Cuba Insurgent Leader Warns Spain of War Risk
In Washington Senor Quesada says Spain seeks a tariff treaty and to avoid war but Cuba will not trust Madrid. He reports Spain’s overtures rejected and asserts Cuba will not accept any compromised government plan. He cautions Spain would fight if pressed.
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Washington
Hobart
Tts
Mment
Cuba
Quesada
Spain
Cebalos
Mgr
Ceballos
Senor Que
Generalez
Ees
Powers Unite Against United States In War Talk
Vienna correspondent to Times telegraphs an abstract view from St Petersburg on three great powers. The article suggests the United States cannot count on European approval for war with Spain and that European powers would protest McKinley’s conduct rather than back Spain actively.
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Vienna
On Times
St. Petersburg
Bryan in Atlanta at Moody Tabernacle Drawing Huge Crowd
Bryan spoke to a vast audience at the Moody Tabernacle in Atlanta. Dispatches say about 10 000 gathered inside and outside the building to hear him on the Chicago platform and praise the campaign leader. He reportedly won a distinction for delivering the largest assembly ever at the venue and many were turned away.
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Moody Tabernacle
Atlanta Dispatch
Wbernacle
William Téonings
Snehaned
Chicago
Gate City
Bryan
Inca
Southern progress reports solid industrial gains and trade
The Tradesman notes increased foreign trade and steady home business in the past week, with eight fewer failures than last year. It highlights Birmingham pig iron exports, Alabama coal and coke activity, strong lumber figures from Darien and Jacksonv ille, and solid Southern export totals to England, France, and beyond. It argues for a pan American bank with balanced Southern representation.
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Ohio Furnace
Ohio
Birmingham
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Alabama
Mexico
Gulf
Darien
Jacksonv
Pascagonia
Miss
Mobile
Southestern
Pensacola
England
Germany
France
Italy
Japan
Russia
South Atlantic
Chattanooga
Tenn
Atlanta Judge Attacks Editor Over Look Glass Article
Judge John D. Berry of the Atlanta city criminal court assaulted Orth H. Stein editor of the Looking Glass at the Kimball House dining room. Stein was knocked from his chair and beaten with a revolver butt, suffering a severe facial gash and bruises while Berry claims he disarmed Stein. The incident followed a Looking Glass piece denouncing Berry.
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John D. Berry
City Criminal Court
Atlanta
Orth H. Stein
The
Looking Glass
Kimball House
Stein
Judge Berry
Dr Allen Returns for Chinese Missionary Centennial
Dr Young J. Allen, a renowned Western missionary in China, has arrived in San Francisco from the Celestial Empire. He travels to attend the fifty year anniversary of the mission in Baltimore this May.
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Young J. Allen
San Francisco
Celestial Empire
Baltimore
Insurgents Kill Comrades Near La Esperanza
A Havana dispatch reports insurgent leaders Cayito Alvares Nunez and Major Esmieza were found slain on a Santa Clara guerrilla farm after insurgents surprised them as they prepared to surrender to Spanish forces near La Esperanza. The bodies indicate they were killed by rival insurgents who uncovered their surrender plan.
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Havana
Santa Clara
Cayito
Alvares
Nunez
la Esperanza
Roberto Bermudez
Numbez
Esmieza
Luzo
New War Department Named Department of the Gulf
The War Department orders create the Department of the Gulf with headquarters at Atlanta Georgia and assign Brigadier General W M Graham to command. The Gulf includes Texas and six southern states while the Lakes department covers Wisconsin Michigan Illinois Indiana Ohio Kentucky and Tennessee under Major General John R Brooke. Atlanta becomes a major military center and the base of operations in case of war with Spain with posts listed under General Graham including Fort McPherson Fort Barrancas Fort Bliss Fort Brown and others.
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Washington
War Department
Department of the Gulf
Department of the Lakes
Missouri
Texas
Department of the East
Atlantic
North
Carolna
Wisconsin
Michigan
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Chicago
South Gmoline
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Atlanta
John R. Brooke
Wm. M. Graham
South
Spain
W. M. Graham
San Antonio
Tex
Department of Texas
T. R. Adams
Fifth Artillery
G. F. Barney
W. P. Hall
F. L. Doods
John Simpson
E. E. Dravo
P. J. A. Cleary
E. Dutton
Samuel Reber
Graham
Merritt
Department
Cuban minister at Washington reception shocks diplomats
A Washington special reports Senor Quesada attended a Monday night function at the vice president’s home. Foreign ministers view his presence as highly significant and see it as a potential step toward official Cuban recognition, an act seen as unusual in diplomacy.
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Washington
Senor Quesada
Quesada
Spain protests as Montgomery withdrawal hinted in Cuban tensions
A Washington dispatch reports Spain demanding removal of U S naval presence in Cuban waters amid autonomy talks for Cuba. Assistant Secretary Day declines direct reply on ship withdrawals while the Fern replaces the Montgomery to aid Havana wrecking relief mission.
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Washington
Spain
Senor Bernardo
State Department
Day
Cuban
Havana
Quesada
Cuba
United States
Fern
Key West
Montgomery
Secretary Long
Klondike Death Trap Denounced by Sharon Man
Charles Jones, manager of the Douglass furnace in Sharon Pennsylvania, returns from the Klondike to denounce the region as a death trap. He warns of exaggerated reports and predicts 200000 will seek gold with only about one in five hundred covering expenses.
