Navy Signs Holland Submarine Contract for Torpedo Boats
Washington reports the Navy Department signed a contract with the Holland Submarine Torpedo Boat Co to acquire additional boats for 150 000 dollars per ship with 175 000 for future vessels, plus patent protections and a 90 000 bond for the Plunger project. Also noted is the delay in selecting Mr. Allen's successor as assistant secretary of the navy until Secretary Long returns from Colorado. The militia budget is cut to 1 million dollars annually, down from 4 hundred thousand, while the total Congress aims to restrain spending.
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Washington
Mr. Allen
Navy
Long
Colorado
Allen
White House
Porto Rico
San Juan
House Committee On Militia
National Association of Military Organizations
Marsh
Navy Department
Holland Submarine “Torpedo Boat Co
Holland
Colorado River Flood Reaches Wharton Texas
The Colorado river flood has reached Wharton, Texas, submerging half the town and displacing residents. One casualty, a Black refugee drowned while fleeing to town. Cattle are being driven ahead, crops suffer heavy losses, and Eagle Lake area also flooded with water encroaching inland.
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Houston
Tex
Wharton
Eagle Lake
Holland becomes naval vessel awaits volunteer commander
Washington on April 14 notes the Holland now a naval vessel under contract terms. The government plans to provide a commanding crew within a reasonable time with volunteers favored for the first command from junior naval officers. Authorities intend no forced posting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Gillmore Returns to Sea Duty as Prairie Executive Officer
Washington April 14 Lieutenant Commander J C Gillmore, on leave recovering from harassments after captivity among Filipinos, was ordered to immediate duty at sea as executive officer of the cruiser Prairie. The ship will cruise with the naval militia of the Atlantic and gulf states throughout the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Siamese Minister Arrives in Washington to Present Credentials
Phya Prasiddhi, newly arrived Siamese minister to Washington, travels with his clerk and will present credentials to the president soon. He previously served as an attache at the Siamese legation in 1887, bringing prior Washington experience.
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Washington
Phya
Prasiddhi
Siam
Washington to dissolve Eighth Army Corps in week
Secretary Poottix to issue orders next week formalizing the dissolution of the Eighth Army Corps. This move marks the end of the last army corps formed to fight Spain, signaling a major postwar reorganization.
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Washington
Poot Tix
Sth Army Corps
Army Corps
Kingdom of Spain
Writer Kudzzis Tewfik Exiled for Article in Constantinople
Constantinople on April 14 reports Kudzzis Tewfik state councilor and noted writer has been arrested and exiled to Kontah, a city of Ana Minor, for an article displeasing to the sultan.
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Constantinople
Kudzzis Tewfik
Kontah
Ana Minor
House votes for direct election of US senators
Washington April 14 the house adopted a constitutional amendment enabling direct election of United States senators by the people with the option for states to choose direct or legislative selection. The substitute was defeated 135 to 30 and the final adoption passed 240 to 15.
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Washington
House
United States
Corliss
Resignation Accepted from Secretary to the President
Hon. Joan Addison Porter resigns as secretary to the president due to ill health effective May 18. George B. Cortelyou of New York is appointed to the office. Porter has suffered a severe illness and will depart to seek rest and rapid recovery under medical advice.
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Washington
Joan Addison Porter
George B. Cortelyou
New York
Confession of Faith Divides Presbyterians in Chicago
The Interior, a Presbyterian organ, will publish an editorial urging setting aside the confession of faith and adopting a short evangelical creed. Editor Dr Gray repeats support for Dr Hillis against opponents, predicting an early church vote and a likely large majority for a new creed.
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Chicago
Presbyterian
Dr. Gray
Dr. Millis
Hillis
Presbyterian Church
Gray
Lake View High School graduates scrap formal exercises
Chicago on April 14 reports Lake View high school graduates will forgo commencement ceremonies. No essays or orations, no class addresses, and little formality. The move, urged by superintendent A F Enghtgal, aims to spare pupils from the burdens of graduation.
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Chicago
Lake View High School
A.F. Enghtgal
European broom corn arrives in Chicago amid price surge
Chicago on April 14 reports the city’s first European broom corn import this year. A local firm receives 500 tons bought in Hungary as U.S. prices soar. The broom corn trust allegedly holds 12,000 tons and refuses to lower price below 200 dollars per ton.
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Chicago
Europe
Hungary
Broom Corn Trust
Porto Rico tariff act to take effect May first 1900
Washington April 14. Secretary of the Treasury Gage announces that the customs features of the Porto Rico tariff and the related government bill will go into operation on May 1, 1900. The delay was required due to a discrepancy in the bill concerning when the act would become operative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Gage
Porto Rico
Miners Strike At Coal Creek Coal Co
Three hundred miners at Coal Creek mines in Knoxville area left work in a strike by United Mine Workers after four men were discharged, boosting tensions at the facility in Tennessee.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Coal Creek Coal Co
Coal Creek
United Mine Workers
Gillette-Herzog to Ship Steel for Kansas City Auditorium
The Gillette-Herzog Company will start the first shipment of steel work for the Kansas City auditorium on Monday. Manager Llewellyn has just returned from Kansas City and reports the steel work will be completed on time.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Gillette-Herzog Company
Kansas City Auditorium
Llewellyn
Kansas City
Gazette backs Wolcott for vice presidency in Colorado Springs
The Colorado Springs Gazette endorses Senator Wolcott for vice president in its leading editorial. It notes the paper was the only daily in Colorado to support Finney in 1896, highlighting its historic party alignment.
