Civil Service Commission Rules on Campaign Funds Solicitation
The Civil Service Commission released a long official statement ruling that soliciting campaign funds by letter falls under the civil service law. The opinion cites Edmunds of Vermont, who asserts the prohibition covers all solicitation within or from a building, reinforcing the act's aim to shield federal employees from political pressure.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Proctor
Edmunds
Vermont
Senate Judiciary Committee
Treasury Department
The
Commission
Congress
Resolutions Urge Senator Mason to Resign and Expulsion
Chicago scene reports resolutions at the Old Tippecanoe club urging Senator Mason to resign his US Senate seat and to be expelled from honorary membership over opposition to the Philippines policy. Final action postponed to the next meeting amid debate on governance and loyalty.
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Chicago
Mason
United States Senate
Tippecanoe Club
Sherman House
Pilippines
Congress
Lincoln
Lost lode prospect near Marbers Ridge draws large offer
In Hardin county near Marbers Ridge along the Ozark range the lost lode stirs excitement. A farm in the vicinity with floor spar zinc beds and other minerals drew a bid of sixteen thousand dollars.
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Harrisburg
Ills
Marbers Ridge
Hardin County
Ozark Range
Stone Fort
Saturday College Football Scores Across Big Ten and Ivy
Saturday results show Yale 0 over Columbia 5 in New York. Cornell 4 over Princeton 0 in Ithaca. Harvard 22 over Carlisle 10 in Cambridge. Wisconsin 10 over Rush Medical 0 in Madison. Purdue 40 over Depauw 0 in Lafayette Indiana. Michigan 5 over Illinois 0 in Champaign. Chicago 6 over Pennsylvania 0.
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Chicago
New York
Yale
Columbia
Ithaca
Princeton
Cornell
Cambridge
Carlisle
Harvard
Minneapolis
Grinnell
Minnesota
Madison
Wis
Rush Medical
Wisconsin
Lafayette
Ind
Depauw
Purdue
Champaign
Las
Michigan
Illinois
Pennsylvani & Chicago
Smallpox Cases Challenge Michigan Health Officials
Michigan health officers confront quarantines as mild smallpox cases spread. Patients hide illness and escape from isolation, hindering enforcement. Maple Grove reports about thirty cases and seeks state board of health aid to strengthen quarantine enforcement.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Maple Grove
State Board of Health
Divorces in Indiana Rise Past a Tenth of Marriages
Indiana records show 8483 divorces in the year ending June 30 1899, over 10 percent of 25051 marriage licenses issued. Marion county leads with 575 divorces as wives most often file, while river counties report cleaner records.
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Indianapolis
State Bureau of Statistics
Indiana
Bliss
Marion County
Ohio River
Good Year For Coal Miners In Illinois In 1899
Official figures from the bureau of Labor show Illinois coal miners averaged a $100 increase in wages last year. Production rose by 4,835,146 tons and at 48 cents per ton the wage gain totals $1,756,605 for pick miners, with overall wages reaching about $2,066,146 including machine mining. Over 30,000 miners work in the state.
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Springfield
Ims
The
Bureau of Labor
Illinois
Ensign Eckhardt Promoted Chief Engineer on Castine
Ensign Ernst Eckhardt of Sheboygan serving with the Pacific squadron at the Philippines is promoted to chief engineer of the gunboat Castine. The honor comes with an honorary Chillet and follows his posting at Cavite navy yard as the sole assistant to the chief engineer. News reached Saturday night. Previously he served aboard the Oregon. Milwaukee adds: a new electric line from Milwaukee to Muskego Lake will extend 12 miles toward Burlington with incorporation papers filed by S M Williams Fred W Henderson and Sturley I Henderson. The route passes Root Creek Hale's Corners Muskego Center and Big Bend to carry mail.
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Sheboygan
Wis
Ernst Eckhardt
United States Pacific
Philippines
Castine
Eckhardt
Cavite Navy Yard
Oregon
Milwaukee
Muskego Lake
Burlington
S. M. Williams
Fred W. Henderson
Sturley I. Henderson
Root Creek
Hale’s Corners
Muskego Center
Big Bend
Joliet Pastor Rev. James Lewis Dies at 63
Joliet Illinois October 30 Rev James Lewis pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church of Joliet dies at age 63 He was born in Hamden New York a graduate of Amherst College and rose from captain to colonel in the 144th infantry during the Civil War He entered the Presbyterian ministry in 1868.
