Reinstatement of Jameson Raid figures in British service
The Exc asp reports nearly all offenders in the Jameson raid are restored. Frank Rhodes, wounded at Omdurman as a correspondent for the London Times, is returned to army duties. Sir Graham Bowers, previously colonial secretary at the Cape, also receives a lucrative post in Meuritios.
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Asp
Frank Rhodes
Omdurman
London Times
T He Army
Graham Bowers
Cape
Meuritios
Longevity of German Leaders and Notables Mentioned
A note recalls the long lives of German figures including Moltke at 91 and Bismarck at 63, with Ranke at 91 Curtius 72 Jasen 81, poets Giebel 70 Wagner 70 Liszt 75 and the present chancellor at 77.
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German Empire
William L
Moltke
Bismarck
Ranke
Curtius
Jasen
Giebel
Wagner
Liszt
Denver Aldermen Move to Abolish Store Departments
A Denver department store bill would revoke licenses for shops selling dry goods clothing furniture crockery millinery shoes athletic goods books and limited departments. The base license is 25601 dollars per year with a five thousand dollar addition for each department.
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Denver
Asylum Reports Link Hasheesh to Mental Disturbance
Cairo asylum data show 41 percent of male patients exhibit mental symptoms linked to hasheesh alone or with alcohol while only seven percent of female patients show the same. The findings suggest a strong gender difference in the substance's psychiatric impact.
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Cairo
Egypt
New Gold Extraction Method Adopted at Mt Morgan
Gap is extracted by mixing ore with common salt and sulphuric acid then adding a solution of potassium permanganate. Hydrochloric acid forms and chlorine releases to combine with the gold forming chloride of gold. Used at Mt. Morgan Queensland, it claims advantages over amalgamation and cyanide processes. It is more searching than mercury and can be used on ores containing copper.
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Mt. Morgan
Queensland
Ex-Queen of Servia Wins Lottery For Poor
A former Servian queen, staying in Biarritz, reported missing diamonds and promised to sell them for charity if returned. The jewels were found and returned wrapped in a note asking if she would keep her word. She did and the jewels were sold in a lottery for the poor.
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Servia
Biarritz
Gender of the Ship Across Languages
The article notes that ship is masculine in French Italian Spanish and Portuguese while lacking gender in Germanic languages. It suggests a Greek origin for feminine naval terms honoring Athene, but sailors treat ships as beloved objects with feminine features such as waist, collars, stays, laces, bonnet, and ribbons.
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Athene
Italian pianist claims invention to stabilize piano tuning
Srexor Auxssio Conapixa, an Italian pianist, is said to invent a system of arranging piano chords that preserves their relative tensions and prevents notes from going out of tune with weather. The simple apparatus would apply to all pianos and maintain pitch by keeping manic distances intact.
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Srexor Auxssio Conapixa
American woman tours English cathedrals with tiny flag
A well known American woman visiting cathedral cities in England wore a small American flag on her travel dress. Many English people misinterpreted it as a sign of secret society. She explained there are 70,000,000 of us.
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England
The Costliest Metals and Their Prices
The article lists metals by price per unit noting calcium at 1800 dollars per pound and gallium at 8250 dollars per ounce. It ranks chromium at 200 dollars per pound cobalt about half silver’s value and didymium at calcium level, claiming gallium as the rarest and most precious metal.
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Mayander
New Calcium Hydrogen Compound Discovered by Hexmt Morssax
Scientist Hexmt Morssax, who recently prepared metallic calcium, reports a new calcium hydrogen compound formed by heating calcium to a dark red in hydrogen. The compound violently decomposes water, releasing hydrogen gas. The discovery could have important industrial implications similar to acetylene production from calcium and water.
