Aguinaldo Dismayed by Manila Fight Result and Calls for Pause
Aguinaldo, with 30,000 armed followers, is shaken by recent shelling near Manila and has asked General Otis to suspend hostilities. The piece profiles Aguinaldo’s generals, noting Riego de Dios as a trusted lieutenant general and several officers like Ricati Pantelon Garcia Noriel Estrella Mascardo and Gregorio del Pilar as capable yet varied in education and skill. It also mentions Montenegro, a former hotel clerk, and highlights the mix of honest, capable and unpolished leaders among his ranks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Aguinaldo
Otis
Riego de Dios
Ricati
Pantelon Garcia
Noriel
Estrella
Cavite
Mascardo
Gregorio del Pilar
Montenegro
Nordenfeldt
Pio del Pilar
Sandi
Insurgents in Philippines Loosened Armament Claims
Reports from Manila in January describe a large cargo of arms including six Gatling guns. Insurgents operated a cartridge factory at Imus capable of employing 400 workers. Capturing the facility would sever their supply line though they currently have ample ammunition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Imus
Aguinaldo rejects peace treaty linking to Sunday clash
Aguinaldo warns any agreement with the conquerors would fail without the Manila Sunday battle. He says Americans provoked the fight to push Senate ratification and claims the insurgent force near Manila lacks cohesion and effective leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aguinaldo
Senate
Caloocan
Manila
Alfred
Navy
Colonel Sexton Buried in Simple G A R Funeral
Remains of Colonel James A. Sexton, former commander in chief of the G A R, were laid to rest at Rose Hill Cemetery in Chicago with simple rites. Comrades from Columbia Post led services at Memorial Hall and at the grave, with G A R members and postal workers escorting the procession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
James A. Sexton
Rose Hill Cemetery
Columbia Post
Memorial Hall
Public Library
A. R
LaSalle Avenue
Daniel Lucas
Indianapolis
Cook County
Rose Hill
Tag the Terror Laid To Rest At Eastport Country Club
In New York on Feb 8 Tag the Terror is buried on the grounds of the Eastport Country Club with a coffin lined in green ribbon and a velvet blanket over the body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tag the Terror
Eastport Country Club
Trial continues in murder case of Drug Clerk Russell
Testimony in the Superior Court case of John N. Chance and Arthur Hagan, charged with killing drug clerk Russell, proceeded with government witnesses describing the night of the shooting. Patrolman Moran identified Hagan as the man outside the drug store, while other witnesses saw a man in a light overcoat fleeing the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John N. Chance
Arthur Hagan
Russell
Albany Street
James J. Moran
Hagan
Sughrue
Swasey
Moran
Chance
Harriman
J. J. Smith
John H Mahoney
T. C. Thompson
Nicholas Tower
Adams Express Company
Joseph Murphy
Harrison Avenue
Unite States
Utica Street
Station 4
Draper
John Laffey
Gloucester
United States
Thomas W. Kelly
Albany
Bessie I. Pray
Russell Street
Boston
Gertrude M. Stickney
James A. Burke
Bay View
Lincoln Street
James M. Sullivan
Comany
George J. Irving
Sal
Cornelius Harrington
Harrington
Utica
0S Mee
Peshes Ait
Ben Franklin Ball Set By City Workmen Group
The thirteenth annual ball of the Ben Franklin Association 5468 K of L takes place tomorrow evening in Paul Revere Hall Mechanics building. The association comprises city sanitary and street cleaning workers and a large party is anticipated with the Mayor and department heads in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Ben Franklin Association 5468
K. of L
Paul Revere Hall
Mechanics’ Building
Mrs Whitney Expected Home From Aiken Accident
Mrs. William C. Whitney, greatly improved, will be brought to her Fifth Avenue home within days. Doctors say movement is safe after repeated relocations since the February 21 last year riding accident at Aiken South Carolina that caused a spinal injury from a shed roof strike during a horse ride.
