Multiple incidents reported across cities and seas
A Chicago merchant is robbed of 3000 dollars on a Halstead street car. a suspect and accomplices flee after a struggle. A steamer burns at South Haven with deaths among crew aboard. Plague and cholera spread in Asia, while fires, avalanches, and accidents claim lives in New York, Iowa, New York City, and Ohio. Political counts show McKinley leading in Rhode Island. Weather and river ice dangers threaten Wisconsin and Michigan. and Cuba faces military and famine concerns as Gomez nears Havana.
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Peter Brosseau
Chicago Commission
Halstead Street
Thirty-ninth Street
Suh
Charles Mathusek
Mathusek
City of
Robert van Ostrand
Joe Lang
Formosa
Tokio
Luther Greenman
Perry
N. Y
Falls Cotton Co
Norwich
Conn
Wn. Steinway
New York
Weyler
Junta de Defensa
Havana
Pinar del Rio
Everett
Mass
Manilla
Mich
Wisconsin Board of Election
McKinley
Bryan
Chippewa Falls
Wis
Chippewa Valley
Rhode Island
William E. Herron
Plymouth County
Merrill
Neb
Kansas City
Jeff Paget
Albert Ells
Lawrence University
Appleton
J. T. Witter
Grand Rapids
Senator Sawyer
Evita Cummines
Hillsboro
Empire Hotel
Sixty-third Street
Boulevard
New York City
Cuba
Serefin Sanches
Las Canas
Joan Top
Cleveland
Ohio
David Tod
Crittenden Hotel
Columbus
Louis Prernas
Senor Figuerra
Cienfuegos
Lake Superior
Water M. Cast T
Philadelphia
Antioch
Church of England
Benjamin Franklin
London
Boston
Maximo Gomez
Antonio Maceo
Everne W. Harrington
Buffalo
Harrington
Ilavana
Hamburg
Bayard
State Department
Ecvapor
Daule
Los Rios
Artsure Palmer
Montezuma
E. L. Godfrey
Emlenton
St. Mary’s
Palmer
Godfrey
Milwaukee Health Department
Exonimous corn shipments to Mexico reach one hundred carloads in a day
Telegrams report vast corn exports crossing the Rio Grande at Laredo. Other items note a Randolph County murder during a moonshine raid in North Carolina, a fatal freight-train collision on the Southern Pacific, and McKinley likely to summon Congress in extraordinary session.
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Mexico
Rio Grande
Laredo
Texas
Suextor Morrerr
Randolph County
N. C
Ashbero
Southern Pacific
Waelder
McKinley
Alabama
Mobile
Davis
Joe Williams
Pine Bluff
Ark
Dynamite Dick
Territory
Newkirk
O. T
Nutwoop
Highland Stock Farm
Dubuque
United States
Canada
Francis
St. Louis
Harrison
Morgan
Tom
Caleb
Mountain
Kentucky
Arcade
N. Y
Francis Report Details Interior Dept Needs and Pensions
Secretary Francis submits a comprehensive annual report outlining land use and reclamation plans, forest policy, and arid land legislation. He notes 1.849 billion acres of public domain, 85.7 million acres patented to railroads, and 183,854 in awards for Des Moines land grants with 117,682 paid. He calls for expanded settlement, forests protection, and reform of pension costs near 140 million yearly, plus restructuring of Indian affairs and railroads bond remedies. He urges new building space for the department to handle growing government needs.
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Alaska
Congress
Forestry Commission
Des Moines
Francis
General Land Office
Indiana
Department
Court of Claims
Oklahoma
Germany
Indian Bureau
Central Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific
Cofon Pacific Railroad
Nicaragua Canal Co
Secretary of the Interior
Canal Company
Maritime Canal Co
The
Nicaragua As Construction Co
Nicaragua Co., & Corporation
Vermont
Lstter Gompeny c Bse
Hood
Iowa Soldiers' Home officials face federal charges over pension rule
Des Moines reports that C. D. Fulton, federal attorney for the southern district of Iowa, will swear out warrants next week for the commandant and trustees of the Marshalltown Soldiers' Home. They are accused of violating statutes by enforcing a rule that pensioners pay the home pensions over four dollars monthly, a rule now under challenge after a state court dispute. The case could affect other state homes if upheld.
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Marshall County
Supreme Court
Fullen
Iowa
National Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Homes
World’s Coinage Report Urges Anti Counterfeit Measures
Washington December 5 The report of R E Preston director of the mint details the 1896 fiscal year operations at mints and assay offices. It shows gold and silver world coinage totals of 231,087,438 and 121,610,219 respectively with an overall 352,697,657 and cites a world metallic stock of 10,933,600,000. It recommends authority to experiment to prevent silver coin counterfeiting due to a 100 percent bullion premium creating strong fraud incentives.
