Hundred Cents Price of Life in Manila Murder Trial
In Philippine court martial records the insurgent officers Timoteo Dahlan and Gonzales faced death sentences for the ambush that killed five American soldiers near Mayumo, Bulacan. The president of Miguel de unm was seized and killed. Dahlan urged execution by promising a peso reward for each soldier slain, while Clemene de la Cruz saw commuted life imprisonment.
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R Dee Washington
Philipspines
Timoteo Dalilan
Manuel Tongales
Puebla
Boto
Milipinos
Chaffee
Dahlan
Gonzales
Clemente de la Cruz
Miles in Washington after New York trip
Lieutenant General Miles returned to Washington from New York and refused to discuss the rebuke from the secretary of war over his remarks on the Schley court inquiry verdict. He denied plans to seek a court of inquiry and offered no further comment on his future course.
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Washington
Miles
New York
Secretary of War
Schley
Argentina Chile Seek Peaceful Boundary Settlement
Washington reports from Buenos Ayres that Argentina will not press demands on Chile and favors sending the dispute to the boundary commission. Argentina may authorize the commission with mutual consent, while Chile hesitates to accept Argentina's latest move, risking a renewed crisis.
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Argentina
Chile
Washington
State Department
Buenos Ayres
Lord
United States
Boundary Commission
Santiago de Chie
London
Sion
Zere
Roosevelt Family Christmas Plans Keep No Tree This Year
Washington reports Christmas at the White House with no Christmas tree for the Roosevelt family. Eighty seven large turkeys distributed to staff and messengers. gifts arriving for children, stockings hung, and a library gift moment. Theodore Roosevelt Jr plans hunting trip with Dr. Riney, weather permitting a river cruise. President Roosevelt greets Chief Justice Fuller and White House clerks with merry Christmas wishes.
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Washington
White House
Menry Pinckney
Roosevelt
Santa Glius
Rates Unreasonable. Lumber Dealers Win Against Norfolk and Western
Washington dates the interstate commerce commission finds through rates from West Virginia to New York via Norfolk and Western overall unreasonable and unlawful. The decision notes higher per mile charges on Norfolk and Western versus Chesapeake and Ohio and lower rates via Baltimore and Ohio. An aggregated reduction of 2% cents per 100 pounds is ordered. Foltz named captain of Havana port. Malaria claim tied to Grove’s tonic.
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Lumber Dealers’ Association
Norfolk and Western
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Knapp
National Wholesale Lumber Dealers’ Association
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
West Virginia
Virginia
New York City
Norfolk and Western Railway
Hagerstown
Pennsylvania Railroad
Shenandoah Junction
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Pennsylvania
Baltimore and Ohio
New York
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Staunton
Washingtton
Chesapeake and Ohio
Philadelphia
Square Goes Up in Smoke in Pennsylvania Fire
A December 24 blaze in Cornellsville Pennsylvania destroyed nearly an entire square bounded by West Main Arch and Orchard streets. Loss estimated at 70000 with thirty tenants displaced. The Wal lace furniture store suffered the heaviest damage valued at 8000 insured for 12000. Fire started by children and crews monitor lingering flames as wind shifts.
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Pennsylvania
Cornellsville
West Main Street
Arch Street
Orchard Atley
Wilkey Estate
P. R. Wallace
Alger Improves After Stomach Trouble In Detroit
Detroit December 31 General R A Alger passed a difficult day as a stomach disturbance increased his fever to 102. Dr Jennings reported the fever is easing tonight and the general is taking water by the stomach for the first time. If his condition remains steady he may be past the most critical stage tomorrow.
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Detroit
Mich
R. A. Alger
Jennings
United States Consul Warns Britain Risks Trade Decline
United States Consul at Liverpool, Boyle, reports Britain risks losing its place in global trade unless reforms occur. He notes Britain lags in manufacturing against the United States and Germany, advocates for fair trade reciprocity, cites educational system disputes, and says American methods boost productivity while British workers resist change.
