Week's History Happenings Briefly Narrated
War updates from the Philippines report Santa Cruz occupation near Laguna de Bay. Schwan’s column drove 500 insurgents from San Diego near San Pablo. enemy deaths 67 with many wounded. American losses include one killed and fourteen wounded. General Woodgate mortally wounded. Spion Kop fell to British forces with 18 killed 154 wounded and 31 missing, and Warren abandoned the position. Boer sources claim 1,500 British dead at Spionkop.
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Santa Cruz
Laguna de Bay
Laguna
Schwan
San Diego
San Pablo
Woodgate
Warren
Spion Kop
Tugela River
Spionkop
Republicans weigh Elkins for vice presidency
Secretary Gage estimates 7 872 000 dollars to collect customs next fiscal year. Watterson Stealey named to a Paris exposition press bureau post. General John R Brooke arrives in Washington. Brigham H Roberts expelled by 278 to 50 vote. seating effort defeated 81 to. Nicaraguan canal bill expected to pass in weeks. Senate soon after. House military affairs to probe Coeur dAlene strike conduct.
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Elkins
West Virginia
Gage
Congress
Watterson Stealey
Washington, D. C
Peck
John R. Brooke
Cuba
Washington
Brigham H. Roberts
Utah
House
Roberts
Senate
United States
Coeur d'Alene
Series of violent incidents across multiple cities reported
Michael Creger and his two daughters fought a burglar in their Chicago home and police found the intruder under a bed. Sidney G Hanson of Arlington Oregon a legislator died by his own hand. Diamonds worth 6000 were stolen from Joseph K Davidson Son in Philadelphia. Charles H Gore a Chicago cigar dealer was shot during a robbery attempt. John Benningfield and son were wounded by John Legg near Elk River Vills Georgia amid an old feud. Harvey Mayner was killed in a timber camp fight at Bredon West Virginia. James O Neil Gleason was shot and killed in a San Francisco saloon. Ike T Jobe captured in Piney Flats Tennessee after escaping jail. David A McClure of Glasgow killed by knockout drops in Brooklyn.
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Michael Creger
Chicago
Sidney G. Hanson
Arlington
Oregon
Joseph K. Davidson & Son
Philadelphia
Charles H. Gore
Elk River Vills
Georgia
John Benningfield
John Legg
Bredon
W. Va
Harvey Mayner
James O'Neil Gleason
Twentieth Kansas Volunteers
San Francisco
Ike T. Jobe
Sixth Immunes
Columbus
Piney Flats
Sullivan County
Tenn
David A. McClure
Glasgow
Brooklyn
N. Y
Various business moves and insolvency notices across the Midwest and East
Edward Smith files for bankruptcy with liabilities of 254 519 and no assets. A creamery project is planned at Stevens Point Wisconsin. Five major Bible publishers form a trust to raise prices 15 to 25 percent. About twenty five glass lantern chimney factories meet in Columbus Ohio to discuss price increases. Fr A Schumacher, son of the oat meal magnate, leads a new group opposing the American Cereal Company. William Brewer seeks a receiver for Brewer Pottery of Warren Ohio claiming insolvency. South Framington Massachusetts physicians agree on service rates. Minneapolis flour output last year reaches a record 14 291 780 barrels. prior year 940 000 barrels in IST. Reynolds Manufacturing of Davisville and North Kingston Kentucky announces a 10 percent wage increase for weavers and spinners. On Feb 1.
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Edward Smith
New York
Stevens Point
Wis
Columbus
A. Schumacher
American Cereal Company
William Brewer
Brewer Pottery Company
Warren, C
South Framington
Mass
Minneapolis
Minn
Ist
Reynolds Manufacturing Company
Davisville
North Kingston
Kk. L
Ardandhu Sunk After Collision In Vineyard Sound
The British steamer Ardandhu was struck by the Herman Winter and sank in Vine yard Sound. Two officers were lost. A 12-year-old Waumandee Wisconsin boy died after a hayfork accident. Charles St. Glass was killed in Chicago trying to board a moving train. John Davis fell eight feet and perished in Chicago. A Lake City Minnesota jail bunk fire killed prisoner McTaggart.
