Battles Expand in Luzon as U S Troops Advance
Dispatches from Manila detail American forces under Gen Otis repelling insurgent attacks near Caloocan and Malabon. Kansas, Montana, and Utah units push through jungle and trenches, capturing Caloocan with heavy enemy losses. American casualties total 268 since Feb 4.
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Otis
War Department
Oo Ae
Manila
Luzon
Mboo
OrIs
A.C. Alford
20Th
Kansas Infantry
Caloocan
Washington
Lagudade Bay
Kansas
Col
Funston
Alford
Aguinaldo
Iloilo
Otis Sday
Miller
Dehment
Lloilo
Baltimore
Petrel
Boston
ANILA
Wkota
Colorado
Nebraska
Adjutant General
Minnesota
Company M
Alexander M. Burns
Montana
Lester Pierestoff
Gustave E. Edlund
Wm. Philipot
H. C. Livingston
Charles Keckiey
George L. Clother
Robert E. Childers
Fred Kuhn
Oral F. Gibson
Douglas T. Bridges
Harry Seabooke
Grant Boyd
Francis Hanson
Maro C. Shiperd
Daniel Campbell
Third Artillery
James J. Gr
de la Lome
United States
Monadnock
Utah
Kansas Regiment
Pennsylvania Regiment
Concord
6Th Artillery Division
Harrison G. Otis
10Th
Pennsylvania Infantry
20Th Kansas Infantry
1St
Montana Infantry
8Th Artillery
Idaho Infantry
Utah Artillery
4Th Cavalry
J. F. Kell
Higgins
Bruce Wallace
Washinorton
McArthur
Pasig River
Adm
Dewey
Charleston
Galoocan
Malabon
Elwell S. Otis
MacArthur
Barry
Harrison Gray Otis
Montana Regiment
2D Cavalry
Simaday
Wasu
Army Officers Pay Cut in House Military Bill
The house military affairs committee trimmed the army appropriation to 79 million dollars for about 100 000 soldiers. Major items include pay, subsistence, transportation, barracks, and 2 009 small arms daily output at Rock Island NL. Cuban relief and clerical costs were notably reduced.
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Washington
House Committee On Military Affairs
Cuba
Quartermaster’s Department
Rock Island
Andree and Companions Likely Found Dead in Siberia
A Siberian tribe reported discovering a cloth cabin with three bodies, one head crushed, near Yeniseisk. Police travel to the site to verify if they are Herr Andree and his companions Strindberg and Frankel from the balloon Eagle expedition that left Denmark in 1897 to cross the polar point.
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Kerasnovarsk
Siberia
Monastyrsehin
Timar
Komo
Pit
Yeniseisk
Herr Andree
Prof
Andree
Strindeberg
Frankel
Danes Island
Spitzbergen
Clark Indicted for Murder in Montgomery Brother Connection
J D Clark was indicted in Nashville for the murder of Minnie Clark alias Blanche Cox his supposed wife. The body was found on a Cumberland River bridge near Nashville under suspected disposal. Clark, a Montgomery Alabama prominent family member and brother of Thomas H Clark, law librarian of Congress, faces trial on March 15.
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Nashville
Tenn
J. D. Clark
Minnie Clark
Blanche Cox
Cumberland
Clark
Montgomery
Ala
Thomas H. Clark
Congress
England Contemplates Buying Chilean Argentine Warships
Report from Galveston dated February 11 states Great Britain has offered to purchase war ships from Chile and Argentina, signaling possible shifts in naval assets and alliances.
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England
Iowa
Peru
Galveston
Tex
Great Britain
Don Carlos Calls Off Spanish Agitation
London February 11 The Rome correspondent reports a good source says Don Carlos has instructed agents in Spain to stop the agitation on his behalf.
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London
Rome
The
Daily Chronicle
Don Carlos
Spain
Colored couple assassinated at Fort Garnes plantation
At midnight Thursday Alf Boynton and his wife, both colored, were shot dead at the Grimsley plantation after being summoned to the door by unknown parties. The killings are described as cold blooded and unprovoked.
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Fort Garnes
Alf Boynton
Grimsley Plantation
Ohio regiment robs shops after Macon muster out
In Macon Georgia on February 11 officers report 2d Ohio regiment soldiers looted wagons and stores after muster out. Col Kuert denied responsibility while merchants estimate heavy losses including a store closure and a driver’s theft of gold rimmed spectacles. A requisition may seek Kuert’s return for prosecution.
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Macon
Ohio Regiment
United States
Ohio
Col. Kuert
Burial of Gen Garcia Marks Havana Remembrance
Gen Calixto Garcia's body arrived from the United States on the Nashville and lay in state at Havana's palace. About three hundred wreaths were placed at the bier as crowds filed past the coffin. Interment occurred Saturday at 1 pm with Gov Brooke and staff attending and Cuban troops guarding the streets.
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Havana
Calixto Garcia
United States
Nashville
Council Chamber
Brooke
7Th Army Corps
Thrilling reunion at Essenic Knights meeting
In New Orleans on a Friday night at the supreme senate gathering Col Slater of Lawrenceburg Ind a grand army man spoke on the women s badge. He named Col Christey the Pennsylvania legislator as a wounded veteran from Chancellorsville shared with Col Seable a Louisiana delegate. Christey and Seable then recognized each other as old friendly enemies. The house cheered as they embraced amid lowered flags and a chorus of songs.
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New Oreans
Supreme Senate of the Essenic Knights
Slater
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Christey
Pennsylvania
Chancellorsville
David Seable
Louisiana
Army of North Virginia
Chancellorsville Field
Col
Seable
Cincinnati’s Murray Knocks Out Frede in 19th Round
Jim Murray of Cincinnati scores a clean knockout on Joe Frede of St. Louis in the 19th round before the Hot Springs Athletic Association audience. The bout is described as hard fought with notable science shown by both boxers.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Jim Murray
Cincinnati
Joe Frede
St. Louis
Hot Springs Athletic Association
Barrows Offered Librarian Post Accepts Support
Massachusetts members in congress reported Friday that Representative Barrows has been offered the librarian of Congress job and has accepted. The note comes as indirect but apparently authentic information from Washington.
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Wasshmeton
Massachusetts
Congress
Representative Barrows
Librarian of Congress
William Judd Sentenced for Horse and Wagon Theft
Batavia Ohio February 11 William Judd who had been arrested for stealing a horse and wagon years earlier was sentenced to two and a half years in the penitentiary.
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Batavia, O
William Judd
Devastating Yankton Insane Asylum Fire Claims 17 Inmates
At 2 a.m. Sunday a basement fire gutted a stone cottage at the state asylum in Omana Nebraska. Thirty people were in the building, including 40 female patients and 12 attendants, as firefighters battled power outages and freezing temperatures. Seventeen inmates died, while others escaped in night clothes into the bitter cold.
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Omana
Neb
Yankton
State Insane Asylum
Col. Colson Wounded In Alabama Shooting Brawl
A late night clash at a mam moth restaurant in Anniston between Col. David G. Colson and First Lieut. E. D. Scott left Colson wounded in the hip after a pistol duel. Lieuts. Scott Blakeman McKay and Phelps and provost guards helped end the fight and disarm Colson.
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Atlanta
Anniston
Ala
David G. Colson
E. D. Scott
4Th
Kentucky
Colson
Scott
Mammoth
Percy Olmstead
Lieut
Lieut. Blakeman
Col. Colson
Lieuts
McKay
Phelps
4Th Wisconsin
Col
Lieut. McKay
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Gen. Garcia
South Dakota
D. G. Colson
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