Windsor Hotel Fire Kills and Maims Many in New York
Fire at the Windsor on Fifth Avenue near Forty seventh Street after three PM during St Patrick’s Day parade leads to 10 to 15 deaths within a half hour and 30 to 41 missing or injured as guests leap from windows. Proprieter Warren Leland overwhelmed by loss. hotel estimated at $1,000,000 with many adjoining buildings damaged.
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Windsor Hotel
T Forty Seventh Street
Fifth Avenue
Forty-Seventh Street
Elizabeth Leland
Warren Leland
Flower Hospital
Helen Leland
Wast Fifty-first
Amelia Paddock
Irvington
N. Y
East Fifty First Street
Nancy Ann Kirk
James S. Kirk
Chicago
Bellevue
M. Pierce
Macon
East Forty-sixth
East Fiftyfirst Street
Baltimore
J Helen Gould
Warren I
Leland
The
Windsor
John T. Daly
Wall Street
Commodore Vanderbilt
Daniel ‘Drew
McKinley
Record New High in Clearing House Money Transfers
New York reports Thursday money transfers at the clearing house for debt balances totaled 17,413,862 dollars. This marks the largest daily balance transfer on record, surpassing January 17 when 14,404,251 dollars moved and the prior peak of 17,163,312 dollars on January 4.
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New York
Emperor may marry Princess Marie Isabelle de France
Vienna rumor claims Emperor Francis Joseph will wed Princess Marie Isabelle de France when mourning for Empress Elizabeth ends. The match would yield a direct Austrian Hungarian succession via a new royal line.
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Hondon
Vienna
The
Daily News
Francis Joseph
Elizabeth
Marie Isabelle de France
Duc d'Orleans
Igin
Medill Dead Veteran Chicago Editor and Former Mayor
Joseph Medill longtime Chicago Tribune editor and ex mayor died in San Antonio at the Hotel Menger at age 76. He helped found Ohio’s Republican Party and built the Tribune into a fortune through his control from 1874 onward.
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San Antonio
Tex
Joseph Medill
Chicago Tribune
Hotel Menger
Medill
St. John
N. B
Stark County
Massillon
Joseph
New York Weekly Tribune
A.C. Wales
Massillon Academy
New Philadelphia
George W. McIlvaine
Coshocton
Republican
The
Free Democrat
Leader
Cleveland
Republican Party
Ohio
Edwin Cowles
Manila Battle Ends Filipino Rout With Heavy Losses
Aguinaldo's forces suffer a crushing defeat as Americans under Gen Wheaton drive back 2000 armed rebels. About 525 captured and hundreds killed or wounded, with towns Taguig Pateros Pasig held by U S troops and Caitai seized after a desperate fight.
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Aguinaldo
Wheaton
United States
Gen. Wheaton
Taguig
Pateros
Pasig
Washington Regiment
Twentieth Infantry
Caitai
Washington
Otis
McArthur
Utah Battery
Third Artillery
Pennsylvania Regiment
John Thompson
John McVay
Alexander McCause
Malolos
Disarmament Conference Delegates Named at Hague
The Brussels Daily Mail correspondent reports the Hague meeting May 18 will have three sections on disarmament arbitrations and other matters. German delegates include Baron Von Buelow imperial foreign minister Baron Marschall Von Bieberstein ambassador at Constantinople and Prince Herbert Bismarck.
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London
Brussels
Daily Mail
The
Hague
Baron von Buelow
Baron Marschall von Bieberstein
Constantinople
Prince Herbert Bismarck
Appeal to end hostilities in the Philippines urged by prominent Americans
A March 15 appeal signed by more than twenty prominent men asks all lovers of freedom to help persuade the government to suspend hostilities in the Philippines. The plan aims to confer with Philippine leaders and prevent further bloodshed by recognizing independence with protection of native property.
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Boston
United States
Philippines
US Transport Meade Arrives Havana With 3 Million Funds
The Meade formerly Berlin reached Havana at ten o'clock Friday with 3,000,000 dollars to pay Cuban troops before disbandment. The transfer follows an agreement between Robert P. Porter, McKinley’s representative, and Gen. Maximo Gomez, Cuban army commander, and was escorted by the US cruiser Chicago.
