Ostrich Farm Visit and Arctic Iceberg Reports
An excerpt describes Lilian Bell praising ostriches near Cairo with curious eyes and courtly manners, noting their “conscience” and amusing behavior. Separately, the Montreal Herald reports icebergs in Belle Isle straits affecting shipping, including a 75 mile long berg seen by the Parisian captain with ice extending far offshore.
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Lilian Bell
Cairo
Bawan
Straits of
Belle Isle
Strait of Belle Talo
Ocean
Brown
Montreal
Montreal Herald
Porto Rico Devastated. 500 Bodies Recovered After Great Hurricane
Cable reports Porto Rico struck by a deadly hurricane with Yanco as the hardest hit. Five hundred bodies recovered. rivers overflowed destroying towns including Talinboo and Junuadios. Only churches remain standing as destitution and destruction spread islandwide.
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Poxer
Porto Rico
Yanco
Port Rico Hurricane Deaths and Relief Request
General Davis reports extreme destruction across Porto Rico after a hurricane with interior devastation and widespread destitution. He seeks authority to distribute food and requests 3.5 million pounds of rice and beans to be shipped to Ponce and San Juan. The War Department orders the McPherson to transport relief supplies and Weston buys 600,000 pounds each of rice and beans for shipment.
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Waanixoron
D. C
War Department
Davis
Porto liMoo
San Juan
Andenya
Ponce
Rioe
Bonns
Hevera
Mayaguez
Porto Rico
McPherson
New York
Porto Meo
Weston
War Department Reads Need for Aid After Porto Rico Storm
Government advices describe widespread devastation in Porto Rico with one quarter of towns reached, one tenth destroyed homes, and thousands homeless. Secretary Root asks governors to raise funds for relief and food shipments. General Davis notes rail and telegraph destruction, forestalling recovery for weeks or months.
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J. C
Apecind
Porto Rico
War Department
Root
Avis
Ban Joan
Fenits
Wan
Washington
Distrasa
Dobria
Lenat
Thave
McPherson I
Tahall
Hofer
Board of Relief
War Department assigns Sanger to Cuba census
The Secretary of War orders a Cuba census to finish by January 1 1900 with General Joseph P Sanger in charge from Havana. Cuba customs seek aid to halt widespread smuggling and organize a secret service. Various other items include appointments, statues for Statuary Hall, a death by marriage writer, and local incidents.
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United States
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Logal Citizens’ Committee
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Washington
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Kalver
Mumoyou Schwartzenstein
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Root
Fort Gibbon
Maryland
Capitol
Alize
Charlena Carrollton
John Hanson
New York City
Baltimore
Boston
Maine
Massachusetts
Mra
Ellen Knight Bradford
Koma Note
Tndead
J. H. Bradford
Dreyfus Advocate Labori Shot on Route to Court
Maltee Labori the noted Dreyfus advocate was wounded while walking to the Lyces court marshal building. A young assailant fled, pursued by Colonel Picquart and others. Doctors report the bullet hit the right thorax and the motive remains debated as conspirators and anti-Dreyfus factions react.
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Plequart
M. Laborl
Dreyfus
Halieve
Labort
France
Tfa Wall
Bia
Mercier
Itfa
Picquart
Lu- Dori
Eastwood Murders Two Then Flees Toward East Middlebury
In Mipprenuny Vermont a man named Eastwood killed his wife and her mother in East Middlebury before returning to town and fatally shooting Frank Poon. He then wounded the wife and grazed her head, fled toward East Middlebury, and sought E D Brown before escaping.
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William ¥. Carson
Caumdun County
Bolmar
N. J
Alfred Steets
Everett
Masa
Board of Health
Thomas Short
Lear
Harpersfold
Thomas Honnihan
Chiccago
Cornell University
James G. Woodward
Atinota
McKewsa
Jackson
Bridgeport
Robinson
Savage
Union County
Tennessee
William Savage
Jack” Robinson
Thomas Martin
Marlow
Martin
Walter M. Sarrowa
Seconda Congregational Church
Greenwich
Loulaville
Evangelat
F. B. Bundt
Stresta
Millbury
Mass
E. D Brown
East Middlebury
Mr. Brown
Eastwood
Pensions Granted for Spanish-American War Wounds and Deaths
The Pension Office reports 299 pensions awarded for gunshot wounds and permanent disability with 20 widows and soldiers alive on the rolls after two deaths. Claims filed total 17,000. General information only on additions to the pension rolls. Congress previously resisted publishing the rolls.
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Wasmisatoy
D. C
Busbande
Congress
Oracle Implements of Chinese Farmers in New York
Chinese farmers within New York City limits shun American plows and spades, preferring traditional long bamboo hoes and a three–pronged fork. The piece contrasts rural farming tools with modern bicycling advice from Edward T. Borman in Ladies' Home Journal and recalls Stevenson’s boyish prank of break‑in into a deserted Edinburgh house, followed by a panic under a bed.
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New York City
Edward TB. Worman
Ladies’ Home Journal
Stevenson
Chambers
Edinburgh
Ife
Commodore Perry’s Battle Echoes Reached Cleveland
The text recalls Perry’s naval victory with heavy guns heard from Cleveland about sixty miles distant. Settlers awaited renewal, heard the guns, and a lone observer proclaimed they were whipped after hearing the distant roar. The account frames the moment as a grateful nation’s moment.
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Commodore Perry
Cleveland
Perry
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