Senator Burrows Warns Philippines War May Hurt GOP
Washington reports quote Senator Burrows of Michigan expressing that a prolonged Philippines war next year could jeopardize Republican prospects. He urges a speedy end to the conflict and notes England, France or Germany may become unfriendly if the United States moves to new markets. He hopes president's efforts succeed and advocates timely information from Congress.
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Washington
Burrows
Michigan
Saya
Philippines
England
France
Germany
Al'ug
Otis
Congress
Republican Party
Nebraskans Welcome Home In San Francisco Parade
San Francisco on Aug 1 greeted the First Nebraska regiment with a rousing parade from the Hancock to the Presidio. Governor Poynter and General Barry rode with the officers as crowds cheered, bands played, and ambulances carried soldiers unable to march. Local dignitaries and residents celebrated with dinners, theater visits, and hospital fund notes from Governor Poynter. Meiklejohn sent congratulations to Nebraska troops, noting a potential pay difference if mustered out in Lincoln or Omaha.
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Rancisco
San Francisco
Nebraska
Hancock
Presidio
Poynter
Barry
Prairies
Utah
Oregon Regiment
McBlutey
Lincoux
Neb
Markinjohn
Washington
Meiklejohn
Lincoln
Omaha
Mathews Ordered to Sail for Manlin Aug 1
Major H. S. Mathews of Des Moines and city surgeon in the volunteer force was notified by telegram from the War Department that he is ordered to sail for Manlin on August 1. The dispatch confirms his immediate mobilization and imminent departure for active service amid ongoing military duty.
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Manlin
Des Moines
H. 8. Mathews
War Department
Philippine Insurrection War News and Tragic Suicide
A telegraph dispatch reports Anton Bastar shot himself in Wahoo Nebraska after paralysis struck him last week. A San Francisco letter argues troops in the Philippines should be rotated yearly, notes insurrection vigor and training, predicts 100000 soldiers ready by November, and compares Philippine and Mexican civility while warning against continuous warfare in the tropical climate.
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Balvide
Wahoo
Wazoo
Neb
Anton Bastar
San Francisco
Philippines
Associated Press
Manina
Moen
Mexico
United States
Canadian Yacht Beat In Seawanhnaka Cup Race
The American challenger Constance won the second Seawanhaka cup race on Lake St. Louis at Dorval Quebec. Constance finished 85 seconds ahead of Glencairn after starting nine seconds ahead. Constance sailed higher and stiffer, while Glencairn gained with the wind, but fell behind as the windward course unfolded.
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Dorvat
Que
Lake St. Louis
Constance
Town Senatorial Contest Prominent in Iowa Delegates
Widespread activity at the Republican state convention in town as delegates focus on supreme judge and senatorship races. Judge Robinson of Sioux City leads first ballot for supreme judge with Burnham and Sherwin close behind. Fee and Sloan also prominent. Gear and Cummings vie for the senatorship as daily nominations proceed. In Evora Iowa O. O. Gilman prominent inventor and railroad man dies while fishing near town. He built the Iowa Central railroad Hawkeye Telegraph line and the terra cotta lumber factory at Perth Amboy New Jersey.
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Drs Mores
Robinson
Sioux City
Burnham
Sherwin
Fee
Sloan
Gear
Cummings
Evora
O. O. Gilman
Iowa
Iowa River
Perth Amboy
N. J
Almanac notes Tuesday Sun rise and weather outlook
Almanac lists day with Tuesday to Sunday sunrise at 4 56 and sunset at 16 Moon rises at 12 31 am. Iowa shows showers Tuesday likely threaten and cooler Wednesday with variable winds. Nebraska warns showers in extreme east and Tuesday night or Wednesday cooler with variable winds turning southerly.
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Iowa
Nebraska
Crop in Four States Shows Diminished Wheat Acreage Reports
Correspondents on the spot assess corn, wheat, oats, and rye across Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas. Wheat acreage is notably reduced while many regions report good to excellent quality in corn, oats, spring and winter wheat, and rye, with scattered grasshopper damage in Nebraska. Potatoes are notably good across the territory.
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Oxspaco
Nebraska
Iowa
Nhrae
Atute
Missouri
Kansas
Mysterious deaths amid Brazil search by Kansas City men
Weldon E. Williamson Marcos Kirk and Alfred Greenfield of Mapleton Kansas left Kansas City in March 1898 and have not been heard from since June 1898, believed exterminated by Indians in western Brazil while seeking rubber forests for Kansas City capital. Secretary Hay orders consuls to investigate and report facts. Mrs Williamson believes him dead. Also: rain hail wind damage in South Dakota crops, tornado-like storm in Ashton damaged warehouses and railroad tracks. Army worms march north from southern Kansas damaging crops. Santa Fe trains delayed by worm swarms. In Nebraska, Supreme Court case Bolln v. state seeks writ of error to discharge Bolln from embezzlement custody. Mineral discovery near Alliance may unsettle homestead entries by minerals.
