Eruptions, politics, and a bank robbery summarized
Jimmie Burt knocks out Frank Erne in seven rounds in San Francisco. La Soufriere erupts for the fifth time since May. Oregon dairy cows show widespread tuberculosis. Thanksgiving football scores list Michigan Penn State and others. Judge D W Stanrod seeks U S Senate seat. Yorkshire Wool Combers appoints a receiver. Commercial Cable accepts terms to build a US Philippines cable. US Steel courted to share neutral markets. Joseph Chamberlain sails for South Africa. Bancroft Bank robbed. cash stolen. James F A Gibbs dies at 73 in Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmie Burt
San Francisco
Frank Erne
Buffalo
Washington state news roundup of deaths and studies
Garfield Methodists plan parsonage construction. Civil service exams set for Seattle December 9 10 for federal posts. Col W E McKee dies in Steffen hotel Seattle. D P Whitney and John M Weber longtime Washington pioneers die in Seattle and Houghton. Tests to judge Washingtons fitness for government uses to be held at Puget Sound navy yard with $40 000 requested. November rainfall 59 inches noted by Senator McCroskey. Farmers optimistic about record wheat crop next season. Ground floor gambling halted in Seattle. A Christiansen killed by a falling sling load in South Bend. Vanious Rochester former UW law professor dies in Seattle. Endowment urged for Saint Pauls school with funds potentially moving project to Seattle.
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Col. W. E. McKee
Seattle
Steffen
Marion and
Second Avenue
D. P. Whitney
John M. Weber
Houghton
Lake Washington
Washington
Whitney
Weber
Foster
Puget Sound Navy Yard
McCroskey
Garfield
Gold Medal for White During Emperor William's Farewell
Berlin November 28 Emperor William awarded retiring American Ambassador White the empire's gold medal for science and art. The award honors a German or foreign recipient deemed most deserving by the government. The emperor noted the honor came on Chancellor von Buelow and Foreign Secretary von Richthoff's recommendation and promised a porcelain vase as a personal keepsake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emperor William
America
Berlin
Ambassador White
William
von Buelow
von Riechtoff
Entries Held Up Under Timber and Stone Act Frauds
Washington reports that all entries under the timber and stone act in California, Washington, and Oregon are suspended pending a government investigation into alleged wholesale frauds. The Interior Department notes hundreds of thousands of acres at stake and will seek urgent amendments to curb despoilers. Local land offices have been ordered to suspend all timber and stone entry actions immediately.
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Washington
California
Oregon
Interior Department
Hitchcock
Congress
Great Britain
Germany
Venezuela
England
Halifax
la Guayra
Dewey
Culebra
United States
Birmingham
Count Matterich
Lord Lansdown
Berlin
Castro
America
Filipinos Arm Themselves as War Munitions Arrive
Lieutenant Kierulff of the Dix reports natives in the Philippines arming themselves aided by priests and secret societies. A wrecked barge found off Luzon carried guns and ammunition, suggesting supply from an unknown source. Cholera deaths rose 60 percent in Manila after shift to civil rule, blamed on clergy instruction against U.S. disease controls.
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Seattle
Philippine Islands
United States
H. Newton Kierulff
Dix
Philippines
Lieut. Kierulff
Luzon
Manila
Native
Guard strength increased around McKinley tomb in Canton
In Canton Ohio on November 28 the guard detail around the McKinley tomb will rise from 40 to 65 men. The larger force will stay in place until the memorial is completed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
McKinley Tomb
Seattle Market Prices Across Farm Goods and Livestock
Market report lists producer offers in Seattle for oats barley and wheat at 21.25 21.00 22.00 per ton, hay Puget Sound 8.10 eastern Washington 12.50, alfalfa 9.50, eggs 39¢, poultry prices for hens roosters ducks spring chickens geese, beef cattle sheep hogs calves lambs, butter and cheese quotes, wool values by region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Shorts
Puget Sound
Washington
California
Matinning
Lima
Washington Creamery
Grain and livestock prices from a rural market notice
The list shows crops and animal products with prices per bunch or ton and per hundredweight. Wheat and oats prices, barley options, hay types, beans, butter, eggs, and livestock quotes cover steers cows sheep hogs with stated ranges and per unit costs.
