Happenings of the Past Week Condensed
Col Ochiltree is critically ill at Hot Springs Virginia with little hope of recovery. A post office robbery at Bertha near Portland yields 104 dollars. Sir Richard Cartwright named privy councillor in Canada. Reichstag treasury head reports a 37.5 million dollar deficit. General Viljoen travels aboard the St Louis from Southampton to New York. Construction to begin 1903 on the Russian line toward Persia. Rock Island express robbed near Davenport. twelve men involved. Chicago & Northwestern line extends to Bonesteel open to traffic. Bonesteel near Rosebud reservation to be opened for settlement next spring. Pope jokes about illness during Piedmontese pilgrims reception. All Red Pacific cable rates set for December. American marines withdrawn from Isthmus of Panama. Odessa fire destroys nearly three million gallons of petroleum. Mrs. H N Davis dies at Yankton. Robbers steal 2300 dollars from Arthur bank. no crew found. Pope appoints Eharetti apostolic delegate to Canada. John Bouton of New York Journal of Commerce dead. Lisbon bank Pelurinho robbery. 160500 dollars stolen. clerk arrested. T. Clark of Great Northern Railway reportedly commits suicide in Phoenix.
Panama Crisis With Herrera Returns On Bolivar
The Bolivar, with Herrera aboard, is back from Agua Dulce after viewing Wisconsin’s signal. Government commissioners Sala azar Valasquez Gob os boarded for surrender terms aligned with Marroquin’s amnesty decree. Fernandez reports 20,000 troops and pack mules ready for isthmus campaign as Perdomo awaits Herrera’s conference outcome.
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Panama
Colombia
Bolivar
Agua Dulce
Wisconsin
Casey
Herrera
Salaazar
Valasquez
Gobos
Perdomo
Marroquin
Fernandez
Gen. Perdomo
Vandalism Damages Statues on Seiges Allee in Berlin
Five statue groups on the Seiges Allee were damaged with crosses in the art knocked off. Police have not traced the perpetrator.
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Berlin
Seiges Allee
New York Medical Association Advances Abolish Coroner Office
At a New York Medical Association meeting on November 19 a resolution was unanimously adopted calling for legislation to abolish the coroner's office. The move reflects a push for reform in the state’s medical and legal oversight system.
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New York
New York Medical Association
Washington State News Highlights Rotting Apples and More
The dispatch notes rotting apple boxes around Waitsburg and mentions William Paine Sturgis a longtime sheep raiser in Oregon and Washington dying in Walla Walla. It lists Spokane plans a street railway to rival Washington Water Power, a robbery conviction at Everett, prisoners sent to the state penitentiary, a Stubblefield will funding an orphan home near Walla Walla, Seattle leading in mail steamer service, Fort Worden building plans costing about 150000, a turkey price surge, Everett post office adding a clerk, Corbett and accomplice arrested in Spokane, and heavy November rainfall near Walla Walla with a record month.
Robbers Hold Up Gambling Den in Columbia Heights
Two bandits robbed a gambling den run by a sporting syndicate at the end of a Minneapolis trolley line. They seized $1,943 from players and the proprietors. Porter Harvey Howard was shot by the robbers as they fled, both attackers masking their faces with dark handkerchiefs.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Columbia Heights
Harvey Howard
Sporting Men
British cruiser Phaeton breaks blockade at Cuidad Bolivar
Port of Spain reports the British cruiser Phaeton left for Cuidad Bolivar and has forced the blockade, seizing mail and provisions intended for the English colony in destitute condition.
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Port of Spain
Phaeton
Cuidad Bolivar
Venezuela
Seattle Market Report Prices From Local Dealers
Market notes Seattle and Tacoma quotations for grains eggs poultry live stock butter cheese wool and beans. Oats wheat barley and hay prices in Seattle catalogs. calves lambs hogs and cattle values listed with ranges. Tacoma figures include wheat oats barley hay beans butter eggs cattle sheep hogs.
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Seattle
Shorts
Puget Sound
Washington
California
Tacoma
Mountains
Lima
Washington Creamery
Settlement Hope in Mine Wage Talks Near
Mine workers and operators in Scranton agree to outside settlement talks to resolve differences from the coal strike. A base plan calls for a 10 percent wage increase, a nine hour day, and trade agreements, with coal weighing by the legal ton left untouched. If either side balks, the matter returns to the arbitration commission as a conciliation effort.
