Armour & Co. Packing Plant Destroyed by Inferno
A Sioux City plant covering four acres and valued at 900000 was wiped out by a Sunday fire. Spontaneous combustion or a faulty dryer sparked the blaze on the fertilizer building, with 721500 insured. Six hundred workers lost jobs as ammonia drums exploded and the fire roared through beef, oleo, hog, and packing sections. No injuries reported.
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Sioux City, la
Armour & Co
Lennon
Park House
Funeral of Liu Kun II in Shanghai Draws Global Respect
The funeral of Liu Kun II, viceroy of Nan Kin, in Shanghai drew unprecedented foreign official homage. A long funeral cortege passed Nan Kin, with imperial pomp per dowager empress, as a Chinese cruiser carried the body to Hunan. Foreign warships fired minute guns along the procession.
Danish Ambassador Jusserand Leaves for Paris on Visit
Danish Ambassador Jusserand and his American wife departed Sunday for Paris to spend the new year before proceeding to Washington to arrive in January. A large farewell tribute was given with Foreign Minister Leontzer United States Ambassador Swenson and other diplomatic corps members present along with court dignitaries and friends. Floral gifts were presented to Mme Jusserand.
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Copenhagen
Jusserand
Paris
Washington
Leuntzer
United States
Swenson
Diplomatic Corps
Mme, Jusserand
Cholera Spreads in Manila Causing Alarm Across City
Manila reports rising cholera cases with about thirty daily, hitting Funston Reserve Hospital and Santa Mesa camp. In Marquina valley water supply concerns raise fear of a general epidemic while bishops and church leaders plan to address Mgr Guidi.
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Manila
Funston Reserve Hospital
Santa Mesa
Billbid Prison
Marquina
Rebels Kill American Man in Panama Affair
The first American casualties of the Panamanian revolution emerged Wednesday when a Colombian fleet captured a boat carrying correspondence about two rebel schooners. American crewmen aboard the bogged vessels engaged after ambushes, with Richard Kane of Washington killed and George Walker wounded.
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Panama
Bogota
Richard Kane
Washington
George Walker
Clarks
Vasquez
Chuculto
Military Money Allotted by Congress to Service Schools
The $25,000 appropriation for United States service schools is distributed among Fort Monroe artillery school $7,123 Fort Totten submarine defense school $5,247 Fort Riley cavalry and artillery school $1,118 and Leavenworth general service and staff college $11,512 An order from the War Department also creates a training school for farmers and blacksmiths at Fort Riley in connection with the school of application there.
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Fort Riley
Kan
Mob Hangs Buckles After Life Sentence for Deputy Marshal Murder
Elizabethtown Kentucky Saturday convict Harlan Buckles received a life term for the murder of deputy marshal Robert L. Reid. Early Sunday a mob of about seventy five men, some from Larue County, seized him from the jail and hanged Buckles in the courthouse yard before dispersing.
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Elizabethtown
Harlan Buckles
Robert L. Reid
Larue County
Buckles
Court House
Cannon Favored as Speaker by Militia Delegation
A majority of the Mil nois delegation to Congress on Monday endorsed Congressman Cannon of the Eighteenth Illinois district to succeed Speaker Henderson. A. J. Hopkins announced that assurances came from a majority of Congressmen in Indiana Iowa Minnesota Nebraska Kansas and Michigan that they would back Mr. Cannon.
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Cannon
Chicago
Milnois
Congress
Illinois
Henderson
A. J. Hopkins
Senate
Mason
Indiana
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Kansas
Michigan
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar Dies After Illness
London reports Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar died Sunday after an appendicitis attack that worsened into kidney congestion. Born near London in 1823, he married morganatically in 1851 to Lady Augusta Gordon Lennox.
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London
Prince Edward
Saxe- Weimar
Augusta Gordon- Lennox
Germany Agrees to American Proposal on Indemnity Payment
Perkin Germany accepts the American plan to submit the question of Chinese indemnity payable in gold or silver to The Hague tribunal. The agreement carries a condition that notice of this protocol feature be included in the arbitration.
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Perkin
Germany
Hague
Chaffee Report Examines Samar Campaign and Moro Authority
Major General Adna R. Chaffee defends officers and recounts Samar and Leyte actions while noting friction between civil and military authorities. He argues concentration camps were needed to suppress insurrection and discusses Moros in Mindanao and Jolo, urging patience to establish US sovereignty and gradual legal reforms.
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Washington
Adna R. Chaffee
Gener
J. H. Smith
Samar
Leyte
Chaffee Warmy
Batangas
Laguna
Tayabas
Bell
Mindanao
Jolo
United States
Chinese Would Be Free but China Warns Amid Evacuation
Shanghai papers claim British troops will withdraw to Wei Hai Wei and German forces to Tieng Tau, leaving the Yangtze valley menaced. They demand full British and German exit from China rather than evacuating Shanghai to their garrison posts. They foresee an inevitable clash between Germany and Britain.
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Shanghai
Wei Hai Wei
Tieng Tau
Yang Tse
China
Germany
Great Britain
Will of Cincinnati Millionaire John M Gibbs Missing in North Carolina
In Asheville North Carolina the will of the late Cincinnati millionaire John M Gibson who married on his deathbed is reported missing. It is said the will leaves all personal property to his new wife with two copies made and a duplicate held by a local attorney to be sent to Cincinnati to avoid litigation.
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Asheville
N. C
Cincinnati
John M. Gibson
Gibson
Czarina Falls Into Prolonged Melancholia Silence
From Li vidia dispatch the Daily Mail reports the czarina has entered a deep melancholia marked by long silences even with guests. Her condition causes substantial concern for her doctors and ongoing anxiety for court.
