China Bids to Accept All Joint Note Terms
Reports from Peking say China will accept the joint note terms without flinching and that an answer is expected by Thursday. Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching may attend the meeting to discuss preliminaries, with diplomatic circles hoping for prompt action toward peace terms.
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London
Morrison
The
Times
Peking
China
Li Hung Chang
Envay
Sig
Senor
Bo J.de Cologan
Kwang Su
Washington
Li-Hung
Arbitration on indemnity for Chinese matters debated in Washington
The United States weighs Russia’s proposal to refer the Chinese indemnity issue to The Hague Court of Arbitration. With the protocol pending and Peking deadlock looming, an impartial tribunal could reduce disputes among powers. The decision could shift focus to punishment, while Conger’s stance worries Washington.
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New York Times
Washington
Russia
Court of Arbitration
Hague
Peking
United States
China
Hague Court
Conger
Japan Shifts to Sympathy for China Over Pekin Delays
In Yokohama on December 5, public opinion swings toward leniency for China as Peking delays strain negotiations. Japanese papers and some foreign outlets urge moderate terms, warn against religious invasions by Western groups, and foresee improved trade once the Chinese troubles end.
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Yokohama
Peking
Japan
China
Japan Mail
Woo-Chang Open Port Declared by Provincial Vicery
The Temps reports that the Vicery of the Provinces of Hoo-Pei and Hoo-Nan confirms Woo-Chang will be opened as a port. The dispatch notes this move as officially declared, aligning with press stories.
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Woo-Chang
Paris
Hoo-Pei
Hoo- Nan
Czar's Return From Livadia Expected Mid January
A government official says Emperor Nicholas and the finance war and foreign ministers do not plan to depart Livadia until mid January while the Czar convalesces. The statement comes as winter conditions and travel plans affect high level movements.
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Livadia
ST. Petersburg
Nicholas
Perry Expedition Memorial Gains Japanese Support in Yokohama
In Yokohama on December 5, excitement grows over plans for a Perry expedition memorial. A local paper recalls Uraga and Yeddo alarm when Perry’s ships loomed, noting signals and panics as tides shifted. Now Japanese contributors fund a monument to commemorate their encounter with the black vessels.
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Yokohama
Perry
Uraga
Yeddo
Von Buelow Decorated by Emperor William
Emperor William personally conferred the insignia of the Order of the Black Eagle on Count von Buelow at the imperial chancellery in Berlin this afternoon in a formal ceremony with the chancellor present.
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Emperor William
Order of the Black Eagle
Berlin
William
Count von Buelow
Prince Oscar of Sweden Shows Marked Improvement
Stockholm December 23 Prince Oscar Duke of Scania eldest son of the Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway has been seriously ill but is now much improved according to latest medical bulletin.
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Stockholm
Oscar
Duke of
Scania
Sweden and
Norway
Berlin Population in Suburbs Rises Since 1895
Berlin and its suburbs report a total population of 2 460 676, up from 2 076 946 in 1895. The city announces the latest count as of December 23.
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Berlin
Stockholm Sees Mild Christmas Weather in Decades
The weather in Stockholm is the mildest for Christmas season in many years with record warm conditions reported.
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Stockholm
Chile Purchases Freight Cars From U.S. Makers
The Chilean government, after inviting bids for 400 freight cars, has accepted 300 from Beeche & Co. and 100 from W. R. Grace & Co., all manufactured in America.
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Chile
America
Santiago
Government of
Beeche & Co
W. R. Grace & Co
Japanese minister Hoshi Toru resigns over finance scandal links
Hoshi Toru, Minister of Communications and former Japanese ambassador to the United States, resigns amid persistent allegations of involvement in financial scandals. He will be succeeded by former Korea minister Hara, raising questions about the cabinet’s stability.
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Yokohama
Hoshi Toru
United States
Hara
Korea
1To
Berlin Trolley System Replaces Storage Batteries on Busy Streets
Berlin reports rapid shift from storage battery networks to electric trolley operation on its busiest streets, signaling a major transit modernization. The move influences urban transport approaches and could affect existing power and maintenance plans across the city.
