News of the Week Condensed Worldwide Events
A Hawarden dispatch notes Gladstone in good health and attending church. The Mascotte reports Engel Pasee captured and executed by insurgents en route to Cienfuegos. A Melbourne fire causes massive loss and job losses. The American Railway League rebrands as the Railway Employer and Telegraphers Political League. A Lisbon wharf collapse injures none. Rioting hits Gratz Austria amid socialist rivalry. McKinley White House 1898 program issued with card invites. San Francisco theosophists seek mercy for Durrant. US Alaska criminal code commission formed. Oregon laws apply. McKinley signs treaty ratification. treaty effective Jan 1 1898. Labor memorial day fixed for last Sunday in June. A 7,000,000 acre NW land claim is presented to district office. Bishop Dean rails against jingoism and supports arbitration. Canyonville death ruled heart failure. Argentina wheat export projections show 1,000,000 tons exportable after domestic use. Maize crop outlook depends on December rains.
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Hawarden
Gladstone
Mascotte
Tampa
Engel Pasee
General Castillo
Cienfuegos
Melbourne
Australia
American Railway League
Political League of America
Tagus
Lisbon
White House
Budd
Jerome A. Anderson
San Francisco
Alaska
Oregon
Congress
McKinley
Sherman
Gary
Knights of Labor Council
Louisville
United States
Pando Runs Peace Mission Amid Cuban War Talks
General Pando travels to Havana with his staff and artillery to seek peace talks with insurgent leaders. He allegedly acts as Spain's envoy offering ranks and large sums, while Damien Caballero is released to aid mediation. Rabi reportedly signals continued fighting with Cuban independence seen as near.
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Havana
Pando
Blanco
Damien Caballero
Caballero
Rabi
Santiago de Cuba
Manzanillo
Cuba
United States
Fire on the Oregon Battleship Sparks Eight Hour Battle
The Oregon coal bunkers caught fire from spontaneous combustion on Sunday evening. Over 250 tons of coal burned as the crew labored eight hours to smother the blaze and remove burning coal to the wharf. The ship is to be drydocked and righted before resuming action.
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San Francisco
United States
Oregon
Senate Will Kill the Currency Bill in Congress Visit
Denver reports Congressman John C. Bell of Colorado passing through on the way to Washington for appropriations talks. He predicts the currency bill will pass the house as the executive recommends, but the senate will abandon it and appeal to voters to make the senate Republican before any remedial action. He also comments on Western state admissions, noting no new states while Republicans control both houses, and predicts Hawaii will be annexed.
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Denver
John C. Bell
Colorado
Washington
Appropriations Committee
Congress
House
Senate
Bell
Republican Party
Hawaii
W. E. Chandler
New Hampshire
Lodge
United States
Luetgert Trial Delayed as Defense Seeks Venue Change
In Chicago the defendant Luetgert’s second trial trip was postponed to tomorrow at the defense request to pursue a change of venue from Judge Horton. Separately in San Francisco the Wheeling gunboat will sail out for sea trials of its machinery and construction details, extending its schedule.
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Chicago
Luetgert
Horton
San Francisco
United States
Wheeling
Honolulu
Navy Department
Strike Rift Sparks Potential Violence at Atlantic Mine
In Houghton Michigan on November 24 an outbreak appears likely as 75 Italian workers from the Franklin mine stand by to replace striking Finns. About 200 Finns remain on strike, vowing bloodshed if outsiders are employed. Atlantic management refuses rehire terms and plans to place Italians on the night shift tonight.
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Houghton, Mich
Atlantic
Franklin
Europe urged to unite against transatlantic competition
Count Goluchowski, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, appeals to European powers to defend common conditions from fierce trans Atlantic competition. He predicts a 20th century struggle for existence in politico commercial affairs and calls for united strength and peaceful development. The Berlin daily Chronicle notes cautious reception and doubts of a concrete plan.
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Vienna
Count Goluchowski
Europe
London
Berlin
Daily Chronicle
Americs
England
Austria
Excitement in Chetco Over Coolidge Murder
In Crescent City California November 28 excitement grows over the killing of young Coolidge by the Van Pelts tied to a townsite dispute. Silverton Oregon capitalist Coolidge offers 500 reward for arrests and convictions, while posse members suspect Joe Alvin is wounded. RE Hughes and Link Van Pelt arrested by Sheriff Ferguson at Curry county request, claim innocence and an alibi and offer to travel to Chetco without requisition.
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Crescent City
Cal
Chetco
Coolidge
van Pelts
Silverton
van Pelt
Cheteo
Gold Beach
Joe Alvin
RE. C. Hughes
Link van Pelt
Ferguson
Turner
Curry County
California
Diamonds Were Greased Defrauding Government
New York reports an attempted diamond import fraud involving 200 to 300 karats invoiced at about 24 dollars per karat. The stones were dulled by resin and grease but revealed as fine quality after cleaning, leading to duties and penalties exceeding 4500 dollars versus under 1000 with a correct invoice.
