New Coast Fortifications Telegraphic Dispatches
New York Feb 22 Nearly 100 telegraphic dispatches were sent from Governor's Island to fortifications along the seaboard under General Merritt. The moves follow a coast defense plan outlined years ago with engineers preparing placements and ordnance setting guns and carriages.
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New York
Governor’s Island
Seaboard
Eastport
Galveston
Tex
General Merritt
Department of the East
Merritt
Barber
Fort Wadsworth
Sandy Hook
Fort Schuyler
Willet’s Point
Fort Hancock
Army Engineers and Ordnance Bureau
Ordnance Bureau
Governor's Island
Boston
Charleston
Fort Caswell
Cape Hatteras
Governors Island
Washington
Alger
Dutch and Gull Islands
Long Island Sound
Hamilton
Wadsworth
Hancock
Slocum
Delaware Bay
Miles
War Department
Sultan of Sokoto Protests Against French Forces
Intelligence from Akassa reports two French expeditions advancing toward Sokoto with six officers and 200 men arriving at Argungu and Tagga. The sultan orders the French force to halt 40 miles from the capital while Royal Niger Company officials prepare to assist and defend British territory.
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Akassa
Niger Coast Protectorate
West Coast of Africa
Sokoto
Sultanate of Sokoto
Harsan
Argungu
Argunhi
Tagga
Niger
Royal Niger Company
William Wallace
MEN RETURN FROM DAWSON STEAMER REPORTS GOLD NUGGET FIND
Five men arrive on the City of Seattle with news of a $450 nugget found on Peterson's claim at Skookum gulch. They also report the accidental shooting death of Mrs. Jessop in Dawson when her husband dropped a revolver. Ill fated steamer Clara Nevada carried Al Noyes and Fr. C Bonicke from Juneau amid rumors of a $165,000 dust stash aboard.
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Victoria
B. C
Seattle
Dawson
Carey Warren
San Francisco
Jack McIntyre
Fort Steele
H. Peterson
Jack Hanley
Peterson
Skookum Gulch
al Noyes
Fr. C. Bonicke
Juneau
North
Fusion forces win at Minneapolis popular convention
Minneapolis convention outcome favors fusion forces with the state convention scheduled for June 15. The middle-of-the-road faction preferred an April session and stood in the minority with no challenge, though it will try to influence the ensuing convention.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Lawlessness at Skaguay prompts immediate action urged
Governor Brady warns in a letter to Secretary Bliss that Skaguay and Dyea face violent lawlessness with a murdered deputy marshal and assaults on natives. He calls for federal relief, a patrol vessel for the marshal, and armed support to enforce court orders amid mining property disputes and a burned Juneau courthouse. Letter dated February 3.
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Washington
Bliss
Brady
Alaska
Skaguay
United States
Dyea
United States District Court
Wattin
Congress
Berner’s Bay
Judge Johnson
Patterson
AlKi
Juneau
Mob After The Murderers Near Ashdown
E G Massey a Franklin township constable in Little River County was murdered six miles from Ashdown. He and deputy Richard Dickens were ambushed while attempting to arrest Ned Aiken and his son plus two black men. Massey killed by buckshot and Winchester fire. Dickens escaped. Lynching feared if Aiken and Johnson are captured.
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Little Rock
Ark
E. G. Massey
Franklin Township
Little River County
Ashdown
Ned Aiken
Massey
Charley Johnson
Aiken
Johnson
Richard Dickens
Dickens
Murderous Sailor Aboard The M P Grace
The American ship M P Grace arrived from New York with police signal flying. C A Hansen of the crew had been confined for 128 days in a sailor’s locker for attempting the lives of the captain and his wife. He sneaked into the cabin by night armed with a pistol but was disarmed and confined after a struggle.
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San Francisco
M. P. Grace
New York
C. A. Hansen
Hansen
de Winter
Dawson City Reports Yukon Strike and Digging Rush
News from Dawson City via San Francisco describes a 4 inch strike on American Creek deep in Yukon territory. Tonight 75 men departed Dawson for new diggings on American soil across the boundary 25 miles away.
