Payoffs and coffins in U S anti insurgent policy
Washington reports reveal plans to pay Cuban insurgents and Filipinos as part of disbandment strategy. An urgent deficiency bill funds 3 million dollars to be used mainly for Cuban and Filipino payments, with most funds for Cuba and a third for the Philippines. Bush orders for 4,000 coffins issued. national casket Company to supply zinc lined, satin lined oak coffins, with 50 day delivery to New York and onward to Cuba Porto Rico and camps.
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Fillytnos
Waltington
Eroetor
Open Senate
Cuba
Ueders
Washington
Bush
War Department
National Casket Company
Pittsburgh
New York
Cnbsa
Porto Rico
United States
No Big Salaries In Peace Commission Report
Washington reports question of compensation for Spanish peace commission members is solely the president’s decision with no clear indication of large pay. Officials doubt any member will receive near 100000, citing unknown plans and policy. John Watson seeks Plymouth church pastorate, while Calvin S Brice dies after illness and a Nicaraguan canal report predicts $100 million cost with dam site change saving $30 million. Shafter comments on Cuban relations and insurgents in Savannah gathering.
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Washington
State Department
Judge Day
Whitelaw Reid
Peace Commission
United States
John Watson
New York
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Ian MacLaren
Lyman Abbott
Watson
Nicarsgay
Nicaraguan Canal Commission
Congress
Chagres
Ratify First and Fight Afterwards
Washington notes a shift in senate sentiment toward the Paris peace treaty after Col. Bryan urged anti expansionists to ratify first and fight later. Opponents of expansion now consider opposing ratification less profitable and may support quick ratification when the treaty is ready. In St Louis, a Dec 18 dispatch reports Grant Gillett and attorney C R Troxel left for Vera Cruz en route to South America, aiming for the Argentine Republic to resume cattle ventures.
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Washington
Senate
Paris
Col. Bryan
Gillett
St. Louis
Mexico
Grant G. Gillett
Woodbine
Kan
C R. Troxel
Vera Cruz
South America
Argentine Republic
McKinley Tour Opens Atlanta Jubilee Reception
President McKinley arrives in Atlanta for a peace jubilee and addresses the Georgia General Assembly with a strong tribute to Civil War soldiers. He receives a warm, multi-section reception including a field artillery salute and formal introductions at the capitol.
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Atlanta
McKinley
Georgia
General Assembly
Capitol
Assembly Chamber
Gov. Candler
Montgomery
Ala
Dee
Union Station
Assembly
Commercial and Industrial Association
Clisby
Proceedings in Congress on Nicaragua canal and pensions
Senate debates Nicaragua canal bill with Money urging postponement for treaty changes and Morgan opposing the idea. House debates Lodge immigration bill, pension measures sail through, and a series of appropriations and private bills pass. Major actions include the pension bill totaling 145,234,490 with 994,714 pensioners and passage of the Hawaiian customs act and Loud bill, plus Indian and international bank items.
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Senate
Money
Miss
Great Britain
Morgan
Ala
Gallinger
NHL
Cises
West
Danforth
Immigration Committee
House
DeArmond
Reed
John Randolph
Army
Navy
Nicaragua
Harris
Kan
Barney
Wis
International American Bank
United States
Hawaiian Islands
Rixey
Sherman
N. Y
Congress
Dingley
Committee On
Ways and Means
Freedmen's Bank
Fish Commission
Women No Longer Wanted in Northwestern Railroad Service
Chicago December 12 two hundred women stenographers and clerks will be affected by an order from the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad company that women employees shall not remain in the service after January 1, extending to the entire Northwestern system. The move aims to curtail female staff across the line.
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Chicago
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company
Northwestern
Millions Lost by Fire in Terre Haute Disaster
A devastating blaze in Terre Haute Indiana during December caused an estimated loss near two million dollars marking the city’s worst fire on record. No further details on casualties or causes are provided in the fragment.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Labor federation boosts dues and aims at women workers
The American Federation of Labor spent the day amending its constitution and boosting per member dues from three-fourths of one percent to five cents monthly to fund federation work. Gompers opposed the rise but delegates backed it to expand organizing, especially in the southern states and among women workers. A proposed federal tax on factories employing women and children was killed. The convention debated printers versus machinists and re elected Gompers for a record eighteenth term with Detroit chosen for the next gathering.
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Kansas City
American Federation of Labor Convention
Federation
Trades Union
Gompers
Vost
J. F. O'Sullivan
Boston
Committee On Laws
O'Sullivan
Massachusetts
George E. McNeill
Samuel Gompers
Detroit
Mich
Dallas Promoter Col Randle Shot On Malin Street
Col Randle a prominent Texas capitalist and street railway promoter was fatally shot on Malin Street last night by H P Erwin of Forney Texas. The killing stems from an old dispute and Randle had been involved in nine prior shooting affrays over the past 29 years.
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Savannah
Chamber of Commerce
McKinley
Gage
Alger
Pa Tient
Smith
Macon
Jefferson Davis
Bibb County
Confederate Survivors’ Association
CG. M. Wiley
Col. Wiley
Dr. Hall
Dent
Edge
Dallas
Tex
Col . Randle
Texas
Malin Street
H. P. Erwin
Forney
Col. Randle
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Liverpool
Eng
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Miljiovaiee
Wook Ace
Calvin
Brice
Mr. Brice
Denmark
Ohio
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Oxford
Union Army
One Hundred and Eighteenth Ohio Regiment of Infantry
Twenty-third Army Corps
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Carolinas
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Cincinnati
United States Senate
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Nickel Piave Railway
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Galvin Brice
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