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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1898
Page
2
A jumble of observations and maxims on life, law, religion, and society. It notes the need for enforcing anti trust laws, discusses waste and farm fertilization from city sweepings, questions vacant pulpits in Chicago, and reports a Wisconsin fair promoting practical agriculture education.
Nov 23 reports from Madrid disclose Senor Montero Rios, head of Spain's peace delegation, refusing to press on with negotiations. The American commission insists on full Philippine cession for $20 million and outlines aims to preserve the islands as a U S trading hinge while ceding Cuba and Puerto Rico. Meetings adjourned until Wednesday with risk of breaking off.
Grand jury presents to county court bills of indictment against United Krazen Senator NM Quay his son Richard Quay and ex State Treasurer Benjamin J Haywood for conspiring to unlawfully use public funds deposited in Peoples' Nations Bank. Charges include stock purchases and sales and other payments.
The American commissioners offer Spain twenty million dollars for ceding the Philippines if peace talks proceed. They seek treaty terms granting Philippine port access to American goods and the mutual relinquishment of indemnity claims arising since the Cuban uprising. Negotiations hinge on Spain accepting parallel Cuba and Caribbean provisions.
Secretary Gage plans uniform designs for currency notes to ease handling and reduce counterfeiting. The first issue will be a one dollar silver certificate with clear corners, blue seal, and simple central device showing Lincoln and Grant medallions. The reverse will feature large white paper fields with a central text about tender value, aiding quick denomination identification for clerks and visually impaired users.
Multiple items describe leadership shifts at Baltimore Ohio under western capitalists led by James J. Hill and Marshall Meld with new directors to be named while Cowen stays president and Murray continues as first vice president as Hopkins and other creditors seek suits resolution. Frat Phi Delta Theta holds fiftieth anniversary national convention in Columbus attracting delegates from sixty six colleges. London plans to push for a six dollar forty eight hour minimum wage for government workers, with post office telegraphers active.
The Norfolk navy yard tightens night shifts as the cruiser Montgomery is ordered prepared for North Atlantic service and join the squadron at Hampton Roads. Princeton has been repaired and tested for service. Tug Apache remains in service. Panther to Porto Rico. Detroit Italian church first dedicated with Archbishop Martinelli present. In Topeka James shoots Hayes in abdomen after long property dispute. James released on 2000 bond.
General Blanco received a cable from Purl authorizing Tim to draw on Faris for 2,000,000 in gold to pay the Boenish troops in Cuba. The amount is in addition to existing funds.
Philadelphia merchants paid 3,004,149 this year to foreign shipowners for transporting 84,287,140 bushels of grain abroad. British, Norwegian, and Swedish ships handle most export tonnage, with foreign freights exceeding 200,000,000. The piece notes Americans rely on foreign bottoms for grain shipments and cites a commission on postal expenditures and tribal issues in Utah.
The trans Misssissippi good roads and public improvements convention opens in St Louis with 500 delegates from Missouri New Mexico Colorado and other western states. Plans focus on roadway upgrades and bills to be forwarded to January state legislatures.
An old advertising column promotes GRAIN-O as a pure grain beverage replacing coffee, praised for easy digestion and lower cost with 15 and 26 cent packages. Other items joke about reading ads, while a Diamond C Soap prize offer and notes on bicycles and crime appear, all in a light newspaper style.
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