Wednesday, October 3, 1900. Prime Minister released, novelist born.

Apolinario Mabini, briefly the prime minister of a briefly independant First Philippine Republic, wsa released from incarceration by the US.  

He refused to take an oath of loyalty to the US, nor should he have had to.  He would be rearrested and sent to Guam, and in 1903 released again after he took an oath of loyalty in 1903.  By that time, he was severely ill, and he died shortly thereafter.

The Wright brothers began manned glider experiments at Kitty Hawk.

American novelist Thomas Wolfe was born in North Carolina.  He died in 1938 at age 37 of tuberculosis.

It's undeniable that the American South produced a lot of writers in the 20th Century.  Wolfe was of the Modernist genre which I am not a fan of, and I've never read any of his works.  Many of his works were autobiographical in nature.  He was popular in Europe and in 1937 wrote two essays for The New Republic warning of the rise of Nazism and anti semitism in Germany.  His most famous work, You Can't Go Home Again, was published posthumously.

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Monday. October 1, 1900. Churchill elected to the House of Commons.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Parliamentary democracy, United Kingdom, Winston Churchill

Monday. October 1, 1900. Churchill elected to the House of Commons.

Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at age 25.

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Sunday, September 30, 1900. The Battle of Obuasi.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1950s, 1957, Ashanti Wars, British Empire, Ghana, The Press

Sunday, September 30, 1900. The Battle of Obuasi.

Hundreds of Ashanti went down in combat against the British at the Battle of Obuasi in Ghana, bringing to an end the Ashanti Wars.

It's odd to think how this era of high colonialism was virtually on the even of the major decline of colonialism.  Ghanaians who were infants when this occurred would be middle aged when Ghana achieved independence in 1957.

The Associated Press began publishing.

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Friday, September 28, 1900. Bad news from the Philippines.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Agriculture, Army, Arthur MacArthur, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle Pennsylvania, Daily Living, Food, Montana, Native Americans, Pennsylvania (Carlisle), Philippine Army, Philippine Insurrection

Friday, September 28, 1900. Bad news from the Philippines.

General Arthur MacArthur Jr. telegraphed the War Department (which was actually named that at the time) that 51 men from Company F of the 29th Volunteer Infantry, under the command of Captain Devereaux Shields, been taken prisoner by the Filipino resistance, along with the gunboat Villalobos.

It was almost as if the Filipinos didn't want us there.

Evelyn Cameron, English born Montana rancher who left some wonderful writings, and fantastic photographs.

English rancher in Montana Evelyn Cameron wrote:

FRIDAY, SEPT. 28, 1900 Ashburn 10 minutes. E & I town. Lunch at Corlinne. Tea Ashburn. Photos arrived from Stores.

Beautiful morning. afternoon wet very. Mild.

Arose 8:10. Down 9:00. Breakfast- eggs for E, porridge, oat cake. We started 11:30 for walk, & I just ran in to see how they were. E followed. Jessie gave me an African letter from her nephew written in July, on 1/2 rations & very sick of it. We went to town. I chose a Highland bull, & a Highland ram photos (1/each) sent to Per his birthday today. Bought apples for eating & cooking, and fish. In 1:00. Lunch — sago pudding. E — sardines. Like yesterday I was to have hired a bicycle, but the rain put a stop to it. Read. Photos- enlargements of antelope & the grouse under milkweed, platina type good! also 5x7 of the sea good. Group unpresentable tho’. Packed up one of each (not of group), & walked to PO & posted. E out, but came back. Allan came 4:15, & after seeing photos, we went to tea with him & Jessie. Jessie told me about Ardlussa. To sell for #30. worth #1500 in Jura. Received letter from Mrs C enclosing letter from Pitts. He has been in the eastern Firths with Middlemore. Home at 6:00. Jessie dressed Jim up as a girl for fun. Changed.

The paper from Carlisle Pennsylvania reported that Indians still had grievances. 

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Wednesday, September 26, 1900. The Battleship Potemkin.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1905, Imperial Russian Navy, Russian Revolution of 1905

Wednesday, September 26, 1900. The Battleship Potemkin.

The Potemkin, famous for its 1905 mutiny which was later depicted by Sergei Eisenstein on film, was launched.

