Homecoming celebration plans and global census notes
The committee for the Washington Volunteers homecoming meets next Thursday to outline preliminaries for the event. A global census, led by the International Statistical Association, is planned with nations counting their populations, and the 12th U S census to be part of it, with expert estimates suggesting a world population around 1.7 billion.
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Washington
Puget Sound
Count Muraviel
France
International Statistical Association
Berne
Switzerland
Moana
United States
Behm and
Wagner
Goettingen
China
Persia
Siam
Afghanistan
Turkey
Africa
IA Hung Chang
Foul Play Suspected In Rural Disappearance Case
Police in PNOLABH Indiana report the sudden disappearance of a German family the Buschkaths Garrett and Henry and Joseph from Kyana area. The father a pensioner held $6090 inherited from Germany and the three sons were noted as industrious and frugal. Neighbors fear foul play after the family vanished from the quiet home.
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Pnolabh
Ind
Kyana
Garrett Buschkath
Garrett, Jr
Henry
Joseph
Germany
McDoel to Succeed Gaml Thomas on Monon Route
Railway notes report W H McDoel will become president of the Monon line succeeding Gaml Thomas. California lawmakers recently authorized railroads to sell property and franchise with consent of three quarters of stockholders of each road. Supreme Court action involves the American Refrigerator Car company suit against the treasurer of Arapahoe.
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W. H. McDoel
Gaml. Thomas
California
Supreme Court of the United States
American Refrigerator Car Company
Ageinest
Arapahoe
McFaddens Row of Plats closes three nights at Seattle
Amusements note a vaudeville style program closing tonight at the Seattle theater with Hogan's alley scenes. Manager Russetl promotes Rage in A Hot Old Time at Third Avenue theater drawing crowded houses this week. Roland Reed appears at Seattle theater Friday night and both Saturday performances. The Wrong Mr Wright and His Fathers Boy follow Saturday.
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McFadden
Seattle
Hogan's Alley
Russetl
Third Avenue Theater
Roland Reed
Mr. Wright
Seattle Weather: Rain Tonight and Wednesday Spur Winds
A forecast for Seattle and vicinity calls for occasional rain tonight and Wednesday with south to west winds. A high pressure area has shifted southeast and a low over British Columbia brings southerly winds and coast rain. Rain totals include one fourth inch at Seattle and Tacoma, over half an inch at Fort Canby, and seven tenths at Nesh. Temperature extremes range from 33 at Red Bluff to a low near Helena, with light frost reported in Kalispell, Baker City, and Boise City.
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Seattle
Firnish Columbia
Washing
Oregon
Beattle
Tacoma
Fort Canby
Nesh
Red Bluff
Helena
Kalispell
Baker City
Boise City
Man Attacks Wife With Ax in Realan
August Smith, a gardener, attacked his wife with an ax while insane and then attempted suicide with the same weapon. Mrs. Smith suffers a fractured skull and doubtful recovery. Smith lies unconscious from facial and head wounds but is expected to recover.
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Realan
Wis
Smith
Standard Oil Moves Distribution from Toledo to South Bend
The Standard Oil Co. has shifted its distributing office from Toledo to South Bend Indiana to exit Ohio quickly. Employees from the Toledo office have been reassigned to Indiana headquarters. The move follows pressure from Attorney General Monett against the company.
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South Bent
Ind
Toledo
South Bend
Ohio
Indiana
Gandard
Monett
Women Killed by Trains In Separate Pennsylvania and New Jersey Incidents
Two women died in separate railroad accidents. Mrs. Hattie Watkins was struck and killed on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western line at Avondale Pennsylvania while walking a track. Mrs. Anna M. Mischier was run over by a coal train on the Central Railroad of New Jersey at South Wilkes-Barre.
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Wilkfsearkre
Hattie Watkins
Delaware, Lackawana and Western Railroad
Avondale
Anna M. Mischier
Central Railroad
New Jersey
South Wiskeebarre
Foreign Notes Roundup of Obits Honors and Scandals
Robertson Southey the elocutionist and poet’s grandson is arrested in Llanelly for fraud. Jenalache Zeitung in Jena marks 125 years under a single family. German Anthony Comatocki had Cranach and Van der Werff art removed from Stuttgart shop windows. Duke Karl Theodor of Bavaria celebrates a silver wedding at Tegernsee Castle. Klaus Groth the Piattdeutsch poet turns 80. Fritz Reuter’s influence noted. Berlin cook Johanna Mock receives a gold cross from Empress Augusta for lifelong service. Hans Richter remains in Vienna with salaries up to 17 000 florins yearly. Heinrich Kiepert, geography authority, dies at 91. Atlas of Hellas and Asia Minor maps cited. Oxford reportedly has more English High Court judges than Cambridge. Bench mixture noted with various university ties.
