Curious items and views from the world stage
A blend of essays and notes covers philosophy from Ruskin on happiness and trouble, a plebiscite naming Robinson Crusoe and Hans Christian Andersen among the top children’s books, cave depths in France, seismic work in Hawaii, beaver dam design, Indian garrison tensions, a striking quicksilver fountain at Earl’s Court, and a quake resistant Japanese prince palace planned with American steel and engineers.
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England
Robinson Crusoe
Hans Andersen
Admirals Death and Global Updates Spark Early 1900s News
Obituary notes Sir Henry Fairfax death in Naples and Naval and political items from the era include Greely resigning from patents, Guam abolition of slavery proclamation, mail robbery bill, Minnesota swamp land grants, post office registration expansion to 307 cities, Manila census figures, a failed Pietro Mascagni tour in Moscow, and Jamaica reciprocity timing. Also covers Russia shipbuilding, Natl transport updates, and several crime notices.
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Sir Henry Fairfax
Plymouth
Naples
Arthur P. Greely
Navy Department
Richard FP. Leary
Guam
McMillan
Secretary of the Interior
State of Minnesota
Crookston
Duluth
Turbulent International Moves Reported
From Other Shores notes Tangier ceded Mogadore to France as sultan cedes outpost. Italy plans talks with America on a new commercial treaty. A Gordon statue rises outside the sirdar's palace at Khar tou. North Dublin district council opposes welcoming Victoria to Ireland. Blum's memoirs promise Bismarckian recitals before his dismissal. Only 14 of 14 German chambers condemn the meat bill. Turkey raises import duties after denying motive. powers prepare protests.
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North Dubin
Victoria
Ireland
Blum
Bismarck
German Chambers of Commerce
Turkey
Multiple Fires and Accidents Reported Across States
A groceryman drowned in Burlington Iowa. Two brothers perished in Alfred New York fire. Forest Avenue hotel burned in Frankfort Michigan. St Paul MFE church destroyed in Lafayette Indiana. Prattville Alabama saw nineteen stores burn. Plant system wreck near Ozark Arkansas injured thirty in Chicago by a falling elevator. A farmer and wife killed by a garage bull in Danville Pennsylvania. Flint wagon works burned. loss about 200000 dollars. Linseed oil plant destroyed by fire. Conductor Michael M Keever killed in Hull Town. Elevated train in New York ran wild injuring eleven.
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Burlington
Iowa
Alfred
N. Y
Forest Avenue
Frankfort
Mich
St. Paul's M. FE
Lafayette
Ind
Prattville
Ala
Ozark
Ark
Chicago
Danville
Flint
Michael M. Keever
Hull
Town
Prominent Figures Die Across Borders In Brief Notices
Brief obituaries report the deaths of several notable figures including Sir Edmund Fane envoy to Copenhagen and Sir William Lockhart commander in India. Other losses include Admiral and Mrs. Dewey’s touring plans denied, Julia Arthur’s retirement due to sickness, and lists of legal and political notables such as Taubeneck Wiswell Balter and Walter L. Miller.
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Princess Chimay
Paris
Admiral
Mrs. Dewey
McGiffert
Presbyterian Church
New York
Julia Arthur
Sir Edmund Fane
Copenhagen
Admiral Dewey
Europe
Taubeneck
National Committee of the People’s Party
George N. Wiswell
Wisconsin
Andrew Balter
America
Chicago
William Stephen Alexander Lockhart
India
F. L. Nagler
Hans Und Heerd
St. Paul's College
Minnesota
Cincinnati
Ohio
Walter L. Miller
Abbeville
Mr. Miller
United States
Milf. markets eyed by cotton growers amid war news
Military observations from London report confusion over Mafeking relief and new Boer columns. 5,000 to 6,000 British troops under Lord Methuen are at Warrenton, with a Kimberley to Griqua Town expedition looming. Boers and envoys from the federals stir talk of intervention and peace notes as Buller’s patrol skirmishes continue and Steyn’s stance is described.
