Administration Will Have Nothing To Do With Cuban Malcontents
Washington dispatch says the U S Government will treat Cubans as individuals not as a body politic The Cuban Assembly would have no official standing in Washington and General Brooke would disperse them as a mob not dissolve them The piece notes Secretary Meiklejohn confirmed no formal audience for any Assembly committee and references the $3 000 00 payment to Cuban soldiers.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
United States
Cuba
Assembly
Cuban “Assembly
General Brooke
Alger
Meiklejohn
Gomez
Brooke
Pope Honors Mgr Stephan with Pronotary Apostolic Rank
Washington March 16 By a papal brief Monsignor Stephan is raised to the dignity of a Pronotary Apostolic the highest honor for Catholic clergymen outside Rome He had earlier been made Private Chamberlain but this new act makes him a prelate of the highest rank outside the Episcopacy The honor coincides with his golden jubilee in the priesthood as he marks fifty years in the sacred ministry on March 21.
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Washington
Stephan
Rome
Monsignor
Sherman Is No Better Aboard Paris
John Sherman former Secretary of State remains feeble aboard the American line steamer Paris off Martinique. Physicians expect a change in his condition this afternoon as the vessel makes its West Indian tour.
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ST. Pierre
Martinique
John Sherman
American Line
Paris
West Indian Islands
Sherman ill with pneumonia sent home on government ship
A telegram from Colonel Gate Hoyt reports ex Secretary Sherman ill with pneumonia in Port-au-France Martinique. The Navy Department orders the ship Chicago to Kingston Jamaica to meet the Paris and bring Sherman to Hampton Roads for transit to Washington aboard a Potomac River steamer. Condition described as improving in Martinique.
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Washington
White House
Gate Hoyt
Sherman
Port-au-France
Martinique
United States
Navy Department
Long
Chicago
Havana
Kingston
Jamaica
Paris
Goes Miles
Miles
Queen Regent Dissolves Cortes and Calls New Parliament
Madrid dispatch reports the Queen Regent signing decrees to dissolve the Cortes and convene a new Parliament. She also authorizes payment of arrears of pay to repatriated troops and will ratify the peace treaty today.
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Madrid
Cortes
Queen Regent of Spain to sign peace ratification
The Queen Regent of Spain is reported to sign the peace treaty ratification today. The President is gratified that the final step to end hostilities with Spain is assured, though no action is needed before he returns to Washington. Exchange of ratifications and $20,000,000 payment remain to be arranged, with a possible trip to Jekyl Island after.
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Thomasville
Associated Press
Spain
Washington
Jekyl Island
Harrison Will Run Again Nominated by Chicago Democrats
Chicago March 16 The Democratic City Convention nominated Mayor Carter H Harrison to seek another term. The platform avoids national issues and Harrison vows to run on his record against the Allen bill and other street railway legislation.
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Chicago
Carter H. Harrison
Evansville Mine Superintendent Dies After Epileptic Fall
Special Dispatches report David B. Hall of Evansville, superintendent of a Deforest coal mine, suffered an epileptic fit and fell into the shaft water stock. A cage was lowered, crushing him and ending his life.
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Commercial Tribune
Evansville
Ind
David B. Hall
Deforest
Hall
Five Die in Hot Springs Street Battle Over mayoral race
A 5:30 pm shootout in Hot Springs Arkansas left five men dead and two wounded including Sheriff Williams and his son John Williams. Chief of Police Thomas Toler Detective Jim Hart and Sergeant Thomas Goslee were killed along with Louis Hinkle. Mayor appointed L D Belding Chief of Police as order was restored.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Thomas Toler
Jim Hart
Thomas F. Goslee
John Williams
Sheriff Williams
Louis X. Hinkle
Ed Spears
Toler
Hart
Goslee
John
Central Avenue
John and
Coffey
Kotley
Belding
Williams
Gostee
Lemp
Tom Toler
Tom Goslee
John O. Williams
Ed Spear
Louis Hinkle
Hinkle
Coffee Williams
Sam
Will Watt
Sam’ Tate
Jack Archer
Citizens rally after sheriff shooting to restore order
Goslee and Hart leave families, the youngest an infant, while Toler has no local relatives. The innocent Hinkle has relatives here. A mass meeting is planned at City Hall to decide steps, with possible temporary removal of Sheriff Williams and appointment of an acting official. Police to be sworn in as crowds form and by 9 pm the city remains quiet.
