Cuba Seeks Reciprocity after Platt Amendment Approval
Washington June 21 General Wood reports to Secretary Root that Cuba’s constitutional convention accepted the Platt amendment with general satisfaction. The main issue is improving markets for Cuban products without U S tariff barriers, contingent on forming a Cuban government and Senate ratification. An order on debts and mortgages may ease current fears.
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Cuba
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Lloyds Held Responsible In Transvaal Gold Case
The Appeal Court ruling holds Lloyds liable for 300000 pounds tied to Transvaal seizure from a train. Lloyds previously reported that 500000 pounds in gold in transit was commandeered by Transvaal authorities before the war. The gold shipment from Johannesburg to Cape Town was insured by Lloyds.
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Transvaal
Gazette
LONDON
Drefontein
Lloyds
Johannesburg
Cape Town
Shoot His Man Then Rode For A Doctor
At Jag ger's ranch near Horse Parade in Montana A Moore and William McKenzie quarreled over a horse. Moore shot McKenzie wounding him fatally then rode fourteen miles to seek medical aid. McKenzie died en route. Moore, an old resident, claimed self defense after McKenzie threatened to shoot him. Moore surrendered at Bannock.
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Gazette
HELENA
Mont
Jagger
Horse Parade
A. Moore
William McKenzie
Moore
McKenzie
Wyoming
Bannock
Reading Railroad Carshop Strike For Better Terms
Six hundred Reading railroad carshop workers struck at 11 30 for shorter hours and higher pay. Boiler makers in locomotive shops joined in, amid sympathy with a broader ironworkers strike in Reading. Also wheat markets in Chicago and San Francisco showed weakness across futures and cash prices.
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READING
Reading Railroad
Reading Iron Company
CHICAGO
SAN FRANCISCO
North Pole expedition ready to start from Dundee
A Dundee dispatch reports AN ready on the America and the Baldin Ziegler expedition will depart for the North Pole. Led by noted scientists and forty accompanying men, they vow to reach the pole and plant the American flag, surpassing the Duke of Abiuzzi as the farthest north. The vessel, once Esquimaux, is described as a fine ship.
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Gazette
NEW YORK
Journal and Advertiser
Dundee
America
Baldin-Ziegler
North Pole
Duke of Abiuzzi
pole
Esquimaux
fieet
Arrest in cattle theft from Cree Indians in Montana
Samuel Garven was arrested by Federal authorities on a charge of complicity in stealing 18600 dollars worth of cattle from Cree Indians. The stolen cattle were reportedly found on Garven’s ranch by Indian Agent Edwards. Robert Lee is already on trial in the U S Court here. Garven, once a prosperous Billings citizen, transferred his property to the First National Bank after Lee’s arrest. A deputy marshal departed with Garven for Helena early today.
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Mont
Samuel Garven
Robert Lee
United States
Garven
Edwards
Billings
Lee
First National Bank
Helena
Barker Convicted of Attempt to Kill Reverend Keller
A Jersey City jury finds Barker guilty of attempt to kill the Rev. John Keller. Keller asserts he did not assault Mrs Barker and notes his denial could not be used under oath. The report also mentions stock growth at St Louis and San Francisco Railway and local ads.
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Jersey City
John Keller
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Associated Press
Waterina
JEFFERSON CITY
L. F. Parker
St. Louis
San Francisco
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Frisco
Kansas City
Fort Scott
Memphis
Civil Government to Begin in Philippine Islands on July Fourth
Manila reports a Washington announcement that civil government will start July 4 with W H Taft as Civil Governor and the Philippine Commission continuing, a hybrid military civil system to be pursued if it respects native hopes and customs revenues. General Cailles, Laguna commander, with 700 riflemen near Pagsanjan, plans to surrender Monday and help bring in Malvar.
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MANILA
Washington
Philippine Islands
W. H. Taft
Philippine Commission
Cailles
Laguna Province
Pagsanjan
Santa Cruz
Laguna de Bay
Malvar
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Multiple Updates From Rail, Industry and Arts News
William H Newsam re elected president of the Lake Shore and W C Brown named vice president. Dynamite blast on the Washington and Oregon Railroad near Kalamath, Washington kills four men. H B Kooser moves to Denver as General Agent for Missouri Parke Railroad while serving as VP Warren's representative. Broom Makers meet in Cleveland to form a $6,000,000 company for Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan factories. War Secretary Broderick reports 34 000 children among 63 000 in South African concentration camps. Christine Nilsson travels Copenhagen to Wexio Sweden resuming healthful status en route home from Paris.
