Notorious Hungarian Gypsy Rigo and Princess Spark Big Crowds
Budapest scene paints a sensational portrait as Janos Rigo the gypsy musician and Princess de Caraman-Chimay arrive, drawing crowds, blocking traffic, and prompting police. Reports note the couple’s diamond display and public fascination while elites dismiss their divorce saga as a sham. In Cuba a Spanish column clashes with rebels near Jaguey Grande, with fifte en killed and claims of a massacre amid disputed engagement.
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Budapest
Janos Rigo
Princess de Caraman-Chimay
Clara Ward
Detroit
Paris
Stuhlweissenberg
Rige
Rigo
trafic
princess
gipsy
Cubs
Dlavuna
Sotelongo
Sotelongo ranch
Jaguey Grande
Mataness
Gladstone Sanguine After Eighty Seventh Birthday Celebration
Mr Gladstone felt fatigued yet calm after a quiet birthday observance marked by a surrounded warden and a steady flow of congratulatory telegrams from the United Kingdom United States and Europe.
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London
Dee
Gladstone
United Kingdom
United
continent
Stetson Will Contest Set For March Hearing
In Boston Judge Hoalmes fixed March 1807 for the hearing on the will contest of John Stetson theatrical manager. AD Pattee, executor, seeks to determine if Ada Richmond Stetson was lawfully married and whether the case proceeds in court. Also noted is a New York report denying Archbishop Corrigan’s elevation to cardinal. A Manila dispatch reports native insurrection spreading to Bulacan with many rebels arrested.
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Boston
Hoalmes
AD Pattee
John Stetson
Ada Richmond Stetson
Fourth-Class Postmasters Appointments Listed
The fourth-class postmasters appointed include Maine C W Bertlett at Birches and Mrs Snell at Chases Mills. New Hampshire E E Cowen at Guild. Pennsylvania W S Turner, Iazer dall, and J W Kahn at Leesport. Albany oath of office shows Lieut Gov elect Timothy J Woodruff taking oath before the secretary.
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Washington
Newark in Darkness as Big Electric Plant Burns
Fire destroyed the regular and reserve sections of the People's Electric Light & Power plant at City dock and River street in Newark, plunging the city into darkness for days. Thirty seven dynamos were consumed. losses reach 173000 with 75000 insured. Foreman Leo Gamp was burned at the switchboard as flames ripped through from outside. The plant cost 200000 two years ago. Authorities moved to save neighboring T J Preston Oil works as crews from across the country were urged to send replacement dynamos.
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Newark
N. J
People’s Electric Light & Power company
City dock
River street
Passaic river
Leo Gamp
Gamp
T. J. Preston Oil company
City ends Rockwell contract for city printing
Boston December news reports the city printing contract with Rockwell and Churechill is abrogated by the printing committee by a four to one vote. The firm will continue work until February 1 1597 under existing terms as the city plans its own municipal printing plant funded by next year’s appropriation.
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Boston
Rockwell & Churechill
tventy
wilil
Quincy
Rockwell & Charehill
Pope Receives Aid Offers For Defense Of Papacy
In Rome the pope told the body of the old pontifical army that the papacy would triumph and that offers of aid had come from Canada Ireland and other regions eager to hasten to defend Rome He expressed hope to be surrounded by faithful sons like those of the pontifical army, a sentiment that stirred Italian circles.
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Ireland
Rome
pontifical army
papacy
Canada
soch
Italy
Dinter to Govitleet and Mrs Black Honor State Dinner
In Albany and Auburn reports last night and today, Gov Morton hosted a state dinner for dignitaries including Mrs Morton and several state officers. Pardons and commutations were issued to prisoners at Auburn prison, while John Bigelow and his daughters narrowly escaped injury sleigh riding near Highland Falls. Hartford Yale Alumni elects Charles T.B. Gross president for the year.
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Dinter
Govitleet
Adams
Gayelees Oudruit
Wooodrndl
Haneevock
Miss Morten
Lyi Worlon
Selden K. Marcin
Haneuch
Saxton
Auburn
Auburn prison
John Bigelow
Tlighland Falls
Tlartford
Wartford- Yale Alumni association
Charles TB. Gross
Bulgaria Excited Over Widow's Trial Denunciations
In Sofia a national uproar follows Mme Stambuloff denouncing the court officials as the real murderers of ex-Premier Stambuloff. She claims the men who now govern Bulgaria orchestrated the crime, declares the assassins unconnected, and then leaves the courtroom in mourning black.
