Spaniards reject peace terms at Paris conference
Spanish commissioners refuse American plan to take the Philippines and reimburse Spain for pacific expenditures. They charge the US with violating international law by imprisoning Spanish troops after the protocol and seizing Manila tariff funds, demanding restitution nearly a million dollars and asserting Spain's sovereignty over the islands. The reading was translated from Spanish to English as talks adjourn to Tuesday.
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Paris
Spain
United States
Philippine Islands
Philippines
Antilles
Orient
M. Cambon
Madrid
Senor Ross
Manila
Ferguson
Tuesay
Ships Ready for War As Washington Prepares for Any Outcome
Washington reports the administration poised amid peace talks with the navy fully prepared should hostilities resume. North Atlantic squadrons were docked and refitted, Dewey's ships sent to Hong Kong dry docks, and auxiliary vessels kept in reserve. Army forces, though reduced, are considered more formidable due to improved training.
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Washington
Peace Commission
North Atlantic
New York
Norfolk
Admiral Dewey
Hong Kong
Long
Brit ships coated and ready in case of emergency
Stripped for action and wet har wet report notes all British warships on station fully coated their woodwork removed and crew prepared for emergencies on November 4 with ships geared for rapid mobilization.
Capitol in ruins after explosion at Washington building
National Capitol hit by blast and fire on Sunday leaving wrecked rooms and charred records. Supreme court chamber flooded and smoke stained while key official papers and original opinions from Washington era damaged or destroyed. Gas meter destroyed supports gas explosion theory. marshal and senate officials move to restore sessions.
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Arma
National Building
Washington
Capitol
United States Supreme Court
Senate
Marshal Wright
Supreme Court
Republic
Jefferson
Adams
Excitement in Wilmington as tensions rise
In Wilmington North Carolina on November 7 there is tense unease amid rumors of renewed conflict. Armed black groups parade at midnight and clash fears rise, white guards mobilize, streetcars are stoned, and police struggle to maintain order.
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Wilmiseton
N. C
Wilmington Light Infantry
Naval
Fresh Trouble at Pana
In Pana Illinois on November 7 a clash erupted when union miners confronted imported Alabama workers. A negro man attacked James Boyle a union miner near the B and O Southern depot. About 25 to 30 shots were fired. Two negroes were slightly wounded. Major Butler sent soldiers and a gatling gun to the scene. No arrests yet. Women and children fled for safety but no further trouble is expected.
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Pana
Ills
Alabama
James Boyle
Baltimore and Ohio Southern
Butler
Yellow Fever Strikes Havana Officials At Hotel Pasaje
J B Caldwell and F T Stewart of the quartermaster department contracted yellow fever in Havana. They were moved to El Vedado fever hospital as Col Williams and others afflicted also suffer. Doctors deem the Hotel Pasaje infected and fear a stampede of American guests once known.
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Havana
J. B. Caldwell
F. T. Stewart
Quartermaster’s Department
Hotel Pasaje
Col. Williams
Laine
el Vedado Fever Hospital
Stillwell to Lead Detroit and Lima Northern Railroad
A. E. Stillwell, president of the Kansas City and Gulf railroad, is slated to become president of the Detroit and Lima Northern. The Stillwell group will invest 3 million dollars in the line, Hartwall interests stay, and the road’s name will be changed to the Central Germinal and Connecting Railroad.
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Port Arthur
Toleepo
A. E. Stillwell
Kansas City and Gulf Railroad
Detroit and
Lima Northern
Stillwell
Hartwall
Central, Germinal and Connecting Railroad
Epitaph of a Sailor in a Chap Book
A poem by Barrett Eastman in Chap Book reflects a sailor’s farewell. The speaker asks shipmates not to weep as he lies in a hammock at sea. He pledges duty and steadfastness, hoping to be remembered for serving the captain and fighting bravely.
