Chemicals on Beef Stir War Court Testimony
In Leavenworth Fort Leavenworth army court of inquiry ends testimony with Sergeant Edward Mason saying Lakeland meat was chemically treated and waxed with preservaline. St. Louis probe widens as Garlington and Miles back witnesses. Castilian wreck looting reported. militia deployed in Colorado. Des Moines school board limits vacation powers. Havana clashes injure 80 to 60. police captain wounded amid anti police sentiment and gunfire at a mulatto ball.
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Witnews
Court of Inquiry
Mason
Milew
St. Louis
Chicago
Lakeland
Armour & Co
Lakelands
Louta Hay
Louis
War Board of Inquiry
E. A. Garlington
Garlington
Omaha
Nelson A. Miles
Des Moines
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
R. C. Barrett
Boards of Education
Julius Bacon
West Des Moines
Bacon
Barrett
Bepves
Havana
Estampes
Maximo Gomez
San Jose
Kudlow Tires of His Post in Havana
Major General Ludlow, Havana military governor, wishes to leave his duties for the Philippines due to weariness with city administration. A workers’ demonstration in favor of General Gomez drew about 500 people to the governor’s residence, with a parallel march from Guuanabacoa. An accidental shell explosion killed one man and two others, blowing up a house.
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Kudlow
Havana
General Ludlow
Philippines
Gomox
Prado
Gomez
Guuanabacoa
Russians Eye New Ohwang as Treaty Port
London dispatch claims negotiations near completion to make New Ohwang a Russian possession with Russia agreeing to aid China against Italian demands. Also notes plans by Schwarzachild & Sulzberger to build a $2 million packing plant on Fortieth street near the stockyards with 1000 cattle and 3000 hogs daily capacity, and Hammond Packing signing to build a Berth St. Joseph plant.
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New Ohwang
London
St. Petersburg
The
Daily Mail
Russia
China
Italy
Guicaco
Schwarzachild & Sulzberger
New York
Kansas City
Fortieth Street
Hammond Packing Company
Hammond
Ind
Berth St. Joseph
Briefs from the Felegrafig Page
The industrial commission will hear no more testimony until Tuesday April 11. Claims against the United States in the Spanish imbroglio are estimated at 3 000 000 dollars. Ludwig Bamberg, author and former Reichstag member, buried in Berlin Friday. Captain Todd of the Wilmington now at Para Brazil ordered up the Amazon to search for fauna. Two receivers appointed for a Georgia bank by Comptroller Dawes and a circuit judge. Four foreign fire insurance companies withdrew from Kentucky due to warfare against them in the Fourteenth district. D B Kellogg Samuel Keller and Myron Bernard of the old Dean bucket shop firm held for trial in New York City for conspiracy to defraud. Dr M B Stresby longtime secretary of the American Home Missionary association died in Clifton Springs NY aged 88. Paris Liberte notes negotiations with Washington focus on entry of American meats and dileecd into France.
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Industrial Commission
United States
Ludwig Bamberg
Reichatag
Berlin
Todd
Wilmington
Para
Brazil
Amazon
Georgia Bank
Dawes
Kentucky
Fourteenth Judicial District
D. B. Kellogg
Samuel Keller
Myron
Bernard
Old Dean
New York City
M. BE. Stresby
American Home Missionary Association
Clifton Springs
N. Y
Paris Liberte
Paris
Washington
France
Twister Kills Ten In Alabama and Georgia County
A deadly cyclone struck Burke County Georgia and Cleburne and surrounding areas in Alabama. Lewia Coffee and 10 family members perished in a log house collapse near Tron City, with many injured and extensive property damage across about 12 miles of path. Others killed or hurt near Heflin and Heflin area. The storm destroyed roughly 50 buildings and injured 20 to 25 people with cattle losses reported.
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Birmixoram
Ala
Edwardsville
Lewia Coffee
Cleburne County
Mrs. Coffee
Lella
James
Lula
Jacob
Deveras
Dolly
Grover
John
Heflin
Bessie Coffee
Lewis Coffee
J. W. Wilder
J. H. Cason
Andrew Steipan
Ben Stanzell
Ex Senator Walsh Dies After Prolonged Illness
Augusta mayor and ex United States senator Patrick Walsh died at his Augusta home after a months long illness of nervous prostration. Born in Ireland in 1840, he arrived in Augusta in 1862 and led the city press for 26 years as editor and proprietor of the Augusta Chronicle. He was appointed to the US Senate in 1894 by Governor Northen and held national recognition as a southern development advocate.
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Vanes
Anguatu
Avgusta
Gao
Patrick Walsh
United States
Augusta
Hin
Bio Recovery
Walsh
Georgia
South
Ireland
Charleston
Telegraphic Briefs: 1908 Updates From Around the World
The Talbot arrives at Portsmouth with Baron Herschel's body. Malvern smelters face sheriff's levy for a $500 judgment. Charles Backman fatally wounds his wife in Chicago and dies by self-inflicted wound. Sir Claude MacDonald presses China over a Belgian concession at Wankow. China declines. Meiklejohn orders Alaska military explorations around Copper River and Cook Inlet. Dr. Oliver Marcy dies at Evanston from long illness, age 60. Mary Clarke is murdered and Annie Clarke injured by a 15-year-old in Bowie, Maryland. Consul Winslow cites Liege expo starting May 1, 1908 for six months. Smyrna reports 6,000 Cretan Muslims flee, pillage Greek and Turkish quarters, many killed or wounded.
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Talbot
Baron Herschel
New York
Portsmouth
Malvern
Charles L. Backman
Chicago
Claude MacDonald
Foreign Office
Wankow
China
Meiklejohn
Alaska
Copper River
Cook's Inlet
Oliver Marcy
Northwestern University
Evanston
Mary A. Clarke
Three Killed In a Freight Wreck at Ada Virginia
A Norfolk and Western wreck in Ada killed Fireman Van Landingham and brakeman E A Graham and a tramp. Several trainmen were injured as three freight trains wrecked while all three were moving east. The first stopped, the second split and portions struck the first. the third failed to be flagged, causing the crash.
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Norvouk
Norfolk and Western
Ada
van Landingham
E. A. Graham
Horne
Augury
Cal
Clipper Gap
Fred Witham
Edward Gray
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Rowe
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Rudyard Kipling
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