Empress Dowager Crisis Sparks Calls for Strict Punishment
Kang Yu Wei, Canton reformer, praises American troops in Peking and urges severe action against Empress Dowager and allies. He argues the emperor be restored, reactionary officials arrested, and foreign relations settled to favor Western influence. Sir Claude Macdonald accused in looting at the imperial palace.
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Peking
Li Hung Chang Hag
Chaffee
Chili
Conger
United States
Kang Yu Wei
Kwang Su
Kang Ya Wei
China
Prince Tuan
Prince Ching
Yung Lu
Yung Li
Chao Shu Chiao
Munng Ru
Moyn Kuen
Huiong
Legation
Baron von Ketteler
Yang Lu
Claude
Berlin
Deutche Zeitung
Sir Claude Macdonald
Macdonald
Governors from 11 states to attend Capital Centennial
In Washington eleven of the original thirteen states will be represented at the capital centennial ceremony next Wednesday. Governor Roosevelt will attend with his staff and be joined by governors Jones Arkansas Thomas Colorado Tunnels Delaware Bloxum Florida Shaw Iowa Powers Maine Rollins New Hampshire Voorhees New Jersey Gregory Rhode Island McMillin Tennessee Tyler Virginia Atkinson West Virginia Otero New Mexico Barnes Oklahoma Smith Maryland Steuvenberg Idaho Crang Massachusetts Stone Pennsylvania Scofield Wisconsin Russell North Carolina Mount Indiana Lee South Dakota.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Jones
Arkansas
Thomas
Colorado
Tunnels
Delaware
Bloxum
Florida
Shaw
Iowa
Powers
Maine
Rollins
New Hampshire
Voorhees
New Jersey
Gregory
Rhode ,Island
McMillin
Tennessee
Tyler
Virginia
Atkinson
West Virginia
Otero
New Mexico
Barnes
Oklahoma
Smith
Maryland
Steuvenberg
Idaho
Crang
Massachusetts
Stone
Pennsylvania
Scofield
Wisconsin
Russell
North Carolina
Mount
Indiana
Lee
South Dakota
Railroad Plans For Cuba
Sir William Van Horne arrives in Havana to survey the Central railroad route. The owning company, already operating between Santiago and San Luis, plans a Santa Clara link, 335 miles long. A land strip 40 meters wide will be acquired along the route. Construction is expected to finish in about 18 months with 5,000 workers. Spanish immigrants and families may be brought in to colonize.
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Plana
Cuba
Havana
Sir William van Horne Hias
Central Railroad
Sir William
Santiago
San Luix
Santa Clara
Gage Urged to Remain as Treasurer Leader
President Homer and thirty other Baltimore leaders representing the clearing house banks and merchants and manufacturers association met with Secretary Gage at the treasury department to urge him to accept the president's invitation to stay at the helm of the Treasury for another four years.
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Gage
Washington
Homer
The
Baltimore Clearing ‘Home
Clearing House
Savings Banks
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association of Baltimore
Treasury Department
Roberts Welcomes Lord Roberts Arrival at Port Elizabeth
Lord Roberts arrived by the Canada at Port Elizabeth and was greeted by a large crowd. He toured the town, received addresses, then reboarded the ship. In Manchester New Hampshire smallpox spreads in McGregorville with about 20 cases reported. In Bern forty national council members push for arbitration in the Transvaal dispute.
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Bern
National Council
England
Transvaal
Bidders Plent y Share In 850 Million Naval Construction
Secretary Long presided at the opening of bids for about 50 million dollars in naval construction as eight bidders competed in Washington. Noted shipbuilders and executives attended, including Morans, Fore River, Newport News, and Crescent works. Some smaller firms challenged established giants to win armored ship work, with early signs of potential success for Fore River and Moran bids amid changed specifications.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Hichborn
Melville
Admiral O'Neill
Henry Scott
Charles
Edwin Cramp
Mr. Trigg
Richmond Locomotive Works
Morse
Newman
John Lindsay
New York Shipbuilding Company
New Delaware River Concern
Clarke
Miles ‘Tool Company
Louis Nixon
Crescent Works
Congress
Fore River Company
Pacific Coast
Morans
Long
Trade Conditions Advance as Cereals Rise in Steady Wariness
R G Dun and Co notes conservative progress in trade with no major excitement or speculative surge. Activity remains steady with orders booked in major industries, wage adjustments in steel, brisk holiday trade, and improved bank clearings. Wheat and corn show strength amid foreign buying and higher prices. Atlantic exports rise. weekly failures total 287 in the US and 45 in Canada.
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New York
R.G. Dun & Co
Trade
Orn
Atlantic
United States
Canada
British Army Estimates Put Total at 92 Million Pounds
Condensed dispatches report the British army estimates amount to 92 million pounds for the year. Other items note new goldfields on Yellow River in Alaska, wrecks near Salisbury Massachusetts, an American bank of eight million dollars organized in Rotterdam, and unrest in Colombia at Buenaventura. Richard Baker of London declared bankrupt with liabilities over three million pounds. An English shareholder vote of no confidence at Stratton's Independence mine is recorded. A fire at the Cherbourg arsenal destroyed Napoleon relics. William Lenton attacked four people and fatally wounded another in South Park, Washington.
