News of the Week A Condensed Look at Global Affairs
The Italian cabinet resigns while Pellieux’s move aims at a united ministry. Japan's envoy Hoshi travels to Washington with instructions on the Hawaiian annexation treaty. German troops reach Kiao Chau as reserves are drawn. Surgeon General Wyman reports 54,477 patients treated in the year while currency examiner Evans outlines bank reforms. A Warsaw rail disaster kills eleven. Predictions for tariff receipts dip to about 165 million. Emperor William opens the Reichstag in person.
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Pellieux
Marquis di Rudini
Finance
Justice
E. L. Hewes
Wichita
Olkahoma City
Toru Hoshi
Japan
United States
Orient
Peking
San Francisco
Washington
United States Senate
Kiao Chau Hay
Germany
Wyman
Marine Hospital Service
Gage
AGAIN IN SESSION AT DAWN OF 55TH CONGRESS
Noon on Monday marked the first regular session of the 55th Congress as Speaker Reed in the House and Vice President Hobart in the Senate called the bodies to order. A bright December day, frost in the air, and a strong breeze kept the flag snapping while crowds filled the Capitol corridors and galleries despite strict carded access.
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Senate
Hobart
Milburn
Morrill
Vermont
House
Allison
Iowa
Congress
Gorman
Hale
Maine
Pruden
House of Representatives
Reed
Charles A. Boney
England
Dingley
Grosvenor
Bailey
Henderson
Capitol
Chaos in Austria as Czech push for triple empire grows
London reports intensifying strain within Austria as civil war, potential revolution with Hungary reverberates across Europe. Czechs seek to abolish the dual empire and create a Bohemia equal to Austria and Hungary, risking dissolution of the empire and a broader continental crisis.
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London
Austria
Hungary
Europe
Bohemia
Baron von Gautsche von Frankenthurn
Baron Banffy
Reichsrath
Prague Rioters Attack Jewish Homes and Synagogue
At Tabor last night Czechs attacked Hebrew houses and a synagogue, several rioters arrested, local agendaurmes mobilized to restore order. In Brannau a mob of over 1,000 attacked Czech houses, windows smashed, quiet restored after midnight. Military patrol in Prague was fired upon with no injuries.
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Prague
Tabor
Brannau
Great Typhoon Ravages Philippine Islands and Casualties Reported
The Kagyo shima Maru arrived with updates on the October typhoon that hit Leyte and Manila. News from Tacloban cites widespread ruin, hundreds dead, and 120 European bodies recovered as vessels wrecked along the coast. In Kansas, Corporal Fennell of Fort Riley died after a drunken quarrel assault by Private Leach left another soldier with a fractured jaw but expected recovery.
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Seattle
Yokohama
Philippin Islands
Leyte
Manilla
Tacloban
Hemoni
Junction City
Kan
Fennell
Fourth Artillery
Fort Riley
Leach
Riley
Ha yti ready to pay indemnity to Germany over arrest
A Washington dispatch to the Frankfurter Zeitung reports Hayti prepared to pay the indemnity demanded by Germany for the alleged illegal arrest and imprisonment of German subject Herr Emil Lueders.
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Frankfurter Zeitung
Berlin
Washington
Hayti
Germany
Emil Lueders
Fatal Lake House Fire in Milwaukee Claims Dock Worker
A blaze at the Lake house hotel in Milwaukee Wisconsin killed Charles Patterson a dock laborer who suffocated in smoke. Five others were injured as the sleeping guests and staff evacuated. The financial loss is reported as small.
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Lake House
Milwaukee
Wis
Charles Patterson
Unknown man found dead on Northern Pacific track
In Palouse Washington an unidentified man 5 feet 8 inches tall was found dead on a rail line one mile south. A coroner's jury ruled death by throat cutting but could not determine if suicide or murder. A bloody knife and razor, plus $140, were found, but no identifying papers. The body lay on the track to hide the crime.
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Palouse
Wash
Northern Pacific
Anti Hebrew Riot Quelled in Budapest
Police ended an anti Hebrew riot that began in Budapest with 100 arrests. Calm returned after the crackdown as authorities detained numerous participants and restored order in the city.
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Budapest
Steamship Corean Collides at Sea and Reaches Halifax
The steamship Corean bound for Glasgow from New York put into Halifax Nova Scotia after colliding with an unknown steamer. In Sullivan Harbor Maine a woman cut open a wedding pincushion from 25 years ago and found 507 needles of varied sizes. At the Chickasaw Nation election the Dawes Choctaw treaty was overwhelmingly ratified.
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Corean
New York
Glasgow
Halifax
N. S
Sullivan Harbor
Fire Fatality in Sierra Madre Jail
F R Haskins aged 28 was burned to death after setting fire to his bedding in the Sierra Madre city jail during the night. He had been arrested in Pasadena for drunkenness and died this morning despite efforts to assist him.
