Wright Act Upheld In Irrigation Taxation Case
The U S Supreme Court sustains California Wright irrigation law and upholds taxation of property for irrigation works in Fall Brook and Modesto district cases. Decision affects semi arid region and bonds issued by irrigation districts. Justice Peckham announced the ruling and case implications for due process and property taxation.
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
Wright Irrigation Law
California
United States Circuit Court
Fall Brook Irrigation Company
Maria King Bradley
Rocky Mountain
Coast
Arid
Harrison
Peckham
Supreme Court
State of California
Fall Brook Irrigation District
Modesto District
All Brook
Federal Circuit Court
Modesta
California Supreme Court
MISS WILLARD GAIN PRESIDENT OF W C T U
The 23d annual national convention of the W C T U elected officers for the coming year in Music hall Chicago with Frances E. Willard of Illinois as president and officers from Illinois Massachusetts Missouri Maine Kentucky and Kentucky reappointed. All received ovations and bouquets.
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Tet. Sr. Louis
Schuyler Memorial House
Music Hall
Willard
Stevens
Wilbur Crafts
Washington
Chicago
Frances E. Willard
Illinois
Katharine Lente Stevenson
Massachusetts
Clara C. Hoffman
Allerton's Friends Withdraw Resolution at Farmers Congress
In Indianapolis on November 13 the farmers congress opened with a memorial address urging tariff protections and farm aid. Samuel W. Allerton of Chicago faced opposition as friends withdrew a second resolution backing him for secretary of agriculture amid strong behind the scenes interests.
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Anerton
Indianapolis
Farmers’ Congress
Congress
Farmers’ National Congress
National Wool. Growers’ Association
Washington, D. C
Clayton
St. Paul
Friends
Samuel W. Allerton
Chicago
Allerton
Venezuela to Seek Arbitration on Boundary Dispute
It is understood that Venezuela will empower its plenipotentiary to sign with the British plenipotentiary a treaty referring the boundary dispute to arbitration. The treaty is expected to be signed in Washington. In Madrid Premier Canovas del Castillo says there have been serious reverses in Cuba but the national spirit remains undaunted.
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London
Venezuela
Washington
New York
The
Herald
Madrid
Canovas del Castillo
Cuba
Supreme Court Takes a Recess Ro November 17
The Supreme Court recesses with the term paused and a note of tentative dates for return. The report mentions a Nov 17 timeframe as part of the ongoing session schedule.
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Suprem Court
The
Supreme
Trade Review notes steady business and rising employment
Bradstreet s Trade Review reports steady gains across nearly all lines with the strongest demand in dry goods, clothing, millinery, leather, hardware and industrial sectors. About 80,000 jobs added since Nov 6 amid wage and price shifts, while printcloths rise and wool and wheat prices move.
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New York
Bradstreet
South States
Iowa Returns From Trial Trip With Strong Engine Power
The battleship Iowa has completed builder's trials off the Delaware capes. A two hour burst averaged 16.27 knots at 112 revolutions, exceeding contract speed. Forced draught and heavy seas limited performance, with engines producing about 11,000 horsepower, about 1,800 more than Indiana during its official trial.
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Philadelphia
Iowa
Delaware Capes
Avas
Indiana
Puritan Schooner Wrecked Off Vancouver Island
A Port Townsend dispatch says the schooner Puritan from San Francisco bound for Port Gamble to load haber was wrecked on Point Bonilla Vancouver Island Friday night. The vessel is a total loss and the crew of about 12 men is in doubt.
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San Francisco
Merchants’ Exchange
Port Townsend
Walch
Port Gamble
Haber
Point Bonilla
Vancouver Island
Tsane
Parker
Fort Smith
Ark
Chicago
Ickels
Indianapolis National Bank
Indianapolis
National Bank of
Miles City
Mont
Puritan
Fort Gamble
Fort Leavenworth
Mustarelli
Kansia City
Mark Hannyn
Union Club of
Cleveland
Cardinal Gibbons
Christ
H. W
Trippett
General Merchandise
Washahatchie
Tex
Jockey Nutt
Jockey Club
Holden
Lick Observatory
Denmark
Rome
Elvira
Don Carlos
Jolehn
Iman
Key
Des Moines
Willard McKay
Washington, D. C
National Grange
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
St. Louis
Price of Wheat Falls in Chicago Market Decline
Wheat closed lower amid broad liquidation as corn oats and provisions also slipped. Devise and May futures weakened with Dec pork and lard and rib prices easing. cash quotes showed No 2 red and No 2 corn demand easing alongside weaker oats.
