Senate War on Cuban Reciprocity and Canal Debate
The article sketches a dire Senate battle over Cuban reciprocity and the Nicaragua canal, with Roosevelt pressed to unite Republicans. It notes party splits, the effects on the 1904 elections, and the importance of the Hepburn canal bill amid minority delays. It also reports new federal evidence strengthening a beef trust case, including illegal rebates and railroad links, prompting Justice Department action.
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White House
Panama
Senate
Nicaragua
Pethea
Chicago
Washington
Knox
Department of Justice
Bethea
One Thousand Were Killed in An Awful Story Told
An American soldier writes to his father recounting an awful massacre in which about one thousand people were killed. He describes the horror, the scale of the loss, and the impact on survivors while urging caution and remembrance.
Gravediggers Slain as Prisoners Hid in Philippine Hills
Lynn Mass May 8 An officer’s letter describes Filipino prisoners forced to dig graves being shot as squads killed 1 000 insurgents after a surprise ascent near Sorsogon. A priest and confessor allegedly executed to deter liberation thoughts in a grim summary of Philippine campaign brutality.
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Lynn
Mass
Father Confessor and
Geneal
J. Bennet Walker
Sixteenth Infantry
Sorsogon
Philippines
Dr. Walker
Walker
Hyke
Burr
Yrosin
Ceneral
Father Confessor
Nalker
Elopement Fallout Ends in Family Tragedy and Marriage Claims
In Youngstown Ohio area Mrs Lizzie Deitcher aged 46 discovered her husband Charles 23 in the company of her daughter Nellie Stevens 20. The trio had traveled from Meadville Pennsylvania where they eloped Tuesday. Mrs Deitcher agreed to separate the pair only to have Charles claim years of love for Nellie and reveal a Jamestown New York marriage occurred while he was intoxicated.
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Wroungstown
Lizzie Deitcher
Charles Deitcher
Nellie Stevens
Meadville
Pnnsylvania
Deitcher
Nellie
Invasion of Japanese Market Fishermen Idle San Pedro Fisherfolk
About 300 San Pedro men, mainly Italians or Germans, who fish the ocean are idle as Japanese market fishermen enter the trade. Wholesale houses pay 2 cents a pound, fishermen demand 3 cents and to stop buying from Japanese. Some Japanese boats were wrecked in the harbor. no further violence. Port shipments in 1901 reached about 1,400 tons.
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San Pedro
Cal
British Troop Train Derails. Officer and Ten Men Dead
Lord Kitchener reports a May 7 derailment on a Pretoria to Pietersburg line in Northern Transvaal. The derailed cars at a curve killed an officer and ten soldiers, with several more injured.
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London
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Piettersburg
Tansvaal
Hetty Green Granted Permit to Carry Revolver in New York
Mrs Hetty Green the noted financier has been granted a police permit to carry a revolver. Captain Stephen O Brien reports she carries large sums of money and valuables and seeks protection while in the city.
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New York
Hetty Green
Stephen O'Brien
Widow to sail for Europe with husband ashes
Mrs. Frederick H. Werle will travel to Europe with her one child and the cremated ashes of her husband. Werle, a noted North Side druggist with stores in Pittsburgh and Allegheny, died wealthy and despised burial, planning to scatter ashes at sea.
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Pittsburg
Frederick H. Werle
Europe
North Side
Allegheny
Turmoil in Haiti prompts U.S. envoy to consider departure
In San Domingo on May 8 United States Minister William F. Powell suspended all intercourse with the revolutionary government and prepared to leave for Haiti, where a revolution is said to be underway due to grave difficulties.
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San Domingo
United Stat
William F. Powell
Hayti
British transport meets distress at sea near Freemantle
A London dispatch reports the Beverie sending a lifeboat with the first officer and three men to Freemantle Western Australia after 1506 miles at sea. The Beverie lost its propeller 1500 miles from Freemantle and requested aid. The ship had left Freemantle for Natal on March 21 with remounts and ninety soldiers aboard.