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Wednesday, September 19, 1900. The Wild Bunch at Winnemucca. Or not.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, actors and actresses, Crime, Nevada, Nevada (Winnemucca), The Wild Bunch

Wednesday, September 19, 1900. The Wild Bunch at Winnemucca. Or not.

The Wild Bunch robbed the First National Bank of Winnemucca, Nevada.

Well, maybe.  Somebody robbed it, but it's disputed who.  It may have been the Wild Bunch, or some members of the Wild Bunch, or just other theives.

Actress Belle Archer died of a stroke at age 41.

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Tuesday, September 18, 1900. Primary affliction.

Labels: 1890s, 1899, 1900, 1900s, 2024 Wyoming Legislative Postmortem, 2024 Wyoming Legislative Session, baseball, Boxer Rebellion, China, Commentary, Democracy, election, Minnesota, Qing Dynasty

Tuesday, September 18, 1900. Primary affliction.

Minnesota inflicted the abysmal and now largely illegal primary election system on the country, putting into effect an 1899 law requiring the same.

These have become state funded party elections which primarily operate to keep the Republicans and Democrats in npower, and everyone else, out.  Reform, and a restoration of democracy in the United States will require making these non party elections, which could very easily be done, and which has been somewhat done in Alaska. Wyoming's legislature recently acted to ban open primaries in an anti democratic move.

The American League completed its last season as a minor league baseball circuit.

Li Hongzhang was accepted by the Allied powers as the representative of China for peace negotiations to end the Boxer Rebellion.

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Monday, September 17, 1900. Battle of Mabitac

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Army, Australia, Coal, Labor unrest, Pennsylvania, Philippine Army, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines

Monday, September 17, 1900. Battle of Mabitac

Filipino insurrectionist under Gen. Juan Cailles defeated elements of the 15th and 37th Infantry at the Battle of Mabitac.

A massive strike of Pennsylvania anthracite coal miners began.

Queen Victoria issued the Proclamation of the Commonwealth of Australia, stating "We do hereby declare that on and after the first day of January One thousand nine hundred and one the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia shall be united in a Federal Commonwealth under the name of The Commonwealth of Australia."

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Sunday, September 16, 1900. Lopsided.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Army, Boxer Rebellion, Misogyny, Philippine Army, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines, Qing Dynasty, Weapons, Women

Sunday, September 16, 1900. Lopsided.

Ninety U.S. troops took on 1,000 Filipinos at Siniloan.

American diplomats discussed the situation in China.

Mr. Conger to Mr. Hay.

Legation of the United States,

Pekin, China, September 16, 1900.

Sir: A whole month has elapsed since the arrival of the “relief expedition” and the flight of the Imperial court, and apparently no progress has been made toward reestablishment of Chinese authority here or negotiations for a settlement.

Princa Ching is still waiting the arrival of Li Hung Chang. Most of the foreign ministers here are without instructions. At a meeting of the diplomatic corps yesterday it was suggested that if the Emperor and Empress Dowager could be induced to return to Pekin negotiations might be greatly facilitated. All agreed that if they could be withdrawn from the influence of Prince Tuan and other pernicious advisers it would be better. Much time could also be saved, because, if acts of Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang must be presented to the Throne for approval, it would take weeks to get them to Sianfu and returned. * * *

It was agreed that each would write an informal note to Prince Ching suggesting the return of the “Emperor and Empress Dowager,” “the Court,” or the “Emperor,” as he pleased. I preferred to mention only the “Emperor,” and have written Prince Ching accordingly, inclosing a copy herewith of the note sent him.

I have the honor to be, etc.,

E.H. Conger

Um. . . .

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Saturday, September 15, 1900. Rikken Seiyūkai

Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1940, 1940s, Japan, Politics

Saturday, September 15, 1900. Rikken Seiyūkai

The Japanese political party Rikken Seiyūkai (立憲政友会; Association of Friends of Constitutional Government) was formed.

It would endure until 1940 when it was dissolved in the face of the Japanese government's effort to have a single party, rather than multiple ones, which fit with its ideology and that of its fellow travelers.

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Friday, September 14, 1900. Henry F. Schroeder.

Labels: 1890s, 1896, 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, 1930, 1930s, Army, Boer War, Disaster, Philippine Army, South African Republic (Transvaal), Texas, Weather

Friday, September 14, 1900. Henry F. Schroeder.

