Revolution Strikes Colombia as Liberals Seize Port Town
Dispatches report Tumaco's Morro fortress captured, government troops besieged. Other cables say Colombia's revolution has suffered a severe setback with Gen Rosas killed, Venezuelan leaders captured and later escaped, while a Chilean ship loaded with weapons is detained in San Francisco for Salvadoran government aid.
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New York
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Herald
Colombia
Antonio Rosas
Ecuadorian
Rosas
la Guayra
Caracas
San Francisco
Marquis Ito sails for Europe from New York on Ryndam
Marquis Ito former prime minister of Japan sails to Boulogne on the Ryndam after a warm reception in New York. He thanks Americans for kindness and cordiality and notes a Yale honorary degree. He plans to reach Paris for the winter and perhaps travel to Japan later, avoiding discussion of Japan politics.
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Marquis Ito
Japan
New York
Boulogne
Ryndam
Yale University
Paris
Potter Lumber Mills Burn at Dry Fork in Jaeger West Virginia
In Jaeger West Virginia on October 26 a fire destroyed the W M Potter Lumber company mills at Dry Fork. The new mills were built to replace those lost in last spring's Elkhorn flood. Estimated losses run around $60,000 with $25,000 covered by insurance.
Negotiations Progress on Ellen Stone Kidnap Case
Reports from Constantinople and New York indicate negotiations with the Melnik brigands over Ellen M Stone and Mme Tsilka proceed with caution and optimism. Bulgarian Interior Minister Sarakoff says troops and cordons are active on the frontier and near Jel tepe in search of the captors and captives.
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Melnik
Salonica
Ellen M. Stone
Mme Tsilka
Miss Stone
Mme. Tsilko
Briganda
New York
Ellen M Stone
Witng Tsilka
Sofia
Bulgaria
World One
Jeltepe
Nevrokup
Sarakoff
Journal and Advertiser
Perm
Body Found in Ruins of Market Street Fire
Philadelphia October 26 another body was recovered from the ruins of Hunt Wilkinson and Co building at 1219 21 Market street after a Friday fire. The death toll stands at 20 with 11 still missing as debris hampers rescue work. Authorities search hospitals and employee homes to identify missing workers and assess losses totaling about half a million dollars.
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Philadelphia
Hupt, Wilkinson & Co
Market Street
Commerce Street
Tspartmdas of Public Safety
Hunt, Wilkinson & Co
Hunt, Wilkinson, & Co
Henry Lee
William F. Potts & Son
Rixey Reports McKiley Wounding And Death In Line Of Duty
Dr Presley M Rixey files official Navy Surgeon General report on President McKiley illness and death. The narrative logs exact time, foods, medicines, and procedures, detailing gangrene from gunshot wounds to stomach walls and pancreas with autopsy and lab findings attached.
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Washington
Leon F Czolgusz
Navy
Presley M Rixey
Sb S. N
McKiley
Berea safe burglars strike hardware store and foundry
Safe blowers attacked Berea ten miles from Cleveland on a Saturday morning. They opened the Lawrence and Knightman hardware store safe and the Dunham foundry office safe, netting about $100 in cash and nearly $5,000 in negotiable bonds. The quiet robbery left residents unroused and the cracksmen remain at large. Port Townsend report says the schooner Halcyon is missing with Captain Charles Thomas aboard after Behring Sea voyage begun in 1900. Five crew escaped to St Lawrence. Captain Thomas refused to leave the vessel.
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Berea
Lawrence and Knightman's Hardware
Dunham Foundry
Port Townsend
Wash
Tuttle
United States Revenue
Bear
Halcyon
Puget Sound
Behring Sea
Charles Thomas
St. Lawrence
Thomas
Milner Seeks Slow Progress Toward Peace in South Africa
Lord Alfred Milner doubts a rapid settlement in South Africa and hopes Natal visits spur tentative steps toward a peaceful prosperous British South Africa. London critics urge a clearer Liberal policy on South Africa amid cabinet rumor and discontent at Cambridge.
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Pietermaritzburg
Natal
Lord Alfred Milner
South Africa
Corporation
Lord Milner
London
Cambridge Union
Cambridge
Trade Review notes steady industrial activity into 1902
R G Dun says mills and shops operate full into year end with many contracts into 1902. Demand for staple goods remains urgent, holidays spark early fancy orders, and iron and steel output shows sustained improvement. Coal, grain, and cotton movements stay varied with regional collection performance.
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New York
R G. Dun & Co
Aeel
United States
Canada
Bradstreet’s
Northwest
Champion Runner Dead
New York reported the death of British champion half mile runner A E Tysoe. He defeated J F Cregan of Princeton at the Anglo American athletic meeting in 1900.
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New York
A E. Tysoe
J F. Cregan
Princeton
Resigns Position as Third Assistant Secretary of State
Washington reports Thomas W Cridler will leave the state department to become European commissioner of the Louisiana Purchase exposition with nearly double the pay. He is to be succeeded by Herbert H D Peirce, currently secretary of the legation in St Petersburg, a Massachusetts native who joined diplomacy in 1894.
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State Department
Turkey
Misa Stone
Eddy
Dickinson
Thomas W Cridler
Cridier
Moses P. Hands
West Virginia
Herbert HD. Peirce
St Petersburg
Massachusetts
Tond
British government ships potatoes to the Cape from Hamburg
Oct. 26 report says the British government is buying potatoes in Germany for South Africa and has shipped 25,000 boxes to the Cape from Hamburg.
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Ie Verlin
Germany
South Africa
Cape
Hamburg
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