Kruger in France hailed by vast Marseilles reception
Ex President Kruger arrived in Marseilles amid banners and a long line of patriotic societies. He spoke amid cheers declaring fight to the last extremity and thanked France for its sympathy, with a banquet where Leyds read a message from Kruger. Dijon reports say crowds cheered his northward progress and confirmed widespread Boers support.
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Marseilles
Kruger
Pauiliat
Paris
Gelderland
Wen
Aesateen
Transvaal
Orange Free State
Leyds
France
M. Loubet
Loubet
Tarascon
Avignon
Valance Macol
Lyons
Dijon
Victor Coinage Scheme Promises Refunded on Demand
Joseph Leaper of Victor Colo says his new referendum dollars are legal with DA backing. He orders a die for ten thousand silver souvenirs costing 6500 to produce. He will sell them for 12000 and redeem on demand for the same amount. The coins bear a Victor grocer’s name who agrees to redeem them in merchandise or money.
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Jos. Leaper
Victor Cole
Victor, Colo
Joseph Lesper
United States District Attorney
Victor
Nebraska Official Count Shows McKinley Leads State
Lincoln Nebraska November 23 official tally lists McKinley with a 7882 plurality statewide and total votes 251998. McKinley 121835 and Fu an 114015. Governor results show Deitrich Republican 113879 and Poynter fusion 113018.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Neb
McKinley
Jere McKinley
Fuan
Othr
Deitrich
Republic
Poynter
Fusion
Sioux County Officials Challenge Titus Amendment
Sioux County officers file contest papers in Orange City District Court to block election changes, arguing the Titus amendment must be accepted as written. P D Vanosierhout, Harry Melrose, and B Jones claim incumbents hold office against Clerk-elect Tepaska and Auditor-elect Jongewaard in a statewide test case.
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Sioux County
Titus
Sioux City
Navy
Orange City
P. D. Vanosierhout
Harry Melrose
B. «. Jones
Tepaska
Brewer
Jongegewaard
Ottumwa Police Officer Shoots Self While Firefighting Dog
Desk Sergeant J. L. Kent accidentally shot himself in the right leg while attempting to shoot a dog. A search party found him insensible on the sidewalk. He was taken to the police station where doctors located the bullet about six inches above the knee and he remains unconscious in critical condition.
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Ottumwa
J. L. Kent
Kent
Des Moines Daily News gains full AP leased wire service
The Des Moines Daily News announced it has arranged full AP leased wire service to enhance market reports and telegraphic news. Subscription prices remain $1 annually, 75 cents for six months, and 50 cents for three months, noted as the world's lowest daily rate.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Des Moines Daily News
Associated Press
Hedrick Fire Destroys Stores Worth 30000
Ottumwa reports a disastrous Hedrick blaze that destroyed store buildings and contents valued near 30000 dollars. Insurance coverage is estimated at about one third. The fire started from a gasoline stove explosion in the Charles Wil
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Hedrick
Ottumwa
Charles Wil
Hedrick Fire Outbreak Delayed by Limited City Resources
A blaze burned for three to four hours before Hedrick's hand fire department could gain control. Ottumwa was asked to assist but unavailable due to the lack of an engine in Hedrick.
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Hand
Hedrick
Ottumwa
Tramp Convicted of Murder in Iowa City District
John Gray found guilty of manslaughter for shooting Joseph Williams a colored drayman during a August street dispute near Marshalltown. Gray and Pat Dunn, both strangers, were part of a tramp group drinking from a keg when Williams was shot as he ran away after a dispute. One shot proved fatal.
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Marshalltown
John Gray
Pat Dunn
Joseph Williams
Gray
Dunn
Williams
Young man from Shell Rock jailed for rape
Roscoe Sewell, 19, of Shell Rock, was sentenced by Judge Clifford Smith to eight years in the Anamosa penitentiary for rape. The victim, 15, was an inmate of the Lutheran Orphans Home. Attorney McIntire led a Shell Rock petition for leniency.
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Waverly
Roscoe Sewell
Shell Rock
Clifford Smith
Anamosa
Lutheran Church
McIntire
Maydle Haywood sues Rock Island for damages
Des Moines lawsuit seeks 25000 dollars for personal injuries alleged from negligence of Rock Island railroad at Six Mile Place between Burlington and Sperry on November 24 1898.
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Des Moines
Maydle Haywood
Rock Island Railroad
Six Mile Place
Burlington and
Sperry
Mangled man killed trying to board freight train
Creston November 25 Valentine Kiebasia aged 40 was killed in Burlington yards while attempting to board a freight car. His lower limbs were severely mangled and he dies at the scene. Relatives live in Austria.
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Creston
Valentine Kiebasia
Burlington Yards
Kiebasia
Austria
Jury convicts Lee Wood of rape in district court
In Marshalltown on November 25 a district court jury, after about an hour of deliberation, found Lee Wood guilty of rape. The verdict drew strong public outcry and broad approval.
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Marshalltown
Lee Wood
Mabel Salzer Found Dead in Vault Fall
Cedar Rapids reports the death of seven year old Mabel Salzer who fell fifteen feet into a vault in her father Mabel Salzer’s flat. He discovered the body. investigators consider the death accidental.
