Sedition sparks Senate debate on Philippine bill power
In Washington April 23 the senate opened discussion on a bill to govern the Philippine Islands. Senator Rawlins Utah denounces the measure as an unlawful imposition accusing the commission of vast unchecked powers to declare war levy taxes regulate religion and suppress free speech. He cites historical abuses and warns of imagined treason silencing truth about administration.
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tnh
Philippines
Waslington
Philippine Jslands
senate
Rawlins
Utah
Philippine committee
Philippine commission
United States
Moros Fight and Mindanao Withdrawal Tension
Two clashes between American troops and Moros on Mindanao within 48 hours. Moore of the twenty seventh infantry fired on. Baldwin with a battalion aided him, seven Moros killed. villages flew red flags signaling readiness to fight. Sultan Pualo’s force briefly attempted to reclaim ground but Moros dispersed. Datto Ganasi offered submission. General Davis awaits Washington’s orders on withdrawal while Baldwin’s unit remains ready.
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Mindanao
Manila
Moore
twenty-seventh Infantry
Frank DL. Baldwin
Sultan Pualo
Datto
Ganasi
Davis
Zamboanga
Island
Washington
Baldwin
Buckingham Palace Reborn After Major Renovation
The article recalls the monarch’s return to Buckingham Palace and describes a complete overhaul. Improvements include better drainage, expansive interiors, and new elevators and electric lights. The old palace, once mocked as a moldy pile, is now thoroughly modernized and habitable.
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Edward WiI
Prince of Wales
Buckingham palace
Green park
Buckingham
Attempted Wife Murder Fails in Philadelphia Tragedy
Thomas Martin, drunk at 227 South Second Street, stabbed his wife Annie five times with a shoemaker knife and then drank sulfuric acid. Mrs Martin escaped bleeding but survived. Thomas died later in hospital claiming he took the acid by mistake for gin. Policeman found Martin on his bed in agony.
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Thomas Martin
Philadelphia
White
South Second street
Annie
Martin
Solomon
Forest Fire Sweeps Timberland Near Belvidere New Jersey
A forest fire on Scotts Mountain near Belvidere destroyed hundreds of acres of young timber and valuable buildings. Tramps camping in the woods started the blaze on Sunday. they fled as flames spread. Heavy losses included McMurtrie & Co timber tract and Joseph M. Roseberry machinery. Neighbors fought the fire, saving many properties.
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Belvidere
N. J
Scotts Mountain
Joseph MM. Roseberry
McMurtrie & Co
Nanse Brothers
Exhumation of Bishop Neumann Reveals Well-Preserved Remains
In Philadelphia on April 23 a special ecclesiastical court opened the tomb of Bishop Neumann at St Peter's Cathedral to view and identify the corpse ahead of potential canonization. Four physicians examined the body. it was mummified yet well preserved with no odor, and resealed in a new coffin.
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Neumann
Philadelphia
Vita — salemn
Peter
sirret aml Girard avenue
Rome
Joseph Wissel
St. Peter's Church
United States
Holland's Queen Wilhelmina Improves in Paris Bulletin
The Hague April 23 After a brief consultation physicians report a slight improvement in Queen Wilhelmina's condition with lower temperature and maintained consciousness The queen's overall status is satisfactory This bulletin brings great relief to Holland She yesterday signed a decree on electing a first chamber member. cabinet sought to spare her but urgency required action
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Wilhelmina
The
Hague
Boers Still Fighting Casualty List Revealed
London April 23 casualty list shows ongoing fighting in South Africa. Two British officers killed near Ficksburg Orange River Colony including Captain Sir Thomas Fowler. Four men killed and three officers with 14 men wounded in eastern Transvaal engagement. General Bruce Harmison launches another large drive with seven columns across a broad area. outcome unknown.
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London
South Africa
Ficksburg
Orange River Colony
Thomas Fowler
Transvaal
Bruce Harmison
Agreement on Chinese Exclusion Bill Delays Time Limit
Conferees near a deal on the Chinese exclusion bill. They adopt the Senate substitute as the measure, re enact and extend provisions from the 1888 act, and seek to make island provisions apply to insular territories. The main row remains extending exclusion indefinitely or until a new treaty.
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Washington
senate
house
United States
confernes
insular
Hawaii
Philippines commission
Philippine Islands
Philippine commission
Claims Rejected by House in Omnibus Bill Action
Washington April 23 The House voted 75 to 72 to reject claims attached to the omnibus bill by the Senate totaling 1.3 million and then non concurred in the whole Senate amendment. The military appropriation bill passed after trimming West Point improvement costs from 6.5 to 5.5 million and reducing the bill’s total from 3 to 2 million.
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Senate
Washington
house
West Point
Cornered the Poultry Market in Chicago
Three firms Armour & Co Swift & Co and Friebe & Lemiter of Bushnell NL hold two thirds of US poultry, with 500000 cases in cold storage. Fancy dressed chickens sold as high as 10 cents, up from 2 cents a year ago, signaling vast profits and market tightening. Also notes pardoning W H Reeves by Governor General Wood in Havana for cooperation with the state and a murder conviction in Wilkes-Barre, Pa for John Connor in a case involving a fellow traveler.
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Chicago
Antil
Armour & Co. Swift & Co
Friebe & Lemiter
Bushnell
South Water street
ae A. Reeves
Havana
Wood
yastering
W. H. Reeves
Reeves
omnes
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