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London
Sofia
Stambuloff
Bulgaria
assisins
statesman
Mme. Stambuloff
Navy pays Cramps on battleship Iowa in twenty fourth instalment
Washington announces the navy department has issued a 90300 dollar payment to the Cramps for the battleship Iowa. A total of thirty payments are planned with the final three held until acceptance. The ship will be turned over after the twenty seventh payment, with the twenty fifth due mid next month.
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Washington
navy department
Iowa
Cadets to attend inaugural ceremonies in Washington
Cadets from West Point and likely Naval Academy will travel to Washington for the presidential inauguration. Both corps are expected to be quartered in the state, war, and navy buildings as part of the ceremonies setup. In Trenton a prison board freed several inmates, including James Rowe, with only two exceptions, amid shorter sentences for ordinary crimes. Herr Waldemar Nissen, 63, president of Hamburg America and a noted Hamburg merchant, died after a illness compiled.
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Washington
Lemont
United States military academy
West Point
Herbert
naval academy
war
navy
Trenton
board of pardons
James Rowe
Passaic county
Red Men
Herr Waldemar
Hamburg
Herr Waldemar Nissen
Hamburg- American Steamship company
Germany
Governor Morton's Portrait Added to Albany Gallery
Gov Morton has added a three-quarter length front view portrait painted by Hughes of this city to the Albany executive chamber gallery. It hangs over the fireplace.
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Gov. Morton
Albiny
Albany
Morton
Hughes
Excise Special Agent Resigns in Albany District
Albany December 30. Charles BE Nichols of Schoharie county has resigned as special agent in the state excise department. His health was poor and the work too hard. A jury in Nayton tonight found Albert J Frantz guilty of murder in the first degree for the fatal August shooting of Hessie Little.
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Albany
Charles BE. Nichols
Schoharie county
state excise department
Nichols
Nayton
Albert J Frantz
Hessie Little
Jagst
Fugilist Kennard Alive After Death Report in Rochester
Jimmy Kennard known as the St Paul Kid is alive and set to box 15 rounds in Rochester on January 11 against Patterson of Rochester. A separate notice reports the death of Edward Avery a longtime figure in Democratic state politics at his home.
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Kennard
Rochester
N.Y
Jimmy Kennard
Kosten
llon
Edward Avery
hee
Spain and Cuba Mediation Hints in US Policy Debates
Washington and London reports discuss Spain’s covert talks with the United States over Cuba and Cleveland’s annual message. Officials say no formal response from Spain, but tacit understanding with Olney points to possible mediation. The death of Maceo may ease prospects while public silence shields Spain from unrest.
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State Department
Cuba
Washington
Cleveland
Spain
United State
Olney
Gomez
Maceo
pain
United States
congress
Venezuela Arbitration Treaty Gains Broad Support
Washington reports official confirmation that the Venezuelan arbitration treaty is acceptable to President Crespo and his advisers and will be embraced by the Venezuelan congress in February. Public sentiment favors the pact, with little opposition among leading Venezuelans. The objection over U S umpires is answered by noting Venezuela had sought U S good offices to reach a tribunal with England.
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Washington
United Associated Presses
Crespo
Venezuela
Venezela
United States
England
Olney
Lord Salisbury
Great Britain
Case of the Three Friends aboard a Spanish gunboat
Washington December 46. Federal officials at Key West and Jacksonville act under general Justice Department instructions in the Three Friends case. Frank Clark, U S district attorney at Jacksonville, manages the matter. Spanish legation denies any truth to sensational reports of firing on Spanish vessels and shows no interest in the Jacksonville trial. The libeled vessel is cited as the fifth name under the process.
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Mer Hasing
Washington
Key West
Jacksonville
department of justice
Frank Clark
United States
legation
Ahwmeadain
Three Friends
Elis
Mie
Minneapolis Bank Failure Prompts Depositors To Be Paid
Minneapolis December 30 Officers of the Columbian National Bank now under a deputy comptroller say liabilities total about 247000 with deposits making up the bulk and assets around 150000 They anticipate full payment to depositors in time Cash in vault 33000 and 100000 to be collected within thirty days The Roanoke Bank Failure also reports a closed Commercial National Bank with paid capital 106000 and surplus 37000 and notes the failure is not a bad one.
