Revised War Papers Sent to Commission in Eagan Case
Gen. Ragan submitted a revised statement to the war investigation commission, about a third shorter than the original. The panel met in secret to determine if the document could be made part of the records and decided not to publish it for now. The note claims no disrespect to the commission and cites accusations over poisoned beef. Court action considered includes a reprimand, a court martial, or a court of inquiry for Commissary General Eagan.
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Ragan
War Investigation Commission
Miles
Eagan
Alger
War Department
Gen. Fagan
Gen. Eagan
Great Copper Combine Gains Backing From Major Firms
A large copper combine was formed in New York City with alleged support from Standard Oil. The American Copper Company and six mines or plants join to transform the world’s copper mining industry. Participants include Boston and Montana, Butte and Boston Mining, Old Dominion in Arizona, and Arcadian Tamarae Osceola in Michigan. Calumet and Neela reportedly refused entry.
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New York City
New York
Standard Oil Company
American Copper Company
Boston
Montana
Butte
Old Dominion Company
Arizona
Arcadian, Tamarae and
Osceola
Michigan
Calumet and
Neela
Lake Superior
Cuban Army to Receive Three Years Pay from US Loan
Gen Joseph E M Gomez of the Cuban commission in Washington says the Cuban army will get the $40,000,000 loan secured by Cuban customs houses. Negotiations should finish this month and the commission will return to Cuba with the army paid in full.
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Gomez
Sam
Griz
Joseph E. Misuel Gomez
Washington
United States
Cuba
New York
Gomex
Favor a Protectorate Home Officials Split on Revolution
Dispatches from Madrid report Moilo Panay natives wary of US landing without Malolos orders. Some Hailo officials oppose the revolutionary government yet accept protectorate terms if transport is provided. US transports Newport Arizona Pennsylvania with 18th Infantry Iowa Battalion Sixth Artillery and Signal Corps detachments anchor near Guimaras Island. locals permit daytime ashore access and escort for officers.
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Trado
Madrid
Moilo
Panay
United States
Malolos
Pilipino
Hailo
Aguinilde
Newport
Arizona
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Fixth Artillery
Signal Corps
Con Vinn
Mill
Guimaras Island
Pan 1
Negros
Nalves
Havana Forms Civil Government Amid Political Turmoil
Gen Ludlow may appoint Senor Perfecto La Coste as Havana mayor with Gen Menocal as police chief and Col G Myans as superintendent of corrections. La Discusion reports mass grave findings near Manguito and Matanzas with remains of 100 to 200 persons.
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Senor Perfecto la Coste
Havana
Ludlow
Senor la Coste
Hayana
Menocal
Cold
G. Myans
South Carolina
Department of Corrections
Manguito
Pedro Alagon
la Discuscion
Antonio Ries
Jean Dperes
Vicenta Zalgo
Matanzas
Civil Guard
Nineteen Drowned In British Ship Andelina Disaster
A British bark Andelina sank off the Oregon Coast during a gale near Tacoma Washington. All hands perished including captain G W Sterning and mate with fifteen crew. The ship lay in ballast from Shanghai and capsized when a log drifted adrift beside her.
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Abe
Andelina
Oregon
Nova Scotia
G. W. Sterning
St. Paul Mill
Shailes
Murder at Pana. miner shoots partner over wages
Sunday at Pana Illinois a Black miner Inglis shot and killed his partner Dave Evans at the Springside mine. Inglis was jailed after the fatal act sparked postincident plans to appeal to Governor Tanner to keep troops in town. Other workers were assaulted by unknown men before dawn.
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Inglis
Dave Evans
Pana. IL
Evans
Springside
Springfield
Tanner
Pana
Penwell
Chicago
Frank Jones
James Palmer
Temperance spies stoned amid closed Sunday battle
In Lexington Kentucky temperance workers who infiltrated saloon fronts led to over a hundred indictments before the grand jury. On Sunday night spies faced rough reception and were assaulted in spots as they carried their campaign. A separate report tells of Thomas Aran finding his Hancock Michigan home empty and his wife and two young children frozen to death in last week's blizzard.
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Lexington
Thomas Aran
Hancock
Mich
Ile
Carnegie to Fund Washington Public Library Building
Andrew Carnegie offers 250000 dollars to erect a public library in Washington if congress provides a site and ongoing maintenance not less than 10000 dollars per year. Steps will be taken immediately to secure needed legislation. Weekly bank statement shows surplus reserve 4733000 dollars. Banks hold 28268000 dollars in excess of legal requirements. Yorktown sails for Manila from San Francisco on Friday.
