China Pact Signed As Conger Reports Explanatory Note
Secretary Hay reports Conger at Pekin signed the China agreement with a written statement of constitutional limits. The $2,000,000,000 indemnity is noted. Ministers accept lines of communication and legation guards while arms import prohibition stands. A cipher error caused a surprising signing reversal by some later signers.
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Hay
Conger
Pekin
United States
China
McKinley Inauguration to Feature Military Pageantry
Washington December 24 The McKinley inauguration on March 4 will eclipse all prior events with a militarized parade. The Edson chaired committee plans extensive decorations including electric lights on the Capitol and White House. Navy ships under Admiral Dewey will assemble. the Twenty third Ohio guards will attend. funds exceed 45000 of a 50000 goal. Edwards damages case ends with full award to father.
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Mc'Kinley
Washington
John Joy Edson
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Naval
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Capitol
White House
Edson
Congress
Capitol Building
Great Dome
Executive Mansion
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McKinley
Navy
Dewey
Potomac River
Treaty Amendment Sent After Senate Action on Hay-Pauncefote
The State Department began amending the Hay-Pauncefote treaty for Britain while noting no formal communications with Nicaragua or Costa Rica. Officials indicated Nicaragua and Costa Rica representatives here favored the treaty as a canal basis, with no current threat to assent and awaiting Britain’s response to Senate amendments.
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State Department
Senate
Department
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
United States Senate
Corea
Calvo
Peru and Bolivia seek US help in Chili dispute
New York December 24 Peru and Bolivia asked the United States to use its good offices to resolve their conflict with Chili. Secretary Hay refused to intervene, a decision likely to affect Chili's response to Mexico's invitation to the Pan American conference. In Pennsylvania Hallidaysburg Miss Juniane Rohrbach, a War Department auditor’s employee, is hospitalized in a severe nervous collapse.
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Peru
Bolivia
United States
Chili
Hay
Mexico
Hallidaysburg
Juniane Rohrbach
Auditor’s Office
War Department
Rohbach
Murder charge in South Berwick case tied to May killing
In South Berwick Maine on December 24 K Edwin H Knight 41 a successful businessman was arrested on a warrant charging him with murdering Miss Fanny Sprague last May. The authorities guard the evidence closely and the tragedy shocked the community.
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South Berwick
Edwin H. Knight
On & Werrant
Fanny Sprague
Knight
Birmingham Gun Deaths and Other Briefs
Birmingham report says Graham Shaw, a Cincinnati drug salesman, was accidentally shot and killed in Jasper when Guy ORear fired during a presumed pistol duel. Ireland denies McKinley involvement in his Cuba Porto Rico visit. A Louisville watchman, John Kappleman, was found murdered with wages missing. Berlin’s population reaches 2,449,076 amid rapid trolley expansion. A Chicago fragment notes a slow father’s attempt to save his mother.
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Ala
Graham Shaw
Cincinnati
Jasper
Guy O’rear
Sdoel
O’rear
Ireland
Cuba
St. Paul
Porto Rico
McKinley
Louisville
John Kappleman
Westworth Avenue tragedy reports teen killer
A 17 year old, Albert Al bertson, faced arrest after he used a poker to defend himself from a beating by his father and ended up shooting him at their Westworth Avenue home. The incident followed reports of harsh winter conditions and other obituaries across the nation including Theodore L Poole and Samuel M Murphy.
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Westworth Avenue
Albert
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