Samoa Crisis Deepens as War Looms in Apia
The AP reports Admiral Kautz asserts the Berlin treaty rejects a provisional Samoan government and orders Mataafa and supporters to return home. German Consul Rose disputes the move, prompting naval force actions on Apia. Shelling, troop landings, and missionary nurses mark daily clashes amid international tensions and propellant displays.
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Apia
Samoa
San Francisco
Associated Press
Admiral Route
Bia
Supreme Court
Germany
Kauts
Samos
United States
Mataala
Wamoa
Rose
Mataafa
Philadelphia
Porpoive
Brown
Cave
Toealay
Mataafa Haylog
Miller
Great Britain
America
Admiral Kautz
Sturdy
Porpoise
Miss McCoy
Miss Forth
Apla
Vaiveu
Tivoli
Porpoire
Vailala
Falke
Kautz
Ptay
Lewan
Safdy
United Stated
Bothwides
Matassa van
Raute
Cuncliffe
Taylor
H. J. Moors
Selena Muda
Sturdee Dows
Tanumafili Malietoa
Sausoa
Mulivun
White
Sturdee
Fortesse
Tanu
H. M
Taurangua
Railroad Tangles In Kansas City Pottine Road Case
Eastern interests in the Kansas City Pittsburgh and Gulf Railroad move to shift control from the county circuit court to the United States court. The State Trust Company of New York filed a federal foreclosure suit seeking a receiver to protect bondholders and to halt current receivers from acting pending further actions.
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Kansas City
Kansas City, Pitteberg and Gulf Railroad
Frank Hagerman
United States Court
State Trust Company of New York
Battle in Honolulu sparks martial law on plantation
The Mariposa report details a March 26 clash between Japanese and Chinese laborers at Kahaku plantation in Hawaii. Japanese forces armed with clubs knives and axes attacked Chinese quarters, causing several deaths and many injuries before police and Luna workers dispersed the fighting. Martial law is declared, with 23 Japanese ringleaders and 17 Chinese jailed as tensions rise among island communities.
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San Francisco
Australis
Samoa
Hawaiian Islands
Associated Press
Honolulu
Kahaku
Wright
Pitt
Scandia Arrives in San Francisco With Soldiers
The transport Scandia reached Quarantine Manila crews bring back time expired men and the bodies of four officers killed in the Philippines. The deceased include Colonel Smith of Tennessee, Captain D. B. Elliott of the Twenty Fourth Kansas, Major McConville of Idaho, and Lieutenant French of North Dakota, with additional officers Swazee of California and Murphy of the Fourteenth Infantry aboard.
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Hilver Silte
San Francisco
Scandia
Manila
Philippines
Smith
Tennessee Regiment
Elliott
Twentieth
Kanane Regiment
Caloocan
Markets Review Cattle and Sheep Across Major Cities
Cattle receipts in Chicago reach 2,010 with mixed steady to firm prices. Kansas City reports 5,000 cattle receipts with natives and Texas steers showing strength. Omaha and Denver show steady to quiet markets with beef and mutton values listed. New York notes copper trading as of April 7.
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Chicago
Kansas City
Texas
Omata
Denver
New York
Firefights and theft by New Jersey troops in Greenville episode
A Greenville report describes The Fourth New Jersey leaving for home after mustering out, firing from a cave and raiding shops en route. A badge vendor reported ten watches and sixty badges stolen. in Chester, soldiers fired at spectators and raided a lunch counter as drunkenness rose among troops with officers present.
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Buver
Atlanta Ga
Greenville
South Carolina
New Jersey
Chester
Jersey
Nevada University Basketball Team Leaves for Berkeley
Nevada University basketball team led by Manager Elizabeth Stubbs and Captain Louise Ward leaves Reno by train to play Berkeley and Stanford. Lineups include Kirby, Sparks, Perkins, Ward, Ward, Linscott, Strosnider, Montrose, Holmes with substitutes Hill and Parish.
