Attorneys Almost Fight During Powers Trial in FrankfortKy
In Frankfort Kentucky during Caleb Powers examination, a heated exchange between Col Denny and Col Campbell nearly sparked violence as crowds surged toward doors and windows. After a tense five to ten minutes, order returned and the defense and prosecution resumed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goebel
Col. Campbell
Lawia
Denny
Campbell
Dudge Moore
Gov. Brown
Col. Denny
Polsgrove
Golden
Col
Commonwealth
Powers
Caleb Powers
Gov.Taylor
Railroad Accident Near Nephi Hits Foreman and Five Injured
A work train on the Oregon Short Line 24 miles south of Nephi Utah overturned while unloading rails. Foreman Charles Thompson was killed and six workers were injured: Hans Morrison Levan Utah Louis Miller Salt Lake Frank Harney Ju ba Utah Robert Walker Salt Lake F L Wright Kansas City Ed Brainkamp Cincinnati.
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Nephi
Utah
Oregon
Chase Thompson
Foreman
Hans Morrison
Levan
Louis Miller
Salt Lake
Frank Harney
Juba
Robert Walker
F. L Wright
Kansas City
Ed Brainkamp
Cincinnati
Cayey Army Post Renamed Henry Barracks
By presidential direction the Cayey military post in Porto Rico will be known as Henry Barracks in honor of the late Brig. Gen. Guy V. Henry who served as military governor from 1893 to 1899 and died in 1899.
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Washington
Cayey
Porto Rico
Henry
Guy V. Henry
Helen Gould’s Quiet War Aid For Army Chaplains
A White House visitor notes Miss Helen Gould of New York pays nine to ten unofficial chaplains or Y M C A workers in the army in the Philippines. She covers 90 dollars monthly per man plus expenses, totaling around two thousand dollars monthly. The workers act as ministers and volunteers, not officially recognized chaplains, continuing since last fall.
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Washington
White House
Philippines
Helen Gould
New York
Portugal Ready to Pay Delagoa Bay Award Without Loans
London report says Portugal prepared to meet the Delagoa Bay award without borrowing. Britain has not pledged funds or indicated terms and expects word on the award this week. The American embassy confirms no information on the award terms and securities of claimants remain deposited. The prolonged delay harms the arbitration principle.
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London
Portugal
Delagoa Bay
Great Britain
Delagoa
Beira
San Francisco Mayor Denies Plague Spread
Mayor Phelan issues a dispatch to 50 city mayors stating a sporadic bubonic plague case was reported March 6 but Chinatown has been disinfected and no further cases have appeared. He emphasizes no future danger due to the health department’s vigilance and containment efforts.
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San Francisco
Phelan
Board of Health
Newfoundland Premier to Seek US Reciprocity Renewal
St Johns March 27 Premier Bond will appeal to voters to renew the Bond Blaine reciprocity convention with the United States. He argues the time is favorable and the policy is popular, aiming to gain broad country support and restore mutual tariff concessions.
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St. Johns
N. F
Bond
United States
Canada
Planing mill fire at Bachman Forey plant in Columbia
Lancaster reports a large Bachman and Forey planing mill, owned by the First National Bank of Columbia, destroyed by fire. The machinery cost about 75000 dollars. no insurance was carried. Nearby, in Washington, preparations for the transport Sumner to depart from New York Thursday carry officers and about 1100 recruits for General Otis in the Philippines, plus stores and supplies.
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Lancaster
Columbia
Bachman & Forey's
First National Bank of Columbia
Washington
Sumner
New York
Otis
Philippines
Bank Robbery Attempt Foiled at Sutro & Co Bank
In San Francisco on March 27 an attempted robbery occurred at Sutro & Co where thieves cut through a vacant store wall and into the bank wall. They aimed to reach the vault but miscalculated and failed.
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San Francisco
Bank of Sutro & Co
Trust Companies Forming a Trust
Conferences between committees representing the North American Trust Co. and the International Banking and Trust Co. are held daily with a view to consolidating the two companies.
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New York
North American Trust Co
International Banking and Trust Co
Cardinal Camillo Mazella Dies in Rome Age 93
Cardinal Camillo Mazella bishop of Palestrina and prefect of the Sacred Rights congregation has died in Rome. Born in Italy in 1833 he was made a cardinal in 1886 and served the church for decades.
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Rome
Camillo Mazella
Palestrina
Congregation of Sacred Rights
Italy
Mafeking Waits As Lord Roberts Moves In Quiet
London March 27 Military observers and the War Office seek details of a new movement to relieve Mafeking. A Boer commando reoccupied Paphuel Gen French reportedly returns to his former position. 5 000 to 6 000 men engage Methuen at Warrenton and Fourteen Streams, with another column from Kimberly toward Griquatown. Boer horsemen contact British outposts from Riggersburg to Warrenton.
