Telegrams In Brief Col,umbia and World News Summaries
In brief dispatches Gen Snott faces patrols in Col ombia while Patuma and Panama tensions loom. The Panama Canal debate stirs the senate as a ministerial nomination stalls. Crime and corruption news span bribery cases in real estate and public land deals, plus a Kansas City grand jury hearing contractor payoffs. Foreign and insular items note Wood’s career praise, river work charges, and travel of troops and families to Manila.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colombia
Gen. Snott
Colon
Dixla
Patuima Conlinie
Panama Canal
Senate
Americas
Darian
William J. Buchanan
New York
Panwita
John A. Benson
Syealthy
San Branglaca
George E. Greco
Binghamton
George W
Byte Butce
Monesty Council
Mullins
Insular
Root
Proctor
Gan
Wood
C. E. L. B. Mavis
Corps of Engineers
Philippines
Detroit
War Department
Leonard Wood
Kilpatrick
Manila
United States
Cooper
Wisconsin
Porto Rico
Wisconsin committee named on Rhodes scholarships
President Van Hise of Wisconsin to head the state committee on Cecil Rhodes scholarships. Other members include Presidents Deland Beloit Rushes Riou and Plante. The committee will meet to select applicants by competitive examination for study in England.
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Berl Congress of Asia
Ottoman Empire
van Hise
Tee University of Wisconsin
Cecil Rhodes
Wisconsin
Deland
Milton
Baton
Beloit
Rushes
Riou
Presiden Plante
Lawrence
Obituary Notices of Noted Figures across Cities
Multiple obituary items report deaths of prominent individuals. Charles MacBride the sculptor and Carnegie adviser dies in Edinburgh. Fredrick R. Coudert a New York lawyer dies at age 71 in New York. Rt. Rev. Denis Bradley bishop of New Hampshire’s funeral held in Chester. Benjamin Franklin Koons professor dies in Storrs Connecticut. Colorel B. Frank Asherman prominent lawyer and judge advocate general dies in Lancaster. James M. Munroe former trolley trader dies in Galesburg. Silas B. D. Medaugh longtime Grand Trunk official dies at 72 in Detroit. Mrs Honoretta Marshall dies in Webster, Massachusetts.
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Charles MacBride
Andrew Carnegie
Edinburgh
Fredrick R. Coudert
New York
Denis w+ Bradley
New Hampshire
Chester N. He
Benjamin Franklin Koons
Connecticut Agricultural College
Storrs
Conare
College Museum
Colorel
B. Frank Asherman
Tagraster
All Pennsylvania Nations Guard
Lancaster
Ped
James M. Munroe
Galesburg
Ren
Oldest Massachusetts woman dies at 105 after fortune given to poor
A 105 year old Massachusetts woman, once called the oldest in the state, died after a lifetime of charity. Her wealth, amassed decades ago, was donated to the poor. The era’s obituaries also note Gen Henry Rye Douglas of Hagers town died at 68, and Mra. B Angell widow of the University of Michigan president, passed after pneumonia with three children surviving.
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Massachusetts
Henry Rye Douglas
Hagerstown
Stonewall" Jackson
Stai
Gen
Douglas
Frederick
Barcare Frietchie
Grant
Nellie Grant Sartaris
Mra
B. Angell
University of Michigan
Paeuconia
Angell
Providence
R. 1
Alexis Caswell
Brown University
Pekin
China
United States
James D. Angell
University of Chicago
A. C. McVaughlin
Washington
Alexisa Angell
Detroit
The Expectation of Life at an International Congress
At a recent session of the International congress of actuaries in this city, experts reported longer life expectancy due to modern living conditions. Data from insurance and census show men rising from 46.1 to 58.4 years and women from 48.6 to 57.8. Mortality fell in Britain from 1848 to 1900, especially in early life, with hospitals and hygiene driving gains.
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Scientific American
International Congress of Actuaries
Lhis City
C. L. Landre
Amsterdam
G. Warner
Great Britain
Benedela
Crown jewels theft attempt shocks royal tower display
A dramatic report describes an attempted theft of royal crown jewels stored in a tower. The scene involved a bold intruder who aimed for the crown, scepter, and regalia as Queen Alexandra attended personal jewels during a moment of heightened security.
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St. James
Cne
Alexandra
Dramatic jewel theft misdirections and royal treason tale
An early scene unfolds with a jewel keeper’s son pursuing a masked thief amid a crowd. The impostor is unmasked, the crown survives, but jewels are scattered. A prisoner named Dood allegedly plots against the crown, hints at Lake and the duke of Ormonde, and later dies in prison. The tale links to Harry Percy and Galileo’s era, with a legendary wizard and a Marsden-like network guiding science and magic.
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Villian
Grea
Duniin
Duke of Ormonde
Nana
London
Martin Tower
Harry Percy
Northumberland
Earl
Raleigh
Ife
Heriot
Allen
Torperley
Galileo
Jupiter
Heriat
Sand Banks Equal to Mines in Long Island History
A New York Sun account recalls Long Island sand banks transforming farms into wealth as sand for building NY City booms. Quaker roots on Manhasset Neck and Hempstead Harbor districts helped spawn a major sand industry that reshaped land use and family fortunes, ending beach-digging dependence and creating enduring inheritances.
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New York
Americs
Coney Island
New Jersey
Manhasset Neel
Hempstead Harbor
Sand Bank Prosperity Sparks Family Tensions
In the sand mining region, a landowner boasts daily profits of about $100 with laborers and investors, while others lament the shift from ancestral loyalty to wealth. A Swedish foreman notes the locals’ misguided ideas about ancestry as sand banks transform Long Island communities from Manhasset Neck to Hempstead Harbor.
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Long Island
Manhasset Neel
Herpstead Harbor
Beekeeping Explains Bees Useful to Farmers and Public Health
Readers learn that bees pose little danger and provide honey. fear and sensational headlines deter beginners. The piece argues beekeeping is manageable with minimal care, noting bees rarely bite and can be kept alongside other farm stock with modest outlay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Teast
Cae Lnn
Brown
Tae
Ancient Shorthand Schools in the Third Century
The London Chronicle cites a papyrus showing a Shorthand teacher contracted to teach a slave for 120 dyachmae with payments across progress milestones. Another Oxyrhynchus finding notes a fatal accident evaluated by a coroner and public physician, dating to the era’s early centuries.
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London Chronicle
Inner Wight
Entertain Roosevelts by Secretary Hay in Abner home
Washington December 30 Secretary of State and Mrs Hay entertained at Abner in honor of President and Mrs Roosevelt though Hay could not attend because of illness.
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Heya
Roosevelts
Washington
Stave
Hay
Abner
Presidendt
G. Roosevelt
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the Marshfield Times
Williame & Bailey, Publishers
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Pension Bureau
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Rush
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Louis
Los Angeles
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Ofice Department
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del. Blood
Tower of London
Long Island Shore
Sand Bank
Manuf Sewarer
Kadef
Haing
Job
Giacomo Boni
Will Vist
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