Pecans Destroyed In Galveston Flood Fallout
A weekly note caps a Christmas budget with 2,500,000 pounds of pecans ruined by the Galveston cyclone and remaining lighter than last year. Dr. Conan Doyle runs a post election campaign to explain his British Parliament loss, blaming apathy and homeopathy. Scots churches plan fusion to merge the Free Church and United Free Church of Scotland, aiming to ease religious divisions.
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Wealthy Arthur Sullivan Still Among Europe's Richest Musicians
Sir Arthur Sullivan ranks as one of Europe's wealthiest composers. His operas and songs provide substantial income while he serves as director of the Crystal Palace and the Savoy Hotel. He has recently withdrawn from a music publishing firm he previously joined.
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Arthur Sullivan
Europe
Crystal Palace
Savoy Hotel
Afrikander firmness hinders Roberts on guerrilla war
The Afrikander resolve to show racial solidarity complicates Lord Roberts work against guerrillas. Cape Dutch leaders declare that unless Boers are treated as honorable belligerents, they will cause suffering to British soldiers.
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Governor of Shansi accused only paper army found real force
Dispatches report the Shansi governor was dismissed not for murder of missionaries but because the dowager empress revealed his claimed 50,000 troops existed only on paper and he could muster about 4,000 fighting men.
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Shansi
China
Rome's New Woman's Methodist College Opens Soon
A marble college building in Rome, erected by Methodist women of Chicago and the northwest, has completed construction and will be opened in a few days. The structure is imposing on the exterior and well equipped on the inside, and it has drawn the pope's concern as indicated by recent letters to the cardinal vicar.
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Chicago
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Family Bibles Fade From Market as Housekeeping Shifts
The trade reports dwindling sales of family Bibles as family worship fades and Bibles with helps grow in demand. Fewer young people starting households see a Bible as essential, and manufacturers are winding down this product line.
Youngest British general officer rises from captain to brigadier
Brigadier General Bruce Hamilton, once captain in the East Yorkshire, now rapidly promoted, is among Britain’s luckiest officers. His first warfare experience came in South Africa, near where his latest exploits occurred, as Olivier and his three sons observe his ascent.
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Bruce Hamilton
Henry C. Hedges Considered for Sherman Biography
Henry C. Hedges of Mansfield Ohio and chairman of the speakers bureau at national Republican headquarters in Chicago is likely to be chosen to prepare Sherman's biography. Sherman's will earmarks ten thousand dollars for the work, reflecting their long friendship from law partnership days onward.
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Henry C. Hedges
Mansfield, C
National Republican
Chicago
Hedges
Missouri mining wealth warrants 1903 world fair focus
Missouri's mining resources are vast and valuable and the proposed 1903 World's Fair would offer the greatest opportunity for residents to showcase undeveloped wealth in ores and natural productions. The zinc and lead mining boom in recent years has attracted outside attention.
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Missouri
Haymaking by Eminent Hand To Be News Copy
England farm labor is scarce creating a curious West Field gathering. There appeared a Surrey farmer, a failed solicitor unable to pay for his certificate, a medical man down on his luck, pawnbroker’s assistant, and a journalist seeking material to write an article titled Haymaking by Eminent Hand.
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England
Ponte
Surrey
United States Population Rises by 21 Percent in 1900 Census
Washington reports total U S population in 1900 at 76 295 220 with 74 627 907 in 45 states used for apportionment. It notes 134 158 Indians not taxed and compares to 1890 census of 63 069 756, showing a 13 225 464 gain. Includes state totals and territories figures, plus non taxed Indians and overseas service estimates.
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United States
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New York
North Dakota
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Utah
Washton
Wisconsin
Arizona
Indian Territory
New Mexico
Oklahoma
United Statons
Alaska
Philippines
Tax Move Hits Red Cross Through Travel Licenses and Rail Tickets
In St Petersburg on October 31 the government again taxes for the Red Cross, first imposing a license tax of five to ten rubles to travel abroad and now taxing railway tickets five kopeks each. The ticket tax aims to $125,000 yearly, licenses $100,000, with the czarina noted as fostering the idea.
