Venezuela Crisis Deepens as Ultimatum Fails
Caracas reports government leaders seek Castro resignation or a new civilian cabinet with Ayala as interim president. British and German fleets shell Puerto Cabello after an Anglo German ultimatum, while Venezuela contests the action and seeks arbitration. The Miranda escapes and tensions rise as foreign powers press for satisfaction over Topaze insult and fort bombardments.
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Caracas
Venezuela
United States
Castro
Ramon Ayala
Congress
General Hernandez
el Mecho
Maracaibo
Great Britain
Orinoco River
Bolivar
Panther
Bowen
van Layden
Curacoa
la Guaira
Vineta
Margarita
Caribbean Sea
Cumana
Puerto Cabello
Miranda
Falke
Garacas
Topaze
Germany
Three Lives Lost as Fire Claims Bond Family in City Tenement
In New York on December 15, a five story tenement at Hast 126th Street saw the deaths of Mary Bond and two children, Raymond and Rose, while husband Edward Bond and daughter Helen were burned save. The family lived on the top floor of the 16 family building. damage to building and contents totaled $8000. Edward and Helen were treated at Harlem hospital.
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New York
Hast 126Th Street
Mary Bond
Raymond Bond
Rose Bond
Edward Bond
Helen Bond
Harlem
Molineux Suit Not Off Track In Divorce Case
Sioux Falls dispatch reports Mrs Roland B Molineux refutes claims of reconciliation with her husband and abandoning a divorce suit. Authorities insist the suit continues with Mrs Molineux living quietly at her hotel, avoiding familiar contacts in the divorce colony.
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Sioux Falls
Roland B. Molineux
East
New York
Portland Officials Named in City Gambling Probe
Municipal Judge H W Hogue and attorney P B Beekman testified under oath to District Attorney Chamberlain after visiting gambling houses on Dec 6. They will help identify others among prominent citizens charged with violating the city gambling ordinance as the grand jury call results.
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Portland
Ore
H. W. Hogue
P. B. Beekman
Chamberlain
Free Baptist Church Burns in Canton Fire
A Canton dispatch reports the Free Baptist church, a brick building valued at 5000 dollars and uninsured, burned to the ground Sunday evening at 6. The organ and a few pew cushions were saved. The congregation was described as prosperous and the church among the county’s best.
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Lewiston
Canton
Free Baptist Church
Fire at Albany boarding house injures several people
In Albany on Lower State street a fire in a boarding house run by Mrs. Jane Davis injured Mary Stuart the cook, and Kitty Rings a laundress and her 15 year old daughter Katherine. Guests escaped by windows and Secretary Robert W Hebbard of the state board of charities and his wife were rescued from the third floor. The blaze began in the basement from an unknown cause. the building suffered limited damage.
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Albany
N. Y
Lower State Street
Jane Davis
Mary Stuart
Kitty Rings
Katherine
Robert W Hebbard
State Board of Charities
Tuberculosis Panic Among Sac and Fox Tribe Declares Decline
Guthrie Oklahoma December 15 Dr Wyman government physician at the Sac and Fox Indian agency reports a large majority of the tribe suffer tuberculosis scrofula and other incurable diseases He adds the tribe will likely be extinct within a few years with only 479 members remaining from the once powerful group.
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Guthrie
Okla
Wyman
Sac and Fox Indian Agency
Oklahoma
Bogota Steamship Wreck in Magdalena River Near El Banco
Barranquilla advices confirm the total wreck of the steamer Bogota in the Magdalena river near El Banco. The vessel carried a large force of government soldiers, many of whom were drowned. Details of the disaster have been suppressed.
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New York
Barranquilla
Bogota
Magdalena River
el Banco
Colon
London hopes for peaceful settlement from Venezuela
A Venezuelan government message expressing desire for a peaceful settlement of ongoing difficulties was received in London. Also advertised are men’s neckwear at 25c to $1.50 from HM L Bailey & Co, 69 Merrimack Street.
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London
HM. L. Bailey & Co
Merrimack Street
Father John Medicine Credited By Sick Man
William Crowley of 20 David On street says a heavy cold, kidney and liver trouble left him broken down until Father John Medicine cured the cold and rebuilt his system without opium or morphine, warning against harmful drugs in most medicines.
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William Crowley
David
Father John
Lenient judge shows mercy amid cold weather in police court
In a frigid session Judge Hadley sifted through many cases offering chances for offenders to return to work due to the fuel famine. Mary Anderson and John Loorom faced drunkenness charges tied to a home on Lakeview avenue where two Anderson children were found in a deplorable state. Mary was put on probation and Loorom fined $6. Multiple defendants faced larceny, drunkenness, or other penalties, with fines ranging from $2 to $6 and sentences from jail to probation. Several first offenders were released as the court urged leniency while enforcing discipline.