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Berlin
Election in the Zoo A Lesson for a Little Boy
Ephraim retells a Zoo election tale where animals vote to choose Mistah Elephan as president. The story explains ballots and mock campaigning by Hyena, Lion, Monkey, and Leopard. The animals vote by acarnation, claim to gain freedom from cages, and Mistah Elephan wins.
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Eph
Elephan
Tigah
Hyena
Fabah
The Skipper's Frog Yarn Aboard the Blue Fly Ship
A drunken skipper regales the Munchausen Club with a tall tale about frog disguises in the ship Frog Ship racket. He claims to carry out a fake frog crew near Hooloopollarum and rob the temple of Pollagog, then deceive ten thousand natives and hoard gold before vanishing with the loot.
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South Street
Cap'n
Billy
London
India
South Seas
New York
Pollagog
King Pollagog
Cap
Russia offers loan to Romania during financial crisis
Vienna says Russia offered Romania a loan of sixteen million pounds to help amid the financial crisis but Romania declined due to attached conditions that would undermine its independence. The Vienna correspondent of The Daily Express reports the offer and its rejection from London.
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London
Russia
Roumania
Vienna
Daily Express
May Copy Lafayette Statue
Archbishop Ireland, in Washington, says the Lafayette Monument Association still has 30000 after erecting the Paris statue. A decision to duplicate the memorial in Washington or another American city awaits a Chicago meeting in January.
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ST. Paul
Ireland
Washington
Lafayette Monument Association
Paris
Chicago
Mine burning 42 years at Summit Hill under control
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co reports the Summit Hill burning mine fire, active for forty two years, is now controlled and expected to be extinguished in the next two years. The fire has consumed about thirty five acres of select coal land and spreads west toward Lansford as two drilling machines probe and crack the ground to halt the blaze.
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Tamaqua
Penn
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
Summit Hill
Lansford
British East Africa
Downing Street
London
Jubaland
South Africa
Mombasa
Zanzibar
Kismayu
Yonte
Ogaden
Sultan Ahmed Ben Murgan
Germany
Braun
Marconi
Prof
Physical Laboratory
Strassbourg University
War Office
Brocken
Thuringia
Borium Reef
Borkum
Archbishop Ireland Denies Cuba and Porto Rico Visit
Archbishop John Ireland returned to St. Paul and dismissed rumors that he would visit Cuba and Porto Rico as a special commissioner to settle church property disputes. He stated the reports were unfounded and that any future trip would be on his own initiative.
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Ireland
Cuba
ST. Paul
John Ireland
Duluth
Porto Rico
Spears
McKinley
Comet Discovery Report From European Astronomers
A telegram from the European Union of Astronomers announces Giacobini of Nice has discovered a comet on December 20 at 318 GMT. The object’s coordinates are right ascension 22h 32m and declination 23 degrees south, with motion RA plus 1.5 days and DEC south 8 minutes.
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Boston
European Union of Astronomers
Giacobini
Nice
Greenwich
Railway Official Killed In Electric Car Crash
ST. PAUL December 23 Charles M. Miller Assistant Engineer of the Montana Division Great Northern Railway was killed by an electric car while crossing a street He was struck and thrown against the curb and died en route to a hospital His headquarters were at Williston North Dakota and he was visiting relatives in this city.
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ST. Paul
Charles M. Miller
Montana
Great Northern Railway
Miller
Vermonter Drowns in Florida Sailboat Capsize
The body of W. H. Bigelow, a wealthy Winter resident from Vermont, was found in the bay between the mainland and the island after his sailboat capsized. One colored sailor also drowned, but his body has not been found.
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Florida
Tarpon Springs
Fla
W. H. Bigelow
Vermont
Gas leak at Klondike Hotel leaves two unconscious
A man and woman registered as George B Breslits and wife at the Klondike Hotel 155 Bleecker Street were found unconscious from illuminating gas in their room at noon yesterday. Housekeeper Mary Barnett smelled gas and a doorway was forced by Policeman Bambeick after attempts to rouse them. The leak came from a tube that had slipped from a gas heater.
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Klondike Hotel
Bleecker Street
George B. Breslits
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Mary Barnett
Bambeick
Extensive Rhodesia coal fields confirm discovery
Cape Town reports from British South Africa Company experts confirm a vast Rhodesia coal deposit about 180 miles northwest of Bulawayo covering at least 400 square miles with 6 to 16 foot seams near the surface. They foresee Cape to Cairo railway routing through the fields and large potential tonnage.
