Rivera Case Provokes U S Pressure on Spain
Secretary Sherman urged Spain’s Minister de Lome to spare Cuban General Rivera in Pinar del Rio. He said executing prisoners of war offends the American people and would harm Spain U S relations. The move followed McKinley administration talks and aims to avert a public outcry over the wounded captive’s fate.
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Spain
Rivera
Sharman
Ruis Rivera
Pinar del Rio
McKinley
Sherman
Senor de Lome
United States
Havana
Madrid
de Lome
Sherm
Shock wins six bay race with record near 1910 miles
Adbert Schock finishes the six bay race in Madison Square Garden New York, 240 miles behind the record of 1,910 miles set last December. Earlier, Chandler Oklahoma appeals for relief after a devastating disaster. Fatal fire in Chattanooga claims Boyd Ewing and threatens Patton. Durrant denial of rehearing by California Supreme Court. Gen John M Schofield family note. American Tobacco declares quarterly dividends. Chicago billiards results show Matthews defeating Gallagher with high averages.
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Tate
Weashington
Adbert Schock
Madison Square Garden
New York
Great Trust of Farmers Organizing to Control Markets
A Toledo dispatch reports a gigantic farmers trust forming in the United States. P P Brown of Johnstown Pa led to leaks after leaving papers at the Jefferson House. The Agricultural National Protective Association, incorporated in New Jersey, aims to limit crops and regulate farm product sales through county warehouses and central boards starting next year.
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Toledo
Ohio
Farmers’ Trust
P.P. Brown
Johnstown
Jefferson House
Columbus
Lantaster
Amd
New Jersey
Agricultural’ Nazional Protective Association
Antarette
Public Debt Shrinks as Cash on Hand Grows
Monthly debt report shows total public debt at 1 004 802 200 with a decrease of 8 639 254 driven by higher cash in treasury. Offsetting items include certificates and treasury votes outstanding and demand liabilities totaling 63 194 153 leaving cash balance 222 045 608. Also reports on crimes, fires, weather, floods, and a New York sugar company incorporation.
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Treasury
Ing
AHCES
The Week in Trade Demand Report
The course of general trade shows improvement amid floods and washouts halting much business in the south. Prices rise for wool and woolens while losses occur in iron, wheat, flour, corn, oats, sugar, and petroleum. Exports of wheat rise on both coasts. total business failures fall about 11 percent from last year with $62 million in losses.
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Ebradstreet
Milstreets
Mississingi Valley
Bessemer
Galvesten
Europe
United States
Bradstreet’s
New England
Territories
St. Jour
N B
Spanish claim Philippine revolt crushed at Novelleta Cavite Vigo
Spanish dispatches from Madrid report a decisive engagement in the Philippine Islands. Novelleta Lecbean and Rosario were stormed and taken while Cavite Vigo and other points shelled. The action produced heavy losses and 1,630 prisoners.
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Madrid
Philippine Islands
Novelleta
Lecbean
Rosario
Cavite
Vigo
Imus
Cavite Vigo
Corbett-Fitz Twenty Round Fight Backed by New York Syndicate
A syndicate of wealthy New Yorkers subscribes 15000 dollars for a twenty round bout between Corbett and Fitz simmuas to be held in New York at a date to be agreed. If the contest is not staged on the chosen time and place the entire purse is forfeited.
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Sport
Bes
Corbett
Pitzsimmuas
New York
Greece Press Is Bellicose Urging Action on Turkey
Athens papers urge government to act before an ultimatum. official circles expect king and cabinet to favor strong measures. Also a Georgia governor’s 17 year old son J P Atkinson elopes with Ada Byrd aged 16, fleeing by train to Tennessee, then Kingston, then Rome. parents offer a reward for detention before marriage.
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Turkey
Athens
J. P. Atkinson
Gov. Atkinson
Georgia
Ada Byrd
Tennessee
Kingston
Rome
Means Work for 2,000 as Refineries Restart
Philadelphia refineries will open with full force on regular time, employing about 2,000 workers. Nearly half a million tons of raw sugars are en route from Germany East Indies Egypt South America and the West Indies. Rivera Is to Be Shot. A Havana dispatch says Gen Rivera will be tried by court martial and likely executed, provoking indignation at the act. Italy to Represent at Grant Monument Dedication in New York on April 27 with the cruiser Liguria. Brahms in Critical Condition at Vienna Hospital. recovery unlikely. Margaretha Wesialowska, Milwaukee's oldest woman, died at 105, born in Germany.
