World News Briefs Include Royal Birthday and Labor Odds
A survey of items notes Sir Henry Stanley turning sixty. queen Wilhelmina ruling the Netherlands. Oregon residents nicknamed Hard Cases and Webfeet. Texas land hunger by Pittsburg parties. De Wet amid South African conflict. Also reports on hospital costs, factory output, and rising insurance trends in Britain, with political quips from Congressmen and aging monarchs.
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Henry “Stanley
Pittsburth
Texas
de Wet
Oregon
Nick
Rhereg
Wilhelmina
Holland
Tornado Toll Rises Across Texas and Arkansas
Storms swept from northeast Texas through Arkansas on March 11 causing eight deaths in Wills Point and heavy property damage near Blossom and Emery. Widespread destruction included unroofed buildings, collapsed houses, and several injuries. In Kitchener and London reports de Wet escaped northward with 400 men as Boer negotiations continued in the war.
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Rock
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Charles Bowling
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London
the Times
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DeWet
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Orange River Colony
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Lord Kitchener
Gén. Botha
Daily Express
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Leyds
Schalkburger
South African Republic
Daily Mail
Lourenzo Marques
Martinezen
United States Army
Lisbon
Zaire
Four North Carolina leaders arrested in Carthage lynching case
J J Jones Dr M E Street David Andrews and William Harding, noted Eastern North Carolina figures, were jailed in Moore County after a mob stormed Carthage jail and lynched Silas Martindale. Martindale, accused of attacking Miss Brewer, was hanged outside the town limits amid reports of multiple strangulations for confession. This marks a rare mob killing of a white man in the state in 50 years.
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Carthage
N. C
J. J. Jones
M. E. Street
David Andrews
William Harding
Northrolina
Silas Martindale
Moore County
Martindale
Miss Brewer
Explosion at Chicago Laundry Kills and Maims
A boiler explosion at the Doremus laundry on West Madison Street in Chicago instantly killed and injured several workers. About 40 employees were present. official numbers of dead and missing varied as rescue efforts stalled due to a dispute over who must search the rubble. Coroner's jury to determine cause as authorities await investigation.
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Chicago
Doremu
Madison Street
A. J. Dorem
John D. Shea
Wine
Insurgent Actions Reported Near Santa Cruz Laguna
Washington reports from Manila that Gen Mariano De Dios and 57 officers and men surrendered at Naic Cavite. Col Walter S Chuyler and Lieut Col Edward B Pratt led captures of rifles in Alfonso and other Cavite districts. A detachment of the 48th Volunteer Infantry defeated insurgents near Santa Cruz Laguna. Seizures include the steamer Carmen and schooner Orient with contraband of war seized on Petrel patrol.
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MacArthur
Manila
Mariano de Dios
Naic
P Saea
Janary
Walter S.chuyler
46Th Volunteer Navy
Cavite
Edward B. Pratt
Alfonso
Ruan
Butangas
Fernando Russ
Tubaceler Company
M. de Berad
Europe
48Th Voluneer Infantry
Santa Cruz
Preince
Laguna
Carmen
Galliano Urletta
Orient
Jose Ysanez
United Es
Petrel
Sopsere
Bulen
Albey
England's Answer Ends Talks Believed No New Negotiations
England signals clear stance that there will be no further negotiations on the subject soon. Officials indicate discussions are unlikely to resume in the near future, limiting room for new diplomatic moves or concessions.
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United ‘States
Great Britain
Senate
Ex President Harrison Near Recovery Says Doctors
Indianapolis March 12 Dr Jameson reports Harrison’s condition slightly worsened with left lung inflammation and chest pains causing restlessness but doctors remain hopeful of eventual recovery. Jameson notes no crisis and says strength holds. Washington reports Britain’s rejection of Senate amendments on the Nicaragua canal and hints at possible future negotiations without urgency.
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Jameson
Harrison
Ting
Washington
Senate
Hay
United States
United
Great Britain
Isthmian Canal
Congress
Bubonic Plague Report From Cape Town
The official report on the bubonic plague in Cape Town shows 22 deaths and 103 cases since the outbreak began. Malays gathered Sunday to oppose removing a Malay afflicted by the disease and others who had contact with the victim. Police were overpowered as people fled, raising fears that armed force may be needed if similar clashes recur.
