Roosevelt Becomes President Following McKinley Line
Sept 14 Buffalo report details Theodore Roosevelt taking the oath as president after McKinley’s death. Cabinet members present include Root Hitchcock Long and Postmaster General Smith. Roosevelt, visibly moved, swore in with Judge Hazel presiding, then signed and met with cabinet before walking with Root.
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Stockton
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Thesident
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Extra Session Question Raised By President
An inquiry on September 14 examined whether the president should seek an extra session of Congress. The discussion focused on timing and necessity for shaping legislative action ahead of forthcoming business.
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Congress
Maggio lynching claimed by marshal report
Washington reports Chief Wilkie received word from Marshal Foraker that Antonio Maggio the cornetist accused of predicting the president’s death before October was lynched. A later dispatch from Silver City NM contested the report and suggested Maggio may still be alive. Chicago crowds demanded executions of anarchists while police kept order. A judge ordered a recess in the McKinley case to allow investigation into the conspiracy. Czolgosz’s father heads to Buffalo to seek a confession from his son.
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United States
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Albuquerque
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Grant County
Maggio
Marshal Foraker
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Chicago
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Chetlain
Owens
Czolgosz
McKinley Life Insurance Policies Reported
Well informed Cleveland insurancemen say the president carried from 100000 to 200000 on life. One large New York company holds a single policy for 50000. Mrs McKinley is understood to be the beneficiary named in all policies.
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Cleveland
McKinley
New York
Proclamations and mourning observances across states
Des MoinesGovernor Shaw orders mourning emblems on public buildings and urges suspension of business on the funeral day. Yates will attend the president's funeral in Buffalo and possibly other sites, with memorial exercises requested statewide. Archbishop Elder calls for prayers and a funeral Mass for the dead. Chicago council adopts sorrowful resolutions. city offices close and saloons closed from sunrise to sunset. public demonstration planned. Ohio Governor Nash says funeral services will be at the Washington capitol Wednesday morning with memorial meetings to follow. Lincoln governor Savage reports Thomas Sheppard, freed from prison, wed Hannah Johnston after 22 years of claimed innocence.
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Chicago Council
Chicago
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Capitol
Ohio
Ocean Sailing Matches Highlight Vanishing Quick Sailings
London Shipping World recalls the Muskoka voyage from Portland to Queenstown in 101 days 20 hours and notes famed ships like Donald McKay, Hurricane, and Sir Lancelot achieving remarkable speeds. It cites historic clips from 1869 and 1857, detailing long voyages, extreme runs, and the edge of sailing record lore.
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United Kingdom
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Melbourne
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Indian Ocean
England
China
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Hong Kong
Suburban Train Tales Of A Boarderline Conductor
A Chicago Record-Herald excerpt presents a rural traveler and a conductor discussing how laborers are affected by big syndicates. The dialogue recounts Bill Sceruggin’s cash fare scheme, where he tossed collected money to the bell rope, keeping part for the company, with a ten dollar note allegedly sticking to the rope. The anecdote ends with a passenger converting the note to silver and tossing it again.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Bill Sceruggin
Bill
De Wets Slimness and a Clever Egg Trick Story
In the New York Journal Max O'Rell recounts a tale about Mrs. De Wet, wife of the Boer general. A British officer uses eggs and a coin to illustrate De Wet’s elusiveness, only to have the half crown disappear as the tale ends with the question where is De Wet.
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New York Journal
Wheat export outlook for Canadian northwest autumn
A competent authority estimates wheat available for export from the Canadian northwest this autumn at 35,000,000 bushels, up from 7,500,000 last year, with the total crop estimated at 43,000,000 bushels. Earlier estimates had ranged as high as 60,000,000 bushels.
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Canadian Northwest
Historic assassinations traced in American tragedy
The piece reviews the assassinations of President Lincoln and President Garfield, and the Chicago mayor Carter Harrison Sr. It recalls Lincoln’s 1865 death after Ford's Theatre, Garfield’s 1881 shooting at a depot, and Harrison’s 1893 murder at his Ashland Boulevard home, with subsequent trials and executions.
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James
Blaine
Guiteau
United States
Labor and the Dignity of Work
A Salt Lake Tribune excerpt extols labor as the source of world progress and moral elevation, praising its role across fields, shops, seas, laboratories, and libraries as honorable and ennobling. It frames labor as the enduring foundation of civilization and personal dignity.
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Salt Lake Tribune
Silver Works of Antwerp Builds 460 Foot Mill Chimney
Scotland held the record for the world's tallest mill chimney until Silver Works of Antwerp surpassed it with a 410 foot shaft topped by a 50 foot conductor, making a total height of 460 feet. The achievement marks a new benchmark in industrial chimney construction and reflects advances in European manufacturing.
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Scotland
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Antwerp
War Surgery Old and New at Cheltenham Meeting
Sir William McCormac reports in a British Medical Association paper that modern battlefield care has transformed outcomes. He cites universal chloroform use, smaller wounds from swift bullets, reduced primary amputations, and rapid hospital transport via ships and trains, contrasting with Crimea and Franco German War losses.
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London
British Medical Association
Cheltenham
William McCormac
Crimea
South Africa
Sir William
Colenso
Moon mocks guides in woods and a tax to Hopkins
Detroit Free Press recounts a moonlit misadventure where a hunting party struggles to find the clearing as their guide jokes that the moon may not rise. The piece also notes Dr. J H Hollander's resignation as Porto Rico treasurer and return to Johns Hopkins University as professor of economics and finance.
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Detroit Free Press
North Woods
J. H. Hollander
Porto Rico
Johns Hopkins University
Wide World in Briefs Ranges From Monuments to Music
A miscellany of notes covers Gettysburg monuments 500 with 225 cannons and 200 tablets. Uganda photos via Sir Henry Johnson. Canada maps 1.52 million sq miles unexplored. Manuel Garcia links to Jenny Lind and Mathilde Marchesi. Christine Nilsson’s enduring operatic legend and Countess de Miranda.
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Chicago
Gettysburg Park
Henry Johnson
London
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Geological Survey of Canada
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Madrid
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New York Central Railroad
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Berlin
Charleroi
Belgium
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Mexico
Kaska
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General Chemical Laboratory
University of Michigan
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New York City
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