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Pennsylvania
Charles Jones
Douglass Furnace
Sharon
Klondike
Jones
Seattle
Chilkoot
White Pass
Graham Reaches Atlanta to Lead Southern War Department
Brigadier General William M. Graham arrives in Atlanta to assume command of the newly created Department of the South. He is welcomed at Union Depot by a large crowd, escorted to quarters at the Aragon by Colonel Cook and Fort McPherson officers. He travels with Colonel John Simpson and Lt. G. F. Barney and will be joined soon by remaining staff.
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Southern War Department
William M. Graham
Atlanta
Union
Cook
Fort McPherson
Department of the South
Aragon
Graham
John Simpson
G. F. Barney
Nobles Petition for Commutation Faces Georgia Prison Board
The Georgia prison commission will hear a petition for commutation for Mrs Elizabeth Nobles who is sentenced to death for the murder of her husband The governor suspended Gus Fambles pending a later date and the commission may act before Nobles scheduled execution on March 25.
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Georgia Prison Commission
Elizabeth Nobles
Gus Fambles
Vast Chicago Blaze Claims Many Victims At Mill Building
A six story mill construction building at Wabash avenue and Jackson boulevard burned with hundreds inside. Three confirmed dead include Samuel A. Clark Miles A. Smith and Edwin e cashier. Dozens more feared buried as flames spread through a light shaft. origin disputed with possible explosions cited at wallpaper warerooms and photographic supply house.
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Chicago
Wabash Avenue
Jackson Boulevard
Samuel A. Clark
The
Olmstead Company
Miles A
W. A. Olmstead
C. H. Armas
M.E. Harris
T. F. Anderson
Fred Hamill
C. A. Price
Solomon Grollmann, Jr
Solomon Grollmann, Sr
Anna Guest
William Marvin
Alfred Peats
Sweet, Wallach & Co
Millionaire Amos Eno Will Probate in Hartford
The late Amos R. Eno's will, filed in Hartford, leaves a $20 million estate with $150,000 to the New York Chamber of Commerce for aid to members and families in poverty, conditioned on a matching sum raised by the chamber. Public bequests include $50,000 to Amherst College, $7,500 to Simsbury Congregational church, and $7,000 each to two national religious societies. Ten New York charities receive $5,000 each and one $3,000. the remainder goes to his children and grandchildren.
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Amos R. Eno
Fifth Avenue
New York
Hartford
Conn
Amherst College
Simsbury, Conn
Congregational Church
American Home Missionary Society
American Sunday School Union
Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce of New York
Sale of Cuba Not Probable Spaniards and Cubans Object
A Madrid semiofficial agency notes that sale of Cuba is impossible to arrange without Parliament. It states no Spanish chamber would agree to sell the island at any price, and that discussion of a sale is useless.
Madrid paper blasts Lee as Cuban policy factor
The Imparcial of Madrid in its Wednesday issue criticizes United States consul general in Cuba General Fitzhugh Lee. It says he is a factor in the Cuban problem receiving attention and questions why a full ambassador would be allowed such acts in Cuba, accusing him of displaying his sympathies and goodwill openly.
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Imparcial
Madrid
United States
Cuba
Fitzhugh Lee
Europe
Editor John L. Conley Shot in East Point Murder
John L. Conley editor of the East Point Plowboy was shot to death Tuesday afternoon in East Point Georgia. John O. Cox is jailed in Fulton County and implicated by ongoing litigation over the John Broad estate that pitted Conley against heirs and local attorneys Arnold and Trimble amid a history of violence. Witnesses say others may have conspired in the assassination.
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John L. Conley
East Point Plowboy
East Point
John O. Cox
Conley
Cox
Fulton County
Q. Trimble
Nelms
Reuben Arnold
Trimble
Jim McConnell
W. B. Callahan
John Broad
Arnold
Hapeville
Quiet in Senate and House as Thurston Death Eulogized
The blind chaplain offered a touching reference to Mrs. Thurston wife of Sen. John M. Thurston at the Senate opening. The motion to print the prayer in the record passed on Allen's motion. A Seneca nation lease funds bill was passed. In the House Mr. Boutelle announced the Maine disaster relief bill providing twelve months sea pay to legal heirs and reimbursement for survivors for lost personal effects up to twelve months pay.
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Thurston
Nebraska
John M. Thurston
Senate
Allen
New York
Mrs Thurston Dead in Cuba While on Congressional Tour
The death of Mrs. Thurston wife of Nebraska Senator Thurston was reported by the State Department from Consul General Lee in Havana. The congressional party aboard the yacht Anita had recently visited Cuba ports before reaching Sagua La Grande, where she died unexpectedly after a healthy departure from Washington.
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Nebraska
Sagua la Grande
Cuba
State Department
Lee
Havana
Thurston
Senator Thurston
Fort Monroe
Anita
de Anita
Matanzas
Sagua LaGrande
Rural Delivery Bill Raised In House Appropriation
A Washington dispatch reports the post office appropriation bill in the House includes a rural free delivery allocation of 150000 dollars for the next fiscal year, up 100000 dollars from the current year’s available funding.
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Washington Dispatch
Post Office
Post Office Department
Guns Purchased in Europe for Defense Program
Secretary Alger secured executive approval from President McKinley for an allotment of 3 500 000 from the 50 000 000 defense appropriations. A cablegram was sent to the Ordnance Department agent in London to close the contract for thirty two six inch rapid fire guns, after prior arrangements.
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Alger
McKinley
Ordnance Department
London
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