Secretary of War James Sherman Passes After Illness
The long illness of a high government official culminated in death after a year of sickness. He faced repeated relapses during heat and travel, visiting Ohio and Washington between bouts of fragile health. His wife’s death earlier in the year at Mansfield, and his own declining strength, marked the end after weeks bedridden at home in Washington.
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Spanish West Indies
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Fort Monroe
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Sherman
John Sherman Early Life and Career in Ohio
John Sherman born May 10 1828 in Lancaster Ohio rose from a large family after his father died leaving $400 yearly. He studied at Kenyon for four years then worked as a rodman on Muskingum river improvements before studying law in Mansfield and gaining admission to the bar on his twenty first birthday. He married Margaret Stewart in 1848 and began a political path with Whigs then Republicans, serving in Congress and later the Senate with key roles in treasury and Civil War era politics.
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Homstead
John
Mount Vernon
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Clay
Philadelphia
Taylor
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Privee Silmon P. Chase
Lincoln
Dence
Johnson
Cabinet Resignations After Weyler Appointment Shake Spain
The cabinet resigns after Weyler is named captain general and war minister Linares selects Weyler without consult. Queen Regent calls Gen Azcarraga to form a new ministry as Prime Minister Silvera fails to hold the cabinet. The move sparks debate over a de facto personal government in Madrid.
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Madrid
Gén
Linares
Gen
Silvera
Daring Escape From Matteawan State Hospital By Insane Prisoners
A mob of insane criminals at Matteawan State Hospital broke free Sunday evening using improvised weapons and keys. Seven escaped after overpowering guards, while others were repulsed. several keepers were injured, with two seriously hurt, as officials vow to recapture the fugitives.
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New York State
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Indemnity Proposed for Italian Victims in Tallulah Case
The President will urge Congress to pay indemnities to the families of four Italians killed by a mob in Tallulah Louisiana about two years ago. A Justice Department special agent confirmed mob killings and lack of punishment by state authorities. Louisiana authorities conducted grand jury proceedings but the outcome prompted a national reparation claim for Italian citizens.
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Tallulah
Department of Justice
Trouisiana
Market tones ease as New York sees easy money outlook
In New York the money market shows little rate change but a calmer tone with fears of stringency fading. Demand for currency for crop moving declines, gold flows into New York from the Klondike and Europe, and the stock market gains confidence with more outsiders trading. Chicago notes broad declines in commod ity futures led by wheat and oats with supply tightness and deteriorated grain quality, while hogs and corn face weak conditions and uncertain delivery prospects amid speculative pressure.
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Klondike
Europe
Chicago
Board of Trade
Tornado Kills Six Near Lodi Texas Footpath of Destruction
A tornado half a mile west of Lodi Texas Sunday evening destroyed a central path house inhabited by colored people killing six and leaving three missing. The cyclone moved from southwest to northwest crossing the Texas and Pacific railroad at Campbellsville Spur a miles north. Debris spread in all directions raising fears of more fatalities. Also reports from Agassiz BC speak of Indian hunger with 200 starving and 50 families in urgent need of relief.
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Lodi
Texas
Texas and Pacific
Campbellsville
Conference of Operators Reaches Wage Increase Pact
A secret Philadelphia meeting between coal operators and big coal-carrying companies led to an agreement to abolish the sliding scale, grant a ten percent wage increase on September pay, and suspend the scale until April 1 1901 with further review. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company and Joehigh Valley company pledged similar moves, meeting all strike demands and ending the stoppage.
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Reading Railway Company
Philadelphia
Mine Workers’ Convention
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Joehigh Valley Company
King Leopold to Abdicate in Favor of Nephew Albert
Rumors say King Leopold of Belgium will abdicate soon in favor of his nephew Prince Albert of Wanders. Albert, who recently married Marie Gabrielle of Bavaria, is the son of Philippe, Count of Flanders, Leopold’s brother, and has renounced succession due to age and deafness.
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Prince Albert of
Wanders
Marie Gabrielle of
Bavaria
Prince Albert
Prince Philippe
Flanders
Eight Die in Terrible Fire at Hester Street Tenement
A three story frame double tenement at 45 and 4514 Hester Street New York burned in the early hours. Eight people perished including Anna Horowitz and a mother’s robe flame tragedy on the fire escape. Charles Fass and his 4 year old daughter Pauline survived with aid from Policeman Hunt and Fitzgerald.
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Anna Horowitz
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East Ride
American Troops Repel Attack Near Takloban Island
Fragmentary dispatch reports a detachment of the Twenty-fourth Regiment repelling an attack near Takloban, Leyte Island. A squad of Filipino assailants overpowered by scouts, three American soldiers killed, others wounded, and several attackers killed or dispersed.
Foul Seeds and Home Seed Practices in Agriculture
Article discusses the impact of foul seeds on crop yield and costs, urging stronger seed inspections and certifications. It covers root and fruit houses, oleomargarine testing methods, poultry disease prevention with lime and kerosene, and general farming notes on pastures, horses, and cantaloupe cultivation.
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Nueva Ecija
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Ee Vanes
Mr. Footefoote
Elling
St. John
Kan
Satoried
Swee
Agricultural Department
St. Louis
Geneva March
Creamery Journal
National Stockman
Leicester Ram Royal
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