Worldwide Briefs from War Era Wires
A compilation from the two hemispheres reports Iowa mineworkers seeking an eight hour day, Cuban railways under foreign syndicate control, and Protestant gravesite disputes in Havana. Other items cover cipher telegrams in the Philippines, naval pay for overtime workers, Otis reporting war deaths, Gomez’s ransom demand, a blizzard across the Mississippi valley, and Alaska to Pacific Northwest land grabs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otis
War Department
Kansas
Colorado
California
Pennsylvania
Allen E. Carlyle
Washington
Earld A. Jeans
Wistar Hawthorne
Oregon
Gomez
Arma
Ile
World events mix with wars and industry shifts
Reports from Manila describe a weekend battle with 20 Americans killed and 175 wounded as insurgents attacked positions, while naval shelling and casualties rise. Across the U S, massive corporate consolidations form whisky distillers and potteries monopolies in New York, and mining, transport, and snowslide disasters strain frontier towns.
Clash of Arms as Americans Fight Insurgents
Manila February seventh reports a sharp clash between American troops and Filipino insurgents at Santa Mesa Calocan and Paco. US forces suffer about twenty dead and one hundred twenty five wounded with sustained artillery and rifle fire from multiple positions and reinforcements pushing the Filipino line back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Nebraska
Santa Mesa
Greeley
Caloean
Montana
North Dakota
Calocan
Gagalangin
Balik-Balik
Paco
Pandacan
Utah
United States
Charleston
Concord
Malabon
Monadnock
Malate
California
Washington
Monument to Maine Heroes and Philippines Clash in Senate
The senate approved a joint resolution authorizing a granite monument in Colon Cemetery Havana to memorialize the Maine sailors and marines with a $10,000 appropriation. A separate resolution disclaims permanent sovereignty over the Philippines and calls for a transfer of rights after a stable government is established. The session featured opposition to scheduling a vote on peace treaty interpretations, ending with adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Chamber of Commeree
New York
Hale
Naval Affairs Committee
Secretary of the Navy
Colon
Havana
Cuba
Maine
Harris
United States
Philippines
Spain
Money
Daniel
Friends of the Treaty
Filipino insurgents repulsed as U S forces drive advances
Manila dispatch dated February 7 reports sustained fighting as U S forces at 8 45 p m repulsed repeated assaults on outer lines. By daybreak they counter attacked driving insurgents from former positions while capturing several villages and defenses. U S casualties around 175 with few fatalities. Several hundred insurgents captured or drowned. casualties for the Filipinos described as thousands killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Othe
Otis
Manila
Washington, D. C
London Post
Pasig
Instruction to crush Aguinaldo revolt in the Philippines
Washington February 7 instruction will be sent to Major General Orie directing him to pursue victory over the insurgents and to crush their power in the Philippines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Instructiona
Orie
Aguinaldo
Philippines
Alaska cession to Britain may reach Klondike access
Washington reports a subcommittee may recommend ceding a strip of Alaska to Great Britain to grant Britain control of Skagway and Dyea while Americans retain headwaters of the Lynn Canal. The proposal could place the two Klondike supply towns under British influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Alaska
Klondike
Great Britain
Anglo-American Commission
Skagway
Dyea
Lynn Canal
Murders of Missionaries in China Reported At Changan Chiang
J R Adams of the Chinege inland mission visited the scene and reported a mob in Changan Chiang vowed to kill every foreigner. Evangelist Pan and Englishman Fleming were slain after a futile rescue attempt as about 200 onlookers watched from across the river. In Washington indications point to a court of inquiry into General Miles remarks on beet supply quality in the late war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
China
Changan Chiang
Fleming
Evangelist Pan
J. R. Adams
Chinege
North China Daily News
Changan
Mr. Fleming
Washington
Miles
Two-Bored Wagon Hit by Freight Train At Riverton
A two-bored wagon carrying five men and a young woman was struck by a Baltimore & Ohio freight at Riverton station. Four men died and another man and the woman were so badly injured they are expected to die.
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Pittsburg
Baltimore & Ohio
Riverton Station
Hepburn Nicaragua canal bill sent for debate with amendments
Washington February 6 the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce gave a favorable report on the Hepburn Nicaragua canal bill with amendments as a counterpart to the Morgan bill passed by the senate. Record breaking voyage: the Buffalo reached Manila in 64 days from New York carrying about 700 enshore to relieve Dewey's fleet and will serve as a regular transport for men and naval stores between Manila and San Francisco. It is noted that Britain spends at least 26 million dollars annually on silk goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Cable Company
United States
Philippines
Senate Committee On Naval Affairs
Spain
Hohenlohe
Warpuhnen
Boirheim
Asa B. Carey
Mississippi Valley
St. Louisa
Pacific Northwest
Jane L. Stanford
Leland Stanford
Seventeenth
United States Infantry
Columbus
New York
Hawaiian Islands
F. W. Peck
Paria Exposition
Congress
Aguinaldo
Gomez
Cuba
Charles Beresford
San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce
Manila
Lincoln Gulch
Aspen
Colo
Seventeenth Infantry
Sherman
Kentucky Distillers & Warehouse Company
American Pottery Companies
Washington
Houes
Senate
Buffalo
Dewey
Oregon Solons Pass Initiative Referendum Bills in Senate
Oregon leaders push through eight senate bills at the recent session, including charter amendments for Lakeview and Medford, a road work bill for Marion county, and savings measures. The legislature also debates reapportionment, county governance tweaks, and various fiscal appropriations while pledging further action on initiative and referendum.