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Heinrich Kiepert
University of Berlin
Hellas
Asia Minor
Divided over Alger at Empire State Society meeting
New York May 16 The Empire State society of the Hons of the American Revolution faces a lively discussion on May 28 about acts by its Detroit delegates praising Secretary Alger. The debate centers on party balance and the recent Miles Wheeler King tribute, with concerns tying to Roosevelt and wartime commissary inquiries.
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New York
Empire State Society
Detroit
Alger
Gene. Merritt
Wheeler
King
New York Society
Merritt
Joseph Wheeler
Horatio King
McKinley
Commissary Department of the Army
Mr. Roosevelt
Gen. Eagan
Flood Canal Aims for Completion Before December
May 14 Chicago drainage canal trustees express relief and set a goal to finish the channel by December 6. President Poldenweck says water should flow before Congress meets to show no damage from War Department action. Gov Tanner must approve, with a commission to verify legal construction.
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Chicago
Drainage Canal
Poldenweck
Tanner
World crop prospects in Europe and overseas in 1898
A Treasury of foreign crop statistics reports favorable winter grain conditions across Europe and strong yields in Austria Italy and Romania. India faces a markedly smaller crop while Argentina and the United States show excellent wheat and maize prospects. The United Kingdom records a large gain in wheat production from 1897.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Department of Agriculture
Europe
India
Roumania
Austria
Italy
Argentine Republic
United States
Buenos Ayres
United Kingdom
Settlement Ends Bitter Fight At Kansas City Live Stock Exchange
The Kansas City Live Stock exchange and Greer Millin Co. have settled after a long dispute. The expelled firm is to be restored without paying the $1000 fine, and both sides will withdraw charges. The quarrel began two years ago over a rule violation and involved anti trust litigation reaching the Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City, Mo
Kansas City Live Stock Exchange
Commission
Greer, Millin & Co
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Greer, Milla & Co
Settlement Restores Friendly Relations After Exchange Boycott
The expelled firm attempted a dozen maneuvers with Mille & Co and DPlalf to press law actions against the exchange, but all failed. The exchange boycotted them and business suffered until a settlement restored old friendly relations.
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Wne
Greer, Mille & Co
Exchange
Navy considers new tropical service blouse
A Navy board debates replacing the current high collar blouse with a double breasted rack coat to fit tropical duty. Officers protest cost and style arguing the new uniform resembles British patterns and imposes extra expense for many sailors.
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Washington, PD
Naval Co.cern
West Inidies
Pacific
Huntish Navy
Navy
Sawed in Two at Chambers Mill Near Cheney
Matt Ecklund, a Chambers saw mill worker, had his right hand nearly severed by an edging saw yesterday afternoon. Frank Chambers applied a cloth tourniquet to the wrist, Ecklund was taken to Cheney and Dr. Pomeroy treated the wound, with a slim chance the band might be saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheney
Wash
Matt Ecklund
Chambers
Frank Chambers
Pomeroy
Sugar Beet Growers Arrive to Aid Local Planting Efforts
A special passenger train from Nebraska brought 123 families from Hastings and Fremont to the area. They are German and Russian sugar beet workers brought by the Dilinole Sugar Refining Company to teach locals how to cultivate and harvest beets. The company holds 90 acres for sugar beet cultivation.
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Prekin
Nebraska
Hastings
Fremont
Dilinole Sugar Refining Company
Sugar Refining Company
Caterpillar Hunt Sparks Parish Spraying in Montreal Area
A pest plague in St. Hilaire near Montreal prompts farmers to organize extermination. After mass, a parish procession with over 150 parishioners prayed and sprayed infested apple trees to halt the caterpillar outbreak reminiscent of a 15 year old plague.
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Montreal
St. Hilaire
Bega
Colfax Depot Work Advances. Freight Yard Move Rumored
Colfax Washington May 16 work on the O R N passenger depot proceeds rapidly. It is rumored the new freight depot will rise east of the passenger building on W H Martins warehouse and mill site with Martin ordered to vacate. Rumor of moving stock yards to Good’s addition is not confirmed and not widely believed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colfax
Wash
W. H. Martin
Interior Secretary questions Dawes commission actions
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock criticizes the Dawes commission for land use in the Creek nation before treaties in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations are ratified. He notes 12,000,000 acres in those two nations and asks why ratified treaties exist yet no progress is shown there.
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Wasrington
D.C
Secretary of the Interior
Hitchcock
Dawes Commission
Interior Department
Commission
Ita
Cow Attacks Man as He Diggs Sod in New York Street
Napoleon B. Adama of Hroomfield was attacked by a cow in Thomas street while digging sod. The animal tossed him on its horns and trampled him until Supt Gilbert Thomas North and Fred Doner Jr. battled the beast with tools and a fence rail. Adama was carried home to Linden Avenue in a semi conscious state and may die.