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Cape Town
Philippine Commission Sails to Organize Tayabas Province
Judge Taft and associates with their wives and prominent Filipinos left Manila aboard the Sumner for Lucena to organize a provincial government. The pier overflowed with cheering natives. In four weeks insurgents surrendered 500 rifles in Pampanga Bulacan and Bataan. Methodists report 120 Manila converts and the Evangelical church claims many new members.
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Taft
United States Philippine Commission
United States
Sumner
Lucena
Tayabas
Luzon
Pampanga
Bulacan
Bataan
Methodists
Philippine Evangelical Church
He Was Suffering From an Incurable Disease Queen Louise's Monument Decorated
Queen Louise's monument was decorated as reports say he suffered from an incurable disease. The ceremony drew local officials and residents paying respects to the prominent figure.
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Queen Louise
Court-Martialed Privates In Cuba Sentences
Washington March 12 nine court-martials of privates in Cuba appear in special department orders. Charles Hill Troop PD 10th cavalry found guilty of appearing with a dirty carbine at inspection and sentenced to dishonorable discharge forfeiture of all pay and allowances for two months confinement seven days each month in solitude on bread and water plus hard labor thereafter. Albert Houck battery H 2d artillery guilty of absence without leave scaling walls visiting Havana district and being drunk and disorderly sentenced to forfeiture of pay for one month.
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Cuba
Charles Hill
Troop PD
10Th Cavalry
Albert Houck
Battery H
2D Artillery
Havana
Yale Observator Reports Diminished Star Brightness
A Yale observer notes the new star in Perseus has faded to the third magnitude and another observer suggests it appears slightly redder than before, observed in March in New Haven.
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Strike Hits St Joseph Mill Over Wage Cuts
In St Joseph on March 42 a strike by about 450 girls began after Tabor saving machinery was introduced at John J Brittain Co and wages were reduced. The workers suspended business and demanded the discharge of Superintendent Philipps formerly of Terre Haute Indiana.
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St. Joseph, Mo
John J. Brittain & Co
Philipps
Terre Haute
Ind
Dominion to Act on Knox Lynching Case in Mississippi
Canada will act in response to the lynching of John Knox in Mississippi. Letters received indicate the act was without warrant. Eleven men accused of lynching have been arrested in connection with the case.
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Que
Dominion
John Knox
Riots in Madrid Over Octroi Tax Fire Sentries
Riots in Madrid during Sunday evening attack municipal employees collecting the Octroi tax and set fire to ten sentry boxes. Four persons were injured, one seriously.
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Madrid
Prince Albrecht Ya Zolme-Braunfels Death in Wiesbaden
Berlin reports Prince Albrecht Ya Zolme-Braunfels died by his own hand in Wiesbaden after learning his disease was incurable. The note places the act on a Sunday marking the anniversary of Queen Louise of Prussia born March 10 1776. Her monument in Berlin’s Thiergarten received lavish floral decorations.
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Albrecht Ya Zolme-Braunfels
Wiesbaden
Louise of Prussia
Frederick William III
Thiergarten
Baldwin anti-vice chief links tenements to vice
New York on March 11 quotes Wm. H. Baldwin Jr. chairman of the anti-vice committee stating there are 80,000 tenement houses in the city with ten to twenty families per building and an average of 40 to 60 children per dwelling, asserting vice breeds there.
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New York
Wm. H. Baldwin, Jr
Treasury official downplays San Francisco plague scare
Assistant Secretary Spaulding states in Washington on March 12 that the plague is not epidemic in San Francisco and there is no cause for alarm. He adds that the discovered cases are not contagious.
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Washington
Argonia Bank Robbery Blows Open Safe
In Argonia Kansas on Saturday night the private bank of J H Springer was robbed of 2600 dollars in cash and four thousand dollars in registered government 3 percent bonds. The safe was blown open with nitro glycerine.
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Kan
J. H. Springer
Stricter security planned for Emperor William visit
Berlin reports that much stricter precautions will be taken to ensure the safety of Emperor William. Detectives from Berlin will accompany him to cooperate with local authorities during future engagements.
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Berlin
William
Rag ing Flood Sweeps Shenango Valley In Eight-Year Peak
Sharon Pa March 12 The Shenango valley is hit by the worst flood in eight years with rivers rising and miles of inundation from Sheenville to Newcastle. An ice gorge at the Bessemer bridge backs water into Greenville and damages at Sharon steel works and hoop plant are reported. Conger sails from Peking for the United States as diplomats and mission staff bid him farewell.
