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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1899
Page
5
Senate discussions push expansion policy and the Nicaragua canal bill with votes and confirmations. Figures include Senator Bacon of Georgia, Senator Sieger, and Senator Lodge, plus nominations and appropriations for ports and military needs.
Aguinaldo publicly declares the Republic of the Philippines at Malolos witnessed by his cabinet. News from Manila notes mild demonstrations while Cebu authorities clash and northern provinces resist. Native officers are murdered and criminals go unpunished as tensions rise and United States interests loom.
Tex Culberson was elected United States senator by acclamation in a legislative result. Carson Mills and other states reported similar Senate selections with Stewart, Clark, and Kean winning seats to succeed former senators in various capitals.
Secretary Lopez of the Filipino junta unofficially presented a statement reiterating independence arguments. Secretary Hay said he had not read it and would pay it no mind, indicating the administration intends to communicate through Gen Oils at Manila rather than direct contact in Washington.
The House favorably reports a bill to fix the gold dollar as standard, retire greenbacks, and substitute gold notes. It sets treasury departments for redemption, limits silver coinage, and imposes new tax rules on national banks. it also allows branch banks under Controller of the Currency regulations.
The Senate approved the Nicaragua canal measure, authorizing 1,000,000 shares of stock, government subscription of 25,000 shares, and a seven member board with US dominance. Provisions include a lien on property, no dividends before net earnings, six year completion target, and power to renegotiate or seek abrogation of treaties to secure route and neutrality.
Germany informs the United States and Great Britain that its Samoa consul acted without authority and will disavow the act once a full report is received. The remark follows American and British protests over the consul’s conduct.
Maye a Plan, ¢ration proposes a strategy to blockade the Philippine archipelago and isolate and subjugate its islands one by one as a course of action amid attacks on American troops.
John Splan, a famed horseman from the United States and Europe, is reunited with his mother in Chicago after 38 years apart. Mrs. Splan, 76, sought help at the Harrison Street police station with Captain Mahoney guiding the search. Splan, born 1819 in Little Falls, ran away at age ten after his father’s death, then toured major tracks from Utica to Havana before settling into a career at renowned race tracks.
At Lebanon Presbyterian church in Mascoutah Robert M Keller married Martha Keller in a union born from a widowhood pledge. The piece also notes pardons granted by Gov Tanner for Kurtz Hooper and Grubb, and reports alarming plans by striking miners in Pan.
A decree upholding the will of William H. Drury, Mercer county, directs that on his wife’s death the estate be converted to money to fund a polytechnic in Mercer county. Heirs seek to annul, alleging incompetency, but the supreme court rules the will valid. The piece also notes a poem song and a penitentiary incident with a dying convict.
Excerpted letter from Mrs Poho Black of Wyoming reporting her son's World War I era travels with the Nebraska volunteers aboard the Arizona. He details voyage days, Honolulu harbor, rough seas, arrival in Manila, living conditions, city life, and observations of locals, plus a long aside on Jones as a common surname and advice on newspaper advertising.
The article reviews Jenness Miller's hygienic shoe design and posts anecdotes on fashionable improvement for women. It mentions Millers shoes praised for comfort and anatomy, notes a Missouri editor's subscriber paying late, reports on Marshall County editors, advertises Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment, and quotes a novel excerpt about a girl on the sands.
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