Last horse car vanishes from Berlin streets
A sweep of news items notes several world events. Judge Eli Torrance is named marshal for a Washington veterans parade. Admiral von Diederichs resigns with Admiral Huescheet succeeding him. Kilpatrick sails from Manila with 618 casuals bound for San Francisco.
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Berlin
Eli Torrance
Washington
Admiral von Diederichs
Admiral Huescheet
War Department
Kilpatrick
Manila
San Francisco
Italian King Emmanuel Heads to Berlin Amid Anarchist Plot Arrests
Geneva dispatch reports 23 Italians arrested suspected anarchists in a plot to derail the train carrying King Emmanuel to Berlin. King Victor Emmanuel left Racconigi for Berlin, was given a hearty farewell, and Switzerland welcomed him with ceremony.
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London
Geneva
Daily Express
King Emmanuel
Berlin
Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Racconigi
Signor Prinetti
Geschenen
Switzerland
Italy
Gothard
Zemp
Klondike gold yields fall as Canadian probe cites decline
George H. Hees reports to the Canadian Manufacturers Association that Klondike production will drop from a 24 million dollar yield last year to an estimated 14 million this year. No new discoveries in over a year, many prospectors still arriving, and ten applicants per job at Dawson.
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Washington
Klondike
George H. Hees
Dawson
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
Yukon Territory
State Department
United States
Brush
Niagara Falls
Hees
Hess
Swift to be head of eastern packing merger
An eastern capitalist visiting Omaha said G. F. Swift would lead the merged packing interests with Michael Cudahy as chairman of the board. E. A. Cudahy and J. Ogden Armour were reported to retire temporarily, though both would hold stock in the amalgamated association.
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Omaha
G. F. Swift
Michael Cudahy
E. A. Cudahy
J. Ogden Armour
Amalgamated Association
Woman Dies of Lumpy Jaw in Pratt Kansas
Mrs Kimball dies from lumpy jaw contracted from cattle in Pratt. Mr Cochrane of the Pratt Republican is hospitalized in the city with the same disease.
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Pratt, Kan
Mont Pelee Sighting and Detonations Reported
Advices from Dominica say Monday afternoon clouds of dust were seen toward Mont Pelee and detonations at long intervals were heard.
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Mont Pelee
ST. Thomas
Dominica
Victims of Asiatic Cholera Reported in Manila
Washington August 27 The War Department reports W B McCall a Branchport New York clerk at the Manila post office died of Asiatic cholera in the Philippines.
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Washington
War Department
W. B. McCall
Branchport
Manila
Former Ohio Governor Headley Dies at 76
Rochester dispatch reports ex Governor George Headley of Ohio died in Watkins at age 76. The obituary notes his long service and prominence in state politics.
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Ohio
Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle
Watkins
George Headley
Rush for Oklahoma Lands Heats El Reno Filling Office
The Oklahoma supreme court decision adding a four mile wide land strip from the Chickasaw nation spurred a land rush at El Reno. Crowds formed with thousands arriving by special trains and over 4 filings rejected today. About 1,500 farms lie in the strip.
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EL Reno
Supreme Court
Oklahoma
Nebraska Crop Conditions Report for Week Ending August 26
The Nebraska climate and crop bulletin notes a wet cool week with daily mean temperatures 3 degrees below normal in the east and 1 degree below in the west. Rainfall exceeded normal in most areas, often 1 to 4 inches, while the northwest saw under half an inch. Haying and threshing were delayed by showers and some grain damage occurred in shock. Corn is growing well and expected to yield large, though it ripens slowly. southern rains aided development, while more warm weather is needed.
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United States Department of Agriculture, Climate and Crop Bulletin
Weather Bureau
Nebraska
Western
Weather Locks In Cold Wet Week Hurts Crops Across Regions
The agricultural department reports cool damp weather east of the Rockies slowed cotton and corn maturation, with heat in the south. Early corn in the southern belt is favorable, while northern areas face lodging from storms. Spring wheat harvest stalls in the Red River valley, stacking and threshing disrupted by showers. Oregon nears harvest finish. Washington yields average but below expectations.
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Washington
Agricultural Department
Rocky Mountains
Missouri Valley
Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic States
Pacific Coast
Corn Belt
Iowa
Illinois
Red River Valley
Minnesota
Oregon
Army Tests New Longfield Rifle Sight at Posts
The Army Ordnance Bureau is trialing a parallel mounted Longfield rifle sight at several posts. A consignment of curved bayonets was sent to the Philippines where troops prefer the curved blade for close combat. Cavalry units want to test detached bolo bayonets for brush clearance.
