Progress At Peking as Court Likely to Return Soon
London reports steady progress toward a settlement enabling the Chinese court to return to Peking. Count von Waldersee unites allied commanders while reforms expand education abroad, Western military models, and administrative efficiency. Coincident South Africa war updates note Pietersburg fall and harsher Cape policy. Gainsborough portrait theft outcomes spark fashion and art debates.
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Tribune
London
China
Fort Li
Peking
Count von Waldersee
British Victory and Defeat Report From South Africa
Lord Kitchener reports from Pretoria dated April 8 that Plumer has occupied Pietersburg with slight opposition. He seized two locomotives and 39 trucks, 60 prisoners, a 7-pounder, and destroyed 210,000 cartridges and 1,000 rounds of 7-pounder ammunition plus powder and dynamite. The capture is deemed important as Pietersburg is the Boer Government capital and Northern Railway hub. one officer and one man were killed. Boers evacuated after blowing up ammunition trucks. Kitchener also notes 16 prisoners, 50 horses, and the War stores depot at Bosmanskop, Orange River Colony, as an offset.
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South Africa
Pietersburg
Plurer
Aberdeen
Cape Colony
Alfred Milner
Plumer
Pretoria
Lord Kitchener
Bosmanskop
Orange River
Poland Polish Water Adjustment Shifts Global Supply
A fragmented note describes adjustments to natural spring water in Poland affecting supply worldwide. Officials or companies referenced remain unreadable in the fragment, but the item implies a change in production or distribution impacting markets.
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Poland
Advt
Advi
Battle near Aber Deen pits 5th Lancers against Boers
Four hundred Boers attacked the 5th Lancers and Imperial Yeomanry north of Aberdeen Cape Colony. After hours of fighting the British were surrounded and captured, with twenty five escaping.
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5Th Lancers
Imperial Yeomanry
Aberdeen
Cape Colony
Reform in China Urged by Government Leaders
The Yangtse viceroys and governors forward a memorial urging reforms including overseas study for princes and scholars, Western army drill, expanded schools, and a standard currency. Russian envoy de Giers refuses further talks on Manchuria. Mongolian Prince Olaskan backs rebels. Tung Fu Hsiang rallies Manchu followers. German minister hosts ministers at a dinner for Count von Waldersee’s birthday.
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Shanghai
Peking
China
M. de Giers
Prince Ching
Li Hung Chang
Manchuria
Olaskan
Prince Tuan
Si-Ngan-Fu
Tung Fu Tsiang
Tung Fu Hsiang
Prince Olaskan
Mongolia
Mumm von Schwarzenstein
Count von Waldersee
Cabinet Reacts to China Indemnity Demands
Washington April 9 The Cabinet discussed indemnity demands from China linked to Secretary Hay and dispatches from Rockhill. Ministers expressed surprise at claims near 500 million dollars and noted one power seeks to keep the account open to withdraw later, risking future increases. Other officers supported reducing the claims.
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Washington
China
Hay
Rockhill
Peking
German Foreign Office Director Stuebel Returns from London
Dr. von Stuebel, head of the Colonial Department, reports progress on Chinese indemnity negotiations. Advices announce the opening of the railroad from Kiao-Chau to Tein-Tau, signaling added regional links.
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Berlin
von Stuebel
German Foreign Office
London
Kiao-Chau
Tein-Tau
Russia to Seek 18 Million Pound Indemnity from China
London reports via The Daily Mail that Russia will demand an indemnity from China totaling 18,000,000 pounds. The amount appears tied to ongoing diplomatic tensions and war-related claims.
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London
St. Petersburg
The
Daily Mail
Russia
China
Japan's Discontent Over Russia in Manchuria
Yokohama reports Japan's leading papers argue the problem lies with Russia's actions in Manchuria, not the Manchurian agreement. They say abandoning the agreement should not settle the Manchurian question and urge bringing the issue to a ministers conference like other Chinese matters.
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Yokohama
Japan
Russia
Manchuria
Belgian envoy secretary arrested by German guards
Berlin reports by the Lokal Anzeiger from Peking that M. Mergeling, Secretary of the Belgian Legation, was arrested by German soldiers at the Ha Tu Men Gate for disobeying orders. The incident is presented as his own fault.
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M. Mergeling
Ha Tu Men
Aguinaldo Signs Peace Manifesto After Objections
Manila reports indicate Aguinaldo signed the peace manifesto this morning after Chief Justice Arellano drafted the document. He opposed two clauses prompting lengthy discussions.
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Manila
Aguinaldo
Arellano
Aba
Zambales
Mancil C. Goodrell
Olongapo
Subig Bay
Malvar
Silang
Cavité
Insurrection Attempt Fails as Negros Abandons Plan for Two Provinces
On Negros Island the native civil governor Severino tried to spark rebellion against the new Philippine Commission system. Sentiment favors dividing a 70000 Mexican currency fund between Occidental and Oriental Negros with two thirds to Occidental and one third to Oriental, taxes owed offset. A resolution approving two provinces was adopted and obligations laid out. provinces to be created later.
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Pumaguete
Negros
United States Philippine Commission
Bacolod
Sefior Severino
Occidental
Oriental Negros
Loomis Leaves Venezuela Amid Salutes and Honors
Francis B. Loomis United States Minister to Venezuela sails from La Guayra aboard the Scorpion. American ships salute as Loomis departs Caracas amid crowds and a Diplomatic Corps display. Porto Rican beneficiaries present him with an address. his private car overflows with flowers.