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Mabel Salzer
Cedar Rapids
Salzer
Mabel
Guardsmen Protect Accused in Albia Lynch Fear
Ottumwa reports on the deployment of Company G Iowa National Guards to Albia to shield Alva Rooker a black man charged with rape from a vengeful mob. Soldiers surrounded the prisoner during the Albia court hearing prevented lynching and arranged a change of venue to Wapello county before transporting him to Ottumwa.
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Ottumwa
Iowa National Guards
Albia
Alva Rooker
Sarah Hovel
Fort Madison
Conor
Monroe County
Mt. Pleasant
Ft. Madison
Albias
Wapello County
Ultimatum to Saloon Enforcers in Sioux City
The Anti-saloon League issues a December 1 deadline for all Sioux City saloons to meet Martin mulet law provisions. Threat of injunctions looms for violators, with Kennedy saloon cited as the example for closing at 10 and complying. Tensions rise as saloon keepers grow desperate amid legal pressure.
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Sioux City
Martin Mulet
Anti-saloon League
Woodbury County
Kennedy
League
Division of the Dubuque Diocese Creates New See at Sioux City
Archdiocese announces papal order to divide the Dubuque diocese and establish a new see at Sioux City. Bishop Meehan of Cheyenne and Father Heer of Dyersville are top candidates as the bishop's council meets to decide, with Fort Dodge likely placed into the new diocese.
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Dubuque
Keans
Sioux City
Meehan
Cheyenne
Father Heer
Dyersville
Fort Dodge
Hoot Given Ten Years For Attempted Dynamite Attack
Jerome W. Hoot was sentenced by Judge Blair to ten years in the penitentiary after conviction for attempting to dynamite his wife. In court he proclaimed innocence but expressed no resentment toward the court or jury, and his attorneys plan an appeal to the state supreme court.
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Waterloo
Blair
Jerome W. Hoot
Hoot
Mullan
Picket
Supreme Court
Engineer Accidentally Shot Near Clinton
Charles Combs an engineer on the Q went hunting northwest of Clinton alone. At noon his gun discharged injuring his left arm just below the shoulder. He was brought home and doctors deemed it necessary to amputate the arm due to the severity of the injuries.
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Clinton
Charles Combs
Water Standpipe Collapse Shocks Cedar Falls
The Cedar Falls city water works stand pipe, 15 years old, collapsed from 100 feet, sending a 100000 gallon tank to the ground. The incident causes an estimated loss of 10000 dollars.
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Cedar Falls
City Water Works
Smooth Game With Checks
Two bogus check workers, a man and a woman, have targeted Sioux City retailers for days. They made small purchases using altered checks on various banks, collected change, and vanished. Dozens of merchants may have been victimized in this scheme.
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Sioux City
Fortified Geronimo Fort Crumbled in Luzon Assault
Manila November 26. The fortress at Pin auran, long touted as impregnable by Geronimo’s insurgents, was captured and razed Thursday by a combined force of the Forty‑second and Twenty‑seventh infantry and Troop G, Fourth cavalry, under Col Thompson. Geronimo fled with most of his followers, while American casualties were light and insurgent losses heavy.
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Geronimo
Manila
Pinauran
Forty-second
Twenty-seventh Infantry
Fourth Cavalry
Thompson
Twenty-seventh
San Mateo
Montalban
Novaliches
Luzon
Carry
Atkinson
Castell
Sloan
Worea
Hart
Koppner
United States Seeks Harpoot Consulate Exequatur
United States Griscom presses Tewfik Pasha to grant exequatur for Dr Thomas H Norton as US consul at Harpoot. Porte refuses. Strauss declines to comment. Analysts note Turkish jealousy of interior consuls amid missionary presence and Armenian troubles.
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Constantinople
United States
Griscom
Tewfik Pasha
Thomas H. Norton
McKinley
Harpoot
Porte
New York
Oscar S58. Strauss
Turkey
Mat Pod
America
Euphrates College
Harpool
Dietrich Declared Ineligible Over Campaign Donation
Fusion leaders in Nebraska claim Governor elect Charles H. Dietrich is ineligible under 1889 election law after an affidavit alleged he gave $25 each to E F Moriarty and partner for a banquet. Dietrich admits the contribution, calling it a charity picnic for poor children. Democratic and Populist leaders say they will investigate.
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Lincoln
Neb
Fusion
Nebraska
Charles H. Dietrich
E. F Moriarty
Omaha
Dietrich
Hall
Edmistin
Steamer St Olaf Wreck Claims Twenty Six
News from Quebec reports the iron steamer St Olaf wrecked off Seven Islands with the crew of nineteen confirmed dead and seven passengers among the fatalities. The vessel was 205 tons, valued around 40000 dollars and insured for about 20000 dollars.
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Quebec
St. Olaf
Thirty-Fight Turks Drowned After Escape Attempt
Odess a report states a group of thirty-eight Turks seeking to flee Russia sailed secretly from Tschuruksu to cross the Black Sea. A storm capsized the boat. baggage then children and women were discarded. All perished except one boy who clung to the mast and was washed ashore.