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Morssax
Presidential train arrival sparks vast Iowa pageant crowds
In Omaha and Cedar Rapids, President McKinley was greeted by massive crowds as his presidential train toured Iowa. In Omaha 200,000 lined the route and a 40 float Carnival Pageant delighted officials. In Cedar Rapids 10,000 cheered as McKinley spoke on wartime unity and postwar peace. He paused at Tama, Marshalltown, Ames with brief remarks.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa Cities
Omaha
Neb
Army and Navy
Carroll, Ta
McKinley
Cousins
Great Western
trans-Mississippi
West
Weekly War History Highlights and troop movements
A concise chronicle from October recounts Puerto Rico evacuation by Spain and U S possession after, new monitors named Connecticut Florida Arkansas Wyoming, peace talks speculation, push to revive vice admiral rank for Dewey, Camp Thomas health notes, and multiple troop deployments and Cuban occupation actions through October 12 with Tomas Seaboard.
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Puerto Rico
Long
Connecticut
Florida
Arkansas
Wyoming
Peace Commission
Paris
McKinley
Navy
Congress
Dewey
Gen. Boynton
Camp Thomas
Chickamauga Park
Army of the Cumberland
Chattanooga
Victor
New York
Jacksonville
Fla
Seventh Corps
Savannah
Cuba
Fitzhugh Lee
Havana
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San Francisco
Lee
War Department
Sampson
Spain
Camp
Wikoff
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Greene
Col. Lee
Maj. Hersey
War Investigating Committee
Washington
Philippines
Havangz
San Juan
Lawton
Department of Santiago
Michigan
Wood
Rebellious Bear Island Indians Threaten Surrender or War
Walker Minnesota October 11 United States to declare war if Bear Island Indians do not surrender 20 men named on the marshal list. Gen Bacon warns harsh measures and hints at military pursuit, while authorities express doubt in the Red Men and prepare guards.
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Bear Island
Bacon
United States
O’connor
Canton Tragedy Funeral and Presidential Train Details
The funeral for George D. Saxton was held at the M C Barber residence with short services led by Rev. O B Milligan and Rev Dr C E Manchester. President McKinley and wife attended. he boarded the Omaha special at 9 10 p m, Mrs McKinley to join in Chicago for the peace jubilee, with a party including Bliss Wilson Meiklejohn Porter and Cortelyou aboard.
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Canton
George D. Saxton
M. C. Barber
O. B. Milligan
First Presbyterian Church
C. E. Manchester
First Methodist Church
McKinley
Omaha
Indian uprising in Minnesota triggers troop deployment
Officials say the Minnesota Indian revolt is not yet resolved as Gen. Corbin and Gen. Bacon coordinate troop assets. The Fourteenth Minnesota leaves for the Leech Lake area with 130 men to bolster the Cass Lake corridor while Gen Miles orders the Fourth and Seventh regiments to Minnesota to quell the unrest.
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Washington
Tinker
Gen. Bacon
Minnesota
War Department
Interior Department
Corbin
Bacon
Minneapolis
Minn
Fourteenth
Fosston
Great Northern Road
Leech Lake Reservation
Col
Johnson
Maj
Schaeffer
Holmes
Winne
Dorsey
Baker
Brisbin
Smiley
O’brien
Coxe
Miles
el Caney
San Juan
Robbers Blow Safe in Waldron Office Looting
Promissory notes totaling about $17,050 and $50 in cash were seized by expert thieves who forced open the door of H. Y. Swan’s Waldron office near Kankakee Illinois on Tuesday morning. The dynamite blast breached the safe during the break in.
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Kankakee
Ill
H. Y. Swan
Waldron
Senator Kyle to leave Cleveland for Washington
Senator Kyle of South Dakota, who was stricken with paralysis at the Forest City house in Cleveland, has recovered enough to depart for Washington on Thursday.
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Cleveland, O
Senator Kyle
South Dakota
Forest City
Washington
Mrs. Anna E George Enters Not Guilty Plea in Murder Case
Anna E George was brought to Justice Reigner's court in Constable Charles Henry's custody to enter a plea on the affidavit accusing her of murder of George D Saxton. She pleaded not guilty.
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Anna E. George
George D. Saxton
Reigner
Charles Henry
December 1 Set for Spanish Cule in Cuba Transfer
Washington reports that instructions fix December 1 as the date when Spain loses control of Cuba. The military commission has notified Spaniards that all ports customs receipts and municipal management will pass to the American military commander on that date.
