Hope Fades for Lost Paul Jones Vessel Crew
A report from New Orleans speculates the launch Paul Jones is lost with eight aboard near Breton or Bird Island. Wreckage washed ashore at the river mouth confirms the disaster. Lawrence Jones and Indianapolis mayor T. J. Taggact abandon hope after sailing from Scranton to Giant's Pass to search the Mississippi islands aboard Maud, lent by the U S Government.
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New Orleans
Uut
Paul Jones
Breton
Bird Island
Scranton
Miss
Lawrence Jones
T. J. Taggact
Indianapolis
Giant’s Pass
Maud
United States
Mississippi
Weston is Named to Succeed Ragan as Commissary General
Washington dispatch reports Col. John F. Weston has been selected to replace Ragan as Commissary General. Orders directing Weston to report to the Secretary of War were telegraphed from New York. Esterhazy reportedly granted safe conduct to testify before the Dreyfus court of cassation.
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Ragan
Washington
Fagan
Iis
Col
John F. Weston
New York
Secretary of War
Senate
Gen. Wagan
Esterhazy
Court of Cassation
Dreyfus
General Mercier
Mercier
Henry
Eight Hours for Miners Set Across Four States
The eight hour work day for coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois is agreed for the coming year starting April 1. The scale committee of operators and miners reached the decision after discussions over wage reductions and the missing swage issue.
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Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Bill to Reimburse Soldiers for War Expenses
Representative McCleary introduces a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to reimburse army and navy officers and men who served in the Spanish American War for necessary and reasonable medical leave expenses and medical supplies due to disabilities incurred in service. London Sensation reports a scandal involving Rev. Robert Eyton at Westminster Abbey. Fatal Sunset Limited wreck near Lacoste Station west of San Antonio leaves engineer and several others dead and twenty injured. The cruiser Newark to replace the Philadelphia and proceed to Samoa via the Straits of Magellan. Philadelphia to Samoa from San Diego.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCleary
Secretary of the Treasury
Army
Navy
United States
Spain
London
Robert Eyton
Westminster
Oscar Wilde
England
Kbyton
America
Lacoste Station
San Antonio
Texas
Philadelphia
Newark
Pacific Ocean
Straits of Magellan
Samoa
Sandiego
Cal
Admiral Schley Honored at Carnegie Music Hall
Admiral Schley was presented with a jeweled sword by his brother members of the Royal Arcanum at Carnegie Music Hall New York in the presence of 4000 people. Miners Select Indianapolis as next year’s meeting place for the United Mine Workers of America during their Pittsburgh convention.
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Admiral Schley
Royal Arcanum
Carnegie Music Hall
New York
Indianapolis
National Convention of the United Mine Workers of America
Pittsburgh
Indianano
Various 1900s Miscellaneous Obituaries and Notices
Frederick J. Jaithy, the “policy king of New York,” is dead at 60. Dr. Newell Dwight Willis is named to lead Plymouth Church Brooklyn. Willa Proctor Otis files bankruptcy in New York with liabilities of 1.2 million. D. T. Rose Co of New York assigns with estimated liabilities 70 thousand. Edward Holst, 55, composer, dies in New York from Bright’s disease, born in Copenhagen. Mrs. Minily Mosely dies at 101 in Utica. Receivers appointed for D. Holliday & Co, Baltimore, with assets 4132 thousand and liabilities 377 thousand. In Boston Thomas W. Lawson bids 100 thousand for an invention tied to his wife’s time and for Garr plants raised by Plerist Galvin. Captain A. Wilson Norris dies in Harrisburg. A wheel burst at Lorillard’s Jersey City factory kills James Delyney and Norah McCarthy. Harry Hickey and Maggie Dillon are injured. Michael Halinski, who strangled his wife and burned the house, commits suicide in Pittsburg jail. Hartwell & Richards Co., Providence robbers, goes into trustees. assets 300 thousand, liabilities 130 thousand, claims to be paid in full. A collision at Clenside, Pa between freight and locomotive causes cars to overturn. John Ruth dies in fire. New York Assembly adopts resolution allowing Governor to waive state pay claims for Spanish-American War volunteers.
