General Bell presses campaign to quell insurrection in Batangas
Manila reports General J Franklin Bell directing a vigorous drive in Batangas with Cols Wint and Dougherty’s columns pursuing insurgents toward Tayabas. Peace advocates are criticized for aiding the insurgents, while arrests of Lopez family members and church officials boost native support. Captain Schoeffel, wounded at Dapdap Samar, is recovering after killing three adversaries. Leyte is deemed peaceful by civil authorities but viewed as dangerous militarily. Major Meyer of the 11th Infantry seized arsenals and a powder factory at Ormoc, Leyte.
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Manila
J. Franklin Bell
Batanges
Wint
Dougherty
Tayabas
Bell
Island of
Samar
Schoeffel
Ninth Infantry
Dapdap Samar
Leyte
Albert L. Meyer
11Th Infantry
Ormoc
Meyer
New Typewriter Promises Kiss Marking Star in Letters
A young clerk touts a new typewriter adapted for love letters. The blushing maid asks about differences and learns punctuation includes a star for marking kisses, highlighted in a Philadelphia Record note.
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Philacephia Record
Court Parade Exclusion Plan Triggers Foreign Critique
In Pekin on January 7 Chinese officials ask ministers to keep legation guards in their quarters to avoid clashes during the court's return and parade. Foreign diplomats and their families will view from legation buildings. some foreigners condemn the plan as signaling homage to the court.
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Petin
Legation
Pekin
Legations
German duel shocks Berlin as Thieme kills Held
Berlin January 7 reports detail a duel at Jena where Lieut Thieme of the 94th regiment shot and killed Halle University student Held. The court of honor, composed of army officers, had five shots. Held died on the third exchange after relations with student agitators.
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Berlin
Jena
Thieme
94Th
Halle University
Held
Germany
Court of Honor
Disgruntled Employee Kills Springfield Superintendent
Springfield Ohio January 7 John G Sadlier superintendent and general manager of the Springfield Foundry company and the Indianapolis Frog and Switch company was shot and killed yesterday afternoon by a recently discharged employee. The murderer John W Kenney a moulder who had threatened Sadlier's life is in custody.
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Springfield, O
John G. Sadlier
Springfield Foundry Company
Indianapolis Frog and Switch Company
John W. Kenney
Sadner
Frightful death by dynamite blast in Coal City
Joseph H. Bovine, a Bohemian leader in the coal fields, shot to death by self-inflicted dynamite blast after a domestic dispute. He arranged the fuse beneath his vest, placed the cap, and exploded it behind his barn, tearing the earth and scattering his body.
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Morris, Ms
Coal City
Joseph H. Bovine
Rivers and Harbors: Engineering Water Storage for Arid Lands
President's Message argues it is proper for the national government to engineer streams and rivers in arid regions for water storage as is done for humid regions. Focuses on public works equality, economic development, and national welfare.
Ocean horror at sea sinks Walla Walla after collision
A French iron bark collided with the steamship Walla Walla off Cape Mendocino at 4 10 am causing the steamer to sink in 35 minutes. About 65 survivors were taken to Eureka by the Dispatch. at least 20 lives were lost. The Walla Walla, valued at 250000, carried 36 first class and 28 second class passengers with a crew of 80.
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San Francisco
Walla Walla
Pacific Coast Steamship Company
Puget Sound
Cape Mendocino
California
Hall
Dispatch
Eureka
Brown
Trinidad
John Wilkinson
William Martell
Il. Drake
Ranger
The French Bark Max Sunk After Collision
The French bark Max, disabled after colliding with the steamship Walla Walla, was towed to San Francisco by the revenue cutter McCulloch. Ninety-two survivors from the Walla arrived on the Pomona, while dead and missing counts vary from 37 to 47 with 42 currently listed as lost.
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San Francisco
Max
Walla Walla
United States Revenue
McCulloch
Walla
Eureka
Pomona
Franklin Farmhouse Killing Shocks Kentucky Town
Frankin Kentucky press reports the assassination of Press Hall at his rural home five miles from Franklin. He was shot through a window by a double barreled gun loaded with slugs and buckshot, dying instantly. His wife and four children tended him through the night. Hall, 45, a well known farmer, had no clue to the perpetrator.
