Tuan and Chwang Deprived, to Be Imprisoned for Life
Imperial decree dated November 12 strips Prince Tuan and Prince Chwang of rank and offices and orders imprisonment for life. Princes Yih and Ining are imprisoned, Lien deprived of rank, and Duke Lan degraded. Chao Shu Chiao retained in office but degraded. Yu Helen exiled. Tuan’s son cannot succeed as emperor. The move may hasten formal peace talks.
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Washington
Sheng
Hay
Prince Tuan
Prince Chwang
Prince Yih
Ining
Lien
Duke Lan
Ining Nien
Kang Yi
Chao Shu Chiao
Yu Helen
Tuan
Chwang
Ross Attacked Stanford Alumni Take Up Resignation
Stanford University leaders face alumni pressure after Professor Ross resigns amid scandal. The San Francisco Alumni Association says welfare of the university requires acceptance of the resignation, noting Mrs. Stanford’s stated reasons and Ross’s derogatory references to Senator Stanford.
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Stanford University
Calif
San Francisco
Ross
Stanford
Bright Leonard meteor sighting at Northwestern Observatory
Chicago observers at the Northwestern observatory report eight leonids seen between 1 and 1 30 am with one exceptionally bright meteor. Profs Crook Holgate and White part of the observing party. Earlier two meteors observed and photographing the shower anticipated later that morning. Roset, a Chicago pioneer and engineer of a major property deal, dies at 67.
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Chicago
Northwestern Observatory
Profs. Crook, Holgate
White
Russians abandon railroad surveillance near Yangteun
Paris dispatch reports from Pekin that Russians stop watching the railroad from Taku to Yang Teun. Count von Waldersee telegrams the Russian minister of war, protesting the move which he had not been notified about.
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Paris
Pekin
Taku
Yang Teun
Czarina Illness and Czar’s Worry Reported at Court
Despatch from Yalta notes czar’s illness as a mild influenza from open window exposure. Ambassadorm Zinovieff waits ten days for Turkish audience. Bulletin states czar’s day was satisfactory with temp 100.6 and pulse 68, while czarina’s illness causes concern.
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New York
Yalta
Ambbassador
Turkey
M. Zinovieff
Constantinople
Czarina
St. Petersburg
Warrants Issued for Lynching Suspects in Rutherfordton
Greensboro judges issues bench warrants for six men alleged to be involved in the lynching of a black man near Rutherfordton following a white man's killing.
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Greensboro
N. C
Thomas J. Shaw
The
Superior Court
Rutherfordton
Tear Down the Dewey Arch At Madison Square
At midnight in New York a dozen men using pickaxes crowbars and shovels began removing the Dewey arch at Madison Square near Twenty Fifth Street. They stripped the pedestal revealed the column skeleton and wrecked the woodwork while relic seekers gathered hoping to claim pieces of the sculptured Victory. The operation was directed by a streets and highways department foreman.
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New York
Madison Square
Dewey Arch
Park
Victory
Department of Streets and Highways
Alaska Indians Dying Off Without Aid Warns Official
G B Swinehart of Nome reports Alaska Indians face mass deaths this winter unless government assistance is extended. He recounts a widespread consumption like disease, worsened by inability to dry fish, their main sustenance, risking starvation as hundreds die. Swinehart plans to urge Interior Department action in Washington.
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Chicago
G. B. Swinehart
Nome
Alaska
Washington
Department of the Interior
Swinehart
United States
Farmers held on conspiracy to suppress black votes
In Lexington Kentucky on November 16 A G Thompson of Bourdon George Leary and Samuel Adams colored were held in bail of 1000 dollars by U S Commissioner Hill to the federal court in Frankfort for the first Monday in January charged with conspiring to prevent negroes from voting at the last election It is charged crap games were started and the negroes participating were arrested just before the election to keep them away from the polls.
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Lexington
A. G. Thompson
Bourdon
George Leary
Samuel Adams
United States
Hill
Frankfort
Lightweights Battle in Denver Tonight for Colorado Title
Joe Gans of Baltimore battles Kid Parker of Denver in a ten round match at the Colorado Athletic Association tonight. Tickets sold out amid high interest with Geo. Siler refing. Odds favor Gans two to one, and a $1,000 wager challenged Parker’s side. Weigh-in at 3 pm, both at 135 pounds, in fine condition for a keen fight.
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Denver
Colo
Joe Gans
Baltimore
Kid Parker
Colorado Athletic Association
Geo. Siler
Gans
al Hereford
Billy Howards
Parker
Edwards
Yale Receives Egyptian Antiquities From London Exhibition
The Peabody Museum in New Haven gains a notable collection of Egyptian artifacts donated by Connecticut members of the American Archaeological Society. Excavated at Abudion by the Exploration Fund, the items include shell and green glass beads, feldspar pendants, early flint pieces, six seventh dynasty scabbards, alabaster vases from the Ramses period, a royal tomb inscription, model tools, a headless statue, jars, gold earrings, gold hair rings, and an ivory-legged chair.
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New Haven
Conn
Peabody Museum
London
Yale
Connecticut
American Archaeological Society
The
Exploration Fund Association
Marble Palace Sold to Barney-Sheldon Syndicate for Tear-Down
The Stewart mansion at Fifth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street in New York will be torn down after contracts for sale were signed. The Barney-Sheldon syndicate including Co. T. Barney George R. Sheldon John A. McCaull Henry Seligman Henry Baylis Wm. F. Havemeyer George F. Victor and C. F. Morse now owns the property. No new structure will be built. land to be held for speculative purposes.
