Terrible explosion at Chicago Northwestern powerhouse kills four
An explosion in the Chicago and Northwestern power plant in Chicago kills four men and a boy and injures thirteen others. Twelve workers were present plus spectators. four dead were not road employees and all bodies were moved to the morgue as officials investigate. Civil service in the Philippines: McKinley orders U.S. Civil Service Commission to assist Philippine civil service board in establishing an honest and efficient system with exams to be conducted upon request.
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Chicago
Philippines
McKinley
United States Civil Service Commission
Civil Service Board
Philippine Commission
Cuba
Califopines
Taft Commission
Nine Railroad Workers Killed in Fog Collision
A westbound freight crashed into an eastbound work train in a fog at a deep cut beyond Vanden station, killing nine workers who were sleeping in bunks and injuring about twenty others. The accident occurred as the two trains collided in the deep cut, with the work train consisting of five cars and an engine.
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Suisan
Cal
Dee
Vanden Station
Canal report backs Nicaragua route for US canal
President McKinley sends the Isthmian canal commission report to Congress. It unanimously recommends Nicaragua as the most serviceable route and estimates the canal cost at 200,340,000 dollars. The Panama Canal Company refuses outright sale but would permit US ownership as majority stockholder.
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McKinley
Isthmian Canal Commission
Congress
United States
Panama Canal Company
Gen White Sentenced for Michigan Fraud Conspiracy
General Will White, linked to a major Michigan military fraud scheme, pleaded guilty in Ingham County Court Lansing after returning from South Africa to evade prosecution. Judge West sentenced him to ten years hard labor at Jackson penitentiary. Tang Weng Huan, blamed for attacks on Pao Ting Fu missionaries, arrived at Tien Tsin and was paraded to await provisional government decapitation.
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Will White
Michigan
South Africa
Hind
Ingham County
Lansing
West
Jackson Penitentiary
Tang Weng Huan
Tien Tsin
Tang Weng Iuan
Victoria Road
Ocean Liner Parisian Reported Wrecked Off Sambry
A Parisian liner of the Allan line, due at port, is reported wrecked after a gale off Sambry. A pilot boat signals the ship broke down at sea, five days overdue, with details still unclear.
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Allan Line
Parisian
Sambry
Death of Rawley Dunbar in Massy City Fire
Prisourr Burned to Death in Massy City hut fire. Rawley Dunbar, who drank heavily, was placed in the calm-house. During the night the hut burned, and his charred remains were found among the ruins.
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Prisourr
Rawley Dunbar
Massy City
Mich
Dunbar
Transport Kintuck Officers Say Volunteers Won’t Re-enlist
Officers aboard the Transport Kintuck at Tacona Washington report none of the twenty five volunteer regiments in the Philippines will re enlist. The message appears in terse dispatches with garbled OCR before a period.
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Kintuck
Tacona
Wash
Manila
Philippines
President McKinley's Annual Message Highlights Far Reaching Policy
The president outlines imperial policy, Philippine governance, and international affairs. He urges canal and shipping measures, tariff or revenue reforms, and military readiness while stressing constitutional stability and civil administration for newly acquired territories.
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McKinley
Frye
Senate
Henderson
House
China
Philippines
New hybrid fruit shown to Royal Horticultural Society
A new hybrid fruit was displayed in London by the Royal Horticultural Society fellows. The plant is a cross between the raspberry and the common blackberry. The fruit allegedly tastes like dewberry and raspberry, and the raspberries are coming to perfection as they ripen.
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Maritime Canal Company
Government of Or
Aetee
re-Cragin O
Senate
Great Britain
Royal Horticultural Society
London
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