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Greenville
Miss
Winona
Philadelphia
Germany
East Indlies
Egypt
South America
West Indies Islands
Rivera
Havana
Werler
Italy
Liguria
New York
Waly
Gen. L. 8. Grant
Brahms
Johannes Brahmas
Vienna
United States
Margaretha Wesialowska
Milwaukee
Ottumwa
Morrall Packing Company
Fane
We City
Austrian Cabinet Crisis Report Stuns Vienna Press
The Neue Frei Presse in Vienna reports the cabinet has resigned over failure to form a majority with progressives. A New York dispatch notes Col. Pred D. Sirant has declined McKinley’s offer for a top assistant secretary role in the war office.
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Neue Frei Press
Vienna
Fred Grant
New York
Pred D. Sirant
MccSinley
Massive South Dakota flood floods Aberdeen area
A vast spring flood inundates eastern South Dakota with Aberdeen worst hit. Water fills basements and stores, cuts power, displaces residents, and prompts evacuations. Westport and surrounding towns report several feet of water, rail traffic disrupted, and roads washed out. One drowning reported near Frankton. Rivers rise to record levels across Mitchell, Brookings, Huron, and nearby communities.
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South Dakota
Ems
Aberdeen
Golden Rule
Vaive
Westport
Frntkion
George Peel
Peck
Los
Mwaukee Lines
Ashton
Redfield
Hastings
Dakota
Andover
Mitchell
Milwaukee Railroad I
Catlewood
Brookings
Egan
Huron
Australian accused felon attempts self harm in San Francisco
Frank Butler, alleged Australian murderer, attempted to pass by his own action in a San Francisco jail cell in the sight of two guards. A ragged cut near his temple bled as a nail made the wound through a wood partition, prompting an investigation and leaving Butler severely injured but alive.
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Frank Butler
San Francisco
Butler
Easy Life Leads Former Librarian to Prison in Oakland
George Morris alias George Morgan, once assistant librarian of the United States Congressional Library in Washington, is jailed in Oakland California for larceny. He says excess wealth and easy living led to his downfall and admits he would not be in prison if he had lived a simpler life. He is serving a term for stealing a directory from a saloon.
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Congress
Oakland
Cal
George Morgan
George Morris
United States Congressional Library
Washington, D.C
Market Quotations From Regional Grain and Livestock Quotes
Market quotations from Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Toledo, Detroit, Buffalo, New York, and West cover cattle hogs sheep and grains. Prices list range by city for No. 2 wheat and corn, oats and rye, with butter and clover seed values and per ton coal or hay like hay prices. Names of cities and commodity grades anchor the report as a compact price survey.
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Chicago
Dianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Milwaukee
Toledo
Detroit
Ste
New York
Caine
Iowa Executive Council to Publish Annual Deliberations Report
The State Senate decided the Iowa Executive Council must print yearly reports of all business and publish acts. The council includes the governor secretary auditor and measurer of state and will issue two complete reports annually. The census work is trimmed to enumeration and saved about 100000 per census while establishing a uniform statewide bookkeeping system.
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State Senate
Iowa Executive Council
Executive Council
House
Ancie! Resister
Council
Des Moines Harvester Plant Collapse Buries Stock and Harvesters
A three story building owned by the Des Moines Union Railroad and occupied by the Deering Harvester Company on Second Street collapsed in Des Moines. The accident buried 160000 pounds of binder twine and 250 harvesters on upper floors. The 44 by 152 foot structure housed several people who escaped. One horse was killed. Stock valued at 73600 and building at 8000.
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Des Moines Union Railroad
Deering Harvester Company
Second Street
Des Moines
Wariar
Culdther
O'Brien County land suit favors settlers in lane case
Federal court in Des Moines ruled for H C Lane of Sheldon in the Lane land dispute over eighteen quarter sections once held by Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha. The court held the title was forfeited and gave preference to settlers who occupied lands before opening to settlement March 20, 1896.
