Long to Advertise Bids for Raising Maine and Cristobal Colon
Secretary Long will issue advertisements seeking proposals to raise the Maine and the Cristobal Colon and deliver them to New York or Norfolk Navy Yard. The board of construction designed options from engineers and wrecking firms but will hold an open competition with bonds to protect the government against loss through incapacity or carelessness.
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Washington
Long
Maine
Cristobal Colon
Board of Construction
New York
Norfolk Navy Yard
Navy Department
Southern Pacific shows strong October earnings rise
The Southern Pacific Company reports October gross earnings of 5 556 726 dollars, up 1 125 091 from a year earlier. Four months ending October 1 average 20 098 225 dollars, up 1 286 920 from last year, with annual earnings up about 7 million versus 1597 figures. Contracts for new cars and locomotives totaling about 2 060 000 were placed with eastern firms.
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San Francisco
Southern Pacific Company
Eastern
Brief Notables and Incidents Across Cities
A 214 ton draw trudge was moved 250 feet onto new piers in Milwaukee. A $10,000 shingle mill is being built at Beaumont Texas. Heirs to a $50,000 estate are Mrs. Benedict and Thomas Pride after Dr. E D Porter’s death in Memphis. F G Logan of Chicago donates $35,000 to the Art Institute for a library addition. Rewards offered for missing Rev William Gill of Brownsville Texas. Bessie Jones, 18, vanishes in Elwood Indiana. James Griffin, 28, crushed to death by a falling telephone pole in Bristol Tennessee. Henry Giles acquitted of murder in Richmond Kentucky. William Schredrick, 14, mangled by a train accident at Carlinville Illinois. Frank Bray deemed insane by the Ozark Missouri grand jury after killing his father in law.
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Wis
E. B. Bonner
Emmett Landry
Beaumont
Tex
E. D. Porter
Memphis
Robert Benedict
Thomas Pride
Sturgis
F. G. Logan
Board of Trade
Chicago
Art Institute
William Gill
Brownsville
San Francisco
Elwood
Ind
Bessie Jones
James
Robert Russell
Christian County
Ozark
Spain Faces Crisis as Ministers Reportedly Ready to Resign
Rumor says Spanish ministers will submit resignations to the queen regent. Talks center on a Sagasta cabinet with Gen. Werler and others, or a Montero Rios administration, with possible dissolution of the Cortes if a major reform is pursued.
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Madrid
Segasta
Senor Montero Rios
Sagasta
Senor Sagasta
Gen. Werler
Senors Robledo
Crnaiejss Y Mendes
Montero Rios
Spanish Hold Iloilo as Insurgents Surpass Buffers
The Brutus arrived with 345 native soldiers and seven priests after reports of nightly fighting in Iloilo. Insurgent forces are estimated at 25,000, while Spanish defenders have 250 rifles. 127 soldiers from the Union landed on Luzon amid reinforcements. The Ohio sailed to Nagasaki. In Havana, General Greene approves McCullagh plan for a 1000 man police force modeled on New York with a detective bureau.
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Manila
Brutus
Union
Luzon
United States
Ohio
Nagasaki
Japan
Havana
Greene
John A. McCullagh
New York
McCullagh
Japanese Expansion Policy Praised by Commander Mori
Seattle reports Commander Mori on his way to command the Japanese cruiser Chitose. He lauds U S expansion policy as morally and sentimentally supported by Japanese merchants and capital, praising Admiral Dewey and noting American shipbuilding expertise may secure future warship contracts.
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Wash
J. Mori
San Francisco
United States
Dewey
Manila
Nautaawa
Mori
Pacific
Suez Canal
Cape of Good Hope
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