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St. Petersburg
Red Cross Society
Czarina
Maj Henry J Hearsey Dies At 60 In New Orleans
Maj Henry J Hearsey editor of The Daily States dies at age 60 in New Orleans. He rose from private at war start to major on the staff after serving with Wilkinson Rifles and the Sixteenth Mississippi regiment.
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New Orleans
Henry J. Hearsey
Daily States
South
Wilkinson Rifles
Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment
Shielded His Brother Till the Last in Illinois Death Case
Chicago dispatch says Frank Marshall died at St Elizabeths Hospital from a head wound after a fight at John Marshall's saloon. John Marshall confessed but claimed Frank struck first. Police questioned suspects as detectives probed the barroom brawl and a jewel heist tied to Mrs Tanner’s swindle.
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Frank Marshall
John
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
John Marshall
Frank
Schulze
George Joyce
Joyce
Frank Yea Lyit
Notable Early Illinois Figures and Tragic Alto Pass Double Funeral
David Kelly of Chicago died of heart trouble. head of Kelly Maus & Co. Thomas Alexander a Pekin storekeeper and Freemason. Robert Waller of Paradise township at 94, oldest in Coles county. G H Seegar aged 93 in Beardstown, Cass county's oldest resident. Seegar born in Germany, came to Beardstown in 1838. Alto Pass horror as Loren Lewis and George Corgan found beside the Mobile & Ohio track. Murder suspected. hats show bullet holes and powder burns. Funeral held at Baptist church with joint service by Rev Hutchinson and H H Wallace. Body buried in one grave.
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Chicago
Kelly, Maus & Co
Thomas Alexander
Pekin
Robert Waller
Paradise Township
Coles County
G. H. Seegar
Beardstown
Cass County
Germany
Alto Pass
Loren Lewis
George Corgan
Mobile & Ohio
W. A. Hutchinson
H. H. Wallace
Chicago Sanitary District maps giant harbor link plan
Trustees move toward a Chicago harbor by joining the Chicago and Calumet rivers with a navigable channel. They repudiate the Illinois & Michigan canal navigation contract and will notify the state canal commissioners that Bridgeport pumping works will be abandoned on November 15.
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Chicago Sanitary
Mr and Mrs Frank Match Celebrate Golden Wedding in Waukegan
Mr and Mrs Frank Match marked their golden wedding with a family reunion at their Waukegan home. Married in Chicago, they have resided in Waukegan since, with six grown children present. He is 71 and she 69, both in fair health.
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Frank Match
Waukegan
Chicago
Mr. Match
Wife Confesses to Fatal Wounding of Hooppole Carpenter
William Hilger a young carpenter from Hooppole near Genese died of pistol wounds reportedly inflicted by his wife as he dozed on a sofa. Her confession confirms the story and suggests the motive was life insurance money.
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William Hilger
Hooppole
Genese
Carr Siblings Drowned Duck Hunting on Lake Washington
Torrey Carr of Seattle and Clark Carr of Galesburg, sons of B. O. Carr and Gen. Clark E. Carr respectively, drowned while duck hunting in Lake Washington, Washington.
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Torrey Carr
B. O. Carr
E. M. Carr
Seattle
Wash
Clark C. Carr
Clark E. Carr
Galesburg
Lake Washington
Washington
Countess De Castellane Trust Spark in Paris Gossip
Paris society buzzes over the Countess’s fortune placed under George J. Gould by a French court. The Countess pleads for quiet, fearing stories will hurt her husband’s feelings while Boni and the Gould brothers clash over trusteeship and parsimony.
