Paris Theatre Fire Kills Actress Madame Menriot
The Theatre Francais in Paris burned to the shell with a charred body found in the ruins identified as Madame Menriot a rising actress. The fire hit during preparations for Dumas Diane De Lys and closed the renovated venue for the exposition season. The London Daily News notes limited peace overtures after the war. Rescue at sea reports a Norwegian barque carrying a crew from the Isiah Hart sunk off Hatteras, survivors saved after five hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Theatre Francais
Madame Menriot
Comedie Francais
Varis
Dumas
Ms. Drama
Diane de Lys
London Daily News
London
Wilmington
N.C
Passal
Aronson
George L. West
Isiah Hart
Boston
Baltimore
Galveston
Hatteras
Frying Pan
Akron tenor Joseph Whitelaw charged with assault
Joseph Whitelaw a 60 year old Akron mer chant and father of Jennie Whitelaw was arrested and charged with assault and battery by Nora Strong a laundry collector. Whitelaw pleaded guilty claiming the woman encouraged him. He was fined and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Whitelaw
Akron
Ohio
Jennie Whitelaw
Europe
Nora Strong
Miss Strong
Whitelaw
Philadelphia department store blaze causes million dollar loss
Fire in the Shonemaks department store spread through the shopping district of Philadelphia destroying six buildings and causing about one million dollars in damage. Marks Bros Meyerhof & Co Edill & Co and the Koehler Buckles Company were the principal losers in the blaze, the third major fire in the district in three months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shonemaks
Philadelphia
Marks Bros
Meyerhof & Co
Edill & Co
Koehler & Buckles Company
Great Price for a Race Horse at Westminster Sale
At Kingsclere the late Duke of Westminster’s string of race horses sold in London. Flying Fox, Derby winner in 1899, Two Thousand Guineas, Eclipse stakes and Doncaster St Leger, sold to Edmond Blane for 37 500 guineas about 196 900 dollars. Blane is son of Roland Bonenarte founder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Duke of Westminster
Kingsclere
Flying Fox
Edmond Blane
Blane
Roland Bonenarte
Senate panel approves grant for ex Queen Liliuokalani
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations authorized reporting an amendment to the diplomatic appropriations bill. It would provide $20,000 to ex Queen Liliuokalani and an annual $10,000 donation for her lifetime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Lilioukalani
Ham and bean provision cars head to Philippines
Thirty two refrigerator cars carrying 700000 pounds of ham and bean cured under a government formula for tropical preservation left Chicago Thursday night bound for American soldiers in the Philippines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Chicago
Manila
Miner David Burton Killed in Clinton Indiana Mine Accident
Miner David Burton aged 48 was killed at No 8 mine near Clinton Indiana when a misfired shot exploded as he investigated it returning to the scene. The accident occurred instantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Burton
No. 8
Clinton
Ind
Boers Capture Kitchener’s Horse Officers and Men
The British War Office reports four officers and seventy-two men from Gen. Kitchener’s horse were captured by the Boers while guarding a well. Time and place of the capture are not given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British War Office
Kitchener
President McKinley Abandons France Reciprocity Treaty
President McKinley says he will not press the reciprocity treaty with France for Senate passage as a majority opposes it. The move ends the effort despite earlier negotiations, signaling a shift in foreign trade policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
McKinley
Senate
Parise Editura Fight a Duel
A fierce duel occurred in Paris between Charles Maurras editor of Action Francais and M Monod of Aurore. Maurras was severely wounded in the second round.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parise Editura
Paris
Charles Maurras
Action Francais
M. Monod
The
Aurore
Maurras
Insane Asylum Fire at St. Peter Sparks Narrow Escape
The State Insane Asylum in St. Peter Minnesota burned badly but no lives were lost. Thirty five employees narrowly escaped in their night clothes. Loss set at forty thousand dollars with partial insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Peter, Minn
February trade failures show large corporate collapses
R G Don & Co reports 881 commercial failures in February totaling 9 931 048 dollars and six banking failures for 620 121 dollars. Receivers were appointed for United States Flour Milling Company with 25 000 000 in stock and 15 000 000 in bonds and for Third Avenue Railroad Company with liens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don
R. G. Don & Co
Review of Trade
United States Flour Milling Company
Third Avenue Railroad Company
United States
Canada
Quicksilver Field Riches Reported in West Texas
County Judge W P Weatherby of Jeff Davis County and engineer W A Thompson visited Brewster County where new quicksilver mines were found in the Big Bend region. They say ore equals in richness to Telinqua camps, with deposits extending over nine sections. A state ranger detachment was dispatched to aid camp security.