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London
War Office
Mafeking
Lord Methuen
Warrenton
Kimberley
Griqua Town
French
Bloemfontein
Thaba Ncehu
Olivier
Biggarsberg
Buller
Washbank
Lord Roberts
Messrs
Wolmarens
Fischer and
Wessels
Naples
New York
Antwerp
the Hague
Times
Cape Town
Steyn
Court in Franklin Hears Explosive Examine Trial Scene
In Frankfort Kentucky during the Caleb Powers examiners trial attendance devolved into near riot. Judge Denny warned armed attendees and order was restored after clashes. Defense and prosecution sparred over statements as witnesses and adjournment were discussed.
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Zone
Frankfort
Caleb Powers
George Denny
State House Yard
Gov. Goebel
Col. Campbell
Denny
Denney
Campbell
Chinn Plans Lecture Tour on Kentucky Political Situation
Col. Jack Chinn, ally of Gov. Goebel, will tour leading cities delivering a lecture on the Political Situation in Kentucky. Proceeds will go to the Goebel monument fund. The talk will cover the Democratic gubernatorial campaign the assassination trial and related events.
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Goebel
Frankfort
Jack Chinn
Gov
Kentucky
Col. Chinn
Goebel Monument Fund
Filipinos Disorderly Over Incendiary Manila Play
At the Tagalo theater in Manila on March 28 natives grew disorderly during the Tagalo language production "For Love of Country" after references to independence. They shouted Vive Philippines and Vive Aguinaldo as police restored order and arrested the theater manager and the play's author, proprietor of a Tagalo newspaper recently pressured to moderate radical speech. American authorities had forbade the production.
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Manila
Aguinaldo
Salisbury apologizes over Durban mail to ex consul Macrum
A Washington dispatch reports Lord Salisbury apologizes to the United States for a Durban censor opening mail to ex Consul Charles E. Macrum at Pretoria. Secretary Hay will send the apology to the House Foreign Affairs Committee when Macrum’s case against the State Department is heard.
Five Robbers Execute Healy’s Restaurant Heist
Five well dressed men entered Healy's restaurant at the corner of Sixty sixth Street and Columbia Avenue. While one talked to the cashier, another stole $1,300 in valuables including $700 in checks and $600 in cash from the safe. Checks mailed from the general post office were later returned. The other men left quietly and the theft went undiscovered for about five minutes as about forty guests were present at breakfast.
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New York
Healy’s
Sixty-sixth Street
Columbia Avenue
General Post Office
Brekfast
Five Revenue Cutters to Guard U S Interests at Bering Sea
Treasury plans establish and maintain a Bering sea patrol with five revenue cutters including the Bear Manning Perry Mc Culloch and Rush. Bear departs for Bering sea in April others follow. Manning cannot join until May due to voyage from Callao Peru to San Francisco. Patrol prompted by unsettled questions with Canada.
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United States
New York
Herald
Washington
Treasury Department
Bering Sea
Revenue
Bear
Manning
Perry
McCulloch
Rush
Callao
Peru
San Francisco
Joint High Commission
Canada
Mare Island Naval Hospital Ready for Handover
The new United States naval hospital at Mare Island Vallejo California has been completed and is ready to be turned over to the government. Its capacity may be exceeded by some institutions but the arrangement for the care of the sick and disabled bine jackets places it among the best in the country.
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Shelbyville
la Crosse
Wis
Cuba
Grand Forks National Bank of
Grand Forks
N. C
Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad Company
Thayer and
Philips
Dominion
United States
Dawson
American Bottoms
St. Michael
Yukon River
Scott and Muscatine
Towa
Bars
Clinton
Iowa
New Naval Hospital
Vallejo
Cal
United States Naval Hospital
Mare Island
McCoy and Sharkey Sign Articles for 25 Round Coney Island Fight
Kid McCoy and Tom Sharkey signed articles for a 25 round bout on June 25 at Sea Side Sporting Club in Coney Island. They will share 60 percent of gross receipts and each posted $1,000 with Johnny White named referee. The move followed Bob Fitzsimmons’ failure to post $2,500 for a bout with McCoy.
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McCoy
Sharkey
New York
Kid McCoy
Tom Sharkey
Coney Island
Johnny White
Bob Fitzsimmons
Platt Ill Rumor Denied by Deputy Quigg
New York report that Senator Platt is seriously ill and nearing collapse is denied by his deputy Lemuel E. B. Quigg who says friends are urging him to suspend political work temporarily.
