Daily Excursions Worldwide through Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul
One or more persons can arrange excursions any day of the year via principal agents of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway. itineraries to California Florida Mexico China Japan Europe. Estimates include all expenses and tickets for full journeys. No need for personally conducted tours. travel solo or in small family groups with comfort and security. Apply to local agent or George H Heafford, 818 Old Colony Building, Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Caliturnia
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Mexico
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Old Colony Building
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Cat farm plan with 810,000 capital eyed by group
A stock company to raise cats for fur profits proposes 160 acres for a cat farm led by Thomas Meintree of LaCon Illinois. Starting with 100 cats, the venture aims to breed Maltese and black cats and eventually near a million animals in four years, feeding cats to rats and vice versa to produce furs.
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Thomas McEntree
Lacon
Ill
Meintree
California
New Tariff Law Passes Senate Finalizes by McKinley Signature
Washington July 26 The tariff bill cleared its final legislative stage at 3 PM Saturday with a 40 to 35 Senate vote on the conference report. President McKinley signed the bill at 4 07 PM. The session closed with complimentary resolutions to Vice President Hobart and the adjournment after a currency reform message was sent to the finance committee. The chamber erupted in applause as the vote was announced.
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Senate
McKinley
Yews
Aldrich
Allison
Baker
Burrows
Carter
Clark
Davis
Deboe
Elking
Fairbanks
Foraker
Frye
Guilinger
Gear
Hale
Hanbrough
Hawley
Hoar
Jones
New
Lodge
McBride
McEmery
McMillan
Mazon
Morrill
Nelson
Penrose
Perkins
Flatt
Platt
Pritchard
Quay
Sewell
Rhoup
Spooner
Hobart
House Session Ends as Currency Commission Bill Passes
Washington July 26 The last House session adjourned after the Dingley tariff act and a currency commission bill cleared the chamber. Republicans largely unified on the vote 124 to 96 with two defections, amid heated exchanges and committee appointments announced by the speaker.
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Linney
North Carolina
Mahany
New York
Robert E. Hitt
Minoia
Robert G. Cousins
Jowas
William Alden Smith
Michigan
Charles J. Hendy
Indiana
Joseph G. Cannon
Missois
James A. Hemenway
Samuel 8
Barney
Wisconsin
William EH. Moody
Massachusetts
Samuel J. Pugh
Kentucky
David 3B
Henderson
Iowa
Thomas Updegraf
James A. Connolly
Ignots
John J. Jenkins
Jesse R. Overstreet
Joseph H. Walkyer
Henry A. Johnson
George Spalding
Rivers and Harbors
Warren B. Hooker
Henry A. Cooper
Walter Reeves
Ilinois
Roswell P. Bishop
James W. Wadsworth
Vespasian Warner
Illinois
Edward Sauerhering
Horace G. Bnover
William Lorimer
Tlinois
John A. Theolows
Benjamin ¥. Marsh
Michael Griffin
Hugh R. Belknap
Tavis
Republicans
Thomas M. Jett
Dunois
Democrat
Charles A. Boutelle
Maine
George E. Foss
Mlinois
Repub-Licana
Eugene F. Loud
California
George W. Emita
Tuuaret
Tifinois
Repubicans
Public Lands
John F. Lacy
Towa
Sameuel 8
J. A. Remenway
William & Meéalck
J. Hunter
Iinois
David H. Mercer
Nebraska
George E. White
Pacific Railroads
H. Henry Powers
Vermont
Willam BP
Hepburn
George W. Faris
Indiang
Pepsiona
George W. Rey
Vespasian Werner
Sam * Smith
Robert W. Mere
Lorenzo Danford
Ohio
Joseph V. Graff
Tleig
Patek ¥. Gardner
New J
New Jersey
Sam Lorimer
Illnois
Ferdinand Brucker
Rebigan
Ite
Benjamin E
Marsh
Naval militia drill program set for summer coast and lakes
Acting Secretary Roosevelt confirms the navy department plans for summer drills by the naval militia. Michigan militia drills run July 10–18 at Bay City and Detroit. Ohio at Cleveland and Toledo July 21–31. Illinois at Chicago August 9–18. Pacific coast ships Mohone.Monadnock? Comanche, Bennington, and Monadnock will oversee militia contingents at San Francisco San Diego and Eureka.
