Hopeful Cuba Compromise in Tuesday Parley
Insurgent Republicans push for Cuba reciprocity with President and House leaders. Taft era style debate centers on a three year term and tariff cuts, while Senate members discuss 20 to 24 percent reductions and timing for implementation. Roosevelt aides maintain access and urge harmony as talks continue.
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Tmtwest
Washington
House
Messrs. Payne
Daizell
Canbon
Cuba
Congress
Tawney
Minnesota
Toarevel
Sibley
Wam
House Repubicans
Senate
Burrows
Michican
Piatt
Connvenient
Command A Double Squadron Of German Warships
March wi Admiral Prince Henry will resign the command of First Fleet after completing maneuvers. He has held all posts in the navy up to admiral. The double squadrons may soon be under a general inspector. Battleships Baden and others ordered to appear before Cuxhaven before departure for Germany. News from the German fleet reports Prince Henry’s departure and related arrangements.
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Prince Henry of
Peeming Sumener
Cossenand
First Bundeon
Sefirce Henry
Berzis
Prince Henry
Baden
Germany
Hamem
PreKranios
William
Cuxhaven
Miles Not To Serve In Philippines Plan Rejected
The Post reports that Lt Gen Nelson A Miles requested to be dispatched to the Philippines with a plan to end the war with minimal further casualties. Secretary Root refused the proposal, and the President concurred. By March 5, 1900, Roosevelt and Root held the war nearly ended, deeming Miles's policy shift unfair to those already pacifying the area.
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Washington
Nelson A. Miles
Army
War Department
Philippines
Mme
Hoot
Miles
White House
Roosevelt
Root
Archipelago
Strike drags on as longshoremen threaten harsher action
Boston March 16 reports warn of renewed tensions in the great industrial strike. Longshoremen and teamsters refuse back-to-work terms with non union firms and demand reinstatement for all old hands. Officials warn a broader confrontal clash could erupt by Wednesday unless a settlement is reached.
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Boston
Metropolitan Steamship Line
Clyde
Ryan
Longshoremen's Union
Utinies
Seaboard
D. J. O'Keefe
Te National Longshoremen's Union
Cleveland
Expressimen
Innis
Detroit
Caton
Reed
State Board of Arbitration
Varld Oils
Crane
Fortifying Colon Colombia Est guards perimeter
In Con Colombia marching troops guard all approaches to Colon with detachments and embankments built in central town. Two to three hundred troops patrol the railroad as a precaution against insurgent attacks. Provisions grow scarce in Panama as small boats cannot reach coast towns. meat arrives from Cartagena via Colon.
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Colombia
Colon
Panama
Carthagena
Kidnap Threats Prompt Family Relocation to New York
Pittsburg March 11 A plot to abduct the three Peacock children or murder them if $25 000 was not paid led ex first vice president and Carnegie Co sales agent Alexander Peacock to move his family from Pittsburg to the Holland House in New York. Detectives took charge and arrests are reportedly imminent amid threatening letters and a warning of murder if payment failed.
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Pittsburg
Alexander Ft. Peavnck
Frst
Carnegie Company
Holland House
New York
Peacock
Tearack
Bueneas
Fire at Bryn Mawr Dormitory Denies Student Loss
A student lamp upset caused a dormitory fire at Bryn Mawr Denbieh Hall, burning the three story L shaped Pennhigh Hall built in 1859. No injuries reported as flames confined to the second floor area.
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Bryn Mawr ¢Y
Hryn Mawr
Thirky
Toradremen
Malladelphia
Denbieh Hall
Penhigh Hall
Russian War Preparations Report Declines Siberian Freight
London dispatch cites The Times correspondent reporting the Siberian Railway is cutting consignments from merchants as resources are fully occupied by troop and war material movements to Vladivostok amid Russo-Japanese tensions.
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London
St. Petersburg
the Times
Siberian
Viadivostok
Suez Canal Blocked by Two Shell Steamers
The Suez Canal is blocked by British Petroleum steamers X rite from Marseilles and Butysses from Constantinople, both February 24, bound for Port Said. The X rite is on fire while the Butysses is abandoned. Both ships belong to Shell Transport and Trading Company, Limited of London.
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Shell Link
Suez
British Petroleum
X Rite
Marseilles
Butysses
Constantinople
Port Said
Shell Transport and Trading Company, Limited
London
Gkrtons
White May Leave Berlin Ambassador to Germany Plans Retirement
Washington dispatch reports Andrew D White, United States Ambassador in Berlin, expected to retire next November at age seventy due to health and desire for private life. State Department officials and friends have long known of the plan. The notice appears amid general talk of retirement. A related ad announces March and April colonists tickets from New York to Phenix and Prescott via New York Central.
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Washington
Andrew D. Whie
Germany
State Department
Han
White
Arizona
York Central
New-York
Phenix
Fate
Prescott
Sam
New-York Central
Advt
Maniac Publisher John Foster Involved in Bellevue Hospital Chaos
John W. Foster publisher of 642 East One hundred fifty seventh street sparked a hospital scare as he fled a private sanatorium, stormed Bellevue grounds with a crucifix, prayed and attacked bystanders, then collapsed and was recaptured. He reportedly wrote poetry praised by President Roosevelt.
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John W. Foster
East
Foster
John Foster
Packer
Bellevue
Twenty-sixth-st
Poster
Alexander
West Fifty-eighth-st
John Curran
Curran
O'Hara
Hellevue
Bellevue Yard
Roosevelt
Desperate Maniac Sets Fire to Stable Threatening Family
John Cawley thirty-two, a laborer living at 41 West Fifty fourth Street, fought police with a flaming brand and a long club as he tried to ignite a stable and home. Officers Gibson Mann and Sergeant Stuel wrestled him to a straitjacket after a half hour, taking him to Bellevue Hospital.
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Bellevue Hospital
John Cawley
Lizzie
West Fifty Fourth-St
Cawley
Linette
West Forty-seventh-st
Stuet
Gibson
Mann
Stuel
Giteon
Roosevelt Hospital
Nixon in a powder suit tests in a Tammany era suit
Lewis Nixon faces a New York court examination in a high stakes stock dispute with Dr. Carl W. Volney over nearly 4 million in the International Smokeless Powder and Dynamite Company. Volney seeks stakes, profits, and stock possession while Nixon defends his actions amid allegations of misrepresentation and exclusive control.
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Tastic Beach
Supreme Court
Carl W. Volney
International Smokeless Powder 4 Dynamite Company
Nixon
M. Warley Platack
O'Gorman
Dr. Volney
Tammany Leader
Volney
Leutenant
United States
Nicer Ty
the Waldorf-Astoria
Tribune
Volsey
Justice Beach
Mr. Nixon
New Jersy
Foorhees
New-York
Platzek
Newt
Myer J. Steir
Richard Croker
Tammany Hall
Stein
American Chemists’ Society
Society of Chemical Industry
The
Chemists Club
Volney Smokeless Powder Company
New Jersey
STOC
Isas
Spain
International Smokeless Powder and Dynamite Company
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