Battle near Honda leaves 400 dead in Colombia
News from Colon Colombia reports General Marin led 1200 revolutionaries against Honda on the Magdalena river on December 9. Government garrison of 4380 repelled the attack with 200 reinforcements arriving at 8 pm. The clash lasted from 6 am to 11 30 pm ending at Caracol nine miles from Honda. Bayonets and machetes were used and the government claimed victory.
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Colon
Colombia
Marin
Honda
Magdalena River
Caracol
Spectator on Chili and Argentina War Threat
The Spectator notes Chile and Argentina act as if war is likely with disaster to global stock exchanges and potential impact on the Americas, unless a factor from Washington intervenes. The paper calls Washington’s government the incalculable factor in preventing conflict.
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London
the Spectator
Chili
Argentina
Americas
Washington
Hanging draws hundreds of children in Trenton event
In Trenton New Jersey a public execution of Robert Henson for murder and arson drew several hundred spectators including local schoolchildren. Captain Hartman oversaw the event and allowed police to view the body as gates stood open for the crowd.
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Trenton
N. J
Robert Henson
Mary van Lieu
Mercer Jail
Hartman
May Get a Cabinet Position in Interior
Cheyenne Wy Dec 30 A report says ex Senator J M Carey may be offered the Interior Department if Hitchcock retires. Inquiries reach from the east about his whereabouts as he is in New York making the exact state of affairs unclear. Friends are interested and rumors circulate. Carey's record and knowledge of Interior affairs make him a preferred candidate.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
J. M. Carey
Interior Department
Hitchcock
Mr. Carey
New York
Carey
Dean's Ointment Path to Skin Relief
Terrible plagues those itching festering diseases of the skin. Put an end to misery. Dean's Ointment cures at any drug store.
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Dean’s
Local man named for Philippine judge posting
Ambler of Salem Ohio has been tendered and accepted a federal judgeship in the Philippine islands. He will leave in March for Sebu and will be stationed in Manila later.
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Philippines
Salem
Germany Weighs Ultimatum Over Venezuela Crisis
Berlin reports indicate Germany may issue an official note to Venezuela if Castro resists, threatening naval measures and possible seizure of key ports in an effort tied to the Monroe Doctrine. A blockade is deemed unlikely. Berlin fears U S mediation and domestic chauvinism.
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Venezuela
United States
Germany
Berlin
Standard
Castro
Delegates Agree Nations to Join Hague Convention
Delegates at the City of Mexico Pan American conference reach a near unanimous agreement on arbitration under The Hague convention. All nations represented will become parties, with possible separate compulsory arbitration among signatories, not officially sanctioned by the conference. Volney Foster of Chicago hails the outcome as promising for the congress.
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City of Mexico
City
Mexico
Argentina
United States
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Nicaragua
Hague Tribunal
Hague
Volney Foster
Chicago
Congress
Mr. Foster
Muskegon Towed In After Shoreing Near Ludington
The Pere Marquette car ferry Muskegon, which ashore after striking a bar a week ago, has been released and towed into Ludington port. Captain James Reid of Sarnia led the wrecking, good weather aided. The vessel pumped dry and floated through a dredged passage. Loss to underwriters estimated at 360000. Muskegon to go to Milwaukee dry dock for overhaul.
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Ludington
Mich
Pere Marquette
Muskegon
James Reid
Sarnia
Ont
Milwaukee
Pastor Waives Church Trial in Muskegon
Rev. M. H. A. Vandervalk resigns as pastor of Immanuel Presbyterian church amid charges of conduct unbecoming a minister. He waives his rights to a church trial, following statements by his wife Mrs Vandervalk who has left home and engaged a local law firm.
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Muskegon, Mich
M. H. A. Vandervalk
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
Vandervalk
Desperate Battle Kills 22 Bolomen in Batangas Gorge
General Chaffee reports to the war department that company F of the 21st Infantry fought bolomen in a Batangas gorge on December 23, six miles south of San Jose. The hand to hand clash left 22 Bolomen dead while Privates Patrick A. Connelly and Carney were wounded. Connelly with a facial bolo wound and Carney with six cuts to neck and shoulders.
