Spain Hopes for Continental Alliance Amid Cabinet Crisis
New York dispatch from Madrid says Premier Sagasta seeks continental alliance or intervention to stop the war. The temporary cabinet vows to press the war with crown and country behind it while quelling Cuba and the Philippines rebellions. Financing and taxes face near-impossible hurdles despite bank support and concessions.
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Continental Alliance
New York
Madrid
Spain
Sagasta
Leon Y Castilla
Paris
Last Troops Leave Indiana 259th Todiana Volunteers
Indiana Governor mounts farewell as the 259th Todiana Volunteers depart from the state fair grounds for Washington. Soldiers, families, and crowds bid farewell amid patriotic scenes, with trains carrying troops through Indianapolis toward Cincinnati and on to the capital.
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Todiana
Washington
Mount Deversa
Addrens
State Fair Grounds
Belt Road
C. H
Cincinnati
Indiana Grand Lodge Meeting Highlights and Rules
The semi annual Indiana Grand Lodge session in Indianapolis reported gains in initiations but losses from non payment of dues. It banned lodge rooms for dances and barred saloon workers from joining. A patriotic war resolutions display drew praise as officers were nominated for future ballots.
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Indiana Grand Lodge
Indianapolis
R. P. Davis
Uthatoa
Center Lodge
Grand Lodge
Hte
Grand Rapids
Mich
W. H. .Palbott
Orleans
Puest
N. Craner
Muncie
Treputy
M. HH. Chappell
Kishistown
Secortors
Taeedy
Tadian Gand
James al Wildman
Jrughampatis
Travis
Noblesvale
EL RL Pryor
Wloemington
H.C. Hay
ShwVille
Eid
Farrar
Rushville
Bornwasser
New Albany
EL EL Slastings
Washington
T. J. Jessay
Bochmont
Toll from Midwest Tornadoes Rises Across Iowa Illinois Wisconsin
Forty two people are known dead and twenty eight more are reported killed after tornadoes ripped through eastern Iowa western Illinois and northern Wisconsin on Wednesday night. Iowa leads with nineteen fatalities.
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Iowa
Illinois
Wisconsin
State Assembly Considers Greensburg Home for Odd Fellows
Report of committee endorses funding and site for a home for Odd Fellows families in Greensburg with eight thousand dollars needed to start construction. Sale of five acres near Indianapolis authorized to fund the project under Theodore P. Haughey supervision. Local officers and guardians elected in Indianapolis and surrounding towns.
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State Assembly
D. of R
Indianapolis
Greensburg
Goddard Farm
Annie W. la Foliette
Indi-anunapolis
Mary A. Wiley
Fowler
T. Cranor
Muncie
Airs
C. Rhodes
Lafayette
Chapholtu Lelora Trapper
Peru
Hoxa
Hathaway
Aurora
Anna J. Trenderson
South Bend
Quve McGrew
Miss Cumingore
Preparations Underway for Manila Expedition
Preparations for the first expedition to Manila near completion. The transport City of Peking was loaded on Monday, others of the force boarded the tet City at Sydney and the Australia at San Francisco on Tuesday. The second expedition waits General Wesley Merritt arrival after his Chicago visit and engagement announcement to Laura Williams, aged twenty.
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Manila
Peking
Cps
Sydney
Australia
San Francisco
Wresley Merritt
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Laura Wiliams
John Dean Caton
Fitzhugh Lees Star Nominates Three Staff Officers
Washington special reports the president nominated three of General Fitzhugh Lees staff officers on Thursday. The trio includes Algernon Sartoris, grandson of General Grant, Lee’s son and namesake, and Darlos Carbonel a former Cuban banker soon to marry Evangelina Cisneros. Carbonel aided in Miss Cisneros rescue from prison.
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Washington
Fitzhugh Lee
Algernon Sartoris
Grant
Ust
General Lee
Darlos Carbonel
Evangelina Cisneros
Carbonel
Miss Cisneros
Edward Bellamy Dies at 49 in Chicopee Falls Home
Edward Bellamy author of Looking Backward and other novels died at his home in Chicopee Falls Massachusetts on Sunday at age forty nine.
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Edward Bellamy
Chicopee Falls
Mass
England Mourns Grand Old Man Gladstone Dies
The Grand Old Man William Ewart Gladstone died at 5 AM in Hawarden after months of suffering. His wife stayed by his side as he faded in and out, not in pain, with no narcotics given. A national funeral is likely and his burial may be at Hawarden with a Westminster Abbey monument. The Prince of Wales sent condolences to Henry Gladstone.
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Hawarden
William Ewart Gladstone
Mr. Gladstone
Earls of Chatham
Pitt
Westminster Abbey
Kingdom
Prince of Wales
Henry Gladstone
Albert Edward
William IV
Duke of Newcastle
Newark
House of Commons
Treasury
England
United Kingdom
Henry
Calcutta
Helen
Newnham College
Bismarck
Life of William Ewart Gladstone A Brief Biographical Sketch
The sketch traces Gladstone born in Liverpool on December 29 1809 to John Gladstones a prosperous merchant. It notes his education at Eton from 1821 to 1827 study under Dr Turner later bishop of Calcutta and admission to Christ Church Oxford in 1831 followed by a year of travel and entry to Parliament as a Tory at the 1833 reform parliament.
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William Ewart Gladstone
Liverpool
John Gladstones
Gladstone
Eton
Turner
Calcutta
Christ Church College
Oxford
The Grand Old Man of Hawarden Passes in England
Grief sweeps England as Gladstone dies. The House of Commons and Hawarden mourn the long statesman known as the Grand Old Man. His career spanned four terms as premier and shaped 19th century British politics.