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New York
United States
Drowned in Shinnecock Bay ferry accident near Good Ground
Nov. 28 report from Good Ground Long Island says Andrew Foley William Wells and Oliver Wells drowned when a catboat upended in Shinnecock Bay. Bodies of two men were found entangled in the rigging today.
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Good Ground
L. I
Andrew Foley
William Wells
Oliver Wells
Shinnecock Bay
Fifty Years for train robbery in Texas court
Austin Texas November 23 Today in the district court L I Fisher and Felix Wolfe pleaded guilty to robbing the International and Great Northern train at McNeil 12 miles above the city on October 12 and were sentenced to 50 and 45 years respectively in the penitentiary The other two train robbers remain untried The largest known flower is the Raffiesia of Sumatra with a nine foot diameter.
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Austin
Tex
L. I. Fisher
Felix Wolfe
International & Great Northern
McNeil
Saratoga Brings Home Free Soil Competi tor Crew Members
The steamer Saratoga from Havana docked in New York with the released men of the Competi tor crew Captain Alfredo Laborde William Gildea Ona Melton William Keavitt Charles Bennett and Joseph A Springer aboard The prisoners wore their clothing from the capture on April 25 1896 at Berraco San Catalino Cuba Captain Laborde shows paralysis from long confinement General Blanco pardoned Cuban insurgent Julio Arago y Quesada who was ordered shot by Weyler The group was greeted by a cheering crowd and reported in good health and spirits
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New York
Saratoga
Havana
Alfredo Laborde
William Gildea
Ona Melton
William Keavitt
Charles Bennett
Laborde
Cabanas
Joseph A. Springer
United States
Virginius
Crotch
New York Silver Makers Gather to Discuss Price Control
Representatives from several silver mining and refining works in the United States and Mexico will meet in New York to form a possible price control agency for silver futures. The conference may aim to stiffen prices and curb output, though they deny plans for a silver trust. Attending firms include International Metal Company, Omaha & Grant Smelting, Mexican Smelting Company, Philadelphia Smelting & Refining, and Guggenheim Smelting Company.
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New York
United States
Mexico
International Metal Company
Omaha & Grant Smelting Company
Omaha
Mexican Smelting Company
Monterey
Phildelphia Smelting & Refining Company
Pueblo
Guggenheim Smelting Company
Port Amboy
N. J
Popular internegotiable mileage ticket sells fast
The Sebastian ticket, introduced November 15, sold 25 000 copies before exhaustion and a second 25 000 are printed. Western roads may cut Chicago to Northwest rates to keep traffic against steamship lines and Gulf port railroads, as Gulf tonnage has risen recently.
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Chicago
Sebastian
Northwest
Gulf Ports
Gulf of Mexico
Postal Savings Banks Weigh in as Gary Seeks Legislation
Washington November 24 Postmaster General Gary receives many letters on the postal savings bank proposal urged in his annual report. Citizens nationwide comment on the radical extension of the postal service and some economists formerly opposed now offer qualified support. Gary expects congressional legislation possibly at the next session and calls for free national discussion.
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Washington
Gary
Postal Saving Bank
Postal Service
Congress
Treasury Receives Cash From Union Pacific Reorganization
Washington November 24 government sources say the treasury got 13 645 250 dollars in cash from the union pacific reorganization committee and handed over that amount in bonds held in the roads sinking fund.
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Washington
Treasury
the Union Pavitic
Five Uruguayan army officers arrested amid attempted revolt
Herald reports in Montevideo that five leading army officers were seized after an attempted revolution. Civilians and politicians face numerous arrests as unrest spreads. Rio Janeiro telegraphs a looming commercial crisis with falling exchange rates.
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New York
Montevideo
Uruguay
Herald
Rio Janeiro
Illicit distillers seized in Scott county raid
Deputy U S Marshall with 13 officers arrived in Hot Springs Ark to round up 15 distillers captured in Scott county. Four illicit stills were destroyed along with about 4000 gallons of whisky and beer. The capture occurred without resistance.
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Hot Springs
Ark
United States Marshall
Scott County
Bank President Indicted in Potsdam Misappropriation Case
United States grand jury in Auburn indicts Luke Usher, president of the National Bank of Potsdam, for misappropriating 100000 dollars after the Potsdam bank failed January 25. He has not yet been arrested. A London exhibit features a Venezuelan orchid valued at 5000 dollars with a white winged sea gull like bloom.
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Governeur
N. Y
United States Grand Jury
Auburn
Luke Usher
The
National Bank
Potsdam
Usher
Prospects for Hawaiian Treaty and immigration bills debated
Washington reports Senator Chandler says Lodge seeks swift immigration restrictions and Cuban relief may come, while Cuban insurgents face policy reliance on the president. Hawaiian treaty prospects look bright with Republican unity. banking reform prospects seen as doubtful. London dispatch notes Klondike rush profits and Liptonia scheme, plus counterfeit notes and Turkish embassies facing payroll strains.
