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Typhoon rages off Luzon many days. Modus post office burglarized $4000 in stamps stolen. Pope's health unsatisfactory but not alarming. Peter Colgan shot robbed of $2000 near Middleboro Kentucky. Russell released from jail after July sentence for bigamy. King Victor Emmanuel hints at heir born next May. Cecil Rhodes' health failing. Beaumont Texas hit by $200000 fire. Omaha St Louis railroad bought by Wabash. National Bankers Association meets Milwaukee. Leopold to visit US. Delavaas aban dons Mediterranean crossing. Alaska merged with Columbia for military purposes. Kaga Maru carried 28 missionaries to China. Coast Kootenay line found feasible. Mariense finds northern gold placer 200 miles above Nome. Ex Governor Pillsbury critically ill. Dim mick guilty of stealing mint funds. Knox urges Roosevelt clarify Commercial Cable Company plans before Philippines charter.
Rescue steamer Willapa and Maude reach shore after wreck
Vancouver report says steamers Willapa and Maude, sent as rescue vessels for the Hating, ran aground at Jervis Island. They returned Monday with 170 passengers from the wrecked vessel. All passengers uninjured and comfortable. officials expect to refloat the steamer without issue.
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Vancouver
B. C
Willapa
Maude
Jervis Island
Forest Fire Rages Near Del Monte CA
A large forest fire near Pacific Grove and Monterey in Salinas California has burned thousands of acres of brush and timber. Estimated damage already exceeds $100,000 as two messengers arrive from Pacific Grove requesting urgent help. The blaze is centered near the Seventeen Mile Drive at Del Monte.
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Salinas
Cal
Pacific Grove
Monterey
del Monte
New Trial Granted in Poison Mail Murder Case
Albany Oct 16 The circuit court of appeals granted a new trial to Roland B Molineux who was convicted of murdering Mrs Kate Adams by sending poison through the mails.
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Albany, N. Y
Circuit Court of Appeals
Roland B. Molineux
Kate Adams
Senn Predicts War Between Russia and Japan Over Korea
Dr. Nicholas Senn of the University of Chicago, returning from the Orient, predicts a war between Russia and Japan over Korea. He spoke in San Francisco on October 16.
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San Francisco
Russia
Japan
Korea
Nicholas Senn
University of Chicago
Seattle Markets Prices for Produce and Livestock
Regional market prices listed for Seattle deliveries across grains, hay, dairy, poultry, livestock, hides, wool, and tallow. Details include oats at 21 22, barley 16, wheat 18 19.50, live hens 10 11, cattle and hogs per pound ranges, various wool and hide values, and related commodities.
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Seattle
Puget Sound
Washington
Timothy
Washington News Roundup of Northwest Events and Incidents
Everett postal receipts rose 38.35 percent while Stuck postal service shut down. Daw son telegraphy broken for a week. Great Northern builds eight miles waterfront rail at Blaine. Weyerhauser eyed Everett for a large lumber mill. Japanese NP workers strike for higher pay near Everett. Morrison Mill fire at Ferndale losses about 40000 dollars. Ritzville insurer M W Orton fatally struck by wagon near Cheney. Seattle seeks Carnegie funded library site. Oregon Bay finds Seattle market. Gates murder trial cost Pacific county six thousand dollars. US district court to convene at Walla Walla November 5. Walla Walla council weighs streetcar franchise. Spokane Zeigler block fire water damage about five thousand. Fort Walla Walla reports 100 new arrivals in training. Eastern Washington freight blockade broken. shipments resume. Seattle Poultry Association exhibition set for January. State teachers association meet in Everett during holidays. Spokane dairyman J H Cudan robbed of fifty seven dollars and part of hand. escape. Seattle street improvements tally sixty nine projects costing near six hundred thousand. Nome drownings claim Tracy Robertson ex-secretary Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Captain George Stevens of the Prosper. Snohomish county expenses total one hundred eleven thousand eight hundred. Walla Walla physicians fix charges. apples hard to secure for Eastern markets. Everett residents complain of poor telephone service. Spokane thief John Sorenson jailed eight years for copper wire theft.
