Argentina and Chile Near Preliminary Peace Agreement
Buenos Ayres reports a fresh conference in Santiago where President and Foreign Minister Yanez along with Portela, the Argentine minister, signed a protocol. The plan calls for Argentina to withdraw its ice station from Carro Palique and offer it to Los Morros, while Chile moves its station to Puerto Consuelo, keeping the disputed zone demilitarized. Both nations continue warlike preparations with Chile funding $15,000,000 for defense and plans for new fortifications at Talcahuano and Arenas.
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Buenos Ayres
Santiago de Chile
Yanez
Portela
Carro Palique
Los Morros
Chile
Puerto Consuelo
Bile
Talcahuano
Ata Arenas
Diario
S Bas
Italy
Argentine mobilizes troops as 80,000 deploy by Jan 15
Correspondent Ayres reports active massing and concentration of forces in Argentina. Eighty thousand troops will be ready by January 15. Twenty thousand Italians who served in the Italian army offer their services. All bridges guarded and the fleet awaits orders.
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Sue Guy Mass Isuenos Ayres
Banquet Honors U S Fleet by Cuban Veterans
In Havana on December 26 officers of the United States fleet were toasted by Cuban veterans. General Garcia presided, and General Wood spoke of a future Cuban republic. Rear Admiral Higginson praised Cuban hospitality and the navy’s role in peace, with Captain McCalla commending Garcia and Cuban courage.
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Havana
United States
Garcia
Wood
Republic
Cuba
Higginson
McCalla
Santiago
Gomez Faring Badly on Tour to Support Palma
Havana dispatches report General Gomez faring badly on his political tour for Palma. In Puerto Principe meetings are broken up, he is jeered as a traitor, stones are thrown, and Maso supporters withdraw candidates amid bitter local sentiment.
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Havana
Senor Estrada Palma
Gomez
Palma
Puerto Principe
Nacion
Maso
Foreclosure sale set for Duluth Transfer Railway property
In Duluth on January 2 a foreclosure sale will auction the Duluth Transfer Railway Company property including tracks yards and right of way from Union Depot to New Duluth. Captain T H Pressnell is special master in chancery and may not accept bids under 500000 while the company’s bonded debt was 1180000 with total indebtedness 1284221.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duluth
Duluth Transfer Railway Company
Union Depot
New Duluth
T. H. Pressnell
Pawnees on the warpath threaten whites in Oklahoma
Guthrie December 26 Pawnee Indians are on the warpath after a buffalo bull was killed at Pawnee Bill's ranch. Indians dance and vow to reclaim buffalo herds, warn white settlers to vacate ranches, guards placed around the buffalo herd, US Indian agent notified and reports sent to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guthrie
Pawnee
United States Indian
Commissoner of Indian Affairs
Washington
Disappointment in Hawaii over Roosevelt policy impacts planters
Honolulu observers criticize the president door policy on Chinese immigration and sugar trade. Hawaii plans for Cuba Philippines and Porto Rico reciprocity waver amid concern. Sugar prices stay firm as pacific coast vessels face overdue concerns including the SS D Carleton 44 days from Tacoma.
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Honolulu
Roosevelt
Hawaii
Cuba
Philippines
Porto Rico
Pacific
D. Carleton
Tacoma
Canal freight totals rise for season in Great Lakes
Sault Ste. Marie report shows December freight at 585 254 tons and season total 28 403 065 tons. Increase over last season reaches 2 759 992 tons. Canadian canal moved 2 821 027 tons. American canal operated 230 days from April 26 to Dec 11. Canadian canal 246 days from April 20 to Dec 21.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Train on the Missouri Kansas and Texas Wrecked
Missouri Kansas and Texas northbound passenger train bound for Dallas at 11 20 p m was wrecked and almost completely damaged in the incident. Local reports say several cars left the rails with injuries not yet clarified. Emergency crews rushed to the scene near Dallas with investigations underway.
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Missouri, Kansas and
Texas
Dallas
Tex
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Train wreck leaves three injured five cars destroyed
An early morning collision destroyed five cars with baggage express and mail car burnt. The engine and one Pullman remain, overturned in a ditch. Three people were injured, no fatalities reported.
