Washington News and Congress in Late Session
The report notes John P. D. Long to resign as secretary of the navy and a favorable Senate Foreign Relations Committee report on the Danish West Indies treaty. It covers Philippine scouts funding, naval promotions, Philippine tariff debates, and various House measures including miners safety, post office appropriations, and the oleomargarine bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John PD. Long
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Danish West Indies
Root
Congress
Philippine Scouts
Senate
Presley M. Rixey
UL. S
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Navy
Long
Wildes
Pensacola Navy Yard
Louis Kempff
Octavia Wheaton
Wheaton
Frederick M. Morley
Colorado Springs
St. John's Church
Mackay Smith
American Woman Suffrage 4
Carrie Chapman Catt
Foundry Methodist Church
Thomas F. Walsh
Colorado
Fourteenth
G Streets
Washington
New York
New Orleans
Kansas City
Newton
Kansas
War Department
Army
General Staff Corps
Hull
House Military Committee
Geral
Morgan
Philippines
United States
Hawaii
Morphis
Philippine Commission
McKinley
Federal Party of the Philippine Islands
Secretary of War
Taft
Federal Party
Manila
Batangas
Samar
Congress of the
Memorial
Shafroth
Bell
Mondell
Committee On Agriculture
Turner
Patterson
Mr. Teller
Philippine Islands
Teller
Foraler
Scouts Defeat Filipinos in Sa mar Engagement
Manila dispatch reports Panay scouts led by Captain Walke in Sa mar island capture ten rifles and numerous bolos. They killed several Filipinos and the opposing officer Winfrey a renegade deserter from the Forty third regiment. Another deserter Long remains with the Filipino forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Panay
Walke
Samar
Winfrey
Forty-third Regiment
Long
New York Banks See Record Loans and Deposits Amid Cash Discrepancy
The Associated Banks weekly statement shows record loans at $932,004,700 and deposits at $1,015, increasing by $13,498,700 and $14,597,100 respectively. Cash holdings total $267,380,800 with a $2,202,800 drop in legal tenders and a $1,516,700 gain in specie, amid an overall rapid expansion since early January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York Associated Banks
Treasury
Boston
Philadelphia
Wall Street
Arplus
Havana Declares Victory Over Yellow Fever
Havana officials report the sanitation drive reduced yellow fever to near zero. Major W C Gorgas notes the mosquito-killing program began March 1 1901 and since then only six deaths have occurred, contrasting past outbreaks with high yearly tolls and 1891 lowness after earlier measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
W. C. Gorgas
Sanitary Department
Gorgas
Shamaka Earthquake Death Toll Rise in Russian News
Reports from Shamaka describe an appalling earthquake with 300 corpses recovered and search efforts slow amid massive wreckage. In nearby Baku conditions worsen as 25 000 residents lack food or shelter and multiple public buildings are ruined. Tiflis confirms several hundred more bodies buried in fissures as aftershocks continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Shamaka
Mussulmen
Baku
Trans-Caucasia
Tiflis
Denver Market Prices For Cattle Eggs Wheat And Grains
Market quotations list prices for cattle 4.00 to 4.50 per unit and eggs fresh in mark per dozen. Upland and timothy alfalfa feeds priced per ton with subgrades. Wheat milling and various grains and feed components listed with bulk and sack prices across Colorado and Nebraska markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upland
Straw
South Park
Colorado
Nebraska
Biters Bite Back in a Thunderbolt Car Lark
In Philadelphia two men pretended to have recovered from smallpox on a streetcar. They loudly bragged about a hospital stay to scare passengers, while a third man overheard and joined in the joke. The prank ended as the trio fled as if struck by lightning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Municipal Hopital
Kidders
New York Tribune
Romance of a Mafeking Stamp In Belfast Marriage Dress
An envelope bearing Good Hope and six Bechuanaland stamps marked Mafeking besieged was posted in April last year from Mafeking by a sergeant to his Belfast sweetheart. After Mafeking’s relief, she sold the envelope to a collector and funded the dress worn at their marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Good Hope
Bechuanaland Protectorate
Mafeking
Sweethear
Belfast
Roosevelt son ill with pneumonia in Groton
Mrs. Roosevelt cancels social plans to visit Groton Massachusetts where Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is gravely ill with pneumonia. The 14 year old, in his second year at Groton School, faces a serious health crisis as the family monitors his condition.
Setter with four gold teeth and diamond at kennel show
A dog at a ladies' kennel club show drew notice for four gold false teeth with a central large diamond set in the middle. The odd display sparked curiosity among spectators.
Refusal to Pardon James and Cole Younger
Minnesota pardons board declines absolute clemency for James and Cole Younger. Now paroled life convicts must stay in Minnesota as they were jailed for life over the Northfield raid. The act allowing parole of life prisoners enabled their release after about 25 years in prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cole Younger
Minnesota
Finos
Northfield
Pardon Board
Youngers
Gave Up Child For Love And Cooperative Grain News
Mrs Rita H De Alba Stokes former wife of W E D Stokes and Capt Philip M married quietly in New York gossip says boy given to father Stokes could seek custody if mother remarries alimony pending French Legion of Honor reaches 500000 members Cooperative Grain Selling shows Kansas farmers earning three cents extra per bushel via farmer cooperatives Danish study group to review British military bands Planetoids over three hundred known all discovered since Jan 1 1901.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rita H. de Alba Stokes
W. E. D. Stokes
Philip M
New Recently
Kansas
Farmers’ Co-operative Grain Association
Great Dutch Statesman Dr Kuyper Emerges In Boer War Talks
The article credits Dr Adolf Kuyper as the real instigator behind the Dutch offer to end the Boer war, noting his multifaceted career as professor, editor, church dignitary, founder of a university and newspaper, author, and former prime minister at age 64. It contrasts with previous attributions to Dom Paul Kruger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dom Paul Kruger
Adolf Kuyper
Netherlands
Dr. Kuyper
Kuyper
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Washington News
Congressional
Admiral Walker
Isthmian Canal Commission
Dr. Silva
Colomban
House Committee On Indian Affairs
Grand Junction
Jess
Great Bank Record
Denver
ADOCA
Steckers
Tedium
I. R
Turkey
Elgin
Teddy
St. Louis
Chicago
Telegraph
Mail
Capt. Lydig
London Academy
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