Progress Report on Great Military Park Growth and Lookout Mountain Additions
General Henry V. Boynton, chair of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission, reports satisfactory progress in establishing the park under existing laws and War Department directives. The Lookout Mountain battlefield area was added at a cost of 22065 dollars, with plans to acquire more acreage on Missionary Ridge next year, while state and local authorities push forward with monuments and land acquisition. The commission notes widespread public interest, ongoing battlefield line verification, field clearing at Lookout Mountain, and eight artesian wells tested during drought, with 75000 dollars appropriated for the year and 57800 dollars remaining to complete the work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry V. Boynton
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission
Secretary of War
War Department
Park Commission
Lookout Mountain
Chattanooga
Missionary Ridge
National Commission
Tennessee
Georgia
Boynton
Chickamauga
Wauhatchie
Orchard Knob
Tunnel Hill
Ringgold
Grant
State Commission
Chick Manga
Gulf
New Orleans
Lawyers Wed by Lawyer Four In Milwaukee Noverty
A remarkable marriage celebration occurred at Mrs. Kate Pier’s residence in Milwaukee where Miss Caroline H. Pier married attorney John Henry Roemer. All wedding participants are lawyers, including Pier family members and relatives from St. Louis Cedar Rapids and Fond du Lac. The ceremony was conducted by the bride’s mother, a court commissioner, with Reverend W. G. Eliot officiating and the couple standing before a draped American flag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Kate Pier
van Buren Street
Caroline H. Pier
John Henry Roemer
Col. C. Ky Pier
van Dyke, van Dyke & Carter
Mia
M. I. Wilfly
St. Louis
Best Min
Kate H
Harriet H. Pier
Henry M. Hamilton
Cedar Rapids
Maj
Unitarian Church
The Supply of Eggs in Trade and Packaging
Eggs are rarely exported or imported, with a few imports from Sweden Germany and Austria. Imported eggs arrive in boxes of hundreds of dozens, packed in straw. American eggs are boxed in 30 or 86 dozen cartons. Eggs use strawboard fillers, stand upright in pigeon holes, six dozen per layer, with layers separated by strawboard sheets. Prices rise in winter but cold storage has leveled year round costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweden
Germany
Austria
Germany's Exhibition Plans For Paris 1900
Consul Monaghan reports Germany aims for a splendid Paris 1900 display with a 700 meter square industrial palace on the Seine near Quai d Oreay. Dr Rich ter, who helped at Chicago, returns from Paris satisfied with space allocated for German industries and manufactures. Oxford University notes a freshman class of 725 with most from public schools and few from private tutors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Monaghan
Chemnitz
State Department
Germany
Richter
Chicago
Seine
Quai a’Oreay
Oxford
Oxford University
Fronsending
Winchester
Rugby
Charterhouse
Harrow
Marlborough
Immigration Commissioner Powderly May Face Polygamy Question
Commissioner General Powderly has not been advised of New York officials’ refusal to land six Mohammedans over polygamy beliefs. The bureau may bar landing if they advocate polygamy, even if not practitioners, and deport those who admit belief with proof of advocacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Powderly
Immigration Bureau
New York
Bureau
Curious Family Keeps May Burials In Nashville Vaults
The Sherlock family, noted horse traders across Tennessee and neighboring states, sends the remains of deceased members to Nashville for vault storage at Mount Calvary. Each May the family gathers for the interment ceremony, continuing a longstanding custom begun with travels from Blakely, Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Wilson & Slowey
John Costello
Blakely
John Sherlock
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Mount Calvary
Sherlock
Tennessee
Mississippi
Arkansas
Alabama
Thoroughbreds for Japan shipped for Mikado dominions
The steamer Coptic sails from San Francisco to Japan with seven thoroughbred stallions bought in Lexington by Y Matsmokes, exporting manager for a major Japanese trading company. The dark bay horses, each about 15 hands and 1000 pounds, cost around 4500 dollars delivered to Yokohama. They will be bred with native stock to blend American and European traits for superior progeny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mikado
San Francisco
Orient
Japan
Lexington
Y. Matsmokes
Great Japanese Trading Company
New York
Yokohama
French sculptor builds permanent snow statues with freezing process
Pierre Roche invents a method to convert hollow copper statues filled with freezing fluid into lasting snow sculptures. Moisture from the air coats the metal in minutes, then remains frozen by the mixture, creating delicate effects ideal for bellromes on warm nights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawthorne
Pierre Roche
Heat based holidays adopted in Swiss public schools
Public schools in Switz erland establish heat holidays by law to protect student performance. When temperatures rise beyond comfort levels students are dismissed from tasks to avoid heat strain and preserve learning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzerland
Thermmnpario Gees Oe Pt Fem Peta
German Colonel Seeks Lost Sweetheart Across Continents
