Senate Armored Plate Fight Ends With Factory Option
Washington May 29. The House rejected the Senate armor plate amendment and adopted Foss’s plan to let the Secretary of the Navy contract for armor at a reasonable price and, if not available, buy land for a government armor plate factory up to 4 million dollars. Debate highlighted costs and profits of Krupp and U.S. producers, with supporters pressing for factory option. The measure moves to conference and then to the president.
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Secretary of the Navy
Washington
House
Senate
Navy
Post Office
Grosvenor
South Carolina
Talbert
Dalzell
Charlies B. Dougherty
St. Pennsylvania Regiment
Fort of Ulinois
Foss
Wheeler
Kentucky
Dayton
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Rixey
Virginia
Naval Committee
Mr. Foss
Mr. Rixey
Admiral O'Neil
Guenther
Frankfort
Krupp
Kitchen
North Carolina
Underwood
Alabama
Cannon
Illinois
Appropriations Committee
Congress
Loud
Post Ofice
Supreme Court moves to compel will contest hearing
Special Dispatch reports Mrs. Medora Raleigh seeks a writ of mandate to force the district court in Helena to hear her contest of A. G. Clarke's will. The lower court must hear the case or show cause by June 4. Rehearing motions in several Montana cases were denied or varied.
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Supreme Court
Helena
Medora Raleigh
A. G. Clarke
District Court
Deidrich
Judgment for 250000 in breach of contract case
Helena May 29. W J Clark a mining man who once ran Broadwater mine in Nethart later in Jefferson county and other parts of the state with American Mining and Development company secured a judgment for a quarter of a million dollars in a breach of contract suit. The court found mutual consent to abandon the contract and that the plaintiff is entitled to recover moneys paid plus costs.
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Standard
Helena
W. J. Clark
Broadwater
Nethart
Jefferson County
American Mining and Development Company
Smith
Mrs Gladstone Weaker in London Health Update
London MayTM. It was said this morning that Mrs Gladstone is gradually growing weaker. Her right side is paralyzed.
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London
May
Senate approves St Louis Exposition funding and Boer sympathy
The Senate added a 5 million dollar appropriation for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis 1903 pending a $10 million raise by expo authorities. Senator Bacon spoke for the Teller resolution supporting the Boers and the measure was referred to foreign relations.
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Bacon
Teller
Foreign Relations Committee
Washington
Senate
St. Louis
Cockrell
Missouri
Gallinger
New Hampshire
Georgia
Committee On Foreign Relations
Fairbanks
Indiana
United States
Cuba
Allison
Jones
House
General Land Office
Mississippi
Hale
Committee On Appropriations
Pettigrew
Secretary of the Interior
Oklahoma
Secretary of the Treasury
Crow Creek
South Dakota
Greece
Turkey
Davie
Yeas
Aldrich
Bard
Beveridge
Burrows
Carter
Clark
Cullom
Deboe
Depew
Elkins
Foraker
Foster
Hanebrough
Hawley
Kyle
Lindsay
Lodge
McBride
McComas
McCumber
McMillan
Penrose
Perkins
Pettus
Platt
Connecticut
New York
Proctor
Quarles
Ross
Scott
Sewell
Shoup
Simeon
Stewart
Thurston
Wetmore Wolcott
Nays
Allen
Rate
Futler
Cafe Fery
Chandler
Clay
Culbercoon
Daniel
Harris
Heitfeld
Hoar
Arkansas
Kenney
Mallory
Martin
Mason
Money
Rawlins
Tillman
Turley
Turner
Committee On
Privileges and Elections
Martin Maginnis
Montana
Idaho
Butler
North Carolina
Geological Survey
White House
China
Japan
China’s Rebellion Grows. U.S. Aims to Protect Interests
The uprising in Pekin is more serious than first thought and threatens Americans at the legation and in the area. The state department continues non intervention, planning naval support only to protect treaty ports via Rear Admiral Remey supplying Kempf with needed forces.
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Pekin
State Department
Remey
Asiatic Station
Kempf
Foreign guards summoned as legations act
The Pekin correspondent reports French engineers and their families are safe as foreign guards are summoned to arrive immediately. The decision, seen as necessary due to Chinese government apathy, aims to have China defray the cost of the measure.
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London
Pekin
the Times
China
Goldsboro Arrives in Seattle for Cardiff Coal Transfer
The torpedo destroyer Goldsboro docked in Seattle to take on Cardiff coal under the direction of Superintendent Ballin for Wolff & Zwicker. After fueling she sails to Bremerton to on government dock for bottom cleaning before an overall trial run likely within two weeks. Captain Patterson of Portland will command the ship on the fast run across a one mile trial course between Alki Point and Duwamish Head.
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Seattle
Wash
Goldsboro
Cardiff
Ballin
Wolff & Zwicker
Bremerton
Pratt
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Alki Point
Duwamish Head
Patterson
Portland
Populist Leaders Schedule Dual Meetings in Washington
Seattle May 2. Chairman McLaughlin calls two state populist conferences. Eastern faction meets Spokane June 21 and Western leaders meet Tacoma the same day. Sparks speculation the movement targets Governor Rogers with McLaughlin allied to a dissenting faction.
