Sigsbee Leaves Havana Aboard the Olivette in Cuba Farewell
Capt Sigsbee of the Maine and officers depart Havana for Key West aboard the Olivette after a solemn floral tribute from Consul General Lee. Newspaper men and American ladies witness the emotional cabin scene as Gen Lee honors the captain with praise and best wishes for the voyage home.
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Sigsbee
Gen. Lee
Havana
Maine
Key West
Olivette
Consul General Lee
Capt
Lee
Navy Department
Murder and Arson Kill Three at Atlanta Store
Fire responders found white store owner W H Briley and his wife alongside Robert Wilkinson, a Black man, killed in a 75 Humphreys Street blaze. Bodies showed brutal wounds with hatchets and a meat knife on scene. Briley, proprietor, suspected robbery motive.
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Atlanta
W. H. Briley
Robert Wilkinson
Humphreys Street
War scare disrupts Texas cotton transport and sales
Texas cotton buyers and brokers report insurance denial for export cotton from Galveston and New Orleans due to war fears. Several foreign firms instruct state buyers to ship only on British bottoms. About a third of the crop remains to be moved, with market disruption evident amid tensions. Meanwhile Jackson refuses retirement and seeks another fight with Jeffries, with options including Sharkey or Maher before the Olympic Club fight set for late April.
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Texas
Galveston
New Orleans
Jackson
Jeffries
Olympic Club
Sharky
Sharkey
Maher
Parrell's Mother Dead in Wicklow Burns Incident
Delia Tudor Parnell mother of the late Charles Stewart Parnell died Sunday night at Avondale Rathdrum County Wicklow Ireland from burns after her clothing ignited by a fire. Grover Cleveland endorsed the government line on Cuba saying Washington cannot do more and must protect national honor. U S cruisers San Francisco and New Orleans en route to New York after leaving England. Three hundred fifty La Fayette students staged anti Spanish demonstrations in Easton Pennsylvania offering their service to President McKinley and burning a Spanish flag. Portland Oregon party conventions reach a fusion platform adopted by Populist Democratic and free silver Republican groups.
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Parnell
Delia Tudor Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell
Avondale
Rathdrum
County Wicklow
Ireland
Spain
la Fayette
Easton
SteKinley
Oregon
Portland
Ore
Morry Hendorne
Osceola
Bartlett
Wyoming
Mechanicsville
Liverpool
Ames
Des Moines
Plover
Henderson
Hardin County
Omaha
West Union
Frank Dorland
Waukon
Wankon
Tomah
Wis
Dubuque
Robert Love
Wensett
Secretary of War
Davenport
Council Bluffs
Russell N. Whittlesey
Thomas Murphy
Skensett
State Agricultural Association
Senate
Bradstreet Review Reports Mixed Western Trade
Bradstreet's Weekly Review notes favorable western and northwestern distributive trade with some shipments delayed by heavy rains in the Ohio valley. Woolen goods face declining quotations and curtailment of production, while raw wool remains steady despite weak manufactured outputs. Some mills have booked orders, but overall activity lags behind expectations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradstreat
Ohio Valley
Mail Robber Hogan Foiled In Columbus Escape Plot
Timothy Hogan of Chicago, famed mail box robber, was captured in Columbus and jailed in Washington Court House Ohio. He planned to saw two iron bars with a concealed saw and escape through the attic. Upon discovery he attacked fellow prisoner Morrow, knocking out his front teeth with a bucket.
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Ohio
Timothy Hogan
Chicago
Columbus
Washington Court House
Jnil
Morrow
Gladstone Illness Sparks Royal Consultation
Gladstone sits under intense pain as Sir Thomas Smith, the queen's surgeon, confirms the illness after a consultation. Gladstone reportedly begged secrecy unless the queen requested information on his condition. The report underscores the gravity of his health and the royal concern.
