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Newspaper
Emmet County Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1901
Page
10
Historic America’s Cup race reports Columbia defeating Shamrock in a tight finish amid shifting NW winds off New York. Despite Shamrock leading for large stretches, Columbia’s late surge, weather conditions, and skilled crew effort secured a dramatic victory and possession of the cup.
A confused historical tale from Narrows township Missouri recounts Mark Summers a Confederate veteran discovering his wife had a lover. The story stitches in themes from Tennyson and a dramatic past while noting local gossip and a series of marriages following his departure. The record also mentions church and rail headlines, a European voyage, and a coal ship incident.
Court activity outlines a week of testimony in the inquiry into the San tiago action. Admiral Sampson and Commander Rodgers are central. testimonies cover dispatch wording, coal calculations, ship movements, and battery observations with focus on the May 31 bombardment and the Brooklyn Oregon actions.
J D W Elesten of South Dakota Agricultural College told the Sioux Falls farmers congress that private effort has failed on Western arid lands. He urged a ten year $15 million federal appropriation, noting $500 million collected from western land sales since 1875, and said only the general government can solve the problem. He urged the congress to press Congress for action.
The anniversary of the Y8GS revolution was celebrated in Madrid and other towns. In Barcelona a 2nd meeting of about 40,000 Republicans and Socialists saw crowds lay a wreath at Prim’s monument, clashes with police, and police fired after stones. Three demonstrators and two officers were wounded. Old papers for sale also noted.
The article recalls fifty years since the America won the Queen s cup in the 1851 Isle of Wight race. Commodore John C Stevens brought the yacht to challenge Britain, then defended by the New York Yacht Club as a perpetual trophy. It notes later challenges, Shamrock II and evolving luxury in yachting, contrasting pleasure with speed and wealth.
Harrowing dispatches recount the massacre of most of Company C, Ninth regiment, on Samar with bodies burned in a trench and captor mobs led by the town president. Captain Connell and Lieutenant Bumpus are named among the dead, with grisly scenes of mutilation and executions described.
The guard incident at President McKinley’s tomb is now viewed as a product of Private Duo Prendergast’s overwrought mind. Captain Biddle stated there was no actual attack and daylight found no evidence of a struggle.
The official Chicago anarchist paper Free Society resumes Thursday with articles praising Czolgusz and Emma Goldman while condemning the murdered president’s memory. Mayor Harrison bars Goldman from lecturing and denounces her Mueller's Wall ad as indefensible. Also notes include Blakely’s test failure and a judge advocate’s sister death in Winston. Yarriman expected to become Southern Pacific president on retirements.
The General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in San Francisco is a major triennial gathering. It features a House of Bishops with about eighty members and a House of Deputies totaling around 540 persons, with eight clergy and four lay representatives per diocese. A major debate arose over divorce and remarriage, with a majority recommendation proposing a sweeping rule to bar ministers from solemnizing marriages if either party has a spouse alive or is involved in another marriage.
General Funston, initially stricken with appendicitis, is recovering in a Manila hospital after a successful operation. His wife, identified as Mrs. Funston, has been by his side as his condition improved from alarming in the days following the onset of illness.
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