International protests over Nicareena Canal plan
A Washington dispatch reports Britain and Germany will protest any construction of the Nicareena Canal by the American government. Ambassadors Pauneetarne and Von Holevben filed oral protests in the last three days, with written protests to follow if needed. The dispute centers on canal construction and foreign rights as debated by U S Senate and House committees.
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Times-Herald
Washington
Great Britain
Germany
Nicareena Canal
Pauneetarne
von Holevben
Euissia
House Committee On
Old War Claims To Be Paid
Senators discuss postwar payments from a large cotton bounty, noting part of about 30,000,000 dollars was paid to cotton owners after the Civil War and the rest was deposited in the Treasury, with funds remaining there ever since.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congresc
United States
Gieney
Treasury
Dias
Fire devastates Dawson business district amid extreme cold
The Theeo steamer Danube reports from Victoria that a large part of Dawson's business area was wiped out by a fire. Losses may exceed $400,000. No building names are given. The Skagway operator warns a fierce follow-on fire is likely as Dawson endures 40 degrees below zero with strong winds.
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Theeo
Danube
Victoria
Skaaniy
Dawson
Skagway
Governor Closes Vile Places After Riot in Hurley
Gov. Schofield ordered the closure of dozens of disreputable establishments in Hurley after authorities failed to curb disorder. The move follows community demands for moral regulation and cites the town’s decline amid persistent unrest.
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Hurley
Wis
Swiss Move Opens U S Dried Fruit Import Channel
State Department reports to Berne that Switzerland has reversed a prior ruling and grants general authorization for importing American dried fruits. Freesh fruit imports are allowed if examined in Basel and exempt from customs or other duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leishman
Berne
Switzerland
State Department
Basle
Pullinans Reduce Wages At Chicago Sub-Office
A poster posted at the Pullinan sub-office in Wahiin Depot Chicago announces a wage cut for sleeping car conductors. The notice claims a reduction up to twenty percent in some cases. It questions whether the cut applies across divisions or specific routes.
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Macrauar
Pullinan
Wahiin
Chicago
Amone Sd
Woman Dies in Home Fire After Dress Ignites
Mrs Mare Stephieson, 68, of Jobetciks Tasbiten Cowiy, Indiana, burned to death when her dress caught fire while she crossed a room with a lighted lamp. She stumbled and the flames quickly enveloped her before help arrived.
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Mare Stephieson
Jobetciks Tasbiten
Ariel
Milford repair yard completes ship refit after gale damage
The vessel Tremdon and crew underwent temporary repairs at Milford Slaven after ashore near the Me navies. The ship Blehmer Pius was towed to Belfast for a thorough out averliautine and awaits further work.
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Tremdon
Blehmer Pius
Menavies
Milford Slaven
Lelie
Belfast
Averliautine
Diplomatic Mission Under Way for South African Republic
Montague White, formerly Consul General, has spent a week in New York and is preparing to travel to Washington on a diplomatic mission. He refuses to comment on the purpose of his trip.
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Montague White
New York
Washington
Tle
Elevator collapse at O'Reilly Bros warehouse in New York
Three men were killed and three more were fatally injured when an elevator at O'Reilly Bros storage warehouse in New York collapsed after the cable broke. Investigators probe cause and safety lapses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O'Reilley Bros
New York
General Wheeler to Return to United States
General Wheeler will return to the United States immediately making a stop at Guan on its way hitherto.
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Wheeler
Gen. Wheeler
United States
Guan
Senate ratifies Samoan treaty after brief debate
The Senate ratified the Samoan treaty in executive session after two hours of debate. Senators Davis Foraker and Spooner spoke for ratification while Lacon Money and Willman opposed. A new post is created for Capt Sigsbee with detachment from the Texas and appointment to head the Naval Intelligence Bureau.