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Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Washington
Congress
New York
Eagan Censured By War Commission For Language
The war investigating commission censured Gen. Eagan for insulting language used during testimony on charges against the commissary branch. A letter and the copy of the censure were sent to Eagan, requesting a revised submission. The commission noted personal attacks and irrelevant statements and returned his papers with a request to resubmit.
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Miles
War Investigating Commission
Eagan
Rig
Gene CL. PR
Wir
Charles Deny
New Hampshire Man Fosters Romance With His Adopted Sister
A Nashua family tale unfolds as Stephen A. White of Weymouth declares affection for Rose, his adopted daughter, amid a Christmas engagement. Rose discovers her true kinship to Mrs. Davis, her foster family, and a wider reunion ensues with details of adoption and hidden lineage.
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New Hampshire
Nashua
William E. Davis
Stephen A. White
Boston
Belle Lavero
Weymouth
Rose
Becaame
Floods Hit Ohio River System Amid Heavy Rainfall
Rain in the last days of the week and Saturday’s storms push the Ohio River and its tributaries into rising levels. Officials predict a potential forty five foot rise at Cincinnati as Monongahela and Kanawha rivers flood. Marietta shows swelling Muskingum while Big Sandy and Cumberland run high. Wabash and Ohio basins supply large inflows to the Ohio. Washington plans no new Canadian commission member after Dingley’s death.
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Ohio River
Cincinnati
Tennessee River
Ohio
Marietta
Kentucky
Cumberland
Indiana
Washington
Joint Canadian Commission
Dingley
Rare Gold Coins Stolen From Carnegie Museum
Thieves stole six rare gold coins from the Carnegie museum in Pittsburg Pennsylvania while two women distracted the guard. The Cromwell Broad Guinea, one of five known to exist, was among the coins and could fetch a high price. It is feared the thieves may have melted the coins for their gold.
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Carnegie Museum
Pittsburg
Bank Teller Arrested in $30,000 Shortage at Merchants Bank
Albert E. Mussen, teller in the savings department of Merchants' Bank of Montreal, Quebec, has been arrested amid a shortage estimated at $30,000. Relatives are involved and the case centers on suspected embezzlement at the bank.
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Albert E. Mussen
The
Merchants’ Bank of Montreal
Que
Market Quotations From Major U.S. Cities
A compiled slate of commodity prices across markets in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York. Cattle hogs sheep and grain prices show wide ranges with No 2 red wheat around 67 to 81 cents and corn in mid 30s to upper 40s per bushel.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Nelson Dingley of Maine Dies in Washington
Mr Dingley former governor and long time congressman dies in Washington from pneumonia and heart failure aged 60. He led Maine Republicans on the House floor and shaped tariff legislation under McKinley. Survived by wife Salome and six children.
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Washington
Nelson Dingley
Maine
M Dingley
Adith Dingley
Ambessrs
Noonan
A. T. Ding
Nelson Dingley, Jr
Durham
Androscoggin County
Waterville College
Colby University
Dartmouth College
Dingley
Merrill & Sessenden
Auburn
Lewiston Journal
Lewiston
Second
Congress
William P. Frye
Committee On Appropriations
McKinley
the Treasury
House
Mr. Idingley
Salome McKenney
Henry M
Charles T
Edward N
Arthur H
Albert G
Edith Dingley
Cartoon Suppressed by Police In Berlin Bust
The last issue of Paris Vigaro received in Berlin was seized by the police. It included a cartoon from the New York Pack depicting the Czar's peace conference as animals in a congress, featuring the Kaiser. Secretary Gage urged Congress to appropriate 35000 dollars for a Chicago post office annex.
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Paris
Berlin
New York
Congress of Animals
Chicago
Choate Nominated Ambassador to Great Britain
The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Joseph J. Choate to be ambassador to Great Britain. Choate is a renowned New England lawyer who rose from Harvard graduate to a leading figure in major late 19th century cases and public controversies.
