Rupture in Russo-Chinese Manchurian Treaty Negotiations
London reports the Russo-Chinese Manchurian treaty talks have broken off due to opposition from Chinese viceroys and the death of Li Hung Chang. Empress Dowager Cixi faced pressure from Japan and southern viceroys, with Prince Chun's Europe trip possibly influencing the decision. The draft provisions would have restored Manchuria to China and outlined phased Russian withdrawals, with Chinese troop policing and railway control details.
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Li-Hung-Chang
London
Foreign Office
Japan
Peking
Prince Ching
Kai-fong-Foo
Russia
Chun at-Kai-fong-Foo
Therince
Europe
Grand Council
Manchuria
China
Kirin
Hei-Lung- Chiang
Liao River
Tweedmouth's Son Weds Her Majesty's Secretary's Daughter
The Hon. Dudley Churchill Marjoribanks wed Muriel Brodrick at St George's Hanover Square. Attendants included Muriel White, dau. of the U.S. Chargé d'Affaires. Gifts from Edward and Alexandra, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Marlboroughs, Mr. and Mrs. White, and W. Waldorf Astor were given.
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London
Lord Tweedmouth
Dudley Churchill Marjoribanks
Muriel
Brodrick
St. George’s Church
Hanover Square
Muriel White
United States
White
Edward
Alexndra
Prince and Princess of Wales
Duke and Duchess of Marlborough
Henry White
William Waldorf ‘Astor
Duke
Duchess of Marlborough
Blenheim Palace
Royal Horse Guards
Fanny Octavia Louisa Spencer Churchill
Duke of Marlborough
Marjoribanks
Duchy of Lancaster
Composite Regiment of Household Cavalry
South Africa
W. St. John Brodrick
Viscount Middleton
Earl of
Magnetic Pole Expedition Set At Boothia Felix
Boothia Felix chosen as headquarters for Amundsen's three year magnetic pole expedition. Boothia Felix is the northernmost part of North America, with the magnetic pole lying near its northern tip at about latitude 72 north.
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Boothia Felix
America
Chosen Headquarters
Christiania
Amundsen
North America
Boothia Gulf
Bellot Strait
Franklin Channel
Germany's New Insurance Law Concession to Liquidating Firms
London reports Germany grants a key concession under the new insurance law set to take effect in January. Companies seeking liquidation may be treated as practically non existent and not forced to meet stringent measures, allowing the wind up under asset transfer to manage the process. Industry notes attach this to German sugar and colonial trade shifts.
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London
Navy
Germany
Prince Henry Rejoins Wilhelmina at Het Loo
Amsterdam reports circulate about royal tensions between Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry but deny any duel or injury to Major Van Tet. Van Tet’s brother says the aide is recovering from peritonitis. Queen Wilhelmina left her sick room to join the family dinner as Henry returned to Het Loo at 6:30 PM.
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Amsterdam
Prince Henry
Wilhelmina
Het Loo
General Buller Hosts King’s Health at London Dinner
In London at the Hotel Cecil the Devonian dinner honoring Gen. Buller drew large crowds of Bullerites. He presided as host and proposed the King’s health, a gesture tied to his compulsory army retirement by royal order, provoking sustained cheers and demonstrations without any anti-government display.
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London
Buller
Cecil
Bullérites
Audrey Buller
American explorer plans Congo Basin expedition
William Fitzhugh Whitehouse Jr of Newport Rhode Island testifies in London in an arbitration over Harrison-Whitehouse Abyssinian expedition. He plans a new Congo journey with Capt Powell Cotton aboard a Belgian gunboat to Basoko then Uganda to explore Lake Albert and hunt big game with surveys, aiming for nine months away.
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London
William Fitzhugh Whitehouse,Jr
Newport
Whitehouse
Africa
Powell Cotton
Northumberland Fusiliers
Congo
Basoko
Uganda
Lake Albert
French Ambassador’s Thanksgiving Dinner Raises Diplomatic Hurrah
London reports recount an American Society dinner where M. Cambon endured pro Anglo speak of world domination by English speakers. Henry White disowned the notion, Cambon grew uncomfortable but took it as a joke, and the episode drew ire from the American Embassy.