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Northern Pacific
Everett
Morrison
Carnegie
Oregon Bay
Seattle
Episcopalian Canon Debates End in Three-Year Reprieve
In San Francisco on October 16 the house of deputies rejected both canons on marriage and divorce from the triennial Episcopal convention. Canon 36 would have barred remarriage of a divorced person by a priest, and Canon 37 outlined discipline for remarriage after divorce. both were rejected, extending the dispute for three years.
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San Francisco
House of Deputies
Episcopal Convention
House of Bishops
Will Move Rolling Mill to Sound Location
Everett October 12 The Lake View rolling mill nine miles from Tacoma plans a move to a Sound location due to poor shipping facilities and may relocate to the city. The plant now valued around 150000 dollars will see increased capitalization and capacity, employing about 1500 men after the move.
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Everett
Lake View
Milla
Tacoma
Buckling Epidemic Strikes England Torpedo Boats
In Portsmouth on October 14 reports say Buckling is hitting England’s torpedo boat fleet. The destroyer Vulture is the latest victim but managed to reach port after the fault was found. This marks a third incident in a short span.
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Portsmouth
Eng
England
Vulture
Herr Most Gets One Year
New York dated October 15 reports Johann J. Most the anarchist leader was sentenced to one year in prison and fined 500 for printing articles praising President McKinley’s assassination.
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New York
Johann J. Most
McKinley
Official Report on McKinley Death Details Autopsy Findings
New York doctors release a full official report on President McKinley's final illness. The autopsy notes a nonfatal chest wound and extensive abdominal gangrene involving the pancreas, with the bullet ultimately unrecovered. Fatty degeneration in the heart suggests poor vitality. the stomach wounds appeared repaired.
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New York
New York Medical Journal
President McKinley
Buffalo
Harvey R. Gaylord
New York State Pathological Laboratory
Matthew D. Mann
Gaylord
Crowe Proposes Surrender to End Kidnap Reward
Omaha authorities report Patrick Crowe offered to surrender and face trial if the $50,000 reward for abducting Edward Cudahy Jr. is withdrawn. Chief Donahue rejected the plan but offered to waive the reward himself, noting Crowe is near Omaha and wants a fair trial. Edward A. Cudahy Jr. said withdrawal would aid securing Crowe and would ensure a just process.
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Omaha, Neb
Donahue
Patrick Crowe
Edward Cudahy, Jr
Crowe
Omaha
Edward A. Cudahy, Jr
Associated Press
Clew to Train Robbers Note Emerges in St Louis
A misissued ten dollar note claimed to be from the National Bank of Helena appears in St Louis payment for stamps. It bears forged signatures and links to a missing fifty thousand dollar package stolen from a United States Express car between Indianapolis and St Louis in the past two weeks. Secret service and detectives pursue leads as subtreasuries nationwide were alerted.
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St. Louis
Treasury
National Bank of
Helena
Mont
United States Express Company
Indianapolis
Secret Service
Thomas B. Hill
Peergent
John R. Smith
Helena Bank
T. A. Marlow
A. L. Smith
Puget Sound Navy Yard to See $1.545 Million in .Year Improvements
The Navy secretary approves $1,545,707.40 for Puget Sound yard improvements next fiscal year, tripling last year’s figure. Plans include a boat shop, store house, rigging lofts, a naval magazine, and steam plant upgrades, with clerical staff increases.
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Seattle
Washington
The
Post-Intelligencer
Secretary of the Navy
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Navy Yard
Capt. Burwell
Long
Congress
Puget Sound Yard
Theuget Sound Navy Yard
Naval Magazine
Nar
Endicott
Bradford
Melville
Puget Sound
Hat ing Steamer Grounded in Dense Gulf of Georgia Fog
Vancouver reports the steamer Hat ing ran ashore near Texada Island in Tucker Bay Jarvis inlet amid heavy fog. Captain Gosse and crew guided passengers to Lasquette Island as about 3000000 in gold and baggage were safely transferred. ship remains fast with the tide rising.