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Waicago
Cattle Hogs and Sheep Prices at South Omaha Market
Cattle receipts 270 steady with ranges for native beef steers 3.65 to 4.70 and Texas steers near 2.25 to 2.50. hogs 4200 head down with heavy 3.05 to 3.93 and light 4.20 to 5.25. sheep 100 steady with natives 2.75 to 3.50 and lambs 4.50 to 9.00.
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South Omaha
Louih Omawa
Texas
Chicago Live Stock Market Report With Mixed Prices
Hog receipts reach 28 000 with slow trading and weaker quotes. Lightweight pigs bring 3.15 to 3.45 dollars, mixed 3.10 to 3.45, heavy 4.00 to 4.40, rough 2.15 to 63.0. Cattle receipts 7 300 dull and weak with steers and cows 1.00 to 23.00, Texas and westerns noted. Total receipts mention 14 000 for another category with quiet, weak trade.
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Chicago
Ohicago
Texas
Happenings From Home and Abroad Abridged News
A wide scan of global and domestic notes: Rev Burke missing in Montana mountains. Mark Hanna returns from New York to Cleveland. Dr G H Castle wins Seventh district California by 90 votes. delegates contest elections. liquor cases in Kansas. Norfolk & Western deal valued at 110000. a young woman’s body found near St Joseph. Kruger seeks indemnity over Jameson raid. Castilho denial on Cuba war end. China Formosa offer claim. local quarrel ends in fatal stabbing. glass prices rise. a fatal fire incident in Chicago area. many political legal and social notes across cities.
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Mr. Burke
Montana
Mark Hanna
New York
Cleveland
G. H. Castle
Willian
W. Bowers
California
Catron
Perguson
Congress
New Mexico
Judge Foster
Fort Scott
Kan
Kansas City
Kansas
Scioto Valley
Norfolk & Western
Reorganization Committee of
St. Joseph
Asylum For the Insane
Kruger
South Africa Company
del Castilho
Cuba
London
China
Formosa
England
Japan
George Riggs
John Gardner
Lincoln
O.T
Riggs
Gardner
Chicago
John Nooman
University of Michigan
Michiganensian
W. Johnson
Kas
Dozens Die Across States In Tragic News Slideshow
A roundup of deaths and disasters from coast to coast. A Pittsburg man dies laughing at a science event in St Louis, a woman’s skeleton found at St Joseph fairgrounds, a newborn corpse found in Sedalia, a horse kills Arthur Porter in Youkon, and a Maplesville wife fatally shoots her husband. Other items include a Milwaukee heir scam, 1892 murder suspect captured in Memphis, a Philadelphia man’s suicide, a burglary firefight in Elba, a San Francisco food inspection bureau, Alaskan mining output surge, a double death at Yonkers, and multiple highway tragedies in Russiaville and Kokomo.
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James Thornton
Pittsburg
St. Louis
St. Joseph
Binohe
Sedalia
Arthur Porter
Wichita
Kay
Youkon
C. Tl
George White
Maplesville
Ala
Princeton
Indiana
P. B. Sullivan
Milwaukee
Will Holloway
Benjamin F. Holmes
Memphis
Enn
Chicago
John H. Hubbard
Philadelphia
W. Hundermark
Elba
N.Y
Stevens
San Francisco
B. Winehart
Alaska Mining Board
Seattle
Wash
Peter Gulick
Mary EK. Gullick
Trenton
N. J
Yonkers
Somers Point
Catholic Knights of of America
Fort Wayne
Ind
Russiaville
George Nemick
Thomas
Chicago & Alton Yards
S, Johnson
B. Smith
Hatte Gap
Ark
Porter
Maggie Anderson
Kokomo
Multiple cases and events reported in scattered notices
Concise summary of various items including a Chicago murder confession by Charles Nelson before Judge Clifford, the death of A. G. Donovan on a Big Four train near Momence Wisconsin and shipment of his body to Cincinnati, New York post office motorcycle mail collection proposal, Leo Wagenmann dumping 465 barrels of beer into a river, attorney Charles Brooke suing for fees after an acquittal of Mrs M A L Fleming, John Fock’s violent acts after discovering infidelity, re election of M E Ingalls and J D Lang as Big Four officers, Brush Electric works moving from Cleveland to Lynn Massachusetts, Oregon and California railway case in supreme court, land values near Portland, suffragists Susan B Anthony and Rev Anna Shaw in session at Kansas City, Ohio soft coal railroads tariff restoration.
