Week In Review: Global Turmoil And Domestic Strife
A digest of 1897 weekly events notes New Guinea natives killing Australian miners, Kansas drought hurting corn, and tax seizures under new tariff. Senators Quay and Morgan travel to the Sandwich Islands, while labor unrest flares in Trenton and Phillipsburg. Pack trains across Dyea face rising costs as Dyea limits loom. Monitors suffer, Yorktown and Boston sailors face abuse in Kobe.
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New Guinea
Kansas
Quay and
Morgan
Sandwich Islands
Spanish Premier Canovas Shot at Bathing Site
Senor Canovas del Castillo, Spain's prime minister, was fatally shot at Santa Agueda by an Italian anarchist named Rinialdi or Angelo Angelo Galli. The assassin claimed just vengeance as he fired three shots wounding Canovas in the head and chest. the premier died eight hours later.
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Madrid
Senor Canovas del Castillo
Spain
Santa Agueda
San Sebastian
Vittoria
Alava
Bilbio
United States
Woodford
Rinialdi
Angelo Angelo Galli
Canovas
Senor Canovas
Marshal Martinez Campos
Senor Sagasta
Vergara
Hamblet Arraigned for Rock Creek Dance Murder
Jack Hamblet will be tried in Long Creek for the February 23, 1894 murder of Benjamin Gammany after a dance altercation. Hamblet, captured in Boise City, fled after the killing and was pursued by armed parties before evacuating to the mountains. Shortage in the Blue Mountain peach belt follows reports from Chambersburg and notes crop declines in Wisconsin Ohio Delaware and Maryland.
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Long Creek
Benjamin Gammany
Jack Hamblet
Boise City
Idaho
Livingstone
Rock Creek
Gammany
Hamblet
Chambersburg
Blue Mountain
Pennsylvania
Maryland
James Englore
Wisconsin
Ohio
Delaware
Yukon Gold Rush May Draw 100000 Men Next Spring
A Tacoma report based on banker Hugh C. Wallace's interviews says the Yukon will yield vast gold and draw up to 100000 men to Alaska next spring. He notes easy river digging, reduced travel barriers, and a rush from Puget Sound and Europe, with many already planning to move in February through May.
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Tacoma
Hugh C. Wallace
Klondike
Portland
Yukon
Dawson City
Puget Sound
Alaska
Strikers Win Ground at Turtle Creek and Sandy Creek
Pittsburg Aug 9 Out of 2000 strikers who camped at Turtle Creek last Saturday barely 300 remain at Camp Determination. Many were drafted to Plum Creek as the struggle with the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company intensifies. Turtle Creek No 4 mine is shut tight while Sandy Creek shows similar conditions. Plum Creek reports vary with 265 claimed by supervisors and 80 by strikers. Deputies face strain, resignations, and constant alert as private wires and scouts track movements and report marches daily. Feeding and lodging for deputies are strained and unfamiliar hard ships compound discomfort.
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Pittsburg
Turtle Creek
Plum Creek
New York & Cleveland Gas Coal Company
Turtle and
Sandy Creeks
Tesla's World Wireless System Claimed Complete
Nicola Tesla announces completion of a system to transmit messages via the earths electrical currents to many surface points around the globe. He demonstrates an electrical disturbance of great magnitude felt worldwide and insists no wires are needed for global communication.
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New York
Nicola Tesla
Tam
Rioting in Calcutta and Hudson River Tunnel Revival
A Calcutta volunteer report claims artillery killed 1,500 natives during rioting, later disputed by the Indian secretary of state who cites about seven deaths and 20 injuries. Separately, New York reports revival of the Hudson River tunnel project to link New York and New Jersey with $1.5 million needed to complete the remaining sections.
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London
London News
Calcutta
New York
Hudson River
New Jersey
Jersey City
President Abandons Pacific Coast Trip
San Francisco August 9 Mayor Phelan says Attorney General McKenna reports President McKinley has assured him the proposed Pacific coast trip has been abandoned for the year.
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San Francisco
Phelan
McKenna
McKinley
Pacific Coast
Merchants Charter Vessels for Wheat Cargo to Rio de Janeiro
The bureau of American republics reports Rio de Janeiro merchants chartered two San Francisco vessels to carry Californian wheat to Rio. It is a first such agreement attributed to the Argentine and Paraguayan crop shortage. The note also mentions the common house sparrow flying at 92 miles per hour.
