Storm Ravages Texas Wrecking Homes and Claiming Lives
Reports from across Texas describe severe storm damage after the week’s rain and wind. In Houston four-fifths of the state faced storms with about thirty houses wrecked. Emanuel White died and others injured. Rosenburg Tyler Midlothian New Boston report multiple fatalities and extensive property destruction.
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Texas
Houston
Emanuel White
Rosenburg
Tyler
Midlothian
Ed King
T. i. Bentley
Clarity of post office theft puzzles Chicago authorities
A theft on State Street before the Masonic temple saw a registered mail sack valued at 1700 dollars taken from a wagon. Driver E A Plantum left the sack in the temple substation rotunda for five minutes and returned to find the wagon lock opened with no clue to the robber. The crime occurred in a crowded downtown street.
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Chicago
Masonic Temple
State Street
E. A. Plantum
Temple
Ife
Two Explosions Hit Peru Indiana Wreck Homes Injure Six
Two near simultaneous gas explosions in Peru Indiana damaged two buildings and injured six people. Frank Kiley Sr is reported fatally injured. A meat market occupied first floor of a two story brick building was wrecked. Mrs Hayes and her four month old child were badly burned. The Kiley family escaped to the porch moments before a second blast hurled them into the yard.
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Peru
Ind
Frank Kiley
John Hayes
Babe
Wellston
Ohio
Louis Woolum
Ward Meadows
Woolum
Hhe
Nevelty Iron Works
Canton
Jessie Morrison
Clara W. Castle
Eldorado
Kan
Supreme Court
Miss Morrison
Indianapolis
Prince Henry
Board of Health
Prince Henry Proeschell
Prince Henry of Prussia
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Neola
Iowa
Schultz
Gottschalk
Nashville
Tenn
Cincinnati
Fox Lake
Wis
J. B
S. W. Tarrant
Bureglars
State Bank
Nemaha
Neb
J. J. Davis
Cascade Mountains
Washington
Mineral Creek
Tacoma
James L. Starkey
Muskingum County
Loretta Roberts
Zanesville
Chicago
Dupont, de Nemours & Co
Keokuk
Town
Douglas
Minnesota
Congress
Norfolk and Western
Hamilton and
Dayton
Madrid cabinet resignations headed to queen regent
The cabinet members led by Senor Savasta will submit resignations to the queen regent soon. Senor Mariere is likely to form a new cabinet while General Weyler, Spain's war minister, appears set to become a dictatorial figure, indispensable to any cabinet and growing stronger with each crisis.
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Madrid
Senor Savasta
Senor Mariere
General Weyler
Spain
Vicksburg Packet Capsizes in Davis Bend Storm
The Vicksburg and Davis Bend packet Providence capsized during a storm on the lake at Davis Bend. Captain Will Cassidy and Clyde Sevatt were aboard the boat with Dr. Lancaster of Palmyra and Head Engineer Roupt. Thirteen deck crew and passengers drowned.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Davis Bend
Providence
Lon
Will Cassidy
Clyde Sevatt
Vicksburg Ois Mills
Lancaster
Palmyra
Roupt
Nepro
Russians Repel Tungus Fight Near Hubandsy Manchuria
A March 3 clash north of Hubandsy Manchuria pits Russian troops against about 300 Tunguses. The engagement results in 200 Tunguses killed, their leader among the dead, while two Russians are wounded.
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St. Petersburg
Hubandsy
Manchuria
Earthquake Destroys Kyankari Town in Asia Minor
A dispatch from Constantinople states Kyankari, northeast of Angora, in Asia Minor, was destroyed by an earthquake on March 12. No details of the disaster were available. Kyankari had about 20 000 inhabitants.
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Constantinople
Kyankari
Angora
Asia Minor
Skirmish near Pearston Ends in Boer Commanders Deaths
A clash near Pearston in the Cape Colony between British troops and Commandant Fouche’s Boers results in the deaths of Commandant Ovendaal and Field Cornet Van Der Walt.
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Pearston
Cape Colony
Fouche
Ovendaal
Cornet van der Walt
British Admiralty Orders Shipbuilding Contracts for Cruisers and Battleships
British admiralty contracts with multiple shipyards to build the first class cruiser two third class cruisers and two battleships. In Manila lieutenant Hagedon a quartermaster of the twenty eighth infantry is confined charged with embezzlement.