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Washington
Great Britain
United Kingdom
United States
Boyle
Liverpool
State Department
Germany
Unite States
Mr. Bayle
South Africa
Max. Boyle
Great Brittain
England
Consus Boyle
America
Mr. Boyle
Wrighta
Engand
Iceberg's Tragedy: Wife and Stepson Shot Then Suicide
In Peoria County December 24 Aurist Iceberg a 40 year old farmer from Farmington shot his wife in the abdomen and then shot his 11 year old stepson who intervened, then walked 17 miles to his daughter's home near Farmington and shot himself in the head dying within hours. The wife is dying and the boy is expected to recover. The wife had left him after he deeded property to his son and he shot her for refusing to return or grant a divorce.
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Peoria
Ims
Yates City
Aurist Iceberg
Farmington
Iis
Davis
Jarmington
Sits
New York Finances Hit By Defalcations in 1890s
Comptroller Coler disclosed total losses from defalcations by Charles P. Chipp Edwards Taylor and others. The 1894 shortfall was 12,225 dollars, 1895 7,180 dollars, 1896 4,555 dollars, 1907 16 25 dollars, 1 800 dollars, 1999 50 dollars, summing to about 20,000 dollars.
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New York
Coler
Finance Department
Charles P
Chipp
Edwards
Taylor
Shaw Goes Into Cabinet as Treasury Secretary Likely
Washington December 24 cabinet in session little over an hour with season’s greetings. President tendered the treasury portfolio to Governor Shaw, who may accept. Gage would hand over duties if he does. Shaw from the same state as Wilson. Wilson likely to stay in cabinet. In Dubuque Governor Shaw weighs the move and plans to consult his wife before replying.
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Washington
Treasury
Shaw
Wilson
Gage
Iowa
Wison
Department of Agriculture
Dubuque
L. M. Shiv
Alison
Uedderson
the Treasury
Secretaryship of the Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Lyman J. Gage
Allison
Malaria Cure Claims Purported Blood Purification
A vintage advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a cure for malaria and blood impurities, pricing 60 cents. The copy markets the remedy as a tasteless tonic and asserts its effectiveness in eliminating malaria and cleansing the blood.
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Grove
Topd
Railroads Consider Generous Wage Increase for East Coasts Workers
Chicago December 4. General Managers Association meeting discussed widespread wage raises for trainmen engine men firemen and switchmen on eastern railroad systems. Motive includes coal shortages car power congestion and need to boost efficiency. Presumed parity with western wages could affect several hundred thousand workers and lift eastern payrolls by millions.
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Chicago
General, Managers’ Association
Pennsylvania Company
East
Profit Sharing Continues at Bourne Mills
In Fall River Mass December 24 employees at Bourne mills near the Rhode Island line celebrate the twenty fifth semi annual profit sharing dividend and directors vote to extend the plan another year. The profit share unit was doubled to allow 6 to 20 percent of stockholders payments. Since 1889 dividends averaged 3.24 percent semiannually, outpacing savings bank rates. Borden Increases Wages at Fall River Iron Works
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Bourne Mills
Fall Billver
Mass
Rhode Island
Tiverton
Savings Bank
Borden
Fall River
Mags
Iron Works
M. C. D. Borden
Poisoned by Eating Pork Ties Ohio Officials to Family
A Columbus executive clerk to Governor Nash and his family were poisoned after dinner last evening. Several family members fell ill, a physician arrived and pronounced the conditions possible, with authorities investigating how the pork meal caused the illness.
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Nash
Columbus
Ohio
G. Lemert
Dennis
Runaway electric car kills one in San Francisco street crash
A December 24 runaway streetcar on Fillmore Street descended a steep grade, demolishing cars and injuring seven. The deceased was Mrs. Mary Phelan, with several others including Mrs. M K Mansie and Mrs. Mary Kelley among the injured. Robert Keller sustained a thumb sprain. Passengers and bystanders received aid as crews cleared wreckage near Union Street.