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Washington
Army Ordnance Bureau
Philippines
Miles Goes to Philippines Inspection Visit
Boston Aug. 27 Secretary Cortelyou says General Miles travels to the Philippines with the president’s permission to inspect army conditions there.
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Boston
Miles
Philippine Islands
Cortelyou
Philippines
Freeport Seizes Man Suspected as Bartholin of Chicago
A man arrested at Rock City yesterday on suspicion of being Bartholin of Chicago was brought to Freeport by Sheriff Fox. He identified himself as G. G. Holcomb from a Weldon, North Carolina wines firm, said his funds ran out in Madison, Wisconsin, and he left on foot last Saturday night. He remains in detention.
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Freeport
Bartholin
Rock City
Chicago
Y M C A Congress Closes in Christiania
The world Y M C A congress in Christiania Norway closed after a farewell address by the president and brief thanks from a representative of each nationality. Final services followed at the Church of the Holy Redeemer. Prince Oscar Bernadotte, son of King Oscar, participated.
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Christiania
Norwary
Young Men's Christian Association
Church of the Holy Redeemer
Prince Oscar Bernadotte
Oscar
Cold and Silver Output Drops in Production Report
A production report shows declines in both cold and silver statistics, with reduced output evident across monitored sectors. Analysts cite decreased manufacturing activity and weaker demand contributing to the downturn.
Mint Director Reports Less Gold but Increased State Yields
George E. Roberts items a final 1901 production tally showing 3,085,300 ounces of gold valued at $78,666,700, down 0.64 percent from 1900, with ten states rising led by California and Nevada. Silver output reached 55,214,000 ounces valued at $33,128,400, down five percent. Total U S precious metals value totaled $111,795,100, two percent below 1900.
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Washington
George E. Roberts
Mint
United States
Roberts
California
Nevada
Tonopah
Nye County
South Dakota
Idaho
Oregon
Alaska
Colorado
Utah
Park City
New Mexico
Montana
Roosevelt to Visit San Francisco on Pacific Coast Tour
Senator A G Foster says President Roosevelt will reach the coast next fall with wife and family and stay in San Francisco at least three days. Foster is en route to Honolulu to discuss crown lands with committee members.
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San Francisco
United States
A. G. Foster
Washington
Roosevelt
Foster
Honolulu
Mitchell
Pacific Coast
Montana
Union Pacific
Bank Robbers Hit Aberdeen for 3800 in Silver
The First National Bank of Aberdeen South Dakota was robbed of 3800 dollars in silver and nickels. Thieves entered through the cellar and used crowbars to breach brickwork into the vault area but did not crack the safe. No clues point to the professionals, and the loss is insured.
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Aberdeen
First National Bank
Treasury cash and gold balances report
Washington August 26 Treasury balances in the general fund show available cash of 206,089,944 dollars and gold totaling 108,535,845 dollars excluding the 150,000,000 dollar gold reserve in the redemption division.
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Treasury
Washington
Demand a Special Session to End Coal Strike
New York Aug 26 President Roosevelt will be asked to call a special session of congress to end the coal strike. The request was decided at a meeting of the Central Federated Union representing 250000 workers.
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New York
Roosevelt
Congress
Central Federated Union
New Double Track Opens Between Creston and Prescott
The Burlington Railroad opened its new double track for traffic from Creston to Prescott on Sunday with the line now in service.
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Creston
Burlington
Prescott
Oregon Railroad reaches 1,640,460 passengers without fatalities
Portland reports that in the last two fiscal years the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company carried 1,640,460 passengers on rail and water routes with zero fatalities. The record highlights safe operations across both rail and water lines.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company
Shah Reaches Paris After Arrival in the Capital
Shah of Persia arrived in Paris at 11 tonight and was greeted by an ovation at the station. He was escorted by a detachment of republican guards as the visit began.
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Paris
Shah of Persia
Boers Start for Home from Bermuda Detention Camps
The British transport Staffordshire sailed from Hamilton Bermuda for Capetown carrying 1,060 Boers who had been prisoners in detention camps on the island.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Staffordshire
Capetown
Roosevelt on trusts prompts cautious British reactions
London newspapers assess President Roosevelt’s remarks on trusts. The Evening Standard says his position suits a temperate, logical mind and notes government supervision of capitalistic rings is theoretically workable though hard to implement. The Pall Mall Gazette notes his aim to curb giant enterprises while acknowledging inevitable corporate concentration needing guidance.
