Roosevelt Reveals Findings On Schley Case Captain’s Fight
President Roosevelt releases a Feb 1902 document evaluating the Schley controversy. He endorses the court of inquiry on most points, condemns Schley’s retrograde movement and blockade disobedience, but expresses doubt about the speed of his squadron’s departure from port. The report notes unanimity in the court’s factual findings and discusses the conduct five weeks before the Santiago battle.
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Admiral Sehley
Schley
Schrey
Sampson
Debate on Command at Santiago In Navy Court Ruling
The article discusses Admiral Sampson and Admiral Schley's dispute over command during the Santiago battle. It notes Sampson's later remark about Schley’s conduct and questions who deserved credit for the victory, while the court excluded evidence on these issues. The president of the court raised the matter for Schley’s appeal.
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Admiral Sampson
Department
Admiral Sehley
Sampson
General Shafter
Schley
Admiral Schlev
Lis Annealsvs
Admiral Schley Appeals On Promotions From Santiago Squadron
The speaker states he has thoroughly investigated the matter and consulted top sources. He views Admiral Schley's appeal as a challenge to President McKinley’s three year old promotion recommendations for officers tied to the Santiago squadron.
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Schley
McWinley
Santiago
Commanders debate Sampson role in key naval action
President McKinley faces whether to affirm Admiral Sampson as commander in chief during the fight, citing statements from five ship captains and supporting documents. Captains Clark Evans Taylor testify on blockade, signaling, and command while noting Brooklyn’s pivotal fire and Wainwright’s torpedo boat destruction.
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McKinley
Admiral Sampson
Court of Claims
Brooklyn
New York
Philip
Texas
Sampson
Clark
Oregon
Schley
Rooklyn
Evans
Taylor
Wainwright
President comments on naval command in battle
The president states the command question was nominal and technical. He notes Sampson’s New York appeared to most ships, signals were missed, and no orders were acted on by the engaged ships. He adds Schley followed standing orders but did not execute new movements. He deems it a captains’ fight and urges dropping the controversy.
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Admiral Sampson
New York
Brooklyn
Indiana
Admiral Schley
Sampson
Oregon
Schley
McKinley
Broom Prices Raised by U S Manufacturers
Delegates from the Broom Manufacturers Association of the United States ended a two day meeting at the Grand Pacific hotel by raising broom prices 25 cents a dozen. They cited only 15 percent of this year's crop remaining with farmers and no new crop for eight months. Dealers had already boosted prices 20 percent and resisted a further 50 cent rise per dozen.
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Chicago
Broom Manufacturers, Association of the United States
Grand Pacific Hotel
Furay Siblings Mourning Brother at Army Barracks
Frank A. Furay of Omaha arrived in Columbus to claim the body of his brother Lieutenant Clarence M. Furay who died by self inflicted gunshot at the U S barracks. Frank Furay confirms the officer was engaged to a young woman in Omaha whose sudden blindness led to doubts about being an officer's wife.
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Columbus
Frank A. Furay
Omaha
Clarence M. Furay
United States Barracks
Frank Furay
Homicide Deemed Justifiable in Parker Case
Black River Falls Wisconsin February 20 coroner s jury returns verdict of justifiable homicide in Parker murder case effectively ending the matter.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Public Gets the Deciding Vote in Labor Arbitration Plan
New York February meeting of the National Civic federation executive committee, chaired by Senator Hanna, outlined a conciliation and arbitration process to settle strikes and labor disputes. The plan creates a nine member conciliation panel with equal representation and allows an arbitration board of two employers and two workers, plus a public umpire if needed. Attendees included Hanna Cornelius Bliss Oscar S Straus Adams Ireland Bishop Potter Harvard president Kilot Samuel Gompers John Mitchell Frank Sargent Theodore Shaffer. thirty of thirty six members were present.