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Frederick J. Jaithy
New York
Newell Dwight Willis
Central Church
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Willa Proctor Otis
D. T. Rose Company
Denier
Edward Holst
Bright
Copenhagen
Denmark
Minily
Mosely
Uiica
Ny Y
D. Holliday & Co
Tn Bostow
Thomas W. Laowson
Plerist Galvin
A. Wilson Norris
J. P. S. Gobin
Augusta
Harrisburg
Lorillard
Jersey City
James Delyney
Norah McCarthy
Harry Hickey
Maggie Dillon
Michael Halinski
Pittsburg
Hartwell & Richards Company
Providence
K 1
Philadelphia and
Reading
Clenside
John Ruth
New York Assembly
United States
Spain
Major 19th century incidents flood and deaths across towns
Obituaries note Nancy Greer Western 107 at Colorado Springs and Terman Beckman 79 in Cleveland. A Dawes County Neb. divorce grant. smallpox in Oklahoma Kickapoo. Yellowstone-like floods, dynamite blast in Wisconsin killing Fayette Meacham and injuring family. mines, trains and thefts across Kansas City to Oregon Short Line incidents. Yorktown sails to Manila via Honolulu and Guam.
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Nancy Greer
Colorado Springs
Terman Beckman
Ohio
Cleveland
Dawes County
Neb
Oklahoma
United States
Jacob N. Zook
Lawrence
Ken
Kansas City
Pittsfield
Wis
Fayette Meacham
Meacham
Yorktown
San Francisco
Manila
Honolulu
Guam
Baldwin
Sam Smith
Lamont
Okla
Emmet Allen
Hugh Breen
John Richardson
Boise
Idaho
Oregon
Mountain Home
Ohio Supreme Court
St. Joseph
J. S. Billings
Pinkerton Agency
James Gilmore
John Allen
Harry Howard
Ireat Northern
Minnesota
Swindles Tarnish Grain Deal Amid Rail and Bank Turmoil
Officials of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad were involved as grain mostly tied to the Hyde Elevator and W W Cargill companies. Bogus way bills diverted cars while a Cleveland fire killed Mrs Ved W Wisdel and grievously injured her husband, a Like Shore Railroad clerk. In Ohio, Scio College neared a long hoped endowment as an oil well began flowing 140 barrels, with brickwork rising across campus. William Martindale of Emporia Bank faced debt settlement by Maj. Calvin Hood after the bank failed with $500,000 owed. its president Charles S. Cross killed himself, having faked reports to the Comptroller.
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
Ohio
Mature
William Martindale
First National Bank of
Sandy Slope
Wereford Farm
Mmporia
Cross
Martindale
Tragic Drownings and Mob Action Reported
The item notes Simon Jennings and Samuel Jennings drowning in Cedar run near Curdsville New York. A wagon accident near the Washita river leads to the drowning of a wife and child and a young woman. Two Mormon elders are driven from their settlement by a mob in Clay County Kentucky. A clash with special officers in Scott County Virginia leaves two dead and two wounded. A colored movement led by John J Irvine seeks to colonize the South’s Negroes in the West with a charter filed and Congress asked to set aside western public lands for the colony. A branch aims to be in every Southern city.
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Curdsville
Daniel Jennings
Samuel
Cedar Run
Joe Bates
Mena
Ark
Washita River
Clay County
Joel Necessary
Charles Necessary
Will Freeman
Sam Duncam
William Vlannery
Scott County
Virginian
Hatfield
Pat Vlannery
Necessary
Freeman
Duncan
Flannerys
John J. Irvine
Chattanooga
Tenn
Congress
Navy and Philippine affairs move through Washington
The government refuses clothing for Nebraska troops returning from Manila. Commodore John W. Philip takes over the Brooklyn navy yard from Rear Admiral Bunce. John Russell Young, librarian of the congressional library, dies in Washington after weeks of illness. Agoncillo seeks independence and U S recognition at the State Department. Secretary Long orders Captain Leary to Guam as naval governor. A special commission to study Philippine conditions is named: Dewey Otis Denby Schurman Worcester.
