Insurrection Statistics Show US Deaths and Losses in Philippines
Major James Parker reports 2,561 engagements between Feb 4 1899 and Apr 20 1902 with 4,470 total deaths and 2,897 killed or wounded. American casualties include 139 officers and 4,016 enlisted men, plus 282 non-battle deaths. The average force was about 40,000 with 4,135 officers and 123,303 enlisted arrivals through July 16.
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Washington
James Parker
Adjutant General’s Office
Philippines
Manila
Parker
Sloop Lovell Delle Capsizes. Mother and Infant Drown
In the Ogeechee river near Hell Gate a squall capsized the sloop Lovell Delle owned by Captain Allen N. Calder of Thunderbolt. Calder and his wife were seriously injured. his father may die. His aged mother and infant daughter drowned.
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Savannah
Lovell Delle
Allen N. Calder
Thunderbolt
Ogeechee River
Hell Gate
Governor commutes Indian boy’s death sentence to life
Guthrie Oklahoma July 24 Governor Ferguson commutes Cephas Bruner Indian boy's death sentence to life imprisonment for the murder of Martin West, aged twelve, near Violet Springs in December last. Causes Discussion Havana July 24 congress argues over a four million dollar loan linked to a thirty two million dollar package for Cuba's army. Two hundred Crowned Hong Kong July 24 native steamer capsizes in the Weat river drowning two hundred. Root sails New York July 24 secretary Root mails to Europe.
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Guthrie
O. T
Ferguson
Cephas Bruner
Tecumseh
Martin West
Violet Springs
Okla
Havana
Joan
Congress
Hong Kong
Weat
Root
New York
Europe
Tracey Bobs Up Western Outlaw Visits a Logging Camp
Harry Tracy the outlaw appeared at Miller's logging camp near Kansas city four miles from Tacoma on Tuesday. He is uninjured and fresh dressed in a derby hat with a slouch hat in his pocket. Tracy warned Louis Ward that he will never be captured alive and will kill others before surrendering.
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Tacoma
Wash
Harry Tracy
Miller’s
Kansas
Kat
Tracy
Louis Ward
Sawyer Lake
King County
Seattle
Law
Polish Chamberlain Appeals to Emperor Over Posen Visit
Berlin reports that Chamberlain Von Morawski appeals to Emperor William to skip a September army maneuvers at Posen fearing Polish fanatic threats. Racial feeling runs high and Berlin papers doubt the emperor will alter plans due to advisers' timidity.
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Berlin
von Morawski
William
Posen
Agitation in Paris Over Congregationalist School Closings
Paris dispatch notes protests sparked by Prime Minister Combes order to close congregationalist schools. Demonstrations occur nationwide with professed supporters urging closure while nationalists join clericals, though no major incidents reported.
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Paris
Combes
M. Ferry
Striong
Boers Honor Traditions in Cape Town Welcome
Generals Botha and Delarey arrived in Cape Town from Pretoria to a crowd at the railway station. At a Dutch Reformed church meeting they thanked attendees for the welcome and urged cooperation with the British while affirming Boer traditions persist despite burying their Mausers and flag.
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Cape Town
Botha
Delarey
Pretoria
Europe
Lerve
South Africa
Delaney
Murder of La Porte man near Raton shocks hometown
La Porte Indiana reports the murder of Harry Ball who was killed in a restaurant confrontation near Raton New Mexico. Waite, the restaurant owner, fired without warning and fled but was captured and jailed. Ball was a well known local resident and his friends plan to fund the prosecution.
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la Porte
Ind
Harry Ball
Raton
N. M
Ball
Waite
Swede dies in railroad gravels accident on Hill
In London Ohio a Swede worker on the Columbus London and Springfield electric road was crushed when gravel cars started down Markley Hill. He failed to escape and was killed, with another injured worker likely to die from his injuries.
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London, O
Columbus, London
Earthquakes Hit St Vincent Amid War News
Telegrams report another quake in St Vincent while Secretary Root begins a European tour. Notes mention W W Mackay deeds, a railroad merger plan, Gulf of Mexico survey, Russo American tariff views, a Kentucky mother’s murder suicide, Vatican appointments in the Philippines, Ladrone chiefs breaking through a guard line, and WWI era army commission numbers.
