Indemnities debated as negotiators seek swift settlement
A ministers' committee in Peking outlines a principle for indemnities aligned with Roman and English law amid disputes over personal and property losses. Mr. Rockhill expects talks to finish in two months, excluding treaties. General Chaffee opposes extortion and backs swift settlements. Other reports note rising unemployment across Austria Hungary and Italy, while Chicago carpenters withdraw from the building trades council for two years.
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Peking
Rockhill
Building Trades Council
Chicago
Carpenters and Contractors
Carpenters
Tri-Weekly Tribune Subscription Notice
A brief description of the Tri-Weekly Tribune outlines its publishing pattern Monday Wednesday and Friday as an every-other-day daily with foreign and domestic news. It lists contents such as short stories illustrations humor industrial information fashion agricultural notes and financial market items with subscription prices of 1.50 and 2.00 per year for different delivery options.
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Ture Huron- Pte
Weekly RA 7: National Family Newspaper for Farmers
Weekly RA 7 is a long running national family weekly known for general news from The Daily Tribune up to press time. It features an Agricultural Department, market reports, and entertaining reading for all ages, offered at $1.00 per year with Tue Horonire for $1.25.
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United States
Daily Tribune
Roosevelt Faces Senate Move Amid War Speak And Rules Clash
Vice President Roosevelt drew applause then warned galleries to stop. Senator Platt's rule-change plan was sent to rules as Morgan pressed a two hour salvo on abrogating the Clayton Bulwer treaty. Morgan warned Britain risks war if it enforces the treaty.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Platt
Conn
Committee On Rules
Morgan
United States
Great Britain
Cuban constitutional convention debates Platt amendment in secret
Havana observers report the convention split between conservatives and radicals over the Platt amendment. Delegates vote to keep sessions and refer the issue to a special relations committee while General Sanguilly favors dissolving the body. A potential radical appeal to the people could trigger protests but no uprising is feared as tensions ease.
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Havana
Special Committee On
Senor Liorente
General Rivera
Sanguilly
Executive Department
Washington
Republic
Senor Nunez
United States
Wood
Special Committee On Relations
Statements of the Appropriations Made by the Last Congress
Representative Cannon and Representative Livingston released statements detailing Fifty-sixth congress appropriations totaling 1 440 062 545 dollars with first and second session amounts of 710 150 862 and 729 911 683 dollars. They compare prior congresses expenditures and appropriations with the Fifty-fourth congress.
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Washington
Representative Cannon
House Committee On Appropriations
Representative Livingston
Cannon
Livingston
No Senate Committee Reorganization Planned This Session
Washington reports no formal move by Republican senators to reorganize the senate committees during the current session. The decision leaves retiring senators' appointees in place until Congress reconvenes next December.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Vaille Resigns as Philippines Posts Chief. Cotterman Named
Washington March 8 The post master general accepted F W Vaille resignation as director general of posts in the Philippines and named C M Cotterman his successor. Vaille becomes assistant superintendent of the railway mail service and will be stationed temporarily in Washington.
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Vaille
Cotterman
Washington
F. W. Vaille
Philippines
C. M. Cotterman
Mr. Vaille
Population of Alaska in 1900 Census
Washington reports the 12th census shows Alaska's population at 63,592 in 1900, up from 32,052 in 1890, a 98.4 percent rise. Two cities exceed 2,000 residents: Nome with 12,448 and Skagway with 3,117.
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Washington
Alaska
Nomenty
Skaguay City
Allen Still Represents Nebraska Washington
Senator Allen remains listed as Nebraska’s senator and is kept on the rolls until Nebraska lawmakers elect or adjourn. Some expected his commission to expire March 4, the close of the last Congress, but authorities ruled otherwise.
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Allen
Nebraska
Washington
Hay testifies to own ability and fidelity
Secretary Hay signed his own cabinet commission declaring implicit confidence in himself and in his fidelity and ability during a March 8 session in Washington.
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Washington
Hay
Emerson pleads guilty in Topeka concealed weapon case
Rev. F. W. Emerson, arrested for participating in the Curtis joint raid, faced police court on charges of carrying concealed weapons and resisting an officer. He pleaded guilty to concealed weapons and the resisting charge was withdrawn, with a $5 fine imposed.
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Topeka
Kan
F. W. Emerson
Curtis Joint
Emerson
Weyler Declares State of Siege in Madrid
Captain General Weyler issues decree raising the state of siege in Madrid. The new ministry has taken the oath of office.
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Weyler
Madrid
Boers In The Field In Cape Colony Operations
Cape Town reports that Dewet has moved north of Phillioks after crossing the Orange river Geneva. Malan's scouts clashed with a 74 man Kitchener patrol at Klips Kraal on Feb 26 with three killed and many wounded before British surrender. Malan at Modderfontein fired on a train as Australians kept burghers off. Boers are pursued by Kitchener scouts with 16,398 Boer prisoners and 427 released on parole.
