Rumors of Revolution and Global Events in 1890s
Santiago rumors of revolution at Buenos Ayres mingle with wide world notes. Brazilian senate approves boundary accord with British Guiana Brazil. A crippled California woman dies in Christmas accident. Carnegie offers Akron a free library funding. Douglas county pioneer dies by his own hand. Filipino insurgent stories and prison movements span Laguna and Itutangas provinces. UMWA calls for national miner convention in Indianapolis. A bicycle race in Portland ends in a Christmas result. Copenhagen plebiscite on Danish West ladies sale discussed. A Newell Rathbun verdict and two to fourteen year sentence. Hats in theatres and churches debated locally. Houston creosoting works burned. losses exceed $100,000. Jamaica fruit trade plans with a two-ship load schedule. Chinese court to appoint an American official at $15,000 yearly. U.S. and Germany war talk deemed unlikely by consul. Denver woman risks burn to save baby. Treasury pays Admiral Mey prize share from 1890s Santiago feat. Russian coast protection ban on drilling near empire. Salvation Army feeds 4,000 in Cleveland. Doylon post office wildfire destroys town. Austrian baccarat principals expelled after December 21 confrontation. Charleston livestock exhibit opens January 6 through 70. Top U.S. herds expected.
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Nile
Copenhagen
Jeffersonvite
Newell G. Rathbun
Houston
Tex
Cleveland
Salvation Army
Doylon
W. Va
Francis Joseph
Vienna
Jockey Club
Charleston
S. C
United States
Governors Fight Railway Consolidation Across Northwest
Five Northwestern states governors and attorneys general meet in Helena Montana to condemn the proposed consolidation of the Great Northern Northern Pacific and Burlington railways resist merger with legal action planned in Minnesota courts. Proviso for government railway control debated but removed. resolutions urge Congress to investigate and empower the Interstate Commerce Commission to set maximum interstate rates.
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Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Burlington
Northwestern
Helena
Mont
Hunt
Idaho
Minnesota
Douglas
van Santer
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Burington
Thulo
Alnnescu
Tion Enier Font
Idala
Auachbers
Congress of the
United States
Interstaty Commerce Commission
Lint
Strieleni
Connet Selects a Depository in China
At a cabinet meeting Tuesday the International Banking Corporation was named organizer for Shang Wai payments to China. Consul Goodnew was appointed temporarily to receive funds in the United States until a financial agent is chosen.
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Tuesdis -L
International Banking Corporation
New York
Shang Wai
Consul Goodnew
United States
Farm man fatally shoots wife and son then kills himself
In Yates City on a Tuesday evening in August a farmer shot his wife in the abdomen, wounded his teenage son who tried to intervene, then walked about seventeen miles to his daughter's home near Parslington and killed himself. The wife died, the boy survived, and the farmer died by suicide.
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Yates City
Leolerg
Pentail
Tes Dhuiliter
Davis
Parswington
Senator Sewell of New Jersey laid to rest
United States Senator Sewell of New Jersey died Saturday after months of illness and was buried Tuesday. His death creates vacancies on key senate committees and prompts promotions. Separately, five Alcatraz prisoners drank wood alcohol Sunday. two died, three hospitalized. The dead are Edward Canfield and William Mitchell.
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United States
Sewell
New Jersey
Senate
United States Military Prison
Alcatraz Island
Edward FL. Canffeld
William Mitchell
Canfield
Island
Pata Ticket Victory Reported in Palma Elections
Early results indicate the Palma ticket led by Thomas Estrada Pata secured the electoral college with a unanimous vote. Bartolome Maso’s Democratic candidate withdrew and urged no voting, reflecting a light turnout and public protest against official candidates.
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Pata
Cala
Palma
Thomas Estrada Pata
Dideie Dor
Bartolome Maso
Senator Lopez Executed for Treason in Insurgent Conflict
Senor Lopez, arrested in the ntanves province for treasonable communications with insurgents, has been hanged. He was Sixto Lopez's brother and a Manila merchant. The report mixes accounts of Spanish prisoners in 1548 and a New York gold discovery, noting brutality and theft from corpses, a rock discovery, and police scrutiny.
