Canada, Japan and empire ideas in Uncle Sam’s parade
The Weekly Gall notes a Canadian entry to the procession of Uncle Sam as civility yet to become business. It compares Japan’s China terms with Germany’s 1871 tribute, argues Canada is a half way house for settlers, and cites New England factories full of former Canadians. It mentions postal revenue gains and a Turkish-Armenia dispatch, while joking that war reporters cluster behind lines.
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New York Assembly
Canada
Germany
France
Japan
China
Ory Glico
New England
Wue
Turkey
Armenia
Britain Claims Vast Territory in Venezuela Dispute
The report notes Britain demands 60 000 square miles beyond 1840 claims in Venezuela. The land surpasses Illinois in size and Venezuela has not sold or ceded it. The piece urges clear title explanation for the benefit of other American republics.
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Great Britain
Venezuela
Illinois
Keely motor argued to fail by polar flow principle
The Tur New Science Review notes Keely's motor relies on tapping a polar negative flow to divert focalization through electrical vitality, creating a positive negative concordance. It concludes that this explains why the old device does not work.
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Tur New Science Review
Keely
Iris Reflects On Legislator’s Death and Integrity
Iris comments on the legislator who killed himself in New York. She says he was too conscientious to lie too brave to flee and too much of a man to betray his associates. The note highlights the paradox of honest life traits in a corrupter of statesmen.
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Iris
New York
Wm. Ellsworth
McHenry County
Poland
Geo. Filweber
Ellsworth
Filweber
Arkansas cotton ban signals reduced supply drive
If numerous farmers in Arkansas plant no cotton at all, cotton raisers appear serious about cutting supply. If other planters follow Arkansas by not planting or planting less, bold anti cotton measures could yield important market results.
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Arkansas
Japan’s Territorial Ambition Labeled as Illegitimate
The passage argues that Japan’s drive to extend its territory stands as a moral and political danger, contrasting Japan’s size and population with Russia’s vast landholding and dismissing the notion that Japan’s actions against China justify imperial gains.
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Japan
Russia
China
Commanders ban firing by Spanish warships near Cuban waters
The article notes that Spanish warships in Cuban waters were instructed not to fire on vessels beyond the three mile limit. It suggests an implicit shift to deny American navigational rights in the windward channel and calls for a clearer understanding to prevent future troubles. Also mentions Chauncey M Depew urging graceful aging and family involvement.
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Cuban
Gresham
Spain
Warden Sage to witness electrocution of Buchanan
Long dispatch notes that Warden Sage of Sing Sing issued invitations to witnesses for the execution of Dr. Buchanan the wife killer after repeated postponements. Also items on Secretary Carlisle campaign plans, Cuban rebels, nobility deaths, and a series of crimes and disasters from late April.
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Sage
Sing Sing
N. Y
Buchanan
Carlisle
Kentucky
Cde Puma
Valentin Gallege
Dos
Cabana
Havana
Joan Hurr
Charles Easthoff
Mateawan
Huff
Easthoff
Joan Brown, Jr
Put-in-Bay
Lake Erie
Capt
Crown
John Brown
Harper’s Ferry
Brown
Secret Service Bureau
Washington
Hamilton
Ont
M. T. Mack
Chicago
TuErz
Civil-Service Commission
Theodore Roosevelt
Lyman
Agliardi
Austria
George Robert Charles Herbert
Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery
Nauheim
Hesse
War Office
Delphine Chaput
Seraphine Denette
McDonald Tobacco Co
Montreal
Can
Notre Dame Hospital
Umra Khan
Afghanistan
Great Britain
Cleveland
White House
Penderaklia
Black Sea
Tallinhut
Kotzebu
Fo-Kien Officials Protest Cession of Formosa
Chinese officials from Fo-Kien province protest cession of Formosa to Japan offering to fund the purchase themselves. Florida quarantine rules take effect and run to November 15. Mahoning Valley Ohio furnaces to raise wages fifteen cents per day. Antonio Lopez sails to Santiago de Cuba with 934 troops. Pei Ho embankment flood breaches threaten Pekin defense. hundreds drown. Dun & Co. reports 2381 US failures the week ended the 3d, Canada 34.
