Prohibition Party Convention Called In Alabama
A Birmingham meeting is scheduled for March 28 to nominate a state ticket, elect delegates to the Chicago national convention, and address party business. Other notes discuss the Woodward iron works engine project, a $50,000 Atlanta suit over alleged extortion via a trust, a found body near Holesburg, and a proposed rail line from Selma toward Tombigbee with varied ownership speculation.
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Prohibition Party
Alabama
Birmingham
Chicago
Continental Gin deal completes Southern manufacturers merger
Deeds conveying plants and real property of Smith Sons Gin and Machine company at Avondale and Northington Munger Pratt company at East Birmingham to Continental Gin Company were filed for record, finalizing the merger of leading southern gin makers with nominal $1 consideration and other valuable considerations cited. Lieutenant John B. Galleher of the Fortieth Infantry dies in the Philippines. bayonetted by insurgents in a hand to hand fight near Nueva Caceres on February 20, not shot, per reports linking him to Louisiana and Kentucky.
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Continental Gin Company
Smith Sons Gin and Machine Company
Avondale
Northington-Munger-Pratt Company
East Birmingham
Continental Company
South
Philippines
John B. Galleher
Fortieth Infantry
Louisiana
Kentucky
Lieut Gulleher
Nueva Caceres
Luaon
Officer Appointed and Local Incidents Reported
State Superintendent J W Abercrombie has named HG Almon as Lawrenow county education head to replace the late B Robertson. A boiler explosion on the Southern Railway at Brownsboro injures fireman George Tl Heinen. Alabama Wire and Steel plans massive startup at Ensley by month’s end. Montevallo to host a cotton mill and knitting facility led by Reynolds and others with Pennsylvania investors involved. Coal near Eufaula promising, Captain S H Dent reports large quantities. Runaway buggy tragedy near Whistler kills father as son breaks arm. Deputy sheriff shooting in Blue Creek mining region kills McKinney. A Sorrell faces 2500 bond over conspiracy tied to D R Burness murder case. No. 2 furnace at Oxmoor blown by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway, with 175 tons daily capacity. Williamson furnace to Birmingham planned. Repair of Mary Pratt furnace progressing, due within sixty days. Georgia Democrats set state primary for May 15 to nominate ticket and a successor to A O Bacon with June 10 state convention in Atlanta.
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Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway Company
Oxmoor
Williamson
Birmingham
Mary Pratt
Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company
Port Gibson Compress Burns Amid Cotton Loss
The Port Gibson compress where 2,000 bales of cotton were stored burned in Port Gibson Mississippi on Sunday. Loss estimated at 100,000 dollars and fully covered by insurance.
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Port Gibson
Mins
Insurgent Activity and Manila Under Strain Amid Philippine Turmoil
A Manila dispatch notes General Oly views Manila as the most troubled center. insurgents in Luzon resist with aim to pressure Congress, while Spain’s influence wanes. Reports cite arms landings, reorganization in Moronga and Zambales, and atrocities in Nueva Eviga. American forces attempt garrison expeditions, with trials and executions looming in Bayambong.
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Manila
Oly
Tulag
Jo Bong Kong
Mublni
Texcal
Flores
Anys
Spain
Philippines
Congress
Luson
Luzon
Yaylor
Mor
Tarlac
Nueva Eviga
Porte
Mindianio
Yorkiowo
Camarines
Jolo
Bayambong
Philippine Islands
Proposed Kansas City, Oklahoma and Mexican Railroad
Territorial secretary of Oklahoma grants a charter to the Kansas City Oklahoma and Mexican Railroad Company with $4,000,000 capital. Plan calls for a 200 mile line from Augusta in Wood County toward the Red River with western branches and a through link from Missouri River to the west coast of Mexico.
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Chatter
Oklahoma Territory
Territorial Secretary of Oklahoma
Kansas City, Oklahoma and Mexican Railroad Company
Augusta
Wood County
Oklahoma
Red River
Missouri River
Mexico
Spanish Prisoners Sent Home From Manila Voyage
General Otis reports from Manila that 583 rescued Spaniards are en route to Barcelona, including 84 officers and 427 enlisted men. The group also includes wives of officers and fourteen children.
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Otis
Manila
War Department
Barcelona
Spain
General Wheeler Reports On Guam Affairs
General Joseph Wheeler met with Secretary Long and Assistant Secretary Allen to discuss the Guam report on Governor Leary’s administration. He found Guam climatically favorable, strategically important as a midway coaling station, and that inhabitants supported reforms. Leary’s proclamation banning slavery and peonage is noted.
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Joseph Wheeler
Navy Department
Wnmsult
Long
Allen
Islands
Naval Government
Guam
Leary
United States
Midway
Honolulu
Manila
Captain Leary
Regulators Cause Trouble Stirs Neeces Community
A Columbia dispatch reports Neeces in Orangeburg County faced white regulators who beat residents and threatened executions. Troops were requested as farm work halted and locals fled. Governor ordered sheriffs to ride with a posse to provide protection until troops arrive. the cause remains unknown.
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Columbia
D. C
Neeces
Orangeburg County
Settlement of Desert Lands Abolition of Acreage Fee
House public lands committee reports favorably a bill ending $1.25 per acre payments on desert land act settlements. It also backs a refund proposal to those who paid $2.50 per acre under preemption or homestead entries later committed by cash, where railroad grants existed but the line was never constructed.
