Spain Accepts Peace Terms and Cedes Caribbean Islands
Spain agrees to relinquish Cuba and cede Puerto Rico Guam and the Philippines after a Paris peace session. The United States will pay 20 million dollars for the Philippines as negotiations draw to a close. Spain's reply cites arbitration offers rejected by Washington and notes public gloom in Madrid.
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Spain
United States
Peace Commissions
Paris
Cuba
Porto Rico
Guam
Philippine Islands
Philippines
Quay Case Involves Demurrers In Five Indictments
Senator M. B. Quay Richard R. Quay and ex state treasurer Benjamin J. Haywood faced a Philadelphia quarter sessions court where demurrers were filed to four indictments and a motion to quash the fifth was argued. The defendants were not present as their attorneys represented them.
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Senator Quay
People’s Bank
Philadelphia
M. 8. Quay
Richard R. Quay
Benjamin J. Haywood
Exstate
Open Door Policy Explained by Dingley For Philippines
Chairman Dingley of the ways and means committee defines the open door policy as equal treatment, not free trade. He says independence means imports from all countries enter on the same terms as those from the United States.
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Dingley
Washington Dispatch
Ways and Means Committee
Washington Star
Philippines
United States
Peace Treaty Articles Drawn Up by Moore and Ojeda
The Paris report says Moore and Ojeda completed formulating treaty articles after an eight o clock session. They will include protocol relinquishments and cessions, religious freedom for Caroline islands, U S naval base, cable rights, and prisoner releases. Existing treaties from 1795 1834 1877 1882 are revived or recast with several modus vivendi pacts.
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Paris
Messrs. Moore
Ojeda
Caroline Islands
United States
Spain
Moore
Aguinaldo
Cotton Tickets Exempt From Stamp Tax, Senator Reports
Washington dispatch notes Senator Jones has secured a ruling from the commissioner of internal revenue that cotton tickets cashed with funds deposited by a buyer are exempt from the stamp tax as orders for payment of money. The exemption applies only when the buyer’s money is used and the tickets are cashed by the third party. The ruling excludes payments made by others to whom the seller has transferred the tickets. Senator Jones sees broader significance for the cotton region.
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Washington Dispatch
Jones
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Peace talks with Spain end. U S to gain sovereignty
A cablegram read at the cabinet meeting confirms the termination of peace negotiations with Spain. The treaty to be signed this week provides that Spain cedes sovereignty over the Philippine archipelago and Guam, including the Ladrone group, to the United States.
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Washington
Spain
Chairman Day
United States
Philippine Archipelago
Guam Island
Ladrone
Devastating New England Sea Storm Wrecks Dozens of Vessels
Special dispatches from Boston report that more than seventy lives are lost in tugs schooners and coal barges wrecked during a weekend storm. If the Portland sinks the casualty list could reach 140 with many vessels ashore or wrecked along Massachusetts bays. Coast guard crews rescue sailors as Hull and Cape Cod areas reel from devastation.
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Boston
Portland
Massachusetts Bay
Penobscot
New London
Boston Harbor
Cape Cod
New England
Gloucester
Vineyard Haven
Nantasket Beach
Cohassett
Scituate
Manchester
Plymouth
Salem
Portsmouth
Associated Press
East Port
Mass
New Haven
Conn
Cuttyhunk
George A. Chaffee
Rockport
Catastrophe in Havana. powder explosion injures and kills
A Havana explosion on the Avenue Infanta between Santa Clara and Reina batteries injured thirty eight persons and killed three, with fifteen others believed to be missing. Boxes of powder and cartridges stored in a private house caused the blast. Most workers were young boys and girls.
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Havana
Infanta
Santa Clara
Reina
Peace Commission Begins Drafting Treaty Articles
A Paris report details the joint peace commission spending two and a half hours drafting the first three treaty articles on Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines. Thirteen articles were listed covering sovereignty cessions evacuations open door policy and other issues with eight discussed that day.
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Paris
Joint Peace Commission
Cuba
Porto Rico
Philippines
Joint Commission
West Indies
Guam
Ladrones
United States
Spain
Kusae
Strong Island
Carolines
Manila
Aguinaldo
Ceuta
Morocco
Madrid
Washington
North Georgia Methodist Conference Demands Resignation
The North Georgia Methodist Conference at Augusta adjourned after selecting LaGrange for the next meeting. It adopted the special committee report on the war claim, demanding the resignation of Barbee and Smith, book agents, and calling for reorganization of the book committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
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North Georgia Methodist Conference
Augusta
LaGrange
Duncan
Barbee & Smith
Book Committee
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Cattle Quarantine Stations Planned in Virginia
The Virginia experiment station board, meeting in Richmond, plans quarantine stations in Norfolk Richmond and possibly Lynchburg. Cattle will be submerged in a Washington discovery chemical to disinfect them and render them marketable.
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Virginia
Board of Control
Board of Control of the
Virginia Experiment Station
Richmond
Norfolk
Lynchburg
Agricultural Department
Washington
Frost Devastates South Carolina Truck Crops
Reports from Charleston say a recent cold snap caused about 100000 dollars of losses to truck farmers. All tender crops were destroyed and late vegetables were delayed. cabbage, turnips and strawberries survived only in small amounts as fields up river were ruined.
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South Carolina
Charleston
8. C
Port land Steamer Disaster Leaves 99 Dead in Blizzard
A Portland and Boston Rail Road steamer named Portland was wrecked off Highland Light in a fierce storm. Ninety nine people on board perished, with 34 bodies recovered by life savers by Monday night. The ship, built in Bath in 1880, was 817 tons and valued at 250000, fully insured.
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Boston Herald
North Truro
Portland
Boston and Portland Railroad Company
Boston
Highland Light
High Head Station
Cape Cod
Maine
Massachusetts
Bath
Carlists Active As Madrid Raises Vigilance Over Communications
Madrid reports the government is wary of Carlist activity and possible turmoil after signing the peace treaty. Authorities enforce strict censorship of newspapers and monitor telegrams and telephones. Officials warn of growing Carlist propaganda and preparations.
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Madrid
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Senor Ojeda
Foreign Office
Senor Montero Rios
Spanish Peace Commission
Senor Rios
United States Commission
Mr. Ferguson
America
Quay
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Hull Beach
Shag Rocks
Boston Light
Brewsters
Calvin F. Baker
Hull
Peace Commission
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