Week's Happenings Stir Readers Across Europe and Americas
Heat grips Europe as royal joy greets Italy with a newborn princess. Chaffee's forces reach Nagasaki from China while London's rumor of a defeat near Pretoria stirs gossip. Duke of York visits Canada officially announced amid diverse global events including Rockefeller's $200000 gift for medical research and a $10000 fruit packing plant planned for Vancouver Washington.
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Washington Gossip on Manila guard and White House roles
Instruction to Major Edgar B. Roberts at Pekin details a 160 man force to guard the U S legation at the Temple of Agriculture and near the forbidden city with supplies through December 31. Other items note Mrs McKinley illness impact on society, pension sharpers probe, and Allied postwar troop movements and health improvements in the Philippines.
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Foreign troops moving as China evacuation proceeds
Two British transports reach Tong Ku to ship troops to India and a third to Wei Hai Wei with Beluch regiment. General Voyron expects France to countermand the China stay order as evacuations begin. General Lorne Campbell says the Tien Tsin situation improves since foreign troops arrived.
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Freight Trains Collide at Edgecomb in Daylight Crash
An extra south bound freight train was split in two at the top of a two mile grade at Edgecomb Everett May 31. The standing half descended the grade and struck another freight train, destroying two cabooses and three freight cars. The wreckage burned but no injuries reported.
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Washington News Briefs of Growth and Happenings
Memorial Day exercises statewide. Fire in New Whatcom destroyed 3000 dollars of property. Lubricating oil found in a well near Olympia at oiling depth. Forty thousand pounds of wool sold at Dayton for 13 cents. A three year old girl drowned in Ashtanum Valley near North Yakima. A Sultan saloon keeper arrested for selling liquor to Indians. Several mild smallpox cases at Warm Springs Indian agency. Seattle crowds rush for transport to Alaskan fields. Menlo creamery builds a butter storage cellar amid low prices. Lucky Dick mine north of Wenatchee yields fine ore. Oyster Bay oyster pickers experiment failed. Simpson mill at Seth Bend shut down for modernization. Mount Vernon to build a brick yard. Aberdeen fire destroys 5000 dollars of property. A longshoremen union organized at Tacoma. Olympia high school class of 15 graduates. In Thurston county 65 districts, only six in debt. Special mail service from Dragoon Spur to Hockspur ended. Eight year old girl fatally injured at home. Northern Pacific to begin major improvements at South Tacoma shops. San Francisco capitalists study Vancouver fruit packing. William Miller of Orcas killed by overturned sled with lime barrel. Davenport merchants hope NP will extend south into wheat country. British Columbia law bans log exports to US for lumber, harming mills in Northern Washington.
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Swept Over a Dam in Picnic Boat Tragedy
A rowboat carrying eight young people was swept over the Flat Rock dam on the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia. Seven drowned, five girls and two boys, while one young man survived. Heavy rains had raised the current, the boat failed to clear the dam, and all eight disappeared after the plunge.
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Honolulus Sensation in Bribery Probe Shocks Territory
Honolulu reports a grand jury probe into bribery in the legislature, summoning Gov Dole, Attorney General Dole, Secretary Cooper and other officials who refuse to testify, citing privileged communications. Acting Gov Cooper and Thurston are summoned. Judge Humphreys allows testimony for names already given. Amid this, Miss Helen Gould rests from charity work, and Treasury Auditor Youngblood resigns, with Pierson named his successor.
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Seattle Market Prices Report 1893 Hides Wool and Grain
Market notes list Seattle offered prices for hides pelts heavy salted cattle cows calves and grubs. wool from Western and Eastern Washington. livestock cattle sheep hogs dressed hogs live cattle fowl butter eggs grain oats hay and seeds with ranges and per pound or per unit values. Additional lines cite financial predictions about the United States and wage totals for John D Rockefeller and census population changes in England and Wales.
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First Payment for Cruiser to Turkish Government
A cable message to William Cramp & Sons says the first payment for the Turkish cruiser has been made by the Imperial Ottoman Bank. This confirms the project will proceed after prior doubts about its construction.
