Charleston Wreck and Turkeys Cheaper News in Brief
The US cruiser Charleston wrecked on a Luzon reef with all hands saved. It had served at Manila after Dewey’s victory and underwent Mare Island overhaul. Turkeys are cheaper than beef due to large turkey and poultry supplies, blamed on efforts to corner markets. Major John A. Logan killed in Manila battle, body to be transported home. Mrs. Logan shaken. Cavalry actions in Manila and San Jose carrier captures noted. Two Hungarians killed in a trackside fight near Enterprise, Pa, by an express train.
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Charleston
Manila
Luzon
Asiatic
Admiral Dewey
Navy Department
Mare Island Naval Yard
St. Louis
Commission
Beef Trust
John A. Logan
Youngstown
Ohio
Robert Logan
Illinois
Mary A. Logan
Washington
Root
Johnson
Logan
John Yunsk
Conrad Winske
Philadelphia and
Reading
Enterprise
Brooms Cost Rise as Manufacturers Plan Protections
Chicago meeting of about sixty broom makers seeks steps to shield against higher broom corn prices. Anticipated price hike recorded at one to one and a quarter dollars per dozen. Aether details about unrelated incidents follow.
Eastern wage demands and fires stain regional news
Fall River operatives seek a ten percent wage rise amid regional labor tensions while fires devastate Beggs and Cobb tannery in Woburn and the Germania Sugar Refining Company wax works in Mouseville. Other items note a Buffalo voting machine success, late polling returns in a city, and multiple local tragedies including a murder suicide near Stamford and a Pittsburg magnate's death.
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Fall River
New York Board of Trade
Cabinet Department of Commerce and Manufactures
Woburn
Mass
Beggs & Cobb
Buffalo
City Hall
Germania Sugar Refining Company
Mouseville
I.a
Trenton
N. J
United Telephone and Telegraph Company
Jacob J. Welton
Brooklyn
United States
Thomas
Lewis Warner
Hampshire National
Hampshire Savings Banks
Massachusetts
Admiral George Dewey
Mildred M. Blazen
St. Paul's Catholic Church
V Street
Washington
James Mackin
Sarah C. King
Stamford
Conn
Charles Cross
J.T. Francis
Government Printing Office
Notable deaths and disasters span Midwest and West
Obituaries report Adam Swoeigert die in San Francisco aged 50. Fires in Chicago destroy Graeme Flat. Massillon millinery blaze causes 250000 with 150000 insured. Mass arrests in Arizona clash with Navajos leave casualties. A Chicago murderer hanged. several engineers and locals die from accidents and disease. Union strikes, runaway train deaths, and a Pillsbury gift to a Childrens Home also noted.
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Adam Swoeigert
Chicago
California
San Francisco
Eien Mooney
Arizona
August A. Becker
New Carlisle
Ohio
Co. A. Carpenter
Lake Shore Railway
Painesville
Massillon
Allman & Putnam
Samuel McWintey
Pennsylvania
W. McKintey
Los Angeles
Cal
Thomas J. Boyd
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern Road
Isdkhart
Ind
Daniel M. Houser, Jr
D. M. Houser
Globe-Democrat
St. Louis
W.L. Allen
Topeka
Kansas
J. WK. Burnat
Carey
Vanlue
Myra KK. Merrick
Cleveland
Levi Moore
Kansas City
Ole Mason
Minnesota
Fort Snelling
Mendota
Mason
Nels
Harry H. Hammond
John T. Shayne
Hammond
George Weige
Herman Smith
Deadwood
Spearfish
Weige
Northern Hills
John S. Pillsbury
Home For Children
Endowment Funds and Corporate Filings Across Cities
The document notes a permanent endowment of 100000 for an institution in Minneapolis, and articles of incorporation filed in Trenton for Havana American Company with 10000000 authorized capital to deal in tobacco and cigars. Other items report a fatal shooting in Cleveland, a major fire in Cincinnati, a bank dynamite explosion in Kansas, a mine sale near Coles Station, a murder in Checotah, and a river body found in St Louis. Additional notes include a Minnesota court granting a divorce over a needle incident and a legal action to oust the National Salt Company in Ohio under anti trust laws.
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Minneapolis
Trenton
N. J
Havana American Company
Charles Gass
Charley
Joseph W. Smith
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Norwood Bicycle Works
L. L. Bramkamp
Melvern
Kan
Carlsband-Walters
Oregon-California Boundary Line
Coles Station
Siskiyou Copper Company
Roseland
B. C
C. M. Keyes, Jr
Bank of Checotah
Anna M. Mccay
Lewis
St. Paul
Minn
Pomeroy
Monnett
National Salt Company
The
Salt Trust
New York
Ohio
ColSland fires devastate business district and more
A sweeping fire wrecked almost the entire Columbia Louisiana business section, with losses around 70000 dollars and 36000 dollars insured. Other items include a shooting robbery near Dunlap Tennessee, a Winnie Davis monument unveiling in Richmond Virginia, and a Memphis Louisiana molasses plant and warehouse fire. Also a Paducah Kentucky engineer killed Dora Shayer and killed himself amid a love tragedy, a Bell County Kentucky mountain outlaws battle, and O C King of Meridian Mississippi arranging Paris exposition cotton boll exhibit and souvenirs.
