Chinese Exclusion Bill Faces Philippines Exclusion Debate
Senate immigration committee reports the Mitchell Kahn Chinese exclusion bill retaining absolute exclusion of Chinese from the Philippines and a guarded sailors clause allowing ship crews only in emergencies. Transit provisions remain similar with phrasing tweaks. King’s Ireland visit canceled by cabinet advice.
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Philippines
Washington
senate committee on immigration
Mitchell-Kahn
Pacific coast committee
Philippine commission
United States
Ireland
London
Steamer Providence Disaster Kills Many Passengers
The steamer Providence overturned near Jane Landing during a cyclone while en route from thisport to Palmyra. Only nine saved. twenty drowned including Captain William Cassidy and chief engineer Charles Roup. Cargo loss and divers proceed to recover bodies. Also notes the death of W J Glenn doorkeeper of the House from pneumonia and a $20,900 anonymous gift to Harvard Observatory.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Providence
thisport
Palmyra
Jane Landing
WILLIAM CASSIDY
CHARLES ROUP
CLYDE SCOTT
N. A.LANCASTER
Lake Palmyra
Cassidy
Scott
Roup
Lancaster
Boer Officers Killed in Cape Skirmish
Cape Town reports that during a skirmish near Pearston on March 10, Commandant Ovendaal and Field Cornet Van Der Walt were killed in the clash between British troops and Commandant Fouches' Boer force.
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Cape Town
Pearston
Cape Colony
Fouches
Ovendaal
Cornet Van Der Walt
Hepburn Bill Backed For Nicaraguan Canal Route
Washington March 13 Senate committee on isthmian canals votes 71 to 4 to report Hepburn bill authorizing a canal via Nicaragua. Negotiations with Nicaragua and Costa Rica target perpetual right of way and concessions to aid construction while Colombia status remains unsettled. Bill would empower the president to acquire right of way, survey harbors, guarantee canal use, and appropriate 10 million dollars to begin work.
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Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Washington
senate
Morgan
Hay
United States
Colombia
Panama
Hanna
friends of
Mitchell Taoved
house
Yeas
Mitchell
Hawley
Platt
New York
Harris
Turner
Foster
Louisiana
Pritchard
Millard
Kittredge
Greytown
Atlantic
Lake Nicaragua
Brito
Pacific
secretary of war
Pennsy's Big Bond Issue and Related News
The Pennsylvania Railroad directors authorized 50.6 million dollars in 10 year convertible debentures to fund rolling stock and the New York tunnel project for 1902 3. Of this amount 24 million will buy 19 000 steel cars and 269 locomotives, with the remainder for the tunnel. The report also notes other government and international items including land sale talks in the Philippines, a fatal rail yard accident in Altoona, a recreation voyage by Hay and Long, and shipwreck survivors returning to Philadelphia aboard the Noordland.
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Pennsy
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad company
Broad Street Station
New York tunnel
Depew Hosts Ship Subsidy Talk in Senate
In Washington on March 13, Senator Depew praised progressive subsidies as a remedy for shipbuilding delays. He cited Lewis Nixon’s plan for US merchant fleets and noted possible Leyland line purchase pending profit, aiming to fly the American flag. He compared foreign subsidy policies, highlighting Germany’s ten-year embrace of subsidies boosting its merchant marine.
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Washington
Nepew
senate
Tammany
Lewis Nixon
Nixon
United States
Depew
J. Pierpont Morgan
Leyland line
Germany
Great Britain
Confidence in Dr Swallow Declines Banquet Until Trial
Harrisburg dispatch reports Rev. Dr S C Swallow of Harrisburg, Prohibition candidate for governor, declines a Philadelphia banquet until after the Central Pennsylvania Methodist Conference in Bellefonte begins March 26, when he faces charges of uttering falsehoods. The item also notes Boer leaders reportedly crossing the line near Wolve Hoek, and Steyn and De Wet said to be conferring with Botha in the Utrecht district. A six day walking race in Philadelphia shows Cavanaugh leading Fahey. other results list various distances and standings. A Portsmouth hanging follows a March 13 assault attempt on a missionary, and a Townville bank robbery yields $7,000 to $8,000 stolen. A White House music recital drew attendees, and Manila reports additional firefight casualties and captures among Filipino insurgents.
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Harrisburg
S.C. Swallow
Philadelphia
Swallow
Bellefonte
Heilbron
Orange River Colony
De Wet
Steyn
Wolve Hoek
Pretoria
General De Wet
Botha
Utrecht
Transvaal
Two Elements of Ways and Means Seek Tariff Compromise
Overtures push for a tariff concession settlement with Cuba. Payne and Dalzell reportedly proposed a 20 percent reciprocal reduction effective for one year from December, covering two sugar crops. An opposition member says Payne and Dalzell asked for a response. A full conference of the opposition is planned today.
