Scheepers Death Sparks Senate Intervention Debate
A confusion over Commandant Scheepers of the Boer army led Senator Teller to urge U S intervention citing Geneva convention concerns. Dispatches later stated Scheepers was executed last Saturday, ending the case as a British action. The item follows other brief notices from Paris Des Moines and San Francisco on unrelated political, legal, and criminal incidents.
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Floods Swell Schuylkill River Across Pennsylvania
Heavy rains push the Schuylkill river above banks in Philadelphia suburbs. Manayunk sees twenty feet of rise, causing major damage to factories along the river. Eight Hazleton collieries close again as water floods mines. Dr Francis Clemens Jr drowns in Ridley creek. Pottsville and Lancaster reports note swollen tributaries, washed bridges, and rising Susquehanna.
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Escaped Prisoners Recaptured at McNeill’s Island
News from Tacoma reports all eleven convicts who escaped from the U S penitentiary on McNeill’s Island Sunday noon are back in custody. The last four captured near the crossroads faced no gunfire, Moriarty loses twenty months, Williams two years two months added to sentences as officers celebrate the manhunt success.
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Oxnard Defends Beet Sugar Interests at Cuban Reciprocity Hearing
Washington hearings on Cuban reciprocity resumed with Henry T. Oxnard, head of the American Beet Sugar Association, and beet sugar delegations detailing U.S. production, jobs, and development across eleven states. He warned that Cuban concessions could push Americans to abandon beet sugar, while rebuking the sugar trust and Havemeyer and denying ties to any pact with Cuba.
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British Plan For Eradicating Hatred In South Africa
Rev I W Barr sails to South Africa to outline a large colonization scheme backed by the British government. British born subjects in the United States would be invited to emigrate to the Transvaal with offers of land grants cattle and farming implements to blend with Boers and ease racial tensions.
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Sensation in Cincinnati on Theodore Braemer shortage
Cincinnati reports say Theodore Braemer, secretary and treasurer of J. & P. Schroth Packing, is said to be short in his accounts from 160000 to 500000. He resigned after the shortage was alleged and transferred property to trustees to cover potential deficits. He admits resigning and transferring assets but denies any shortage beyond possible bookkeeping errors.
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Would Destroy Church Threat Targets Jamaica Plain Church
A Boston youth Walter H. Horn admitted guilt after writing a letter to vestryman G. W. Harris demanding 160 dollars to fund a trip abroad. The note threatened to destroy St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Jamaica Plain and instructed leaving 100 dollars in an envelope on chalked steps. Horn's family background noted as prominent in the Jamaica Plain district.
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Archduchess Renounces Throne For Love In Vienna
Archduchess Elizabeth renounces all claims to the Austrian throne for herself and her descendants in marriage to Prince Otto von Windisch Graetz not of royal blood. The oath was sworn in the palace privy council chamber before the emperor, statesmen, and foreign diplomats. The duchess knelt before a crucifix to take the oath.
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