Twenty-two men of the 16th Infantry defeated a Filipino force of 400 insurgents at Carig.  The man in command, Sgt. Henry F. Schroeder, won the Medal of Honor.

His citation read:

With 22 men defeated 400 insurgents, killing 36 and wounding 90.

Schroeder was a career solider who had joined the Army in 1896 and retired as a Major in 1930.  He died in 1959 at age 84.

The Transvaal proclaimed Schalk Willem Burger to be acting president of the South African Republic.  Paul Kruger had fled.

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Thursday, September 13, 1900. High costs.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Cuba, Disease, Medicine, Personalities, Philippine Army, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines

Thursday, September 13, 1900. High costs.

Philippine troops under Col. Maxio Abad defeated an American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa.  The action was so one sided that the US force surrendered.

Dr. Jesse Lazear allowed himself to be bitten by a mosquito in Cuba in order to prove that Yellow Fever was transmitted by the insect.  He became ill with the disease shortly thereafter and died on September 25.

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Wednesday, September 12, 1900. First acts of the Taft Commission.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, Philippines

Wednesday, September 12, 1900. First acts of the Taft Commission.

The Taft Commission, the precursor to the Congress of the Philippines, enacted its first four laws.  They dealt with monetary appropriations for road construction, surveys, and the salaries for two new government employees.

Remnants of the Galveston Hurricane.

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Monday, September 10, 1900. Shooting looters.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, Crime, Disaster, Texas, Texas (Galveston), Texas National Guard

Monday, September 10, 1900. Shooting looters.

The Galveston Sharpshooters, a unit of the Texas state militia, began patrolling Galveston and shooting looters.  About 250 such people were shot.

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Sunday, September 9, 1900. Horrors.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, Texas, Texas (Galveston), Weather

Sunday, September 9, 1900. Horrors.

The full devastation in Galveston started to become known, while ot the outside world they remained unkown.

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Saturday, September 8, 1900. The Galveston Hurricane makes land.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, 1910s, 1915, 1915 Galveston Hurricane, Disaster, Texas, Texas (Galveston), Weather

Saturday, September 8, 1900. The Galveston Hurricane makes land.

The 1900 Galveston Hurricane, the "Great Galveston Hurricane" made landfall.  It killed no less than 8,000 people and maybe up to 12,000 and destroyed Galveston.

It remains the fourth deadliest storm in U.S. history.

The water rose 8'.

Notable in this, this was a slow moving hurricane.  It'd be hard to imagine this occurring today.  In Galveston, it wouldn't, as a seawall was built after the storm which was tested, and passed the test in the 1915 Galveston Hurricane.

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Friday, September 7, 1900. Austro Hungarian Mess.

Friday, September 7, 1900. Austro Hungarian Mess.

Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary ordered the dissolution of the Abgeordnetenhaus, the elected portion of the Austrian Reichsrat. rather than have to suspend constitutional rights.

The Abgeordnetenhaus was confusing and divided along ethnic lines between German and Slavic parties.

Hungary, which was separately administered, didn't participate in the whole mess, which was also part of the problem.

Austro Hungaria was a house of cards.

Even the seal was awkward.

The Galveston Hurricane was approaching landfall.

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Thursday, September 6, 1900. Emilio Aguinaldo set up his headquarters at Palanan.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Emilio Aguinaldo, Luzon, Philippine Insurrection

Thursday, September 6, 1900. Emilio Aguinaldo set up his headquarters at Palanan.

Emilio Aguinaldo set up his headquarters at Palanan, on the eastern side of Luzon.

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Monday, September 3, 1900. Labor Day, 1900.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Ethnicities, Hague Convention, Labor Day, Missouri (St. Louis), Racism, South Carolina, South Carolina (Charleston), South Carolina National Guard

Monday, September 3, 1900. Labor Day, 1900.

It was American Labor Day.

The 1899 Hague Convention went into effect, binding those nations which had entered into it, which the US had not.

The South Carolina African American Capital City Guards, while giving an exhibition drill in Charleston, reacted to the watching crowed being stormed by white horsemen, with a few members even fixing bayonets. The incident would lead to their disbandment.

Numerous policemen were injured, and three killed, when a power line fell onto the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department's call box circuit.

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Sunday, September 2, 1900. Sunday.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Art