Happenings of the Week Cover Congress and World Events
Weekly recap notes Senate and House actions including District of Columbia bill debates and Philippine affairs. It records a proposed 75 000 dollar presidential salary and a 12 000 dollar speaker’s pay, navy and shipping talks, plus a possible U S intervention in San Domingo. Other items report fire loss in Oklahoma, criminal cases, and notable deaths.
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White House
Senate
House
District of Columbia
Philippine Islands
Gallinger
Congress
United States
Philippines
Grover Cleveland
San Domingo
State Department
Maryland House of Delegates
Comanche County
Oklahoma
Shaw
Chaffee
War Department
Wilkie
Secret Service
Denny
Dickinson College
Carlisle
William Henry Harrison Murray
Murray
Guilford
Conn
James E. Watson
Rushville
Ind
President Smith
Mormon Church
Smoot
Louis O. Harmon
George Geyer
Alton
Postmaster at Junction Ark Resigns Amid Feud Flight Plan
The Junction Arkansas postmaster resigned his office to flee the state with his family after a deadly feud. The article notes other national items including a blizzard in Wisconsin Michigan and Minnesota and a treaty on the Isle of Pines. It also mentions political plans for new states Oklahoma and Indian Territory and Arizona New Mexico.
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Junction
Ark
Panama
United States
Detroit
Mich
Common Council
Andrew Carnegie
Joseph Seultz
Menominee Leader
Marinette
Wis
Waterloo
le Sueur (Minn.) County Bank
Rock Mount
N.C
Farmers’ Exchange Bank
Cleveland
N. Y
Parish
Wisconsin
Michigan
Minnesota
Hay
Senor Quesada
Cuba
Isle of Pines
Roosevelt
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Arizona
New Mexico
Charles Dick elected to Senate to replace Hanna
Akron man Charles Dick wins seat in the United States Senate succeeding the late Marcus A. Hanna. Other items note deaths of Noah Raby at 132, Ethel Golding at 23, and Mrs. Wilhelmina Secheberg at 102.
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Charles Dick
Akron
United States Senate
Marcus A. Hanna
Noah Raby
Piscataway
N. J
Ethel Golding
Bath Beach
N. Y
Wilhelmina Secheberg
Chicago
Virginia
S. H. Hoge
Roanoke
Congress
Vermont
Ferdinand Brucker
Michigan
Saginaw
Joseph W. Babcock
Wisconsin
John Keenan
New York
Long Island
Phillip P. Campbell
Pittsburg
Kan
Walter S. Frazier
Aurora
Ill
Global war tensions and battles update from Far East fronts
Exiled former President Kruger in Mentone named as dying exile. Russia and China threaten actions as Japan presses its advance. Port Arthur bombardment damages ships and fortifications while Russian cruisers face condemnation. Moros, Manchurian clashes, and Japanese transports intensify the conflict as both sides prepare for a major move near the Yalu river.
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Kruger
Mentone
France
Russia
China
Port Arthur
Askold
Nowik
Hetvizan
Japan
Korea
United States
Jolo
Chemulpo
Yalu
St. Petersburg
Vladivostock
East Chinees
Blagovestchensk Trans-Baikal
Amur
Dreyfus
Paris
Manchuria
Danny
Gulf of Liaotung
Saddle Bay
Newchwang
Yalu River
Students Refuse Loyalty Address in St Petersburg
Women at a St Petersburg university refuse to join in a czar loyalty address and instead send sympathy telegrams to the Mikado. Robert MacMahon, fallen from millionaire to stranded book agent, dies by his own hand at Waterloo Indiana. Baron Hiashi, Japanese minister to Great Britain, says Japan does not need a foreign war loan.
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Women’s University
St. Petersburg
Robert MacMahon
Waterloo
Baron Hiagshi
Great Britain
Russia Masses 174527 Soldiers to Crush Japanese Army
News items note Russian forces assembling in the Far East, including 174,527 men, 67,860 horses, and 496 guns, as Japan concentrates 100,000 troops at Ping Yang. Reports cover Dreyfus, Polish uprising, Panama Canal talks, rail accidents, fires, and other wartime and domestic events.
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Russia
French Court of Cassation
Alfred Dreyfus
Waldersee
Far East
Indianapolis
Vienna
St. Petersburg
Smith
Mormon Church
Congress
Utah
Panama Canal
Panama
Knox
Cromwell
Washington
Pritchard
Samuel A. Groff
Post Office
Manndeville
Darlington
New York
Ping-Yang
Tokio
Newchwang
Viadivestock
Michigan Land Association
Upper Peninsula
Lewistown
L Lombard
Mont
Tengchow
Minotau Islands
Port Arthur
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Seattle
Jagiun
Minnesota
St. Louis
Pittsburg
Henry
George Brooke
Erie Road
Kouts
Ind
United States
Korea
Senate
House
Tawron Armsby
Council Grove
Kan
Eighth
Minnesota Volunteer Regiment
Buell
Mr. Brown
Robert Compton
Wallace Tyle
Germany's Great Loss. Waldersee Dies in Berlin
Field Marshal Count von Waldersee died after a long illness in Hanover. Emperors, doctors, and eminent specialists attended, with William II receiving daily bulletins. Born 1832 in Potsdam, he served 50 years and led army campaigns from Schleswig to China. His widow, Mary Lea, an American, was once heiress to Schleswig-Holstein and linked to the German court.
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Hanover
Prussia
Count von Waldersee
Orth
Berlin
Eppstein
Goettingen
William
Count Alfred von Waldersee
Potsdam
Schleswig- Holstein
Austria
France
China
von Moltke
Waldersee
Mary Lea
New York
Prince Frederick
Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg
Germany
Europe
Western Canada Agriculture Exceeds Expectations
A Wisconsin Agriculturist editor toured Canada to verify reports of rich soils abundant moisture and strong markets. He highlights Manitoba wheat capacity 100 million bushels from 35 000 farmers and notes dairy potential along with coal geology and Medicine Hat gas. Government agents offer atlas and railway rate details.
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Wisconsin Agriculturist
Canada
Province of
Manitoba
Assini
Boine
Red
Prairie Province
Ontario
Wisconsin
Assiniboia
Canada Pacific Railway
Indian Head
Medicine Hat
Court Grants Revision of Dreyfus Trial
Paris March 7 The criminal branch of the court of cassation granted Alfred Dreyfus’s appeal for a revision of his Rennes trial. The court ordered a supplementary investigation to clear up all doubtful points cited in the request. The decision marks another success for Dreyfus, though not final pending further inquiry.
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Paris
Court of Cassation
Alfred Dreyfus
Rennes
Wreck of Darlington hotel Claims 20 Lives
In New York on a Sunday three more bodies were recovered from the Darlington hotel disaster bringing the total fatalities to twenty.
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New York
Darlington Hotel
Cure skin and blood humors with Cuticura set
Advertising copy promotes Cuticura for skin crusts scales and thickened cuticle with Cuti Cura Ointment Pills and Resolvent. Claims instant itch relief and healing of eczema rashes scalp hair loss from infancy to age. Notes global sales and depots in London Paris and Boston with prices and how to obtain more information.
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London
Chartemonse Sq
Paris
Rue de la Paix
Boston
Columbus Ave
Potter Drug and Cheza. Corp
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