Queen of the Navy Alabama Makes 17 Knot Speed Trial
A Boston report crowns the battleship Alabama as the new queen of the American navy after a four hour steady run averaging 17 knots. The trial showed the ship's power under normal conditions, beating the Kearsarge's 16.89 knot result from a nearby yard, with Cramp's yard declaring the test a complete success and the Alabama bound for Philadelphia next morning.
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Boston
United States
Alabama
Iowa
Cramps
South
Boston Light
Newport News
Kearsarge
Brooklyn
Minneapolis
Anchorage
Cape Ann
Texas
Massachusetts
Indiana
Kentucky
U. S
Osceola
Folger
Jackies
Boone Island
Cramp
Washington
Philadelphia
Navy to overhaul cruiser Montgomery and rename monitor No. 8
The Montgomery will be taken out of service for extensive repairs after arrival in New York. A survey board will set the overhaul scope. The single turreted monitor under construction at Bath Iron Works will be named monitor No 8, with states like Oklahoma Arizona and others bidding to bear the name. Discussions note potential confusion with new cruisers West Virginia South Dakota and Virginia in naval reports.
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Washington
Montgomery
Admiral Schley
New York
Bath Iron Works
Navy Department
Connecticut
West Virginia
South Dakota
Virginia
North Dakota
Naval Register
Dissenting stockholder seeks appraisal of Central Massachusetts shares
Gardner Adams dissented from the Central Massachusetts stockholders vote to sell to Boston and Maine. A petition to the supreme court requests three commissioners to appraise about 200 common shares he holds. Notice returnable the first Monday in September.
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Boston
Gardner Adams
Central Massachusetts
Boston and Maine Railroad
Supreme Court
Maine
Sherman L. Whipple
Fitchburg
Tuttle
Rumor of wage cuts by Cotton Manufacturers' Assoc
In Fall River on August 28 a strong street rumor claims the cotton manufacturers plan to return wages to pre December 11 1899 levels. A 10 percent rise was made then. The proposal would drop weaving pay from 19.8 cents to 18 cents per 45 yards of 28 inch fixets. Curtailment of production may continue with current agreement expiring September 17 and likely to take effect then.
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Fall River
Cotton Manufacurers’ Association
Halifax Man John D McDonald Freed in Boston Embezzlement Case
John D McDonald of Halifax North Carolina was arrested in Boston for allegedly embezzling 928 dollars from the Canadian Pacific Railroad. He was released when police said no warrant existed and the Boston arrest was illegal. McDonald, a telegraph operator, had recently left Halifax and arrived in Boston seeking work.
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Boston
John D. McDonald
Halifax
N. C
Canadian Pacific Railroad Company
Postal Telegraph Company
McDonald
Boston Population in 1900 Census Reaches 560,892
The census director reports Boston’s 1900 population at 560,892, up 112,415 from 1890, an increase of 25.07 percent. The figures reflect urban growth in the era as the city expands its footprint and economic activity.
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Washington, D. C
Boston
Rev G W Gates Dead in Camden Lodgefront
Camden New Jersey August 28 Reverend Geo W Gates a prominent local minister died suddenly in front of the headquarters of the local lodge of Bik a where he was an honorary member Heart failure believed to be caused by heat He was 75 years old
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Camden
N. J
Geo. W. Gates
Bika
Gates
Million spectators watch Grand Army parade in Chicago
In Chicago on August 26 the Grand Army of the Republic held a four hour and twenty minute parade for the 34th annual encampment. About 30,000 veterans moved along Michigan Avenue past dignitaries including Gen. Nelson A. Miles and Commander-in-Chief Shaw. Charles Beckwith collapsed and died during the review. The event featured a police detachment, a 70-piece band, and regimental flags from New York and Illinois, drawing vast crowds and ending with social gatherings and reunions.
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Chicago
Grand Army of the Republic
Association of Veterans
Shaw
Washington
Army of Veterans
Michigan Avenue
Nelson A. Miles
Daniel E. Sickles
Duke D’arcos
Charles Beckwith
Algonsea
Mich
2Nd Infantry
Ilinois National Guard
Stewart
Atkinson
Cummings
Lorrence
Winans
Warder
Tanner
Harrison
Harper
Columbia Post
New York
Grand Army
Wisconsin
Randolph Street
Abe
Bishop Fallows
Memorial Hall
Four Children Drowned in Separate River and Pond Accidents
Manchester New Hampshire reports two nine year olds Helen Casavant and Margaret Molloy drowned after slipping from a steep pond embankment near their lodging. In Bellows Falls Vermont a nine and a thirteen year old, children of Joseph Nagle, drowned in the Williams River after fleeing frightened by men with guns.
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Manchester
N. H
Northwood
Union
Helen Casavant
Margaret M. Molloy
Boston
Bellows Falls
Joseph Nagle
North Walpole
Williams River
Japanese author Adachi Kinosuke weds Miss May Eperson
Los Angeles on August 28 Adachi Kinosuke Japanese litterateur and Times editor married Miss May Eperson in Riverside after legal difficulties with a miscegenation ban. Mexico chosen for ceremony. no Los Angeles license found. Adachi cites legal counsel Maj Gen Otis and ex Senator White to defend potential action. Adachi plans a country tour ahead of a new book.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Adachi Kinosuke
Vanderbilt University
Los Angeles Times
May Epperson
Southern California
California
Golden Gate State
Blackstone and Coke
Huxley
Camarak
Mexico
San Diego
Riverside
San Bernardino County
Wilson
Adachi
H. G. Otis
United States
Stephen M. White
The Cotton Market Convention Opens in Raleigh
The Cotton States Association of the Commissioners of Agriculture met in Raleigh on August 28. President O B Stevens of Georgia spoke on improved southern farming conditions, a likely short cotton crop, rising mill growth, and the prospect of southern price setting. He noted twenty or more new Georgia mills under construction and urged vigilant farm labor supervision.