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New York
William C. Whitney
Fifth Avenue
Sixty-ninth Street
Sing Sing
N. Y
Martha Place
Purim Ball at Music Hall Seeks Charity Support
The Purim Association hosts its third annual charity ball for the Federation of Hebrew Charities of Boston tonight at Music Hall. Boxes sold out, arrangements for carriage arrivals at Hamilton Place, and a grand march led by President Godfrey Morse with Mayor Guiney expected. A promenade concert runs 9 to 9:30, dancing begins, supper served from 10:30 p.m. onward.
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Purim Association
Federation of Hebrew Charities of Boston
Music Hall
Hamilton Place
Winter Street
Godfrey Morse
Guiney
Daniel Frank
George J. Spitz
Bumstead Hall
Maude Fritz and James Flood Wed in Quiet Kansas City Ceremony
In Kansas City on February 8 at the bride’s parents home Miss Maude L. Fritz married James L. Flood of San Francisco. The union was intimate and among the gifts was a $100,000 diamond necklace from the groom’s sister Jennie Flood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Maude L. Fritz
John Fritz
James L. Flood
San Francisco
James Flood
Jennie Flood
Paint and Oil Club of New England Dinner Noted Explorer
Paul Du Chaillu the African explorer and author was the honoree at the Paint and Oil Club of New England dinner at the Exchange Club. The 113th meeting featured President Lew C. Hill as presiding officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul du Chaillu
Paint
New England
Exchange Club
Lew C. Hill
Girl Defies Bars In Jail Escape Plot
Jennie Horton the Wellsboro jail kitchen worker is jailed in Binghamton for aiding two inmates to escape. She supplied a saw to accomplice Harry Grover who cut cell bars and fled with a prisoner. Grover delayed and was captured. Horton remains in custody and plans to wed.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Jennie Horton
Wellsboro
Miss Horton
Harry Grover
Elmira
Bixby
Addison
Grover
Long-lived New Bedford Woman Mary Spooner Turns 105
Miss Mary Spooner of New Bedford reaches 105 today, born February 8 1820 or 179? She lives on the Acushnet homestead farm with nephew John Spooner. Her life spans three towns due to boundary changes and includes work in Taunton and Lowell mills.
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New Bedford
Mary Spooner
Massachusetts
Micah Spooner
Acushnet
Sponer
John Spooner
Spooner
Fairhaven
Taunton
Lowell
Wolcott
Miss Spooner
Ruth Hart
Daughters of the American Revolution
Society of Daughters of the Revolution
Captain Thomas Kempton
Daughter Blocks His Suit In New York Divorce Case
In New York a divorce suit by William V. King against Belle F. King faced a dramatic interruption when a young daughter from Paris testified that the wife had moved there with King’s consent and that Belle would contest the action if she knew. The judge postponed the trial to March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William_V. King
Cotton Exchange
Belle F. King
Waitress Suits Boarding House Over Wages in Yorkville
Mary Corrigan sued Mrs. Susan Smith in Yorkville Municipal Court for 7.50 in wages as a waitress at 49 East Twenty-first Street. Judge Bolte awarded Corrigan the amount after Smith testified she had paid all wages. Smith objected to Corrigan's social visitors, claiming they caused trouble among boarders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mary Corrigan
Susan Smith
Yorkville
Bolte
Woman testifies in assault trial over a controversial marriage sale
Prosecution presents Phebe Van Nort as the wife of William Marcy who, by mutual agreement, sold her to John Van Nort for two dollars. A Feb. 18 1898 bill of sale records the transfer with Marcy waiving all claims and signing alongside Phebe and John Van Nort while Samuel Corris witnessed and Marcy acknowledged the deal.
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Eppleman
Phebe van Nort
William Marcy
John van Nort
Marcy
van Nort
Samuel Corris
Big Triple Combine Plans Consolidation of Textile Firms
A plan to consolidate the Norwich Dyeing Bleaching and Printing Company of Norwich Connecticut Dunnell Manufacturing Company of Pawtucket Rhode Island and the Reid Barry Company of Passaic New Jersey into the United States Finishing Company advances. Estimated capital stock reaches about 4.5 million dollars with W. W. Dunnell likely president J. H. Wright as vice president and general manager and J. Hunt Smith as treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwich Dyeing, Bleaching
W. W. Dunnell
J. H. Wright
J. Hunt Smith
Pope to reinvest funds in Italy for higher returns
The Pope and advisers decide to withdraw part of church funds abroad worth 16 million dollars and reinvest in Italy. They expect higher rates, with 8 percent dividends from Banco di Roma Banco Commercial and Credito Italiano, increasing annual revenue from 400000 to about 1280000 dollars.
