Brooke and Wood greet Cuba as Brooke sails for Tampa
Havana reports Governor Brooke departs after a farewell banquet at the Paris restaurant with Gen. Wood and Gen. Ludlow praising U S efforts in Cuba. Brooke to sail Saturday escorted by Tenth Cavalry and Second Artillery. Municipal council rejects motion to send thanks to President McKinley citing no new points in the message.
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Havana
Gen. Brooke
Paris
Mario Menoeal
Ernest Lee Conant
Senor Llorente
Brooke
Cuba
Wood
United States
United States Congress
Gen. Ludlow
Prooke
Gen. Prooke
Tampa
Tth
2D Artillery
Cabanas
Patria
McKinley
Congress
Rock slide disaster at Amalfi devastates hotel complex
A massive rock 50,000 cubic yards slid into the sea at Amalfi crushing the Capuccini hotel the Capuchin monastery and Santa Caterina villa. Debris buried victims and sank several ships with their crews.
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Rome
Amalfi
Gulf of Salerno
Capupuccini
Santa Caterina
Ice disaster drowns over forty children at Frelinghem
In Frelinghem near the Belgian border, more than 40 children drowned when a frozen river breakdown cut short a holiday playtime on the Lys. In Washington, Secretary Hay and the Mexican chargé signed an agreement extending an operation for one year until December 24.
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Brussels
Frelinghem
Lys
Washington
Hay
United States
Congressman Boutelle Improves and Leaves for Bangor
Boston December 23 Congressman Boutelle's condition was much improved Friday night and he left for Bangor Maine.
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Boston
Boutelle
Bangor
Indiana Happenings in Brief Across Towns and Courts
In Terre Haute Sister Irma Cecile of St Marys of the Woods and a Wisconsin student Louise Seeley vanished together after leaving Chicago. In Peru Indiana William Quick died of arsenic poisoning prompting grand jury indictments against Henry Quick and Edith Quick for murder. In Spencer dynamite blast at Dickerson Cooper Quarry wrecked engine house and shook nearby buildings. In Tetianopolis debate over city clerk candidate Charles Elliott continues as fraud claims unfold and election results edge toward clarity.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Irma Cecile
Sisters of Providence
St. Marys-of-the-Woods
Chicago
Louise Seeley
Wisconsin
Cecilie
Order of Sisters of Providence
Sumner
Ill
Peru
Lad
William Quick
Henry Quick
Edith Quick
Ate Father
Columbia City
Henry
Spencer
Dickerson & Cooper
Witte Deuris
James
Two Indiana men tried for Pendleton murder at Boonville
Charles Head and Ed Shoulders face trial in Boonville on the murder of Ed Pendleton a Huntingtonburg jockey shot on a depot platform last September. Elzie Helverson died in custody after a deathbed confession naming Head. Rushville bondsmen for James Mattox paid 5165.08 after a 3600 judgment settlement for the city treasurer’s short accounts.
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Evansville
Dnd
Charles Head
Ed Shoulders
Boonville
Ed Pendleton
Nuntingtonburg
Pendleton
Elzie Helverson
Dubois County
Head
Rushville
Ind
James K. Mattox
Mattox
Tragic costume fire during school rehearsal kills several
In Goshen Indiana a gas jet fire at St Francis school rehearsal for Christmas pageant engulfed 14 girls in costumes. Four died and seven were fatally burned with many others injured as rescuers aided victims. Names of the dead and injured are listed amid frantic scenes before help arrived.
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Quincy, IH
St. Francis School
Mary Wavering
Alma Middendert
Bertha Freund
Josie Roszewoe
Miss Hickey
Irene Freiberg
Josephine Bohne
Wilhelmina Hkoitendert
Lena Zeiger
Laura Menke
Miss Loebbing
Alva Timpe
Josie Werner
Andrew @PButzkueben
Ludwigus
Rodalphia
Toms
Si Zouree
Josephine Rohne
Alvin Timpe
Margaret Warner
Wilhelmina Cuttendorf
Mary Aithott
Cdi
Mrs Sanders acquitted in ground glass murder attempt case
Marshall Michigan December 23 Mrs San derson was charged with attempting to murder her aged husband by feeding him ground glass in his oatmeal. The jury acquitted her Friday night.