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Dawson City
San Francisco
American Creek
Yukon River
Dawson
Assassination of Huntington Farmer Ruled A Killers Act
Ruffus Schaefer, a Union district farmer near Huntington West Virginia, was shot at his home Sunday night. The killing was described as an assassination. A separate note reports the New York subtreasury first recorded a credit to Lieutenant W S Rosecrans as a government discharging officer.
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Huntington
W. Va
Ruffus Schaefer
Union District
New York
W. S. Rosecrans
Spaniards Must Wait for Maine Investigation
Washington reports that Secretary Long and Assistant Secretary Day discussed with the president the Spanish request to join U S officials in probing the Maine disaster. The first inquiry will be conducted by U S commissioners, with Captain Sigsbee directing operations and Spanish divers cooperating thereafter.
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Washington
Long
Day
State Department
Lee
Havana
Cuba
Maine
Senor Dubose
Sigsbee
United States
Legation
Havana Harbor
Acquittal in Butte Homicide Returns Insanity Ruling
Emma Baptiste is acquitted of fatally shooting her husband James Baptiste in Butte after insanity was found as the ground. He had left her for singer Frankie Bell, and she confronted him at a pool room where he worked.
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Butte
Mont
Emma Baptiste
James Baptiste
Baptiste
Frankie Bell
Emma
Rates Slashed by Canadian Pacific and Competing Lines
Canadian Pacific today unveiled sharp rate cuts affecting New England to Minneapolis and St Paul routes and north Pacific coast travel. New England to coast first class drops to 40 dollars and second to 30, with St Paul moves to 20 and 19. Northern Pacific also lowers Tacoma to St Paul, Duluth and Midwest routes, and matches this with further reductions for Chicago and Ontario Quebec destinations.
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Chicago
New England
Minneapolis
St. Paul
New York
North Pacific Coast
Atlantic Seaboard
Canadian Pacific
Tacoma
Northern Pacific Railroad
Duluth
Minnesota
North Dakota
Manitoba
Ontario
Quebec
Montreal
Grand Trunk Railway
Port Huron
Great Northern
DUNS REPORT STAYS OPTIMISTIC ON TRADE AFTER MAINE DISASTER
R G Dan and Company reports from New York on February 22 that the Maine disaster has limited impact on business. Only in stock markets is there notable selling by speculators. ore prices rise across lake region with a 6,000,000 ton outside Carnegie’s mines. Wheat exports surge with 8.4 million bushels in three weeks, signaling strong foreign demand and a six month supply window for the U.S.
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New York
R. G. Dan & Company
Maine
Lake
Messaba
Carnegie
Atlantic
China Opens Inland Waters to Navigation and Trade
The Times correspondent reports China will open all inland waters to navigation for both foreign and native-owned vessels under upcoming regulations within four months. A treaty port in Hunan is to be opened within two years near Chau by the Yangtze. Britain is assured China will not alienate Yangtze valley rights.
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London
Pekin
the Times
China
Hunana
Chau
Yang Tse Kiang
Thirteen English Explorers Beset by Misfortune on Edmonton Route
Thirteen young Englishmen led by Viscount Avonmore left Montreal December 13 for the Klondike. They faced death pneumonia sprained ankle frozen feet broken arm and arrests as Captain O'Brien and Captain Alline fell under legal trouble. The group in disarray after these events.
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Montreal
Viscount Avonmore
Klondike
Edmonton
Alline
Hoops
Powell
Mr. Bannerman
O'Brien
Referendum approves Swiss railroad purchase plan
Berne reports voters backed the state buyout of Swiss railroads at about 1,000,000,000 francs. The government plans to finance the purchase with a government loan.
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Berne
Switzerland
Northwest in Brief itemized provincial notes
A compact, period-voice roundup notes 1897 to 1898 events across Washington and Idaho. Topics include Knights of Labor in Colfax, Whatcom evaporators, Fairhaven cannery plans, hops in Lewis county, Seattle Frost street franchise forfeiture, Blaine Ferndale road bid, Clarke county divorces and marriages, Yakima ice outlook, Everett customs receipts, Palouse socialist activity, Aberdeen railroad work, Stevens county jail needs, memory of pioneer Joel Perkins, Crow agency payouts, Yukon migration, university building bids in Missoula, and Bannock-Craig railroad bridge inspections with Lewiston freight and local education events.
