End to Hostility in China Conflicts Stirring Britain and Russia
London dispatch reports Count Von Waldersee has been named commander in chief of allied forces in China to end the hostile stand between British and Russian troops at Tien Tsin. News notes the prospect of strained relations, possible British naval pressure, and a move toward arbitration with official dismissals of war. The Daily Mail warns Britain’s armaments and fleet are weak in the Far East, urging national reform.
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London
the Times
Count von Waldersee
China
Tien Tsin
Great Britain
Russia
St. Petersburg
Tien Tain
South Africa
Count Lamsdorff
Charles Stewart Scott
Port Arthur
The
Daily Mail
Far East
Manchurian Controversy Seen Beyond Status Quo
A Berlin official notes that the dispute centers on a separate agreement outside Russia’s Manchurian status quo. He warns that if Russia makes such an agreement, another power could challenge the entente cordial, threatening stability and alliance unity. No power wants to dispute Russia’s conquests in Manchuria.
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Berlin
Russia
Manchuria
Express Train Derailed Near Grand Junction Iowa
Chicago Rock Island and Pacific passenger train No. 201 bound for Fort Dodge derailed two miles north of Grand Junction Iowa while at speed. About a score of passengers were injured as two passenger cars and a mail car left the track and the tender overturned. The locomotive stayed on the rails. the cause cited was a kink in the rails.
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Grand Junction
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Ft. Dodge
Here
Two Hospital Fire Victims Die in Helena
Helena Montana March 19 David H Webster 83 and Mrs A T Tibbetts died after being carried from St Peters Hospital during Saturday night fire. Webster was once an assayer at the Comstock mine and a friend of John W Mackay. Deaths attributed to shock from excitement.
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Helena
Mon
David H. Webster
A. T. Tibbetts
St. Petér’s Hospital
Webster
Comstock
John W. Mackay
Skirmish in Capiz Province Endangers Diocino Follower
March 19 dispatch reports Captain Shanks of the Eighteenth United States infantry clashing with followers of Tagal leader Diocino in Capiz on Panay Island. Two rebels killed while Diocino and three others wounded. In other brief items, a labor合 group departs Knoxville for Hawaii under a three year contract and two fishermen drown in Wisconsin after a boat sinking.
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Shanks
Eighteenth
United States Infantry
Diocino
Capiz
Panay
Hawaii
Ssa
Knoxville
Hawaiian Coercial and Sugar Company
Ss. Rkc Maples
Death of Capt. B. B. Lake at 64 in Chicago
Capt. Benjamin B. Lake long a Wooster resident died Friday in Chicago after a brief illness misattributed to asthma. A Civil War captain and Garfield staff aide, he helped build the Armory on East North Street. The funeral was held Sunday with Grand Army rites and pallbearers named. interment Monday.
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A. H Hunt
Chicago
Benj. B. Lake
Wooster
Lake
North Carolina
Bute
Ella Swanley
Bonj. Lake
McLanghlin
Garfield
Capt. Lake
Constant Lake
East North Street
B. B. Lake
Capt. B. B. Lake
A. H
Smithville Church Dinner Nets Modest Sum
Smithville March 18. The Methodist ladies hosted a grand dinner and supper at Adam Brant's home, raising a neat sum. News notes transfers, marriages, and local happenings including Char les Yoder move to Lake Erie & Western, Dr. Henry moving to Smithville, and class music at West Salem. The Normal School closes March 22. funeral of Miss Verne King draws large attendance.
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Smithville
Charles King
F.L. Henry
Tipton
I. A. Elson
Elson
Cleveland
Hinert Beemseas Os ' Caunbes
Cita
Kan
Martha Hutchinson
Christian Brenner
Manfeld
S. Earl Brenneman
Chicago
M. BE
Harry Baker
Orrville
U. S
Chauncey King
Gray
O. J. Miller
Trumbull County
Western Reserve Seminary
Reading Circle
Baughman and Greene
Saray
Chas. Haupert
Tolinston
Chaddock
Hugh Smith
Funcandar
Toon
Raia Ag
Striking Tensions Rise in Anthracite Coal Row
Shamokin Pa March 19 union leaders say a strike looms if operators reject miners demand for union recognition. District No 9 secretary Hartlein returns from Hazleton saying a strike is likely, while Miles Daugherty warns of one of the greatest miners strikes. Officials at Indianapolis say local anthracite action may proceed without general consent.
