Insurgent Leader Seeks Surrender Amid Philippine Battles
Manila reports detail garrison clashes near Calumpit with Captain Grant’s launch units and Laguna de Bay forces repelling insurgents. General Gregorio del Pilar seeks honorable terms for surrender while Aguinaldo reportedly fled to Nueva Ecija. 6,000 Spanish prisoners are scattered among northern garrisons. Filipino resistance continues.
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Tindad
Gregorio del Pilar
Aguinaldo
Nueva Ecija
Balinag
San Sandro
San Isidro
Pilar
Lawton
Miners Strike Fizzles Out In Pittsburg District
A majority of coal miners ordered out by National President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers returned to work. Mines at Yale Western Coal and Mining and Kanora Texas operated normally. Nelson mine suspended for repairs. Weir City shafts idle only due to repair needs. anti strike sentiment voiced at mass meetings. Nonunion workers largely favored working.
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Kansas Orry
Star
Pittsburg
Kan
Thia
Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Yale
Western Coal and Mining Company
Kanora & Texas Company
Nelson
Central Coal and Coke Company
Central Coal and Cocke Company
Kansas & Texas
Weir City
Telegrams Tease Cuban Rail Sale and Navy Uniform Debate
English syndicates push to buy Cuban railways as naval officers protest proposed navy uniform changes. Generals Ludlow and Brooke discuss appointing a civil governor for Havana. Five hundred workers at Menominee mills strike for a 20 percent wage raise. A Cumberland Park trotting meet opens October 16 with purses no less than 1500. Jack Root defeats Australian Jimmy Ryan in a 20 round Louisville bout. Grand Rapids Veneer Works destroyed by fire. loss about 100000 with half covered by insurance. Coney Island Sporting Club license granted to stage Jeffries Hitzmann match. Britain ready to review Pacific cable issue if colonies lodge new representations. An $80,000,000 window glass trust forms. leases concentrate 98 percent of productive facilities under new combine. US suits against steamer Dauntless dismissed in Jacksonville. Britannia arrives at Azores to sound for strand connecting Germany and US. efforts to speed cable laying continue.
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Ludlow
Brooke
Havana
Menominee
Mich
Cumberland Park
Tenn
Jack Root
Chicago
Jimmy Ryan
Louisville
Grand Rapids
Worka
Coney Island Sporting Club
Acertainty
United States
Dauntless
Jacksonville
Commercial Cable Company
Britannia
Azores
Germany
Gomez Refuses to Act in Cuban Army Payment Plan
General Gomez informed Governor General Brooke he will not act as Cuban army representative in distributing eight million dollars for troops. He will not appoint replacements for disabled commissioners, while Brooke proceeds with a new plan. Brooke will issue payment orders to privates and noncommissioned officers, with identification by company officers.
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Havana
Maximo Gomez
Brooke
Gomez
Gomex
Washington
War Department
Associated Press
Goldiara
Cubs
Dockmen Stand Together in Renewed Buffalo Strike
United Labor Interests in Buffalo launch a renewed strike as dock workers cancel inside elevator shifts, grain shovelers press contractors for full union recognition, and Bishop Quigley urges continued action until all grievances are resolved. A posturing clash with the Lake Carriers' Association intensifies as belt-tightening spreads through elevators and related trades.
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United Labor
Buffalo
Burrano
Quigley
Connors
Lake Carriers’ Association
Grain’ Shovelera
Bishop Quigley
Nevel
Crushed under the cars at the rail line tragedy report
A freight train struck a man lying on the track near Wiota causing a fatality later identified as Thomas Thompson, a Swede living near Wiota. Inquest found accidental death. Engineer Love escaped a steam boiler explosion with burns and a rough recovery ahead.
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Love
Wiots
Wiota
John Henry
Murphy
Cumberland
George Forrester
Anita
Red Oak
Forrester
Thomas Thompson
Thompson
Rock Island
Atlantic
O. J. Ostrus
Narrow Escape For Prall Family In Buggy Incident
Columbus Prall narrowly avoided a serious accident while driving a two seated buggy toward town. Mrs Prall raised an umbrella which blew onto the horses, startling the team and snapping a dash board and one line. Mrs Prall escaped uninjured, and Mr Prall guided the frightened pair into a barbed wire fence. One horse was injured and harness damaged, but no major harm to the occupants.
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Columbus Prall
Prall
Mr. Prall
Iowa Crop Report May 18 1899 Falls Weather Delays Work
The Iowa Weather and Crop Service notes cooler cloudy weather and a heavy midweek storm bringing excess moisture in central and southern districts. Iowa City reports 4.35 inches and Cedar Rapids 2.01 inches for the week, delaying fieldwork but overall conditions favorable for plowing and planting. Corn planting advances especially in northern and central districts, with southeastern areas wetter. Spring grains progress well, grass growth strong, frost damage minimal, and fruit trees vines and berries show good crop promise. Stop and soia Thorley's Atomizer. She greatest little bug killer on earth.
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Diiawnte
Iowa Weather and Crop Service
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa City
Cedar Rapida
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Conant
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Herald
American Philippine Commission
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W.A. Dobson
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American Horse Exchange
J. D. Rockefeller
Jance
OmoéGo
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Dows
Kansas City
William L. Lockridge
Savannah
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Minn
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Red’ O’brien
Weber
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John O. Diets
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
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