War Revenue Cut By 811 Million. Tax Changes Move To President
Congress approved a major war revenue reduction bill raising or lowering taxes across many items. The conference report's changes include tobacco, commercial brokers, stock transfers, and insurance taxes, with a total revenue reduction near 41 million dollars and the act set to take effect July 1, next fiscal year. The House and Senate approved the conference report, sending it to the president for assent.
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Payne
Senate
Presiaw
Exlaw
House
Bowen
Arehouse Peres
Senate Works Smoothly as Senate Passes River and Harbor Bill
In Washington on February 28 the Senate conducted a quiet day with extensive business completed. The river and harbor bill, funding over 7 million dollars, passed with no debate. The war revenue reduction conference report was approved, and final reports on diplomatic, consular, and agricultural appropriations were agreed to.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Debates Civil Appropriation and Revenue Measures
The Senate considered civil appropriation items and heard a letter from the Marquis of Lansdowne praising Queen Victoria’s death resolution. A finance committee inquiry on internal revenue customs currency and damage was authorized. A navy promotion letter request was approved. The House cleared several conference reports, including the war revenue reduction bill, with minority leader Richardson conceding best possible outcome. The revenue cutter service efficiency bill advanced amid persistent effort.
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Senate
Frye
Marquis of Lansdowne
Edward VII
Queen Victoria
Choate
State Department
Hay
Committee On Finance
Allen
Nebraska
Secretary of the Navy
Chariet Morgan
Wiliam T. Sampson
STATE PRISON BURNING IN LINCOLN
Fire at the Idaho prison started in the warden’s living quarters and spread to the main building. Convicts were marched from cells to the yard under double guard amid a four mile communications blackout. Guards manned stockade walls to prevent escapes. Origin of the fire unknown.
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Lincoln
Neb
State Penitentiary
Lincoln Fire Department
Davis
Wrecked Passenger Train Collides Near McKeesport Tragedy
A February collision near Coal Valley five miles from McKeesport, Pennsylvania, between the Uniontown express and a local freight on the Pittsburg Virginia and Charleston line killed engineer Frank White and mail clerk Milton Thompson. Three others were seriously hurt as the express cars burned, leaving only one car intact. The freight crew escaped, while the express train carried about fifty to sixty passengers.
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Pittsburg
Pittsburg, Virgina & Charleston
Coal Valley
McKeeswort
Frank White
Uniontown
Milton
Union Town
Train collision near Painesville sparks several blast fires
A rear-end collision between Lake Shore Railroad freight trains ten miles west of Painesville caused four cars of the front train to derail. Two tank cars carrying naphtha exploded, setting the wreckage ablaze. The locomotive and twenty cars of the rear train were consumed in the blaze.
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Painesville, O
Lake Shore Railroad
Painesville
Death of Capt. I. L. Irwin at Orchard Lake Academy
Capt. I. L. Irwin, commandant of Orchard Lake Military Academy, died suddenly of heart failure at age sixty one in Pontiac. Funeral set for Friday at the academy, with remains to be sent to Arlington Cemetery in Washington for interment.
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Pontiac, Mich
Irwin
Orchard Lake Military Academy
Arlington Cemetery
Washington
Wrathy Judge Beckham Denies Gambling Bias In Pardoned Gambler
In Louisville on Feb 28 Judge Barker read to the grand jury portions of Governor Beckham s defense of pardoning Ed Alvey, a two year prison sentence for setting up a game of chance. Beckham denounced the case as persecution while Kinkead urged an inquiry into alleged misconduct by the governor s indorsement. Beckham recalled Kentucky politics fleeing Frankfort with Taylor era when the court protected officials, asserting no discrimination among gamblers.