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Charles Nelson
Chicago
Clifford
A A. G. Donovan
Momence
Cincinnati
New York
Leo Wagenmann
Kalamazoo
Mich
Charles Brooke
M. A. L. Fleming
John Fock
Trafton
Wis
M. E. Ingalls
J. D. Lang
Brush Electric Company
Cleveland
Lynn
Mass
Oregon
California
Supreme Court
Portland
Ers
Kansas City
Susan B. Anthony
Anna Shawe
Ohio
Notable 19th Century Dispatches From Nov 18
A crowded page reports on political indictments and appointments from across the US. Items include Stephen W. Little releasing financials for Baltimore and Ohio, William C. McCreery named internal revenue collector for St. Louis, and Captain John D. Hart indicted in Philadelphia for aiding Cuban insurgents.
Hanna Visits McKinley in Canton for First Meet
National Chairman Hanna arrives in Canton with General Osborn to meet President elect McKinley. They travel by Valley road and are greeted at the depot before going to the McKinley home for luncheon, marking their first meeting with the future president.
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Hanna
McKinley
Canton
Valley Road
General Osborn
Cleveland
Elect McKinley
Hide
Elect
Morton Reports $2 Million Back In Treasury
Secretary Morton’s annual report will claim he has covered back into the treasury $2,000,000 of the agricultural department appropriation over four years, about $500,000 yearly, addressing calamity claims and arguing farm debt is concentrated in 28 percent of farms with most mortgages in the North Atlantic states led by New Jersey.
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Treasury
Secreta Morton
Agricultural Department
North Atlantic
New Jersey
Bryan Delivers First Lincoln Speech Since Election
William J. Bryan spoke at Funke opera house in Lincoln Nebraska delivering a keynote on free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver. He was met by a crowded audience and flanked by local supporters including the Lincoln Bimetallic club Traveling Men's Bryan club and the Bryan Home Guards.
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Laxcoln
Neb
Lincoln Bimetallic Club
Men’s Bryan Club
Bryan Home Guards
William J. Bryan
Bryan
Funke Opera House
Lincoln
Opera House
Bohanan
Famine Ship Charters Reported From New York for Cork and Australia
Negotiations proceed for an 18,000 quarter steamer to load grain in New York for Cork with Bombay direct. Bombay rate set at 8 shillings per quarter. Ships have bought 80,000 bushels of corn and 60,000 bushels of oats, plus 240,000 bushels of No. 1 hard Duluth wheat for prompt Australia shipment. A flour cargo is also under negotiation. The actions confirm famine reports in India and a short Australian crop.
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York
Cork
Bombay
Australia
India
Nail Trust Likely to Drop Prices and Challenge Competitors
A Cleveland observer familiar with the wire nail trust predicts a price drop soon. He says a price of 1.15 dollars could allow the trust to profit by using its own wire, while smaller mills buying wire would struggle to compete and may be driven from the field.
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Cleveland
Wire Nail Trust
Bismarck Revelations Stir German Russian Tensions
Vienna dispatch quotes Neue Freie Presse stating Bismarck pleased with revelations on Germany Russia relations before 1870s. French nerves rise over Russia support making war danger seem imminent. McKinley attends autumn drive with Webb C Hayes in Ohio.
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Lennox
Vienna
The
Times
Neue Freie Presse
Bismarck
Germany
Russia
Northwest Floods Cut Seattle Off From Outside World
Rain drenches the northwest for 72 hours with Willamette flooding lowlands. Rivers run high and washouts damage railways and telegraph. Seattle is entirely cut off except by boat to Tacoma.
