Senate debates annexation treaty and Cuba prisoners
Proceedings record Senate measures on Hawaiian annexation treaty ratification and freeing Competitor prisoners in Cuba. House action includes a sugar trust investigation drive and monument funding for Lincoln in Washington. Also notes on Union Pacific, Paris exposition invitation, and boundary compact between South Dakota and Nebraska. Executive session confirms several nominations including Terrence Powderly. House adjourned with no business.
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Cuba
Wen
Union Pacific Railway
Simpson
Kan
Pacific Railway
France
Lorimer
Lincoln
Washington
Congress
South Dakota
Nebraska
Morgan
Ala
Union Pacifi Railway
Terrence V. Powderay
Pennsylvania
Immigration
Domestic and World Affairs Roundup of 1897 Events
A summary of incidents and developments including executions in Deadwood and others, floods near Fishkill, arson, bankers’ failures, rail accidents, and political changes. Notable items: Charles Brown hanged in Deadwood for murder, Duchess Valley floods after reservoirs burned, Ashland suicide during fraud trial, Iowa governor injured, miners' strike arbitration progress, Grand Rapids Furniture Dealers’ National meeting, Pueblo fire loss estimated at 300000, Cleveland pension order suspended, Cheyenne Indian tensions, Detroit GOP nominating events, York Nebraska bank closure, drowning near Manchester Illinois, West Alton rail wreck, export surplus record, new counterfeit ten dollar note found, Baptist Young People convention in Chattanooga, mob violence at West Point, San Francisco fire at Yates plant, Vermont landslide, Salt Lake Trans-Mississippi congress, Kansas wheat yield forecast, Father Marquette statue unveiled, Maine Central liquor sale ban, week’s clearing house exchanges, Chicago crime suicide.
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Colstone
Deadwood
S. C
Fishkill Mountains
Fishkill
Duchess Valley
TR CG
Heydlauff
Ashland
Wis
TF. M. Drake
Iowa
Des Moines
Furniture Dealers’ National Association
Grand Rapids
Mich
A. J. Conroy
Cincinnati
Pueblo
Col
McKinley
Cleveland
Montana
Leonard J. Crawford
Newport
National Republican League
Detroit
Nebraska National Bank of York
Neb
Frank Simard
Joseph Lavoie
George Terrien
Manchester
John Choun
Robert Warfield
West Alton
Treasury
Washington
Seventh International Convention
The
Baptist Young People’s Union of America
Chattanooga
Anthony Williams
Rene Williams
West Point
Tenn
San Francisco
Charles M. Yates Company
Boas
Lincoln
trans-Mississippi Congress
Salt Lake Chey
Utah
Mississippi River
Santa Fe Railway Operals
Kansas
Father Marquette
Marquette
Maine Central Railroad
United States
Frank W. Phelan
St. Louis
Kittle M. Wadaworth
Chicago
Rach
Turbulent Times Sweep Nation With Murders And Trials
A mob hanged Major Terre] after he assaulted Mia Martin Thomas near Ellis Alabama and burned the woman and her baby. In Chattanooga the Baptist Young People's Union reelected John H. Chapman as president. The trans Mississippian congress favored annexation of Iceland? and the Nicaragua canal. the Cubs were recognized as a nation. Ernest N Taylor and Will H Tolbert planned a world cycling trip in 18 months. Records fell as the Empire State Express ran 149 miles in 149 minutes. Missouri crop value exceeded 20 million dollars amid a buoyant business outlook. Authorities denied any Spanish Japanese alliance against the U S. Charles W Spalding was again found not guilty of embezzling. Red Bluff housed burned residences and cattle losses topped 100000. Immigrants numbered 1629 through San Francisco. Tariff talks closed with conferees. Alaska gold discoveries caused excitement in Seattle. Baseball standings showed Boston and Cincinnati leading. Buffalo chosen for next Baptist meeting in Chattanooga. American Baptist debt wiped out. Lexington judge acquitted Harris in a lover’s killing. Royal Paper Mill losses hit 150000. John Stevens survived a Mammoth mine entombment.
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Mia
Martin Thomas
Ellis
Ala
Chattanooga
Tenn
Baptist Young People’s Union
John H. Chapman
Chicago
Salt Lake City
Inwall
Nicaragua Canal
Cubs
Ernest N. Taylor
Will H. Tolbert
Los Angeles
Cal
Empire State Express
New York Central
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Buffalo
Missouri
Washington
United States
Charles W. Spalding
University of Illnois
Red Bluff
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Wash
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Cincinnati
Baltimore
New York
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Brooklyn
Louisville
St. Louis
Baptist Young People'' Union of America
N. Y
John Stevens
Goldfield
A. T
Tewk Pasha Signals Sultan Backing Peace Demands
Tewk Pasha informed ambassadors that the sultan agreed in principle to the powers demands and was prepared to accept their peace conditions. Herr Andree ascended to his balloon at Spitzbergen for a proposed North Pole trip. Epworth League meeting selects Indianapolis as next year’s site.