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Louisville
Alvey
Beckham
Jefferson Criminal Court
R. C. Kinkead
Criminal Court
Rein
Barker
Kentucky
Frankfort
Taylor
Commonwealth
Veracity questioned in Rio de Janeiro wreck case at San Francisco
Captain Hodgson suspended guard Mark Ellingsen after he confessed hearing distress signals but not alerting the lookout. Ellingsen denied the confession in Major Blakely’s presence, claiming he heard only two brief signals and ignored them. An official wreck investigation by Captains Boles and Bulmer began, with testimony from Coughlin, Jourdan, and Herlihey, yielding no material findings. A White Star Line Teutonic arrival in New York followed the report.
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San Francisco
Captain Hodgson
Fort Point
Major Blakely
Mark Ellingsen
Hodgson
Ellingsen
Rio de Janeiro
Boles
Bulmer
United States
Graham Coughlin
Jourdan
George Herlihey
Ship Surges Through Rough Seas Threaten Crew
The vessel rode fair weather when a tidal wave struck on the starboard side. Ironwork crashed as water flooded hatches and deckhouse. The ship dipped then rose, bruising crew and passengers. Steerage passenger John Michaelson suffered a near-ankle injury. Captain McKinstrey urged calm in the saloon.
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John Michaelson
Emperor William narrowly escapes injury in Berlin street collision
In Berlin near Unter den Linden a collision between Emperor William's carriage and an electric streetcar caused a jolt to the royal coach. The brake failed briefly, the horses were checked, and the monarch was bruised but unhurt, peering from the carriage to inspect the incident. An eyewitness notes the emperor hid his emotions when parting from Dowager Empress Frederick at Cronberg.
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Berlin
Willilam
Unter den Linden
Schlezes
Frederick
Cronberg
House to Prompt Army Appropriation Bill with Cuban and Philippine Amendments
House leaders aim to pass the army appropriation bill today, planning to concur with Cuban and Philippine amendments. Chairman Hull prepared a nonconcurrence report but leaders expect to move concurrence, allowing the bill to pass. Democratic floor leader Richardson warns the minority will challenge the amendments at every point.
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Washington
House
Military
Hull
Senate
Committee On Rules
Richardson
Cuban constitutional convention hands USA relations declarations
Senor Capote delivered the convention declarations on Cuba United States relations to Governor General Wood at 2 PM. Papers note the delegates favored independence and sought a relation scheme reflecting that position. Elites debate Paris treaty references and Favored US recommendations.
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Havana
Senor Capote
General Wood
Cuba
United States
Wood
Washington
Senor
Juan Gualberto Gomez
la Discusion
Senate
Paris
Rag dealer's rich haul shocks Chicago
The rag dealer who paid 11 cents for a bundle of old clothes belonging to Mrs. Mary Conley of 413 Armour avenue is now believed aboard a steamer bound for Germany. He allegedly obtained $3,670 from the bundle and police fear recovery may be unlikely. Investigations point to J. Feldman, a rag dealer, connected to a large sum of money on Feb. prior disclosures unclear.
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Chicago
Mary Conley
Armour Avenue
Germany
J. Feldman
Eminent jurist Evarts dies of pneumonia in New York
William M. Evarts, former U S secretary of state and attorney general, and long time counsel for famous cases, died at his home in New York City aged 63. He had been blind for years and obviously frail. wife and all eight children were at his side. Funeral in Calvary Church, then Windsor Vermont, interment in family lot. Born 1818 in Boston, son of Jeremiah Evarts, noted reformer. He held LL B degrees from three colleges and served as U S senator from New York.
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New York
William M. Evarts
Allen
Samuel
Rev. D. Prescott
Maxwell Evarts
Mary Evarts
Beaman
Tweed
Scudder
Evarts
Evarts, Choate & Beaman
Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church
Windsor
William Maxwell Evarts
Boston
Jeremiah Evarts
Vermont
Yale
New Haven
William Penn
Panophat
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Missionary Herald
Charleston
D. C
Boston Latin School
Harvard
Daniel Lord
Union College
Henry Ward Beecher
Centennial Commission
Henry W. Longfellow
United States
Johnson
Alabama
Geneva
Switzerland
Hayes
Electoral Commission
Senate
Elbridge G. Lapham
William Washburn
Charles A. Dana
Grant
The
Sun
Mr. Dana
Portrait of Mr Evarts and His Defining Quiet Life
The passage notes Mr Evarts as tall thin and highly capable yet cold in demeanor. Once hailed as the American Cicero his public career waned after Sun’s commentary and his 1892 sight decline. He remained a devoted family man in New York, surrounded by Sherman, Allen, Beaman, Maxwell, Prescott Evarts and others.
