Navy trains Olympia men to Washington and other brief items
Navy department plans 250 Olympia sailors to ride a special train to Washington. Chicago to Kansas City and other cities see reduced passenger rates. Vienna reports Emperor Francis Joseph forms cabinet. Fire devastates Coushatta business district. Yellow fever cases rise in New Orleans and Jackson Mississippi. Wyman dispatches note a Tennessee quarantine rise. Richard Caroll dies of heart disease. Great Northern wreck near Glasgow kills five. Havana strikes largely ended. Umbria carries Walter Wellman to London. Spokane marks amateur bicycle record 2292-5. Lublin suicide over insurance for mother. Sioux Falls moral drive yields gambling crackdown. Constantinople customs reject 20000 sacks American flour. Strauss protests. San Juan stats show indigent and ill, hurricane deaths 2619. Chicago post office cornerstone settlement clears, president to Chicago. Bogota cable confirms Rengifo drowned. Miss Jane Barour involved. Santa Ana jail fight with two burglars injures officer. Schlemanger charged with forging payrolls. extradition planned. Dewey home fund tops 40000 dollars. Middletown high school bans football this season. Bryan to speak in Kentucky mid-October. Samoa tensions rise amid German reports of Mataafa unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Department
Olympia
Washington
Pennsylvania Road
Jersey City
Chicago
Kansas City
Atchison
Leavenworth
Omaha
Council Bluffs
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Neue Freie Presse
Vienna
Francis Joseph
Count Clary
Shreveport
Coushatta
Wyman
The
Marine Hospital Service
New Orleans
Jackson
Miss
Carter
Tennessee
Richard Caroll
Cincinnati Southern Railway
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Helena
Great Northern
Glasgow
Valley County
Havana
Patria
Ludlow
New York
Walter Wellman
London
Franz Josefland
Spokane
Wash
C. C. Holzell
Holzell
L. A
Sioux Falls
Constantinople
United States
Oscar S. Strauss
Palace
Board of Charities
San Juan
Legation
Bogota
Julio Rengiffo
Magdalena
Rengiffo
Jane Barour
Aguinaldo seeks civilian peace talks with US forces
Aguinaldo pushes a peace plan via a civilian governmental commission while asking recognition of his republic. Otis refuses to recognize the government but will correspond with Aguinaldo as insurgent general. Envoys tour Manila hospitals, press crowds, and warn of long occupation costs and Filipino resolve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Auguinaldo
General Otis
Aguinaldo
Otis
Agunaldo
Republic
Johnson
Sixteenth Infantry
Alejandrino
Associated Press
Europe
Tarac
Angeles
San Pernando
Luzon
Philippines
Boers Readying War Declaration Date Set
Berlin reports from The Hague indicate Dr Leyds named Tuesday for a formal Boer declaration of war. Queen Victoria allegedly wrote to Queen Wilhelmina deploring events and affirming constitutional limits in pursuit of peace. Johannesburg: burghers prepared for action as orders are issued and commerce halts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Get
Berlin
Daily News
Hague
Leyd
Queen Victoria
Wilhelmina
Netherlands
South Africa
Johannesburg
Transports Sail for Manila With Thirty-Second Regiment
The remaining companies of the Thirty-second regiment sailed for Manila aboard the Glenogle and Charles Nelson. Companies A HB FI G K L M and the regimental band under Colonel Louis A. Craig boarded the Glenogle while Companies C and D under Major Charles Cabell boarded the Nelson. Both ships, about fourteen knots, will stop at Honolulu and are expected to reach Manila together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saail
Manta
San Francisco
Thirty-second
Manila
Glenogle
Charles Nelson
Louis A. Craig
Charles ©. Cabell
Honolulu
Will Appeal to McKinley for Wardner Prisoners
President Boyce of the Western Federation of Miners will appeal to President McKinley on behalf of imprisoned Coeur d Alene miners at Wardner. Prisoners face bread and water diet eight hours standing under sun, stripped bunks, no tobacco, no visitors, five months jailed without trial amid two court sessions. Senator Carter to press War Department for help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Anaconda
Mont
Boyce
Western Federation of Miners
McKinley
Coeur d’Alene
Wardner
District Court
Senator Carter
War Department
North Dakotans at Home Return From Service
North Dakota volunteers arrived back in the state after seventeen months abroad, with Company K from Dickinson and Company B from Fargo welcomed by cheering crowds. Large renderings of celebration occurred in Bismarck Jamestown Valley City and Fargo with thousands of people and artillery salutes marking the homecoming.