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New York
Napoleon B. Adama
Hroomfield
Adama
Thomas Street
Supt
Gilbert
Thomas North
Fred Doner, Jr
Iinden Avenue
Walla Walla’s Growth Attracts Settlers And New Homes
Walla Walla reports a three month population rise with scarce rental housing and many new residences under construction. Immigrants mainly from the Central States swell numbers while landowners push large scale farming. over 600000 dollars has funded new industries, factories, and institutions as bank clearings rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central States
Commerical Club
Walla Walla
Joliet Wire Company opens new mill near Joliet
Joliet Th May 14 The Joliet Wire company organized outside the wire trust began operations today near Joliet. The plant designed by C E B Robinson of Birmingham Alabama will be among the largest outside the trust and will employ between 20 and 300 workers. Robinson, the organizer, has long experience with Consolidated Steel and Wire.
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Jolaryt
Joliet Wire company, &@ corporation
Wire Trust
C. EB. Robinson
Birmingham
Ala
Robinson
Consolidated Steel & Wire Company
Women as editors in Griffin’s Review revived in Marysville
Mrs. Frank Griffin and her daughter Pearl Griffin return from Kansas City with materials to publish Griffin's Daily Review. After editor Frank Griffin was shot, the women plan to issue the paper daily with the aid of printers. The financially troubled paper had its press seized by mortgage holders. The first issue under the new regime is slated for May 14 with the mother handling business and Pearl composing the pages.
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Marysville
Frank Griffin
Pearl Griffin
Kansas City
Griffin
Daily Review
O Nes
Georgetown Corporal Works Way Home From Manila
NPW Albany Indiana May 16 Corporal R Ellie of Georgetown and late in the United States Seventeenth Infantry now at San Francisco writes a startling letter to his father. He served in the Santiago campaign and after returning to the states walked into a hospital at Columbus. He had three months left on his enlistment when his regiment was ordered to Manila. Ellie asked to stay but was refused and reached Manila just as his term expired. On expiration he sought discharge and home transportation but the commander refused to re enlist and he had to work his passage on a transport arriving in San Francisco.
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NPW
Albany
Ind
R. Ellie
Georgetown
United States Seventeenth Infantry
San Francisco
Santiago
Columbus
Manila
Eile
Butcher Shop Wagon Stolen By Night Intruders
ST LOUIS MO May 16 Peter Rollins operates a butcher shop at 1534 Kiddie street with a delivery wagon housed at a nearby stable. About 1 am three young men borrowed a watchman lantern to take the wagon claiming they would go fishing. They hitched the horse and drove off returning the lantern before leaving, and police seek to recover the horse and wagon.
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ST. Lou
Peter Rollins
Kiddie Street
Tobacco Trust Offices Shift in St Louis Consolidation Rumor
Reports from St Louis indicate the Drummond Tobacco and Liggett & Myers units of the Continental Tobacco trust may consolidate. Drummond offices at Fourth and Spruce would move to Liggett & Myers at Tower Grove and Folsom Avenue. Officials there could not confirm staffing changes.
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Et. Louis
Drummond Tobacco Company
Drummond
Liggett & Myers
Continental Tobacco Trust
Tower Grove
Folsom Avenue
Unclear consolidation plans seen with no preparations
Report notes no known removal or consolidation activity. Workers continue as usual and no measures to remove staff are evident. Supposed consolidation would decrease the office force.
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Ofice
Trenton Woman Dies After Suicide Pact Breaks
Miss Rudolph a once celebrated lobbyist in Trenton and Philadelphia died after taking carbolic acid and laudanum when a lover she believed forgotten her. She had returned to Trenton to visit friends and awaited money from Philadelphia which arrived too late.
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Trenton
N. J
Rudolph
Mies Rudolph
Philadelphia
Miss Rudolph
Glass industry merger to form new American window glass firm
In Muncie Indiana on May 16 officials confirm the mammoth window glass combine will be completed soon. The American glass company will succeed the American Window Glass association on May 30. The venture will be capitalized at 30000000 dollars and claimed to control over fifty percent of window glass production.
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Muncie
Ind
Mammoth Window Glass Combine
American Glass Company
American Window Glass Association
Baltimore & Ohio Officials Reject Cleveland Railroad Trust Story
In Dalatimore Maryland on May 16 local railroad officials and financiers dismissed Cleveland reports claiming a vast railroad trust would control lines from Boston to Chicago. President John K. Cowen of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway said he had never heard of the scheme.
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Dalatimore
Cleveland
Boston
Chicago
John K. Cowen
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Trains Chained to Tracks by Sheriff at Norman
Two freight trains and a passenger train on the A T and F road were halted and chained to the track by Sheriff Newblock and deputies at Norman. Engines were locked, traffic stopped, and the property levied to collect $7000 in taxes claimed as a mill levy for schools. The company disputes the levy and has a suit in court seeking to stop collection.
