Global wrap of matters from Washington to Cuba week
Telegraphic summaries report Jamaica threatens tariffs on US goods and US stance on Venezuela firm. Dutch embargo on American meat may ease. Gresham voices frustration with press handling of diplomacy. Gold reserves hover near 91 million, 20 million later. Appointments include Aiken as Treasury Architect and Kilgore Springer to Indian Territory judgeships. Numerous incidents follow across the US: mining, rail, and highway crimes. fires, thefts, and disasters. aviation and diplomatic notes. Multiple regional reports from Indiana to New Orleans.
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Washington
United States
Holland
Belgium
Gresham
State Department
Seer Waller
Tamatave
Madagascar
Wm. Martin Aiken
Cincinnati
The
Treasury
Foreign affairs and disasters stir global nerves
Li Hung Chang was shot in the face by a young Japanese at Simonseki. The renunciation by Spain’s high officials grows. Congo reports nibalism denied by Dr Hinde. Japanese occupy Fisher Island, repulsed at Poughan. Britain endures a gale with fatalities. Gladstone’s return fuels premiership rumors. Japan’s envoy to Li Hung Chang. Khedive elevates Slatin Bey to Pasha. Provisional Peru government formed. Formosa fleet eyes ports. war party pushes campaign. curb dealing in London faces police action as brokers are arrested.
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Li Hung Chang
Simonseki
Spain
Hinde
Congo
Fisher
Poughan
Great Britain
Gladstone
England
Japan
Khedive
Slatin Bey
Peru
Formosa
Throgmorton Street
London
Joliet school director hopeful and theater fire report
Mrs Kate Henderson seeks Joliet school director seat while Empire Theater in Chicago burns causing 60000 in losses with 90000 insurance. A Joliet citizens ticket opposes regular party nominees. Nebraska AG states Mrs Holten was not lynched. A Strother Missouri battle erupts with a maniac near Thos Moutan. Yampa Valley Colorado rocked by a quake and loud blast. Cornelius Lamenyon near La Grange Indiana dies by shotgun. Oklahoma municipal election ruling issued. Reid Brothers packing house burns at Kansas City Missouri with insurance coverage.
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Kate Henderson
Joliet, Ill
Empire Theater
Chicago
Citizens
Joliet
Attorney General
Nebraska
Holten
Vigitantea
Apos
Thos Moutan
Strother
Missouri
Yampa Valley
Colorado
Cornelius Lamenyon
la Grange
Ind
Justice Bierer
Oklahoma
Reid Brothers
Kanesa City
Lone
Market summary from New York and Chicago shows varied cattle and grain prices
The daily market notes list New York prices for cattle from 4.00 to 6.70, hogs 4.00 to 6.40, sheep 4.40, and grains including No 2 red wheat and No 2 white corn. Chicago figures cite cattle shipping around 6.65, hogs 4.0, and sheep 1.04 to 1.15, with No 2 red wheat and corn values as well.
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New York
The Mikado's Warning On Severe Punishment
A Shanghai dispatch cites an Imperial rescript reacting to the Li Hongzhang assassination attempt. It states China is at war with Japan, notes the ambassador's embassy for peace, and vows to punish the culprit with the severest penalty while urging officials to protect national honor.
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New York
Shanghai
Li Hung Chang
China
Shimonoseki
Will Swell Treasury Cash Central Pacific Sinking Fund
Washington March 29 The attorney general in an opinion to the secretary of the treasury holds that the sinking fund credited to the Central Pacific railroad now in the treasury nearly 6 000 000 may be used to reimburse the government for 2 362 000 paid January 16 last in the redemption of bonds lent the company in 186 and may be applied to the balance of interest due on these bonds 3 395 1gy In this sinking fund are bonds totaling 5 561 000 which when sold will increase cash in the treasury by that amount plus a premium likely to be realized
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Central Pacific
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Central Pacific Railroad Company
Treasury
Rebels Take Two Places In Cuba Rumor Reported In Havana
A Tampa dispatch says Havan passengers aboard the Olivette report insurgents have taken Bayano and Manzanillo, repulsing Col. Santocilde at Manzanillo with heavy losses. The Louvre rumor circulates among Spanish officers. no independent news confirms the battle. Conscription of Cubans is being advocated, with about twenty-five young men from Havana arriving here to avoid service.
