Caloocan Capture and Malabon Shelling Reported
Gen Otis reports the Caloocan attack by MacArthur and Otis forces with naval support led to the insurgents being routed and calmed areas north of Caloocan. Casualties include several officers and enlisted men. heat and battle injuries rise as Malabon action nears. Aguinaldo is believed surrounded. fighting quiet Sunday along the line in Manila.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mantra
Monadnock
Charleston
Caloocan
Malabon
Washington
War Department
Otis
Maniua
Pasig River
Manila
Kansas Regiment
Hartley and Fitch
Minnesota Regiment
Mitchell
Elwell
Adm
Dewey
MacArthur
Barry
Harrison Gray Otis
Montana Regiment
3D Artillery
Manila-Dagupan
Bruce Wallace
2D Cavalry
Aguinaldo
Mania
Hong Kong
Skaters in Peril in Lake Michigan Rescue Efforts Fail
Sixteen skaters from Rogers Park and Lake Forest ventured onto Lake Michigan ice Sunday. Ten were rescued as searchers worked through the night for six missing companions including Attorney Elmer D. Brothers and niece Miss Orel Manney. Two youths from Lake Forest University, Chauncey Manney and George Mallory, are presumed drowned. three more, Sydney Morris, Charles Mobey, and a Sheffield Avenue policeman, are missing after aiding the rescue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curiaco
Rogers Park
Lake Forest
Lake Michigan
Elmer D. Brothers
Juther Laflin Mills
Orel Manney
Attorney Brothers
Chauncey Manney
George Mallory
Lake Forest University
Vontia
Guy Caron
St. Anne
Arthur Fletcher
Ravenswood Park
Rogers’ Park
Chicago
Ashland Avenue
Crothers
North Shore
Waukegan
Missng
Insane asylum blaze kills seventeen in Yankton cottage
A fire at the state asylum in Yankton gutted a basement laundry cottage, trapping 40 female patients and 12 attendants. With a 25 below zero night, escapes were hampered by plumbing and limited exits as 17 inmates perished and others fled in night attire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaga
Neb
Yankton
State Insane Asylum
Costly Chicago blaze destroys A.C. McClurg & Co. stock
A five story brick building at Wabash and Madison housing A C McClurg & Co. was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday. Loss estimated at 650000 with 500000 tied to stock. Fire began from a gas leak explosion on the third floor and spread rapidly. McClurg cataloged one of the nation’s largest rare book and manuscript stocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuiiaco
Wabash Avenue
Madison Street
A.C McClurg & Co
McClurg & Co
Manhattan Brass Co
East 28Th Street
New York
United States Transport
Grant
Manila
Lawton
4Th
United States Regular Infantry
R. H. Hall
17Th Infantry
Maj. Rogers
Port Said
D. R. Francis
St. Louisans
Washington
Louisiana Purchase Territory
Agnes Neuner
Dante Alley
John W Neuner
Dewey Declines Presidential Nomination
Admiral Dewey says he will not seek the presidency under any circumstances. In a letter to a friend he cites training on other lines and an temperament unsuited to the strain, asking supporters not to consider a candidacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adm
Dewey
Wasmacton
Verdict Secured for Five Thousand in Danville Case
Mrs. Mary Montgomery won a $5,000 verdict against Attorney A. R. Hill of Danville for falsely claiming he secured a divorce. She had remarried before discovering the deception. The second brief notes Tom Devereaux, a drug clerk at Atchinson's in Cocaine Lonpoy, accidentally died after swallowing cocaine during a tooth treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville, NL
Mary Montgomery
A. R. Hill
Danville
Lonpoy, O
Tom Devereaux
Atchinson’s
Colson Wounded in Kentucky Regiment Pitched Battle
A late night clash in Atlanta between Col. David G. Colson and First Lieut. E. D. Scott of the 4th Kentucky flared into a pitched fight at a mam moth restaurant. Colson was shot in the hip. Scott and others escaped serious injury as provost guards intervened and Colson was disarmed. The 4th Kentucky regiment was mustered out on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Anniston
Ala
David G. Colson
E. D. Scott
4Th
Kentucky Regiment
Colson
Scott
Mammoth
Percy Olmstead
Lieut
Lieut. Blakeman
Col. Colson
Lieuts
McKay
Phelps
4Th Wisconsin
Col
Fire at South Pearl Street destroys New Albany business
