Insult to Flag Spurs Yank ee Launch Attack
In San Domingo on February 6 insurgents fired on the Yankee launch, killing engineer J C Johnston. US Minister Powell ordered the captain to avenge the death and insult to the American flag, as the funeral for Johnston proceeded with 100 sailors escort. Heavy fighting and German concerns followed, with orders for German consul Worman to evacuate under guard.
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San Domingo
J. C. Johnston
United States
Powell
Johnston
Santa Barbara
Bane
Wednes&y
Europe
Herr Worman
Columbia
Rumored insurgent action strands city amid high prices
Reports say Santa Barbara de Samana and Sanchez may have been retaken by insurgents while Mr Powell pleads to protect foreign property. Marines could be landed as firing continues around the city. Provisions are costly and the poor suffer want.
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Powell
Columbia
Santa Barbara de Samana
Sanchez
Senate Votes Loan for St Louis Exposition
Washington reports a Senate vote affirming a 4.6 million dollar loan in the urgent deficiency bill for the St Louis Exposition. Debate over the Panama Canal treaty continued with calls to bring it to a vote within two weeks as Senators Mallory Heyburn Cullom urged action. Montreal fire killed three, injuring four others. Car Barn Bandits jury to start in Chicago.
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Washington
Senate
St. Louis Exposition
Patterson
Colorado
Mallory
Florida
Heyburn
Idaho
Senator Cullom
Cullom
Coliseum Seating Cuts 3260 for GOP Convention
Chicago February 6. A subcommittee on arrangements for the Republican national convention approved seating for 8,264, allotted 2,000 tickets to Chicagoans, and discussed vice presidential candidates. Senator M B Scott and others named Elkins, Fairbanks, and Webster as contenders. A new city ordinance reduces seats by more than 3,000 from the prior plan.
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Chicago
Last Army Flag Lowered in Occupied Cuba
Santiago de Cuba February 6 Quartermaster completed sales of army effects including the City Warehouse and invited the colony to witness the lowering of the last United States army flag on the island Consul Holiday gave a short address noting promises fulfilled Havana February 6 The United States army transport Sumner with troops aboard left for the United States
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Cuba
Santiago de Cuba
United States Army
Havana
United States
Sumner
First Train Reaches Lewiston After Ten Days Snowbound
Four locomotives push a massive snowplow into Lewiston Montana to lead the first train in ten days. Three trains had been tied up between Lewiston and Helena, with passengers suffering for food. Snow depths reach twenty feet in places, and two trains remain stalled.
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Lewiston
Mont
Montana Railroad
Helena
Grand Dinner Party Signals Free Traders Coalition
London February 6 Lord Wimborne hosted a grand dinner and reception at Wimborne house signaling the coalition of free traders split across Liberal and Conservative ranks. Attendees included the Duke of Devonshire Lord Rosebery Henry Campbell Bannerman William Vernon Harcourt John Morley Lord Hugh Cecil and Winston Churchill among about 1600 guests and a joint levee by the Devonshire and Rosebery factions.
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London
Lord Wimborne
Wimborne House
Free Traders
Duke of Devonshire
Lord Rosebery
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
William Vernon Harcourt
John Morley
Hugh Cecil
Winston Churchill
Hearst Introduces Bill To Enforce Anti-Trust Law
Representative Hearst of New York introduced a bill empowering United States attorneys to enforce the act protecting trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies. The bill amends the Sherman antitrust law and is aimed at strengthening federal oversight.
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Washington
Hearst
New York
United States
Colonel Gabriel Bouck Lays Dying at Oshkosh Hotel
Colonel Gabriel Bouck a longtime Wisconsin figure dean of Winnebago county bar former attorney general and Civil War veteran lies on his death bed at the Athearn hotel Oshkosh. Illness with rheumatism and debility left him unconscious and delirious as death seems near except for a few hours.
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Oshkosh
Wis
Gabriel Bouck
Winnebago County
Entire town on Java wiped out by eruption report
Amsterdam reports indicate an entire town on Java in the Dutch East Indies was swallowed by a volcanic eruption with hundreds believed dead, based on advices received here.
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Island of
Java
Amsterdam
Dutch East Indies
Change of sentiment in Montevideo eases attack fears
Washington reports Minister Finch cabled that sentiment in Montevideo has shifted, removing fear of an attack on the city. Montevideo is now defended by 10,000 well armed and officered troops.
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Washington
Finch
State Department
Montevideo
Relief Trains Speed Fuel To Snowbound Michigan Towns
Two Pere Marquette relief trains of twenty seven cars carrying fuel and provisions moved from Port Huron toward Bad Axe and Port Austin to aid snowbound areas in Michigan's Thumb. A passenger service was restored south from Bad Axe to Port Huron as traffic improves toward normal within days.
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Detroit
Pere Marquette
Thumb
Michigan
Port Huron
Bad Axe
Port Austin
Palms
Harbor Beach
Afloat on an Ice Floe Endangers Michigan Man
Muskegon February 6. A. E. Allen is stranded fifteen miles from shore on a Lake Michigan ice floe after wagering he could walk to Milwaukee. Rescue attempts failed and were halted at dusk with his fate in doubt as darkness fell.
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Muskegon, Mich
Lake Michigan
A. E. Allen
Milwaukee
General Black Seriously Ill in Washington
Washington reports General John Co. Black chairman of the U S civil service commission and commander in chief of the G A R is seriously ill from overtaxing his strength and partial collapse. Dr. G A Harman attending will cancel engagements for weeks. New York reports George W Johnson sixty five Civil War veteran with Fifth Minnesota regiment and McKenzie post G A R died of heart disease while attending a comrade’s funeral.
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Washington
John Co. Black
United States Civil Service Commission
G. A. Harman
Lancaster
New York
George W. Johnson
Minnesota
McKenzie Post
Johnson
Corinth
Miss
Grant
Six Dwellings Burn. Six Perish in Trenton Fire
Six foreigners die in a blaze that destroyed six double dwellings at Trenton near Mahanoy City Pennsylvania on February 6. The overheated above stall caused the fire and all six occupants perished.
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Mahanoy
City
Trenton
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