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San Francisco
Fillmore Street
Mary Phelan
Railwad ‘Hospital
M. K. Mansie
Wiliam Maansie
Mary Kelley
Robert Keller
Union Street
Manager James A Todd Found Dead In Lavatory
Chicago reports James A Todd 52 manager of Towle Manufacturing at 14 State Street was found dead in a lavatory after locking himself inside and releasing gas from a jet through a keyhole. Associates said no domestic troubles and overwork may have caused the suicide. Todd came from Walcott Connecticut to the business.
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Chicago
James A. Todd
Towle Manufacturing Company
Allversmiths
State Street
Mr. Todd
Walcott
Conn
Important Judicial Decision in Indian Territory
Ardmore Ind December 24 United States Judge Townsend held it no criminal offense for a person ejected by Indian police for failure to pay tribal tax to return to Indian Territory A government official sought to impose a 1000 penalty on intruders and indicted them as non citizens The demurrer was sustained and intruders cannot be prosecuted criminally The ruling may lead to guidance from Attorney General Johnson to the Department of Justice
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Indian Territory
Ardmore
Ind. T
United States
Townsend
Johnson
Department of Justice
No Cars to Carry Freight as Pittsburgh Mills Shut Down
In Pittsburgh district, December 24, mills along the Allegheny Valley road including Carnegie city mills are suspended or partially operating. Carnegie company plants at Homestead and Duquesne may not resume for a week or more after Christmas. Schwab noted $3,000,000 worth of finished products tied up in yards of these two concerns amid prospect of removal. Furnaces in Mahoning and Shenango valleys largely shut due to raw material shortages.
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Pittsburg
Pitsburg
Allegheny Valley Road
Carnegie City Mills
Carnegie Company
Oomestead
Duquesne
Schwab
Mahoning
Shenango
Missouri Battle Ship Missouri Launch Event Near Newport News
The Louisiana Purchase Company will send Corwin H. Spencer and Mrs. Spencer to Newport News for the Missouri launch and christening. Lieutenant Governor John A. Lee will represent Missouri with his daughter Virginia. Senator Cockrell will speak at the launch on December 28 as Vice President Spencer and Lee attend the banquet.
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Newport News
St. Louis
Missouri
Louisiana Purchase Company
Corwin H. Spencer
Spencer
State of
John A. ‘Lee
Dockery
OF Tae and Daughter
Virginia
Marlon Cockrell
Cockrell
Louiisiana Purchase Company
Lee
Six Bodies Are Recovered In Liverpool Train Disaster
Six bodies have been recovered from the Dingle station tunnel following a fire aboard an electric train yesterday. The toll appears to be the total deaths from the incident on the Towers Head road line near Liverpool. The report notes ongoing investigations into the disaster and its impact on local transit.
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Liverpool
Dingle Station
Survivors Tell How Schooner E. L. White Sank near Gingerbread Shoals
Survivors of the three masted schooner E. L. White report it ran aground on Gingerbread shoals on December 7 while bound from Philadelphia to Cardenas with coal. After launch of a boat, two seamen drowned when it capsized during the night. The remaining crew reached Bemini island then Nassau with Captain Mitchell among the survivors aboard the steamer Antilla.
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White
New York
Antilla
Nageau
Mitchell
E. L. White
Harrington
Maine
Philadelphia
Cardenas
John Saare
Brown
Charles Johnson
Bemini Island
Nassau
Cleveland Far From Well Statement on Former President
Princeton New Jersey December 24 Mrs Grover Cleveland issued a statement on the health of the former president noting that reports of his full recovery are premature He has not left his room for nearly five weeks and remains far from well despite efforts that have spared his friends from worry.