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Raleigh
N. C
Cotton States Association of the Commissioners of Agriculture
O. B. Stevens
Georgia
South
Mortgage Real Estate Agents Meet in Chicago Aug 30
Chicago hosts a convention of the Mortgage Loan and Real Estate Agents and Investors of the United States from August 30 to September 1. The gathering aims to form a permanent national association for mutual benefit.
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Chicago
United States
National Association For Mutual Benefit
Railroad Attorney Dead in Milwaukee
Joan T. Fish, state solicitor for the Chicago and Northwestern railroad and former general solicitor for the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul, died today in Milwaukee from heart disease.
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Milwaukee, Wis
Joan T. Fish
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Colored People Draw Large Salaries From Federal Government
Washington Aug 28 many colored people in federal service receive substantial salaries across departments. Registers and recorders draw 4000 annually, consular service includes 5000 and 4000 salaries, 50 colored post office workers total 31530, inland and pension offices show sizable totals, and in the army during the Spanish-American War and the Philippines campaign numerous colored officers served with salaries from 1400 to 1800 annually.
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Washington
J. W. Lyon
Register of the Treasury
H. P. Cheatham
Post Office Department
Registry’s Office
Department of the Interior
District of Columbia
Treasury Department
War Department
Agricultural Department
State Department
Spain
Philippines
Sweden's forestry progress examined in Senate report
Washington Aug. 28 The government printer issued 20 000 copies of Gen C C Andrews Minnesota a new edition on forestry in Sweden at Stockholm The report notes 18 000 000 acres of public forest 12 500 000 under scientific management Sweden's 1897 forest product exports reached 97 662 700 and a central forestry bureau with inspectors ranges foresters and school system under state control funds and revenues for forestry shown for 1898, highlighting growing forest value and administration by the state.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Sweden
Gen. C. C. Andrews
Minnesota
Stockholm
Gen. Andrews
Norrling
Europe
United States
Forestry Bureau
College of Forestry
Deaths in the Philippines list since MacArthur's last report
A Manila dispatch to the War Department dated August 27 records numerous deaths from dysentery to tuberculosis among U S Army units in the Philippines. Names, units, and dates span Co D 32nd Infantry to Troop C 4th Cavalry, with losses including James Talley, Arthur Swick, Adolph Reyer, Chas Linderbeck, Michael Fallon, Romeo Lepage, and many others. The report covers causes from dysentery and typhoid to drowning, appendicitis, malaria, and wounds, with dates ranging July 22 to August 29.
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Washington
War Department
MacArthur
Manila
James Talley
Arthur J. Swick
Adolph T. Reyer
Chas. P. Linderbeck
Chas. P. Linderbeck; Co. L, 26Th Infantry
Michael Fallon
22Nd Infantry
Irwin
Lowe
26Th Infantry
Romeo Lepage
3Rd
Kent
E. Signal Corps
Sergt
M. S. Greene
42Nd Infantry
Irving W. Hale
37Th
Wm. C. Easer
Chas
F. Ellis
Wm. BE. Belding
Sprued
Montieue Steelman
Drowned
Worthy Warner
Jos
P. Sinclair
24Th
Henry Giles
Frank B. Coleman
Variola
John E. Whitehead
Lewis E. Thompson
44Th
Ern Rice
Roy L. Osborne
38Th
Chas. A. Cowan
45Th Infantry
Walter Rice
19Th Infantry
Serat
George McAlvey
11Th Cavalry
Joseph Ghant
Andrew Newman
William Joseph
4Th Cavalry
Cook
Geo. W. Graft
Co. A
24Th Infantry
William Preston
Signal Corps
U. S
Joseph A. Drouin
Wm. H. Walters
Hanna Plans Westward Campaign Swing This Week
New York Aug 28 Senator Hanna announced he will depart Tuesday or Wednesday to travel west for the remainder of the campaign. He noted a possible brief return depends on conditions, outlining a long final stretch on the trail.
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New York
Hanna
Rain in India Reported Yet Cholera Persists
London Aug. 2 The viceroy Lord Curzon reports continued good rain across India but cholera remains prevalent in many districts, signaling ongoing public health challenges amid agricultural impacts.
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London
India
Lord Curzon of
Kecheston
Peruna Medicine Praised By Pleasant Letter
A Port Byron reader credits Peruna with restoring health after a run down state. The letter extols appetite, sleep, and bodily cleansing benefits and urges a dose before meals and at bedtime. It cites cases of neural weakness and a Bright's disease recovery and offers a free hot weather disease booklet from The Peruna Medicine Company in Columbus, Ohio.
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Mary Rennie
Port Byron
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Peruna
Bright
J. Brake
Petrolea
Ontario
Canada
Peruna Medicine Company
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Choice Poultry
Caleb L. Smith
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