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Kalamath
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Ohio
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Illinois
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House of Commons
South Africa
Christine Nilsson
Gotheburg
Sweden
Copenhagen
Faris
Wexio
Explosion Fires Kill Four in Patterson Store Building
Four killed and seven injured in a Patterson New Jersey store building blaze caused by fireworks. The dead include Mr and Mrs Williams and their two children. Injured include John Thalon and John Green. Missing include Mrs Adamson and two children, Mrs Duffy and two children, Mrs Peterson and one child. The store was beneath an apartment house.
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PATTERSON
N. J
Main street
WILLIAMS
JOHN THALON
JOHN GREEN
Adamson
Rittenburg
Duffy
Peterson
Large broom corn warehouse burned in Arcola Illinois
The large warehouse of Thomas Lyons in Arcola Wisconsin was struck by lightning and burned. Over 700 tons of broom corn stored by Union Broom Supply Company were consumed. Loss estimated between 76 000 and 100 000 dollars, insured. Also carnival queen ballots show Kate Schultz Nellie Epstine Rose Bergman Reubel Martin Florence Hawkins Vera Novacovich Ming Ethel Hofer.
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JARCOLA
Thomas Lyons
Union Broom Supply Company
Kate Schultz
Nellie Epstine
Rose Bergman
Reubel Martin
Florence Hawkins
Misa Vera Novacovich
Ming Ethel Hofer vis
Thousands of Oklahoma Boomers Destitute on Border
Thousands of men women and children camp along the Kiowa Comanche Apache border awaiting land opening in Oklahoma. Dr J Mckenna reports destitution with as many as twenty thousand at the border, many without tents. Some desperadoes target claims, threatening violence to secure them.
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KANSAS CITY
Oklahoma
J. McKenna
White Will Not Resign, Says Ambassador White
Berlin June 28 United States Ambassador White denies a December resignation report. He states he is leaving his current house because it sold to Baden authorities and will search for a new residence. His family will move July 1 to Sassnitz in a villa rented by the embassy. He has rented Berlin hotel apartments and will make weekly trips to Sassnitz. Furniture stored until autumn.
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BERLIN
United States
Ambbassador White
Baden
Amabaseador
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Aberlin Hotel
Sasanita
Strong Wind Sweeps Independence Kansas
A south to southeast wind storm in Independence causes widespread damage. Trees uprooted, outbuildings overturned, houses moved, and storefronts windows smashed. The Mercantile Mill roof blown, Hershanks and Truman’s Ice House unrooted, Santa Fe depot damaged, and wheat blown down though undamaged by rain. No injuries reported as residents feared but escaped harm.
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Independence
Kansas
Mercantile Mill
Heranks &Truman
Santa Fe
Japanese minister stabbed at Yokohama meeting dies
June 21 Hoshi Toru former minister of communications in the Ito Cabinet was stabbed during a City Assembly meeting in Yokohama and died shortly after. The act is attributed to political motives as tensions rise between factions. Nearby, racial violence in Gunterville ends in the death of Clebe Montgomery after a confrontation tied to arrests for barn burnings. In Hartford City, a wind and rain storm damages oil derricks, halting trains at Bedford.
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YOKOHAMA
Hoshi Toru
Ito
Washington
House
GUNTERVILLE
Ala
Clebe Montgomery
HARTFORD CITY
Ind
Bedford
Coal land sinks in Pennsylvania cave in at Fiddler Colliery
Thirty acres of coal land sank several feet in Pennsylvania as a cave in at Fiddler Colliery operated by Elliott McClure and Company. Six hundred employees escaped and the shaft may be abandoned the cave-in blamed on robber pillars. The items also note a Porto Rico postage stamp fraud arrest and Wool Market notes with brief health update on Mrs. McKinley.
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Fiddler
Elliott, McClue j and Company
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