Spanish Flag Lowered and Cuba Free After Surrende r
A dramatic report notes the raising of the Spanish flag at Morro Castle on January 1 as Capt Gen Castellanos, last Cuban viceroy, surrendered to Gen Wade and Gen Butler. It mentions minimal Cuban welcome, Gen Lee’s cheer, and broader notes on US coinage, naval orders, and troops for Cuba with various political updates.
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Castellanos
Spain
Cuba
Morro Castle
Wade
Butler
Lee
Express Train Wreck Near Dallas Injures Dozens
The northbound express on the Houston and Texas Central railroad was wrecked on a trestle approach to a bridge over the east fork of Trinity river, thirty two miles north of Dallas. Thirty four passengers and trainmen were injured, some fatally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston & Texas Central Railroad
Trinity River
Dallas
Texas
Miners Narrow Escape at Carlinville Coal Mine
About one hundred workers trapped when a shaft fire started by a heated lubricating oil can at the top of the tipple. Rescue efforts succeeded after hard labor, preventing loss of life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlinville, US
Carlinville, Ill
Mexico Issues a Loan and Funeral Services Held
Mexico announces an issue of 8,112,400 pesos in 5 percent bonds to be placed by leading German banks and Romero’s Funeral Services. Public funeral services were held in Washington for Don Matias Romero, Mexico’s ambassador to the U.S. Wayne MacVeagh, former attorney general and ambassador, is reported very ill. Eastern Washington is blanketed with new snow from the Snake River to the northern border, depths from three inches to several feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Wayne MacVearh
Wayne MacVeagh
Garfield
Italy
Cleveland
Washington
Snake River
Heavy Failure In Canada
E A Small & Co a large wholesale clothing house in Canada has announced their assignment at creditors demands. The item notes Havana festivities postponed. public mood remains joyful despite disappointment. Legislative notes on army navy reorganization to follow recess. Gas explosion fatal for Miss Nettle Ziegler at the state capital Denver Colorado. Diplomatic note says Spain Britain cordial relations. Russia denies loan troubles in St Petersburg. William Stickney and wife cremated in Dallas Wisconsin. three children saved. Warl Herring shot dead on guard duty East Pana Wisconsin. Sagasta now convalescent able to leave bed and receives Gen Correa and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
E. A. Small & Co
Largest railroad station opens in Boston on New Year’s day
The South Union depot in Boston opens as the world’s largest station replacing four older ones. Trains will soon enter and leave the new facility, consolidating rail traffic for the city’s southern area into one modern hub. North Union station, completed four years ago, forms part of the connected system serving travelers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New South Union Depot
Boston
North Union
Larg
Boston Largest World Station Handles 4000 Trains Daily
The article notes Boston now has the largest passenger station in the world capable of receiving and sending 4000 trains in a day over eighteen hours. The complex covers thirty five acres with a shed roof of fourteen and a half acres. Cost cited is about 14,000,600 dollars. Over 200 buildings were demolished to make room. The station includes fifteen miles of tracks and thirty miles of rails with 344 clearing switches and 354 fouling switches. The train shed can hold 404 ordinary passenger cars at once.
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Boston
Carthage Fire Wrecks Business District After Blaze
A serious fire hit Carthage New York destroying the business portion of the town and about 150000 dollars in property. A general strike in the bituminous coal region is seen as probable on April 1 at the end of the interstate miners and operators agreement. John W Foster III former secretary of state is critically ill with pneumonia and recovery seems doubtful according to doctors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carthage
N.Y
John W. Foster III
John W. Foster
Spanish Priests Driven Out of Philippines
Spanish priests are being driven out of the Philippines as natives refuse to support them. Many of these priests are coming to Central America. Troops Sail for Cuba. Nearly 3,000 United States troops sailed from Charleston to Cuba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Central America
Cuba
United States
Charleston
America to Rule Cuba Under Military Government
President McKinley outlines a plan for Cuba with American authority supreme under Gen. Brooke. He pledges broad home rule for Cubans while keeping ultimate control centralized. Cuban cooperation may earn further official posts and honors for leaders like Gomez.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
Cuba
Cape San Antonio
Cape Maysi
McKinley
Brooke
Gomez
British-American Alliance Doubts Raised by Judge Day
Judge William R. Day, chair of the American peace commission, rejected any pursuit of a formal Anglo-American alliance. He argued neither nation seeks it and such an alliance would not offer real benefit to either side.
