Camp Alger Selection Disputed By War Officials
Adjutant General Corbin testified on December 22 about Camp Alger Va noting the secretary of war dictated its removal and Captain Seaburn of General Miles' staff recommended its original establishment. He stated Miles may have inspected the site but protested nothing. Corbin discussed Camp Wikoff Camp Thomas Tampa and transport limits and said war was not seriously contemplated until Congress declared it.
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Washington
Corbin
War Department
Camp Alger
Secretary of War
Seaburn
Miles
Captain Seaburn
Santiago
Porto Rico
Long Island Railroad
Selec
Tampa
Thomas
Thickamauga
Congress
Department
Conger Protests French Jurisdiction in Shanghai
United States Minister Edwin H. Conger protests the extension of French jurisdiction at Shanghai, amid British protests, risking Chinese resistance to French demands. Telegraph dispatches report Secretary of War Alger ordering the Fourth Infantry at Fort Sheridan and the Seventeenth Infantry at Columbus Barracks, Ohio, to move.
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Shanghai
Pekin
United States
Edwin H. Conger
Chicago
Alger
Fort Sheridan
Columbus Barracks
Ohio
Regiments to sail via New York before January
Reports from Madrid note Carlists arrested in northern provinces amid ongoing agitation. In Placencia and Castellon de la Plana arrests target distributors of propaganda as authorities step up actions ahead of renewed demonstrations. In Chicago the Bollinger murder probe parallels the Leutgert case with alleged insanity and wedding ring evidence expected to prove a corpus delicti.
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Madrid
Vioreil
Castellon de la Pa 4
Placencia
Caceres
Chicago
Micheal Bollinger
Lena Hecker
Bollinger
Rollinger
Leutgert
Church Property in Philippines To Be Settled By Congress
Dr. David J. Hill says the disposition of Catholic church property in the Philippines rests with Congress not the state department. He compares the approach to the private land claims court used after annexation of Mexican lands and asserts Catholics will be honorably treated by the United States. He calls for a broad plan to develop the islands socially religiously and materially.
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Washington
David J. Hill
Philippines
Congress
State Department
Private Land Claims
New Mexico
Arizona
California
United States
Philippine Islands
Bird Causes Narrow Wreck on I G N Train
Northbound International and Great Northern passenger train avoided a serious crash 40 miles south by a bird blinding the headlight. A rail was secured across the track and the bird’s impact extinguished the light, forcing a slow approach to the next station. The train struck the obstruction, tearing up the track and damaging the engine front, but no injuries occurred.
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Austin, Dee
International and Great Northern Railway
Citizens by Marriage in Illinois Naturalizes Alien Born Woman
In a Liv ingston county election contest, the court holds alien born women become naturalized when they marry state citizens. The ruling states such marriage makes her a citizen with voting rights under existing laws. Additional details note a Port Clinton bank cashier and Mrs Jamieson facing charges in Toledo.
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Springfield
Ill
O. H. Brigham
P. C. Stanford
Board of Education
Livingston County
Toledo
William O. Spaulding
Port Clinton
Martha E. Jamieson
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