Truth About Korea Japan Did Not Extort Treaty
Washington December 20 Diplomatic adviser Durham White Stevens quotes Koreans denying a forced treaty with Japan. He rejects sensational reports of a night in Seoul with Japanese troops and a palace seizure, noting Marquis Ito arrived with an emperor letter and explained Japan’s aims to Korea. The Korean emperor left details for his cabinet to decide in consultation with Japan.
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Washington
Dee
Durham White Stevens
Seoul
Marquis Ito
Korea
Japan
Ito
Conferences Free Approach to Treaty in Palace Meeting
Stevens recalls cabinet and Ito meeting in the palace with minor guards and officials present. Amendments were debated, six of eight cabinet members approved, and the treaty signed under the emperor’s order as quiet opposition from Koreans persisted.
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Stevens
Hayashi
Marquis Ito
Hasegawa
Seoul
Jxoren
Untitled fragment on Japan and Korea policy
Fragmentary text discusses Japan and Korea, implying a debate over responsibility and means. It mentions windertaken actions and the world expecting certain conduct, reflecting a strained exchange about commitments and methods.
Odell backs Merritt in New York speakership bid
Ex Governor Odell, Republican state committee chair, says Roosevelt backs Higgins in the Albany assembly speakership contest. He accuses Wadsworth supporters of deception and hints at future political writings.
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New York
Odell
Republican State Committee
Assembly
E. A. Merritt, Jr
J. W. Wadsworth, Jr
Higgins
Albany
Roosevelt
Jacob Higgins
Bsatt Roosevelt
Kew
United States
Cuba Gamble on Cuba Aid to Key West Cigar Makers
Havana reports a $10,000 house appropriation to aid striking Cuban cigar makers in Key West faces likely senate opposition from the finance committee. Treasury Secretary Aius Rivera is expected to overrule a $1,000 Havana municipal grant and oppose a $5,000 Havana provincial grant. Lawmakers who backed the $10,000 say only charitable motive, not crippling the Key West cigar industry, was their aim.
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Havana
House of Representatives
Key West
Senate
Finance Committee
Aius Rivera
Treasury
Treasury secretary says no prosecution for Walsh case
Secretary Shaw arrived in Chicago and stated there will be no federal prosecution for John Walsh in the Chicago National Bank collapse. He said Walsh did not improperly take any funds and no embezzlement occurred, only violations of the 10 percent loan rule, which would continue unless banks nationwide closed.
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Chicago
Shaw
Treasury Department
John BR. Walsh
Chicago National Bank
Walsh
Condition of Chas T. Yerkes
New York, Dec. 29. A bulletin states there has been no marked change in the condition of Charles T. Yerkes during the past day. Dr. Loomis, his physician, says there are no immediate fatal symptoms but the end may come at any moment.
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Chas. T. Yerkes
New York
Charles T. Yerkes
Loomis
Will Fight Church Union In Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Nashville Tenn December 29 The advisory board of the loyalist council of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church faction opposing the union with the Northern Presbyterian church has decided to raise forty thousand dollars to fund a campaign to block the merger.
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Nashville, Tenn
Dee
Loyalist Council
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Nnion
Northern Presbyterian Church
Books for Sale Cheap in Oinaha Neb Christmas Gift
United States District Attorney Baxter, dismissed by the president on Christus day, received a Christmas morning gift of Roosevelt's books from a friend. The report notes the unusual sequence of dismissal and the unexpected present.
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Oinaha, Neb
United States
Baxter
Christus
Roosevelt
Mines explode at Stovertown blow apart three men
In Stovertown Kantner mine a dynamite blast killed Charles Johnson William Savage and Edward Berkebile. The victims were killed instantly in the explosion reported from Johnstown Pennsylvania dated December 29. dire warnings and preservation of life measures follow as authorities investigate the deadly blast.
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Johnstown
Kantner
Stovertown
Charles Johnson
William Savage
Edward Berkebile
Typographical Errors and a Chicago Paper Mix Up
A physician recalls nearly suing a Chicago paper over a typographical error. Poe was brought to Chicago for a serious case. a reporter misread a line about the doctor and patient. William W. Russell, diplomat to Venezuela, quips about an operatic tenor misprint amid a police case ending in a three year sentence. Washington tar.
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Chicago
Ihe
Poe
William W. Russell
Venezuela
St. Louis
Washington Tar
Red Revolution on Its Last Legs in Moscow Revolt
Moscow reports say the revolt is nearly over and the strike will be called off Monday. Staging guerrilla warfare continues on a smaller scale while authorities crack down. Black Hundred fears of a massacre rise as peasants show anger at revolutionaries. Rumors claim Mistchenko wounded and Vorontzoff-Dashkoff recalled. four thousand strikers destroyed rail lines to block troop trains between St. Petersburg and Moscow.
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Moscow
St. Petersburg
Doubassoff
Drajina
Bourse Gazette
Mistchenko
Vorontzoff-Dashkoff
Caucasus
Seminovsky
Horse Guard
Clyne
Police Chief Murdered by Revolutionaries in Moscow
Moscow reports that three hundred revolutionaries invaded the chief of police’s residence at midnight and killed him. The atrocity is tied to a broader purge by the social revolutionary committee with raids, seizures of bominds, machines, and correspondence, while witnesses describe brutal executions by the Wehmgerichte in Riga with multiple gunshot wounds and a cloven skull.