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London
War Office
Mafeking
Lord Methuen
Warrenton
Kimberly
Griquatown
French
Bloemfontein
Thaba Nchu
Oliver
Riggersburg
Lord Roberts
Wheeler's View on Philippines Civil Government
General Joseph Wheeler argues in Leslies Weekly that the Philippines should become three or four territories with civil government and territorial governors. He praises some Filipino groups as capable of self-government and warns against harsh, inferiority-based rule while acknowledging potential guerrilla resistance.
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New York
Philippines
Joseph Wheeler
Leslie’s Weekly
Islands
Aguinaldo
Europe
General Joubert Returns Hopeful for Natal Return
Pretoria dispatch reports Gen. Joubert back from Kroonstad and full of hope he may return to Natal soon.
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Joubert
Pretoria
Lurenzo Marques
Kroonstid
Natal
Gen Otia Senda reports heavy casualties in command
Washington March 27 Gen Otis reported to the war department casualties in the troops under his command Killed Edmund Buller Artificer Bennett Blakeley Charles W Huey sergeant Philip H Nolan Michael FE Corley Mike Porgeszelski beheaded while no prisoner of war Wounded Wart D Hoover thigh Noah E Wingate buttock moderate Geo Hemphill corporal back serious Magruder Andrew knee slight Winfield S Preston arm serious Joseph W Allport corporal abdomen serious
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Washington
Gen. Otis
War Department
Edmund Buller
Bennett Blakeley
Charles. W. Huey
Philip. H. Nolan
Michael FE. Corley
Mike Porgeszelski
D. Hoover
Noah E. Wingate
Geo. Hemphill
Magruder Andrew
Car wreck kills oil worker in Bradford line mishap
A large passenger car on the Olean Nock City and Bradford Electric railway ran away and derailed on a mountainside beyond Red Rock, six miles east of Bradford. One man, J. Marsh of Bradford, 23, was killed instantly and seven others were injured, including W D Harris who died later. The injured named were Harris Norton Hunter Reardon Wheeler Dana Windyard and A J Doherty.
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Bradford
Olean, Nock City & Bradford Electric Railway
Red Rock
Representative Aldrich Pushes U S College Plan
Washington march 27 representative Aldrich of Alabama introduced a bill to establish a diplomatic consular and civil service college near Washington D C. The college would educate youths up to 21 for civil service and men up to 25 for diplomatic and consular service with appointments similar to West Point and Annapolis.
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Washington
Aldrich
Alabama
Diplomatic
Civil Service College
United States
Washington, D. C
West Point
Annapolis
Supreme Court Reverses Lamar Land Grant Ruling
In Taos county New Mexico the Supreme Court reversed the Court of Private Land Claims ruling on the Lamar land grant. The land court had confirmed the grant while the later opinion held it invalid, restoring the prior position of the state.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Court of Private Land Claims
Lamar
Taor County
New Mexico
Indiana roundups two children burned alive in field
Mitchell Indiana March 27 two York children were burned to death while playing in broom sage. A farm hand was told to burn the sage and warned the girls to run. In a rush to retrieve a dropped doll both were engulfed by flames and clothing ignited. One died soon after. the other lingered and died later. The mother fainted during the attempt to save them.
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Mitchell
Ind
Win
York
State's Early History Observed in Indiana
Gov. Mount calls a statewide observance of the 100th anniversary of Indiana's territorial government on July 4. Counties will hold celebrations, gather early history, read papers, and forward them to the governor for eventual compilation in state library volumes.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Mount
Indiana
Alarm Over Smallpox at Local Seminary
Small pox has broken out at the Academy of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, six miles north of Ft. Wayne. Mrs. R. N. Reats of Chicago is patient. The academy is quarantined and pupils and sisters vaccinated. County Health Officer Proegler calls the case mild.
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Ft. Wayne
Ind
Academy of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
R. N. Reats
Chicago
Proegler
Marion Indiana Doctor Found Dead in Room After Home Discharge
Dr. Wm. R. Hollowell sixty six-year-old, former Marion and Dayton military home member, was found dead in his apartment here. He served in Company G, 54th Indiana infantry and had left the home about three weeks ago after twenty years of membership. Death suspected from heart disease. burial planned in the home cemetery. In Edinburg, canned goods from a burned or washed label batch were sold at low prices causing two children in Lewis Thomas’ family to fall seriously ill with the elder girl described as hopelessly prostrated.