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Rhodesia
British South Africa Company
Cape Town
Cairo
Bulawayo
Natal
Cape Colony
Cape
Husband confronts Harlem Court over wife’s admission to Bellevue
Frank Pomeroy, a Boston-born lawyer living at 2251 Seventh Avenue, demanded his wife Louise be released from Bellevue Hospital after a Harlem Court sent her to an alcoholic ward for intoxication. He claimed she was mistreated, said she wanders due to heart trouble, and vowed legal action.
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Frank Pomeroy
Seventh Avenue
Bellevue Hospital
Louise
Brann
Harlem Court
Pomeroy
Harlem
Island
Harlem Hospital
Bellevue
Boston
Death List of a Day Henry Hannah
Henry Hannah former Standard Oil representative in Java died at his home 52 West Sixty-eighth Street. Born 1840 in New York, he worked in various firms before joining Standard Oil and building a Java oil trade worth millions. He left the Orient two years ago for health reasons. He leaves a brother. Funeral at All Souls Church Madison Avenue and Sixty-sixth Street. Interment Greenwood Cemetery.
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Henry Hannah
Standard Oil Company
Java
West
Sixty-eighth Street
Hannah
H. H. Swift & Co
Pernambuco
New York
Russell & Co
China
The
Orient
All Souls’ Church
Madison Avenue
Sixty-sixth Street
Greenwood Cemetery
Thomas Bond Dies at 89 in New York Home
Thomas Bond a retired dry goods merchant aged eighty nine from Montana apartment Mount Morris Park West died yesterday of heart disease. Born in West Brookfield Massachusetts he moved to New York at twenty one and later retired from business. He served as Presiding Elder at University Place Presbyterian Church and was a director for the American Bible Society and American Tract Society plus a life director of the New England Society and leaves two daughters. Funeral is Wednesday with interment in Sheffield Massachusetts.
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Thomas Bond
Montana
Mount Morris Park West
Mr. Bond
West Brookfield
Mass
New York
University Lace Presbyterian Church
American Bible Society
The
American Tract Society
New England Society
Bond
Sheffield
Notable deaths of prominent figures across cities
Charles B. Goopman a Syracuse lawyer and former Vermont bar member died aged 47 in Syracuse. Joseph L. Spofford a Hunt's Point merchant and Union Club member died at Elmwood residence. W. E. Jones long time Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway official died suddenly in Cincinnati at 53. Samuel M. Murphy wealthy Tennessee resident died of heart disease in Nashville aged 73. John Riley Chamberlain Civil War veteran and Miami University alumnus died in Cincinnati aged 72 after 35 years in journalism with the Associated Press.
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Charles B. Goopmen
Syracuse
Vermont
Joseph L. Spofford
Union Club
Elmwood
Hunt's Point
Paul
Susan Spring Spofford
W. E. Jones
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway
Cincinnati
Samuel M. Murphy
Tennessee
Nashville
Mr. Murphy
John Riey Chamberlain
Miami University
Oxford
Ohio
Associated Press
Death of Lieut Felton Parker Bicycle Firm Manager
Lieut Felton Parker 43 former Annapolis graduate died at his mother's home in South Lancaster Massachusetts. He joined the first Greeley relief expedition in the Yantic and later ran a Colorado ranch. Parker was the first commander of the second division Naval Militia C N G and earlier worked for Pope Manufacturing and served as manager of the American Bicycle Company parent department amid its formation.
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Hartford
Conn
Felton Parker
American Bicycle Company
South Lancaster
Mass
Annapolis
Greeley
Colorado
Lieut. Parker
Naval Militia
Pope Manufacturing Company
Pastor Receives Call to Fisk University Faculty
Springfield Mass December 25 The Rev G. Barnes longtime pastor of the First Congregational Church of Long Meadow has received a call to pastor Union Church and teach at Fisk University Theological Department in Nashville Tennessee He probably will accept the call.
