Philippine Mayors Caught Aiding Insurgents in Manila News
Manila dispatch reports San Pedro Macati mayor jailed for using office as insurgent recruitment hub with four disguised officers aiding him. Baliuag mayor arrested with incriminating documents. Imus mayor placed under suspicion, later released and installed. American troops tighten control, shoot intruders at lines, and deploy trenches as tension grows amid suspected native sympathy with rebels.
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Manila
Hong Hong
San Pedro Macati
Dean Worcester
United States Advisory Commission For the Philippines
United States
Philippine Army
Baliuag
Imus
Lawton
Worcester
Bilibid
Morong
Col. Smith
Twelfth Infantry
Angeles
San Fernando
Steamer Sir I Tilley Burned Off Fairport Harbor
The Canadian steamer Sir I Tilley, 750 net tons, burned off Fairport Saturday night. Fire started in the engine room and rapid flames forced crew and about 20 passengers to escape in lifeboats to the steamer Consort. Wreck towed to Fairport harbor. ship valued at 60,000 with cargo.
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Cleveland
Fairport
Sir
I. Tilley
Fairport Harbor
Wellman Arrives After Polar Expedition
Walter Wellman, leader of the Wellman Polar expedition, returned to Tromsoe August 17 after completing Franz Josef Land exploration. He travels with crutches due to a leg injury from a snow crevasse fall. He recounted starting June 26 1808 from Tromsoe, reaching Elmwood July 28, hoisting stars and stripes under the Union Jack, and leaving provisions for missing Andree untouched.
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Fall
Eng
Walter Wellman
Tromsee
Norway
Franz Josef Land
Wellman
Associated Press
Pole
Mr. Wellman
Tromsoe
Elmwood
Prof
Andree
Senator Jones Plans Chicago Return October 1
Letter from Senator Jones to Chairman Samuel Cook states he will come back from Europe to Chicago on October 1 to take active command of the Democratic forces. Cook notes the letter is personal and touches little on political positions. The Aug 29 Chicago dispatch adds Jones is in excellent health and in Scotland before resuming duties.
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Senator Jones
Chicago
Samuel Cook
Ways and Means Committee
Europe
Filipinos Held at San Francisco Face Possible Appeal
The Commissioner General of Immigration Powderly is weighing an appeal by 68 Filipinos detained in San Francisco. The detainees were brought aboard the transport Leelanaw for exhibition at the Mechanical Institute in San Francisco.
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Washington
Commissioner General of Immigration
San Francisco
United States
Leelanaw
Mechanical Institute
Train Wreck Kills Two Firemen in West Virginia
Two Baltimore and Ohio freight trains collided near Barracksville West Virginia, killing Fireman Poe and Brakeman Hall of McMechen and fatally injuring three others. Trains delayed eight hours and wreck filled with freight cars in a disaster transport news brief.
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Barracksville
W. Va
Baltimore & Ohio
Poe
Hall
McMechen
Kansas
Lawrence
Kan
Wilder
Metcalf
Twentieth
Parcels Post Agreement with Germany and New Treasury Notes
Washington reports the first parcels post treaty with Germany will begin October 1 allowing merchandise exchanges by mail up to 11 pounds with rates of 12 cents per pound to Germany and 1.60 marks per parcel to the United States. New treasury notes issue of 1899 ready for distribution about September 15 with color distinctions to identify greenbacks silver certificates and treasury notes. Secretary Root and Adjt Gen Corbin visited Camp Meade Pa to inspect new volunteer regiments Twenty seventh and Twenty eighth preparing for the Philippines deployment.
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Root
Adjt
Corbin
Camp Mead
Washington
United States
Europe
Smith
Mumm von Schwartzenstein
Germany
Treasury
The
Secretary of the Treasury
Camp Meade
Twenty-seventh
Philippines
Col. Bell
San Francisco
Pennsylvania
Banker Demetri Friedlander Accused of Large Deficit
Chicago August 28 A mob gathered outside the home of Demetri Friedlander agent for Russian Greek churches and private banker to seek vengeance for losses estimated from forty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars Friedlander fled before the mob could reach him
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Chicago
Demetri Friedlander
Friedlander
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Baldong
Morang
Weasel
Morocco
Mulai-abd-el- Aziz
St. Louis
Newport
Ark
Pleasant Plain
Twenty-third Regiment
Cebu
Missouri
War Department
England
North
Boston
New York
Greely
Col
Denver
Republican
Wabash
Ind
Wabesi
McKinley
West
the Parcels Post
Treasury Notes
Mena
W. E. Watkins
de Queen and
Janssen
de Queen Street
NEW Creat Syndicate
Doors Operne
London
Alaska
Russia
Marshfield
Wis
William Moran
Chicago & Northwestern
Moran
Nev Maggree
W. B. Smith
Lindsay
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