Rail lines stranded as flood halts Gulf Coast traffic
A McComb City report says 700 Illinois Central passengers are tied up awaiting trains into New Orleans. Nine miles of Mobile & Ohio track are underwater below Chatawa, with debris and rising water blocking lines from Pearl River to Bratten, delaying service for days. Damages exceed $100,000 on tracks. several routes suspended.
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Jackson
Miss
McComb City
Illinois Central
New Orleans
Chatawa
Dunn
McComb
Memphis
Pearl River
Here
Pearson Station
Mobile & Ohio
Enterprise
Bguckatunna
Burrows Trestle
Vicksburg
Hankinson
Big Black River
Meridian
Northeastern
Alabama Great Southern
the Southern
Alabama & Viecksburg
Quitman
No agreement reached in Pittsburgh miners talks
The miners' committee and coal company officials adjourned for a week without an outside labor 20 percent wage advance agreed. National President Mitchell said Indianapolis convention implied the 20 percent rise for outside labor, which operators denied. Miners likely to continue working while talks resume.
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Pittsburgh
Miners’ Committee
Coal Combines
Mitchell
Indianapolis
Mrs Hobart Hosts President and Party in Paterson
President McKinley and Mrs Hobart arrived in Paterson with Garret Hobart Jr and Cortelyou and Barnes. They greeted cheering crowds on the platform and proceeded to Carroll Hall for a stay through Saturday before moving on to New York.
Merchants Urge Stamp Tax Abolition On Shipments
Washington reports the Merchants Association of New York has sent a memorial to the Ways and Means Committee urging abolition of stamp taxes on express, railroad and steamboat shipments and telegrams. The petition covers 1,400 New York firms with nationwide non resident members, charging express firms with monopolistic, excessive charges and tax burdens. It seeks shift of taxes from shippers to carriers and calls for uniform rates and removal of unequal charges.
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Washington
Payne
House Committee On Ways and Means
Merchants’ Association of New York
New York City
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court
Italians Arrested as Croton Strike Turmoil Escalates
In Croton Landing New York on April 20 twenty six aliens were jailed awaiting examination on inciting to riot and carrying concealed weapons. Over one hundred Italians fled overnight to avoid arrest as about 150 strikers sought work in New York and Syracuse. A sheriff’s posse with 23 deputies and Company D of the Ith Regiment searched the Bowery for weapons and arrested warrants.
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Croton Landing
N. Y
New York
Syracuse
Ith Regiment
Bowery
Ashanti uprising reported with 500 killed in Gold Coast
Governor Hodgson wires from Accra that Ashantis attack Rekuis tribes, 500 killed, fear loyalists may join rebellion. The report says the situation is extremely serious and had been minimized until it was too late.
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Accra
Gold Coast Colony
West Africa
Mitchell Hodgson
Kumassi
Murder of Private Crouch Reported from Cuba
Adjt Gen Corbin received a cable from Gen Wood at Havana stating Private Harvey L. Crouch of Company G 7th Cavalry was murdered at Pinar del Rio on the 15th inst with no further details provided.
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Washington
Adjt
Corbin
Wood
Havana
Harvey L. Crouch
7Th Cavalry
Pinar del Rio
Mob hangs alleged assailant near Brownsville school
From Bolton reports, Henry McAfee a Black man accused of attempting to assault Mrs. Saunders near Brownsville was hanged by a mob in front of the Brownsville school house.
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Vicksburg, Miss
Bolton
Henry McAfee
Navy buys 5000-ton steamer for India relief
The Navy Department has secured a 5,000 ton steamer to transport wheat and other charitable food sent from New York to famine and plague victims in India. Messenger James Francis Smith reaches Paris with message of sympathy from Philadelphia and New York schoolboys for President Kruger.
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Washington
Navy Department
New York
India
Messenger Smith
Paris
James Francis Smith
Kruger
Philadelphia
Queen Victoria reviews nurses and visits Clontarf grounds
Queen Victoria reviewed 50 jubilee nurses on the vice regal grounds and then drove 13 miles through Clontarf where she was greeted by Lord and Lady Ardilaun at St Annes Clontarf.
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Dublin
Queen Victoria
Clontarf
Ardilaun
St. Annes
Bryan in Falling Health Report Lacks Foundation
A Dallas dispatch reports Hon. Wm. J. Bryan is said to be in failing health and has returned from a western trip worn out, but the notice states this claim is entirely without foundation.
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Austin
Tex
Dallas
Wm. J. Bryan
Census of Cuba reveals voter shift and demographic mix
Gen Sanger reports Cuba’s 1,572,797 population with 187,826 Cuban born and 462,926 white females. Negroes make up 32 percent, natives predominate, illiteracy high among older groups, and about 140,000 natives may vote under new suffrage rules. Election set for June 16 with municipal government possible by next winter.
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Washington
Gen. Sanger
Havana
Gen. Wood
Root
Sanger
War Department
Cuba
Havana City
Matanzas
Pinar del Rio
Puerto Principe
Santa Clara
Santiago
Spain
Porto
Rico
Record of varied 1910s items across news notes
Sale of Polish newspapers banned at Prussian stations. New York Stock Exchange seat sells for 41500. Record price. Prof Leonard Jacobi of Berlin University dies of influenza in Charlottenberg. Bubonic plague disappears from Argentina. Senate confirms H H Folsom to Alaska commissioner post. Bond receipts total 249,107,550 for new 2 per cents. Frederick B Whitney, longtime Boston Transcript manager, dies at 50. Mine workers at Cannerburg strike over new wage scale. Gov Roosevelt signs act to secure equal school rights for colored children and end segregation. Senate commerce committee approves war dept bill to lease government controlled water power.