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Britain
William R. Day
American Peace Commission
Treachery Blamed for Iloilo Surrender by Spaniards
President Melxinley and his cabinet denounce the Spanish commander for surrendering Iloilo to the insurgents as treachery and unworthy of Spain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melxinley
Iloilo
Spain
Kynoch Starts Producing 10 Million Cartridges for U S
The Birmingham based Kynoch company announces the start of cartridge production for the United States. Output will be 1,000,000 cartridges weekly, totaling 10,000,000 initially.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kynoch Company
Birmingham
England
United States
Concede the Wages Demanded by Cleve land Foundries
Eight of fifteen Cleveland foundries have conceded the wage demand for caremakers at two dollars and fifty cents per day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio
Ex-Senator Brice Personal Property Valued at 600000
The will details that Brice left no real estate in New York and that his personal property is valued at $600,000. The document outlines the estate composition and potential probate considerations for the senator's heirs and creditors.
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Brice
New York
Death of Senor Don Matias Romero
Senor Don Matias Romero Mexican ambassador to the United States died the other morning after an appendicitis operation performed Wednesday The operation was initially successful but complications followed as he died soon after He had returned from Mexico where he went to bury Mme Romero his wife whose death had deeply affected him Friends in Washington expressed grave concern as his health declined following the procedure and his death ended the hopes raised by the operation.
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Senor Don Matias Romero
United States
Senor Romero
Mexico
Mme. Romero
States
Washington
Scott
Rebecca
Ivanhoe
Howe
Rebecca Gratz
Philadelphia
Washington Irving
American Monthly Review of Reviews
Laura Carroll Dennis
George Grey Barnard
W. S. Taylor
Longfellow
Ladies’ Home Journal
Taylor
New England
Harper's Bazar
SR. Crockett
Kit Kennedy
Annie E. P. Searing
Maud H. Or
Harper's Weekly
H.G. Wells
Harper's Round Table
Jury Deadlock Delays Streator Bridge Case
The Lafayette Bridge company versus the city of Streator faced a deadlocked jury after twenty six hours of deliberation. The panel reported no chance of agreement as bribery charges undermined the case. Cuban delegates in Washington published an appeal urging natives to remember independence and reject annexation. Hooley's bankruptcy shows a net loss of 490000 from twenty six company floats. Port Dalhousie rubber shoe works burned, causing about 100000 in damage and leaving 250 workers unemployed.
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Lafayette Bridge Company
Streator
Hooley
Ernest Terah Hooley
Toronto Rubber Shoe Manufacturing Company
Port Dalhousie
Ont
Want An American Alliance For Missionary Trade
British residents in Central China seek an alliance with the United States to oppose closing doors to missionary work and trade now open in the empire. Textile workers in Fall River Mass demand restoration of a 10 percent wage cut from early last year. F P Sargent named arbitrator in Grand Trunk telegraphers dispute. Indiana’s state debt reduced to 5.6 million after a 400 400 payment last year. Col Huggins ordered to ready Eighth US Volunteers colored immunes for Cuba sail. Smallpox reported at Camp Columbia Havana with Sergt Fredmes of I Company 161st Indiana stricken. Hungary sees serious strike riots at Nagy-Komlos. soldiers fire on mob.
