Valor of Our Troops in Bold Mountain Fight
AP describes March's battalion of the Thirty third Infantry pursuing Aguinaldo through mountains from Candon to Cervantes. In the December 2 engagement near Lingual, Captain Jenkinson and Lieutenant Davis led rough assaults against insurgent trenches. Tompkins executed a daring flank climb, while March’s forces pressed the attack with sharpshooters and a final charge, breaking the rebel line and forcing retreat.
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San Praneisen
Associated Press
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Aguinaldo
Bontoc
Gregorio Pilar
Thirty-third Infantry
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Cervantes
Cunningham
Young
Canden
Third Cavalry
Santiago
Jenkinson
Davis
Tompkins
White
Lingual
McClelland
Marek
Rne
Tompking
Maren
ELOPERS DODGE BULLETS IN WILD WEST WEDDING
Tom Condon a Sioux range cowboy wed Miss Lillie Wilson in Pierre South Dakota amid parental opposition and gunfire from the groom’s ally. The license process faced testifying issues but the couple secured the union. In Vienna the Servia ministry resigned over amnesty demands by King Alexander with reference to former King Milan.
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Tom Condon
Sioux Range
Lillie Wilson
Condon
Bercg
Vienna
Neue Frie Pressa
Servia
Alexander
Milan
Whallen and Ryan Indicted for Bribe Conspiracy in Kentucky
Franklin grand jury indicts John H. Whallen and Charles H. Ryan for unlawfully conspiring to bribe a state senator, B. Harrell. Bench warrants issued, bond set at 1000 each. cases set for January 25. Contests over governor and lieutenant governor proceed with legal sparring and wary spectators. Governor Taylor absent. Senator Goebel and Lt. Gov. Marshall attend. Blackburn seats with Goebel counsel as judiciary committee weighs eligibility questions. Taylor's lawyers expect favorable senate action but seek a formal record of objections and proof.
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John H. Whalen
Charles H. Ryan
General Assembly
Towit
B. Harrell
Vwihallen
Ryan Bond
Contest
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Marshall
Blackburn
Washington
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Senate
Bolin Must Stay In Prison For Embezzlement
The U S Supreme Court ruled Henry Bolin must serve a nineteen year sentence in an Omaha city treasurer embezzlement case. Justice Brown stated the Nebraska enabling act allowed indictments on information by public prosecutors for crimes within the state’s scope, upholding the conviction and rejecting the constitutional challenge.
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Omaha
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
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Supreme Court
Brown
Nebraska
Smyth
Bolin
Justice Brown
Census Director Urges Farmers to Prepare for 1895 Survey
Washington Jan 16 Director of the Census Merriam asks agriculturists to use spare time before June to ready themselves for prompt accurate answers on acreage quantity value of all farm products both animal and vegetable cost of fertilizers and farm labor and all items of farm operations for 1895 as census enumerators are required by law to ascertain. This will ensure a full and accurate census.
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Cansas
Furms
Washington
Merriam
Thousand coffins for Manila to sail from Santiago
The next United States transport to serve Santiago will carry 1,006 coffins bound for Manila. One coffin holds a soldier's body but was unmarked and mislaid. each box contains three coffins, making it hard to identify. Rafael Salando, who was mayor of Santiago when the calculation was made, died last night of heart failure.
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Santiago
United States
Manila
Senor
Rafael Salando
Gantiago
Talks of Hawaiian Laws in House Territories Committee
Washington January 16 The House committee on territories took up a bill for a form of government for Hawaii. Mr Hitt of the Hawaiian committee outlined eight purposes and urged early action noting existing laws caused trouble for the people and business leaders and that Hawaii's political destiny was no longer open. He called for ending conflicts of authority and establishing a stable system promptly.
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Washington
Hawaii
House Committee On Territories
Hitt
Hepburns Canal Bill Accelerates Nicaragua Venture Storms Ahead
Washington reports the House committee on interstate and foreign commerce favored a Hepburn bill authorizing the United States to acquire control of Costa Rican and Nicaraguan territory for a canal from Greytown to Breto. The measure calls for excavation, defense works, and harbors with a $140000000 appropriation, drawn as needed, overseen by the secretary of war. The plan includes sections on surveys, use of the San Juan river and Lake Nicaragua, and guarantees of canal access for the two states under negotiated terms.