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Melbourne
Ictoria
Beverie
Bus
Freemantle
Western Australia
Boveric
Natal
Payne May Succeed Hanna as GOP Chairman, Report Says
May 8 in Washington a breakfast at Senator Hanna’s house included the President and Postmaster General Payne. Republicans widely expect Henry C. Payne to take over as chairman of the Republican National Committee, praised as the Roosevelt era’s active force.
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Washington
Senator Hanna
Payne
Ianna
Henry C. Payne
Mark Hanna
Republican National Committee
Roosevelt
Dennison Elected President of General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Mrs Dimies T S Dennison of New York won the federation presidency by 667 votes to 258 over Mrs Sarah Platt Decker of Colorado amid a dramatic ballot and crowd reaction at the Los Angeles convention. Mrs Decker urged withdrawal to back Dennison.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Dimies T. S. Dennison
New York
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Sarah Platt-Decker
Colorado
Dennison
Federation
Decker
Barnes
Kentucky
Gallagher
Ohio
Anthracite Miners Propose Arbitration Board
The executive committees of three district United Mine Workers units in the anthracite fields, meeting in Scranton, propose submitting all disputes with operators to an impartial arbitration board chosen by the industrial branch of the National Civic Federation. The proposal was sent to the operators by wire.
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Scranton
United Mine Workers
Mitchell
Anthracite Mine Workers’ Organization
National Civic Federation
Telegraph Name Makes Oranges Lab Worker a Millionaire
George A. Dold of Pasadena learns he inherits a $15 million estate as the sole American heirs. The Virginian, formerly a sailor and U S Cavalry soldier, quits his garb of daily labor to claim wealth and plan a new life after settlement.
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Fassadena
Cal
George A. Dold
Dold
Fusatena Orange Growers’ Association
Willis
Cold
Atlantic
George R. Oid
Fannie Sands
Richmond
Willis Dold
Edwin P. Dold
Philadelphia
Thomas &. Dornain
Norfolk
Major Sands
Fourth United States Cavalry
San Francisco
Philippines
Medium testifies he has never seen a spirit in court case
A. J. McIntosh a spiritualist medium testifies in Justice Morrow's court that he has never seen a spirit and that all mediums use robes and caps to fake materialized spirits. He sues Mrs. Nettie Tite and her husband for possession of robes used to develop her as a medium.
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Cleveland, O
A. J. McIntosh
Trust Contractors Quietly Penetrate River Work
A river and harbor bill provision would require bonds from surety firms for faithfulness of work. Report says big contractors form a trust to fix bids, pressuring nontrust bidders. Conference committee fights to remove the clause, hoping to block the scheme.
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Washington, May
Congress
Secretary of War
Oig
Enemies in Washington Rally Against Statehood Bill
In Washington the Statehood bill faces a tense House vote with Republicans pressing against it. Speaker Henderson and leaders Payne and Dalzell campaign for party unity, while Tennessean Moon advocates admission for the Territories citing justice and growth. Grosvenor opposes, calling the omnibus plan dishonest, and Arizona’s Delegate Smith is slated to reply after late debates.
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Washington
D. C
House of Representatives
Friends of the
Henderson
Payne
Dalzell
House
Knox
Moon
Tennessee
Committee On Territories
Union
Grosvenor
Ohio
Oklahoma
Arizona
New Mexico
Smith
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Nicaragua Canal
United Ios Senate
Nators
Aldrich
Hendern-Payne-Grosvenor
United States District
Buffalo
Department
Day
Mrs. Hetty Green
the Widow’s
United States
British Transport
Aggident
Life Boat
Hanna
Fessenden
Goodloe
Quay
Platt
Dutley
Clarkson
Joseph H. Manley
Fair Glu
Pasadena
Tm Dle
Bill
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