War taxes debate as Congress plans adjournment
The Week in Review notes Congress will adjourn in June. Britain to levy a tax on mines to fund war. A saloon burglary in Walla Walla, Washington nets $500 in silver. Four men killed and several injured in a drunken mining riot near Johnstown Pennsylvania. Heavy rains and snow delay rail travel near Conway. Horse trainer John Hagan of Mildale dies. Outlaws in Johnson Arizona kill a mining magnate. William J Rutledge of Jacksonville Florida dies. Trinidad rejects Cuba trade reciprocity offer, adopts US convention. Pacific coast ports report fourteen thousand people booked for Alaska voyage around May 1. Land parcels near Kayes, Grenada sold to form 40-acre tracts for settlement. Burglars in Toronto pry through brick wall of St. Stephen’s church, stealing $1,174. Famine conditions worsen in Latvia with widespread distress. Metropolitan Opera opens at Carnegie Hall in New York. Filipinos active near Manila. Fire in Brooklyn causes fatalities. Siege of Ladysmith reports heavy losses. New claims of gold near Joplin Missouri. A Chinese man arrested in Hangzhou for forged documents. LL D awarded to Joseph Choate in Edinburgh. 6,000 New York cigarmakers locked out. Kolus Wright, millionaire treasurer, killed by a woman in Chicago. Naval vessels Dorrvit and Marblehead decommissioned. Chinese troops sent to suppress Razera disturbance. Lake Erie transport ships 500 Transvaal prisoners from Cape Town to Helena. Perico Pipia's trial ends with 90 years imprisonment and $96,000 fine.
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Vast mix of 19th century world events flood press
A long, error-strewn digest reports diverse items: Puerto Rico civil government inauguration date. drownings in Oregon and Germany. Democratic wins in Louisiana. Afghanistan and Turkish affairs. arrests in Denver and San Francisco. Canadian repeal of alien labor laws. global naval and military notes. notable wills and estates. and early scientific explorations, with scattered dates and places.
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Immigrant Ring Promises Jobs to Japanese Emigrants
Tacoma April 2 An immigration officer reports a network promising high pay and easy passages to Kobe and Yokohama. Agents recruit Japanese families by debt, selling fake overseas jobs as 40 to 60 dollar upfront costs, and plan to ship 20 000 more this year.
Arrest of Strikers Around Croton Dam Riot
Sheriff Molloy of Westchester leads a 23-man posse with the seventh regiment to Croton River area. Nineteen prisoners captured in Newery action. sixteen more in the hill and Little Italy round-up as Italians flee to evade arrest. Work resumes next morning with no further laborers showing up.
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Mexican Yaqui War Echoes Reach San Francisco
Henry J. Hombstey of Oakland, fresh from the Yaqui theater in Mexico, reports 4000 troops rushing to the front as about 6000 Yaquis arm for resistance. Yaquis wield Homington and Maver rifles, bows, two cannons seized from Mexicans. population estimates place Yaquis at 120000 in the region. Government forces claim several recent engagements with victories and casualties on both sides.
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Western Governors Debate Arid Lands and State Cession
Governors Lee of South Dakota and Poynter join Western states in a meeting. A committee urged against leasing public lands by the federal government and favored possible cession to states under specific terms to aid settlement and reclamation. Lee opposed the plan, insisting state ceded rights come first. A letter outreach plan was adopted.
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Novel Plan of Robbery Shocks Chicago Police
Chicago police arrested J. Smith president of the Industrial Trades Union at 151 158 Michigan avenue on robbery and disorderly conduct charges. Carl Gustavson, a carpenter, says Smith and two men in stars robbed him of 946 and papers after luring him to an office. Gustavson was forced to sign a paper and was briefly detained before reporting to the Central station. Smith denies the accusation and claims no prior acquaintance with Gustavson. A hearing is set for this afternoon.
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Philippine Army Faces Subsistence Crisis Amid Beef Shortage
Telegraphic dispatches reveal the U S Army’s search for meat substitutes for Philippine troops as cattle dwindle and cannery beef shipments rise. Major General Otis ordered caution and a memorandum from Chicago dispatchers coordinated import of preserved beef to sustain garrisons across inland posts.
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