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St. Vincent
Root
John W. Mackay
Gates
Gulf of Mexico
Russia
Ellen Turley
Hopkins County
Vatican
Philippines
Manila
Spain
Deluge of Rain Floods Illinois River Region
Severe floods sweep Whiteside and Bureau counties with the Illinois River and tributaries on a rampage. Thousands of acres of corn and unharvested grain are lost as farm stock drowns and homes wash away. Many families shelter on hills as canal and river basins overflow.
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Clinton
Whiteside
Bureau
Illinois
Mississippi River
Hennepin Canal
Green River
Levee Breach Floods 12 000 Acres Near Havana Ill
A section of Lacy levee at Havana Illinois washed away by Illinois River waters inundating 12 000 acres of land, 5000 under cultivation. Water depth ranges from five to ten feet as surface level rises from 19 feet 1 inch. Workmen battled to save the levee and farmers were warned. No fatalities reported though property losses could not yet be estimated.
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Havana
Ill
Illinois River
Lacy Levee
Cloudburst Causes Flooding and Damage in Waterloo
A July 23 cloudburst in Waterloo Iowa caused about 50000 dollars in damage and displaced twenty families. Streets flooded with two to three feet of water while basements escaped only in few areas. Dry Run creek flooded again but no deaths were reported.
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Waterloo
Dry Run
Assassination Plot Tied to Cockrill Faction in Lexington
A Cockrill faction member arriving from Jackson says four men were in the courtroom when James Cockrill was shot and two fired from separate windows. He reports the shooters escaped during the night and their whereabouts are unknown. He adds the faction intends to await legal justice rather than more killings.
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Lexington
Cockrill
Jackson
James Cockrill
Murder at Doorstep Claims Post Clerk in Cleveland
In Cleveland on July 23 J Frederick Lyman a distributing clerk at the post office was shot by an unknown man who lured him to his home door and fired three shots two hitting his abdomen. He died within fifteen minutes. Lyman could not identify his attacker in an ante mortem statement.
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Cleveland
J. Frederick Lyman
Lyman
Sailor dies in fall from schooner mast at Detroit wharf
Alexander Smith perished in Detroit on July 24 while attempting a dive from the mainmast of a schooner at the wharf. He lost balance twenty feet above the water and struck the water on his side with fatal impact.
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Detroit
Mich
Alexander Smith
Jealous Fireman Fatally Shoots Wife Then Wounds Child
Cincinnati police report Richard Mullen a 33 year old fireman shot and killed his wife 17 after a jealous rage last night then wounded his two year old child. The wife was shot through the left breast and is expected to die the baby was shot in the left arm but not seriously injured.
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Cincinnati
Richard Mullen
One Man's Growth Widens Hugh J McGowan Career
Indianapolis July 24. Hugh J McGowan the Kansas City stable boy turned sheriff and asphaltum pioneer donates 10000 to the national technical institute fund. He rose through streetcar service to become a leading interurban figure in Cincinnati and Indianapolis and now heads major street and interurban ventures. His gift marked by civic philanthropy as he remains a prominent Kansas City and Indianapolis figure. Congressman Jesse Overstreet, New York trip, andpolitical maneuvering surround campaign leadership as Cy Neal weighs Studebaker tax losses. Newcastle promoter Charles Hernly advances electric line plans.
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Indianapolis
Hugh J. McGowan
National Technical Institute Fund
Kansas City
Asphaltum Trust
Cincinnati
McGowan
Jesse Overstreet
New York
Babcock
Republican National Congressional Campaign Committee
Overstreet
Congress
Charles S. Hernly
Newcastle
Republican State Committee
Hernly
Pendleton
Union Traction
Tragedy Strikes Canadian Mounted Rifles in Winnipeg
Soldiers Davy and Espie of the Canadian Mounted Rifles drowned when their boat capsized in the Assiniboine River yesterday. Davy had just returned from London where he served as an attache of the United States military mission to the coronation.
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Winnipeg
Man
Davy
Espie
Canadian Mounted Rifles
Assiniboine River
London
United States
Three Farmers Die by Their Own Hands in Indiana
Reports from Sullivan, North Vernon, Goshen and Tell City describe four suicides or attempted suicides. Charles Pigg, 20, near Sullivan, took arsenic but remains precarious. J B Moody, a train dispatcher from North Vernon, died by own action in Jackson, Mississippi. Jacob Fulmer, 50, near Napanee hanged himself. Fred Keiser, 84, near Tell City, jumped into a well after two years of poor health.
