War Against Crime in Idaho Mining Districts
Governor Steunenberg declares the Idaho mining region in a war against organized crime not labor, cites 1892 Frisco mine violence, martial law, and threats driving citizens from the area. He urges federal troops to curb lawlessness and protect prosecutions, detailing mob attacks, mine explosions, and witness intimidation.
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Washington
Idaho
Steunenberg
House of Representatives
Lentz
United States Army
Boers Trap A Convoy And Lose Six Guns
London dispatch reports Colonel Broadwood’s British detachment fell into a Boer ambush east of Bloemfontein. Six guns and accompanying wagons were captured, altering morale, with Mafeking’s fate and relief efforts under tension. Movement details and strategic implications are debated as rumors of relief columns spread.
Capture of British convoy near Bloemfontein
Bushman Kop March 31 reports Colonel Broadwood’s force including the 10th Hussars and Household Cavalry was forced to abandon Theba Nchu near Bloemfontein after a dawn shelling. A convoy and six guns were captured when ambushed by Boers. General Colville’s division arrived to shell the Boers. German support for the Boers is cited with 400,000 marks raised.
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Broadwood
Prisoners Bound for St Helena Delayed by Sickness
Cape Town reports the departure of British transports carrying Boer prisoners to St Helena delayed due to rising sickness. Three died today and twelve this week. Efforts are made to avoid overcrowding while prisoners say their treatment and food are not complained about. General Cronje's men show wear from prior hardships and confinement ashore and at sea remains irksome.
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Cape Town
St. Helena
Kruger names Louis Botha as Joubert’s successor for command
Pretoria on Friday March 30 President Kruger stated the late Commandant General Joubert wished his successor to be Louis Botha.
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Pretoria
Kruger
Joubert
Louis Botha
Abolition of Free State Railways Title Enacted
Army orders from Cape Town on April 1 declare the abolition of the title Free State Railways and replace it with International Military Railways. The move replaces the former designation with a new overseer identity in military transport nomenclature. The change reflects broader rebranding of rail operations under military administration.
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Cape Town
Free State Railways
International Military Railways
Ottoman Answer to Russia Quieting Czar Demands
Constantinople reports the Ottoman government will send a note to the Russian Embassy stating that if the Porte does not build railway lines in Black Sea districts already conceded to others, concessions will be granted to Russia. The move aims to settle Russian demands in the premises. REFORMER ALARMS DOWAGER EMPRESS. Eight thousand uniforms ordered by Kang Wu Wei alarm Chinese authorities. Li Hung Chang protests to Hong Kong governor over propaganda.
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Constantinople
Black Sea
Russia
Li Hung Chang
Canton
Kang Wu Wei
Hong Kong
First electric tramcar runs in Santiago de Chile teleported from Galveston
Santiago de Chill via Galveston Tex April 1 The first electric tramcar ever operated in this city went over the lines today successfully Popular interest in the incident was keen.
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Santiago de Chill
Galveston
Tex
Plague Spreads in Sydney Reports Multiple Deaths
Eleven fresh bubonic plague cases reported in Sydney with two additional deaths as of today. Authorities confirm ongoing spread and urge public caution and health measures. Hospital and municipal officials coordinate response across Sydney, N. S. W. region.
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Sydney
Grand Jury Opens in Goebel Assassination Case
In Frankfort Kentucky April 1 the April term of Franklin Circuit Court opens with Judge Cantrill presiding. The grand jury will begin work Tuesday focusing on the Goebel assassination probe and indictments may follow for several suspects including Caleb Powers and others. Prosecution targets numerous witnesses as the venue change issue looms amid intense local sentiment.
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Frankfort
Franklin Circuit Court
Cantrill
Goebel
Commonwealth
Franklin
Grand Jury
Caleb Powers
W. L. Hazenp. Lake
Henry Youtsey
Franke T
J.L. Sutton
Wiliamsburg
Hartlandker
Butler Councilas Jones
Whitely Courty
John Davis
Frackxfort
Daniel R. Col Her
Mayor Hayes Injured in Baltimore Stairway Fall
Baltimore April 1 Mayor Thomas Hayes of Baltimore fell down a back stair at his St. Paul Street home last night fracturing his left femur near the hip. He crawled to his bedroom and summoned a servant and physician. Dr Chambers says recovery will take six to eight weeks with no serious complications expected.
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Baltimore
Thomas Hayes
St. Paul St
Hayes
Municipal Art Society
Dublin in Gala Dress for Queen's Irish Visit
Dublin girds for the Queen's entry with holiday colors and a grand pageant. The Lord Mayor backs the welcome, while Irish soldiers and generals are lauded for loyalty and valor. Officials expect a long, imperial spectacle with state functions and military displays.
