Multiple Disasters Reported Across States in Brief News
A prairie fire in Nebraska devastates ranches including Beazley and Mardis with few homes spared while forcing families to flee. Walls collapse at a St. Louis warehouse. workers buried and rescued after a blaze. Fires threaten Colerane and Woodside hotels in Colorado and Nebraska amid high winds. Floods loom as rivers surge in Pennsylvania. Chicago records a $90,000 building fire harming workers. A head on collision near Braarr kills two. an explosion at Manowa coal mine near Monongahela City leaves two dead and several injured with others trapped but later freed.
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Colorado Springs
Chicago
Nebraska
Monongahela City
Newt
Neb
Chain Lake
Beazley
Mardis
Emily
George Leonard
Cedar Creek
Harned
St. Louis
Stern & Co
Olive
Seventeenth Streets
Philip Brady
Colerane Simyens
Col
Woodside
Colorado City
Maniton
Cmeapo
Munroe Catering Company
Building Trades Club
Omaauwa
Prrrenunon
Manowa
Ward
Blizzard reports chilly weather across Northwest states
Chicago dispatch notes extreme cold fronts gripping the Northwest. Temperatures plunge to zero at North Platte and 13 below in Denver with Williston at 18 below. Bismarck shows 12 below, while the Dakotas and Minnesota range from 4 to 18 below and 18 below to 18 above in different zones. Ne remains unsettled with temperatures spanning from six below to 24 above.
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Northwest
North Platte
Denver
Williston
Bismarck
Dakotas
Minnesota
Cold wave spreads across states as settlers move west
A cold wave grips the winter wheat belt while California reports a new cold snap. A colony of 85 families departs Kewanee Illinois for the Big Horn country in Wyoming to establish a new town bearing the name of their former city.
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Braska
Towa
Kansas
Miasouri
Milinois
Indians
Ohio
California
Kewanee, H
Big Horn
Wyoming
Maine court report outlines action to Congress
The Maine court of inquiry findings will be sent to Washington next week and laid before Congress with a presidential message. The procedure includes presenting the report to the Spanish government for consideration and then publishing it publicly.
Congressional Moves Quietly Shape Hawaii Annexation Debate
The Senate confirmed T. V. Powderly as immigration commissioner by 28 votes. A resolution to annex Hawaii was reported and placed on the calendar. The post office appropriation bill drew debate amid Cuban-Spanish questions, with officials denying a push for early adjournment. Senate discussed statue of Lincoln at Gettysburg and Cuban situation. troops and army reforms were highlighted. House considered gun and ammo import relief and the Maine disaster relief bill passed unanimously. Funeral processions followed Mrs. Thurston in Omaha. Brice linked to Kaw Valley electric line speculation. Burglars hit a bank in Jacksonville, Illinois.
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Senate
T. V. Powderly
Senaor Davis
Minn
Chaiman
Committee On Foreign Relations
Hawaiian Islands
United States
Post Office
House
Cochran
Grosvenor
Congress
Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg
GAR
Pennyvanta
Proctor
Cuba
Stewart
Hull
Wheeler
Ala
Spain
Mall Ringe
New York
Boston
Philisdelphia
Dingley
Ways and Means
Bacon
Hawaii
Allen
Committee On Public Lands
Oklahoma Territory
Secretary of the Interior
Maine
King
Utah
Sibleys plan to destroy ships with benzine vapors
Representative Joseph Sibley of Erie Pennsylvania proposes a wartime scheme to annihilate hostile fleets near harbors. He suggests piping benzine undersea so fumes rise and fill the air to forty feet above water causing ships to rupture. He believes the vapor would penetrate ship fires and defeat powder magazines.
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Washinoton
Joseph ©. Sibley
Erie
War and Navy Departments
Sibley
Watson Nomination Steals Spotlight At Georgia Convention
A stormy session at the populist state convention adjourned after nominating Thomas B. Watson for governor. Meanwhile a burglary last night caused a loss estimated between five and six thousand dollars, with a stolen hand car and no crew found. Burglar insurance covers the loss. the bank remains unaffected. Atlanta, March 18. Thomas E. K. Watson reporting.