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Seattle
Port Lane
Willamette River
Tacoma
Snohomish River Flood Reaches New High Mark
The Snohomish River in Everette Washington breaks all previous records, running about two feet higher than any prior year. The flood has breached banks and cut a new course across the countryside while continuing to rise. Ranchers in bottom lands face significant, but undetailed, losses.
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Everettt
Wash
Snohomish
Amateur Record Set on Denver Wheel Club Track
New World's Amateur Record report from Denver notes O B Hachenberger's brother A Hib Hachenberger set a world amateur mark on the Denver Wheel Club track riding 25 tires unpaced in 1 hour 4 minutes 20 seconds. Previous Lean of Butta 1206-30 is cited as a prior record.
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Denver
Hachenberger
O. B. Hachenberger
Butta
Hach
Papers A Week Becomes Thrice a Week Tribune Ad
The Twice-a-Week New York World becomes thrice weekly at old price. It offers 18 pages per week for one dollar yearly, six pages per issue eight columns wide. The Triton and Dillon Tribune offer special terms for advance annual subscriptions.
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New York
Triton
Newspaper choice offered with World subscription
If the New York World is unwanted, readers may choose from several papers including Inter Ocean weekly Toledo Blade weekly The Ladies Home Journal Cincinnati Enquirer weekly Sheep and Wool weekly Boston Traveler semi weekly San Francisco Chronicle weekly plus options Cosmopolitan Magazine 25 cents extra.
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N. Y. World
Inter Ocean
Toledo Blade
The
Ladies’ Home Ideal
Cincinnati Enquirer
Sheep and
Boston Traveler
San Francisco Chronicle
Cosmopolitan Magazine
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Seissuine
Miss Willard
Didine
National Farmers’ Congress
Clay
Gordon
Pettus
Pugh
Atlanta
Alexander Stephens Clay
Cobb County
Democratic State Executive Committee
State Senate
United States
John B. Gordon
Democratic Legislative Caucus
Howell
Lewis
Norwood
Walsh
Garard
Montgomery
B. W. Pettus
Senator Pugh
Oates
Pettis
Trade Review
P Puristan
Columus
Witkins ‘Land
Paducah
G. H. Gould
Great Bend
League
John Overton
Louisville
Joseph Wyckoff
Grossberg, Wyckoff & Lipson
Switzerland
Pioda
Caribbean Fruit Company
New Orleans
Biluefields
W. M. Hindman
Normal Park Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church
Lincoln, Neb
W. J. Bryan
Gormally & Jeffries
Metal Polishers' Union
Henry ‘Mhomis
Jacob Sherrer
Stephen W. Little
Baltimore and Ohio
William C. McCreery
John D. Hart
Henry L. Haupt
New York City
Butte, Mont
Ke, Hill & Co
Brooklyn
Frank Funston
Funston
Wanamaker
Pennsylvania
J. Donald Cameron
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Scott Jackson
Alonzo Walling
Pearl Bryan
A. EK. Avery
Tahlequah
I.T
Buff Wiley
Wiley
Steve” Clay
Democratic
United States Senate
General Assembly of Georgia
George Meyers
Cushing
C. T
Charley Duke
Joseph Ewing
Limestone
Cooney
Fox
Cronin
Lawrence
Leedy
Paul B. Larne
Century Club
Martin Silver
Boston
Stephen Aes
Harrodsburg
United States Navy
Alliance, O
George Bender
Ida Grove
Morton
McKinley Mitertains
Webby. Hayes
Canto, O
Webb C. Hayes
Hayes Espace Ese Mc.Kinley
M. E. Church
Helena
Jae
Butte
Minneapolis
Duluth
Fargo
Grand Forks
Winnipeg
Puget
Hamilton
Missoula
Philipsburg
Garrison
Northern Pacific
M. U
Puget Sound Mail
Pacific Coast
Biscageeenes
Twin City Mail
M.U. No
Garrison Express
M. U. Depot
M. U. No
Garrison V Express
Hlr
Whitehall
Morris and Pony
Charles 8
General Pane
Paul
Minn
Spokane
Poindexter & Orr, Dillon, Beaverhead Co
Aguas
Diacktall
Deer Creek Valley
New York World
Scientific American
Atauts, Copymants. Co
Mann & CO
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