Warning to Americans to leave Havana amid Maine crisis
A Washington dispatch reports General Fitzhugh Lee warns Americans in Havana to depart at once, fearing danger as tensions rise between the United States and Spain over the Maine disaster. The piece notes Spanish officials expect a potential rupture and U S intervention, with insurgents gaining ground and naval/army preparations under way in Havana.
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Washing Star
Havana
Maine
Madrid
United States
Ers
Washington
General Lee
Vana Fitzhugh
Lee
Wis
Alger
Fortress Nioe
Person
Iowa
Miles
Wan Rupture Feared Between Spain and United States
Washington special notes growing belief that a rupture with Spain is inevitable as Congress and public pressure push toward confrontation. The article cites fear of forced action and signs of official connivance, while noting that Spanish officials have not denied存在 mines in the harbor.
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Congress
Ashington
Spain
Bic
Quarantine Issues Dominate House Proceedings
The House devoted Thursday to business, approving portions of the sundry civil appropriations bill. Amendments included funds to cover unused Springfield Arsenal machinery and two ex naval cadets for the navy engineer corps. Debates covered quarantine funding levels, national versus state control, and park funding with Yosemite named in an amendment. The session closed after thirty pages of the bill.
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House of Representatives
Ashington
House
Cannon
Springfield Arsenal
Gillette
Engineer Corps of
Navy
Merritt
Maine
Sayers
Texas
Bailey
Congress
Carmack
Tennessee
Williame
Mississippi
Board of Health
United States
Underwood
Love
Lacey
Public Lands Committee
Devries
California
Yosemite National Park
Allen’s Resolution on Cuban Belligerency Debated Four Hours
Senate sessions on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill featured a lengthy four hour debate after Mr. Allen of Nebraska offered the prior year’s Cuban insurgent belligerency resolution as an amendment. The discussion touched on recognition of belligerent rights and broader policy toward Cuba.
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Senate
Allen
Nebraska
Buckland Receives Navy Orders For Washington Call
Commander E G Buckland, head of the Connecticut Naval Battalion on the Wyandotte, received orders from the secretary of the navy to report to the Navy Department in Washington on Friday. Officials say the summons likely concerns readiness for potential quick mobilization.
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Connecticut
Washington
Secretary of the Navy
E. G. Buckland
Naval Battalion of
New Haven
Buckland
Wyandotte
Navy
Emergency orders sent to southern ports to mount guns
Reports from Charleston indicate orders after the Maine disaster to equip forts on Sullivan's Island and other southern forts. Forts from Fortress Monroe to Pensacola are to be ready, with a night shift, active construction, and ammunition supply arriving soon. Viscaya cruiser expected at Charleston.
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Charleston
Fort Sumter
Maine
Sullivan’s Island
South Atlantic
Gulf States
Fortress Monroe
Savannah
Key West
Pensacola
War Department
Viscaya
New York
Norfolk
Navy Yards
Department of War
Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
Spain
Rex Opens Crescent City Carnival With Mardi Gras Festivities
New Orleans welcomed Rex and his retinue as the Crescent City Carnival opened on Monday. A decorated flotilla filled the river at 2 o'clock when the royal yacht appeared and the King of Mirth was greeted with lively cheers. The Austri an French and American warships in port were suitably adorned for the occasion.
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New Orleans
Rex
Indiana Populists Choose State Ticket and Adopt Platform
The Indiana state populist convention in Indianapolis selected a state ticket and three national committeemen. They adopted a platform opposing fusion and government by injunction, advocating free silver at 16 to 1, female suffrage, prohibition, and abolition of the national bank money issue. The anti fusion plank passed narrowly after a long day of debate, with intense feelings and threats, risking party disruption.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Seventh Annual Negro Farmers Meet at Tuskegee
The seventh annual conference drew about 2,000 colored farmers from nearly every southern state to the Normal school pavilion in Tuskegee Alabama. Booker T. Washington presided as Bishop Grant praised the gathering and seeds were gifted to all. The resolutions urged farm training, land ownership, debt reduction, school expansion, and forming local negro organizations to promote education and economic progress.
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Normal School
Tuskegee
Ala
Bishop Grant
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Booker T. Washington
Gulf States
South
Spooner Speaks On Corbett Seat In Senate Controver sy
Washington dispatch reports Senator Spooner Wisconsin argues Corbett’s Oregon seat rests with state legislature yet notes constitutional dispute. Attempts to take up Alaska homestead and railway bill stall on technicality. Senate adjourns at 4 36 p m after lack of quorum and motion to adjourn.
