Night attack on Manila ends in heavy losses for Aguinaldo forces
Gen Otis reports repulsed insurgent assaults with 175 American casualties and many killed or wounded. Navy shells Filipinos on Caloocan to Santa Mesa front. Twenty Americans killed, about 125 wounded. Filipino losses unknown. President vows firm policy and decisive action against insurgents.
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Washington
Otis
Manila
Lnes
Malolos
Movement For Independence
Admiral Dewey
Aguinaldo
United States
Philippines
San Juan del Monte
Santa Ana
San Pedro
Macati
Santa Mesa
Lomin
Lieut
Charles Hogan
Sergt
Wall
Col Colton
Second Reserve Hospital
William C. Smith
Basig
Rios
Idahos
Washington Guards
Houses of Friends
Dewey reports Manila hostilities begin as Senate fight looms
Washington received a cable from Admiral Dewey stating insurgents in Manila inaugurated general engagement with American forces. He reports American army and navy generally successful with insurgents driven back. Dewey’s dispatch notes no navy casualties and a naval blockade plan around Luzon.
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Washington
Manila
Otis
Admiral Dewey
Navy Department
Dewey
Philippines
United States
Aguinaldo
Gen
Adjutant General's Office
Manila Bay
Rock of Gibraltar
Olympia
Boston
Baltimore
Charleston
Concord
Monadnock
Monterey
Petrel
Buffalo
Culgoa
Helena
Colombo
Gibraltar
Princeton
Port Said
Bennington
Brutus
Yorktown
Guam
Oregon
Iris
Honolulu
Norfolk
Luzon
Insurgent Attack, Spanish Capture Key Philippine Exterior Line
Official dispatch from Gen. Rios reports insurgents violently attacked and captured most of the exterior American line. Americans defended with artillery and squadron. warships burned Caloocan Paco and nearby towns. Both sides suffered. firing remains sharp. A sergeant was wounded by a stray bullet.
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Rios
Philippines
Caloocan
Paco
Agoncillo Leaves U S Ahead of Canada
Agoncillo, Filipino junta representative in the United States, passes through Albany en route to Canada. The U S government will not arrest him and he plans to cross the border to regain contact with Aguinaldo. He cites strict censorship and denies fleeing arrest, expressing anxiety to reach home.
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New York
Herald
Albany
N. Y
Agoncillo
Canada
United States
Aguinaldo
The
Blizzard Closes In On Central West Texas
A wet north wind grips Texas from Austin through the west as temperatures plunge. Rain freezes on impact leaving ice across roads while cattle migrate to foothills seeking shelter, with heavy losses feared to many herds in the severest cold of the season.
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Austin
Tex
Central
West
Texas
Manila Battle Casualties Rise as U S Forces Clash
Long casualty lists from Manila recount American losses and Filipino dead wounded and prisoners. Updates trace battles at Pac o Santa Mesa and Caloocan with units including Third Artillery Kansas Montana Minnesota Pennsylvanians Nebraskans Idaho California Washington Colorado and more. News from Washington covers treaty ratification and Otis casualty lists amid ongoing insurgent threats.
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O. Ballinger
Nebraska Volunteers
Fremont
Neb
Lewis Bigier
Norfolk
Frank Caldwell
Idaho Infantry
J. ¥. Dewar
First
California Infantry
Elmer A. Doran
Colorado Infantry
Edward Eggert
Omaha
Nat Goodman
Sixth Artillery
Harry Hull
Hastings
Lincoln
Charles Easley
Chadron
Davis Laggar
Edward McConville
George Rogen
Wyoming Infantry
William C. Smith
Tennessee Infantry
Fourteenth Infantry
Robert S. Abernathy
Leutenant
Third Artillery
Charles Beckley
Nebraska Infantry
Orrin T. Curtis
Rushland
Nebraska
O. T. Curtis
JL. Erwin
Washington Infantry
William E. Felt
George Hall
James C. Henson
Charles Hogan
California
Charles S. Houghwort
Oscar Howards
James Ingreck
Gene Pee
Oseph Mater
James Pierce
John Pierce
David Sys
A Ceren
Bray
Ernest Scott
Ydaho Infantry
Bass
William Wall
Manila
Washington
Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Maj. E. Briefer
Albert J. Buttermore
Joseph Sheldon
Thomas Conger
Edward Caldwell
Debalt
Montana
Reynolds
Charles Rummels
Corporal Hayes
John Sorenson
Mayersick
L Skinner
Colorado
Orton Twever
Charles B. Morrison
Maurice Parkhurst
C. D. White
Elmer F. Doran
Willam H. Erle
Charles Carlson
Charles B. Boyce
Charles Haughwout
South Dakota
Horace J. McCrancken
Fred E. Green
William Z. Lewis
Benjamin Phelps
Eugene E. Stevens
Frank F. McClain
Hiram Fay
Carl H. Osgood
A. Haskell
Bernard Sharp
Orian Ryan
Edward Lundstrom
James Gleason
Eight Car Firms Unite as American Car & Foundry
Detroit reports eight major American car makers have merged into the American Car & Foundry company, incorporated in New Jersey with a 60 million dollar capital. The consolidating firms include Jackson & Woodin in Berwick Pennsylvania Missouri Car & Foundry in St Louis Ohio Falls Car Manufacturing in Jeffersonville Indiana Union Car in Buffalo New York St Charles Car in St Charles Missouri Wells & French in Chicago and Terre Haute Car Manufacturing in Terre Haute Indiana.