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New York
National Civic Federation
Hanna
Civil Federation
Executive Committee
Industrial Department
Senator Hanna
Cornelius N. Bliss
Oscar S. Straus
Charles Francis Adams
Confesses $60 000 in Forgeries
Amos Gould, former cashier of the Platte Valley Bank of Bellwood, pleads guilty to forging eleven notes from $150 to $1,400. He admits forging $60,000 in notes but cannot confirm total. Judge Sornberger condemns the idea of a light sentence to deter copycats.
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Omaha
Neb
Amos Gould
Platte Valley Bank of
Bellwood
David City
Sornberger
Gould
Body of Noah Long Found Near Old Southern Bridge
Noah Long, an elderly man, was found not far from the spot named in Rhoda Taylor's confession about a Jan. 30 robbery. The body shows no wounds. Five people are held for the crime, including two women.
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Noah Long
Kansas City
Rhoda Taylor
Old Southern Bridge
Record Masons gather for historic Scottish Rite convocation
Cincinnati hosts over 1000 prominent Masons at the Golden Convocation of the Rite of the Valley at the Scottish Rite cathedral. The event marks fifty years since the rite’s establishment in Cincinnati, with attendance unseen in previous years.
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Cincinnati
Scottish Rite Cathedral
Rite of the Valley
Canton Akron and Canton Massillon traction sale announced
Cleveland bankers announce the Everet t Moore syndicate has formally closed a sale of the Canton Akron and Canton Massillon urban and interurban traction lines. The total value of the deal runs about 2 1/2 million dollars.
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Cleveland, O
Bankers’ Committee
Everett-Moore Syndicate
Canton-Akron
Canton- Massillon
Dempsey Sentenced for Theft of Baby Shoes in Muncie
In Muncie Indiana Frank Dempsey stole a pair of baby shoes valued at a few cents and offered no explanation. He was sentenced to one to three years in the penitentiary, reflecting a bad criminal record.
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Muncie
Ind
Frank Dempsey
Clock at Evansville hotel stops after Buffalo shooting
In Evansville, Indiana on February 20 a large wall clock at the Acme hotel fell as President McKinley was shot in Buffalo. The clock appeared undamaged but has since refused to keep time despite multiple repairs.
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Evansville
Ind
Meliiley
Buffalo
Acme
Courtesy yields a $1000 legacy for railroad conductor
Chicago, Feb. 20. Llewellyn Mason, a conductor on the Chicago and Alton railroad, receives a $1000 legacy from the Bloomington millionaire W. A. Tyler. The will notes the bequest as recognition of the courteous treatment Mason received while traveling on the Alton road. Mason is over 60 years old.
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Chicago
Llewellyn Mason
Chicago & Alton Ailroad
Alton Road
Masoh
Gut
Longtime Conductor Holds Legacy Question From Passenger
For nearly thirty years Mason served on the Wit On train line as conductor. He is surprised by the prospect of a legacy and asks friends whether to accept it. Tyler rode Mason's train three to four times yearly, and the conductor remained patient with the elderly man's inquiries.
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Witon
Mason
Tyler
Man Dies After Jump From Train Near Traverse City
Eugene H. Lewis, a Pere Marquette fireman, died at Butterworth hospital after leaping from an engine near Traverse City to avoid a phantom head on collision. The engineer halted the train, but the fireman jumped and was found unconscious beside the track.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Eugene H. Lewis
Pere Marquette
Butterworth Hospital
Traverse City
Lewis
Mrs. Sade Krumling Takes Own Life in Michigan
Blissfield Michigan February 20 Mrs Sade Krumling wife of Dr Fred Krumling prominent physician shot herself during a temporary insanity following the death of her eight month old baby. The infant died after falling from a chair striking its head on a coal. Mrs Krumling was twenty years old.
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Blissfield, Mich
Sadie Krumling
Fred ©. Krumling
Krumling
Bank of Gaston Organized in Gaston Delaware County
The Bank of Gaston was organized at Gaston Delaware county on Tuesday with Mark Powers former county treasurer as president and Mele Chenoweth as cashier. Directors are wealthy Gaston residents led by President Harden of Merchants' National Bank of Munete.