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Texas
San Antonio
W. P. Weatherby
Jeff Davis County
A. Thompson
Fort Davis
West Texas
Brewster County
Big Bend
Rio Grande
Telinqua
Southern Pacific
Ben
Cinpabar
Girl in Six-Week Trance Baffles New Haven Doctors
In New Haven Connecticut Pauline Fitzgerald a 19 year old domestic remains in a six week trance at the general hospital. She has slept with limited nourishment and doctors cannot diagnose the condition. She was moved to Springside home where she briefly stirred and whispered after hypnotism was tried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Pauline Fitzgerald
General Hospital
Springside
Traveling salesman awarded damages in Linden case
George C. Richards of Terre Haute visited Linden Indiana to sell goods. After White missed his gold watch charm the town marshal stopped Richards on a departing train and searched him. The jury awarded Richards 300 dollars against the marshal’s bondsmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George C. Richards
Terre Haute
Linden
Ind
James White
White
Richards
Lodging House Fire at Garfield in New York
Six people died in a New York lodging house fire at the Garfield on New Bowery. Two were injured as residents on the fifth floor tried to escape. flames confined to the fifth floor caused about $2,000 damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Garfield
New Bowery
Miners Train Wreck in Indiana Kills One Injures Dozens
A miners' train on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad carrying over 300 workers from the north mines to Brazil Indiana was struck by a local freight train. One man died instantly and about forty were seriously hurt with many potentially dying.
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Indiana
Chicago and Eastern Ilinois
North Mines
Brazil
Ind
Fire Destroys Waynesboro Business Block Causing Major Loss
A fire gutted the Wolff brothers block in Waynesboro Virginia housing fourteen firms. Total losses reach about 80000 dollars with Wolff Brothers suffering the heaviest hit on carpets and building valued at 48000 dollars and insured for 15000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waynesboro
J. P. and
J. M. Wolff
Wolff Brothers
Diaz to Visit Buffalo for Pan American Exposition
Mexican foreign minister Mariscal via US Ambassador Powell Clayton transmits President Diaz’s acceptance of the Pan American Exposition Company invitation to participate in the Buffalo New York exposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diaz
Buffalo
Mariscal
United States
Powell Clayton
N. Y
Planet Mercury Loss Confirmed Off Nova Scotia Coast
Wreckage recovered off the Nova Scotian coast indicates the cattle ship Planet Mercury of the Elder Dempster line is almost certainly lost with all hands. The vessel carried a crew and six cattle men aboard at the time.
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Elder-Dempster
Shaw Candidate for Congress in Twenty-fourth NY district
General A. D. Shaw national G. A. R. commander announces candidacy to fill the late Charles A. Chickering seat in New York's Twenty fourth district.
Chicago Ticket Agent Held Up at Twelfth Street Station
Four armed men robbed Dennis A. Foster, a ticket agent at the South Side Elevated station on Twelfth Street in Chicago, of seventy dollars. Police sought leads as the incident left workers shaken and crews vigilant.
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Chicago
Dennis A. Foster
Twelfth Street
South Side
Congressmen Eppes Dies After Surgery
Congressman Sydney Eppes of Virginia died at Garfield Hospital in Washington after an appendectomy operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressman Eppes
Sydney Eppes
Virginia
Garfield Hospital
Washington
Strike at Pressed Steel Car Plant Shuts Down Crane Dept
About thirty electric crane men walk out at Allegheny Pennsylvania plants belonging to Pressed Steel Car Company causing a work halt in the car department. Over 1,000 workers involved as replacements are criticized for inexperience making other tasks more hazardous. Crane men sought a 25 cent daily raise. company representative A G Glover denies incompetence among new workers.
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Allegheny, Pa
Pressed Steel Car Company
A. G. Glover
L. Candee Company
New Haven
Conn
London Council For the
London
Young Men’s Christian Association
United States
Koniggratz
Austria
Young German Takes His Life in Kansas City
Pring Leopold, 22, killed himself with a revolver in Kansas City after believing he would be forced to return to Germany to serve in the Kaiser's army. A Dresden mother’s letter said military service loomed, triggering the suicide after months of talk of visiting Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pring Leopold
Kansas City
Germany
Dresden
Pruno
Kansas ArS Dairy Cattle Quarantine Sought by Governor
Gov Stanly at the urging of the livestock sanitary commission issues a proclamation establishing a quarantine to prevent further introduction of tuberculosis into Kansas herds. The measure applies to dairy cattle and cattle used in breeding and developing dairy stock to block shipments into the state.
