Senate and House debate on Puerto Rican tariff bill and Hawaiian government
Legislative coverage notes repeated discussions through February 20 to 22. Key figures include Kenny, Hopkins, Newlands, Swanson, Bramwell, Ray, Long, Henry, Penrose, Foraker, Grosvenor, Tillman and Morgan. The Porto Rican tariff bill faces cross party debate. the Hawaiian government bill is frequently discussed with occasional clashes and speeches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Kenny
United States
Islands
House
Hopkins
Newlands
Swanson
Quay
Pennsylvania
Penrose
Bramwell
Ohio
Ray
N. Y
Long
Kansas
Henry
Texas
Foraker
Washington
Grosvenor
Littlefield
Maine
Tillman
S.C
Mr. Morgan
Internal Revenue Tactics on Imitation Liquors and Tax Rules
The commissioner declares spurious imitation liquors a rectification process making involved parties subject to rectifier and retailer taxes. The census examining board departs Washington March 17 for Chicago with exams set March 24 to 27. Treasury seeks to raise Boise public building cost from 200000 to 300000 with fast availability. Minister Trart cables Tokyo that Colombia faces petty reverses against revolutionaries.
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Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Census Examining Board
Washington
Chicago
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Boise
Idaho
United States
Trart
Toyota
State Department
Notable NYC Paper Owner Dies At Hotel Fifth Avenue
Benjamin Wood proprietor of the Daily News dies at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City after a period there. Fire destroys the Newell Son store in Providence with losses around 100000. Fort Slocum recruits desert, leaving 12 unaccounted. NY banks show rising loan totals since year start. Philadelphia builds a massive allied building trades union, while British steamer Crowe ships large farm equipment to Russia. O Maherty dies in New York. Pottsburg laundry fire causes substantial insured loss.
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New York City
Benjamin Wood
New York
The
Daily News
Fifth Avenue
United States
Canada
L. D. Newell & Son
Providence
R. I
Newell & Son
Fort Slocum
N.Y
New Rochelle
Philadelphia
New Association
Allied County of the Building Trades of
Crowe
Neveroast
Russia
Careo
Tadward O'Maherty
Ary Goods Jim
McParthiamd & O'Flaherty
O'Tliherty
New Method
Pottsburg
Dr Keeley of Gore Cure Fame Dies Near Los Angeles
Dr Keeley famed for his gore cure theory died suddenly at his winter home near Los Angeles. He recently traveled from his Dwight, Illinois residence to enjoy the California coast, according to initial reports.
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Taster Keeley
Los Angeles
Keeley
Dwight
Diverse late 19th century disaster and obituary notes
Reports from across the U S describe a Birmingham Alabama hotel fire with high losses, a Wonewoc Wisconsin blaze destroying seven businesses, a Pensacola ship loss in a Havana voyage, and a death in Chicago of Amos J Snell’s widow. Also noted are pole vault records in Ann Arbor, labor strikes in Chicago, and Col William S King’s passing in Minneapolis plus a Chicago fire painting donation offer.
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Wing
Bingham County
Utah
Pensacola
Fla
Havana
Wonewoc
Wis
Birmingham
Ala
Metropolitan
Morris
Amos J. Snell
Chicago
Ann Arbor
Mich
Charles N. Dvorak
Republic Iron and Steel Co
Indiana
Fraey & Chalmers
Crosby & Co
Frazer & Chalmers
William S. King
Minneapolis
Minn
King
Franklin County
N. Y
Free Soil Party
New York
Minnesota
Howard II Gross
West Park Commissioners
Notable London Editor Henry Trail Dies at 61
In London on the 21st Henry Duff Trail editor of Literature and a famed English journalist died of heart disease. Born in 1842, Trail was a prominent figure in literary and newspaper circles. He leaves a legacy as a sharp writer and editor.
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London
Henry Duff Trail
Princess Cantacuzon
Julia Dent Grant
U. S. Grant
St. Petersburg
Russia
Manzanillo
Colima
Guadalajara
Emlio Cassi
Rough Riders
Wood
Havana
Cassi
Lieut
Martinez
Mgr. Sharrett
India
Probate Filed for Philip D Armour Jr Will in Chicago
The will valued at eight million dollars disposes of one third to the widow and two thirds in trust for three executors for two surviving sons. The document was filed for probate in Chicago reflecting the deceased’s estate and heirs.
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Philip D. Armour, Jr
Chicago
Sherlands
Scotland
Quartermaster General's Department
Philippines
Cuba
San Francisco
Mational
Intermal Resenue
New York City
Charch
Sampaun & Co
Glovers and Batters
Boston
Globe National Bank
Fim
New York State
Quay
Senate
Pennsylvania
Turley (Tenn) Hoe
Tullmont S
Spooner
Wis
British forces tighten their grip at Paardeberg and Bloemfontein
Dispatches from London report Lord Roberts closing in on Gen Cronje at Paardeberg as British losses total 11,208 through Feb 17. Boer positions weaken with 80 prisoners taken, Montmorency killed, and Boer forces assembling near Bloemfontein to dispute invasion.
