Cuban Autonomist Cabinet Opens War Peace Talks
Secret meeting of Cuba’s radical autonomist wing urged negotiations with insurgents to end the insurrection. Proposals include dissolving volunteers, recognizing Cuban generals, limiting debt payments, abolishing death sentences, and a 15 day armistice for peace terms. A colonial government negotiates under Madrid’s oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Autonomist
Party of
Cuba
Madrid
House
Senate
Passengers Rescued From Wrecked Veendam After Sinking
The Holland America Line steamer Veendam, with 212 aboard from Rotterdam to New York, struck a submerged wreck on February 6. Pumps failed to stop flooding as the stern sank. lifeboats were deployed and all passengers and crew were rescued by the American steamer St Louis, which arrived in New York with the survivors. The Veendam was set afire to prevent obstruction to navigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
New York
Southampton
Veendam
Rotterdam
Stenger
Missouri Attests Bible Barred From Public Schools
Missouri Attorney General Crow issues opinion declaring that opening exercises including recitation of the Lord's Prayer or Bible reading violate state law. He rules such practices constitute religious worship and are forbidden in public school houses during school hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Crow
Pittsburg Fire Remains Recovered and Other Items
The Pittsburg fire last week yields eighteen bodies removed from the ruins by Sunday evening, with missing count rising to eighty five. Other items include Slattery and wife charged in Edinburgh with selling indecent books, McKeeport chief of police Henry Kline’s suicide, Klondike trade rules for Canadian goods, Dr McCandress removing a long-buried bullet from John Davis, and the forthcoming marriage of Miss Lillian Converse Hanna to S P Baldwin in Thomasville Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Slattery
Joseph Slattery
Sister of Charity
Savannah
Edinburgh
Scotland
Henry Kline
McKeesport
Carothers
Department of Customs
Dominion
Canada
St. Mary's Infirmary
St. Louis
W. A. McCandress
John Davis
Hanna
Lillian Converse Hanna
S. P. Baldwin
Thomasville
Mr. Baldwin
Tribute to Mgr Schroeder Receives 4200 Gift
A meeting of German Catholic priests from Ohio Pennsylvania Indiana Illinois Kentucky Maryland and Washington DC at the Josephinum Columbus Ohio honored Mgr Schroeder. Rev Aloysius Theile of Chicago spoke for the visitors praising him and presenting a purse of 4200. Schroeder thanked opponents for their defeat and noted his plan to teach the faith in any tongue. He sails March 1 for Germany to teach at the University of Muenster Westphalia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Ilinois
Kentucky
Maryland
Washington, D. C
Josephinum
Columbus
Mer. Schroeder
Aloysius Theile
Chicago
Mar. Schrroeder
Schroeder
Germany
University of Muenster
Westphalia
Big Fire Destroys Pittsburg Cold Storage Plant
A six story warehouse of the Chautauqua Lake Ice Co in Pittsburg pa burned on Wednesday destroying the building that occupied an entire block and held nearly two million dollars in contents. The Union Storage Co section housed diverse merchandise and a government bonded whisky warehouse contained about 100 barrels of liquor. An explosion toppled the Mulberry alley wall as firemen policemen newsmen and others stood nearby. About twenty five to thirty men were believed buried under debris with six bodies recovered by 2 am Thursday.
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Chautauqua Lake Ice Company
Pittsburg
Union Storage Company
Mulberry Alley
Chinese Chief's Bungling Blamed for European Loan Failure
Pekin blames diplomats for failing to secure a European loan with either British or Russian guarantees. Britain offered favorable terms but negotiations collapsed due to diplomatic bungling. Russia's intent on Port Arthur remains unclear, while suggestion grows Britain should seize Ta-lien-Wan if occupation is permanent. A German loan offer at 4 percent was declined.
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China
Pekin
Russia
Port Arthur
Great Britain
Ta- Lien-Wan
Chusan
Adams Express to Cut Assets Amid Tax Burden
Adams Express Company will reduce assets due to heavy taxes in some western states after declaring its quarterly dividend of $2 per share with record date February 11, 1895. Assets built since 1854 to cover losses and protect shareholders will be trimmed. Oldest American Mason Dead George Lord dies in San Bernardino at 94 after a long life linked to California and Iowa. Veteran of War of 1812 John Lamberson dies in Baltimore aged 91, leaving Captain James Hooper as last survivor of the war. No Stove Trust Formed Detroit stove works deny rumors of a stove trust and demand retractions. The Von der Ahe Case Judge Buffington rules Chris Von der Ahe must stay in charge of Detective Bendel who abducted him. Von der Ahe plans an appeal. Dr Brown Asked to Stay Chicago church votes to keep Rev Charles C Brown as pastor. Shannon reprieved Edward Shannon not hanged. Governor Tanner grants 60 day respite.