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Moscow
Social Revolutionary Committee
Secret Police
London
St. Petersburg
Daily Telegraph
Wehmgerichte
Riga
Disrupted Railways Hit Several Cities in War News
Reports from Kleff Russia Sarni and nearby areas describe torn rails wrecked trains and many injuries. Martial law proclaimed in Odessa and in Koyno Lithuania with field guns and machine guns in city squares. Warsaw reports limited success by strikers and ongoing railroad disruption.
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Kleff
Russia
Sarni
Odessa
Warsaw
Poland
Koyno
Lithuania
DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve Aids Piles And Sores
The soothing salve relieves pain rapidly when applied to piles sores cuts and boils. It draws out inflammation reduces swelling and acts as a rebefacient to circulate blood through the diseased parts, aiding Nature to remove the trouble. Sold by all druggists.
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DeWitt
Burdett Seeks Piano Tuning Services by Phone
F. J. Burdett, a noted piano tuner, orders at Brown & Dollmeyers or phone 80 for service calls. Local music shop serves the city with maintenance, tuning, and repairs.
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F. J. Burdett
Brown & Dollmeyers
Insurgents Clash as Troops Arrest City Leaders
Stretesic points Lire over awed the revolutionaries. Patrols opened fire wounding two, as police and troops surrounded the area and detained seventy persons during discussions of armed revolt. City Councillors Thomaty Strandman and Acting Mayor Prats among those captured. insurgents press in on the city with troops still operating.
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Bund
Fred Co
Reval
Esthofttta
Dee
Attempted assassination risks hit Vice Governor in Russia
A St Petersburg telegraph reports an assassination attempt in central Russia targeting Vice Governor General Bogdanogitch. He was wounded by revolver fire, while details on motive and assailant remain unclear. The Telegram credits the attack to local agitators and notes the high official sustained injuries during the incident.
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London
St. Petersburg
Tramboff
Russia
Bogdanogitch
Figures on Moscow Casualties
Moscow reports 650 wounded and 105 killed at the medical bureau with 1000 unidentified dead in Loutchow quarter. A mob of armed revolutionaries attacked police bureaus but was repulsed with serious losses.
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Moscow
Loutchow
Pearls Found in Bird Nest Near St. Wendell Farm
A wood cutter on Patrick Meagher’s farm near St. Wendell, Minnesota, found fifteen white pearls in a bird’s nest inside a hollow tree. Jewelers deem them valuable and likely Mississippi pearls carried by birds. The finder counted fifteen and searched for more through dusk.
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St. Cloud
Minn
Patrick Meagher
St. Wendel
Pass of Melfort wreckclaims twenty seven drowned
In Victoria British Columbia December 29 twenty six men and one woman are believed drowned when the British bark Pass of Melfort foundered on rocks off Amphitrite Point. The Salvor salvage steamer at Esquimalt reports wreckage and cabin fittings washing ashore. Settlers from Ucluelet seven miles away conduct a systematic search for bodies already interring three men.
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Victoria
B. C
Reuwins
Teachers Resolve Freight Hate Question Reopened
Springfield reports the State Teachers association adopted resolutions deprecating abuses in athletics and urging rule revision to prevent injury, appointing a five member permanent committee on legislation, and supporting a revisionary school law. Officers elected include J. M. Mercer and J. F. Darling with Harriet Treadwell and O. B. Edwards. The convention adjourned at noon.
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Springfield
Pec
State ‘Teachers’ Association
Iff
J. M. Mercer
ePorta
JF. W. Darling
Chicago Normal School
Harriet Treadwell
Chicago
Chicago Teachers’ Federation
O. B. Edwards
Harrisburg
Caroline Grotte
Pittsfield
R. M. Stotler
Alton
M. C. Whitney
Elgin
Edmund J. James
University of Hilnois
D. B. Parkinson
Southern Normal
Carbondle
Torture Allegation in McKinney Trial Testimony
Stella Grady testified before jurors about injuries she suffered at the McKinney home. Doctors observed scars on her neck arms and shoulders and she described Mrs Archibald McKinney's preferred torture methods including jabbing with a fork and scissors patting and hair pulling.
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Aleilo
Dee
Stella Grady
Archibald McKinney
McKinney
Railway license issued for Harrisburg and Ohio River line
The secretary of state issued a license to the Harrisburg and Ohio River Railroad company. The road will be built from a point on the Mimola Central road near Galena in Laine county to a point on the Obie near Rosidlate in Hardin county.
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New Railway Incorporated
Splugfeld
Secretary of State
Ins
Harrisburg and
Ohio River Railroad Company
Galena
la Ine County
Obie
Rosidlate
Hardin County
Toledo deputy wounded in car-barn raid shooting
Merehal Franke Thornton of Perrysburg was shot in the abdomen while with deputy William Scott trying to arrest five men suspected in a car-barn robbery. Thornton is critical after an operation. Scott was shot in the foot as posses scour the area for the gang. The assailants fled after firing from six shooters at Krauss lunch room and interurban station near Perrysburg. Symbiuse, NY, Dec 29.