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Ant
Thomas EK. Watson
Atlanta
Thomas B. Watson
Special trains carry aid and volunteers to Cuba and fronts
Kansas City dispatch reports 21 car relief train toward Cuba carrying 600000 pounds of food at an estimated value near 10000 dollars. Fort Riley and Kansas City rail lines aided. cavalry horse procurement in South Dakota and Nebraska fronts. fundraising nets over 12000 dollars for Maine monument. volunteers and novel schemes amid Cuban crisis.
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Kansas City
Seacoast
Cuba
Grand Avenue
Kansas City Star
Spain
Fort Riley
Fort Scott
Four Bold Burglars Loot Nickerson Bank
Four men robbed the state bank of Nickerson Kansas in the early morning hours. A guard on the outside protected civilians while the vault and safes were cracked and over $5,000 in cash taken. The gang worked from three to five o'clock, armed with Winchesters, and fled before any alarm could be raised.
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Aurenrson
Kan
Nickerson
State Bank
Widow of Gen Stevenson Gets 50 Dollar Pension
Washington March 22 The House passed a Senate bill granting Hannah Lether Stevenson widow of Gen John D Stevenson a $50 monthly pension The House reduced the amount to $30 but the bill carried as advanced by Pearce and Joy Stevenson served in the Mexican War and Civil War rising to brigadier general before resignation The widow is over 77 and in necessitous circumstances. Overstreet Pension Bill Favored March 22 The House committee on invalid pensions reported favoring a bill to prevent withholding suspension or cancellation of pensions except for fraud clerical error or disability The bill requires written questions and answers and local investigation before adverse action. Port Arthur Sub-Port March 23 Delegation Led by Fellows Hoot and Watson urged Congress to make Port Arthur a sub-port of entry In Washington they argued Sabine Pass already a sub-port and no need for another near Port Arthur. Labor Orders March 22 Attorney General said no court records show writs against labor or organizations for strikes in 1907 08. O M Wood Urged as Treasury Register March 23 Pearce urged President to appoint O M Wood of St Louis as register of the treasury to succeed Blanche Bruce Wood would head L Ouverture school in St Louis. Missouri Battleship Petition March 23 Pearce presented to Secretary Long a petition by Missouri members to name one of the new battleships the Missouri Secretary Long will consider it.
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Washiverox
Maine Court of Inquiry
Congress
Washington
Kry West
Fla
Advocate Marix
Court of Inquiry
Iowa
Sicard
Marix
Iown
Maine
West
Vester
Near
Torpo
Treasury
Charles Foster
Spain
Cuba
Proctor
United States
Republic of
Chandler Prediou
Concoup
N. IL
William F. Chandler
Concord Monitor
McKinley
Igi Mckinsey
Abraham Lincoln
Americn
Wasatxeron
Havana Harbor
Congress of
New York
Wasmixerox
Nelson A. Miles
United States Army
Long Island Sound
House
Senate
Hannah Leteher Stevenson
John D. Stevenson
St. Louis
Pearce
Joy
Seventh Missouri Volunteer Infantry
Wasurxeron
House Committee On Invalid Pensions
Wort Arthur
C. C. Fellows
Topeka
Kan
W. ©. Hoot
Leavenworth
Col. Watson
Kansas City
Port Arthur
Tex
Senate Committee On Commerce
Sabine Pass
Washmeton
O. M. Wood
Engintar
Wasurgeton
White House
Register of the Treasury
Blanche K. Bruce
Wood
L’ouverture School
Missouri
Long
Fraudulent Time Checks Hit St Paul Banks
Information from several banks in St Paul Minnesota shows a year long scheme involving collusion of government clerks in the Mississippi river improvement commission. Banks report losses of more than 300000 dollars from fraudulent time checks for services never performed.
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St Paul
Washington
St. Paul
Minn
Mississippi River
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Braarr
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Chicago & North- Western
Mercury
Board of Inquiry
Key West
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Chandler
Congressional
Senator Thurston
Omaha
John M. Thurston
Thomas J. Mackey
Protestant Episcopal Church
Calvin Brice
ToreKa
New York Electrical Review
Calvin
Brice
Kaw Valley
Hoba Bank
Jacksonvilla
Franklin Bank
Joseph Sibley
Pennsylvania
Hullets
Heavetit
Rough Riders
Fort Mean
Black Hills
New Yoas
Maine Monument Fund
Metropolitan Opera House
Camille D’arville
Evangelina Cisneros
Ricumana
G. W. Young
Methodist Church
Gon. Stevensons
Register
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