French Naval Mobilization and Britain’s Diplomatic Push
Reports from Echo de Paris and Le Temps claim French naval mobilization including ironclads at Toulon with ships Bien Hoa and Gironde ready for sea. British Chancellor Beach states negotiations with powers to secure rights of developing sea zones, warning of possible gravity if France refuses time to provide Major Marchand reports.
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Echo de Paris
Toulon
Trehousart
Ines
Jemmapes
Valmy
Alger
Levrier
Calman
Bien Hoa
Gironde
Fetit Parisien Toulon
Navy Yard
M. Lockroy
Britain
London
Michaels Beach
North Shields
Thernment
Cies
Lord Roseberry
Osquith
France
Fashoda
Marchand
Egypt
Africa
Ntry
England
Lord Salis- Iry
President Honored With Doctor of Laws Degree
The University of Chicago awarded President McKinley the Doctor of Laws degree in a Monday ceremony amid heavy rain and dozens of applauding attendees. Dr Harper praised the president’s vision and national leadership as the exercises proceeded despite the weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meago University
University of Chicago
McKinley
Harper
Ile
New York Democrats Ratify State Ticket in Massive Meeting
About twenty thousand people gathered near Tammany Hall and in the wigwam for the ratification of the Democratic state ticket. James B. Eustice chaired the rally and praised the party’s convention and nominees. Ex Governor Campbell lampooned Roosevelt and wartime soldiers, urging the nation’s top leaders to address the misused regiments and military deployments.
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New York
Tammany Hall
James B. Eustice
Eustice
France
James E. Campbell
Ohio
Buffalo Bill
Campbell
Roosevelt
Florida
Sixty-ninth
Seventy First
Russia Gains Strong Point in Manchuria Occupation
Shanghai dispatch reports Russian regiment occupied New Chwan in Liao Tong province on October 15, taking forts at the Liaon river mouth and securing control as native troops fled. A British gunboat observed the action, signaling perceived British abandonment of Manchuria to Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Shanghai
London
New Chwan
Liao Tong
Liaon
Li Hung Chang
Manchuria
Russia
Vanderbilt Gets New Line in Vermont Purchase
The Rutland railroad from Bellows Falls to Burlington, Vermont, passes from the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company to Percival W. Clement, William K. Vanderbilt, and Dr. W. Seward Webb. The New England system cost reported is 3 million dollars.
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New England
New York World
Rutland Railroad
Bellows Falls
Burlington, Vt
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
Percival W. Clement
William K. Vanderbilt
W. Seward Webb
Spaniards Depart in Mass from Porto Rico Amid Evacuation
General Wade, head of the American Evacuation commission, telegraphed the War Department that about 6000 Spanish soldiers had been embarked for Spain. He reported that arrangements were in place for 40,000 more to depart soon, with formal notification from the Spanish commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porto Rico
Wade
Porto
War Department
Spain
Troops From Camp Meade Ordered South After Philly Jubilee
The War Department ordered six troops of the Third Cavalry move from Camp Meade to Augusta Georgia for duty with the Second Army Corps following peace jubilee ceremonies in Philadelphia. This marks the first Meade movement to the southern camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Third Cavalry
Philadelphia
Augusta
Second Army Corps
Camp Meade
Colorado Supreme Court Rules for Anti Teller Faction in Silver Party
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in the Silver Republican Party emblem case, siding with the anti Teller faction. The decision rejects fusion with Democrats and Populists and supports a straight ticket led by Simon Guggenheimer, while denying National Chairman Towne the power to remove the state party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court of the State of
Colorado
Simon Guggenheimer
Towne
Spain Faces US Cuba Debt Standstill
Paris advices indicate US peace commissioners refuse to assume Cuban debt or accept a sovereignty cession. They insist on pacification rights and warn Spain to yield or face naval demonstration. French papers debate arbitration versus debt imposition and US refusal to negotiate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Spain
United States
Cuba
la Liberte
Washington
Day
McKinley
Madrid
Senor Sagasta
The
Temps
Journal Des Debats
Porter Hosts Spanish Peace Delegation at Paris Banquet
General Horace Porter United States ambassador held a banquet Tuesday evening at the American embassy in Paris for the United States and Spanish peace commissioners. The joint dinner at the same table drew special interest amid reports from the London Times Paris correspondent predicting the Spanish commissioners would avoid dining with their opponents under the embassy roof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Paris
Horace Porter
London Times
Troops Well Cared For War Board Learns
A war investigating commission held three sessions in Jacksonville Florida with Seventh Army Corps officers. It heard testimony from the corps chief surgeon commissary quartermaster and inspector general and later from officers and men of the Second South Carolina regiment detailing departmental service.