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House Committee On Public Lands
Towa
Havana Plans First Elections Under American System
The Cuban commission on municipal elections cannot agree on a plan. Governor General Wood orders the first Havana election to follow American methods with no delay since the elections are due on May 1. No candidate for mayor has been definitively named yet.
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Cuba
Wood
Havana
Warship to China to protect American missionary interests
Secretary Long cabled Admiral Watson at Cavite to send a warship to Taku China near the mouth of the Tisho river to safeguard American missionary interests that are said to be threatened. Instructions specify the vessel be sent to Admiral Watson.
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Secretary Long
Admiral Watson
Cavite
Taku
China
Tisho River
Siamese Twins Born in Cleveland. Infant Dead
Mrs Isaac Rosenweig of Cleveland Ohio gave birth to a girl joined at the torso like the famous Siamese twins. The infants died soon after birth with bodies joined from the seventh rib to just below the hip.
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Mra
Isaac Rosenweig
Cleve‘lan, O
Prattville Swept by Fire In Broad Destruction
A massive Prattville fire devastated Main street Monday at 8 o clock, destroying every wooden structure except Prattville Mercantile and the Telephone Exchange. Firefighters saved some property but insurance will cover only a fraction of the losses, totaling about 4 000 dollars. No injuries reported as citizens battled the flames. The Alabama Fair Association buildings sold to satisfy a mortgage, with a bidder of 5 464.06 dollars. Captain Jacob Greil of Montgomery dies, a prominent business leader with multiple roles in local finance and industry. A white woman, Mrs Ella Hodges, was found dead in Tripling's mill pond near Opelika. two men jailed over the murder. In Pratt City Alonzo Williams killed a convict in a coal quarrel. Republicans set Montgomery as convention site for April 19.
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Prattville
Prattville Mercantile Company
Cotton
Alabama State Fair Association
Sheriff O'Drien
Max Gamberts
Evansville
Ind
Gamberts
T. H. Morton
Alabama Fair Association
Pratt City
Alonzo Williams
Coalburg
John Richardson
Barbour County
University of Alabama Receives Captured Spanish Cannon
Dr. James K. Powers president of the University of Alabama received a message from Congressman Bank head confirming that captured Spanish cannon had been secured for the university.
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University of Alabama
Guta
James K. Powers
Congressman Bankhead
Wreck on Alabama Midland claims multiple injuries near Ozark
A fast mail train from Montgomery on the plant system wrecked at Ozark as the rear wheel of a tender jumped a trestle causing most of the train to fall. The 250 foot high trestle collapsed, injuring many passengers and crew with at least two believed to die. A long list of injured includes T P Kellar Savannah Gu head and GC L Mile Ozark internals among numerous others from Montgomery Troy Brundige and beyond.
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Montgomery
Ozark
Treaco
T. P. Kellar
Savannah
L. Mile
J. Read
KR. L. Todd
Jack Conostzer
M. Lydomer
B.S Berry
J. G. Gilchriat
J. A. Stanley
Frederick Newman
Reaffirmed Chicago Platform Endorsed in Lincoln
The Nebraska Democrats adopt and reaffirm the Chicago platform urging 16 to 1 tariff reform oppose a large standing army denounce imperialism and trusts favor voters choosing US senators Bryan approves the platform though not author. Populist convention parallels this stance with enthusiastic support for Bryan. House rejects Porto Rican relief bill concurrence. Ex minister J A Bingham Hendyson dies at Cadiz Monday.
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William J. Bryan
Lincoln
Neb
Kansas City
Nebraska
Bryan
Democrate
Bryann
Sioux Falls
Senate
House
Cannon
J. A. Hingham Hendyson
J. A. Bingham
Japan
Ohio
Cadiz
Killing in Mississippi Tains Toomenba tragedy
A shooting near Toomenba Mississippi leaves Howard Culpepper, a prominent county family member, dead. A Black assailant who had caused trouble earlier fled after the fatal confrontation when Culpepper and two companions went to the suspect’s home to arrest him.
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Toomenba
Miss
Howard Culpepper
Young Culpepper
Skeleton of Hood County cattleman found on Comanche Peak
The body of William Brown, a rich Hood County cattleman, was found reduced to a skeleton on high ground near Granberry at Comanche Peak. He disappeared about a year ago and had been hunted across the county. Bank books and personal effects with a bottle of laudanum were found near the body.
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William Brown
Hood County
Tez
Granberry
Comanche Peak
Brown
Bee
Aguinaldo Surrenders to MacArthur as Son Dies
Aguinaldo's secretary of war surrender to General MacArthur reported. Aguinaldo's infant son, captured in November, is dead after suffering smallpox. The brief dispatch notes the end of a fragile opposition amid colonial upheaval.
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Manila
Aguinaldo
General MacArthur
Mississippi Capitol Plan To Be Chosen By Contest
The state house commission of Mississippi spent Saturday debating how to select the new million dollar capitol. It was decided to hold a competitive architectural contest on April 20, inviting all architects of standing in the United States to compete.
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State House Commission of
Mississippi
United States
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People's Cotton Factory
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Bank of Montgomery
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