Comprehensive Review of notable events this past week
Rear Admiral Schley arrived in Rio Janeiro. Chinese rebels attacked the Manchurian railway. Ohio valley storm danger has passed. U.S. officers campaign against Chinese slave trade in San Francisco. Leyte province created in the Philippines with American officers in control. A rock damaged a Portland Astoria train car. passengers unharmed. The Twenty sixth regiment arrived in San Francisco and camped at the Presidio. The German Reichstag extends authors rights to 50 years. A prisoner at Denver jail faced arsenic poisoned food. Manila and Nome reports of mining and railway developments. The steamship Ramona exploded near Victoria with four dead. General Milner reports South Africa conditions discouraging. Treasury buys $350,000 in short term bonds. Milwaukee ironworks win navy contract. Milwaukee cruiser planned. A target for testing naval guns to be built at the Brooklyn yard.
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Schley
Rio Janiero
Manchurian
Ohio Valley
United States
San Francisco
Joseph Hume
Pacific Coast
Berkeley
Cal
Santo Domingo
Leyte
Philippines
Westinghouse Company
France
Portland Astoria
Twenty-sixth Regiment
Garonne
Presidio
Language Diversity and Mail Handling Shifts
The article notes 120 languages in the Philippines and discusses the Post Office Department plans to reduce rehandling European mails at New York. It predicts autographs and sentiment in letters will decline as famous men sign with rubber stamps or typewritten documents.
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Post Ofice Department
New York
Accident in a Drydock Involving Transport Warren At Hunter Point
In San Francisco on April 20 the transport Warren, being floated from a drydock, toppled twice as blocks slipped. An electrician Aaron Astill was pinned and ankle broken, Ben Hall crushed hip, others suffered scalp wounds. Over 400 workers deserted the voyage for safety. The Warren itself was not damaged.
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San Francisco
Warren
Hunter Point
Aaron Astill
Ben Hall
Hunter's Point
Avalanche traps two engines on Colorado line. four crew dead
On the Colorado and Northwestern railroad two engines pulling a Ward to Boulder passenger train were struck by a massive snowslide near Boomerville. Engineers Hannon and Fitzgerald Fireman Miller Conductor Bair were killed. A second fireman is missing and presumed buried. No bodies recovered.
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Colo
Colorado & Northwestern Railroad
Ward
Moulder
Hannon and Fitzgerald
Miller
Bair
Boomerville
Plague Strikes Dunwich Insane Asylum in Australia
News from the steamship Aorangi reports bubonic plague outbreaks in Bris bane and Perth with a serious phase at Dunwich insane asylum housing about 1000 inmates. Infected patients are isolated as authorities fumigate sewers to kill rats and vermin, amid grave public fear.
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Vancouver
B. C
Sydney
Brisbane
Perth
Dunwich
Consolidation Aims at $25 Million for Major Engine Firms
The Sentinel reports a pending deal to unify five large stationary engine manufacturers into a single corporation with a capital of 25 million dollars. Charles Allis and William Allis of Milwaukee would serve as president and chairman of the board, with firms including E P Allis Company Philadelphia Gates Iron Works Chicago Fraser Chalmers Chicago and Dixon Manufacturing Scranton listed as participants.
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Milwaukee
Wis
the Sentinel
United States
Charles Allis
William Allis
E. P. Allis Company
Pennsylvania Iron Works
Plague Cases Rise in Cape Colony With New Infections
Cape Town reports ten new bubonic plague cases including two Europeans and two more deaths. London advices to the colonial office note 41 prior cases among military and naval personnel in Cape Colony before April 13.
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Cape Town
London
Colonial Office
South Africa
Cape Colony
Trains Collision Fatal on Wheeling & Lake Erie Line
A head on collision between freight and construction trains in Cleveland yards left brakeman William Theis dead and engineer Velsenbrech fatally injured. Fireman Hammond and Sylvester Bruggen were badly hurt. officials cite a misunderstanding of orders as the cause.
