Telegraphic News of the World highlights from two hemispheres
A condensed foreign wire round up reports on grain crops and waterworks funding in Seattle, Dewey and battleship news, Pacific affairs, labor strikes, strikes in New York and Chicago, and various political and military developments from the United States and abroad.
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Dawson
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Portugal
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Root Accepts War Portfolio in McKinley Cabinet
Elihu Root of New York has accepted the war portfolio in President McKinley’s cabinet. The telegram of acceptance arrived after a White House conference with President McKinley and Senator Plato. Root’s appointment follows Alger’s telegram of congratulations and signals a likely Washington conference with the president before the Adirondacks trip.
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Koyukuk
Yukon
Elihu Root
New York
Northwest
Toledo
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Lake Champlain
Washington
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Alver
Root
White House
Adirondacks
Eliza Root
Clinton
N. Y
Hamilton College
New York University Law School
Tie
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New York State
Explosion wrecks car on Euclid Avenue injuring several
A Cleveland Euclid Avenue car exploded with nitroglycerin or gyne cotton, injuring multiple passengers including Mrs. E C Martin and her husband. Mrs. Martin is faring poorly with a compound skull fracture and severe injuries. The blast shook nearby houses and left no clues about the detonator.
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Euclid Avenue
E. C. Martin
Alabon Street
Catherine Harris
Cornell Street
F. A. Smith
Vienna Street
Albert E. Fasset
Wallace Place
Dora Schessler
Oakdale Street
Martin
Washington State Fair premium list enlarged for fourth annual exhibit
Washington state fair commission at North Yakima completed the premium list and had it printed. The revised book expands industries and home production with prizes more than doubled to attract Pacific Northwest exhibits from Oregon and British Columbia. The fair offers $10 000 in premiums, special rail rates, and Excursions from Seattle Spokane Tacoma and intermediate points. The Palouse and Potlatch regions report minimal grain damage from heat.
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Oregon
British Columbia
Commission
Seattle
Spokane
Tacoma
Morning notes from the Pacific Northwest markets and events
The article lists various local happenings from Idaho to Oregon including investigations of murders in Nez Perce county, Idaho, construction of public works at Canyon City and Coquille, and harvests and trade figures. It reports on postal receipts in Spokane, a new club in Spokane, oleomargarine seizures in Walla Walla, and numerous agricultural prices and hatchery plans along the coast.
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Willamette University
Northwest News Notes Presents Varied Northwest Happenings
The item catalogs diverse notes from across the Pacific Northwest including Cape Nomes merit disputes, Boston financiers visiting Spokane for a fruit fair, a visiting editor giving Oregon a new name Hospitality, and a $3,570,000 year total in Klondike gold. It cites Juneau’s planned $40,000 courthouse, a missing nephew case in Southern Oregon, Spokane bank clearings growth, Frisco candy poisoners once from Vancouver, B C, Sherman county warrants called in, Missoula sheepmen city-border conflict, White Pass railroad completion with a July 6 spike, Sacramento Mrs Lamson’s Edmonton trail trek, Spokane revenue gains, Reno cars hauling borax, California fruit abundance vs Oregon crop failures, California peaches and Southern Oregon potential exports.
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Klondike
Juneau
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White Pass
Yukon
Jtlampson
Sacramento
Edmonton Trail
Commodity prices and markets notes from 1898
Listings show grain and millstuff prices across regions including Wool Spring Nevada Oregon Eastern Northern Valley and Millstuffs Middlings and Bran per ton. Animal feed and produce rates for onions butter eggs and hops with varied per unit prices.
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California
Puget Sound
Washington
Walla Walla
Valley
Oregon
Nevada
Resignation of Alger Shakes Cabinet as War Dept Passes to Corbin
Washington telegram reports Secretary of War Eli Alger resigning effective upon the president's pleasure. Vice President Hobart aided the move amid Corbin's consolidation of war powers. Alger plans rest in the Northwest and lumber camps with his children, delaying further political action until fall.
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Corbin
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McKinley
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Michigan
Diamond Mine Mystery Surfaces In Alaska Tale
A five member search party from New York for a mythical Alaska diamond mine returns one survivor, H C Hoffman. The others, Dodds La belle French, die or are missing after a trek from San Francisco to a Black Hole region then capture and hardship by Russian camp inhabitants. Hoffman later escapes to Sisinan and reports no word of Henry Martin. The tale unfolds with disease, death, and captivity across several villages.
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Paterson
N. J
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Washington Volunteers Sailed Direct to Puget Sound Urged
Olympia July 21. In reply to War Secretary Alger Washington Governor Rogers says Washington citizens would be overjoyed if ships carrying volunteers could sail directly to Puget Sound and urges compliance if feasible.
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Alger
Washington
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