 dollars last Saturday and spent it all on the Bowery Baraboo Wis February 23 D W KK Noyes jailed for forging his mother's name to a note and cashing it at First National Bank He was once a justice of the peace and is brother to Arthur and Noel who lost his Alaska judge post today
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Tolstoi
Cape Town
Radzywil
Schelta
Cgeell Rhodes
Bucharest
Witz Trades Union
Cole
Lawrenceburg
Knoxvile
Tenn
Robert Cole
Lawrenceburn Ga
Knoxville
Bowery
Noyes
Baraboo, Wis
First National Bank
Justee of the Peace
Arthur & Noel
Alaska
American Shaman in Peril in England Lynching Near Miss
Charles Brown an American sailor on the Liverpool steamer Beacon Light shot two sailors after a quarrel on board anchored at Tyne. He fled but was captured after a struggle on the dock and faced a mob before being taken to a police station. A revolver discharge wounded another sailor as a cartridge exploded on the table.
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Charles Brown
England
London
South Shields
Durham
Beacon Light
Kelley
Tyne
Brown
Donnell Brown
Ielee
British Delegates Withdraw From Sugar Conference
London February 27 The Brussels correspondents say the British minister to Belgium reports Britain will withdraw its delegates from the International Sugar Conference after Germany and Austria refuse to accept a proposed sugar tax reduction to five francs.
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London
Brussels
Dally Matt
Belgium
Belgtan
Ugar
Germany
Austria
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