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Wheeling & Lake Erie Road
William Theis
Velsenbrech
Hammond
Sylvester Bruggen
Miller Shot Near President's Farm in Minerva
Andrew Miller, a wealthy farmer living half a mile east of Minerva, was shot in his barn and is not expected to live. Bloodhounds from Canton track the assassin. Miller said he believed he knew his attacker shortly after the shooting. The Miller farm borders President McKinley’s farm in the northwest corner of Columbian County.
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Minerva
Andrew Miller
Canton
Miller
President McKinley
Columbian County
Commercial and financial Happenings Across Our Commonwealth
A broad review notes new Odd Fellows lodge in North Yakima, a $13 000 Ritzville bank building planned, and local farm and city projects. Spokane voting figures rise, a Pan-American apple shipment from Walla Walla is planned, and Everett contemplates a $5 000 décor budget for a presidential visit. Public notices cover new routes, guilds, and union formations among trades.
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Lodge of Odd Fellows
North Yakima
Ritzville
Columbia County
Spokane
Market prices from Seattle dealers for producers and dock delivery
Prices listed for hides, pelts, and tallow with varied rates by weight and type. Wool values cite Western and Eastern Washington grades. Livestock and poultry rates cover live and dressed hogs, calves, beef cattle, sheep, butter, eggs, grain, hay, and field seeds with region specific figures.
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Seattle
Settle
Washington
Dean
Puget Sound
Incomes Tax Proposals Register Scotland and Austria Hungary
The text notes an income tax on earnings of £33 and up. It mentions dried eggs in cans as army rations. It reports beaver overpopulation in southern Colorado prompting calls to kill or protect property. Austria Hungary census shows 40,310.85 thousand people, up ten percent in ten years.
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Colasdo
Austria Hungary
Mustered Out regiments sail from Manila voyage plan
San Francisco April 22 The Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth regiments recently returned from Manila have been mustered out. The Twenty-eighth and Thirty-fifth in fantry in camp at the Presidio expect to be mustered out by April 30. Transports will rush to Manila to bring home volunteers. The Thomas sailed Saturday with 127 recruits and 20 casuals under Lt W A Liebler. the Warren will sail the 25th. Rosecrans released from quarantine with 218 Thirty seventh infantry and 2600 casuals. Lawton released after fumigation following three smallpox cases.
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Manila
Presidio
Philippines
Thomas
Warren
W. A. Liebler
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Rosecrans
Thirtyseventh Infantry
Lawton
Fire at Montana Ore smelter causes heavy damage
Friction in a hot box near the Montana Ore Purchasing Company's smelter in Butte sparked a morning fire. Damage totals $75,000 with sampling works destroyed and stacks ruined though new machinery and blast furnaces largely spared. Plant saved by firefighters. operations expected to resume in about 30 days.
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Butte
Mont
Montana Ore Purchasing Company
Butte & Boston Company
Geyser Emerges At Lake Echo New Zealand
Vancouver reports a new geyser at Lake Echo Romtomahana New Zealand described as a half acre boiling mass with a dome up to 300 feet high and a column of water and stones rising. immense steam and hot stones projected. Separate Australian note records a 70 000 ton rock blast on the New South Wales Railway deviation works at Tarawa using four tons of explosives due to rock hardness.
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Vancouver
B. C
Lake Echo
Romtomahana
New Zealand
New South Wales
Tarawa
Gomez to Visit America With Son Urbana
Havana reports General Maximo Gomez plans a trip to the United States with his son Urbana. He aims to await the Cuban special committee on relations return and Platt amendment action to avoid political motives. Palma is named as Gomez’s preferred Cuban president candidate.
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Maximo Gomez
United States
Urbana
Cuba
Special Committee On Relations
Spain
Senor Palma
General Gomez
Akron cereal consolidation completes plan for 10 plants
Akron Ohio April 22 The consolidation project will merge 10 independent cereal plants into the Great Western Cereal Company of Chicago. The new firm will compete with the American Cereal Company known as the oatmeal trust.
