Race War Flares in Little River County Arkansas
Special dispatch from Texarkana reports a race war in Little River County with mobs killing and hanging black residents. At least seven victims named General Duckett Edwin Goodwin Adam King Joseph Jones Benjamin Jones Moses Jones plus others whipped or shot as whites rampage. twenty three blacks implicated in a plot to ignite war. armed white mobs scour the area in pursuit.
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Aod
Earth
General Duckett
Edwin Goodwin
Adam King
Joseph Jones
Benjamin Jones
Moses Jones
Joe King
John Johnson
Little River County
Indian Territory
Texas
Co‘erie
Three Black Men Lynched Near Silver City Mississippi
A Jackson special reports that three negroes Minor Wilson C Reed and Willis Boyd were killed by an armed mob near Silver City Yazoo County last Saturday evening. After being shot their bodies were weighted with cotton bale ties and cast into the Yazoo River. The victims led a race riot at the Midnight plantation days earlier.
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Mississippi
Jackson
Miss
Silver City
Yazoo County
Yazoo
Minor Wilson
C. Reed
Willis Boyd
Miners Bodies Recovered in Cartersville Shaft
Cartersville Georgia dispatch reports Frank McEver and Charles McCulver bodies reached about 2 o clock Thursday in the Chumbley Kill shaft. Both men were mired in mud and lived only a short time after the cave‑in. Rescue workers continue seeking Thad Chastain as hope for life fades.
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Cartersville
Frank McEver
Charles McCulver
Chumbley Kill
Thad Chastain
War and Treasury Clash Over Tampa Baggage Hold up
Corres pondence between the War and Treasury departments centers on the Olivette at Tampa Florida where troops from the Second South Carolina Volunteers faced baggage delays on arrival. Surgeons general and officials clash over who should approve and manage the baggage handling and quarantine work amid confusion.
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Treasury Department
of Treasury Department
de Olivette
Tampa
Fla
South Carolina Volunteers
Wyman
Etary Titlejohn
Posury
Atlanta council moves toward new depot with elevated tracks
Atlanta city council agreed to conditions set by railroads for a passenger station on the current site with elevated tracks and lowered street crossings. The vote requires twelve feet clearance at Whitehall Pryor and Loyd to allow streetcar passage, potentially rerouting cross-town cars under the tracks if the railroads approve.
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Atlanta, Ga
Whiteball
Pryor and
Loyd Streets
Whiteball Street
Broad Street
Whitehall
Pryor Streets
Consolidated Street Railway
Pryor
Fifty Fifth Congress Enactments and Vetoes Detailed
Enrolling clerk B S Platt presents figures on the last congress showing 1457 bills and joint resolutions became law from 18468 introduced in both houses. Of these 12608 were in the house and 5855 in the senate. Vetoes were few with two direct vetoes and four additional bills failing to reach the president. The senate passed 1173 of its own bills. the house acted favorably on 517 of them, and the senate favored 946 of 1081 house bills. A larger number of bills were introduced than in any previous congress.
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B.S. Platt
Senate
House
Congress
Americans Repel Rebel Forces at Iloilo March Action
On March 16 near Jaro Iloilo 400 rebel riflemen from Pania clashed with seven companies of the Eighteenth U S infantry and a Tennessee volunteers battalion supported by three two inch Hotchkiss guns. The engagement caused one U S soldier killed and fifteen wounded with several sunstroke cases. General Miller estimated fifty rebels killed and one hundred wounded.
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Tloilo
Pania
Eighteenth Regiment
United States Infantry
Tennessee Volunteers
Miller
Jaro
Witnesses Summoned for Quay Trial Set for April Tenth
In Philadelphia on Thursday the commonwealth subpoenaed fifty to sixty witnesses for the trial of former United States Senator Iha Quay and his son Richard R. Quay, beginning April 10 before Judge Betler. Assistant District Attorney Clement helped summon two Pittsburgh bank cashiers.
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Quay
Philadelphia
Commonwealth
United States
Iha Quay
Richard R. Quay
Clement
Pittsburg Bank
Betler
Rumor of John Sherman Death Widens Then Fails
A Santiago telegram contradicts earlier reports of ex Senator John Sherman’s death. Officials and the public reacted with sorrow, then relief when dispatches confirmed Sherman alive and improving. Secretary Hay and Sherman’s family received copies as Washington reeled from conflicting news.