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Evarts
Dana
Cicero
New York
Sherman Evarts
Allen W. Evarts
Mrs. C. ©. Beaman
Mr. Evarts
Maxwell and
Prescott Evarts
Mob Threat Renews Lynch Fear in Greene County Ill
Sheriff Conlee reports a mob of about four hundred will wait for Albert Shenkle, wanted for rape in Greene county. He will be moved to Carrollton by special train at 4 a.m. guarded by Illinois National Guard four companies under Adjutant General Reece. The case dates to the Dec. 3 1900 assault on Grace Giller, as mobs repeatedly shifted the prisoner from jail to prisons across the region.
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Springfield
Conlee
Carrollton
Albert Shenkle
Greene County
Shenkle
Ilnois National Guard
Reece
Grace Giller
C. H. Giller
Whitehall
Jerseyville
Edwardsville
Alton
Governor Yates Orders Guards To Halt Carrollton Lynching
In Chicago Governor Yates at Union League Club learned four National Guard companies were ordered to Carrollton to avert a lynching. He spoke by long distance with Adjutant General Reece and said troops were held at Springfield under arms ready to deploy tomorrow morning. He called the move a matter of life and death to save the prisoner's life.
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Chicago
Yates
Union League Club
National Guard
Carrollton
Reece
Springfield
Black attacker in Atlanta robs and tortures woman
Mrs C A Buchanan, wife of a Spring Street jeweler, was assaulted in her home by a burly Black intruder who forced breakfast, bound her to a bed, set fire to paper under her, and fled through a rear window. Police with bloodhounds pursue. three Black suspects held. The victim remained in critical condition with several others distressed by the event.
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Atlanta
C. A. Buchanan
Spring Street
Local Black man shot and hanged by suspected whitecaps near Burroughs
In Burroughs Georgia last night John Moody a Black man was shot and hanged by supposed whitecaps near the country. Another Negro unidentified was beaten with buggy traces and sticks and may die. The violence stems from a failed escape from contract labor after incurring debt.
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Burroughs, Ga
John Moody
Ferrell Dies at Ohio Penitentiary Electric Chair
Roslyn Ferrell was executed at midnight in the Ohio State Penitentiary after confessing to the August murder of Express Messenger Charles Lane. He killed Lane on a Pennsylvania train, then fled with money and valuables, driven by infatuation for Lillian Costlow and mounting desperation before his trial and conviction.
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Roselyn Ferrell
Ohio Penitentiary
Ferrell
Fathers O'Reilly
Kelly
Roslyn Ferrell
Express
Adams Express Company
Lillian Costlow
Coring
Pennsylvania
Lane
Plain City
Madison County
Union
Mise Costlow
Miller killed by masked attackers in Holdenville
In Holdenville J T Johnson Miller a Creek Indian on custody for Merbert McDade murder was shot by about forty masked men who raided Robert Stewart's farmhouse. Miller had killed multiple people including Cherry Harwood and young McDade before guards fell.
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J. T
Johnson Miller
Miller
Merbert McDadt
United States
Robert Stewart
Beegan
Cherry
Joe Harwod
Young McDade
J. C. Prettyman
Boundary land row unsettles Wisconsin Michigan line
A 260000 acre strip along the Wisconsin Michigan boundary is declared neither state, raising questions about the validity of acts like marriages and land transfers there. The issue may be submitted to Wisconsin authorities for resolution.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Michigan
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