Freedom for the Filipinos hot shot from Mr Foraker
Ohio Senator Foraker denounces West resolution and argues the United States has the inherent right to acquire and govern foreign territory. He contends the Philippines may be held permanently if needed and condemns calls to limit expansion. Senate debates include Bacon resolutions and Allen protest against aggressive action.
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Washington
Senate
Platt
Connecticut
Philippines
Foraker
Ohio
United States
West
Mr. Hoar
Bacon
Georgia
Spain
Congress
Philippine Islands
Allen
Nebraska
Hour Against Expansion Spurs Senate Debate
In a Monday Senate session the main issue was constitutional power to expand. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts attacked expansion as unconstitutional and warned it would raise costs, taxes, and military burdens while dishonoring independence. He urged that America remains a sovereign nation and questioned Platt's expansion doctrine.
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Senate
United States
Hoar
Massachusetts
West
Missouri
Congress
Connecticut
Platt
America
Mr. Platt
Spain
Revenue Receipts Increase for November 1898
The monthly internal revenue statement shows November 1898 receipts at 22,404,405, up from 13,959,296 in November 1897. Increases are listed for spirits, tobacco, and fermented liquors, with five month totals reaching 161,129,583 and projections toward 275 million for the year.
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Internal Revenue
General Wood Arrives in New York From Santiago
United States transport Mississippi reached New York on Tuesday carrying General Leonard Wood military governor of Santiago Lieutenant Hanna Dr Castillo Cuban and Colonel Gibbon who managed island provisions Wood declined comment on Santiago funds protest before visiting Washington with President McKinley.
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Santiago
McKinley
United States
Mississippi
New York
Leonard Wood
Hanna
Castillo
Gibson
Wood
Washington
Thirteen Die After West Dunellen Train Crash
A head-on collision between two Lehigh Valley trains near West Dunellen New Jersey at 12 47 p m kills thirteen and injures more than twenty five. The Shamokin bound excursion train carrying 400 passengers collides with a local. wreckage and confusion follow as deaths occur mainly in the first car.
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Lehigh Valley Railway
West Dunellen
N. J
Martin Keenan
W. H. Hinkel
Jacob Hesler
H. E. Weikell
Frank Ficher
William H. Leader
Frank Markel
Theodore Koehn
Abner
Keifer
William H. Markel
James Jarvis
Boundbrook
New York City
Shamokin
New Market
New York
Mount Carmel
Mahoney City
Hazelton
Ashland
Pottsville
South Plainfield
Rick
Meningitis Epidemic Claims Twelve Albany Deaths
An Albany Georgia meningitis outbreak reports twelve cases in ten days with seven deaths in a single day. Most victims are African American and doctors fear rapid spread. Officials urge measures to halt transmission as explanations remain unclear.
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Albany
France Faces New Leader as Dreyfus Crisis Deepens
A Paris report says the Dreyfus affair reaches a peak with M. Quesnay Beaurepaire resigning from the civil section of the court of cassation. He accuses a conspiracy to exonerate Dreyfus and aims to mobilize public opinion against the tribunal. Critics warn the move could destabilize the republic.
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Paris
Dreyfus
M. Quesnay Beaurepaire
Court of Cassation
Echo de Paris
M. Beau
Court of
M. Beaurepaire
Criminal Chamber
Dreyfusards
M. Leew
M. de Beaurepaire
M. Bard
Picquart
Col. Picquart
Billot
Convicts Assault Guard in Plantation Breakaway
A convict guard named Jep Denard was fatally injured at Mr. W J Adams plantation eighteen miles north of Washington Georgia Sunday night. He was struck from behind during supper by a convict, crushing his skull. Six prisoners fled in different directions. one was captured Monday morning and jailed.
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Jep Denard
W. J. Adam
Washington, Ga
Denard
Adams
Mr. Denard
Second Aguinaldo proclamation shocks Manila crowd
Advices report a second procla mation attributed to Aguinaldo on the same date as Otis order prompts, more vehement in tone, threatening to drive Americans out and accusing them of broken promises. Report says it may be the original Malolos draft. natives told not to work for Americans and commissary workers strike. Otis keeps control as tensions rise and rumors spread.