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British
Admiralty
Hagedon
Twenty-Eighth Infantry
Manila
Transport Sheridan Arrives San Francisco From Manila
The transport Sheridan has docked in San Francisco after sailing from Manila on February 16. It brings ninety seven sick six insane and one thousand one hundred eighty nine short term men along with the headquarters of the first and third battalions of the Twentieth infantry.
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Sheridan
San Francisco
Manila
Twentieth Infantry
National League Reaches Uncertain Peace after Marathon Talks
After days of telephoning and telegraphing among magnates, a protocol appears to have secured a partial peace in the National League. Details remain murky as outlets await formal confirmation and any lasting settlement.
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National League
Trenton coaches forgo Sunday funeral driving
Eastern news items report varied calamities and crimes including Trenton coaches agreeing not to drive for Sunday funerals, Francis Skinner’s death by suicide amid ruin, Estey Organ Company president Julius Estey’s death at 57, and a series of fire, theft, and murder incidents across New Jersey and nearby states.
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Trenton
N. J
Francis Skinner
New York
Julius J. Estey
Estey Organ Company
Brattleboro
Rosalie Pressfick
Baltamore
Crisgs-Seabury Gun and Ammunition Company
Derby
Conn
Granvillg W. Leighton
National ‘Traders’ Bank of Portland
Eugene Clements
Philadelphia
John Coates
Clements
Coates
Georgetown
Trudson
Lesenheim Dry Goos
W. A. Vansel
R. Gray's Sons
Sheldon & Co
Walk
Wide Range of Accidents and Crimes Reported Across States
Akron missing businessman Charles Semler. Chicago surgeon Dr. Christian Wenger dead from pneumonia. Hangs, murders, arsons, bank robberies, and legal actions recur from Arkansas to Minnesota including a Poseyville bank safe, Denver pension fraud, and Northern Securities suit. Fire losses, shipwrecks, and political items follow across the country with notable deaths and investigations.
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Charles A. Semler
Akron
Ohio
Christian Wenger
Chicago
Kip Horton
van Buren
Ark
Lancaster
Mason Brothers
Seneca
Kan
Albert Johnson
Mexico
Alton
Savage
Samilton
George Willard
Seidenstecker
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Jivans
Department
Issac Uncapher
Marion
Frank Church
H. G. Jacobs
Everett
Wash
Daily Record
John Castillo
Sault Ste. Marie
St. Mary’s River
Lake Huron
William H. Taft
Philippines
Jewish Hospital
Cincinnati
Edward Hansman
Hansman
Mail Train Wreck at Irontoe and Mysterious Poison Deaths
A train collision at Irontoe Ohio trapped Mail Agent W P Stewart in an overturned car. he escaped badly bruised after breaking a lock. All mail burned. In Lowell Michigan Mrs William Klump died after taking poison in headache powder. Sheriff Chapman suspects murder and investigations continue with no motive yet.
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Irontoe
Ohio
W. P. Stewart
Stewart
William Klump
Lowell
Mich
Five murders and disasters reported in Southern region
Reports from across the South recount Luke Sanders hanged in Marion Alabama for a murder. the Beaumont Texas Neches river bodies of five victims. Kentucky women facing possible voting loss. Norfolk Virginia strike violence with soldiers firing over crowds. a Southern Pacific wreck near Maxon Texas with dozens dead or injured. a St Louis carpenter’s perilous rail accident rescue. Kentucky rail landslides burying workers. a Burgin pesthouse blown up with a warning not to rebuild.
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Luke Sanders
Marion
Ala
Mullins
Neches
Beaumont
Texas
Kentucky
General Assembly
Norfolk
Southern Pacific
Maxon
Reet Rhodes
St. Louis
Louisville and Nashville
Regine Tunnel
William Simons
Granville Morton
Horse Branch
Thomas Dobbs
Rosine
Burgin
Universal Crisis and War Reports Dominate Dispatches
Foreign affairs brief notes Manehn censor accusing Wu Ting Fang of misappropriating 80 000 in Tien Tsins silver refunds. Boers under Delarey attack 1 200 British causing deaths and wounds. Austrian press predicts Kaiser Franz Joseph abdication while Maybrick case stalls. Shanghai cable notes Port Arthur settlers ordered away amid Japan war fears. Kitchener reports a Boer magazine near Rietz with large ammunition and stores.
