The Register Highlights Oddities and Early News Bits
The text notes a stone lathe of immense size, a warning about valuing words over actions, Olga of Russia as a rich infant with a million invested at birth, Lord Rosebery’s Napoleon life sketch, an Italian in Philadelphia using a postal bag as a clothes bag, Mark Twain on honors, and Brown County Indiana gaining a telephone line from Columbus.
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Philadelphia
Secret Service
Brown County
Indiana
Nashville
Columbus
Finer tribute to the American soldier praised by English observer
An English observer in China commends American soldiers for distinguishing themselves not only in battle but also in resisting temptations in Pekin under current conditions. The remark highlights discipline amid urban challenges and foreign pressures.
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China
Pekin
Novel Slot Machine Charges Car Batteries at Show
An exhibit in New York City demonstrates a slot machine compatible charger for automobile storage batteries. A quarter activates rapid charging in minutes, showcased alongside Whaleback steamers on the Mississippi River. The vessels feature watertight compartments and end-to-end trimming via pumps, demonstrated as the boat escaped a sand bar in fifteen minutes.
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New York City
Mississippi River
Wisconsin speed trial hints at battleship race prospects
The Wisconsin speed trial suggests international naval races between battleships could yield U S prizes if arranged like yacht events. The article cautions that in a serious encounter against a foreign squadron, these new ships would not run away to prove superiority.
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Wisconsin
United States
Electric railway planned to run Billings to Great Falls
The longest electric railway in the world is to be built in Montana from Billings to Great Falls, about 200 miles, to be powered entirely by electricity from generating stations on the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers. It would carry coal, ores and heavy freights and be the first line of its kind to use electrical traction.
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Montana
Billings
Great Falls
Missouri
Yellowstone
French League publishes Journal du Mal de Mer satire
The League against Seasickness starts a French periodical the Journal du Mal de Mer with serious seasickness remedies. The piece notes such recipes entertain non sailors and suggests the journal should also include fiction with a subtler plot and a more pleasant climax.
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The
League Against
Journal du Mal de Mer
Deer harvest in Bangor Maine surpasses last year
Thus far this season 1000 deer have been taken to Bangor from the northern hunting regions. Most were owned by hunters from other states who have taken them home. Dead moose passing Bangor total 56, near last year’s record. Deer kill shows a drop of 251 from last season due to dry weather and heavy snows, but plenty remain and total may reach 1899 levels.
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Bangor
Colorado Health Board Reports Eight Years of Mortality Data
The state board of health released a giant biennial report covering nine months of 1900 and eight years of data. It highlights infant mortality, sex differences in deaths, and rising personal crisis reports with poisoning as a leading self harm method, while noting Colorado’s relative disease freedom.
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Denver
Colo
State Board of Health
Thomas
George E. Tyler
State Board
Large Gold Accumulations in the National Treasury
Washington reports the largest stock of gold and bullion ever held in the United States now in the treasury and its branches at about 475 million dollars. Included are gold certificates and reserve funds, with banks and deposits noted, and projections suggesting holdings could reach 500 million.
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Washington
United States
Treasury
Klondike
New Orleans
New York
New York Reserve
Judgment Against a Colorado Man in London Court
In London, the sheriff's court awarded the London and Westminster Contract Corporation £6,400 against Joseph Hamilton Brotherton, ex American Methodist minister. Brotherton and J. C. Lemp Vance formed the Contract Corporation to promote mining ventures, later selling shares for £55,000 before allegedly absconding with the funds. Brotherton, a Boston native, claimed the Denver firm held stock and denied American legal action.
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London
London and Westminister Contract Corporation
Joseph Hamilton Brotherton
Brotherton
J. C. Lemp Vance
England
Contract Corporation
James Linton
Vance
America
Arthur Hewitt Spokes
Denver
Boston
Campaiy
Colo
Joseph H. Brotherton
Venture Corporation
West Australia
South Africa
Boston minister disputes charges amid false accusations
The speaker denies being an American Methodist minister and claims never to have visited Boston. They assert that all charges against them are false and express indifference to the surrounding rumors.