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Franklin, Ky
Press Hall
Franklin
Hall
Wabash
Ind
Ed Heyer
Guy Launder
Great Northern Railway campaign seeks settlers for Minnesota
The Great Northern railway has launched an extensive drive among farmers in Indiana and Illinois and other central West states to recruit settlers for northern Minnesota and North Dakota.
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St. Paul
Great Northern Railway
Indiana
Illinois
Central West
Minnesota
North Dakota
Brown hanged for murder of road overseer in Clayton
In Clayton Alabama on January 3 Bob Brown, an African American man, was executed by hanging for the murder of road overseer Mr. McLeod. The capital punishment followed legal proceedings and a final order.
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Clayton, Ala
Bob Brown
Mr. McLeod
Mastiff Triumph Ends Bull’s Reign of Terror at Madison
A crowd gathered as John Goller’s dangerous bull faced his mastiff in a pen. The dog forced the bull to retreat, and after a half hour of combat the mastiff prevailed. The bull was shot and killed.
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Madison
Ind
John Goller
North Madison
Geller
Indiana Jail Population and Mt. Vernon Tragedy Reported
Reports to the state charities board for the year ending Oct 31 1901 show 28 014 prisoners in 92 Indiana jails including 15 922 sentenced and 5 209 tramps. Marion County housed 2 602 inmates while Union Brown Mt Vernon and other counties recorded smaller totals. In Mt Vernon Ind Arch ie Patterson was shot dead by Oscar Bacon after a dispute at a resort. Bacon was arrested for murder. Patterson’s father is a wealthy farmer in Point township.
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Indianapolis
Board of State Charities
Indiana
Marion County
Union County
Brown County
Franklin
Vigo County
Grant County
Madison County
Cass County
Vanderburg
Mt. Vernon
Ind
Archie Patterson
Oscar Bacon
Point Township
Patterson
Bacon
Mother's First Thought in Fatal Portland Fire
Mrs. Orville De Hoff of Geneva died after her dress ignited from a stove. She saved her infant by placing the child in a safe spot then rushed to the kitchen and shut the door. Neighbors found her with clothes burned off and she died four hours later. Her husband and three other children were away at the time of the accident.
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Portland
Ind
Bride of three weeks commits suicide amid failing marriage
Ousie K Fortner aged 20 died after taking rat poison in Indianapolis yesterday. Her husband Clarence Fortner aged 22 is held in county jail on a charge of fraudulent marriage awaiting trial. Despondency over their matrimony led to the tragedy.
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Indianapolis
Ousie K. Fortner
Clarence Fortner
Public debt declines in December 1901 report
The monthly statement shows the national debt, excluding cash in the treasury, at 1,011,628,286 dollars at year end 1901, down 8,643,192 dollars from November. Washington reports the movement in the December figures.
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Washington
Despondent Man in Valparaiso Ends Life Over Job Loss
Valparaiso Indiana January 4 William Seymour 30 committed suicide by poison yesterday after losing his railroad job. He leaves a wife and two children at Larwell.
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Valparaiso
Ind
William Seymour
Larwell
Couple Weds in Courthouse Tower Ride
Evansville Indiana January 3 David D Miller of Huntsville Kentucky and Miss Jennie E Shrader of Evansville married yesterday in the courthouse tower 100 feet in the air. The ceremony described as a romantic freak.
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Evansville
Ind
David D. Miller
Huntsville
Jennie E. Shrader
Tha Kind or Have Always Bought
Fragmentary OCR notes reference a phrase about “Always Bought” and a name or label Rignatore. The readable portion hints at a product or brand remark but provides no clear event, date, or identifiable organization.
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Bread
Life
T. B. Springer, JR
Peace Advocates
General Bell
Batangas
Ace G
Yavirep
Utes
A Brie
Sol T. Wolfe
Insurance
Cor. Public Square
Sullivan, Ind
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