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Adams Xpress
Adams Express Company
John Lamberson
Baltimore
Tie
England
James Hooper
Mr. Lamberson
von der Ahe
United States Court
Fittsborg
Buffington
Chris von der Ahe
Bendel
St. Louis
Tunnels of the World Weigh In At 1,142 Miles Long
The report estimates global tunnel networks totaling about 1,142 miles in length with roughly 1,000 railroad tunnels, 12 undersea tunnels, 90 canal tunnels, and 49 conduit tunnels, aggregating about 350 miles in length.
The Week in Trade and Bradstreet Review
Bradstreet's weekly review notes renewed activity and confidence in iron and steel markets. Dry goods trade lags in New York and eastern centers except Boston. Mild northwest weather may boost carryover stocks. Cotton advance lifts southern business sentiment, while front and steel gains bolster 1898 outlook.
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Bradstreet’s Weekly
Bradstreet’s
New York
Boston
NO NEWS TO M KINLEY Letter Said to Have Been in His Possession
The New York Daily News claims President Mel Kinley held the De Lome letter for the last month after a theft. The Cuban junta official sourced the claim, with the document allegedly shown in Havana and sent to Consul General Lee. Washington received a coded copy over thirty days ago and cabinet members kept the issue secret.
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New York Daily News
de Lome
Mel Kinley
Itavana
Lee
Lee Atonca
State Department
Washington
Moratio Rubens
New York
Nassau Chambers Fire Destroys Seven Story Office Block
Levi P. Morton’s Nassau Chambers in New York burned Saturday morning destroying seven stories. The Derby Desk Company occupied the Nassau and Ann Street stores and the basement where the blaze began, with Merald Cycle Co. also housed there. Fire spread to the four story adjacent building housing Maduro Bros. Maduro Bros. store quickly caught fire as losses reach about half a million, Morton interests bearing the larger share though insured. Derby Desk and Maduro res. named as next heaviest losers.
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Levi P. Morton Burns
Levi P. Morton
New York
Nassau Chambers
Derby Desk Company
Nassau and
Ann Street
Merald Cycle Company
Maduro Bros
Morton
Maduro Res
Starved Couple Die in Chicago After Days Without Food
An elderly Chicago couple, Caroline Lang 85 and Cornelius Lang 74, died or lingered near death from starvation after losing jobs and becoming destitute. Found by police three days without food and a week without fire, Caroline died soon after hospital admission while Cornelius remained dying. Neighbors once supported them. later they were left alone.
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Caroline Lang
Chicago
Cornelius Lang
Lang
Debs and Bellamy Unite to Form Social Democracy Party
Edward Bellamy and Eugene V. Debs announced a new political party, the Social Democracy, aiming to unite socialist ideas without a socialist platform. Denver meeting attendees included James Hogan. plans call for state conventions in April and a national convention in Chicago in June. future stance on backing Bryan remains undecided.
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Bannec
American Railway Union
Bryan
Debs
Scheial
Bellamy
George
The
Social Democracy
Chicago
Jane
No Embargo on Horses and Alabama Wreck Report
Secretary of State received assurances from the German ambassador that no embargo exists on American horses and no action will be taken without evidence of veterinary danger. In Alabama, a head end wreck on the Louisville and Nashville near Kirkland killed engineer Will User and fireman E D Davis plus three white tramps, with several injured and a brakeman losing both legs.
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Alabama
Louisville Sand Nashville
Kirkland
Ala
Will User
E. D. Davis
Henry Davidson
Will Lee
Charles Harrison
Hughes
Davidson
Leiter to Export Wheat Brings Large Contracts
Chicago announces contracts to move 1.5 million bushels of Leiter wheat to the seaboard. Grand Trunk takes 600000 bushels, Nickel Plate 500000, Lehigh Valley 500000. Through rate from Chicago to Liverpool. exact seaboard share unclear. Illinois Central January receipts rise to 2303898 dollars, up 405536 from last year. six months to December show 4620290 surplus over costs and taxes, up 1200613. Carnegie Iron Co hosts talk of pig iron trust formation in Cleveland. Fortification bill tally tops nine million dollars. Marbella sinks after colliding with Galatee. all aboard survive. Pianist Josef Hoffman sails from Bremen February 11 for a U.S. tour, arriving February 24.
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Leiter
Chicago
Seaboard
Grand Trunk
Lehigh Valley
Liverpool
Illinois Central
Ilinois Central Railroad
Market quotations across cities show mixed commodity prices
The report lists cattle hogs sheep and grain prices by city including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Detroit with figures for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and pork. Notable values include Chicago hogs 3.00 to 4.25 and New York cattle 3.00 to 5.60 with wheat No 2 red around 95 cents per bushel and butter creamery around 18 to 20 cents per pound.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Suitor shoots, then kills himself in Chickasaw County tragedy
In Chickasaw County a man shoots a young woman named Minnie Boos and wounds her. he then shoots himself, dying from a bullet to the breast while Minnie lies mortally wounded. Neighbors say Will Christoph sought Minnie’s hand and was rejected by her and her parents. The couple had retired to a private room when the tragedy occurred Friday night after two pistol shots rang out.