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Gov
Stanly
Livestock Sanitary Commission
Kansas
Ambush Killings and Mine Disaster Reported
Reports from Luzon far north of Tarlac detail an ambush that killed Lieut. Edgar F. Woehler of the Ninth Infantry after he sought hidden rifles with a Filipino guide. The rebels suffered twenty four deaths in revenge. Nearby at Led Ask coal mine in Fire Creek West Virginia a massive explosion trapped over a hundred miners. Twenty seven bodies were recovered and others burned in the inferno. The day also notes legal moves on anti lynching statutes and police actions in New York and Missouri beer law cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Led Ask
Fire Creek
W. Va
Teacher and Parent Fight Over Child Correction Turns Fatal
In Brewersville Indiana near Stearns store a school teacher and Al Fuller clashed over Fuller’s child. Isaac Powers was shot once through the lung and Fuller received three bullets. Both men died from their injuries.
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Brewersville
Ind
Stearns
al Fuller
Isaac Powers
Fuller
Powers
Bryan Returns to Austin After Nine Weeks on Tour
William J. Bryan returns to his winter home in Austin Texas after a nine weeks absence touring the United States He plans to stay several weeks then resume another tour keeping his location and schedule in the public eye
Earthquake Devastates Southern Mexican Coast Villages
Seismic shocks felt across southern Mexico caused far more damage than earlier reports indicated. Several small coastal villages were destroyed and left residents without shelter as relief efforts mobilize.
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Mexico
Granite Cutters Strike Halts Work Across New England
About 6000 granite cutters blacksmiths and tool sharpeners in New England quit for a new wage schedule. The plan calls for 3 dollars a day and eight hours, but Barre Vermont settled on 35 cents an hour with eight hours, averting a strike. Strikes hit Branford New London Quincy Milford Gloucester Hallowell and Westerly with some firms in Hallowell Milford agreeing to demands.
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New England
Barre
Branford
Uncle Sam opens smokeless powder plant at Indian Head
The Government will start smokeless powder manufacture soon at Indian Head proving grounds L I. The plant buildings are nearly finished and machinery delivered. To prevent endangering the proving grounds the site is several miles away connected by a railroad. An electric plant operates the factory and railroads, with no competition against private manufacturers except as to qualifications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indian Head
L. I
Cuban unrest prompts spike in warfare tools demand
Mobile Register Havana correspondent reports rising on the island with heavy demand for spurs machetes and hammocks seen as principal implements of Cuban warfare. Stores report stockouts as tension grows and insiders warn of an imminent uprising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Register
Havana
Freight Wreck on Illinois Central Near Broadview
Twenty men were injured in a collision between two Illinois Central freight trains at Junction C near Broadview Illinois. Two workers died from their injuries after a coupling pin broke, causing the wreck in the middle of one train.
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Illinois Central
Ilinois Central Railroad
Broadview
Ill
Rockefeller to Give 200000 for Newton Theological Institute
At a Baptist Social Union meeting in Boston it was announced Rockefeller will contribute half of the $400000 needed to complete equipment for the Newton Theological Institution.
Price Rise Hinted by Flint Bottle Makers
Flint bottle manufacturers announce a contemplated price advance. The Eastern and Western flint bottle makers associations are under consideration for consolidation. Professor F L Harvey of the University of Maine killed himself at his Crono home after long mental strain from overwork.
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Flint
F. L. Harvey
University of Maine
Crono
Archbishop John Hennessy Dies in Dubuque at 77
Archbishop John Hennessy, a prominent Catholic leader, died peacefully at his home in Dubuque Iowa surrounded by relatives. He was 77 years old and his passing was reported as tranquil with no suffering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hennessy
Dubuque, Iowa
Passenger Train Derailed by Snow at Phelps Junction
A west bound New York Central passenger train derailed at Phelps Junction New York due to heavy snow. The line was blocked for several hours at the site.
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New York Central
Phelps Junction
N. Y
Bishop Mahlon Gilbert Dies in St. Paul
Rt. Rev. Mahlon N. Gilbert bishop co adjutor of the diocese of Minnesota Episcopal Church dies in St. Paul. The church mourns the longtime leader whose tenure shaped regional affairs and liturgical life. His passing leaves a transition point for Minnesota Episcopalians and the wider church.
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Gilbert
Mahlon N. Gilbert
Diocese of
Minnesota
St. Paul
Market quotes across U S cities show wide commodity ranges
The report lists live cattle hogs and sheep prices for Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and more with grains wheat corn oats rye and dairy values. Notable figures include cattle bid ranges from 2 50 to 6 25 and hogs up to 5 50 in New York and Chicago across several markets.
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Chicago
Indinapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Mass mine disaster at Red Ash West Virginia kills nearly 125
An explosion at the Red Ash Coal Company mine near Thurmond West Virginia killed about 125 miners. Victims filled the mouth of the mine trapping carts and bodies as rescuers arrived. Superintendent John Laing escaped minutes before. Gas ignition from a miner's lamp is suspected.
