Carnegie Funds $60,000 Library Gift for Dubuque Group
A Carnegie Stout Free Public Library board in Dubuque reports Andrew Carnegie has increased his gift by 10000, bringing total contributions to 60000. The new library, touted as the state’s finest, is planned to open by midsummer amid ongoing fund and construction efforts.
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Andrew Carnegie
Marshalltown
Newt Boyle
Urbana
Vinton
Walter B. Seaman
Anderson Canning Company
Keokuk
E. J. Meller
Webster City
Germany
Mathias Meller
E. Z. Meller
National Bank of Laporte
Ind
Meller
Lafe Higgins
Des Moines
Adel
Perry
Panther Post Ofice
Panora
Guthrie Center
Harlan
Council Bluffs
van Meter
Brown Dry Goods Company
de Soto
Tenth Street
Martin Jones
Mathis
McKircher
Barnes
Jones
Louis Brown
Charles McAfes
Centerville
Climie
Zimmer
Carnegie-Stout Free Public Library Assettion
Dubuque
Lars Axelsen
Audubon County
Governor Shaw to Succeed Gage as Secretary of the Treasury
Iowa Governor Shaw will take over the Treasury Department on January 25 after a meeting with Secretary Gage. Gage will assist Shaw during the transition, while Assistant Secretary H A Taylor remains in place at the request of the Wisconsin delegation. The report also notes several Iowa incidents and local events, including accidents, a hospital fire, and a saloon crackdown in Sioux City.
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Shaw
Gage
Washington
Iowa
the Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Mr. Shaw
Mr. Gage
Governor Shaw
Chicago
Lim
Treasury Department
White House
Roosevelt
H. A. Taylor
Mr. Taylor
Wisconsin
Iowa Session Opens With Eaton in Des Moines Headquarters
W L Eaton Osage speaker elect arrives to open his Des Moines headquarters for the Twenty-ninth general assembly. He urges a cooperative start to limit the session to under a hundred days and crush tactics. Judge Kinne reports on Clarinda Glenwood and Council Bluffs hospitals amid smallpox fears. Delaney is jailed for alleged embezzlement of $1000 from Mrs. Slater. Sweekey and Willett advocate equal suffrage. Governor Shaw plans to bind 100 letters from treasury appointee congratulatees into a volume. The Olmsted report criticizes Y M C A and women in National Guard encampments and urges reforms including a state arsenal and two artillery batteries. Lost arm shredded corn near Belmond. Libertador lands near Barcelona, Venezuela, amid Venezuelan fleet in need of coal and engine repairs.
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Des Moines
W. L. Eaton
Osage
House of Representatives
Twenty-ninth
General Assembly
Eaton
J. A. Olmsted
National Guard
Iowa National Guard
Olmsted
Lincoln Hussars
Adjutant General
Ufe
Ifa
Wide scope of new bank includes Orient and South America
New York January 3 The International Banking Corporation framed by President Hubbard plans a global network after establishing a Philippine agency and insular branches. The goal is to handle exchange previously done by Berlin and London banks, with New York as a clearing hub for distant branches. Forty persons drown in the Walla Walla collision near Mendocino.
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Orient
South America
New York
Plana
International Banking Corporation
United States
Thomas H. Hubbard
New Corporation
Philippine
South Central America
Hubbard
Cubs
Berlin
London
Connecticut
General Hubbard
New York City
Eureka
Cal
Walla Walla
San Francisco
Victoria
B. C
Trinidad
Hall
Mendocino Bouy
Interstate Commerce Commission to probe HIE Combine
The Interstate Commerce Commission will hold a Chicago hearing next Wednesday on the Northern Securities Company and the combine of the Great Northern Northern Pacific and Burlington railways. The probe will cover community of interests among western lines with hundreds of witnesses, then move to New York for further testimony. The inquiry aims to examine all aspects of railway combinations and possible violations of the Interstate Commerce law.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
HIE
Chicago
Interstate Commercce Commission
Northern Securities Company
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Burlington Railways
Northwestern Railways
Western Railway
New York
Wall Street
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
Burlington
Carnegie Gift to Nation to Form Carnegie Institution
Secretary Hay and a group of leaders met at the State Department to form the Carnegie Institution the corporate step to organize Carnegies ten million dollar donation for a national university. Incorporators include Edwin White D C Gillman Charles Walcott John Billings Carrol Wright Marcus Becker with Marcus Becker preparing incorporation papers. The hour long meeting avoided details awaiting Carnegies public announcement.
