Notable World Events and Local Incidents Reported
A varied daily digest notes Ambassador Choate lecturing on Lincoln in Edinburgh. Terry McGovern defeats Kid Broad at Tattersalls Chicago. Paris treaty denounced in Spanish-American congress. industrial commission tests on labor strikes. Philippine indemnity claims to Congress. Georgia bills disfranchising Black voters. McKinley asks cabinet to stay. South American tensions over coastlines. union labor seeks state posts in Washington. Idaho dance hall tragedy with two dead. deadly mine explosion in Germany. gelatine plant explosion in California kills three. Russian capture of Chinese arsenal and 200 Chinese deaths near Yeng Tsun. diamond smuggler Lasar pleads guilty in Buffalo. Hong Kong typhoon casualties recoveries. Paris exposition closes. Pekin negotiations advance. executions at Pao Ting Fu worry Chinese. Henry Villard and Marcus Daly die. Morocco refuses indemnity demands. larger elastic army urged. British reoccupies Philippolis. American steel production endangering England. Kentucky governor election deemed not contested. Spanish papers publish Don Carlos letter. British army drill reform to ten months. fatal hotel fire at Poplar Bluff Missouri. US mine workers want wage talks. ex-senator Wilson retires. Li Hung Chang pushes for punishment of Prince Tuan. tensions in anthracite coal regions. US Indian commissioner notes stable population. Missouri Texas rail wreck with deaths. Sherman finance official injured. Japan bans smokers under 20. Cedar Croft home sold to satisfy claim. former bank president McKnight sentenced to five years’ hard labor.
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Ambassador Choate
Lincoln
Edinburgh
Terry McGovern
Kid Broad
Tattersalls
Chicago
Industrial Commission
Congress
Georgia
McKinley
Crowinshield
Pekin
Pao Ting Fu
Henry Villard
Dobbs Ferry
N. Y
Marcus Daly
Montana
Morocco
United States
Philoppolis
South Africa
England
Beckham
Kentucky
News Roundup of Global and Local Disasters and Events
A dense summary of incidents and updates: saloon robbery in Tacoma. Canton fire in China destroying 200–300 houses. Quincy Illinois bank vault robbed of 2000. Oshkosh lumber yard fire losses 75000. Logan arrival at San Francisco with 272 ill soldiers. deadly train wreck near Jackson Mississippi. Nome City arrives Seattle with 250 miners and 100000. Philippi West Virginia fire losses 100000. heavy snow in British Columbia and Vancouver damage. Seattle drownings from capsized sailboat. Caracas legation building damaged by earthquake. Oregon football win over California 2–0. United Mineworkers expansion plans. Georgia governor calls maritime congress in Brunswick. Mexican Apaches to be hemmed in. Anarchists not linked to imperial attack. Panay Americans killed in clash. Galveston bodies from September storm. Kentucky football brawl. South Dakota snowstorm. Chinese rulers to Pekin. Korean palace fire. General Botha requests surrender terms. Japanese empress attacked by lunatic. New York firm William L Strong & Co. fails at 6 million liabilities. Henry Elling Montana banker dies. Alicante bullfight stands collapse. immigrants arriving at rate 1000 daily. insane soldiers sent to asylum. Yale to educate five Filipinos. Denver Sunday theatre ruling. Francisco Toro lumber voyage. Minnesota jag care law unconstitutional. Andrew Carnegie to fund polytechnic school with 3 million. Kansas builds over 150 new schools. California apricot crop profits. Monongahela river boiler corrosion risk noted.
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Nome City
Seattle
Nome
Philippi
W. Va
British Columbia
Vancouver
Caracas
University of Oregon
University of California
United Mineworkers
Governor Candler
Georgia
National Maritime Congress
Brunswick
Alicante
Spain
Fitchie
New York
Philippines
Presidio Hospital
San Francisco
Washington, D. C
Yale College
Taft
Philippine Commission
Denver
Dean Hart
Thomas
Open Door in China Trade Urgency Moves for Open Markets
Secretary Hay is urged by leading Southern cotton manufacturers to use his influence to keep foreign markets open in China. They warn that closing Manchuria would hurt cotton goods makers, Southern growers, and mill workers, citing $15 million in capital and reduced trade since the Boxer uprising. General Chaffee reports the Sixth U S Cavalry will stay in China under Lt Col Theodore J Wint with troops I K L M.
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Washington
Hay
South
United States
China
Manchuria
Chaffee
War Department
Taku
United States Cavalry
Theodore J. Wint
Chinese purportedly discovered America 1500 years ago
Monterey Mexico November 17 reports that American officers found records in Pekin claiming Chinese explorers reached America centuries ago and built temples in Sonora on the Pacific coast. A temple ruin near Ares yielded a stone tablet with Chinese script deciphered by a visiting scholar, fueling belief in Chinese ancestry of Sonoran Indians and prompting plans for a Mexican expedition to investigate further.
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Monterey
Mex
Pekin
America
Mexico
Sonora
Pacific
Ares
Indiana
Tokyo council resigns and reelects members amid bribe claims
Yokohama reports say several Tokio city council members resigned after bribery accusations tied to Mitsui lead pipe firm. most were re elected except the implicated officials who face arrest warrants. Fire in a Bridge Plant and other dispatches follow in brief notices.
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Yokohama
Tokio
Mitsui
Return of the Logan Arrives in San Francisco
The transport Logan arrived from Manila and entered quarantine in San Francisco. It brought 978 sick soldiers 89 prisoners and eight insane.
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Logan
San Francisco
Manila
Census of Alaska figures released from district study
Washington announces completion of Alaska district enumeration. The northern district native population totals 12 652, with 8 013 Indians counted by Maurice Johnson after a 2 000 mile dog team journey. Nome district shows 6 704 permanent whites, about 18 000 summer arrivals, and 9 000 staying nearby.