Bismarck Opposes War Amid War Pressure
Friedrichsruhe AP reports Prince Bismarck condemns the war as unnecessary and foreshadows harm to both America and Europe. He cites American provocation and warns Washington must become a costly military power, condemning closer Anglo American ties as unlikely.
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Friedrichsrhne
Associated Press
Prince Bismarck
Washington
America
Europe
United States
Joseph Chamberlain
Birmingham
Chamberlain
The Spanish Cabinet Formation Report
Madrid cable lists the new Spanish Cabinet with Praxedes Sagasta as President of the Council of Ministers. Leon y Castillo is Minister of Foreign Affairs, Correa as War Minister, Amnon for Marine, Romeo Giron for Colonies, Lopez Pulg cerver Finance, F R Capdepon Interior, C Greizard Justice, and Gamaszo Public Instruction.
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Council of Ministers
Senor
Praxedes Sagasta
Senor Leon Y Castillo
Senor Amnon
Senor Romeo Giron
Senor C. Greizard
Public Instruction
Senor Gamaszo
Indiana Volunteers Camped at Chickamauga Rendezvous
At Chickamauga Rendezvous all Indiana volunteers are camped in the National Military Park. The men suffer heat and water shortages but expect to be fighting fit in days. Only one serious illness is reported. Regiments are scattered. Lytle Ga is the Indiana troops post office. Colonel Smiths One hundred fifty eighth Indiana joins Second Brigade, Second Division, First Army Corps under General Arnold. The One hundred sixtieth Indiana under Colonel Gunder, with the Thirty first Michigan and Third Pennsylvania, form the Whar Brigade of the Second Division, First Corps.
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Chickamauga
Indiana
National Military Park
Lytle
Smith
First
Arnold
Gunder
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Spain Denounces American Flag Bluff as Cowardly War Action
In Madrid, senators protest alleged U S ships flashing the Spanish flag to mislead Guantanamo garrison. Officials call the act cowardly and iniquitous, urging privateering against American shipping while outlining maritime law and the breach of diplomatic ties.
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Guantanamo Garrison
Madrid
Senate
Almenas
Guantanamo
Blanco
Interior
Senor Capdlepon
Count Almenas
America
Spain
United States
Paris
Mercantile Marine
Clausen
Battle Between Trains Kills NC Soldier Near Savannah
A Florida Central and Peninsula Railway collision near Savannah fatally wounds Private William B. Barbee of Durham and injures Private J. M. Colclough while North Carolina troops en route to Florida. Barbee died after being crushed between cars as he tried to jump. The battalion paused two hours before resuming to Florida with burial arrangements pending.
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Savannah
Florida Central and Peninsula Railway
North Carolina
Florida
William B. Barbee
Company I
Durham
J. M. Colclough
Barbee
Colclough
Troop Train Wreck Kills Soldier Near Chickamauga
A Chattanooga special reports a Saturday morning wreck on the Chattanooga Rome and Southern Railroad between Chattanooga and the Chickamauga volunteer camp. One man is dead and two are fatally injured. all victims are members of the First Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry.
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Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Rome and
Franco Spanish alliance rumor affects markets
London reports advance news of a Franco Spanish alliance causing rises in Spanish tours and speculation on Bank of Spain withdrawals totaling 135,000,000 pesetas since April. Salisbury and Chamberlain speeches referenced the alliance, with Anglo American alliances framed as counterblast. Spanish fours closed at 34% in London and 59.80 in Madrid, with gold at 78.50.
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London
St.James Gazette
Marquis of Salisbury
Joseph Chamberlain
West Africa
Stivgr
Bank of Spain
Paris
Madrid
Immune Regiments to Be Formed from Colored Men in May
A Washington report says the War Department plans six immune regiments of about 1 000 men each from the Gulf States to serve in the Cuban campaign. Officers from the regular army will lead the units, largely drawn from the colored population, with many ready for muster within ten days.
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New York ‘Tribune
Washington
War Department
Gulf States
Fourth Corps
Coppinger
Mobile
Regular Army
South
Volunteer Army
Bryan's Regiment grows as Lincoln enlistments surge
Lincoln notes show the provisional regiment led by W. J. Bryan gaining support after the departure of regular troops. Enlistment blanks for Company A, Lincoln, fill quickly under General Vizcain's oversight as other Bryan regiments recruit across eleven towns. Muster may occur at Camp Sanders once the President accepts service.
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Lincoln
W. J. Bryan
Camp Sanders
Vizquain
Bryan
Rough Riders Prepare to Depart From San Antonio
The Rough Riders in San Antonio are fully organized and will depart in about a week after a period of steady drilling. Carbines and revolvers have nearly all been distributed and the men are equipped with machetes chosen for jungle fighting in Cuba.
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San Antonio
Tex
Cuba
Retained U S Ex President as Venezuelan Counsel
Washington special reports ex president Benjamin Harrison has been retained by Venezuela as its counsel before the board of arbitrators to settle the boundary dispute with Great Britain.
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Washington
Benjamin Harrison
Government of
Venezuela
Great Britain
Uncertain Naval Update Reports No Word from Cuban Fleets
Up to Tuesday morning there was no word from the United States or Spanish fleets in Cuban waters. The Navy Department had received no advices and expected no dispatch from Sampson or Schley until a dispatch boat reached a cable station. Madrid believed Spain had received important Cuban news, though details were not released.
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Cuban
Navy Department
Sampson
Schley
Madrid
Cuba
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