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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1900
Page
8
In New York on May 4, Seymour John son & Co, grain brokers at 17 Broad Street, suffered a crippling downturn on the New York Stock Exchange and related boards. A tentative recovery appeared uncertain as losses mounted and traders warned of further margin calls and potential break with key partners.
An American correspondent reports Lea Nouvelles of Paris detailing Senator Depew's stance on Boer neutrality and US intervention. The piece quotes Buber and Allen on political pressures, urging refusal to host foreign envoys and warning of Democratic party manipulation amid the coming electoral campaign.
Philadelphia ship overhaul underway at Mare Island navy yard. The gunboat Mots to be converted into a training ship for Commission and command under Drake. A new battery with twelve four inch guns and two twelve pounder guns installed. Hugh McCalloch sails for Mehringson. transports Ebert and Sherman to Alaska and Hawaii with supplies. timing around June 1.
Report of the Director of Customs for the Philippine Islands notes total imported merchandise, gold and silver into Manila from August 1898 to December 3, 1899, amounting to millions with Hong Kong and Britain among top sources. Duty totals reach 777,804 dollars. The report lists country origins and values for ironware and goods from Germany, France, Austria Hungnay, Belgium, and several others, reflecting wartime trade patterns and elevated passport requests among merchants and travelers.
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A special report traces Clan-na-Gael activity in New York and Canada tied to Irish revolutionary actions. It cites Carl Dullman J Molin and John Walsh seeking support abroad, with funds routed through Maud Gennes via the Chans No-Gael. Details cover alleged plots against Canada and connections to Irish emigre networks, including prizes, travel, and wartime ideas centered in Ireland and Quebec.
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Washington May 23 The secretary of state has sent to Congress the compress the tariff st actions of the chamber of commerce at San Juan Porto Rico asking to reduce rice tariff from 2 to 50 cents per hundredweight until January 1902 and to raise gasoline tax from 50 cents to 2s cents per gallon The endorsement reads Government house Respectfully refers to the secretary of state Mr Cross president of the chamber of commerce is a man of standing who says the request is unjust given that U S rice production could not meet island needs Immediate action is requested signed Charles H Allen
New York May 28 The steam yacht Oneida arrived here today from Bermuda with her owner E C Benedict and former President Cleveland aboard.
The Omaha World-Herald reports Attorney General Athol Mebracks asks Judge Dickinson to dissolve the Ice or ice goods trust in federal court and order disclosure of property division among utility firms. The weather is hot at 38 degrees in the shade as consumers watch the case.
A woman named Ellan Lee alias Ella McClared was arrested in Chicago after a 14 year manhunt for the murder of her baby. She previously faced charges in Springfield and was jailed in 1830 before a jail break with two others. Police notified local authorities of the Chicago arrest.
News from Wei-Hai-Wei reports May 5 clashes on the British station Gulf of Pechili as Captain Waisob and sixty men escorting the boundary commission were attacked. Thirty attackers killed. two officers wounded in the Chinese battalion under Captain Watron. May 23 report notes early steamship Breckonshire departure from Japan. The article ends with a stray sentence on matrimony.
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