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Washington
Senate
Spooner
Wisconsin
Henry W. Corbett
Oregon
Corbett
Allen
Nebraska
Hansbrough
Rawlins
Utah
Wlins
Bryan to Visit Alabama on Nationwide Speech Tour
William J. Bryan will tour Alabama in early March delivering speeches in Tuscaloosa Birmingham Mobile Pensacola Talladega and Montgomery. The Birmingham special lists Tuscaloosa March 1 Birmingham March 2 Mobile March 3 Pensacola March 4 Talladega March 5 and Montgomery March 7 with times noted.
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Birmingham
William J. Bryan
Alabama
Tuscaloosa
Mobile
Pensacola
Talladega
Montgomery
Army expansion bill advances for two more artillery regiments
In Washington the senate approved a measure to enlist two additional artillery regiments to man coast defense guns. Opponents argued against broader army growth, but supporters noted gun fortifications and new mortars require trained troops. The bill passed 52 to 4 with votes from Bate, Clay, Chilton, and West. A related resolution seeks a George Washington class warship within a year.
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Washington
Lodge
Massachusetts
Senate
Hawley
Connecticut
Congress
Bate
Tennessee
War Department
Cockrell
Missouri
Messrs. Bate
Clay
Georgia
Chilton
Texas
Morgan
Alabama
Committee On Naval Affairs
George Washington
United States
Hansen-Donnelly Nuptials Draw Large Minneapolis Crowd
The marriage of Miss Marion Olive Hansen and Ignatius Donnelly occurred at the Norwegian Methodist Church in Minneapolis with about 600 attendees. The ceremony drew a vast outside crowd eager to glimpse the bride and groom as they arrived.
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Marion Olive Hansen
Ignatius Donnelly
Minneapolis
Confession of Robber Solves Texas Southern Ticket Theft
Chicago dispatch reports Charles Collins confessed to the Phoenix Arizona robbery of the Texas and Southern railway ticket office. About $8,000 in tickets and $700 in cash were taken after midnight when dynamite wrecked the safe and broke a railroad building wall.
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Texas Southern
Chicago
Texas and Southern Railway
Phoenix
Ariz
Charles Collins
Southern Progress Reports Strong 1897 Lumber Outlook
The March lumber market shows heavy iron buying with supply keeping pace and prices likely rising only slightly. Arkansas, North Georgia, and Louisiana report solid demand while new mills and plants appear across the South. Memphis hosts the Southern Lumber Manufacturers Association meeting focusing on uniform grading.
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Dayton
Tenn
Kansas
Gulf
Arkansas
Natchez & Gulf
Mississippi
North Georgia
Louisiana
North Carolina
Memphis
Southern Lumber Manufacturers’ Association
Alabama
Birmingham
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Chattanooga
Court of Inquiry Organizes for Maine Disaster in Havana
The Mangrove arrived in Havana with the court of inquiry officers appointed by Rear Admiral Sicard to investigate the loss of the Maine. Captains Sampson Chadwick and Lieutenants Potter Marix form the board. Captain Sigsbee testified as the first witness before adjourning for the day.
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Maine
Havana
United States
Mangrove
Sicard
Sampson
Chadwick
Potter
Marix
Sigsbee
Madrid Paper Forecasts War Amid Rising Tensions
An Imparcial dispatch from New York reports Spanish American strains as great military preparations unfold. Forts are reinforced three hundred artillerymen are deployed to Handy Hook naval reserves ready gun cotton and smokeless powder plants operate nightly. A major crisis in US Spain relations is presumed imminent.
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Madrid
Imparcial
New York
Handy Hook
United States
Spain
Monument to Sailors Resolution in Congress
Washington dispatch reports Representative Cummings of New York introduced a bill in the House to appropriate 102000 for a monument at Fort LaFayette New York harbor. The monument would honor the officers sailors and marines of the war vessel Maine who died in Havana harbor.
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Congress
Washington
Cummings
New York
House
Treasury
Secretary of the Navy
Fort LaFayette
New York Harbor
Maine
Havana
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Hore
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Indiana Populists
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Bryan
Southern Progress
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