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Pasadena
Cal
F. R. Haskins
Sierra Madre
Haskins
Wyman Reports Marine Hospital Service Year Statistics
Surgeon General Wyman submits the annual Marine Hospital Service report to Secretary Gage showing 54 477 patients treated at hospitals and dispensaries in the year ended June 30 1897. Immigrant inspections totaled 232 327. Expenditures decreased by 21 000 from the prior year despite 673 more patients treated. Three officers contracted yellow fever and one died in the line of duty while responding to the fever outbreak in the South.
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Washington
Wyman
Marine Hospital Service
Gage
Variou
Congress
Mississippi River
Marine Hospital
Tragedy on Detroit Pontiac Trolley Line Collides
A foggy sleet day crash on the Detroit and Oakland Electric rail line kills three men including the road superintendent and injures about a dozen others. Both suburban cars, traveling 25 miles per hour with roughly 20 passengers, were crushed at a gravel pit between Pontiac and Birmingham.
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Detroit
Detroit & Oakland Electric
John Savage
Charles M. Whitehead
John Kelly
Pontiac
Birmingham
Griggs Named Attorney General for United States
Washington announces Governor John Griggs of New Jersey will become attorney-general as McKenna moves to the Supreme Court. The start date is not fixed but expected near the new year. Also: Congress to weigh Spain autonomy, Morley steamer burns near Evanston, Nellie Fillmore faces charges over missing receipts, Kansas penitents adopt cadet gray, Indians may be held to repay cattle losses in Rio Blanco county.
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White House
John Griggs
New Jersey
United States
McKenna
United States Supreme Court
Griggs
Spain
New York
Herald
Congress
McKinley
Senate
House
Denver
Rio Blanco County
General Pando Reported Killed in Cuban Battle
Havana dispatch claims General Pando, named to lead Cuban operations, was killed while marching from Sagua la Grande toward the southern Santa Clara coast amid a major clash with insurgents. Details are unconfirmed, but palace circles seek verification as fighting in Matanzas and Bayamo areas is also reported. The dispatch notes Spanish losses and tensions over cane grinding and reconcentrado labor.
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New York
Havana
Pando
Cuba
Blanco
Santa Clara
Sagua la Grande
Manzanillo
Gomez
Matanzas
Bayamo
Rabi
Linares
Pinar del Rio
Candea
Plight of Cuban Refugees Deepens as Smallpox Rages
From Havana reports detail worsening misery among refugees and concentrados. Smallpox devastates San Domingo camps with over four thousand deaths in the city since April. Local officials take no steps to curb mortality as famine drains the streets of the capital.
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Havana
San Domingo
Concentrados
Klondike rush drives railroad fare cuts toward the West
Milwaukee December 2 The war in passenger rates among Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul continues as railroads prepare deep cuts westward for the Klondike rush. A rail man cites a drop to 7 with possible further reductions toward Portland and a new West schedule effective January 1.
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Chicago
St. Paul
Klondike
Portland
St. Paul Road
Masked bandits attempt rail robbery near Monterrey
A train on the Mexican National railroad near Monterrey was attacked by nine masked and armed Mexicans. Passengers resisted and the robbers failed. Soldiers pursue the outlaws who face execution if captured.
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St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
San Antonio
Tex
Mexican National Railroad
Monterey
Mexico
Philadelphia Tragedy: Wife Smothers Two Children With Gas
Anna Niggle, wife of frame dealer 8 Niggle, 738 Jackson St, killed her two children aged 8 years and 6 months by illuminating gas. She attempted suicide. husband found them dead and she unconscious but may recover.
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Philadelphia
Anna Niggle
Niggle
Jackson Street
Washington Briefs on Apple Sales and Shipping Prospects
Apple prices in Yakima hold at 80 cents a box as a Yakima orchardist ships apples to potential Liverpool markets. Coweeman river logs and shingles flow from Kelso to Dillon farm while California quail released near Ilwaco prompt expectations of population growth. The Palouse Irrigation Company nears Waushtuena with four miles of water canal in Franklin county.
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California
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Washington
Liverpool
State Board of Land Commissioners
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Inner Harbor
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Chicago
Moxee
Mabton
Ille
Tenn
Under Marm German Schools Attacked by Twenty-Five Persons
A fragment notes a violent incident at German schools with twenty five individuals involved. Details are unclear due to damaged text. no victim counts or exact locations are confirmed in the readable portion.
Yerkes Proposal for Chicago Lake Front Docks Sparks City Debate
Chicago reports say Charles Yerkes urged the city to grant land along the lake front and build 20 docks at a total cost of $50,000 with a river boulevard extending from Randolph Street to South Branches. He argues the project would create the world’s finest lakeside public space and boost transit.
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Prague
Bohemia
Tatoo
Thee Man Jewelers
Physis
Enna
Chicago
Lake Front
Randolph Street and Corporation
Liverpool
Yerkes
Makdi
Miles
Lesh
Washington
Hubbard
Moxee
Fire at sea and storm disrupt English coast
A flotilla tale of damaged vessels and a Persians Empire tow to London. Fire aboard a steamer caused a collision and led to crew losses while English coast towns Dover Calais and Goodwin sands report heavy storms and shoaling seas.
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Margate
England
Naylad Rock
London
Dover
Calais
Goodwin Sands
France
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