Translation of Spanish copy of peace treaty released
London readers review a translated Spanish text of the peace treaty. Articles outline Spain renouncing sovereignty in Cuba and ceding Puerto Rico the Philippines Guam and other islands, with US payment of 20 million within three months and ten years of equal trade rights for Spain.
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London
Spain
Cuba
Porto Rico
West Indies
Guam
United States
Philippines
Lady Cook to Start London Stock Brokerage
London December 20 Lady Cook former Miss Tennie C Claflin announces she will begin the New Year as a stock broker under the name Lady Cook Co She says she will attend to the daily business and expects to gain a foothold in the London market
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London
Lady Cook
Tennie C. Claflin
Lady Cook & Co
Rumor Claims Haitian Dominican Leader Heureaux Assassinated
A Paris despatch cites Cape Haytien report that Dominican President Ulysses Heureaux was assassinated at a christening incognito. The long-time leader, born 1846 in Puerto Plata, faced multiple uprisings and was described as wealthy with monopolies, while a Port au Prince despatch says there is no foundation for the assassination claim.
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Paris
Cape Haytien
Ulysses Heureaux
Heureaux
Gen
San Domingo
Nassau
New Providence
Smith M. Weed
United States
Charleston
Port Au Prince
Faure Tired as France Faces Cabinet Crises and Plot Rumors
Paris amid rumors of Orleanist and Republican plots as President Faure weighs dissolution of the Chamber or resignation after ongoing Dreyfus turmoil. Bonapartists await Victor Napoleon visit and potential coup before year’s end. Anti Semitic league proclaims Dreyfus betrayed the country and urges swift action.
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New York
the Evening Journal
Paris
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Faure
Chamber
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Versailles
Powder Magazine Explosion Strikes Hang Chow Camp
A Shanghai dispatch reports a powder magazine in the Chinese camp at Hang Chow exploding. The blast leveled over a square mile of houses and killed about 3000 soldiers, including the commanding general. The American and French missions were mentioned in connection with the incident.
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London
Shanghai
Hang Chow
Dreyfus Dossier Handed to Court in Sealed Plea
The Courier de Soir reports the Dreyfus secret dossier was handed to the court of cassation this evening under pledge that it not be communicated to Dreyfus’s counsel or to anyone outside the court. No Europeans are said to have fatal injuries.
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Dreyfus
Paris
Courier de Soir
Court of ‘Cassation
Pardon Hearing On Dr Moore In New Hampshire
The governor and council resumed a pardon hearing for Dr Joseph C Moore in Concord on December 20 with Reuben E Walker for petitioners and County Solicitor Tuttle for the state. Medical testimony described pernicious anaemia and declining health including anaemia, angina, and possible heart muscle paralysis. Letters urging mercy came from Senators Chandler and Gallinger, ex Governor Busiel, ex Senator Blair, and others. The case was submitted without further argument.
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N. H
Joseph C. Moore
Reuben E. Walker
Tuttle
Bastmian
G. P. Conn
Moore
Harvard Medical
Hayes
Chandler
Gallinger
Busiel
Blair
EB. A. Knowlton
J. A. Greene
Postmaster Robinson
Sulloway
Wife's Property: Missouri court reverses ruling on Mrs McPherson estate
Circuit Judge Wood overturns probate court, ruling that the common law husband’s claim to his wife’s personal estate no longer exists, recognizing Mrs McPherson as having separate rights. He orders assets returned to her brothers, Horatio and William Locke, of Worcester. Appeal to the supreme court planned.
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St. Louis, Mo
Wood
Mary B. McPherson
McPherson
New York
Bassieur
Circuit Court
Utah Polygamy Foe Urges Fight to Bar Roberts
About 200 people gathered in New York to launch an aggressive campaign by the Woman's Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church aimed at preventing Brigham H. Roberts, an avowed polygamist, from seating as Utah's representative in the Fifty-Sixth Congress.
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New York
Woman's Board of Home Missions
Presbyterian Church
Brigham UH. Roberts
Utah
Dartmouth Receives $100,000 Bequest Trust
Hanover N H Dec 20 The annuity promised to Dartmouth College in the will of the late Charles T Wilder of Olcott Falls VI has been turned over to the trustees. The sum totals 100000 dollars.