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Yellow River
Alaska
Borton
Maine
Salisbury
Mass
Rotterdam
Buenaventura
Colombia
Stratton
Independence
Napoleon
Cherbourg Arsenal
Richard Baker
London
William Lenton
South Park
Wash
Enormous Postal Receipts and Harvard Defeats Yale
Washington reports receipts from all postal sources at 102,354,579 with expenditures of 107,740,267 for the year. Stamped paper issued to postmasters totaled 97,687,771, up 7,530,111. In Cambridge Harvard defeated Yale for the third straight time in the intercollegiate debate at Sanders' Theater last night.
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Washington
Assistnt Postmaster General
Harvard
Yale
Cambridge
Mass
Steinbach’s Christmas Cheer Chatter in Asbury Park Stores
Christmas stock overwhelms Asbury Park with novelty goods, prompting immediate price pruning on dress goods clothing cloaks and staples to free space for a grand display. Early and value pricing aims to lure shoppers. The Ocean Palace window tableau will be ready this week with Mammoth display to follow, inviting families to view the festive exhibits.
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Steinbach
Asbury Park
Ocean Palace
Mammoth
Large immigration figures show over half a million arrivals last year
The immigration report states 448,572 immigrants arrived in the United States in the past fiscal year, with 304,148 men and 144,424 women. Canada provided 23,200 arrivals, 85,035 came as cabin passengers, and steerage would boost totals to about 514,207. Europeans led origin at 424,700, with varying increases by region, while Japan rose 340 percent though total was modest.
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Washington
Commissioner General of Immigration
Canada
Asia
Africa
Switzerland
Spain
Spanish Islands
Austria-Hungary
Russian Empire
Finland
Italy
Japan
United States
Knox After De Wet and Boers Pressing
London report from the war office says De Wet's force moved east and northeast from Odendaal as General Knox pursues. An ammunition wagon was captured and most British prisoners at De Wetsdorp were released except for the officers. Boer attack on a nearby infantry post occurred near Belfast during a flag of truce, with the post held until relief.
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London
Lord Kitchener
War Office
de Wet
Odendaal
General Knox
de Wetsdorp
Belfast
Aliwal North
Cape Colony
Gold Badge Presented to Mra by McKinley and Walsh
President De Young and Thomas I. Walsh of the Paris exposition commission visited President McKinley and presented a gold badge to Mra with compliments. The badge was praised as a finest Parisian workman ship and the president called it the most beautiful he had seen.
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Mra
McKinley
Washington
de Young
Thomas I. Walsh
Paria Exposition Commission
Jhim_a
Smothered Her Dade Baby on Five Mile Ride
Poughkeepsie New York December 5 a four week old son of Mrs Benjamin Millon of Northeast died in his mother's arms during a five mile drive to Sharon station wrapped in a heavy shawl. Upon arrival and uncovering the infant, the mother found the baby dead. Diptheria Conquered at Oswego Oswego New York December 8 Oswego reports no diphtheria cases for the first time in 14 months with 250 cases and 14 deaths in that period. Weather Probabilities Northeasterly winds rain or snow then clearing New York Markets Flour and oats prices noted with mixed movements and several commodity items listed along with Connecticut and regional market details.
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Dade
Poughkeepsie
Oswego
Osweego
N. Y
Mixed notes on schools, religion and sea adventure
A survey of global education moves and religious practice mentions Hungarian workers in a New Hartford mill and Maori schooling in New Zealand. It cites Bowdoin's church attendance rules, Jeanne de Lestonnac's religious lineage, and Siberian church life, interwoven with a dramatic sea voyage description and French Army pigeon transport notes.
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New Hartford
Conn
Constantinople
New Zealand Education Department
Bowdoin College
Jeanne de Lestonnac
Leo
Jeanne Eyquem de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Jeanne da Lesteanne
Order of the “Filles de Notre Dame
Siberia
A Gale at Sea Narrative From the Atlantic Ocean
W J Stillman recounts a thrilling ocean voyage as giant billows swept over the vessel. A wave overwhelmed the deck and the stern sank beneath a rising swell, yet the ship began to rise again as the ship rode the sea’s dangerous peak.
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W. J. Stillman
Atlantic
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Pound of Health
Steinbach Company
Knox After
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Sterk Spruit
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Odendal Drift
Orange River
Allwal
Rouxville
Knox
Smithfield Road
York
Ulst
Prime -Western Steam
State Dairy
Penneylvenia, Co
Petson
Bendy
New Orleans
France
Cavalry
Vanguard
Detroit Free Press
Chicago Daily Newa
Atlantic Ocean
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