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Hadley
Mary Anderson
John Loorom
Creamer and
Curran
Anderson
Parker
Lakeview Avenue
Mary
Boston
Loorom
Gider
William J. Kilmartin
Inspector Walsh
Kilmartin
John Bourlet
John F. Kelley
Michael Drouet
John B. Kelleher
Thomas McDermott
Middle Street
Walsh and Goodwin
Officer Hurley
Kelleher
McDermott
Thomas F. Dolan
Dolan
John Johnston
Haddock
Clerk Trail
Johnston
William O'Day
Dracut
Oscar Wood
Nathaniel Toomley
William L. F. F. Murphy
James McKenna
Worcester
Appearan
George Philip
John Kenney
Frank Fealey
Arthur Bedoir
James Cunningham
Henry McGee
Frank Phillips
Slattery Canton
Stephen “Arney
Stephen
Slattery Purity Brigade
Izard Heroux
State Farm
Bridgewater
Mr. Slattery
Patrick J. Sullivan
Annile Carroll
Joan Murphy
Iris
John
England's Attitude on Cuban Treaties Questioned in Commons
London December 15 Wren questioned in the House of Commons about negotiations for a reciprocity treaty between the United States and Cuba and the protection of British rights under most favored nation treatment in Cuba. Foreign Secretary Cranborne said representations had been made to Washington but no reply had been received.
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London
Wren
House of Commons
United Saintes
Cuba
Cranborne
Washington
Benjamin F Dennieda Dies At 67 In Philadelphia
Benjamin F Dennieda treasurer of the American Baptist Publication Society died at his Philadelphia home on Monday at age 67. He spent his life in religious and temperance movements and once served as grand worthy patriarch of America and later of the United States Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance.
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Benjamin F. Dennieda
American Baptisl Publication Society
Philadelphia
America
United States
The
Sons of Temperance
United States Ambassador McCormick to Leave Vienna
Retiring ambassador Mr McCormick will depart Vienna next week for duties as ambassador to the United States. He awaits farewell audience with Emperor Franz Joseph and will proceed to Petereburn before resuming official duties abroad.
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Vienna
Dee
United States
Mr McCormick
Francia Joseph
McCormick
S'. Petereburn
No foundation for Leopold assassination report
Brussels rejects circulating claim of an attempted killing of King Leopold as he left the railroad station for the palace. Report deemed untrue and unverified by officials amid surrounding rumor.
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Brussels
Leopold
Jury Sifts Liability for Prospective Profits in Telephone Case
In La Perche vs New England Telephone and Telegraph, lawyers argued whether the company is liable for lost profits from a failed message delivery. Judge Aiken ruled the case hinges on reasonable effort to locate the brothers, with $21 set for actual outlays. Jury deliberation began after 11. The docket also included Joshua Daniels vs Town of Tewksbury for land damages tied to Andover Street widening, paused due to a key witness’s absence.
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la Perche
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Hall
Powers
Hall & Jones
Boston
W. H. Bent
Alken. Elphege
Bennoni la Perche
Elphege
Lowell
Bennoni
Peterboro
N. H
South Common
Supreme Court
Aiken
Joshua Daniels
Tewkabury
Andover Street
Cambridge
Oldest Canton woman dies at 101 in Oxford county
Lewiston December 15. An especial from Canton reports Mrs Hannah Childe aged 101 years died Sunday afternoon. She was the town's oldest resident and probably the oldest in Oxford county.
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Lewiston
Canton
Cave
Hannah Childe
Oxford County
Blizzard Forces Ships to Ride Out Gale Off Chatham
A blizzard dumped heavy snow at Chatham with no clear skies until noon. High wind created drifts on roads and rough seas drove the anchored fleet off High land to ride out the storm. Lightships stayed moored while a favorable wind could send ships north.
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Chatham
Belated European steamers miss Boston port appearance
Boston officials express surprise as several European steamers fail to dock today amid a blizzard. The Teutonia from Rotterdam is 23 days out and the Italian steamer Alberto Terres is 29 days out from Newcastle, England carrying coal.
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Boston
Massachusetts Bay
Teutonia
Rotterdam
Alberto Terres
Newcastle
Eng
Arch bishop of Chicago appointment proposal set
The Propaganda congregation proposed to the Pope the appointment of Bishop James K. Quigley of Buffalo as archbishop of Chicago succeeding Archbishop Feehan The meeting at the Propaganda college with Cardinal Gotth presiding considered the appointments and noted several absences
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Tome
Congregation of the Propaganda
James K. Quigley
Buffalo
N. Y
Chicago
Feehan
Dropasanda
Endingt Martinelli
J. F. Regis Canevin
St. Pauls Cathedral
Pittsburg
College of the Propaganda
Cardinal Gotth
The
Propaganda
Cocefinads
Sante Stefane
Parrecchi
Perpoti
Cattle disease found in another Littleton herd
Foot and mouth disease detected in a herd owned by W L Pickard in Littleton. Twelve cows are affected. Prompt eradication measures will be taken. The disease had been widespread in Littleton weeks earlier but relief efforts had nearly eradicated it.
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Littleton
W.L. Pickarnd
Court Denied Motion to Acquit in Blondin Murder Trial
Boston December 15. Defense counsel Owens urged acquittal arguing no motive was shown. The court refused to direct a verdict and saved exceptions. Owens attacked the state’s motive evidence, saying not a single witness proved motive after nearly 1000 testified.
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Boston
Blondin
Owens
Braley
Mr. Owens
Holding His Own
New Bedford story notes H. M. Knowlton is "holding his own" as per the physician's report dated December 15. The update reflects his stable condition and ongoing recovery status.
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New Bedford
H. M. Knowlton
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