A Sunday morning fire on South Pearl Street New Albany New York destroyed business property valued at 250000 dollars. The blaze is part of a series of dramatic weather and disaster notes collected in the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Street
New Albany
N. Y
Mercury
Palomer
Col
Gale Batters British Isles Prompting Floods and Losses
A severe gale across Lonpox on Saturday and Sunday brings floods across Britain. Rivers overflowed, railways submerged, and coast casualties were reported including a drowning at Newport Monmouthshire. Seawalls damaged on Isle of Wight and a coal lighter sank near Cromer with five drowned. Arno lost with thirteen crew missing, survivors rescued. boat damage hampered lifeboats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lonpox
British Islands
Newport
Monmouthshire
Ryde
Sandown
Isle of Wight
Cromer
Norfolk
Nab
Southsea
Weehawken Brings 25 Bulgaria Passengers From Hamburg
The British tank steamer Weehawken arrives with 25 passengers from the Bulgaria which is drifting 800 miles from the Azores. No word on the fate of remaining passengers. In Washington, the naval committee estimates the naval bill at just over 45 million dollars including 11 million for first year ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurania
New York
Queenstown
Liverpool
London
Bulgaria
Azores
Napoleon Charles Gregoire Jacques Phillippia Bonaparte
Lucien Bonaparte
Canino
Bonaparte
Rome
Ponia Prt
Gaba
Azores Islands
Weehawken
Casey
Philadelphia
Hubl
Schmidt
Hamburg
Washington
House Naval Committee
Pool to unite sash and blind factories across the nation
Osuxkosh Wisconsin reports a major new pool to embrace nearly all sash door and blind factories in the United States. The venture will be launched in New York on Tuesday with capital measured in the millions of dollars and aims to coordinate production and standards nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osuxkosh
Wis
United States
New York
Market Report Highlights Grain and Livestock Prices in Cincinnati and Chicago
Cincinnati markets show spring patent and fancy flour ranges, mixed corn and oats sales, and varied hog cattle and sheep quotes including several grade distinctions. Chicago futures list wheat, corn, oats with February to July contractions and price notes across contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Northwestern
Chicago
In Defense of the People Ways and Means Campaign
A Democratic National Committee appeal announces a Ways and Means Committee to fund the 1900 campaign. It urges subscriptions of one dollar per month through October 1900, lists organizers and offices in Chicago, and warns against moneyed interests opposing reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friends of Our Cause
National Democratic Committee
National Democratic Gold Standard Committee
George F. Peabody
New York
Indianapolis
H. H. Hanna
Bankers’ Organization
Williams Street
National Republican Committee
Mark Hanna
Union Trust Company Bank
Dearborn
Madison Streets
Chicago
Seasion
W. H. Harvey
Ways and Means Committee
Unity Building
America
James K. Jones
Democratic National Committee
WM. J. Stone
Mizcouri
John P. Altgeld
Clinola
James E. Jones
Arkansas
Missouri
Illinois
Wm. V. Allen
Nebraska
Henry M. Teller
Colorado
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Ben. Aguinaldo
John A. Gibbons
Hospital Corps
Alonzo Rickets
20Th
Kansas Infantry
Fred Viali
1St
Montana Volunteer Infantry
First
R. B. Wallace
Thomas Maloy
Seth H. Dibble
Everett Metcalf
Joseph Crafer
Wm. J. Borthwick
Clarence Briggs
W. L. Hill
Henry G. Reynolds
John Bulan
Joseph W. Kennedy
C. B. Belon
Babcock
Carl J. Peterson
John W. Campbell
Third
United States Artillery
Oscar Portwich
Jerremy R. Cleveland
Leo Hasler
Tert M. Dorton
David C. McKelvey
Jerry Cramer
James Leonard
Rufus BK. Blume
Twentieth
Kansas Volunteer Infantry Corp
Edward D. Willing
Harrys. Harris
James 8. Mills
David M. Horkman
L. J. Howard
Elmer E. Unie
William C. Barber
Bert Lanson
First Idaho Volunteer Infantry
James R. Willard
Thirteenth
Minnesota Volunteer Infantry
Ben Ohtan
Co. L
A. C. McClurg & Co
D. G. Colson
Kentucky
Texas
Philips
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Capt
Sigsbee
Silver Plume
Legation
Paris
Lien-Young
Friday
House Commerce Committee
Revenue Cutter Service
Army
Navy
Chicago Consolidated Traction Co
Springfield
Nilsson Hall
East 15Th Street
Fort Bragg
Cal
John Boyle
Geo. Headiner
Nabight
British Coast
Naval
Market Report
Post Office
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