Roosevelt Leaves Arbitration Option Open Amid Venezuela Crisis
President Roosevelt has not accepted nor received a formal request to arbitrate the Venezuelan dispute. European powers indicate interest in Roosevelt as arbitrator while suggesting The Hague as the proper tribunal. The blockade harms American trade as Caracas imports stall and food supplies dwindle. Meanwhile Italy plans to invite Roosevelt to arbitrate, aligning with Britain and Germany.
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Venezuela
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Caracas
United States
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Maracaibo
Rome
Meyer
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Germany
Crown Princess of Saxony Flees Home
Dresden dispatch reports Louise of Saxony fleeing Salzburg on Dec 11 amid family strife. Officials say she vanished with attendants, police unable to trace her for ten days. Court notes describe mental derangement and rumored domestic discord with a theater actress. rumors she was aided by the children’s French tutor.
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Dresden
Dresdener Journal
Salzburg
Europe
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Escape Death by Miracle on Missouri Pacific Train
Ottawa Kansas reports Missouri Pacific train No 14 derailed near Rantoul with the sleeper alone spared. The wreck left six passengers slightly hurt as rails spread, passengers escaping at about forty miles an hour. In St Louis, Mrs A M Dockery wife of the governor was taken critically ill with heart trouble.
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Ottawa
Kan
Missouri Pacific
Rantoul
Nonunion witnesses accuse miners of violence in strike
In Scranton on December 20 the strike commission heard about boycotts threats and damage from nonunion workers and their allies. Testimonies described house bombings beatings shootings and social expulsion linked to the late coal strike. One teacher lost his job over his father’s stance and a longtime lodge member was expelled for being deemed an unfair worker.
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Catholic Temperance Society
Order of Hibernians
Joseph H. Dugan
Temperance Society
Tragic Stockton Owl Train Crash Report Near Byron
Eyewitness Frank H Short recounts a rear collision between the Stockton local and the Oakland bound Owl near Byron. The wreck left multiple dead and many injured with passengers scalded by boiler steam and entombed in wreckage as responders aided and reported identified victims from Fresno San Francisco Oakland and Modesto aboard the crowded cars.
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Owl
Fresno
Stockton
Oakland
McGuire
Joyce
Byron Hot Springs
Elizabeth L. Smith
Clarence D .Cluffs
Birdie Elliott
San Francisco
Mabel Vezey
Modesto
George Sessions
Charles Owens
Miss Myers
Robert Renwick
Len Irwin
W. F. Temple
D. J. Vernon
South Pacific Hospital
R. Post
Fowler
Lee Sou
Mayer
Stella Howard
Frank H. Short
Doubtiesa
Vernons
Justifiable death by own action on suburban pier
A solitary man plans to jump from a river pier claiming it is the only right action. A watchman pleads and questions motives while the man details his lack of friends and a fiction about his address, offering money from his pocket as a potential legacy for the watcher. The watchman delays, fearing the consequences of a rushed act.
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Humberts Arrested in Paris Safe Fraud Case
Madrid reports Mme Humbert and the Humbert family, linked to the Paris safe frauds, were arrested. A family member handed a 48000 package to housemates, sent to the French consulate. Frederic Flambert claims forthcoming revelations will rival Panama scandals and involve ministers. Mme Humbert burned papers and bank notes totaling 1200 as police awaited entry.
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Mme. Humbert
Humbert
Paris
Frederic Flambert
Panama
Mme Humbert
Reading Railway Officials Forecast Coal Scarcity This Winter
Philadelphia officials say anthracite coal stringency will continue with no relief this winter. Reading company leaders refuse to discuss rate changes, but acknowledge a 50 cent per ton advance adopted in October will extend beyond January 1, 1903, with operators at New York meetings indicating the increase will stay through next year.
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Reading Railway Company
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Baer
New York
Drunken farmhand kills Mrs Wilson and himself near Liberty
Liberty Missouri December 22 Joseph Foley formerly employed by the Wilsons returned to the farm drunk to borrow a gun. He shot and killed Mrs James B Wilson, then blew out his own brains with a shotgun. Foley twenty four was a cousin of William S Foley who three years earlier faced murder charges. Mrs Wilson was thirty five.
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Liberty
Joseph Foley
James B. Wilson
Wilson Farm
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Wilsons
William S. Foley
Mrs. Wilson
Farmers surround bandits in Indiana barn pursuit
A posse of twenty armed men and detectives tracked down and surrounded the outlaws who held up Patterson's restaurant, robbed two stores, and attempted to rob the White River bank. The incident occurred near Logotee Indiana with actions coordinated by local farmers and bank insurance detectives.
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Ind
Patterson’s
White River
Orient Line Trains Soon Start From Wichita Area
A. E. Stilwell president of the Kansas City Mexico and Orient Railroad says trains will run south of Wichita to Sweetwater Texas starting about February 15. For 30 miles south of Wichita the Missouri Pacific will be used until Orient tracks are finished. He expects 600 miles of Orient line in operation by year end.
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A. E. Stilwell
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad Company
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Wichita
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Missouri Pacific
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Fire destroys Zollinger apartment in Chicago blaze
A large fire gutted the Zollinger apartment building at Forty-fifth and Evans in Chicago last night. Residents on upper floors were trapped and rescued by firemen minutes before an outer wall collapsed. Estimated toss totals $56,000.
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Zollinger
Forty-fifth and
Evans Avenue
Carload of Christmas Mail Burned on Fast Mail
Official report from Syracuse says a carload of Christmas mail for the west burned. Only twenty to thirty pouches saved out of 700 or 800. fire found between Peekskill and Highland. The crew left the burning car at Highland station.
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New York
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Vanderbilt Is Improving After Fever Reduction
New York December 22 Cornelius Van derbilt shows notable recovery with a one degree drop in temperature and sound rest through the night indicating improvement in his condition.
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New York
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Murderer nabbed after waterfront struggle near pier
A man identified as Charles Sales is captured by police after grappling with a watchman at a dock end. He confesses to murder in an uptown restaurant and to fleeing with a payout left behind on the pier, while the watchman laments his mistake. The scene ends with the captor’s bitter remark.
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Charles Sales
Sales
Private residences spark disbelief in Paradise park tale
In early California prosperity, H A Vachell recalls housing boom as fast as a night. A Pullman ride through a valley shows ramshackle, showy homes mistaken for lunatic asylums by an old Scotchman and a cattleman from Arizona adds a laugh line.
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California
H. A. Vachell
Arizona
Friendship Between Women A Myth in Rafford Pyke Quote
A Cosmopolitan excerpt by Rafford Pyke argues that true friendship between women cannot exist as it requires unhesitating confidence and unswerving loyalty. The passage claims honor as defined by men does not exist in women, who remain loyal yet unable to grant the higher loyalty to others.
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Rafford Pyke
Cosmopolitan
A Lucky Illness Inspires Alma-Tadema to Paint
An illness redirected Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema from a legal career to painting. While bedridden he sketched scenes that revealed his talent, and after recovery he obtained his mother's consent to pursue art full time.
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema
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