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Senate
Messrs. Davis
Foraker
Spooner
Lacon. Money
Willman
Capt
Sigsbee
Capt. Sigsbee
The
Texas
Naval Intelligence
Brireau
Notable 19th Century Obituaries and Local Industry News
Medical inspector Charles A. Siegfried dies in Newport aged 50. Columbia Mines founder Thomas Egieston dies in New York at 68. Gen George H. Sharpe dies in New York City at 72 after surgical shock. Artist Benjamin F. Larrabee faces bankruptcy petition in Boston. Meriden Bronze Co suspended. liabilities exceed assets. Delaware Lackawanna and Western installs electric headlights on sixteen locomotives in Scranton. Danville and Bessemer Steel rolling mill fire causes $50,000 damage injuring six. Felix Morris, 53, noted actor, dies in New York. widow Florence Wood and two daughters survive. Alexander Williams, years, Boston bookseller and publisher of Old Corner Bookstore. Rutland Vermont locomotive escape incident. Boston bankers H C Wainwright & Co report no assignment. New York street car plan proposes 200 carriages and 106 omnibuses with 26 cents per mile fare. Samuel Toward, U S N, dies in Washington from brain concussion.
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Charles A. Siegfried
United States Navy
Newport
A. L
Thomas Egieston
Columbia University School of Mines
New York
George H. Sharpe
Kingston
N. Y
New York City
John J. Albright
Act of Buffalo
Meriden Bronze Company
Meriden
Conn
Benjamin F. Larrabee
B. F. Larrabee
Boston
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway
Scranton
Vhe
Danville and Bessemer Steel Company
Danville
Felix Morris
Florence Wood
San Francisco
Alexander Williams
Samuel Toward
Ericsson
Monitor
Washington
Multiple Tragedies and Events Reported Across States
A roundup of deaths and crimes includes Dr J C Mulhall's suicide in St Linus amid financial woes, Mrs Hf G Fuller dead at Yorkton, and Alonzo Jones of Deerfield aged ST. Notable incidents cover a Cleveland labor strike, a Warren Ohio train crash killing Jonathan Thompson and injuring Thomas Wilson, and a Denver shooting of Frederick Bonfils and H H Tamwen. Other items note floods receding, debates won by Michigan over Chicago, a murder suicide at Relerade Manitoba, and various robberies, fires, and court actions across the Midwest.
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J.C. Mulhall
St. Linus
Hf. G. Fuller
South Dakota Supreme Court
Yorkton
Alonzo Jones
Deerfield Township
Dged
Benedict Arnold
Revolu Uontry
Cleveland
Jonathan Thompesa
Thomas Wilson
Wittsburg
American Steel and Wire Company
Michigan
Ann Arbor
University of Chicago
Relerade
Man
Frank Rogers
Eta Davis
J.S. Ilarrison
Skansas City
Pattison
Beaumont
Texas
St. Louis
Indiguia
Munh
Thayer
United States Circuit Court
St. Genis
United Mine Workers of America
Samuel Snyder
Massillon
Ohio
United States
Holland
Frederick G. Bonfils
H. H. Tamwen
Evening Cost
Denver
Colo
W. W. Anderson
William Corrigan
Chicago
Wild Brothers Jewelry Company
Peter A. Pickel
Hercules Torpedo Company
Lima
James House of
Blue Mauna
Iil
Violent Incidents Reported Across Several Kentucky and Tennessee Areas
A string of deadly and near fatal acts unfolds: in Almy Tennessee Andy Chitwood is shot dead by Edwin Phillips after a quarrel over change. in Louisville Kentucky a lamp explosion kills Mrs. Mary Theobald and severely burns her daughter Lucinda. near Knoxville Tennessee Jacob Shudin murders his wife before killing himself. in Gustrows Store Kentucky a pistol barrage leaves Felix Poot dead and Caleb Wright Sr wounded. in Hindman Kentucky Rev Wesley Hall shoots and kills Mrs Lucinda Isaacs then wounds himself. Mrs Isaacs is sister to Hall’s late wife.
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Mary Theobald
Luciida
Louisville
Jacob Shudin
Knoxville
Tenn
Reustrow
Gwensboro
Felix Poot
Caleb Wright, Sr
Hindman
Wesley Hall
Lucinda Isaacs
Hall
Prominent Preacher Martineau Dies in London at 95
Prof James Martineau well known Unitarian preacher dies at his London home aged ninety five. Reports say General Methuen was thrown from his horse after a wound at Modder River sustaining severe spinal injuries. Latule Ladysmith British casualties exceed 60 with Boer losses around 2000. Emperor Joseph orders Bohemian soldiers to use the German word for here in roll call. Honolulu authorities burn twenty.
