Deportations and Rice Case Highlight Philippine Turmoil
General MacArthur reports deporting insurgents and sympathizers to Guam under military order. Editor Rice of the Manila Daily Bulletin is ordered deported for publishing dangerous charges. Other cases include treachery by native officials and officials aiding insurgents in La Union and Guiginto.
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Washington
MacArthur
War Department
Department
Philippine Islands
Artemio Ricarte
Pio del Vilar
Maximo Hizon
Mariano Lianera
Francisco de Los Santos
Macario de Ocampo
Hateban Consortes
Lucas Camerino
Julian Gerona
Pedro Cabarrubias
Mariano Barruga
Hermogenes Plata
Cornellio Uestis
Philippines
Guam
United States
Solace
Katipuan Society
Tlocos Norte
Rice
Philippine Mail
Manila Daily Bulletin
Lucine Almeida
Catalino Landayan
Pueblo of
Culginto
Plan to Disarm Filipinos and Free Trade Talk in Manila
Sultan of Julo treaty enables free trade with Philippine islands under American flag. Licensing for mates on seagoing vessels. Manila reports March 7 that insurgents may surrender rifles for prisoner releases. Otis case notes loom. Trias may surrender. Buffalo exchanges crews with Hong Kong ships. Zafiro to Cavite. Brooklyn to Pe-Chi-Li gulf for maneuvers with Kentucky Oregon New Orleans Albany Monterey Monadnock. Asiatic fleet now fifty four vessels.
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Manila
MacArthur
Department
Carman
Washington
Otis
Trias
Luzon
Triai
United States
Buffalo
Cavite
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Navy
Zafiro
Philippine
Conservatives Win Radicals Defeated in Cuba Convention
Conservatives win in the Havana convention as radicals are defeated. United States proposition referred to the Special Committee on Relations for consideration.
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Havana
United States
Special Committee On
Cuban convention debates Platt amendment power
The Cuban constitutional convention met in secret to discuss the Platt amendment. Conservatives won a victory by deciding to continue sessions and refer the amendment to a special relations committee for a report. Most delegates favor sending an answer to Washington while debating if the convention can bind a future republic.
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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
John Sheridan Sentenced in Havana Post Office Theft
Havana March 7 John Sheridan former head of the Havana post office money order department was arrested January 4 charged with stealing 1000 sent by the Guantanamo postmaster December 26. He received a two year prison term and a 1900 dollar fine equivalent to the defalcation.
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Havana
John Sheridan
Guantanamo
No Ground for Divorce Denied in New Jersey Case
Vice Chancellor Emery refused to grant a divorce to Estelle P. Brokaw from ex Mayor Richard H. Brokaw, citing that the wife’s trips to Europe New Orleans and other places did not constitute desertion under the 1880 marriage. The couple had lived in the same house despite long years of incompatibility.
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Trenton
N. J
Emery
Richard H. Brokaw
Bound Brook
Estelle P. Brokaw
Europe
New Orleans
Claims for indemnities clouded by extortion fears in Peking
The ministers committee has formed a principle to pay indemnities in line with Roman and English laws. Some claimants press for full payment, while others argue revised sums, as one man seeks 810,000 for nerves of himself and family and 20,000 for property worth far less. General Chaffee opposes extortion and favors strict justice, with negotiations seen progressing toward completion in two months, aside from commercial treaties.
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Peking
Rockhill
Chaffee
Yin Tchang
Count von Waldersee
Robert Hart
China
Russia
Beau to Succeed Pichon as French Minister to China
The French minister to China will be M. Beau, succeeding M. Pichon, and will depart France for Peking on April 7. An agent for a China firm in eastern Washington is arranging contracts for 8,000 barrels of flour monthly for shipment to China this year.
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M. Beau
M. Pichon
China
France
Peking
Washington
Hay
Conger
America
Squiers
United States
Legation
Shan-Tung
Mongolia
Siberian
Odessa
London Daily Express
Siberia
Count von Waldersee
Third Asiatics
Knoersen
Man-Sheng
House of Commons
Foreign Office
Lord Cranborne
St. Petersburg
Russia
Manchuria
Count Lamsdorff
United States Military Postal Service
Mati
Slavery in the South Ignorant Negroes Held by Planters
Anderson county grand jury reports illegal convict labor camps in the county. It accuses three prominent planters J. S. Fowler, P. B. Ren and W. Q. Hammond of false imprisonment and holding enslaved blacks under contracts signed in ignorance. Judge Bennett rejects outside interference while pledging to stamp out the evil. reports describe arrests, whippings, long imprisonments, kidnapping and coerced testimony.
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Columbia
8. C
Anderson County
W. C. Bennett
J. 8. Fowler
P. B. Ren
W. Q. Hammond
Bennett
Grand Jury
Georgia
Fall of an Elevator Kills Two in Moline Plow Works
In Moline Illinois today Arvid J Burgston and E D Swanson were killed when an elevator cage dropped from the first story to the basement after a drum gear failed. Iron counterweight blocks weighing 110 pounds fell four stories onto workers below, fatally striking Burgston and severely injuring several others. The accident occurred as the men were going to work. Swanson was briefly involved in a scuffle with a colleague as the cage fell.