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Seattle
Wash
McLaughlin
Washington
Spokane
Tacoma
Rogers
McLaughtin
Centennial steamship sails to Cape Nome with 639 passengers
Seattle dispatches the large steamship Centennial for Cape Nome tonight carrying 639 passengers and 4 tons of freight including livestock. The vessel ranks as one of the port's largest for the Seattle to Cape Nome trade with mining supplies and machinery forming most of the cargo. 24 cabin and 315 second class passengers aboard.
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Seattle
Wash
Centennial
Cape Nome
Ivestock
Salmon Season Opens in Northern Rivers
May report notes spring salmon fishing beginning on the northern rivers. A recent big storm damaged Indian and fishing villages on Vancouver Island's west coast. Sealskins brought in by Indians sell for 14 to 15 dollars, causing Indian hunters to demand higher wages for schooner work.
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Victoria
BR. C
Vancouver Island
Flora reaches Lake Lebarge with Klondiker crowd
News says the steamer Flora brought the season’s first Klondiker crowd to Lake Lebarge on May 2 from Danson. The river was blocked at Tee but is expected to be clear now.
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Victoria, B
Flora
Lake Lebarge
Danson
Tee
No Beer Drinking on Class Day at Columbia
Columbia senior class officers say there will be no beer drinking on class day and that the proposal was a joke. The so called joke prompted editorials and sermons denouncing such a con lee.
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New York
Columbia
Conlee
Astronomers Report Eclipse Observations From Barnesville
Government expedition observers praised Barnesville for clear skies and precise eclipse work. Professors Brown Otis Ashmore Hart and Eastman, along with Dr Lee and Colonel Redding, produced corona drawings and shadow band studies, noting results likely not monumental but promising.
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Barnesville
J. Brown
Naval Observatory At
Washington
Otis Ashmore
Savannah
Hart
University of Maine
Lee
Updegreft
Eastman
H.C. Lord
R. J. Redding
Georgia Experimentatation
Preliminary work wraps up for Twelfth Census
Washington reports that after 15 months of planning the Twelfth Census enters field work on June 1. About 32 000 enumerators and 2 00 special agents join clerical staff as 15 000 000 schedules have been prepared for manufacturing and agricultural inquiries. Total cost may reach 15 to 16 million dollars with completion expected within two years.
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Washington
United States
Congress
Fires Idle Over Four Thousand at Calumet Mine
In Calumet Michigan May 29, 4000 plus workers are idle as No 2 Heela shaft fire forces shutdowns of all but South Heela and Amygdaloid shafts. Gas from the blaze spreads through the Calumet branch and into Hecla. Fire duration and duration of layoff uncertain. risk of spread to other mine parts.
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Calumet, Mich
Heela
Calumet & Heeela
South Heela
Calumet
Hecla
Deaths, Louisville and Detroit figures in brief
May 29 reports Colonel C. P. Atmore, general passenger agent of the Louisville and Nashville, dropping dead in his Fourth and Chestnut streets rooms. In Detroit May 20, David Ward, pioneer, lumberman and financier owning a fortune over 225000, dies at his Pontiac home.
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Louisville
C. P. Atmore
Louisville & Nashville Road
Fourth and
Chestnut Streets
Detroit
Mich
David Ward
Pontiac
Cleveland on Board Aboard Steam Yacht Oneida
The steam yacht Oneida arrived from Bermuda carrying owner E C Benedict and former President Cleveland aboard. The visit marks a notable reception in New York with the distinguished guest.
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New York
Oneida
Bermuda
E. C. Benedict
Cleveland
Galliet Resigns as War Minister in France
Paris May 29 General Marquis Galliet minister of war has resigned and official reports say his successor will be General Andrae.
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Paris
Marquis Galliet
General Andrae
Socialist gains as Catholic majority shrinks in Brussels elections
Brussels reports show general elections reducing the Catholic majority from 102 to 6. Socialists gain, reshaping political balance.
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Brussels
For and Against Oleomargarine Bill Progress
In Washington a House Agriculture Committee reported the Groat oleomargarine tax bill after a lengthy contest. The measure passed 19 to 7 with opponents backing a substitute that adds safeguards against fraud but does not reach the bill’s full scope.
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Washington
House Committee On Agriculture
Wreck on Green Bay Western injures crew in washout
A passenger train five miles from Kewanee Wisconsin was wrecked by a washout. Engineer Michael Riordan lost a leg and may not survive. Fireman John Brown was instantly killed as coaches telescoped. No other casualties reported. Helena Montana later named 10 commissioners for the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo.
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Kewanee
Wis
Green Bay Western Road
Michael Riordan
John Brown
Local Names Appear in Montana Items
Readable fragments list Great Falls Missoula Butte Philipsburg and individuals H L Frank Frank G Higgins and P A Fusz associated with Montana locales and events. The note suggests regional references without a clear single incident or outcome.
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Great Falls
H. L. Frank
Butte
Frank G Higgins
Missoula
P. A. Fusz
Philipsburg
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Josephine Poihill
Due West
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Ohio
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Clevelang
Din Drag Co
Ty and Minority Report
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W. A. B. Buchanan
Buffalo
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Henry M. Parehen
Carlos Warfield
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