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New York Stock Exchange
Leonard Jacobi
University of Berlin
Charlottenberg
Senate
H. H. Folsom
Alaska
District of
Treasury
Frederick B. Whitney
Sboston Transcript
Cannerburg
Ind
Gov
Roosevelt
New York
Senate Committee On Commerce
War Department
Mississippi
Alabama
Enterprise
Miss
Enterprise, University
Pittsburgh
Bar Mill Association
Levy introduces bill to repeal war revenue act
Representative Levy of New York introduces a bill to repeal the war revenue act. Ten ringleaders in the Croton Landing strike are arrested with more arrests expected. Damages from recent storms near Canyon City and other floods across Mississippi and Alabama are estimated at 1 million dollars.
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Representative Levy
New York
Croton Landing
N. Y
Canyon City
Cal
Baseball Innings Box Score Fragments
Partial scores and battery lines from multiple games include Cincinnati Chicago St Louis Pittsburgh New York Brooklyn Boston Philadelphia, with misformatted innings and umpire attributions. Readable names: Phillips Scott Peitz Griffith Menefee Donahue O Day Young O Connor Leever Waddell Zimmer Carrick Grady Kennedy McGuire Nichols Sullivan Orth Bernard McFarland Connolly.
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R.H. E
Cincinnati
Chicago
Phillips
Scott and Peitz
Griffith
Menefee
Donahue
O'Day
R.H.E
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Young
O’connor
Leever
Waddell
Zimmer
Hurst
New York
Brooklyn
Carrick and Grady
Kennedy
McGuire
Eistlie
Inn
RHE
Boston
Phila
Nichols and
Sullivan
Orth
Bernard
McFarland
Connolly
Markets Report from Cincinnati and Chicago April 19
Cincinnati grain and live stock prices listed with ranges for flour types, wheat, corn, oats, hogs, cattle, sheep, lambs, and veal calves. Chicago offers No 2 red and other wheat quotes, along with corn and spring wheat figures.
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Cincinnati
de City
Chicago
Deluge Delays Boer Positions Near Wepener in Free State
Rain halts operations in southeast Free State as Boers withdraw from Wepener and concentrate at Dewetsdorp, 24 miles away. Gen Rundle’s division likely reached Dewetsdorp as shots are reported. Gen Brabant may have arrived at Aliwal North. Lord Roberts poised to move, while Gen Hunter arrives in Bloemfontein.
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London
Free State
Bloemfontein
Denetsdorp
Lord Roberts
Hunter
Natal
Coming Battle Feared as Boer War Moves Near
Bloemfontein correspondent reports remounts and equipments arrived and infantry divisions equipped with tents. Boers in the vicinity are quiet while both sides prepare for conflict. Lord Roberts ready. Concealed arms and ammunition found this week. Enteric fever epidemic abating.
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London
Bloemfontein
Daily Chronicle
Lord Roberts
Proclamation Bans Civilian Arms in Kimberley Rebel Sweep
Dispatch reports Lord Methuen forbids civilians to carry arms without permits and orders rebels to surrender serviceable modern arms by May 6. Military activity centers on collecting arms and arresting rebels with resurgence of operations anticipated.
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London
Morning Post
Kimberley
Lord Methuen
Russian nobleman killed with Gen Villebois in action
Daily News from Pretoria reports Prince Baratro Morgaffl, a Russian nobleman, killed alongside General de Villebois during a clash. The notice names Marteuil in connection with the event.
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London
Daily News
Pretoria
Baratro Morgaffl
de Villebois
Marteuil
Berlin Provokes Riot Fears as Konitz Mobilizes Reservists
Berlin reports Konitz authorities summon 200 reservists to keep peace after a boy named Winter was murdered before Easter. Local rumors blame district Jews for ritual killings, sparking riots and leading to saloons closing at sundown.
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Berlin
Konitz
Prussia
Winter
Filipino guerrilla trio found guilty at Lealla mba trial
Manila April 20 the military commission tried three Filipinos for guerrilla warfare. All three were found guilty. Two were sentenced to life imprisonment and one to 30 years. Maj Gen Otis approved the findings but reduced the sentences by a year.
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Manila
The
Leallamba
Otis
Ewe Eacionee
Negro voters in Porto Rico and Philippines debated
A New Orleans letter argues mixed populations in Porto Rico and the Philippines are unfit for self government. It claims Negroes and mixed races lack education, are prone to superstition, rely on irregular juries, and favor rough justice. It paints a stark, controversial contrast with southern emancipation and warns against granting citizenship.
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Gulf Coast
West Indian Islands
Philippines
Porto Rico
New World
Siena
Cuba
Gulf States
Africa
South
Darky
de Do
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NekKinley
Miastasipyl
W. J. Bryan
Census OF
Board of Education of
Alameda, Cal
Baseball
South Africa
Wepener
Dewetsdorp
Randle
Brabant
Aliwal
Oklahoma
Jong
Fia
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