United States holds line on China policy amid European expansion
The United States signals no move to seize Chinese territory over Italy’s open door bid at San Mun bay as global powers extend coast hold. Washington notes navy port grabs by England Russia France Germany leave few Chinese coast harbors for development.
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China
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Chinese Sea
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Anam
Tonquin
Kiao Chau
President appoints census assistant superintendent
Washington March 7 The president named Dr Fred Wines of Springfield U appointed assistant superintendent of the coming census at a salary of 4000 a year The bulk of appointments will wait until January when the work begins Congress refused to place the appointments under civil service laws.
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Washington
Fred Wines
Springfield
Congress
Washington March 7 Volunteer deaths rise after Camp Thomas
The report notes total deaths of volunteers mobilized at Camp Thomas up to December 2, two and a half months after withdrawal and after all campaigns they joined. For a six month period the death rate was 161 percent.
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Senate Committee On Naval Affairs
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Sampson-Schley
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Admiral Sampson
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Senate Committee
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Volunteersee
Camp Thomas
Dee 2
Skeleton Mystery Solved in Williams Heir to 400000 Marks
The skeleton found under debris at the Fiddler drug store is Fritz W. Schrader a Prussian heir to about 400000 marks. He arrived in Williams as a tramp in 1887 after a tour of the United States and lived rough until he disappeared eleven years ago. A letter from Germany says Schrader left a fortune to Prussian relatives. The fire last Tuesday uncovered the remains and investigators suspect heart disease.
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Williams
Fiddler
Fritz W. Schrader
Breslau
Germany
Schrader
Prussia
Tariff War Is Coming Excerpt From European Critique
Washington reports Consul Baehr from Kehl, Austria, cites Dr Alexander Peez warning that US sugar and other exports will dominate world trade, urging Europe to unite against outside competition. Peez notes US trade surplus and aims to expand, predicting seven years to shift sugar markets. Similar anti US sentiment spreads through Austro Hungary and German press.
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United States
State Department
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Kehl
Austria
al Xander Peez
Europe
Austro-Hungary
Germany
Garland testifies before industrial commission on iron trade unions
M M Garland ex president of the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers Association spoke to the industrial commission in Washington. He said about two thirds of iron steel and tin workers are organized and described dispute settlement methods. He noted that the Amalgamation Association favors conciliation over arbitration and warned that contract labor imports have undermined strikes, citing 1892 93. He criticized easy access to injunctions used by employers to curb strikers.
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M. M. Garland
Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers’ Association
Industrial Commission
F. J. Stimson
Boston
Garland
Amalgamation Association
Pennsylvania
Kipling News and Oshkosh Water Franchise Briefs
The bulletin reports Kipling's condition worsened by pleural inflammation amid pneumonia. Kipling’s daughter Josephine died of pneumonia. another daughter remains ill. Oshkosh Water Commission plans to annul the water franchise after a 70 day probe by Prof Floyd Davis. water deemed impure. Springfield miners hold talks with locals. strike unlikely to be avoided. Indiana General Assembly adjourned sine die after two months, enacting township and county government reforms and state institution funding.
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Oshkosh
Wis
Water Commission
Floyd Davis
India
Sixty-First General Assembly
Indiana
Republicans oppose Alabama constitutional convention
In Birmingham on March 7 Republicans warn the proposed August convention would disfranchise Black voters and burden Republican rights. The GOP mobilizes against the draft plan as opposition intensifies statewide.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Troop Tensions Rise as Eighth Regiment Prepares to Parade
Chattanooga reports extreme precautions as the Eighth Cavalry prepares to muster out amid threats of trouble. The commander warns disturbance is probable. In Michigan, Benjamin C. Hoyt, 92, pensioner of Black Hawk War, dies suddenly after a long local residence. Confusing Springfield note mentions a senate adjournment and unsettled business.
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Tenn
Eighth Regiment
St. Joseph, Mich
Benjamin C. Hoyt
Negros Island Fight and Prisoner Talks Across Manila
A Saturday night clash near the reservoir left two Oregon volunteers wounded as First Nebraska troops flanked rebels in Mariquina. Spaniards seek prisoner exchanges while U S Philip pine commissioners arrive in Malolos. Negros troops report friendly reception. Requisitions for rations surge in March as Cuban assembly weighs political moves under Gomez.
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Reservoir
Island of
Negros
Manila
Oregon Volunters
Nebraska Regiment
Twentieth
Regular Infantry
Hale
Mariquna
Aguinaldo
Malolos
Philppne
Malate
Col. Denby
Robbers Den Found In Mond du Lac Under Post Office
Police uncover an underground ten foot square room under the post office sidewalk in Mond du Lac Wisconsin with over $100 in merchandise stolen from Zinke Mercantile. Four or five youths suspected. Horatio Tock, 14, arrested and admits part. two other lads to be arrested.
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Wis
Horatio Tock
Zinke Mercantile Company
Zinke Company
Moratio Tock
Des Moines Miner Falls to 215 Foot Shaft at Saylor Mine
Russell Moore, 27, single, recently moved to Des Moines from Indianola, died after falling into a 215 foot shaft at the Saylor coal mine near Highland Park at 8 30 this morning. Coroner Ankeny is attending. Moore had no known relatives in Des Moines.
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Saylor
Highland Park
Ex Governor Drake Suffering From Grippe In Centerville
Centerville reports Ex Governor F M Drake has been very ill with la grippe for weeks but is now able to attend to business. He recently traveled to New York and Chicago where he caught a light attack, then returned home to worsening illness described as a long siege.
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Santiago
Comal
Matanzas
Nuevitas
Senor Farres
Maximo Gomez
General Gomez
Cuba
la Discusion
Wilson
Pedro Betancourt
Dry Sunday in St Louis as saloons tighten curb
Reports indicate a strict police crackdown on saloons across St Louis on a dry Sunday. Nearby, geese migrate northward across Michigan while Calhoun county yields pearl mussels in pay ing quantities. The plague in Bombay reaches unprecedented severity with nearly 1,000 deaths last week. The Niagara Battery Whirlpool Rapids elevator was toppled by a hurricane. Dreyfus is described as prostrated, hoping for return to France.
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Mich
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Dreyfus
France
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