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Bayano
Manzanillo
Cuba
New York
Tampa
Havan
Olivette
Col. Santocilde
Louvre
Santocilde
Havana
Spain
Nellie Meeks Returns to Testify in Taylor Murder Trial
In Carrollton Missouri Nellie Meeks ten years old, lone survivor of the Meeks family murdered last May, testifies against William and George Taylor. She Identifies the defendants as the men who abducted the Meeks family, took them in a wagon toward Taylors farm, where George Taylor shot Meeks and his wife and bludgeoned their children to death. Nellie survived.
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Sarah Craig
Indiana
Southwest
Breidenthal
Kansas
Decidne
Morrill
Sioux City
Martin Rose
Montana
Shelbyville
Ind
Patrick Kavanaugh
Majestic
New York
Clarence
Sadie Robinson
Buffalo
Montgomery Gibbs
Thomas Blanck
Kent
Wash
Henry Delaney
Morganfield
Abbie Oliver
Hazen
Coffey County
James G. Fair
William P
George E. Taylor
Carrollton
Meeks
Jeffersonville
Charles A. Dana
Frank B. Noyes
Washington
Star
Georgia
Atlanta
Cotton Growers’ Protective Association
Henry Watterson
Wingate
St. Paul
Walter A. Wood Harvester Company
Carrie Pollard
Rt. Elizabeth
Lafayette
Taylors
Nellie Meeks
George Taylor
Taylors Farm
Civil Law in Honolulu Military Commission Adjourns
The steamship Australia arrived from Honolulu as martial law had ended on March 18. The military commission adjourned and most of the 190 prisoners are serving sentences in quarries or on roads, with no word of recall demands reaching Hawaii.
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San Francisco
Cal
Australia
Honolulu
Gresham
Thurston
Hippolyte Wins a Battle Near the San Domingo Frontier
Kingston patch reports a battle between Haitian troops and a revolutionary force near the San Domingo frontier. Government troops led by President Hippolyte prevailed. The revolutionists were poorly armed and equipped.
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Hippolyte
New York
Kingston
Jamaica
San Domingo
Devastating Milwaukee fire destroys major block
The Milwaukee blaze of Tuesday night left one of the city’s largest business blocks a total loss. Seven other buildings were badly damaged and 23 firms’ stocks were burned or rendered worthless. Insurance estimates place total loss at 1,402,500 dollars.
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Coss
Milwaukee
Wis
Pleuro-Pneumonia Denied in Kansas by Inspector
Washington March 29. As advised by Gov Morrill of Kansas the department of agriculture sent Traveling Inspector W S Devoe to Kansas to confirm reports of contagious pleuro pneumonia. His report states there is no pleuro pneumonia in the state and the animals are free from the disease.
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Kansan
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Morrill
Kansas
Morton
W. 8. Devoe
Bureau of Animal Industry
New Reichstag President Elected After Levetzow Resigns
Berlin March 23 Baron von Buel Berenberg was chosen by the Reichstag as president succeeding Herr von Levetzow who resigned after failing to obtain permission to congratulate Prince Bismarck on his birthday. The vote was 291 to 183 with 105 black ballots. The new president praised his predecessors. In a separate matter the anti revolution bill readied for second reading saw Herr Lensmann’s proposal to discard it rejected.
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Euverru Wevetzew
Berlin
Reichstag
Baron von Buel-Berenberg
Herr von Levetzow
Prince Bismarck
Reichstagen
Herr Lensmann
Marinette Fire Threatens City Homes Amid Winds
A woods fire near Marinette Wisconsin on March 29 spread toward the northeastern city limits. Firemen fought the blaze without hoses as a bit crew and night watch struggled to prevent damage to several houses amid high winds and scarce water.
