Sinking Of British Steamer Restormer Near New Jersey
The British steamer Restormer, loaded with wheat for Limerick, sank in the Delaware River near Kaighns Point New Jersey with ten feet of water in her forehold. Capt Merling was not aboard at the time of the accident. The vessel drifted to the New Jersey flats where she now lies sunk.
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Restormer
Philadelphia
Limerick
Ireland
Delaware
Kaighns Point
N. J
South Africa
Merling
New Jersey Flats
Sharkey Stops Jeffords In Second Round Bout
Tom Sharkey defeated Jim Jeffords by knockout in the second round of a ten round heavyweight bout in Detroit Michigan. They were breaking from a clinch when Sharkey landed a right over Jeffords head and knocked him down. Jeffords claimed a foul at the break, but the referee Hogan ruled clean break and counted Jeffords out.
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Tom Sharkey
Jim Jeffords
California
Detroit
Mich
Sharkey
Jeffords
Hogan
Sharey
Filipino Guerrilla on Trial for Murder at Calamba
A Filipino member of a guerilla band is on trial before a military commission in Calamba for murder and assault with intent to kill related to a February 2 attack that killed a Corporal and wounded a squad of Americans. The case signals a turning point in how guerillas may be treated as bandits due to potential prisoner retaliation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Calamba
Ships May Be Lost In Atlantic Trade Worries
San Francisco dispatch reports Underwriters anxious about the British ship Annie Thomas, 201 days out from Cardiff to Acapulco, last spoken October 11, with 25 percent reinsurance paid. The American ship May Flint, 97 days from Hong Kong to Tacoma, also causes unease with 12 percent reinsurance.
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San Francisco
Annie Thomas
Cardiff
Acapulco
May Flint
Tlong Kong
Tacoma
General Lawton aide promoted and Terre Haute convention
Lieut Col Clarence B Eadwards formerly on Gen Lawtons staff after his death has been named Chief of the Division of Customs and Insular Affairs at the War Department. Indiana Travelers Protective Association sets its state convention for April 20 21 in Terre Haute drawing several thousand traveling men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Clarence B. Eadwards
Forty-seventh Volunteer Infantry
Tenth Infantry
Lawton
Travelers’ Protective Association
Indiana
The
Terre Haute
Ind
Seven Stores Burned in Clarksdale Fire Losses Reach 60000
A rear origin fire at the B Cot Co general store in Clarksdale Mississippi destroyed seven brick shops in the business district. Estimated losses run to sixty thousand dollars as firefighters struggled with water shortages. The notes mention a Masonic Temple in Fort Wayne Indiana and a March highwayman reference.
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Bocot & Co
Clarksdale
Miss
Tortured by insurgents three Massachusetts soldiers slain in the Philippines
A cablegram from Hailo in the Philippine Islands reports three Massachusetts privates from Company F Twenty sixth U S W tortured to death by insurgents. Dennis Hayes William Dugan and Michael Tracy remained behind to fetch a tub a were captured by rebel rear guards in Calinag last November and killed in the public plaza with the padre present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Hailo
Philippine Islands
Twenty-sixth
J.8. V
Twenty-sixth Regiment
Dennis Hayes
William Dugan
Michael Tracy
William M. Tutherly
Calinag
Tutherly
Wealth in His Bags Left by Charity Patient Sam Besick
Sam Besick a long time Chicago open board of trade figure died as a charity patient at Baptist hospital. Attendants found about 5000 dollars sewn in his clothing including fifteen one hundred dollar bills and a purse with 200 dollars and gold dust. He was believed penniless and had been warned to buy new clothes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Besick
Chicago
Open Board of Trade
The
Baptist Hospital
Hesick
Besick
Open Board
Evangelist Barr Implicated in $25,000 Forgery Embezzlement
Rev W L Barr a Presbyterian evangelist from Bing hamton New York admitted forging notes and checks totaling twenty five thousand dollars. He confessed the crime after investigators found eighteen thousand dollars taken from his elderly grandmother while she lay ill. Barr traveled through Illinois and Pennsylvania handling the grandmother's fortune and used forged instruments against Presbyterian associates in Williamsport and other cities. He claims to be possessed by a dark spirit as excuse. The scandal unsettles Presbyterian circles across three states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Barr
Presbyterian
Binghamton
N. Y
Barr
Minois
Williamsport
Russia Deploys 20 000 Troops and Eyes Herat
A London Times correspondent reports Russia plans a take Herat, denies snow delay on the Central Asian railway, and notes 20 000 troops around Kushk. Other items: a sad dance party murder in Alabama, railroad death in Pennsylvania, a head injury from a nail in Chepultepec, a Sing Sing execution set for March 26, two coal barges foundering near Port Chester with six lost, and Ontario plans a northern land survey for mineral deposits and timber.
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Herat
St. Petersburg
London Times
Russia
England
Kushk
Strike Hurts Trade and Labor in Industrial Contracts
R G Dun & Co reports trade remains large but strikes hinder key industries. Building labor conflicts in Chicago threaten ending the strike, with broad effects on steel, machinery, and other industrial contracts. Wheat, corn, and flour exports rise or fall with shifting western receipts. U S failures rise to 218 for the week, 42 in Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Review of Trade
Chicago
United States
Canada
Plant of stolen goods found at Harshman farm
Detectives uncovered the largest plant of stolen goods in the area while probing Maj. T. C. Harshman’s New Leavittsburg farm residence. Rooms held silks satins bric a brac and other valuables from local residents and merchants. Harshman, 67, has spent decades in Ohio Pennsylvania and Kentucky prisons and was found with a barrel of letters to widows and old maids seeking marriage.
