Miners Dead in Red Ash WV Explosion at Mine Mouth
An explosion at the Red Ash coal mine near Thurmond West Virginia killed all on duty, with the mouth of the mine jammed by carts and bodies. Rescue parties found no survivors as rescuers and doctors arrived. The disaster affected about 150 workers, most of whom were white and married. The explosion, likely caused by gas ignition from a lamp, occurred near the mouth of the mine high on the mountain wall above New River.
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Red Ash
Thurmond
W. Va
Sherman Shirkey
John Laing
Red Ash Coal Company
J. Fred Effinger
Staunton
Andrew Pritt
Beary Lodge
Wahights
Pythias
New River
Held as Slayer of Goebel Harlan Whittaker Accuser of Murder
Harlan Whittaker of Butler County is held in Frankfort to answer to the grand jury without bond on charges of killing Governor William Goebel. Silas Jones of Whitley County is jailed for complicity and admitted to bail of 500 dollars as a witness. Wait taker examination before County Judge Moore showed Whittaker may be deeply implicated or know the shooters.
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Harlan Whittaker
Kentucky
Butler County
Taylor
Frankfort
William Goebel
Silas Jones
Whitley County
Waittaker
Moore
Telegraphand telephone messages travel same wire test
A novel test wired messages both directions on one line between Chattanooga and Knoxville. East Tennessee Telephone Company contracted with Postal Telegraph to use its wires for Chattanooga to Knoxville while a Knoxville to Chattanooga telephone message was also transmitted and received accurately. Also reports Admiral Cervera’s watch pawned in Wichita Kansas as a Cuban pilot who aided him received it from him.
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Chattanooga
Knoxville
East Tennessee Telephone Company
Postal Telegraph Company
Cervera
Santiago
Wichits
Kan
Twenty-third Kansas Regiment
Spain
First Russian Orthodox Church Planned in New York
The article notes plans to erect America's first Russian Orthodox church in New York at a cost of 36000 dollars amid wide faith efforts. It mentions 84 million people in South America and an estimate that 30 million have never seen a Bible, referencing the London Mail on Moody and church links across America. It also reports a South Carolina Congregational group of colored people forming a state association and a carved oak altar presented to St Paul’s Church in Warsaw by Secretary of State Hay as a memorial to his mother. Morality drives concern in London with efforts to curb evils and cleanse city ship pilots.
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America
New York
South America
London
Mail. Speaks
Moody
Balan A
Amerricaz
South -Garolina
A. A
Blate Hay
St Paul's Church
Warsaw
Council For the
Dublié
Police Stop Sapho Production in New York
Police halted the play Sapho in New York after concerns about its content. The theater management and Miss Nethersole's representatives declared they would not proceed until lawful. critics argue the work depicts life phases better left unseen and offers no clear moral lesson.
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New York
Miss Nethersole
Purist sophistry on vice pictures sparks debate
Magistrate Mott in New York avoided a final morality ruling, but held managers and principals for trial before a jury, securing a temporary withdrawal of the play. The argument labels such pictures as demoralizing despite portraying misery as a consequence of vice.
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Mott
New York
Soldier killed in ambush near Tarlac during search
Manila dispatch reports Dieut. Edgar I. Koehler of the Ninth Infantry shot in the abdomen and killed six miles north of Tarlac after being lured by a promise of hidden rifles. In retaliation American forces burned the village and killed twenty four of the enemy. Gen Bates’ expedition to southern Luzon has occupied Nueva Caceres and Daet with 2200 men. At Libmanan a clash left the enemy routed after a bayonet fight. sixty four enemy dead were buried and total casualties estimated at 140.
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Manila
Dieut
Edgar I. Koehler
Ninth Infantry
Tarlac
Bates
Luzon
Neuva Caceres
South Camarines
Daet
North Camarines
John B. Galleker
San Miguel Bay
Nueva Caceres
Libmanan
Fortieth
Chicago Labor War Expands as 10000 Join Idle Force
Ten thousand more join the 75000 idle in Chicago amid a labor dispute. Building material manufacturers order a halt to new work and tie up $20,000,000 in value. They will fill existing contracts but not engage in new building until the conflict ends. Opinions differ on impact, with contractors claiming support and suppliers claiming neutrality.
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Chicago
Building Contractors’ Council
Game
Wreck injures several in Mineola Texas incident
In Mineola Texas on Friday several persons were injured when a wreck occurred. The report notes Kews of Miner Nete and mentions the battleship Kearsarge slated to head the North Atlantic squadron. Unseasonably cold Florida weather is blamed for orange trees damage, and a New Jersey legislature bill seeks to require streets to publish their reperta.