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Washington
Census Bureau
District of
Alaska
Samuel G. Dunham
Yukon
Kuskoquin
Maurice Johnson
Mr. Johnson
Nome
Dawson
Decisive Clash Reported in Bolivar Province Skirmish
New York dispatches say revolutionary General Rafael Uride may have fought a major engagement with government troops in Bolivar. Uride massed forces at Corogal on November 7 and neared Barranquilla with captured supplies. Government General Ospina moved toward El Carmen to block the advance and defend key coast ports.
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New York
Cartagena
Panama
Colombia
Bolivar Province
Rafael Uride
Corogal
Barranquilla
Ospina
Ovejas
el Carmen
Uride
Baranquilla
Pacific Mail Presidency Sought by Directors
New York November 15. Directors of the Pacific Mail Company plan a meeting tomorrow to elect a president to succeed the late C P Huntington. A Southern Pacific man is favored, and Southern Pacific reportedly controls a majority of Pacific Mail's $20,000,000 outstanding stock after recent stock purchases.
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Pacific Mail
New York
Pacific Mail Company
C. P. Huntington
Southern Pacific
Stock Exchange
Pacifico Mail
Expulsion Order for Cesar Della Croce in France
Caesar Della Croce, naturalized in New York in 1898, has been ordered to leave France within 24 hours or face imprisonment. He cites political motives for the expulsion and has relied on aid from the United States embassy and other charities, while asserting an imminent fortune. He was previously detained at Toulong, then released after U.S. embassy intervention.
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France
Paris
Caesar Della Croce
New York
Croce
United States
Toulong
Jesse Janes' Widow
Mrs Zeralda James widow of Jesse James the noted Southwestern bandit died at her home in Kansas City Missouri after a lingering illness. The report also notes a separate dispatch from Washington about the Colombia earthquake and a Cairo bulletin reporting two fresh bubonic plague cases in Alexandria Egypt.
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Jesse Janes
Kansas City
Zeralda James
Jesse James
Egypt
Cairo
Alexandria
Chinese decree punishes top Boxer leaders with life imprisonment
The United States notes an imperial edict of November 13 depriving Prince Tuan and Prince Chang of ranks and offices and ordering life imprisonment. Other officials receive varied penalties while Yu Hsien and Kang Yi face exile or death by action. Washington asserts a principled stance and seeks indemnities and future guarantees.
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Washington
Sheng
Hay
Prince Tuan
Prince Chang
Prince Yih
Ining
Lien
Duke Lan
Ining Nien
Kang Yi
Chao Shu Chiao
Yu Hsien
China
Tuan
United States
State Department
Terrible penalty in Limon as mob executes man
Preston Porter Jr. known as John Porter was executed by burning at a railroad rail in Limon Colorado. About 800 citizens formed a calm, deliberate mob circle around the fire as the condemned man perished after 6 23 pm to 6 43 pm.
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Limon
Colo
Preston Porter, Jr
John Porter
Limon County
Simon
Attempted assault on Kaiser at Breslau
While Emperor William and the hereditary prince of Saxe Meiningen rode in an open carriage toward the cuirassier barracks a woman in the crowd threw a hatchet. The weapon struck the carriage but the prompt movement prevented injury to the occupants.
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Breslau
William
Saxe-Meininger
Head End Collision Near Folk Delivers Wreckage
A head end collision between a Pennsylvania extra freight train and a Lake Shore passenger train occurred two miles west of Folk. Both engines were demolished, passenger coaches left the tracks, and 40 freight cars derailed. The incident follows a separate Lexington report of charges against three men for conspiring to prevent Negroes from voting in Bourbon County.
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City
Pennsylvania Extra
Lake Shore
Folk
Lexington
Thompson
Bourbon County
George Leary
Samuel Adama
United States
Hill
Frankfort
Cigar Makers Riot in Tampa Between Unions
Riot erupts at Gonzales Mora Co. Tampa plant as Internationals clash with Resistancia unions over 500 workers. Gunfire wounds none as police guard all factories and mayor bans torchlight demonstrations. workers urged toreturn to work tomorrow by union committees.
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Tampa
Fla
International
Resistiancia
Gonzales, Mora & Co
Chicago
Resistancia
Worning
Resistancia Union
Outcast Heir Suspected in Kansas City Express Robbery
Chicago reports the bandit killed October 8 by Express Messenger Baxter on the Kansas City St Joseph and Council Bluffs line was said to be an heir of a wealthy Massachusetts family. A longtime informant, a known thief, told Lieutenant Rohan he planned the hold up and warned papers would soon name the suspect. The informant refused to reveal the thief’s name to spare the family further sorrow.
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Chicago
Faxter
Kanas City
St. Joseph
Council Bluffs
Massachusetts
Rohan
Detective Headquarters
Kansas City
Express
Wholesale bodysnatching shocks Newaygo county cemetery
Kalamazoo authorities report a grisly exhumation at Springbrook cemetery. Nine bodies have been recovered, eight from the past year, with one unidentified near a hedge away from the graveyard. Coffins were broken apart with an axe revealing the crime.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Springbrook
Newaygo County
Henry Knowles
Isaac Dunton
Lynching of Three Negroes Near Jefferson Tex
Three black men arrested for attempted murder were taken from the Jefferson jail by unknown assailants and hanged from a railroad bridge over Cypress Bayou. The trio had confessed. the mob overpowered the jailer and cut the telephone line to prevent sheriff notification.
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Jefferson
Tex
Stallcup
Cypress Bayou
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Don Carlos
Popular Bluff
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Li Hung Chang
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Grayson County Bank
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