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Chickasaw County
Minnie Boos
Will Christoph
Will
Minnie
Christoph
Persia
J. J. Seipel
Michael Seipel
Seipel
M. Matson
Iowa Traveling Men State Association Report Highlights
Des Moines board meeting reports a $35,019.40 treasury, 43 new members admitted, eight rejected, and membership over 10,000 and growing. Other items note a Spencer incident in Chicago, Homer Miller’s withdrawal from the state auditor race due to his daughter’s illness, mixed news on J Wesley Elkins’ pardon prospects, a Persia domestic tragedy, a hammer duel near Sioux Rapids, Mayor Root’s assault conviction, Dad Moulton hired to train Iowa State tracks, a serious accident to Mrs. Elijah Albertson, Pixley robbery arrest in Fairfield, Mrs. Patrick McGarrey found dead in Independence, and a Muscatine pickle growers meeting planning 800 acres of cabbage and kraut production.
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Des Moines
Iowa State Traveling Man's Association
Messrs. Olmstead
Langan
Mitchell
Feets
Maul
Vernon
Meyer
Evans
Goodman
Wheeler
W. N. Smith
Staley
Spirits keep him in bed for a year in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids officials seek commitment to Independence asylum for Richs by Haveige commissioners. Richs, once a successful life insurance businessman and Kentucky newspaper editor, has remained bed-bound for nearly a year, claiming spirits control him. He stood six feet three inches and weighed 280 pounds at trance start, now lighter, with doctors puzzled by his condition while authorities pursue legal action.
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Cedar Rapids
Haveige
Bye
Tha Dusan
Independence
Anarytine
Kentucky
Jie
Elso
Rye
Gospel meetings in progress at Lake City Iowa
A collage of brief entries notes gospel meetings in progress at Lake City and multiple local incidents. Posts, burglaries, accidents, and misfortunes are recorded alongside civic actions such as a new postmaster appointment at Confidence and a fifteenyear electric franchise vote in Sac City. The Webster City high schools lecture omits Henry Watterson, a capital case in Mason City proceeds, and an Alaska Mining and Trading Company incorporation in Dubuque.
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Iowa
Lake City
Rebecca Lodge
Curlew
J. E. Hancock
Wayne County
A. W. Robertson
John Reinners
LeMars
Robert Putney
Cedar Falls
Webster City
Mgr
Henry Watterson
Alaska Mining and Trading Company
Dubuque
Henry A. Bly
Shefield
Mason City
EK. F. Warren
S. A. Gose
Warren County
Edward Rasehupp
Metropolitan Hotel
Fort Madison
Inkpaduta Tribe of
Red Men
Anita
M. I
Herey
Dexter
Hannah Pitten
Griswold
Sac City
Lowa
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Cedar, Rapids
Frank Patty
Fonda
Carroll
Hoe
College Hotel
Fairfield
John Toon
Riverton
Marsh Rubby
John Gordon
Rubby
Gordon
Denison
Lowa ‘Telephone Company
Burlington
Indiana Bridge Company
American Poland China Record Company
Cedar Rapids
Illinois
Minnesota
Nebraska
A. J. Lytle
Oskaloosa
W. M. Melfadden
West Liberty
Allen Cecroft
Independence
Frank Glenn
Leeds
Woodbury County
Glenn
Joseph
Adolph Gale
Coe
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Eldora, Iowa
Capp J. Sargent
BIBLE
Mgr. Schroeder
George Lord
United States
San Bernardino
Cal
New York City
California
Steep Hollow
Arabella Simgleton
Stove Trust
Mich
Stove Works
Dr. Brown
Green Street
Shannon
Edward Shannon
Wheaton
Tanner
Bradstreet
M'Kinley
McCoy
Nk Connolly
Peter Maher
Kid McCoy
Maher
Connolly
Fitzsimmons
W. D. Rockwell
James R. Day
Syracuse
N. Y
Frank C. Crester
Vallejo
Charles C. Koelling
San Francisco
Kansas City
Frank ¢. Weed
Standard Life and Accident Insurance Company
Rockefeller
Cleveland
Carnegie Iron Company
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Galatee
Hull Roads
Pianist Hoffman
Josef I Hoffman
Bremen
Chickasaw
Mills
R. N. Spencer
Algona
Palmer House
White
Spencer
Homer Miller
Eagle Grove
Miller
McCarthy
J. Wesley Elkins
Clayton County
Sioux Rapids
George Boddy
Boddy
Root
J. L. Root
Keokuk
Johnson
Dad” Moulton
John V. Crum
Muaybury
Tom Cooper
Cyelist
Wisconsin
Iowa City
Elijah Albertson
Albertson
Inwood
Marshal Copper
Sheriff Black
Ben Pixley
Princeton
Patrick McGarrey
En Wi
Muscatine
Poland
Sioux City
D.C. Miller
Vermillion
S. D
C. A. Marsh
Jesup
Marsh
Northwest
Waterville
Happy Union
J. B. Freese
Glidden
South Dakota
Llinois
R.A
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