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New York
Stewart
Fifth Avenue
Thirty-fourth Street
Barney-Sheldon Syndicate
Co. T. Barney
George R. Sheldon
John A. McCaull
Henry Seligman
Henry Baylis
Wm. F. Havemeyer
George F. Victor
C. F. Morse
Barney
Pope Grants Conference on U S Prosperity
Rome reports the pope accorded a special conference to Bishop Maurice F. Burke of St. Joseph Missouri. He reiterated his hope that God will grant prayers for the prosperity of the United States.
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Rome
Maurice F. Burke
St. Joseph
United States
Hero of a novel bequeathed annual income by lord
Sacramento November 16 Megr T J Capel has been bequeathed by the late Lord Bute of England an income of 500 dollars per year for life. In Beaconsfield’s novel Lothair Mgr Capel is portrayed as Mgr Catesby while Lord Bute is represented as Lothair. For years Mgr Capel has lived in retirement at Arno in this country.
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Sacramento
T. J. Capel
Lord Buté
England
Lord ‘Beaconsfield
Lo ‘Thair
Mgr. Capel
Mgr
Catesby
Lord Bute
Lothair
Arno
Murderers Arraigned in Paterson Drug Death Case
McAlister Campbell Death and Kerr, charged with causing Jennie Boaschieter’s death in Paterson New Jersey last month by administering a drug, were arraigned before Supreme Judge Dixon. All pleaded not guilty and the trial was scheduled for January 14.
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New York
Died in the Streets San Francisco Wine Merchant
Arpad Harasthy, a prominent wine merchant, was found dying on the sidewalk at Hyde and Washington streets in San Francisco this morning. He died while being taken to the receiving hospital. Heart disease is listed as the suspected cause.
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San Francisco
Arpad Harasthy
Hyde and
Washington Streets
Diverse Telegram News From Across Regions
Telegram style briefs report lectures at Princeton on drama and a Kalamazoo grave desecration, Alabama Democrats renominating Senator Morgan, a Helena smallpox outbreak, a fatal France train derailment including the Peruvian minister, McKinley’s statewide plurality in Wark County, Helena official appointments, and a raft of political maneuvers. Also noted are poison rumors in Russia, hangings in Jefferson Texas, Jeffries and Corbett boxing plans, Boer emigration to Indiana, Daughters of the Confederacy sessions, price moves by American Linseed Oil, and boundary talks with fur seal questions. Smeltermen injury at Great Falls, largest steamship construction at New London, Park County lurker pursuit, Bryan’s Nebraska senate comment, Jeffries-Rubin bout talk, Croker’s Europe trip mobilizations, and Navy armor contracts. Additionally, shipyard progress, university faculty tensions at Sanford, and Ross resignations linked to corporate influence debates.
Independant royalist Wilcox wins Hawaiian delegate seat
Robert W. Wilcox, the independent royalist candidate, narrowly defeats Samuel Parker to become Hawaiian delegate to Congress. Voter shifts show strong native support in outside districts, heightening native–white tensions over annexation and voting rights. Republicans carry Honolulu. Wilcox leads islandwide, with 14 independents in the House and a mixed Senate, signaling a volatile session and possible voting-eligibility debates. Parker plans to go to Washington to press Hawaiian interests despite no official role.
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Gonolulu
San Francisco
Robert W. Wilcox
Congress
Samuel Parker
Honolulu
Wilcox
Liliuokalani
Hon
Prince David Kawanakoa
Parker
Liliuokalan
Independent Native Party
House of Representabiles
House
Senate
Dole
Oahu
Washington
Jones Out of the Tombs
Charles F. Jones, valet to the late millionaire William Rice, who has been in the tombs for forgery, appeared before Recorder Goff. On the district attorney's motion he was committed to the house of detention with bonds set at $2,000.
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New York
Charles F. Jones
Wm. Rice
Patrick
Goff
Chile approves half million for Buffalo exposition
Congress votes a half million dollars to cover expenses for Chile’s representation at the Buffalo exposition next year. The Chilean government will be well represented.
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Santiago
Chile
Galvestos
Congress
Buffalo
N. Y
New York Ontario and Western to buy coal mines near PA
The Tribune reports the New York Ontario and Western Railway plans acquiring several nearby collieries in Pennsylvania. Acquisition of these mines, added to existing holdings, should raise the company’s anthracite tonnage next year by about one third, targeting 1,700,000 tons annually.
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New York
the Tribune
New York, Ontario and Western Railway Company
Ita Ine
Pennsylvania
Ontario and Western
Porters Departure and Espionage Claims in Paris
Paris dispatch claims a leaked French field gun tale tied to a U S navy officer fleeing to Gibraltar and to Gen Horace Porter ceding embassy duties. It asserts Porter’s exit is permanent and that John Leishman will replace him as U S minister to Bern with strong ties to maintain Franco American relations.
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New York
Herald
Paris
la Press
United States
Gibraltar
United States Navy
Horace Porter
Spain
Faubourg Saint Honore
John Leishman
Berne
French Republic
Big cattle trust in Texas
George R Loving of Fort Worth plans a large cattle company in Texas near the Texas New Mexico line to raise cattle on a grand scale with an initial capitalization dropping from 50 million to about 12 million. He denied any Rockefeller involvement and said the venture would not aim to control prices.
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New York
the Times
George R. Loving
Forth Worth
Texas
John S. Rockefeller
Loying
Waldrof Astoria
Rockefeller
Loving
New Mexico
Form & Company
Cleveland
Mr. Rockefeller
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