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Sullivan
Ind
Charles Pigg
Wiley Pigg
Pigg
North Vernon
J. B. Moody
Jackson, Miss
Tell City
Fred Keiser
Vengeance Demanded Over Warrick County Crime
Evansville Indiana July 24 Warrick county joins residents stirred by Ed Gains a negro cutting the throat of Union Tzschoppe a young farmer In Chandler and Stevens Station anger runs high after Gains set straw on fire with a match and later attacked Tzschoppe with a razor prompting calls for vengeance
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Warrick County
Evansville
Ind
Ed Gains
Union Tzschoppe
Chandler
Stevens Station
Tzschoppe
Gains
Ice cream social poison scare hits Dunkirk mission
In Logansport Indiana on July 24 an ice cream social at Kenneth's stone quarries hosted by a colored mission soured as attendees were dosed with a drug. About fifty became deathly sick though no deaths occurred, with several in serious condition. motive appears linked to opposition to establishing the church.
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Logansport
Ind
Dunkirk
Kenneth’s
Union disputes hit Columbian enameling factory workers
Terre Haute July 24 The management of the Columbian enameling factory is discharging workers for forming a union. Manager Topping confirms about twenty five fired, while workers claim more than 100 have been let go. He asserts unions bring labor troubles.
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Terre Haute
Ind
New Columbian Enameling
Topping
Counterfeit Silver Dollars Found in Eel River
Boys swimming in Eel river at Logansport Indiana recovered counterfeit silver dollars from the stream bottom. Several pieces were turned over to the police. The discovery was made near the former home of 8 B Nickum known for perpetual light fame.
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Logansport
Ind
Eel River
8. B. Nickum
Perpetual Light Fame
Spurious Union Labels Alarm Indiana City Council
Brasil, July 24. Central Trades and Labor council protests appearance of bogus union labels on non union goods used to mislead buyers of union made items. Nashville, July 24. Fourteen year old Charles Gillespie killed when his gun discharged after he jumped on a rail fence to reload it.
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Brasil
Ind
Central Trades and Labor Council
Beius
Nashville
Charles Gillespie
Petition Calls Election On $26000 Run Bond In Union City
A circulated petition in Union City Indiana dated July 24 asks voters to elect on the question of a $26000 bond issue for a local project. The item notes Dayton and other nearby areas involved in the push.
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Union City
Ind
Dayton
Tne
Jeffries and Fitzsimmons in peak condition, weigh-in near
In Oakland Jeffries completes rope training 1 600 times then rows on Lake Merritt and weighs 217 pounds, with a projected 218 at Friday’s bout. Fitzsimmons jogs at Golden Gate park and sparring at the Olympic club. experts say both look ready though age and weight gap may favor Jeffries.
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San Francisco
Jeffries
Reliance Club
Oakland
Delaney
Lake Merritt
Fitzsimmons
Golden Gate Park
Terminal Hotel
Griffin
Andy Gallagher
Olympic Club
Fitz
Wells Fargo express car robbed near Bermenillo
A Chihuahua dispatch reports a robbery of the Wells Fargo express car on the northbound Mexican Central Tuesday morning near Bermenillo. Three Americans reportedly held up the messenger and looted the safe of $53,000. Rural police are in pursuit.
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el Paso
Tex
Chihuahua
Mex
Bermenillo
Determined Father Alleges Horse Theft In Greentown
Emerson Stevens of Greentown is jailed in Kokomo on a warrant from his father accusing him of stealing a horse. The horse owner is not identified and the father has not withdrawn the charge.
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Kokomo
Ind
Emerson Stevens
Greentown
Market Report Prevailing Grain and Livestock Prices
In Indianapolis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago, and Toledo markets prices showed steady to firm tones across grain and livestock. Wheat and corn held firm or steady, cattle and hogs mixed with steady bids, lambs and sheep showing varied activity by region.
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Indianapolis
Louisville
Cincinnati
Ste
Chicago
New York
East Buffalo
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