Spain's Cortes Debates War Policy and Executions
Madrid transcripts show the Cortes and Senate erupting over Cuba and Santiago. Count d Almenas denounces generals, calls five months with no executions a scandal, while Primo de Rivera Blanco and Barges defend leaders. Sagasta and Correa testify amid tumult. adjournment follows claims of Madrid orchestrating Cuba’s surrender to save the monarchy.
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United States
Jonat d’Almenas
Cuba
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Weyler
Blanco
Cervera
Linares
Santiago
Count d’Almenas
America
Ris
Count d'Alemenas
Asses
Barges
Count d’Alménas
Xaso
Hereford
Senor Annix
Correa
Porto Rico
McKinley
Shafter
Santias
Madrid
Captin Aunon
Sagasta
Adams Poisoning Case Deepens in New York Inquest
In New York on February 21 the Adams inquiry continues into the murder of Mrs. Kate J. Adams and Henry Barnet. The inquest focused on Barnet’s death, showing he took mercurial poison from another powder, with no new startling evidence emerging.
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New York
Adams
Kate J. Adams
Henry Barnet
Barnet
The Homeless Dead in New York Morgue Ice Toll
In New York on February 21, the morgue held 170 unidentified homeless dead in refrigerant cells due to ice blocking burial access to Hart Island. Charity fleet efforts failed to breach the ice as grave diggers awaited work while the Columbia finally opened a passage after a hard battle with ice.
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New York
Harts Island
Charity Department
Columbia
Phenomenal derailment on Chicago and Alton road
Bloomington Illinois February 21 railroad men recount a remarkable derailment on the Chicago and Alton line near Prentice. A wheel break caused a car to derail into a ditch yet automatic couplings rejoined the train and no cars were missed despite air line breaks. The incident is hailed as the most phenomenal on record.
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Bloomington
Chicago and Alton Road
Kansas City
Prentice
Coal famine hits Perry amid miner strike in Indian Territory
Perry Oklahoma reports no coal for sale for four days as a strike by miners disrupts supplies from Indian Territory. In Cherryvale Kansas an express car on the Coffeyville line was robbed of currency and money orders while the express messenger ate. Vernon Texas records the death of Ben A. Coleman, a clerk at C T Smith's dry goods store, found in his bed.
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Cherryvale
Kas
Coffeyville
Santa Fe
Cooper
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