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Moline
Moline Plow Company
Arvid J. Burgston
E. D. Swanson
Herman Anderson
John Apen
A. W. Bruston
Gustav Moffstedt
Harry Jenkins
John Meassick
A. G. Perkins
Burgston
Swanson
Emperor William’s wound deepened by Bremen attack
Berlin dispatch reports Emperor William’s cheek wound from a piece of iron thrown by a weak-minded epileptic, Deitrich Weiland. Bulletin says the bite is about an inch and a half long, near the zygoma, penetrating to the bone, bleeding heavily, closed with bandages, no stitches. The attack provoked widespread horror in Reichstag and Prussian Diet. doctors expect a few days in bed and possible eye precautions.
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Berlin
William
Bremen
Deitrich Weiland
Leuthold
Bergmann
Ilberg
Emperor William
Count von Buelow
Deifrech Welland
Rathskeller
Weiland
Count von Ballestrom
Reichstag
Herr von Kroecher
United States
Charlottenberg
Potsdam
Koenigsberg
Bremen pupil Weiland deemed not responsible for attack
The German report notes Welland was examined and found not responsible. He claimed illness and feared an epileptic attack. While waiting for the Emperor, a fountain sound triggered a delusion of commanding a ship, leading him to cast a 50 gram fish plate before losing consciousness.
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Bremen
Welland
Bryan's Witty Talk on Senate Seats and Inaugural Address
William J. Bryan passed through Chicago en route to Buffalo and spoke briefly with Democratic callers. He quipped that railroads vie for senatorial positions and hinted at a possible basis of common representation amid a crowded field. He declined to discuss McKinley's inaugural address, invoking a Lincoln quip to dodge further comment.
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Chicago
William J. Bryan
Buffalo
N. Y
Bryan
Nebraska
McKinley
Lincoln
AIMED AT IRISHMEN NEW RULE ADOPTED BY THE BRITISH HOUSE
The British House of Commons adopts a new rule allowing suspension of recalcitrant Irish members for the entire session instead of only a few days. The change broadens disciplinary power and signals intensified control over disruptive debates.
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House OF Commons
All Night Debate Ends With Pro Pose Adopted in Commons
London March 8 The House of Commons adjourned after an all night session as Mr Balfours amendment to rules suspending recalcitrant members was adopted by 264 to 11. The vote followed fiery speeches from Redmond Campbell-Bannerman and Cecil and included calls for imprisonment and extreme penalties, with Ireland at the center of the dispute.
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London
House of Commons
Gully
Jordan
Dillon
Balfour
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Mr. Balfour
John Redmond
Lord Hugh Cecil
Shoutipe “Aye
Lord Cecil
Labouchere
New York Senators Oppose Col W C Sanger Nomination
Senators Platt and Depew of New York protest Col W C Sanger for assistant secretary of war saying he is not a consistent Republican and that the secretary did not consult them before the nomination. The President also announced other nominations and Senate confirmations ahead of a Republican conference on committee assignments.
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Washington
Platt
Depew
New York
Col. W. C. Sanger
Col. Sanger
Depew Aleo
Senate
J. Otis Humphreys
Silin
Ma Orthington
Silinorw
Charles 8. Wilson
Maine
Greece
Roumania
Servia
Walter Barrett
Thirty-ninth Infantry
Walter H. Loving
Forty-eighth Infantry
James Franklin Edwards
Ots
Previo
J. Ralph Spot
Pennsylvania
William — One
Maryoe
Thomas Woodbury
James L. McIntosh, Jr
Sidney
Neb
Robt
McCormick
Mllinois
Austria-Hungary
Frank W. Jackson
Patras
Bere Via
Crowninshield
U. 8
Bureau of Navigation
Kansas City Star
Pensions
H. Clay Evans
William Warner
United States
Western District of
Missouri
Grand Army
Warner
Utica
Waterville
Charlemagne Tower
St. Petersburg
Paris
Horace Porter
William FP. Frye
Frye
Hoebart
Morgan
Great Britain
Nicaragua Canal
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General Chaffee
Morning Post
Pao-Ting-Fu
Ketteler
Li Liang
Shan-Li
Chi-Li
Nordevin
Nikitin
Honda and
Iwazaki
Che-Foo
Shan-Hal-Kwan
Joseph H. Weir
U.S. N
Oregon
Navy Department
Harry Fisher
Robert E. Thoms
Albert Turner
Charles Burtin King
Marine Corps
Far East
South Carolina
Stockades
Dietrich Weiland
Deutscher Tages Zeitung
W. J. Bryan
Ing
Col. W. C. Sainger
J. Otis Humphrey
Southern
Ilinois
MR. Frye
Presi
Dent Pro Tem
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Sue
Hoosevelt
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