Philippine Area of Disturbed Districts and Troop Policy
The first annual report by Maj. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee on the Philippine Islands details disturbed provinces including Batangas Laguna Samar Mindoro Cebu and Bohol. It notes guerrilla warfare and urges no major troop reductions before January 1903. It covers Manila governance progress and proposes a permanent U S garrison near Manila with cost estimates for barracks and infrastructure. Since June 10 361 Filipino officers and 3 638 men surrendered and 26 officers 454 men were captured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Adna R. Chaffee
Philippine Islands
Chaffee
Philippines
Batangas
Laguna
Luzon
Samar
Mindoro
Cebu
Bohol
Manila
MacArthur
M’kinley National Park
Kinley National Park Proposed in Southern Appalachians
Representative Brownlow reintroduces a bill to create a Kinley National Park in the Southern Appalachians totaling 4,000,000 acres. He notes McKinley admired the park and that Southerners honor the late president by supporting the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Brownlow
Apalachian
Kinley National Park
McKinley
Browndow
McKinley Park
New Jersey Lawmakers Push Purchase of Danish West Indies
A joint resolution by Representative Gardner proposes the state department buy the Danish West Indies and appropriate over $4,000,000. The measure cites the Monroe Doctrine and favors American ownership of the islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Gardner
New Jersey
State Department
Danish West Indies
Bud Wilson Hanged in Arkansas Death Row Execution
Bud Wilson, a 22 convict who killed guard R. H. Naylor at Yell County camp last September, was hanged at Danville. The trap sprung at 4 45 pm and the body lowered at 10 05 pm. The coffin lid and movement prompted a second attempt before physicians pronounced death by strangulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
BudWilson
R. H. Naylor
Yell County
Danville
Wilson
Remarkable nerve shown before Fort White double murderer hanged
Lake City Florida December 7 Thomas J Hampton colored executed for a nine year old Fort White double murder. He smoked a cigar as the black cap was placed. He confessed to five killings including a 1887 Lexington South Carolina conductor murder. Other crimes were in Georgia. He was captured after escaping from a turpentine camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake City
Fla
Thomas J. Hampton
Fort White
Lexington County
South Carolina
Georgia
Five more deaths after Malvern head end train collision
Malvern Arkansas reports five more deaths from injuries after the head end collision of two passenger trains on the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern railroad near the city Thursday night. Maggie Stevens, a colored resident of Landersville Alabama, died Friday from injuries. Two colored children and two white men found dead in the baggage car wreckage are among the deceased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malvern
Ark
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad
Here
Maggie Steverson
Landersville
Ala
Fire at Wilkesbarre Dry Goods Store Wipes Out Store
A fire in Langfeld Bros. large dry goods store in Wilkesbarre wiped out the building and stock. adjoining clothing shops Simon Long's Sons and Weitzenkorn Bros. also damaged. Losses total about 135000. Sparks from a broken electric light wire in a show window started the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkesbarre
Langfeld Bros
Simon Long's Sons
Weitzenkorn Bros
Colored preacher arrested in Fort Scott over cancelled stamps
Rev. J. A. Young, a Black Baptist preacher, was arrested by federal officers in Fort Scott Kansas on a charge of using cancelled stamps. He admits the crime saying he lacked money to buy stamps and needed to mail letters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Scott
Kan
J. A. Young
Business Failures in United States and Canada
New York reports 237 U.S. business failures for week 237, up from 189 prior. Canadian failures total 23, down from 26 last week and 27 a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Motion to Dismiss Denied in Molineux Murder Indictment
Judge Newburger denied the motion to dismiss the indictment against Roland B. Molineux in the murder case of Mrs. Katharine Adams. The ruling came Friday in New York, December 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Newburger
Roland B. Molineux
Katherine Adams
Turkish Soldiers Killed Near Loheia in Yemen Conflict
Forty Turkish soldiers died near Loheia in Yemen during clashes with tribesmen rebelling over heavy taxation. The fighting occurred as Turkish forces confronted the rebel group in the Arabia theater, according to dispatches from Bombay dated December 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bombay
Loheia
Yemen
Arabia
National Live Stock Association Sets Kansas City Convention
The National Live Stock association voted to hold the next annual convention in Kansas City. The decision was announced from Chicago on December 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Live Stock Association
Chicago
Kansas City
Testing of Gathmann gun vs 12 inch rifle reports severe impacts
The mixed army and navy board concludes the Gathmann gun would not endanger a battleship and is not suitable for attack while the 12 inch army service rifle would cause serious damage to buoyancy and internal systems. The report notes the rifle’s destructive power surpasses previous records and finds no case for adopting the Gathmann system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army and Navy Board
Knight
Corps of Engineers
Congress
Root
Sandy Hook
Gathmann
United States