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Purhea
Bouton
Herc
Home for needy Indians at White Earth agency
Charles McNichols United States special Indian agent arrived from Washington to establish a winter home for the old sick and indigent Indians of the White Earth agency. Next summer the government plans a permanent building for this purpose.
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White Earth
Minn
Charles McNichols
United States
Special Indian Agent
Interior Department
Washington
White Earth Agency
Eistedfodd Association Convenes in Ottumwa Iowa
The second annual convocation of the Eistedfodd association of Iowa opened at the Grand Opera House in Ottumwa on December 26. President T. J. Phillips, once a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, called the meeting to order with John P. Reese of the United Mine Workers of America as conductor. Large audiences attended morning, afternoon, and night sessions, marking the event as the most successful yet.
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Ottumwa
Eistedfodd Association of Iowa
Grand Opera House
T. J. Phillips
John P. Reese
United Mine Workers of America
Interior halts work at McAlester over false survey
Guthrie O T December 26 Acting on an interior department order officials stop all building and improvement work at McAlester until a schedule of property values is prepared by town committees A former survey schedule was found to be false and the secretary of the interior intervened.
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Guthrie
O. T
Secretary of the Interior
McAlester
I. T
Bank cashier dies by electric shock at vault
Akron Ohio December 26 D P Wheeler cashier of the Citizens National bank was found dead in front of the vault. He was killed by an electric shock while handling a lamp socket and opening the vault door at the same time creating a fatal current.
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Akron
D. P. Wheeler
Citizens’ National Bank
Emperor William Gives Christmas Bounty to Poors in Potsdam
Emperor William in Potsdam area scattered 3 and 4 mark gifts to needy passersby. He has doubled his charitable subscriptions this Christmas, continuing a generous tradition beyond the usual amount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
William
Potsdam
Large Rochester Factory Destroyed by Blaze
Rochester fire gutted the G.8. Graham Machinery Manufacturing plant with total loss. Three firefighters injured by collapsing walls. none fatally. Estimated damage around $100,000.
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Rochester
N. Y
Graham Machinery Manufacturing Company
Senator Sewell Slightly Weaker But Nourishing
Camden N J Dec 26 Senator Sewell was reported slightly weaker than on Wednesday yet taking nourishment. Doctors apprehend no serious turn in his condition during the night.
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Camden
N. J
Sewell
Four Burn to Death Sun at Memphis Wharf
Memphis, Dec 26. The steamer Sun burned to the water edge in Fulton trade, four people died including D. H. Rainey and Mrs. D. N. Rainey of Old River Arkansas, Mrs. G. M. Timbs of Richardson Landing Tennessee, and a three month old child. Passengers escaped but a dozen stayed aboard to spend the night. The hurricane deck collapsed trapping them, the baby remains missing, and the bodies were turned over to an undertaker awaiting relatives.
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Memphis
Sun
Fulton
D. H. Rainey
Old River
Ark
D. N. Rainey
G. M. Timbs
Richardson Landing
Tenn
Timbs
Mrs. Timbs
Josie Hammers
Miss Hammers
Mr. Timbs
Hull
Schooner Eliza H Parkhurst Reported Lost
Gloucester Mass December 26 Eight men are believed dead after the schooner Eliza H Parkhurst commanded by Captain John D McKinnon foundered in a gale following its November 24 departure from the Bay of Islands for Gloucester with 16 crew and one passenger Lawrence McDonald aboard the cargo was herr ing The ship was posted missing by its owners.
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Gloucester
Mass
Eliza H. Parkhurst
Parkhurst
John D. McKinnon
Bay of Islands
N. F
Lawrence McDonald
Agencies to handle US sewer pipe sales on commission
Pittsburg December 26 manufacturers of sewer pipe have arranged to place the entire US trade in the hands of manufacturers agencies. Agencies will operate in New England New York Pennsylvania Ohio and the West with a uniform national price list set by manufacturers. First meeting to select agencies and fix prices will be held in early January. all plants except two are in the agreement. The piece mentions a prior related event and Alger’s room but is fragmented and unclear in parts.
