Rumor Links Philippine Question to British War Prep
An overseas dispatch notes unease over Britain’s war preparations amid gossip that the United States may cede Philippine islands or grant coaling stations to England. Reports from Hong Kong describe General Black inspecting frontier areas, mounting guns, and ships carrying ammunition. Berlin sources claim U S England cooperation drives actions touching Kitchener and Fashoda.
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Black
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Berlin
Daily News
United States
England
Warships Ready to Sail from Canadian Pacific Lines
Canadian Pacific vessels report armed readiness as sloop Icarius is commissioned after refit. Imperieuse stocked with ammunition and coal bunkers full, engines active. Leander, destroyer Virago, Sparrow Hawk prepared. Riojun Mara reports 6,000 troops landed at Wei Hai Wei to man forts. London and Ottawa discuss Anticosti sale amid potential wartime maneuvers.
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Elliott
Wei Hai Wei
Hong Kong
Russia
Port Arthur
Canadian Pacific Line
Panama Transport Arrives in Havana with 7 Americans
The transport Panama, from Santiago, arrived in Havana at a.m. fearing for some safety, landed seven American passengers including military officers. It left Havana around a.m. bound for New York with about 400 sick men aboard.
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Havana
Panama
Santiago
New York
Cubans Go Out On Strike For Higher Wages
Santiago November 6 Cuban laborers employed in cleaning and repairing streets demand 50 cents more per day plus their accustomed ration support. General Leonard Wood threatens arrests and coerced return to work for 90 days as strikers hold ration stock. Washington reports army transport preparations for Puerto Principe deployment with troop embarkation planned from Savannah. Paris reports reopening of the Chamber of Deputies with premier Dupuy asserting civil power and military loyalty to republic.
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United States
Washington
Master's Department of the Army
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Cuba
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Paris
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M. Dupuy
Nebraska Supreme Court Decisions Highlight Local Cases
The Nebraska Supreme Court issued several decisions, affirming Stevens and Chezem of Adams county in larceny related cases, and ruling from York county that second class cities may levy an occupation tax on railroad companies operating within city limits.
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Supreme Court
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Sheridan County
Chezem
Adams County
District Court
York County
Explosion Affects Three Ohio Counties Rattles Zanesville
A blast at 10 45 last night shook Zanesville Ohio and nearby Muskingum Morgan and Guernsey counties. Officials cannot determine the source though the sound resembled a cannon shot followed by a long reverberating rumble.
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Zanesville
Muskingum
Morgan
Guernsey
Third Illinois Set for New York Arrival on Roumania
Sparks from the Wire reports the Third Illinois departed from Ponce Puerto Rico for New York aboard the Roumania, expected in New York likely Tuesday. Chilean congress approves protocol with Argentina to settle the Puna de Atacama dispute, with William L. Buchanan to act as final arbitrator. Emile Bourlier dies in Louisville of heart paralysis. he owned Louisville Jockey Club and had ties to Latonia and Oakley tracks. No stock assessment for National Linseed Oil. reorganization to consolidate with major independent linseed mills.
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Porto Rico
War Department
New York
Roumania
Chile
Argentina
Puna de Atacama
William L. Buchanan
United States
Emile Bourlier
Louisville
Camp Thomas Sanitation Faults Highlight Civil War Inquiry
Dr A Hart Hart suff critiqued camp site selection at Camp Thomas arguing regiments were placed on swampy or rocky ground with poor drainage and cramped tents. He said division hospitals wasted regimental resources and faulted line officers for failures in support and discipline. An earlier Chickamauga hearing heard Captain Frank T Moore recount typhoid deaths and poor water, food, and medical supply conditions.
