Americans Drive Filipino Forces From Caloocan
From Manila to Washington reports describe Otis led assault at Caloocan. U S forces, including the 20th Kansas and Montana regiments, supported by artillery and the Monadnock, stormed entrenched positions, routed insurgents, and raised the U S flag over the town amid heavy fighting with relatively light American casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Soners
Cieceworks
Otis
Marcus P. Miller
Iloilo
Visayan
Miller
Caloocan
de la Lome
United States
Monadnock
Utah
Montana
Kansas Regiment
Manina
Aguinaldo
20Th Kansas Infantry
1St
Montana Infantry
Kansas
Idaho Infantry
Utah Artillery
4Th Cavalry
Maj
J. Fell
Sfiggins
Bruce Wallace
Washtnoton
Washington
MacArthur
Pasig River
Adm
Dewey
Charleston
Malabon
Elwell
Ife
Rr Adm
Barny
Menadnock
Prig
Harrison Gray Otis
Montana Regiment
8D Cavalry
War Department
Hong Kong
Army officers pay cuts frame 1 054 million appropriation
The House military affairs committee finished the army appropriation bill listing total funding of 1,054,572. It assumes 100,000 troops and includes provisions for nine generals and 12 brigadiers. Major items cover contingencies subsistence clothing transportation and Rock Island small arms plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Committee On Military Affairs
Cuba
Quartermaster’s Department
Rock Island
Remains Hinted linked to Andree Balloon Expedition
A Siberian report says a Turgus tribe found a cloth cabin near Yeniseisk with three men's bodies, one head damaged, and instruments. Police head toward the site to verify if these are Andree, Strindberg, and Vronkel, whose 1897 polar balloon voyage vanished after leaving Spitzbergen. A carrier pigeon note from July 1897 mentions the journey and signals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Krasnovarsk
Siberia
Monastyrschin
Timur Peninsular
Kome
Vit
Yeniseisk
Herr Andree
Prof
Andree
Strindeberg
Vronkel
Daves Island
Spitzvergen
North Polar
Falken
Copenhagen
Clark Indicted for Murder in Nashville Bridge Find
J D Clark indicted for the murder of Minnie Clark found on a Cumberland River bridge near Nashville. He was on the bridge with a buggy an hour before discovery. Trial set for March 15. Clark from Montgomery Alabama, brother of Thomas H Clark. England offers to buy warships. Don Carlos orders agents to halt agitation in Spain.
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Nashvville
Tenn
J. D. Clark
Minnie Clark
Blanche Cox
Cumberland
Clark
Montgomery
Ala
Thomas H. Clark
Law Librarian
Congress
Lennon
Rome
The
Daily Chronicle
Don Carlos
Spain
Assassination at Grims Ley Plantation Reported
At midnight Thursday Alf Boynton and his wife, both colored, were shot dead on the Grimsley plantation by unknown assailants according to late night report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Garnes
Gia
Alf Boynton
Grimsley Plantation
Coor
Macon Merchants Outraged by 2d Ohio Regiment Robberies
In Macon on February 11, merchants report members of the 2d Ohio regiment pilfered wagons then entered stores while intoxicated after being mustered out. Some soldiers were arrested and released after returning goods. Col Kuert distances himself from the actions. A governor of Ohio may be asked to ensure prosecution for aiding and abetting the robbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Ohio Regiment
United States
Ohio
Col. Kuert
Burial of Gen. Garcia Draws Cuban City to Quiet Remembrance
Havana observes as Gen Calixto Garcia lies in state after arriving from the United States aboard the Nashville. About 300 wreaths and floral tributes line the bier while crowds pay silent homage. Interment occurs Saturday at 1 PM with Gov Brooke and staff in attendance. Cuban troops guard streets near the palace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Calixto Garcia
United States
Nashville
Ilavana
Council Chamber
Derd
Brooke
Tth Army Corps
Thrilling Senate Meeting Highlights Veteran Honor
A dramatic gathering of the supreme senate of the Essenic Knights in New Orleans features Col Slater praising Col Christey and Col Seable as friendly rivals from Civil War days as the crowd cheers and sings. Separate items report Jim Murray’s knockout of Joe Frede in Hot Springs and Rep Barrows offered as Librarian of Congress. William Judd receives a two and a half year penitentiary sentence for horse theft in Batavia Ohio.
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New Orleans
Supreme Senate of the Essenic Knights
Slater
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Christey
Pennsylvania
Chancellorsville
David Seable
Louisiana
Army of
Springs
Ark
Jim Murray
Cincinnati
Joe Frede
St. Louis
Hot Springs Athletic Association
Infamous Yankton Asylum Fire Claims Seventeen Inmates
A 2 AM blaze at the state asylum in Yankton gutted a basement cottage used for laundry. Seventeen inmates died as steam pipes burst and power failed, trapping 40 patients in a three story building with a single egress amid subzero cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omata. Neb
AO Sperial
Yankton
State Insane Asylum
Battle in Atlanta tavern leaves Colson wounded in hip
A late night clash at the Mam moth restaurant in Atlanta between Col. David G. Colson and First Lieut. FE. D. Scott of the 4th Kentucky regiments ends with Colson shot in the hip. Lieuts. Scott Blakeman Melkay and Phelps were present as provost guards moved to quell the fight. The hip wound was located and extracted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Anniston
Ala
David G. Colson
FE. D. Scott
4Th
Kentucky Regiment
Colson
Scott
Mammoth
Percy Olmstead
Lieut
Lieut. Blakeman
Col. Colson
Melkay
Phelps
4Th Wisconsin
Melway
Col
Lieut. Scott
Lieut. McKay
Gol. Colson
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Ren. Aguinaldo
Calope
ManilLa
A.C. Alford
20Th
Kansas Infantry
Washinetox
Manica
Lxarudade Bay
Caluocan
Emi Indue
Funston
Lee
Alford
Aguinalde
Noilo
18Th
Reocour Infantry
Hoilo Bay
Baltimore
Petrel
Cen. Hale
North Dakota Infantry
Colorado
Nebraska Infantry
Utah Light Artillery
Manta
Bon Roque
WasmxGerTon
Adjutant General
Minnesota
Company M
Alexander M. Burns
Company C
Lester Pierestoff
Nebraska
Co. B. Artiflveertistave FE
Edlund
Win
Philip
James J. Gratey
James T. Leahy
Company
Clyde I. McVay
Fourteenth Infantry
William Lush
Wasutnctox
Navy Department
San Roque
Sang Rocue
Cavite
Luzon
Washingcton
McArthur
Redgecett
Houge
Andrew
Tmar Peninsular
North Sberia
Flo Ia
Heer
England
Limwa
Peru
Galveston
Tex
Great Britain
Second Ohio Regiment
Gen. Garcia
Lbrarian
Wasurnaron
Massachusetts
Barrows
Librarian of
Batavia, O
William Judd
South Dakota
Kentucky
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