Brief notes on army and post office bills and obits
Senate debated the fortifications and fort submarine clause while the House passed private claim bills. The post office and Alaska measures progressed, with the Senate considering fortifications and the House naming a seven member committee on the post office department. Additional items include a murder, strikes, and various international dispatches.
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Senate
House
Alaska
Hoase
Croft
South Carolina
Cannon
Post Office Department
Russians and Japanese clash near Port Arthur and Ping Yang
Moscow dispatches report torpedo boat actions at Port Arthur and naval duels near Liao Tishin and Chemulpo. Engagments leave several ships damaged or sunk, with casualties among both sides and scattered reports of Japanese troop movements and port bombardments.
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St. Petersburg
Alexieff
Mukden
Port Arthur
Liao Tishin
Shandun
Tokio
Ping Yang
Nagasaki
Daily Express
Japan
Mine Workers Official Beaten Aboard Colorado Train
Chris Evans, financial manager of the United Mine Workers of America, was severely beat by three masked men with revolvers on a Colorado & Southern train near Trinidad, bound for Pueblo. He was sent to Colorado by President Mitchell. Earlier, guards killed Micnist Calabac, a striker who allegedly shot at a Black man before barricading himself in his house.
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Manning
Union Traction Co
Chicago
Altoona
Avenger
Avengers
New York
Hh. FP. Emerson
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale University
A. W H. Benner
Yale
Emerson
Wakefield
Mass
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Rosedale
Covington
Edward Porter
Benjamin W. Labaree
Persia
Presbyterian Board of Missions
Senate
House
Trinidad
Col
Chris Evans
United Mine Workers of America
Colorado & Southern
Pueblo
Evans
Colorado
Mitchell
Hudson river tunnel bore completed after twenty years
In New York on March 12, engineers finished driving the Hudson river tunnel bore linking Fourteenth street Jersey City to Morton street Manhattan after two decades of stoppages and near flawless alignment by Chief Engineer Charles M. Jacobs.
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New York
Hudson River
Fourteenth Street
Jersey City
Morton Street
Manhattan Island
Charles M. Jacobs
Jersey
Russian Fleet Sinks At Port Arthur Channel Blockade
Reports from London and Tokyo describe the sinking of four Russian steamers Harbin Hailar Ningata and Sungari near Port Arthur leaving a narrow channel as Vice Admiral Makaroff orders fleet to stay alert and coal conserved. ProRussian and Japanese dispatches discuss Korean front withdrawals toward Vladivostok and heroism of torpedo boat Kasumi officer Minamisawa receiving top honors. The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the Northern Securities merger as illegal strengthening federal control over interstate commerce despite dissent.
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St. Petersburg
Mlexieff
Makaroff
Port Arthur
Mattousseviteh
Viastini
Takasago
Tokio
Togo
Asashio
Kasumi
Akatsuki
Sasanami
London
Daily Mail
New Chwang
Makaroff Haveing
Wei-Hai- Wei
Standard
San
Korea
Vladivostok
Minamisawa
4Ilinski
Tumen River
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Northern Securities Co
United States
Harlan
Circuit Court For
District of Minnesota
Congress
Brewer
Fuller
White
Peckham
Holmes
Great Northern Railway Co
Northern Pacific Railway Co
Securities Co
Bil
Marx Confesses In Death Row Express Robbery
Gustav Marx, under a death sentence, admits he helped three men rob the Chicago and North Western express train at Tower W near DeKalb four years ago. He says both accomplices are dead and refuses to name them. Railway officials note a $102,000 loss.
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Marx
Chicago
Gustav Marx
Chicago & Northwestern
Tower W
DeKalb
Taft Abrogates Bates Treaty With Sultan of Sulu
Secretary Taft told the House committee on insular affairs that he signed a cablegram on March 2 abrogating the Bates treaty between the United States and the sultan of Sulu and his dattos. The hearing addressed the bill for more efficient administration of civil government in the Philippines.
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Washington
Taft
House Committee On Insular Affairs
Philippines
Cooper
United States
Sultan of Sulu
Train derails near Joplin kills three
A Kansas City Southern freight train derailed six miles south of Joplin on Saginaw hill. Three sailors were killed with three injured and seventeen freight cars demolished.
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Joplin
Kansas City Southern
Saginaw Hill
Attempted murder at New York theater shocks audience
At the American theater in New York on March 15 a man in a stage box fired a shot during the third act. Edward Cain, the theater treasurer, tried to intervene and was knocked down as one assailant struck him. a second shot narrowly missed. Two men fled the box.
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New York
Edward Cain
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State Department
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Memphis & Cincinnati Packet Co
Baron Arnold le Roy
Holland
van Dyck
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Civic Federation
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East River
F. Pearson & Son
Ingland
O'Rourke Engineering and Construction Co
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Tongue Rivers
Miles City
Otto L. Petersen
Brooklyn
N. Y
Grand Duke Alexis
Worjetz
Varing
Chemulpo
Dalny
Andre
France
Augustus Cook
England
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War Department
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St. Louis Exposition
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Henry M. Hoyt
Department of Justice
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Torpedo Co
Stephen Clark
United States Steel Corporation
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Southern Express Co
Express
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Novik
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Supreme Court
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