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Muncie
Ind
Bank of Gaston
Gaston
Delaware County
Mark Powers
Mele Chenoweth
Harden
Merchants’ National Bank of
Markets Report Chicago and East Buffalo Hogs and Cattle Prices
Hogs receipts 42,000 with sales 4.85 to 6.27 for various grades and bulk 5.95 to 6.25. Cattle receipts 18,000 with Quinnes an broad ranges from 4.20 to 8.40 for steers, plus cows, heifers, bulls, and stags. East Buffalo listings show mixed cattle and hog prices across several grades with steady to strong notes. Western and St. Louis markets cited for wheat corn oats rye with mixed quotes. Whole market reflects broad commodity price activity across hogs cattle sheep and grains.
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Chicago
Texas
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
Milwaukee Grain
Board of Trade
INSANITY IN THE FAMILY AT KALAMAZOO ASYLUM
A sister of Mrs. Elmer Quimby, the Detroit child murderess, was admitted to the Kalamazoo asylum as a raving maniac. Her father James O'Dell and a brother were former patients who died by suicide. The note on the husband’s dying words links the crime to the wife, raising questions about her mental state.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Elmer Quimby
Detroit House of Correction
Mary E. Ingersoll
Greenbush
Clinton County
James O'Dell
Grees Snell-Coffin Granted Bankruptcy Discharge
Mrs Grace Snell-Coffin was discharged from bankruptcy in U S court on Monday. Liabilities stood at 53 588 with a single $12 bed home in Halem Kenosha County listed as exempt.
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Grees Snell-Coffin
Milwaukee
Grace Snell
Unsecured creditors face claims in Coffin estate case
Liabilities total 14 775 secured while sixty unsecured creditors hold claims from 1 500 upward. Mrs Coffin is discharged but estate settlement may take a year. She claims a quarter interest in Amos Jo Snell’s Cook county estate valued at 900 000, though title rests with Henrietta Snell trustees. In Milwaukee February 19 new board rule targets bucket shops as members resign. Carl I Bauman sold his membership to a Chicago buyer.
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Milwaukee
Board of Trade
Carl I. Bauman
Chicago
Public Franchises Valuation Case Ahead in Supreme Court
Jefferson City Missouri February 20 Tudge Rombauer attorney for the St Louis school board filed an application in the supreme court for a writ of mandamus to compel the state board of equalization to assess the franchises of public corporations at their full value.
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Jefferson City
Tudge Rombauer
St. Louis
Doctor Lenden resigns from Illinois Soldiers' Home
Springfield February 20. Dr D M Lenden resigns his post at the Illinois State Soldiers and Sailors' Home in Quincy. The move was tendered earlier but not announced publicly at that time.
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Springfield
Ills
D. M. Lenden
Ilinois State
Secretary Ketel of Back Bay Club Travels Through Norfolk
Charles Ketdel of Washington secretary of the Back Bay running club said the Cleveland party killed 200 ducks and 30 geese last Friday while en route from the marshes to Washington. He added Cleveland did more than his share of the slaughter.
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Norfolk
Charles Ketdel
Washington
Back Bay
Cleveland
Severe third Norhern New York snowstorm begins
Plattsburgh New York reports a major winter storm adding to a season with over two feet of light snow on the ground. The system began yesterday afternoon and continues with another foot expected as winds reach half a gale in the region.
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Plattsburgh
N. Y
New York
Legislature Lines Up Unlimited Powers For Health Board
The Iowa senate voted almost unanimously to grant the state board of health authority to enforce quarantine in epidemics. The move follows Des Moines smallpox measures as local officials reported the disease under control with 100 officers and ten physicians suppressing the outbreak.