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Washington
John Sherman
New York
Associated Press
Santiago de Cuba
Hay
Sherman
K Street
Babcock
Valle
Kate Wilcock
Charles Hoyt
Quarantine Date Now Set Earlier in Savannah
The Savannah Sanitary Board moved the close quarantine season from May 1 to April 10. After April 10 all vessels and passengers face a five day detention after disinfection. Government aims to deploy troops from Cuba before quarantine ends and council favors transferring Savannah quarantine station to the national government.
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Sanitary Board of
Savannah
Cuba
Georgia to End Twenty Year Convict Lease April First
Georgia plans to end its twenty year convict lease on April first. More than 2000 felons will be freed from state custody and handed to the state to be hired out to nineteen bidders who previously contracted for labor. The move ends the lease era and shifts revenue from lessees to the state.
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Georgia
Brooklyn Woman Martha Place Is Electrocuted at Sing Sing
Mrs. Martha Place of Brooklyn was executed at Sing Sing for murdering her stepdaughter Ida Place. The crime occurred at 598 Hancock Street in 1897. She planned the double murder, killing Ida with an az and vitriol, then attacked her husband William Place with an ax before the gas incident and capture.
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Martha Place
Brooklyn
N. Y
Sing Sing Prison
Ida Place
Mrs. Place
Hancock Street
William W. Place
Southern Progress Trade Ventures New Southern Industries
The Tradesman lists emerging Southern industries across multiple states. Notable entries include brick works in Kentucky and North Carolina, canning factories in Mississippi and North Carolina, coal mines in Kentucky and West Virginia, cotton compress operations in several states, a Georgia cot ton mill, and a range of textile, wood, and manufacturing plants in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas.
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Kentucky
North Carolina
Mississippi
West Virginia
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas
Virginia
Alabama
Florida
East Tennessee
South Carolina
Tennessee
Chattanooga
Tenn
Ministers condemn crime at Palmetto mob tragedy
At a Monday meeting in Atlanta the Methodist ministers adopted resolutions condemning the Palmetto mob crime. They expressed sympathy for Palmetto citizens, commended Governor Candler, and denounced the mob's actions in the strongest terms.
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Palmetto, Ga
Atlanta
Palmetto
Candler
Arkansas Coal Weighing Measure Passes House
In aid of strikers the Arkansas Legislature adopted a bill requiring coal to be weighed before screening. The measure passed the house unanimously and imposes fines on operators who fail to comply. Coal dealers in Little Rock Pine Bluff Fort Smith and other cities protested but were ignored. The bill supports striking miners.
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Arkansas
Little Rock
Pine Bluff
Fort Smith
Embalmed Beef Testimony Hits Chicago Witness
A Chicago hotel bell boy testified to a stockyard visit with an unknown man for an alleged beef preservation experiment. He described soaking meat in a burning chemical, tasting a burned tongue after exposure, and a card reading Tampa Fla at Armour's packing house.
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Government Court of Inquiry
Chicago
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Governors Island
Cuba
Porto Rico
David Fleischman
Morrison
Tampa
Fla
Armour’s
River Boats Burned in Columbus Fire
Early Wednesday the C D Owens Flint and Bay City steamers at Columbus Georgia were destroyed by fire at the city wharf. Loss estimated twenty five to thirty thousand dollars with boats insured. Fire began on the Owens and spread to nearby vessels as flames consumed them.
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Columbus
C. D. Owens
Flint
Bay City
City
Owens
Miles Champions Wheeler Declares He Is Not Party To Fight
Washington dispatch reports General Miles denies involvement in the attack on General Wheeler. The anti Miles crusade seeks to block his future in the regular army while Miles stresses his longstanding friendship with Wheeler and urges Wheeler’s permanent, prominent army placement.
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Washington
Miles
General Wheeler
War Department
Railway across the English Channel debated by Parliament
Mrs Homespun and Mr Homespun discuss a proposed plan to connect England and France by a floating railway with a roadbed laid under the sea and wheeled trestles. The exchange ends noting the era of remarkable cures by Hostetters Stomach Bitters amid a talk of extraordinary feats.
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English Channel
Frangey
Hostetter
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Ark
Little Riv County
City Council
Platt
Billie
Santiago
Paris
Frederick Watkins
Southern Progress
Wheeler
Newfoundland
H. Green
Piso
S. F. Harpy
Hopkins Place
Baltimore, Md
Hood
Susie EK
Brown
Astor Hill
Lynn
Mass
N. B. Sewrey
Mure
McMara
Stamford
Malsby & Company
Broad St
California
B. C
Wie
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