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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1897
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR snippet highlights Florida region references and assorted ad language. It mentions the Plant System and a Broadway address alongside assorted product mentions such as candy cathartic, with no clear event or person to anchor a full news item.
In Paris a report to the Societe d Ethnographie argues vegetarianism harms national strength, claiming humans are carnivorous by nature and meat eating drives dominion and dynastic power. It cites Hindus and Japanese as examples and links meat trade to military resurgence. The piece also notes a Paris Figaro item on a polar balloon expedition by Godard and Surcouf to be named France with a 1898 goal and a 225000 franc fundraising appeal.
The Cabinet removes Captain-General Weyler from Cabo duties and names General Azcarraga, current War Minister, as Governor General of Cuba. Weyler will remain in military command for now, subordinated to Azcarraga, who is seen as more capable in civil administration.
Lyman J. Gage was born in DeRuyter Madison County New York on January 28 1836 to English stock parents. He moved to Rome New York as a child and attended Rome Academy before starting a banking career. He worked as a clerk at Rome Post Office then the Onondaga Central Bank of Rome before moving to Chicago in 1855 as a bookkeeper for a lumber firm and later for Merchants Saving Loan and Trust Company. He rose to assistant cashier and cashier by 1869 then joined the First National Bank in 1888 where he remained when the charter lapsed.
The proposed reforms in Cuba center on replacing General Woegler with Don Marcelo de Azcarraga y Palmero, the long-time Spanish war minister and head of the Imperial War Council. Azcarraga, born in Manila in 1832, has forty-six years of military service and held key posts, including president of the First National Bank and a leader in Chicago World’s Fair efforts.
Descriptions of Spanish conduct under Weyler and Gomez intensify as violence spreads toward Santa Clara. Reports detail non-combatant slaughter, destruction of banana groves, and famine-driven deaths. A Spanish guerrilla unit near Banngutses allegedly killed an entire family to demonstrate machete prowess.
U S State Department reports Madrid signals Weyler’s replacement by General Azcarraga by March. Conservatives, led by Marquis de Apertoguin, pressured Canovas, deeming Weyler’s reports of pacification unreliable. Optimism grows that the new governor may bring peace and stability favorable to Spain and the United States.
Early Thursday evening a collision knocked Motor 74 and the smoking car from a loaded Brooklyn Union elevator train at Bradford Square and Falcon street. Motor 67, drawing empty cars on a storage track, caused the crash by an open switch. The engineer was killed, several passengers injured, and firemen from both engines were seriously hurt with one losing a leg. Meanwhile a line about Senator Pritchard and President Faure appears in the same clipping.
General Rossell A Alger of Michigan left a two hour conference with President elect McKinley in Canton smiling warmly. He said he accepted the War portfolio after a “most insightful and satisfactory” interview. Born February 47 1830 in Lafayette Ohio, he rose from orphan to lawyer lumberman and Civil War officer.
The semi centennial celebration at Carnegie Hall New York City featured President Cleveland and many prominent physicians. Cleveland praised doctors as citizens and urged sound welfare laws, delivering humorous patient viewpoint sallies to a warm reception.
George Turnor, a Silver Republican, was elected United States Senator by the Legislature at Beattie. Born in 1850 at Ridina Knox County Missouri, he served as United States Marshal for the southern and middle districts of Alabama. A friend of Grant and Arthur, he moved to Washington in 1884 as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory, resigning in 1887. He received twenty votes for Senate in 1889 and then made a fortune in mining ventures.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee favors reporting the Olney arbitration treaty with amendments. Key changes insert a clause restricting arbitration to special agreement and replace the king nominee with a joint umpire choice. Vote on ordering a report of the amended treaty 6 to 4, with Gray in the dissenting Democrat group and Morgan, Mills, Daniel, Cameron opposed.
Morria Jackson of Little Falls fired on Fred McIntosh and then shot Miss Ella Ausman in a boarding house on Jon Street. Jackson then attempted suicide. McIntosh was wounded in the wrist and Ausman was struck near the heart but survived. Jackson was captured. McIntosh fled and is missing. The case links to local Jostling families and Jackson’s recent hotel involvement.
Three robbers held up the northbound Southern Pacific express on Train No 16 near Shady Point two miles south of Roseburg Oregon. They uncoupled the engine, blew open the express car with dynamite, looted two small strongboxes, and set the car on fire after the messenger escaped. The mail car was also visited. The robbers fled as flames consumed the wreck.