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Vancouver
B. C
Texada Island
Gulf of Georgia
Tom Gunns
Skagway
Seymour Narrows
Gosse
Tucker Bay
Jarvis Inlet
Lasquette
Sabine Strait
Lasquette Island
State urged to prepare Washington exhibit for St Louis fair
Olympia reports from the governor's office emphasize immediate statewide action to creditably represent Washington at the 1903 St Louis exposition. Gov. Rogers urges chambers of commerce and boards of trade in major towns to name members for a paid‑by‑no‑salary commission to lay the groundwork before the next legislative session.
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Olympia
Washington
United States
Rogers
Chambers of Commerce
Boards of Trade
Bandits Dissolve After Ellen Stone Kidnapping
Sofia reports the brigands who abducted Ellen M. Stone have dissolved without returning the ransom or revealing her fate. Stone is not under surveillance near the frontier due to snow and cold. Police efforts to arrest Sarakoff, ex-president of the Macedonian committee, fail amid local sympathy.
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Sofia
Ellen M. Stone
Samakoy
Miss Stone
Npt
The
Olice
Sarakoff
Presiulan
Macedonian Committee
Kidnaing
Tsilka reports Stone captives hidden in secluded cave
From Sofia a letter by Mme Tsilka says she and Miss Stone are concealed in a difficult to access cave. She urges stopping military pursuit as captors will kill if pursuit is dangerous and that ransom is the sole path to release. At Samakoff no one has claimed the ransom or given word on the missing women.
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Sofia
Mme. Tsilka
Miss Stone
Samakoff
Puget Sound Exports Jump Over One Million in Aug 1901
The Puget Sound trade report shows August 1901 exports at 1,936,470 up from 921,105 in August 1900, a gain of 1,015,365 or more than 100 percent. Imports declined to 446,783 from 579,986. overall U S eight month totals also listed for 1900 and 1901, with figures including 12,338,788 exports and 3,636,204 imports for September 1901 in a national context.
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Seattle
Chamber of Commerce
United States
Bureau of Statistics
Puget Sound
Boers Reach Sea Front in Cape Colony Conflict
Cape Town reports a commando of 500 has pushed through the Great Berg river valley to Hopefield and Saldanha Bay, northwest of the city. The invaders have secured recruits and substantial supplies as Gen. French directs the operations against them.
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Cape Town
Great Berg River
Hopefield
Saldanha Bay
French
Dutch Labor Leaders Form Pressure Plan Against Britain
The Times Brussels correspondent reports a Dutch committee formed to pressure Britain by halting shipping to force independence for the Boers. Promoters are laborers, aiming to mislead dock workers in Belgium France and Holland to refuse work for British ships and to urge merchants not to ship on British vessels.
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New York
Brussels
the Times
Great Britain
Belgium
France
Holland
Mont Blanc Sinks After Leaking During Gale Near Bar Point
The coal laden schooner Mont Blanc foundered in Lake Erie about two miles from Bar Point after a gale. The crew clung to the rigging and were rescued by a tug this morning, nearly exhausted from the ordeal off Amherstburg Ontario.
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Amherstburg
Ont
Mont Blanc
Lake Erie
Bar Point
Clemency in Neeley and Rathbone embezzlement cases
Havana reports no responsibility for C A Rich or Marfield in the embezzlement affair. Rich, Neeley’s temporary successor, and Marfield have provided disclosures. J H Sheridan, former peddler at Matanzas, was pardoned by Gov Wood after a conviction deemed trumped up. It is alleged Rathbone and Neeley pocketed 10000 in Matanzas remittances signed in Sheridan’s name.
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Havana
Neeley
Rathbone
C. A. Rich
Mr. Marfield
Rich
Marfield
J. H. Sheridan
Matanzas
Gov. Wood
Sheridan
Puget Sound Pirate Caught on Whidby Island
Everett reports Harry Ferguson known as the Puget Sound Pirate was captured by Sheriff Zimmerman’s deputies on Whidby Island with a companion Turpina. Ferguson previously resisted arrest and killed a nearby officer narrowly avoided. He is wanted for numerous thefts in the area.