Shortage Found in Noblesville County Books
In Noblesville Indiana expert accountants finish a 1895–1905 audit for the county. They report a 5594 shortage in C B Williams accounts and a 639 shortage in ex Auditor Calvin Sturdevants records. The county will sue to recover the funds if not settled promptly. Minor discrepancies appear in other offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noblesville
Ind
Board of Commissioners
C. B. Williams
Calvin Sturdevants
Danville Fire Destroys Leaf Tobacco Plants and Warehouse
A blaze in Danville Virginia destroyed the John E Hughes & Co plant and Brown s storage warehouse. Both buildings were filled with leaf tobacco in hogsheads and loose. The 500 hogsheads of leaf belong to the American Tobacco Co were in the warehouse. Dibbrell Bros leaf plant Banner s warehouse and a dwelling suffered minor damage. Total loss expected to exceed 130000 with tobacco price advances not insured. Insurance covers the loss except for tobacco price increases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
John E. Hughes & Co
Brown
American Tobacco Co. Dibbrell Bros
Banner
Water shortage hits Minnesota cities and mills
The Mississippi River drops to unprecedented lows causing reduced streetcar service in Minneapolis St Paul and Stillwater and threatening flour mills. Officials blame insufficient fall rains and loggers damming streams to float logs, worsening the deficiency of water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minn
Mississippi River
St. Paul
Stillwater
Police raid on rash of horse race commissions house
In St Louis detectives raided the Southern Telegraph and Money Order Co rooms amid alleged horse race commission activity. The crowded rooms were cleared with eight wagon loads of men taken to four courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Southern Telegraph and Money Order Co
Goat Attack Likely Fatal For Mattoon Woman
Mrs Henry Freize aged 70 wife of a Shelby county farmer was attacked by her pet goat while hanging clothes in her yard. She suffered a broken hip and severe shock, and doctors fear she may die from the injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mattoon, Ti
Henry Freize
Shelby County
Penitentiary Sentence for Abduction and Theft
Walter Cavanaugh convicted in Kansas City criminal court for forcing Daisy Wheeler a 17 year old to steal 1200 dollars from her widowed mother and flee with him to Chicago. He received a five year penitentiary sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Walter Cavanaugh
Daisy Wheeler
Chicago
Miners Arrested in Indiana Riot Probe
Vincennes Indiana December 7 three coal miners Thomas Dant Thomas Hefty and Samuel Price were arrested on charges of inciting a riot and attacking non union miners at Prospect Hill coal mine two weeks ago in which two men were nearly beaten to death. Seventeen others are in jail or held on warrants as investigators pursue a larger raid plan involving dozens more miners from Montgomery Washington Petersburg and Princeton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincennes
Ind
Thomas Dant
Thomas Hefty
Samuel Price
Prospect Hill
Montgomery
Washington
Petersburg
Princeton
Laporte Man In Critical Mirth Spell
Bert Flegel of Westville, Laporte County, is in critical condition after a severe spell of uncontrollable laughter starting Thursday. Doctors say the prolonged mirth tore rib membranes and caused internal complications likely to prove fatal, with the patient enduring extreme suffering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laporte
Ind
Bert Flegel
Westville
Flegel
James W Sansberry Dies In Anderson Banker And Lawyer
Anderson Indiana mourns the death of James W Sansberry after a months long illness. Sansberry, a prominent lawyer and banker, served as prosecuting attorney in 1854, was a presidential elector in 1864, and sat in the Indiana legislature in 1870.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson
Ind
James W. Sansberry
Sansberry
Indiana
Robbery charge leads to jail of three in Indianapolis
Maud King Belle Johnson and Gee Foltz are jailed in Indianapolis on investigation of a claim by King that Johnson robbed her and hid the money on Foltz's clothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Maud King
Belle Johnson
Gee Foltz
King
Foltz
Infant abandoned near Van Buren adopted by Marion family
A few months old girl baby abandoned by a man and woman near Van Buren twelve miles north has been adopted by Mrs. Wm. Ellison in Marion. Authorities are searching for the abandoning pair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Ind
van Buren
Wm. Ellison
Love Letter Reaches Indiana Pastor for Prayer
A Cincinnati damsel writes Rev P M Kendall of Flora First Christian asking prayers to win her lover. In Terre Haute Bert J DeWees 24 a city engineer draftsman killed himself with strychnine after a drunken arrest, shame and mortification blamed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flora, Ind
P. M. Kendall
Cincinnati
H. M. Kendall
First Christian Church
Flora
Ind
Terre Haute
Bert J. DeWees
Local settler John R. Shoup dies of heart failure
Rochester Indiana reports the death of John R. Shoup an 73 year old early settler and leading Presbyterian church member who collapsed and died while walking up town on December 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
Ind
John R. Shoup
Presbyterian Church
Jane Toppan Indicted for Triple Murder in Ca taumet
Miss Jane Toppan indicted by the Barnstable grand jury for the alleged murders of Mrs. Mary E. Gibbs Alden P. Davis and Mrs. Genevieve A. Gordon at Ca taumet Massachusetts in July and August this year. Four counts to each indictment charge use of morphine atropine and an unknown poison.