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Camp Thomas
Denby
Brooke
Hartsuff
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Mippimtown
War Investigating Commission
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Beaver
Wilson
Howell
Frank T. Moore
Ninth Pennsylvania
Moore
Leiter
Ile
Wilkesbarre
Olivers
Sanger
Pennsylvania
Callip Mead
Politician Fatally Shot in Ridgeville County
Adam Rowe, a leading Ridgeville politician, was fatally shot by William Smith last night after Rowe allegedly attempted to kick Smith's door while intoxicated. Smith fired with a shotgun, and Rowe’s wounds are described as fatal. In Toledo, Iowa, Sac and Fox Indians begin sending children to the government industrial school, which has operated since September but stayed empty until recently.
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Hero
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Smith
Simith
Toledo
Toredo
Call for 20 Million Centennial Offering by Methodists
Bishops at Sprinaritin Mass vote to raise 20 000 000 for Methodist educational and charitable institutions. Funds to be collected gradually before Jan 1 1901 and distributed to 200 schools theological colleges and hundreds of charities worldwide. Church membership cited as 2 800 000 with extensive Sunday school participation.
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Mass
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Church
Amon
Move for eight hour day labor push from AFL
President Gompers reports to state branches urging union committees to press senators for support of the eight hour government work bill. He notes the House passed it last session, the Senate blocked it, and emphasizes nonpartisan aims to secure passage in December through peaceful, lawful methods.
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Washington
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Joseph Rodman West Dies at 76 in New York
General Joseph Rodman West longtime Louisiana senator and former District of Columbia commissioner died in New York from paralysis aged 76. A New Orleans native educated at the University of Pennsylvania he served in the Mexican and Civil Wars as lieutenant colonel of the First California infantry and was among the California 49ers before entering the Louisiana Senate in 1870 as a Republican.
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New York
Joseph Rodman West
Louisiana
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New Orleans
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Senate
New York Volunteers Vote in State District Elections
In Camp Mranpe Pa on November 2 2024 soldiers of the 2024 New York regiment held an election for state and district officers. The 201st will vote tomorrow and the 2051 on Thursday. After polls close ballots are sealed and sent to Albany then to county clerks for transmission to district inspectors for inclusion in district returns.
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Hewiliutary Thansmit
Pennsylvania Railroad Declares Regular Semiannual Dividend
The board of directors declared a regular semiannual dividend of 2 4 per cent. Cincinnati is named as the northern terminus of a new fast passenger system linking the north to Cuba. Frank B. Leefe, linked to the Union National bank wreck, died in New Orleans parish prison. Governor Pingree presses to compel Michigan Central to sell a 1000 mile mileage book to the U S Supreme Court if possible. Mexican officials report four yellow fever deaths in Monterey as entire families are stricken and business is paralyzed. John H. Mason & Sons, Providence cotton goods makers, file for bankruptcy with liabilities of 810 000 and assets around 300 600. The Commercial hotel, City livery Stables and a saloon between them burned early Tuesday in Oklahoma City, guests escaped as the building burned. J Phillips treasurer of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific road died of paralysis in Chicago. Mat Phillips, born July 24, 1887 in Brattleboro Vt, served 80 years with the Rock Island road. Nancy J. Barger of Center County Pa dies at 106, with five children surviving, oldest Samuel Barger aged 84.
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J. N. Wolfson
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Pingree
Michigan Central Railroad
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Monterey
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Oklahoma City
J. Phillips
Rock Island
Chicago
Mat. Phillips
Brattleboro
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Center County
Samuel Barger
France Prefers Mediation in Spain US Peace Talks
Paris dispatch reports France willing to act as intermediary again to uphold moral and financial obligations, aiming to stabilize European power. Senor Sagasta may press for high indemnities for the Philippines, risking a resumption of negotiations under a conservative ministry.
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Evening Post
Paris
Spain
United States
France
Senor Sagasta
Philippines
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Porto Risa
Germany
England
General Sigsey arrives with forty miners from Alaska
The schooner General Sigsey docked in Seattle from Cook's Inlet with about forty miners. They confirm the sloop Johnson wreck and the drowning of nine men. Despite searches along Turnagan Arm, no bodies have been recovered.
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Seattle
Wash
General Sigsey
Cook’s Inlet
Alaska
Johnson
Turnagan
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