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Washington
United States Military Commission
Cuba
Des Moines Woman Dies by Eating Spiders in Prison
Cora Smith, who killed her blind father in Des Moines in 1894 by poisoning his coffee and was serving life with Betsy Smith, died at Anamosa penitentiary by ingesting spiders. A bag of spiders was found in her cell and postmortem tests confirmed they were in her stomach.
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Des Moines
Cora Smith
Mike Smith
Anamosa Penitentiary
Betsy Smith
Attempt to wreck Michigan Central train near Air Line junction
In Toledo Ohio on October 11 an attempt blocked a Michigan Central train on a high trestle near Air Line junction. Wreckers placed three heavy timbers across the bridge spanning almost 100 feet to Swan Creek. The engineer spotted the obstruction in time to avert disaster.
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Toledo
Michigan Central
Air Line Junction
Swan Creek
Iowa dairy official dies after apoplexy in Omaha
Hon. L. S. Gates dairy commissioner of Iowa collapsed while addressing the dairymen convention in Omaha Nebraska on Tuesday afternoon. He died fifteen minutes later at the emergency hospital.
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Omaha
Neb
Dairymen
L. S. Gates
Iowa
Yukon Navigation Closes After Dawson Arrival
Vancouver dispatch reports Representative Mason says Yukon navigation is shut. The final steamer departing toward St Michaels was the Sarah, marking an end to the season's river boating.
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Vancouver
B. C
Mason
Dawson
Yukon
St. Michaels
Sarah
Trains collide. three railroad workers killed in Indianola
Indianola Nebraska October 7 trains collided killing engineer Sol Brace fireman E J Walters and brakeman William Mc Carl.
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Indianola
Neb
Sol Brace
E. J. Walters
William McCarl
Prices Strength and Iron Boom Highlight Bradstreet Report
Bradstreet and R. G. Dun & Co describe sustained price strength led by wheat with strong iron industry gains. Trade shows large distribution, regional storms and yellow fever quarantines hindering some areas, while Western markets remain active and foreign crop prospects influence expectations. Failures total 168 in the U.S. and 2% in Canada for the week.
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New York
Bradstreet’s
Northwest
Pacific Coast
Puget Sound
Columbia River Point
South
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic
R. G. Dun & Co
Pittsburgh
Gray Forge
Southern
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
Cleveland
Pennsylvania Railroad
Northwestern
Europe
United States
Canada
Losses of the Navy in the War
Navy records show seventeen sailors killed and sixty seven wounded across the war. Dewey’s fleet at Manila Bay had no deaths and all wounded returned to duty. July 3 at Santiago saw one dead and eleven wounded, all returned to duty. June 22 near Santiago left one dead and eleven wounded, with seven back on duty. Guantanamo had the heaviest toll with twenty two casualties and six Marines killed.
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Washington
United States Navy
Navy Department
Dewey
Mapila Bay
Santiago
Guantanamo
Miss Martha McFillen Jailed After Revolver Attack
In Sandsuky on October 11 Miss Martha McFillen shot George J. Kiecle five times as he stooped to light a bicycle lamp. She held him until death was certain and said she had been revenged for his alleged jilting.
Stolen Treasure Recovered in Stevens Point
In Stevens Point Wisconsin on October 10 sheriff Wheelock returned $15000 stolen from an old hermit's woodshed floor. The burglar's name remains undisclosed and no charges will be brought. the sheriff receives a $3000 reward.
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Stelen
Stevens Point
Wis
Joseph Streuzbach
Wheelock
Express company chiefs plan united action against train robbery
Express company officials from several western cities met in Kansas City Missouri on Monday and agreed to act together to suppress train robbery. Plans were decided but will be kept secret.
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Kanaeas City
Express Company
Trades unions plan stronger tactic than boycott
Chicago on October 10 reported unionists in major cities launching an active agitation to devise a more effective method to counter opponents beyond the boycott.
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Chicago
Boxer's suit seeks 50 000 damages over refused meal at Gilsey House
New York October 11 Robert Fitzsimmons filed a suit against the Gilsey house for fifty thousand dollars damages. Proprietor J H Breslin allegedly refused to serve the boxer a meal a few days prior.
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New York
Robert Fitzsimmons
Gilsey House
J. H. Breslin
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