United States Takes Liability for War Claims
Congress considers legislation to settle claims from the Spanish American War. About 28 million dollars in claims from Cuba Porto Rico and other possessions are lodged with the State Department. Some arise from Cuban insurgents and Spain may bear part of the liability, while others lack evidence. The Paris treaty assigns liability to both nations for depredations by or against citizens. No prior U S claims were filed before the war.
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Congress
America
Guba
Porto Rico
Sdat
State Department
Faris
United States
Otis Faces Difficult Task as Iloilo Falls to Insurgents
Washington reports reveal anxiety over Iloilo with dispatches indicating insurgents seized the city on the 26th after Spanish evacuations. General Otis contends with uncertain reports and possible Philippine leadership leverage in prisoner releases, while plans for mustering out troops proceed on schedule.
Brooke rejects Cuban army and flags careful disbandment plan
General Brooke declines recognition of the Cuban army and seeks tactful disbandment. Cuban auxiliary recruits would be individuals only. Cuban police work in Havana and other provinces will not be encouraged. Cuban chiefs’ offers are not accepted. Havana press will be watched and censored for incitement. The Bombay street cafe incident report says Sergeant Adams found overturned furniture and exchanges of fire with no known casualties.
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Havana
Brooke
Santa Clara
Pinar del Rio
Ludlow
Bombay Street
Adams
Tenth
United States Infantry
No. 9
Beef controversy at War Investigation Commission hearing
Washington witnesses discuss canned and refrigerated beef supplied to volunteers. Assistant secretary William W Hi testifies that early canned beef was lean and dry but later improved, while refrigerated beef showed no chemical treatment and nutrition. He doubts beef kept for seventy two hours under tarpaulins in Cuba, and the commission sets a hearing date for Swift Beef Co on January 4.
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Washington
William W. Hi
District of Columbia Volunteers
Denby
Hill
Connor
Cuba
Miles
War Commission
Swift Beef Company
Chicago
Dying for patriotism in Havana street clash ends in murder
In Havana a Spanish policeman named Fernandez was attacked by a Cuban crowd in Bombay street after flags were waved. He cried Viva Espana, was stabbed, and died. The incident reflects mob pressure to force pro Cuban sentiment and spiraling street violence with exchanges of gunfire and casualties among Spanish and Cuban participants.
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Havana
Fernandez
Bombay Street
Cuba
Espana
Calarava
Wreck Cremates a Corpse and More News from Five Cities
Eastbound California Limited wrecked eleven miles east of Trinidad Colorado. Four cars burned after gas explosion. twelve hurt, no deaths. Notable injuries include Conductor Boucher and Brakeman Bope. Also reports death of Charles Orthwein from liver cancer. Governor Pingree invites state bar to advise on forthcoming legislation. Senator Morrill to be honored with senate chamber funeral. Governor Tanner resumes duties after illness. Nebraska diocesan committee rejects Morigan can on consecration in Iowa.
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Trinidad
Colo
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
C. D. Boucher
Las Vegas
Frank Bope
Co. CG. Fairbanks
Pullman Porter
Chicago
Philadelphia
Roberts Defends Faith Polygamy Not Adultery
Representative-elect Brigham H Roberts says polygamy is scriptural and not adultery citing Abraham Jacob and prophets. He insists no legal barrier prevents him from taking a seat in Congress and notes no polygamous marriages since 1890. He says the alleged eastern interview is largely fake and gave no further comment.
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New York
Salt Lake
Celal
Evening World
H. Roberts
Movening World
Congress
Presbyterian Church
Joseph Smith
Abraham
Jacob
Kingdom of Heaven
Roberts
Salt Lake City
Tah
Salt Lake Dispatch
Boodle Hunt At Chicago City Council Probe
Chicago grand jury probes bribery in city affairs with a focus beyond the fifty year street car license ordinance. Nine aldermen and two ex aldermen were summoned. several appeared and testified as the inquiry expands to all council members.
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Chicago
Grand Jury
Bryan to attend Lincoln traveling men banquet in anti expansion push
Lincoln Neb Dec 23 Colonel W J Bryan returned from Chicago last evening to be present at the banquet to be tendered him tomorrow evening by the Lincoln Traveling Men's club He said his speech would not mark a new opening but that he had opened his anti expansion campaign the day he left the army
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Lincoln, Neb
W. J. Bryan
Chicago
Lincoln Traveling Men's Club
Facts From a Fragmentary 19th Century Parcel
A garbled OCR fragment compiles curiosities and figures: postmasters numbered at 200000, butterflies laying 100000 eggs, Moscow’s bell weighing 160 tons, elephants averaging nine feet, tortoises living 800 years, Tron horseshoes dating to 481, opium from unripe poppy fruit, English glass windows in the 8th century, Sublician Bridge as Rome’s oldest wood bridge, pepper deemed deadly by a physician, monkey wrench named for Thomas Monkey, London's grain imports, 265 million bushels of grain yearly with 8 million being wheat, timber smoke surpassing five years’ crown.
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Moscow
England
Sublican Bridge
Rome
Thomas Monkey
Bordentown
London
Hocky
Remarkable Diabetes Cure Promoted By Dodd's Pills
An elderly Milwaukee man claims fifteen years of diabetes relief after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. The ad touts the pills as a universal remedy for kidney related diseases and other ailments, with prices and mail order details. Also includes notes on worsted wool origin and digestive health warnings, plus cotton bale compression figures.
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Milwauxer
J. d. Doran
Howell Street
Lake
Dodd
Bright
Dodd’s Medicine Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Buffalo, N. Y
Foley's Honey and Tar Restores Voice Says Ingerson
Hoarseness case from Hutton Indiana where Benj Ingerson reports not speaking for months until one bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar restored his voice. The remedy is noted as widely used by speakers and singers. Moogk Swartz Fleck are cited as suppliers.
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Benj. Ingerson
Hutton
Ind
Foley
J. Moogk
Swartz & Fleck
Lover Kills His Sweetheart At Clare School
A district schoolhouse near Clare Iowa became the scene of a fatal shooting when May Thomas a popular local teacher was killed after speaking with a young man identified as Harry Garvey who had pursued her. He then shot himself and died hours later. The incident followed Miss Thomas rejecting his advances.
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Sioux City
Journal
Clare
May Thomas
Gowrie
Rock Island
Harry Garvey
Thomas
Record Wheat Clearance Marks New York History
New York reports a daily wheat clearance of 808,656 bushels, the highest on record at the produce exchange, dated December 29. The figure surpasses all previous daily totals and underscores strong market activity in the Wheat Pit.
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New York
Produce Exchange
Multiple 1890s Telegram Snippets Open Uproar in News
A batch of condensed telegrams reports fires in Leitchfield and Chicago injuring livestock, debts and loans involving Trussia and the Rothschilds, moves by the Chicago school board, rail and frontier diplomacy plans, a Spanish foreign ministerial post, German sugar crop deficits, an appendectomy for Ambassador Romero, a thread industry consolidation, a duel in Budapest, horse trade profits in Wisconsin, confidence schemes in Chicago, gold values in the Rand, and a call from Dr. H R Butler to defend African Americans with international intervention.
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Trussia
Rothschilds
Henry Martens
Chicago
Chicago Board of Education
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lord Salisbury
France
Africa
Dupuy de Lome
Spain
Silvela
Bagasta
United States
Diederich
Madgeburg
Romero
Mexico
Washington
M. Kubik
M. Tiaranszky
M. Stenedi
Buda Pest
Theodore Keil
Bement
Wis
Kell
Rand
Transvaal
H. R. Butler
Atlanta
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