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Washington
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Nicaragua Canal
Isthmus Canal
Atlantic and Pacific
Bett
United States
Costa Rica
Nicaraugua
Nicaaragua
Greytown
Caribbean Sea
Lake Nicaaragua
Breta
Pacific Ocean
Carribean Sea
Guake Nicaragua
San Juan
Nicaragua
Secretary of War
Hampers Public Building Work Amid Rising Costs
Assistant Secretary Taylor of the Treasury told the House committee that advancing prices have hampered the supervising architect's office, with about 30 percent rise in building materials and higher site costs. Some 130 public building bills were before the committee seeking $20 million in appropriations, and there was a favorable sentiment to boost funds to cover added material costs.
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Washington
Aassistant
Taylor
Treasury Department
House Committee On
Siberian Railroad Reconstruction Cost Seen at 25 Million
Washington dispatch reports that before finishing the Siberian railroad, earlier work must be rebuilt at a cost not less than 25 million dollars. Information comes to the state department from Commercial Agent Greener at Windloostock.
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Mead
Washington
State Department
Greener
Windloostock
Senate and House Set To Open Routine Session This Week
Washington dispatch outlines likely weekly House agenda with appropriations bills including urgent deficiency and pension measures. Debates expected on army and navy funding, pensions, and Philippines issues, while Senate plans motions on Pettigrew resolution and financial bill with several speeches anticipated from Rawlins Berry and Aldrich.
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Hobart
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Philippines
Pension Ofice
Pension Commissioner
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Senate
Pettigrew
Senator Rawling
Utah
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Berry
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Great Britain
Aldrich
Teller
Rawlins
Daniel
Samogo
Mason
Money
Fired From West Point Cadets Discharged For Deficiency
West Point officials discharged cadets after the January examination. Second Class W M Cooley and James Prentiss. Third Class R J Sprague A R Burnan W C Russell J B Barry. Fourth Class C F Coury A W Fridge W C Hascall D J Burnett H F Ruissing A S Lebu A C Crow J C French C L Lacey Leo J Fuller W C Brant. Some may appeal to the War Department.
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Ohio
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Mississippi
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New Hampshire
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Massachusetts
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A. C. Crow
J. C. French
Kansas
C. L. Lacey
Indiana
Leo. J. Fuller
Pennsylvania
W. C. Brant
War Department
Harrison declines run for Illinois governor
Chicago January 15 Mayor Carter Harrison formally declines the Democratic nomination for governor. He is urged by Watson Hinrichsen and Dunlap to accept, but he says he will not consider it that night, stating there are other qualified men. Friends of former Vice President Stevenson press him to rethink.
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Chicago
Carter Harrison
Watson
Democratic State Committee
Hinrichsen
M. F. Dunlap
Jacksonville
Harrison
Stevenson
Boer commando near the coast awaits supplies
A Boer force in Gambaaus country Zululand, within a day’s march of the sea, moves with wagons awaiting secretly landed supplies near St Lucia bay. The Boers have looted Swatand territory, while ruined natives continue to suffer destruction.
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Swatand
Maniac's Fury Ends in Farmhouse Double Homicide
Mil ton Nelson and county commissioner M H Jacoby are dead after Jacoby, believed insane, shot Nelson and then killed himself on a Nebr. farm seven miles from Butte. A 12 year old son saw the events. Coroner juries ruled Nelson died at Jacoby's hands, Jacoby by self inflicted pistol shot.
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Jacoby
Sammy Nelson
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Dacoby
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Jatoby
Butte
Stockwell
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Senator Allen bills on banks water and reservoirs
Washington January 12 Senator Allen introduced several bills of national scope. One allows insolvent national bank creditors to elect a permanent receiver. Another seeks relief for settlers on the Great Sioux reservation spanning Nebraska North Dakota South Dakota. A survey and report on reservoir costs across rivers and tributaries would spend 1 000 000 for implementation. States affected include Nebraska North and South Dakota Iowa and Wyoming.
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Secretary of the Interior
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Iowa
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Filipinos Put Up a Fight in Santa Tomas Road Assault
Manila dispatch reports Colonel Bullard and the Thirty-ninth infantry attacking ten insurgent companies entrenched on the Santa Tomas road. Rebels resisted, three stands were soaked, twenty four killed and sixty prisoners taken. One American killed and two officers wounded. In London, Methuen to be relieved within two weeks and later retired after a noted career.
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Bullard
Galamba
Santa Tomas
Lase ‘Taal
Una American
Methuen Jugune
Chicago
The
Tribune
London
Lord Methuen
Kimberley
Capetown
England
War Office
Lawton Fund Receives Total of 72990 By Today
Washington Jan 12 Adjutant General Corbin announced the Lawton fund has collected 72990 in total with 3355 contributed today. The fund supports military needs and events connected to General Lawton.
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Washington
Corbin
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