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Roosevelt
London
The
Evening Standard
Pall Mall Gazette
Indians to Get Money Soon
Senator Millard reports the first installment of 100000 dollars voted by Congress for the Winnebago Indians will be paid soon. Delays arose from the interior secretarys absence in Washington with papers to sign. The payment will be sent to the agent in safe amounts and a second installment follows after the bonds are verified.
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Omaha
Millard
Congress
Secretary of the Interior
Washington
Maine Battleship Maine Completes Trial Run
Official report from Cap tain Train, trial board president, details the Maine’s Cape Ann test. Uncorrected mean speed 17.96 knots, with possible small changes after tidal corrections.
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Maine
Washington
Cape Ann
Navy Department
Train
Boston
Bowen Denies Partiality in Philippine School System
The Bureau of Insular Affairs released Frank H. Bowen's report denying charges that Philippine schools were used to proselytize Catholicism and bias Catholics. The Manila authorities received the charges and Bowen's reply was sent to Acting Governor Wright.
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Bowen
Washington
Bureau of Insular Affairs
War Department
Frank H. Bowen
Philippine Islands
United States
Islands
Manila
Wright
Large Cattle Shipments From Belle Fourche
The Elkhorn railroad has 470 stock cars at Belle Fourche ready to load with beef cattle for shipment today and tomorrow. About 12,000 head of cattle are held within ten miles awaiting transport as cars arrive.
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Belle Fourche
Elkhorn Railroad
Woman Leaps From Eads Bridge Into Mississippi
An unidentified woman about 60 jumped from the Eads bridge into the Mississippi River late tonight. W. E. Fitzgerald saw her on the railing, restrained her briefly, then she leaped and disappeared into the water.
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Eads Bridge
ST. Louis
Eads
Mississippi
W. E. Fitzgerald
Boer generals uphold loyalty to British rule, says London
The London view on the continent is that Boer generals act correctly by avoiding schemes of unrest. General Botha is cited as urging burghers to obey British laws and be faithful subjects of the king, a stance that increases English respect.
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London
Botha
South Africa
General Samuel L. Casey Dies at 81 in St Joseph
General Samuel L. Casey, former Kentucky congressman who backed Lincoln, died at his son George S. Casey’s home in St Joseph. The Civil War veteran, age 81, had not been seriously ill until a few days before death and undertook several confidential missions for Lincoln.
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Samuel L. Casey
George S. Casey
Congress
Kentucky
Lincoln
South
Casey
Creditors Get Dividend From Lemars National Bank
The comptroller of the currency has declared a 10 percent dividend for creditors of the insolvent Lemars National Bank of Lemars Iowa.
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Washington
Lemars National Bank of
Lemars, Ia
Two Drowned While Bathing At Battle Island
Miss Wol fing aged 15 and M Wyman aged 17 son of Judge Wyman of Viroqua Wis drowned while bathing at Battle Island near Lansing Iowa on August 26.
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Lansing
Miss Wolfing
M. Wyman
Judge Wyman
Viroqua
Wis
Battle Island
Fair estate expected to settle out of court
San Francisco report on the Fair estate indicates no court contest expected. Mrs Hanna Nelson arrives with son A G Nelson and relatives plan to seek administration and residence in San Francisco. Family allies say there will be no dispute among heirs and a compromise may include a share of estate properties and funds.
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Hanna Neilson
Charles Fair
Newmarket
N. J
A. G. Nelson
Plainfield
Fred Fowler
Smith
Colorado
Joseph Harvey
Hermann Ovrichs
Edict Orders Punishment for Missionary Murders in Chen Chou
Pekin reports an edict ordering punishment for the murderers of English missionary Lewis and Australian missionary Bruce in Chen Chou Ho Nan province. The killings stem from a superstitious mob belief the missionaries caused a cholera outbreak by poisoning water. The government offers regret and promises reparations.
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Pekin
Lewis
Bruce
Chen Chou
Ho Nan
Hanna Abandons Efforts to End Buffalo Coal Strike
Senator Hanna arrived in Buffalo from Niagara Falls and says he will no longer seek to end the coal strike. He believes operators must meet miners in arbitration but sees no chance while only miners are willing to arbitrate. He asserts the miners will not concede while they can continue to fight.