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London
Cronfer
Lord Kitchener
Cronje
Lord Roberts
War Office
Paardeberg
Orange Free State
Natal
Montmorency
Bloemfontein
Pretoria
Lorenzo Marquez
Ladysmith
Loudsmith
White
Heliongram
Tietermanntburg
Dublin
Grobler
Kloof
Strike Spreads Through Chicago Building Trades
Several thousand more workers are expected to lose jobs as a building materials council ordered brick deliveries halted to sites employing non union labor. The action, taken Sunday, will idle about 1 000 brick makers and at least 3 000 others across county construction sites.
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Chicago
Californian Aground on Ram Island Ledge Near Portland
The steamship Californian bound for Glasgow ran aground on Ram Island Ledge just outside Portland harbor after leaving port at midnight Saturday. All passengers, crew of 75, and six cabin five intermediate and ten steerage passengers remain aboard as rescuers assess damage and potential floatation. The vessel valued at 3 million and cargo at 300 thousand. no fatalities reported.
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Callifornian
Glasgow
Portland
Big Allen Line
Californian
Ram Island Ledge
Edward L. Parsons
Parsons
Cushing’s Island Point
Ram Island
Ram, Island
Cape Elizabeth
li + savers
Piedmont
Halifax
Barclay
State of California
Clyde
Lehigh Valley Express Hits Carriage Killing Five
At Tuttle's Crossing near Rochester New York a Lehigh Valley train struck a carriage carrying seven of the Smith family shortly after midnight killing five occupants and fatally injuring another. Porter and Gardner Smith survived with injuries after the wreck.
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Lehigh Valley
Geneva
N. Y
Midniight
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Tuttle
Gardner Smith
Rolling Mills Burned in Detroit Fire
A blaze at the Detroit Steel and Spring Co in Detroit destroyed both rolling mills, killing Fireman Timothy Keohane and injuring two others. Loss estimated at about 100000, fully insured. Spring shops to reopen in ten days. rolling mills to resume in a month if new buildings are secured.
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Detroit
Detroit Steel and Spring Co
Michigan Avenue
Michigan Central Railroad
Ingomer
Rolling Mills
Timothy Keohane
Hubbard Avenue
Warner Hospital
Fourteenth Avenue
Brank Berthesur
Melcatrick
Dewitt Loon
Steel and Sprog Co
Early Shipments Planned for Lake Coal and Ore
Pittsburg official states lake shipments will start this week, well ahead of last year’s May 4 opening. Ore exporters plan an April 15 start, with both coal and ore men predicting record tonnage and strong demand this season. Local workers had been unable to fill 500 000 tons last year due to delays.
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Pittsburg
Pittsburg Coal Co
Incal Combine
Explorer Grogan Recalls Africa Inferno and Cannibal Tribes
London reports E S Grogan, back from a two year trek across Africa, claims to be the first European to travel from the Cape to Cairo. He describes lava seas near Tanganyika, forests devastated, and 5000 Baleka tribesmen cannibals hunting humans in the Congo frontier. Grogan recounts villages of grass huts and cannibal rituals including cauldrons with skulls. His party was attacked but repelled by rifle fire.
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Grogen
London
E. S. Grogan
England
Africa
Grogan
Cape
Cairo
Lake Tanganyika
Millers' Trust Collapses Prompting Receiver Takeover
Milwaukee reports the United States Milling Co known as the flour trust collapsed last Saturday. Judge Jenkins appointed three receivers Daniel Thomas Charles E Kimball and Albert C Loring to oversee the mills amid a push to reorganize the company. The filing notes capital difficulties and the Northwestern Co acquisitions as strains on funds.
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Milwaukee
Wis
United States Milling Co
The
Flour Trust
Northwestern Co
Minnesota
Hecker-Jones-Jewell Co
Minneapolis
Mime
C. Loring
Kentucky Democratic Contests Push State Government Into Tie Up
In Frankfort on February 27 the state contest board certified election for all Democratic minor state offices. The sworn-in officials demanded possession from Republican incumbents, filing injunctions to oust them and halt their powers. The move could tie up virtually every state branch pending contest decisions.
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Frankfort
State Contest Board
State House
Hill
Breckinridge
Chalter
Hager
Indictments Planned Over Bear Movements in Brooklyn Rapid Transit
New York February 27 The World reports twenty five men to be indicted by the special grand jury now in session for actions tied to a bear movement against the Brooklyn Rapid Transit. The cases include stalling the penal code, spreading false information to destroy stock value, and swindling. The grand jury found well known Wall Street figures behind the activity and connected them to a broad stock manipulation scheme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Wall Street
Fiendish Crime Shocks Benton Community
A brutal crime report from Little Cypress 15 miles away describes John Thomas, an African American man, forced at gunpoint to drink alcohol, beaten, tied to a wagon wheel, dragged, dumped in a creek, shot three times, and left hung on a fence. authorities seek suspects John James and Joe Greer.
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Benton
Little Cypress
John James
Joe Greer
John Thomas
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Rey
Free State
John D. P. French
Kimberley
Millers
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Bears
C.A. Hoffman
Broadway
Long ‘Island City
Hood
Grain-C
Carter
Carter L
Newell Is
CH Kettz
Jones St
Sioux City
Qld
Gcare Constipation
Sterling Remedy Comy Company
Montreal
Fiat
H.h.gis
Sen
Box D
Atlants
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