Aguinaldo takes oath of allegiance to United States
Washington reports General MacArthur says Aguinaldo has sworn to the U S authority under amnesty terms. He is held for now with immunity, pending review of past conduct. Officials see potential for peace as insurrection winds down and U S sovereignty tightens. The war department notes a broad naval drawdown and homeward movement of Asiatic squadron vessels.
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Washington
War Department
General MacArthur
Aguinaldo
United States
MacArthur
Philippines
Philippine Commission
Aguinalde
Death of Major William EK Hall in Manila
Washington April 2 General MacArthur reports to the War Department the death of Major William EK Hall chief surgeon of the Department of Northern Luzon at Manila from inflammation of the bone marrow. Major Hall entered the army in 1875 from Missouri.
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Washington
General MacArthur
War Department
Wiliam EK. Hall
Department of
Laon
Manila
Hall
Army
Missouri
Concession Granted to Rand Firms in Cape Town
Lord Kitchener allows three Rand mining companies to resume operation with fifty stamps each. Wages cap set to match irregular troopers at five shillings a day, rationed, with rest of miners' pay diverted to a war families fund. Transvaal Chamber of Mines protests. Ten new bubonic plague cases reported today, including one European.
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Cape Town
Lord Kitchener
Rand
Rand kMled
Transvaal Chamber of Mines
British Capture Boer Laager Near Roschberg
Bloemfontein reports a night surprise by British forces overran a Boer laager of sixty near Roschberg between Brandfort and Saltpan along the Orange River Colony. The action occurred during April, signaling a tactical setback for Boer forces in the region.
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Bloemfontein
Roschberg
Brandfort
Saltpan
Orenge River Colony
Campbell in a Fierce Fight at Mount Prospect
Newcastle Natal April 2 Boers derailed a train near Mount Prospect. General Campbell's column attacked them. heavy fighting followed, Campbell at a disadvantage. Weather mist on the hills prevented knowledge of the outcome.
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Newcastle
Natal
Mount Prospect
Campbell
Spitters Face Crackdown as City Enforces Public Spitting Rule
Sanitary officials launch a broad push to enforce the spitting ban on public conveyances. Seventy plainclothes Sanitary Squad officers ride streetcars and ferries arresting spitters, with magistrates varying in handling cases. Early arrests include auctioneer Anthony J. Allen, grocer Max Waldman, and others, facing fines or bail as the Health Board seeks uniform enforcement.
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Sanitary Squad
Warn
Health Board
Japan Russia Manchurian talks spark cautious reply
Yokohama reports say Russia’s protest reply to Japan asserts no third-party talks, a temporary agreement, and future disclosure to others. London dispatch notes the reply as unsatisfactory and hints at further representations. Prince Konoye forecasts war outcomes with Britain and Germany backing Japan. US would not interfere. France may act with naval shows off Formosa.
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London
Russia
Japan
Yokohama
The
Daily Mail
Prince Konoye Atsumare
House of Peers
Great Britain
Germany
United States
France
Formosa
Manchuria
Jones Murdered Rice Says Patrick Instigated the Deed
Charles F. Jones, valet to W. M. Rice, testifies in a courtroom confession detailing a plan to murder Rice. He claims Albert T. Patrick urged poisoning and chloroform, forged a will, and looted Rice’s assets after the crime, with Jones providing key details and receipts for medical substances and money transfers.
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Charles F. Jones
W. M. Rice
Jones
Albert T. Patrick
Patrick
Jerome
Rice
Li Hung Chang Fears Russia and Seeks Time to Strengthen
London dispatch from The Times reports Dr. Morrison's interview with Li Hung Chang. The Chinese statesman says China fears Russia most and plans to sign the Manchurian convention for a ten to twenty year respite while Russia expands its hold. He implies China will reveal all Russian treaties but Moscow demands secrecy.