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London
American Society
M. Cambon
France
Henry White
United States
Chargé d'At
Bookmaker Marks Fate Tied to Death-by-Action Theory
London reports brother of missing American bookmaker Lawrie Marks believes Lawrie died by his own hand. Scotland Yard reportedly shares the view, but no body was seen jumping from a Boulogne to Folke Stone voyage. New leads mention Goudie and a Liverpool bank fraud suspect. F Kelly, Bradford bookmaker, is remanded over forged checks totaling £73,005. A letter seeks the exact whereabouts of Goudie with a promised reward.
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London
G. W. Marks
Lawrie Marks
Liverpool
Lawrie
Scotland Yard
Boulogne
Folkestone
Goudie
Bank of Liverpool
Genga
Brazil
F. ‘T. Kelly
Bradford
Bow Street
Kelly
Increased Price of Ermine Fuels Coronation Anxiety
London reports anxiety over ermine supply for coronation attire as sixty skins are required per peer cape and collar. Timber costs near 9 for forty skins, a record high, with Siberian trappers busy and demand rising in the United States.
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London
Siberia
United States
Boers Fail to Break Blockhouse Cordons Near Middelburg
At Middelburg on the night of November 26 the Boers mounted a general attempt to breach the railway cordon but were repulsed with heavy losses, an armed train repelling about 200 enemy troops and blockhouse garrisons stopping attacks at several points.
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Pretoria
Middelburg
Italian budget shows surplus and octroi reform
In the Chamber of Deputies Minister of Finance Signor Carcano announced an absolute surplus of 41,000,000 lire for the past year and projected a 13,000,000 lire surplus for 1902. He cited Italy’s economic revival and outlined octroi duty reforms aimed at budget balance.
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Rome
Chamber of Deputies
Signor Carcano
Italy
Alarm on Smallpox Threat in London Epidemic
London officials warned of a likely heavy smallpox epidemic and mounting costs. Since August 10 there have been 864 notified cases and 141 deaths, with 262 new cases reported in the last two weeks.
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London
Metropolitan
Rome Sermon Receives Formal Portent in Catholic Se?e
A fragment notes a lay reception at an Arlington article from Rome on November 30, listing a Catholic rite and a formal ceremony. The text is incomplete but indicates church proceedings and a religious audience.
US Urged To Respect Isthmian Rights In Colombian Incident
Berlin dispatch notes mixed US coverage over the Isthmian traffic dispute with Colombia. Cologne papers condemn US actions as usurpatory while acknowledging treaty rights, and German tariff discussions accuse the US of threatening competition. Public sentiment cools on anti-Chamberlain demonstrations as Erlangen and Strassburg students abstain.
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Berlin
United States
Panama
Cologne Volks- Zeitung
Colombia
Colon
Volks-Zeitung
The
Hay
Cologne
Herr Steller
Germany
Senate
Steller
Erlangen and
Strassburg
Bishop Favier Denies Looting Charges From Boxers Crisis
In a French letter dated October 1900 Bishop Adolph Favier of Peking rejects looting accusations tied to the Boxer siege. He explains funds and porcelain were handled to aid Christians, with £1000 paid to Mr. Squiers after selecting pieces from his collection and Yan Li Chan's heirs. He cites indemnities, reimbursements, and ongoing conversions as results of allied relief.
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Alexander P. Doyle
The
Paulist Fathers
Catholic World Magazine
Mgr
Adolph Favier
Peking
China
H. G. Squiers
United States Legation
Petang
Ministre
Marseilles
Lu Sen
Squiers
Li Sen
Yen Li Sen
Yan Li Chan
Tuan
Yan
Chan
Bank of Hongkong
Miss Stone Alive, Reports of Death Unfounded
Boston telegram confirms no death notice for Miss Stone. State Department says rumors are unconfirmed and no dispatch indicates her demise. Christian Herald message from Constantinople notes Stone’s negotiations suspended and that she has been well treated.
