Stella Wreck Claims Many Lifes On Channel Island Excursion
Reports from Southampton to Lexpos and SouraaserTon recount the Stella sinking near the Casquet rocks in dense fog. About 120 feared drowned, with 70 expected by railway officials. survivors rescued by Lynx and Vera, including a heroic captain who perished.
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Southampton
Lexpos
London and Southwestern Railway Company
Stella
SouraaserTon
Channel Islands
Casquet Rocks
Alderney
Lynx
Great Western Railway Company
Weymouth
Guernsey
Vera
Guerseny
Notes Good or Bad in Schell Loan Talks
Director Hugh Dougherty visited Fort Wayne to review Schell Loan and Investment notes for a clause making them non negotiable. Directors and lawyers held lengthy sessions with no new information to report. President O Rourke dismissed unauthorized loan talks as rumor while J F Schell remains at home under deputy sheriffs. A bond signed by fifteen parsons with cap of 200 dollars was rejected by the prosecuting attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Dougherty
Bluffton
Fort Wayns
J. F. Schell Loan and Investment Company
Sentinel
O’rourks
J. F. Sohell
Acill
Laws Now In Force From Last Legislature
Secretary of State releases copies of key laws with emergency clauses now in effect. Acts cover railroad cemetery land bans, negligence, county duties, gravel road funding, road work, school fund policies, court fees, water protection, medicine practice, shorthand reporters, taxation, teachers certificates, labor wages, and street improvements. Peter Perrigay of Lombard Street remains confined, unable to sit up.
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Secretary of State
Senate
British Press Hints US Plan To Cede Philippines
The Birmingham Post cites a Birmingham informed satire claiming the United States proposed that Great Britain take over the Philippines through Sir Julian Pauncefote early February. The piece notes this view has shifted after heavy fighting, but suggests the US might have preferred abandoning the permanent charge of the islands.
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Lonpos
Birmingham Post Today
United States
Julian Pauncefote
Great Britain
Philippine Islands
Miss Virginia Fair Heads Bride in Own Right Wealth
The report states Miss Virginia Fair is said to have five million dollars in her own right as she becomes a bride.
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Virginia Fair
Former Secretary Sherman Returns Home in Frail Health
Ex Secretary of State John Sherman reached his Washington residence from Point Comfort at 7 o clock. He was carried to a carriage and brought inside to awaiting nurses and Dr W J Johnston. Sherman rests quietly but remains exceedingly enfeebled after the journey.
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Washington
John Sherman
Qid Point Comfort
Sherman
Mr. Sherman
K Street
Mrs. McCalum
Dr. McGill
Beef Inquiry Hearings Reveal Sensational Eagan Quote
Testimony at the beef inquiry board today includes Major Black recounting General Eagan’s remark on forcing issue beef to Ponce and praising the beef as the best in the United States. Navy witnesses describe canned roast beef use, inspection standards, and long storage viability for ships.
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Ninetoy
Major Black
Miles
Lee
General Eagan
Washington
Eagan
Black
Pones
Ponce
United States
Manitoba
Magan
Indiana regiment parades through Havana en route to Logan
The One Hundred and Sixty first Indiana regiment with band playing marched from Buena Vista to Havana this morning. They will embark today on the United States transport Logan. The men are in the streets buying souvenirs.
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Havana
One Hundred and Sixty-first
Indiana Regiment
Buena Vista
United States
Logan
Painter Forged Orders as He Traveled as Clown
Superintendent Gorsline hunts Frank Brown a painter missing since last Monday. Brown allegedly forged his employer August Kanne’s name and collected forty dollars from Will McKinnie, then vanished. Kanne reports missing brushes and paint shop items, noting Brown once worked for L. Hull and wore clown attire during street fairs.
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Gorsline
Frank Brown
Brown
August Kanne
Will McKinnie
Mr. McKinnie
Kanne
McKinnnie
Riots Among U S Navy Crews In Jamaica Fight
In Kisuston Jamaica on March 29 American fleet sailors on leave clashed over a feud tied to New Yorks absence at Santiago. The two hour melee left Green and Armstead of the Texas badly wounded, with a Jamaican born sailor Johnegon detained in irons aboard his ship.
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Kisuston
Jamaica
New York
Santiago de Cuba
Green
Armstead
Texas
Johnegon
Challenger for America's Cup to Be Launched in June
Sir Thomas Lipton, owner of the Shamrock, said the yacht will likely launch in the first week of June in private. The crossing plan across the Atlantic rests with the captain and builder, and all actions will follow cup rules with no sharp practice. Lipton did not discuss yacht construction.
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Lonpos
Associated Press
Thomas Lipton
Atlanti
Shamrock
Wilkinson Sword Found After Bear Island Battle
The Wilkinson family of Major Melville W. Wilkinson learns his sword was recovered from Boga Ma Ge Shik, the Boy Lake battle chief, 26 miles northeast of Walker. The emissary sent 100 miles north retrieved the weapon and it will be sent to Mrs. Wilkinson in California.
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St. Pau
Minn
Melville W. Wilkinson
Boylake
Walker
Wilkinson
California
Astor Declares British Residency on Majestic Voyage
William Waldorf Astor, owner of the Pall Mall Gazette, arrived on the Majestic and said he was a foreigner and resident of Great Britain. He described his family of four children and staff, noting six state rooms and a private dining room, and that they would forward fifty trunks through the customs. He plans a return voyage to England within a week, citing his health as a motive for the sea trip.