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Friends of
Miles
Miliary Court
Friends
Congress
Goslee
Toler
Hart
Hinkle
Williams
Pope's Health Denied as Alarmist Rumors Flow
In Rome on March 16 the Pope’s physicians Lapponi and Zonian deny alarming reports about His Holiness. They say the convalescence is nearly complete and that lungs and heart are healthy though weakness is expected after age. Newspapers clash on the latest condition updates.
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Rome
Zonian
Lapponi
Tribuna
Editor Medill Dies in San Antonio After Long News Career
Joseph Medill editor of the Chicago Tribune died in San Antonio at 10 30 am after a brief illness. His grandson Robert R McCormick was with him. Born 1823 in New Brunswick he helped found a free soil paper in Coshocton and a Whig paper in Cleveland. He led Chicago Tribune from 1855 and shaped Republican politics and civil service reform.
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San Antonio
Tex
Joseph Medill
Chicago Tribune
Robert R. McCormick
Chicago
Mr. Medill
New Brunswick
Stark County
Massillon
Coshocton
Cleveland
Steamer H. B. Young Reported Sinking
A Chattanooga dispatch says the bark steamer H. B. Young owned by American Oak Extract Co of Decatur Alabama sank below Lookout Mountain with one life lost. The report, though unconfirmed by transport companies, reached the city from below after the vessel left Chattanooga midweek. Details were not learned tonight.
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Commercial Tribune
Chattanooga
Tenn
H. B. Young
American Oak Extract Company
Decatur
Ala
Lookout Mountain
Admiral Kautz Reports Philadelphia Arrival at Apia
Admiral Kautz reports the cruiser Philadelphia arrived at Apia on March 6. He specifies no details on political affairs. The dispatch comes from Washington dated March 16.
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Kautz
Washington
Apia
Philadelphia
Old Hutch’s Death Ends Famous Wheat Corner Era
Benjamin P. Hutchinson a former Board of Trade operator died at Lakeside Sanitarium Lake Geneva Wis at 70. He rose as a wheat pit predator dominating 1880s trading, sparked a notable 1888 September corner pushing price from 86 cents to $2, then endured a downfall ending in 1891 with a $2,000,000 loss and retirement. He started in Milwaukee then Chicago, later tried a second hand store in New York before returning to Chicago.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Benjamin P. Hutchinson
Board of Trade
Lakeside Sanitarium
Lake Geneva
Wis
Mr. Hutchinson
Reading
Mass
Plankinton
Milwaukee
Bridgeport
Burt, Hutchinson
Hutchinson
Corn Exchange National Bank
Old Hutch
New York City
Fighting Molineux Plea Seeks Grand Jury Secrets
District Attorney Gardner files a br ief opposing the defense motion to inspect grand jury proceedings in the Roland Molineux murder case of Mrs. K J Adams. The DA argues the request aims to obtain ammunition to quash the indictment and leaves the judge discretionary. Judge Blanchard has the papers. the defense has until tomorrow to respond and a ruling likely next week.
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New York
Gardner
Roland Molineux
K. J. Adams
Blanchard
Two Die in Graund Ave Shootout Over Political Candidates
In St Louis on March 16 a fight outside a saloon at Graund Avenue and Natural Bridge Road left Bud Price and Edward Osterhide dead from gunfire. Ex-detective Jack Williams is alleged to have fired. Several shots hit the crowd but only the two men perished. Osterhide survived for minutes after being shot in the head.