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Detroit
Mich
United States
American Car & Foundry Company
New Jersey
Michigan Peninsular
Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company
Berwick
Missouri Car & Foundry Company
St. Louis
Ohio Falls Car Manufacturing Company
Jeffersonville
Ind
Union Car Company
Buffalo
St. Charles Car Company
St. Charles
Wells & French Company
Chicago
Terre Haute Car & Manufacturing Company
Terre Haute
Dreyfus' Return Ordered Home From Guiana
Paris dispatch says orders arrived in Cayenne for Dreyfus to return to France and that a vessel has been sent to bring him back.
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Dreyfus
Paris
Patrie
Cayenne
French Guiana
France
Steel & Wire Price Increase Hits Mills to Jobbers
Cleveland Feb 7 The American Steel and Wire company advanced wire and wire nails pricing by two dollars a ton raising the base to 1.45 per hundred at mills and 1.60 per hundred to jobbers and nail makers.
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Cleveland, O
American Steel & Wire Company
House passes army reorganization bill with 100000 target
Washington February 1. The bill to reorganize and increase the standing army to about 100000 men passed the House 168 to 125. The measure grants the president discretion to reduce infantry and cavalry to 60 men per unit, trims 331 staff officers, and outlines corps and battalion structure while allowing recruitment from Cuba Porto Rico and Pacific islands populations.
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Washington
House
Corps of Engineers
Engineers
Ordnance Department
Signal Corps
Cuba
Porto Rico
Islands of
The
Pacific
Three Chicago Men Indicted in $55,000 Bond Robbery Case
Grand jury secretly indicted W C Hoyer lawyer Peter Casey street foreman and Allen C Story prominent attorney for complicity in a March 1896 bond robbery of 55000 bonds of Christopher Schrage the miser. A warrant is out for Story as the trio allegedly negotiated some of the stolen bonds.
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Chicago
W.C. Hoyer
Peter Casey
Christopher Schrage
Allen C. Story
Greenebaum Brothers File Joint Voluntary Bankruptcy Petitions
Moses O Greenebaum president of Michael Greenebaum Sons Contractors files a voluntary bankruptcy listing liabilities of 264,054 and assets of 21,000. Henry N Greenebaum, brother and president of Greenebaum Construction, also files in the same building with liabilities of 260,909 largely collateralized and assets of 71,000.
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Chicago
Moses
Greenebaum
Michael Greenebaum
New Treasury Regulation Beats Returning Tourists
New York reports the new treasury rule requires American tourists to declare all purchases abroad on return. Inspectors on cabin passengers from the Buffalo, Aller and Westernland scrutinized items, with one small bag taking twenty minutes to inspect. Officials admit uncertainty about practices for the large liner Majectic.
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New York
Treasury
Buffalo
Aller
Westernland
Custom House
Emperor marks fortieth year of life and tenth of reign
The Reischanzeiger prints an imperial decree in which the emperor thanks God for reaching age forty and forty years on the throne. He praises his journey to Palestine for boosting German prestige abroad and thanks the people for their devotion, pledging to pursue peace at home.
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Berlin
The
Reischanzeiger
Palestine
Mayor McKisson Declares Bid for Third Term in Ohio Race
Cleveland on February 2 reports Mayor R E McKisson who rose to national notice after being chosen by bolting republicans and democrats to oppose Hanna has formally announced his candidacy for a third term. The split in Cleveland Republican ranks promises a fierce, heated campaign.
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Cleveland, O
R. E. McKisson
United States Senate
Ohio
M. A. Hanna
Cleveland
Representative Tawney Moves Flag at Half Mast Across Nation
In Washington on February 3 Representative Tawney of Minnesota introduced a resolution declaring that on February 15 and each future February 15 the United States flag on all government buildings be flown at half mast to commemorate the destruction of the battleship Maine and the 266 American lives lost in Havana harbor.
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Washington
Tawney
Minn
United States
Maine
Havana
Indemnity Paid After Chinese Murder Case
The foreign office will pay $30,000 to the relatives of murdered missionary Mr. Fleming. Two murderers were beheaded, the local military mandarin banished, and two officials degraded as punishment.
