News of the Week Condensed European and American Dispatches
A roundup of international and domestic notes covers polar explorer Andree, San Francisco education spending warnings, a Port Alma fire tragedy, U S Treasury moves on meat cattle invoices, auctioned charity jewels, Baron Fava’s recall, navy artillery funding, mine fires in Stockton Alabama, a Slavre dock strike, record September heat, Michigan wheat projections, the Angus Craven case, U S Spain posture, a Kisnan Chinese arsenal explosion, a large blue diamond find in New Mexico, currency color changes, Yellowstone bears, and Austrian demands for justice in Latimer Pennsylvania incidents.
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E. Baldwin
Andree
Phelan
San Francisco
Board of Education
Board of Supervisors
Preston Howare
Port Alma
Ont
Secretary of Agriculture
Treasury Department
Secretary of State
United States
Chicago
Ohio Valley
Michigan
Washington
New York
Spain
Kisngnan
Shanghai
Denver
Mexico
Lincoln County
New Mexico
Secretary of the Treasury
Miners Back at Pardee’s Latimer Mines Amid Strikes
Hazleton Pennsylvania September 28 1900s miners return at Pardee Latimer mines only 800 of 1800 go back to work amid ethnic tensions with Hungarians parading and threats. Military units monitor, Lehigh Wilkes Barre and McAdoo miners work under guard. Other districts plan actions as Illinois operator Devlin supports higher wages per Columbus scale.
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Hazleton
Pardee
Latimer
Eckley
Drifton
Jeddo
Lehigh
Wilkesbarre
McAdoo
Trail through Skaguay opened by dynamite aid, 800 men blast route
Sylvester Seovel of the New York World details how with dynamite and tools he financed a rescue of the Skaguay trail. He reports about 2000 to 2500 men with outfits will reach the Yukon, while a few reach Dawson City before winter.
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Seattle
Skaguay
White Pass
Sylvester Seovel
New York World
Seovel
City
Rosalie
Mr. Seovel
Yukon River
Dawson City
Chilkoot Pass
Lake Bennett
Skaguay Pass
Larissa
New York
Regents Resign from Washington agricultural college
Pullman Washington September 22 Regents Windus and Powell resign as regents of the Washington agricultural college and school of science. Powell's brief note says resignation takes effect at once, Rogers may request delay until October 10 but no later. Copenhagen September 22 A dispatch from Hammerforst Norway reports the whaling ship Park delivered the third pigeon dispatch from Professor Andree noting a July 13 voyage and that all well. Sydney September 22 Peary and party return from Greenland aboard the steam sealing bark Hope, exhausted yet well though coal low and seas fierce. the vessel carries the Cape York meteorite in ballast.
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Pullman
Wash
Windus and
Powell
Washington Agricultural College and School of Science
Rogers
the College
Copenhagen
Spet
Hammerforst
Europe
Norway
Andree
Tromsoe
Peary
Sydney
C. B
Hope
Greenland
Cape York
Gold nugget haul from Swank claim nets $420 in a month
Ellensburg Washington reports W A Ford arrived from Swank with seven gold nuggets valued at twenty dollars each. The one day dig yielded a share of the treasure and adds to a month total of four hundred twenty dollars in gold extracted from the claim.
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Ellensburg
Wash
W. A. Ford
Fire burns Mrs. Calvert at 324 Jessie Street
A San Francisco woman, Mrs. May Ann Calvert, was severely burned when coal oil ignited in a kitchen stove at her home. Neighbors found her with clothing aflame and head in a sink as she suffered extensive burns and remained in critical condition.
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San Francisco
May Ann Calvert
Jessie Street
Postmaster shooting in Hogansville prompts arrests
Atlanta reports the shooting of the Negro postmaster at Hogansville has stirred strong local unrest. A POSITIVE inspector finished a three day inquiry and two of Hogansville's leading businessmen were arrested on charges of attempting to assassinate the postmaster. The note adds that the world uses 13,400 postage stamp varieties.
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Atlanta
Hogansville
US minister towns Cuba end date threaten Spain
In Paris dispatches from San Sebastian report United States Minister Woodford did not seek indemnity but urged ending the Cuban war. He warned that continued fighting would devastate Cuba and urged termination by October, with Spain to reply officially upon court return to Madrid. European powers awaiting official exposition.
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Paris
San Sebastian
le Temps
Chinerty
Duke of Totian
United States
Woodford
Sherman Tit
Spain
Cuba
Duke of
Tetuan
Les Temps
Madrid
London
Foreign Office
Pendleton Mills Destroyed In Fire After Spontaneous Combustion
Fire at the Pendleton roller mills owned by W S Byers destroyed the 500 barrel capacity plant. Loss estimated at 200000 with 60000 bushels of wheat in the elevator and 25000 bushels of wheat plus 2000 barrels of flour in the stone warehouse. The courthouse across the street was saved. no insurance except 50000 on mill building and machinery. The blaze started in a smut room and spread rapidly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pendleton
W.S. Byers
Meicor
Child Fatally Burned In Idaho Fire Incident
Spokane reports a six year old girl, daughter of Mrs. Bartemus of Mullan Idaho, died after coal oil ignited her clothing when she struck a match. The girl and her ill brother escaped the flames but the child died a few hours later as her mother and father suffer grief. Separate dispatches note a Stockton California fire at the Shippee harvester works with losses of about 100000 and 30000 insured, and a Washington report of two leprosy cases in Walsh county North Dakota among Scandinavians with one patient eager to return to Sweden.
