Colon Taken as Liberals Seize Panama Isthmus
liberals attack Colon at 8 last night seizing public offices and town Prefect Guardia captured with heavy casualties reported. United States gunboat Machias did not engage. Washington confirms capture and transit briefly interrupted. Capt Perry of the Iowa ordered to land marines if needed to maintain transit.
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Colon
Courtel
Guardia
United States
Machias
Panama
Washington
State Department
Perry
Iowa
Isthmus
Springfield Odd Fellows Convene With 900 Delegates
State Grand Lodge of Illinois Odd Fellows met in Representatives Hall with 900 delegates. Grand Master James R. Rowley presided. Annual report showed 13 new lodges, total 889, membership 61,435, and net gain 2,403. Reckoned relief payments at 162,200. year receipts 555,300. expenditures 513,400. net lodge worth 1,920,500. Rebekah assembly total 541 lodges, 25,126 members, receipts 87,200. expenditures 336,400. Officers and Daughters of Rebekah elected announced. other notes include Weeks reporting on Philippine trip near Samar.
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Springfield
Til
Grand Lodge of Ilinois Odd Fellows
Representatives’ Hall
James R. Rowley
Chicago
Miller
Rebekah Assembly
Grand Lodge of Hingis Odd- Fellows
J. W. Yantis
Shelbyville
Charles Harris
Galesburg
J. J. Grown
Vandalia
J. Bh. Miller
T. LB. Needles
Nashville
Daughters of Rebekah
Maw Wayward
Aurora
Mattie Vancuser
Lola TL. Richard
Decatur
Tressurer
Currie Skeges
Harrisburg
Kittie Thomas
Quincy
Conference on Convict Labor in Illinois Proposes Legislation
Springfield Ills November conference on contract convict labor led Governor Yates to favor drafting a measure for the next legislature and a follow up meeting. Labor groups urged strict law compliance while prison officials argued enforcement was impossible. A mass meeting under State Federation of Labor saw a heated exchange between Moses of the board of labor statistics and Ryan of United Mine Workers over the New York system, ending without a solution.
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Springfeld
Ills
Yates
Manufacturers’ Association
Penitentiaries
State Federation of Labor
Moses
Board of Labor Statistics
Ryan
United Mine Workers
Ross
New York
Champion Sleeper From Stockbridge Woman Shrouded In Sleep
Miss May White of Stockbridge Michigan has spent much of the past decade in sleep due to a mysterious malady. Her longest unconscious spell lasted 127 days from June 20 to October 28, 1691, and she later endured periods of 60 hours of sleep after renewed seizures caused by a spine injury leading to nephritis hystero epilepsy. She weighs 120 pounds and doctors hold hope for eventual recovery despite repeated convulsions and severe weight loss.
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Stockbridge
Mich
May White
Miss White
Ypsilanti
Soldier Kills Two in Junction City Rampage
An unidentified Fort Riley soldier shot and killed two men in Junction City Kansas. He killed city marshal James White after wounding him then fled, firing at pursuit and shouting I want to die. The spree ended when exhausted rounds ran out.
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Junction City
Kan
Fort Riley
R. E. L. Cooper
Cooper
James White
White
Nationwide reciprocity meet opens to balance trade and home industry
Hundreds of manufacturers convene in Washington with the motto Expansion of American Trade Abroad. Delegates from seventy four organizations discuss commercial reciprocity while vowing not to weaken U S home industries. Key speakers urge tariff protection and a strong merchant marine amid calls for a commerce department.
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Washington
Theodore C. Search
United States
Search
D. A. Tompkins
Charlotte
N. C
Theodore ©. Search
Philadelphia
W. F. Draper
Massachusetts
T. L. Hickman
Georgiaharles
Moline
Illinois
Babcock
Steel Commission
Congress
Ways and Means Committee
Canada
Charles Heber Clark
Dingley
Frank Leake
Manufacturers’ Club
Department of Commerce and Manufactures
George J. Seabury
New York
George A. Loughlin
Wheeling
Bergman Anarchist Seeks Liberty Under Commutation Law
Alexander Bergman, once jailed for breaking into H C Frick’s Carnegie Steel office in 1892 with intent to shoot Frick, petitions the Superior Court to be freed under the commutation law. The court ordered the penitentiary warden to show cause why a writ of habeas corpus and certiorari should not issue. Bergman was convicted on six indictments and received concurrent prison terms.
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Philadelphia
Alexander Bergman
H. C. Frick
Carnegie Steel
Pittsburg
Frick
Western Pennsylvania
Bergman
Duluth Street Car Passenger Awarded Damages
Duluth Minnesota jurors awarded damages against the Duluth Street Car company after a passenger, Fewings, was struck by a stone thrown at a car window. The injury was described as serious and permanent, with the case proceeding after multiple trials and a prior verdict of 4490 dollars a year earlier.
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Duluth
Minn
Nev
Fewinge
Duluth, Messabe and Northern Road
Duluth Street Car Company
Fewings
Col Deemus M Fox Dies in Des Moines at Age
Col Deemus M Fox publisher and author of note died this morning in Des Moines at age. He served in the Civil War and led the United States Steel Corporation to secure materials before its organization. The current outlook fears South American trade loss due to the company’s past gains. Cummins praises reciprocity at New York banquet, urging nonpartisan tariff reform for a strong home market and open trade balanced with domestic needs.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Deemus M. Fox
Steel Mets
United States Steel
New York
New Yorks
Chamber of Commerce
Delmonice
Sennor-Elect Cummins
United States
Negroes organize stock company to run city streetcar service
Jacksonville residents report that after a city ordinance enforcing racial separation on streetcars, Black residents held a mass meeting and agreed to form a $20,000 stock company at one dollar per share to operate a separate car service for Negroes across the city.