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Ardandhu
Herman
Vineyard Sound
John Grass
Waumandee
Wis
Charles St. Glass
Chicago and Northwestern
Chicago
John Davis
Northwestern Yeast Company
Lake City
Minn
McTaggart
British advance checked by Boers at key heights
General Buller reports a blocked advance as Boers hold commanding heights. A night attack is planned. General Warren’s troops surprise Spion Kop and drive off Boer forces after a hard fight. The occupation of the Kop weighs on the Boer position as British losses are described as heavy.
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Buller
War Office
Warren
Spion Kop
Notable Deaths Across States Prompt Condolence Notices
A series of obituaries reports the deaths of prominent figures including Henry A. Hazen chief forecaster in Rochester N Y Theodore Bacon renowned western New York lawyer Mrs Mary Wright Curwen leader in women s clubs Brig Gen Charles W Squires St Louis aged 60 Dr John E Davis Wisconsin professor scientist Dowager Duchess of Schleswig Holstein mother to Emperor Augusta Victoria Elizabeth C Atkinson mother of Judge William T and Thomas H Hodson aged 75 David M Magee Oxford Ohio 89 originated Poland China hog breed Philip D Armour Jr died in California while visiting his ill father H M Day Cedar Rapids aged 74 Mark Smith Muncie Indiana philanthropist state politician son of former Senator Smith Joseph H Schwerzgen Beet Sugar Gazette editor C C Morrow longtime U S Senate clerk aged 58 Judge Thomas J Wharton Mississippi jurist.
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Henry A. Hazen
Weather Bureau
Theodore Bacon
New York
Rochester
N. Y
Mary Wright Curwen
Cincinnati
Charles W. Squires
St. Louis
John E. Davis
Wisconsin University
Schleswig- Holstein
Augusta Victoria
Germany
Elizabeth C. Atkinson
William T
Thomas H. Hodson
Galena
Ills
Apple River
David M. Magee
Oxford
Philip D. Armour, Jr
California
H. M. Day
Cedar, Rapids
Mark Smith
United States
Smith
Muncie
Ind
Joseph H. Schwerzgen
The
Beet Sugar Gazette
Cc. C. Morrow
United States Senate
Thomas J. Wharton
Mississippi
Fire Ravages Portland Warehouse Belonging to Standard Oil
A Portland Oregon warehouse owned by Standard Oil was destroyed by a fire causing an estimated loss of 150000 dollars. In St Louis a four story building at 218-220 Chesnut Street housing the Missouri Tent and Awning Company was totally destroyed by fire.
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Standard Oil Company
Portland
Ore
St. Louis
Chesnut Street
Missouri Tent and Awning Company
Lead 8 C Christian scientists resist vaccination order
The Christian scientists of Lead 8C will fight a school board order enforcing compulsory vaccination for children in court. The item reflects a local education dispute and court action over health requirements.
Three Iowa bills and a naval town tale in one note
State note from Des Moines reports a senate committee recommitment on the school fund interest bill, with a substitute fixing rate at five percent. Other measures include wages paid each payday, creation of three normal schools, bans on divorced persons remarrying for a year, and funding for Independence insane hospital. Senate action also seeks to bar liquor and tobacco sales to state inmates and a move to abolish state printer and binder offices. A Norfolk Civil War anecdote follows about a three cornered war between Cartwell and a British consul, ending with exemption by the Confederate war secretary.
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Des Moines
Ways and Means
Senate
Independence
Mitchellville Reform School
Cartwell
Norfolk
Home Guard
Colonel Cartwell
United States
Confederate States
Confederate States of America
England
Benjamin
Fraudulent Mail Use Arrest In Three State Swindle
C E Jordan of Des Moines was arrested on charges of fraudulently using the mails. He ran three outfits in Kansas City Omaha and Des Moines under different company names to recruit traveling salesmen for harness oil, taking $50 deposits and abandoning men and expenses. Banks named as references denied any connection. The scheme allegedly aimed to swindle deposits.
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Des Moines
C. E. Jordan
Jordan
Kansas City
Jordan- Wilkins Co
Omaha
Jordan- Jorgenson Co
Jordan-Kenyon Co
Ketcham
Chicago
Des Moines Saloon Rule Upheld by Supreme Court
The Iowa Supreme Court rules that Des Moines saloons operate without legal sanction after a 1840 petition failure. Evidence from the Anti Saloon League showed fewer than required voter names, ruling the petition invalid. Saloonkeepers plan to seek injunctions pending a new petition.