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Cleveland
Denver pool rooms and bucket shops ordered closed
Judge Johnson of the district court, via the sheriff, ordered pool rooms and bucket shops in Denver to cease operations at once. Pool rooms, once shielded by Judge Palmer’s injunction, may still be contested, while other outlets claim the court lacks authority. some plan to reopen on Tuesday.
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Denver
Bdenver
Calo
Johnson
District Court
Denver ‘Mining Stock Exchange
Palmer
Envelope death from blood poisoning in New York
James Hicks licked a sharp envelope edge causing a cut and subsequent blood poisoning in the Waldorf Astoria. Cincinnati iron magnate died in New York. another Oakland pioneer in California mining died at the Aldine hotel aged 73. Mrs Maude McCormick daughter of Joaquin Miller died in Oakland of heart trouble.
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James Hicks
New York
Ames Hicks
Cincinnati
Ohio
Waldorf-Astoria
George D. Roberts
Oakland
Cal
Aldine Hotel
Joaquin Miller
Akland
Maude McCormick
Maude Miller
Christmas Gift to Lipton From Erin Guests
New Yorkers present at the America's Cup races aboard the Erin sent Sir Thomas Lipton a magnificent silver punch bowl and stand as a Christmas gift. The donors include Joan D Crimmins J H Finder Charles Dana Gibson Judge Morgan O'Brien and nineteen other Americans who were guests during the event.
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London
Sir Thomas Lipton
Joan D. Crimmins
J. H. Finder
Charles Dana Gibson
Morgan O'Brien
Lipton Receives Royal Gift From American Friends
Sir Thomas Lipton expressed deep delight at a gift from American friends. King Edward presented Lipton with a cigarette case bearing the royal monogram, a replica of the king’s own case, marking high regard from American well-wishers.
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Sir Thomas
America
King Edward
Sir Thomas Lipton
Risked life for others little Maude saved house and lives
Eight year-old Maude Paterson in St Paul risked her life to snuff out a fire that threatened her sister’s home and three infant nieces aged six four and two. She climbed onto a table, seized the burning mass near a lamp, ran to the door, and extinguished the flames before firemen arrived.
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St. Paul
Minn
Maude Paterson
Sigster
Maude
Charles Hanley
Decline in German Exports in November
Berlin reports German foreign trade fell for November, with exports dropping by 6.19 tons while imports declined to 405,585 tons. November totals show imports at 3,342,042 tons and exports at 2,918.55 tons, with eleven month wheat imports totaling 1,960,496 tons. United States wheat exports to Germany reached 1,143,375 tons in that period.
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Berlin
Germany
United States
Christmas in Gay Paris marred by endless rain
Paris on December 24 saw the traditional Christmas market along the boulevards dulled by persistent rain. Midnight masses drew crowds in churches while cafes buzzed. Mme Loubet, wife of the president, gave gifts to Elysee servants and their children and attended the Alsace Lorraine fete where toys and clothing were distributed to six thousand indigent exiles from lost provinces.
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Paris
Mme. Loubet
Elysee Palace
Alsace-Lorraine
Colonel Thomson Leaves Cordele for Greensboro N C
Special from Cordele Georgia December 4 Colonel W S Thomson long time Cordele resident and eminent lawyer has moved with his family to Greensboro North Carolina where they will reside he served in the Georgia state senate in 1897 and 1898 and again in 1900 his departure leaves Cordele and Dooly county mourning a valued citizen and potential congressional candidate
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Cordele
Greensboro
N. C
Thomson
South Georgia
Congress
North Carolina
Dooly County
Taft Departs for Home from Manila on Grant Transport
Civil Governor Taft left Manila for San Francisco aboard the United States Army transport Grant. A large crowd welcomed the departure as Taft expressed satisfaction with the progress of events in the Philippines and noted his improved health.
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Taft
Manila
San Francisco
United States Army
Grant
Philippines
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Envelope
Lipton
Little Maude’Adams
Gay
Colonel Thomson
Alain Geckage
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