Suit Seeks Injunction Over Shipping of Munitions
In New Orleans on April 4, Samuel Pearson Edward Van Ness and Charles D. Pierce filed a petition seeking a preliminary injunction to stop the Anglo Australian steamer from sailing with mules and horses consigned to Britain. The suit claims the ship serves Great Britain in the South Africa war and that halting shipments would end the conflict. Judge Parlange ordered the defendants to show cause on April 6.
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New Orleans
United States
South Africa
New York
Charles D. Pierce
Orange Free State
Parson
Elder, Dempster & Co
Robert and
Matthew Warriner
South African Republic
Great Britain
Samuel Pearson
Parlange
Pearson
Rand Mines Begin Work Endorsement by Lord Kitchener
Lord Kitchener approves three Rand Mining companies to resume operations with 50 stamps each, later to seven, under a 5 shillings per day wage cap for miners to match troopers. Surplus pay funds will aid families of Rand miners killed in the war. The Transvaal chamber of mines backs the wage rule and working conditions.
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Lord Kitchener
Cape Town
Rand
Transvaal Chamber of Mines
British Night Surprise Captures Boer Laager near Boschberg
By a night surprise the British captured a laager of 60 Boers near Boschberg between Brandfort and Saltpan in the Orange River Colony.
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Bloemfontein
Boschberg
Brandfort
Saltpan
Orange River Colony
Sharper Competition in Transatlantic Steamship Line
Berlin reports the Cologne Volkszeitung noting plans for a Chicago Hamburg Liverpool steamship line and predicting intensified American competition, especially in grain and meat trades, which could harm German shipping.
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Berlin
Cologne Volkszeitung
Chicago
Hamburg
Liverpool
Census Taking begins across Canada in April
Ottawa reports the national census has begun with 9042 officials collecting data. The population is recorded as it stood at March 31 midnight, counting those born before and deaths after that moment. Schedules are due back by month’s end.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Japan says Russia refuses third-party talks over Manchuria
Yokohama reports Japan cites Russia not wanting third-party talks and a temporary convention as not impairing China sovereignty. London notes the reply unsatisfactory and hints of further protest. Prince Atsumaro warns that Britain and Germany would stay neutral while the US would not intervene, predicting Japan could drive Russia from Manchuria with its superior army.
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Yokohama
Japan
Russia
China
London
Daily Mail
Koyono Atsumaro
Chamber of Peers
Great Britain
Germany
United States
France
Formosa
Manchuria
Threatened Rebellion Over Convention in China
The Tien Tsin correspondent reports that southern viceroys and governors vow rebellion if the court signs the convention. Northern Chinese show indifference, while Feng Tien in Manchuria hosts a strong Russian occupation with troops and badges amid temporary Russian control.
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London
Standard
Feng Tien
Manchuria
Harrison Wins Chicago Mayoral Race Third Term
Carter H. Harrison is re-elected mayor of Chicago to begin a third term. He defeats Republican Eyldridge Hancey by 27,?000 votes in a city with 156,952 to 128,695 total. Franchises for street car companies dominate the campaign, with Republicans arguing vs long extensions and Democrats split over the party machine and Altgeld allies.
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Chicago
Carter H. Harrison
Eyldridge Hancey
Harrison
Hancey
Carter
William Lorimer
Altgeld
Magnate Plan to Privatize Panama Canal Feared
Chicago dispatch reports J Pierpont Morgan and James J Hill propose abandoning the U S canal plan and letting private capital finish the Isthmus project. They arrived in Washington with Senator Hanna and aim to persuade President McKinley, claiming a Morgan Hill syndicate controls Panama Canal stock and assets.
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Chicago
The
Chronicle
Washington
J. Pierpont Morgan
United States
Panama
Panama Canal
Mr. Morgan
J. J. Hill
Great Northern Railway
Northern Pacific
New York
Mr. Hill
Morgan and
Hill
Senator Hanna
Messrs
Morgan
McKinley
Secret Session of Cuban Constitutional Convention Held
Havana April 3 25 delegates attended a secret session of the Cuban constitutional convention with absentees including Giberga Quilas and General Sanguilly. A Planters association proposal to accept the Platt amendment with duty reductions or preferences was tabled. A motion to appoint a Washington commission failed 1 to 12. A public session is planned to revisit the Monteagudo motion.