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Columbia
Admiral Schley
Birmingham
Ala
Dunlap
Tenn
BR. M. Robinson
Cincinnati
Winnie Davis
Richmond
Woods- Chickasaw Company
Louisiana Molasses Company
Memphis
Paducah
Joseph Enders
Dora Shayer
Enders
Bell County
O. C. King
Meridian
Miss
Mississippi
International affairs and trade trends across nations
The report notes favorable reactions to the Samoan pact and British ship orders for Japanese warships. It mentions Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia en route to Paris and a planned Moscow visit, Norway delaying a foreign minister post until 1903, and Paredes's surrender of Porto Cabello to Castro’s forces. It also covers Harmsworth’s America’s Cup bid, Manchester calico firms uniting for 50 million dollars, and open door talks among Great Britain China and the United States. It adds China Corea tensions with Russia and Dreyfus affair amnesty rumors. Major Hugh J McGrath dies in Manila.
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Menelek
Abyssinia
Norway
Paredes
Porto Cabello
Venezuela
Castro
GSU
Alfred Harmsworth
London Mail
Lipton
Calico
Manchester
Japan
China
Corea
Mikado
Czar
London
Great Britain
United States
Chamber of Deputies
Dreyfus
Hugh J.mcgrath
Fourth Cavalry
Manila
Various World and Local Reports From The Era
Reports detail casualties from Nova Leotta and a Canadian mine event, plus a Wisconsin general appointed to a military academy. Guatemala agrees to arbitrate the May claim while denying indemnity rights. Cuba troop withdrawals, a Winnipeg bank theft acquittal, and a kite wireless system innovation. Fires destroy a tannery and a liquor block. a Toronto grocer killed, a Jamaica hurricane damages plantations, and McKinley to commute court martial deaths. Navy dispatch shows Newport speed. U.S. spending outlined. an intoxicated mate murders a captain. Bradstreet notes cereal markets and exports.
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Novaletta
McGrath
Wisconsin
Guatemala
R. H. May
Hay
Hunter
May
Cuba
Winnipeg
Man
J. W. Anderson
Molson
W. A. Eddy
Rendrew
Ont
Adam Brisson
Toronto
Jamaica
Portland
St. Thomas
Morant Bay
McKinley
Navy Department
Newport
Honolulu
San Francisco
Bates
Army
Spain
J. B. van Dusen
St. John
N. B
New York
Baisley
Point le Preaux
Maxwell
Bradstreet’s
Bradstreet
Market Reports United States Grain and Livestock Prices
Market notes from multiple cities show cattle, hogs, and sheep price ranges across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with crops and dairy values. Key items include cattle 2.50 to 7.0 dollars, hogs 2.75 to 4.75, wheat No 2 red 61 to 73 cents, corn 31 to 41 cents, oats 22 to 32 cents, rye 49 to 58 cents, butter 18 to 25 cents, eggs 15 to 21 cents, and clover seed about 4.95 to 5.05 dollars per bushel.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Salisbury Warns Britain Will Not Accept Intervention
The British premier at the lord mayor’s banquet in London warns continental Europe against meddling in the Anglo Boer War. He declares Britain will not bow to threats or moral coercion and stresses no foreign government envisions interference or war with Britain. He cites relations with the United States and the Samoan treaty as signs of English strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Salisbury
England
United States
Britain
Great Britain
Dewey Secretly Weds Mrs Hazen in Private Ceremony
George Dewey and Mildred Hazen wed at St Pauls Catholic Church presbytery in Washington at 10 am on Thursday. The ceremony was plain with no crowd or pomp, witnessed by the bride’s mother and sister, the admiral’s secretary, and two assistants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazen
George Dewey
Mildred Hazen
St. Paul's Catholic Church
Washington
Washington Society
Lieut. Caldwell
Father Mackin
Dewey
College News Snippets Reflect Shifting Higher Education
Reports show Bryn Mawr offers a law course for women while Yale freshmen two thirds are church members. Boston runs free evening drawing schools, and John Hopkins adds Spanish instruction. Universities expand faculties and campuses with new buildings and gifts, from Birmingham to Earlham, as access widens and old limits fade.
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Bryn Mawr
Yale
Boston
Ernest G. Sibler
New York University
Chicago Y. M. C. A
Amherst
University of Pennsylvania
Vascar College
Johns Hopking University
Columbia University
Denmark
Mexico
Connecticut Wesleyan College
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Tor GS Tite
Carrangla
Caraballo
Aguinaldo
San Jose
Batson
Learera
Fremont
Ben Card
Gibsonburg
William Busby
Kokomo
Owen Springer
Fred Smith
Springer
Busby
Loomis
Cuatro
Puerto Cabello
Masonic Temple
Fort Wayne
Hermann the Great
Western
Southern
Dewey IS
Married
HOOLS
Olleges
Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons
Francis T. White
Earlham College
Wagner Club
Wellesley
Mayor
Vienna
Te Medical School
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