Conger to Return After Adventurous Diplomatic Career
Edwin Conger United States minister to China will resign on January 1 and return with his family to Des Moines. The six years at Peking included the siege during the boxer uprising and diplomacy on commerce and law. His longtime friend President McKinley earlier appointed him Brazil envoy, and he later returned to China, earning praise for his justice and tempered concessions.
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Dea Moines
Edwin Conger
United States
China
Mas. Conger
Chicago Women’s Club
Conger
Peking
Chicago Chronicle
Legation
Chaffee
Maj
Brazil
Man Conger
Law
Albany
William McKinley
Maj. Conger
Maj. McKinley
Congress
McKinley
Des Moines
Grand Army
Hydroscope eyed sea bottom reading newsprint at 360 feet
London reports Italian inventor Cavaliere Giuseppe Pino has devised a steel hydroscope allowing daylight to penetrate deep sea. The device, resembling a giant downward telescope, can reveal objects on the sea floor and readings suggest it may aid war vessels. A related concept enables viewing under a ship through a retractable tube. A second feature covers a century-old tale of Catherine Ferdon and her lover, set beside the Palisades tomb, with local legends of a doomed marriage and a family tragedy.
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London
Cavaliere Giuseppe Pino
New York
Sparkill
Piermont
The
Hudson
William Ferdon
Catherine
Erie Railroad
Enterprise
Hved
William Ferdonied
Indis
Catherine Ferdon
Petroleum Production since 1859 in the United States
The article notes that within 43 years from 1859 to 1902 crude petroleum output reached 1 165 280 727 barrels. It lists state shares with Pennsylvania and New York combined at 63.9 percent, Ohio 24.8 percent, West Virginia 11 percent, California 3.9 percent, and Texas 2.2 percent. It also references Australian detectives and football in a brief, lightly phrased aside.
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Col. Drake
Oil Creek
Titusville
Pennsylvania
New York
Ohio
West Virginia
Gane
California
Texas
Peculiar Maple Weds Beech in Ontario Nature Tale
A soft maple in Havelock Ontario entwines itself around a beech, growing in a single, sunward spiral. Observed by owner James E Kennard, the twin trunks remain separate yet closely fused in places. Naturalists say no similar case is known. A petrified tree trunk forms a natural bridge nearby.
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Toronto
Canada
Forestry
Havelock
Ontaro
James E. Kennard
Hts
Naturalista
Clothing from Fish Skins Draws Government Interest
The government fish commission investigates fish skin use in clothing. Salmon skin leather works well and Eskimos have long used salmon and codfish skins for garments. Whaleskin leather colors well. The French Society of Manufacturers offers 6000 francs for an electrical conductor invention.
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Government Fish Commission
French Society of Manufacturers
France
New Jersey Battleship Becomes Latest U S Navy Vessel
Boston reports the New Jersey, a new U S battleship built at Fore River, Quincy Massachusetts. The design, conceived in 1899 1900, features 435 foot length 76 foot beam and about 14948 ton displacement with 19 knot speed from twin four cylinder triple expansion engines. Armament includes 12 12 inch guns 12 six inch rapid fire guns and a varied light battery. Armor belt measures eight feet amidships tapering to four inches.
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Boston
United States Navy
New Jersey
Fore River
Quincy
Mass
Congress
Bureau of Construction and Repair
Oklahoma Anti Horse Thief Association grows force
In Guthrie Oklahoma Territory and across Indian Territory an Anti Horse Thief Association rises with James B Kirkwood of Guthrie as leader of about 40 000 volunteers ready to aid in capturing horse thieves. Traveler a black stallion guides hunts while 14 000 members in Oklahoma Territory join 1 000 lodges overall. 137 horses recovered or captured and 12 000 dollars value recovered last year with 117 thieves convicted. A separate criminal education note describes Malavita in Fogels Italy with pickpockets and knife training.
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Guthrie
Okla
Oklahoma
James 8. Kirkwood
Indian Territory
Horse Thief
Sny
National Association
Kansas
Pawnee County
Haa
Lincoln
Pottawatomie
Logan
Greer County
Kirkwood
Association
Tue
Criminal Education Society
Academy of Elite
Dickens
Fagin
Italy
Malavita
Fogels
Threste Loto
Union Printers to Enlarge Home at Colorado Springs
The International Typographical Union plans a memorial addition to the Union Printers Home at Colorado Springs in honor of Amos J. Cummings. The 89 acre site near Pike's Peak houses a main stone building with 76 rooms. Funds to build and extend the wing, plus a Library Hall, total about 20,000 dollars.
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Denver
Colorado Springs
Amos J. Cummings
International Typographical Union
Pike's Peak
George W. Childs
A. J. Drexel
Philadelphia
Union
Congressmas
Ln Pow
Michael Colbert
Chicago
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Alexie
Ziinsky
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British Empire
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L’orange
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North Sea
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Bergen
Denmark
Thekareer
L'Orange
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Dallah
Christian IX
Europe
Royal Swedish War Academy
James
Kirk Wood
Two Territories
L‘orange
Scandinavian Peninsula
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