Death of Sir Edward Watkin Prompts Rail Pioneer Reflections
London reports mark the passing of Sir Edward Watkin, famed English Railway King. His vast schemes include the England France Channel tunnel plan and the Watkin Tower. The piece notes the tunnel's unfinished state and Watkin's costly ambitions as a cautionary epitaph.
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United Kingdom
Sir Edward Watkin
Hudson
Watkin
England
France
London
Eiffel Tower
Paris
Steyn’s Health Fails As Boers Urged to Surrender
Bloemfontein reports former President Steyn’s health has broken down. He is said to advise all Boers on commando to surrender immediately.
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Bloemfontein
Steyn
American prisoner among Boers reaches Lisbon after capture
A Dispatch from Lisbon reports Randolph Martinsen, son of a Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad president, among Boer prisoners who arrived in Lisbon from Lourenço Marques. Captured by the British, he was released as an American but later arrested on Boer agent suspicions. His release came via the American Chargé dAffaires, with funds sent home.
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Lisbon
Lourengo Marques
Randolph Martinsen
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Lourenco Marques
Martinson
London Daily Mail
Ingo Marques
Associated Press
Martinsen
United States Army
Lison
Zaire
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Henry C. Rouse
Plague in Cape Town Shows Stable Daily Case Rate
Cape Town reports no rise in bubonic plague progress with an average of five cases daily. Since the outbreak began, 392 cases have been officially recorded, with 152 deaths.
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Cape Town
Genoa Dock Labor Meeting Votes For General Strike
At a Genoa dock labor meeting on April 14 a general strike was decided, expected to delay many steam services. The vote highlighted disruptions and the impact on rapid service and protection features cited like those from the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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Genoa
Pennsylvania Railroad
Emperor Wanted in Peking to Return With 20000 Man Army
The Japanese minister Komoura Yutaro and General Yamaguchi urged Prince Ching that Emperor Kwang Su must return to Peking with at least 20000 troops. If China cannot suppress Manchuria unrest, other powers may send an international force. Officials complain ministers’ tardiness hinders negotiations and Japan readies for possible war with Russia.
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Manchuria
Prince Ching
China
Li Hung Chang
Emperor Kwang Su
Mongolia
Tung Fu Hsiang
M. de Giers
Tien-Tsin
Russia
Japan
Taku
Nagasaki
Corea to Build Coast Fortresses and Death Penalty Issued
London dispatch reports Corea will construct thirty two coast fortresses to deter a potential Japanese invasion. The same law imposes the death penalty for opium smoking in Corean territory, per a St. Petersburg source.
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London
Daily Mail
St. Petersburg
Mr Harrison Pleased With America In U S Trip
Frederic Harrison president of the London Positivist Committee praises his United States visit. He notes an open intellectual atmosphere broad tolerance and hospitality. He recalls intelligent students in American universities and no hostility toward England. He urges England to focus more on its commercial and industrial rivals in the United States.
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The
Daily Mail
Frederic Harrison
London Positivist Committee
United States
Associated Press
Harrison
England
Church Protests Prompt Removal of Mosaic Portraits
In Berlin on April 14 Emperor William withdrew from the Blind Asylum at Wusterhausen the mosaic portraits of the Empress as St Elizabeth and himself as the saint's husband following protests by the Evangelical Church Council and Catholic bishops.
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Berlin
Evangelical Church Council
William
Wusterhausen
Elizabeth
Concessions To Students In Russian High Schools
The Official Messenger reports that high schools in Russia will resume lectures immediately after closures due to student disorders, with possible continuation through the summer. Extra examinations will help students make up lost time. The Easter promotions list includes Count Lamsdorff and several Russian diplomats and ministers.
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St. Petersburg
Count Lamsdorff
Prince Obolenski
Count von der Osten-Sacken
Germany
M. de Giers
China
M. d'Isvolsky
Japan
Commission to reorganize Saghalien administration
St. Petersburg reports the Russian government has named a commission to settle the reorganization of Saghalien Island administration in the Sea of Okhotsk and its establishments.
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St. Petersburg
Saghalien
Sea of Okhotsk
Penel
Royal arrivals and moves across Europe today
Queen Alexandra arrived in London from Copenhagen. Count von Bilow, the Imperial Chancellor, returned to Berlin from Italy. The Italian squadron under the Duke of Genoa departed Toulon after Franco Italian festivities. An advertisement touts a spring water product as the world’s second natural cure.
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Queen Alexandra
Copenhagen
Berlin
Count von Bilow
Italy
Toulon
Duke of Genoa
Corean Court Plots Stir Seoul As Beheadings Follow
Reuters telegraph reports from Seoul reveal a royal intrigue over succession involving the Kim and Min factions. Beheadings and arrests follow a plot to place Lady Om's son on the throne as rival factions accuse Japan and Russia of backing their sides. Chinese troops clash with Corean garrisons at Samsui with contested victories claimed.
