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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1902
Page
2
Steil Brothers Hardware and Implemer emphasize best line of goods and leadership in low prices. They promote new goods and prices, large Northwest Iowa stock, and transfer from leading American manufacturers with no carried-over inventory. They pledge to back every assertion and invite customers to compare.
Star and Monitor wind mills endure Iowa sleet storms and are offered with a five year guarantee.
The United States seeks an injunction against Armour Nelson Morris Swift G H Hammond Cudahy Schwarzschild in a beef trust case alleging secret price fixing meetings, a code book, and tied to rail rate discrimination and blacklisting. Kansas City and Amsterdam unions pledge a meat boycott for six days amid the probe.
Secretary Easley of the National Civic Federation says the conciliation committee is ready to convene after a telephone talk with Senator Hanna. Hanna will chair the call and the group will review the sub committee talks on miners' demands and operators' conference outcomes.
General Day reports American forces on Mindanao advanced after enemy fire and overran a well defended Moro fort with 300 defenders. Panda Padto fort was surrounded and shelled. 20 enlisted men and several officers wounded. Cable from General Chaffee lists multiple surrenders across Mindanao, Leyte, Samar, and Batangas with hundreds of arms and ammunition turning in to authorities.
L F E Hallock of Boston testified about the water torture in the Philippines. He described torturing a dozen natives at Leon in Panay to extract information on the murder and torture of Private O Herne of Company I, including a confession coerced by Captain Glenn's scouting party.
A fragment notes a company under Captain Gregg being stationed and a cure administered on August 21 and again on August 23, 1900. The passage references a medical treatment during a military deployment.
In Winona Minnesota on May 5 a burial for John Gatzlaff was halted by an injunction over disputed land in Pleasant Valley claimed as a cemetery. The body was vaulting at Woodlawn overnight until the court produced a deed proving ownership and allowed the interment in the morning.
United States Minister Powell at Santo Domingo reports the revolution led by the vice president has grown serious. The cruiser Cincinnati, now at Norfolk, is ordered to sail there at once to protect American interests and should reach Santo Domingo Thursday morning.
The Examiner reports that the transport Grant cannot sail to Manila on the 10th due to boiler failures found by Boiler Inspector John Bulger and a weak hull needing many new plates and extensive structural strengthening. The note ends with a curiously humorous line about enthusiasm.
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