Four Years Before Victory Foretells Bryan Victory
In this New York News column, the author argues four year cycles shaped U S political turns from Adams to Jefferson to Jackson, Lincoln and Tilden, framing 1900 as a crucial choice. It claims trusts and imperialism threaten democracy, urging Bryan’s election to rebuke English influence and restore self governance.
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John Adams
Republic
United States
Thomas Jefferson
Adams
Union
Andrew Jackson
Bryan
McKinley
Republican Party
Party of Freedom
Abraham Lincoln
Horace Greeley
Samuel J. Tilden
Tilden
England
New York News
Chicago
Spooner
Wisconsin
Stark County
Roosevelt
East St. Louis
Michigan
Pingree
New York State
Government by injunction criticized in Democratic platform
The enforcement method of injunctions in federal courts provokes workingmen and has become known as government by injunction. The Democratic party in its national platform expresses opposition to this form of oppression.
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Democratic Party
David B
Hil
United States
Daevid B. Hill
Week's History Telegraph News Boiled Down
A concise wrap of notable events from abroad and at home. Highlights include foreign crimes and domestic incidents, with emphasis on moments shaping the week's public record.
Boxer outrages blamed on Chinese officials and Tuan
Minister Conger names Chinese instigators of the Boxer outrages and US pressure mounts to demand Prince Tuan's head. Other items note missionary casualties, naval notes, and a string of fatal accidents across the United States.
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Conger
America
Prince Tuan
American Bible Society
China
Paris
Tse
Orient
West Coast Leyte Natives Raid Trouble for Soldiers
Captain Shields and fifty one Americans captured by Filipinos on Leyte rescued. Native raiding trouble disrupts operations on the west coast of Leyte in the Pacific theater.
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Leyte
P. L
Captain Shields
Striking miners clash at Oneida colliery. officer killed
Striking miners trying to close a Oneida Pennsylvania colliery collided with coal and iron police. One policeman was killed and several others severely injured. General Gobin ordered troops to Oneida to quell the fatal riot.
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Oneida
Gobin
Multiple 1900s cases mix of crimes and industry news
William Goodwin, postmaster of Attic Missouri, faces arrest for rifling registered letters with alleged pilferage over 1000 dollars. Chicago insurance fraud and murder case mentions Frank H. Smiley as expected state witness. Multiple other items include councilman D B Steuer jailed, Dayton Ohio man Orlando Longneecker convicted for improper mail use, Roslyn Terrell pleads insanity for a murder near Maysville Kentucky, William Tabb Jr accused of embezzlement in Chicago, Reading Iron Company workers accept 3 dollars a ton, Baltimore and Ohio to add 3000 freight cars, Mount Vernon Illinois floats 4 percent bonds, Western Union reports eight million plus profit, Denver woodworkers strike settled, Pennsylvania Railway awards steel rails contracts, and Michigan hardwood dealers activity.
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William Goodwin
Attic
Frank H. Smiley
Marie Defenbach
Chicago
D. B. Steuer
Cleveland
Orlando Longneecker
Dayton
Reading Iron Company
Reading
Baltimore and Ohio Road
Mount Vernon
Ills
Western Union
Denver
Colo
Pennsylvania Railway Company
Michigan Hardwood
Notable deaths of public figures in Washington and Midwest
Major Seldon Noyes Clark a prominent newspaper figure dies in Washington. Colonel Joseph P. Wright assistant surgeon general of the U S Army dies suddenly in Washington D C at age four. Judge John F Kibbey aged 74 dies at his Richmond Indiana home. Barak Rudd dies at his Joliet Illinois home. Born in Vermont in 1812, he moved to Illinois in 1887.
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Seldon Noyes Clark
Washington
Joseph P. Wright
United States Army
D. C
John F. Kibbey
Richmond
Ind
Barak Rudd
Joliet
Ill
Vermont
Ilinois
Iowa State Column Happenings Across the State
A Winterset tip likely stopped a St. Joe Missouri gang from hitting the Sioux City post office on Sept. 26. Revolvers bristled around the building on the night of the attempted raid and nearby days, prompting the robbers to abandon the job. Miss Flora Powell, daughter of a penitentiary guard, tried to shoot Harry Hill of Milton. the gun misfired but Hill seized the weapon and Powell is in custody. The People's Accident association of Des Moines reinsured $200,000 with Continental Casualty of Chicago and will suspend local operations. Sioux City businessmen reject census estimates and plan a private recount to challenge a 38,111 population figure.
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Sioux City
Winterset
Des Moines
St. Joe
Fort Madison
Flora Powell
J. A. Powell
Harry Hill
Milton
Hill
Miss Powell
People’s Accident Association of
Continental Casualty Company of
Chicago
Stiles
People’s Accident Association
Continental Casualty Company
Brooklyn and Pittsburg World Championship Series Opens
The Brooklyn and Pittsburg post series for the world championship and a $500 silver trophy began at Exposition Park before about 4,000 fans. Brooklyn won the first game 5 to 2 as McGinnity, the Iron Man, subdued Pittsburg through the ninth inning despite a hard collision with Wad dell that left him dazed briefly.
