The Register’s Whimsical Moral Ruminations and Ship News
A collection of moral maxims and social quips opens this page, followed by reports from the sea lanes. Letters from the First Kentucky regiment recount hardships on the Alamo voyage to Puerto Rico, with foul air, canned beef, scarce water, and inflated ice prices. Cunard orders a new large steamship, not a passenger liner, to rival the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and the impending Oceanic, as White Star prepares a longer rival to dominate transatlantic routes.
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Ponce
Porto Rico
Alamo
Cunard Company
Lucania
Campania
Lloyd
White Star Company
American goods meet stiff foreign competition in Austria 1897 report
The Vienna consular report to the U S State Department notes a broad decline in Austrian imports as U S products undercut prices. American silk and cut glass win European sales, French buyers import U S silk for linings, and bicycle makers face higher prices but growing foreign demand.
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United States
Vienna
State Department
Austria-Hungary
Lyons
Europe
Austria
Germany
Nicaragua Canal Negotiations Accelerate With American Concession
Edwin F. Cragin Edward Eyre and Frank Washburn of New York reach an agreement with President Zelaya to form an American backed company for an interoceanic canal after October expiration. They must post 100000 in gold, raise 400000 in three months, organize within six months start excavation in 26 months open transit route in three years and complete in ten. Nicaragua to receive 1 percent stock and net dividends thereafter. several 100000 fines listed for noncompliance. option pending before Congress.
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United States
Nicaragua
Managua
Nicaraagua
Galveston
Tex
Edwin F. Cragin
Chicago
Edward Eyre
Frank 8. Washburn
New York City
Zelaya
Maritime Canal Company
Incubus
Maritime Company
Nicaraguan Congress
France and England Move Toward Egyptian Settlement
Paris reports the British cabinet plans to proclaim a protectorate over upper Egypt. The Times notes accord with the bluish policy in the bine book, while the Daily Mail cites an arrangement easing friction with France. General Kitchener arrives in London to a reception by top officers.
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Paris
Touay
Great Britain
Upper
Egypt
London
Cabinet Council
Times
Daily Mail
France
Nile
The
Kitchener
Lord Wolsey
Dreyfus Case Court Opens in Paris With Decisions Expected
The Court of Cassation begins hearings on reopening Alfred Dreyfus case. Observers anticipate no revision or annulment, arguing treason unlikely and the prior conviction may not stand. Reports note military staff disclosures fuel civil military tensions.
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Paris
Court of Cassation
Alfred Dreyfus
Devil's Island
Dreyfus
Courier du Soir
M. Bard
Colonel Waring Stricken by Yellow Fever in New York
New York reports Colonel George E. Waring Jr former street commissioner is ill at his home with yellow fever contracted in Havana. Health commissioner William J. Jenkins announced the illness noting Waring returned from Cuba aboard the Yucatan two days ago after a mission for President McKinley to inspect Havana sanitation.
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Waring
New York
George E. Waring, Jr
Havana
William J. Jenkins
Health Department
Colonel Waring
Cuba
Ward Line
Yucatan
McKinley
Warrants Said to Be Raised in Oakland Case
The grand jury report accused fraud in the county treasury with Frank T. Thwaites, now dead, allegedly drawing about 20 000 by raising warrants. It also cited minor irregularities by supervisors and excessive infirmary expenses in the Alameda County case.
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Oakland
Cal
Frank T.thwaites
Snook
Star Route Reform Under Post Office Scrutiny
Washington report details the annual reply exposing abuses in star route bidding. It cites deceptive subcontracting, undercut bids, and penalties for subcontractors, urging direct contracts with workers to improve mail service and cut government costs.
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Washington, D. C
United
William Schallenberger
Shellenberger
French Press Turns Conciliatory on Dreyfus Recall
Paris reports a calmer mood as recalls and cabinet debates unfold. Anti Semite papers try to incite by naming judges but public sentiment targets forged ploys and high staff culpability. Dreyfus affair delays cabinet crisis as Defreyencet hesitates over war portfolio.
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Paris
Fasheda
Marchand
Agita
Court of Cassation
Hich
Dreyfus
Gauloix
Belair
M. Ribot
Sensation at Transmississippi Exposition Arrest
Omaha report says H B Hardt an assistant manager in the exhibits department was arrested on two warrants charging forgery. He will be arraigned tomorrow. Hardt denies the charges and promises counter charges. Warrants sworn by H H Coehran for Schofield Schumer Teagle and H B A Searle of Monarch Manufacturing.
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Chicago
Omaha, Nebaska
Times-Herald
H. B. Hardt
Hardt
H. H. Coehran
Schofield, Schumer & Teagle
HB. A. Searle
Monarch Manufacturing Company
London cyclone flattens area around Denmark Hill
A severe storm hit a half square mile area around Camberwell Denmark Hill in London last night, overturning cabs and blowing down windows lamp posts trees and chimneys. Several houses lost their roofs and contents of nearby properties damaged. Local authorities assess the damage and begin repairs.
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London
Denmark Hill
Camberwell
Wind lifts hawker stalls injuring many and damaging property
Strong winds snapped stalls from merchants, sending stalls hundreds of yards aloft. debris injured numerous bystanders and caused extensive property damage across the area.
Norton Outlines New Ideals at Harvard Club
Cambridge talks by Charles Ellet on "The New American" reveal a nation at war and a shift from old to new democratic norms. Norton urges revamping government, reforming pensions, and divorcing politics from administration while warning of entanglements and weak leadership. He suggests Spain take responsibility for the Philippines.
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Cambridge
Mass
Charles Ellet
Harvard
Norton
Republic
America
Lee
Philippines
Spain
Deaths in War Department Cable From General Obe Manila
A war department cable reports multiple deaths from malarial fever typhoid fever and dysentery among U S Army personnel. Names include Sergeant Major Rey W Hover Private Henry Weaver Alfred Brgeman Thomas Harney Arthur Simms Frank Heeley D Lee Charles J Jorgensen John Morgan Earl Caterhout Walter McLean Edward Manches with dates in October September.
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Washington
D. C
War Department
Obe
Manila
Rey W. Hover
South Dakota
Henry J. Weaver
Pennsylvania
Alfred J. Brgeman
Nebraska
Thomas W. P. Harney
Fourteenth Infantry
Arthur C. Simms
Frank H. Heeley
Lee
Twenty-third Infantry
Charles J. Jorgensen
Eighteenth
John Morgan
North Dakota
Earl W. Caterhout
Walter J. McLean
Montana
Edward Manches
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Wishes of Porto Ricans at San Juan Meeting
Delegates from Porto Rico towns gathered in San Juan to draft recommendations for special commissioners bound for Washington. Reports from political social and economic committees urged territorial rights an end to military rule and the installation of civil government. They also pushed for an eight hour day and condemned the deed registration system as corrupt. The gathering assumed U S territorial rights would be granted.
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San Juan
San Juan de Porto Rico
Porto Rico
Washington
United States
Mussulmans Hanged In Crete After Soldier Massacre
Five more Mussulmans convicted of taking part in the September massacre of British soldiers were executed in Candia Crete. Four Bashibazouks received twenty years hard labor. Since Turkish troops left, more guilty Mussulmans have been found. Turkish officers allegedly took loot.
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Moassulmans
Crete
Candia
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