Two Killed in Mercury Utah Mine Slide and Other Week’s Happenings
Two men die in a Mercur Utah mine slide as part of a week’s events that includes mentions of Michael Henry Herbert potentially becoming British ambassador to Washington and ex Governor Sylvester Pennoyer’s Memorial Day death in Portland. A Hawthorne grandstand fire in Chicago causes about 100000 dollars in damages and injuries occur in related incidents amid President Roosevelt’s address.
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Mercur
Utah
Michael Henry Herbert
Washington
Sylvester Pennoyer
Portland
King Edward's Birthday Celebrated in London Parade
London marked King Edward born November 1841 with official notice that the birthday would be celebrated in London and on home stations May 30 for a military display. Towns, ports, and naval bases showed decorations and parades including trooping the colors at Horse Guards and colors presented to the new Irish Guards.
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London
Edward
Kingdom
Horse Guards
Irish Guards
Memorial Day Address and Chicago Strike News
Arlington Cemetery service attracts thousands as floral tributes from across the United States honor the late President McKinley. Chicago labor strike drags on with no settlement in sight amid a meat shortage affecting the city.
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Teameters
Chicago
Persistent advert promises real merit in public view
The public increasingly trusts a consistently advertised article as genuine value. Advertisers who recognize this truth persist with their messaging, maintaining belief in the product and keeping it in the public eye.
Cabinet resignations shake French government
A broad political shift follows the entire French cabinet resigning. In the United States, a Brooklyn fire causes $175000 in damages and Attorney General Knox remains home with a severe cold.
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Knox
Cured of Leprosy After Isolation in St Louis May 31
Dong Gong, the Chinese leper kept in an isolated Quarantine house near Quarantine, seems recovered after four months of treatment with an East Indian tree oil developed by Martin C. Woodruff. Discoloration faded, sensation returned to formerly numb areas, with only a faint reddening on one leg and one wrist remaining. The patient is expected to be released within two months unless the disease recurs.
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St. Louis
Dong Gong
Martin C. Woodruff
Coal price rises and supply shortages hit New York area
New York on May 30 reports a 50 cent per ton rise in soft coal to 5.60 and a 1.60 per ton hike in anthracite. New Jersey towns feel shortages with Fuffern Village dark for nights, Ridgewood lamps restored, and Spring Valley plants including a silk mill a pipe factory and a shirt works shutting down.
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New York
New Jersey
Fuffern Village
Ridgewood
Spring Valley
N. Y
NP Railway announces low excursion rates to all points
The Northern Pacific Railway Company names low excursion rates to all points. Write or call any company agent for full particulars or contact A. D. Charlton assistant general passenger agent at 255 Morrison Street Portland Or for details rates routes.
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Northern Pacific Railway Company
A. D. Charlton
Morrison Street
Third
Portland
Secretary of State Receives Cuba Attache Suggestion
Washington reports a cablegram from Mr. Squiers United States minister to Cuba stating he was formally received by President Ertrando Palma in Havana. He urges a military attache for the Havana legation and names Capitan Clark of the United States Army as a suitable candidate.
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Washington
Mr. Squiers
United States
Cuba
Ertrando Palma
Havana
Peace settlement reported between Boers and Britain hinted in Europe
Brussels reports suggest Boer delegates in Europe may admit a peace in South Africa and sign the settlement in the names of former South African Republic citizens now in Europe, including Mr Kerager, to curb guerrilla warfare led by irreconcilables.
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Brussels
Jones
Europe
South Africa
Great Britain
Mr. Kerager
Growth and Happenings in Oregon Industries and Cities
A statewide review notes slower registration vs 1900 with pockets of growth. Highlights include June Travelers Protective Association meeting in Portland, Ackerman addressing graduates, hop contract filings, 12 cent ruling price, Albany expo plans for 1905, Baker City streetcar track removal for electric line, Grants Pass Sugar Pine plant reconstruction, Chemawa Indian school diplomas, a head on freight collision near Ashland injuring several, Oregon Italian export prospects, Handon Woolen Mills Chicago contract keeping operations through July 1908, ex Senator McBride marriage, Oakland livery fire with losses, Roseburg professor elected Salem city schools chief, Ale post office burglary, English syndicate mining interest in Baker City, Roseburg train wreck arrest, and a rich ore body at Golden Wizard mine near Sumpter continuing high grade.