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Senate
Marion County
Express Rates On Fruit Bill Introduced In Senate
A Washington senate Tuesday referred bills to committees including a bill cutting express rates on fruit to 70 percent of current levels and reducing all other express charges to 80 percent. Other measures include adding a superior court judge in Spokane, mine timber reserves, and reestablishing municipal courts in Tacoma Seattle and Spokane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McLean
Washington Senate
Committee On Railways and Transportation
Judiciary Committee
House
Spokane County
Tacoma
Seattle
Spokane
Reconsideration Fails in Salem House Debate
In Salem the effort to reconsider the reapportionment bill failed after a 52 to 20 vote with seven absent. Stillman amendments to house rules passed. Oregon grape named state flower by senate concurrent resolution. Sherwin sugar beet bill passed narrowly 81 to 27, two absences. Fifty-nine bills read second time, ten first time. Foster elected Washington senator nominee by Republican caucus amid shifting loyalties and bolt by Ankeny forces.
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House
Stillman
Senate
Oregon
Sherwin
Oregon Senate Advances Warrenton Fitting Salaries and Daly Textbook Law
Ten bills were introduced in the Oregon state senate Tuesday with three passing. One creates Warrenton incorporation, another adjusts salaries in Morrow Clackamas and Yamhill counties, and Daly’s textbook commission bill passed 22 to 6 after a lengthy debate. A 1895 woman suffrage constitutional amendment resolution received special order passage with only President Taylor voting no.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Thomas B. Reed
National House
Washington House of Representatives
Hill
Frank G. Kiesow
Senate
Oregon
Warrenton
Morrow
Clackamas
Yamhill
Daly
Textbook Commission
Doniway
Taylor
Kelly
Committee On Revision of Laws
Wafur
Second Judicial District
Polk County
Multnomah
Clatsop County
Notable career of Addison GQ Foster spanning Wisconsin to Washington
Addison GQ Foster, born in Belchertown Massachusetts sixty one years ago, moved with family to Illinois then to Wisconsin where he began lumbering and served as county surveyor and inter county auditor. He later worked in grain fuel and real estate in Wabasha, Minnesota before relocating to St Paul in 1870 to join lumber and fuel ventures with Colonel Griggs. In 1887 he moved to Tacoma to build the St Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company, owning coal coke mines timber lands and shipping lumber globally from Puget Sound.
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Addison GQ
Foster
Belchertown
Mass
Illinois
Wisconsin
Wabasha, Minn
Inter County
Wabash
St. Paul
W. Griggs
Tacoma
OC. K. Davis
Knute Nelson
Middle West
Colonel Griggs
St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company
Puget Sound
Washington
Foster on National Teams and expansion policy stance
The text records Powter advocating expansion policies including the Nicaragua canal and open river policies for the Columbia, favoring sound money and businesslike public administration. It lists supporters who voted for Foster from start to finish, noting 12 of them from Pierce county and highlighting Bellows and Frye as outside supporters west of the mountains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Powter
Nicaragua Canal
Columbia
Pacific Coast
Washington
Foster
Baker
Barlow
Bedford
Bellows
Bishop
Brown
Corey
Dickson
Frye
Hamilton
Hammer
Heilig
Kingsbury
le Crone
Maxwell
McCoy
Miller
Whatcom
Parker
Sharp
Sheller
Stewart
Warburton
Wickersham
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Newberg Graphit
Epitome
News of the World
Iowa
Mitner Lewe
Wyoming
Yakon
Vie Copper
Chicago
Boston
Turkey
Bulgaria
McKinley
Charles A. Schott
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Academy of France
Cordelia Botkin
John P. Dunning
Independence
Ohio
Senator
Twenty-second Infantry
Canadian Pacific
Rogers Pass
Selkirk Range
Amers
Omaha
Union Pacific
Grant
Lawton
Fourth Infantry
Gibraltar
Rhynland
Liverpool
Philadelphia
Penwick
Samoan Islands
Mataafa
Wilima
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sheridan
Cokeville
Wyo
Burt Handy
Kuna
Otia
ORN
Emilio Agquinat
Dyer and Skagway
Dominion of Canada
Hepburn's Canal
Solons
Oregon Senate
Lakeview
Canyon Cty
Seaside
Hilsboro
Looney
Sherman County
Washington County
Woodburn
Arlington
Medford
Jackson County
Board of County Commissioners
American Bar Association
Senate Committee On Commerce and Navigation
Blind Institute
J. H. Albert
Board of Equalization
Oregon Historical Society
Curtis
Joint Fisheries Committee
Myers
Oregon Volunteers
Secretary of State
Astoria
Roseberg
Supreme Court
Smith
Dufor
Bvh
Oregon House
Alesoa Bay
Olympia
Salem
Washington Legislature
Wilson
Ankeny-Humes
Addison G. Foster
National Capital
Foster Managers
Guie
House of Representatives
Wilshire
King County
Ankeny
Emilea
Gose
Walla Walla
John L Wilson
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