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War Board
Seventh Army Corps
War Investigating Commission
Jacksonville
Fla
Second South Carolina
Flag Raised at San Juan as Porto Rico Passes to United States
The American flag was raised at noon Tuesday over San Juan marking undisputed U.S. sovereignty over Porto Rico. The ceremony included Rear Admiral Schley General Gordon and the evacuation commissioners, with military salutes from Fort Morro and Fort San Cristobal and cheers from a quiet, holiday crowd.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
United States
Schley
Gordon
Sixth
United States Cavalry
Brooke
Admiral Schley
General Gordon
Fort Morro
Dean
Lieutenant Castle
United States Revenue Cutter
Senor Munoz Rivera
Autonomies Council of Secretaries
King
Intendencia
Captain General’s
United States Evacuation Commission
Washington
Southern Railway Stockholders Meet in Richmond
Southern Railway stockholders held their annual meeting in Richmond with Joseph Bryan presiding and Joseph F. Hill elected secretary. Colonel A. B. Andrews presented the president and directors’ annual report for the year ended June 30, 1898.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Southern Railway
Joseph Bryan
Joseph F. Hill
A. B. Andrews
Cuban Bond Syndicate Forming in Madrid to Buy Cuban Bonds
A dispatch to The New York Herald reports a large Anglo American syndicate is being formed in Madrid to purchase Cuban bonds. The move is seen as a sign of progress toward a satisfactory arrangement, with speculation that the Havana cannon could fall to American control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald
Havana
Navy board probes damages on Brooklyn flagship after battle
A special naval board reports repairs for the Brooklyn Commodore Schley’s flagship after the battle with Cervera. The principal damage came from a six inch shell entering the berth deck and exploding, with holes in three smokestacks two escape pipes and in ham mock netting.
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Naval Board
Schley
Brooklyn
Cervera
British Ship Blengfell Destroyed by Fire Off Margate
Advices from Margate report the British iron ship Blengfell from New York to London caught fire early Monday off Margate. Captain Johnson, his wife and child, nine crew members, the first and second mates, and a pilot perished as flames enveloped the vessel. Boat crews could not reach her before masts fell and she burned to the water. The hull drifted onto the Goodwin Sands. she carried naphtha and an explosion occurred as a tug began assisting survivors.
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Margate
England
Blengfell
Johnson
New York
London
Goodwin Sands
Rlengfell
Blengfield
White Haven
J. Edgar Ce
Liberia asks United States to protect its government
Bishop Joseph Hartsell, Liberia’s Africa bishop, says he was commissioned to go to Washington to seek a protectorate or shelter under the United States. He plans to meet Secretary Day to press Liberia’s claim and limit European powers’ influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Joseph ©. Hartsell
Methodist Episcopal Church
Africa
Liberia
United States
Indians to surrender as uprising ends in Minnesota
A dispatch from General Bacon to Adjutant General Corbin reports hostile Indians in Minnesota seeking peace. At a council on October 17 they declared they wanted no more fighting and agreed to surrender on Wednesday after their defeat on the 5th. Commissioner Jones concurs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corbin
Bacon
Minnesota
Wanker
Miinn
Washington
United States
Indian Affairs
Jones
Rawles Denies Sullivan Island Health Crisis Report
Colonel J B Rawles in command at Sullivan’s Island strongly denounces a Charleston based report claiming four hundred soldiers were sick. He says the assertions are false and a glaring misrepresentation of troop health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Sullivan's Island
J.B. Rawles
Sullivan’s Island
Commissioners Inspect Camps Near Jacksonville Florida
Investigators spent Monday afternoon inspecting camps in the immediate vicinity of Jacksonville Florida. A heavy rain fell during part of the tour as commissioners carefully went through the camps from end to end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
War Investigating Commission
Fla
Tennessee Methodists Meet in Clarksville Annual Conference
The Tennessee conference of the M. E. church south met in Clarksville with Bishop Key presiding. Rev. R. L. Amis was re-elected secretary. Reports were encouraging, notably the Board of Education which is out of debt. The conference urged immediate endowment of Vanderbilt University Biblical department with a goal of 300000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksville
Bishop Key
Tennessee
M. E. Church
South
Ane
R. L. Amis
Board of Education
Biblcal
Vanderbilt University
Spaniards Balk at Cuban Debt Issue in Madrid Talks
A Paris cable reports Spanish peace commissioners have not yet received Madrid's permission to concede Cuban sovereignty without attaching conditions. They may resist American insistence on debt assumptions, signaling potential extended negotiations and possible ultimatum outcomes.
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Paris
Madrid
United States
Spain
Cuba
London Times
Senor Barsque
England
Texas
Paralyzed Georgia Jurist Judge Clarke Dies in Atlanta
Judge Marshall J. Clarke a prominent Georgia jurist was stricken with paralysis in the superior court room at Atlanta and died shortly after. Born in Lumpkin Stewart County on June 28, 1839 he held a leading role among the state's lawyers.
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Marshall J. Clarke
Georgia
Atlanta
Clarke
Lumpkin
Stewart County
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