McKinley Plans International Bimetallism Push
Canton news reports Senator Walcott and Secretary Mercer at the McKinley residence discussing the push for an international monetary agreement. Walcott outlines a proposed bill to create a commission to negotiate with other nations while McKinley signals strong support for timely legislative action.
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Walcott
Colorado
Secretary Mercer
Republican Congressional Committee
Omaha
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Wolcott
United States Senate
Major McKinley
Spain Accepts Mediation Offer in Cuba Crisis
Madrid reports indicate Spain will accept United States mediation as talks with the insurgents progress. Olney and Lome have nearly completed negotiations, to be sent to Congress. Spain seeks autonomy limits and a council to oversee trade and taxation, with amnesty and reforms guaranteed by the U S. Meanwhile Cuban fighting around Santa Clara and Regia continues, with casualties on both sides and heightened security in Remedios.
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Olney Pauncefote Confer Over Venezuelan Treaty Status
Secretary Olney and Sir Julian Pauncefote held a long conference on the Venezuelan settlement and the U S UK arbitration treaty. Venezuelan officials returned from Caracas and indicated guarded optimism with limitations likely delaying immediate success. The general arbitration treaty draft awaits Lord Salisbury's approval.
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tariff hearings draw many delegations to pay duties
Washington, Dec 29. Interest in the tariff hearings by the house ways and means committee is high as the room fills with delegations and trade representatives. Time limits force most to file briefs rather than speak, with chemicals spirits and wines as the day’s schedules. All who appeared urged higher duties for their industries.
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House
Ways and Means
Dingley
Mrs Beecher Injured in Falls Breaks Hip at 84
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher widow of the noted preacher sustained a serious hip fracture while visiting Stamrorp Connecticut. At 84 her condition is grave though no immediate danger is reported. The incident occurred as she became dizzy and fell at the home of her son in law Rev Samuel Scovil. Bradley Will Reign noted in Louisville dispatch.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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The Alabama Wreck Recalls Cahaba River Disaster
The Cahaba river wreck of a Birmingham Mineral railroad train on the Southern railway is tallied at 24 dead with 22 bodies recovered. Missing remain Tibbs and wife from Gurnee for Alger. Blocton residents claim 27 were recovered and some may have been removed by friends before the relief train departed. Foreclosure actions loom as talks among top officials aim at settling Pacific railroad government obligations.
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Biraincham
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A Pointer for Weyler Warns of Cuban Retaliation
A World dispatch from Key West reports General Rivera in command of the Cuban forces warning General Weyler not to threaten Cuban reprisals on Spaniards. Rivera moves from entrenchments as skirmishing continues along the trocha and near Artemisa while Weyler tours San Cristobal with a large escort.
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Gomez Across the Trogha Insurgent Forces Gathered in Cuba
The Cuban junta in New York reports General Maximo Gomez crossed the eastern trocha at Moron and heads west. Spaniards acknowledge insurgent concentration in Santa Clara province near Matanzas, signaling rising tensions in Cuba. Also, Donald McLean claims he secured $32 million English capital to complete the Pacific Short Line from Sioux City to San Francisco, with a route survey to ONeill and negotiations with Utah and other Western parties.
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New York
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Trocha
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Gomez
Matanzas
Sioux City
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Pacific
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Ambassadors press fleets to Alexandretta over Salvator case
In Constantinople on Dec 28 French and Italian ambassadors protested the amnesty for Maseh Bey tied to the Salvator murder and urged their governments to send fleets to Alexandretta to prevent possible miscarriages of justice. They refused Porte requests to search foreign vessels for arms.
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