President McKinley's Message Highlights Foreign Affairs
McKinley outlines aims for 1900-01 including arbitration efforts, China indemnity issues, and open commerce. He notes progress in overseas relations, naval expansion, and the desire to extend cable links to Hawaii and Manila while detailing fiscal surpluses, tax relief proposals, and Philippine governance.
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Fifty-sixth Congress
Washington
Senate
House of Representatives
China
Russia
Court of Arbitration
Hingee
South America
Forthern Republlcs
Bolivia
Postofice Department
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Prussia
Great Britain
Africa
Portuguese South Africa
Delagea Bay
Pourport
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Hague
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Austria
Belgium
Denmark
England
France
Germany
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Persia
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Roumania
Siam
Spain
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Norway
Netherlands
Japan
Permanent Court of Arbitration
International Arbitration Bureau
Benjamin Harrison
Indiana
Melville W. Fuller
Iilliois
Nicaragua
State Department
Messures
Plotters Cause Mine Disaster In West Virginia
Morgantown reports State Mine Inspector James W. Paul says a Berryville Fayette County explosion that killed fourteen was a plotted attack by angry miners. The plotters were killed in their own trap as they lit the fuse and the blast tore them apart. witnesses saw them enter the powder house shortly before the blast.
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Morgantown
W. Va
James W. Paul
Berryville
Fayette County
Berlin
China
Volks Zeitung
Shane
Marseilles
Marchal
Count von Waldersee
Pekin
Ming Tombs
Yorck
Gayl
Yang Pang
Chen Pien Tcheng
Theng Stang
Niu Lan Shan
Collapse at San Francisco Glass Works Kills Thirteen
A roof collapse at the Pacific Glass Works on Fifteenth Street during a Stanford versus California football viewing event killed thirteen and injured over eighty. About two hundred workers and boys stood on the roof when the structure gave way, plunging into furnaces and vats below.
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San Francisco
Pacific Glass Works
Fifteenth Street
Giness Works
Stanford
University of California
Furnacea
Secretary Gage reports surplus revenues for 1900 and outlook
Washington special states Secretary Lyman J. Gage reports for the fiscal year ending June 30 1900 revenues totaled 6969695431 18 while expenditures reached 590068371 leaving a surplus of 79527060 18 The piece outlines estimated 1901 and 1902 receipts and expenditures with anticipated surpluses and notes on the sinking fund and national credit.
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United States
Spain
Armenia
American College
Harpool
Western Hemisphere
Buffalo
Postal Department
War Department
Navy Department
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Revenue Cutter Service
Treasury
Secretary of the Interior
Hawaii
Washington
Lyman J. Gage
Sessees
Burns kill ex constable in Dallas saloon murder
Pete Bain ex constable of Garland precinct Dallas county was burned to death in John Chapman's saloon after being drugged robbed and set afire. Chapman's bartender Ed Faulkner and the proprietor were arrested with three other men sought. A masked mob demanded custody.
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Dallas
Tex
Pete Bain
Garland
Dallas County
John Chapman
Parkland Hospital
Ed Faulkner
Bain
Owens
Fort Worth
Standard Oil Jumps To 810 In New York Trade
The Standard Oil certificates surged to 810, a 30 point gain for the day, with a market value surpassing 800 million. The Mail and Express notes a capital of 100 million and Rockefeller owning 43 percent, boosting his fortune and dividends totaling about 35 million in the past year.
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New York
Standard Oil
Mail and Express
John D. Rockefeller
West Point Cadet Booz dies after hazing claim
Oscar L Booz, a former West Point cadet from Bristol Pennsylvania, died at home after injuries his family alleges were caused by hazing two years earlier. The father claims tabasco and pepper were used during the hazing and that other abuses occurred. West Point officials deny the death stemmed from academy injuries.
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Philadelphia
Oscar L. Booz
West Point Military Academy
Bristol
Colonel Mills
West Point Academy
Booz
Filipinos Take Oath as Americans in Vigan Church
In Vigan Manila cable reports 2200 Filipinos mostly former insurgents pledged allegiance to the United States. The daylong ceremony featured General Young’s address and a priest’s exhortation. Rebels near Santa Maria have largely dispersed due to McKinley’s reelection, stronger troops, and strict war measures including deportations.
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Manila
Vigan
United States
G.n. Young
Santa Maria
Young
McKinley
Mantta
Populists Plan Mass Move to Indian Territory
A Lincoln dispatch reports Nebraska Populists, led by former state officials ousted in the recent election, plan wholesale emigration to the Indian Territory. They cite minority status and seek to improve uncultivated lands as the guise for this venture.
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Philipppines
China
Secretary of the Navy
Secretary of the Interior
Chicago
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Indian Territory
Diaz inaugurated for fifth time Mexico City ceremony
The article reports the inauguration ceremonies in Mexico City honoring General Diaz as president for the fifth time. It notes celebration on a Saturday with galas and official events surrounding the landmark political milestone.
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Mexico
Diaz
Bartimeus Healed On Jesus Passing In Jericho
Biblical lesson describes blind Bartimeus by the Jericho road crying to Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus asks what he will have, the man requests sight, and Jesus notes his faith hath made thee whole. He regains sight and follows Jesus, illustrating salvation as faith in Christ.
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