Grain and produce prices and market notes from a newspaper page
The page lists prices for wheat, barley, oats, flour, mill products, hay, potatoes, butter, eggs, cheese, poultry, mutton, hogs, veal, beef, hops, and wool by region and type. It also mentions cultural items such as Julia Verne’s continued writing, plans for a daily European steamship service, Henry Havemeyer’s library gift, a sale of the Wilson homestead in New Hampshire, and Greenville Mississippi’s cotton-picking contract using machinery.
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Graham
Oregon
America
Wool—Valley
Chicago Teamsters Strike Threatens Citywide Shutdown
Chicago May 30 A looming general stoppage of about 40 000 workers at the union stock yards looms if four major packing houses refuse to meet strikers demands. Hundreds already quit. Pickets and clashes with Swift & Co drivers occurred as shipments to hotels and restaurants were targeted. Coal and ice deliveries face disruption as non union meat buyers fear penalties.
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Chicago
Chicago Federation of Labor
National Box Company
Teamsters
American Express Company
Swift & Co
W Riat
Peace Hope Fades in Mindanao as Baldwin Demands Cleansing
Colonel Frank D Baldwin of the Fourth U S Infantry telegraphed Brigadier General George W. Davis that stable peace in Lake Lane hinges on wiping out the defiant element. Native allies fear for their lives yet Baldwin says only destruction can save lives. Davis notes that capturing forts aiding friendly natives would breach current orders.
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Manila
Frank D Baldwin
Fourth
United States Infantry
George W. Davis
United States
Mindanao
Lake Lane
Baldwin
Loman
Davis
No Favors to Territories In Senate Action
Washington May 30 The Republican senate territory committee refused to take up the omnibus territorial bill saying no time for its consideration this session and that each territory should stand on its own. Oklahoma may see a separate bill while Arizona and New Mexico face strong opposition over population.
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Washington
Senate Territory Committee
Oklahoma
Arizona
New Mexico
Senate
Fast trains touted to cut New York Pacific trip time
The Chicago Chronicle reports June first as the start of faster New York to Pacific coast service. A pact between Pennsylvania and New York Central may launch trains at once, targeting a 20 hour New York to Chicago ride, four hours faster than current fastest and six hours quicker than ordinary. The Chicago & North Western may respond by adding a Chicago to Denver fast train, signaling broader Eastern line action toward quicker Pacific coast travel.
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Chicago
the Chronicle
New York
Pacific Coast
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Chicago & Northwestern
Denver Lane 1
Pennoyer Dies After Sudden Heart Disease at 68
Portland May 31 Sylvester Pennoyer eight years Oregon governor and Portland mayor 1896 1898 died suddenly of heart disease at his home He was found by his wife after an apparent peaceful death He had long been prominent nationally and owned a lumber mill in Woodstock Oregon He was born July 6 1831 and came to Oregon in 1855 later editing the Oregon Herald and serving in politics The governor’s survivor is widow Mrs Mary A Allen and one daughter Mrs Russell
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Portland
Sylvester Pennoyer
Oregon
Pennoyer
Woodstock
Groton
Harvard College Law School
William Pennover
France
New Haven
Young Pennover
San Francisco
Nicaragua
Puget Sound
Cowlitz
Supreme Court
Mary A. Allen
Russell
Weatherford
Oregon Herald
Civil service commission finds no criminal case against Terre Haute official
The civil service commission ruled that funds were solicited and collected from internal revenue employees for the 1900 presidential campaign with the approval and cooperation of Collector Henry of Terre Haute Indiana, but the evidence does not justify criminal proceedings against him or subordinates.
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Washington
Civil Ervice Commission
Fonda
Internal Revenue
Henry
Terre Haute
Ind
Striking miners gain support from local mine staff
Wilkesbarre officials of the United Mineworkers Assemblies report at city meeting that engineers firemen and pumpmen in the area largely favor joining the strike only if granted an eight hour day.
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Wilkesbarre
United Mineworkers’ Asamblies
Rail lines cut Pacific coast lumber rate to Chicago
St Paul May 31 The Burlington Northwestern Milwaukee and Great Western roads announce an immediate reduction to a 5 cent rate on Pacific coast lumber shipped from Minneapolis transfer to Chicago. The old 10 cent rate had persisted as several Minneapolis Chicago lines refused to cut earlier.