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Shamokin
George Hartlein
Miles Daugherty
Mitchell
Indianapolis
South Africa Peace Hopes Amid Eastern Front Actions
London reports Lord Roberts hopes for early peace in South Africa but Pretoria and Cave Town show no sign of settlement. General Fourie with 800 men escaped Sunday from British columns near Bloemfontein as new operations loom in the Orange River Colony within days.
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London
Lord Roberts
Lord Kitchener
South Africa
Pretoria
Cave Town
Fourie
Bloemfontein
Orange River Colony
Value of a Stolen Kiss sparks damages suit in Indianapolis
In Indianapolis Judge McMaster's court a jury set the market value of a stolen kiss at 1500 dollars during Lillian Bonnifield's $2000 damages suit against James G Wheat formerly of a mall service. Bonnifield accused Wheat of entering her apartments while her husband worked, kissing and embracing her, leading Wheat to resign from his post amid the Granada affair.
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McMaster
Superior Court
Lillian Bonnifield
James GC. Wheat
Mall
Rs. Bonnifield
Wheat
Civil Service
Washington
Mark
Brewer
Michigan
Civil Service Commission
Pontiac
Mich
Doylestown Plant Showdown Ends With Hope To Rebuild
Seiberling and Miller S H Miller of the Seiberling Miller Company report to an Akron paper that Doylestown residents do not want them to leave. They caution the plant’s future is undetermined yet, asserting the enterprise has forty years of history. The Akron Board of Trade and Wooster Board have reached out, and Monday night town meeting offered strong citizen support to rebuild the works in Doylestown.
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S. H. Miller
Seiberling-Miller Company
Doylestown
Akron
Miller
Muller
Akron Board of Trade
Wooster Board
Messrs. Seiberling & Miller
Merchant Moves Away Liquor Question to Be Settled for Sure
Creston News reports M F Miller of Miller Bros moving to Barberton after over twenty years in Creston, with Barberton gaining the enterprising firm. It notes local figures like Jacob Miller and attorney Thomas Keeler, and mentions mayoral race planning a union ticket. A liquor question to be settled by vote is proposed, and potential factory plans surface amid shop prospects and railroad optimism.
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Republican
Creston
M. F. Miller
Miller Bros
Txttick
Barberton
Jacob Miller
Thomas Keeler
West Salem
Tom
Keeler
Samuel M. Coulter
East Creston
McCausland, Sr
McCausland, Jr
Canton
K.shoup
W.L. McIntyre
Mt. Vernon
F. A. Jordan
Park Avenue
C. C. Case
Trumbiall County
C. W. McGlewen
Mantua
E.N. Boor
John South
J. W. Cole
J. S. Jameson
John Stone
J.—Me—Miler
Doylastown
Seiberling, Miller & Co
C.B. Maxwell
Jeromeville
Isaac Robb
Carl McGuff
Clem Schamp
McGuff
Noah Loblegal
Arshal Carbaugh
St Iss
Pete
Last Tributes at Harrison Tomb Crown Hill Cemetery
Indianapolis March 18 crowds lined Crown Hill Cemetery as the funeral of the statesman Harrison proceeded to the tomb. President McKinley and Governor Durbin attended, with Mrs Harrison and family near the coffin as white carnations were laid atop the lid and the granite tomb was sealed. Cannon salutes echoed as dusk fell and mourners filed away.
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Indianapolis
Gathber
Harrison Lot
Crown Hilli Cemetry
Parker
Russell B. Harrison
Niccols
Haines
German Inspection Law Draws Criticism At Bremen
Washington March 18 The German meat inspection law banning American corned beef and sausages has drawn sharp criticism in Germany. Report to the state department from Consul Diedrich at Bremen says prices have risen and the loss of American meat is keenly felt among laboring classes.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Diedrich
Bremen
Germany
Archbishop Corrigan Blesses New St Patrick Statue
In St Patrick's Cathedral New York Archbishop Corrigan formally blessed a handsome statue of St Patrick presented to the cathedral by John D Manning. The pontifical mass and blessing drew an enormous congregation.