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Washington
Chaffee
War Department
Twentyfirst Infantry
Batangas
San Jose
Patrick A. Connelly
Carney
Connelly
St. Joe Weddings Total 1 493 Licences Issued in Year
County Clerk Church reports 1,493 marriage licenses issued in the year and 1,140 marriages performed at his office or home. Nearly $5,000 was paid to ministers. One third of marriages were by justices of the peace. Couples from across the county and many major cities were represented.
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St. Joe
St. Joseph
Mich
Girl Shoots Father in Somerville Home
Miss Florence Dodson, 22, is arrested after she fires a revolver at her father James Dodson in West Somerville. The man, beaten by liquor she overheard, was wounded in the back and taken to City Hospital in serious condition.
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Somerville
Mass
Florence Dodson
West Somerville
James Dodson
Miles Resumes Command After War Department Controversy
Lieut. Gen. Miles returns to his duties in the Army at the War Department in Washington. He will accept the rebuke calmly and take no action to extend the dispute, with no expected changes to his prearranged plans.
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Miles
Washington, D. C
War Department
William J. Sewell Dies Veteran Senator From New Jersey
United States Senator William J. Sewell of Camden dies at his home from diabetes with heart and stomach complications. He served as captain in the Civil War, brevet brigadier general, later U S senator from 1881 to 1887 and again from 1895, chaired Republican delegations at six conventions, and held multiple civic roles in New Jersey. President Roosevelt sent condolences.
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Camden
N. J
United States
William J. Sewell
Senator Sewell
Roosevelt
General Sewell
William Joyce Sewell
Castlebar
Ireland
Fifth
New Jersey Volunteers
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
New Jersey
Pennsylvania Railroad
Camden County
Senate
Pottol
United States Senate
Theodore F. Randolph
Chicago
National Home For
National Guard
Spain
John R. McPherson
Mysterious Killing Ties Suspect Guarded by Naval Reserves
Ella Maude Cropsey vanished after a party at the Cropsey plantation in November. In Suffolk Virginia a coroner’s finding states she was struck on the left temple and drowned in the Pasquotank river. James Wilcox, a suspect since her disappearance, is imprisoned in the county jail guarded by naval reserves.
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Naval
Suffolk
Ella Maude Cropsey
Pasquotank River
Elizabeth City
N. C
James Wilcox
I. Fearing
Nellie M. Crapsey
Nellie M. Cropsey
Pasquotank
Wilcox
Ella Cropsey
Cropsey Plantation
Ella
William H. Cropsey
Coaches Burn In Wreck Narrow Escapes
North bound Colorado & Southern train No 1 from Ft Worth wrecked by a broken rail twenty five miles south of Trinidad Colorado. Three cars burned and several passengers injured including Rev A P Morris Ed Sullivan R B Bishop G A Yantis Mrs Holmes Arthur J Sanderson A G Powell Joe Bell M D Hughes J C Scott J M Foster R W Deems Ed Holsey all of Denver and others.
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Denver
Colo
Ft. Worth
Tex
Colorado & Southern
Trinidad
A. P. Morris
D. D
el Paso
Ed Sullivan
Idaho
R. B. Bishop
Gage
Ohkla
G. A. Yantis
Corea
Mrs. Holmes
Lamar
Wyo
Arthur J. Sanderson
Col
A. G. Powell
Clayton
M. M
Joe Bell
M. D. Hughes
J. C
Maud Ashore in Blizzard Near Broad Cove
The schooner Maud Captain Janes from Little Bay bound for St John’s ran aground at Broad Cove in a severe blizzard. She carried 2 000 quintals of fish and is expected to be a total loss. The crew escaped with great difficulty after hours in the rigging. Other marine disasters feared from the storm.
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Newfoundland
St. John’s
N. F
Maud
Janes
Little Bay
Broad Cove
Leap from Auto to Death Rocks St Louis and Louisville Victims
In St Louis a switch engine ran over John W. Taylor chief engineer of the Terminal Railway association and William Austin Kent a Louisville leader after they leaped from a moving gasoline car to avoid a collision. In Des Moines Governor Shaw reports Roosevelt approves his treasury secretary portfolio.