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Kansas Ciy
Weldon E. Williamson
Marcos
Kirk
Kansas City
Alfred Greenfield
Mapleton
Kan
Brazil
Hay
State Department
United States
Williamson
South Dakota
Aperpesa
Severn
Ipswich
Roscoe
Hillsview
Hosmer
Ashton
Whalen
McCrossen
Frederick
Houghton
Columbia
Independence
Kansas
Santa Fe
Bella
Omatra
Henry Billings Brown
United States Supreme Court
Nebraska
Henry Bolln
Bolln
Filipinos cleared for Omaha landing after ruling
A San Francisco immigration appeal by Filipinos detained for exposition work was sustained by Commissioner Powderly. He secured Meiklejohn’s assurance the War Department would cover care if needed, allowing landing and delaying deportation for one year while noting Chinese exclusion affects Filipinos variably.
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Powderly
Muling
North
Wasminaron
San Francisco
Commissioner North
Immigration Bureau
America
Meiklejohn
War Department
Department
Steamship Company
Omaha
Figuero For President In Dominican Crisis And Luzon Promotions
In Santo Domingo the vice president Figuerro has accepted the presidency amid unrest. government partisans strengthen near Moca. Separately in Luzon Governor Shaw promotes officers in the Forty first Town, appointing Hearne and Kissick as lieutenants, Tinley in Conneil Bluffs, and Arnam as second lieutenant after Moore's suicide.
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Ban Domingo
Ferrez Francr
Martinique
Santo Domingo
Wenceslavo Figuero
Oslmuness
Moca
Fromotion
Iuwa
Das Morris
Shaw
Conneil Bluffs
Moore
Fred N. Arnam
Smoky Hill Gold Excitement
Omana Aug 1 H H Andrus general agent for Union Pacific land department says Kansas is stirred by Smoky Hill gold rumors. Vast shale formation from 200 to 600 feet thick spans about 40 by 10 miles. Ott syndicate builds a 20000 mill at Denver to process the rock and expects handsome profits.
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Smoky Hill
Omana
H. H. Andrus
Kansas
Union Pacific Land Department
Ott
Denver
Burlingtons Railroad Boom
Burlington IA August 1 The Muscatine North and South railroad offers to extend from Elrich to Burlington and then to Fort Madison if Burlington raises 60000 for terminals and right of way Half the amount is already subscribed and most of the rights of way and terminals are secured.
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Burlington
Borumeron
Stewart
The
Muscatine North and South Railroad
Elrich
Fort Madison
BICYCLIST HANSEN'S FEAT SETS MILEAGE MARK
A. A. Hanson completed 500 miles of his 1000 mile world attempt at 8 30 pm breaking the national 500 mile record by 11 hours 1 minute with a time of 88 30. He is in good form and expected to break the overall record between 10 and 15 hours though a bruise from a fall slowed him. He slept for the first time since starting after the 500 mile mark.
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Hansen
A. A. Hanson
H. C. Guernse
Bhan
New Yellow Fever Case Reports at Hampton Soldiers Home
An official bulletin from Wasammeron reports 87 cases and seven deaths at the Hampton Virginia Soldiers' Home with one new case. Dr Wardin leads the response, cordons Phoebus, and advises no maritime quarantine for Norfolk or Newport News. The origin traces to an old soldier from Santiago via transport who infected inmates, with two autopsies confirming yellow fever. Major Vicker is ordered to empty infected dormitories into tents.
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Phoebus
Wyman
United States
Norfolk
Newport News
Waadin
Santiago
Manila
San Francisco
Vicker
Root Succeeds Alger as Secretary of War
Washington Aug 1 Mr Root notified Secretary Alger he would be in Washington ready to resume control of the war department at 11 this forenoon General Alger left for Michigan at 11 45. Alger’s final act was a statement defending staff officer appointments in the volunteer army as nonpolitical and selected by state governors from their regiments.
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Root
Alger
Washington
War Department
Michigan
Deficit in July Officials Report War Costs Shrinkage
Washington reports July government receipts and expenditures show a deficit of about 8.16 million dollars. War spending accounted for roughly 85 million that month, later reduced to about 19.3 million. August outlook anticipates heavier outlays for returning volunteers and troop rearmament as preparations continue.