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New York
William Walder
Astor
Pall Mall Gazette
Majestic
Great Britain
Waldorf
John
Pauline
Foster
Express
Mr. Astor
England
Widow’s debts forgiven on marriage under state law
Indianapolis March 30 The case of Willis R Gosnell a Montgomery county man who lent funds to a widow to clear land liens later married her and held her notes. After her death he sued to recover but the supreme court ruled a wife’s debts to a husband are discharged by marriage, a common law rule not abrogated by statute.
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Indianapolis
Willis R. Gosnell
Montgomery County
Gosnell
Supreme Court
Wages of Sin: Bluffton Girl Tied to Fort Wayne Babe Case
A Bluffton girl with a troubled past moves toward a tragic fate in Fort Wayne. A few weeks ago she bore a fatherless daughter and a baby was left on a Fort Wayne doorstep, adopted by the resident family, with speculation about a link between the two women and the infant.
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The
Bluffton
Kramer
Fort Wayne
Ainiee
Everett Plan to Build Electric Road Between Logansport and Indianapolis
Henry J. Fisher superintends a re survey for an electric railway proposed by C J Everett to link Logansport with Indianapolis. Everett funded initial surveys and subsidies. a disputed Carroll County note surfaced but Everett says he never saw it and was repaid 4000 to push the project. Now McNary and Fisher resume work on the route Everett selected three years earlier.
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Henry J. Fisher
Logansport
Indianapolis
C. J. Everett
Mec
Fisher
Indiana
Carroll County
Everett
Sentinel
McNary
Agriculture Dept Seeks Seed Supply for Government
The Department of Agriculture invites proposals to furnish field flower and vegetable seeds for the fiscal year ending June 30 1900. Bids are due by April 20. The contractor pays for all seed packaging printing and distribution labor. Seed packets will be mailed in bundles of five or more. All operations occur in this city with about 13 million vegetable seed packets 1 million flower seed packets 91000 tobacco 23000 cotton and 6000 lawn grass packets planned.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Fifty-General Alger Departs for Foreign Transport
The secretary of war Gen Russell A Alger left Havana at 10:50 am for foreign transport. General Alger will be met there by Ingalls. This dispatch notes the departure from Havana on March 29.
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Havana
Russel A. Alger
Ingalls
General Alger
Elks Elect Fort Wayne Lodge Leaders in Annual Vote
Fort Wayne Lodge No. 151 B P O E elected F W Urbahnas as Exalted Ruler and named John J Bauer Esteemed Leading Knight Louis Hiredh Esteemed Loyal Knight R B Viberg Esteemed Lecturing Knight Albert C Alter Secretary Thomas Lau Trustee for Three Years H C Meyers Tyler. Urbahnas will delegate to the St Louis convention in June with a special train and band planned for the Fort Wayne delegation.
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Fort Wayne
Law Block
F. W. Urbahnas
John J. Bauer
Knaight
Louis Hiredh
R. 8. Viberg
Albert C. Alter
Thomas Lau
Tyler
H. C. Meyers
W. F. Urbahns
St. Louis
Lightfoot
Missouri jailbird Soper hanged for multiple murders
E B Soper, who murdered his wife and two daughters in Missouri in 1891 and a child in Oregon, and earlier killed his father in 1580, was hanged in Mosooxville. He refused a spiritual adviser, spoke “All is ready,” and died after seven feet drop. witnesses numbered forty.
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Tar Msoxville
E. Bates Soper
Soper
Sopar
Portland
Ore
Prentice
Homer Leo
Ashland
Cal
Missouri
Oregon
Super
Tommy Jaggers Home in London Messenger Recognition
William Thomas Jaggers, a British messenger boy sent from London by Richard Harding Davis to deliver messages to friends in New York Philadelphia and Chicago, arrived home in London this morning after sailing on the St Louis. Davis and companions met him at the Waterloo station and awarded a silver medal inscribed Richard Harding Davis to William Jaggers.
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London
Koy
Loxpox
William Thomas Jaggars
Richard Harding Davis
Mr. Davis
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
Jaggers
Waterloo Railroad Station
William Jaggers
Action Planned To House Advanced Scholars In Allen County
Trustees from Adams Washington Jackson and Cadar townships plan erecting new graded school buildings for advanced pupils. C Loblandroit will build a new structure, B McQuinton a four room school, Wm Koeller and M Mondy also plan new houses. Boble of Huntertown brought Wesley Linsey to the county infirmary after Linsey slept in straw stacks and is in poor health.
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Allen County
C. Loblandroit
Adams Township
Benjamin McQuinton
Washington Township
Wm. M. Koeller
Jackson Township
Mart Mondy
Cadar Township
Boble
Huntertown
Wesley Linsey
Linsey
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Sell Philippines
Lian Pauncefote
Birmingham
Kest
Ing Kasiv
Wavy
Edwin Stewart
Navy
Army Beef Inquiry Board
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Marines
Henry G. Colby
Bureau of Supplies
Navy Department
Colby
Tropics
San Francisco
Dls
the Shamrock
Young Studebaker
Cali
Peter E. Studebaker, Jr
Evening World
William K. Vanderbilt
Duchess of
W. W. Astor
Costus
Mr. Everett
Hilde
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F. W. Urbabas
Tommy Jaggers
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