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Dublin
Ireland
Pile
Redmond
Harrington
Leesonst
Trish
Windsor
Buckingham Palace
Viceregal Lodge
Kingstown
Roberts
Kitchener
White
French
Kelly-Kenny
N. Ee
Cuban prospects lauded by Senate sub committee after Cuba trip
Washington April 1 The Senate sub committee of Platt Aldrich and Teller returned from a five day Havana visit with praise for a gradual path to Cuban self government. They noted municipal elections in May as a test of stability while urging American capital and enterprise to back Cuba amid foreign investment. Governor General Wood praised as effective in guiding reform.
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Senate
Platt
Aldrich
Teller
Cuba
Congress
Havana
Pinar del Rio
Matanzas
Santa Clara
Santiago
Puerto Principe
Oll
Wood
United States
Southern Cross Returns with South Pole Seekers Reach Campbell Town
The ex ploring steamer Southern Cross bearing C E Borchgrevink and survivors of the South Polar Expedition arrives at Campbell Town near Bluff Harbor New Zealand. Borchgrevink reports locating the magnetic pole and one zoologist died en route. The party left Hobart on December 1 1908 and landed near Cape Adair Victorialand in February 1909 with full equipment and provisions.
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New Zealand
Southern Cross
C. E. Borchgrevink
Sir George Newnes
London
Campbell Town
Bluff Harbor
N. Z
Borchgrevink
Hobart
Tasmania
Antarctic
Cape Adair
Victorialand
Europe
Louis Bernacchi
N. Hansen
Hugh Evans
H. Kloerstad
Mr. Fougna
Finland
Duke of York
Australasia
Great Britain
Antarctic Circle
Kansas City Doctor Shot by Brother-in-Law at Home
John W. McKimm, 29, considered insane, shot and killed Dr B F Shaw during a Sunday lesson reading in the parlor of the Shaw home in Kansas City. McKimm then attempted to kill remaining family members but was restrained by two brothers. he was taken to the station. The Shaws and McKimms had moved from Pennsylvania 15 years ago.
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Kansas City
John W. McKimm
B. F. Shaw
McKimm
Dr. Shaw
Shaw
Shaws
McKimms
Missouri
Pennsylvania
MccKimm
Lathrop
The
University Medical College
Channel Squadron Arrives Off Kingstown For Queen's Visit
The British Channel Squadron has reached off Kingstown ahead of the Queen's visit. Dublin fills with hotels crowded and trains arriving from provinces. Grandstands rise, streets decked with flags, and a general holiday is proclaimed for Wednesday. Extremists plan a Nationalist procession from the Transvaal Committee rooms, likely to be forbidden.
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Dublin
Kingstown
Transvaal
Color Line in Cuba Divides Whites and Blacks Over Annexation
The funeral of Mayor Valiente in Santiago, Cuba, drew a two mile military and civil procession with United States officers as honorary pallbearers. His death shifts the political map toward a hard fight between black and white factions as whites pledge an annexation party to resist negro domination. United States financier Hubert G Taylor, back from Cuba, says top Cubans favor annexation to the United States and notes English investment flowing into Cuba while country districts remain healthy.
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Santiago
Cuba
Valiente
Whiteside
United States
Hubert G. Taylor
Brooklyn
Kings County
West Indies
Transport Sails From Manila With Prisoners In Tow
The United States transport Sherman sailed from Manila today carrying a battalion of the 14th Infantry under Captains Richard T. Yeatman Armand I. Lasseigne and William S. Biddle, with Lieutenants Robert Field and Oliver, 175 military prisoners and twenty five insane aboard.
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Manila
Sherman
14Th Infantry
Richard T. Yeatman
Armand I. Lasseigne
William S. Biddle
Robert Field
Oliver
Taft Prepares to Lead Philippine Commission from San Francisco
Judge W. H. Taft of Cincinnati, head of the new Philippine Commission, plans to depart San Francisco aboard the Hancock on April 15 with fellow commissioners bound for Manila. He says little about the mission but will travel to Washington first. The Sheridan arrived from Manila with prisoners and sick and is in quarantine. The China, from Hong Kong, is also quarantined with a death and illnesses among passengers.
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Cincinnati
Philippine Commission
Philippines
Henry W. Taft
Lexingtonave
Tribune
Taft
Washington
San Francisco
Hancock
Manila
Sheridan
Navy
China
Hong Kong
Owosso High School Fire Claims Two Firemen
In Owosso Michigan on April 1 a central high school fire caused by a chimney spread through air ducts. Two firemen were killed as walls collapsed and debris trapped others. Three firefighters suffered serious injuries and two students were hurt. The building valued at $125000 with $46000 insurance.
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Owosso
Mich
Central High School
Cable Car Switch Fails. Rider Injured at Columbus Ave Stop
A green switchman at Columbus avenue and Sixty fifth street last night diverted a switch thinking a trolley car approached. It halted a cable car number 43, causing a rear passenger Harold Munhert to be hurled through a glass window. He, with lacerations to face and arms, was taken to Roosevelt Hospital as arrests were made for those responsible. Seventeen children lost and found.