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Pittsburg
United States
Commission
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Child Burns to Death in Philadelphia Home Fire
A Philadelphia blaze at James H. Connelly's on Wyalusing avenue killed four year old Mary Connelly and left both parents seriously injured while two other children sustained minor injuries. The fire was extinguished and the fate of the parents remains uncertain.
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Philadelphia
James H. Connelly
Wyalusing Avenue
Mary Connelly
Fire devastates Progresso warehouses in Merida area
News from Merida reports a major blaze in Progresso destroying Eshanove Bros warehouse and nearby facilities including Gabriel Escalante and the Merida railway consignment department. About 10,000 bales of henequin burned with losses placed near 1 million dollars.
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Mexico City
Merida
Yucatan
Progresso
Eshanove Bros
Gabriel Escalante
Consignment Department
Eighty soldiers poisoned in Cheyenne breakfast
In Cheyenne Wyoming on December 26 eighty members of Company F Eighteenth Infantry were poisoned during breakfast. Half were in danger of death and one man remained critically ill. Post surgeon suspects beef as the poison source.
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Cheyenne, Wy
Eighteenth Infantry
Boy Drowns in Pool at Calumet YMCA
Ross Allan, 13, entered the Young Men’s Christian Association pool when no attendant was present and drowned. The body was recovered from the swimming tank in Calumet, Michigan, on December 26.
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Calumet, Mich
Ross Allan
Young Men's Christian Association
Brooklyn Carpenter Kills Wife Then Confesses to Police
In New York on December 26 John Bell a Brooklyn carpenter shot and killed his wife in their kitchen after she returned from a visit to her parents in Scotland. He sought out a police officer and confessed, alleging infidelity.
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New York
John Bell
Brooklyn
Scotland
Tragedy in Salisbury As Train Strikes Two Children
In Salisbury North Carolina on December 26 Ray and Milton Rusty sons of John Rusty a Southern railway employee were killed when struck by a passenger train. Witness Zeb Traily who tried to rescue the children was seriously injured in the accident.
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Salisbury
N. C
Panic at Brandeis Boston Store Fire in Omaha
A blaze erupted in J. L. Brandeis & Son’s Boston store during holiday crowds in Omaha. Smoke quickly filled the three story building as 5000 shoppers rushed for exits. Fire brigade directed streams, restraining the blaze and averting a catastrophe.
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Omaha
J. L. Brandeis & Son
Boston
House Fire Brigade
Professor Russell Insane Leads to Insanity Hearing
Des Moines reports Albert S. Russell a former Minnesota college language professor was arrested and presented before insanity commissioners for refusing his children schooling and failing to provide. After the hearing he was committed to Mount Pleasant asylum. Russell speaks seven languages including Polish German French Russian Sanskrit Greek and Latin. Neighbors filed the complaint citing the family’s destitution and the mother’s death several years earlier.
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Des Moines
Albert S. Russell
Minnesota
Commissioners of Insanity
Russell
Asylum For the
Mount Pleasant
Alger Passes First Critical Stage After Operation
Detroit on December 26 reports Dr. Charles G. Jennings said General Russell A. Alger has safely passed the first and most critical stage after his operation. The statement was made to the Associated Press and confirmed for publication.
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Detroit
Charles G. Jennings
Russell A. Alger
Associated Press
Alger
Navy yard official dismisses Maclay after Roosevelt note
In New York on December 26 Edgar Stanton Maclay said he had been notified of his dismissal from the navy yard by President Roosevelt. He stated he had written to civil service authorities in Washington seeking a formal opinion and would follow their guidance.
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New York
Navy Yard
Roosevelt
Edgar Stanton Maclay
Civil Service
Washington
New National Scouts Burgher Force Formed in Transvaal
Pretoria reports the surrendering burghers show interest in a new corps named National Scouts. General Lord Kitchener approves adding wings in Southern and Eastern Transvaal led by prominent Boer leaders elected by the burghers. British gains credited to cooperation with Cellier Sronje’s forces under Bruce Hamilton.
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Pretoria
National Scouts
Lord Kitchener
Transvaal
Cellier’ Sronje
Gem
Bruce Hamilton
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Kaiser
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Ochs Brothers
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Professor Russell Insane
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Maclay
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Np FN
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