State election returns show Republican lead in Iowa
Telegraphic summary reports 65 counties counted with Republicans leading the statewide race. Republicans hold a majority on the State ticket and control most House seats, while Senate standings are uncertain. Democratic chairman Kinne says results are not yet conclusive and both sides expect a close finish.
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Des Morst&s. Nev
Republican State Central Committee
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Democratic¢ State Committee
Associated Press
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Hill's Statewide lead hints at GOP Senate majority
New York on November 5 reports very few interior returns but shows Hill ahead by 12,009 to 15,000. The 77 column indicates Hill leads by 10,006 in the state and a 36 majority for Republicans on joint ballot in the Legislature. The Sun estimates Hill's governor's majority at 11,477.
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Huron Wins the Capital in Tight Complex Vote
Gen Campbell, head of the Territorial Constitutional Committee, estimates 26,000 votes cast with Huron at 12,000 and Pierre at 6,000. Prohibition projected 9,000 scatterings, but Campbell predicts an 17,000 majority against. Huron holds a 3,000 lead over Pierre. southern count near 40,000 total. Prohibition likely to pass and minority representation to be fixed.
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Heunox
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Gen. Campbell
Territorial Constiutional Committee
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Prohibition
Iuron
Election Law Adopted in Chicago After Vote
Chicago voters approved a new election law by 30,000 to 15,000 of 45,000 total. The statute creates small polling districts, requires canvassing of each precinct, restricts ballots to registered voters, closes polls at four, and designates election day as a holiday. The Republican Supreme Judge candidate faced no opposition and was endorsed by Democrats.
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Daily Press
Chicago
Supreme Judge
Two Trains Collide at Whitman Station Minn
At Whitman Station eight miles above Winona Minnesota two regular Milwaukee Road freights collided after one train nearly stopped to take a siding. Engineer Edwin M Severns was crushed to death. Nine cars wrecked and cargo spilled as crews blamed unclear responsibility. Severns leaves a wife and two children in Minneapolis. body sent there after burial.
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Whitman
Delegate Gifford Interviews on Dakota split and statehood
Washington report quotes Judge Gifford Republican delegate from Dakota predicting Congress will divide the Territory this winter and admit the southern half as a state while reopening the Big Sioux Reservation for white settlement. He expects a bill to pass with a simple majority despite Democratic House opposition.
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Day backs Dakota split plan with a staged path
M H Day, a National Democratic Committeeman, asserts about twenty five Democrats would vote for granting Dakota citizens their rights and supports dividing the territory on the 46th parallel. He favors admission first, urging Congress pass an enabling act for a southern Dakota national convention and a popular vote on division.
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M. H. Day
National Demerastic
Gifford
Congress
The De Lesseps Canal Scheme Revealed
Washington reports the De Lesseps Panama Canal Company nears bankruptcy and an upcoming congressional inquiry into over 2,600,000 spent by the American agent. The money funded opposition to the Nicaragua canal treaty and bribes to sway influential figures, with Richard W. Thompson leading a New York branch to bolster French interests.
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United States
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Paris
Canal Company
New York
Richard W. Thompson
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Navy
Hayes
Mills’ Building
Interior confirms land restoral at Southern California railroad intersection
Wasi Hington November 4 The Secretary of the Interior affirmed the Land Office Commissioner action restoring a tract in Southern California to the public domain at the Texas Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroad grant intersection. The decision holds the Southern Pacific grant covered only lands not tied to other railroad grants and thus excludes the disputed tract from the forfeited Texas Pacific grant after SP appeal.
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Secretary of the Interior Law
Commissioner of the Land Office
California
Texas Pacific
Southern Pacific
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
A Big Strike In Ganvueston Texas
A major strike began in Ganvueston sparked by a dispute over colored longshoremen at Mallory wharf. Knights of Labor motive to restore white labor, with members from Gulf Colorado Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific railroads and associated cotton compresses joining. Rail freight handling is paralyzed amid wider potential strikes involving Mallory Line longshoremen in New York.
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New York
Mallory Line
Nail Famine Grips Pittsburg As Nailers Strike Persists
Pitrspunc reports a nail famine across Pittsburg and Weston as nailers strike drives prices to 2 dollars 25 cents per keg. Builders and contractors complain at the high cost delaying nonurgent work while both sides stay firm and settlement not near.
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Weston
Sparks plans large scale land patent investigations
Washinerton reports Commissioner Sparks will lift the April suspension on land patents once special agents finish investigations. With about 380,000 cases and growing, two agents handle 43 each yearly, totaling 3,000 for Mach. If Congress approves 75 agents, patents could be ready in nine years, two months, and eleven days.
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Sparks
Mach
Gen. Sparks
Congress
Nine Year Old Birthday in a Fairy Tale Tone
A fragment from a children's page mixes verse about a nine year old girl with a story of Bennie and Susie, two siblings facing poverty as their mother is ill. They dream of fairies and brownies helping with shoes, rent, and daily needs, while Susie imagines magic turning old clothes into silks. The tone is nostalgic, hopeful, and gentle.
Bennie and Susie find a brownie money gift from a kind stranger
Hungry Bennie and Susie meet a passing stranger who drops a hidden pocket-book. Believing the man to be a brownie, they consider wealth and rent help, then decide to return the money. Bennie earns a job and proceeds to help his sick mother, while Susie reassesses the fairy tale. The tale ends with the man revealed as Mr Richards, owner of the local grocery. Benny aims to work for him and keep the money, suspecting a deliberate drop to test honesty. The sisters voice relief and resolve, noting the brownie kindness while focusing on real help for their mother. The story also notes a future lighter novel by W. D. Howells for the Century.
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Reminiscences of Public Men and Washington Theatre
Reminiscences recount Captain Bassett the Senate doorkeeper and a long tradition of snuff boxes from Vice Presidents, then three generations of Joe Jefferson era theatre men, and a Saturday night Sab bath departure. Also included is sharp critique of Clark Mulse’s Capitol statues and a note on proposed action against feather plucking from live geese.
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