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Hanover
N. H
Dartmouth College
Charles T. Wilder
Olcott Falls
Low Rent for Winter Tenements in Prime Locations
Multiple vacated first class tenements offered at unusually low prices. One four dollar fifty cent per month unit and another five room unit at sixteen dollars and fifty cents. Prospective tenants urged to inspect at 64 Central Street. Burdock Blood Bitters advertised as a remedy for a lazy liver.
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T. H. Elliott
Central Street
Shafter Testifies Before War Inquiry Board On Santiago
General Shafter described the Santiago operation as a military success despite 500 deaths and cited careful planning, with plans changed thrice by the department. He defended logistics, ambulances, and medical supplies, admitted crowding transport for 17 000 men, and praised civil staffers like Col. Astor and Capt Brice for their service. The session also touched Nicaragua canal bill with Senator Caffery opposing Morgan.
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General Shafter
War Investigation Commission
Santiago
Col
Miley
Cuba
Brie Fly
Shafter
Department
Woodbury
John Jacob Astor
Astor
Brice
Senator Brice
Caney
Opposes Annexation of the Philippines in Senate Debate
Washington reports the House hearing the first speech against annexing the Philippines. Williams of Mississippi argues against governing 9,000,000 unwilling subjects and predicts costs of 140 million dollars yearly, urging retention of the flag only if it serves right. Senate also discusses expansion rights and Filipino self government.
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Washington
House
Philippines
Williams
Mississippi
Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
Spain
Dewey
Manila
Secretary of War
Teller
Senate
Liliuokalani protests US ownership of Hawaiian crown lands
Ex Queen Liliuokalani submits to the Senate a protest against the United States claiming ownership of about one million acres of Hawaiian crown lands. She argues the lands are her property and decries due process denial and lack of compensation, urging restoration of the property.
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Liliuokalani
Senate
Hawaii
United States
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Hawaiian Islands
United States of America
Liliuokalanil
Secretary Bliss resigns from cabinet health prompts retirement
Secretary of the Interior Bliss resigns from the cabinet citing health and business pressures. Senator Warren urged him to stay, but Bliss declined though he noted he might remain a week if the President cannot appoint a successor. He awaits a suitable successor and aims to return to private life in the new year.
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Washington
Bliss
Senator Warren
Wyoming
Retirements loom as Bunce nears age limit at New York yard
Washington reports Rear-Admiral Francis M. Bunce will retire for age next Sunday with anticipated promotions across the service. If relieved from active duty on retirement, a replacement high ranking officer will be needed to take command of the New York yard. In Washington the presidential party returned to Pennsylvania Station after a seven day Southern entreat, with Mrs. McKinley slightly indisposed but the group in good health and satisfied with the trip.
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Francis M. Bunee
New York Navy Yard
Admiral Bunce
New York Yard
Washington, D. C
Pennsylvania Station
Southern Railroad
McKinley
Atlanta
Man Known as The Man Who Never Slept Dies
Ed Bain, 75, president of Bain Wagon Co who never slept for sixteen years, died in Pasadena Ca of pulmonary apoplexy. Born in Kinderhook N Y he endured sleepless devotion to business and city trips to Chicago for rest in theatres and billiard halls, a remarkable lifelong pattern noted by Kenosha Wis observers.
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Kenosha
Wis
Ed. Bain
Bain Wagon Company
Pasadena
Cal
Chicago
Kinderhook
N. Y
Labor Convention Defeats Women Tax and Ship Subsidies
The American Federation of Labor session in Kansas City reviewed the law committee report. Changes favored raising organization income while defeating a 50 percent tax on products from industries employing women. Two merchant marine proposals, free ships and subsidies for American vessels, were also defeated.
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Kansas City
Convention
The
American Federation of Labor
Committee of Law
Negroes in Pana brace for coal mine strike tensions
Twenty Negro workers arrived in Pana Illinois today and were checked by soldiers before moving to the coal mine stockade. About 400 Negroes are in town as white union miners stay out for the state scale. State militia and provost guards cover the city while strike leaders say prospects improve daily.
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Pana
Ill
National Union
Col. Wells
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