Tillman Threatens Pension Bill Over South Carolina Veteran
In Washington the Senate passed a pension bill for Stacy H. Cogswell of Indiana but the House committee lagged, prompting Senator Tillman of South Carolina to denounce delay and vow to block further pensions until a Civil War era Mexican veteran who lived in South Carolina receives justice. A Berry resolution on China policy was adopted without debate.
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Senate
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Berry
China
Prince Tuan
MAYBRICK RELEASE RUMOR SPREAD IN CHICAGO PAPER
A Chicago Record cablegram reports Florence Maybrick may be released from Aylesbury prison at once. Amb Choate would not confirm or deny the rumor as of now. London officials and King Edward’s influence are cited as possible factors in the potential release.
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Chicago
London
Chicago Record
Record
Florence T. Maybrick
Aylesbury Prison
United States
Ambassador Choate
Charles Thomson Ritchie
Maybrick
Edward
Tan Victoria
McCormick Named Minister to Austria
President McKinley plans to appoint Robert S. McCormick of Chicago as minister to Austria with approval from Senators Mason and Cullom. McCormick, Chicago Tribune co owner, is to succeed Minister Harris whose resignation takes effect March 4.
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Chicago
Washington
McKinley
Illinois
Austria
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Cullom
McCormick
Chicago Tribune
Joseph Medill
Harris
Chinese Minister Wu Ting Fang Criticizes General Otis
A Washington dispatch reports Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister, criticized General Otis in a letter read at a New York banquet by the Society of the Genesee. The administration views the criticism as opposing the president's policy on Chinese exclusion from the Philippines and may prompt a State Department response.
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New York
Washington
The
Herald
Wu Ting Fang
State Department
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Society of the Genessee
Philippines
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Secretary of State
Trial opens in murder case of Frank H. Hamilton
In Minneapolis on February 11 the trial of reporter Frank H. Hamilton for the murder of Leonard R. Day began with County Attorney Fred H. Boardman outlining the prosecution’s theory. He described Day’s stabbing in the West hotel billiard room during the early hours of November 25. The courtroom was crowded with onlookers.
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Minneapolis
Frank H. Hamilton
Leonard R. Day
Fred H. Boardman
Boardman
Day
West Hotel
Northern Airline plans finance and charter extension
Promoters of the Northern Airline between Sioux City and Omaha have arranged financing. Money will come after a charter extension bill for the Omaha and Winnebago reservations is signed by the president. The road, bonded for about 4 million dollars, has passed the senate and awaits house action.
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Sioux City
Omaha
Winnebago
Senate
Death of Representative Albert D Shaw in Washington
The body of Representative Albert D Shaw of Watertown New York was found in his Riggs House room from apo plexy after returning from a banquet in honor of his successor General Leo Bassieur He appeared in good health and had a fall leaving facial bruising The Civil War veteran 59 left a widow a son and two daughters and had served as state assemblyman consul to Toronto and national Grand Army of the Republic commander in chief before his congress term
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Albert D. Shaw
Watertown
N. Y
Grand Army of the Republic
Riggs House
Shaw
Ebbitt House
Leo Bassieur
Lyme
Thirty-fifth
New York Volunteers
War Departmental
State Assembly
Toronto
Manchester
Eng
Cleveland
New American Appointments to Manila Courts
Manila reports that Tayabas may become a provincial government with Colonel Gardner as governor. The US commission and General MacArthur discuss Gardner’s release for the post, while Ide drafts a civil code abolishing equity distinctions and adopting a New Zealand style practice with no jury trials.
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Yeb
Tayabas
Gardner
Thirtieth Regiment
United States Commission
MacArthur
Lucena
Ide
New Zealand
United States
Wright
Commission
Express Safe Stolen From Sioux City Depot
Three men Jackson, Stoval and Hayes were arrested in Manila Iowa after a United States express safe containing about $40 000 was stolen from the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul train at Sioux City. The safe was dropped into a wagon and driven away before being abandoned. Authorities pursued the trail through heavy snow and consider the suspects guilty based on strong evidence.
