Maine Mine Evidence Sparks Spanish Conspiracy Claim
Joseph Parnell Gibbins, mine inventor, asserts ships to Havana and Ferrol carried his submarine mines for Spain and that the Maine was destroyed by one of his devices. He details mine types, firing procedures, and Spanish officers as responsible, while reporting war activity in Luzon and naval movements at League Island. Other items note the Katahdin sailing with orders, a fatal case in An Iowa town, and a jailer murder in Kansas.
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Press Puublishing Company
Loxpoy
Joseph Parnell Gibbins
Spain
Maine
Havana
Senor Jose
Washington
West India Dock
London
Luzon
Vancouver
B. C
Subig
Apalit
Zandales
Tarac
Pangasinan
Manila
Bolinao
FIFTEEN WARSHIPS TO SAIL FOR ATLANTIC WATERS
Fifteen Spanish men of war will leave Cadiz immediately for Cape Verde islands. Reinforcements are sent to Bulaeria islands in the Mediterranean and Canarian militia will be mobilized. Ministers Correa and Bermejo coordinate urgent actions amid warnings of possible conflict with the United States.
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Cadiz
Cape Verde Islands
MaAvin
Paris
Bulaeria Islands
Mediterranean
Canary Islands
Correa
Bermejo
United States
Senor Moret
Cuba
Peninsula
McKinley
American Congress
Bryan Addresses Large Audience at Ohio Valley League Meet
An audience of about 5 000 greeted William J Bryan at Tomlinson hall Indianapolis as the second convention of the League of Bimetallic clubs of the Ohio valley closed. Samuel E Morse presided Towne spoke H S Taylor read an original poem. Bryan received an ovation and spoke about currency for an hour and a half with a casual nod to the Cuban question.
Lee Warns Miss Burton Over Cuba Stay
Stephen Barton, chairman of the Central Cuban Relief commission, reports Miss Clara Burton of the National Red Cross in Cuba was advised by Consul General Lee to leave the island at once. Barton notes she did not discuss Cuba's condition.
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Lee
Miss Burton
New York
Stephen Barton
Central Cuban Relief Commission
Clara Burton
National Red Cross Society
Cuba
Onesas
Miss Barton
Frost Damages Fruit in Tennessee and Surrounding Areas
Reports from Tennessee, north Alabama, and north Georgia show heavy frost damage to fruit and berry crops from Tuesday and last night. In many sections the peach crop was ruined and the berry crop halved, with early vegetables killed. Loss will run to many thousands.
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Quatranooga
Tenn
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
War Likely as Europe Presses Madrid on Cuba Crisis
April 8 dispatches report no doubt of U S aims in Cuba with war seen as inevitable unless Spain yields. Six European powers deliver a joint note to President McKinley urging peace while Consul General Lee prepares to leave Havana. The administration maintains it will intervene, and no mediation is accepted.
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Spain
Lesnoy
April S
Madrid
France
Germany
Russia
Italy
Senor Gullon
United States
Wasuineron
Cuba
Congress
Europe
White House
McKinley
Havana
Lee
Preas
Woodford
Carrero
Cubs
Washington Post Report on Cuban Crisis and War Likely
Washington Post summary reports that McKinley’s message to Congress was delayed awaiting General Lee’s Havana cable. It notes plans to seek immediate intervention, insistence on Cuban independence, and Spain’s troops withdrawal. It warns war seems inevitable without concessions, with no mediation accepted. Province Rhode Island notes a strong Republican victory with Dyer as governor and Aldrich likely to be re-elected.
Sagers and Vanbrough Set Unpaced Tandem Records
Denver riders William F. Sager and E. 8. Vanbrough broke all unpaced tandem records from 11 to 2 miles including the unpaced one hour mark on the new board quarter mile track. Referee was W. I. Doty. They hold a National Cycle Track association contract and depart for the east later this week. One hour distance was 24 miles 902 yards with the last half mile in 30 seconds.
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Denver
William F. Sager
Vanbrough
W. I. Doty
L. A. W. Racing Board
National Cycle Track Association
Victory for Carpenters Ends Strike in Chaco
The carpenters strike that began Monday ended yesterday as all large contractors signed the union carpenters' agreement. About 6000 union carpenters quit work, and the new pact mirrors the old with a weekly payday, Saturday half holiday in summer, and stricter enforcement of the 7 cent wage scale. Inundated farms and flood damage follow in Sprinchett, Ohio, where 400 feet of the Lewiston reservoir waste-way gave way. Thousands of acres flood, barns and fences damaged, crops harmed. no lives lost, property loss estimated at 50,000 pounds. Troops mobilize for Chickamauga. Chattanooga expects infantry regiments to camp there by week’s end.
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Carpenters
Chaco
Sprinchett, O
Lewiston
Logan County
Chickamauga
Cuarranooga
Chickamauga Park
Republican convention nominates Kirkpatrick for Third Kansas
In Empo r Ind ependence Kansas April 7 the Republican convention for the Third Kansas district nominated Congressman S S Kirkpatrick to succeed Hon E P Ridgley the Populist incumbent. The body adopted resolutions calling for complete and absolute independence of Cuba by peaceful means where possible but direct intervention deemed necessary.
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Inperendence
Kan
Kansas
Kirkpatrick
E. P. Ridgley
Cuba
MB Neccssary
Atlantic council weighs poles and sidewalks in special session
The Atlantic city council met in a special session with the mayor and all councilmen present to approve ordinances granting the Atlantic Mt Etna and Corning Telecommunications Co the right to erect and maintain poles and wires. A Locust street sidewalk petition was granted and an ordinance proposal limits hitching to poles with penalties from 1 to 5 dollars. Debate over auction sales at Fourth and Chestnut prompted relocation to hay market lots. The park from the fountain to the southeast corner will receive a four foot walk, with Parks officials and local greenhouses offering improvements.
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Omy
City Council
Atlantic, Mt. Etna & Corning ‘Telephone Company
Vright
Pawick Boyle
Okey
Joel Perkins
Locust Street
Eleventh
Twelfth
Atlantic
Fourth
Chestnut Streets
Atlantic, Co. G. Anderson & Co
Green House
King Otto of Bavaria Nears Death
A reassessment of world events notes King Otto of Bavaria gravely ill. Canada posts a deficit of 519,051 dollars for the past year. In Pittsburg district 4 500 coal miners strike in opposition to President Dolan's orders. An Odessa dispatch cites rising wheat prices due to American war scare with limited stocks. Herbert G. Nichola, 50, held in New York on embezzlement charges of 150,000 dollars from Browning Kings Co. Chicago six years ago. Iowa legislature passes a bill legalizing reinsurance of cooperative life and accident associations. Richard F. Loper, VP and GM of Guarantors' Finance Co, held in 45,000 dollars bail in Philadelphia on conspiracy to defraud the People's Bank.
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King Otto
Bavaria
Canada
Dolan
Pittsburgh
Odessa
Russia
Herbert G. Nichola
New York
Browning, King 'S Co
Chicago
Iowa
Co-Operative Life and Accident Associations
Atte
Richard F. Loper
Theuaranteers’ Finance Company
Philadelphia
People's Bank
Wonders of Science cures for consumption advertised
Distinguished New York chemist T. A. Slocum offers three free bottles of his New Discoveries for consumption and related lung diseases. He claims thousands cured worldwide and urges readers to write to 98 Pine St New York, mentioning Tas Telegraph.
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New York
T. A. Slocum
Telegraph
Science Daily
T. A Slocum
M. D
Pine St
Suiferera
Tas Telegears
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