Renewed Fighting and Civilian Commission in Manila
Rebels were repelled near the reservoir as 80 were killed yesterday. American forces retook positions, while insurgents pressed in from the river banks. The Manila civilian commission is established with advisory duties, continuing military rule until Congress acts.
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Manila
Mariquinio
Nebraska Volunteers
Hale
Nebraska Regiment
Oregon
Mariquinao
San Pedro
Washington
Philippines
Gen. Otis
Congress
United States
P Ro
Honors to the Dead and Colored Troops Home
The special Washington to Jersey City train carried the body of Lord Herschell arriving at 7 40 am. Marines from the Talbot and American guards met the cortege while officials Cartwright and Williamson took charge. The casket then moved to the Arkeeta and Talbot anchored offshore at Ellis Island. Commodore John W. Philip and Lt Commander Kelley walked behind the funeral procession. In Newport News the transport Thomas with the Twenty third Kansas colored infantry arrived from Santiago. Lieut Col James Beck commanded. The vessel left Chesapeake and Ohio for Fort Leavenworth and sailed rough seas requiring a possible dry dock return. No serious sickness aboard.
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New York
March
Washington
Lord Herschell
Pennsylvania
Jersey City
Talbot
Lieut Kelley
C. W. Cartwright
Joint High Commission
H. Williamson
Arkeeta
Ellis Island
John W. Philip
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Kelley
Cuba
Newport News
United States
Thomas
Minnewaska
Santiago
Twenty-third
Kansas Regiment
Colored Infantry
James Beck
Chesapeake & Ohio
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Will Ratify Treaty Faces Spanish Cabinet Reforms
Washington reports without official word that authorities expect the new Spanish cabinet to secure ratification of the peace treaty. The cabinet is believed to focus on internal reforms to address perceived injuries and strengthen governance.
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United States
Spain
Washington
March
Prairie Fires Rage Across Texas Counties
A San Diego dispatch reports prairie fires sweeping Nueces Starr and Duval counties Texas with six months of drought and dry grass fueling the flames. Sparks from locomotives started fires along the Texas Mexican road between Laredo and Corpus Christi. Near Aguilares ranch foreman William Oliver and two laborers were killed as flames surrounded them.
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Texas
San Antonio
Tex
San Diego
Nueces
Starr
Duval
Laredo
Corpus Christi
Aguilares
William Oliver
Passive stance on China robs open door plan for San Man bay
The United States government remains absolutely passive in the Italian project to seize San Man bay and adjacent islands on the Chinese coast. Washington resists broad policy pressures and indications of a U S raid, choosing to keep hands off the coast.
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China
Washington
March
United States
San Man Bay
Choates Attend Windsor Dining With Queen Victoria
United States ambassador Joseph H. Choate and Mrs. Choate traveled to Windsor where they dined and slept at the castle. A royal carriage conveyed them from Cleridge’s hotel to Paddington station and Lord Salisbury presented Mr. Choate to Queen Victoria before dinner. The marchioness of Salisbury introduced Mrs. Choate.
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London
United States
Joseph H. Choate
Mrs. Choate
Windsor
Cleridge’s Hotel
Paddington Railroad Station
Windsor Castle
Lord Salisbury
Choate
Queen Victoria
Marchioness of
Salisbury
Leadville's Sell of Winter Forecast After Storm
Leadville Colorado reports warm clear weather after heavy snow. The forecast suggests the storm's backbone is broken. In the area only four of fifty six days lacked snow or wind, Twin Lakes shows six feet of snow on the level and drifts up to twenty feet high for miles.
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Leadville
Col
Twin Lakes
Kipling to be elevated to peerage in 1990 report
New York March 8 Rudyard Kipling reportedly to be raised to the peerage on January 1, 1990. Dr Neil MacPhatter of Edinburgh staying at the Windsor hotel says the news comes from Sir Walter Besant and is common gossip in London literary circles. Lebanon Pa March 7 Catherine Hackman dies after 25 years with a pin in her throat dying at home after long suffering and tube feeding.