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Des Moines
Senate
State Board of Health
Board of Health
Man Known As The Stomachless Dies In Chicago
Paul Krueger nicknamed the man without a stomach died on Tuesday after living since last April with his stomach entirely removed. Doctors believed cancer caused the condition and grafted the esophagus into the duodenum to form a digestive channel. He was cared for at home on Winnemac avenue after hospitalization and remained bedridden though briefly improving. For weeks he endured intense pain requiring opiate relief.
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Chicago
Paul Krueger
Krueger
Winnemac Avenue
Clark Street
Vincennes Bank Cashier’s Fraud Trial Opens
Mrs Anna G Davis sues for 20 000 against gambling house operators Matthews Kelley and Dallas Tyler while sensational testimony shows Davis as cashier in ten years at a Washington Indiana bank lost between 200 000 and 250 000 He forfeited 6 000 in Missouri to cover losses in 1900 and faces federal sentencing in Michigan City on April 8.
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Vincennes
Ind
Anna G. Davis
Washington
Davis
Owenton
Owen County
Matthews Kelley
Dallas Tyler
Missouri
Michigan City
Indianapolis
Trial of Dr. J A Marshall for cruelty at Illinois reformatory
The trial opened in Pontiac Illinois February 20 with Dr J A Marshall charged with cruelty and neglect of duty to reformatory inmates. John Collins testified Marshall slapped him for being nervous during treatment and ex-inmate James Grant Young corroborated.
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Pontiac, Uls
J. A. Marshall
Illinois State Reformatory
John Collins
Banner protest a nuisance, Oregon court rules
In Portland Oregon on February 20 Judges George and Cleland held that displaying a banner in front of a restaurant claiming unfairness is a nuisance enjoinable by a court of equity. The waiters union has used banners in front of non union restaurants for weeks. Alice Morton and Winthrop Rutherford wed Grace Ellisonshire in New York Tuesday.
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Portland
Ore
George and
Clelland
Alice
Morton
Winthrop Rutherford
Grace Eiisconshireb
New York
War Department Reports On Philippine Cruelty Charges
Washington says the War Department investigated thirteen cases of cruelty charges against American troops in the Philippines and found most unfounded or exaggerated. Secretary Root supplied Lodge with letters from Funston and Batson denying water cure claims and provided copies of army cruelty regulations and forty four trial memoranda, with thirty nine convictions.
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Washington
Senator Lodge
Philippines
Senate
War Department
Root
Department
Funston
Tle
Batson
War claims and a railway stop mark biting 1900s news notes
Secretary Root defends American conduct in the Philippines arguing harsh actions by Filipino forces were rare and punished, while American troops followed civilized warfare rules. Separate items report a New Jersey Central train stopping at Coalport after a clergyman prayed, and Jessie Schley’s expulsion from Milwaukee Artists' Association amid controversy over her Chicago exhibition works.
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Allentown
New Jersey Central
Coalport
Lowder
Milwaukee
Jessie Schley
Milwaukee Artists’ Association
Muller
Miss Sehley
Chicago
Knoxville man held over Midway fight claim
Charles M. Drye, once said to be among Lee Turner’s men in the fight at the Quarter House near Middlesboro last week, was arrested in Knoxville. He admits running a restaurant near the Quarter House but says he did not take part in the fight. Governor Beckham had offered a $200 reward for his capture.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Charles M. Drye
Lee Turner
Quarter House
Middlesboro
Beckham
Governor Yates Grants Ohio Extradition Request
Illinois Governor Yates honors Ohio's requisition for the extradition of Johnson Miles, sought in Jefferson, Ohio, for criminal operation on Eva Usher that caused her death. Miles is reported under arrest in Chicago.
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Springfield
Ills
Yates
Ohio
Johnson Miles
Jefferson, O
Eva Usher
Niles
Chicago
Prominent Merchant Dies by Suicide in Martinsboro
Ottumwa Iowa February 20 Daniel Mc Creery a leading Martinsboro merchant shot himself yesterday in a presumed temporary insanity death by own act. Authorities report no further motive given.
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Ottumwa, Ta
Daniel McCreery
Martinsboro
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