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Washington
No Writ for James A Doyle
Judge Hallett in the United States circuit court denied a petition for a writ of habeas corpus for James A. Doyle a millionaire mine owner jailed in El Paso County for refusing to surrender a $700000 judgment from Council Bluffs Iowa to his former partner James Burne in defiance of an injunction from the Colorado Springs district court Doyle’s attorney filed an appeal.
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James A. Doyle
Denver
Hallett
el Paso
Council Bluffs
James Burne
District Court
Colorado Springs
Doyle
South American Talks Alliance Against United States
Madrid reports a possible Brazil Argentina alliance forming against the United States driven by a U S victory over Spain and rising imperialism. preliminaries allegedly concluded between Brazil and Argentina.
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Uncle Sam
London
Morning Post
Madrid
Spain
United States
Brazil
Argentina
Northwestern singerfest anniversary celebrated in Davenport
The German American Singing Society of Burlington Muscatine Davenport and Rock Island and Moline marked the anniversary of last year’s Northwestern singerfest with a Sunday picnic and open air concert at Schuetzen park. A mass chorus from the five cities performed chorus numbers sung at last year’s festival. Burlington will host the biennial festival next year.
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Davenport
Telegraphic briefs from national news items
A collection of short notices covers diverse topics: Cass Lake fands sale planned to begin November 1. Bankers' Life Insurance of Hon York to be reincorporated. Harriman expedition salmon extinction in Alaska. Mrs Kate Chase dies at Edgewood. Secretary Gage declines reply to Civil Service Reform. Frank J Curry held for New York grand jury. US Minister Hunter protests expulsion of J B Richards in Guatemala. crowds around Mme Dreyfus home require more gendarmes. Cook County offers 500 reward for Daniel Coughlin. Empress of India with Vanderbilt party sails from Vancouver. Policeman O'Brien pleads guilty to theft and charges in Rhoads case. Big Prairie Michigan threshing incident injures several. money engine incident injures Charles Haight and others. three designs for new Justice Building near Washington advanced. employment agents in several states fail to recruit coal miners. Cuba plague referenced in Gomes La Lima interview seeking 3 million for Cuban soldiers.
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Cass Lake
Minnesota
Bankers’ Life Insurance Company
Hon. York
Harriman
Alaska
Kate Chase
Edgewood
Washington
Gage
Civil Service
Frank J. Curry
New York
Grand Jury
United States
Hunter
Guatemala
J. B. Richards
Mme. Dreyfus
Cook County
Chicago
Daniel Coughlin
Vancouver
Yokohama
Hong Kong
Vanderbilt
Thomas F. O'Brien
Monto
George B. Rhoads
Big Prairie
Mich
Charles Haight
Alfred Haight
Charles Crabtree
Bert Salter
la Lmcha
Cuba
McKin Jey
Moberly Man Files Voluntary Bankruptcy Petition
J W Ragsdale of Moberly Missouri has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States circuit court. Liabilities exceed 10000 dollars, assets are not scheduled.
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Moberly
Hanna
J. W.ragsdale
United States Circuit Court
Waterworks Trustees Upheld by Judge Wakefield
Sioux City August 1 Judge Wakefield ruled in favor of the waterworks trustees in the action by the city council. The court held the trustees legally in office and sustained the constitutional validity of the appointment law.
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Sioux City
Wakefield
Board of Waterworks Trustees
Yankton to Norfolk Railroad Project Planned to Start Sept
Promoters announce work on the Yankton and Norfolk railroad will begin September 1. The project includes bridges at Yankton and a total cost of 1,800,000 dollars. The survey is complete and grades prepared. Yankton Norfolk and nearby towns celebrate the venture.
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Sioux City
Yankton and Norfolk Railroad
Yankton
Norfolk
Political headquarters to boost governor bid in Ohio and more
Blackburn of Kentucky improves after illness. Frank Reynolds drowns in Findlay Lake, New York. Mayor Jones of Toledo plans to open political HQ for his governor bid. Belgian parliament rejects government electoral bills. Sir Philip Hanfield dies at 80, former Northampton MP. London papers praise Pauncefote elevation to peerage. Peary relief steamer Diana moves north via Belle Isle straits. Pennsylvania Railroad to create pension fund. Eliza Sanford dies at 84 in Montclair New Jersey. Emperor William sends wreath at private memorial in Friedrichshruhe.
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Blackburn
Kentucky
Frank Reynolds
Findlay Lake
N. Y
Julian Pauncefote
Straits of
Belle Isle
Pennsylvania Railroad
Eliza Sanford
Montclair
N. J
Fredricharuhe
Bismarck
William
Palboa
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