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Maj. T. C. Harshman
New Leavittsburg
Ohio
Harshman
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
TWO BOYS DIE OF NATURAL GAS IN HOTEL CLOSET
Two 13 year old boys Thomas Parsons and Jacob Dull were found dead in a rear hotel outhouse closet in Millvale Pa. They entered the locked closet and perished from natural gas vented into the space from an engine exhaust within the hotel vault. The incident prompted memorial reports of the era.
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Thomas Parsons
Jacob Dull
Metropolitan Hotel
Millvale
Boys Steal Steam Engine from Amusement Resort
William Tress aged 18 and Edward Curry aged 15 are jailed in Clayton Missouri charged with stealing a steam engine valued at 150 dollars from Jefferson Barracks area amusement grounds. They confessed selling the dismantled engine to a rag picker for 1.50, carrying it away piece by piece to a half mile distance while a watchman kept patrol.
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William Tress
Edward Curry
Clayton
Jefferson Barracks
Odd Fellows Home Destroyed by Fire in Liberty
The State Institution for the Odd Fellows in Liberty Missouri burned rapidly, but all fifty-one inmates escaped. The three story wood hotel building with 140 rooms cost $70,000 in 1888 and was bought by the Odd Fellows in 1804 for $30,000. W. H. Woodward, president of the trustees, said it will be rebuilt at once.
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State Institution
Liberty
State Odd Fellows
The
Odd Fellows
W. H. Woodward
St. Louis
Tug Captain Alonzo Cox Dies in Duluth Fall
Alonzo A. Cox a veteran tug captain about 50 years old was killed in Duluth Minnesota after falling down stairs in a boarding house following a street car collision. He had sailed the lakes for twenty years and leaves a family in Port Huron Michigan.
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Alonzo A. Cox
Duluth
Minn
Cox
Port Huron
Mich
Quarantine Breaks and Diphtheria Case Stir Massillon
Dr. 8S Gardner of the Massillon Board of Health was quarantined after illness diagnosed as diphtheria, then released to visit patients. He defied the order, two policemen pursued him, and he was returned to his home to remain confined. The report also notes several unrelated items on state tax rulings, suicides, a homicide, a river death, Yale student protests, a British general’s Kimberley move, and a late-life death at age 99.
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Gardner
Board of Health
Massillon
Ohio
Market Prices Across U S Cities For Cattle Hogs And Grains
Prices listed by city show cattle mainly $2.50 to $6.50, hogs $3.00 to $6.25, sheep $2.50 to $7.50, with grains including wheat No 2 ranges from 66 to 90 cents a bushel, corn No 2 around 32 to 44 cents, oats No 2 about 20 to 33 cents, rye No 2 near 58 to 66 cents, and butter eggs and clover seed priced in varying cents per unit across Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York markets.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Rumors Fly on Cronje and Boer Movements in Natal
London reports a rumor that Gen Cronje is surrounded by Kitchener’s mounted troops near Kimberley while Natal censors hide Buller’s plans. British advances push toward Ladysmith as Boer supply trains and stores fall to the British, suggesting Boer straits amid tugela fighting.
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London
Cronje
Longdon Daily News
Kitchener
Kimberley
Cape Town
Methuen
Modder Rive
Lourenzo Marques
Bloemfontein
Kelley-Kenny
Free State
Natal
Buller
Colenso
Hoberts
Tugela
Ladysmith
Sir Redvers
von Monte Cristo Mountain
Mount Whangwani
Lord Kitchener
Crouse
The National Census Enlisting 50,000 Enumerators
The twelfth U S census starts June 1 and must finish by July 1. About 50,000 enumerators will be needed to record over 50 million people in 30 days, with two week targets in towns of 4000 or more. Estimated cost is $12,000,000.
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United States
Rich Country Opened Up By New Burlington Extension
The Burlington Railroad extends from Al Hance Nebraska thirty seven miles to Bridgeport on the North Platte and 100 miles further to Guernsey Wyoming. The Hartville mining district is poised for rapid growth as Guernsey becomes a rail and livestock center and commercial activity surges in the new western country.
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Burlington
al- Hance
Nebraska
Bridgeport
North Platte River
North Platte
Guernsey
Wryo
Hartville
J. Francis
Burlington Railroad
Omaha
Neb
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National Association of Democratic Clubs
McKeen
Santander
Spain
Gijon
Gen. Lawton
Masonic Temple
Fort Wayne
Kirby Creek
Ala
Tom Davis
Davis
Matthew Davis
William McMullen
Honesdale
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
Carbondale
Panther’s Bluff
Chepultepec
Jennie Maxwell
Roland B. Molineux
Sing Sing
Katherine J. Adams
Blossom
Alice Tryon
Port Chester
Tryon
Ontario
Chicago, St. Paul
Minneapolis
Gordon
Wis
St. Paul
West Superior
Gallandet
New Hamburg
Isaac Gardiner
South Dakota
David Eastman
Cleveland
Empire Holling Mill Company
Columbus
A. G. Walker
Louis D. Round
James Paton
John D. Paton
W. R. Dunbar
Frank Crane
Wakefield, Neb
Central
South America
Mexico
Edward Spencer
Benjamin Eddlewan
Vandalia
George Weeks
Moyamenaing
Ila
Alice White
Owen Brothers
Fairbanks
Art
Pearce
Supreme Court
Minnesota
Frank A. Ulrich
Ulrich
Gus Pryor
Huntsville
Ellen Gordon
Pryor
F. Bigelow
van Buren Street
Yale
French
London War Office
John V. Storm
Fishkill Village
Japan
Clydebank
Lst
United States Army
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