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Havana
United States
Meade
Berlin
Robert P. Porter
McKinley
Maximo Gomez
Chicago
Becker Confession Shocks Chicago Sausage Maker Murder
Becker August A Becker, a sausage-maker of Chicago, confessed Tuesday night to killing his wife. He claimed he cut her to pieces and burned the remains in a stove after previously admitting pushing her from a Randolph street viaduct into the lake. Police had doubted the drowning account and pressed his house-killing theory, reinforced by a lung fragment found in his barn.
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Chicago
Randolph Street
Benjamin P Hutchinson Dies At Lake Geneva Sanatorium
Chicago mourns Benjamin P. Hutchinson known as Old Hutch for giant board of trade deals. He died Thursday at Lake Geneva sanitarium from heart failure after two years there with feeble mind.
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Benjamin P. Hutchinson
Chicago Board of Trade
Deadly Shootout Rocks Arkansas City in Mayor Fight
A 5:30 PM Thursday affray in Ark not Springs left five men dead and two wounded, one critically. Victims include Police Chief Toler, Detective Hart, Sgt. Goslee, Sheriff Williams’s son John Williams, and driver Louis Hinkle. Ed Spears shot in the neck, may die. motive tied to ongoing mayoral contest.
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Thomas ‘Toler
J. E. Hart
Thomas F. Goslee
John Williams
Defy Health Officers in Laredo Clash Over Smallpox
In Laredo Texas on Monday rioters attacked health workers removing smallpox patients. Capt Rogers of the State Rangers was wounded, two Mexicans were killed, and U S cavalry joined to disperse the crowd. Gatling gun and ambulance corps accompanied troops as officials restored order.
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Fort McIntosh
United States
Tenth Cavalry
Market Place
Joseph Bartholomew
Christen
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O’horan
Nueva Laredo
Laredo
Rio Grande
San Juan Hill
Presidents McKinley and Reed Visit Jekyl Island Coincidence
President McKinley rests at Jekyll Island with Mrs. McKinley and dignitaries including Senator Hanna while Speaker Reed stays in another cottage. Officials deny any political deal or improved relations as they vacation among eastern millionaires on St Simons Sound.
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McKinley
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Thomas LB. Reed
Jekyl
Four Men Killed by Scaffold at Rockland Mills
Four men Louis Ro chan Harry Dalrymple Eugene Des chant and Archie Stewart were killed when a scaffold fell at Rockland mills near Ottawa on Monday. Xavier Frep pier was badly injured and removed from the debris.
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Harry Dalrymple
Eugene Deschant
Archie Stewart
Rockland Mills
Ottawa River
Xavier Freppier
Polish Nobleman Sentenced to Sing Sing for Larceny
Count Marian de Zaremba, Polish nobleman who wed a wealthy New York heiress, was sentenced in New York on March 21 to three years in Sing Sing prison for grand larceny. In San Francisco on March 21, 16 year old John T. Moran admitted taking 1250 from John A. Giblin, a coin dealer of Ilion, N Y, and 840 was recovered as he was sent back east by a detective.
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Marian de Zaremba
Sing Sing
San Francisco
John T. Moran
John A. Giblin
Ilion
N. Y
Remains of Lord Herschell Return to London Home
On Monday evening the casket bearing Lord Herschell arrived from Portsmouth and was conveyed in a modest hearse to the late lord’s residence in Grosvenor Gardens London.
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Portsmouth
Lord Herschell
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First Woman Electrocuted in New York Dies in Sing Sing Chair
Mrs. Martha Place was executed at Sing Sing, the first woman to die by electric chair in New York. The 11:01 p.m. shock, 1,760 volts for four seconds, followed by a second identical shock, caused instantaneous death. She murdered her stepdaughter Ida Place in 1898 and attacked her husband with an ax. Her death procession, clinical procedure, and final postmortem are described, with notes on her calm demeanor and faith. Also, Charles Everett Clark, a prominent builder and stock farmer, died at 63 in Somerville.