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Guthrie
C. T
Newblock
Norman
Body of Four Year Old Moating Found in Ohio River
Evansville Indiana May 16 excitement rose after the discovery of part of a four year old girl Moating’s body in the Ohio River a few miles below Evansville The head was severed from the body and the limbs were missing The child was white and scantily clad and appears to have come from comfortable parents with the tragedy pointing to foul play or accident.
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Evansville
Ind
Ohio River
Palmers to Be at Newport This Summer
Summer residents will be pleased to hear Mr and Mrs Potter Palmer plan to stay at Newport occupying the William Waldorf Astor villa Beau leu in Bellevue avenue. They expect arrival early in June and Miss Julia Dent Grant, newly engaged, will join the Palmers with rumors of a summer wedding to be held here.
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Newport
R. 1
Potter Palmer
William Waldorf Astor
Beauleu
Bellevue Avenue
Julia Dent Grant
Palmers
Grangeville Stages Grangeville Twaho May 15
Two daily stage lines run Lewiston to Grangeville with departures at 3:30 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. Breakfast is served before departure and again upon arrival at Fountain s place at 10 o'clock. The route from Lewiston to Fountain s place is fair but the hill and Grangeville section are muddy and impassable at times forcing passengers to hike.
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Grangeville
Twaho
Lewiston
Fountain's Place
Fountain
Judge Refuses Divorce Over Matrimonial Paper
In Doniphan Missouri on May 16 Judge Stuart denied Ellen Phillips a divorce from P. O. Phillips noting their marriage arose from an ad in a matrimonial paper. He said the court would not dissolve a contract started by such a paper and referenced wartime yellow journals.
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Dontphan
Stuart
Ellen Phillips
P.O. Phillips
Investment pitch for East an Pot Gold Mining stock
A bold sales note invites readers to invest in East an Pot Gold Mining shares. It promises a temporary price of seven dollars and forty cents per thousand shares, with a future minimum of ten dollars per thousand after tomorrow. Subscriptions are taken by mail through Slater & Smith, official brokers in Beattie at 114 James Street.
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Pot
Republic
Slater & Smith
James Street
Beattie
Dissolution of Wilson and Little partnership
Notice states the partnership Wilson and Little is dissolved by mutual agreement. Debts owed by the firm will be paid by L H Little and all accounts due to the firm are due to Little. Dated May 15, 14899.
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BE. A. Wilson
L. Mf. Little
Wilson & Little
L. H. Little
Little
World Labor Snapshot Mixes Factoids and Figures
A collage of statistics on global labor and industry. Laundries and physicians in London. Mexico’s glass factories. Japanese ribbon mills. German doctors. French boot blacks. Chile telegraph costs. American workers and production totals. Puerto Rico plantations. North Carolina mills. U S pickle consumption. Maryland fishing jobs. Fayetteville spinning mill. Durham mill plans. Turkish bread consumption. Newport News shipyard contracts. London and India labor quirks. Chicago pawnshops proposal. London omnibus revenue. freight locomotive weights. Paris Berlin rail reach. US railway labor density. political quip on economy.
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London
Mexico
Japan
Germany
France
Chile
America
Puerto Rico
Concord
N. C
London Directory
Brazil
Maryland
Fayetteville
United States
Durham
Lockville
N.C
Turkey
Newport News
India
Chicago
London Omnibus
Paris
Berlin
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Wells
Eprron
Avene
Cal
Colorado
Los Angeles
Santa Fe
Trans- Pacific
Delaware, Lackawana & Western Railroad
American Surety Company
Bondamen
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Burlington Railroad
Misalasippi
Weather Forecast
Standard Oil
Robertson Southey
Llanelly
Jenalache Zeitung of
Jena
Anthony Comatocki
Lucas Cranach
Adrian van der Werffs
Diana and
Callisto
Stuttgart
Karl Theodor
Bavaria
Naples
Tegerneee
Klaus Groth
Fritz Reuter
Reuter
Johanna Mock
Empress Augusta
Hans Richter
Vienna
England
Oxford
Cambridge
High Courts of Justice
Onxford
Trinity College
Dublin
Beoth Universatien
G&0
Saturday Review
Sons of the American Revolution
Congress
Live Stock Exchange
Naval Service
Korn Drug Co
Fifth and Pike
Shone Pike
Walla Walla, Wanh
Anti-Trust Wire Mill
Missouri
the Tobacco Trust
Drummond Force
Fourth and
Spruce Streets
Window Glass Trust
Wo Railroad Trust
Chil
Grandeville Stages
Newsome Moore
Yellow
Life
Yealer
James
Mickelson
LABOR
Bobby
Popsy
J. Redelsheimer
First Ave
Por
Columbia St
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