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United States
New Mexico
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Muset Co
Sharon
Shenango Valley
Sheenville
Newcastle
Bessemer Railroad
Greenville
Sharon Steel Works
Sharon Steel Hoop Plant
Peking
Conger
Nation releases bond and plans Topeka home
Topeka Kansas March 12 Mrs Carrie Nation has posted bond again and was released from jail Monday Her securities include C H Moore and J D Elroy Moore is her brother Nation says she will make her home in Topeka in the future
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Carrie Nation
C. H
Moore
J. D
Elroy
Telephones Rendered Useless by Winter Weather
Detroit is battered by freezing rain and a 30 mile per hour wind that crippled over 1000 telephones, wires weighed down by ice and extensive morning outages reported across the city.
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Mich
Financier F. O. Mathiessen Dies in New York
F O Mathiessen, director of the American Sugar Refining Company and the Standard Distilling and Distributing Co., among other firms, is dead in New York on March 11.
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F. O. Matthiessen
American Sugar Refining Co
The
Standard Distilling and Distributing Co
Yale graduates invited to teach in Philippine schools
President Hadley of Yale received a letter from Frederick W. Atkinson, superintendent of free public instruction in the Philippine Islands, inviting Yale graduates to apply for teaching positions. Salaries range from 70 to 100 dollars per month.
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Hadley
Yale
Frederick W. Atkinson
Free Public Instruction
Philippine Islands
US Infantry Units Remain in China under Maj Robertson
Peking reports Companies A and B of the 9th United States Infantry will stay in China. It is believed Major Robertson will command the forces, reinforcing the continued American presence amid the ongoing tension.
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Peking
9Th United States, Infantry
China
Maj
Robertson
Health Building for Smallpox Patients Torn Down by Mob
Pesthouse mobbed in Orange New Jersey as the recently completed health department smallpox facility is destroyed by a mob in the early hours of Monday. Police and authorities investigate the riot and assess damages to the new building and surrounding area.
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N. J
Edward Conrad Dies Noted Southern Diver at 42
New Orleans report states Edward Conrad a renowned southern diver died Monday. He had recently inspected the wreck of the Maine and recovered part of a cable believed used in destroying the ship.
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Edward Conrad
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Maine
Battle Picture Neglected In Chicago Cyclorama Box
A Gettysburg painting worth $100,000 is found deteriorating in a box in a Chicago area city lot. The cyclorama enterprise behind it was once highly profitable, led by a Chicago man who organized the project.
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Boston
Gettysburg
Chicago
Cyclorama Enterprise
Missouri governor signs ransom kidnapping death penalty bill
Jefferson City March 11 Gov Dockery signed the senate bill punishing kidnapping for ransom by death. The measure carried an emergency clause and becomes law immediately, creating a severe penalty for kidnap cases involving ransom.
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Gov
Dockery
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Negro suspect in Valley Young murder brought to Corsicana
Corsicana Texas March 2 John Henderson a Negro was brought here for preliminary examination Monday in the murder of three Mrs Valley Young The town feared mob violence and the danger of lynching was considered too great for a public trial.
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Corsicana
Tex
John Henderson
Valley Younge
Bill to Prohibit Artificial Sweetening in Berlin
A bill submitted to the federal council proposes banning artificial sweetening such as saccharine except for health reasons. All artificial sweetening would be taxed at 80 marks per kilo.
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Federal Council
Furness-A Hen incr Alunda missing near St Johns
St John s N F March 12 The Furness-A Hen incr Alunda Capt Chambers which left Liverpool February 23 for St Johns has not arrived and it is feared that some accident has befallen her
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Guarded Mausoleum Over Queen Victoria in Progmore
London reports a strong force of soldiers and police stationed over Queen Victoria's mausoleum at Progmore on March 12 to thwart any desecration attempt.
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Queen Victoria
Progmore
Treasury balances report shows available cash and gold reserve
Washington March 12 Monday's statement of the treasury balances in the general fund exclusive of the 150 million dollar gold reserve in the division of redemption shows available cash balance 182,251,659 gold 87,727,230.
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Washington
Treasury
General Fund
Boston Pitcher Nichols Signs New League Deal
Boston on March 12 reports pitcher Charles Nichols signed a Boston League contract Monday. It is Nichols twelfth contract with the team. Lawson and Pirtiger are also noted in the brief, with unsettled wording around other signings.
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Boston
Charles Nichols
Nieho
Bretier
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