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Toledo
Merehal Franke Thornton
Perrysburg
William Scott
Scott
Here
Krauss
Thornton
Joy Morton Injured in Fall at Arbor Lodge Estate
Joy Morton head of the International Salt company was thrown from his horse at Arbor Lodge the Morton Nebraska estate and fell on his head. Doctors say his skull is not fractured and he is making slow but steady progress toward recovery with a long convalescence expected.
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Joy Morton
Chicago
International Salt Company
Arbor Lodge
Morton Nebraska
Montreal honors refused by penny postage pioneer Heaton
Montreal dispatch reports J Henniker Heaton, who helped establish penny postage in Britain, learning King Edward knighted him as a knight commander of St Michael and St George, a honor he announced he would decline. New York markets close with call money at high rates and a 15 bid near 20 offered.
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Montreal
J. Henniker- Heaton
Great Britain
Edward
St. Michael and St. George
New York
Stock Exchange
Big Dry Dock Dewey Heads for Philippine Voyage
Annapolis Md Dec 20 The gigantic dry dock Dewey began its 14000 mile voyage to the Philippine islands an expedition expected to take about three months with a promising start aboard the shipyard.
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Annapolis
Dewey
Philippine Islands
Chicago Markets Decline Mixed Wheat and Grain Quotes
Chicago Board of Trade quotations show mixed grain activity with Dec and May futures trading around 8.2 to 8.6 per bushel and corn and oats fluctuating. Livestock markets in Chicago and East Buffalo report steady to lower prices for hogs, cattle, and lambs with various weight categories and receipts noted for the day.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Nec
Shea
Choice Prairie
Maat Buffalo
East Buffalo
N. Y
Pec
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
Mege Ao
Troops Use Bayonets Against Striking Dock Workers
In Linochelle France on December 2 troops charged at striking dock laborers trying to enter the docks to halt work. Several people were wounded in the clash as bayonets were used to break up the protest.
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Linochelle
France
Princess Ena to Visit Rome for Catholic Rite
Rome reports Princess Ena of Battenberg, soon to wed King Alfonso of Spain, will travel to Rome in January and be received into the Roman Catholic church at St Peters.
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Ena
Rome
The
Italia
Ena of Battenberg
Alfonso of Spain
St. Peters
Niagara fires hit three hotels in collapse wave
Latest reports from Shanehal indicate that Chinese boycott hurt US houses with business down about 80 percent. Three hotels and several adjacent buildings in Niagara falls were damaged by fire. Joss estimated at about 140000 dollars. NY supreme court ruled not forgery to sign another’s name on a railroad ticket bought by one passenger from another. D Frank Schmidt, prominent promoter, died in a Colorado Springs hotel. Mary Baker Eddy has not forbidden Christian Scientists from giving presents, but asks that none be sent to her. Judge William T. Penfield resigns as Indiana solicitor for the state department. General Fred Grant’s grandchildren visit Chicago. American Society of Naturalists meets in Ann Arbor. Paris street car crash injures twenty-two near Avenue de la Republique. Frederick A. Weed dies in San Diego. French cardinals meet in Paris on church state separation.
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Shanehal
Niagara Alls
New York Supreme Court
D. Frank Schmidt
Colorado Springs
Colo. Mia
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Hone
William T. Penfield
Indiana
State Department
Fred Grant
Prince
Princess
Cantacuzene
Potter Palmer
Chicago
American Society of Naturalists
Three Bad Citizens Escape Logan County Prison Break
A nighttime escape in Logan County when three desperate prisoners broke from the bars of the corridor and scaled thirty feet of stone wall with a hammock aid. They intimidated five other prisoners and fled. No clue to the location of saws and weapons.
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Lincoln
Dee
Logan County
Circuit Clerks and Recorders Convention Officers Dropped
The annual convention of circuit clerks and recorders of Illinois ended with the deletion of officers President George F. L. Frank Kane County vice president C. H. Lunnenino Madison County secretary John Allen Macon County treasurer Benjamin Rich Sangamon County. The next convention will be held in Peoria.
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Bloomlington
Circuit Clerks and Recorders of
Illinois
George FL Frank
Kane County
C. HL Iunnenninno
Madison County
John Alien
Macon County
Benjamin Rich
Sangamoen
Peoria
Work of the Cigarette
Springfield reports Morris T Kavanaugh, age 2, driven insane by excessive cigarette smoking. Once a gentlemanly man, he attacked a pool room, breaking chairs and hurling ivory balls at windows before being removed, prompting concern over the influence of tobacco.
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Springfield
Morris T Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh
Dying of Famine and Consumption Compared in Suffering
A medical anecdote ties famine torments to consumption misery and cites William Myers of Cearfoss Maryland who found relief with Dr King’s New Discovery after futile conventional treatments. The ad touts a cure for coughs colds sore throat bronchitis and pneumonia prevention with 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles and a free trial.
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Wm. Myers
Cearfoss
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