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Marion
Ind
Wm. R. Hollowell
54Th Indiana Infantry
Dayton
National Military Home
Winchester
Edinburg
Indianapolis
Lewis Thomas
Aging Harrisman released from county poorhouse and heads to Missouri
James Hern, 72, was released after years in the county poorhouse. He adopted an orphan boy, Henry Huggins, who now resides in Laclede county, Missouri. The former benefactor will be taken to Missouri to live with his longtime friend as news of his illness reached the boy.
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Anderson
Ind
James Hern
Hern
Henry Huggins
Missouri
Laclede County
Despondent Youth Shoots Self in Sullivan Township
Sullivan Ind March 27 A young man named Filbut son of a well known Jackson township farmer shot himself in the mouth the bullet passing through his cheek He is said to have been disappointed in love and despondent over personal troubles
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Verre Haute
Ind
Circuit Court Room
Frank C. Mallory
Mallory
Sullivan
Filbut
Jackson Township
Conference Without a Quorum Delays Indiana District Talks
Terre Haute Ind March 27 conference between miners and operators of the Indiana district remains without a quorum delaying joint talks.
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Terre’ Haute
Ind
Indiana
Atill
Regult
Senate Bill Aims Rio Grande Water Sharing
Senator Dilberson introduces a bill to equitably divide Rio Grande waters between the United States and Mexico. Other items note a New York schoolhouse girders collapse killing one and injuring another, Hand & Co. powder works explosion in Ontario, and related casualties.
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Dilberson
Rio Grande
United States
Mexico
New York City
Hand & Co
Hamilton
Ont
Walter Teale
Hand
Morehouse
California
Berger acquitted in insolvent bank deposits case
Robert Berger former partner of E S Dreyer in banking is found not guilty of receiving deposits knowing the bank insolvent. Judge Waterman rules fatal variance between indictment and proof. Berger promptly rearrested and retried on a related charge.
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Chicago
Robert Berger
E. S. Dreyer
Waterman
Berger
Market Notes Cincinnati March 26 Flour and Livestock Prices
Market report from Cincinnati dated March 26 lists flour prices for several grades, grain quotes for wheat and corn, and live stock ranges. Hogs, cattle, sheep, lambs, and veal calves show typical regional bid prices across quality tiers, with highs and lows noted for each category.
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Cincinnati
Chicago
Electric light plants and river power schemes in Italy and New York
The Electrical World notes a new sunken sign illuminated by a conical reflector design and discusses Italy's River Cellina and River Piave power schemes for Venice, supplying up to 27 000 horsepower at 43 miles distant. It also reports a New York bill requiring electrician registration to prevent fires and protect wiring quality.
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Cellina
Piave
Italy
Venice
New York
The
Electrical Review
Religion and Charity Notes From Across the Atlantic
Bishop Bowman urges modest ministerial dress in keeping with vocation while Americans gave nearly 16 million dollars in 1899 to religious charitable and educational causes. Gipsy Smith rises as a famed London evangelist born to Gipsy tents. Dover First Baptist converts a social hall into a shirt factory employing church members with 5 percent of wages redirected to town church work. In Brooklyn 70 deputy sheriffs from churches will protect children, targeting smoking bakers beer purchases led by Mrs Marcus Wood of the Young Women’s Christian Association.
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Bowman
London
Gipsy Smith
England
First Baptist Church
Dover
Brooklyn
Walton
Marcus Wood
The
Young Woman's Christian Association
Odds and Ends From the Era of Agriculture and Trade
A roundup noting public baths in Philadelphia cover 65 percent of running costs in 1899. California currants fetch higher prices than Corinthian currants. North Carolina fishing yields exceed one million dollars annually with the state net gains from fish commissions. Puerto Rico’s water supply is praised yet tainted by vegetation decay and filtration through rot, dirtying streams with insects.
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Department of Agriculture
Hawaiian Islands
Philadelphia
California
North Carolina
Fish Commission
Porto Rico
World Records Highlight Impressive Global Feats
The Sutlej River claims top flowing speed with a 12 000 foot descent over 180 miles. New Scotland Yard stands as the largest police office housing 3 000 officers. The Erebus strix moth spans 11 to 18 inches wingspan, the widest known insect. The United States leads in total telephone wire mileage among nations, with Sweden also noted in the tally.
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Sutlej
India
New Scotland
Yard Fe
United States
Sweden
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Steyn
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Barkly West
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Otia Senda
New College
Mount Israel
Mil
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Midland
Sheet Iron’ Trust
Allison
National Bank Act
Stealy’s
Walter Deutscher
Kid” McCoy
Tom Sharkey
Coney Island
J. M. Stone
Holly Springs
Miss
United States Naval Hospital
Mare Island
Wisconsin
Union Iron Works
Merchants’ National Bank
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