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Barrett Eastman
Halloran tale recalls Joliet ward drama and a missing wife
An elderly Joliet hotel proprietor narrates a memory of Mike Halloran, a Union soldier from Company K, his wife Ellen, and their child. The tale blends war, longing, and sacrifice as Halloran returns with loss, while Ellen vanishes, and a later cemetery scene hints at enduring fame and memory.
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Joliet
Santiago
Jabez
Cain
Abel
Maria
England
New England
Spain
Mike Halloran
Halloran
Mike
Ellen Riley
Ellen
Ellen Halloran
Alanna
Company K
Quotable Epigrams and Banter From Public Figures
Extracts from Sir M Grant Duff Diary and London society chatter recount witty exchanges. Disraeli meets English peers in the Lords and Bishop Wilberforce stirs Exeter Hall, with quips about readiness to speak and audience expectations.
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M. Grant Duff
House of Lords
Disraeli
Lord
Beaconsfield
Elysian Fields
Exeter Hall
Wilberforce
Berlin actresses in a Berlin variety scene surveyed
The Bersencourier reports on 200 Berlin variety actresses aged 7 to 47 earning 2 to 20 marks per night. Of them 43 were previously on stage, 85 married, 24 widowed, 38 divorced or abandoned. Sixty three work day jobs besides night singing.
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Berlin
Bersencourier
Cafe Chantant
Clubbing Rates for 1898 99 Subscriptions Listed
Readers may subscribe to a range of periodicals via the Tribune offer for 1898 99. Rates pair The Inter State Poultryman with the Tribune at 2 dollars, while other titles join for 3 30 to 7 dollars annually. The note includes details for magazines like Cosmopolitan, McClure's, Century, and Scribner's among others and different combinations with the Tribune.
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The
Tribune
Inter State Poultryman
Cosmopolitan
N. Y. World
Greeley Tribune
Detroit
Free Press
Demorest's Magazine
North American Review
New York Daily Journal
the Field and Farm
New York Sunday Journal
Popular Science
New York World
the Century
McClure’s Magazine
Review of
the Forum
Scribner’s Magazine
Denver Weekly News
Denver Daily News
Springfield
Mass
Republican
Eclectic Magazine
Ring Price Teaches Wife Value of Thousands
A husband teaches his wife the meaning of $1,000 by sending pennies dimes and quarters totaling the amount. Bags of coin overwhelm her and she abandons buying the ring, which had seemed affordable before. The method from the New Orleans Times-Democrat illustrates how large sums loom when rendered in small change.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Fagots to Surn Heretics in Historical Note
A reminiscence from Notes and Queries recalls bequests aimed at buying fagots for heretics. A widow of a city freeman left a tenement whose rent funded fagot purchases, later redirected to coal for the poor to warm them rather than burn them.
To the Point. A London dinner invitation misfired
A young foreigner newly arrived in London did not attend a dinner honoring him. Friends asked why he skipped the event, and he replied frankly that he had not been hungry. The anecdote appears in London Tit-Bits.
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London
Not Days Enough. A Russian beauty on holidays and US calendar
The Philadelphia Press quotes a Russian beauty urging holidays in honor of great men while a U.S. major notes there are only 365 days in the American year. The article also highlights a traveler’s astonishment at Indian children who become skilled workers at a young age.
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Philadelphia Press
India
Anxious Parent-Doctor Dialogue Cited on Marriage
A quotation from the New Orleans Times-Democrat contrasts a parent and doctor. The parent fears impending blindness as a daughter nears marriage while the doctor urges proceeding with the wedding to perhaps reveal truth through later insight.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Promises Reward Offer
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for catarrh cures Hall's catarrh cure claims to treat the blood and mucous surfaces. F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio profit claim endorsements from West Truax Wavnine Kixnan Marvin wholesale druggists. The ad states price seven and a half dollars per bottle with testimonials available and druggists selling Hall's family pills.
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Hall
Toledo
O. Hall
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