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New York
St Patrick's Cathedral
Corrigan
St. Patrick
John D. Manning
Murderer Brought Back to Terre Haute Ind Today
Charles Rogers who shot and killed his father in law Milburn Baty and his wife Lee wounded was brought from Indianapolis for safe keeping. He has been indicted for murder in the first degree. Rogers is in custody with no mob violence feared as his wife lies in the hospital in a dangerous condition with doubtful chance of recovery.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Charles Rogers
Milburn Baty
Sisa
Lee
Indianapolis
Rogers
Atrlles
Hotfstal
Lynch Plot Reported in Kentucky Mining Town
In Midlesboro Kentucky on March 19 a mob of 300 miners gathered at West Pinesville to lynch Deputy Sheriff Frank McCoy who killed Vance Howard cousin of Harry Howard the Goebbert. Local authorities acted to keep the peace as tensions rose over the incident and mounting unrest among miners.
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Midlesborod
West Pinesville
Sherif Frank McCoy
Vance Howard
Herry-Howard- the
Goebet
Maysville Notes and Local Events Highlight March
The Republican at Maysville reports a busy period with a large attendance at Jas. Reiders sale, school term completion, and visits by Maggie Smith of Cleveland. Local youths staged gatherings, entertainments were postponed, and Fritz Graber’s wood chopping rally proceeded. Ulysses Feiche, a former brass band member and pioneer, passed away aged 16, reflecting on his frontier life and early musical roots in town.
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Maggie Smith
Cleveland
Caulamoutier
Minnie Aufranca
Mt Hope
Jno
Flack
Louis Sauvain
Amos Derr
Applecreek
John Flack
Big Heart
Jas. Fisher
J S
H G
Sue Reider
Cork
Brown
Here
Cala- Moutier
Fritz Graber
Etyate
Fritz
Daniel Rieder
Joe Harrold
Big
Ulysses —Feiche
March Std
Switzerland
California
Maysville
Alta
Death by live wire at Pittsburg fire aftermath
A boiler room blaze at the Hiram W. French company hair felt factory ignited a fire in the exposition building area. Firemen William Miller and three others suffered severe burns from a melted live wire contact with a trolley line and a furnace nozzle, causing two fatalities and multiple injuries. The exposition building and lumber yards suffered extensive damage, with the main building a complete wreck and losses estimated at $1,250,000 in insured property. reconstruction planned for fall engagements.
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Pittsburg
Fort Street
Duquesne Way
William Miller
George J. Snyder
Harry Griffith
C. H. Sheckler
Hiram W. French Company
Gallagher & Banker Toat
Henry Henk
Miller
Snyder
Schreckler
Griffith
Torrance
Elderly Woman Injured in Yard Wind Gust
Mrs Helen Landers of Fast Henry street suffered a severe hip sprain when a sudden wind knocked her from the barn doorway into an alley. Doctors found no fracture, but she remains bedridden for weeks amid great pain and shock. neighbors aided her to the house and a surgeon was summoned.
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Helen Landers
Bor
Freight Rate Reductions on Coal for Chicago
Freight traffic managers announce from April 1 a 10 cent per ton cut on coal freight to Chicago via Pittsburg West Virginia and Ohio. Lake shipments drop from 80 to 73 cents for cargo coal. Lake port delivery keeps old rate, fuel coal for lake steamers 83 cents, local via PA and OH 96 cents, WV 8% higher. Chicago rate now 1.75 from WV and western PA and 1.50 from Ohio.
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Pittsburg
Chicago
West Virginia
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Presidents May Meet In Mexico And Diaz Health Report
The Mexican consul in El Paso reports President Diaz is in excellent health after a three day visit to Cuernavaca. Talks of Diaz meeting McKinley during his Pacific coast trip stir speculation on who should initiate such talks.
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el Pass
Tex
MaHlen
Mom
Cuernavaca
Diaz
el Paso
McKinley
Pacific Coast
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