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Federal Court
Des Moines
Lane
Federal Land Court
H.C. Lane
Sheldon
O'Brien
Chicago, St. Paul
Minneapolis
Omaha
Onr
Foul Play Suspected in Iowa Farm Disappearance
An eastern Iowa farmer named Gus Friedman vanishes after a late fall arrival with money from Chicago. At a party at the Ellis home he lingered in the kitchen and vanished. bloodstained shoes found nearby suggest foul play. His brother vows a full investigation to solve the mystery.
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Iowa
Gus Friedman
Ben FL Etjis
Indes Penence
Friedman
Chicago
Ellis
Elhout
Ellis Place
Iowa sugar beet project discussed by legislature
A joint session in the Iowa House heard a plan to establish beet sugar industry with state bond guarantees for an Ames plant and Clinton Waterloo Fort Dodge and Des Moines factories. Speakers included J S Emory Ma Fenderman and Prof Curtis. major investors Clinton and the Sams and Young estates.
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Iowa
J.S. Emory
Daines
Fenderman
Grand Island
Norfolk
Nebraska
Curtis
Iowa Agricultural College
Ames
Eutory
Great Sams and Young
Clinton
Agricultural College
Waterloo
Fort Dodge
Des Moines
Dubuque and Keokuk News Roundup
A chaotic mix of reports from Dubuque and Keokuk details a young farmer facing sheriffs, mounting paranoia, and a river plunge after a suicide attempt. A Dubuque group forms to stage Nutwood Park harness events with Frank J. Stout among organizers. Robert Watson pleads guilty to perjury in a Sioux City case linked to Willson, with sentencing under a decade. A Webster City bank and savings institution plans a spring opening, while other local notes mention a hospital transfer for ailing youth and an insane man seen near the river.
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Dubuque
Nutwood Park
Frank J. Stout
Robert Watson
Omaha
Sioux City
Tadge Wakefield
Young Wise
As Young
Willson
Olence Watson
Panitentiary
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Renwick
Ala
Chandier
Chandler
Cotante
Oklahoma
Oxlaham
Clare Blunk
Relief Committee
Wat. Semacen
B. Grastrap
Chattanooga
Richardson
Tenn
Boyd Ewing
M. D. Patton
Ewing
Patton
Durrant
California Supreme Court
Theodore Durrant
Burns
Schofields
American Tobacco
American Tobacco Company
Matthews
Gallagher
Laughlin
Maggie
Averdue
Miles
Schock
Albert
Lawson
Cassidy
Ford
Muller
Hugh Miller
Brooklyn
Miller
Elmira Reformatory
Freto
Dridge Street
Broklyn
Sands Street
Vanderbilt and
Myrtle Avenues
California
United States Weather Bureau
Sau Prancisco
Terrell
Constantinople
State Department
Zussul Suman
Saird
Asiatic
New Sugar Company
New York Sugar Refining Company
Long Island City
Ieetor A. Doescher
Fred Behr
I.C. Tiebault
Logan
Frederick Brommer
Grooklyn
Denver
Central Christian
Chaireli
Denyer
Aylesworth
Krake University of
Bradstreet
Greex Press
House Committee
Tlinois
Revell
Ieago
Crete
Archbishop Plunkett
William Coningham Plunkett
Dublin
Lord Plunkett
O'Brien County
Dealy
Board of Supervisors
Sioux County
Tio
Rocky Valley
Justice of the Peace
Grange City
Phillips and
Lumsden Mines
Thio Monroe
Appannose
Mabaska Fell
Boone County
Universalist
Boone
Hay
Kay
Moore
Springfield
Anna Shaw
Boone County Woman's Suffrage Association
Rowenna Stevens
Bertha Conley
Clara Mann
Martha L. Jordan
Sarah L. Ricker
HD. Weaver
Sylvester
Lehigt
Webster City
Washington
Howver
Knoxville
Ailroad
T.E. Dyer
Wis
Jaker Wi
William W. Sargent
Seymour
J. P. Sargent
Creston Waterworks Company
Summit Lake
Creston
Burlington
Jes
Meek
Portheast
Washington County
Pennsylvania
Agul
Eek
Methodist Missionary Meeting
Methodist, Church
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
Woman's Homeissionary Society
Sherif
Dubnae
Casper Traog
Tman
Big
Keokuk
Talento the Insane Hospital
Mt. Pleasant
Joseph Traeb
Dabagne
New Bank
Webster Oy
Webster City Savings
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