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Des Moines
Supreme Court
Anti-Saloon League
League
Des Moines Woman Sues for Divorce Over Harsh Treatment
Mrs La doska Cooper of Des Moines files for divorce from John Cooper citing eight years of preventing church attendance and verbal abuse when she tried to go. She seeks 75000 alimony, an injunction against him entering her home, and attachment for real and personal property. couple married thirty five years.
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Des Moines
Ladoska Cooper
Des Moines Society
John Cooper
Cooper
Universal Fuel to Build Coking Plants in Iowa
Des Moines reports that Universal Fuel company of Chicago will start a 100 oven coking plant at Ottumwa immediately. A second plant of equal capacity will follow in Des Moines. Iowa coal is proven to yield good coke. Additional plants planned for Davenport Dubuque and Council Bluffs.
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Des Moines
Universal Fuel Company of Chicago
K. H. Seibel
Ottumwa
Iowa
Davenport
Dubuque
Council Bluffs
Murray and Creston Railway Incorporated in Iowa
Articles of incorporation filed for the Murray and Creston Railway with capital of 2 million dollars. Backed by the Burlington system, the project plans a double track line between Des Moines and Creston as an extension of Burlington’s existing double track network.
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Des Moines
Murray and Creston Railway Company
Burlington
Des Moines Man Charles Prince Shot During Arrest
Des Moines resident Charles Prince who was shot in Quincy Illinois while resisting arrest lies in a fine Des Moines home with a wife reportedly worth $60 000. Prince born in Princeton Illinois will be buried in Rockford Illinois. Coroner's jury exonerates him in Sioux City Iowa. Mike Haines acquitted by the coroner's jury for the killing of Andy Kean in self defense.
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Des Moines
Charles Prince
Quincy
Ills
Prince
Princeton
Rockford
Sioux City
Mike Haines
Andy Kean
Keen dies in blacksmith shop stabbing case
Sioux City reports Andy L. Keen died Saturday from a stab wound inflicted by Mike Haines with a hot poker during a fight last Thursday in a blacksmith shop. Haines remains jailed on a first degree murder charge.
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Sioux City
Andy L. Keen
Mike Haines
Haines
Mortgage suit to foreclose rail line loan
Columbus January 20 The Farmers Loan and Trust Company of New York filed suit in the U S court to foreclose a $175 000 mortgage on the Marietta Railroad The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway Company now operating the line is named a defendant
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Columbus, O
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
New York City
United States
Marietta Railroad Company
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
Unique Wedding Present in Stevensons California Tale
The Pittsburg Dispatch recounts how Robert Louis Stevenson, after visiting Monterey in a dying state, fell for Mrs. Osborne. Osborne, her ex-husband, attended the wedding breakfast and then offered a daughter’s claim by presenting his own son Lloyd Osborne to the newlyweds as a gift.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson
Barbizon
Paris
Mr. Osborne
Oakland
California
Monterey
Osborne
Lloyd Osborne
Pittsburg
Butler’s Spoon Prank at Cincinnati Speech
A war veteran recalls General Butler during a lecture at Pike’s Opera House Cincinnati when a wooden spoon dangled from the ceiling on a string. Butler, nearly blind, spotted the prank only when his gesture hit the spoon and quipped I didn’t get that one before finishing his talk.
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Ben Butler
Army flogging shocks young Gatacre in drill
Shortly after being promoted to ensign in the Seventy-seventh Foot, he witnessed a soldier flogging. Gatacre turned pale and whispered he would faint. The sergeant told him he would get used to it, a notion he rejected, and flogging was soon abolished.
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Gatacre
Seventy-seventh Foot
Wil
What Offended Her Milk Dealer
A milk dealer confronts a driver about early confrontation over unpaid milk bills. The driver insists no offense was given and says he asked for the week's payment. Mrs Sharpe reportedly told the dealer not to serve her anymore and suggested chalking it up as the standard.
Notable banquet list hints at papa in Tit Bits
Clara recalls that her papa is not named in a banquet guest list but is implied by the phrase and others. Freddie notes the list ends with and others, suggesting papa’s inclusion by omission, a common Tit Bits joke.
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Clara
Papa
Freddie
Human Sacrifices Reported in Old World Sects and Crimes
The American Journal of Sociology cites numerous European and Russian sects that practiced self harm and murder to save souls. Examples include the Convulsionists in Paris, Paschelians in Austria, and groups in Russia like the Wanderers and Scourgers. Also recounted is a Cork Safe tale about Dr Baggs and a Denver scam.