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Washington
Aug. C
Bureau of American Republice
Rio Janeiro
San Francisco
Rio
Argentine Republic
Paraguay
Tragic Fate of Inlet Miners After Arctic Storm
Seattle August report confirms the deaths of Charles A Blackstone George Butcher and J W Malique Cook's Inlet miners missing since April Blackstone's body with a diary shows his partners froze to death The party sailed from Seattle in March 1896 to prospect Cook Inlet Glacier crossing marked by extreme cold and starvation Blackstone found May 27 with remains buried He was 39 a Oregon native later years in Portland Centralia and Seattle Butcher Montana native 68 years Malique Indiana native 28 a Hamilton College graduate and experienced miner The tale notes Hall a Seattle prospector who later aided the group and became their partner
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Charles A. Blackstone
George Butcher
J. W. Malique
Cook's Inlet
Blackstone
Lakme
Alaska
Butcher
Malique
Portage
Sunrise City
George Hall
Oregon
Portland
Centralia
Wash
Batcher
Montana
Five Firemen Die in Chicago Grain Elevator Blast
A Chicago grain elevator explosion at Cook and West Water streets during a fire killed five men, four of them firefighters. An additional fireman possibly buried in debris and another unidentified man blown into the river were reported missing or injured among dozens struck by glass and debris.
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Chicago
Cook
West Water Streets
Jacob J. Schnur
Joseph Strikman
John J. Coogan
Jacob
Stramer
Silver bullion drops across markets and a massive Tule Cypress noted
Silver fell sharply in New York and London with New York bid at 55e per ounce and London’s quote down 9d from yesterday. The decline marks the season’s steepest drop since June 1893. A Tule Cypress in Oaxaca, Mexico, records a 164 foot circumference.
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New York
London
London Dispatches
India
Flour price surge reported in Chicago market
Chicago reports flour rising to 58 dollars per barrel from 4.10 dollars in April. Traders expect continued gains toward wartime levels as prices move higher. In a separate note, a bridge collapse in Kertle province, Estonia causes drownings.
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Chicago
Claims Are All Taken at Clondyke Gold Rush
Clondyke rush empties claims within 160 miles of Dawson City with prospectors moving northward as Alaska mining threatens supply lines. Officials warn of hardship and possible mine closures in California as Amador and neighboring counties lose workers to the Klondike fields.
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J. C. Butler
Pullman Car Company
K. P. Taylor
Seattle
Taylor
Clondyke
Dawson City
Niebaum
Alaska Commercial Company
Hart Humber
Dawson
Chilkoot Pass
Amador County
Alaska
Brooklynites plan Alaska gold expedition in February
A group of six ambitious Brooklyn residents led by David P. Watsons, clerk of the Republican general committee, organizes an Alaska gold expedition to depart in February. In Tacoma Washington fourteen steamers are slated to sail to the Alaska fields before September first as interest grows.
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New York
Tacoma
Wash
Alaska
Oil Sprinkling Dust Solution Tested on Tracks
May's Landing New Jersey reports Chief Engineer Nicholas of West Jersey and Seashore railway found crude oil applied to ground along tracks lays dust effectively. Tracks from Camden to Atlantic City will be saturated six feet each side. Oil sprinkling trains covered over 20 miles with costs estimated at 80 dollars per mile per year for one application. Two applications may be needed. Pennsylvania system to follow.
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New York
the Herald
May's Landing
N. J
Nicholas
West Jersey & Seashore Railway
Camden
Atlantic City
Pennsylvania
Fatal quarrel and death follow marriage after Miss Newton
Grand Rapids reports a marriage between A H Dailey of Jennison and Chicago widow Mrs Hattie M Newton after a flood of 500 marriage offers. A quarrel led to separation and Dailey forced entry to her room, shot her, then drank strychnine in a saloon and died. The wife survives. Also: a fatal cattle dispute near Mc Swain ranch ends with L A Woodford killed by Patay Reardon who surrendered. U S population set at 77,000,069 with money per person at 22.54.
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Mich
A. H. Dailey
Jennison
Swift
Dailey
Hattie M. Newton
Chicago
Madera
Cal
Crane Valley
McSwain Ranch
Patay Reardon
L. A. Woodford
Reardon
Washington
Aug. C
United States
Actuary of the Treasury
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