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Rome
Italy
Holy See
French
Belgium
Banco di Roma
Banco Commercial
Credito Italiano
Funeral for Nathaniel McCarthy the mathematician in Newton
Funeral services for Nathaniel McCarthy, noted for an exceptional mathematical mind, were held at St. Bernard's Church in West Newton. Born in Newton fifty years ago to a loom worker, he trained as a cutler after a limited public school education.
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Newton
Nathaniel McCarthy
Boston
St. Bernard's Church
West Newton
McCarthy
Boston man elected treasurer of sugar company
New York Feb 8 The American Sugar Refining Company directors met and elected Arthur Donner of Boston as treasurer. No changes were made to the board.
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The
American Sugar Refining Company
New York
Arthur Donner
Boston
Record Cold Stops City Schools in Minnesota
In St Paul on February 8, temperatures dropped to 28 below zero with unofficial readings as low as 40 below. The north west shows signs of a modest warm up later in the week as clear weather persists with a cutting wind, marking the coldest spell since January 1888 and prompting widespread school closures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul, Minn
Weather Bureau
Mercury
Coal famine threatens Kentucky towns
Lexington reports a coal famine as eleven mines flood and supply can last at most twenty four hours in any town. T B Cassidy warns of worsening conditions with temperatures eight below zero in Lexington and coal yards running dry. Supply disruption and ongoing cold forecast great suffering if weather persists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Kentucky
T. B. Cassidy
Second lecture in East Boston course at Lyman School
This evening the second free lecture of the local course for East Boston will be held at the Lyman School island district. Professor H. B. Richardson of Amherst College will speak on German Peasant Life, illustrated with stereopticon views. Next Monday at Bates Hall Old Public Library the second lecture on The City of Boston features George G. Crocker of the Railroad Commission on Street Transportation with ample illustrations.
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Boston
Lyman
Island
H. B. Richardson
Amherst College
Bates Hall
Old Public Library
George G. Crocker
Railroad Commission
Strange Death Linked to Great Poisoning Mystery Yacht Cruise
A third death ties to the poisoning case involving Henry C. Barnet and Mrs. Kate Adams. Walter I. Baldwin, 43, NY Yacht Club athletic chairman, died after a cruise on Morgan's yacht with Roland B. Molineux and others. Autopsy followed, amid reports of cyanide or mercury poisoning and mail delivery of poison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Walter I. Baldwin
Henry C. Barnet
Kate Adams
Baldwin
Blanda Cheseborough
Roland Burnham Molineux
New York Yacht Club
Roland B. Molineux
Albert J. Morgan
Woodlawn
Morgan
Molineux
Barnet
Shelter Island
Cheseborough
Poison Mystery Deepens as Grave Exhumes in Brooklyn
Reports describe uncertainty over death cause and a mysterious note paper mark found in a private letter box tied to drug samples. Investigators renewed efforts on Henry C Barnet’s grave in Greenwood cemetery as Edwin Barnet and a police conference surface new leads.
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Guldensuppe
Thorne
Henry C. Barnet
Greenwood Cemetery
SeHe
Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn
Edwin Barnet
Gardiner
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Reta L. Adams
Madison Avenue
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Tag
Officer Moran
Ben Franklin Ball
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Bellevue Hospital
Semit Chemical Co
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Mass
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Washington
W. H. Roach
North Dakota
St. Paul's Cathle Church
Newark
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Logansport
Ind
Anna Gerhard
Walare County
California
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Penn
Lackawanna County
Dr. Landi
Ad. Age Toda
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Old South Clothing
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Severley
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