Free Trade Debate Shapes Cotton and Silk Schedules
Washington hearings on ad valorem duties for cotton and silk saw a smaller turnout but continued expert testimony. E C Hovey urged stricter anti fraud measures while others pressed for specific duties, higher rates on hosiery, and new classifications for embroidered goods.
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Washington
Ways and Means
E. C. Hovey
New York
Textile Manufacturers’ Association
Hovey
New York Board of General Appraisers
Arnold Eb, Sanford
Fall River
Simeon B. Chase
Robert Pillings
Philadelphia
Robert M. Cooper
Olneyville
R. I
James Talcott
New Britain
Conn
W. H. Bilyeu
W. R. Craig
Vicksburg
Miss
B. T. Stoner
Wrightsville
W. H. Chapman
East Hampton
Mass
Dingley
England
Chase
Mississippi Valley
Msss
Wheeler
Craig
Alabama
Uncle Sam
Turkey
Great Britain
France
Germany
United States
Denial of Post Story on Cuban Reforms and Madrid
Official Washington denial refutes The Post claim that Spain asked the United States to guarantee reforms for Cuban insurgents. Negotiations toward broader home rule have progressed, with tentative reforms and a draft not yet received, while Madrid reports emphatic denial of Dupuy de Lome and Olney negotiations.
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Washington
Spain
United States
Canovas
Associated Press
Cuba
Madrid
Washington Post
Senor Dupuy de Lome
Olney
Two More Bank Failures Sparking Little Concern
Washington reports Comptroller Eckels saying recent bank failures have little general significance. The Commercial National Bank of Roanoke and the Columbia National of Minneapolis failed yesterday, both small and locally caused, not indicative of wider banking distress.
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Washington
Ackets
Commercial National Bank of
Roanoke
Columbia National of
Minneapolis
Eckels
Associated Press Ae
Pension Office Reform Cuts Board Review Steps
Washington December 30 two radical changes in pension office procedure were announced. All increase claims will go directly to the medical division, bypassing the board of review. The move aims to speed adjudication by removing routine review and reducing examiner passes.
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Washington
Pension Office
Bureau
Board of Review
Japan Crowding Us Out in Pacific Trade
United States Consul Bell at Sydney reports in a state department memo that Japan now has a larger Pacific carrying trade than the United States. The finding comes as Australia opens a new Japanese steamship line between Yokohama and Sydney, signaling rapid shifts in commercial supremacy.
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Japan
Washington
Pacific
United States
Bell
Sydney
State Department
Yokohama
Australia
Counterfeit $10 note alert targets Union Bank Detroit
Chief Hazen of the secret service warns of a new counterfeit $10 national bank note from the same hands behind the recent National Bank of Commerce forgery in New York. A key feature is the back of the note printed upside down.
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Washington
Hazen
Secret Service
Union Bank of Detroit
National Bank of Commerce
New York
Bonaparte Heiress Weds at St Pauls Church
Washington reports the marriage of Miss Louise Eugenie Bonaparte daughter of the late Colonel Napoleon Bonaparte and count de Moltke-Hultfeldt of Denmark. The ceremony occurred yesterday at St Pauls Roman Catholic church with Cardinal Gibbons officiating and a nuptial mass by Rev Father Foley.
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Washington
Louise Eugenie Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte
Count de Moltke-Hultfeldt
Denmark
St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church
Cardinal Gibbons
Father Foley
Penitentiary Civil Service Rules Expanded Nationwide
The president extended civil service rules to cover all offices and employees in federal penitentiary service subject to classification. The change mainly affects Fort Leavenworth Kansas but will apply to all existing and future peniten tiaries and government institutions as well.
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Washington
Civil Service
Federal Penitentiary Service
Fort Leavenworth
Kas
Officials deny Spain asked U S for help in Cuba
Washington December 30 officials who should know emphatically state there is nothing in the story that Spain had asked the United States to help her out in Cuba in any way shape or form.
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Washington
Spain
United States
Cuba
Big Tin Horn Reaches Canton
The thirty foot long tin horn with a six foot bell arrived in Canton, carried by Decatur Illinois laborers who started November 16 to push for a $1,000 crowd-sourced fund. They faced rising costs after Indianapolis, met generous hospitality with few exceptions, and presented the horn to President-elect McKinley at the McKinley home amid continuous rain.