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Spokane
Wash
Bartemus
Mullan
Idaho
Washington
Smith
Marine Hospital Service
Walsh County
North Dakota
Sweden
Deaths From Equinia Shocks Chehalis Community
The attending physicians announced that T. B. Short died yesterday from equinia or glanders and W. W. Jordan is hourly expected to die from the same disease, causing widespread concern in Chehalis. A Chicago man in Jacksonville, Illinois, is noted as the most violent lunatic after attempting to count bicycles on Michigan Avenue for five hours.
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Chehalis
T. B. Short
W. W. Jordan
Jacksonville
Til
Chicago
Michigan Avenue
Guatemalan Uprising Led by Wealthy Rebel Chiefs
A panama telegraph report says Guatemala faces a growing uprising led by powerful figures like General Prospero Morales and Paes Barrios. About 5,000 rebels threaten Quezaltenango as garrisons fight to hold city lines amid economic distress and political feuding.
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New York
Panama
Colombia
Guatemala
Herald
Quezaltenango
Prospero Morales
Paes Barrios
Barrios
Feliciano Guitera
San Marcos
Bikery
Morales
Wheat crop damage varies across Inland Northwest
Spokane reports say one third to one half of regional wheat is ruined by rain north of the Snake River, with higher loss in bleached grain. A Tacoma buyer notes damage below five percent would challenge judgment. The Palouse area shows minimal losses, while Big Bend Washington and surrounding regions expect little to no loss with vast standing and stacked grain safe according to C P Chamberlin of the Central Washington railroad.
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Spokane
Wash
Snake River
Tacoma
Palouse
Riparia
Moscow
Idaho
Nez Perces
Big Bend
C. P. Chamberlin
Central Washington Railroad
Miners Return to Work in Pittsburg District
About 15 000 to 18 000 coal miners returned to work in the Pittsburg district under a 65 cent scale agreed at Columbus. The full 28 000 miners are expected back by week’s end, with losses from the strike estimated between 5 and 7 million dollars. A 5 percent wage assessment funds ongoing actions against the DeAmitts strike. An Odessa grain patch reports grain price rises straining contracts and spiking issues for local houses.
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Pittsburg
Columbus
DeAmitts
Odessa
London
Odessa Dispatch
Taal Steamer Lost Off Manila
Madrid reports the Spanish coasting steamer Taal has been lost off Manila with several passengers drowned. In San Francisco an attempt to evade the alien labor law was thwarted by Immigration Commissioner Stradley and Consul-General Melvor. Sixteen Japanese workers blocked from direct entry were intercepted and to be sent back to Japan.
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Madrid
Manila
Philippines
San Francisco
Walter P. Stradley
Melvor
Kanagawa
Japan
Victoria
Powderly
Trocha north of Mobile faces health panic and exodus
In Mobile Alabama on September 21 the health board reports 11 new cases that day and 18 total with three deaths. A quarantine line blocks inland travel from Chesabogue Creek toward the Mississippi as residents flee to farms 10 to 15 miles out, fearing further contagion.
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Mobile
Ala
Board of Health
Frank Donaldson
C. L. Swayzle
Associated Press
Register Office
Chesabogue Creek
Mississippi
Alabama
Trocha
Farme
Fever Board Reports Improved Conditions in New Orleans
New Orleans reports show two deaths and fewer new fever cases with 385 total cases to date. Four suspected yellow fever cases were confirmed, while most patients improve though Dr. Lovell remains unsatisfactory. A guard member Marion Dowden was accidentally shot at Monroe by Henry McCormick and may not recover.
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New Orleans
Board of Health
E. Harmon
Santa Graffato
Marie Dubois
Rafael Fourtien
Gormen
Melchior
Lovell
Marion Dowden
Ouachita Guards
Monroe
Henry McCormick
Yellow fever reports from Cairo and Mississippi
Secretary Egan reports Cairo quarantine station suspects yellow fever at the Marine Hospital. Alexander county sheriff imposes a grounds quarantine. Ocean Springs records three deaths from yellow fever, including Miss Mamie Goodrich and Walter F. Bransford, with Oscar Elder ill. Vicksburg tallies 47 true yellow fever cases in Edwards and surrounding area, with 15 new cases reported today.
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Springfield
Egan
State Board of Health
Cairo
Alexander County
Ocean Springs
Miss
Walter F. Bransford
Mamie Goodrich
Oscar Elder
Michigan
Vicksburg
Edwards
Speaker warns on Cuba crisis and Weyler recall
In London the Speaker calls the Victoria de las Lunas capture a salutary lesson for Spain, hoping it slows bankruptcy and civil war. He says the United States could intervene and urges Spain to recall Weyler and negotiate with the Cubans via the U S intermediary. He warns of greater dangers after Congress convenes.
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London
Victoria de Las Lunas
Spain
United States
Weyler
Secret plan to ship Klondike supplies by novel locomotive
Secretary Alger and cabinet officers seek a solution to deliver food into the Klondike gold region during winter. A Chicago inventor provides a locomotive adapted for log camps and potentially navigable Yukon ice, aiming to relieve distress in the gold country.
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Washington
Alger
Klondike
Chicago
Yukon
Treaty signed by Turkey and Greece in Constantinople
Veace at Laat reports that a treaty between Turkey and Greece was signed in Constantinople this afternoon. The dispatch notes political implications and regional reactions from the Ottoman capital amid ongoing tensions.
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Veace
Laat
Constantinople
Turkey
Greece
Unclear OCR Summary of Northwest News Items
Fragmented text reports various local matters from Adams and Whitman counties, including school district reorganizations, land filings, and proposed abolitions. Mentions hydro smelting tests, Fort Whitman operations, street rail lines in Colfax to Pullman, and local tax or land assessments. No coherent single event.
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