Beef Cort of Inquiry Reveals Maggot Foiled Canned Beef
Chicago witnesses in the army beef court of inquiry report that half of Cuba issued canned roast beef was discarded as unfit. One can opened by Lt Davis contained maggots. Surgeons describe illness from tainted meat with vomiting and diarrhoea. Col Bennitt notes nauseating odor and repulsive meat while General Grant is said to blame cooks' lack of knowledge. Major Sanborn corroborates unpalatable roast beef.
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Army Beef Court of
Regular Army
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First Cavalry
Lee
Miles
Cuba
Fred Bennitt
Ilinois Volunteers
Newport News
Porto Rico
Grant
Joseph A. Sanborn
Chicago
First
Illinois Volunteers
General Gomez Denies Cuban Autonomy Without US Aid
Havana dispatch reports General Gomez recognizing only the United States as a power in Cuba. He says the assembly can act only with American permission and questions the need for further funds, calling the assembly a “collection of black clouds with much thunder but little rain.” He claims he did not seek more money and notes veterans who opposed his deposition will resign.
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Havana
Gomez
United States
Is canned roast beef a hoax says Chicago packer
Cariaco March 17 William J Wilson park commissioner and founder of Wilson Packing company which supplied British troops with canned beef in the Zulu war declares no such thing as canned roast beef for commercial purposes He says it is possible to can it but too expensive and that what is sold as canned roast beef is boiled meat He notes competition drives cheaper methods and that the beef used in American troops was simply boiled not compressed beef and that lives of troops are worth more than dollars
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Chicago
Cariaco
William J. Wilson
Wilson Packing Company
Cuba
Porto Rico
Indian Agency Says No Trouble Expected at Leech Lake
Reports of renewed Indian trouble at Leech Lake Minnesota are not believed by the Indian bureau. Captain Mercer writes that rumors stem from whites and there is no expectation of disturbance.
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neTton
Leech Lake
Minn
Indian Bureau
Mercer
New York Knit Goods Makers Meet on Union Plan
More than 100 knit goods manufacturers gathered in New York to discuss forming a combined interest. Philadelphia lawyer Mr. Baker is reported as the chief promoter, outlining the proposed consolidation to the manufacturers.
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New York
Baker
Philadelphia
Beaker's Bones Found at Yard in Confession
August Becker, a sausage maker who confessed to killing his wife and disposing of her by burning and boiling, led officers to his yard where charred remains were buried. Two baskets of burned bones were recovered from the site.
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CuicaGco
August Becker
Cuban assembly defends expulsion of Gomez in Cuba
Havana reports the military assembly debating a justification document for last Saturday’s action against General Gomez. The body praised United States aid but said Cuban soldiers require more funds, while rumors swirl that Washington may dissolve the assembly and General Brooke has not decided on the measure.
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Havana
Sanguilly
United States
Cuba
Gomez
Washington
la Discussion
Brooke
Calcium described as a yellow metal now seen white
The London Globe reports Moissan has shown that pure calcium is a brilliant white metal crystallizing in six sided figures. It forms when dissolved in liquid sodium at a low red heat and the sodium is removed with absolute alcohol.
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Moissan
London Globe
People uphold Gomez as Cuban crisis deepens
In Havana at 11 a.m. Civil Governor Mora and police actions against pro Gomez demonstrations are censured. The public backs General Gomez, praises Brooke for restraining Cuban authorities, and notes Gomez receives hundreds of loyalty telegrams. General Cespedos resigns from the military assembly.
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Havana
Mora
Maximo Gomez
Brooke
Gomez
Cuba
General Cespedos
General Gomez
Military Assembly
Noted French Novelist Dead
Paris reports the death of Emile Erckmann a renowned French novelist who co wrote as Erckmann Chatrian with Alexandre Chatrian. He died in his 77th year.
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Paris
Lunesville
Department
Magathet- Moselle
Emile Erckmann
Alexandre Chatrian
Erckmann-Chatrian
Open Door policy urged in China at chambers meeting
At the annual meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce Sir Henry Stafford Northcote presiding a resolution urged the British government to maintain the open door policy in China and uphold prior British rights in the Yang Tse Kiang valley.
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Loxpon
Associated Chambers of Commerce
Sir Henry Stafford Northcote
China
Yang Tse Xiang
McClelland Arrives in Brooklyn With Soldiers and Bodies
The United States transport McClelland docked in Brooklyn from San Juan Ponce and Santiago carrying 42 soldiers on furlough and 16 bodies from Santiago.
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New York
United States
McClelland
San Juan
Ponce
Santiago
Brooklyn
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