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Martha Place
Sing Sing
State
Davis
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Gov. Roosevelt
Mrs. Place
Dr. Cole
Dr. Irvine
Legislature Opposes Brigham H Roberts Seat
The lower house adopted a resolution protesting Brigham H Roberts of Utah gaining a seat in the fifty sixth congress. In Washington the war revenue act clarification states express company agents handling money orders are not brokers and face no $50 yearly tax. Calcutta reports the legislative council passing a countervailing sugar bill with Lord Curzon expressing satisfaction at unanimous support.
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India
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Aguinaldo's Furious Move Orders Executions in Manila
Manila dispatch reports Aguinaldo taking extreme measures to suppress signs of hostilities. Twelve independence plan adherents in Manila are condemned to death for advising surrender as loyal Filipinos called to dispatch them. Gen Lagarda executed after Aguinaldo rejected his warning. Washington volunteers show nerve crossing river under fire to attack trenches.
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Col. Smith
First California
Duboce
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Iowa
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Monadnock
Spain
Murdered Children Burned Home Feared Father Arrested
In Hutchinson Kansas coroner reports five children found dead in a burning house with wounds indicating murder. The father John Moore is arrested on murder charges amid talk of lynching. Autopsies show deep skull fractures and neck stabbings.
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Moore
Carl
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Pearl
Charles
Lee
Parole Bill Advances for Younger Brothers in Minnesota Senate
In St Paul Minnesota on March 21 the senate voted 33 to 18 to advance and calendar the Younger brothers parole bill and recommend passage. The measure is likely to pass the senate though house fate remains unclear. Apple King Downey Dead in Kansas Missouri line Sugar Lake brain fever age 60 Downey co owner of Reece Downey orchard once among the nation’s largest.
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Factional Clash Sparks Havana Street Battle
In Havana a violent clash between Gen Gomez loyalists and Cuban insurgents erupted Sunday night in front of a black dance hall at San Jose and San Nicolas in the Cuban quarter. Col Estrampes and ten policemen and more than 30 insurgent soldiers and citizens were wounded. One patrolman and two black criminals were killed outright. four policemen were wounded, one fatally. The police reserve of 400 men defended the disturbed quarter as 1,000 shots were exchanged. Estrampes was seriously wounded with a chest injury near the heart.
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Plan for Ratification in Madrid Exchange Details
Washington reports M. Cambon French ambassador served formal notice of Spain’s peace treaty ratification. He will act as Spain's agent in final exchanges with Secretary Hay representing the United States. A White House ceremony is likely with President McKinley present if arranged. Timing awaits Madrid papers. Cambon to receive treaty draft and Spanish authorization to act.
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Department of State
Madrid
Hay
United States
McKinley
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State Department
Cambon
Spain
Three Killed In Norfolk & Western Wreck At Ada
A Norfolk & Western freight wreck at Ada near Roanoke on Sunday morning killed Fireman Van Landingham of Roanoke and brakeman E A Graham and a tramp. Several trainmen were injured. Three trains wrecked all moving east. The first train stopped, the second split and its sections crashed into the first, then the third, not flagged, followed down the mountainside.
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Norfolk & Western
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van Landingham
E. A. Graham
Madrid Sinks to Prisoner Talks with France Amid Philippines
Madrid reports Senor Silvera, Spain's premier and foreign minister, met Sunday with the French ambassador to discuss freeing Spanish prisoners held by Filipinos. Spain plans to protest to the civilized world over American hindrance to Gen. Rios's liberation efforts and seeks a credit to pay Cuban debt interest.
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Senor Silvera
Spain
Rios
Philippines
Unknown Dead Percent Among Disinterred Soldiers
Washington reports from Santiago indicate more than 300 soldiers’ remains will be brought home and 26 percent are unknown. The figure may drop as lists finalize. In Madrid the Pais states Duke of Arcos, former Spanish minister to Mexico, will be appointed minister to Washington. Rome denies Pope were operated on again last Saturday and notes death nearing. Yale’s Prof. Othniel C. Marsh dies at 68 from pneumonia in New Haven.
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Quartermaster’s Department
Santiago
Arcos
Madrid
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Duke of Arcos
Mexico
Spain
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