Spain Decorates President Faure With Golden Fleece
Paris reports three official functions drawing American peace commissioners into Spanish French actions. Senor Montero Rios awarded Faure the Golden Fleece. Faure hosted Rios and the other commissioners at a dinner. at Elysee palace a comic opera honored the Americans. The exchange sparks questions about pacific terms and perceived compensation.
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Paris
President Faure
Spain
Elysee Palace
M. Faure
United States
Cubans reject Black immigration to Cuba says dispatch
A Havana dispatch reports Cuban and Black residents oppose a plan by John T. Venney to send 30 Black families to Santiago as a colony. Cubans prefer white immigrants and fear race war. The Cuban army will receive a year’s pay on Dec 10, then disband. U.S. loan guarantees believed likely though source uncertain.
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New York
Havana
Topeka
Kan
John T. Venney
Santiago
Cuba
United States
Garcia
Street Car Held Up Near Cristilla Station
Havana reports a band of robbers halted a car line to Jesus del Mont near Cristilla station at midnight. Passengers were forced to surrender valuables as the attackers fled into a dark desolate area with no police present nearby.
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Havana
Jesus del Mont
Cristilla Station
Train Strikes A Gang Of Workmen In Dense Fog
New York dispatch reports eleven men killed and six injured when a Pennsylvania local from Milltown to Jersey City struck a gang of 20 workmen on the track in a thick fog near Jersey City. The crash halted the train. a severed hand was found on the cowcatcher.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Jersey City
Milltown
Convicts Stage Escape Attempt at Columbus Penitentiary
Two inmates O Neill and Atkinson armed with a revolver seized a guard, killed another, and sparked a prison battle. Guard Lauterbaugh died from his wounds while the two convicts and several guards suffered serious injuries during the shootout at the Ohio facility.
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Columbus, O
Charles B. Lauterbaugh
O'Neill
Atkinson
Coveland
Lime
Lauterbaugh
Gump
O’ Neill
Dentist in Port Bryan hurt during fraternal initiation prank
Dr W P Sensibaugh of Port Bryan near Moline Illinois was injured when blindfolded electrocution during initiation caused him to fall onto a live battery. He remains unconscious with a right arm limp and faces possible paralysis and death due to nerve damage and pneumonia related complications after the shock.
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Moline
Illl
W. P. Sensibaugh
Port Bryan
Violence disrupts city as families flee after threats
Residents huddled in groups guarded by armed heads of families overnight. Many families fled to friends. Ex-railroad man H Heath was shot at in his Flatham district home and denies firing into neighbors. L O Drake injured at City Planing Mill with two fingers badly cut. Guarantee Brokers' Association in St Louis raised 10000 to oppose anti scalping bill before Congress.
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H. Heath
Flatham
Heath
Temple, Tex
L. O. Drake
City
St. Louis
Guarantee Brokers’ Association
Congress
Desultory Firing Sparks Fear in Pana Illinois
Citizens flee to the country as a wave of mysterious shootings unsettles Pana Illinois on November 18. Local reports describe scattered gunfire raising alarms and prompting residents to seek safer areas away from town.
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Palace
Cincinnati
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Selves
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Parker Building
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Main Street
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McKinney
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Hall’s Dive Store
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