23 Mar 1901
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1901
Page
1
A brief catalog style notice touts White House Grocery Store goods as superior to ordinary brands with fair prices. It highlights Squadron Coffee Ling's Tea Cocoa and other staples and mentions the Postoffice location.
A showcase of fabrics destined for the era’s chic wardrobes highlights the richest and rarest textiles. The collection promises to eclipse peers in elegance as society’s women select from premier materials.
White and very fine 25c hose closing out this line for boys and girls. Third shipment just in, only a few of a kind for customer satisfaction. Not old stock but new designs many ladies have waited for. New ones you have been waiting for. Very fine and beautiful for the price, a special value from the importer.
A fragment notes wheels from United States suppliers with prices around 24.06 dollars. Mentions stains of imperial and Cleveland brands and a shop listing red wheels.
War department calculates the transfer from military to civilian rule in the Philippines to occur about June 30. A telephonic link between Berlin and Kron connects Emperor William with his mother, Dowager Empress Frederick. Mrs Nation signs a six lecture contract in Cincinnati earning 100 each plus expenses. Imports to the U S from the Philippines rise 72 percent in the first eight months of 1900 versus 1890. Kalispell land openings trigger a major land rush as four townships open. Rep Hull of Iowa to lead a Philippine fact-finding mission. Rep Overstreet of Indiana among escorts. New England Conservatory sold to house working women, with removal plans to make Boston a focal point similar to Leipzig’s Mendelssohn.
Rev G M Irwin edits the Alaska Record Miner at Joneac, formerly Oregon state school superintendent. In Union a movement forms a working commercial organization and social club. Astoria women push traveling libraries. two 25 volume libraries to be shipped soon. Transport Kinnick sails to Manila with 15 horses and $10,000 value plus $84,431 in hay and grain. Water famine forecast for Yakima valley. scant snow this year.
Washington reports Secretary Root and Adjutant General Corbin may travel from San Francisco to the Philippines to see conditions firsthand. If they go, they would witness the Manila inauguration of the new civil government with Taft to be installed as the archipelago's first civil ruler on July 1.
Marseilles endures a siege like scene as bakers join strikes halting industry and clashes erupt between gendarmes and workers. The government plans to deploy three hundred bakers to avert famine. A factory fire started by strikers destroys a stove plant, killing three and injuring five with many workers buried in the rubble.
Washington reports a near official note that Cuba has accepted the Platt amendment. The War Department, backed by the president and Secretary Root, expects no surprise and has maintained calm restraint, letting Gen. Wood handle details while avoiding any impression of coercion on Cuban delegates.
Lincoln Neb March 23 Republicans claim W J Bryan aided by urging thirteen fusion lawmakers not to break a legislative deadlock over the short term senate seat. The report says Bryan advised the lawmakers who usually go home Sunday to avoid proceeding with Thompson’s plan.
General Chaffee releases a full mail report on China operations confirming that during the Yangon advance American troops were fired upon and casualties occurred due to misreadings of allied battery positions involving British and Russian forces.
A fragment discusses self defense for nuns and men, arguing hidden dangers in air and water. It promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a purifier of the blood to remove substances and reduce disease germs. The text references purification as key to defense against illness.
The Saturday Review condemns England for a fatal lack of guiding principle in the Russia England dispute. It argues the hesitant policy at Tien Tain will embitter Russia and shrink England's prestige, urging a firmer course to avoid further concession.
Theatrical manager Dingwall was shot by Robert Moulton Thursday night and is recovering comfortably. Actress May Huckley says Minnie Seligman was present in the restaurant during the incident and had been discussed as a possible favored companion, clarifying confusion from prior dispatches.
A garbled OCR notice from Vmagille county court Oregon records an order entered March and details about lands offered for sale. It mentions lands, bids, purchases, and authority of county officials, but the exact parties, dates, and terms are unclear.
The Pacific Mail steamship Kone, built at Newport News, is launched before a large crowd. Costing two million dollars, the vessel carries 1600 people and 16 600 tons, marking a milestone in shipbuilding for the Pacific Mail line in Newport News, Virginia.
A ship with a displacement of 18 600 tons, a contract speed of eighteen knots per hour, and passenger capacity for 1500 sailed for a cost of 2 000 000 dollars.
Report from J L Ray and Co and major exchanges notes firmer wheat on March 23 with Wie up over yesterday, Liverpool unchanged, New York opening higher and closing near the day’s high. Clearing for foreign accounts stood at 3.356 million, with yield and stock data for several equities and commodities briefly listed.
Washington March 24 Attorney General Griggs sent his resignation to the president effective March 31. Influential figures urged Solicitor General Richards to succeed him, while Knox of Pittsburgh had already been offered the post. Griggs plans to resume law practice in New York after leaving office.
At Arkadelphia on March 25 two thousand people witnessed the hanging of John Wesley the Colorado rapist who assaulted Mrs Graves Mrs Bullard and a 17 year old girl at Malvern in 18. He struggled violently as the drop fell and died from strangulation fifteen minutes later in the first execution under the new law permitting poultice Darling.
Whitman college receives a bill of 000 from an eastern philanthropist to liquidate indebtedness on Billings hall dormitory. The Whitman Glow club hosted an event in the opera house with the Walla Walla band and Prof Lewis Andernmn, who has been touring in Kuraga, is due home soon. Granite Gems Aii Ankeny returns to Cianite and opens a barber shop in the Cirente saloon building ahead of a move to meet friends and patrons.
Dispatch from St Petersburg reports attempts on the czar’s life shifting to ministers. A high official shot Thursday led to arrest of a gunman Lagovaky. Military guard imposed. public gatherings banned under penalty of heavy fines. Authorities indicate no direct attack on the czar is planned.
In a heated Commons session the government faced protests as Balfour moved to close debate on funding for the Irish fishing patrol from naval funds rather than from Irish coffers. Kedmond and supporters clashed with cries for police as closure passed.
The Spanish minister Daroon presented a draft for 100000 dollars at the state department. The payment completes the settlement for the islands Cagayan and Cibitu as part of the Philippine group linked to the treaty that enabled U S control of the archipelago. A separate report identifies a woman connected to a boarding room incident as Mrs Lillian H Hoberton of Chicago, wife of a tailor, and daughter of Mrs Thon Lowry of Minneapolis.
Report from Marety May 24 states British forces achieved limited gains with two bonded deer captured and five thousand horses seized. The article notes no major success against fouries command and details ongoing actions in the theater.
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