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Pittsburg
Brooklyn
Chronicle-Telegraph
Exposition Park
Tems
McGinnity
Iron Man
Waddell
Dittsburg
Trusts Dominate Labor as Grants Falls to Monopoly Power
A Washington letter describes how the electrical trust dismantled Grant Illinois near Chicago, leaving 900 workers jobless and 38,600 dependents in hardship. It warns trusts coercively manipulate employment and votes to back McKinley, with masses urged to boycott trust products and support workers' unity against domination.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Grant
Chicago
Electrical Trust
Combine
Bryan
Indianapolis
National Association of Democratic Clubs
Mr. Bryan
McKinley
Republican Party
Melkinley
Hanna
Bryam
Fires destroy several mills and factories across states
Fire swept Ionia Novelty mills in Ionia Michigan causing about 12000 in loss with 6000 insured. A suspected incendiary blaze hit Howell and Hoover's flouring mill in Cherrydale Kansas with 10000 to 12000 loss. Erie City Pennsylvania iron works reported 80000 to 100000 fire loss. Heyser & Sons planing mill in Jackson Michigan was destroyed with a 50000 loss.
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Ionia
Mich
Howell
Hoover
Cherrydale
Kan
Erie City
Iron Works
Heyser & Sons
Jackson, Mich
Diverse 1901 News In Brief From Across the Nation
The report lists arrests in El Paso with twenty Chinese and Italians, a mental health adjudication for W H M Pusey, and veterans selecting General Hulings as commander in chief. It notes church conventions in Richmond and Concordia, a retirement in the Army, and various synod and association meetings. Also covered are coffee imports, fire chiefs meeting in Charleston, naval command changes, a Fargo Presbyterian election, Hall of Fame eligibility, Minnesota football, Joseph Jefferson at Hull House, 1601 Olympiads in Buffalo, U S offer for Danish West Indies, Dowle’s American allegiance claim, Chicago Sunday closing talks, Chicago Civil Service question leaks, and cycling races at the Coliseum.
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el Paso
Tex
United States
W. H. M. Pusey
Officer & Pusey
Council Bluffs
William Hulings
Pennsylvania
Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Richmond
German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri
Ohio
Concordia
War Department
Henry R. Brinkerhoff
Sixth Infantry
Kansas
Indian Territory
Wichita
Kan
Washington, D. C
Santos
Brazil
New Orleans
National Association of Fire Chiefs
Charleston
D. C
Indianapolis
Silas Casey
League Island Navy Yard
Albert Kautz
Pacific Station
Presbyterian Synod
Fargo
N. D
Andrew Christy Brown
Omaha
Minnesota
Middle West
Joseph Jefferson
Hullhouse
Chicago
Buffalo
Civil Service
Ludwig
the Coliseum
Dowie clash with 400 medical students in London meeting
Four hundred medical students heckled Reverend John Alexander Dowie at St Martin Town Hall in London. Dowie branded them as English cowards and hooligans before denouncing teachers who fear faith healing. The altercation lasted several minutes before the students withdrew.
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London
St. Martin's Town Hall
John Alexander Dowie
Chicago
Hmself
Christian Catholic Church
Dowie
Woman completes 2000 mile ride beating record
Miss Gats finished a 2000 mile journey in 222 hours 54 minutes at 7 05 last evening in New York. Two physicians found her in good condition after the ride and she planned to attempt another 1000 miles if she felt as well as anticipated.
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New York
Miss Gast
Will Brown
Miss Gats
British consul warns European women of danger in Yangtze valley
A Shanghai dispatch says the British consul warns European women not to travel north from Hong Kong to join husbands as the Yangtze valley situation grows serious. In Alaska, the Corwin expedition reports a huge coal field near Cape Sabine with large cliff veins.
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Berlin
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Yang Tse Valley
Port Townsend
Wash
Corwin
Cape Sabine
Arctic
Alaska
Chicago stove makers meeting canceled amid $80 million plan
Hamilton Ohio reports that the Chicago gathering to form a stove manufacturers’ combination has been canceled. The proposed scheme involved about 80 million dollars in capital.
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Hamilton, O
Chicago
Sultan of Turkey Leases Red Sea Island to Germany
Aden dispatch reports the sultan of Turkey leasing the island of Uroan in the Red Sea to Germany for thirty years to establish a coaling station forty miles north of Kamaran. This indicates growing German expansion in the region and strategic naval presence.
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Aden
Turkey
Germany
Uroan
Red Sea
Kamaran
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