Condition of crops report notes mixed results across regions
The crop report shows frost and cool weather harming fruits and some crops, with corn slow to grow in the lower Missouri valley and Ohio, while winter wheat improves in the Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys. Spring wheat grows well, oats outlook poor in parts of the middle Atlantic and Ohio valleys, and Texas harvesting progresses. California crops mature, and reports from Indiana Ohio Wisconsin Nebraska Minnesota describe varying conditions and need for warmth and cultivation.
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Weather Bureau
Missouri
Mississippi
Ohio
Atlantic
Carolinas
Lake Region
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
North Carolina
Middle Atlantic States
New England
Rocky Mountains
Oklahoma
Kansas
Arkansas
Pacific Coast
Oregon
Washington
Lake
Missouri Valley
Nebraska
Iowa
Ilinois
Upper Mississippi
Uoble
Upper Lake
Kentucky
Middle Atlantic
Texas
Oilahoma
California
Wisconsin
East Gulf
South Atlantic
Upper
Cotton
Virginia
Indiana
Minnesota
Red River Valley
South Dakota
Ferming Land to Be Opened
Canadian Pacific stock rise linked to directors authorizing President Shaughnessy to market 23 million acres of Northwest land grants this summer. The sale aims to raise about 70 million dollars for the company treasury. Henry L. Turner & Co. organize the Metropolitan Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago with capital of 1 million dollars and surplus of 250 thousand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Pacific
Shaughnessy
Northwest
Henry L. Turner & Co
Metropolitan Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago
Capital
Surplus
Peace Came After Long Boer War Negotiations
Details from a parliamentary paper trace the path to the Vereeniging peace. Schalk-Burger informed Kitchener of readiness to propose. delegates submitted terms. Brodrick rejected independence based offers. Boers insisted on field ratification. Milner Smuts Hertzog drafted an agreement. Britain insisted on a time limit. signing occurred with minimal ceremony in Pretoria. Public reaction in London mingled relief and celebration while MPs debated terms and honor.
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Schalk-Berger
Transvaal
Lord Kitchener
Brodrick
Steyn
Orange Sh’ree
Botha
Butha
Mr. Steyn
Vereenging
Vereeniging
Milner
Lord Milner
Gen. Smuts
Hertzog
Conference of Vereiniging
Mr. Chamberlain
Gen. de Wet
Orange Free State
Gen. Schalk-Berger
Tranavaal
Pretoria
South Africa
London
House of Commons
Great Britain
Terms of the Boer surrender read in parliament
Mr Balfour announced the peace terms in the House of Commons and Lord Salisbury echoed them in the Lords. The Boers must lay down arms and acknowledge King Edward, return all POWs, face no punishment, and keep liberty and property. Dutch taught publicly if desired, rifles allowed for self protection, civil government to start soon, no wartime tax, funds for rebuilding and restocking farms.
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Mr. Balfour
House of Commons
Lord Salisbury
House of Lords
King Edward
South Africa
Great Losses In Life In South African Conflict
The article notes 200000 plus dead on both sides with Boer and British estimates of war totals. It cites 65000 Boer soldiers, 325000 British troops, and British deaths at 22201 including 1063 officers and 21138 privates. Survivors around 184000, many women and children in concentration camps.
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South African Republic
Orange Free State
South Africa
Actu
Foreign Office
London
Chicago Meat Strike disrupts city and markets
Chicago faced a broad strike by Teamsters and packers with riots and blockades across the West, North, and South Sides. Meat and ice supplies halted, hotels and restaurants short of meat, coal and ice threatened, and the Fulton market closed. Wages cited range from 2.50 to 3.50 daily. widespread playouts included swift action by Swift’s, Libby, Nelson Morris, and Armour plants.
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Teamsters
Chicago
Teamsters’ Association
Fulton Market
Swift & Co
Nelson Morris & Co
Armour & Co
Omaha
Kansas City
St. Joseph
St. Louis
Onion
Swift's
Libby, McNeill & Libby’s
Nelson Morris
Louis Swift
State Street
National Teamsters’ Union
Des Moines Tornado and Deluge Cause Massive Damage
A violent western storm system produced a tornado and unprecedented rainfall across Iowa, inflicting millions in damage to Des Moines and surrounding counties. One death, numerous injuries, widespread crop loss, rail traffic suspended, and extraordinary rainfall records were reported.
