Rebels and prisoners dominate Manila War Dispatch
War Department reports from Gen Otis cite improving rebel tactics and rising casualties as Hale and MacArthur's divisions press toward Calumpit. Battles around Pulilan and Quingua yield 550 rebel prisoners. Aguinaldo demands 10 million from Spain for prisoners in Europe. Chicago advances four cent streetcar plan with ten percent city compensation.
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Otis Aguinotde
Spain
Chicago
First Street Railway
Chicago Western Elevated Railroad Company
Italian murder fugitive attacks Kanopolis family
In Kanopolis on April 6 an Italian family resident faced a violent incident when an escaped Italian murderer, living as a boarder, shot the husband and wife after recognizing the man. He wounded the boarder and attempted further violence before fleeing as the alarm was raised.
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Italy
South America
Kanapoli
Spotted Fever Outbreak Near Nokomis Illinois
Spotted fever spreads south of Nokomis in Montgomery county near Pana with 85 new cases in four days and five deaths in J. T. McParand's family. Health officers say the disease is under control. In Sedalia Missouri city marshal Tucker shoots and kills J L Stewart at Cole Camp after Stewart drew a revolver following a disorderly incident.
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Minots
Pana
Nokomis
Montgomery County
J. T. McParand
Sedalia
J. L. Stewart
Bunceton
Cooper County
Cole Camp
Benton County
Tucker
Stewart
Coghlan affair eases amid cabinet talk and voyage plans
Washington reports say Capt. Coghlan’s case dwindles in importance after a planned navy reprimand if he admits report accuracy. German officials favor restraint while the Raleigh captain’s remarks are debated at cabinet. President McKinley, though with neuralgia, plans a trip to Philadelphia for the Grant monument unveiling. Immigration laws are extended to Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
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Raleigh
Long
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Union League Club
Hay
Manila
McKinley
Ren
Thurston
Mercer
Nebraska
John B. Gordon
Georgia
Outhwaite
Ohio
Proctor
Vermont
Navy
Allen
Philadelphia
Grant Monument
Gage
Griggs
Hitchcock
Algernon Sartoris
Killed in His Cell by Lynching Mob at Galena
In Galena Kansas on April 26 Charles Williams a suspect in the death of his sweetheart Laura Canafax was killed by a mob of colored men who forced entry to the jail at 2:90 this morning. Williams resisted and four shots were fired. Canafax was found dead in her bed Monday at 11 AM.
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Territorial Board of Health
Payne
Lincoln Counties
Lincoln County
Fallis
Payne County
Perkins
Galena
Kan
Charles Williams
Laura Canafax
Williams
Cannafax
Jealous Lover Suspected in Local Tragedy
In a Missouri report a woman was found strangled and named as Williams, her lover, suspected of murder in a jealous rage. The article notes a violent incident and mentions related debt disputes in St. Clair County, with bondholders offering to settle a $1.59 million debt for $400,000 at a May 6 meeting in Osevola.
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Williams
Osevola
St. Clair County
Governor receives murder note on Clinton lynching
Gov. Jones reviewed a sheriff’s letter from Van Buren County claiming Will Harden was assassinated by one of two guards at Clinton jail rather than lynched by a mob. The governor calls it an assassination and urges immediate prosecution of the suspected guard(s).
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Little Rock
Ark
Gov. Jones
Maddox
van Buren County
Will Harden
Clinton
Damages suit over clerk poaching debated
A Washington dry goods firm sues another alleging malicious persuasion to hire a clerk away, seeking to determine if employers can entice rival staff with higher pay. The case hinges on whether such tactics are legally permissible. Other items note a Breckenridge snow blockade cleared. Denver veto on medical practice licensing. Croker to return after Mazet hearing. memorial for Col Stotsenberg. Pomeroy insurance worries. Havana receiving a floating hospital ship. and a National Chief of Police meeting in Chattanooga on May 9.
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Washington
Explosion Wrecks Philadelphia Chemical Works
An explosion of benzine at Fleers chemical works on Callowhill Street in Philadelphia injures or kills multiple people. One man is killed, a woman fatally injured, and about 100 nearby houses damaged or condemned. Two workers are missing, and several others are seriously hurt as the factory is leveled and surrounding buildings suffer severe damage.
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Philadelphia
Fleers’ Chemical Works
Twenty-fourth
Callowhill Streets
Callowhill Street
Chemical Works
Pleers & Co
Arthur Donohue
Donohme
Giverson
Army canned roast beef report to Wade court
Col Garlington’s lengthy war department review details judgments from 876 officers and 168 enlisted men on canned roast beef. Of 19 positive opinions, 25 officers with two men called it fair or good with exceptions, 26 officers and IL men deemed mostly bad, and 802 officers plus 149 men found it entirely bad or unfit. Where cooking and vegetables were available, complaints lessened and some praised it as a substitute for fresh beef.
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Washington
Garlington
Commissary Department of the Army
Wade, Court of Inquiry
Must Give Up the Cigars Count Seizures Rise
Treasury officials estimate that between five and ten million cigars tied to Pennsylvania counterfeit stamps will be seized. All such cigars are confiscated by the government regardless of buyer innocence. In Missouri, Gov Stephens testified before the Fulton asylum committee denying reports of the superintendent Dr Coombs drunkenness and voicing confidence in his leadership.
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Washington
Treasury
Pennsylvania
Gov. Stephens
Jefferson City
Stephens
Fulton Asylum
Coombs
Senate approves anti trust bill in New York
Albany April 96 The assembly passed the senate anti trust bill by a 105 to vote to curb monopolies in common use commodities and to prohibit restraints of trade. National League tall games listed with scores at St Louis Philadelphia and Washington with mixed results.
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N. Y
Senate
St. Louis
Chicare
Philadelphia
Tiwoklen
Philadelyhie
Waehington
Hopton
Waelington
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