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Boston
Manila's New Liquor Laws Tighten Manila Saloon Licenses
Washington reports the War Department division of insular affairs says Manila liquor licensing has risen from 4 to 600 for first class saloons and lower rates for other classes. Native vino sales to soldiers are banned. As of June 30 there were 155 licenses, down 69 since American licenses began, with Spaniards holding 66, Americans 26, Filipinos 26, others small counts.
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Manila
Washington
Division of Insular Affairs
War Department
Businesss
Death of Oscar Wilde in Paris
Oscar Wilde died at 2 30 yesterday afternoon in a small hotel in Quartier Latin Paris after three days of unconscious delirium from an undiscoverable ear abscess. Inflammation spread to the brain as doctors failed to locate the source. He expired in the presence of a few faithful friends who rejected the world’s verdict on him. His end is likened to Verlaine’s.
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London
Oscar Wilde
Quartier Latin
Paris
Verlaine
Dunne, Chicago Journalist, Ill With Pneumonia
Findley P. Dunne author of the Dooley papers and longtime Chicago newspaper man is dangerously ill with pneumonia at St. Luke's hospital. He was taken ill at his Virginia hotel apartment and transported to the hospital on doctors orders.
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Chicago
Findley P. Dunne
Fifty-Sixth Congress Opens in Washington
Washington December 3 The Senate will be called to order with no business beyond reading the President’s message and adjourning to honor the memory of Senators Davis and Gear. New members Dolliver and Dillingham sworn in as committees prepared to greet the President and House.
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Washington
Senate
Davis
Gear
Allison
Senator Gear
Nelson
Dolliver
Dillingham
Ross
Vermont
House of Representatives
Frye
Women's Christian Temperance Union National Convention Opens in Washington
Five hundred delegates attend the twenty-seventh annual W C T U convention in Washington as the regular business session begins. Missionary worker J R Barney delivers a sermon linking Moses to a modern promised land, urging renewed activity to end the saloon and liquor evil. Mrs Ella M Thatcher plans a resolution condemning the army canteen after touring posts, while Mrs Helen Bullock cites Royal Temperance Legion reach and school temperance instruction across states.
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Washington
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Lillian Stevens
Maine
J. R. Barney
W. C
Army
Ella M. Thatcher
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Department
Thatcher
Marion
Indiana
Helen Bullock
New York
Social Purity League
Royal Temperance Legion
South Carolina
Utah
German Emperor Snubs Kruger Visit in Berlin
Berlin reports Mr. Kruger canceled plans to visit Berlin after an official intimation that Emperor William cannot receive him owing to prior arrangements. The Boer leader will go directly from Cologne to Holland, with a Cologne Gazette note accusing him of seeking intervention in South Africa and provoking Germany’s disapproval.
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Berlin
Kruger
William
Cologne
Holland
Luxembourg
Germany
South Africa
Wolf
Bureau
The Rice Will Case and Patrick Defense
Albert T. Patrick, jailed in the Tombs on forgery charges, says his arrest and related press coverage prove a plot by others to gain control of William Marsh Rice estate. He plans no challenge to probate on undue influence but on forgery and fraud, arguing the 1896 will may be fraudulent and the second will genuine.
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New York
William Marsh Rice
Albert T. Patrick
Patrick
Postal affairs in five states
Washington reports state by state post office changes for fiscal year ended June 30 1900. Colorado counts 49 presidential offices 46 fourth class with 702 fourth class offices total receipts 1 107 069. Wyoming 10 presidential 317 offices receipts 137 767. Utah 12 presidential 327 fourth class receipts 310 512. New Mexico presidential 14 fourth class 308 receipts 157 661. Arizona 17 presidential 204 fourth class receipts 164 607.
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Washington
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
New Mexico
Arizona
Porto Rico Awakening Delegates Arrive in New York
Frederic Degetau, Porto Rico's first congressional delegate, arrived in New York en route to Washington. He said Porto Ricans seek swift American integration, calling themselves natural Americans with a bright future. Degetau, about 43, a Republican, formerly edited La Isla de Porto Rico.
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New York
Porto Rico
Congress
Frederic Degetau
Washington
Senor Degetau
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