Wheat in Danger as Rain and Snow Hit North Dakota Fields
Reports from North Dakota and Manitoba describe nine days of rain and snow destroying unthrashed wheat. Only about 8 million bushels of a 26 million bushel Manitoba crop have been thrashed, with 7 million bushels damaged in Manitoba and up to 15 million in the Red River valley and North Dakota. Losses run to several million dollars as grain bleaches, stacks rot, and market movement slows.
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North Dakota
Manitoba
Red River Valley
Minneapolis
Washington
Oregon
Northwest
Torpedo Boat Davis Disaster Kills Seven on Trial Run
Seven men were killed when the torpedo boat Davis exploded during an official trial on the Columbia River near Skamokawa about seventy-five miles from Portland Oregon. The boiler tubes failed causing steam fill in the engine room trapping workers. All killed were employees of the Portland builders Wolff and Zwicker the loss falls on the builders.
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Davis
Portland
Columbia River
Skamokawa
Ore
Walker's Island
Shamokawa
Astoria
Wolff & Zwicker
Navy Department
Minneapolis Mills Break All Records For Flour Output
The Minneapolis flour mills run day and night to chase records before navigation closes. A large local company recently bought 25 000 barrels of flour from Pillsbury to meet booming orders and strong demand across the season.
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Minneapolis
Pillsbury Company
Plot to Proclaim a Spanish American Republic in Cuba
A private Havana telegram reports Captain General Blanco and General Pando planned to proclaim a Spanish American republic in Cuba after Santiago's surrender. The scheme could have triggered a new war with the United States if successful. Egyptian Geological Survey reveals ongoing mineral exploration in Sinai and along the Red Sea led by English geologists. Some explored areas show emerald mine evidence after long isolation.
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Cuba
Washington
Havana
Blanco
Pando
Santiago
United States
Red Sea
Sinai Peninsula
Compressed air propulsion eyed for New York ferries
Compressed air as a motive power is to be practically applied soon in New York. By the end of February about twenty two cars will run on lines serving West Twenty-third and East Thirty-fourth street ferries. Energy storage will allow each car to travel at least twenty miles.
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New York
Missouri Volunteers Fail Warranty of Bounty Plan Fails
Volunteers claim Missouri paid little to soldiers before war and lawyers uncover a statute promising a 75 percent bounty of about 80 per man. The Plug Tobacco Plan Fails as the American Tobacco Company allegedly breaks faith with small firms and a union manufacturer combine is rumored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Plug Tobacco Trust
American Tobacco Company
Chicago Peace Parade crowns jubilee with vast display
Chicago’s peace jubilee climaxed with a great military and civil parade reviewed by President and officers from the Union League Club. Officials and dignitaries attended despite cold winds and threatened rain as thirty thousand men marched through the business district.
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Chicago
Union League Club
Miles
Shafter and
Chaffee
Wilson
Cuba
van Buren Street
Chicago Jubilee Ball Raises $22000 for Soldiers Families
The Chicago Jubilee Ball at the Auditorium drew a host of high officials and celebrities to aid soldiers and sailors in need after the war. President McKinley attended, with his box and the diplomatic corps draped in flags, as attendees admired gowns and vibrant uniforms.
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Chicago
United States
Army
Navy
McSsinley
Skinning cadavers at Cooper Medical Institute shocks San Francisco
San Francisco residents react to revelations of skinning bodies by medical students and city health department staff at Cooper Medical Institute and the city hospital dissection room. Evidence points to months of cadaver skinning with skins processed into keepsakes. Separately, the Revenue Bureau updates rules on mixed flour labeling and advertising approvals.
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San Francisco
Cooper Medical Institute
Medical Department
State University
Health Department of
Dewey Stays in Manila Not Paris Visit
Secretary Long said reports of Admiral Dewey returning to the United States were erroneous. Dewey has declined repeated suggestions to go to Paris to advise the American peace commission, choosing to remain in Manila until the Philippines question is settled or danger lessens.