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Cape Colony
Dewet
Cape Town
Orange River
Geneva
Phillioks
Malan
Richmond
Kitchener
Klips Kraal
Modderfontein
Biesjes Poort
All Day Attack on Lichtenberg Garrison
Lord Kitchener reports Delarey’s force attacked Lichtenberg, where a garrison of 200 yeomanry and 300 Northumberland fusileers with two guns held out all day. Major Fletcher and Lieutenant Hall are reported killed, with reinforcements being dispatched.
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Delarey
Lichtenberg
London
War Office
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Fletcher
Hall
Frye Re-elected Senate President Pro Tempore Unanimously
Washington March 9 Senator William P Frye of Maine was unanimously re elected president pro tempore of the Senate to serve during the pleasure of the Senate This marks the second time he has been honored Five years ago on February 7 1896 Republicans then in the minority elected him unanimously His steady impartial administration has earned wide praise following Vice President Hobarts death The speech by Mr Morgan of Alabama praising canal work stressed his long effort for the Nicaragua canal and his belief he may not live to see it begun
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Senate
Washington
William P. Frye
Maine
Frye
Hobart
Morgan
Alabama
United States
Great Britain
Nicaragua Canal
Colonel Gorring Captures Pearston With 60 Rifles
Cape Town reports Colonel Gorring occupied Pearston on March 5 along the Great Riet river. He says the town should have been impregnable but the guard offered inadequate resistance. Boers seized Pearston with 150 men and 20,000 rounds of ammunition.
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Cape Town
Gorring
Pearston
Great Riet
Plague Strikes Cape Town Soldier and Several Europeans
Cape Town report says a castle soldier contracted bubonic plague, with two European adults also affected and a European child dead. Twenty four more people have been isolated due to exposure to the infected individuals.
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Cape Town
United States warns on Denmark West Indies sale
London dispatch reports Denmark faces US pressure over the sale of the Danish West Indies. Washington threatens to block any transfer to foreign powers and to demand guarantees of inland and marine neutrality and a respected US sphere of influence.
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London
United States
Copenhagen
Daily Mail
Danish West Indies
Denmark
Zinc company in Joplin placed in receivership
The International Zinc company has been placed in the hands of a receiver. Its assets are said to be practically worthless. The firm was capitalized at 1,000,000 and had sold stock in American and English cities at nearly par, with much of the stock purchased by wage earners and others unable to invest larger sums.
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Joplin
International Zinc Company
the International
Boxers Set Bermuda for Major Sullivan Boxing Club
Boston report states prominent sporting men from Exeter choose Bermuda as boxing Mecca with a club to be opened by John L. Sullivan. Two athletic managers depart to arrange Kid McC. versus Tommy Ryan for an $8,000 purse as island’s first big event.
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Boston
Exton
Bermuda
John L. Sullivan
Athleti
Kid McC
Tommy Ryan
Cleveland Goes Hunting Again
Ex President Grover Cleveland and Professor Paul Vandyke leave Princeton for the South to shoot ducks along the North Carolina coast. They will begin at Norfolk and travel by boat along the coast in search of birds with hunting gear in tow.
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Cleveland
Princeton
N. J
Grover Cleveland
Paul Vandyke
South
North Carolina
Norfolk
Assist Nature with Hood’s Sarsaparilla Claim
An advertisement urges readers to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla to aid in cleansing the system during spring. It promises a successful cleanse and a bright clear complexion as outcomes of the tonic.
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Nature
Hood
Allies Should Not Withdraw Troops From Peking
London reports warn against pulling allied forces from Peking until Chinese control is fully transferred. The Morning Post cites a Chinese demand to send 30 000 troops, Li Liang's insolent letters to General von Ketteler, and German plans to hold Chi Li passes amid a revived Boxer movement aided by Buddhist priests.
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Peking
London
Morning Post
Pao Ting Fu
von Ketteler
Li Liang
Shan Si
Chi Li
Fo Ping
Shan Li
Minister Conger Denies Squiers Looting Allegation
Secretary Hay reports a cablegram from Minister Conger at Peking saying the accusation that Mr. Squiers, secretary of legation at the U.S. embassy, looted is based on misinformation and he is entirely blameless.
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Washington
Hay
Conger
Peking
America
Squiers
Legation
United States
Quote on dogs and men contrasts kindness and danger
A proverb contrasts a starving dog becoming prosperous with a man, asserting kindness earns loyalty while human nature can still surprise. It frames the difference as a principal distinction between animals and people.
Peculiar dangerous months for stock speculation
The piece notes October as one of the peculiarly dangerous months to attempt stock speculation, listing all months as equally risky including July January September August December February April March June November and May.
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