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London
Lividia
Daily Mail
Fix Irrigation Congress Sets Next Meeting Dates
Ogden Utah Colonel Maxson secretary of the National Irrigation congress arrived with Fred J Kiersal chairman of the executive committee They fixed the time for the next congress as September 8 9 10 and 11 of next year.
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Fix Irrigation Congress
Ogden
Utah
Colonel Maxson
National Irrigation Congress
Fred J. Kiersal
Post Office Urges Rise in Rural Free Delivery Funding
Washington reports the first assistant postmaster general urges a 12,666,800 dollar increase for rural free delivery to fund expansion, branch offices, and pneumatic tube stations. Proposals include clerical hire allowances, longer hours adjustments, and leave with pay for rural carriers. Future routes and money order extensions for rural routes are favored.
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Washington
Wyane
Congress
Sugar Crop Estimates Signal World Supply for Year
Consul Diederich at Bremen reports European beet yields will be tight while world supply remains ample. Belgian statistician Gieseker offers cautious figures. Otto Licht’s long term projections show potential shortages. Diederich cites Cuban, U S and Hawaii cane crops with specific tonnages and changes from prior years.
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Washington
Henry W. Diederich
Bremen
Astute Department
Europe
Cuba
Congress
Diederich
Gieseker
Germany
Austria
France
Russia
Belgium
Holland
Otto Licht
Diedrich
United States
Hawaii
Indians Sue Government Over Alleged Diversion of Funds
A petition filed in the court of claims by Delaware Indians who say they are a band of the Cherokee in Indian Territory seeks 429,468 dollars with interest from the United States. They contend funds were illegally diverted and paid to New York Indians, tied to occupancy of Inode in Kansas claimed as Delaware property.
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Washington
Court of Claims
Indian Territory
United States
New York
Senate awaits Cuba treaty as Bliss sails for Havana
Washington reports General Tasker Bliss will sail to Cuba by Saturday or Tampa en route to Havana to push a commercial treaty. US aims to finish talks within three weeks ahead of a Senate vote requiring two thirds to ratify. Officials expect Cuba dissension over concessions and possible nibbling by other nations, with a strategic aim to avoid coercive postures.
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Washington
General Tasker H. Bliss
Cuba
Tampa
Havana
General Bliss
Senate
United States
Army Clerk in East Dept Arrested for Extortion
A man giving the name Harry A Williams, but identified by police as Henry Wilson, longtime chief clerk and civil engineer in the Department of the East, U S A, was arrested Friday on extortion charges. Benjamin F Whitmore, a man claiming to be a reporter, was also arrested on similar charges. They allegedly tried to extort 4500 dollars from the Water Front Improvement company of Jersey City for threatening to halt crib work on Ricker's Island in the East River by withdrawing an army tug dredge and scows loaned to the project.
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New York
Harry A. Williams
Henry ©. Wilson
Department of the East
Benjamin F. Whitmore
Water Front Improvement Company
Jersey City
Ricker’s Island
East River
Cholera Strikes Fifth Infantry Detachment in Manila
Cholera appeared Wednesday among a Fifth Infantry detachment stationed along the Maraquina river in Manila. Seven soldiers have died and several more are seriously ill. The unit was placed on guard to protect Manila’s water supply from potential contamination. The outbreak rekindles fear after a prior belief that cholera had left Manila.
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Manila
Fifth Infantry
Maraquina
Sagasta Quits Cabinet Formation After King Request
In Madrid Senor Sagasta told King Alfonso he felt compelled to abandon forming a new cabinet but the king urged another effort. It is reported Senor Montero Ron president of the senate plans to resign and retire from politics.
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Madrid
Senor Sagasta
Alfonso Friday
Senor Montero Ron
Senate
Maer replies to Mitchell on anthracite strike charges
President Baer of Philadelphia & Heading Coal answers Mitchell's charges before the anthracite commission. He admits plant size and prestrike employment, condemns a 20 percent wage increase as arbitrary, argues wages match other local skilled work, denies earnings are low, and cites industry prosperity. He condemns a 20 percent reduction in hours without pay cut, notes higher coal costs due to the strike, and claims no dispute over coal weighing. He blames UMW actions for worse conditions, asserts commission limits, but says labor law could allow cooperative agreements if a lawful anthracite union cooperates.
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Washington, D. C
George F. Maer
Philadelphia & Heading Coal Company
Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Mr. Baer
Seriatim
Baer
United States
United Mine Workers’ Organization
Commission
Con- Company
Italian envoy aids Mascagni dispute in Boston courts
The Italian ambassador in Washington has been urged by Foreign Minister Prinetti to provide all possible aid to Signor Mascagni in his Massachusetts legal trouble. Mayor des Planches is in Boston with the Italian consul to outline rights before the Boston courts as senators prepare to question the government at parliament opening.
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Washington
Macagni
State Department
Hay
Massachusetts
Mayor Des Planches
Boston
Rombe
Signor
Mascagni
Governor Yates Improves After Prolonged Illness
Springfield physicians report Governor Yates showing a turn for the better after twenty three days of illness. A five hour temperature reading remained at 98.1 degrees Fahrenheit, the lowest since illness began.
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Yates
Springfield
Uil
Yate
Wesleyan Receives $50,000 Gift for Observatory
Wesleyan University in Middletown Conn has received a grant of $50,000 to equip its astronomical observatory. The donation supports new telescope gear and related research facilities for the campus science program.
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Wesleyan University
Middletown
Conn
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