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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1901
Page
6
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General Funston reports most organized insurrectionists dispersed with only isolated bands in the mountains. Sixty five rebels surrender on Panay at Cabuatan as George T. Rice is deported following allegations against Lt. Commander Braunersecuther. The Philippine commission passes an act nullifying parts of the Spanish code on judges, declaring incompetence only when financial interest or kinship exists. Municipal government bill hearings close. church property taxation faces minimal native opposition. Cavite hosts 140 insurgents and drones captured, and 800 insurgents attack wire crews south of San Pablo. casualties include two Americans wounded and one captured but later rescued. Cebu police must swear allegiance to stay. General MacArthur commends the eleventh cavalry.
Shanghai telegram reports Li Hung Chang declining nine peace terms from Russia on Manchuria. Tseng Chi rejected the offer that would return Manchuria to China while granting Russia control. Cho Ha Pau is named to pursue new negotiations as talks circulate between China and Russia.
CHICAGO Jan 29 The will of Philip D Armour late millionaire packer and grain dealer values the estate at 15 000 000 according to an application for letters testamentary filed in the probate court by Malvina B Armour widow and J Ogden Armour son who are named executrix and executor and legatees each to receive one half of the estate
United States Marshal Bennet and six deputies with Constable Hubbard and Commissioner Sanson depart Muskogee for Henrietta sixty miles away to join troops sent to quell the Creek uprising. They travel overland with a camping outfit, commissary, twenty Winchester rifles and ample ammunition.
Washington dispatch reports Manila cable on the federal party in the Philippine archipelago. The party advocates U S sovereignty with civil government authority to be set by President McKinley, urging Congress to empower him to act when opportune. Directors Bourne Pardo de Tavero Torres Nar Tomas Det Rosario Arellano push peace through sovereignty and local liberty.
Washington reports Venezuela and Great Britain contest sovereignty of Pato island after the gunboat Augusto seized several British subjects. The issue may trigger a British note and possible act of war if sovereignty is pressed and reparation demanded.
The proclamation of King Edward VII continues at Windsor and other centers. The mayor read the proclamation from Castle Hill beside the queen’s statue while the recorder spoke at Henry V tile’s tomb as thousands watched the historic events.
Copenhagen reports that 14 of 15 on the Folkething finance committee favor selling the Danish West Indies to the United States while one member begins a newspaper campaign to keep the islands. The Landesthing finance committee will soon back the sale, asserting much agitation by island inhabitants is artificial.
The naval board of construction in Washington on January 29 prepared cost estimates and outlined plans for two new training ships for the Navy. Each vessel would reach 9 to 10 knots, displace about 3,000 tons, and carry concrete sailing equipment. One ship to be wood, the other steel, with an estimated cost of roughly fifty thousand dollars each.
Ind iana report to Governor Turbin accuses Mrs Sarah Keeley superintendent of the Indiana woman's prison and girls industrial school of stripping girls naked flogging them with lashes and subjecting them to other cruel treatment during the state institutions tour by the legislative commission.
The war office in London reports from Pretoria dated January 26 detailing engagements with Delarey’s force. Cunningham’s force at Midletontein and Kopperfontein. Babington's movement threatened the Boer flank. Lichtenburg saw captured yeomanry released except a major and three men. Smith-Dorrien’s five hour clash near Wonderfontein to Carolina. losses: one officer killed, two officers and thirteen men wounded. Lord Kitchener confirms a British train with troops and stores was captured near Fourteen Streams. Boers withdrew upon pursuit.
Manila Jan 28 The executive committee of the several party files a petition urging President McKinley and Congress to pass the Spooner bill. It asks for authority to legislate and regulate mining claims dispose of public lands and form a civil government to end the insurrection and win native support under American sovereignty.
Deputy U S Marshal Johnson and companion captured Crag Side Chitto Harjo near Hus Sala thirty two miles away. The prisoner is held under guard by deputies and Troop A, Eighth Cavalry, with a wider pursuit planned tomorrow. The action aims to break the insurrection and capture other leaders.
Dr Boe Dermunt and He Who allegedly spread smallpox contagion in the city. The suspect eluded officers after a late evening escape, aided by a principal named Wl Raab of a business college who drove to Wahpace and vanished on a train to Chicago. Rathla was arrested and placed in the pest house. Haddami faces prosecution if captured.
In a clash near Sel moral, Boers dynamited a train derailing it as armoral pilots led by Lord Kitchener advanced toward Middeterg. British forces returned fire, driving Boers back while British survivors faced casualties. In Nebraska, C Watson of Omaha was appointed deputy labor commissioner and head of the state bureau of statistics, effective February 1.
Senator Depew urged a shipping bill in the senate to build up the American merchant marine through subsidies, lamenting our undeveloped maritime capacity and urging restoration of the American flag on freight ships. He argued free ships and tariffs fail and subsidies are the practical remedy amid global trade pressures.
Washington January 26 The presidents message urging rapid Philippines legislation surprised senators and sparked talk of an immediate extra session after March 3. Most senators have heard nothing from the White House but believe Philippine action is unlikely this term. The Spooner bill would vest all Philippine government power in the president. Some observers think Cuban issues might also demand action, but unlikely this session.
In Manila on January 25 prominent Filipinos pressed to delay land taxation for two years for lands made uncultivable by the fighting. The bill had initially postponed taxes for a year and now exempts owners not implicated in the insurrection after March who prove unsettled conditions prevented working the land.
Relatives of Mrs. Schindler Stebert seek Nebraska clues to her vanishing once famed Hoboken socialite. Her father Dr. Schindler left 40000 in his will, and son John traces her to an Omaha union with William Siebert. The couple quarrelled, she moved to Rushville Nebraska, while he stayed in Mussels Hill Montana.
Venezuela expresses surprise at US threats and insists Venezuela will maintain neutrality in the asphalt controversy a dispute among war companies. Caracas arrives in Washington with Dr KE Blanco the foreign minister delivering official notes to Charge Pu lid a. Meanwhile in Berlin Countess Von Wedel Berard loses her bid to salvage her controversial book with confiscation of the volumes.
Preparations in Tien Tsin aim to turn it into a military base for spring and summer as troops from Peking are expected to encamp nearby in gradual embarkation. Ice stores rise and options are taken on many large buildings in foreign concessions.
In Washington on January 33 the Senate debated a resolution by Mr. Allison mourning the death of Queen Victoria. The resolution lauded her virtues and renown and was adopted unanimously by the Senate of the United States.
In Pretoria on January 25 signs of sorrow over the queen’s death are visible as burghers show sympathy. Influential burghers have suggested an amnesty proposal that could hasten the return of peace.
Washington reports the state department has received no recent advices from Minister Conger and thus has no knowledge of the latest pas al meeting or events in PAKISTAN.
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