Cuban Children Admitted After Ellis Island Hearing
Secretary Shaw ordered 12 Cuban children detained at Ellis Island to be admitted to the United States and turned over to Mrs Katherine Lingley’s Rafa Yoaga School at Point Loma. Commissioner Sargent testified the children are properly cared for there.
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Shaw
Lingley
Rafa _Yoaga School
Washington
Secretary-of the Treasury
Ellis Island
Baja Yoaga School
Point Loma
Katherine Lingley
United States
Secretary of the ‘Treasury
Cholera Death Toll in Philippines Reaches 65 254
A War Department mail report records cholera cases in the Philippines up to October 2 at 8 a.m. totaling 99,996 with 65,254 deaths, a mortality rate of 67 percent. The data reflect the scale of the outbreak during the conflict period.
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Washington
War Department
Philippines
Pension Bill Passes In 12 Minutes For Record Amount
The house approved a pension appropriation bill totaling about 139.8 million dollars. Speaker Henderson named Democrats to multiple committees including Expenditures in the Navy Department, Pensions, and Railways and Canals. The quick passage set a record, with work finished in roughly twelve minutes as the bill neared 140.6 million dollars.
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Henderson
Navy Department
Butler
Missouri
Flanagan
New York
Swan
New
York
Billmeyer
Pennsylvania
Russell
Texas
Glass
Virginia
Burgess
Waif Witness Testifies at Scranton Strike Hearing
A 12 year old breaker boy Andrew Chippie testified at the strike commission in Scranton Pa. He described harsh conditions in the Dlifton colliery run by the G B Markle company, poor pay, and a wage debt owed by his father. He said he worked four months without pay and suffered from dust and mistreatment.
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Scranton
Andrew Chippie
Andrew
Justice Gray
Dlifton
G. B. Markle Company
Carrie Nation Fined and Locked Up for Disorderly Conduct
Topeka Kansas dispatch reports Carrie Nation fined ten dollars for disorderly conduct on Saturday. She refused to pay and was jailed, threatening a joint crusade upon release. Other notices mention cow milk products and local ads including Baldwin piano bargains and barber shop offers.
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Topeka
Eas
Carie Nation
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Indianapolis
Ohio-st
Morris
Cash & Credit
Rocker
Prile
Rockers
Steel Range
China
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