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John W. Taylor
Terminal Railway Association
William Austin Kent
Louisville
St. Louis
Roosevelt
Shaw
Des Moines
the Treasury
Two Killed in Gambling Room Dispute
Shawnee Oklahoma December 30 Charles Mc Knight a fare dealer shot and killed Willard Sims a saloon keeper and a boy named Hepstedter in a gambling room after a quarrel Sims had threatened to kill Mc Knight Mc Knight drew a revolver and killed Sims.
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Shawnee
Charles McKnight
Willard ‘Sims
Hepstedter
McKnight
Sims
Ex-Diplomat George Fiske Recalled in Ashtabula Notice
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate a notice or note involving former diplomat George Fiske and an associate location in Ashtabula on December 27. The unreadable text references a former secretary and a regional context, suggesting a public or official posting.
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Ashtabula
the. _ ri
Violent Norwegian Snow Storm Stalls Trains
Snow storms in Norway disrupt rail service in the south eastern districts. Trains are stalled and telegraph wires are down as heavy weather continues through the week.
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Norway
Christiania
Dec
Storm Ravages Vancouver Shipping, Loss Near $100,600
A fierce storm hit Vancouver British Columbia starting at midnight Wednesday and lasting through Thursday. The damage was heavy to small shipping with total losses estimated at about $100,600.
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Vancouver
B. C
Three Children Die in Fire in Lombard Street
A two story frame building on Lombard street burned killing three children of Madary Grzela aged 10 7 and 8. The mother and a two day old baby were saved.
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Buffalo
Madary Grzela
Lombard Street
Bank Bookkeeper Accused in East St. Louis Embezzlement
Theodore Duddleston Jr., formerly assistant bookkeeper at Stock Yards Bank in East St. Louis, is arrested on a warrant charging embezzlement of 11054.38. He says stock and grain speculation caused his trouble and furnished 3000. Fidelity and Casualty of New York stands bond for 10000.
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St. Louis
Theodore Duddleston, Jr
Stock Yards
Bank of
East St. Louis
Ill
Charles L. Jones
National Stock Yards
Duddleston
Fidelity and Casualty Company of
New York
Fire damages Scott Brown business block in Anderson
Fire partially destroyed the Scott Brown business block in Anderson Indiana yesterday. The Buck Breckley Co drug store and Hayes Son furnishing store suffered extensive damage with logs and water from the blaze. total losses estimated at 25 000 for property and 15 000 for building, covered by insurance.
Paris News Briefs Signal Growing Trouble
Paris reports rising tensions as officials confirm trouble brewing. Sparse details describe unrest looming across districts with unspecified causes and potential impacts on daily life and security measures.
Fire Traps Twenty Families in Chicago Apartment Fire
In Chicago on December 30, more than twenty families were forced onto fire escapes at the Alexandra apartment building as flames and smoke cut off stairways. Rescue crews pulled people to safety just as a wall toppled, while the blaze destroyed the building and its contents in a loss estimated at 250000 dollars.
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Chicago
Alexandra
Bowen
Cottage Grove Avenues
Dr Bull's Cough Syrup Claims Rapid Catarrhal Cures
A historical advertisement promotes Dr Bull's Cough Syrup as a universal remedy for catarrhal conditions. It asserts the medicine cures promptly, with a long history of fastest cold reliefs affecting the throat chest and lungs.
Pneumontis Driver John Splan Hospitalized in Indianapolis
John Splan the well known trotting horse driver is laid up with pneumonia at St Anthony hospital here. His condition is not serious.
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John Splan
Pneumontis
Merre ‘Haute
Ind
Burdock Blood Bitters Promoted In Patent Cure Claim
Advertisement claims a million Americans suffer torments from dyspepsia and promotes Burdock Blood Bitters as a cure. The copy urges readers to visit a drug store for purchase.
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Anderson
Paris
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G. L. Nichols
Lion Hill
Marion County
Lake Forest University
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Richard D. Harlan
Justice Harlan
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