Root Assumes Full Responsibility for Gomez Payments
Secretaries Root and Wood defended payments to Gen Gomez as necessary for stability in Cuba two years after the war, noting Gomez had led the Cuban army without pay. The War Department said Congress had full knowledge of the expenditures, including Gomez’s payments, since long prior.
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Washington
Root
Gomez
Wood
Cuba
Congress
War Department
Department
United States
Gen
Philippines
Spain
Brooke
Race War Rages in Eldorado Illinois
The Eldorado race clash continues with arson and threats against colored residents since May 29. Only five families remain, two planning to leave. Rev Green houses stoned. Jefferson D Alston named head of the Colored Normal and Industrial Institute for life amid strong opposition. The board meets June 27 to decide school removal or a new president.
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Carbondale
Ill
Eldorado
Colored Normal and Industrial Institute
Rev. Green
African Methodist Church
Jefferson D. Alston
Normal School
School
Springfield
Mitchell
Harrisburg
Bodies of Seven Soldiers Slain by Ladrones Found
Manila reports the recovered bodies of a sergeant two corporals and four privates from the Fifth Cavalry captured May 30 at Binangonan Rizal. They show mutilation, with four unidentifiable remains. Nine men tied to the gang are identified including two Teresa police. The soldiers were buried together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Fifth Cavalry
Binangonan
Rizal
Ladrones
Teresa
Morong Province
Governor Chamberlain Clinches Oregon Victory
Portland report June 17 confirms the official vote total gives Chamberlain a 256 vote majority for governor as the results are certified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Chamberlain
Five Trainmen Die In Vermont Washout Disaster
A cloudburst near Barre Vermont caused a washout on the Central Vermont line at Middlesex. A freight train of locomotive and 12 cars struck the washed ditch at speed, killing five railroad workers including conductor, engineer, fireman and two brakemen, with extensive property damage reported.
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Barre
Central Vermont Railroad
Middlesex
Waller Discusses Philippine War and Court Martial
Maj. L. W. T. Waller of the US Marines, aboard the transport Warren, advocates severe measures to quell the Philippine rebellion. He describes executions of insurrectos and estimates 400 to 500 natives killed, says one woman was wounded, and condemns the court martial case as murder. He accuses higher authorities and Washington of involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
L. W. T. Waller
United States Marine Corps
Warren
Ninth Infantry
Philippines
Maj. Waller
Jacob Smith
Australia
Maj
Waller
Samar
Hell
Washington
Coronation Week Schedule at Buckingham Palace
The final court of the season was held at Buckingham Palace. The program for coronation week lists arrivals, state dinners, receptions with foreign envoys and colonial premiers, the two day coronation events, the London procession, naval review, and related royal duties through July 5.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Windsor
Prince of Wales
St. James Palace
Lansdowne House
Naval Review
Windsor Castle
Londonderry House
St. Paul’s
Guild Hall
India Office
Regulation prohibits artificial coloring in oleomargarine
Washington June 14 Commissioner Yerkes of the internal revenue bureau settles the question on oleomargarine taxes. The regulation states that no artificial coloring matter can be used in manufacturing oleomargarine without the tax rising from a quarter of a cent to ten cents per pound.
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Washington
Yerkes
Internal Revenue Bureau
Maccabees Convention Chooses Battle Creek For 1904 Meet
The state Maccabees adjourned at Marquette after a lively session. Battle Creek was chosen as the next meeting place in 1904. A proposal to admit stockholders in brewing companies was sidetracked by committee reference. Salaries of chief officers were increased and new life policies authorized.
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Marquette
Mich
Maccabees
Battle Creek
Three Drownings Reported in Racine County
Three deaths from drowning were reported in Racine County on Friday. Leo Smollen four, son of a mail carrier, drowned in a cistern. The three year old son of John Weimer drowned in a watering trough. John Buchenberger died when a boat capsized on Michigan lake.
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Racine
Wis
Leo Smollen
John Weimer
John Buchenberger
Michigan Lake
Boers Continue to Surrender in Transvaal
London reports 864 Transvaal Boers surrendered on Thursday, raising total surrenders across all colonies to about 12,000 as of Friday.