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Washington
George M. Lee
Fitzhugh Lee
Thirty-ninth Volunteer Infantry
Forty-Seventh Infantry
New York
Philippines
Young Lee
Military Academy
Racine Club Leaves League to Join National Cycling Body
The Racine Athletic Association in Wisconsin voted to withdraw from the League of American Wheelmen and transfer membership to the National Cycling Association. The club owns a quarter mile cement track noted as one of the fastest in the country and plans a major race meet next summer.
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Racine, Wis
Racine Athletic Association
League of American Wheelmen
National Cycling Association
Blue and Gray reunion committee closes. members pay debts
Evansville Indiana October 30 The committee of the Blue and Gray reunion has settled all claims but members paid many bills themselves. A deficiency of 1500 dollars remains. The committee has closed its headquarters and announces no further Blue and Gray reunions.
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Evansville
Ind
Three Die In Railroad Collision In Illinois
Carlinville Ill Oct 30 three men were killed on the Jacksonville and St Louis railroad between Barnet and Atwater when a band car carrying James Bryant John Norvell George Cramer and Samuel Allen on the way to fetch a physician for a friend were struck by a passenger engine.
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Carlinville, Lls
Jacksonville
St. Louis
Barnet
Atwater
James Bryant
John Norvell
Geogre Cramer
Samuel Allen
Quincy
Carrollton
Widow seeks $20,000 damages in Port Huron suit
Port Huron Michigan October 30 Mrs Martha Johnsick widow of Lewis Johnsick killed June 3 at the Port Huron engine thresher works by the bursting of an empty wheel has commenced suit in the circuit court against the thresher company for twenty thousand dollars damages.
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Port Huron
Mich
Martha Johnsick
Lewis Johnsick
Thresher Company
Lodging house keeper in peril seeks help from trunk trap
Cedar Rapids Indiana Oct 30 Mary Galt keeper of a lodging house in a temporary frenzy crawled into a large trunk and closed the lid She was found an hour later nearly dead The woman who evidently attempted suicide may recover
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Cedar Rapids
Mary Galt
British move 29 cruisers as Ladysmith siege tightens
London reports admiralty mobilizing twenty nine cruisers while dispatches from Ladysmith describe Boers closing within ten miles, mounting two large guns near the camp and expected assault. A war balloon aids artillery position mapping as skirmishes continue and bridges are guarded.
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Ladysmith
Joubert
London
Plymouth
Admiralty
Tinta Ingonl
Pietermaritzburg
The
Daily Mail
Coleso
Transvaal
Tugela
Loss of the Eighteenth Hussars After Talana Hill Action
Captain Hardy reports the withdrawal of three squadrons with a Maxim and supporting units at Glencoe and Sandspruit. Colonel Moeller led a flank to Talana hill, engaged Boers, captured several, then crossed to Want's drift, suffering wounds to Lachlan and Cape. The Maxim became stuck, three detachments were killed, and Major Greville and Captain Pollock lost horses. The force reformed on a northern ridge after heavy fighting.
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Durban
Eighteenth Hussars
Hardy
Glencoe
Dublin Fusiliers
Moeller
Sandspruit
Talana Hill
Vant's Drift
Hussars
Maxim
Dundee-Vryheid
Lachlan
Want’s Drift
Boers cut water supply during Mafeking bombardment
Dispatches from Mafeking report the Boers seized the waterworks, cutting off supply though tanks and wells remained usable. British sortie three miles north met Boer fire. Commander Sydney Webb wounded and rescued. Earlier shelling damaged a convent hospital with no reported British casualties.
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Cape Town
Mafeking
Sydney Webb
Steevens
Baden-Powell
ODay Blacklisting Suit Against Railroads Ended Not Guilty
After thirteen hours of deliberation a Chicago jury found the Chicago and Northwestern Railway and the Wabash Railroad not guilty in the ODay blacklisting case. The plaintiff sought 50000 damages alleging discrimination for his participation in the American Railway Union strike. The case centered on a claimed blacklist and 524 Illinois Central employees named in a document offered as evidence. The jury reached agreement after eighteen ballots.