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Barnstable
Mass
Jane Toppan
Mary E. Gibbs
Alden P. Davis
Genevieve A. Gordon
Cataumet
Martial law in Alabama as mob violence feared
In Montgomery on December 7 a Sheriff reported a mob from Opp planned to lynch 25 Negro detainees in Andalusia over the Dorsey and Atkinson killings. Troops were dispatched from Greenville and martial law imposed to guard the prisoners and quell rioting. A posse near Opp killed three unnamed Negroes. another Black man near Opp killed himself to escape capture.
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Montgomery
Ala
Bradshaw
Covington County
Jelks
Opp
Andalusia
J. W. Dorsey
Fate Atkinson
Greenville
Gamble
Train Plunges Over Bluff. Two Die Near Frazer River
A Canadian Pacific freight train on a slow eastward run along a steep curve 400 feet above the Frazer river plowed into a rock slide 50 yards ahead. Despite a signal and brake reversal, the engine and fireman died as the locomotive rolled 300 feet down the slope. Randall and Petruff were killed. three cars went over the bank.
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Vancouver
B. C
Canadian Pacific
Frazer River
Randal
Randall
Petruff
Soldier punished for cider intoxication disapproved
Washington General Brooke in the Department of the East disapproved a court martial sentence for Private John W. Donovan of the Coast Artillery who drank cider from the post exchange and was convicted of drunkenness on duty at Fort McPherson Georgia. The case saw a three months confinement and $20 forfeiture reversed. In Kansas City Father Anthony Politeo wed Mrs Eva M. Springsteen known as Mrs Fair in St Joseph Missouri on November 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Brooke
Department of the East
Post Exchange
John W. Donovan
16Th Company, Coast Artillery
Fort McPherson
Kansas City
Anthony Politeo
St. John the Baptist
Kan
St. Joseph
Eva M. Springsteen
Fair
Anti-Trust Measures Considered by House Members
Washington December 7 reports several anti trust measures introduced in the house. One proposal by Mr Ball of Texas calls for a nine member special committee to report an anti trust bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Ball
Texas
Consolidation forms Red Jacket Coal and Coke Co in Thacker field
Roanoke Virginia December report notes the consolidation of coal mines along the Norfolk and Western line into Red Jacket Coal and Coke Co with 2.4 million dollars in stock. The company acquires Red Jacket Logan Rutherford Lick Fork and Maritime mines in the Thacker field West Virginia, controlling about 6000 acres and producing Red Jacket coal at up to one million tons yearly. Separately in San Francisco, Eastern capitalists organize a lighting and power combine with 30 million dollars capitalization to serve Southern California and Sacramento.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke
Folk & Western. Railway
Thacker Field
New. Company
Virginia
Red Jacket Coal and Coke Co
Red Jacket
Thackerfield
West Virginia
San Francisco
California
Sacramento
Ottawa River skating tragedy claims Blair and Harper
Miss Bessie Blair daughter of A G Blair minister of railways and canals and H A Harper assistant editor of the Labor Gazette were drowned in the Ottawa River after breaking through ice at a swift section while skating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ont
Bessie Blair
A. G. Blair
H. A. Harper
Labor Gazette
Watterson Praises Lincoln In University Talk
In Ann Arbor on December 7 Col. Henry Watterson of Louisville Kentucky eulogized Abraham Lincoln as the best friend the south ever had. The Southern club of the university hosted a banquet for him after the lecture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham Lincoln
Ann Arbor, Mich
Henry Watterson
Louisville
Students’ Lecture Association
Southern Club
University
Watterson
Rioting in Prague Amid Unemployment Crisis
Vienna telegraph report says thousands of starving unemployed riot in Prague daily as police deploy strong forces to maintain order. The note comes from a Daily Mail Vienna correspondent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Prague
Vienna
Daily Mail
Death of Gen Allen C Futler in Belvidere at 79
A. C. Fuller prominent in Illinois politics died at his Belvidere home aged 79. He leaves an estimated fortune of 1.8 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen C. Futler
Rockford
A. C. Fuller
Belvidere
Georgia Bank Robbed of 2500 in Atlanta
The Douglassville bank in Georgia was robbed of 2500 dollars and the bandits escaped on a stolen handcar. In Washington on the same date Col James N Whelan of the 12th Cavalry retired after serving as commander of the Texas department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia Bank
Atlanta
Douglassville
James N. Whelan
Washington
James N. Whelton
12Th Cavalry
Department of Texas
Market Reports from Cincinnati Chicago and Indianapolis
Market notes show grain prices for flour and wheat, including Winters patent and No 2 red wheat. Livestock values appear for Cincinnati Chicago and Indianapolis with ranges for cattle hogs sheep and lambs, plus small notes on calves, veals, and prices in East Buffalo and York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Chicago
Indianapolis
East Buffalo
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Philippine Agay
Pabtie
Apalachian Mountains
Bud Wilson
Maj. Velasco
Atblesville
J. E. Hughes & Co
Brown’s
Danville, Va
Strychnine
Tenty
Lea Virginia Corporation
Coal. and. Coke, Co
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