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London
The
Daily Express
Odessa
Russia
Tschuruksu
Black Sea
Porte Refuses Recognition of US Consulate at Harpoot
The Porte rejects the exequatur for the United States consulate at Harpoot, a move US officials call a treaty rights violation. Despite the denial, Dr. Thomas H. Norton is ordered to proceed to his post. The issue follows Britain’s similar approval and relies on the 1830 treaty and favored nation clause in US Turkey diplomacy.
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Turkey
Constantinople
Porte
United States
Harpoot
Legation
Thomas H. Norton
McKinley
Harpool
Kentucky
Smyrna
Aarpool
Erzercum
State Department
Great Britain
Punishment Edicts Draw Foreign Envoy Protests
London reports from Peking state that Yu Chang’s province governor post is cancelled after British protests. Ching ising, He Nan treasurer, deemed equally objectionable. Envoys vow to record bad faith in the joint note preamble amid dispatches of measures against Tung Fu Hsiang. German minister von Schwartzensten urges foreign powers to punish guilty officials.
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London
Morrison
The
Times
Peking
Yu Chang
Hu Pei
Ching Ising
He Nan
Morning Post
Wirting
Tung Fu Hsiang
Mumm von Schwartzensten
Li Hung Chang
New Basis for Peace Proposed in China Negotiations
Secretary of State presents a similar note to powers in the Chinese situation. It outlines the U S government aims in China and how common objectives can be secured. The note begins fresh negotiations for a new basis for ministers in Peking with some replies received and progress noted. It signals a move away from harsher punitive ideas toward a more business-like approach.
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Secretary Nay
Washington
Secretary of
United States
China
Peking
State Department
Sir Arthur Sullivan Dead in London
London news of November reports composer Arthur Sullivan died suddenly of heart disease at his home. He was laughing and talking at 9 a m when he collapsed and died within minutes. He had been ill recently but heart condition not believed to have changed.
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Sir Arthur Sullivan
London
Arthur Sullivan
Sullivan
Des Moines
State Board of Health
Hocking
Monroe County
Washington
Kansas Returns Show McKinley Win by 25,844
Official returns from all Kansas counties indicate McKinley leads by 25,844. T. T. Kelly reports total state vote 349,917 with McKinley at 187,881 and Bryan totaling 162,037 from Democratic and Populist lines.
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Kansas
Topeka
T. T. Kelly
Republican State Committee
McKinley
Stanley
Bryan
Roosevelt declines removal of New York City mayor
Governor Roosevelt refuses to remove Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck of New York City. He finds no proof that the mayor wilfully violated the law forbidding a public officer to be a stockholder in a corporation doing business with the city, though he admits the mayor was a stockholder in the American Ice Company.
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Albany
N. Y
Roosevelt
Robert A. van Wyck
New York City
American Ice Company
Mottled stoneware jug sold for 135 pounds in London
An old mottled stoneware jug dated 1566 sold at a London auction for £135. The item’s age and provenance drew interest from collectors.
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London
Just a Little Hint to the Sultan
The first class battleship Kentucky now in Mediterranean waters is ordered to touch at Smyrna on its way to the Philippines. The visit coincides with renewed efforts by the administration to obtain indemnity from the Turkish government for the destruction of missionary property, an amount around $100,000.
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Washington
Kentucky
Smyrna
Turkey
Philippines
United States
Smallpox Epidemic Fears in Iowa and Titus Amendment Debate
Notes from the Capital report rising smallpox cases across Iowa with cases traced to recent movers from Washington and calls for action. It outlines plans to enjoin the governor from issuing certificates of election and refers to Titus amendment discussions before the December supreme court term.
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Supreme Court
General Remney
Senator Mullan
Judge cancels injunction in government by injunction case
Judge McPherson dissolves the restraining order issued November 9 against the Tri City Labor congress. He says the order was issued under a misapprehension of facts and that the court lacked jurisdiction. The case grew from a clerk strike at clothing firms and subsequent union driven boycotts and street demonstrations in three cities.
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McPaerson
Tri City Labor Congress
McPherson
United States
City cigarette dealers ordered to pay quarterly tax
City Assessor French demands every cigarette dealer appear at the county treasurer to pay a $75 quarterly assessment following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidating the original package law. Dealers may owe back taxes from the law’s start and may be liable for mulet tax dating from that period.
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French
United States Supreme Court
Governor Shaw and Remley differ on Titus amendment effect
Governor Shaw and Attorney General Remley debate whether the Titus amendment alters the biennial legislature schedule. They discuss regular sessions in 1902 and 1903, potential 1902 special session, and appropriations extending into 1902, with the AG noting possible need for a 1902 special session to cover state appropriations.
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Shaw
Remley
General Assembly
Titus
Republicans target $30 million war revenue cut
Washington reports Ways and Means Republicans near final action on a bill to reduce war revenue by 30 million dollars a year. The plan follows Secretary Gage's proposal and aligns with the president's views after careful prior consideration.
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Washington
Ways and Means Committee
Gage
Ways and Scans
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