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Scranton
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Arbitration Committee
Russians and Japs Seizure Night in Pacific Waters
Seaters report from Victoria B C describe the seizure of the Japanese schooner Chetos Maru on April 20 near a Vladivostok village after water supply visit. Russian boats opened fire, three Japanese crew killed, schooner seized and crew imprisoned in Vladivostock. A second unnamed Japanese schooner was sunk by the Russian cruiser Yakuta in June off the Copper Islands after being found within a prohibited zone.
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Vladivostock
Copper Islands
Hakodai
Yakutas
Philippine Commission Report From Washington November
The Philippine commission will not reach Washington for a month, a synopsis being cabled to the War Department for Secretary Root. The group will urge currency reform to gold basis, noting silver depreciation harming the Philippine government by about 1 million dollars in six months. Taft favors tariff concessions and Chinese exclusion law changes with discretion on Chinese labor admission. Franchises and land grants of 5,000 acres may be too small to attract large capital for island development.
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Washington
Philippine Commission
War Department
Root
Philippine
Commission
Gov. Taft
Philippines
United States
Pioneer Mining Company aims Nome to Council City railroad
Seattle November 20 The Pioneer Mining Company led by E O Lind bloom Jafet Lindeberg and Alaska capitalists announced plans to build a railroad from Nome to Council City to be in operation by the end of next season. The following season may extend to Salmon River and Casa de Paga. The company declared a six percent dividend, total eight percent on a five million dollar capitalization for the year.
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Seattle
Pioneer Mining Company
E. O. Lindbloom
Jafet Lindeberg
Alaska
Nome
Council City
Salmon River
Casa de Paga
Fire destroys Oakland mole ferry buildings total loss
Fire swept the Southern Pacific narrow gauge ferry system on the Oakland mole destroying all buildings. A high wind hindered efforts to control the blaze. The Oakland ferry and other boats were saved, while fifty passenger cars burned in the depot. Loss put at 400000. Origin of the fire is unknown.
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Oakland
Cal
Southern Pacific Railway
Oakland Mole
Absentee Railroad Vote Ruling Shifts Kansas Legislature
In Atchison Judge Hudson ruled the new absentee railway employee voting law unconstitutional. The ruling alters the state legislative majority, giving Peter Laughlin a five vote lead in country districts with the law, while without it U B Sharpless would lead by one.
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Atchison, Kan
Hudson
Peter Laughlin
U. B. Sharpless
Mackay Plans Manila to Shanghai Cable Build
President Clarence H. Mackay of the Pacific Cable Company announced to Attorney General Knox that the firm can construct a cable line from Manila to Shanghai within a year. A landing site in China has now been secured after prior difficulties.
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Washington, D. C
Clarence H. Mackay
The
Pacific Cable Company
Knox
Manila
Shanghai
China
Yerkes Tube Bills Signed In London
London confirms royal assent to all Charles T. Yerkes tube railroad bills. The measures authorize about 100 miles of underground and surface tracks for the new lines.
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London
Charles T. Yerkes
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Reichstag
Baron von Thilman
St. Louis
Southampton
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Eriviun
Russia
Tiflis
Rock Island Road
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Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Bonesteel
Trafic
Rosebud Indian Reservation
Canada
Australia
Odessa
Farmers Loan & Trust Company
Arthur
Iowa
Eharetti
John Bell Bouton
New York Journal of Commerce
Mr. Bouton
Pelurinho
Lisbon
Portugal
B. Kk. T. Clark
Francis B. Clark
Great Northern Railway
Phoenix
Ariz
Washington State News
Waitsburg
William Paine Sturgis
Oregon
Walla Walla Friday
Spokane
Washington Water Power Company
Emmett Mitchell
Everett
Henry M. Bonecutter
Monroe
Cudihee
King County
Zimmerman
Snohomish County
Walla Walla
Snohommish County
Joseph L. Stubblefield
Fort Worden
Department
Harry Corbett
Corbett
Portland
Seattle Market Report
Gray
Wayne MacVeagh
Mitchell
J. P. Morgan
Clarence
Darrow
Chicago
Lindbloom
Aberdeen Brewing Co
Telephone
B.C. Prima
W. B. Lowrie
C. M. Demeree
Washington Abstract Company
Chehalis County
Grays Harbor
G Street
Aberdeen State Bank
Aberdeen
Wash
H Street
Billings
M. P. Benton
Pioneer Square
Seattle, Wash
Pacific Transfer
Robert Lowry
Pacific Hotel
H. A. Tereda & CO
G ST
Zelasko Block
Yerkes Tube
Star Meat Market
James Barrett
Propr
F Street
Phogyea
Aberdeen Livery and Transfer CO
W. T. McBride
Harbor
Proac
Ohio
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