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Akron
Great Western Cereal Company
Chicago
Ameraien Cereal Commpany
The
Oatmeal Trust
Five deported men arrive with Rosecrans from Manila
transport Rosecrans brought from Manila five men who had been deported by the military authorities. Among them was Santiago Maceo, son of the late Cuban leader. Maceo rose to prominence on the Pacific coast two years ago while traveling with Katherine Tingley theosophical leader. He later clashed with Mrs Tingley claiming mistreatment as a servant. In the Philippines Maceo became a first sergeant in the Macabebe scouts.
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Rosecrans
Manila
Santiago Maceo
Maceo
Pacific
Katherine Tingley
British forces gain in South Africa advance reports
Dispatch from General Kitchener dated April 20 at Pretoria notes Plumer occupying Bathfont with 13 prisoners and rifles and ammunition seized. Douglas column occupies Dulistroom. Six Boers killed. Boers blow up a Long Tom as Kitchener advances from Leydeburg. 13 prisoners captured. Elliott's division reports many cattle brought in.
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Kitchener
Pretoria
Plumer
Bathfont
Douglas
Dulistroom
Leydeburg
Elliott
Aguinaldo Urges Peace and US Sovereignty for Philippines
In an April 22 message from Manila Aguinaldo declares an end to hostilities as essential for welfare. He says Filipinos favor peace under United States sovereignty and trust protection will secure promised liberties. He appeals to remaining fighters to accept the will of the people for lasting peace.
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Manila
Aguinaldo
United States
Philippine Archipelago
Pennsylvania Iron Company Sells Plant in Big Stationary Engine Merge
A special meeting in Philadelphia confirms a merger of Pennsylvania Iron with four major stationary engine firms to form a $25,000,000 combine. The Pittsburgh deal offers $1,000,000 in preferred stock for the plant and assets despite objections that price falls short of appraisals.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Iron Company
Bank to be established in Havana by Morgan trust interests
New York reports that an international bank with capital between 1 million and 2 million dollars is to be set up in Havana by interests linked to the Morgan Trust Company and the Cuba Company of Miami. The Havana area was hit by a tornado this morning tearing down several houses and injuring two people seriously.
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Havana
Morgan Trust Company
Cuba Company
Miami
Fla
Biscayne
Here
Cuba
Porto Rico
Quartermaster's Department
General Pearson petitions president over mule export case
General Samuel Pearson, a Boer officer, sent a direct petition to the president after a U S court refused him a writ of injunction to halt further mule exports from New Orleans to South Africa. Judge Parlange noted the decision, saying the political matter should be handled by the executive branch.
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New Orleans
Samuel Pearson
United Sates
South Africa
Parlange
Pearson
New Servian Constitution Promulgated in Belgrade
Belgrade April 22 the new constitution was promulgated today and a royal ukase reappoints the cabinet ministers who had tendered resignations. All state officials are reappointed. Georg Simica named president of the new state council. Of the 11 senators appointed by the king 4 are Libereie 5 Independent 1 Radiwala 0 Progressiers.
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Belgrade
Servia
Georg Simica
State Council
Washington Gossip in Washington Letter
Army officers critique the Logan statue as unmilitary with uneven saddle stance and a nonstandard sword pose. Veterans urged to file claims themselves for Oklahoma homesteads, wary of agents. Marconi seeks Navy contract for wireless gear costing 12 000 each, while Congress approval lags.
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Marconi
Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Congress
Weather Bureau
Signal Service
Newport
Dam Breach Destroys Chester Mass Town
The Flood Hollow dam in Middlefield failed about 6 o'clock last night flooding the Westfield river branch. The town of Chester suffered heavy damage with the electric light station submerged and trains halted for about two days. No lives were lost.
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Chester
Mass
Middlefield
Westfield
Hollow
Bancroft
Boston
Albany
Fire Destroys Steamboat Springs Hotel and Baths
A blaze beginning in the historic hotel at Steamboat Springs spread to the two story bath house, razing both structures. The resort, once a bustling Comstock era watering place, saw its famed hospitality and main baths burned in the fire.
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Rena New
Steamboat Springs
Comstock
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