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Carnegie
Washington
Hay
State Department
Carnegie Institution
Haytha
Edwin D. White
Supreme Court
D. CG. Gillman
Johns Hopkins University
Charles D. Walcott
Geological Survey
John S. Billings
Navy
Carrol D. Wright
Marcus Beker
Coast Survey
Panama Canal Property Offered for 40 Million Dollars
The Panama Canal Company directors in Paris decided to offer to sell the canal property to the United States for 40 million dollars. The package covers excavations canal railroad machinery and all items in the Isthmian report. M Bonerve was instructed to submit the offer to the president.
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Paris
Panama Canal Company
United States
Washington
M. Bonerve
Panama Canal
M. Boueroye
Admiral Walker
Isthmian Commission
State Department
Boers Urged to Fight and Ohio Political Mix
General De Wet orders Boer commandants to slow Boer blockhouse work. Gen Bruce Hamilton seizes laager and 22 prisoners on Swaziland border. Gen Botha appeals to commandoes as war vote looms. United States may intervene per Courier du Soir claim. Lord Roberts denies Boer women abuse reports. Ohio mixed as Hanna and Foraker factions clash over house and senate control and speaker selection.
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Botha
Pretoria
de Wet
Bruce Hamilton
Swaziland
Johannesburg
South Africa
Paris
Courier du Soir
United States
London
Lord Roberts
Ohio
Senate
House
Cole
W. 8. McKinnon
Ashtabula
McKinnon
Foraker
One Sided Cuban Election Signals Palma Victory
Havana reports indicate the entire Palma ticket will win Cuba’s presidency with Tomas Estrada Palma expected to secure the unanimous electoral college vote. Battling Maso supporters withdrew and did not vote, predicting a light island-wide turnout.
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Palma
Havana
Tomas Estrada Palma
Cuba
Bartoloma Maso
Proclamation by Matos as Venezuelans rally for revolt
Venezuelans urged to rise against Castro as the British steamship Libertador formerly Ban Righ sailed from Fort de France to the Venezuelan coast. Gen Matos and 300 volunteers aboard, along with notable supporters such as Nicolas Rolando and Domingo Monagas, left amid local sympathy and hopes for Castro's downfall.
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Carlos Azugary Bgcamier
Tomas Garcia
Morvez Marto
Christians Antones Bartazal
Antoine Espinoza
Merendi Sambrano Rendon
Libertador
Venezuela
General Matos
Fort de France
Castro
Fort de Franca
Chinese outlook darkens as dowager empress widens anti foreign stance
Jan 8 Peking reports show foreigners pessimistic about reforms as General Yang Lu plans two anti foreign army corps to counter pro foreign Chinese leaders. The governor orders suppression of an independent newspaper and the closing of a philanthropic industrial school for destitute youth. A new edict on the Belgian priest killing promises punishment and signals possible conciliation with powers. Officials fear a foreign entrapment after the court returns to Peking while legation forts loom over imperial processions.
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Orient
Peking
Yang Lu
Ningh Sha J’oo
Kan S00
Prince Ching
Legation
Yung Lu
Legations
Revelations of a Russia Pact with Boxers Stuns London
The Times reports three alleged secret documents alleging a bargain between Li Hung Chang and Russia via Prince Ukhtomsky. The plan supposedly used the Boxer uprising to attack foreigners while Russia would protect the dowager empress and gain control of Manchuria and Mongolia. Also note Washington plans to install wireless telegraph stations at the Washington Navy Yard and Annapolis with tall masts and new instrument buildings.
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Russia
London
the Times
Ular
Europe
Manchuria
Mongolia
Li Hung Chang
Ukhtomsky
Far East
Washington
Navy Department
Washington Navy Yard
Annapolis
Admiral Bradford
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Belmond
William Hafen
Clinton
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Sioux City
H. A. Marshall
Anti-Saloon League
Marshall
John Ruggenberg
Evans
Roy Leighton
Rock Island
Oskaloosa
Ruggenberg
Charly Ari
Jule Laden
O'Brien
O’brien
Paul Evans
Laden
Sheriif Crickett
Sherrff Crickett
Koentz and Steiner
Main Street
Humboldt
Keppe
Ed Nickson
S. Connor
Davenport
First Presbyterian Church
John H. Delaney
East Seventh Street
Alice M. Slater
M. J. Sweekey
John T. Willett
Woodbury County
Savary Hotel
Boand
Willemstad
Curacoa
Ban Righ
Barcelona
Caracas
Admiral Sampson
Jan
Manila
Rainbow
Admiral Dewey
Brooklyn
Hanna Wing
Wayana
Audencia
Matos
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