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Everett
Harry Ferguson
Puget Sound
Zimmerman
Whidby Island
Turpina
Ferguson
Wheat price tops 40 cents as Whitman farmers flood market
Colfax reports wheat rising to 40 cents at 5 pm with heavy selling after. Whitman county farmers are estimated to have sold 1,000,000 bushels in two hours, and if the price holds today, about 75 percent of the county's crop may be sold before night.
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Colfax
Whitman County
Pythians urged to fund McKinley monument base
Des Moines on October 18 Grand Chancellor Porterfield appealed to Supreme Chancellor Fethers to urge the 9000 Pythian lodges in America to donate up to 2 each toward the McKinley monument at Canton. It is proposed the funds go to the monument base. President McKinley was a Pythian for twenty years.
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Des Moines
Porterfield
Iowa Knights of Pythias
Fethers
America
McKinley
Canton
Town Wiped Out in Alba Fire
Alba Texas reports a major blaze destroying nearly all structures with only one building spared. The fire caused an estimated loss of $100,000 overnight, leaving town residents to assess remaining damages and begin rebuilding efforts.
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Alba
Tex
Washington's Lead on Hops
The October report from the state statistician shows Washington having the highest estimated hops yield per acre in the nation at 1390 pounds. California follows at 1381, Oregon at 718, and New York at 676.
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Seattle
Department of Agriculture
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Union
California
Oregon
New York
Aguinaldo Interview and Prisoner Writings Stir Manila
In Manila on Oct 17 the visiting U.S. senators and representatives returned home aboard the Sherman after talking with Aguinaldo who remained reticent. He said the outbreak surprised him and his attempts to keep the truce failed. Aguinaldo wrote to challenge a habeas corpus effort and preferred imprisonment while others seek liberty. Sixto Lopez is watched in Hongkong as seen as dangerous. The Philippine commission bans landing without an oath of allegiance with a two year perjury penalty.
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Manila
Philippine Islands
United States
Sherman
Aguinaldo
Sixto Lopez
Hongkong
Philippine Commission
Collision on Vancouver trolley line in fog injures soldiers
On October 17 a passenger car and a freight car on the Vancouver trolley line collided on the Sullivan's Gulch high bridge in a fog. The car carried about fifty people, many soldiers from Vancouver barracks, who were shaken up and cut by broken glass. The conductor and two soldiers suffered serious injuries.
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Portland, Or
Vancouver
Portland Railway Company
Sullivan’s Gulch
Vancouver Barracks
Bank Robbery Reported in Narka Kansas
Beatrice Neb dispatch says the state bank of Narka Kansas was robbed late Thursday night. Burglars blew open the safe and secured a large sum of money. Bloodhounds were dispatched on a special train toward the scene, about forty miles southeast of Beatrice.
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Kansas City
Beatrice
Neb
State Bank
Narka
Kansas
Here
Navy Estimates for Fiscal Year 1902 Revealed
Washington reports the navy department has published estimates for the year ending June 30, 1902 totaling 98,910,984 dollars. This compares with 77,924,535 dollars appropriated for the current year, including 2,500,000 for construction 2,000,900 for armor and 124,355 for yards and docks.
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Washington
Navy
Navy Department
Graf Waldersee Returns With Two French Fishermen Aboard
The Graf Waldersee arrived from Hamburg carrying two French fishermen rescued after drifting for five days without food or water. They were found far off the French coast and brought to New York.
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New York
Graf Waldersee
Hamburg
President Roosevelt Plans No Change in Pension Bureau
Washington Oct 16 President Roosevelt announced no change in the pension bureau Commissioner Evans is satisfactory to him and to Grand Army Commander Torrence
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Pension Bureau
Evans
Grand Army
Torrence
Lost Trunk Of Jewels Worth Fourteen Thousand
A trunk containing $14,000 worth of Copeland & Co jewelry vanished between Providence and Boston. Detectives report no clues as to its whereabouts.
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Providence
R.I
Copeland & Co
Boston
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