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Senator Wolcott
Colorado Springs
Col
Colorado Springs Gazette
the Gazette
Colorado
Finney
Treasury balances general fund report shows cash and gold
Washington April 14 The statement of treasury balances in the general fund exclusive of the 150 million gold reserve in the division of redemption shows available cash here 149 414 317 gold 2 762 963
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Washington
Treasury
Boers Retake A Tom and Front News From War Office
Reports from Kimberley and London describe scattered fronts in the Boer War with remobilization and troops moving toward Wepener Rouxville and Mafeking. A U S consul says a Beira seizure plan remains unconfirmed while dispatches note reinforcements and rumors of a crushing Boer victory at Wepener.
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Wepener
Therish War
Kimberley
Regul
Pretoria
United States
Reichman
Samas Post
Nix
London
Warrenton
Frederick Carrit
Cape Town
Beira
Sets
Aliwal
Swanepoel
Royal Irish
Rouxville
Rost
Free
Saire
Porford
Duncan
Godfrey Lagdon
Maseru
Brabant
Giney
Clearin
Mree
Bloemie
Daily T
Bot Wepener
Bryan to Address Chicago in May Political Rally
Chicago reports that Admiral and William Jennings Bryan plan a pair of meetings on May 1 and May 2, marking Bryan’s first presidential campaign events since his Manila hero status. The two notable figures will headline gatherings in the city, with attendees and details still to be announced.
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Chicago
William Jennings Bryan
Manila
Didate
Hidden cash found in Tipton home sparks mystery
Money totaling 40 dollars was found concealed under a mattress in a Tipton Indiana home on April 16. Police say the discovery occurred in a family residence and no suspects or motives are known at this time.
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Ted
Tipton
Ind
Thea bin
Georgia jailbreak pardon saves convict mother’s rush
A Georgia mother, frantic to inform her son of his pardon, follows a cab to a confinement barge after learning from the governor. The guard declines the pardon, but the boy is freed. The son, jailed 12 months for a misdemeanor, had served five months with failing health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles McGee
MecCabe
Banana Trust Meeting Discusses Importation Fear
Banana dealers from central and western regions met to consider alleged threats from the Banana Trust and the importation of a wh es caused concern. The association discussed plans to counter the trust with possible purchase of plantations in Spanish and other Central American countries and a potential independent dealers group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banana Job Association
United States
Pana
Freight train wreck kills two in Tennessee and Alabama
A Southern Railway freight train collided with a mule near Nooga Alabama on April 16, killing engineer Percy Jong and fireman Sandy i. Five workers were seriously injured. The wreck caused a 12 hour delay in Memphis division trains.
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Nooga
Tenn
Ala
Percy Jong
Sandy i
Celine Paor
Memphis di
Insurgents Active Near Marivales with 300 Force
Reported insurgents used by Mascado’s command are active about the Marivales area. A force of about 300, with 30 men from the 32d regiment, engaged three enemy units near Orion, killing two Americans before retiring. Theodore Schwan and 300 sick soldiers are noted in the vicinity.
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Mascado
Inesseas
Coman
Orion
Amerthen
N. Theodore Schwan
Coal Creek miners strike disrupts reopening efforts
In April 15 report, miners at Fraterville coal mines owned by Coal Creek Coal Co demanded reinstatement of union men who had been discharged. Strikers halted work and planned to move mining tools and vacate company tenant houses as tensions rose with no clearance yet.
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Lenn
Fraterville
Coal Creek Coal Co
Eliza Whitfield Bellamy Dies at Home in Mobile
Mrs Eliza Whitfield Bellamy authoress and widow of Dr Ja Bellamy surgeon in the late army is reported dead at her Mobile home. She wrote Man Gilbert and Southern social conditions novels and her work Trials of Penny Lancaster appeared last year.
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Bile
Ala
Eliza Whitfield Bellamy
Ja. €. Bellamy
Gilbert
Penny
Lancas- P
Mrs Lawton to Visit Con e Before Relocating to Kentucky
Frisco reports Mrs F Lawton widow of a general will visit Committee Redad area for a few days to wrap up business before moving with family to Kentucky. York notes 5000 officers locked out now threatening a strike and refusing return until wage raise from 2 to 3 dollars per week is granted. General is threatened.
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S . Francisco
F. Lawton
Redad
Cone
Kentucky
York
Louisville to Louisville? Railroad Branch Aims Pittsburgh to Manchester
Dow Kentucky April 16 report that the Louis Wille Naalville railroad plans a branch line from Pittsburgh toward Manchester in Clay County. The route is described as linking coal and oil rich regions, promising industrial expansion.