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Knights of Labor
Colfax
Whatcom
Fairhaven
Lewis County
City Council of
Seattle
Frost Street
Blaine Ferndale
Superior Court
Clarke County
North Yakima
Everett
Palouse
Latah County
Idaho
Social Democracy
Aberdeen
Wishkah
Pacific Hotel
Stevens County
Joel Perkins
Northwest
Medical Lake
Mr. Perkins
Barren County
Kentucky
Marshall County
Ilinois
Plains
Benton County
Oregon
Waitsburg
Wash
Snowbound Midwest Struggles With Deep Snow Drifts
Chicago reports Wisconsin Iowa and Illinois largely snowbound as two feet fall in Illinois and Iowa and heavier depths in Wisconsin and northern Michigan. A 40 mile gale created massive drifts paralyzing streetcars and delaying northern trains up to 15 hours. Chicago sees mixed rain and snow but traffic remains mostly uninterrupted.
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Chicago
Wisconsin
Iowa
Ilinois
Michigan
Northern
Ordered to the coast by early departure for Fort Stevens
Coeur d Alene Idaho Feb 19 The troops at Fort Sherman were ordered to prepare Company H Sixteenth Infantry under Captain Whitehall and Lieutenant Irwin for an early move to Fort Stevens The unit will likely leave Sherman within 48 hours with speculation about the Sixteenth Infantry headquarters possibly moving to Vancouver Barracks Washington
William Gray Found Murdered Near Livingston Stockyards
Helena Mont Feb 21 Three boys discovering the body of William Gray a prominent mining owner who disappeared in February his head crushed and body hidden in a hydrant box the corpse robbed no arrests yet Gray owned mining properties in Park County and was well known in the district
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Helena
Mont
Livingston
William Gray
Gray
Park County
Alaska bound steamers to carry passengers per permit
Port Townsend notes that after critical reaction to the Clara Nevada sinking and issues around the North Pacific departure for the north, Collector of Customs Houstis will enforce Alaska bound vessels carry only permitted passenger numbers. The New York chamber of commerce formed by 20 merchants at Faunce's tavern on April 5, 1768.
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Port Townsend
North Pacific
North
Colonel Houstis
Alaska
New York Chamber of Commerce
Faunce’s Tavern
Proceedings of Congress Reconvenes With Maine Battleship Bill
Congress debates the Maine disaster and Cuba policy as the House passes the Henderson bankruptcy bill and a $200,000 Maine recovery resolution. Senate advances naval inquiries and Alaska land bills, with Alaska governance and coast survey funding on the agenda.
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Congress
House Committee On
House of Representatives
Carter
Senate Committee On Public Lands
House
Alaska
Senate
Allen
Senate Committee On Naval Affairs
Maine
Hale
United States
Mason
Cuba
de Lome
Wolcott
Lodge
Havana
Secretary of the Navy
Boutelle
Naval Committee
House Committee On Judiciary
Coast Survey
Aleutian Islands
Iloar
National Library
Committee On Naval Affairs
Thorugh
Havana Harbor
Frances Willard Dies in New York Hotel Empire
Frances Willard president of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union died soon after midnight at the Hotel Empire in New York City. At her bedside were her niece Mrs. W. W. Baldwin, Mrs. L. M. Stevens vice president of the union Miss Anna Gordon her secretary and Dr. Alfred K. Hill. The remarks at the end urged women to become more beautiful and men to have money in their purses.
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New York
Frances EB. Willard
World's Womans Christian Temperance Union
Hotel Empire
Willard
W. W. Baldwin
L. M. Stevens
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Anna Gordon
Miss Willard
Alfred K. Hill
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A. J. Seligman
Helena Business Men’s Association
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Lewiston Concord Bridge
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