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Marinette
Wis
Joaquin Miller Talk on Hawaii
San Francisco March 29 Joaquin Miller arrived from Hawaii with no baggage and kept his intended departure secret fearing government officials would imprison him He denounced the treatment of political prisoners as barbarous and predicted a filibustering expedition to Honolulu to rescue them
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Joaquin Miller
Hawaii
San Francisco
Cal
Honolulu
Miller
English Sailor Killed in Cuba
A sailor from the British steamship Laurestina was shot and killed by Spanish sentries at St. Jago Cuba, and a Cuban man was badly wounded. The British government investigates the incident amid potential England Spain tensions.
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Cuba
Baltimore
St. Jago
England
Spain
Suspected Poisoning Husband Faces Arrest in Indiana
Washington Indiana March 2 James M McBride died Sunday Inquest by Coroner McGowny found the wife had bought a large amount of arsenous acid recently and could not explain it She will be arrested Cacis fam Sends Warships to Pers Washington March Orders sent from the navy department to Mare Island to have the United States coast defense ship Monterey proceed to Peru Ready to show a US warship at Callao amid prolonged revolution
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Washington, Ind
James M. McBride
McGowny
Cacis Fam
Pers
Washington
Navy Department
Mare Island
United States
Monterey
Peru
Callao
Missouri News Highlights Local Crises and Plans
A scramble of Missouri items reports measles among Hannibal pupils, Hemphill plans a Monrose City sanatorium, and Springfield saloons must close Sundays. Lancaster seeks water works, Madison farmer De Young dies, Boonville farmer Cheatham killed by a fall from a horse. Milan seeks electric light franchise, Fulton ejects a Kaffir lecturer, Joplin prison incident follows a hose turn and a shooting. Local church and university news, accidents, trials, and business changes fill the page with regional events.
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Hannibal
W. A. Hemphill
St. Louis
Monrose City
Springfield
Lancaster City
R. de Young
Madison
George P. Cheatham
Bear
Milan
Prince Oskazuma
Fulton
Sam Wilhite
Joplin Calaboose
John Shea
John J. Kain
Louis
State University
Edwin Com
Osceola
George W. Brittain
Charlies Anderson
West Plains
Moran Packing Company of
St. Joseph
Atlas National Bank of
Chicago
Woodson
J. H. Dickason
Marion County
Banc
William Weber
Stewartville
Oregon County
Elmore Elzea
Philadelphia
Kansas City
Ed Butler
Chillicothe
John Maauden
Glasgow
Missouri
Jefferson City
Sedalia
Allen
Frank Thilly
Jessie Mathews
Columbia
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Illinois
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Indian Territory
Max Judd
Vienna
Austria
Julian Pauncefote
Nicaragua
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Olney
Debs
Preston
Carson (Ney
Cleveland
Carlisle
Lochren
Uncle Sam
John Barr
Alabama
Indianola
George Timney
Bertrand
Harold Hartwell
Brawley
Richard Dondeyrde
Steve Martin
Denver
Colo
Wm. H. Crane
Florence and Cripple Creek
Victor
Kentucky
Cunard Steamship Company
Teresa Decovera
Mexico
New Orleans
Stone
Missouri Senate
Henry Coppel
Lehigh University
Bethlehem
Nebraska House
T. Louis
Saga
Chill
Port Arthur
Caceres
Lima
White Swan
Panama
Mendonca
Buenos Ayres
Senor Mendonca
Brazil
Supreme Court
Man
von Buel-Berenberg
Mary Delancey
Mary Delaney
St. Dominick 6
St. Patrick's Church
St. Mary's Catholic School
Missouri News
H. A. Thompkins
Boonville
Reed Bros
Armourdale
Atlanta State Bank
W. J. Dearing
A. C. Gooding
H. Abbott
M. Dickerson
Brownington
Davis
David McClure
Drywood
T. Davis
ex-Confederate Home Association
George Johnson
J. Joseph
Abe
General Assembly
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