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Dow, Ky
Louis, Wille & Naalville Railroad
Pittsburgh
Manchester
Clay
Paris Exposition Opens As United States Ranks Second In Exhibits
The Paris Exposition of 1900 opened with ceremonies led by President Loubet. Americas displays numbered 5640 exhibitors across 329,052 square feet. France led in size values with France and Belgium among top exhibitors while American readiness outpaced rivals despite French delays.
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Paris
Loubet
Halle de Fester
M. Millerand
United States
France
Great Britain
America
Exposition
Vincennes Annex
Ggim
Eiffel Tower
Champ de Mars
Havana Customs Receipts Rise in Early 1900
Washington report shows Havana customs receipts for January to March 1900 totaling 3,126,414 dollars, up from 2,348,888 dollars a year earlier, an increase of 777,525. February receipts reached 967,682 dollars and March 1,006,259 dollars.
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Washington
Division of Customs and Insular Affairs
War Department
Havana
Widow Inherites 300000 Fortune After Uncle's Death
Owosso Michigan April 15 Mrs Liz zie Pentlock a young widow with two children has fallen heir to a fortune estimated at 300 000 by the death of her uncle John Sweesey in New York City. Mrs Pentlock has been living in poverty.
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Owosso, Mich
Lizzie Pentlock
John Sweesey
New York City
Secretary Long May Be Nominated for Vice Presidency
In Washington on April 16 observers noted Secretary Long’s apparent openness to accepting the Republican nomination for vice president as indicated by his remarks on the topic. The comment sparked wide discussion among policymakers and political commentators in the capital.
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Washington
Long
William Boyd Convicted of First Degree Murder
Princeton Indiana reports William Boyd found guilty of first degree murder for killing Simon Skora a jeweler in Evansville last November. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Princeton
Ind
William Boyd
Boyd
Simon Skora
Evansville
Emperorship rumor from Wuchang and Burmese boundary clash
Rio Jun Maru reports a Chinese man jailed then claiming to be the emperor after escape from the palace and carrying Pekin seals. British surveyors clash with Chinese laborers, 80 killed, many wounded. Pekin reports a large Boxers engagement at Yen Chin, about 4000 troops, indecisive but heavy casualties.
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Victorria
B. C
Wuchang
Court of
Pekin
Lytton
Maj. Kyttle
Mr. Sutherland
Yen Chin
Pechili Province
Cotton crop census aims to tally ginned cotton nationwide
Washington reports that the twelfth census will use gin records to measure the cotton crop. An expert agent will collect returns from all gins and cotton establishments in the growing region, large or small, beginning June 1. The method promises precise totals by submitting exact ginning outputs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cyclone Strikes Royse Texas Causes Losses
A Royse Texas cyclone at midnight wrecked eight houses and risked many lives. An electric display preceded the storm as ominous clouds gathered northwest. Telegraph and telephone lines were destroyed and a man in a buggy was blown 100 yards. Royse lies 29 miles north of Dallas.
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Dallas
Tex
Royse
Coal Operators Meet to Discuss Higher Soft Coal Prices
Mine operators from over a dozen Indiana and Illinois mines held a secret meeting at the Great Northern hotel in Chicago. They reportedly agreed to raise soft coal prices further, though the exact amount was not stated. They argued current wages make mining unprofitable without a price increase.
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Chicago
Indiana
Illinois
Great Northern Hotel
Storm Brings Tornado Threat Near Wichita Area
A storm approaching a tornado of large size is reported between Wichita and Newton, near Winfield and West Clearwater. Two deaths are reported and four people are said to have been killed by overturned houses.
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Wichita
Kan
Winfield
Here
Newton
West Clearwater
Miss Mary Field French Dies at Amherst Guardian of Eugene Field
Miss Mary Field French aged 75, longtime guardian of Eugene Field, died suddenly at her Amherst home. She cared for Field from age seven until his eighteenth year, linking to the late author.
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Mary Field French
Amherst
Mass
Eugene Field
Waterbury Bank Teller Missing After $25,000 Defalcation
Waterbury Vermont on April 16 reports John G Farrar, a teller at the Waterbury National Bank, is missing amid a defalcation of 25000 dollars. The community is greatly shocked by the news.
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Waterbury, Vt
John G Farrar
Waterbury National Bank
American Lady Injured in Paris Collision
An American woman, named Pierce, was overturned by a cyclist at the corner of Rue Pierre Charron and Avenue d Alma in Paris yesterday noon. She was badly shaken and barely able to pronounce her name.
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Paris
Pierre Charron
Avenue d’ Alma
Pierce
Williams Hanged for Grocer Murder in Toronto
Harry Williams was hanged here Saturday for the murder of J. C. Varcoe a Toronto grocer attacked during a robbery on November 9. McIntosh, Williams accomplice, was shot and killed at the scene.
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Toronto
Cnt
Harry Williams
J.C. Varcoe
McIntosh
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Cgco. FP. Cortelyou
Confession OF Faith
Esse
Treasury Statement
Royal Irish Fusiliers
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Him
Banana Trust
Nonal Association of Dealers , S
Sifgree
Thesa Infantry
Gane
Panestpay
Hava
China
Cotton Crop Census
Kansas
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