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Paris
Manila
Long
Admiral Dewey
United States
Navy Department
American Peace Commission
Philippines
Philippine
Novel Court Decision In Alienation Suit
New York Supreme Court jurors decide in favor of Grace Frezevant in the case against Mary U. Frezevant claiming 50 000 for alienating her husband’s affections. The verdict states a rich woman cannot alienate a poor man’s affections and should not suffer financially if reciprocity occurs.
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New York
Supreme Court
Grace Frezevant
Mary U. Frezevant
Desperate Battle Seizes Kansas Bank Robbers
Sheriff Mackey of Salina County Kansas and five deputies engage a gang in a nearly three hour fight near Salina. Blackey Clark is fatally shot, others wounded, and Deputy Lykens struck in the arm as robbers surrender after a long exchange of gunfire.
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Kansas
Mackey
Salina County
Blackey Clark
Lykens
Salina
Navy needs more men to re establish foreign stations
The Navy Department cites a shortage of full term personnel hindering plans to re establish overseas stations. About 8,000 enlisted men serve for war only, with peace imminent prompting discharge. 12,500 long term sailors largely serve with Dewey's fleet or on North Atlantic battleships. To send ships abroad, some armor vessels would be inactive, while the department seeks to keep battleships and armored cruisers in active service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Atlantic
Department
Bank Doors Closed as Pittsburg National Bank Solvent
The German National Bank of Pittsburg announces closure due to solvency and promises full depositor payment. Key factors cited are overexposure to Natalie Coal and Coke Company securities and large loans to Charles Burkdorf, once cashier, and Adolphus Groetzinger. The suspension followed confessions regarding judgments totaling 490,725.42.
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German National Bank of Pittsburg
Natalie Coal and Coke Company
Charles Burkdorf
Adolphus Groetzinger
Adolphus
William C
America adopts Cuban municipal debt stance in Spain talks
The American peace commissioners decide to recognize Cuban municipal indebtedness while freeing the island from the broader Spanish debt. They argue bonds borrowed by Cuban cities funded local needs and should remain a lien on property, though total urban debt figures remain unclear.
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America
Cuba
Storm Delays Farm Work Across Minnesota and Dakotas
Reports from Minnesota and the Dakotas describe widespread farming disruptions due to snow and rain. Nennedy, Lisbon, and Tyndall report heavy snowfall, drifted fields, and wet soils halting plowing and thrashing with less than half of fields worked.
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Minnesota
Dakotas
Nennedy
Minn
Lisbon
Marion Junction
S. D
Aberdeen
Tyndall
Epidemic in Mississippi Nears End as Fever Declines
Yellow fever in Mississippi weakens as cooler weather is seen to end the outbreak. Towns abandon shotgun patrols and quarantine guards seek other work as the disease loses momentum.
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Mississippi
Steamship Mariposa Brings Record Gold Shipment
The steamer Mariposa arrived in San Francisco from Australia and Honolulu with 785 000 English sovereigns totaling about 3 750 000 dollars. It marks the largest single shipment of specie ever received from Australia.
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San Francisco
Australia
Honolulu
Explosion at Ashtabula relic furnace shocks workers
In Ashtabula Ohio a British shell from 1812 was found in scrap iron at Phoenix iron works. It entered the furnace and caused a large blast blowing the doors from the furnace but causing no injuries to workers in the foundry.
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Ashtabula
Ohio
Phoenix Iron Works
New Peach Tree Disease Strikes Michigan Orchards
In southwestern Michigan vast peach orchards face a new disease said to be more serious than yellows. Saugatuck Township alone reports about 4,000 trees destroyed across several large orchards.
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Michigan
Saugatuck
Three Die From Toadstool Poisoning In Trenton Home
At Henry Goldback residence in Trenton New Jersey three people died from poisoning and four others remain in critical condition.
