Cuba in U S hands as Palma weighs Havana debut
Washington reports Gonzales de Quesada poised as first Cuban minister to the United States and outlines a plan to transfer Cuba governance by May 20 with Wood directing a staged US withdrawal and continued coast artillery protection.
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Gonzales de Quesada
Cuba
United States
Congress
Root
General Wood
Wood
Palma
Coast Artillery
William L. Haskin
Artillery Corps
Fort Truwtall
Conn
Department of the East
Brooke
Havana
War Department
T. Estrada Palma
Postal Service
Sentiago
Verdict Upheld in Negligence Suit Over Train Collision
U S appeals court affirms lower court ruling in Warren G Varry case. Fireman awarded 16000 for injuries from a collision caused by an operator failing to deliver an order. Arkansas law disagree on fellow servant status.
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St. Louis
United States Court of Appeals
Warren G. Varry
Sanborn
Arkansas
Cuban Post Office Frauds Defendants to Appeal Sentences
Neely Rathbone and Reeves sentenced to ten years each in Havana for Cuban post office frauds will appeal to Cuba’s supreme court on legal and procedural grounds. Separate fines totaling 127,006 pesos reflect shortages in general and surcharged stamp accounts. The court’s findings of embezzlement and conspiracy were reportedly unanimous. A cable from Major Estes G Rathbone quotes claims of political conspiracy and government orders as arguments. Porto Rico ports list removal cites fear of Chinese influx amid inspection limits.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Director General of Posts of
Havana
Rathbone
Neely
Reeves
Supreme Court of Cuba
Hamilton
Hanitian Evening Democrat
Estes G. Rathbone
Opposition to the oleomargarine bill in senate debate
Senator Money of Mississippi denounces the oleomargarine bill as unconstitutional immoral and unjust contending it would tax out of existence an industry for others benefit He claims the poor must be heard even against rich interests and predicts the bill cannot stop oleomar garine. Also notes pension actions and a New Woman bicycle club in Japan.
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Missisippi
Washington
Senate
Money
Mississippi
Spooner
Congress
Japan
Tokio
New Corn Oil Mill To Open In Decatur
Work has begun on a new corn oil mill in Decatur UK costing 400000 dollars and producing 125 barrels daily. It will be the largest corn oil mill in the country and is built by the Pratt Cereal Oil company with a new process that extracts nearly all oil from corn. The mill joins a forming trust including Shefabarger's Pratt's Sofferin Hunt & Co and others across Indiana and Illinois. The trust, named the American Homing company, will control national corn grinding with a yearly capacity of 20000000 bushels.
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Decatur
Ecorn
Pratt Cereal. Oil Company
Shefabarger’s
Pratt's
Sofferin, Hunt & Co's
Ceraline Manufacturing Company
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Homing Company
Bates Mills
Hodnett Mills
Mount Vernon
Terre Haute
Danville
American Homing Company
Queen Alexandra Heads to Copenhagen Jubilee
Queen Alexandra began the journey to Copenhagen for the April 8 birthday celebration of King Christian IX. In Philadelphia, Moses Schwartz, sought in New York for alleged forgery involving a $100,000 Seventh National Bank fraud, was arrested by New York detectives.
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Queen Alexandra
Copenhagen
London
Christian IX
Denmark
Philadelphia
Moses Schwartz
New York
Natonal Bank
Flour Trust Formed by National Millers Federation
In Chicago on March 26 the National Millers federation elected officers including President Barney A. Eckhart of Chicago and Vice presidents Henry L. Little of Minneapolis and ex-Gov B O Stanard of Missouri. The group represents a 4400,000,000 capital and 100,000,000 barrels annual flour output and aims to mutualize interests and curb abuses, not control prices.
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National Millers’ Federation
National Millers’ Associaation
Snd National Winter Wheat Millers’ Associateo
Barney A. Eckhart
Henry L. Little
Minneapolis
B. O. Stanard
Missouri
W. C. Ellis
St. Louis
Eckhart
Faith Too Strong Kills Man in Cumberland Church
At Cumberland LT Rev Ensley Lamar shot and killed Calvin Van Winkle after an altercation over religious doctrine. The elder Van Winkle fired in defense of his son, several shots exchanged, Lamar taken into custody.