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Columbus-ave
Sixty Fifth-St
Harold Munhert
East
Roosevelt Hospital
Record Breaking Day as 17 Lost Children Located
Seventeen missing children ages two to five were found on the East and West sides and brought to Police Headquarters. All were claimed during the night in what was the largest one day total since last summer, with warmer months sometimes yielding up to forty children on a Sunday.
Late arrivals at port include Kilpatrick and Rotterdam
Among the late arrivals last night at this port were the United States transport Kilpatrick from Hampton Roads and the steamer Rotterdam from Rotterdam.
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United States
Kilpatrick
Hampton Roads
Rotterdam
Death of Miss Mary Ann Berrigan in Hempstead
Miss Mary Ann Berrigan a saleswoman for Lord Taylor died at Miss Sarah Smith's home in Hempstead Long Island this morning. She lived at 218 East Eighteenth Street New York and had suffered from grip. Found dead on the floor at 1 o'clock with heart disease listed as the cause. Ad advertises Jayne's Expectorant.
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Hempestead
Longe Island
Mary Ann Berrigan
Lord & Taylor's
East Eighteenth St
New York
Sarah Smith
Perrigan
O Grady’s Journey to Richmond Probes Emporia Lynching
W L D O Grady of New York arrived in Richmond to investigate the Emporia lynching of Brandt O Grady and the hanged Negro Cotton. He feared a possible son among the victims but later discussions with a report indicated the lynched tramp was not his son.
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Richmond
W. L. D. O'Grady
New York
Emporia
Brandt O'Grady
Cotton
Mr. O'Grady
Grounding of British steamer Gre clan near New Castle
The British steamer Gre clan cleared from Philadelphia yesterday with several hundred cattle and other cargo for Glasgow and ran aground today in the Delaware River opposite New Castle Delaware. Tugs made an unsuccessful effort to float her. the vessel lies in an easy position resting on a mud bottom.
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Philadelphia
Glasgow
Delaware River
New Castle
Del
Steamer Cleveland Adrift With Sugar Cargo Near Maui
Advices from Honolulu dated March 21 report the well known steamer Cleveland bound for San Francisco with a $190,000 sugar cargo from Kahului adrift and helpless in the open sea due to a broken shaft. Three crewmen left in a small boat for Maui. they were sighted by the steamer Eric forty miles from Maui. The Cleveland was then 320 miles north-northwest of Maui. the boat journey to Maui covered 280 miles in six days. A search steamer has gone out. The Cleveland previously wrecked between San Francisco and Puget Sound, later served as a Philippine transport and has a long, varied career since 1861.
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Honolulu
Cleveland
Kahului
Maui
Eric
Puget Sound
Vancouver Island
Charleston
Philippines
Public figures and a mass of small crimes from many cities
Amherst celebrates Lorin Pease turning 100 at his son Alvah L. Pease’s home. In Charleston the trapper boy Edward Hembrick’s body is recovered from the Red Ashe mine after the March explosion, the last of fifty victims. Providence reports Mary Jane Demman, 23, arrested for murdering her infant by cinnamon extract, the baby buried in the cellar, with her mother named as accomplice. Middletown notes Justice Dickey upholding Matilda Gouge’s $20,000 church bequest in a contested will. Denver sees Thomas J. Stewart, 18, and companion Arthur Clemons, 15, arrested for bank theft, with a portion of the money recovered. Hastings covers Viola Horlocker, acquitted of attempting to poison, planning sanatorium care and a life in music in New York. Cincinnati reports C O Winold’s alleged plot. confession names Fartha Gillian and others. Winold allegedly urged killing his former wife. The item ends with an ad for New York Central’s Detroit Special service.
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Peter Breen
Butte
Mont
John Kneebone
Kneebone
Gem
Burke
Mill Kneebone
R. K. Neil
Foreman Cramer
Frank Higgins
Charles West
Bunker Hill
Wardner
Charleston
W. Va
Edward Hembrick
Red Ashe
Providence, R. I
Mary Jane Demman
Hastings
Neb
Viola Horlocker
C. F. Morey
New York
Cheevers
Horlocker
Jacksonville
Cincinnati
C. O. Winold
Fartha Gillian
Violet Foster
Lena Heigh
Winold
Aged Couple Die Within An Hour In Flushing
An elderly couple, George RL Burling aged 75 and his wife 71, died within an hour of each other in Flushing. Burling, a former sea captain, succumbed to paralysis while his wife died of pneumonia. Both were born in Flushing and Burling was the brother of Walter R. Burling, a Long Island editor. The double funeral is set for tomorrow afternoon.
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Flushing
George RL Burling
Burling
Mr. Burling
Walter R. Burling
Long Island
New Orleans Mint Breaks National Coin Record
New Orleans Mint reports a national record last month with two million standard silver dollars minted, the most by any facility in the country. In the fiscal year to June the mint had fallen behind by 3 million, and the surge was to catch up. Captain Boothby, director, notes large quantities are held locally in case Cuba requests coins.
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New-Orleans
Boothby
Cuba
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