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Senor Lopez
Sixto Lopez
Agulinalde
Manila
Lopez
New York
Broadway
Sugar sale at Loveland factory yields high bids
Auction of the first 100 pounds produced at the Loveland factory drew $2300, with individual bids starting at $30 for the first pound by R. S. Cox and $300 by L. O. Kelii for the next pound. The rest of the sack was offered for weighing, as bidders chased the price upward in a sequence of rapid bids.
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Loveland (Cole
R. S. Cox
L. O. Kelii
Mystery of Death Probed by Sea Urchin Experiments
At the American Physiological Society meeting in Chicago Prof. Jacques Loeb described experiments with unfertilized sea urchin eggs treated with potassium cyanide. He argued death is an active agent present from egg birth and that certain chemicals can check it, suggesting a path toward eternal life at a cellular level. Additional papers included D. J. Lingle's findings on how salt affects heart activity, challenging Harvard claims.
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Jacques Loeb
American Physiological Society
University of Chicago
America
Loch
Loeb
Loeb Saya
D. J. Lingle
Irof. Howells
Harvard
Northern Pacific affairs in court clash over stock retirement
Judge Elliott in Minneapolis issued a temporary restraining order blocking Northern Pacific Railway from retiring its preferred stock. Peter Power of New York, holder of 100 common shares, seeks to block actions that could shift control away from the Hill and Furman interests, arguing debentures issued to retire preferred would lien the common stock and harm his property. Also reports of oil well schemes near Harboursville Kentucky backfired, igniting and destroying equipment after promoters tried to drill a dry hole to depress land prices.
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Farriman
Northern Securities Company
Power
Harboursville
Northwest notes show a string of wild events across the West
A Pueblo man commits suicide by swallowing poison. A Fairport miner is killed thawing dynamite. Convictions for cattle theft occur in Helena. Berthoud church clears mortgage. Longfellow school burns in Duranigo. Coyotes and wolves menace sheep. Spokane man arrested for arson, coal chute crush injuries occur in Cheyenne. Gold ore assays reported near Helena. A Derby murder tied to a Lauder Stage employee prompts investigations. Forest reserve plans affect Montana and Idaho lands. A Walla Walla woman suffers a jaw-locking dance mishap. a fire-clay company forms near Petrolia.
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Jacob Greenberger
Spokane
George W. Thompson
Golden
Cole
Thompson
William Berrymat
Black Hawk
Colo
Wyoming Fire-Clay Company
Willbdevelop
Petrolia
Wyoming & Utah Oil Development Company
Kalispell, Mont
Interior Department
Montana
Kootenat River
Idaho
Kootenis Forest Reserve
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Buenos Ayres
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Brazil
Catherine Riley
Healdsburg
Cal
Andrew Carnegie
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Akron
George Dewhurst
Douglas County
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Waterville
Coulee City
Laguna
Itutangas
Subig Bay
Samson
Isle of
Bohol
In Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
National Convention of Miners
Indianapolis
H. B. Preeman
Portland
Ore
Park G Square
Christmas
Jamaica
Germany
Wariff
Barris
Elbenstock
State Department
Nehemiah Ellison
Denver
Treasury Department
S . Mey
Korea
Saghalien
United Action
Hartington
Connet
China
Tilinois
Attermype
Mis Parelty
Senator Sewells
Bleenator
Morderois
Harriman
Northwest Notes
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Landanum
Andrew Fpavit
Robert E. Lee
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Crow Reservation
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Calo
Longfellow School
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Cheyenne
John Johnson
New Whatcom
George Kane
Fremont County
Wyo
Casper
Buckrump
D. Warner
Derby
Rawlins Lander
Moiday
Ima
Jatin Cormandy
Warner Wis
Mwoder
Lauder
Vicars
Investipeal Dings
Laramie County
Cannon
W. Libbald
St Joh's Episcopal Church
Boulder
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