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London
Transvaal
Wood General Denies Cuban Bribe to Gomez
Across reports from New Orleans Washington and Boston authorities and Gen Leonard Wood deny a claim that Gen Gomez was paid 25000 by Gov Wood to withdraw from Cuba's campaign to aid Estrada Palma. Officials call the tale an exaggeration and unsupportable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Charles M. Dobson
Cuba
Gen. Gomez
Wood
Dobson
McKinley
Roosevelt
Washington
Estrada Palma
Hay
Root
Gen. Wood
Gomez
Boston
Leonard Wood
Tomas Estrada Palma
Senate discusses Cuba annexation as state plan
Senator Elkins introduces a joint resolution to annex Cuba and admit it as a state with a republican government. The measure lies on the table with no committee action. Provisions include a constitutional submission by 1994 and a $100,000 appropriation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Elkins
W. Va
Cuba
Congress
Republic of
United States
Republic of Cuba
Dynamiters Strike Hazleton Home in Dynamite Blast
The West Hazleton residence of James Applegate was shattered by dynamite placed near the building. The family escaped harm. Applegate works as a Cranberry colliery special officer since the strike began. Frank Pardee, Cranberry colliery superintendent, posts a $500 reward for dynamiters and will use bloodhounds to aid police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazleton
James Applegate
West Hazleton
Applegate
Cranberry
Frank Pardee
Miss Mary Custis Lee Refuses Railcar Seat and Fails to Appear
Miss Mary Custis Lee daughter of the late Robert E. Lee forfeited five dollars collateral in default of appearance before Mayor Simpson in the police court Alexandria Virginia. She was taken into custody Friday night on a Washington and Alexandria electric car after refusing to move from the car rear to the front section reserved for colored passengers in violation of segregation laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
Mary Custis Lee
Robert E. Lee
Simpson
Lee
Washington and Alexandria
Tragedy at Michigan City Yacht Race Tartar crewman killed
During the return voyage to Chicago after the Michigan City race on Sunday a crew member of the schooner yacht Tartar, George M. Finney, was knocked overboard by the foreboom gybe and drowned.
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Chicago
Columbian Yacht Club
Michigan City
George M. Finney
Lightning Kills Chicago Man in Storm at Noon
A severe Sunday thunderstorm struck Chicago for about thirty minutes shortly after noon, damaging three churches and other buildings. One man was killed and several people were overcome or seriously injured by electric shocks.
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Chicago
Sentenced for Highway Robbery in Des Moines
Des Moines Iowa June 16 Ike Bradford was Saturday sentenced to 17 years imprisonment for taking part in a hold up with his 18 year old son who received a 20 year sentence. They obtained four dollars in the crime.
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Des Moines
Ike Brafford
Maj Ogden's Grave Marked at Fort Riley Center of US
A Kansas shaft marks Maj Edmund Ogden US Army grave at Fort Riley. Joseph Sawyer, once engineer and friend of Ogden, funded the 28 foot Kansas gray stone monument with a seven foot base and inscription commemorating the officer who died during cholera outbreaks while guarding a Fort Riley to Santa Fe wagon road project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Fort Riley
Kan
Edmund Ogden
U.S. A
Joseph O. Sawyer
E. O. Sawyer
Pico Heights
Los Angeles
Maj. Ogden
J. O. Sawyer
Mr. Sawyer
Santa Fe
N. M
Ogden
Sawyer
Kansas
Monument marks geographic center of the United States
A memorial notes Major Edmund Ogden’s grave as the surveyed geographic center. The monument stands on a distant high elevation seen for miles. Dr. E. O. Sawyer holds a silver mug given to Ogden and a gold headed cane from his widow presented when the monument was erected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Maj
Ogden
Frontier Army Service
E. O. Sawyer
Los Angeles Herald
J. C. Sawyer
Snakes Sent To Patti In Paris Box Prank
Patti in Paris received a Mentone package containing three yard long snakes. She opened the box to find dry grass, touched the bottom and found a cold wriggling mass, causing a two hour hysterical reaction. The snakes escaped, hid under furniture, were later killed and proved nonpoisonous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patti
Paris
Mentone
Argentina Offers Free Emigration to Boers From South Africa
Reports from Buenos Ayres indicate Argentina has appointed a special agent in Cape Town to visit Boer camps in South Africa and offer complimentary transport for those wishing to emigrate to Argentina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Argentina
Cape Town
Buenos
Beggar of 190 Years in Paris Leaves Hidden Fortune
In Paris a beggar named Pere Giroflee, aged 190, has died. Authorities found 6000 dollars sewn in an old pocketbook inside his coat lining, revealing a hidden fortune.
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Pere Giroflee
Paris
Wasps Hostile to Flies
Wasps and flies are irreconcilable enemies. A wasp nest in a neighborhood guarantees fewer flies for residents.
Deadly cyclone hits central Michigan towns and farms
A Friday night rainstorm in central Michigan turned cyclone in the northeast with six deaths. Lightning killed three near Ensley Mu nith Stockbridge while a ninth year old boy died in Stockbridge. Barn wrecks in Bay and Saginaw counties caused major damage including a circus loss of 5000 and wider property damages estimated at 200000.
