18 Dec 1903
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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1903
Page
1
Tension over the canal accord prompts fears of complications and a call for rapid U.S. action. Observers warn delays could stall progress, with lawmakers and diplomats urging concrete steps to avert diplomatic friction and secure a timely agreement.
Washington reports that Colombia plans a submission to The Hague. Panama’s minister M Buncan Varilla met the state department for a lengthy conference amid concerns that France could influence canal company relations with the United States. Colombian officials General Reyes Dr Herran and Wayne McVeagh prepared a formal statement of Colombia’s position.
Washington December 15 The Associated Press learns General Rafael Reyes Colombian minister to the United States would face a hard to refuse call to serve Colombia as president. Reyes has avoided campaign talk but friends expect him to accept while he weighs a formal protest to the Panama events.
Carroll D Wright, president of Clark University and US labor commissioner, told a Philadelphia Ethical Culture Society audience that the wage system will soon end. He argued cooperation requires both parties to wait for product sale to pay profits, urging workers to be regarded as investors with a right to know their labor's value.
Count von Ballestrem is again head of the German Reichstag after a re election. He remains a prominent opponent of socialism in the government assembly.
Blizzard drives heavy snow over the Northwestern states. Chicago records 13 below at 8 am the coldest since 1876 while Bodinski & Co. store fires due to snow drifts. One death reported from freezing. Milwaukee hits 16 below with no fatalities. St Paul and Minnesota note temps from 4 to 24 below.
Fire swept the two story Tyler Business College in Tyler Texas at 8 yesterday morning destroying the largest frame building in East Texas. About ninety students occupied the premises with many young ladies boarding there. Loss to contents estimated at 7500 with 2500 insurance. Building owned by Col W S Herndon estate and insured 1200. Fire started from a defective flue. Commercial Club offered the armory building for school use this afternoon.
Charles Rain Cherokee county sheriff was held up and robbed yesterday at the Baxter Springs depot by escaped prisoner Clarence Cunningham from Columbia Missouri after Rain had placed him under arrest. Cunningham used a weapon to compel the sheriff to surrender assets and fled.
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