Frantz executes for murder in Ohio penitentiary
Alfred J. Frantz, condemned for the 1896 murder of Bessie Lytle at Dayton, was electrocuted at the Ohio penitentiary in Columbus at 12 22 am. He entered the chair at 12 18 am after a failed first shock and three subsequent applications. Frantz claimed the girl shot herself. he dumped her body in the Stillwater river. He had betrayed Lytle and confessed a motive to avoid murder charges.
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Columbus
Alfred J. Frantz
Bessie Lytle
Dayton
Ohio Penitentiary
Frantz
Trolley Car Collision Claims Two Killed in Baltimore
In Baltimore a trolley car collision killed motorman Theodore R. Myrick after he disobeyed orders and fatally injured W. F. Horner, the opposing motorman. Conductor Thomas Ewing and Charles Snowden suffered injuries but are not expected to be in danger. both are hospitalized.
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Baltimore
Theodore R. Myrick
Baltimore & Northern Railway
Myrick
W. F. Horner
Thomas Ewing
Charles Snowden
Ewing
Snowden
Woman Consular Agent Named as Edmonston Temporarily
In a historic move Secretary Sherman approves a two week leave of absence for J Adolph Guy and designates Emma Hart to act as consular agent at Edmonston New Brunswick during his absence. Officials note minimal expected duties and hint at social expectations influencing business. In Nogales Sonora railroad collision near Casita last night killed engineer George Parker and fireman. four orange cars wrecked and a locomotive damaged with J D Milton injured but alive.
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Washington
Sherman
J. Adolph Guy
United States
Edmonston
N. B
Emma Hart
New
Denver
Nogales
Ariz
Casita
Sonora
Mexico
George Parker
J. D. Milton
Urbana reports second attempted assault on Emma Groves
At about six this evening Emma Groves, an elderly resident on West Ward street, was seized from her back door and badly injured. Police suspect the same assailant as in Friday's attack, reigniting citywide fear in Urbana, Ohio.
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Urbana
Emma Groves
West Ward Street
All Austrian Workers to Return to Bremen on Munchen
Forty eight Austrian men arrested in Mississippi swamps by U S inspectors for violating the alien labor contract law were brought to Baltimore with their leader Jaban Pokje and jailed at the immigrant house of detention at Loent point They will be sent back to Bremen on the Munchen in a few days The men arrived September 8 and were engaged in cutting barrel staves.
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Baltimore
Austria
Mississippi
United States
Jaban Pokje
Loenst Point
Bremen
Munchen
Lloyd Line
Notable 19th Century Global News Capsule
A composite brief reports on the Victoria steamer search for Professor Andree near Spitzbergen with no news of his location. Fires in Topeka claim a mother and daughter dead, a son injured. General Albert Ordway dies in New York. Potential naval moves at Constantinople over Crete. Weyler defends Cuba statements in Madrid. Indiana residents James Ferguson 105 and Mrs Bertie Carrolton 109 claim oldest ages.
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Tromsoe
Tromsoe Island
Norway
Victoria
Oscar
Professor Andree
Spitzbergen
Andree
Danmand’s
James Ferguson
Bertie Carrolton
Indiana
Northwestern District News From the Northwest Frontier
A wide array of regional notes report shipments of apples from United Island via Siem Omaha, lumber and shingle markets in Spokane, and stock movements in Yakima and Salkum. Officials discuss land leases, river navigation surveys, and tax liens with county finance updates. Elk sightings, Klondike plans, and rail construction progress bound the forthcoming season.
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Sitka
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Momee
Jonathan Carver
Dean
Albany
America
Thomas Shamley
Canyonville
Chamounix
Montenvers
Goluchowski
Brazil
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Asbury Rummell
Gus Rubert
Guy Askerman
Sumatra
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Vancouver & Northern Shipping & Trading Company
Canadian Pacific Railway
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Liptonia
Skaguay
Skagway
James Burke Roche
Secret Service
Ie Eo Wish Nc Gt
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Daily Telegraph
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Halib Bey
Tevfik Pasha
Tewfik Pasha
Peru
Egulgerin
McCord
Secretary of the Treasury
North Dakota
Edmonston, N. B
Topeka
Kan
M. A. Trigg
Ethel
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General Ordway
Albert Ordway
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Daily News
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Crete
Weyler
Madrid
Galacia
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Yakima
Richard Brown
Fresh
Vera le Bark
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Snake
Pasco
Superior Court of
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Northern Pacific
Chehalis County
Salkum
William Duncan
Metlakahtla
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Lama
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Dian Pacific Railway
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Bey Port
Coast Club
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Yale
Ontario
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Mine County
Astoria Railroad
Coos
Boise
Idaho
Pendlet
Mapletous
Harry Watters
Eagle
Tip
As River
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