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Nebraska
Manila
John W. Philip
Bunce
Brooklyn Navy Yard
John Russell Young
Congressional Library
Washington
Agoncillo
State Department
United States
Long
Leary
Sann Francisco
Isla
Guam
MacShinley
Philippines
Congress
Admiral Dewey
Otis
Charles Denby
J. G. Schurman
Cornell University
Dean C. Worcester
University of Michigan
Foreign news and political notes from the era
The report cites 1898 French trade figures, noting exports fell by 90 million and imports rose by 84 million. It recounts a South Dakota trooper mauled by a wealthy rival, a leprosy injection incident, a Spanish Cortes move to sell Pacific islands, a Boston debutante’s Vienna governess hire, and Constantinople buying Krupp guns and shells amid imperial policy shifts.
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William Tuapeer
South Dakota Volunteers
Lapeer
la Reforma
Cortes
Carolina
Pelew Islands
Spain
Stewart
Boston
Rosemont de Rouge
Aix
Vienna
Constantinople
William
Mixed early 20th century dispatches and crimes in Europe
Reports from London plus a naval collision of notes on Krupp guns and a seven year sentence for jewelry thief Larry the Valet with Lippmann. Also references a July 1808 Greenland Iceland sea flow sighting possibly Andree wreck debris and Prof Lachambre’s pole ascent claim with no safety certainty for three years.
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Paantagen
Greenland
Iceland
Andree
North Pole
Lachambre
Stockholm
International trust formed to control mills in US and England
The article notes a near formation of an international thread trust to absorb principal mills in the United States and England. It reports on Canada’s railways posting a net deficit of 212,460 dollars for the year and highlights a large 1898 US trade surplus of 621,260,595 dollars, with 264,146,710 dollars more than 1897. It also covers Klondike losses from ice jams, resettlement plans for Delaware and Cherokee tribes, and Dun & Co. on global finance and gold imports.
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United States
England
Canada
Brooke
Twavana
Department of Government
Domingo Mendez Capote
Department of Finance
Pablo Desgernine
Department of Justice and Public Instruction
Jose Antonio Gonzales Lamaza
Department of Agriculture, Industry, Commerce and Public Works
Adolfo Saenz Yacuz
Yukon River
Dawson
Fort Yukon
John Dobbins
Victoria
Sonora
Guadalajara
Durango
Lyons
Mexico
Diaz
R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
London
America
New York
Europe
Australia
San Francisco
Stock Exchange
Market Prices Across U.S. Cities for Hogs to Wheat
Market report lists commodities in multiple cities including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York. Cattle hogs sheep and grains such as wheat corn oats rye with varied price ranges and grade notes across each location.
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Chicago
Cohaice Creamery
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Cern
Senate Debates Nicaragua Canal Bill and Navy Personnel Measure
The Senate debated expansion policy and the Nicaragua canal bill with Dems Sullivan and Paseo weighing in. The House advanced the naval personnel bill unopposed, reshaping line and engineer ranks, retirement, and pay toward parity with the army. A state funeral for Nelson Dingley drew wide attendance and formalities. The day also featured votes on lighthouses subsidies, a Pacific Cable Company grant, and a contested Virginian district election ruling Swanson over Brown Swanson. The session closed amid further canal bill discussions and amendments.
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Senate
McLaurin
South Carolina
Sullivan
Mississippi
Paseo
Florida
House
Messrs
Loss
Hainais
Dayton
West Virginia
Berry
Kentucky
Driggs
New York
Dinsmore
Arkansas
Lowe
Simpson
Kansas
Nelson Dingley
House of Representatives
Reed
Diplomatic Corps
Anglo-American Commission
Dingley
Supreme Court
8. M. Newman
First Congregational Church of Washington
Couden
Navy
Engineer
Marine Corps
Nicaragua Canal
Chilton
Turcer
Wash
Spooamer
Wis
Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Pacific Cable Company
Corliss
Rep
Mich
Turner
Pop
Tuner
Senator Platt
Moruker
Foraker
Morgan
Allison
Caffery
Louisiana
Brown-Swanson
Swanson
Fast Southern
Kansas City
Newton
Kan
Platform collapses at Denver Bryan reception injuring many
A Denver reception for Bryan ended when a platform collapsed, plunging about 300 people into a crowd. Many attendees sustained injuries as responders rushed to assist at the scene.
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Denver
Bryan
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