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Thomas Smith
Queen of England
Mr. Gladstone
Gladstone
Welsbach Company Wins Injunction in New York Case
Judge Townsend in the United States circuit court ruled for the Welsbach Light Company in its suit against Sunlight Incandescent Gas Lamp Company. The injunction bars Sunlight from manufacturing or selling incandescent lamps and orders an accounting. Other items note Bank of Merriam Park failure from fraud concerns, University of Kansas fire with $40,000 loss, and a Colfax hangings case.
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Welsbach Company
Townsend
United States Circuit Court
New York
Welssbach Light Company
Sunlight
Sunlight Company
Bank of
Merriam Park
St. Paul
Southal
Court of Inquiry Pinpoints Maine Explosion as External
Naval board finds the Maine disaster stemmed from an outside explosion, likely a floating submarine mine. It does not assign blame or identify the explosive’s exact type, but notes two simultaneous detonations and a first blast that ruptured a magazine. Secretary Long and Lieut Commander Marix presented the report at the White House, with cabinet members in attendance.
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Naval Board of Inquiry
Maine
Long
Marix
Naval Board
Congress
Washington
Canaries
United States
Spain
Walsh Murder Verdict Brings Closure After Two Weeks
The Coroner's Jury in Joliet finds that Thomas Walsh of Joliet Lit was murdered. Walsh disappeared from a barber shop near his brother Robert Walsh's wholesale grocery, and his body was found in a ditch along the Elgin Joliet and Eastern tracks near Plainfield, ten miles from Joliet, on March 5. Police favored suicide, but the jury ruled murder, a decision that pleases Walsh's family and disappoints the police.
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Thomas Walsh
Joliet
Walsh
Robert Walsh
Plainfield
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern
Police
Louisiana Plan to Disfranchise Negroes Adopted
The Louisiana constitutional convention in New Orleans voted 95 to 28 with 11 absent to adopt a suffrage plan. It imposes educational and property qualifications and a poll tax to remove Black voters, while exempting naturalized voters and those who voted in 1867 plus their male descendants.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Hart Broken Jaw In Pittsburg Practice Game
In Little Rock Arkansas on Saturday afternoon Pittsburg National League player William Hart, ex St. Louis Browns, was struck by a ball and had his jaw broken in two places. He may return to the team in three or four weeks.
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William Osterhage
Vincennes
Ind
Anderson Window Glass Company
Anderson
Frankton
Burns
Orestes
Billy Hart
Hart
Pittsburg
Little Rock
Ark
William Htart
St. Louis Browns
William Seliriver
Grispis Disgrace: Italian Parliament Censures Former Premier
The Italian chamber of deputies voted 207 to 7 to adopt a committee report recommending political censorship of former Premier Crispi. He is accused of complicity in the Bank of Naples scandals and illegal decoration trafficking. He resigns his seat and plans to appeal to constituents for support.
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Italy
Chamber of Deputies
Crispi
Naples
Signor Crispi
Humbert
Pension Fraud Scandal Uncovered in Providence
U S agents reveal a major pension fraud in Providence Rhode Island described as the greatest ever in the United States. Two arrests made and fifteen warrants sworn for claim agents in the city and nearby areas. Charges include perjury and uttering forged checks or vouchers. Total losses run into thousands with one case traced at fifteen thousand dollars.
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U. S
Providence
R. I
Pension Department
United States
Arrival of Marix Report Reaches Washington Night
The naval board of inquiry into the Maina disaster arrived in Washington at 9 30 p m Thursday. Four officers who guarded it were hurried to Ebbitt House in a navy department carriage. Also notes British Hawaii allegations denied by Curzon in Commons. A Kansas double tragedy ends with Cochrane and Woodward dead. Grace Marshall loses fingers in a dynamite hairpin accident. Comet visible to naked eye in Pegasus. Robbery hits St Killan’s Church New Franken Wisconsin. J W Lyons of Georgia nominated register of the treasury.
