Alger Resigns as Secretary of the Interior
Washington special Geo Russell reports Mr Alger called on President McKinley and handed in his resignation as Secretary of the Interior effective when a successor is chosen. The move follows weeks of political pressure and a request attributed to the President, with Alger remaining until a replacement is ready.
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Geo. Russell
Alger
McKinley
Ole
Doig
Air
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Huet
Pingree Alliance
McMillen
Burress
Ther
Alser
Ant AfeKinsey
Cabinet Aide Hobart Proposes Resignation Plot
President considers maneuver to remove Alger from office as cabinet members debate strategy. Hobart informs Alger that the President planned to resign but did not wish the task, sending Attorney General Stiggs as messenger. Alger agrees to resign and returns to Washington to present his letter.
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Hobart
Ale
Secr
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Stiggs
Ang
Agyising
Gene
Washington
Ale Winley
Alaskan Boundary Talks Delayed As Joint Commission Postponed
Washington dispatches say the administration has abandoned hope of a quick settlement on the Alaskan boundary. The Joint High Commission meeting will be indefinitely postponed and no final action is planned until after Senator Fairbanks arrives. A conference with Fairbanks, Secretary Hay, John Poster, and John A. Kasson will discuss the boundary issue at length. Authorities hope mining season ends without clashes between American miners and Canadian authorities.
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Washington Dispatch
Igh Commission
Fairbacks
Pairks
Hay
John Poster Andohn A. Kasson
Canadian Constabulary
Chicagoan a fugitive linked to school funds shortfalls
Graham, secretary to a Chicago Board of Education, is named a fugitive after confessing a large shortage estimated between 23 000 and 84 000 dollars. He left behind property schedules worth about 25 000 dollars and a family, including wife and three children. He fled to New Orleans with his family, then returned to Chicago after a full confession and turnover of property to cover the deficit, while surety bonds pursue repayment.
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Graham
Chicago
Wla
Evanston
Gegham
Big Strike Spreads Across New York Rail System
Reported actions show Brooklyn strikers and sympathizers destroying part of the Fifth Avenue elevated and halting Second Avenue cars as Metropolitans workers join in. Cooper Union meeting spurred reluctant leaders to back a wider strike across the Metropolitan system with promises from Parson of the Knights of Labor.
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New York City
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Metropolitan
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Metropolitan. Company
Gener Aster Workmar John 21
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Knights of Labor
Ing & Con
Terence
Parsons
Clevéking
Oho
Murray, Hill
Hotel Grace Collapse Traps Firemen In Milwaukee
Flames engulfed the Hotel Grace as Milwaukee firemen battled the blaze. The building suddenly collapsed, throwing twenty firefighters into the ruins. One died, eleven hospitalized, several severely injured, and about twenty others narrowly escaped by leaping to an adjacent building.
Hospital Stores Found Missing in Porto Rico Shipment
On Sept 5 the Army and Navy League at Portsmouth Ohio sent two large bases of hospital stores and other supplies to Company H Fourth Ohio then in Porto Rico. Private packages were included. The boxes did not reach Portsmouth. A hospital ship physician later reported the boxes found at Manila and all except the private packages will be used.
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Manila
Army and Navy League
Portsmouth
Ohio
Porto Rico
Roliet
Suga
Vick's Monthly
San Jose
Six Mob Feud Kills In Clay County Mountain Shootout
In London Kentucky area six more victims are tied to the White Baker feud. Griffins and Philpots clash with Bakers allies yielding shootings, a head severing and many wounded. Tom Baker’s bond incident sparks a long deadly feud that has claimed eleven lives in Clay County with no end in sight.
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London
Griffins
Philpots
Tho Yates
Bob’’ Phipot
Tom
Baker-Howard
Som Baker
A. B. Howard
Baker
Howard
Childs
Tom Baker
Clay County
Clay County World
Haying Tips and Farm How-To From Early North Era
Practical notes on hay making timing for Timothy and clover, hay curing in windrows, use of hay loaders, and post anchoring methods for durable fencing. Also contains agricultural observations on turkeys bees potash sprays ventilating farm buildings rat traps turnips sowing times hog cholera remedy, poultry quips, and comparative rural statistics.
Move Toward Peace and Philippine Overtures
Washington dispatches from the Philippine commission and Gen. Otis indicate new moves toward peace. The President has not released details, awaiting positive results, while three overtures from Emilio Aguinaldo and leaders are reported. If fulfilled, volunteers may not be needed as enlistment progresses.
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Washington
State Department
Philippine Commission
War Department
Ues
Otis
Istinaldo
Fragmented 1900s News Bits Mix Oddities and Rhetoric
This clipped item lists assorted ills and curiosities including imagined political jabs, a joke about a horse show, a note on Philippine soldiers wearing tan shoes, a quip about a dictator and a mock forecast. It reads as a collage of wry commentary from a newspaper page.
Dollar Sign Origin Traced to Rev Chauncey Lee
Dr Marcus Baker, of Washington, argues the dollar sign origin is arbitrary and traces it to an 18th century book by Rev Chauncey Lee. Lee’s system used a single symbol with a decimal point, later simplified to the familiar two strokes and curves. Baker plans department records study to verify when the sign appeared in treasury accounts.
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Marcus Baker
Ita
Washington
Biker
Bureau of Education
United States
Lan- Singburs
N.Y
Chauncey Lee
Rutland
Wien
Lee
Beshan
Baker
Dir Lee
Treasury
Channecey Lee
New York Post
Hyde Park Resident Metes Revenge On Wine Thieves
A Hyde Park man plotted revenge after workmen who drank his wife’s homemade wine stole wine from their storeroom. He doctored the remaining bottles with tartar emetic, halting the day’s work and leaving the culprits silent about the cause.
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Hyde Park
Sweet Revenge
South Side
Leviston Avenue
Thei
Elyousbane
The Reward of Vanity and Odd Text Fragments
A quirky tale of vanity and a stubborn son who advertises his stables with a bridle sign. The story shifts to stray notes on microscopy and ship masts, then closes with a moral about neighbors after adding a bay window.
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Saas
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