Peace Jubilee in Chicago crowd honors McKinley with interfaith addresses
At the national peace jubilee in Chicago the audience of about 32 000 heard a Jewish rabbi, a Catholic priest, a Presbyterian clergyman, and Booker T. Washington address the president. McKinley listened, rose to acknowledge cheers, and the event highlighted racial unity and support for U S policy, with Washington urging conquest of prejudice and a strong stand for peace.
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Ontago
Ils
Chicago
McKinley
Lafayette Williams
Alexander H. Revell
William Harper
University of Chicago
McWilliams
Porter and
Cortellyou
Boxer
James McKinley
Wilson
Gage
Bliss
Meikelsohn
Jordan
Henry B. Roney
Henry W. Thomas
The
People’s Church
Samuel Fallows
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Emil G. Hirsch
Hirsch
Dr. Hirsch
Thomas P. Hodnett
Dewey
Sampson
Schley
Rough Riders
Heanett
John Henry Barrows
Philippines
Booker T. Washington
England
Santiago
Rantheen
Washington
World Wheat Crops 1898 Tops Records Despite Low Reserves
The agricultural department reports October 1898 world wheat crop estimates. Beerbohm puts total near 2.64 billion bushels, while Hungarian figures align. India shows 242,931,280 bushels in 1898, versus 182,647,483 in 1897, with five year average around 226 million. France, UK, Ontario, and Manitoba gain sowed areas. Russia yields conflict. Argentina dampened by drought and locusts. Australia outlook excellent. Europe faces delayed fall sowing due to drought across several nations.
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Wasttineron
Agricultural Department
Ministry of Agriculture
Tudia
France
United Kingdom
Ontario
Canada
Manitoba
Russia
Argentina
Australia
Europe
Des Moines Mission Convention closes with officers elected
The Des Moines branch of the Women s Foreign Missionary Society held closing services with delegates from Iowa Missouri and Kansas. Officers elected include President Miss E Pearson Des Moines corresponding secretary Mrs M S Houston Burlington recording secretary Miss Gatchell Des Moines treasurer Mrs E A Stanley Fort Madison and secretary of supplies Mrs Miller Kansas City Brewery Deal Near in Cincinnati
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women and Mission
Fort Manpison
Des Moines
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
E. Pearson
M. S. Houston
Burlington
Gatchell
E. A. Stanley
Fort Madison
Miller
Kansas City
Diverse 19th century notices mix theft, wars and rail plans
Reports from multiple fronts describe a cattle thief gang in Arkansas, unrest among Comanche in Oklahoma, and King Menelik sending 40,000 troops to quell Abyssinian revolt while Ras Mangascia commands 10,000. Viola Grignon dies in Seattle as Klondike’s first white woman, with Austrian Galicia riots and arson deaths echoed in the era’s tension. Also noted are a $10,000 valued horse theft, a Cleveland rail rate cut meeting, a Leipzig to Kansas City rail expansion, and a Leavenworth line’s path into Missouri Pacific territory.
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Santiago
Spain
Macias
Monros
Arkansas
Fort Still
O. T
Menelik
Ras Mangascia
Viola Grignon
Ned Grignon
Seattle
Wash
Grignon
Klondike
Austrian Galicia
Corigan
Hawthorne Track
Cleveland
Steel Trust
Louisville
Hans Wagner
Colonels
John Hatfield
Wagner
Hatfield
Mutuals
Union Grounds
Brooklyn
Leavenworth, Kansas and Western Railway
Kansas City
Leavenworth
Missouri Pacific
Kansas and Western
Kansas Central
Leavenworth, Kansas
Navy policy and ship class design outlined in Long report
Secretary Long endorses Crowinshield and Roosevelt personnel bill to raise enlisted and officer counts. Proposals include building ships in classes, laying up armored vessels after peace, and boosting engineering branch conditions. Contracts for Kearsarge Kentucky and Alabama updated with completion dates and delays. naval intelligence leadership changes noted as officers retire and new active officers appointed.