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Platt
New York
Lemuel EB. Quigg
Passenger car derails on mountain run. one dead seven injured
One killed and seven injured when a passenger car of the Olean Rocky City and Bradford Electric Railway ran away down a mountainside beyond Red Rock and was demolished.
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Bradford
Olean, Rocky City & Bradford Electric Railway
Red Rock
Rabbi Wise Dead in Cincinnati Mourned Leader of Reform
Rabbi M. Wise, a prominent figure in the Reformed Jewish church, died in Cincinnati on March 28 from a stroke that began Saturday evening. His death was painless and marked the loss of a major religious leader.
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Rabbi Wise
Cicinnati
M. Wise
Smallpox at Female Academy Near Fort Wayne
An outbreak of smallpox at the Academy of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart six miles north of Fort Wayne Indiana led to quarantine and mass vaccination of all students and staff.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Academy of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
Madden and Ruhlin Match Sharkey Rival Tease Bout
New York march 28 billy madden and tom o rourke yesterday matched gus ruhlin and tom sharkey in a twenty five round bout the fight to come off at seaside athletic club on or about june 1.
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Sharkey
Ruhliin
New York
Billy Madden
Tom O'Rourke
Gus Ruhlin
Tom Sharkey
Seaside Athletic Club
Boers Plan Jacobsdal Raid Delays for Roberts Advance
A 400 strong Boer raiding group moves toward Jacobsdal to cut the Kimberley to Bloemfontein railway as Commandant Olivier reinforces behind rugged terrain. London reports Roberts may slow for months, with Olivier’s possible 8 000 men altering the balance and Cape troops redeployed to curb racial tensions.
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London
Warrenton
Kimberley
Bloemfontein
Jacobsdal
Olivier
Charles Williams
Lord Roberts
Basuto
Reil River
Cronje
Pretoria
Cape Ports
Ape Town
Cape Town
Lady Roberts
War Office
Clements
The
Daily Mail
Fauresmith
Jagersfontein
Roberts
Daily News
Bloemfonein
Gatacre
Cape
Orange River
Boer War Office
Lourenzo Marques
Transvaal War Office
Colesberg
Stormberg
Griebelar
Daily Chronicle
Paardeberg
Padamsfontein
Senators sound Cubans on island conditions
The Senate Cuban committee, sailing today aboard the Dolphin to the United States, plans to present reports soon. They toured Cuba in private sessions, gathering information and opinions from most prominent Cubans, with consultations kept confidential and few published.
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Senate Committee
Havana
Dolphin
United States
Senate
Christian Endeavorers Refuse Distilleries Donations
The Christian Endeavor union of Louisville decides to accept no money from distillers. Over a thousand dollars from local distilleries for a summer playground farm will be returned to donors. Distillers react with anger to the decision.
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Louisville
Christian Endeavor Union of
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Brainerd Dispatch
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Ruskin
E. A. Martel
Department of
Hautes Alpes
John Milne
George Davidson
Hawaii
Great Bear Valley
California
South Africa
Earl’s Court
Japan
Nem Wars
Capital Chat
War Department
Sanitary Corps
Police
Pietro Mascigni
Russia
Moscow
Rigo
Cairo
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
International Congress of Navigation
Congress
Thomas H. Benton
Missouri
Benton
Mammoth Tree Grove
South Park Grove
Big Trees
Charles Bird
Quartermaster
Quartermaster’s Department
Tacoma
Seattle
Wash
State Department
George Holloway
St. Petersburg
Maj. Bellinger
Quartermaster General’s Department
Sumner
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Montana
Livingston
Georgia
Marietta
Chamberlain
Elmira
Cedar Rapids
William Shellhouse
Auburn
Cassie Brown
Jefferson
8. C
Butte
John Snooks
Coldwater
R. J. McFarland
Kansas City
Kan
Milwaukee
Third Avenue
Commandant Olivier
Bul
Ler
Morning Post
Fischer
Guiqua Town
Barkly West
Paphuel
Herbert
Moore
Gov. Brown
Golden
Commonwealth
Thaba Nehu
Joubert
Kroonstadt
Natal
Ent
Bering Sea Patrol
Fitz
Kruger
Jacobsedal
Vance
Gen. Clements
van Wykesvilei
Steinkamp
Upington
Senators
Christian Endeavorers
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