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Manila
Aguinaldo
Otis
McKinley
Pera
Malolos
Commissary Department
United States
Southern progress lists new Southern industry projects
The Tradesman notes several large new investments across the South including a $30,000 brick works in Virginia a $25,000 coal company in Virginia a $50,000 cottonseed oil mill in Texas a $100,000 chemical and fertilizer works in North Carolina flouring mills in Arkansas and North Carolina a foundry and machine shop in southwestern Virginia furniture factories in Alabama and North Carolina gas works in West Tennessee a glass factory in Virginia a hardware company in Arkansas lead mines in East Tennessee a mining company in Virginia a $10,000 paint factory in Virginia shingle mills in Alabama Arkansas Florida and Texas a company to manufacture surgical instruments in Kentucky a telephone exchange in Kentucky and a tobacco factory in Texas.
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Virginia
Texas
North Carolina
Arkansas
Alabama
West Tennessee
East
Tennessee
Florida
Kentucky
Chattanooga, Tenn
Spaniard Ard Piques Ludlow Over Hospital Closure
Senor Fernandez de Castro, Havana civil governor, uses power to close Hygeia hospital. General Ludlow, Havana military governor, protests and orders reopening. De Castro also silences certain business ads in newspapers. If defied, Ludlow may remove the civil governor.
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Senor Fernandez de Castro
Havana
Hygeia
General Ludlow
de Castro
Almand Brought Back From California to Face Georgia Swindle Charge
LaFayette Almand of Conyers Georgia returns from Tulare California in charge of Detective Hewitt. He is accused of swindling merchants and farmers across Georgia. Almand refuses to discuss the case as he is greeted by local detectives and his father at the Atlanta depot.
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Conyers
California
LaFayette Almand
Georgia
Atlanta
Tulare
Cal
Hewitt
Almand
Transport Overcrowded As Spanish Troops Return Home
The Notre Dame de Salut arrived in Barcelona from Havana with 1,100 repatriated soldiers. The vessel was overcrowded and many troops were ill upon arrival, reflecting deplorable conditions.
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Notre Dame de Salut
Havana
Barcelona
Treaty Favorably Reported By Foreign Relations Committee
The Senate committee on foreign relations on Wednesday authorized Senator Davis to report the peace treaty favorably without amendment. The hourlong session had a bare quorum, and Davis was instructed to push for early senate action and to report favorably on the proposal to lift the injunction of secrecy.
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Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Davis
Senate
Rebels Threaten Manila Defense as US Lands Hinge on Manila Crisis
A Madrid dispatch reports General Rios saying Philippine affairs are grave and rebels near Manila plan to attack. Spain claims natives refuse American landings, risk of force, while Otis at Manila pursues peaceful options. Commission talks may avert crisis until peace treaty ratified.
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Madrid
Rios
Manilla
Philippines
Manila
Visayas
Iloilo
United States
Anguidaldo
War Department
General Otis
Aguinaldo
Department
Otis
Tennessee elects W B Bate as United States senator
A Nashville joint convention of the Tennessee senate and house counted Tuesday's ballot and declared W. B. Bate elected as senator. The same session nominated Theodore King of Dyersburg for state comptroller on the eighteenth ballot after shifts from Hunt to King, with King receiving fifty three votes and his nomination made unanimous as Hunt and Dibre’s withdrawals followed.
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Nashville
Tennessee Senate
House
United States
W. B. Bate
Theodore King
Dyersburg
Hunt
King
J.D. Hunt
Frank Dibre
Mr. King
Houston Cotton Exchange Banquet Celebrates 2 Million Bales
Houston's cotton exchange hosted a Wednesday banquet marking the receipt of two million bales from Sept 1 to Dec 25, a record for the port and second only to Liverpool.
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Houston
Texas
Cotton Exchange
Liverpool
England
Critical Situation Admitted in Philippines War Dept Secrecy
Washington officials await developments in Iloilo with reticence. General Otis reports align with Miller but details remain unclear. Officials maintain secrecy on troop movements in the Philippines, citing uncertain insurgent attitudes and strategic considerations.
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Washington
Philippines
War Department
Iloilo
Otis
Department
Miller
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MR Foraker
General Wood
Lehigh Valley Road
France
Southern Progress
Piques Ludlow
Cables
Bate
Tennessee Legislature
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