Plan Submitted to Bind Venezuela Debts and Boost Security
London reports a proposed settlement unifying all government and government guaranteed loans with stronger security. If approved, Germany and Britain would avoid harsher steps. the US may back the plan and American bankers could be approached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Associated Press
Venezuela
Germany
Great Britain
United States
State Department
Europe
THREE MORE CRUISERS ORDERED TO VENEZUELA
Berlin reports three additional cruisers Niobe Ariadne and Ama zone ordered from Kiel to Venezuela with immediate fitting out and supply of ammunition. Sail date expected mid next week. Gormley Declared Not Guilty. Chicago jurors acquitted James H. Gormley president of the Masonic Fraternity Association in a conspiracy case over tax on the Masonic Temple property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Kiel
Venezuela
Mavy Department
Gormley
Chicago
James H. Gormley
The
Masonic Fraternity Association
Masonic Temple
Dr Joseph Parker Dies After Illness at City Temple
London report states Dr Joseph Parker minister of the City Temple died at 5 oclock yesterday afternoon after a period of serious illness. The death ends his long tenure and spiritual leadership in the city.
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London
Joseph Parker
City Temple
Emigration, inventions and curiosities from 1900 era
A compendium of notes reports on Norway emigration to North America, English village alehouse history, Baron de Rothschild motor car interests, bank presidents, Japan postal service efficiency, Yukon navigation, a fined brickmaker in China, and Palestine Jewish heritage. It also covers whaling, Northern Siberia exploration plans, Lord Alverstone activity, North American moths, French West Africa trade, U S exports, New York horse decline, early auto speed fears, Paris first aid boxes, Mississippi portraits vote, Sabbath observance in Scotland, a magic Pharaoh charm ad, and a humorous exchange about dyeing Bald heads.
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England
North St. Philip
Willie
Baron Henri de Rothschild
David Crosby Foster
Poughkeepsie Savings Bank
Japan
Captain McKenzie
Platina
St. Petersburg
Siberia
Lord Alverstone
North America
Rocky Mountains
Africa
United States
New York
Paris
Mississippi
Jefferson Davis
J. Q. C. Lamar
FE. C. Walthall
James George
S. S. Prentiss
J. M. Stone
George Poindexter
William Sharkey
George Foote
J. L. Power
Scotland
Stirling
Blair Drummond
Pharaoh
St. Chad Boscawen
British Museum
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Ashlington
la Souffriere
John W. Bailey
Michigan
Minnesota
Stanford
Utah
Multnomah
Pennsylvania
Cornell
Washington University
Pullman
D. W.stanrod
Idaho
Senator Heitfield
Yorkshire Eng and Wool Combers’ Association
Commercial Cable Company
Department of Justice
Guam
Vossiche Zeitung
United States Steel Corporation
Joseph Chamberlain
South Africa
Good Hope
Bancroft Bank
Bancroft, Neb
James F. A. Gibbs
Wilcox & Gibbs
Rock Bridge County
Kentucky
Washington State News
Garfield Methodists
South Bend
A. Christiansen
Vanius Rochester
University of Washington
Walla Walla
Saint Paul’s School
Andreas Bard
St. Paul Parish
Govern
Ment
Seattle Market Report
Tacoma
Dr. Parker
Norway
Yukon River
New Orleans
Honan
China
Palestine
Gyer
Myer
Aberdeen Brewing Co
Telephone
Lowrie
C. M. Demeree
Washington Abstract Company
Chehalis County
Grays Harbor
G Street
Aberdeen State Bank
Aberdeen
Wash
H Street
Billings
St. Louis
M. P. Benton
Pioneer Square
Seattle, Wash
Pacific Transfer
Robert Lowry
Pacific Hotel
H. A. Tereda & CO
G ST
Zelasko Block
Star Meat Market
James Barrett
Propr
F Street
Phoarea
Aberdeen Livery and Transfer CO
W. T. McBride
Harbor
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