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James Martineau
London
Methuen
Modder River
Ladysmith
Francis Joseph
Austria-D
Hungary
Honolulu
Plague Quarantine Blocks Chinese Quarter Homes
King Alexander dismisses the Serbian cabinet over amnesty for radical party members. A London cable notes Sir Benjamin West’s Lazarus sold for 7500 dollars for New York’s Protestant cathedral. The British steamer St Helena wrecked after hitting Bombay rock. crew survived after eight days at sea and fifteen days of extreme hardship. Siberian Railroad rebuilding will cost at least 25 million dollars due to poor initial design with light rails and wooden bridges, limiting speed and train frequency.
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Alexander
Servian
Radical Party
London
Benjamin West
Lazarus
Winchester Cathedral
Cape St. James
State Department
Washington
Greener
Vladivostock
Multiple Headlines From A Varied 1900s News Summary
Louis August, a Fort Monroe soldier, hanged himself in his cell after a murder conviction. Marion Mason seeks divorce from Jack Mason amid Massachusetts society rumors. The frigate Saratoga sails from Philadelphia as a school ship with seventy cadets on a West Indies cruise. Ontario bans spruce wood export. post April 30 wood must become pulp in Canada. Dawson suffers massive fire losses over 500,000. Juarez plans execution in its jail with 25 cent admission for spectators. Corporal Lindsay of the Northwest Mounted Police travels to Regina for South Africa enlistment, then commits suicide after failing medicals. Bradstreet’s notes steady prices with selective strength in pork, tallow, and oils. sugar up, coffee volatile on Rio plague news. wheat and corn exports rise week over week.
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Louis August
Fort Monroe
Annie Benedict
Marion Manola Mason
Jack Mason
Wamung
Saratoga
Pennsylvania Nautical School
Philadelphia
West Indies
Toronto
Ontario
Canada
Skaguay
Dawson
Juarez
Mexico
Corporal Lindsay
Northwest Mounted Police Force
Regina
South
Aftica
Bradstreet
Rio
Market Reports United States Grain and live stock prices
Chicago to New York markets show cattle at 2.50 to 7.00, hogs 3.00 to 5.25, sheep 2.50 to 6.50, wheat No 2 values from 63c to 74c, corn 30c to 82c, oats 23c to 33c, rye 53c to 60c, butter 20c to 25c, eggs 10c to 19c, mixed by city including Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and Chicago lists.
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Chicago
Hoxts
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Ste
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Senate and House Action on Philippine and Fiscal Bills
The Senate debated the Philippines with Lodge urging publicity and Pettigrew criticizing the administration while Stewart opposed currency reform. The census director’s authority bill passed and the Indianapolis public building cost limit rose to 2.5 million dollars. The House adjourned to Monday as the Senate planned final votes on the gold standard and various resolutions.
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Senate
Philippines
Lodge
Pettigrew
Stewart
Indianapolis
House
Sulzer
Dem
N. Y
Secretary of the Treasury
New York National Banks
New York Custom House
Dalzell
Rep
Stopkins
Ill
Bacon
Walcott
Dakota
Rawlins
Cannon
Committee On Appropriations
Secretary of State
Great Britain
United States
Great Lakes
District of Columbia
Ecallom
Hainois
Ifoar
Peace Commission
Leard
McLaurin
Gage
Richardson
Pennessee
Hopkins
Illinois
Hoar
Tale
Tropkins
Barney
Wis
Odds and Ends Highlights From Various Localities
Salem Mason 108 colored dies in Nashville. Several stores burn in Cleveland Tennessee with losses around 85 000. Thomas Peak killed in a Sweetwater Tennessee row. Zinc trust forming with 100 000 000 capital. Thieves steal 1500 from Pollard Bros store Newburne Alabama. James Crocker store Huntsville Alabama burned loss 7 000. Engineer Calloway killed in wreck Clarendon Texas. Thread prices up ten cents a dozen spools. New York Ethical Culture Society crusades against vice. Charles Yocum of Harrodsburg Kentucky accidentally shoots wife. Sousa band to attend Paris exposition as official American band. Cunningham Co sugar estate burned Sugarland Texas loss 90 000. Indian leaders consider sending troops to Cape to fight Boers. Henry Oppenheimer 10 New York leaped from burning building killed. Geo M Settle dry goods merchants Paris Texas failed liabilities 90 000. Smooth thief steals 4000 in Spanish war bonds from Sam Johnson Cincinnati. Paterson New Jersey to erect 15000 bronze statue of Hobart. Wm Baldwin 25 drowned at Newport Kentucky, champion bag puncher. Norwich England to build 100 000 new municipal buildings. Britain gains 266 500 yearly from patent medicines tax. Santiago bedsteads netting to protect against tarantulas. Mexico China sign general treaty trade navigation immigration. Negro woman and two children die of smallpox in Chatham County North Carolina. Abraham Ix Lefever died after hydrophobia. Jewish Women Council to meet in Cleveland March 11 1900. Bubonic plague reported in Noumea New Caledonia.