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Canton
Ilinois
Decatur
Ills
Indianapolis
McKinley
Consolidation proposed for West Superior banks
West Superior Wisconsin on December 30 reports a move to consolidate several local banks into a single institution with capital of not less than 1.5 million dollars. The plan follows the suspensions of the Bank of West Superior and Bank of Superior and is said to have been contemplated by local capitalists for some time. In Denver a separate note states Governor McIntyre received a Nebraska senator Beale proposal to fund a silver bullion depository in Denver with certificates used as money. Also reported, in St Louis the Western Commercial Travelers Association held its annual meeting with the financial report showing 59,429 dollars on hand and no liabilities.
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Atlas Bank
A&8
West Superior
Wis
Superior
Bank of West Superior
Bank of Superior
Denver
McIntyre
Co. W. Beale
Nebraska
Colorado
Beale
St. Louis
Western Commercial Travelers Association
Daring Saloon Hold-Up in Tron Belt Wisconsin
A daring hold-up occurred in John Swanson’s saloon in Tron Belt Wisconsin. Three gunmen demanded till contents totaling 43.50 at gunpoint and fled with the money.
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Tron Belt
Wis
John Swanson
Let Him Be Promptly Hanged Verdict in Franz Murder Case
The jury in the state v Albert Franz found him guilty of first degree murder in the slaying of Bessie Little, with the verdict returned last night at Dayton Ohio.
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Dayton
Albert Franz
Bessie Little
Princess de Chimay Elopes with Hungarian Gypsy Rigo
Princess de Chimay formerly Clara Ward, heiress from Detroit, discusses her elopement with Jancsi Rigo in Budapest. She defends her husband as a gentleman but describes him cold. She reveals education support for her children, plans to remain in Hungary, and hints at marriage to Rigo. Rigo seeks divorce from the prince. she resists, citing a large settlement and a desire to keep her new relationship.
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Buda
Princess DE Chimay
Brussels
Paris
M. Jancsi
Fairard
Hungary
Leopold
Belgium
Lasken
Royal Park
Hainault
Rigo
Janesi
Charleroi
Nice
United States
Over-Taxation of Ireland Meeting in Limerick
Lord Dunraven chaired a diverse gathering in Limerick urging the government to correct what is viewed as Irish taxation injustice. Bishop O Dwyer appealed for unity, citing Lord Castledown and Boston's 1776 tea protest, while John Daly praised Castledown and hinted he could follow Washington’s path if Ireland’s rights are upheld.
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Limerick
Lord Dunraven
Mansion House
Dublin
Ireland
O’dwyer
Trishmen
Lord Castledown
Cork
Boston
John Daly
Trish
Lord Castlecdown
America
Washington
Van Northwick Failure Ties Bank to Broad Interests
Chicago dispatch reports the Batavia illinois bank of W M and J S Van Northwick collapses, dragging millions in assets across many firms. Assets and liabilities are debated, with estimates from 1 million to higher figures. Creditors may eventually receive full repayment, while plants and holdings likely move to new owners as William M Van Northwick hurries creditors meetings.
Fox River properties of Van Nortwick brothers safe
In Appleton Wisconsin on December 30 the Batavia Illinois failure of the Van Nortwick brothers is said not to harm Fox River valley holdings. The Atlas National Bank of Chicago claimed 800000 pounds on a loan to the Van Nortwicks, but the allowed claim is only 120000 dollars.
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Appleton, Wis
van Nortwick Brothers
Batavia
Ills
Fox River Valley
Fox River
Atlas National Bank
Chicago
van Nortwicks
Wisconsin Solons Move to Abolish Committee of the Whole
Madison Dec 30 The rule revision committee in session proposes sweeping changes including abolishing the committee of the whole in the assembly to speed business. It also calls for smaller committees with larger memberships and abolishing ways and means federal relations roads and bridges and legislative expenditures panels to raise reports’ weight.
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Madison, Wis
Assembly
Contest for Illinois Speaker Narrows to Selby Allen Rivalry
Springfield December 30 Rural district legislators press toward a speaker race with candidates Selby Schubert Allen and Bryan Needles and ex Speaker Cochrane active. Cook County’s recent speakers Myers and Crafts spur rural members to back a non Cook choice while Schubert draws strength amid shifting alliances.
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Springfield
Ills
Charles I. Selby
RE. G. Schubert
Cook
Charles Allen
Vermillion
Selby
Allen
Charles Page Bryan
Tom Needles
Washington
Cochrane
Moultrie
Schubert
Cook County
Myers and Crafts
Janitor Wildly Helps Tenants Escape Fire
In New York sixty five tenants were rescued from a burning flat building after a late fire department arrival. A janitor supported by two policemen steadied a short ladder and helped a dozen occupants slide down to safety over his shoulders. In Des Moines the Iowa State Teachers Association began its forty second annual meeting with reports on country schools and education force unification.