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Herr Andree
Spitzbergen
North Pole
Toronto
Ont
Indianapolis
Ind
Arbitration announced by Yokohama official paper
The official Yokohama paper reports Japan will arbitrate the dispute with Hawaii. Other items note a mail car theft at Willmar Minnesota, Tennessee appointing Turley to the Senate seat, tariff DSM conference passage, Grand Forks murder verdict limits, Klondike treasure aboard the Portland, and a hung jury in the Winona North Dakota Spicer family murder case.
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Yokohama
Japan
Hawaii
United States
Willmar
Minn
Taylor
Tennessee
Thomas B. Turley
Taham G. Harris
Senate
Dingley
Payne
New York
Clondyke
Portland
George Defender
Spicer
Winona
N. D
Cass
Markets roundup from Minneapolis July wheat and livestock
Minneapolis markets report prices for wheat, corn, oats, and livestock on July 19. No. 1 northern wheat at 76 to 73 cents, No. 2 at 74 to 74 cents, July 77. Corn No. 4 at 20 cents. Oats No. 3 white 18 to 19 cents. Cattle steers 3.20 to 3.75, cows 2.75, hogs 3.00 to 3.25, muttons 4.10, lambs 3.65. Butter creamery extra 13 to 14, creamery flats 10 to 12, dairy fancy 18 to 14, dairy choice 9 to 10. Poultry turkeys 6 to 7 cents, spring chickens 13 to 15.
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Minneapolis
Northern
Minor News Items From Across the World and U S
Five hundred horseless cabs have appeared on Paris streets while a Boston woman’s sanity was examined before her will. A Copenhagen merchant pays ten crowns for using the American flag in ads. A St Paul judge awards five dollars to a man after a motorman refused a car stop. South African diamond thefts may reach a million over five years. Cadawallader, Philadelphia’s elite head, marries his former housemaid. Kandt heads east Africa to find the Nile’s source. Sixty tons of New York butter head to Sydney, first American butter to Australia. Connecticut to inspect factories for child labor under thirteen this summer. Brooklyn bridge employs 773 people, including 95 policemen and 216 train workers. London schools teach 10,000 children to swim last year via the London Schools Swimming association. Three Lowell men fined 500 dollars and one year in prison for bribery to a city official or municipal franchise. Kentucky seeks a new Olive County to carve from Rowan, Lewis, Elliott and Carter, with Olive Hill as county seat. Ex President Harrison asked to attend Franklington’s centennial in Ohio. Baltimore Vermont public schools close for summer. ten-week term enrolls 12,?
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German East Africa
Nile
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Sydney
Australia
Connecticut
Brooklyn Bridge
London Schools Swimming Association
Lowell
Mass
Kentucky
Rowan
Lewis
Elliott
Carter Counties
Olive
Olive Hill
Harrison
Franklington
Baltimore
United States
Gold by the Ton as Klondike Fever Grips Seattle
Reports of huge gold finds in Alaska trigger mass exodus to the Klondike. Portland cargoes reveal vast wealth aboard, with miners carrying $5,000 to $100,000 apiece. Capt Kidston warns of a hard winter and high prices, urging one year of supplies and warm clothing for newcomers.
Col Crocker Dead After Attack at Home
Col G C Crocker a California millionaire died Saturday night at his San Mateo home after a three day unconscious spell. He was 43, survived by three children, his wife having died years ago. Crocker had risen from clerk to first vice president of Southern Pacific and managed the western end of the system. He left about seven million dollars to his heirs.
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California
San Mateo
Cal
Move New Wheat Drives Rush for Grain Cars
Thousands of empty freight cars have moved from Kansas City over Missouri Iowa Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma. They will be filled with 97 wheat within four or five weeks. A huge grain rush is expected and railroad managers must prevent a grain blockade or famine. Kansas yield is projected at 60,000,000 bushels.
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Kansas
Kansas City
Missouri
Iowa
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Fires Do Much Damage in California Fire Regions
Fires in California cause extensive damage with about a dozen homes burned near Red Bluff, cattle and crops destroyed, and losses surpassing 100000 dollars. Kenwood hills are burning and farms at risk. Mount Diablo area forests and mountain houses are endangered.
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San Francisco
Red Bluff
Kenwood
Mount Diablo
Hunger Marches by Starving Miners in Pennsylvania
A broad coalition of miners bands together amid a two week strike in the Pittsburgh coal district to march on Canonsburg and pressure Boone and Allison mines. Meetings draw families, women push for action as deputies brace for possible clashes. Similar mobilizations spread from Fairmount to St Louis and Columbus as leaders predict growing idle periods and rising support from organized labor.
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Pittsburgh
Canonsburg
Boone and
Allison
Washington County
Millers
Toms Ston
Slope
Bridgeville
Essen Noe
Suieens
Ceell
Laura Hill
Creedmor
Dishop
Standard
Ellsworth
Millers Ston
Hooné
Reissing Brass Band
Cecil
Rescued Miner James Stevens From Mammoth Mine
Rescued. James Stevens was freed from the Mammoth mine after 14 days with no food or water. At seven this morning, rescuers breached the drift at a depth of 125 feet, Stevens appears emaciated and has lost about 70 pounds, yet his mind is clear.
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A.T
James Stevens
Mammoth
Stevens
Bla
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