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St. Paul
Burlington, Northwestern, Milwaukee and
Great Western
Minneapolis
Chicago
British mule camp to move from Lathrop to Toronto
Lathrop Missouri on May 31 reports the British mule camp established in May 1901 will relocate to Toronto Canada. Two thousand horses remain and will be shipped in a few days while most British officers have departed.
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Lathrop
South Africa
Toronto
Canada
Times backs temporary crown colony rule for Cape Colony
The Times argues for a temporary administration of the Cape as a crown colony as the safest course amid the Cape Colony crisis. It notes Cecil Rhodes foresaw the need and spent his final days promoting the move to that aim.
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London
the Times
Cape Colony
Cape
Cecil Rhodes
Postmaster bids for pneumatic tube mail service contracts
Washington May 31 Postmaster General Payne calls for bids to be opened July 12 for installing pneumatic tube mail in Boston New York Brooklyn Philadelphia Washington Chicago and St Louis The annual expenditure limit across cities before July 1 1904 is 900000 with each city capped at four percent of the prior year's gross revenues.
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Washington
Payne
Boston
New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
Sidewalk Collapse Kills One, Injures Many in New York Parade
A temporary sidewalk at Fifth Avenue and Eighteenth Street gave way during a militia parade for the Rochambeau commission visit. About 2,000 spectators fell 20 feet into an excavation, killing one man and wounding around 100 others, with some feared to die. Ambulance crews treated hurts on site as police had warned against crowding the structure earlier.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Eighteenth Street
Rochambeau
Palma Censures Amnesty Bill Limiting It to Native Americans
Havana reports the Cuban House of Representatives revising a U S amnesty bill to grant clemency only to native born Americans, excluding naturalized citizens. The body votes to set the president’s salary at 25000 and congress members at 3600. Palma’s message was read amid controversy over premature publication.
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Havana
House of Representatives
Cuba
Senate
House
The
Republic
Congress
Palma
Secretary Root Reports Army Transport Service Costs
Secretary Root today sent to the Senate a further mass of information on the army transport service based on mail reports from officials outside Washington. He cannot submit itemized vouchers due to the task's magnitude, but the figures show total transport service repair costs to date at 9,936,001 dollars.
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Werhington
Root
Senate
Army Transport Service
Washington
Aeecretary
Prune Crop in Salem Area Forecast Limited Yield
Salem Oregon May 20 L I Reynolds treasurer of the Oregon state board of horticulture estimates the prune crop north of Salem may reach only about 30 percent of last year’s yield. He has not yet received sufficient reports from the district to gauge the overall prune crop for the second district.
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Salem, Or
Oregon State Board of Horticulture
Salem
British government to repatriate Lord Pauncefot's body
London officials expressed deep appreciation as the United States offered a warship to bring home the body of Lord Pauncefoot, the late British ambassador in Washington, recognizing American sympathy amid the ongoing crisis.
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London
United States
O'N
Lord Pauncefote
Washington
Foreign Office
Storms Flood Panhandle Hit Fort Worth & Denver City Line
Severe storms along the Red river flood Panhandle areas causing major damage to the Fort Worth and Denver City road and the Colorado Southern. No through trains run from Denver to Texas. Crops damaged. railroad bridges at Parker Creek and over Red River destroyed.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Panhandle
Red River
Denver City Road
Colorado Southern
Denver
Texas
Parker Creek
Forest fires sweep Colorado mountains near Salida
Salida Colorado May 20 reports the worst forest fires in the continental divide mountains, including the Collegiate range and Sangre de Cristo. Over a dozen fires blaze visible from the city, threatening water supply and grazing lands, with timber losses expected to be vast. Cause unknown but suspected human ignition to avoid stumpage payments.
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Salida
Col
Continental Divide
Collegiate Range
Sangre de Cristo
Belgium Parliament Results Shifts Government Majority
Final returns from Brussels on May 29 show the chamber of representatives with 06 Catholics, 34 Liberals, 34 Socialists and two Christian Democrats, giving the government a 26 vote majority. The senate will tally 62 Catholics, 41 Liberals and six Socialists, increasing the government's majority by one.