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Stgroes
Jacksonville
Fla
Mob at the Miner College Princess sparks attacks at mine
A mass of 200 union coal miners from Washington and nearby towns attacked non union workers at Prospect Hill mines in Vincennes Indiana. Two men fatally hurt and about six seriously injured as families were drawn into the melee. Foreman Williaim Scott and his kin were targeted, with Mrs Scott assaulted and a 10 year old boy knocked down. The mine faces closure unless unionized, and threats of further raids loom as the strife widens. Elsewhere a Kentucky charter move to Delaware, a Charleston WV quarry dynamite blast, and a new Princess Sophia Bamba Dhuleep Singh enters Chicago medical college are reported.
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Vincennes
Ind
Washington
Cannerburg
Petersburg
Princeton
Montgomery
Prospect Hill
Union Station
Williaim Scott
Scott
W. P. Hi
Washingto
Henry Hannery
Dottie
Robert McDaniel
Posey Knight
Jol Scott
Kenner Mars
Corporation
Kentucky
Uncle Sam
Madisonville
St. Bernard Doal Company
Kenmcky
Delaware
Union
Nortonville
Wood
Reinecke Company
Evans
Providence
Gtard
Horton Rush
Couch
Chicago
Women's Medical College
Sophia Bamba Dhuleep Singh
Singh
India
Ranjeet Singh
Great Britain
Koh-I-Noor
England
America
Met 1
Lincoln Street
Ison
Northwestern University
Ep Singh
Bamba Muller
Cairo
Victoria
Bamba
Princ Victor Dhuleep Singh
Ann Coventry
Ussdy
FISHERS ARE CAUGHT
Deputy State Game Warden Brewster led a pursuit of six fishing tugs on Lake Michigan for illegal nets. The Dormas rammed the Frank Edwards during a chase, shattering rails as the Edwards surrendered along with three other tugs. two escaped.
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St. Joseph
Mich
Brewster
Afterwood
Lake Michigan
Michzan
Dormas
Michigan City
Ind
Frank Edwards
Dorms
Edwards
Various national items from The News in Outline
A synthesis of diverse notes including the formation of a wartime veterans group in Trenton New Jersey Treasury officials express no fear over gold exports Burglar T D Rush shot and killed in Seattle Fire destroys part of the Hotton block in Charlotte with losses near 100000 Weather worsens smallpox in Vienna U S chargé d affaires Henry White and Mrs White visit Lord Salisbury at Hatfield House A Erie postal office to become presidential land J R M Patterson notes unsatisfactory sanitation at several towns Nelson Morris sells 28000 acre Jasper County ranch to E J Gifford Passaic NJ funds for a public library from Peter Reid American Bridge Co wins 20 steel bridges contract along Uganda railway East Africa cable contract awarded to British firm to San Francisco to Honolulu Central Blast Furnace explosion buries Stephen Timko body not recovered James Davis fatally burned ten nearby workers escape unharmed
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Wenth
Iisd-American War Veterans” Association
Trenton
N. J
Treasury
T. D. Rush
Seattle
Charlotte
Hotton
Vienna
Henry White
United States
Passaic
American Bridge Company
Philadelphia
Uganda
East Africa
San Francisco
Honolulu
Delicate stance on aiding Schley costs in Knoxville
After Knoxville Sentinel reports a 20000 cost for a court of inquiry into Admiral Schley, he declines public subscription. A personal letter from Schley says the figure is mistaken and the matter is too delicate to discuss, hoping friends will respect his position.
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Knoxville
Navy
Schley
Knoxville Sentinel
Setley
Boers Suffer Loss From Pretoria Roundup
A London dispatch reports Lieut. Colen-Branders' column near Pretoria killed three men and wounded three, with 54 captured including two field cornets. The news notes stock and ammunition losses amid the action as the war continued.
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London
Kitchener
Colen-Branders
Bader
Pretoria
Oldest Tree on Earth in Amarapoora Burma
The oldest tree on earth, reportedly planted in 288 B C, stands in Amarapoora Burma. Sir James Emerson cites historic documents noting royal offerings and belief it traces to the tree under which Buddha rested at Urum elva. Pilgrims carry its fallen leaves as relics, as the sacred tree cannot be harmed.
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Earth
Amarapoora
Burma
James Emerson
Buddah
Urumelva
A Boston Rake and a Dead-Serious Kiss Tale
The Boston Transcript notes Bertha questions George’s dissipated image while Harry skeptically defends him as merely an ass who mimics drink with cloves. In a separate exchange Laura recounts Jack’s boast to kiss her or die, then asks if she has read about Jack’s death in the papers.
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Boston
Bertha
Harry
George
Boston Transcript
Laura
Jack
Ostrich Ancestors Found in Madagascar Deposits
Ancient remains on Madagascar reveal ostrich ancestors reached fourteen to fifteen feet in height. Researchers describe the giant birds as descendants of a large prehistoric genus, highlighting the island's rich paleontological record.
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Madagascar
Island
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