Assassination of Canovas Dominates International News
The Spanish prime minister Canovas is assassinated provoking reactions from Queen Victoria? and leaders in Paris London and Madrid. Cuban Junta head Estrada Palma calls it retribution though Cuba benefits politically. Spain braces as police tighten security in Barcelona and Madrid.
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New York
A Tribune
London
Canovas
Spain
Lord Salisbury
Sir Henry Drummond
Paris
President Faure
France
M. Hanetaux
Vicy
D’orsay
Foreign Office
Cuba
Palma Snays
Estrada Palma
Weyler
Silvera
Silvela
Polavieja
Phillippine Islands
European Press Attacks Sherman Over Public Remarks
London papers mock Secretary Sherman over an NY World interview. The St James Gazette declares his statements show senile decay while warning Britain may seek US backing to back its bluff. The Westminster and Globe offer sharp lines on Sherman saloon style and US diplomacy and power.
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London
New York World
Sherman
St James Gazette
America
St. James Gazette
Austria
Great Britain
Gladstone
Europe
St. James
Washington
Westminster Gazette
Globe
Uncle Sam
United States
Shermanman
England
Russia
Japan
Insurgent Activity Surges Across Cuban Towns
Reports from Havana dated August 7 describe Cuban insurgents disrupting rail traffic near Santa Clara and Matanzas, looting stores, and fighting Spanish forces across multiple towns. Casualties include both sides, with several killed and many wounded. Weyler and Gomez may clash as raids continue.
Poker Fight Fatality Shocks St. Joseph Man
In St. Joseph Missouri on August 6 Jack McKane shot and killed William E. Albin after a dispute over a poker game. The men had played poker late last night. Meanwhile Charleston South Carolina replaced horses with electric trolley cars in street service.
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Rinled
St. Joseph
Jack McKane
Wm. FE. Albin
Charleston
S. C
Death by Own Action Clouded By Defalcation Rumors
Edmund Bandler assistant postmaster of Austin Minnesota was found dead in a park arbor after leaving the post office last night. A coroner's jury will sit today amid rumors of defalcation related to accounts neglected by Bandler who had served eleven years. He leaves a wife and two young children. Postmaster Slunkins has been away on a Minnesota editorial trip and has not yet returned.
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Madrid
Galli
Rinaldi
Michele Angine Golli
Boggia
Naples
Italy
Spain
Barcelona
France
Belgium
Santo Agueda
Canovas
Acera
Marseilles
Montjuich
Senor Pidal
Chamber of Deputies
Austin
Minn
Edmund Banndler
Turner Hall
Bandler
Slunkins
Minnesota
Russell Sage Celebrates Birthday With Bold Manhattan Stock Move
On his eighty second birthday, Russell Sage orchestrated a market move in Manhattan elevated stock. After criticizing dividend payments, Sage supported a dividend cut earlier, and the stock rose from 95 to 100. A major short seller sought a private sale of 10,000 shares, but Sage refused to part with his stock, urging open market purchases instead.
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Russell Sage
New York
Sage
Manhattan
Mr. Sage
Teachers at Hartington Institute Opens Today for Two Weeks
Cedar County Teachers' Institute convenes in Hartington Nebraska today for a two week session. Free lectures accompany socials with talks by Professor J. H. Orcutt Judge Norris Professor W. H. Skinner and Professor W. A. Clark scheduled for August evenings.
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Hartington
Neb
Cedar County
Teachers’ Institute
J. H. Orcutt
Shakespeare and
St. Paul
Norris
Olver Wendall Holmes
W. H. Skinner
W. A. Clark
Markets Report From Sioux City and Nearby Exchanges
Sioux City stockyards hogs, cattle quotations and prices. South Omaha receipts and market moves. Chicago and Kansas City hog and cattle quotes. cash grain bids for wheat corn oats rye barley and provisions. Minneapolis closing wheat prices and track sales. Includes multiple regional markets and commodity details.
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South Omaha
Kansas City
Texas
Chicago
Ban Placed on Irish American Picnic by Bishop Fink
Bishop Fink of the Leavenworth Kansas City diocese orders Catholics to avoid the Irish American picnic planned for next Sunday in Kansas City Kas. He cites Sunday observance as sacred and bans public Picnics on the Sabbath. Edmond Lynch leads United Irish societies says the event will proceed.
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Fink
Kansas City
Leavenworth
Kas
Edmond Lynch
United Irish Societies
Bishop Fink
The Strikers Lost Their Pay
Miners at New York and Cleveland Gas Coal company were paid today while strikers received nothing as the company enforces its agreement. Attendance at meetings bars pay unless excused. three workers remained at Sunday Creek after guard issues. Hunger spreads among miners’ families in Wheeling division and Pan Handle district.
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New York and Cleveland Gas Company
Pittsburg
New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company
Sunday Creek
Wheeling Division
Pan Handle
Anthracite Miners May Strike If Bituminous Diggers Also
Pittsburg Aug 10 reports say the outcome of the bituminous miners strike will trigger a possible anthracite walkout for higher wages and better conditions. If bituminous workers win, anthracite leaders seek equal gains. if they lose, an advance is unlikely. The anthracite union is poorly organized after past defeats.
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Pittsburg
Marching Miners Overawed at Coffeen Mines
Aug 10 Coffeen Illinois miners resume work after a large force of deputies intimidates strikers. About 207 armed deputies, half granted leave, are ready to respond to a call. Strikers vow to shut down mines by tomorrow night with a large delegation from surrounding mines. They claim Governor Tanner’s sympathy. Mines under a receiver and court ordered to run if workers are available.
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Willsboro
Coffeen
Tanner
Negro Outlaws Clash With Deputies on Pea River Road
In Coffee county Alabama on August 10 two negro desperadoes Allen Lightfoot and his son fought five deputy sheriffs on a narrow road along the Pea river. Lightfoot senior was killed by a heart shot while the son was wounded in both legs and the shoulder and expected to die. Several officers were seriously wounded.
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Montgomery
Ala
Allen Lightfoot
Pea River
Coffee County
Lightfoot
Will
Presidential Party to Visit Burlington Vermont
President and Mrs McKinley Vice President and Mrs Hobart Secretary of War and Mrs Alger Whitelaw Reid and wife and Warner Miller left Pittsburg for Burlington Vermont to be received by ex Governor Woodbury A two hour conference with John W Foster special commissioner to Great Britain on the seal question preceded their departure Foster arrived to report on his London mission
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Burlington
Vermont
Woodford
Pittsburg
McKinley
Hobart
Alger
Whitelaw Reid
Warner Miller
Woodbury
John W. Foster
Great Britain
London
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Don Marcola de Axcarraga
Havana
Tiperanza
Santa Clara
Cienfuegos
Broadway
Leutenant
Gomez
Matanzas
Encrusgada
Simon Guenec
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Morales Y Botellas
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Sioux City
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