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Fo-Kien
Formosa
Japan
Florida
Mahoning Valley
Ohio
Antonio Lopez
Santiago de Cuba
Spain
Shanghai
Pekin
Pei-Ho
United States
R. G. Dun & Co
Canada
World Women's Christian Temperance Union petition to present in London
A remarkable sequence of meetings began in Washington last February and will resume in London the week of June 16. The World’s WCTU will present a giant petition bearing over 2,000,000 signatures in 50 languages, with attestations of 7,500,000 people, urging prohibition of alcohol and opium sales. The petition is 1,892 yards long on canvas and will be presented to all signatory governments.
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Washington
London
World’s Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Waubansee Club
Chicago
Auditorium Hotel
Democratic Party
Richard Knott
Louisville
J. Lawrence Laughlin
John M. Palmer
New York Associated Banks
Lungren & Wilson
St. Charles, Sr
Osgood
Claus Buixt
Minneapolis
Minn
Catherine Ging
Corinto
Rott D. Fowze
Rockford
Dir
Libby
Belle Qxt
New York
Ant
Rale
Illinois Soldiers' Home and Saloons Report
Illinois lower house committee on soldiers homes reports near Quincy that saloons near the home entrance corrupt inmates on pensions. It urges the assembly to empower the home superintendent to notify saloonkeepers and prosecute noncompliant sellers under 1893 dramshop law. Also notes governor transmission of appointments and local incidents including a murder suicide, university class day selections, and other regional items.
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Thev House
Soldiers’ and Sailors
Quincy
Thirty-ninth General Assembly
Homerah
University of Ilinois
University of Illinois
George Henry Campbell
Louisville
Grace Lillian Moore
Tolono
Marianna Green
Ramsey
Marion
Thompson
Bement
Godfrey Sperling
Dewey
Charles Carlton
Webster
Polo
Illinois Legislature debate over boards and bonds
Springfield reports detail a Senate push to revise the state live stock commissioners board and grant police powers to enforce rules. House debates focus on judiciary revisions, street railway questions, and an $25,000 grant for Father Marquette monument in Chicago. Cooper of Seigel Cooper & Co declines to answer ad questions before a senate committee. Adjournment plans and tax measures are discussed amid ongoing legislative slowing.
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Beringbvery
Senate
Hunt
Commissioners of Police
Needle
Clay County
Ley
U G
Selby
Daugherty
Mmits
NPR Foye Engga
Frank Hi Cooper
Salem
Cooper
Humphrey
Chicago
General Assembly
Revision Commission
Springfield
Frank H. Cooper
Seigel, Cooper & Co
Gil
Salomon
Berry
Johnson
Herb
Hovusr
Needles
Payne
Illinois Western Hospital
House
Cook County
Mahoney
Father Jacques Marquette
Sidgel, Cooper,& Co
Littler
Brand
Kaskaskia Ee
Penning
Committee On
Judiciary
Schwab
Quincy
Merriam
Soying
Tes
Board of Trustees
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Stanford Kimely
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Kimely
Larimer
Union County
Patterson
Kas
Chicago & Alton Railroad
Carlinville
Holman
Durranton
Miss Lamont
San Francisco
William , H. Mexagurée
First National Bank of
Umsha
Neb
George Barker
National Bank
Copimerte
James G. Me' Ab
Duhith
Lake Gnesen
America Powder Co
Concord
Mass
N. K. Fairbanks
Ogdensburg
Morgan’s Point
Port Colborne
W. T. Thompson
Ean Reese
Gine
Ey Elan SR
Brooklyn Heights
Yoad Co
Mary Medinger
Lewis
State News
Henry A. Langer
Illinois State Penitentiary
Bradford K. Durfee
D. W Andrews
State Board of Public Charities
George H. Dickman
Charles Nieman
Illinois ‘Northern Hospital For the Insane
W. A. Dieter
John McCreery
A. A. Culver
State Board of Pharmacy
Thomas N. Jamison
Louis C. Hogan
John S. Cooper
B. F. Weber
Martin Becker
Andrew Crawford
Board of Lincoln Park Commissioners
C. F. Clark
Charles Kirk
Robert Waler
August Hener
United Presbyterian Congregation of
Marissa
R. W. McBride
First U. P. Church
Emporia
E. McKee
McBride
Moloney
Bilodfolded
Clara Two
Alfred Two
James Bailey
Noonan
Thomas Noonan
United States Court
Forgest
Joliet
Peoria
Stokes & Son
Forest City.Furniture Co
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