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Washington
Court of Inquiry
Naval Board of Inquiry
Maina
Key West
Navy Department
Ebbitts House
Hawaii
House of Commons
James Ferguson
United States Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Great Britain
Curzon
Foreign Office
Perrine
Lick Observatory
Pegasus
St. Killan’s
New Franken
Wis
Register of the Treasury
J. W. Lyons
Georgia
the Treasury
Market quotations across cities for cattle hogs and grains
Regional market summaries list cattle hogs and sheep prices in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with grain values for wheat corn oats rye and butter eggs and potatoes. Prices span ranges per commodity with no single standout.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Morse Buyer Robbed and Beaten Near White Elm
William Hall a horse buyer from Lancaster was held up by masked highwaymen on a public road near White Elm, injured with a blow to the head and robbed of 1800 dollars in cash drawn from a Milton bank prior to traveling to Wilton to purchase horses. He died after the assault in a grim countryside attack.
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William Hall
Lancaster
White Wim
Mr. Hall
Milton
Wilton
Mr.Hall
White Elm
Claude Duvals
Hall
Des Moines Area News and Local Developments
Long list of Iowa items including schoolhouse openings in Kensett, new depots in Atlantic, a dedication of Valley Town's First Congregational Church, and local governance notes. Mentions deaths, crimes, fire, new banks, road and river projects, and upcoming elections across towns like Des Moines, Ames, Creston, and Dubuque with varied civic and infrastructural updates.
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Yank Burding
Kensett
Atlantic
First Congregational, Church of Valley
Buchanan County
Burlington
Alaska
Luverne
Tabor College
Parsons
Creston
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Capp J. Sargent
Cuba
Grover Cleveland
Lloyd’s
San Francisco
England
Bradstreet
Orson D. Taylor
The
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Saginaw
Mich
B. Cornell
Taylor
Interstate
Dalles
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Department of Electrical Engineering
Leiter-Armour-Weare
Chicago Board of Trade
Armour and
Leiter
P. B. Weare
Bell
George Yarber
Brownwood
Yarber
Colfax
Wash
John Leonard
Jacob Marquist
Texas Ferry
Geezer
Philadelphia
Eaty
Otoe
Wichita
Kan
Oklahoma Ring
A. C. Fairchhild
Energy Chalmers
William Lamon
G. W. Gains
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
L. A. Sharpe
Gibson Station
Wagoner
I. T
Ed Chalmers
Wybark
Reeder
Pennsylvania
Lambert
New London
R.S Tucker
Ontario
Kansas
Wesley Cochrane
Atwood
Gertie Woodward
Atwood Citizen
Cochrane
Woodward
Grace Marshall
Iowa
Morse
Chariton
McGeary
Lavake
Lown Charities
State Association of Charities and Correction
L. G. Kinne
J. M. Emumert
Frank N. White
HZ. 8
Hollingsword
Charlotta Goff
Ir. A. Bartlett
Clara Lundbeck
Mason City
G. H. Gill
G. P. Wyckoff
Burlington City
Fear
Seattle
Hirlondike
Redbury
Athon
John IF
Hahn
Anthon
Hahna
Anthony
Gladbrook
Chicago and Northwestern
Barnum
John McGeary
McGregor
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Mississippi
North McGregor
Prairie du Chien
Clinton
Judge King
Lo- bin
Ringwood
Thomas B. Grimm
Murray
Trade and Labor Congress
Hawkeye
George Risch
Woaverloo
Marshalltown
Waterloo
Lou Searles
Jamaica
Thatcher
Zearing
David J. Brewer
United States Supreme Court
State University Law Department
James Bualsh
Adel
Glenwood
Bernina
George B. Colton
Greene County
New Sharon
Rachel Cline
Packwood
John Midland
Warlville
B. R. Meek
Rochester
George J. Meyers
Hager
Annapolis
KM. Parsons
Carson
Mills
Sxengerbund
Taly
Grand
Monroe County
Albia
Stuart
Valley Junction
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