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New York
Rudyard Kipling
Neil MacPhatter
Edinburg
Scotland
Windsor Hotel
Sir Walter Besant
London
Lebanon
Catherine Hackman
Census Bureau Work Opens for Supervisors in Districts
Washington March 8 The census bureau prepares to appoint 400 supervisors who will oversee enumerators and govern district boundaries aligned with congressional lines. Merriam and Wines named to key posts, signaling non political handling of the census. Secretary Alger contemplates retirement with possible successors discussed, including Elihu Root, Gen. McCook, and Roosevelt era options. Choctaw Chickasaw townsite commissioners will soon receive instructions and begin work with a $30,000 appropriation. Cherokee Creek and Seminole nations await possible appointments. Senator Jones Netter reported improved health after recent heart trouble.
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Washington
Merriam
Interior Department
Hitchcock
Census Bureau
E. H. Wines
Springfield
Cullom
Wines
Alger
War Department
New York
Anson G. McCook
Gen. McCook
Gov. Roosevelt
Elihu Root
Senator Platt
Root
Indian Townsite Commission
Dawes Commission
Arbitration Effort and Global Tensions Across 19th Century News
A Boston Tremont temple gathering urged arbitration of national disputes with Rev. Edward Everett Hale praising a czar’s rescript on perpetual peace. Reports cover Oklahoma crime on two murdered Black women and a boy, Cuban rations doubling amid fraud fears, American labor iron workers’ conference, a British port petition for Dyea Alaska, and a Kansas doctor volunteering to treat Maguli Indians amid smallpox.
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Boston
Tremont Temple
Edward Everett Fale
Hale
United States
Union
Europe
Missouri Town Grabs Local Telephone Franchise
The Pilot Grove town council awarded a franchise to Boonville Telephone Co to build a local line linking Fayette New Franklin lin Muckwater Boonville Bunceton and Tipton. Construction will start soon. Also in Ohicago Chicago March Zina Carter nominated for mayor by the Republican city convention. Carter is a one term board of trade president and a drain eye canal board member.
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Misouri
Pilot Grove
Mareh
Boonville
Ohicaga
Chicago
Republican City Convention
Zina Carter
Ohio River floods and coastal winter storms overwhelm towns
Newport Kentucky endures severe high water as the Ohio River rises, flooding large areas and forcing residents to seek upper stories. Cincinnati and Dayton face disrupted streets and halted transit. Across Kentucky and surrounding states, logs vanish from river booms, crops suffer, and buildings lose roofs amid rain, wind, and heavy snowfall.
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Charleston
W. Va
Kanawha
Winifrede
Eastbank
Delmont
Cincinnati
Mare
Ohio River
Newport
Dayton
Bellevue
General Eagan to depart for Honolulu after Washington stay
General Charles P. Eagan leaves Washington for the west and then Honolulu where his son owns coffee interests. The War Department announces apportionment of 101 second lieutenants by state with Missouri receiving one and Kansas two, plus 20 at large appointments, based on population.
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Eagan Gorse
Washington
March
Charles P. Eagan
Miles
San Francisco
Honolulu
Kansas
War Department
Missouri
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Miss
Mary Holmes Colege
Dre Hale
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Manese
Watonga
Mia. Edwards
Parthenia Smith
Havana
Victoria
B.C
Dyea
Alaska
Klondilee
Atlin
Newton
S & Haury
Arizona
General Conference
The
Mennonite Church
John Kroeker
Bethel College
Dalton
Ossick
Cleveland
Jacky River
Crown
Atlanta
Monroe
Monroe Oil Company
Rome
Quitman
Opelika
Ala
Loge
Lexington
Kentucky River
Jackson
Beattyville
Valley View
Lexington & Eastern Railway
Clay
Kentucky
Louisville
Ohio
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