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St. Joseph
Mich
Michigan
Tapping
Ensley
Charles Gardner
Munith
Earnest Gardner
Stockbridge
Edward Merritt
Bay County
G. H. Gardner
Stormstricken
Dewey to Command Caribbean Naval Maneuvers
Admiral Dewey will command the fleet formed by the North and South Atlantic and European squadrons for extensive Caribbean maneuvers next winter. President Roosevelt and Secretary Moody support the plan with Moody likely attending, and both to be present for August maneuvers on Long Island Sound. Moody praised Dewey for his energetic navy work and recommendations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Moody
Dewey
Caribbean
Long Island Sound
Admiral Dewey
Trio Drowned When Lake Huron Boat Overturns
A gale off Madison Beach, Port Huron, Michigan, kills Arthur Martin 21 Beatrice Abraham 14 and Norma Abraham 7 after their rowboat capsizes. Rescue attempts fail as storm limits aid. Another overturned boat in same storm leads to four rescued clinging to nets. several yachts report narrow escapes.
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Port Huron
Mich
Arthur Martin
Beatrice Abraham
Norma Abraham
Lake Huron
Madison Beach
Jennie
Marion Patton
Elwyn
Extradition Treaty Finalized With Belgium Added Crimes
Secretary May and Baron Bonceur signed the final ratifications for a Belgian extradition treaty. The accord updates past pacts by adding larceny kidnapping and obtaining money under false pretenses to extraditable offenses, reflecting modern treaty practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
May
Baron Bonceur
Heaviest Local Storm Slams Louisville
Louisville was hit by the season’s heaviest storm on Sunday afternoon with wind speeds near 60 mph and torrential rain. Hail accompanied the downpour, totaling 1.13 inches with .25 inches in five minutes setting a city record. Flooded streets, cellar inundation, and damaged shade trees reported across the city.
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Louisville
Pardoned Man Released From Ohio Penitentiary
George Goodell, pardoned by President Roosevelt, leaves the Ohio penitentiary after serving two ten year manslaughter sentences for killing John Fulsom and a brother in Indian Territory. The release occurred Saturday morning in Columbus, Ohio.
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Columbus, CO
George Goodell
Ohio Penitentiary
Roosevelt
Indian Territory
John Fulsom
Goodell
Greater New York Shoe Polishers Union Formed
New York June 16 the Shoe Polishers Union announces the creation of Greater New York Shoe Polishers Union No 1 with 800 members joining in the first days of organizing in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shoe Polishers’ Union
New York
Greater New York
Shoe Polishers’ Union No. 1
Boers Surrendering Amid British Reassurances
Dispatches from South Africa report Boers surrendering with good will totaling 16 500. Gen De Wet rallies crowds at Winburg pledging loyalty to a new government, praising women's support and urging submission. Repatriation offices prepare camps as supply depots and support returns to farms. 2000 national scouts to be disbanded with ponies to aid farm resettlement.
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London
South Africa
de Wet
Winburg
Gen. DeWet
Mr. Steyn
Old
Orange Free State
Memorial Arch Dedicated to 2250 Confederate Dead
In Columbus Ohio on June 16 a memorial arch was unveiled and dedicated to 2250 Confederate dead from Camp Chase. William H. Harrison of Cincinnati funded the gift. Gov. Nash and Gen. John B. Gordon spoke as ex-Confederates attended from the South. Graves were decorated by the Ladies of the G. A. R. and the Daughters of the Confederacy.
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Columbus
William H. Harrison
Cincinnati
Camp Chase
Hayes
Foraker
W. H. Knauss
Harrison
South
Southland
Gov. Nash
John B. Gordon
Daughters of the Confederacy
Jumped from the Bridge in Brooklyn Passenger Vanishes
A Brooklyn bridge car passenger, about 27 and well dressed, jumped from the bridge rail into the East River on Sunday evening. Policeman Dorn pursued, the man cried farewell, and his body has not been recovered despite a brief surface appearance.
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New York
Brooklyn
Dorr
Dorn
Yale Defeats Princeton 5-4 for 1902 Intercollegiate Title
Yale beat Princeton 5 to 4 in the final series game for the 1902 intercollegiate baseball championship at the Polo Grounds. The nine innings took two hours and fifty minutes as 5000 spectators, including many women, filled the stands and college men from both schools cheered and sang throughout.
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New York
Yale
Princeton
Polo Grounds
New Haven
Not Guilty in Ravenna Murder Trial Insanity Verdict
William N. Vaughn, on trial for the deaths of his stepmother and her mother in Ravenna Ohio, was acquitted at midnight Saturday with the jury ruling he was not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the crimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ravenna
William N. Vaughn
Murderer Shot Gillespie After Singing Outburst
In Peru Indiana on June 16 John Haines a black man from Wabash shot and killed Clarence Gillespie a white steel worker at his home. The killing followed Gillespie singing Good Morning Carrie which enraged the shooter.
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Peru
Ind
John Haines
Wabash
Clarence Gillespie
Gillespie
Carrie
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Major
Edward
OLEO
West Hazleton, Pa
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Gen. de Wet
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