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Chicago
O'Day
Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company
Wabash Railroad Company
Northwestern
American Railway Union
General Managers’ Association
Attorney Strong
Illinois Central
Jeffries Sharkey world title fight show of chances
Six days remain before the world championship bout between Jim Jeffries and Tom Sharkey and betting is unusually tight. Jeffries supporters outnumber Sharkey backers, with some wagers seen at 10 to 7 or 10 to 6. Both fighters report peak condition for the match.
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New York
Jim Jeffries
Tom Sharkey
Loth
Jeffries
Sharkey
Jaffries
Porter's voyage collectors trade facts for U S industry
Roby P. Porter returns from eight months of study in Great Britain Ireland and continental Europe with notes to boost American commerce He proposes a comprehensive economic work on Russia and urges open markets not favored treatment He notes Franco-German trade ties and Britain as key to free trade and world progress
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New York
Great Britain
Europe
Robyart P. Porter
St. Louis
United States
Ireland
Spain
Portugal
Russia
Germany
France
Wis
United Kingdom
South Africa
Parolees arrest and town fire report in Midwest notes
Joliet Illinois reports Rolla Bohee alias Vesta Dale, a noted female criminal, rearrested in St. Louis awaiting parole officer transport back to Joliet where she faces years more behind bars. Earlier in Goshen Indiana a fire destroyed 19 business rooms, losses estimated 50 to 60 thousand dollars. Peoria Illinois miners avert strike as wage talks stall until April 1 1900. Marion Indiana treasurer’s safe loss at Soldiers Home remains unexplained after a large withdrawal.
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Joliet
Ill
Rolla Bohee
Vesta Dale
West
Joliet Penitentiary
St. Louis
Green
New Orleans
Chicago
Missouri
Rolla
Goshen
Ind
Busines
Wakarusra
Krizely & Burner
Flash Bros
W. S. Hartman
Yoder Bros
Bowers & Rummel
Fred Young
Isaae
Clay & Melvin
Wernis & Clay
Joseph Welty
John Buzzard
William Firetone
Benjamin Hughes
Mary St. Clair
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Mason of
Ilinois
Philippine
Pettigrew
Sioux Falls
Aberdeen
Woonsocket
Sheboygan Bay
Presbyterian
BUEHD
Albrecht
Free State Artillery
Elandslaagte
Major Donegan
F. W. Reitz
Pretoria
Mapeking
Laurier
Quebec
Que
la Verite
England
Canada
Empire
Bricklayers Hall
Plaintif
Jeffries and
Leo
Manila
Gen. Harrison
Southampton
Harrison
Lewis
Hodgson Burnett
St. Paul
Robert P. Porter
Citizens’ Savings Bank
Washington,owa
Joseph Keck
Frank Steward
Qhas
H. Keck, Cassier
O. M. Keck
Casey Bros
Feed and Sale Stable
Hotel Allen
E. M. McConaughy
Klein's Clothing
J. R. Burroughs
Southeast Corner Square
Columbian Corner
WASHIG@NTON, TA
Angels
P. W. McElwain
H. Sanford
Washinaton Lowa
Marsh W. Bailey
Crick
Downstatia
Iowa
C.J. Wilson
Attorney At Law
Bear Alberson's Grocery
Temple Building
Washington, Iowa
W. E. Anderson, M. D
PFLOR
Washington, Towa
T. J. Dempsey
National Bank
Capital
Overruus
Hoes
Ida Bailey
West Main Street
J. Hw. Young
W. R Jeffrey
A. Anderson
Ash
T. Anderson
Ass't
Washington County Savings Bank
Bnaanizeo Coronen
Jon Kwok
Prea
A. Warm
Ons Oashier
O. H. Krom
V. P
M. Keox
Asst
Bad Citoyenne
Peoria
Pittsburg
Wantling
Soft Coal Association
Marion
Eleichert
J. F. Poage
Osteopath
Eraduate
American School of Csteopathy
Prest National Bank
Kemble
Kemae Flower Co
Oskaloosa, Lowa
Frank Rogera
Nerva
Avita Medical
Jackson & Clinton Sts
Chicag
BK. D. Currins & Co
Diamond
GaRnex
West DelLong’s
T. T. Keeley
Washington Street
R. F. Riley
Smouse
First National Bank
Wm. Blair
A. H. Wallace
D. H. Keck
L.D. Robinson
Frank Stewart
J.P. Henderson
W. H. Butterfield
Crall
Rocky Mountain
Weary & Hain
Freeport, Ills
Washington, Ia
Howard H. Hahn
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