Windsor Hotel Fire Kills Scores in New York
A rapid blaze at the Windsor Hotel on Fifth Avenue between Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh streets destroys the famed Gotham hostelry. Nearly twenty are dead and scores injured as guests leap from upper floors. Abner McKinley and family among the survivors and victims. Firemen and bystanders perform heroic rescues amid chaotic panic as flames race through the central well and stairwells. Public figures and rich guests are said to have jewels worth hundreds of thousands lost in the blaze.
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Gotham
Windsor Hotel
Fifth Avenue
Forty-Sixth
Forty-seventh Streets
New York
Abner McKinley
Windsor
United States
Mabel McKinley
Warren Leland
The
Windsor's
Helen Leland
James 8. Kirk
Chicago
Fire Devastates Windsor Hotel During Parade in New York
Massed spectators watch a Fifth Avenue parade as a Windsor Hotel blaze erupts from a tossed match in a lace curtain. Guests flee stairways while elevators carry panicked crowds. fire, heat, and smoke overwhelm the structure within hours. Residents rush to aid victims as officials assess the ruin and widespread damage to adjoining buildings.
Peace Treaty Signed Between Spain and United States
The Queen Regent signed the peace treaty with the United States and Spain and the document will go to the French ambassador for exchange with McKinley’s ratification. Ratifications must be exchanged by June 10, with Hay awaiting notice through the French embassy. The exchange will be a historic ceremony detailing diplomatic formality.
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Spain
United States
Washington
Jules Cambon
McShinley
Madrid
Paris
Hay
Miners Battle Near Dalton Trail In Alaska
News reports a clash between American and Canadian miners near the Porcupine river off the Dalton trail. Four men were killed and several wounded as shots rang out at dawn after protests over territorial claims and Canadian flags. Canadians, about fifty strong, fled back across the border. Americans returned to their camp.
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Alaska
Dalton Trail
Atlin
Porcupine River
Six Men Slain in Hot Springs Street Battle
A street affray in Hot Springs Arkansas left five men dead and one mortally wounded. Sheriff Williams and allies clashed with Policeman Goslee and followers after Goslee fired three shots at Williams earlier. Chief Toler and Detective Hart among the dead. violence tied to mayoral campaign disputes.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Sheriff Williams
Goslee
Central Ave
Columbia
John O. Williams
Young Williams
Toler
Hart
Louis Hinkle
Climax in Manila Imminent as Hostilities Likely Cease
Washington reports indicate Manila rivals nearing capitulation and Aguinaldo grows discouraged as American forces gain edge. Company G of the Washington regiment captures 170 more prisoners near Taguig.
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Washington
Manila
Aguinaldo
Washington Regiment
Taguig
Becker Tells All in Hatchet Murder and Body Disposal
August A. Becker, Chicago sausage maker, confessed to police that he killed his wife on January 27 by striking her with a hatchet, dismembered the body, boiled remnants, burned what remained, and buried the bones. The crime, not premeditated, was revealed after Becker’s public marriage to a 17 year old, Ida Sutterlin, arousing police scrutiny. earlier false claims had linked the murder to a lake disposal.
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August A. Becker
Chicago
Inspector Hunt
Ripley
Captain Lavin
Pearson
Becker
Jan
Ida Sutterlin
Milwaukee
Randolph Street Pier
Wheaton drives insurgents from Pasig and Pateros
General Lloyd Wheaton’s U S flying column defeats about 2000 Filipino fighters at Pasig, taking 350 prisoners and burning Pateros as Washington officials express gratification. Insurgents suffer heavy losses while Americans incur light casualties. The push aims to drive rebels into unused lands before the rainy season.
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Lloyd Wheaton
United States
Pasig
Wheaton
Washington Volunteers
Pateros
Laguanda Bay
War Department
Otis
Volunteers Withdraw From Cuba Ordered By War Department
The Secretary of War orders the withdrawal of all volunteer troops from Cuba within a month, by May 1 at latest, due to army reorganization and rampant unsanitary conditions with the rainy season. Regulars will not be sent to relieve them immediately. the aim is to garrison Cuba with few troops for health reasons. Troops will be mustered out on arrival home with two months extra pay and fare. The text also notes rising customs receipts, year 1898 tax and revenue figures, and mentions notable figures and events including Senator Fairbanks receiving a Spanish sword and plans for army promotions and Filipinos policy.
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Cuba
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
Pacific Railroad
Remarkable miscellany spans beasts to brains in 1900s notes
A Pittsburg zoo receives a 13 foot 6 inch alligator weighing 500 pounds touted as the largest captive saurian. Articles cover a Manila style nickname, English house parties, mosquitoes in England, Greece’s antiquities guard plan, bee color sensing, Scotch whisky inducements, ancient water pipes in New York, a blind exchange for work led by Henry I. Watson, separate railroad coach laws in Georgia and South Carolina, Bismarck brain weight estimates by Otto Ammon, and a mural tablet funded by Columbia women led by Mrs. S Reed Stoney.
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Highland Park
Pittsburg
Flying Squadron
Philippines
England
London
New York
South Africa
West Broadway
Henry I. Watson
Georgia
South Carolina
Prince Bismarck
Otto Ammon
Cuvier
Byron
Kant
Schiller
Dante
Ammon
Bismarck
State Capitol
Columbia
8. C
8. Reed Stoney
Secession Tablet Unveiling Planned in Vermont
A white Vermont marble tablet eight by four feet will be unveiled December 20, the anniversary of the secession ordinance. It features a chiseled State flag, a painted tree, and the ordinance signature list, with over 3,000 words.
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Vermont
Morro Castle Officers Believed Merrimac An Armored Vessel
Lieut Hobson recounts Spanish officials at Morro Castle doubting the Merrimac was unarmed. He notes witnesses claiming many wounded and dead, and that Spanish reports suggested the blood came from their own men. He observes damage on rear walls indicating fire from the sea side.
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Merrimac
Morro Castle
Hobson
Morro
Charette
Mice for Vivisection By a Parisian Mlle. Alexandre
A Parisian woman breeds mice for vivisection and sells to physicians and European laboratories. Madame Alexandre keeps about a thousand mice, paid for by yearly contracts, and supplies white plump mice fed on bread and milk. Her clients include Richet and Cautemesse and institutions in Paris London and Geneva.
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Paris
Mme
Alexandre
Europe
Richet and
Cautemesse
Pasteur Institute
Municipal Laboratory
London
Geneva
Philadelphia Inquirer
The World's Births and Deaths Rate Commentary
The excerpt notes world death rate about sixty seven per minute and birth rate around seventy, predicting a yearly net population rise near 1,200,000. It adds a proverb about helping others in trouble and the lasting impact of gratitude for small kindnesses.
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Warren F. Leland
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Charles TL. Jewett
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