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Willemstad
Curacoa
Francis B. Loomis
United States
Venezuela
la Guayra
Scorpion
Loomis
Caracas
Merchants Company Takes Shape In Dry Goods Consolidation
Announcement confirms a Connecticut incorporation of the Associated Merchants Company led by John Claflin financed by J P Morgan & Co. It acquires stakes in H B Claflin Adams Dry Goods and James McCreery & Co. with plans to buy assets in other cities and run cash‑only operations. Subscriptions for first preferred stock offered through April 15.
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Connecticut
A Merchants’ Company
John Claflin
J. P. Morgan & Co
H. B
Adams Dry Goods Company
Sixth-ave
James McCreery & Co
Associated Merchants’ Company
Claflin
Adams
McCreery
United States
H. B. Claflin
Gold bars stolen from Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
Three gold bars valued at £4000 each were stolen on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse voyage from New York to Europe. Customs and detectives searched all landed baggage in Cherbourg but found nothing. Bank shipment of $500,900 may be linked. officials could not confirm. Also, the cruiser Cincinnati’s silver service, lost for years, has been found and will be restored.
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Duchess of Devonshire
Atlantic
Agnews
London
Pinkerton
Scotland Yard
Richard Croker
Moat House
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Engelbart
New York
Paris
The
National City Bank
Europe
Lloyd Line
Washington
Cincinnati
City of
Navy Department
Norfolk Navy Yard
Cables Stretch Across East River for New Bridge Footbridge
Three wire ropes weighing fifteen tons each and three thousand feet long were stretched from shore to shore to form one span of the New East River Bridge. The operation began at 12 27 p.m. and lasted thirteen minutes amid strong currents and seaborne traffic suspensions.
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Champion
Unity
Wallace E. Flint
Washington K. Roebling
Terry and
Tench
Mass anti-Tammany meeting planned at Carnegie Hall
A mass meeting of anti-Tammany Democrats is planned for Thursday April 18 at Carnegie Hall. About two hundred former Tammany affiliated Democrats are expected to sign the call, though names will not be released yet. The gathering aims to form a permanent citywide political body and unite anti-Tammany voters behind a common ticket.
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Carnegie Hall
Tammany
Hoboken Mechanic Shoots Self Before Crowd
Albert Jensen a 37 year old Hoboken mechanic shot himself in the head in front of about five hundred people near West Street after a day at Battery Park and eluding restraint by a man who tried to detain him. Police and an ambulance arrived as he was taken to Hudson Street Hospital in a dying condition.
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Hudson Street Hospital
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Broadway
Morris St
West
No. 33
West St
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Steamboat Squad
Egbert Guernsey
Florence Guernsey
Morrisania
Reigelman
Guernsey
Hotel San Remo
San Remo
Dr. Guernsey
Litchfield
Conn
New York University
Vienna
Berlin
Hageman
Bergen
Norway
Union League
Barnard
Death of Dr Guernsey in Bronx field mystery ends in suicide claim
Dr William Guernsey a Nassau Street physician was found dead in a Bronx field beside an empty bottle containing carbolic acid crystals and a glass. Police and a coroner examined the scene while family says reports of self destruction are unfounded.
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William Noah Guernsey
West Fifty-second St
River Ave
Guernsey
United States Opens First Foreign Coaling Station in Mexico
The U S navy completes a coaling station at Pichalinqui on California Bay Baja California. Admiral Bradford pushes the project after negotiations with Mexico. About 25 000 dollars have been spent on coal warehouses docks and loading facilities with a 5 000 ton capacity and Mexican customs will inspect ships.
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United States
Pichalinqui
Mexico
Alexander
Baltimore
Navy
California Bay
Long Peninsula
California
Lower
Bradford
Naval Bureau of Equipment
State Department
Testimony in Patrick hearing reveals Jones told House about chloroform plot
Justice Jerome hears Jones say he first told Mr House in the Tombs about giving Rice chloroform. Patrick and House present. Moore objects to admission. Other witnesses confirm related papers and forged documents tied to Rice death, with Captain James A. Baker Jr. named as next witness.
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Patrick
Charlies F. Jones
William M. Rice
House
Moore
Jones
Mr. Osborne
Mr. House
Osborne
Rice
William Sheerer
Nellie J. Meller
New-York Telephone Company
Joseph L. Paden
American Express Company
Galveston
Tex
C. FL. Jones
Madison Ave
George F. Schmidt
Paden
John H. Wallace
Swenson & Sons
Potts
Chatham National Bank
Walter
James A. Baker, Jr
Houston
Blast injures a boy as builders blast near Columbus and Seventy-ninth
Stone fragments from a cellar blast at 79th Street and Columbus Avenue injured seven year old John McCabe of 372 Columbus Avenue with a fractured left leg and contusions. The blast operator Michael O Neil of 214 West Sixty ninth Street was arrested and later bailed. A window in the Orleans hotel apartment was broken and a track walker on the elevated road was reportedly hurt.
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Seventy-ninth-st
Columbus
Indiana
Columbus Ave
Orleans
Manhattan Square Park
John McCabe
McCabe
Dougherty
Roosevelt Hospital
Charles Boice
Michael O'Neil
West Sixty-ninth-st
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