Floods Spread Across California and Florida Trip South
Californias northern valleys face continued rain with rising rivers and submerged Stockton basements. Santa Clara and Alameda counties endure minor damage while flood defenses hold. McKinley visits Tallahassee with Vice President Hobart ill. Lynchings reported in Arkansas Texas border area amid tense race tensions.
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Sacramento River
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San Francisco Bay
Santa Clara
Alameda County
Mountain View
Evaded the tax and brave rebel fortunes at Malabon
Manila reports two Spanish prisoners who escaped to lines of the Kansas Regiment describe Filipino concentration at Malabon and Polo with Aguinaldo's bodyguard at Malolos. Rebels plan to fight at Malabon or disperse to swamps and mountains if engaged. They admit cannot withstand American shells and bayonet charges and suffer food and hospital shortages as observed by the escapees.
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Oregon Volunteers
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Satarags
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United States
Kansas Regiment
Polo
Aguinaldo
Malolos
Melabon
Remains Sought from Windsor Fire Tragedy
Fire Marshal probes the Windsor Hotel blaze as 200 workers search the ruins for victims. Finds include bone fragments from two bodies near the forty seventh street area and letters with the name Miss Casey, while a hotel servant named Miss Causey is safe. Detective Niehof and R A Merritt are examined. officials offer no conclusive origin of the fire.
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Windsor
Abner McKinley
Forty-Seventh Street
Arara
Seery
Returned to His Home Gerald Lapiner Arrives in Chicago
Little Gerald Lapiner abducted from Paynesville Ohio arrives in Chicago with his mother. He is pale and thin but recognizes brothers and sisters. Parents plan to return to Paynesville to face court Monday as authorities pursue abductors and seek restitution. Mr Lapiner vows to press for punishment and believes accomplices aided the motive for kidnapping. Requisition papers sent to Paynesville for speedy court appearance of Sol and Mrs Ingersoll in Chicago.
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Chicago
Payneeville
Ohio
Lapiner
Saloonkeeper fatally shoots attacker during attempted robbery
In Blue Fields Virginia on March 24 W A Skinner a saloonkeeper asleep upstairs with his wife was attacked by a negro who attempted to rob them. Skinner seized his revolver and shot the assailant three times in the head killing him instantly. The Negro was F M Sect reputed Coharacter. Skinner was acquitted by the Corane.
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W. A Skinner
Skinner
F. M
Coharacter
Corane
Bryan at Memphis to Speak Tomorrow Night
William Jennings Bryan arrived in Memphis and was escorted to the Peabody Hotel for a public reception. He will lecture at the Auditorium under the auspices of the Century Club, then depart for Little Rock.
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Memphis
Teon
Wmn
J. Bryan
Peabody Hotel
Bryan
Century Club
Little Rock
Prayers Demand Rain Endorsement Sparks California Notice
A Reno petition urges Los Angeleans to stop praying for rain, stating enough has fallen. Cambridge leads in betting for the Oxford and Cambridge boat race set for tomorrow with Cambridge favored. News wires report a U.S. Treasury order for free binding twine imports from Canada affecting tariff duties. Li Hang Chang seen as a key figure in Pennsylvania Senate race, while Governor Fletcher of Washington state is reported near death.
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Los Angele
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Canada
Execution Follows Jealous Murder in North Dakota
James W. Cole, condemned for killing his sweetheart Iris Ford on December 12, faced execution on the scaffold in Bismarck. Described as a fat-blooded nervous man, he remained cool after final words and urged officials to pull the trap without acknowledging any appeal.
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N. 1
James W. Cole
Mies
L Ford
Otis plans decisive land and water campaign in Luzon
Washington reports General Otis near completion of campaign plans to smash Aguinaldo’s insurgent army within a week to ten days. The strategy calls for combined land and sea operations with thirteen Spanish gunboats, rapid river and coastal attacks, and encirclement from Pasig to Laguna Bay to trap retreating forces.
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Germany Talks Fight Over Tri Partite Recall
Berlin dispatches report newspapers debate the Rhineland question and recall of all tri partite representatives in Sunou. Proposals say new arrangements would be easier and avoid humiliating any party, with mixed views from official and regional papers.
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Weismann Dead in Leipsic Professor Gus tav Weismann Dies
Leipsic reports the death of Professor Gus Tav Weismann, a physics and chemistry professor. In San Francisco weather, new rainfall is forecast with tonight cloudy, Saturday cooler conditions.
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Leipsic
Gustav Weismann
San Francisco
Funeral of Princess Kaiulani in Honolulu
The Honolulu funeral for Princess Kaiulani on March 17 was the largest ever held there. Officials and family members attended as the hearse was drawn by the U.S. Army Engineers battalion and about forty thousand people participated or watched the procession. Reverend H H Parkes delivered the address in the Hawaiian language.
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Orient
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Kaiulani
United States Volunter
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Chestertown Hanging Ends Calmly for Joseph Wright
In Chestertown Maryland at 8 45 this morning Joseph Wright colored was hanged in the jail yard for shooting William Newcomb an aged colored man in November 1897 killing him instantly. He claimed drunkenness was his first and only such act and said Newcomb felt nothing for him. A bid to commute by Governor Lowdes failed and Wright faced death calmly.
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William Newcomb
Newcomb
Lowdes
Texas Lawyer Shoots Judge in Sweetwater Chamber
In Sweetwater Texas E P Woodruff attacked and shot Judge John H Cochran in his chambers over a court ruling on a bill of exceptions. A bystander R P Watts was wounded. Cochran and Watts are in critical condition. Woodruff is held on bonds totaling 3000 dollars.
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Post-Dispatch
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Texas
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E.P. Woodruff
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Cochran
R. P. Watts
Wats
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