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Newspaper
Traverse Bay Eagle
Location
Traverse City, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1898
Page
1
Washington buzzes over a letter alleged by Senor de Lome to insult President McKinley. Officials weigh authenticity, recall risk, and potential legal action for libel as Spain seeks explanations from Madrid. The case dominates official Washington and diplomatic circles.
In Washington on February 10 crowds fill senate galleries as Cannon presents a resolution to notify Spain over Cuba. Mason counters alleging U S policy favors Spain and cites starving Cuban women and children amid calls for action against piracy by arms shipments.
Washington February 10. The senate committee on foreign relations voted unanimously to report adversely on Senator Allen’s amendment to the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill seeking to recognize the Cuban insurgents as belligerents. Senator Morgan argued that appropriation bills are not proper vehicles for foreign policy issues.
Washington February 10 Professor Edward J James of the University of Chicago has been nominated by the bureau of education to represent the United States as delegate to the international congress of commercial instruction in Antwerp to be held April 16 1898.
Washington dispatches Captain Samson to send torpedo boat Cushing to Havana with supplies for the Maine. She will depart in a day or two and return once deliveries are made.
Testimony before Judge Woodward includes warnings to jurors about receiving letters. John Yourshekowitz recounts Harwood strikers meeting plan and deputies’ violence at West Hazleton and Lattimer where a deputy’s pistol misfired and shots killed several. Steve Jusko and Michael Popsos describe beatings and injuries by deputies during the same events.
A meeting of Ohio brick manufacturers in Zanesville to form a price keeping combination broke up in confusion after a fight between John Co Bolen and E N Hatcher. Chairs and fists were used but no serious injuries reported.
Kansas City on February 10 reports that Joseph Leiter the Chicago wheat king will construct a grain elevator next summer with capacity greater than any existing facility. The Journal cites undisclosed authority for the plan.
Paris dispatch reports Emile Zola narrowly escaped lynching when he emerged from the jury door to a jeering crowd. Barristers in robes incited disorder, police gate closures failed, and republican guards intervened to disperse the mob amid repeat trial tensions.
In London the House of Commons resumed the address debate as Michael Davitt moved an amendment highlighting Irish distress and potato crop failure. John Dillon urged immediate relief. Gerald Balfour defended government relief and pledged exceptional measures. Also in St Petersburg Russia abandons Prince George of Greece for Crete governorship and warns against Turkish troop increases.
In Colombo Ceylon on February 10 the German cruiser Deutschland arrived and Prince Henry of Prussia disembarked and went to the government house for a formal visit.
Pretoria reports Paul Kruger has been re-elected president of the South African republic on February 10. The announcement confirms Kruger will continue to lead as head of state and government.
Burglars entered the Harvey postoffice, opened the safe and took 1800 dollars in cash and stamps, leaving no trace on the exterior of the iron strongbox. This marks the fourth safe robbery in Harvey in two years, with a similar sum taken in a similar heist twenty months earlier.
A San Jose Guatemala cablegram to The Evening Post reports the assassination of President Barrios. The message notes the country is quiet afterward and recalls Barrios’ long rule marked by wealth and fear of violence, with the president always escorted by a heavily armed bodyguard in public.
Chris Von der Ahe president of the St. Louis Base ball club is freed after a dramatic arrest that resembled abduction. A U S marshal produced a habeas corpus writ and, after a brief hearing before Judge Acheson, Von der Ahe was released on 2500 bail with attorney J Scott Ferguson acting as bondsman. Detective Bendel and Scandrett staged a diversion via Glennwood to reach the jail and recover the captive.
A 47 year old woman living with a man named Nigro in a squalid two room top floor tenement at 896 Second Avenue New York died by taking carbolic acid. She was known as Mrs Clara Nigro though she may not have been married to Nigro. Tenants report a rumor she might have been married to a sheriff in Wisconsin. A notable item in the room was a gold framed portrait of a handsome blue eyed man with blonde hair and light mustache. The woman’s little boy refused to tell what he knows of his mother’s life saying she was kind but would not like what he would reveal.
Lexington reports a letter from Colonel Thomas E. Moore of Bourbon County denouncing Desha Breckinridge, editor of The Herald, and proposing a duel to settle their differences. The feud traces to the Breckinridge Owens race from four years ago and current Herald ridicule of Moore.
At 3 o clock in the morning the eight story Hurley office building and several nearby properties in Fort Worth burned to the ground. The Dreyfus company dry goods house Farmers and Mechanics bank Fort Worth Denver City Railway offices and Worth Cycle company were destroyed. Firemen could not control the blaze until 9 o clock. Total loss estimated over 250000.
Salter D. Worden, condemned to death for the 1894 California railroad wreck, tells Governor Budd he was forced by Harry F. Knox of the Sacramento American Railway Union to participate. Worden claims Knox was the real conspirator and that threats coerced his action. Authorities may arrest Knox, seek commutation to ten years or life for Worden.
In dense fog two freight trains C P and St Louis collided about thirty miles north of Springfield Illinois. Engineer Edward Moore of Springfield was instantly killed. Moore was formerly an old Wabash employee. Damage to engines and cars is very great.
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