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China
United States
Fall River
Mass
Col. Huggins
War Department
Eighth Regiment
United States Volunteers
Cuba
Columbia
Havana
Sergt. ‘Fredmes
Company I
One Hundred and
Indiana
Nagy-Komlos
County of Torontal
Hungary
Ex-Senator Sawyer Recovering After Neck Growth Operation
Former United States Senator Phile tus Sawyer of Wisconsin has undergone successful surgery to remove a growth at the back of his neck after a period of illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sawyer
United States
Philetus Sawyer
Wisconsin
Absorbed by the Trust The Cleveland Paper Company
The Cleveland Paper Company, once absorbed by a receiver over a year ago with liabilities exceeding 300000 dollars, has been absorbed by the Standard Paper and Bag Company. Government receipts for December totaled 41404793, compared with 59646798 in December 1897. Kansas bills become law as Gov Leedy signs the railroad and insurance tax measures. Burglars rob E Bourgain Co bank at New Hartford Iowa, stealing 150 in silver plus jewelry. Lincoln's mother monument funds gathered from Second Town veterans. Yellow fever rages near Havana forts Metro and Cabanas with US troops present. A Perry Illinois fire destroys six businesses, a bank, and a dwelling, with heavy losses. Ninety sailors from the receiving ship Vermont depart for Manila to reinforce Admiral Dewey.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Fires Hit Towns From Wisconsin to Washington
A string of destructive blazes reports severe damage and casualties across multiple states and cities. Notable losses include May be multiple fatalities and significant property damage, with insurance payouts running into thousands. incidents span Galeton Pennsylvania to Valparaiso Indiana and beyond.
Diplomatic and civil unrest across Europe and Asia
Vienna upper chamber member Herr Hernazky calls premier a cheat and traitor and now dares him to a duel. In Cayenne the French Guiana governor denies Dreyfus mistreatment altered or govt ordered return. A Nagy Komlós riot in Hungary ends with police victory. In Niscemi Sicily mobs attack tax offices. many wounded. Kitchener sails to Nubia to face Khalifa. Porter Gowdy receptions in Paris. Haukau land dispute between Russia and Britain. Sweden faces rising money rates. Danish gold imports rise. Curzon arrives as new Viceroy of India with initial reception.
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Vienna
Hernazky
Baron Banffy
London
Cayenne
Daily Telegraph
French Guiana
Dreyfus
France
Nagy-Komlos
Hungary
Rome
Niscemi
Sicily
Col
Kitchener
Sirdar
Dulim
Nubia
Khalifa
Bombay
Lord Curzon
India
Fourteen French Sailors Killed Reported in Pacific Disturbance
A report says a leutenant and thirteen sailors from the French warship Eure were killed by natives in the New Hebrides. In Cuba, Cuban troops occupy Matanzas and Santa Clara towns as Spanish evacuations proceed. The Spanish cabinet plans additional funds to repatriate remaining troops.
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Leutenant
Eure
New Hebrides
Cubana
Matanzas
Santa Clara
Spaty Wini
Cuba
Gunshot death and suicides across states reported
CRIME items from Huntsville Alabama to Sioux Falls South Dakota. Private Starr Dare of E First Infantry died from a Christmas night gunshot wound at a hospital. Mack Lightfoot jailed without bond for the alleged murder. Mount Vernon farmer Joseph Storment hanged himself. Thomas Kelly 30 killed himself before a Big Four train in Pana New Jersey. Mrs Adams case likely arrest in New York. Charles H derer in Jersey City shoots himself after becoming police captain. Edward Smith feared not the Dunham killer in Burlington Iowa. George Frazier shoots John Stidhorn in Kentucky. Lookout Mountain church stolen in Chattanooga. Dominique Krathofski hanged for murdering Victoria Pinkus in Springfield. Otto Webber brought in for counterfeit charges in Sioux Falls.
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Huntsville
Ala
Starr Dare
Company E. First Infantry
San Francisco
Second District
Mack Lightfoot
Dare
Mount Vernon, Jr
Joseph W. Storment
Pana
Ellen Moore
Thomas Kelly
New York
Edward Smith
California
Dunham
McGlincy
George Frazier
John Stidhorn
Chattanooga
Tenn
Lookout Mountain Baptist Church
Springfield
Mass
Dominique Krathofski
Victoria Pinkus
Sioux Falls
S. D
Otto Webber
Deadwood
Aurora
Weather and labor and city notes from across the nation
The roundup reports rail wage hikes for Southern Railway in the mechanical dept. with 5 to 12 cents daily per man. Snow storms halt activity from San Francisco to Seattle and Victoria. A Cuba independence celebration in Santiago draws crowds as Knoxville ships iron to Cuba. Various obituaries and local notices follow including a gate of notable deaths, political remarks in Des Moines, chess figure death in Hoboken, and a rebroadcast of officials in New York. Admiral Schley named to command the European squadron. an electric railroad project is proposed between Indianapolis and Logansport.