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MINNEAPOLIS
Columbian National bank
Bobleter
Roanoke
Commercial National bank
Prison officers Whitmore couple to receive pay
In Hartford on December 20 the state prison directors vindicated Matron Whitmore and Keeper Whitmore of insubordination after their removal by Warden Woodbridge. They will receive pay until January 1 as they refused to return. Directors ruled Mrs Woodbridge had no right to demand the keys in her husband’s absence, and no wife of an officer may control the prison’s management thereafter.
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Whitmore
Convicted Fire Bag and New York Banquet News
The convicted arsonist Isaac Zuker, sentenced to thirty six years, remains jailed as Sing Sing prison orders stand despite a telegraphed star. A banquet plan in Albany honors the future senator with 990 guests, featuring Garland's band and speaker Woodmansee. An autopsy in Athens township confirms suspected poisoning of postman Dowd, and Maryland Steel prepares Friday furnace starts at Sparrows Point, reemploying about 150 workers.
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New York
Isaac Zuker
Sing bing
Schoenholz
Zuker
Zuler
Sing Sing
Albany
State League of Republican Clubs
Hermanns Bleenker Hall
United States
Garland
McElvoney
Woodmansee
Cincinnati
National League of Republican clubs
Baltimore
Maryland Steel company
Sparrows Point
Ireland S Bog Slide Threatens Kerry County Town
A Dublin dispatch reports the Rathmore bog slide near County Kerry increases danger as earth and debris flood toward the Lakes of Killarney. Peasants flee homes, with carcasses of cattle and trees swept into rivers and lakes. The only confirmed death is the Donnelly mine family.
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Dublin
Rathmore
County Kerry
Killarney
Donnelly
Religious Tragedy in Norwich District Man Dies After Axe Attack
Isaac H. Douglass, a Voluntown farmer, struck his 30-year-old son with an axe during religious mania. He started a blaze to burn them both, but neighbors intervened. The son is reported to die from his wounds. Douglass says a spirit compelled the act.
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Norwich
Conn
Isaac H. Douglass
Voluntown
Douglass
Trial of Mazhar Bey Sees Foreign Ambassadors Protest
Advices from Constantinople report the French and Stalin ambassadors protested the exclusion of their dragomans from Mazhar Beys trial. The case proceeds before a military court in Marash for the murder of Italian priest Valher Salvatore at a convent in Unikale.
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Mazhar Bey
London
Constantinople
Stalin
Marash
Valher Salvatore
Unikale
lots
Bright Ice Outlook for Kennebec Harvest in Maine
Gardiner Me December reports a strong Kennebec ice outlook with thick ice eight to ten inches and potential harvest of about 1,000,000 tons, double the usual annual output of around 500,000 tons. If present weather holds, multiple ice companies will begin harvesting locally.
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Maine
Gardiner
Kennebec
Auburn Bank May Reopen in Auburn Me
A petition for a receiver for the American Trust and Banking Company has been filed. A director says money is flowing in and doors can reopen for business. The company has little borrowed money and foresees western investments proving the right move.
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Auburna
American Trust and Hanking Company
Counterfeit Ten Dollar Note Reported by Treasury
The secret service division reports a new counterfeit ten dollar national bank note, a photographic reproduction of a Union National bank issue from the Michigan area, series 1582, signed by register W. S. Rosecrans and treasurer C. N. Jordan. Old Clown Dies in Philadelphia Poorhouse at 75.
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Washington
Dec
secret service division
treasury department
Union National bank of Werron
W. oS. Rosecrans
register
C. N. Jordan
Sprague seeks site for new Equitable Gas Meter branch
Bridgeport reports H. H. Sprague, president of Equitable Gas Meter Co. of Indianapolis, visiting the city to find a suitable location for a branch factory. The notice also mentions a civil service extension in Washington and a ruling affecting penitentiary employees nationwide.
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Bridgeport
Conn
H. H. Sprague
Equitable Gas Meter company of
Indianapolis
Ind
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