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Manehn
Wu Ting Fang
United States
Methven
Delarey
Austria
prcetagéMion
Kaiser Franz Josef
de Roques
Llorence Maybrick
Maybricek
Shanghai
London Standard
Port Arthur
Prt Arthur
Japan
Johannesburg
London Daily Mail
Pretoria
Lord Kitchener
Rietz
Orange River Colony
Roosevelt signs bill creating permanent census bureau
News brief list reports President Roosevelt signing a measure to establish a permanent census bureau. Other items note Ada Behan's retirement, a fatal fire in Manitano Quebec, Moody named to succeed Navy Secretary Long with May 1 as effective date, Dunsmuir letter to Premier warning of shooting, Alice Roosevelt traveling to Havana, Harriet Blaine Beale and Captain Philip in the party, and the Pacific Mail steamer Newport detailing a tidal wave disaster near Acajutla with at least fifty three bodies recovered.
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Roosevelt
Ada Behan
Comedienne
Arthur Bouchard
Mantano
Que
W. L.s Moody
Massachusetts
Navy Long
Dunsmuir
Premier Dunsmuir
Victoria
Pacific Mail Company
Newport
la Libertad
Acajutla
Congress Debates Ship Subsidy and Rural Delivery Bills
Senate discussed the ship subsidy bill with West of Missouri and Mallory of Florida absent due to illness. The diplomatic and consular appropriation bill passed, while the protection of the President bill and the rural free delivery bill faced ongoing debate and procedural motions in the House and Senate. Leaders asserted positions on civil service protections and census staffing. notable remarks criticized subsidies and direct election, with various members addressing related fiscal and governance issues.
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West
Missouri
Mallory
Florida
Senate
United States
Bacon
Georgia
House
Sims
Tenn
Hughes
West Virginia
Congress
Tillman
South Carolina
Hoar
Berry
Arkansas
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Hay
Burleson
Texas
Hiram W. Thomas
Chicago
Minois
Hitt
Hiiness
Organized Labor
House Committee On Judiciary
McCumber
N. D
Depew
Committee On Commerce
Corliss
Michigan
Richardson
Alabama
Tennessee
Dougherty
Jackson
Kansas
Greene
Pennsylvania
Unsettled Weather and Trade Trends Reported by R G Dun Weekly
The weekly review notes unsettled weather in New York and widespread disruption from a heavy snowfall followed by thaws. Ferro- and coal industries face labor tensions and shut plants in Pittsburg, with spot demand for structural materials and premiums on shortages. Wheat, corn, cattle, hogs, and wool markets show varied responses amid uncertain crop prospects in Kansas Texas and Oklahoma.
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New York
Fall Niver
R. G. Dun & Co
Iron and Steel
Pittsburg
United States
Canada
Chicago
Kansas
Southwest
Texas
Oklahoma
Department of Agriculture
Market Price Snapshot by City and Commodities
A compilation of regional price ranges for cattle hogs sheep and farm products in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with grains butter and eggs. The Colorado Legislature has declared in favor of excluding the Japanese from this country as well as the Chinese.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Colorado
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Indiana
Thomas & Ellis
N. M
Strom Havoc
Rui
Warships For Britain
Tenry
Smith
Saxonburg
Pao
Rochester
N. Y
Ijanold
Beaver Falls
Smith & Finkleher
McPherson
McCandless Brothers
Edward Keyser
Lafayette Gruff
Gloucester
Mary Ann Gruff
Katie
Susan Gowie
Gruff
Western
Highwood
Mont
Frank Conger
Brooklyn
Wayne Hotel
Conger
American Bridge Company
Stewart Hill
Denver
James Butson
Northwestern Railroad
St. Paul
Knox
Northern Securities Company
Charles Call
George Call
Princeton
United States Supreme Court
Macalester Coal and Mining Company
Buck, I. T
Cambridge
Hatfield Furniture Company
Liberty Center
Citizens’ National Bank
Anadarko
A. J. Morris
H. B. Ritchell
Morris
Fort Niobrara
Presidio
Southern
Sampson
Russia
Germany
China
John W. Hawley
Naval Committee of the House
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