Britons object to orders for American machinery
British engineers and manufacturers rage over a report that Major Girouard plans to favor American firms for locomotive rolling stock bridge materials and other railway reconstruction supplies in the Boer aftermath. The Cape Parliament nears a £1 500 000 rail rebuild program, amid fears of further American advantages.
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South African Railways
Atbara
Soudan
England
Soudan Railway
Cairo
Montreal
Canadian Pacific Railway
United States
Egypt
Sirdar
Kitchener
Lord Kitchener
South Africa
Beter
Union Bridge Company
Carnegie Steel Company
Niles Tool Works
Baldwin Locomotive Company
Lake Erie Engineering Company
Cape
War Office
Atbara Bridge
Political tit for tat as China seeks peace after Boxer uprising
London reports a joint note by Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching that implies China will dictate terms. Shanghai dispatches claim anti foreign sentiment grows and rebel forces gain ground. Paris notes diplomats seek peace with indemnities and talks possible October 21.
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London
Times
Pekin
Morrison
Li Hung Chang
Prince Ching
China
Europe
Shanghai
Pu Chun
Prince Tuan
Pao Ting Fu
Los Angeles Salt Lake Line Change Rumored
San Francisco Oct 19 A plan cited by Salt Lake and Los Angeles officials involves a joint project among Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and Los Angeles Terminal railway interests to build a Los Angeles to Salt Lake line from Uvada instead of Salt Lake. Senator W A Clark of Montana is said to back the scheme and a new company will be formed to finance the 340 mile stretch from Uvada to San Bernardino replacing the Utah Nevada California venture.
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United States
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Salt Lake City
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Salt Lake
Uvada
Utah & Pacific
Utah, Nevada & California Company
Uyada
San Bernarino
Army Health Statistics Report on Philippine Forces
Washington reports Surgeon General Sternberg notes 192 medical officers and an 8.47 percent sick rate for the Philippine command of 60,554. Of 347 insanity cases in 1898-99, 58.2 percent were committed to the insane hospital, with 3.9 months average recovery and 48 remaining unimproved.
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Ral Sternberg
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Philippi
Deparent
Mani'a
Philippine Islands
United States
Pacific Islands
Regi
Union Pacific cut off between Green River and Bryan complete
The Union Pacific cut off between Green River and Bryan is finished and trains are now running. The last contractor crew has been reassigned to Sherman Hill work. The project shortens mileage and removes several steep grades.
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Union Pacific
Green River
Bryan
Sherman Hill
Youtsey Trial Submits to Jury in Georgetown
Georgetown reporters note the Youtsey trial reached the jury after 8:30 PM as judges urged careful consideration. Jurors moved papers to their rooms for the night and planned to reconvene at 9 AM, amid defense claims of unfair juror selection and strong prosecution remarks tracing Goebel and Goebel associates.
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Ile
Nelson
Commonwealth
Franklin
Ing
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Arthur Goebel
William Goebel
Goebel
Bradley
Culton
Royalty Honors Thomas F. Walsh in Paris Luncheon
The Belgian Wing hosted a luncheon for Thomas F. Walsh the U.S. national commissioner from Colorado. King Leopold attended the National pavilion event, meeting Walsh and American guests, and spoke warmly of the United States and its people.
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Thomas F. Walsh
Colorado
Oultremont
Thiennes
Miajesty
Walsh
Leopold
Allied forces enter Pao Ting Fu amid quiet resistance
Reliable reports say the advance guard of allied troops entered Pao Ting Fu on October 17 as the city offered little resistance and was nearly deserted. British units captured 17 Imperial soldiers at We Nan Sien on October 10 during operations against Boxers, while clashes dispersed by French fire. Runners say Chinese villagers are returning along the German French column route. In Philadelphia, Presbyteries vote on revision of confession of faith with totals of 80 for revision and 20 for declamatory statement, 30 for supplemental creed, 5 for substitute creed, 10 for revision and supplemental dismissal, out of 110 voting Presbyteries.
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Ting Fu
Wangehiak
Taotai
Wangchiakou
Wenan
Chaffee
Ninth
United States Infantry
Tien Tsin
Paris
Havas Agency
Yekin
Li Hung Chang
Prince Ching
TA Hung Chang
Pao Ting Fu
We Nan Sien
Pao Chow
Philadelphia
Naval reshuffle and retirements at Pacific Station announced
Rear Admiral Silas Casey will replace Rear Admiral Kantz as commander of the Pacific station and retire Kantz January 29. Casey, born 1841 in Rhode Island, has led League Island Navy Yard since 1897 and will reach service limits in 1903. Also noted is Jan Sercepanik, Austrian inventor, serving three years in the army after resisting conscription. Flagler of Standard Oil may pursue a Florida Senate seat after relocating his legal residence.
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Silas Casey
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Philadelphia
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Pacific
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Rhode Island
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Naval Academy
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Seoul River
League Island Navy Yard
Jan Sercepanik
Edison
Sercepanik
Galicia
Sezcepanik
M. Flagler
Standard Oilaire
Florida
Senate
Stephen Russell Mallory
Campaigning in England with two ladders and political figures
Two ladders near the Daily Graphic office show Lord Salisbury and Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman as election results appear. Salisbury has reached the top and restarts, while Bannerman climbs with a crowd watching nightly in the road. Also, Westminster Abbey to inscribe a John Ruskin medallion with a reverent epitaph suggested by J R Anderson.
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Daily Graphic
God
Lord Salisbury
Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman
Lord Salissy
Sir Henry
John Ruskin
Westminster Abbey
Reverans
Population growth in Connecticut and New Hampshire in early 1900s
Census figures show Connecticut up 21.7 percent this decade to 908 355 with five cities over 25 000. New Hampshire rises modestly to 411 556 as agriculture declines with tenantless farms noted. Burns edition presented at Kilmarnock. Munster drives Paris illness crisis.
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