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Reno
Nev
Mise Elizabeth Stubbs
Louise Ward
Nevada University
Berkeley
Stanford
Berkeley Girls
Frans Kirby
Ethel Sparks
Ethel Perkins
Bernice Worland
Stella Linscott
Winnie Strosnider
Myrtle Montrose
Ida Holmes
Misses Hill
Parish
Stanford Cars — Obes
Additional Casualties From the Philippines Reported
Washington April 7 General Otis cabled Adjutant General Corbin with latest names of killed and wounded in Manila. Killed include Sergeant Edwin W. Wall of the Third Artillery and Corporal Owen Rowlanda of the First Montana. Wounded list features Lt L England with a finger wound, Sergeant W Montgomery hand, Private R King scalp, W & Prench forearm, F M John hand, Private W B Pyncheon hand, Private G B Gime foot, Private G P Dyer man shoulder, Corporal J L Jones hand, and Band Sergeant G W the First Montana.
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Philippines
Washington
Otis
Manila
Corbin
Edwin W. Wall
Montana
Owen Rowlanda
Third Artillery
L. England
W. Montgomery
R. King
W. &. Prench
F. M. John
William B. Pyncheon
Pennsylvania
G. B. Gime
Colorado
G. P. Dyerman
Twenty-third Infantry
J.L. Jones
G. W
Texas Legislature To Grant Ten Blocks Of Galveston Wharf
Texas House moves to third reading a Senate bill confirming Galveston City Council action. Huntington to receive ten blocks of Galveston Pay wharf frontage. and other items include railroad laborers killed near Point Richmond and recapture of escapees near Vincesanes Indiana. court gossip and drug ads close the item.
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Texas
Gilver
Austin
Tex
House
Senate
Galveston City Couneil
C. P. Huntington
Galveston
Spain Confident Otis, Government Unmoved on Spain Payment
The cabinet discussed the 20,000,000 payment to Spain and likely transfer by Treasury draft to a Spanish designate. Aguinaldo reorganized his army north of his former capital as the Philippines situation was reviewed, yet the government’s confidence in General Otis and his forces remained unshaken.
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Washington
Spain
Philippines
Aguinaldo
Otis
Deeds of Heroism in Fire Toll Rises in New York
A dawn blaze in Manhattan's wealthiest district killed thirteen people and injured nine or ten more as flames swept from the Wallace C. Andrews residence at Sixty seventh Street and Fifth Avenue to nearby homes. The dead include Wallace C. Andrews, his wife, Mrs. St John and her children, and fourteen servants and guests. A policeman and firemen battled the flames, with some victims found charred beyond identification, and the cause remains unknown though an explosion is suspected.
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New York
Sixty-seventh Street
Fifth Avenue
Wallace C. Andrew
New York Steam Heating Company
Fie
Sixty-ninth Street
Albert J. Adama
Andrews
Wallace C. Andrews
New York Steam Heating Co
Gamiel O. St. John
Mrs. Andrews
G. St. John
The
Steam Heating Co
Orson &J. John
Wallace St. John
Frederick St. John
Eva Peterson
Nellie Boland
Mary Flanagan
Annie Neary
Kate Downing
Maria Rose
Mary Loughlin
Alice White
Nellie Quinn
Jerry Bluizina
Adams
Hagemeyer
East Sixty-Sixth Street
Andrews House
Rothachilds Hall
Mia
St. John
Wallace
Jennie Burns
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Rafé
California
Elizabeth Stubbs
Alton
Upper Alton
John Howard
William Brown
Howard
Edwardaville
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Oakland
Cal
Point Richmond
Valley Railroad
Cincinnati
Abe Rothechild
Stansfield
Vincesanes
Indiana
Berlin
Emperor William
A. D. White
Pimock & Co
Dimock & Co
Ve Alger
Porto Rico
Ponce
Island
R. A. Alger
Silver State
Canton
George
Karl
Eagle Drug Store
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