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Atlanta
Southern Railway
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Victoria
B. C
Seattle
Wash
Washington
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba
United States
America
Knoxville
Ytenn
Knoxville Iron Company
Santiago
St. Augustine
Fla
Frank A. Vanderlip
Treasury
Sioux River
Wis
Henry Hockdanner
Omaha
Neb
George Medlock
Illinois
Nebraska
Youngstown
Ohio
William M. Irish
Standard Oil Company
Olean
N. Y
Erie
Des Moines
Gov. Shaw
Manufacturers’ Association of New York
New York
A. Vorath
Manhattan
Paris
Kansas City
Thomas Reed
James EB. Campbell
Milwaukee
Rochester
N,y
William Schaefer
Union Brewing Company of
Portland
Thomas BP. Reed
Conley
Portsmouth
James Bowen Funston
Protestant Episcopal Church
Boise
Dollar Bay
Mich
Tamarack-Osceola Copper Manufacturing Company
Brockton, II
Logan McPherson
Brockton Review
Indianapolis
Ind
Congress
Brigham H. Roberts
Utah
Justice Dunwell
Union Brewing Company
la Grange
B. A. Dodge
Scottville
Jesse McKnight
Peoria
Ind.—Farmers and Stock Breeders of
Indiana
Short-Horn Cattle Breeders’ Association
St. Louis
George Ingram Barnett
Logansport
Winfield 3. Schley
Europe
New Year Notes and Cultural Snippets From 1900s Press
The article surveys light cultural items and social observations from early 20th century publications. It references Isabel McDougall’s Three Little Spanish Princesses with Velazquez reproductions, Demorest’s Magazine fashion tips, stationery etiquette, and social rank usage of princes in Russia versus Mr. in England. It notes a fatality rate on trains and comments on urban passenger volumes and hobbies.
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St. Nicholas
Isabel McDougall
Velasanez
Mark Twain
Talloada
United States
Russia
England
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
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Kigg
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Emile Zola
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Navy
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St Petersburg
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Warl Herring
Company C
East Pana Ti
Sagasta
Gen. Correa
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French Ministry of the Colonies
London Times
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Shanghai
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Judge Day
Olla
Kansas
Leedy
Towa Bank
E. Bourgain & Co
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Second Town Brigade
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Cabanas Forts
Perry
Perry State Bank
Ill
Devoy
Vermont
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Admiral Dewey
Packwaukee
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Galva
Mulford Steam-Heating Company
Jamestown
Cal
Jumiper
Beaman
Iowa
Utica
Susan
Thomas
Calvin Chamberlin
Omahio & Western
Paducah
Paducah Transfer Company
Government Street
John Schroeder Lumber Company
Sterling
Masonic Temple
Moline
Oscar Anderson
Deere & Co
Minneapolis
Minn
C. A. Smith Lumber Company
Summitville
Fred Berlin
Anderson
Cornelius McGanney
James Brooks
West Fury
Fifth Street
Barber & Ross
Eleventh
Valparaiso
Julius Smith
Toledo
Hood
Saria
Pariila
Stephen Bonsil
McClure
Caney
San Juan
Hamlin Garland
Rising Wolf
A. Conan Doyle
F. Frankfort Moore
Ainslee
Richard Hovey
Flarper
A. Staunton
West Indies
Carlton T. Chapman
H. W. Wilson
Albert Bushnell Flatt
Johnathan
Pratt
Roosevelt
New York State
Lythe
Cecilia Beaux
Las
Admiral Sampson
Lieut. Hobson
Demorest
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