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Great Britain
Senate
Joseph J. Choate
Joseph HH. Cho
Choate
New
Dr. Choate
Beveridge Nominated by Indiana Republicans for Senate
Albert J. Beveridge of Indianapolis is nominated by the Indiana Republican caucus for United States Senator on the twelfth ballot. Born on a farm in 1868 in Ohio, he rose from privations to Depauw University and a legal career with Senator McDonald.
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Indiana
Cancus
Albert J. Beveridge
Indianapolis
United States
Highland County
Ohio
Depauw University
Beveridge
McDonald
Blaine
Union League Club of
Chicago
Montana Bribery Claims Tie Senate Inquiry to Clark Campaign
The Montana Senate and House met in Helena to hear an investigation into alleged bribery attempts aimed at securing votes for W A Clark. The committee displayed $30,000 in ten thousand dollar bills claimed to have been paid to four lawmakers to back Clark for the U S Senate.
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Montana
United States
Clark
Senate
Jiouse
Helena
Whiteside
Flathead County
Miners' Cases Settled in Pana Circuit Court
Seventy cases against lana miners and citizens for riot actions on Sept 1 and 28 were disposed of in the Circuit Court at Pana. State's Attorney Humphreys nalted fifty-nine, while eleven pleaded guilty and received sentences.
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Lana
Pana
Humphreys
Old Iron Mills Destroyed in Catasaqua Decline
In eastern Pennsylvania the old style iron mills, once thriving from 1873 to 1890, are being rapidly converted to junk as modern industries dominate. The iron town of Catasaqua exemplifies this decline from prosperity.
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Pennsylvania
Catasaqua
Vesuvius Erupts Again with Fiery Night Display
The eruption of Vesuvius intensifies with all craters spewing flames and lava. The mountain’s side glows red as great masses rise up to 200 meters, creating a terrifying night spectacle.
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Vesuvius
Senate Debates Move From Nicaragua Canal to Imperialism
In the Senate on Monday and Wednesday lawmakers debated expansion, the Nicaragua canal measure, and the binding power of treaties. The House advanced the Alaska codification bill and naval personnel bill while approving the diplomatic and consular appropriation. Senate moves to executive session and public debate on the peace treaty reflected partisan divides among Berry White Tate Hoar West and others.
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Senate
Tour
Massachusetts
Platt
New York
Caffery
Messrs
Bacon
St Hilton
House
Civil Service Commission
Inns of Alaska
Mason
Ilinois
United States
Turley
Nicaragua
Allen Nelly
Hoar
Mas
Gray
Del
United Ites
Philippines
Congress
Foraker
Ohio
Davis
Foreign Relations Committee
Peace Commission
Alaska
Berry
White
Tate
West
Frye
Teller
Carmack
Gaines
Tennessee
Lile River Railroad Company
McTaurin
South Carolina
Sullivan
Mississippi
Paseo
Florida
Rose
Tiinois
Dayton
Westginia
Kentucky
Driggs
Wilnsmere
Arkansas
Lowe
Simpson
Kansas
Navy court finds grounding avoidable with charts
The court of inquiry reports the Massachusetts grounding could have been prevented if Captain Ludlow and the pilot had current New York harbor charts. No one is blamed beyond this. Also: a Columbus Ohio report says Corporal Jacy's broken neck shows signs of healing and possible non operative recovery. Tracy of the fourteenth infantry fractured neck two weeks ago on a horizontal bar.
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Massachusetts
Governor's Island
Navy Department
Ludlow
New York Harbor
Columbus
Ohio
Jacy
Tracy
Foventeenth Regular Infantry
Tenement Fire Saves Ten Lives in New York City
Driver Hughes of the city fire department saved ten lives during a recent tenement house blaze. The report cites a heroic action by a New York City firefighter amid a chaotic scene with smoke and stairs.
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Driver Hughes
Five Department of
New York City
Teelun
Cortion
Christian Assa
Nurt
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Great Copper Combine
John Black
Peoria
Black
Palks
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Bettis
Twenty-third
Kansas (Colored) Regiment
Wichita
Kan
Switzerland
Sam Under
Crescent City
Iroquois County
Walter Tnessing
Tnessing
Watseha
Posse
J. 8. Menken Company
Memphis
Tenn
South
Yorktown
Manila
San Francisco
MR. Dingley
NED
Joseph Choate
Harvard
Evarts
Ballance
Pita
John Porter
Gen. Cesnola
Gaston Fenerdent
Stokes Will
Tilden Will
Belirison
Aldert J. Beveridge
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