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Ardmore
J.T
Cumberland
Ensley Lamar
Calvin van Winkle
Lari
William van Winkle
van Winkle
Lamar
Retirement of Gen Otis Ends Four Decades in Service
General Elwell S Otis retires after forty years in the U S Army turning over the lakes and Dakotas commands to Colonel McCaskey and awaiting General Arthur MacArthur He will return to Rocheter New York with Mrs Otis and their three daughters He declines travel and writing a book signaling a long retirement in healthful ease in Chicago then home.
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Elwell S. Otis
United States Army
Department For the Lakes
Department of the Dakotas
McCaskey
Twentieth Infantry
Wilmain
Arthur MacArthur
Otis
Chicago
Rocheser
N.Y
Suburban bribes trial links stock deal to franchise bid
Testimony in St Louis court shows Philip Stock and Meysenburg involved in a 1901 stock transaction tied to Suburban Railway bill No. 44. Bank involvement and notes suggest payments for political favors as Meyer nsburg faces bribery charges in the municipal assembly dispute.
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St. Louis
Emil 2Burg
Douglas
Philip Stock
Stock
Municipal Assembly
Charles Kratz
Meysenburg
Kratz
Winloch Telephone Company
St. Louis Electric Construction Company
Meysénburg
Richard Hospes
Ger- Tran Savings Bank
Henry Nicolaus
Charles H. Turner
Suburba Railway Company
Turner
Charles H W. Turner
Suburban Railway Company
William KR. Hodes
William Nolker
Brewer
St Louis Electrical Construction Company
Meysenburz
Notable Victims of March Deaths across Cities
Cecil Rhodes dies peacefully in Capetown at 3 57 PM after a brief decline. Euriene Santobanez, second secretary at the Mexican embassy, collapses on Washington streets this afternoon. Chicago lawyer Charles A Dupee, aged 71, dies today.
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Capetown
Cecil Rhodes
Rhodes
Washington
Euriene Santobanez
Chicago
Charles A. Dupee
Ellen Stone Leaves Salonica for London En Route to America
Ellen Stone begins her journey from Salonica to London and then sails to America. Incendiary fires hit Platteville Wisconsin as Taylor Bros feed store burns, $3,500 loss, plus blazes at Meyer Metcalf lumber yard, Maab saloon and Schroeder bakery. Papermakers in Miles Michigan vote to strike over shorter hours if not granted.
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Platteville
Plattsville
Wis
Taylor Bros
Meyer & Metcalf
William Maab
Schroeder
His- CN Timely
Miles, Mich
Buller and Balfour quarrel over Spionkop dispatches
In London on March 26, A. J. Balfour and General Buller exchange sharp claims over who led at Spionkop. Balfour insists Buller was in chief command and pushes for publication of all dispatches. Buller denies and seeks unedited dispatches without manipulation.
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London
A. J. Balfour
Geral Buller
Balfour
General Buller
Spionkop
Spienkop
Buller
Charles Warren
Lord Roberts
Natal
Biplely
Taxation of corporations passes senate in New York
The New York Senate approved the Krum bill taxing foreign corporations for doing business in the state. It imposes a tax of one mill on gross assets under 3 million dollars, with additions tied to dividend rate. larger capital stock is taxed on the full amount with stepped rates. Independent items note other linguistic variants and related political actions.
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New York Senate
Albany
N. Y
New York
Senate
Bilbk
Cabinet circle row raises civil service reform questions
Washington March 26 Civil service reformers allege an evasion of the law over Miss Isabelle Hagner, listed as a war department clerk earning 840 a year, serving as private secretary to both Mrs Roosevelt and Mrs Root. Lawful basis for dual roles for cabinet wives under reform is questioned as legislators plan inquiry.
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Washington
Isabelle Hagner
War Department
Roosevelt
Root
Miss Hagner
Mob Hangs Suspect in Pueblo After Fatal Assault
In La Junta area a Black man alleging assault on a woman from Los Angeles led to a night crime. Police say Wallace, a Pullman porter, was seized by a mob at Fowler and strung up near La Junta. Separately a Capitol ceremony joined Cuban Andres Dias Paire and Canadian Catherine McConchie in the first home of the Capitol wedding.
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Wataras
Ashuro
Tokyo
Minkkteras
Sachinra
Mara
Iwagetun
Totem
Kaijo Gun
Chiba Ken
la Junta
Volo
Henrietta Miller
Los Angeles
Cal
Capitol
Washington
United States
Justice of the Peace
Bundy
Andres Dias Paire
Catherine McConchie
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