Review of the week’s major global and domestic events
Myrtle Point Oregon edition lists key happenings: army and naval bills passed. Rhodes estate donations. heavy rains causing Mississippi overflow. bribery probe in Danish islands sale. Mitchell seeks $1 million for Columbia River works. congress adjournment hoped. Rhodes dies. Ellen Stone en route home. Cuba station negotiations. Pueblo buggy fatality. 2000 Canadian troops for South Africa. masked hold ups in Em Ports hotel cafe. U S governorship sale in the West Indies. Laguna rebels. cholera in Manila. Panama activity. Emperor William’s yacht voyage. Montana jail escape. Cuba ministerial shifts. diarrhea of corruption bill. lynching in Alabama. arms sale to China rebels. Wood linked to Cuba. Japan premier on Russia. Kansas post office robbery. Pennsylvanian mine labor ultimatum.
McNeil Island Prison May Get Expansion Funds
Senator Foster plans to seek 16000 for an added building, wharf, and wall at McNeil Island Penitentiary. Prison labor would aid brick work, with 135 to 150 inmates housed. Major Strong recommends enlarging the facility, adding brick buildings, a brick yard, a well built wharf, and a security stockade with leased adjacent clay grounds for brick making.
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Foster
United States Penitentiary
McNeil’s Island
Frank Strong
Department of Justice
McNeil Island
Strong
Puget Sound
Rhodes Burial Site Plans Note Matopo Hilla Memorial
Cape Town dispatch reports Cecil Rhodes chose a natural cairn at Matopo Hilla for burial and a memorial to be a major landscape feature. A special carriage road from Bulawayo is needed and work has begun, taking about a month to finish.
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London
Cape Town
Cecil Rhodes
Matoppo Hilla
Wilson
Bulawave
Grooteschaur
Ti Wan
Russia's hold on Manchuria described by envoy
Maevow of Daily Graphtec reports a Russian staff officer after returning from Amur Siberia. He says the Anglo Japanese alliance seals Manchuria for Russia, that banditry will justify a strong army, and Russia will stay to protect railways and keep peace in Northern China. The officer claims a detailed civil and military plan for Manchuria awaits the Tsar's approval.
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London
Maevow
Graphtec
Amur
Siberia
Manchuria
Asaya
Risha
China
Csar
Roosevelt vetoes relief bill for deserter Emanuel Klaweee
In Washington on March 31 the President vetoed the relief bill for Emanuel Klaweee charged with desertion. The measure would authorize action by the President and require the War Secretary to revoke orders approving a general court martial and grant an honorable discharge.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Emanuel Klaweee
Senate
James Howell
Secretary of War
Hous Committee OKs Mint at Omaha Nebraska
The house committee on colonies reports four favorable actions on Merver’s bill to establish a coinage mint in Omaha Nebraska and to appropriate 366000 dollars for a building.
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Hous Committee On
Omaha
Neb
President Roosevelt vetoes deserter pension bills
Washington reports President Roosevelt will veto deserters records changes unless the secretary of war approves. He warns civil war veterans and Spanish war volunteers that records must be carefully examined before approving private pension bills. The move aims to curb rapid pension growth for beneficiaries not covered by standard Civil War rules.
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Washington
Roosevelt Laikely
Crowning of Alfonso King of Spain Events Begin May 12
Madrid reports the crowning of Alfonso to be marked by a May 12 grand review at Camp Carabanche with 15 400 troops. A gala opera and concert are set for May 6 and the oath to be taken May 8. The king will wear captain general uniform and attend state functions with a diplomatic tour and public festivities from May 12 to 18.
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Madrid
Peter
Alfonso Nutt
Spain
Camp Carabanche
Alfonse
Lan Bor
Aix
Electric Cars Collision Kills Three in Joliet Fog Delays Rescue
Joliet Illinois March 31 three people die and ten are injured in a head on crash on the Joliet Chicago Electric Railway near Sag Bridge caused by dense fog. The wreck is described as the worst in the line's history with two cars piled in a charred scene at the same spot as a 29 year old Alton wreck. Washington March 29 a House foreign affairs panel agrees to report Adams bill to reorganize the United States civil service creating a president appointed commission to oversee the reorganization within two years.
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Sagbridge
Joliet
Linte
Alton
Washington
House
Adama
Pennsylvania
Calonial Service
Movement tensions loom as forces clash in Lonton
Incomplete reports from Lonton on the Movements of the Reltichoolumne against General Delares spark fear of further violence. Loni Kitchener announces a threat over 1 prisoner word has spread. guns, posts, wagons are mentioned as potential stakes. General Delares reportedly defeats Lord Kitcheser’s advance.
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Reltichoolumne
Delares
Loni Kitchener
Lord Kitcheser
Cecil Rhodes Dies After Heart Attacks in Cape Town
Cecil Rhodes died peacefully in Cape Town at 5 57 P M after two heart failure episodes. He spoke until 6 55 P M and his last words named relatives. The government will grant a public funeral and arrangements include viewing at Groot eschuur and a burial possibly at Matoppo Hills Rhodesia with a service at the cathedral.
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Cape Town
Cecil Rhodes
Mr. Rhodes
Grootencuur
Rhodes
Matoppo Hills
Rhodesia
Grooteschuur
Gronteechuar
Mutuppo Hill
Rhodes the Napoleon of Africa born in Bishop's Stratford
Cecil John Rhodes born July 5 1853 in Bishop's Stratford Hertfordshire England. Grandfather a London dairyman. Father Rev Francis William Rhodes vicar of St Michael's. Rhodes educated at local grammar and Brasenose College Oxford. He mined diamonds in South Africa then rose to premier of the Cape Colony and led forces in Matabeleland and the Anglo Boer War era. His health declined after returning to Cape Town seeking relief from the climate.
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Cecil John Rhodes
Edward V
Africa
Briel
Cape
Barkly West
Thomas Scanlon
Gordon Spriggs
England
Lobenguela
Matabeleland
Mr. Rhodes
Kimberley
Winsett
T Lomson
Chamberlain
World’s Fair Progress Report From St Louis Exposition
The St Louis exposition site shows visible progress with buildings lagoons and avenues taking shape. Plans for the machinery building are due Saturday and Hart the Arkansas fair architect has arrived for final site survey and erection preparations.
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St. Louis
Department of Works
St Louis Athletic Club
Hart
St. Louie
C. F. Taylor
Department of Agriculture
Department of Horticulture
Charles M
Legation
Prernors
New Mexico
Nevada
California
Ore
Washington
Idaho
Utah
Wyoming
Theestetex
Citi Nene
San Francisco
Portland
Taseme
Order Directing Cuban Government Transition Readied in 1902
Washington drafts a plan appointing Wood to oversee Cuba and transfer island governance to a government elected by Cubans by May 20, 1902. The order instructs convening elections, publishing the Cuban constitution, and ending U S occupancy while preserving minimal forces for defense.
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Root
Hie
Elest
Fengeless
Cuba
Peigiy
Entablidhanass Wad
Ita
Act of Congress
Asdaigeees
Ynu
United States
America
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