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Red Ash
Thurmond
W. Va
Sherman Shirkey
John Laing
Red Ash Coal Company
J. Fred Effinger
Staunton
Andrew Pritt
Beary Lodge
Knights of Pythias
New River
Whittaker Held Over Governor Goebel Killing
Harlan Whittaker of Butler County is held in Frankfort on murder charges in the Goebel assassination and to answer the grand jury without bond. Silas Jones of Whitley County was admitted to bail at $500 in the same case.
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Harlan Whittaker
Kentucky
Butler County
Taylor
Frankfort
William Goebel
Silas Jones
Whitley County
Whittaker
Moore
Telegraph and telephone share one wire in test
A historic test on a single wire linked Chattanooga and Knoxville carried telegraph messages both ways while a Knoxville to Chattanooga telephone message ran simultaneously. The East Tennessee Telephone Company had contracted with Postal Telegraph to use the line, marking the first such experiment in the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Knoxville
East Tennessee Telephone Company
Postal Telegraph Company
Watch of Admiral Cervera Sought in Wichita Rescue
A Wichita plan aims to redeem the Cervera timepiece seized after the Santiago battle. A local 40-person effort seeks to return the watch, advanced 40 dollars to a colored 23rd Kansas lieutenant who guarded it after a Cuban pilot who showed the way out of Santiago harbor was captured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cervera
Santiago
Wichita
Kan
Twenty-third Kansas Regiment
Santiago Harbor
Spain
First Russian Orthodox Church to Rise in New York
The first Russian Orthodox church in America is planned for New York at a cost of 36000 dollars. The piece notes other religious items including Moody linked churches and a South Carolina Congregational association of colored churches.
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America
New York
South America
London Mail
Mr. Moody
England
Congregational Churches
South Carolina
Hay
St. Pauls Church
Warsaw
Ill
Sapho play halted by police in New York court action
Police stopped the Sapho production in New York as Magistrate Mott held theater managers and Miss Nethersole’s representatives for trial. Promoters vow to retry until legally cleared. Critics denounce the work as harmful and morally dangerous to the modern stage.
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Sapho
New York
Mott
Olga Nethersole
Theodore Moss
Hamilton Revelle
Marcus Mayer
Court of Special Sessions
Nethersole
Miss Nethersole
Soldier Killed in Ambush Near Tarlac in Philippines
Manila dispatch reports Lieut. Edgar F. Koehler of the Ninth Infantry shot in the abdomen and killed at a village six miles north of Tarlac where he commanded. American forces burned the village in retaliation, killing twenty four of the enemy. Gen Bates’ expedition to southern Luzon with 2300 men occupied Nueva Caceres and Daet amid stiff resistance. two Americans died including Lieut. John B. Galleher of the Fortieth. Libmanan was seized after a bayonet clash. enemy losses are placed at about 140 killed or wounded with sixty four buried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Edgar F. Koehler
Ninth Infantry
Tarlac
Bates
Luzon
Neuva Caceres
South Camarines
Daet
North Camarines
John B. Galleher
San Miguel Bay
Nueva Caceres
Libmianan
Fortieth
Libmanan
Chicago Labor War Deepens as 10000 Join Idle Force
Ten thousand more workers join 75,000 idle in Chicago as building material manufacturers unite to halt business until the labor dispute ends. Estimated property tied up may reach 20 million dollars. contractors claim support, while suppliers vow neutrality and will not sell to any builder involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manufacturers
Chicago
Building Contractors’ Council
Minor Note Injures Fifteen in Mineola Wreck
Fifteen people were injured in a wreck at Mineola Texas on Friday. The report notes unusually cold weather in Florida harming orange trees and a lost steamer in the Caspian gale with twenty five drownings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mineola
Texas
Kearsarge
Florida
Caspian Sea
Ne Jersey
Wisconsin
San Francisco
Cal
Kentucky
Kate Grant
Harlem Hospital
New York
Chicago
Congressman Lentz
Ohio
United States
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Democrat
Corydon
Thomas & Ellis
Queen Lil
Quicksilver Field
ARS Dairy Cattle
Edgar F. Woehler
Ohio Supreme Court
Cuyahoga County
J. W. Caldwell
Cleveland
Missouri
Missouri Supreme Court
Wood
Consolidated Brewers
Kennamore
Farmers’ Bank
Farmington
Iowa
Western Union
Spartansburg
Corry Opera House
National Hotel
Corry
Granite Cutters
Uncle Sam’s Powder Factory
Indian Head Plant
John Drushmal
Agnes
Mobile
Ala
Bessie Miller
Coden
Bessie
Goebel
H. Whittaker
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