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Sioux City
Manila
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
James Sturtevant
Jackson
Stoval
Hayes
Milwaukee reform meeting seeks suppression of vice
One thousand residents attended a civic reform gathering in Milwaukee on February 11 where Reverends George Ide D C Johnson and Rondelle Spencer spoke. Attendees adopted resolutions urging city leaders to curb vice and establish a nine member vigilance committee of ministers and businessmen to organize further mass meetings and push for stronger law enforcement.
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Milwaukee
George Ide
D. C. Johnson
Rondelle Spencer
Railway Deals Announced Amalgamating Northern Pacific and Burlington
A high Northern Pacific official says the Northern Pacific will amalgamate with the Burlington. James J. Hill and his Great Northern are not in the deal. President Mellen’s New York visit is linked to the scheme. The two lines share 700 miles of common trackage and seek economy by avoiding parallel construction.
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Burlington
St. Paul
Wall Street
James J. Hill
Great Northern
President Mellen
New York
Kansas City
Billings
Mon
Buillings
Pacific Coast
Water famine hits Butte with mine suspensions
Butte Montana faces a severe water shortage as the Condensed mines including Anaconda Boston and Montana Ore Purchasing suspend operations. Eight thousand workers are laid off as the city relies on limited morning and evening water use while a broken engine worsens the crisis. Officials blame mismanagement and cold winter freezes that left streams frozen.
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Anaconda
Boston
Montana
Washoe Parrott
Colorado
City Water Company
Robbers Torture Farmer to Find Hidden Money
Six masked men broke into John Duncan's Mansfield home at midnight binding and gagging him and his family. After ransacking the residence they tortured Duncan to force a disclosure of where his money and valuables were hidden.
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Mansfield
John Duncan
Fire kills two and injures five in Boston blaze
A three story brick dwelling on Harrison avenue caught fire causing two deaths Nora Hart age five and Frances Riley widow fifty. Five others were injured and an estimated two thousand five hundred dollars in damage. Authorities suspect incendiary origin and have made two arrests.
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Boston
Harrison Avenue
Nora Hart
Frances Riley
Transport Rawlings Aground Near Morro Castle Wharf
The United States transport Rawlings ran aground on a coral reef near the Merrimac wreck at Santiago de Cuba. She anchored at daybreak in the bay then planned to return to Nispero cove near the harbor mouth to embark the Tenth United States Cavalry for New York.
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Santiago de Cuba
United States
Merrimac
Nispero Cove
Morro Castle
Tenth United States Cavalry
New York
Topeka Mass Meeting Demands Joint Businesses Close
Three thousand Topeka men voted to close all joints by Friday noon or face 1000 armed men enforcing the order. The ultimatum follows Mrs Carrie Nation’s crusade in less than ten days. City officers and property owners are warned to act or suffer possible damage as 1200 pledge to join the effort.
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Topeka
Kan
Carrie Nation
Law Enforcement League
Manhood First Says Abbott on Negro Rights in the South
Reverend Lysman Abbott in Boston declares that manhood must come first before suffrage. He argues for a character line rather than color or race, criticizing distrust of slaveholders and urging equal political rights only after civil maturity. He cites Booker T. Washington and calls for stripping barbarism of rights while integrating Indians into civilized life.
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Boston
Lysman Abbott
South
Booker T. Washington
Mrs Nation Visits Des Moines to Protest Saloons
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the Kansas temperance crusader, arrived in Des Moines to crowds at the depot. Delegations from the W C T U and the state Anti-Saloon League seek her help to target drug stores, while Nation vows to act as God calls and warns she may face deadly threats.
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Des Moines
Carrie Nation
Atlantic
State Anti-Saloon League
Law and Order League forms after Carrie Nation visit
Kansas City forms a law and order league to enforce Kansas laws on saloons and gambling, protect homes and children, and combat non enforcement. The group declares no smashing of saloons but vows vigorous action. a hatchet pin will symbolize the effort.
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Kansas City
Law and Order League
Carrie Nation
League
Nation lecture canceled by Chicago Press club
Carrie Nation lecture at the Auditorium under the Chicago Press club was canceled after two days of sales totaling less than 12 dollars. The club directors cited financial concerns but Nation said she will still come to Chicago.