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Towa
Minnois
South Patriotat
Clomdbursia
Iowa
Des Moines
Weather Bureau
Cla- Finda
Carroll
Osden
Marshalltown
Bomford Lanzdon
Linn Creek
Clinton
Rock River
Page
Carroll County
George N. Melendy
York Township
Jenks Melendy
Timothy Dunshee
W. E. Shoemaker
Baptist Church
Chadwick
Salina
Kan
Joseph Bass
BR. McDowell
Smoky Hill
Amitehell
Tacana Volcano Eruption Devastates Ratalbulen Guatemala
The Chilean steamer Palena reports up to 1,000 deaths as Tacana erupts leaving half of Ratalbulen destroyed. Champerico on the coast received the news. aftershocks since April 18 contribute to widespread terror. Pumice and ash blanket the region while earthquakes strain recovery efforts. A quake near Guatemala City struck days earlier, name not learned.
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Ratalbulen
Guatemala
Tacana
Palena
Valparaiso
Ratalhulen
Champerico
Quezaltenango
Guatemala City
President declines to intervene in anthracite strike
The President will not use executive power to settle the anthracite coal strike. A Cabinet discussion of a New York Board of Trade invitation revealed that the 1588 law had been repealed in 1808, leaving the President with only overtures and good offices. The Board and Transportation committee, informed of the repeal, abandoned its mission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Board of Trade
Board of Trade and Transportation
Washington
Religious News and Notes Parish and church affairs across nations
Mormon missionaries are numerous in the Eastern States. The Church of England reports thirty seven bishops but only thirty deans. Public outcry grows over Sabbath desecration in the United States. The Holy See forbids confessions over the telephone. A theft steals a 1000 pound bell from Parkville Congregational Church. Alden Speare, a leading Methodist layman, dies in California. Roosevelt is invited to speak at a Denver Sunday school convention in June. Trinity Church Boston plans chancel remodeling and vested choir stalls. Russia allocates 1 million dollars to temperance work. The Rev Dr William Howe of Cambridge, oldest Colby graduate, is 96. Sir James Parker Deane, Canterbury Vicar General and Salisbury Diocese chancellor, dies at 90. Dr Endisill and wife return to Madras amid a reception by Methodist publishing houses.
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Church of England
United States
Holy See
Parkville, L. L
Alden Speare
California
Roosevelt
Denver
Trinity Church
Boston
William Howe
Cambridge
Mass
Colby College
James Parker Deane
Province of
Canterbury
Diocese of
Salisbury
Endisill
Madras
India
Fraterville survivor blown 1400 feet to mine mouth
W B Morgan the sole survivor of the Fraterville mine explosion in Coal Creek Tennessee was blown 1400 feet to the mine mouth where he was found He had a shattered leg a sprained back and head injuries He also survived two earlier mine disasters as the sole survivor in one case
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W. B. Morgan
Fraterville
Coal Creek
Tenn
Urges Return to the Farm at Illinois Banquet
James J. Hill spoke at the Illinois Manufacturers Association annual banquet in Chicago outlining farming as the livelihood base. He warned that lands without population are a wilderness while a population without lands becomes a mob, calling irrigation a vital federal policy and comparing railroads to schools and religion as educators. He noted Americans move to Canadian lands for cheap acres and urged irrigation to make farmland self supporting and profitable, with land sold at about ten dollars per acre once watered.
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James J. Hill
Illinois Merchants’ Association
Ilinois Manufacturers’ Association
Chicago
Mr. Hill
J. J. Hill
Great Northern Railway
Northern Securities Company
Canadian North West
United States
First Lady of Cuba A Simple Life of Mrs Palma
A portrait of Maria de las Mercedes Palma wife of Cuba's first president Tomas Estrada Palma she values simple living and shuns public attention living nineteen years in Central Valley New York with their six children they remain a devoted family despite the presidency and Cuban struggle for freedom.
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Cuba
Tomas Estrada Palma
Cuban
Palma
Central Valley
New York
Fragmented World News Snippets From A Turbulent Era
A collage of topics touches coal prices in quiet markets, the Franco Russian alliance's fragile harmony, Boer fortunes amid a wrecked cause, and Mount Pelee’s mood dampening picnic plans. Quoted concerns include Kansas droughts, Philippines talks, Martinique tragedy, and a Michigan heir dispute over a will.
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Martinique
Mount Pelee
Cubs
Philippines
Senate
Kansas
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