Race War Looms as Lynching Terror Flares in Arkansas County
Texarkana dispatch reports a mounting white mob violence in Little River county Arkansas with at least seven lynched and many others hunted. A alleged conspiracy by 23 Negroes triggered the outbreak. mobs of 25 to 50 scour the countryside stringing victims from trees and driving survivors toward the Texas line.
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Little River County
Texas
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Duckett
Three in Mississippi Lynching of Ringleaders
In Yazoo county near Silver City a mob lynched three Black men Minor Wilson G C Reed and Willis Boyd after shooting them. The victims who were ringleaders in a race clash at a midnight plantation were weighed with cotton bale ties and cast into the Yazoo river.
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Jackson
Miss
Silver City
Yazoo County
Yazoo River
Minor Wilson
G. C. Reed
Willis Boyd
Coney Island Fight Planned for Jeffreys and Fitzsimmons
New York reports that William A Braay and Martin Julian for Jim Jeffreys and Bob Fitzsimmons agreed to accept a bid from the Coney Island Athletic Club for a 25 round bout. The match is set for May 26 with George Siler as referee. The purse is $20,000 and the picture privilege is to be shared one third among each principal and the club.
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New York
William A. Braay
Martin Julian
Jim Jeffreys
Bob Fitzsimmons
Coney Island Athletic Club
George Siler
California Rain Spreads Flood Fears Across North
San Francisco reports continuous rain since Sunday, washing much of the northern state. While drought fears are gone, several regions now face rising flood risks and concern over rising waters.
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San Francisco
California
Iowa Dairymen Demand Freight Rate Reductions
Prominent Iowa dairymen meeting in Des Moines resolved to press for lower freight charges on dairy products and named a committee to present the issue to traffic associations capable of addressing it.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Cure of Falling Fits Claimed for Dodd's Kidney Pills
In SweetLand Iowa March 27 Miss Hesson once plagued by daily falling spells reports her mother Mrs Ed Hesson says after using Dodd's Kidney Pills she had only one episode and is cured and future trouble is unlikely. She invites others to write for details and notes pills cost 50 cents per box six for 2 50 sent by Dodds Medicine Co Buffalo NY.
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Miss.Hesson
Ed. Hesson
Dodd
Dodds Medicine Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Jamaica Indignation Over Taxation Sparks Negotiations
After two days of anarchy in Erxoston Jamaica the public occupied with indignation meetings, a government compromise is sought on a proposed tariff taxing industrial implements and literature. Negotiations have begun and adjournment was set to April 4 amid claims four new officials were added to push the measure through.
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Erxoston
Jamaica
German cruiser Bussard arrives to enforce indemnity demands
The German cruiser Bussard has arrived at Tangier to back German school ships Charlotte and Stoich in pressuring the Moroccan sultan to pay indemnities to German victims of the rooning outrages. If settlement is not swift, further complications are warned by Berlin.
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Bussard
Charlotte
Stoich
Combined Coal Dealers Move to Raise Prices 25 Cents
Milwaukee March 23 At a meeting of soft coal dealers from St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Superior and Chicago and Illinois mine operators a 25 cent per ton price increase was authorized to take effect with the opening of navigation The coalition aims to regulate prices with E E Dwight of St Paul tasked to survey grades and current prices across the district to curb underselling by any member.
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Milwaukee
Northwest
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Duluth
Superior
Chicago
Illinois
E. E. Dwight
Garment Workers Union Orders City Strike
Philadelphia March 27 The executive committee of the Garmentworkers union orders a strike of 6000 city workers to abolish sub contracting seek higher wages and better rates for government work About 2000 strikers are women A striking committee will plan actions and station pickets to deter non union or new workers from entering shops.
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Garmentworkers’ Union
No Court of Inquiry for Fifteenth Minnesota
Washington March 27. General Corbin says the officers and men of the Fifteenth Minnesota will be mustered out in a day or two at Augusta Georgia and will go home at once. He adds there will not be a court of inquiry for the benefit of officers of this regiment.
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Washington
Fifteenth
Minnesota
Augusta
Corbin
Milwaukee plans survey between St. Paul and West Superior
Wall Street confirms plans for Milwaukee to send a surveying party along the route from St. Paul to West Superior. The aim is to gain a share of growing traffic without replacing Milwaukee as a shipping point or purchasing the St. Paul and Duluth. Relations with St. Paul and Duluth lines remain friendly.
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Wall Street
New York
St. Paul
West Superior
Duluth
Canada Indian population rising in Canada report
The annual report of the department of Indian affairs shows Canada’s Indian population increasing. Last year total was 100,193, up from 99,439 the previous year.
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Canada
Montreal
Department of Indian Affairs
Baking powder trust claims $20 million capital fully subscribed
Chicago March 25 local financial bureau reports the baking powder trust completed with capital stock of twenty million dollars subscribed twice over, signaling strong investor demand and a secured financing structure for the venture.
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ChicaGo
Baking Powder
Hood's Pills Cure Biliousness and Spring Debility
The ad claims spring months make blood impure and weak, reducing nourishment to nerves and organs. Hood's Pills are advertised to purify and vitalize the blood, offering relief from biliousness and spring humors, sold by C. I. Hood & Co. for five cents postpaid.
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Lewell, Ass
Talk of dividing Samoa plan to partition islands
Washington March 27. There is suggestion Blaine plan for partition of Samoa may be revived though not official. It envisions three islands allotted to Germany, the United States, and Great Britain with Upolu to Germany Tulusia to the US and Savaii to Britain.
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Washington
Samoa
Upolu
Apia
Germany
Great Britain
Venezuelan Government Forces Defeat Insurgents at Macapro
Caracas March 27 Venezuelan government troops under General Antonio Fernandez defeated insurgents led by General Ramon Guerra near Macapro. Guerra, once minister of war and marine, had revolted against President Ignacio Andrade in Guarico where he was provisional governor.
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Venezuela
Ramon Guerra
Ignacio Andrade
Guarico
Antonio Fernandez
Macapro
Madrid Premier Seeks Faster 20 Million Peace Payment
Senor Silvera, the premier, told the queen regent that accelerating the $20,000,000 American payment has improved the commercial outlook abroad and that there is nothing to fear from the Carlists. The Madrid correspondent of The Daily Chronicle reports this assessment.
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Madrid
The
Daily Chronicle
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New Mexican Minister Arrives in Washington
The new Mexican minister Senor Don Manuel Azpirez arrived in Washington aboard a United States government vessel after departing Mexico City on March 5 and stopping in El Paso and St. Louis where he was warmly welcomed by commercial bodies and Spanish American citizens in what is described as a handsomely hosted reception.
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Senor
Don Manuel Azpirez
Senor Romero
Mexico City
el Paso
St. Louis
Kipling Suffers Temporary Setback in Illness
New York March 27 Rudyard Kipling who had steadily improved after pneumonia had a temporary setback on Thursday night when a fainting spell struck him. He was described as somewhat weaker by his physician Mr Doubleday after the incident.
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Kipling
New York
Rudyard Kipling
Doubleday
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