03 Dec 1897
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Newspaper
Houston Daily Post
Location
Houston, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1897
Page
1
Reports from Bedalia Ontario and Chicago forecast a gathering of yacht clubs and racers for the Lake Ontario Yacht Racing Association annual meeting set to take place tomorrow near Garden. Events include preparations by yacht clubs and officials as teams travel for the gathering.
Chicago would gain twenty miles of riverfront decks and a transformed Chicago River by a continuous culvert from end to end. Charles T. Yerkes urged the city council committee to grant Street and Park Row to a corporation with 99 million dollars capital to build twenty docks spanning a mile each. He said the project should be stone-bulled and later revert to the city at construction cost.
Readings describe a high barometer over the west with snow and very cold weather reaching Central Texas. A Gulf coastal storm brings high northerly winds and a brief cold wave across Texas with temperatures near freezing and light rain as conditions shift southward.
T H Findley filed a deed of trust conveying his entire stock of groceries hardware and fixtures to H P Harrington for the benefit of creditors including Smith Phillips Sturgis National Bank Stroud Gibson Stroud & Co PY H Robbins J D Findley totaling 9872 26. Several attachments were levied on the stock today.
J C Hodges a grocery dealer moved his stock and fixtures to Temple Grocery company and Cooper Grocery company of Waco to secure 1127 dollars of indebtedness. La Palski stock sold to J C Woot of New York at 81 cents totaling over 120000 dollars for Abilene San Angelo and Gainesville stores. L S Lapowski named manager.
Washington December 2. Secretary Berkely Rateh presented ten propositions to President McKinley on behalf of Cuban insurgents asserting U S support for Cuban independence, criticizing Spain, and urging a defensive and offensive alliance with Cuba. Reports said ships Dauntless and Echooner carried arms to Savannah. no cargo found on return. Naval inquiry noted.
The battleship Dauntless reached Jacksonville at 2 pm after successfully landing an expedition in Cuba. It left November 18 with the schooner Jennie Thomas in tow, was towed to Savannah, then departed port and had not been heard from since.
Fragmentary OCR text discusses freight payment and advance terms for cotton, mentioning six months holds and chrome interest. The readable portions are garbled and lack identifiable names, dates, places, or concrete actions.
Madrid dispatch reports a shift in Catalonia's stance as conservatives and federalist factions grow calmer toward autonomy. Business leaders like Isidoro Gassi warn of peninsula risks, yet support appears rising as Cuba and Madrid telegrams show backing for the reform. US relations sit amid cautious optimism and lingering doubt about future steps.
Madrid reports the cabinet council chaired by the queen regent. Senor Sagastia says Del Rio in Cuba remains a rebel center despite Weyler’s claim of pacification. Rivera says insurgent negotiations are in progress in the Philippine Islands. Spain and the United States relations are friendly. A Havana delegation seeks export of 60,000 bales of tobacco with Canalejas promising to advocate with Blanco. Carlist agitation continues. clergy-assisted Carlist activity noted.
A wide round of items from St Louis meetings on cattle quarantine to notes on McKinley, Cuban affairs, and European diplomacy. Reports include a Canton mother’s illness, duels in Arkansas, railroads seeking auto brakes, and Cuba autonomy talks with Britain and Germany showing interest. Also listed are local Texas events, grain and cotton market moves, and civic notices across several counties.
Clergy deny the pope’s authority in political matters as Carlists strive to raise funds, signaling tensions within the church and political factions.
Wm Kern admits involvement with his sweetheart Delilah Pales in the murder of his father Jerome Kern. He claims Delilah lured him, they planned to kill the mother as well, and attempted to conceal the crime by burning the body and hiding the weapon.
Fragmentary text mentions a legal matter involving a person in Columbus Texas with references to a book and individuals, but details are unreadable and names unclear. The article fragment lacks verifiable facts to summarize a specific outcome or action.
A Hong Kong dispatch reports Emperor of China refusing to yield to German demands over missionary killings. Germany seeks punishment of officials, indemnities, and control of Kino Chau bay with a German coaling station, while China proposes arbitration with Holland and Belgium. Russia reportedly will not intervene.
Berlin December 2 The small Ottoeler Geir given leave to Port au Prince to support Germanys demand for indemnity to Emil Landers over alleged false imprisonment by Haitian authorities. Germany will only demonstrate if negotiations with the Haitian minister in Berlin fail. Prince Riemarek says United States interference would be a political necessity to oppose American arrogance and press for satisfaction.
A fierce December storm battered the coast with heavy hail snow and rain confining Dover Calais traffic and wrecks reported off the Goodwin sands. The Kentish coast faced unprecedented damage as several vessels collided near Deal and the Persian Empire towed to London after damage to its port side.
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