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ST. Louis
Graund Avenue
Natural Bridge Road
Bud'’ Price
Edward Osterhide
Jack Williams
Price
Osterhide
Wringey Takes a Drive to Thomasville Country Club
President McKinley awoke in Thomasville Georgia to mild weather and clear skies as plans for a country club drive two miles from town were underway. He drove one of the teams and joined a luncheon and rest before a second excursion, then dined at seven and spent the evening handling correspondence.
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Thomasville
McKinley
Country Club
Pine Forest
Cortelyou
Washington
Brother Kills Brother After Toothache Drinking Chaos
Louis Stuckwish, 20, shot and killed his brother August on a Browns town farm in Seymour county Indiana after a tooth extraction and heavy drinking. Louis pursued August with an ax and shotgun, firing as August ran across a field. Louis was jailed in Brownstown amid talk of lynching, Sheriff Goss moving him to Washington County Jail twenty four miles away.
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Commercial Tribune
Seymour
Ind
Louis Stuckwish
August
Brownstown
Louis
King
Goss
Washington County
Kipling Moves to Sunny Suite for Recovery
Rudyard Kipling is steadily improving and has moved to a brighter suite on a higher floor at the New York hotel. He is kept warm in blankets with doors closed to avoid drafts as he resumes activity, tackling yachts and seeking books on yachting and yacht building from a publishing house.
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New York
Rudyard Kiping
Kipling
Clerk Shot in Dispute Over a Dollar in Kentucky
Middlesboro Ky March 16 John Body a Norton Coal Company commissary clerk shot and killed Joe Smith during a morning dispute over one dollar Body claimed Smith owed the commissary Body was arrested but released on bond
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Commercial Tribune
Middlesbboro
John Body
Norton Coal Company
Joe Smith
Norton
Smith
Body
Americans Capture Cavite Village After Four Hours of Fighting
In Cavite, Philippines, the first battalion of the Twentieth Infantry cleared a 700 resident village five miles NW of foothills. Rebels, about a thousand strong with five hundred entrenched, faced heavy cross fire as Americans advanced from Pasig. One corporal and one private were killed. many others wounded. Mascot Artie Clackman also wounded while carrying a parrot into action.
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Manila
Pasig
Cavitl
Corporal Johnson
McAvoy
Check
Household
Kelly
Kinney
Tinkler
Varley
Hillay
Casey
Machan
Griffiths
Lafayth
McFarland
Artie Clackman
Senator Kyle Predicts Filipino Republic Collapse Soon
In Minneapolis on March 16 Senator Kyle of South Dakota said President McKinley had received advices that the Filipino Republic was on its last legs. He said Aguinaldo's government would collapse and General Otis would take complete possession within a few days.
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Minneapolis
Minn
United States
Kyle
South Dakota
McKinley
Aguinaldo
Otis
The Sheridan Arrives at Port Said En Route Manile
The United States transport Sheridan arrived at Port Said after sailing from New York on February 19 bound for Manila. Onboard are the Twelfth United States Infantry and a battalion of the Seventeenth United States Infantry under Colonel Smith.
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Sheridan
Port Said
United States
New Yor
Manilé
The
Twelfth United States Infantry
Seventeenth United States Infantry
Smith
General Otis reports March 13 casualties near Guadalupe
Washington dispatch lists Manila casualties for March 13 and March 15 near Guadalupe and Patéros. Wounded include Twelfth Infantry Sergeant Wm Barkley shoulder flight Fourth Cavalry Troop E Saddler Samuel Jones killed Second Oregon and First Washington units with minor to severe injuries. An unclear section lists more names and injuries with powder burns and hip wounds.
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Manila
Adjutant General
Washington
Guadalupe
Twelfth Infantry
Wm. Barkley
San Pedro Macat
Sixth Artillery
Fred J.kelly
Horace H. Smith
George Parke
Ernest Wilcox
Twenty-second Infantry
Alfred Behm
Marshall Comb
Patéros
Oregon
Walter Duran
Rodney EB
Pateros
Edward Qesch
Otis
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