The Massachusetts House debated two measures on the England United States arbitration treaty. One resolution by Mr Myora of Cambridge endorsing arbitration passed 11 to 9. A separate Busay resolution denouncing the treaty was referred to the Committee on Federal Relation by 90 to 7, likely to linger through the session.
Justice Brewer of the United States Supreme Court reportedly confirmed that Chief Justice Fuller Dudley had been chosen as arbitrator for Venezuela in the border dispute with Great Britain. The selection of Justice Brewer, head of the Cleveland Commission on the matter, supports the commission’s finding that Venezuela’s claims are well founded. If the claims were weak, Venezuela would not entrust the case to an impartial judge.
The mass meetings campaign led by Colonel D BR Anthony of the Leavenworth Times to defend the state from Eastern press influence on Kansas’s thirty sixth anniversary of statehood failed.
The bill granting the President power to appoint commissioners for international conferences to fix a common gold to silver ratio with free minting was paused in the United States Repute by a 40 to t Ranstard Allen, Pert hruw, Roach and Vilas voting positive. The measure would authorize convening such conferences at times and places as the President may deem fit and necessary.
A noon fire in the Pennsylvania Capitol destroyed the ancient Capitol building, forcing the Senate and House to flee. Many injured, vital records including Education Department data burned. total loss estimated around 1 million dollars, with insurance covering about 500,000. The Legislature planned to reconvene in alternative spaces while rebuilding is arranged.
W A Horrig appears set to win the United States Senate race after a March ballot. W A Harris, the Populist nominee in Kanga, trails as the ruling party consolidates its position.
The treaty signing at 4 30 p m in the Department of State Washington joined Sir Julian Paunefote and Senor Jose Andrade to submit the boundary quarrel to a tribunal. Diplomatic ties had been severed ten years earlier. Cridtar prepared two copies on thick red edged paper. Signatures were affixed with a ceremonial pen. the inked documents were crafted in a formal, symbolic manner. William L Scroggs will represent Venezuela before the tribunal, with Sir Prodemvt Potlock expected for Britain. The Venezuelan Commission remains in place until the tribunal is organized.
San Francisco judge Joseph McKenon has accepted the portfolio of Secretary of the Interior in President McKinley’s Cabinet. The President’s intimation suggested a cabinet vacancy after Justice Field’s resignation at the Supreme Court. Plague reports reach India as famine deepens in the Kairpur district.
Lyman J. Gage of First National Bank Chicago faces a choice between Treasury prominence and personal obligations. He signals public duty may prevail, with speculation his gold standard views influence a potential cabinet appointment. Gage reportedly would not accept a post offered on limited terms, despite rumors of a high salary.
The item reports George B. Schenuck of Neshank New Jersey died from a back carbuncle after a brief marriage at his father’s home. A Rutgers College graduate thirty, he worked for Dunnam Buckley & Co New York and is described as the son of former Senator John Bohonek. Also noted is the death of a Broadfather Tunis Hoff thirty years ago. A Japanese diplomat in St Petersburg Secretary Akiyama reportedly converted to Christianity in New York and sailed to Yokohama. Georgia’s woman Rally Carroll is described as a longtime railroad switchman, famed for never missing a switch despite heavy traffic during and after the war.
An explosion at the Mock mines of Hurst & Co in Aston Penn kills two miners Peter Houser and Charles BMcQuister and injures seven others including Andrew Honzobod Michael Horonac John Augustine Michael Kemble John Mitchell John Gillis and his son William Gillis Fatally burned were Augustine Horonac and Mitchell Gas ignition from open lamps is blamed. Another blast in Ohio destroys a storehouse of the Ohio and Michigan Torpedo Company killing William Mintoon and Edward Dennison in Tinaman?
A Milan cablegram reports Princess De Chimay formerly Clara Ward of Detroit and Hungarian gypsy musician Janos Rigo quarreled violently. She packed her truck and left the hotel for Monte Carlo, paying her own bill but leaving Rigo’s unsettled. Rigo has no funds and few immediate job prospects.
A westbound freight struck a group of five men from a section gang on Consolidated Road in East Norwalk Connecticut. Foreman J.J. Powers of South Norwalk and four others Jonn Grifin Norwalk Jonna Shei East Norwalk John Callahan Danbury Salvator Spang were killed as they stepped aside to avoid the Colonial express and were enveloped by smoke and steam while the approaching freight was hidden by a passenger train.
Coroner Howers is to conduct a thorough investigation into the death of Bourgeon Young of Jamestown New York. The youth died after a brief illness and is said to have suffered injuries during a voter persuasion incident involving amateurs, which is under inquiry.
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