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Bebek
Boston
Mass
Judson Smith
American Board of Foreign Missions
State Department
Washington
Miss Stone
The
Christian Herald
Turkey
Washburne
Roubert College
Constantinople
Bosphorus
Christian
Herald
Bible House
New York
Stone
Italy Moves to Seize Madonna After Sale
Francia's Madonna sold to an American for 320000f. The Procureur General has filed suit against Marquis Farigonie and the sale agent seeking a joint 10000f. fine and state seizure of the picture.
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Rome
Francia
Procureur General
Farigonie
Expatriate American Officials Leave London for Leave
The regular exodus of American officials from London begins with the Ambassador and high-ranking staff set to travel to America on leave within a fortnight. Only Charge d Affaires Henry White and Third Secretary William C Eustis remain at the embassy.
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London
America
Henry White
William C. Eustis
Torpedoes Steered by Etheric Waves
Commander Richard son Clover, Naval Attaché at the United States Embassy, will return to America for Navy Department inspection of a new wireless torpedo control invention. Experiments indicate torpedoes can be steered stopped started and fired by etheric waves.
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London
Richard+ son Clover
United States
America
Navy Department
Faraday Finishes Atlantic Cable Run Between Azores and Ireland
The cable steamer Faraday today completed laying a transatlantic cable for the Commercial Cable Company. It marks the fourth company cable linking the United States to England, with Fayal in the Azores as a milestone.
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Fayal
Azores
Faraday
Azores Islands
Ireland
Commercial Cable Company
United States
England
Camden Vaccination Alarm Amid Lockjaw Deaths
Camden Board of Health reports nine deaths from lockjaw after vaccination and finds no tetanus bacteria in vaccines. They attribute infection to patient neglect and urge continued vaccination as essential for smallpox prevention, stressing proper protection from exposure.
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Camden
N. J
Board of Health of
Henry Mitchell
New Jersey State Board of Health
Focal Board
Camden Board of ‘Health
McKinley Tomb Guard Reduced at Canton Ohio
The guard detachment at Westlawn Cemetery Canton Ohio protecting President McKinley’s vault has been cut to five non commissioned officers and forty privates under Lieut William Ashbridge Fourteenth Infantry. The remaining troops have been sent to Fort Wayne Michigan.
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Washington
Navy
McKinley
Westlawn
Canton
Ohio
William Ashbridge
Fourteenth Infantry
Fort Wayne
Mich
Names Considered for Police Deputy as Mayor-Elect Deliberates
Mayor-elect Low reviewed applications for the deputy police commissioner post and planned to finalize his slate within three days. Candidate Elbert O. Smith, river patrol head, gained support from notable citizens including J Pierpont Morgan, though Smith would need to resign from his current role to take the position.
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Low
Bieyrteg Central Park
Jee
Col. Partridge
Potee
Moss
Cam
Elbert O. Smith
J. Pierpont Morgan
Smith
Recount Confirms Engel Wins by One Vote in Elizabeth
A county board recount of the Elizabeth New Jersey contested election found President Francis Engel Democrat won by one vote over Dr Victor Mravlay Republican for the Board of Aldermen. The recount addressed a ballot with pasted over paper at Poundkeeper and the board, with two Democrats and two Republicans, upheld Engel’s margin.
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N. J
Francis Engel
Board of Aldermen
Victor Mravlay
County Board of
el O
Engeta
Republcans
Engel
Erie County Republicans Back Miner for State Controller
Buffalo November 80 It is understood that Erie County Republican leaders have agreed on Worthington C Miner as a candidate for the State Controller. Miner is a lawyer and partner of Ansley Wil fart.
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Erie County
Worthington C. Miner
Miner
Ansley Wilfart
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