US Exports Strong, Warships, and Cuba Policy Debate
The Weekly Call notes US exports last month at 123 one eight one seven four eight dollars, up over six million from December 1896, signaling a promising world market. Hamburg received 64 thousand barrels of American apples in one day, boosting European demand. It counsels vigilance against stock sharpers for Klondike trips and criticizes Spain’s autonomy stance in Cuba, urging prompt postal deficit remedies and safer letter delivery. It questions continued US involvement in Cuban affairs, highlighting humanitarian costs and calls for decisive action.
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Hamburg
Germany
Europe
Tramp Millionaire Berry Dies Poor in Paducah
An old adage about putting a beggar on horseback gains new life in Berry the tramp millionaire who rose to great wealth then raced ahead until his death in Paducah Kentucky with no money to his name and a likely burial in potter's field.
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Taene
Berry
Paducah
Potter's Field
Quiet Havana Faces Critical Strife Amid War Talk
The Havana scene is reported quiet yet dire with Weyler allies pushing for war. Our relief shipments to Cuban sufferers receive strong support from state departments and ships ferrying aid prove genuine. Spanish officials in Cuba obstruct aid distribution. A French stance on the Dreyfus affair sparks regional tension. Experimental stomach surgeries are declared failures, yet charity cases are cited in defense of surgeons.
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Havana
Weyler
State Department
Cuba
Secret coast defenses progress kept from public view
Few outside the war department know how quickly the coast defenses are being completed. The secretary offers little about the project in his annual report and workers are warned against sharing details on post strength or progress. They say, They're getting there just the same.
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Department
Indications of Cu ba intervention rise as gunboat Helena sails
Reports say the gunboat Helena began a long voyage to the Asiatic station, reached Funchal Madeira, and a cable directed her to Lisbon. Officials refused explanation while navy channels whisper of a port ready to receive Minister Woodford and the American legation in case of peculiarity.
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Cuba
Helena
Funchal
Madeira Islands
Lisbon
Navy Department
Woodford
Senate and House Contend Over Appropriations and Treaties
In a dense turn of congressional proceedings the Senate debated bimetallic negotiations and heard Foraker credentials for Hanna while the House moved on the army appropriation bill and Cuban belligerent rights. Banner items included the Teller silver payment plan, Alaska land laws, and labor wage discussions tied to cotton prices, with multiple executive sessions and international notes from Havana to London.
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Senate
Ith
Wolcott
House
DeArmond
Dem
Morgan
United States
Dingley Ws
Alaska
Bicycle Policeman Killed in Collision in New York
On the 18th bicycle officer Frederick Lincoln of New York, 22, died instantly in a collision with pedestrian Julius Hirschberg who was badly injured and sent home unconscious. Also on the 18th, 40 killed and 18 injured by a gas explosion at a Donetzner company mine in Tageprog district, near the Sea of Axov.
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Frederick N. Lincoln
New York
Julius Hirschberg
Hirschberg
Donetzner Company
Tageprog
Busaia
Sea of Axov
Senate and House Telegraphed Reforms and Global Tensions
In the senate an amendment to the pension bill barred payments by power of attorney for pensioners abroad. Teller bonds may be paid in silver dollars. The house adopted a resolution seeking State Department info on Col Ruiz’s military execution. Rioting and looting hit Mustapha, Algiers. 40 arrests, two officers wounded. Russia plans to press Turkey for 1.4 billion indemnity to push settlement on Crete. An eclipse in Bombay brought a two minute totality with eerie air scent. Prague bans party badges. German university strikes. faculty leave. Madrid furies over Cuba talk as American warships feared. Luetgert jury in Chicago marks week nine with a sleigh ride. Lire tariff cut decreed by Eine Humpert on cereals through April 30.