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London
Russia
China
Li Hung Chang
Li Hung Chang Returns to Shanghai Amid Reports of Disturbance
Li Hung Chang and his bodyguard travel toward Shanghai and are reportedly in a disposed state. Steamers await orders, with a Thursday arrival anticipated. A German force defeated about one thousand Chinese robbers near Tien-Tsin on March 31, killing eleven and wounding fifty, while a dozen foreigners allegedly aided the attackers. Germans captured thirty carts and one gun.
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Tien-Tsin
Li Hung -Hang
Shanghai
Rumor of China's Submission Regarded by London Press
The Morning Post reports a dispatch from Pao-Ting-Fu dated March 31 saying Li Hong Chang relays that Chinese officials have received information the Manchurian convention has been signed.
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London
The
Morning Post
Pao-Ting-Fu
Li Hung Chang
China agrees to international settlement on Amoy island
Berlin reports the Peking correspondent of the Cologne Gazette states China accepts the powers proposal to make the island of Kwang Su near Amoy an international settlement modeled after Shanghai. The move aims to ease trade and security arrangements among foreign interests in the region.
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Berlin
Peking
Cologne Gazette
China
Kwang-Su
Amoy
Shanghai
Seventeen Sanitary Squad Officers Nab Spitters in Brooklyn
Seventeen officers in plain clothes patrolled for spitters. Three arrests reported: Theodore Hauser, 40, painter of Manhattan, held for spitting on a Bergen street car floor. John Robertson, 39, from Carlton Hotel Brooklyn, for spitting on a Greenpoint line car. another man, age 22, of Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn, arrested for spitting on Vanderbilt avenue car. All cases noted at Myrtle Avenue and Grant Street courts with paroles for examination.
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Max Waldman
Goerck St
Hogan
Essex Market
Canal St
Waldman
Abraham Bernstein
Lexington-ave
Walker#1
Crane
Jacob M. Winters
East Twenty-secondst
Simon Duneberg
Ridge St
Andrew Watson
East Fifteenthst
Pool
Harlem
Watson
Joseph F. Mellody
Sanitary Squad
Brooklyn
Theodore Hauser
West Forty-first-st
Manhattan
John J. Higgins
Bergen-st.one
Myrtle-ave
Teale
John Robertson
Carlton Hotel
South Eighth St
Kent-ave
William Curry
Sees Greenpoint Line
Kramer
Lee-ave
Carlton-ave
Thomas P. Easop
Vanderbilt Ave
Grant-st
Steers
Loomis to Sail on April 7 from La Guayra
United States Minister Francis B Loomis at Caracas will sail aboard the Scorpion from La Guayra on April 7 to San Juan de Porto Rico then to New York. The recall notice follows Venezuela's press attacks but is treated as a leave of absence for Loomis to consult with Secretary Hay. Loomis exposed that President Castro favored German claims over American, violating prior promises to settle American debts.
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Port of Spain
Trinidad
Scorpion
Francis B. Loomis
United States
Caracas
Venezuela
San Juan de Porto Rico
New York
la Guayra
Foreign Office
United States Navy
McKinley
Loomis
Washington
Hay
Castro
Cuba adopts public session on commission to Washington
The Cuban Constitutional Convention met in public then moved to executive session after yesterday's vote. Support for sending a commission to Washington grew with Giberga Quilez Gener and Sanguily present. Yesterday's vote against a commission was reconsidered. Special sessions planned for further discussion. It is generally believed a commission will be appointed. Meanwhile a ferry notice announces West 42nd Street station repairs and temporary ferry service to West 234th Street until April 6.
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Havana
Washington
Sefiors Giberga
Quilez
Gener
Sanguily
Gigantic Swindle in London Shocks City Banks
In London on April 3 two men faced charges in a police court for defrauding Barclay & Co. Ltd of about £3000 through forged documents claiming gold ore shipments that did not exist. The Daily Chronicle reports seven bankers were defrauded for nearly £250,000, with alleged bags of bullion filled with sand.
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London
Barclay & Co., Limited
Daily Chronicle
London council to buy land for 42000 homes
The London County Council has agreed to purchase 2% acres of land to build workmen's houses for forty two thousand residents. The project costs £1,500,000.