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Peking
Foreign Office
Mr. Fleming
Rich Crown King ore worth 117000 a ton reported
Prescott Arizona February 2 The Crown King gold strike surpasses expectations with ore assay valued at 117000 dollars per ton. Company manager George P. Harrington confirms the vein has been developed for twelve feet.
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Prescott
A. T
Crown King
George P. Harrington
Hiccoughs End in Death at Mascoutah
Caspar Schoeller died in Mascoutah after six days of hiccoughing. He was 59, a native of Germany, and leaves a widow and family.
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Mascoutah
Caspar Schoeller
Germany
Family tragedy as couple dies hours apart in Casenovia
William Beecher aged 85 dies of grippe in Casenovia on Friday and five hours later his wife 70 also dies from the same disease. In Teimon Washington seven year old Earl Bruner freezes to death while walking to school a mile and a half from home. The latest cabinet news from Dalgeria Sofia reports formation of a new cabinet and premier.
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Casenovia
Ill
William Beecher
Grippe
Teimon, Wlsh
Earl Bruner
Gomez Agrees to Aid Gen Brooke in Cuba Restoration
Gen Maximo Gomez accepts U S terms to help disband the Cuban army and distribute 3 million dollars to Cuban soldiers. He will meet with Maj Gen Brooke in Havana and surrender arms to the Cuban assembly while funds are placed under Brooke’s order for immediate action. Public reaction in Havana cites doubts over payouts and the plan’s details.
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Remedios
Santa Clara
Havana
Maximo Gomez
United States
Cuba
Robert P. Porter
McKinley
Gomez
Brooke
Committee On Distribution
Cuban Military Assembly
Washington
Calixto Garcia
Gomes
Brooklyn clergyman predicts death before midnight
Rev. George H. Simons of Brooklyn died Tuesday at midnight from pneumonia. He had warned his wife last night that he did not believe he would live past midnight after catching a chill from a December snowstorm while visiting a sick child.
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New York
George H. Simons
Brooklyn
Clash Over Authority in Samoa Reported
In Samoa the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William L. Chambers and Dr Joannes Raffel the German president of Apia clash over authority. Chambers jailed a German resident but Raffel ordered release. US and British representatives refuse to recognize German authority until an apology is issued.
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Samoa
Auckland
William L. Chambers
Supreme Court
Joannes Raffel
Apia
Chambers
Raffel
United States
Great Britain
Family of Five Dies in Bowman Pneumonia Cluster
Five members of the Gwynn family and related relatives in Bowman Arkansas died within two days from pneumonia. Esquire Gwynn his son Charles his son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Dick Nobles and Mrs Dot Carpenter were all buried simultaneously in the same plot.
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Little Rock
Ark
Bowman
Esquire
Gwynn
Charles
Dick Nobles
Dot Carpenter
Tenn Congressman Seeks Repeal of Confederate Jury Bar
Representative Gaines introduces a bill to repeal the law barring ex Confederates from serving on federal grand or petit juries. It is described as the last relic of postwar discrimination, slipped into the 1862 revision and now causes hardship in the South.
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Washington
Gaines
Tenn
South
Large Whisky Combination Reaches $32 Million Agreement
New York February 2 news reports the largest whisky and distillery interests merger yet, in Kentucky Distillers Warehouse company. Fifty seven Kentucky whiskies join the pact, with the new firm capitalized at 32 million dollars and incorporation papers to be filed soon in New Jersey.
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New York
Kentucky Distillers 4
Kentucky
New Jersey
McDonald Gives $131,250 to McGill for Building Upgrades
Sir William McDonald, the Montreal tobacco magnate, donates 131 250 to McGill University to finish the McDonald building chemistry and mining endowment. His total gifts to the college now reach 2 650 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
William
McDonald
McGill University
Sir. Milliam
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Corp. Greely
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Kansas
London
Morning Post
Callao
Guy B. Soden
Henry F. Thompson
Jesse A. Hale
A. Maurice L. Seeman
A. Louis V. Dietz
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Charles W. Douglass
Frank H. Issinghausen
Charles A. Seitz
Alphonso Bonner
Peter N. Stermont
W. A. Goodman
Idaho
Ed McConn
Arno H. Meickel
Samuel E. Boakler
James Neary
Joseph W. Osberger
Dixon A. Everett
Michael Kennedy
Augustin Berry
Benjamin A. Harbour
Hugh P. McClellan
Herman Steinhagen
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War Department
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Atlee
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Philippine Junta
Pasig River
Minnesota
Utah
Fourth Cavalry
North Dakota Volunteers
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Macorte
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Pasal
Col. Duboce
King
Red Cross Society
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Convent
Twelfth
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Jefferson Barracks
Col. Smith
Sheldon
Santiago de Cuba
Santiago
Dalgeria
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John Hay
Ifavana
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