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Senate
United States
House
State Department
Col. Ruiz
Algiers
Mustapha
Apisoatch
Constantinople
Russia
Turkey
Bombay
Prague
Cuban
Madrid
Imparcial
Cuba
Luetgert
Chicago
Eine Humpert
Illinois Deaths Doings: Prominent figures and a grand wedding tale
A long list recalls deaths across Illinois including Samuel McCracken in Iroquois County and Mary Reardon in Jo Daviess. notable figures such as John M. Scott former state supreme court justice and Oscar Berquist of Henry County are noted. An old woman dances at her granddaughter's wedding before dying, and Edward Shannon, a 70s-era wife killer, is sentenced to hang. Other items include golden anniversaries, a Logan County farmers institute, a Kewanee accident injuring a man, and a boy killed by a train in Laclede.
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Logan Carlisle
John G. Carlisle
M. E
Covington
Christopher Auger
Arlington Cemetery
Washington
St. John’s Church
Prince Llenry of Battenberg
Whippingham Church
Osbourne
Isle of Wight
Queen Victoria
Beatrice
Princess Henry of Battenberg
Chicago
Milada Carey
Crumps
Philadelphia
Helen Long
Luu
Homeyer
Namjung
China
Langzhen
Egypt
Prince Said Ben Boussou
Lord Salisbury
Ances L. Schader
Peoria
Samuel ‘McCracken
Lioda
Iroquois County
Lawrence Malone
R. Ramsey
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Braceville
America
Thomas, Marshall, Whitaker
LeRoy
Ilinois
Bloomington
State Supreme Court
Abraham Lincoln
David Davis
Scotch-Irish Association
Oscar Berquist
Henry County
Kewanee
Sweden
Bishop Hill
Prairies
Ernestine Haerting
Mascoutah
James R. Wright
Litchfield
Edward Ross Wooters
Quincy
Hannah Livingston
Aaron Livingston
Central Illinois
Edward Shannon
Willis
Wheaton
Dupage County
Shannon
Wright
Chicago & Northwestern
Belvidere
Illinois Revenue Struggle Reaches Key Senate Vote
Springfield notes show the Illinois legislature advancing a revenue bill with debates on township assessor abolishment and county taxation. The Senate passed the revenue measure 34 to 8 after amendments, while the House planned second reading and potential quick passage, amid concerns over local assessors and tax structure.
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Selby
Revenue Committee
Cook County
Smong
Chicago
Springfield
House
Senate
Crawford
Houss
Mciiairy
Yeas
Lamonte
Jan
Senate Revenue
Berry
Anit
Illnois
Lundin
State Board of Equalization
Humphrey
General Revenue Code
Sayler
Say
Senator Littler
Templeton
Anthony
Aspinwall
Baxter
Bogardus
Bollinger
Case
Chapman
Dunlap
Dwyer
Edwards
Evans
Fisher
Fitzpatrick
Fort
Granger
Hamilton
Harding
Hunt
Kanan
Kingsbury
Munroe
Netterstrom
Pemberton
Putnam
Sawyer
Stubblefield
Sullivan
Warder
Willoughby
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August Droll
Troy
Illinois
Spain
Congress
Klondike
Brier
Wm Ebright
Nebraska Institute For the Blind
Ernest Bazin
Paris
Ue Senate
Joseph McKenna
California
Supreme Court of the United States
Ancona
Italy
Republican County Central Committee
Fort Wayne
Ind
Allen County
E. W. Miner
Garret
Smith
Pullman Palace. Car Co. Directory
Buenos Ayres
Merriam
Department of the Columbia
Portland
Ore
George W. Elder
Somali Protectorate
Abyssinia
Africa
Golden Gate
San Francisco
Juneau
Dyea
Skaguay
R. G. Dun & Co
Canada
Illinois State News
Eliza Grazalski
Poland
Anton
H. W. Kreider
Galesburg
Fulton County
George W
Logan County Farmers
Logan County Farmers’ Institute
Lincoln
Frank Hamilton
Joseph Leiter
Will
Jamen Wright
Laclede
Ilinois Central
Legislature
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