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Henry Goldback
Trenton
N. J
Race War Leaves Harpersville in Turmoil
In Harpersville Mississippi a race clash erupts after Constable Thompson leads a posse to arrest William Burke a black man charged with murder. Burke fortifies a log house as about fifty negroes join the defense. A morning assault claims Henry Sibley and multiple other posse members die or are wounded. The region erupts with whites arming themselves to confront the factions.
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Harpersville
Miss
Scott County
Thompson
William Burke
Jlarpersville
Burke
Charles Freeman
Henry Sibley
Filipino Assembly Reveals Annexation Favor Across Delegates
The Filipino National Assembly met at Malolos on Sept. 15 with Aguinaldo in formal attire. He delivered an inaugural address as delegates cheered for free Philippines and Americans. Seventy delegates showed varied stances: eighteen for annexation, twelve for independence, forty for American protectorate with annexation leanings.
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Malolos
Aguinaldo
Philippines
Murderers Escape Noose in Muscogee Federal Ruling
Judge Springer in Muscogee I T holds no court can punish Creek Nation members for crimes in Creek country before 1898 after tribal courts were abolished last June. The ruling frees William Tigis, convicted of murder, and Chiffon Flennelly with Belcher Smith, both under death sentence, from custody.
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Indian Territory
Springer
Muscogee
I. T
West
Christendom
William Tigis
Chiffon Flennelly
Belcher Smith
Two Hundred Chinamen Vanish From Omaha Exposition
Two hundred Chinese workers brought to run two villages at a trans Mississippi exposition have disappeared. The Wong Ching Foo Company held a $25,000 bond for their return. Treasury orders call for federal marshals to arrest and deport the runaways. Reportedly many were women sold to bidders.
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Omaha
United States
Wong Ching Foo Company
Chicago
Treasury Department
Spaniards Defiant May Prompt Warship Move to Havana
The Spanish reply to the American commission shows defiance over protests. A cable to President Mel Finley seeks authority to enforce respect for protests as 150 cannons were sold in defiance. Officials are accused of brigandage against islanders.
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Havana Bay
Tlavana
Havana
United States
American Commission
Mel Finley
Flood Disaster in China Drowns Thousands and Destroys Homes
A Yellow River flood in Shantung swallows villages and leaves about 100000 people ruined and homeless. Two thousand drowned, crops ruined, famine feared next winter. In Canton a vessel overturning kills another two hundred.
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China
Shantung
Canton
Clamor for Wages Delays in Havana City
Havana city employees, whose wages are long overdue, rallied in a delegation that forced entry into the mayor’s private office demanding immediate pay. The mayor refused to meet with them and police were summoned to eject the demonstrators.
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Havana
Havana City
Porto Rican voter seeks registration after claim of annexation
Antonio Velez Alvarado, born in Porto Rico and living in New York ten years, argues annexation grants him American suffrage. He tried to register but clerks denied registration for lacking citizenship papers. Election board members said he must obtain a court order before his name can be registered.
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Antonio Velez Alvarado
Porto Rico
New York
Ex Queen Lil declines claim to Hawaiian lands before commission
The former Hawaiian royal family claimant did not present a claim to the Hawaiian commission, opting to press Congress directly. The report notes opposition among commission members including two American members and Senator Morgan, with speculation that Cul lom and Hitt would side against her. The article also cites Wright’s forthcoming annual labor report and other diverse items.
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Lil
Iawaiian Commission
Hawaiian Islands
Dole
Commission
Congress of the
United States
Morgan
Cullom
Hitt
Congress
Americans Defeat Germans in Hong Kong Sailor Clash
Officers of the Empress of Japan report a short before departure confrontation between American and German sailors in Hong Kong ended with an American victory. Also noted is the Corean minister of justice dismissed for permitting brutal mutilation of executed individuals. Massachusetts census lists agricultural product value at 598 million and land value at 219 million dollars.
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Hong Kong
Massachusetts
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