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Senor Giberga
Senor Quilas
General Sanguilly
Planters’ Association
United States
Committee On
Senor Gomez
Senor Silva
Senor Villuendas
Senors de Quesada
Tamayo
Nunez
Giberga
Senor Monteagudo
Washington
Monteagudo Moton
Li Hung Chang Leaves Peking for Shanghai
Li Hung Chang with his body guard returns to Shanghai from Peking and is indisposed. Steamers are detained at his disposal and he is expected to arrive Thursday. A German force defeated 1,000 Chinese robbers near Tien Tsin on March 31, with 11 killed and 50 wounded. Report says 12 foreigners aided the robbers. Germans seized 30 carts and a gun.
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Tien Tsin
Li Hung Chang
Shanghai
Japanese British ministers secure reversal of supervisor dismissal
Reports from Seoul say the Japanese and British ministers met the emperor in Yokohama on Monday. The British envoy protested the dismissal of Mr McLeavy Brown, supervisor of customs, and the order was withdrawn the same evening.
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Supervisor Brown
Yokohama
Seoul
McLeavy Brown
Rolla Wells elected World's Fair mayor in St Louis
Rolla Wells won the World's Fair mayor race by about a 10 000 plurality, with the Democratic ticket sweeping. At midnight Republican candidate Charles F Wenthrow conceded defeat of the ticket, while G F Parker and Leo Meyerweather vied for second place. Republicans claim Nesbit law aided the surge and threaten to contest. Democrats deny any foul play and expect no contest.
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St. Louis
Rolla Wells
Charles F. Wenthrow
G. F. Parker
Leo Meyerweather
Tolstoi Reported Banished From Russia
A Vilna letter claims Count Leo Tolstoi passed through Vilna on March 26 escorted by two gendarmes toward the frontier in connection with an assassination attempt on Privy Councillor Pobiedonostzeff. The rumor had circulated for days and was initially disputed by AP.
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St. Petersburg
Leo Tolstoi
Russia
Pobiedonostzeff
Holy Synod
Count Tolstoi
Associated Press
Vilna
Yang Tse Viceroys Protest Manchurian Convention
Paris reports from a responsible authority that Yang Tse viceroys, burdened by financial obligations to England since last summer, renewed protests against signing the Manchurian convention. Both England and Japan are pressuring to secure its rejection.
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England
Paris
Japan
Spokane Union Depot Sold to New York Firm for 375000
The Union station and yards in Spokane Washington, long occupied by the Great Northern and the Oregon Railroad and Navigation companies, were sold April 3 to a New York corporation named the Spokane Union Depot company for 375000. The deed filings show the new company represents the Oregon Railroad and Navigation and Union Pacific interests.
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Spokane
Wash
Union Station
Great Northern
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Companies
New York
Spokane Union Depot Company
Cay
Oregon Railroad and Naqvisation
Union Pacific
Justice Dodge Earns Supreme Court Seat In Wisconsin Vote
Wisconsin elections statewide produced many nonpartisan results. Justice Eric Dodge won the Supreme Court seat without opposition in a statewide count. Milwaukee area chose four nonpartisan judges. Madison elected W G Zimmmerman as county judge and Storm Bull as mayor.
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Justice Dodge
Supreme Bench
Milwaukee
Eric Dodge
Milwaukee County
Oshkosh
Madison
W. G. Zimmerman
Storm Bull
Racine
Fond du Lac
Janesville
Waukesha
Navigation Opens in Detroit River and St Clair Flats
The Detroit Open reports navigation along the Detroit river and St. Clair flats as begun. The Arundel of the White Star line led the day’s trips through Lake St. Clair to Grande Pointe without ice. The Mount Clemens schooner Jennie was the first to arrive.
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Detroit
Detroit River
St. Clair Flats
Arundel
White Star Line
Lake St. Clair
Grande Pointe
Jennie
Mount Clemens
Barrymore Declared Hopelessly Insane at Bellevue
Doctors Steuart Wildman and Fitch examined Maurice Barrymore at Bellevue hospital. They announced he is hopelessly insane and will be moved to Rivercrest asylum at Astoria.
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Barrymore
New York
Stewart, Wildman and Fitch
Maurice Barrymore
Bellevue Hospital
Stewart
Rivercrest Asylum
Astoria
Greek Prince Dismisses Crete Foreign Minister
In Canea Crete on April 4 Prince George of Greece the high commissioner of the powers dismissed M Venizelos the Crete foreign minister for stating that Crete should be independent.
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Island of
Crete
Prince George of
Greece
The
Powers
M. Veniselos
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