Leonard Hein of Bavaria, once a German army colonel and linked to royal lineage, died in St. Louis at 55 after a life of exile, poverty, and a quest to find his French-born fiancée. He served bravely in the Franco Prussian War, later deserted, wandered Paris, and spent 15 years seeking a reunion, naturalized in 1884, and died believing love would return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Mein
Seeka
Leonard Hein
Bavaria
St. Louis
Bein
Wiliam
Germany
Wein
Berlin
Tein
Helin
Paris
America
United States
Volunteers Triumph in Racine Street Meeting Case
Volunteers of America will keep holding meetings on Racine Wisconsin’s public square after Judge Flett held the city ordinance forbidding street address unconstitutional. Mayor Frederick Graham and Chief of Police John W Johnson faced defeat as Captains Wilson and Bryant were arrested last week for addressing crowds in the street but were released when the court dismissed the case. Six local ministers bailed them out. city officials weigh appeal to the Supreme Court as Bryant seeks damages from Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ingalla
Volunteers of America
Racine
Wis
Frederick Graham
John W. Johnson
Wilson
Bryant
Flett
Plett
Supreme Court
Capt
Johnson
Cudahy Predicts Cattle and Hogs Boom for Nebraska
Edward Cudahy of Cudahy Packing in Lincoln predicts record feeding in Nebraska with more cattle and hogs sent to Chicago and Omaha markets next year. He bases estimates on two months of precinct figures across the state and foresees a strong sheep market, with about 5,000,000 sheep fed now, 4,000,000 above average, due to milder winters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Edward Cudahy
Cudahy Packing Company
Lincoln
Neb
Chicago
Omaha
Cudahy
Diverse 1897 News Snippets From Across The U S
A mineral vein in Uvalde County Texas yields 1200 per ton. Weyler case under fresh inquiry. Clarissa Racel wreck. 16 crew perished. Lynching of Jim Watts and Sam Cole in Pea Ridge Mississippi. Nitroglycerin explosion near Toledo Ohio kills Stephen Wil500. Malone New York earthquakes startled occupants. President appoints Onry K Boyer to Philadelphia Mint. Nikola Tesla claims perfected vacuum tubes produce sun-bright light. Ira D Sankey leaves New York for Holy Land tour. Anti British Alliance to expand branches nationwide. US 1897 mineral and metal production valued at 762,061,106 dollars, up 18,290,228 from 1896. Dr Shep Rogers fatally shot by Mrs Sandbrink in Memphis. Condemned murderers hanged in Greenfield Massachusetts Atlanta Georgia Bainbridge Georgia Halenville Louisiana and other marked sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etruel
Uvalde County
Tex
Gen. Weyler
Clarissa Racel
Jim Watts
Sam Cole
Pea Stidge
Miss
Toledo
Stephen Wil- 500
Malone
N. Y
Onry K. Boyer
Pennsylvania
Mint
Philadelphia
Nicola Tesla
New York
Holy Land
Anti-British Alliance Association
United States
Shep Rogers
Memphis
Tenn
Lynching Violence Spreads Across States
Reports from Colfax Washington and Bearden Arkansas describe mob executions. In Colfax a suspect in the Farmington area Heyden case was hanged at the courthouse wall. Nearby in Bearden two assault suspects and two murderers were lynched in recent days, one near Harlem Mill ranch and the other near Little Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Arkansas
Colfax
Wash
Marsha Chadwick
Young Heyden
Farmington
Little Rock
Arn
Bearden
Ark
Asssault
Devoe and Huntley
Harlem Mill Ranch
Little Bay
Six Men Killed in Ohio River Towboat Explosion
Multiple fatalities and injuries follow a boiler blast on the towboat Percy Kelley near Glenfield Pennsylvania while towing nine coal barges on the Ohio River. Four killed, two missing, seven injured with four fatally, only three of sixteen on board escaped unharmed.
Diamonds dulled to deceive customs in New York fraud attempt
Appraisers uncovered a scheme to defraud the customs with 200 to 300 carats of small diamonds invoiced at about 24 per carat. The gems were dulled by resin and grease, then washed to reveal high quality cut and color. Penalties exceed 4500 as duties would have been undercharged. Also noted is an extraordinary electric clock on Piccadilly Circus with Synchronome system and lamps on the hands. Belgian swindlers allegedly pasted transparent paper over stamps to cancel them improperly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York
Piccadilly Circus
London
Synchronome Syndicate
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Great Military Park
Chickamauga and Chatstahooga Park Commission
Tombay
Bombay
Lynch Law
Butte
Mont
Chance L. Harris
West
Montana
Kiel
Wilton
N. H
Leonia Diseletti
George
Bureau of Statistics
Ha S
John Tail
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Betausea
Cape Town
Daily Mail
Chamberland
Transvaal
Doyle
Keokuk
Dan
B. Davis
Harrison
Hig Street Railway Unive
Ilinois
W. H. Patterson
Bloomington
New Bedford
Mags
Jan
Beee
Cedar Rauids
John Hispid
Une
Jhestome
Lewis
Lewis Company
Moston, Maas
Ghivago
Paul
Chicago & North-Western
Sesso
the Living Age
Nn E Little
New Booke
the Montif
M. Rene Bazin
Sereaa Publica
Tlon
Apedt
Pranes
En Fliund
Fite Linn
Sein
Loxpon Avuwnauw
Ford
S$ Tn
Harper's Welly
Eagar
aTere
Living Age
Boston
OL “Targes
Ae Peewee Ln
Inter Ocean
UVHE
Ond
Mail
McClure’s Magazine
Chas. A. Dana
Dang
Stanton
Sherman
Kipling
Anthony Wode
Robert Barr
William Allen White
Ian Mattaven
Octave Fhenet
Stephen Crane
McClure
Rudyard Kipling
Edison
Orsceman
Preman
Aerderé
Hamblin
Tris
the Railroad Life
Hanlin Garland
Col
George B. Waring, Jr
Commatestoner
Mark Twain
India
South Africa
Peter Newell
Itael
Andrée
Bulabere
Sven Hedin
Andor
Tibet
Indig
Jackson
Adarigerd
Nansen
None Pole
Makin Ictures
McCurrn
A.B. Frost
Peter
Dana
Marke Twain
Africa
Toe S, S. McClure CO
East Aia Surest
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