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Salem Mason
Nashville
Tenn
Cleveland
Thomas Peak
Sweetwater
Zinc Trust
Pollard Bros
Newburne
Ala
James Crocker
Huntsville
Burnel
Engineer Calloway
Hobart
Wm. Baldwin
Newport
Kentucky
Norwich
England
Britain
Santiago
Mexico
China
Washington
Chatham County
North Carolina
Abraham Ix. Lefever
Lonncaster
Council of Jewish Women
Ohio
Noumea
New Caledonia
House panel rules Roberts ineligible for Utah seat
A special House committee unanimously found Representative-elect B. H. Roberts of Utah ineligible to hold his seat. The report asserts the House was within its rights to bar him, citing Roberts’s plural marriages and public knowledge of the marriages during his campaign.
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House
Utah
Roberts
Taylor
Ohio
Landis
Indiana
Freer
West Virginia
McPherson
Iowa
Morris
Minnesota
Miers
Lanham
Texas
B. H. Roberts
United States
Louisa Smith
Celia Dibble
Margaret C. Shipp
Plan for Philippine government proposed by Philippine Commission
President Schurman presents a three tier plan with an American governor to oversee the archipelago, an advisory council, and a partly appointed, partly elected legislative assembly. Governors would govern provinces, with natives gradually assuming posts as self governance skills grow, while Dewey comments on naval strategic value and Subic Bay.
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Schurman
Philippine Commission
Philippines
Congress
Commission
Dewey
Worcester
Subig Bay
Stop Big Canal Move Before Supreme Court
Missouri and its attorney general sought leave to file a bill of complaint against Illinois and the Chicago Sanitary District to enjoin the opening of the drainage canal and to subpoena Illinois officials. No Illinois counsel appeared. drainage board attorney Sam M. Burdett and Judge William M. Springer appeared for the board. The court ordered the bill lodged, printed, and copies served, and the motion entered.
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Washington
Missouri
Edward C. Crow
B. Schuurmacher
United States Supreme Court
Ilinois
Chicago
Illinois
Hlinois
Sam M. Burdett
Drainage Board
Senator Lindsay
Kentucky
William M. Springer
Crow
Church affairs show clergy shortages and shifts abroad
Scottish churchmen complain of few suitable ministry candidates. Moravian Greenland transfers work to Lutheran Danish Church. Congregational council in Boston cost $7454. London churches raise over $20000 for soldiers families. Burghersdorp seminary in South Africa closes as students join Boer army. Rev E H Byington succeeds Rev Dr Storrs at Church of the Pilgrims Brooklyn as temporary pastor.
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Greenland
Congregational International Council
Boston
London
Theological
Burghersdorp
South Africa
E. H. Byington
Dr. Storrs
Church of the Pilgrims
Brooklyn
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Pawson
Paris
Western
Albert Dehrin
Lewis H. Severance
Oberlin
New Chemical Laboratory
Severance
Bastrop
Arthur Burford
Burford
Colorado County
William Clements
M. Jacoby
Milton Nelson
Spencer
Neb
Colorado Springs
Buffalo
NS. Y
Lafayette
August Stephany
McGinnis Bank
Owensville
Ind
Indiana OU Tank Line Company
Lepper
Johison
Green Springs
Aix Orpha Sheets
Claude Tuttle
Tuttle
Austin K. Wheeler
Lenin & Wheeler
Grand Rapids
Mich
Tom Condon
Lillie Wilson
Sioux Range
Pierre
William Lochren
United States Court Room
St. Paul
Minn
James Welch
Lochren
Bgeatne
Charles Humes
Ada Monroe
Shelbyville
Sioux City
Willam Giladish
Omala
Gladish
Muskingum
Licking Rivers
Aanesville
National Pike
Southern
Almy
Andy Chitwood
Edwin Phillips
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