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Fargo
N. D
North Dakota
Philippines
San Francisco
Dickinson
Company K
Bismarck
Jamestown
Valley City
Lisbon
Yellow fever rise reported with Key West cases
Washington reports 48 new yellow fever cases and 2 deaths at Key West as Dry Tortugas detention camp nears closure after four weeks. Passed Assistant Surgeon Smith says conditions remain good and refugees are advised to leave. New Orleans records 57 degrees with frost in Mississippi and northern Louisiana. Miami reports no new cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Key West
Marine Hospital Service
Smith
New Orleans
Hattiesburg
Miss
Louisiana
Miami
Dewey Sags Under Strain After Busy Homecoming
The article notes Admiral Dewey grows pale and exhausted from daily ceremonies since arriving off Sandy Hook. He has faced relentless receptions and functions, the latest being the most taxing yet. He rested Saturday night and stayed mostly in his room Sunday to recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Admiral Dewey
Sandy Hook
Burkett Ill in Lincoln With Appendicitis
Congress man J. Burkett is seriously ill at his Lincoln residence after a Thursday onset of illness. Doctors report the condition critical but hopeful and not requiring surgery, with speaking engagements canceled and no operation indicated.
Austrian Suspect Bartholomae Kost Returns to Germany
Bartholomae Kost, an Austrian alleged to have murdered Mary Vodica in Bremen, Germany, left Chicago on October 2 escorted by two detectives to face the murder charge. He aims to return to Vienna to marry his existing wife Anna Schimera. the victim did not travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Winthe Kost
Chicago
Bartholomae Kost
Mary Vodica
Bremen
Vienna
Austria
Anna Schimera
North Atlantic squadron sails for Hampton Roads change of command
Admiral Sampson telegraphed Secretary Long that the North Atlantic squadron will sail on the 1st for Hampton Roads where the change in the commander in chief will take place and the winter maneuvers be mapped out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sampson
Long
Hampton Roads
Coeducation Debate Reduces Wesleyan Freshman Class
Wesleyan University sees the freshman class drop to seven women this year from twenty five last year amid co education opposition. The total freshmen number 101, slightly below last year’s entering class, with the student body pleased by the decline in women numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Conn
Wesleyan University
Awe‑struck Nation Fetes Admiral Dewey on Massive Floating Parade
New York on September 30 witnessed an immense tribute to Admiral Dewey as the Olympia led a vast flotilla up the river and past millions of flag‑draped spectators. Officials estimate eight million people viewed the pageant with about 250,000 aboard craft—an unprecedented victory procession without loss of life or vessel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Admiral Dewey
Olympia
Snells
General Grant
Riverside Drive
Grant
North Atlantic Squadron
Fresno
East River
North River
British cabinet leaks outline harsh ultimatum to Boer republic
London sources quote a high ministerial official detailing Cabinet proposals aimed at revising Pretoria 1881 conventions, dissolving alien protections, granting Rand municipal autonomy, removing religious disabilities, disarming forts at Johannesburg, and reexamining the 1872 Portugal arms treaty. A Tuesday cabinet meeting is planned as Kruger delays reply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
New York World
Chamberlain
Pretoria
Dr. Ueyds
Europe
Rand
Kruger
Jamieson
Johannesburg
Brain
Portugal
Delagoa Bay
Otis Reports Movement Clearing Country for Future Operations
General Otis wires word on Porac capture. Lawton's forces covered area near Mexico region Calumpit San Fernando while MacArthur advanced west of Porac with Ninth Infantry and Thirty-sixth volunteers to seize Porac and push enemy north. Wheaton at Angeles slowed insurgents and moved west. Casualties: five wounded at Porac. one officer and several enlisted men captured. twenty enemy killed. wounds unknown.