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Springfield
Mass
G. Barnes
First Congregational Church of
Long Meadow
Union Church
Fisk University
Nashville, Tenn
Money by Post for Santa Claus in Philadelphia Record
A penny and nickel filled envelope addressed to Santa Claus in Icycleville Wonderland was halted by Postmaster Hicks who sought to return the child’s gifts. The item bore Jamison and Line Lexington postmarks and prompted inquiries to Bucks County postmasters to identify the sender and protect the funds entrusted to the mail.
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Philadelphia Record
Hicks
Col Hicks
St. Nick
Jamison
Santa Claus
Reciprocity gains for Canada with Central American treaties
The Toronto Mail and Empire notes Canada’s reciprocity push as neighbors seal pacts with Nicaragua Ecuador and the Dominican Republic. They grant reduced duties on non produced goods while securing concessions for their own products. Nicaragua will import agricultural products and a broad range of U.S. made goods duty free, while other republics offer a 20 percent tariff discount on similar imports. The piece laments Canada’s lag in South American West Indies and German trade and notes American activity and favors.
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Toronto
Ont
Nicaragua
Ecuador
Dominican Republic
United States
South America
West Indies
Germany
Passenger asks about train type on Southern railway
A passenger asks the conductor if the local freight is a fast train. The conductor insists it is a fast express and the passenger asks what it is fast to and mentions Chicago News.
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Southern Railway
Chicago News
West Virginia Governors Highlight Red-Headed Line
The Atlanta Constitution notes that six of nine West Virginia Governors in the succession era were red headed. The new Governor A B White, astonished by election praise from his daughters for his “red headed way,” joins the count.
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A. B. White
Death notices and funeral details in New York area
A long list of obituaries and funeral notices for December includes Sarah J Bartlett at 43 East 67th Street with funeral Monday at 10 AM, Anna Evelyn Bissell of pneumonia at 69 East 56th Street, and Anna L Blake at Home chapel. Also listed are Thomas Bend Bond, Anna J Hoppin Chapin, Henry Hannah, Anna Roeckel Hauptner, Samuel Bonly Henry, Emma Adeline Kopf, William A McFarlan, Joseph Rosenbaum, Joseph L Spofford, Margaret F J Wallace, and Hugo Wesendonck with service details and pledges regarding flowers where stated.
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Rye
Familly
Blake
Anna L. Blake
St. Ands Amsterdam
Morris Park West
Thomas Bend
Chapin
Anna J. Hoppin
Frederick W. Chapin
Hot Springs
Thomas F. Hoppin
Providence
Austen G. Fox
West
Hannah
West 68Th St
Henry Hannah
George Hannah
Hauptner
Anna Roeckel
Charles Haupterr, Jr
Henry
Samuel Bonly
Richard M
Louise B. Henry
East Tint Sc
Kopf
Emma Adeline
Frederick Kopf
Dee
McFarlan
William A. McFarlan
Bayonne
Annie Squier McFarlan
Montgomery St
Jersey City
F. Rosenbaum
Joseph Rosenbaum
Hannah Rosenbaum
East 95Th St
Spofford
Imst
Elmwood
Hunt's Point
Joseph L. Spofford
Paul and
Susan Spring Spofford
Wallace
Margaret F. J. Wallace
Francis B
Margaret Co. Wallace
East 38Th St
Wesendonck
Woodlawn Cemetery and Manhattan office locations
The note lists Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx at 4 Borough and New York City addresses including Office 20 East 234 Street and Madison Square South.
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Woodlawn Cemetery
Borough of
Bronx
New York City
Madison Square South
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Levant
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Berne
Marian P
Cleatman
Margarette
Hotel Nether
Cramer
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Rosa
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Carman
Franklyn B
Coykendall
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Dunley
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Lina
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Eakins
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Griffeth
Arturo
Macdougal
Gonnelli
Avenue A
Garety
Herbert
Lillie
Og Jacobson
Jennie
Ery Krug
Sam
Willett
Komnik
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Knapp
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Levin
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Rist Stew
We Levy
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Linzer
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Mermelstein
Fannie
Manuscileo
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Heth
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Elcott Makepeace
Harriet M
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Schwaner
Schoen
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Sahulka
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Abel
Ferdinand
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Kate
Belmont
Ball
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Albany
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Lynch
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Union St
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Chapman
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