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American Journal of Sociology
Paris
Paschelians
Switzerland
Nazarenes
Abraham
Irkutsk
Russia
Perm
Vladimir
Tambov
Konigsberg
Missing Boy In Uptown School Sparks Contagion Card Clue
A schoolroom loses Tommy McGregor for illness as a girl named Mary reveals he stays home due to measles. The teacher asks why and Mary points to the contagious disease card posted on the house, signaling public health awareness.
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Tommy McGregor
Mary
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Truly Happy Man Devotes Life To Helping Others
Quote from the Indianapolis Journal notes the truly happy man is one who spends life doing good for others and asserts this as the only occupation allowing personal autonomy.
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Indianapolis Journal
Willing to Help Him Out Motto on Pay as You Go
In a Chicago News snippet Mr Borem at 11 p m states Pay as You Go as his motto while Miss Cutting offers a small loan to help him out. The exchange captures a brief community dialogue in a city column.
Origin of Silk and Early Chinese Fabric Making
The passage notes the silkworm's origin in China and describes silk fabrics produced there around 2700 B.C. It presents the ancient provenance and early development of silk making as a historical fact.
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China
Country
Coffee Not Known to Greeks or Romans
A brief note states that coffee was unfamiliar to ancient Greek and Roman cultures, implying its introduction occurred later in history. The remark highlights coffee as a later global commodity rather than an ancient staple.
Doorknob jurisdiction prompts Capitol architect remit
In a Washington report, a hurried committee room scene shows a correspondent asking whether to hire a carpenter or locksmith for a broken door knob. Officials explain doorknobs are permanent fixtures under the architect of the capitol, with temporary cloth on glass doors requiring rework.
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Committee On Riosers and Harbors
Capitol
Washington Cor
Cleveland Plata Dealer
Price of a Pyle drawing sets scene for art values
A young woman who sought a Howard Pyle original for Hugh Wynne offered $10 at Century Company offices. Officials explained drawings aren’t sold unless artist or author consents, revealing the item’s price was $100. She dropped the bill and left, while the doctor received a New York Times instead.
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Weir Mitchell
Philadelphia
Howard Pyle
Hugh Wynne
Century Company
Mitchell
New York Times
Hotel meal charges strict rules in Calcutta Times ad
Gentlemen staying at the hotel face charges if they do not report meals or if they claim no meals. If they warn of departures or specify meals, charges apply or not based on notice to the manager. No one else may speak for them and any later fuss will be disallowed.
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Calcutta
A Poultry Problem in Somerville
A Somerville man borrowed a neighbor’s hen to sit but kept it laying eggs. Over six weeks the hen produced two dozen eggs sold for 40 cents per dozen, netting 80 cents which bought the hen back. The article questions whether the original owner was fooled.
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Somerville
Somerville Journal
Misleading Item Highlights Generous Employer Traits
In a jewelers' weekly note, Johnny critiques his father for generosity, while Old Mr. Skinflint is oddly described as very generous. The item mocks contradictions in employer behavior and loyalty among workers.
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Johnny
Japan Origin Story as Sunrise Kingdom Etymology
An article notes that the name Japan is said to derive from a Chinese phrase Shi-pen-kue meaning root of cay or sunrise kingdom, tied to its geographic position directly east of China.
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Japan
China
Color of British Soldier Dress Across Dynasties
The British soldier's dress varied from white under Henry VIII to dark green during Elizabeth I's era, showing changes in military fashion across reigns.
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Henry VIII
Elizabeth
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Seattle
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American Hide and Leather Company
Lowell
Shah of Persia
Berlin
Texas
Forts
Casey
Flagler
Colorado Penitentiary
William C. Rooney
Nichol Ireland
Providence
R. L
Pierre
S. C
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Tereschelling
Quirinal
James J. Hill
Great Northern Railroad
New Zealand
Billy” Smith
McConnell
Forbes
Rauch
Dubuque (la
Peru
German Empire
Alexander
Gibraltar
Bavaria
Nansen
Palencia
Spain
Decatur
Candlemas
J. B. Haggin
Hermit
Dam Fusee
Maiysan
Post‘office Savings Bank
State News Notes
New Railway
Dr. Baggs
Denver
Salt Lake City
Frisco
Baggs
New Orleans Times-Democrat
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