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New York
Iowa State Teachers’ Association
Des Moines
Iowa State Teachers’ Asoiration
Rab bit hunt ends with eye injury in Wisconsin
Oconto Wisconsin noted Ernest Werth and two companions were rabbit hunting when a stray shotgun pellet entered Werth's left eye at the inner corner and disappeared. Earnest Wittkopf took him to Milwaukee for treatment by a skilled surgeon.
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Oconto
Wis
Ernest Werth
Werth
Earnest Wittkopf
Milwaukee
Bog Movement Ends in Ireland Disaster
Dublin reports the bog land movement at Castle Island has ceased after a deadly collapse. Two bodies have been recovered a mile from the disaster site, confirming fatalities and ongoing search efforts.
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Trish
Dublin
Castle Island
Mass casualty account in western Cuba reports brutal Spanish outrages
A World dispatch from Key West paraphrases an insurgent letter describing General Melquizo's troops burning homes, whipping women and men, tying others to trees, and driving seventy five residents from a hamlet near Pinar del Rio. About thirty five are said fatally harmed with only about thirty surviving.
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New York
Key West
Melquizo
Cuba
Finar del Rio
Pierrante
Pinar del Rio City
Decision in a railway case involving Decatur and Eastern Railway
Judge Edward P. Vail ruled for the defendant in the quo warranto suit by Illinois against the Decatur and Eastern Railway also known as the Indianapolis Decatur and Western. The decision upholds its claimed ownership of property near 3 million dollars and rejects allegations of improper incorporation, usurpation of franchises, and unlawful consolidation. An appeal was requested by the plaintiffs, the old Indiana polis, Decatur and Springfield mortgage bondholders. In New York, a report says fifty filibusters aboard the Three Friends headed for Cuba reportedly smoke on a Florida coast key after engaging with Spanish gunboats. The vessel allegedly landed arms and men on an unnamed barren island, conflicting with Florida’s account.
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Decatur, Ills
Edward P. Vail
State of Illinois
Decatur and Eastern Railway Company
Indianapolis, Decatur and Western
Decatur and Eastern
Decatur
Indiana
Crawford
Indianapolis
Springfield
New York
Cuba
Florida
Ohio miners adopt four resolutions at convention
Columbus Ohio December 30 The Ohio miners state convention adopted four resolutions. They call for mining of three fifths by machine with western Pennsylvania consent unions to employ members in turn if legal, non union men in union mines to be checked off for miners organization expenses, revision of mining rates, and no scale for the year to be signed by the organization.
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Columbus, O
Ohio Miners State Convention
Western
Pennsylvania
Fatal Shootings Quelled in Stanley Wisconsin
In Stanley Wisconsin on Sunday night Charles Riley a well known local figure was shot four times with two bullets in the head and two in the body. He died soon after hospitalization at St Joseph in Chippewa Falls. Sheriff Putnam arrested John Lynch for the shooting and he is held in Chippewa Falls in 5000 bail.
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Stanley
Wis
Charles Riley
St. Joseph Hospital
Chippewa Falls
Putnam
John Lynch
Lynch
Langlade County Clerk Henry Strauss Dies by Suicide
Antigo Wisconsin December 30 Henry FF Strauss Langlade County clerk killed himself Monday night by poison after facing pressure to surrender county books and funds. He left a letter to his wife admitting a default of 3770.08 dollars. Strauss, a pioneer aged 72, was known as Honest Henry.
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Antigo
Wis
Henry FF. Strauss
Langlade County
Strauss
Henry’' Strauss
Pure Medicine at Proper Prices Offered To All
A reassurance that everyone may obtain drugs and medicines safely and at fair prices. The notice speaks frankly about needing remedies at times and invites readers to know where to find them pure and affordable.
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Dingley Committee
Free Trade
POST
Comptroler
Miss Bonaparte
Princess Chimay
Detroit
Fer
van Northwick
Bank of
W. M
Tls
Bank of William J. and
J. S. van Northwick
Batavia, Ills
Western Paper Bag Company
Batavia, Ill
Green
Green, Robbins & Honore
William M. van Northwick
Appleton
Wisconsin
Illinois
The
Ohio
Correa , Stylesh
Stephenson Street
Majestic
Acorn
Universal, Stewart and Barler
Weiss & Co
Bartlett Co
Richardson & Boynton
Gmmert & Burrell
L. F. Burrell
Ponber Cash Gaoger Enson Phone
Freeport
Banta Claus
Michigan
New York State
Pride of Freeport
Poettijohn
Vermont
Burrell’s
Stephenson St
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