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Pyhe
Gould Brothers
George Gould
New York
Countess de Castellane
George J. Gould
Paris
Avenue du Bois de Boulogne
Count Bani
Gould
Marquis de Castellane
Boni
Honi
Castellane Indebtedness Details in Gould Trusteeship
Paris reports detail the appointment of George J. Gould as trustee for Countess de Castellane. Counts Boni and wife owe about 23.5 million francs broken down into real estate charity bazaar and home costs 3.7 million, mortgages 6.585 million, loans and debts 4.293 million, and art bric a brac 9.1 million. Art dealer Wertheimer alleges 8 million in purchases later returned and resold, with 2 million still due.
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Paris
George J. Gould
Countess de Castellane
Count Boni
Frances
Avenue Malakoff
FORGERY SCHEME NIPPED IN CHICAGO ARREST
Charles E Labberis, a Victoria hotel guest, was seized at Central police station on a warrant from a South Water Street wholesale fruit firm. Police say a clever forgery ring may operate beyond Chicago. Suspicious New Orleans and San Francisco indorsed checks tied to the scheme were found, along with similar checks in Labberis’s trunk.
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Charles E. Labberis
Victoria Hotel
Central Police Station
South Water Street
New Orleans
Fruit Firth
Returned Canadians Reach Halifax After Delay
The Idaho, carrying hundreds of Canadian contingent veterans from the South African war, docked in Halifax amid cannon salutes and cheers. An accident broke two propeller blades, delaying arrival but all aboard reported in good health.
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Halifax
N. S
Idaho
South Africa
Public Debt Statement Shows October 31 1900 Total
The monthly public debt at October 31, 1900 stood at 1,104,402,320 dollars after cash in treasury adjustments. The debt decreases 1,744,351 from prior month with interest bearing debt at 1,001,499,750 and noninterest bearing at 386,477,571, while certificates and notes total 740,695,695 offset by cash. Treasury cash totals 111,071,877 with liabilities 824,066,844 leaving 237,655,032 cash balance.
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Washington
Treasury
Reserve Fund
General Fund
United States
Three Prisoners Escape Alcatraz Island
San Francisco report says three inmates fled the U S military prison on Alcatraz with Frank Kinne among them. Kinne formerly of Manila where he deserted his command and joined the Filipino army, later claiming to be a Filipino prisoner. Also escaping were C J Huntington serving ten years and J M Potts with five years remaining.
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San Francisco
United States
Alcatraz Island
Frank Kinne
Kinne
Anda
C.J. Huntington
J. M. Potts
How the Yankees Get There
The Iron Age of this city notes English newspapers admit builders in this country have captured Uganda railway bridge contracts in South Africa, about eight thousand tons, not yet officially confirmed. It adds American bridge firms secured a smaller order for Bremen shops of the North German Lloyd line, about eight hundred tons, likely to cause a stir in Germany.
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New York
Uganda
South Africa
Germany
Bremen
Lloyd Steams Up Co
Appointment of Rockhill as Pekin legation councillor
Secretary Hay cabled Commissioner Rockhill to proceed from Shanghai to Pekin to assist Minister Conger as councillor of the American legation in negotiations for a final settlement. The plan to appoint Rockhill and Gen. Wilson as fellow commissioners alongside Conger was dropped since no other powers would appoint commissioners.
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Washington
Hay
Rockhill
Pekin
Shanghai
Conger
Gen. Wilson
Jones Attempted Suicide Delays Transfer To Bellevue Hospital
Charles F. Jones, secretary and valet to the late William Marsh Rice, hacked his throat in a Tombs cell and was sent to Bellevue Hospital after bleeding for hours. Assistant District Attorney Osborne published Jones’s confession detailing Patrick’s alleged role, Rice’s death, and forged checks.
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Millionaire Rice
New York
Marsh Rice
Bellevue Hospital
Jones
Bellevue
Hager
Albert T. Patrick
Rice
Osborne
Charles F.’ Jones
City
Capt. McClusky
James Byrne
Hornblower
Patrick
Senior
Madison Avenue
Fifty- Ninth Street
Plowright
Mr. Rice
W. M. Rice
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