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Ways and Means
Washington
Cuba
Payne
Daniel
Messrs. Payne
Dalzell
Strikers Burn Trolley Cars in Minooka Clash
In Scranton Pennsylvania on March 13 a street car run by the railway company was attacked as it exited Minooka. Firemen drove off the mob with chemical streams while crews fled toward the city, a tense chase ending with the wrecked cars and officers entering safety.
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Scranton
Scranton Railway company
Minooka
William Connell Hose Company
Two Men Crushed to Death at Oceola Works
Greensburg Pa March 13 two men were killed and four others injured at the Oceola Works mine. The dead are Lea Hogedon 35 and George Deemer 32. The injured: Frank Smith Morris Englert Allen Wooley Henry Kerber. Slate collapsed near the mouth of the line.
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Greensburg
Oceola Works
Lea Hogedon
George Deemer
Frank Smith
Morris Englert
Allen Wooley
Henry Kerber
2000 MIN ARE IDLE Labor Unions to Vote On Sympathetic Strike
Raton March 12 2000 min idle as unions plan sympathetic strike amid 29 000 to 90 000 potential workers idle. Conference of Boston business groups seeks settlement while freight and coal deliveries halt and hotels face shortages. Railroad and brewery impacts loom as widespread disruption spreads to Lynn and beyond.
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Raton
Building Prades
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Boston Associated Board of Trade
Boston Merchants’ Association
state board of arbitration
New York
New Haven
Bartford
National Civic Federation
anr
ufion teamsters
Federation
coal teamsters
Miners Threaten Strike at Delaware Coal Company
Miners at Woodward colliery of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western company urged a general strike at all company collieries. Officials refused to reinstate discharged firemen. SimPar meetings were held at Pettenbone and Avondale collieries.
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Wilkesbarre
Woodward
Delaware, Lackawanna and Weste ™ company
Pettenbone
Avondale
Horse Smuggler Captured After Chase Near Raymondville
Ogdensburg March 13 A peddier named B Demsy, charged with smuggling horses from Canada, was captured near Raymondville following a tense chase and brought to town. He was arraigned before a United States commissioner and held for the federal grand jury at Syre rne, New Western Bann President Chicago. March Colonel RC Crow, vice president and general superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph company, was elected Friday as resident succeeding Thomas T. Eckert, retired. General Eckert keeps Kee nes Chairman of the board of ah tans
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Ogdensburg
B 'Demsy
Canada
Raymondville
United States
Syrerne
Western Bann
Chicago
RC, Crow
Western Union Telegraph company
Fetterday
Thomas T. Eckert
Eckert Keenes
boerd
ah tans
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IESTAI
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FLECK
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ERNEST HELFENSTEIN
Patrick St
Frederick, Mé
Coleman
WILLIAMSON'S
dll PERISIL
Mississippi
J. Glenn
house of representatives
Glenn
N. Y
Harvard Observatory
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard College observatory
Edward C. Pickering
WaEx
Smith’s Green Mountain Renovator
Vermont
Nature
Greix Mouxins Renovator
Liela
Lewis M
Olive St
Conn
Peatte
S. Market Street
WAVE
Taft
Altoona
Wit Haw
Calvin Clayton
Bellwood
Calvin
Williams
Long
Secretary Long
Chesapeake Bay
Fort Monroe
Liverpool
Red Star line
Waesland
Harmonides
Holyhead
beare
Noordland
LAKE WORTH
PALM BEACH
FLA
Palm Berek bay
BAR
DR. SWALLOW
Devanaugh
Industrial Hall
Fahey
Cavanaugh
Glick
Tracy
Day
Hart
Barnes
Nolen
Dean
Barclay
Portsmouth
Neal Standback
Townville Bank
Titusville
Pal
Farmers’ Bank
Townr Je
Dilis
White Mouse
Ransevelt cate
White House
Corarda Darras
Diaz Standish
Lone Dayar
Manila
Callies
Lagsna
epi
Charles E. Wagner
Peter Blair
Wagner
Denver
Boston
board of trustees
United Society of Christian Endeavor
Amsterday
Colo
Colorado senate
the
Commercial Club
Board of Trade
Christian Endeavor Union
New Castle
Bank of
Isaac W. Kelly
bay walls
Edward H Kanfman
Harrisburg turnpike
Lynn
3. Brine Co
Norfolk
Huntersville
Joseph W. Shearer
E. J. Sterling
postoffice
Mss Grifin
Australia
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