Ship Sinks with 60 Drowned Off Channel Islands
The Stella on its Easter excursion to the Channel Islands struck the Casquet rocks in dense fog near Alderney. Boiler explosions followed as the ship sank. 60 people drowned. Four boats with survivors were found, including 200 women saved from a boat. The captain perished.
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Southampton
Channel Islands
Casquet
Alderney
Lynx
Stella
London and Southampton Railway Company
Casquet Rocks
Macy
Island of
Jersey
Bush
Parton
Cherbourg
Marsouin
Trust Forming Checks Business and Finance News
Dun Says Period of Transition Has Imp arted Tracts with first quarter 1899 failures totaling about 26.7 million liabilities, down from 31.7 million last year, market uncertainty and antitrust law fears dampening activity. Arkansas sues 126 insurers under new anti trust law, blocking foreign companies. Blackstone resigns from Chicago and Alton after signaling reorganization by eastern syndicate. Armour funeral in Kansas City. 4th Infantry loss cited. Manila campaign reports drive rebels to hills with US artillery. Cupid and motherhood in health ad touts Dr Pierce products as safe, non narcotic remedies for women.
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Dun
New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Arkansaes
Latte Rock
Davis
Pulaski
Arkansas
Cupid
Dr. Pierce
Pierce
Anne Blacker
Catherine St
Syracuse
N. Y
R, Pierce
Norway Prepares War Effort Amid Nordic Tensions
A Gothenborg dispatch to the Daily Mail reports Norway prohibiting Swedish officers from inspecting forts or observing drills and planning to use railway funds for fortifications and war materials.
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Norway
Loxpon
Daily Mail
Gothenborg
Legislature Adjourns Amid Reports on Auditor and Supreme Court
Des Moines reports detail committee findings on the state auditor and the supreme court. The majority says no serious issues found in the court, while the minority accuses Judge Norval of felony and urges impeachment. Auditor is censured with no impeachment plan. A salary bill compromise sets total at 242000. Also notes a new senate precedent on reporting bills. Fred Townsend discusses state convention timing with Aug 2 venue secured, pending full committee vote.
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Cornell
Minority Report
Norval
State Auditor
Supreme Court
Representative Shore
House
Conference
Senate
Gilbert
Des Moines
Fred Townsend
Albia
Democratic State Central Committee
George Huffman
Democratic State Central Committees
Insurance double tax dispute in Des Moines hearing set
Paxesa must pay twice if county tax levied after already paying state tax. Hearing on demurrer by County Attorney Cheshire to writs of injunction set for Monday. Also reports of bankruptcy filing in Fort Dover Iowa involving Isaac Whitaker with assets 7280 and liabilities 317,891.69. Expunged Stotsenberg censure in Nebraska legislature. Des Moines depot to open with banquet and ball. owned by Des Moines Union Terminal. Astor not a British citizen. naturalization not recorded in Official Gazette.
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Paxesa
Des Moines
Cheshire
Failh
Fort Dover
United States
Johnston
Isaac Whitaker
Clear Lake
Kansas City
Mason City
Des Moinest
Des Moines Duiou Terminal Company
Rock Island
Joint High Commission to settle Samoa differences
A three-nation plan to settle Samoa issues gains practical agreement with Britain, the United States and Germany backing a single-commission authority. King Oscar of Sweden and Norway would act as umpire if the panel cannot decide, aiming to prevent deadlocks and delays in Samoa affairs.
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Germany
Hay
High Commission
Oscar
Norway
Sweden
United States
Governor Gage Signs Prize Fight Bill in California
Telegraphic briefs report Governor Gage signs the Rickard bill legalizing prize fighting up to twenty rounds. Elisha Swan, a nineteen year old Black man, hanged at Bastrop Texas after choking by the fall. Swan killed his father. In Tennessee at Shiloh National Park three men died and two injured by a bank collapse while gravel pit work. Dead are Washburn Harris and Chamness. Western New York and Pennsylvania Oil City shops carpenters machinists and boilermakers demand ten percent wage cut restoration and threaten to strike. Brigadier General Henry Merriam given temporary command of Missouri department alongside Choctaw? conado. Texas attorney general advises state to block Eureka Banana and Development Co. New Jersey corporation TM a'. E. Collins calls sixth annual National Hay Association convention at Detroit May 19 with a new classification for grades of hay and straw.
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Gage
California
Elisha Swan
Bastrop
Tex
Swan
Shiloh National Park
Tenn
Washburn, Harris and Chamness
New York
Pennsylvania
Oil City
Henry
Merriam
Department of Missouri
Department of the Conado
Texas
Eureka Banana and Development Company
New Jersey Corporation
Beef inquiry hearings reveal beef contract time limit dispute
Washington dispatch reports Captain Davis, author of the time limit clause in the Swift & Co. beef contract, and Morris of Morris & Co. offer differing interpretations. Morris says direct sales to the government were minimal, but firm sales to another house passed to the army. Florida witnesses test the Lakeland beef quality as good. A cyclone hits Riderville Alabama causing major damage to a sawmill and several homes. Ex Governor Jackson visited the mills during the storm, escaping injury. Houston fire devastates Pillot and adjacent E P Hill buildings, $85,000 loss.
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Army Beaf
George Davis
Morris
Chicago
Morris & Co
Davis
Swift & Co
Eagan
Florida
Lakeland
Alabama
Sena
Ala
Riderville
BE. E. Jackson Lumber Company and Company
Jackson
Maryland
Telegrams Tersely Told
Ex secretary Sherman improves Speaker Reed returns to Washington from Jekyls Island three creditors filed against actor Neil Burgess in New York Colonel Thomas M Anderson named brigadier general to succed Eewin Sumner in the regular army Quay Jenks Allwell lead 68rd U S senate ballot Emory Smith to respond to Union toast in Chicago April 10 Bill Turner arrested in Eureka murder case Otto Sicloff defeats Jack Lewis in six rounds Detroit council to vote for three commissioners to municipalize street railways Logan breaks record Savannah to Havana in 90 hours Richard Hale Thomas Jolson Sam Rivers hanged at Troy Alabama for murder several people bitten by mad dog at Lawndale Illinois animal killed
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Reed
Washington
Jekyl's Island
Neil Burgess
New York
Thomas M. Anderson
Eewin V. Sumner
United States
Harrisburg
Quay
Jenks
al Well
Charles Emory Smith
Ihe
Hamilton Club
Chicago
Bill Turner
Joseph New
Eureka
Kan
Allgood
Nickerson
Wichita
Otto Sicloff
Detroit
Jack Lewis
Hogan
Detroit Common Council
Detroit Street Railways
Logan
Savannah
Havana
Indiana
Richard Hale
Thomas Jolson
Sam Rivers
Troy
Ala
Iraeyera
E. Moyers
Lawndale
Joseph Pehorek
Andrew Toyper
Annis Ehrmeke
Roger O’brien
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Atlantic
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