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Brussels
Chamber of Representatives
One
Senator Hoar proposes inquiry on Philippine natives travel to US
Washington May 29 Senator Hoar introduced a resolution asking the president to inform the senate if any law or regulation in the Philippine islands prevents a native who is not under arrest and has no charge against him from coming to the United States to state his views on the interests of his people to either house of Congress.
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Washington
Hoar
Senate
Philippine
United States
House of Congress
Hart’s Canal Project funds debated in Washington
A report outlines proposed river and harbor improvements across Oregon and Washington. It details costs for the The Dalles Celilo canal plan, Willamette work from Portland to the sea, and dredging in multiple rivers with allocations totaling hundreds of thousands, plus provisions for board examinations and plan modifications before work proceeds.
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Hart
Dalles-Celilo Canal
Board of Engineers
Carrie
Washington
Oregon
Columbia River
Columb J
Willamette and
Coln
Portland
Dalles
Celilo
Fai
Columbia
Way
Willamette
Willegette
Yambu
Willametts
Independence
Corylis
Coquille
Coquille City
Q River
Cascades
Upper Columbia
Snake
Pendal
Riparia
Lewiston
Siuslaw
Plovence
Coos Bay
Tillamook
Olympia Harbor
Trem Harbor
Gray's Hark
Aberdeen
Clehalis Rive
Whatcom
Conk
Lewis Rivers
Will River
Lot
Nasal
Puget
Nowsack River
Bellinghes Bay
Swinomish Slough
Okanogan and
Pende Oreille
Shilshole
Salmon Bay
Halland
Flood Roars Through Pueblo Area Besets Rail Lines
May 29 Pueblo Colorado reports a cloudburst 30 miles north caused torrents along the Fountain Creek. A large rail bridge near Fountain collapsed, rail lines damaged, telegraph wires down, and floodwaters swamped tents and homes. Two women rescued after clinging to a tree as the river rose. Damages hit bridges on the Sadtt le Missouri Pacific and Col Southern lines and impeded crossing for miles.
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Pueblo
Colo
Fountain
Kelker
Denver & Rio Grande
Fountain and
Pinon
Santa Fe
Cole Springs
Rio Grande
el House
Missouri Pacific
Col Southern
Fourth
Eighth Street
County Bridge
Will Aid Cuba's Commerce In Washington May 2
A temporary arrangement to boost commerce with Cuba involves appointing Cuban consular officers to handle business at U S posts. The Cadman plan or secret mediation calls for officers to be charged with cybermerce related duties until the Cuban government can appoint full consular officers.
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Washington
L'Alma
Hay
United
Slipped Mis Mandults Chicago May 29
In Chicago on May 29 a federal marshal Fred Littleton and Handens' a other prisoners attempted to seize a suspected counterfeiter from Milwaukee. Shots were fired at the suspect in the passenger station but no one was hit. Littleton and the deputy held the prisoner after his arrest by federal agents.
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Chicago
Tostro
Fred Littleton
Milwaukee
Littleton
Cone
Sec Service
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Joe
C.D. Clark
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Clark
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Canton
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Martinique
National Association of Corrections and Charities
Seasion
Detroit
Adolf Rosemal
Navy Department
Ranger
Panama
Hazleton
Massachusetts House
Benjamin F. Butler
Army Relief Association of the
Daniel Lamont
Ireland
University of Jeago
Charles Olmeted
Episcopal Diocese of
Colorado
Squers
Kruger
News OF the
Commonwealth
Travelers Protective Association of America
Ackerman
Albany
Baker City
Sugar Pine Door and Lumber Company, of
Grants Pass
Chemawa Indian School
Ashland
T. W. Clark
Handon Woolen Mills
Oregon City
George W. McBride
Oakland
Laws
L. R. Trayer
Roseburg
Ale
Marion County
Arthur McEwen
Harry Granelli
Harriman
Golden Wizard
Minersville
Sumpter
Portland Markets
Walla Walla
Julia Verne
Havemeyer
the Public School
Greenwich, Conn
Wilson
Mason, N. H
Uncle Sam
Bureau of Foreign Commerce
Brad
Greenville
Miss
Morris Rosenstock
Thomas R. Morris
Pittsburg
Chicago Teamsters
Colonel Baldwin
Administration of the Cape
Army Transport Statistics
England
Corrado
Moar
Bill Ligeay
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