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Chicago
Carrie Nation
Kansas
Chicago Press Club
Milan in Critical Condition in Servia
Former King Milan of Servia remains gravely ill in Vienna with congested lungs and a weak heart as his condition worsens to a critical stage.
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Vienna
Milan of
Servia
Pardon Bill Aims at Younger Brothers Release
Rep Deming introduces a legis lature bill to parole life convicts after 26 years with deductions for good behavior and 23 1 2 years. It would pardon the Younger brothers who remain in Stillwater prison for the 23 year old Northfield bank robbery. Friends have long pressed for their release with appeals to the board of pardons and governors.
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St. Paul
Deming
Stillwater
Northfield
Board of Pardons
Insurgent Bustos Captured Amid Luzon Actions
Feb 11 report from CAPTURED BUSTOS Manila says a Fortyseventh United States volunteer infantry unit on Catuandres island captured Bustos the insurgent governor. Don Juan de Austria gunboat with the Forty-seventh Infantry took 45 insurgents including a colonel and two majors in Albano province. Evidence grows against Manila traders accused of aiding insurgents.
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Manila
United States Volunteer Infantry
Catuandres
Luzon
Bustos
United States
Don Juan de Austria
Forty-seventh Infantry
Albano
British Ambassador Presents King Edward's Acknowledgment
In Washington on February 11 the British ambassador delivered to the president an acknowledgment from King Edward praising the president for attending the memorial service and noting the sympathy of the American people.
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Washington
White House
King Edward
United States
Market Report Wheat and Flax Prices From Duluth
Duluth grain market notes cash and futures figures for wheat and flax on Feb 11. Wheat cash No 1 hard 74 3/4 cents, No 2 Northern 72 1/2 cents. Arrivals No 1 hard 55 60 cents. No 1 Northern 73 2/40 cents. May No 1 Northern 75 4 cents, July 76 3 4 cents. Flax arrived 1.60, cash 1.60, May 1.65, September 1.50.
Market Notes Wheat Prices and Track No 1 Title
Minneapolis report notes wheat cash 74 cents, May 740, July T4440, on Track No 1 hard Tit¢e No 1 Northern 734c, No 3 Northern H9 Ti c.
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Cattle and Hog Markets Steady with Mixed Ranges
CATTLE market steady with beeves at 4256.40, cows 2400, stockers and feeders 304.00, calves and yearlings 400. Hog prices ease five to six cents with bids from 5.15 to 5.25. Market summary notes mixed offerings and slight pressure in hogs.
Market Report Hogs Cattle Veal and Sheep Prices
Hogs priced around 5.15 to 5.27 per hundredweight. Cattle sales ranged from 4.80 to 5.00 for good to choice butcher steers, 3.40 to 4.90 for good to choice butcher cows and heifers, 4.50 to 5.75 for choice veal, 8.25 to 3.90 for choice feeders. Sheep sales showed 4.50 to 4.85 for choice butcher lambs, 3.60 to 4.00 for choice fat wethers.
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Chicago Market Prices For Cattle Hogs Sheep Reported
Chicago cattle markets show good to prime steers 5.00 to 6.00, poor to medium 3.40 to 4.45, stockers and feeders 8.75 to 4.60, Texas steers 4.00 to 4.80. Hogs sold 5.15 to 5.40 for mixed and butchers, 5.80 to 6.25 for heavy, 5.15 to 5.35 for light, bulk 5.25 to 5.85. Sheep and lambs sold 3.50 to 4.50 and 4.50 to 5.80 respectively.
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Chicago
Texas
Wheat and commodity prices from Cuba market report
Cuba market report shows February wheat at 724 72 percent, March 73 and May 7454 74 percent. Corn February 87i, March 8730, May 304 39 cents. Oats February 24 percent, May 16 cents. Pork February 15.8234 dollars, May 14.02. Flax cash No 1 1.60, May 1.60. Poultry dressed turkeys 8 44 940, chickens 3 dollars 84 cents. Butter creamaries 14 210, dairies 11 44 180. Eggs Fresh 184 cents 10a.
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