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Marshall, Mich
Dee
Moody Evangelist Dwight L Moody Dies at East Northfield
Dwight L Moody famed evangelist dies at his East Northfield Massachusetts home at noon Friday after a long illness. He spoke with family in his final hours and expressed plans for his schools and the Chicago Bible Institute. Funeral services set for Monday at 3 PM in the Congregational church with burial at Roundtop on the seminary grounds.
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East Northfield
Mass
Dwight L. Moody
Mr. Moody
Guenet
Mt. Herman
Chicago Bible Institute
Aiernoon
Congregational Church
Roundtop
Seminary
Boer Trap At Tugela River Rages As Casualties Mount
Belated dispatches report heavy losses after a Boer artillery near the Tugela River. Estimated British casualties reach 1150 with 332 missing and two companies captured. Reports from Chieveley describe Roberts’s son killed and actions at the river as troops fight to drag guns under fire.
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London
Ladysmith
Cape Town
Diedericks
Naarwpoort
Arundel
Daily Telegraph
Chievely
Sieut. Roberts
Lord Roberts
Tugela River
Roberts
Schofield
Trient
Congreve
Foster
Waptie
Lieut
Foven
Devonshire
Detock
British Steamer Appomattox Aids Nasmyth in Atlantic Rescue
A London dispatch reports the British steamer Appomattox, Capt. Foall, met the Nasmyth, Capt. Braithwaite, near Kinsdale while en route from London to Queenstown and rescued the Nasmyth after the latter’s shafts failed on a voyage from New York to Manchester. The Nasmyth had departed December 3 and was afloat for part of the journey before being towed in.
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London
Appomattox
Foall
Newport News
Kinsdale
Queenstown
Braithwaite
New York
Manchester
Indiana races to fund Lawton monument with Arlington option
Indianapolis reports Mrs Lawton may bury Gen Lawton at Arlington as $2500 raised locally for a monument. Bass post Fort Wayne calls a mass meeting to boost funds, while Richmond starts a memorial drive. G A R posts pledge support. Indianapolis board of trade weighs formal action. Indiana aims at about $25,000 for the monument in days.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Lawton
Indiana
Col. Edwards
Lawion
Arlington
England
Indianapolis Board, of Trade
Board of Governors
English
Commercial Club
Richmond
A Vs. Lawton
Notable Deaths and War Era Notices Amid Broad 19th Century News
The piece notes the death of the Duke of Westminster and reports varied items from transport releases, silver shipments, and treasury figures to ship groundings, bankruptcies, and copyright transfers. It mentions a New England society banquet, a boxing bout in New York, mortgage relief efforts for Gen. Lawton, and criminal sentences for body selling.
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Figaro
Great Britain
Germany
Russia
United States
South Africa
New England Society
Denison House
Indianapolis
N. A. Hyde
Erry McGovern
New York
Harry Forbes
Chicago
New Broadway Athletic Club
Elena
Ark
Washington
Gen. Lawton
Demorest
Robert Bonner
Ledger Monthly
E. D
Frank Thompson
Cooper
Memphis
Tenn
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Ed Dunkhorst
Congressman Boutelle
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Freckler
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Wm. G. Herpes 8
New Paris
Maine
Navy Department
Texas
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Kokomo
Maynard Priest
Lake Erie Railway Station
Bedford
Jeff Gill
Jeffersonville Reformatory
Martin
Kokomo, Ind
Edwin C. Parker
Martin Friday
Farmer More
Franklin, Ky
W. S. More
George Dinning
JaBe Conn
Dinning
Louisville
Amsterdam
Continent
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Steel Works
Pwwagaier Ob. Muon
Bullock
Comerevec
Exvine
Coll Bullock
Bret Col. Bullock
Rma Aa Prase
Dooaeetei
Dal Pielock
Col
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Majo Waller
Cops Goothyin
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Tullork
Freere
Standard
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Col. Long
Lord Kitchener
Gibraltar
Earl of Erroll
Losd
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Earl of Derby
Lancashire
Victor Christian Caverslish
West, Derbyshire
Duke of Devonshire
Anna M._ Murdock
Hagerstown
Duke of Westminster
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Europe
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Treasury
Belnsloe
Devielson
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