Christmas Shock Shakes Haiti Legation Wall
Port au Prince natives faced a severe earthquake that cracked the walls of the American legation during Christmas celebrations. Attorney General Smith recovers from a lengthy illness as the paper notes ongoing war tax debates favoring removal of taxes from luxuries while preserving necessities. The Philippines exploitation is criticized as benefiting the syndicate class and opposed to revenue relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port-au-Prince
Haiti
Philippines
Texas mills urged to run day and night to meet orders
Itasca will soon help Dallas with cotton orders as mills in Texas could handle more work if they operated around the clock. The Galveston News says if a dozen mills existed they would quickly fill demand, and the first town to build would gain a head start.
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Dallas
Itasca
Texas
Galveston News
Navasota Planters Prepare Sugar Cane Effort
Large Brazos bottom planters abandon cotton for flood prone land and plan a cane project. J. C. White will grow 12 to 15 acres of sugar cane this season. Col. John D. Rogers at Allen farm to plant about 35 acres. Next year these patches may seed a larger area and cane culture could expand.
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Brazos
Navasota
J. C. White
John D. Rogers
Allen Farm
Navasota Examiner
Professor Price advocates canning factories in Texas
Professor R H Price of the Agricultural and Mechanical College promotes canning factories with cotton gins to diversify crops and spur growth across southern Texas. He forecasts twenty new canning factories in operation within a year, benefiting horticulture, local economies, and small towns while urging legislative support for agricultural programs.
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R. H. Price
The
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Texas
Price
Galveston News
For Sale Two Hundred Acres Near Bryan by Griffin
A land and property listing from Wow Griffin offers 200 acres of prairie and timber 40 acres timbered with four dwellings four wells and cribs and productive farmland. The sale also includes a southern Bryan residence with five acres of land an orchard gardens and barn. Prospective buyers are invited to call and inspect.
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Bryan
Praire
Griffin
Allen Academy to admit more boys in January opening
The school will take a few additional students at the start of the second half year in January. Current enrollment stands at 66, with about twenty cities and towns represented. J. H. and R. O. Auten, Principals.
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J.H
R. O. Auten
Deficit Seen as Taft Commission Spends on Philippine Setup
Washington reports reveal spending by the Taft commission on Philippine governance and public works exceeding five million dollars for September and October. Items include highway and bridge construction, port improvements, a vault for the treasury, market site purchase, and salaries, with caution on potential deficits. General MacArthur notes volunteers eager to return home and a proposed $250 reenlistment bounty gaining support.
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Washington
Taft Commission
Philippines
Root
Philippine Islands
Bengueres
Aguinaldo
W. F. Atkinson
Civil Service Board
Military
Manila
Treasury
MacArthur
United States
War Department
Taft Proposes Use of U S Money as Philippine Currency
President Taft proposes adopting United States money as the currency of the Philippines. He argues the move is radical but necessary to maintain U S control and to end the current confusion of monetary systems.
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Washington
Taft
Philippine Commission
United States
Philippines
Anaconda Mining sues Clark and Colusa Parrott over trespass
Helena Montana December 25 The Anaconda Mining Company sues W A Clark and the Colusa Parrott Mining and Smelting Company in the U S court at Butte for 1 075 000 dollars claiming damages from trespass on ores tied to a prior case won by Anaconda before Judge Knowles.
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Helena
Mont
United States
Butte
Anaconda Mining Company
Urbana youth arrested in attempted assault on white girl
Cliff Lancaster, eight year old black man, was arrested in Urbana on December 25 charged with attempting to assault Maggie Taffe, who identified him. The case sparked intense unrest with threats of lynching, and Mayor Johnson ordered the prisoner taken to Springfield for safekeeping.
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Urbana
Cliff Lancaster
Maggie Taffe
Johnson
Springfield
Fatal shootout at Douglass home in Crawfordsville
In Crawfordsville Indiana Joseph Douglass shot and fatally wounded Frank Parish and Charles Doyle after they visited his home seeking his wife. The men kicked a rear door and Douglass fired through a window with a shotgun. In Middlesboro Kentucky Willis Johnson was shot and killed by Charles Wilcox of Harlan County with Wilcox slightly wounded.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Joseph Douglass
Frank Parish
Charles Doyle
Douglass
Middlesboro
Willis Johnson
Charles Wilcox
Harlan County
Wilcox
Free delivery service ordered for Beaumont Texas
The post office department issued an order establishing free delivery service at Beaumont Texas effective January 1 1901.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Beaumont
Tex
Not Enough Men to Bring Peace in Philippines
Admiral Barker warns big shortage of troops in the Philippines and says volunteers should be replaced by regulars after spring. He urges strict integrity of officers and notes Filipino suspicion would swiftly punish lies as murder.
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Utica
N. Y
Adoiral Barker
Sam
Philippines
Joint Note Delivered to Chinese Envoys in Pekin
Pekin December 25. The preliminary joint note was delivered to the Chinese. Li Hung Chang could not attend the ministerial meeting. his credentials and those of Prince Ching were presented by the prince to the foreign envoys. Prince Ching told the Spanish minister Senor DeCologan he would relay the contents to the emperor and urged a speedy royal response. China seeks peace and prosperity per the court.
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Pekin
Li Hung Chang
Prince Ching
Senor
B. J. DeCologan
China
Elasa guirre the American condemned in Juarez case
Elasa guirre an American citizen sentenced to death for murder in Juarez has been moved to Chihuahua’s state penitentiary awaiting his supreme court appeal. Influential American friends seek clemency from President Diaz as his case stands for possible commutation if the court does not act.
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Chihuahua
Mex
Elasaguirre
Juarez
Supreme Court
Diaz
Tragedy in Grand Saline as Train Crashes Man
An unknown crippled man with crutches was run over and cut to pieces by an eastbound train in Grand Saline Texas on December 25. Police and railroad crews investigated the grisly accident and searched for clues to the victim’s identity.
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Grand Saline
Tex
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Emmet
Prescription Pharmacy
Allen Academy
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Minnesota
Gage
the Treasury
Shooting
Mansfield
Richard House
al House
Richard
Emmet Morrison
Lexington
Jane Sutton
James Sutton
Sutton
St. Joseph's Hospital
Muskogee, I. T
Schoenfelt
la Salle
Ill
George Hanter
Jones’ Shaft
Illinois Central Bridge
Reagan
Houston
John H. Reagan
State Railroad Commission
Hawaiii
Jackson
Tennessee
Honolulu
Middle
West Tennessee
Paris
Antlers
I. T
Tyler Haswell
Santa Claus
N. M. McDougald
Qld
Liza
DRAY
F. A. Lee
Franklin Brothers
Bryan, Texas
Courthouse
Bryan Grocery Compan
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