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Washington
Otis
Porac
Lawton
Calumpit
San Fernando
Mexico
Guaga
Bacolor
Santa Rita
MacArthur
Ninth Infantry
P’orac
Wheaton
Angeles
Cornerstone to Be Laid for New Chicago Post Office
At midnight the labor, festival and federal committees reached an amicable settlement. The corner stone will be laid October 9 under the original program. Union men will cut the stone from a block of Illinois limestone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ill
Organized Labor
Illinois
Gossip Names Meiklejohn May Be Appointed Governor
Washington dispatch reports strong talk of a civil governor for the Philippines with George D. Meiklejohn, assistant secretary of war, favored for the post due to the president’s confidence and his high administrative ability in the War department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Chicago
Washington
George D. Meiklejohn
War Department
Government War Regulations Issued From Pretoria
The government issues notices detailing wartime rules. Mines will continue with protection, liquor trade is prohibited, and special police will uphold order. Hand gold produced will be deposited with the government to fund wartime expenses with excess returned later. Strict passport controls are enacted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pretoria
Insurgents Massing as Mascardo Routs Porac Retreat
An escaped Spanish prisoner in American lines says Gen Mascardo with 800 insurgents began retreat from Porac after attack and moved to a Calumpit mountain stronghold westward where 1,500 more insurgents and powder works are located. Four Urdaneta prisoners were taken by the retreating force. A flag of truce may be sent tomorrow. Lieutenant Gilmore and Yorktown crew may not surrender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mascardo
Manila
New York World Special
Porac
Calumpit
Philippine Islands
Gilmore
Yorktown
John FF
Bass
Deaf Mute Asylum Fire Destroys Arkansas Institution
At 2 am a blaze swept the Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute one mile west of Little Rock destroying all brick buildings. Twenty five teachers and staff sleeping in the main building were rescued. no pupils were present as vacation had ended. Loss about 100000 with no insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deaf Mute Asylum Jfurns
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas Deaf Mute Institution
President McKinley Recap Paths for Possible Nebraska Visit
The president has not committed to visiting Nebraska though routes exist to include the state in his northwest itinerary. Officials plan the official schedule while considering other appointments and potential northwestern stops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Washington, D. C
McKinley
Northwest
Logan cattle raid suspects bound over for trial in Wyoming
Warren Livestock company manager Gleason said the preliminary hearing for four men accused of raiding sheep in Logan county, killing sixty animals, resulted in the defendants being bound over to the district court. The accused are Hunter Smith William Regdan Charles and Prentice Meinhaffer. One man owns a large cattle herd one is a foreman for a big cattle outfit and the other two are employees.
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Castle Rattlers Wold
Chpyenne
Wyo
Gleason
Warren Livestock Company
Logan County
Hunter Smith
William Regdan
Charles
Prentice Meinhaffer
Numerous World Events and Disasters Reported Worldwide
Census costs in Havana estimated at 13000 dollars. Death of comedian Sloper Clark in Surbiton. Fire devastates Marion block. Venezuelan governor Guzman Alvarez revolts. Chelsea court justice Fitz files bankruptcy. Harmsworth worth 15 million. Australian gold shipment of 1 million announced. St Louis forms athletic club. Miss Gould donates 1250 for Dewey fund. Vanderbilt turns 50. middle name Nissam noted. Yakutat quake felt in Prince William Sound, no damage. Newmarket race: Funny Boat wins Visitor’s plate. Tod Sloan unplaced. Grant descendants reunion planned in Windsor. Mexican envoy confirms Diaz skip Chicago celebration. Columbus streetcar case: restraining order. Chadwick named chaplain general. Omaha roundhouse fire: 15000 loss insured. Lamp explosion caused fire. Butler buys KC property for grand theater. Morrison-James charged with murder. Morrison held. Dead-end NYC Central collision: 3 dead, 2 fatally injured. Calcutta report: severe Himalayan disaster with 200 killed in Phool Bazaar. many landslides in Darjeeling, Marmech.
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Havana
Sloper Clark
Westbourne House
Surbiton
Thames
Marion
Til
Manuel Guzman Alvarez
Bermudez
Venezuela
Frank E. Fitz
Chelsea
Mass
Polic Court
Alfred C. Harmsworth
London
J. & W. Seligman & Co
Anglo-California Bank of
San Francisco
W. K. Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Coast Survey
Yakutat Bay
Prince William's Sound
Newmarket
Funny Boat
Tod Sloan
Lord Donavan
Matthew Grant
Windsor
Conn
S. Grant
Washington
Mexico
Diaz
Chicago
Williams
Columbus
Columbus Street Railway Company
John P. Chadwick
The
Maine
Omaha Roundhouse
Sioux City
Hol Butler
Standard Theater
St. Louis
Twelfth
Central Streets
Kansas City
Julia Morrison
F. H. James
Chattanooga
Leidenheimer
James
Miss Morrison
New York Central
Old Flatbottom Bridge
Emmet Lancelot
Rochester
J. G
Darjeeling
Marmech
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Santa Ana
Cal
Orange
Herbert Glover
Springfield
Inl
Leonard
Max Schlemanger
Wheelock
Dewey
Athletic Association of the Middletown
W. J. Bryan
Kentucky
Tion
Declara
M’kinley
North
Transvaal
Meiklejonn
St. Louis Athletic Club
James J. Butler
Helen Gould
Dewey Home Fund
Omtha
Omalia
South Omalla
Perecas
Western Ranger
New York Market
Kansas
Reese
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