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Washington
R. E. Preston
Pension appropriation set at 140 million plus in next year
Washington reports the house subcommittee has drafted a pension bill guaranteeing no less than 140 million dollars for the next fiscal year's pensions with possible excess. They cannot cut the funds for maintaining pension offices below 650 thousand dollars in fees for examining surgeons. Savings arise from a surplus ex pending from this year's appropriations. The bill will go to the full committee and then to the house calendar with the executive and legislative bill next week.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
House
Anglo-American Sues Lombard Investment for 200000 in Kansas
In Wichita on December 5 district court proceedings began as Anglo-American Land Mortgage and Agency Co. sues Lombard Investment Co. for 200000. The case signals a wave of similar actions against eastern stockholders. Courts have upheld double liability extending to nonresidents, with both sides alleging fraud.
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United States Court of Claims
la Abra
Mexico
Congress
Court of Claims
New York
Wichita
Kas
Anglo-American Land Mortgage and Agency Co
Lombard Securities
Lombard Investment Co
Kansas City
Eastern
Rock City Falls Paper Co assigns in Saratoga County
Saratoga New York December 5 The Rock City Falls Paper Co at Rock City Falls has made a general assignment. The firm employs about fifty people and all will be thrown out of employment.
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Saratoga
N. Y
Rock City Falls Paper Co
Rock City Falls
Emipeymons
Movements of Weyler Still a Mystery in Cuba
Havana rumors surround General Weyler as authorities deny definite details of his camp near Los Palacios. Reports from Pinar del Rio say Melquizo and Inclan engaged rebels. a rebel assault on Fort Razen failed, with six rebels killed and fourteen wounded. Col. Torto’s forces claim victory over Castilo at Mazarana, with 23 rebels killed and Spanish losses at six dead and 11 wounded. Matanzas court orders Oscar Cespedes handed to a military tribunal.
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Havana
Weyler
Los Palacios
Lavana
Maceo
Pinar del Rio
Melquizo
Incala
Gobernadora Hills
Inclan
Fort Razen
Santiago de Cuba
Col
Torto
Castillo
Mazarana
District Court of
Matanzas
Oscar Cespedes
San Serverino Castle
Rumors of Battle Between Weyler and Maceo Forces
A Tampa dispatch reports clashes between Weyler’s vanguard and elements of General Maceo’s forces, with both sides engaged and Havana noting possible Spanish setbacks. Over 200 sick and wounded are reported in city hospitals from near Mariel and San Cristóbal as Weyler loses trains to dynamite.
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New York
Times
Tampa
Fla
Havana
Weyler
Maceo
Mariel
San Cristobal
Africa
Gomez
Spanish Complacency Provokes Cuban Crisis Tone
Havana December 5 The Daily Comercio urges Spain to rely on force, condemns American press for favoring insurgents, and argues Americans lack good faith. It calls for a restored Spanish fleet and 400,000 troops to enforce rights, warning that diplomacy has failed.
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Havana
Comercio
Spain
United States
New York
London Times
Fears of Famine in Cuba Stir Newspaper Appeals
From Manaio on December 5 a Havana dispute reports local Cuban papers urge island operations to avert a looming famine. The Imparcial notes public alarm over possible food shortages if actions fail.
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Cuba
Manaio
Havana
Imparcial
Daughters of Cuba Hold New York Relief Fair
The Daughters of Cuba opened a fair at Tuxedo Hall in New York to aid wounded and sick Cuban soldiers. A large audience attended with strong expectations of raising substantial funds for the Cuban relief effort.
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Cuba
New York
the Daughters of Cuba
Tuxedo Hall
Fire devours East Corinth stores and post office
Banconr Me Dec 5 A blaze yesterday consumed six small stores a flat house and the East Corinth post office causing an estimated loss of 10000 with no insurance.
Calamity Averted at Chippewa Falls Gorge
Curriewa Falls Wisconsin December 4 The danger is over as water recedes three feet and continues to drop Merchants return to work while others wait Mayor Lindley Col Jones and U S engineer party tour the gorge and report the passage cut beneath the gorge snow and ice may disappear gradually until danger passes Anchor ice still flows beneath but no longer harms The sudden relief exceeds expectations
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Bessemer Pig
Pittsburgh
Gray
United States
Canada
Curriewa Falls
Wis
Lindley
Col. Jones
Lo iv
The Rising Flood at Keshena
Suawano Wis December 4 The situation at Keshena grows serious as ice piles 30 feet high below the falls and backs up to cover the falls. Ice extends 244 miles down the river and piles against the lower Keshena bridge. Water backs up in a village creek and parts of the place are under water as the flood rises seven feet at the government planing mill.
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Suawano
Wis
Keshena
Keshena Falls
la Dane
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