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Tacoma
Wash
Duke of Fife
Corea
Kim Yan Chun
Prince Imperial
Corean
Seoul
Kim
Min
Imperial
Kwon Chai
Li Chi Yong
Yun Tok Yong
Kyonkido
Min Clique
Min Kyong Sik
Yokohama
Japan
Russia
Samsui
Message for Scannell Rider arrested in Broadway incident
A young man, Charles Stoerzer 26, of Third Avenue, jailed at West Thirtieth Street station after insisting he had a message for Commissioner Scannell. He claimed urgency for a Seneca Club appointment, but the sergeant detained him until bail or court. Stoerzer’s bicycle was held to ensure his court appearance. Policeman Vorst warned him the law applies to all.
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Thirty-sixth-st
Scannell
Seneca Club
West Twenty-seventh-st
Sonny
Vorst
Stoerzer
Chinaman Escapes Trepanation By Jump From Hospital
Lee On a resident of No 18 Mott Street was injured when he jumped from a Broadway car in front of No 257. At Gouverneur Hospital a surgeon warned he must shave his head for trepanning, prompting Lee to flee the building shouting his distrust of Occidental medicine. Doctors fear poor prospects for his skull repair.
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Mott St
Gouverneur Hospital
Lee On
Toad
Two Men Die From Gas in Ashland House Hotel
Scranton residents P. J. Sweeney and George T. Buckley, both Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad employees, were found unconscious in Buckley’s hotel room on Twenty fourth Street and Fourth Avenue after a gas leak. Buckley died within minutes and Sweeney died soon after. foul play is not suspected. Sweeney, former stage performer, had recently become chief clerk in the car record department. Buckley had served two years with the railroad.
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Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
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George T. Buckley
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Buckley
Frederick Fisher
P. J. Sweeney
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
New York
Fisher
Hugh White
Lankis
No. 124
East Twenty-fourth St
Merrill
Bellevue Hospital
Sweeney
E. Beattie
Road
Jersey City
Buffalo
Mr. Beattie
Lackawanna Railroad Car Record Department
Cleveland
Chicago
Nickel Plate
Threats to Lynch Negro Wheelman After Street Collision
Henry Francis, eighteen, a Black resident of 452 West Thirty-ninth Street, ran over 13-year-old John Sullivan of 447 West Thirty-ninth Street in front of 445 West Thirty-ninth Street. Sullivan taken to Roosevelt Hospital with serious brain injury. Francis jailed at West Thirty-seventh Street station. bail denied as mob threatened to lynch him requiring police intervention.
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West Thirty-ninth-st
John Sullivan
Sullivan
Roosevelt Hospital
Francis
West Thirty-seventh-st
Sailor Delirium Tremens Jumps From Cherry Street Window
Peter Peterson, a Danish sailor who arrived on a Norwegian vessel, died after leaping from a third story window at a sailors boarding house 43 Cherry Street. He had begun heavy drinking and showed erratic behavior before the fatal jump.
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Denmark
Cherry St
Peterson
Leigh
Louisiana Bonds Lost in 1865 Confiscation Mystery
The Treasury and Louisiana officials seek a final settlement of bonds confiscated at Shreveport on July 12, 1865. Of the original 4.476 million dollars, only about 545 thousand remains in the Treasury. Missing certificates, possibly misappropriated, hinder formal demands as state records were destroyed or removed.
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Treasury Department
State of
Louisiana
P. H. Sheridan
Shreveport
Heard
Congress
State Treasury
National Treasury
Packing plants reach Calgary through Canadian expansion
Telegraph notes report Cudahy interests negotiating for territorial concessions to build a modern packing plant at Calgary Alberta 800 miles west of Winnipeg. Also covered are land purchases in Arizona by William Greene for large stock farms, a murder arrest in Indiana, a bank liability settlement in Illinois and Des Plaines, and exciting gold and silver finds near Nome Dawson and Mount Tom fire damage in Massachusetts.
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Chicago Packing House
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Victoria
B. C
Dawson
Amur
Nome
Selkirk
Upper Pelly
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Comstock
Dawson News
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Seattle
Danube
Taku
Northampton
Mass
Mount Tom
Eyrie
Mount Nonotuck
Connecticut River
Mount Holyoke Range
William Street
Mountain Op
High level resignations rock New York University pedagogy unit
A committee of NYU faculty and the Woman's Advisory Committee voted April 4 to urge vacating all chairs not yet vacated by resignations in the School of Pedagogy and to reorganize. Professors Samuel Weir Edward Franklin Buchner and Charles Judd resigned after the chancellor refused full disclosure. Chancellor MacCracken defended the process and announced potential chair reallocation at the May corporation meeting.
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Samuel Weir
Edward Franklin Buchner
Charles H. Judd
School of Pedagogy
New York University
Mack Cracken
University Corporation
H. M. MacCracken
George Alexander
Willis Fletcher Johnson
Henry van Schaick
Woman's Advisory
Henry Draper
Helen M. Gould
Eugene Smith
University
Woman's Advisory Committee
Weir
Buchner
Judd
New-York University
University Council
Shaw
MacCracken
Irish Americans not giving say Daly on Ireland funds
Mayor John Daly of Limerick said in a meeting that Irish Americans would not contribute to funds for Ireland’s freedom through parliamentary agitation. He warned against relying on constitutional agitation while England’s power trembles, after visiting Chicago.
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Limerick
John Daly
Chicago
England
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