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iFifteda
Mineola
Texas
Kearsarge
North Atlantic Squadron
Florida
New Jersey
Plague Rumors Hit Puget Sound Ports Over Japanese Ship
Officials confirmed seventeen bubonic plague cases tied to the Japanese tramp Nanyo Maru quarantined at Diamond Head and Fort Townsend. The ship carried a dying crew of forty, with multiple deaths at sea and aboard. The vessel was fumigated repeatedly as officials and residents feared an outbreak.
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Puget Sound
Port Townsend
Diamond Head
Fort Townsend
Pacific Coast
Fire destroys Theatre Francais in Paris with loss of life
Paris dispatch reports the Theatre Francais on Rue St Honore and Place destroyed by a blaze that began in the foyer. Mlle Henriot died, seven firemen injured, as flames enveloped the historic playhouse before the matinee. The 1782 building had housed Corneille Racine Moliere and Shakespeare works.
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Theater Francais
Pariat
Paris
Mlle. Henriot
Historical Playhouse
Comedie Francaise
Jovers
Corneille
Racine
Moliere
Shakspeare
Rue St. Honore
Boer War Briefs Sweep Northern News
Rainy season starts in Natal as Boers field 46,500 troops. Independence Kansas ships mules to England. Stanley predicts July end. Milner imposes martial law in Cape districts. Queen telegrams Buller and White. London Standard foresees a new port in Portuguese East Africa. Boers dynamite railways near Modder River Kimberley.
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Natal
Independence
Kan
England
Henry M. Stanley
Chamberlain
Noo
Alfred Milner
Cape Colony
Gens
Buller
White
London Standard
Great Britain
Portuguese East Africa
Modder River
Kimberley
Africa
Inniskilling Fusiliers
Pieter’s Hill
Michael Hicks-Bench
Gen. Cronje
Pretoria
Opperman
Winston Churchill
Spien Kop
Oxford University
South Africa
Tarpix
Seegence
Tempest in British War Office over Lansdowne Wolseley dispute
Bitter friction grips the British War Office as criticism of the war effort in South Africa grows. Lord Lansdowne and Lord Wolseley face pressure and possible retirement amid parliament inquiries and escalating agitation over military unpreparedness and leadership. The Buller affair fueling public doubt about Southern Africa command.
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Lansdowne
Wolseley
South Africa
British War Office
Lord Lansdowne
Army
Lord Wolseley
England
Gen. Wolseley
Gen. Buller
Romance of an Egg Sparks Iowa Girl and U.S. Employee
An Iowa clerk and a Cuba stationed U S civil servant exchange letters after an egg bearing the clerk’s name travels from Fort Dodge to New York to Cuba. A planned meeting in Iowa leads to plans for marriage and a voyage to Cuba with the bride brought by an egg.
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Iowa
U. S
Cuba
Lizzie Gilday
Fort Dodge
Guines
Senate and House Busy With Debates and Electoral Seats
A four day span in Congress features Carter defending a Pennsylvania seat, currency reform talk with Fairbanks and Butler, and a House filibuster over the Frederick Douglass Memorial bill. Other actions include seating Aldrich over Robbins in North Alabama, pension rule changes, and Hawaii governance plans ahead of an April vote. steady floor activity winds through Porto Rican tariff debates, Alaska code progress, and Wise-Young election discussions.
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Senate
Carter
Mottana
Quay
Pennsylvania
Corbett
Fairbanks
Butler
Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association
Bailey
Texas
Laterederick Douglas i
Washington
Scott
Philippines
Congress
House
Aldrich-Robbins
Alabama
Spooner
Foraker
Pettus
Tillmann
Hoar
Mason
Committee On Foreign Relations
Gaston A. Robbins
North Alabama
William B. Aldrich
Richardson
Overstreet
Lindsay
Allison
Porto Rico
Loud
California
Sulloway
New Hampshire
Liluokalani
Hawaii
Wise- Young
Weeks
Mich
Burke
Hull
Iowa
Linney
N. Y
Pan American congress membership for Penn announced
The item notes Penn will join the Pan American congress. It cites historical receipts: patent office 1899 at 1 325 457 dollars and Philippine public funds 6 696 080 dollars through 1899. A Magnolia Mississippi boiler explosion killed Green Cockerham and injured Wallace Cockerham and Boyd.
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Penn
Pan- American Congress
Patent Office
Eirty
Philippine Islands
Green Cockerham
Wallace Cockerham
Boyd
Magnolia
Miss
Bankyor Hoelend
Bank
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Red ‘Ash
Goebel
Whittaker
Saphoy JS
Ye Hefren
Olga Nethersole
Beriberi
Tempest
Field Marshal
Viscount Wolseley
Sir William
Marquis of Lansdowne
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