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London
London County Council
Era in passenger traffic marks new Lake Shore Limited
April 3 1901 is a red letter day in passenger traffic between New York and Chicago. The new Lake Shore Limited starts at 5 30 this afternoon by the New York Central.
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New York
Chicago
New Lake Shore Limited
New York Central
Adot
Surrogate Orders Review Of Rice Estate Books
A Texas surrogate yesterday after noon ordered the temporary administrator of William Marsh Rice's estate to produce all books and accounts for examination amid contest and two alleged wills. The action, reported in the Texan courts, directs careful scrutiny of the estate records as the matter proceeds. Adverts promote Jayne's Expectorant as a croup cure.
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Thomas
William Marsh Rice
Rice
Fraud Charged to Ammon in Brake and Coupler Case
Colonel Robert A. Ammon, attorney for Goslin syndicate, arrested on conspiracy to defraud charges. Bail set at 11,000 provided by Fidelity and Casualty. Affidavits allege complex scheme using Brake and Coupler Co. and Grey & Co. to fleece investors with fictitious stock prices and improper margins.
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Robert A. Ammon
Goslin Syndicate
Finlay, Burrell & Co
Bankers and Brokers
Chicago
Ammon
Nassaust
Supreme Court
Fidelity and Casualty Company
Alfred
John J. Jordan
Brake and
New Jersey
Richard F. Grey & Co
Grey
Goslin
Hall & Co
Harry J. Alexander
Alexander
John L. Packer
Thomas J. Gibbons
Gibbons
J. C. Cummings
Cummings
Seymour, Johnson & Co
Brake
Coupier
Daring prison escape prompts dramatic ferry chase on island
James Ryan, a military prisoner on parole, donned civilian clothes and liquor to flee aboard the Colonel Wikoff toward Manhattan. A swift pursuit by Private Lupke and officers ended with Ryan recaptured on the pier after a cable car chase. he is jailed at Castle Williams with a year left to serve.
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James Ryan
Whitehaust
Charles E. Lupke
Company B
11Th Infantry
Ryan
Wikoff
Manhattan
Lupke
Charles D. Heath
Richard Ganley
Broadway
Heath
Ganley
Corporal Heath
Castle Williams
Company K
7Th Artillery
New York Historical Society Sees $350000 Fund Raising Progress
Dean E A Hoffman announced the building fund drive has secured about 350000, with expectations to begin building plans for a Central Park West structure within a month. The society owns its Second Avenue property debt free but cannot mortgage, planning to erect a section on Central Park West and sell the Second Avenue site to complete the project.
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Dean E. A. Hoffman
The
New York Historical Society
Central Park West
Seventy-sixth
Seventy-seventh Sts
Second-ave
Tenth St
George L. Rives
New York Public Library
Lenox Library
Historical Society
Dean Hoffman
Albert Ulman
New-York
Horses Panic at Academy of Music Theater
A team of horses pulling a large carriage on the Academy of Music stage bolted past footlights into the orchestra, panicking spectators. Drivers and stagehands, including a driver named David Peyser, subdued the animals with injuries to Peyser but no other serious harm reported. fifty dollars damage to property.
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Academy of Music
Irving Place
Dunn
William de Brady
Uncle Tom's Cabin” Company
Havng
David Peyser
Peyser
Bellevue Hospital
Annie Yeamans
Ophelia
Georgie Florence Olp
Little Eva
John E. Kellard
Uncle Tom
Academy
Riot at Dienne Valley of Chamounix Described
Dispatch from Geneva reports a violent riot in Dienne within the Chamounix valley after land sales disrupted grazing rights. Rioters attacked the town hall as gendarmes fought back, with ten dead and fifteen injured noted in the通. Seaboard Air Line advertises two daily trains to Southern Pines Pinehurst Camden Atlanta and the Southwest with dining cars and through sleeping car service.
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Dienne
Chamounix
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Southern Pines
Pinehurst
Camden
Atlanta
Southwest
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