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Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Hanna
Niagara Falls
Oklahoma Gets Chickasha
Advices from Washington to the territorial officials state that the interior department has approved the Johnson and Kidder survey of the 98th meridian placing it four and fraction miles east of the present boundary between Oklahoma and the Chickasaw nation Indian Territory thus adding to Oklahoma the city of Chickasha the most important commercial and railroad point in the southwest.
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Oklahoma
Chickasha
Guthrie
Okl
Washington
Interior Department
Johnson and Kidder
Chickasaw Nation
Indian Territory
Farmers Flee as Flood Waters Rise on Cottonwood
Hundreds of farmers abandon deluged farms along the Cottonwood river in Kansas as the water continues to rise for a week. The Neosho river also overflows below its junction, causing widespread crop damage and property loss.
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Emporia
Kan
Neosho
Taft Defends Appointments of Former Insurgents
Manila August 25 Governor Taft defended his policy of appointing former insurgent leaders to civil posts. He testified that many had been loyal honest and earnest and that their wartime conduct, though controversial, was seen as legitimate from their own viewpoint. He emphasized they were chosen for influence among their people and for satisfactory work by civil authorities.
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Manila
Taft
Ccivil
Cholera Toll Grows as Luzon Struggles
Official cholera data show 26 6064 cases and 18 040 deaths to date with large undercounts. In Luzon provinces the situation worsens with 414 cases and 317 deaths reported in Nueva Norte last Saturday. Native constabulary clustered near Magdalena in Sorsogon were ambushed by about sixty ladrones. one constable killed, two wounded, three captured, and seventy troopers pursue the band.
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Manila
Luzon
Hocus Norte
Magdalena
Sorsogon
Death of Ensign Frederick R. Holman Aboard Celtic
The navy reports Ensign Frederick R. Holman died August 12 aboard the Celtic while en route from Manila to Sydney. The refrigerator ship reportedly was carrying provisions for the army and navy in the Philippines. Holman, a Colorado native appointed from Iowa in 1893, is said to have jumped overboard due to ill health. his father in New York City has been notified.
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Frederick R. Holman
Navy
Celtic
Mianila
Sydney
Australia
Navy Department
Speyers
Manila
Army
Phillippines
Mosman
Colorado
Iowa
New York City
Taps Sounded for Sigel Funeral Quiet at Woodlawn
New York reports a plain funeral for General Franz Sigel. Attending were surviving comrades who served with him in two hemispheres. Eulogies were given, and his dent general’s coffin, draped with a flag, was laid to rest at Woodlawn cemetery as veterans followed with tattered banners.
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Sigel
New York
Tapsa
Franz Sigel
Woodlawn
Laborers Scarce in Mexico Reported in Monterey
T. B. Fitzsimmons, a Monterey contractor, returned from a countrywide search for railway laborers without success. He found Tampico contractors exhausted of workers and shipping 1,000 Jamaican laborers by boat.
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Monterey
Mexico
T. B. Fitzsimmons
The
Republic
Tampico
Jamaica
British steamer Bernard Hall lands 600 Colombian troops
The Bernard Hall, a British steamer chartered by the Colombian government, arrived in Colon from Savanilla carrying 600 government troops. The voyage underscores the ongoing military logistical operations in COLON.
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Colon
Columbia
Bernard Hall
Liverpool
Savanilla
Russia Earthquakes Felt Near St. Petersburg
The Daily Mail reports that violent earthquakes were felt last Friday at Andishan and Pavlovsk near St. Petersburg, according to its St. Petersburg correspondent.
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London
St. Petersburg
Daily Mail
Andishan
Pavlovsk
Archduchess Margarete Sophie Dies After Surgery
BERLIN Aug 25 Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria wife of Albert Duke of Württemberg died at Gunden Austria following an operation for appendicitis.
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Berlin
Margate
Sophie of Austria
Albert
Duke of Wurtemburg
Gunden
Austria
Largest cattle shipment to Europe sails from Portland
The Norseman of the Dominion line carried 1,170 head of cattle and 1,398 sheep in the night departure, marking the largest Atlantic cattle voyage yet. Portland, Missouri, witnesses the historic shipment as exports head to Europe.
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Portland
Atlantic
Wireless Tests Link Lassalle and Kolberg Across 105 Miles
Berlin reports successful wireless telephoning experiments between Lassalle and Kolberg covering 105 miles. The tests demonstrate practical long distance radio communication capabilities.
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Berlin
Lassalle
Kolberg
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