Reorganization Debates and Clerical Visit to Washington
In Washington on November 29 discussions arise over a potential regular army reorganization to around 100000 troops with possible expansion. Proposals include a provisional native force funded by island revenues and leadership openings for junior officers, while maintaining U S units for order. Also Arch bishop Chapelle, apostolic delegate to Cuba and the Philippines, met state department officials on church holdings and the upcoming hierarchy changes. Navy plans to raise the Reina Mercedes with Merritt Chapman wrecking crew are noted, with Lt Hobson possibly aiding. Congressman Ian of Missouri disputes Bailey's leadership, and postal service experiments with free delivery gain general approval.
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Washington
Ses
Congress
Umion
United States
United States Army
Kieuts
Provisional Army
Ishington
Archbishopre
New Orleans
Cuba
Porto Rico
State Department
Hay
Chapelle
Philip
Mar
Hobson
Annapoor
Bailey
Ian
Missouri
Missouri, Announces Him 48 Opposed To Mr. Bailey
Inc
Ded
Kington
Perry S
Jen
The Gillett Failure at Woodbine News Brief
Two U S court filings relate to the Gillett case at Woodbine Kansas. Actions total 46000 in value with bonds posted at 92000. Continental National Bank sues for 16000 while C & Cooper Kansas City files a 39000 claim. U S Marshals have gone to Woodbine.
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Ica
Kan
Gillett
Woodbine
United States
Continental National Bank
Uis
Cooper
Kansas City
Pres- Trigg
Sorting cattle from vast herds to require six train loads
In Sedalia Ada Carroll a teenage girl was caught with a black man by police and leapt from a second-story window to avoid arrest, dying of internal injuries. In Wichita Stanley and Charles G. Cohn push maize exhibit at Varis expo seeking state appropriation.
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Patat Sedalia
Ada Carroll
Paris
Wichita
Kan
Stanley
Charles G. Cohn
Commercial Club
Unprecedented year in global finance notes gold standard shifts
Washington reports from the mint director on 1897 coinage trends led by Russia Japan and the United States. He highlights Russia's resumption of gold payments and the reform of Japan's monetary system while India opposes international bimetallism. The year shows record gold coinage and Russia's vast gold hoard as a major global event.
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Washington
George FP. Roberts
Mint
Russia
Japan
India
United States
France
Great Britain
Austro-Hungary
Austro- Hungary
Wisconsin Battleship Stuck in Mud at San Francisco
The newly launched battleship Wisconsin ran aground in the mud off Union Iron Works Bay, San Francisco. Tugs failed to reach it. a ten inch hawser and yard machinery were used but broke. Dredges will be employed to carve a channel to deep water so the ship can be floated.
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San Francisco
Wisconsin
Union Iron Works
Iron
Spain Accepts U N Offer For Cuba and Islands
Paris Nov 29 Spain accepts the United States offer of 20 million dollars and agrees to relinquish Cuba and cede Porto Rico Guam and the Philippines in a brief joint commission statement. Spain argues American principles are rejected but consents to a peace proposal to avoid further bloodshed. Madrid calm but bitter reviews follow. Washington plans to muster out 30 000 to 40 000 volunteers as peace nears. Internal Revenue shows October receipts of 21 785 807 dollars, up 7 690 276 from 1897.
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Paris
Spain
United States
Peace Commissions
Cuba
Porto Rico
Guam
Philippine Islands
Sogin
Washington
State Department
Madrid
War Department
Internal Revenue
Navy
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
European anger over American Philippines seizure warned in Paris
Paris dispatch notes European discontent with US control of the Philippines. French officials condemn American presence in eastern waters as a disturbing factor. William T. Stead reports most Europeans are ignorant of events yet those who read papers sense a mood against the action.
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Paris
Philippines
Europe
William T. Stead
France
Belgium
Germany
Russia
Austria
Turkey
Italy
Emeh
Many Lives Saved From Lifesaving Service Report
Washington reports the general superintendent details 264 stations across Atlantic lakes Pacific and Louisville Ohio. In one year 402 disasters involved 3118 aboard 12 lost. vessels and cargo valued at 27,108,300, of which 6,410 saved and 757,660 lost. 63 shipwrecked rescued, 59 vessels totally lost and 965 small craft casualties with 874 persons, 10 lost. Lifesaving crews saved or helped 471 vessels valued at 2,868,655, plus 34 more aided in distress and 226 warned by patrol signals.
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Washington
General Superintendent of the Lifesaving Service
Atlantic
Lakes
Pacific
Ohio
Louisville
Sea storm wrecks claim over seventy lives in New England
Boston reports indicate more than 70 lives lost in tug, schooner, and coal barge wrecks from a Saturday night storm. If the steamer Portland has gone down, casualties could reach 140 with more than 100 vessels ashore or wrecked. Mass beaches along Cape Cod area show scattered wreckage and missing vessels.
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Boston
Portland
Massachusetts Bay
Penobscot
New London
Massachusettts Bay
Boston Harbor
Cape Cod
St Louis Centenary Contemplates Exposition Plan
St Louis on November 20 reports a general committee of 50 appointed to plan the 1903 centennial celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. The design committee favors an exposition and urges governors to appoint delegates to meet in St Louis by January 1 to decide timing place and method of the commemorative event. also brief notes on Paris Times commentary and Cuba leadership changes.
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St. Louis
Louisiana
France
Committee On Design
Wreck Toll Rises From Eastern Storm of Recent Weekend
Boston reports 169 confirmed dead from wrecks in Saturday night storm with 74 aboard the steamer Portland believed lost. By Sunday, 94 bodies found ashore at Highland Light and more than 170 vessels wrecked overall. Providence notes Black Island wreckage and 24 fishing boats lost, including the schooner Lexington.
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Boston
Portland
Boston Herald
North Truro
Highland Light
High Head Station
Herald
Cape Cod
Portland Steamship Company
Dallas
Boston Harbor
New York
Evening World
Providence
Providence, R. 1
Black Island
Lexington
Machins
Hartford Dredging Company
Battle with burglars at Grand Rapids depot ends with captures
Tsase Shuster and Marshall Wickes, Grand Rapids & Indiana station agent and assistant, faced two robbers after they blew open the Martin depot safe. A gunfight left Wickes wounded but alive, one robber shot in the leg and both bandits escaped before later capture by a posse and locals. A separate note reports a 114 year old Belleville resident, James Edwards, describing a lifetime from Virginia to Missouri. The piece also notes new bankruptcy rules by the U S Supreme Court and three diphtheria deaths in Arkansas City amid an outbreak.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Tsase Shuster
Grand Rapids & Indiana
Martin
Marshall Wickes
Schuster
Wickes
Grand Rapids
Wayland
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Wil
Reina Mercedes
Roberts Saya
Dewey
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Roosevelt
New York State
Alton
Pinkerton
G. G. Gillett
Uncle Sam
America
England
New England
ST. Louis’ Centennial
Burgate
London
The
Times
Havana
Gen. Castellanos
Blanco
Castellanos
James Edwards
St. Clair County
Belleville
Virginia
United States Supreme Court
Arkansas City
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