War Secretary Root vows vigorous Philippines campaign
Aug 8 report from Piatisnone states Secretary of War Root told AP he will push the war with full energy. He said 60,000 troops will be ready after the rainy season with more to follow if needed. He denied any split with McKinley on policy and declined to comment on General Otis's leadership.
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Piatisnone
Philippines
Associated Press
War Root
Washington
Root
McKinley
Mr. Root
Otis
MacArthur Defeats Larger Filipino Force Near San Fernando
General MacArthur with 4000 troops advanced five miles beyond San Fernando and defeated a 6000 strong Filipino force. American casualties were 20 killed or wounded. Aguinaldo appeals for recognition of Filipino independence from the powers. Field returns show Nearly 11,000 enlistments and regiments approaching full strength with notable numbers in First Nebraska and Twenty-sixth regiments.
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MacArthur
San Fernando
Washington
Gardner
Astor Cannot Be a Peer Under Old English Law
London reports Henry Labouchere says William Waldorf Astor cannot be raised to the peerage due to a William III era law depriving naturalized aliens of peerage. He could become a baronet or knight if willing to pay, but not a peer. Also notes Otto F Todd’s disputed lieutenant appointment and Chadron boy L W Dorrington poised for a commission. Weather notes in Iowa and Nebraska.
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London
Henry Labouchere
William Waldorf Astor
William III
Astor
Printers From Out of Town Persuaded to Return
New York August 9 official announcement by Typographical union No 6 says over 100 printers and pressmen from nearby towns came to The Sun seeking permanent employment with good daily pay in the mechanical department. Pickets explained the dispute to them and escorted them to strikers headquarters. they will be sent home at union expense. President Delaney denies any striker has returned to Sun work. It is said Sun girls will quit.
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New York
Typographical Union No. 6
Mechanical Department of the Sun
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Sun
Delaney
Big Six
the Sun
Senate Report Returned After Governor Refusal
Tanooin Aug 9 Governor Poynter returns the senate investigative committee report with a letter stating he will not accept the report. He claims lack of proper authorization and jurisdiction and refuses to encumber his office with non public documents. The report had exposed alleged ballot frauds and house rent scandals. The matter may wait to the next legislature session.
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Poynter
Tanooin
Senate Investigating Committee
Telegraphic Briefs Note Global Labor, War and Trade Signals
Brief items report union meetings in Chicago, shoe manufacturers considering a national group, the National Hay association meeting in Detroit, and possible lifting of Virginia yellow fever quarantine. Also noted are Germany urged to attend Philadelphia exposition, deaths of Colonel William Crawford in Evansville, Russian warnings on Japan alliance, peasant revolts in Russia, a new two dollar silver certificate, Eau Claire streetcar strike settled, Cuba smuggling crackdown, Fort Griffin reservation order, steamer Iowa sunk near Mount Vernon, Carnegie on justice duties, US peace chapel at The Hague, machine gun requests, Chinese attacks on Mong-Tse, Chicago elevator inquiry, Chicago divine healers charged, Glenn Lyon miners joining strikes, Spain wheat shortage, widow Marr’s body shipping, Chamberlain on Trinidad trade, and Piper estate divisions.
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National Hay Association
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Virginia
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Germany
Philadelphia
William Crawford
Burke
Evansville
Ind
Tsing-Li-Yamen
Japan
Bessabarabia
Russia
Bureau of Engraving
Eau Claire
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Cuba
United States
Fort Gibbon
Alaska
War Department
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Ohio River
Mount Vernon
Andrew Carnegie
Skibo
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Otis
Mong-Tse
Doumere
Senate
Industrial Commission
Henrikka Bratz
D. O. Hohnes
Joseph Chamberlain
West India Committee
Trinidad
W. A. Piper
California
Italians lynching in Talulah judged unjust by Italian report
The Italian embassy report by Marquis Romano says three of the five Italians lynched in Talulah, Louisiana, were uninvolved and unaware of the assault on Dr. Hodges. It portrays the lynching as an unusual atrocity with no mitigating circumstances.
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Aug. C
State Department
Marquis Romano
Talulah
Dr. Hodges
Charles Difata
Joe Difata
Difata
Frank Difata
Joseph Feducio
John Cerami
Yaqui War Exaggerated by Local Advices
Reports from southwestern Sonora indicate the Yaqui war is confined to the area where trouble began a month ago. Fewer than 200 renegades are involved, including fighters who attacked Nogales two years ago, repelled with American aid. Near Torin two Americans were killed in revenge for U S involvement. Guaymas dispatch says General Torres surrounds Bicam Yaqui stronghold. about 2000 hostiles massed as artillery and machine guns arrive, setting stage for a major government battle.
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Sonora
Nogales
Arizona
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Oxtonao
Guaymas
Mex
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Party Bosses defeated in first primary under new San Francisco law
San Francisco Aug 9 The first primary under the new state law toppled the boss factions in both major parties. The Crimmons Kelly Republican machine fell to Henry T Scott of Union Ironworks, while Democrats backed reform mayor James D Phelan. Voter turnout reached 60 of presidential election levels.
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San Francisco
Crimmons and Kelly
Henry T. Scott
Union Ironworks
James D. Phelan
Kentucky contest vital may tilt Senate on silver
In an interview John W Tomlingen, chairman of the Democratic national bimetallic committee, argues Kentucky’s contest could decide the Senate's stance on silver. If silver gains two seats by unseating gold senators in Kentucky and Louisiana, silver forces could secure a majority, affecting states with terms expiring in 1901. Louisville, Aug 9. W J Stone, acting Democratic chair, urges Kentucky Democrats to unite behind the Louisville ticket.
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Als
John W Tomlingen
Democratic National Bimetallic Committee
Age-Herald
Kentucky
United States Senate
Louisiana
Kansas
Nebraska
Minnesota
West Virginia
Michigan
Wyoming
Louisville
W. J. Stone
Missouri
Democratic National Committee
Urey Woodson
Shaw and Weaver Debate at Colfax on Philippine Question
Des Moines Aug 9 A joint debate between Governor L M Shaw and General J B Weaver on the Philippine question drew several thousand gathered from the surrounding country at the Epworth league assembly in Colfax. Weaver attacked government policy in the Philippines as unconstitutional while Shaw backed the administration and urged a broader policy and advancement of civilization.
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Des Moines
L. M. Shaw
J. B. Weaver
Shaw
Shamrock's Slim Chance Amid Yacht Race Hype
The column reports on the New York Yacht Club’s opening race day with Columbia decisively leading over rivals Defender and Vigilant, casting doubt on Shamrock’s prospects. It also covers Iowa crop conditions, grasshoppers, and emergent stories about road emigration to the north, a rumored Chicago Milwaukee St Paul absorption of Central of Iowa, an anti spitting ordinance in Des Moines, a World Herald employment bureau for returning soldiers, and the launch of five government steel hulled boats.
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L. 1
New York Yacht Club
Columbia
Defender
Vigilant
Iowa Central
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
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Iowa
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Morse
Col. L. M. Martin
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