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Navy Department
Roosevelt
Naval Militia
Montgomery
Louisiana
Lakes
Michigan
Bay City
Detroit
Ohio
Cleveland
Toledo
Chicago
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Bennington
California
San Diego
Monadnock
Eureka
Hot Springs Health Resort Offers Baths and Tickets
The Hot Springs in the Black Hills of South Dakota offer medicinal cures for rheumatism neuralgia and related ailments. First class hotels and baths are available with daily tourist tickets and discounted rates on the first and third Tuesdays each month. Full information on request from C and Northwest Railway ticket agents.
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Black Hills
South Dakota
Mother's Friend Promises Easier Childbirth
An advertisement touts Mother's Friend as a gentle aid to labor, reducing nausea, headaches, and pain. It claims faster recovery, stronger postnatal health, and safer outcomes for mother and baby, citing testimonials from women and urging readers to obtain the bottle.
Jurors May Attend Church in Murder Conviction Appeal
The New York Court of Appeals upheld Giuseppe Constantine’s first degree murder conviction for the killing of Pietro Cutliotti in Utica. It ruled church attendance by jurors during trial did not warrant a new trial, noting officers left when prejudice appeared and the judge warned jurors not to let any sermon influence verdicts. The court allowed use of a watch to illustrate brief deliberation time and held appellate powers require substantial rights affected by errors before ordering retrials.
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Trinity
Court of Appeals
Giuseppe Constantine
Pietro Cutliotti
Utica
Enys
New York Times
Towers for Lights: Towers and Street Lighting Lessons
The article notes that arc lights on tall towers overstate lighting power and waste 66 percent or more of light on roofs and vacant lots. Detroit abandoned the tower system, yet Des Moines plans a municipal street-lighting plant using towers. Authorities urged to study Detroit and others before building.
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Snece Astat
Detroit
Des Moines
Absent minded man theme sparks dinner party tale
At a dinner, Crawley tells a misremembered story about a forgetful man who plans a bath on a Saturday night. His wife corrects the tale and takes over, insisting the main points are that the man was absent minded and undresses before the bath. They continue homeward, leaving Crawley with hidden desires nobody else sees.
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Crawley
New York
Crawles
Ali
Mr. Crawley
Two Wives One Giver by the Church and One by the State
The piece argues Italy, as the only civilized European nation, allows bigamy without punishment. Since 1870 civil marriage is required, but the church rejects civil validity and demands religious ceremonies. Lawmakers failed to criminalize priests performing religious marriages before civil rites, as most Italians remain Catholic and oppose church interference. As a result many seek dual marriages—church and civil—without risk of punishment.
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Italy
Europe
New York Tribune
Kingdom
Odd matches and a royal balloon ascent noted
The article lists diverse match varieties such as gestas with waxed cord splints fusees with chlorate core and long splint natural gas matches. It recalls dangers of phosphorus matches including jaw bone decay poisoning and fires and cites the 1848 origin of the parlor match from amorphous phosphorus. It also mentions Queen Regent Christina of Spain taking a balloon ascent amid navigation experiments.
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Christina
Spain
Trolley Without Wires Paris to Have an Electric System
The Paris electric trolley planned for the 1900 exposition abandons overhead wires. French engineer Bochet uses lamp-post contacts with a copper roof rail on cars, drawing current from posts via elastic contact points. The system aims to combine benefits of overhead and underground lines while avoiding visual obstruction.
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Paris
United States
Philadelphia Record
Bochet
World’s biggest bell rung again at Mengoon pagoda
The 12 foot high bell weighs 98 tons and rests on raised supports at the unfinished Mengoon pagoda near Mandalay. Cast at the century’s start by King Bodawpaya, it was rafted over an island to the site. Now reswung and in working order, it can be struck with a heavy wood haft to produce a deep boom.
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Catedral
Moscow
Mengoon
Mandalay
New York Journal
Bodawpaya
Ancient Passes at Thermopylae Defended by Small Force
An English intelligence officer notes the sea has receded but Thermopylae remains a strong strategic site. Deleghi’s alternative route 114 miles north offers a defensible zigzag path into rugged terrain. Both passes could be held by 5,000 men as coastal roads are controlled from elevated positions and marshy lowlands with dykes complicate movement.
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Ancient Thermopylae
English Intelligence Department
Deleghi
Cobbler Faces Fine or Hard Labour in Scottish Court
The Scottish American recounts a cobbler sentenced by a Scottish magistrate to pay 4 merks halt and crown or 24 hours’ hard labor. He chose the latter, declaring he would go to Perth for business, was conveyed there, and upon reaching the jail offered to pay the fine instead. The governor discovered there.
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Perth
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