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William Cramp & Sons
Turkey
Imperial Ottoman Bank
British Losses Mount as Delarey Attacks Vladfontein
Dispatch from Pretoria reports Lord Kitchener saying General Dixon’s force at Vladfontein repulsed Delarey’s attack with 174 British killed or wounded and 35 Boers dead. The engagement occurred near the Durban Johannesburg line near Johannesburg on the anniversary of Lord Roberts’s entry.
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Fear an invasion and Central American tensions rise
The City of Sydney report from San Francisco on June 3 notes Colombia feared invasion at Corinto with Nicaragua stationing 500 men. General Bruise returned to Nicaragua, was arrested on arrival. President Zeleya may visit Buffalo exposition. Soy renamed Salvador becomes a naval cruiser at Acajutla and awaits commission.
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Mrs McKinley in Frail Condition After San Francisco Illness
Washington reports Mrs McKinley resting well but still very weak after travel fatigue and an ongoing San Francisco illness. Doctors warn improvement will be slow and she remains in grave danger, though relief is hoped as she shows no new deterioration.
Alaska steam ship rate war ends in tentative accord
Seattle June 3 The recently warring steamship lines reach a temporary settlement restoring passenger rates at 25 dollars first class and 16 dollars second class. The 60 day agreement may be extended, ending a rate war spurred by Canadian lines urging American ships to avoid Vancouver northbound trips.
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Ex-Congressman Hiram Price Dies in Washington at 87
Hiram Price former Iowa Republican congressman and later commissioner of Indian affairs from 1881 until Cleveland's first term died in Washington of heart trouble at age 87. He long led the State Bank of Iowa.
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Mrs McKinley In Critical Condition In Washington
Washington June 4 Mrs McKinley remains very weak with no material improvement since yesterday. The illness that nearly ended her life in San Francisco persists in a less aggravated form, causing continued concern from physicians and the president. She has shown vitality yet remains feeble and at risk of exhausting strength without a rally. Doctors report a comfortable night but no major change in her condition.
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McKinley
Unique claim to reclaim burned bonds by Lewis heirs
Washington reports that heirs of Joseph L. Lewis seek restoration of $996000 in government bonds burned under his will. The bonds were bought with estate funds after $75,000 to $100,000 bequests and burned to reduce the public debt. Distant relatives now plan to introduce a bill in Congress to restore the value of the bonds.
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Joseph L. Lewis
Trenton
N. J
Lewis
Lewis Estate
Disappearance of L J Gordon in Russia Is Now In Fortess of Neva
The Prose reports L J Gordon, Baldwins sales agent in Russia, vanished in St Petersburg last January after arrest by Russian authorities on unknown charges. A St Petersburg notice identified him as a prominent businessman arrested yesterday. He is now said to be confined in the fortress of the Neva, with the American ambassador asked to intervene by Gordon’s brother and two sisters.
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L. James Gordon
Russia
Baldwin Locomotive Works
St. Petersburg
Gordon
St. Pteersburg
the Neva
Great Tehuantepec fire devastates Oaxaca crops
A ten day blaze on the isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca killed over 70 people who could not escape the flames. The fire started on a coffee plantation, destroyed vast acres of coffee trees bananas and orange trees, and was halted only by a heavy tropical rain.
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Imports From Philippines Receipts From Customs 1899 01 04
Treasury department report shows customs duties on Philippine imports from April 1, 1899, to March 31, 1901 totaling 1,003,917 dollars. Sugar accounted for 866,942 dollars, cigars 119,539 dollars, with the remainder from miscellaneous articles.
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Treasury Department
United States
Philippine Islands
Argentine Engineer Ricardoni Demonstrates Wireless System
A Buenos Ayres dispatch reports engineer Senor Ricardoni has tested an improved wireless telegraphy system with very satisfactory results. He plans to trial a submarine boat of his own invention, which he believes superior to existing designs.
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Herald
Buenos Ayres
Senor Ricardoni
Dominican Revolution Crushed Report from Kingston Jamaica
June 4 report states the Santo Pete revolution was crushed at its inception with rebels shot or imprisoned. A son of the late president is among the detained. Colombian port cargo has fallen due to heavy export duties tied to the conflict.
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Jamaica
Santo Peete
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