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Washington
Long
Crowinshield
Bureau of Navigation
Roosevelt
Higginson
Lighthouse Board
United States
Hia
Crowninshield
Congress
Melville
Bureau of Ordnance
Carnegie Company
Wisconsin
Cramps
Newport News
Kearsarge
Kentucky
Newport Lews Company
Alabama
Kentncsky
Richardson Clover
Bancroft
Cuba
Office of Naval Intelligence
J. R. Bartlett
F. M. Barber
Berlin
Rome
Vienna
Socialistic Labor Party files state ticket in Nebraska
The Socialistic labor party of Nebraska filed a petition to place its candidates on the state ticket. The slate lists H. S. Aley for governor of Lincoln, J. J. Kerrigan for lieutenant governor of Omaha, Theodore Bruner for secretary of state of Omaha, H. B. Conway for auditor of South Omaha, Fred Kissel for treasurer of Omaha, H. Ittig for superintendent of public instruction of Lincoln, S. J. Herman for commissioner of public lands of Wilber, and Charles Baker for attorney general of Omaha.
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Social Labor
Lincoln
Socialistic Labor Party of
Nebraska
Secretary of State
H. 8
Aley
J. J. Kerrigan
Omaha
Theodore Bruner
H. B. Conway
South Omaha
Fred Kissel
H. Ittig
J. Herman
Wilber
Charles &. Baker
American Lamp Chimney Company Forms in Toledo
The American Lamp Chimney company with £750,000 capital is organized to build a lamp chimney factory in Toledo. L. D. Libbey serves as president of the new organization, with ground to be broken this week. Additional plants planned as business grows.
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Tolevo
American Lamp Chimney Company
L. D. Libbey
Toledo
Princess Kalulani Engaged Report Grabs Headlines
Princess Kalulani is reportedly engaged to be married to Andrew Adams, a reporter formerly with the Providence Journal and more recently of the Hawaiian Star in Honolulu. In Coxcorp New Hampshire, reports say the First New Hampshire volunteers may be ordered to Porto Rico this week rather than muster out, with officers and over 800 men eager to remain in service.
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Kalulani
New Yorks
Kaiulani
Andrew Adams
Providence
R. I.) Journal
Hawaiian 1 Star
Honolulu
Coxcorp
New Hampshire Volunteers
Porto Rico
Havana Fever Hospital Urged as City Tightens Streets
Havana reports say Drs Lane and O Reilly urge immediate American fever hospital due to yellow fever isolation failures. Waring finds Havana dirtier than expected and calls for tearing streets and laying drainage pipes. Transportation plans advance for Guanabacoa rail camp as commerce stalls and planters depart. English-typed dispatch notes Cuban camps disciplined, with shortages easing only in part.
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Havana
Lane
O'Reilly
Delbii
American Evacuation Commission
Bious
Blanca
Transportation Commission
Guanabacoa
Colonel Waring
Cuba
Rowan
Parker
American Shipping Decline Masks Navy-Tied Losses
Washington reports show June 30 1898 documented American merchant shipping at 28 705 vessels totaling 4 749 738 gross tons versus 22 633 ships and 4 769 620 tons in 1897. Net drop masked by tonnage accounting edits and 66 718 tons shifted to Navy duty for troops and supplies. In Nebraska a mail pouch robbery near Alliance exposed mail theft from two Burlington trains, with detectives now on the case.
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Washington
Chamberlain
Navigation Bureau
Treasury Department
Navy Departments
Malte
Lincoln
Neb
Alliance
Here
Burlington
Wilson
General Merritt Leaves Paris for London on Private Business
Purine Paris reports General Merritt and his entire staff depart Paris today for London. The general will stay ten days for private business reasons.
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Merritt
Purine
Paris
London
Insurgents in Lagaspi Block U S Steamer Hermanos
Josurgents at Lagaspi prevent landing or loading of the American steamer Hermanos citing Spaniards aboard. They also refuse land permission for an officer from the U S cruiser Raleigh unless General Aguinaldo approves. Victoria BC reports Victoria arriving with 1 768 seal skins and three other schooners with about 2700 more expected. Seals plentiful, especially northwest of the island.
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Josurgents
Manuva
Lagaspi
United States
Raleigh
Aguinaldo
Victoria
B. C
Haans
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President McKinley
Secretary Long
Captain Crowinshield
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JL. Waring
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