Prince of Wales Honored at Guildhall City Visit
London dispatch reports the Prince and Princess of Wales were welcomed with loyalty at the Guildhall during a royal visit to the City. The Prince praised loyalty to the crown, Canada’s scenery, and imperial unity, urging colonists to settle in colonies with liberal laws and free institutions. A Board of Trade note then covers American locomotives used on Burmese railways, noting cost and early defects but eventual coal savings, with lingering Manchester skepticism about a cotton crop forecast.
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Prince and Princess of Wales
Guildhall
Epergnes and Flowers
Corporation
Canada
Queen Victoria
England
Board of Trade
India Office
Cardew
Baldwin Works
Philadelphia
Cardelion “Hat
Capture of Boers Largest Prison Capture in Months
The largest capture of Boers to date was made at Pretoria where 25 prisoners were secured in a single day. General Bruce Hamilton near Ermelo Major Dawkins in the Waterbury district and General Methuen in Northwest Transvaal rounded up three laagers with few casualties on both sides.
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Pretoria
Bruce Hamilton
Ermelo
Dawkins
Waterbury
Methuen
Transvaal
Dutch Foreign Office declines on South Africa camps
The Hague Dec 5 The Socialists in the Chamber failed to persuade the Foreign Office to intervene in South Africa. Foreign Minister Mervil Van Lynden said the government cannot interfere with concentration camps except to relieve its own subjects and cannot take the initiative in any appeal to the powers.
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Hague
Socialis
Foreign Office
South Africa
Mervil van Lynden
Illinois Governor Calls Aid for Boer Noncombatants
Governor Yates issues a proclamation urging Illinois citizens to donate money medicine food and clothing for women children and other non-combatants in British camps in South Africa. He names Judge Edward F Dunne Mayor Carter H Harrison and Peer Van Viissengen to receive funds which will be deposited at Corn Exchange National Bank Chicago and disbursed on proper orders.
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Til
Yates
South Africa
Illinois
Edward F. Dunne
Carter H. Harrison
Chicago
Peer van Viissengen
Corn Exchange National Bank
Porto Rico Legislature to Meet on New Year’s Day
Porto Rico acting Governor Hartzell calls the legislature to convene January 1. San Juan reports the City Council passes a resolution to cable President Roosevelt thanking him for interest in Porto Rico and seeking support for a naval station in the territory.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
Charles Hartzell
Hunt
United States
Roosevelt
American College to Install on Pilotta Palace Site
Rome December 5 The Rev Dr Thomas Kennedy rector of the American College has purchased a building near the Pilotta Palace where the college will be installed indicating new facilities for the institution in Rome.
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Rome
Thomas Kennedy
American College
Pilotta Palace
Royal luncheon at Guildhall honors Prince and Princess of Wales
London reports the Prince and Princess of Wales were hosted at a Guildhall luncheon with an address of congratulation for their British Empire tour. Notables including Lord Salisbury Lord Rosebery and Mr Chamberlain attended as a loyalist display. The Prince spoke on imperial ties praising colonial services and unity across the Dominion nations.
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Prince and Princess of Wales
Guildhall
York House
Corporation
Joseph C. Dimsdale
Lord Salisbury
Lord Rosebery
Great Britain
Prince of Wales
Windsor
Duke of Devonshire
Mr. Chamberlain
Hunger Duties Debate Sparks Clash in Reichstag
In Berlin the tariff dispute heats as Herr Bebel denounces grain duties as hunger taxes. He paints a divide between plunderers and the plundered while Chancellor von Bülow backs the landlords. Rowdy interruptions erupt as parties clash over food taxes and policy.
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Berlin
Herr Bebel
Reichstag
Graf von Kardorff
Graf von Arnim
Diaz Surrenders Liberals Meet in Gorgona Station
General Alban receives Liberal General Domingo Diaz surrender after meeting at Gorgona Station and signing peace papers at Empire Station. Diaz travels with eighty followers to Panama, where he is taken to his family home. Rumors vs. facts swirl over Liberal Victoriano Lorenzo and forces in Agua Dulce. trains run without marines. Stein sails to Kingston. Colombian minister Silva reports hopeful outlook in Washington.
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Panama
Domingo Diaz
Gorgona Station
Empire Station
Agua Dulce
Victoriano Lorenzo
Tumaco
Department of Panama
Belisario Porras
Stein
Kingston
Jamaica
Washington
Carlos Martinez Silva
State Department
Hay
Department
Mexico
Silva
Manhattans Mayor-Elect Calls To End Asphalt Trust
Former Senator Cantor, President-elect of Manhattan, urges breaking an asphalt contracting trust. He proposes open specifications to widen competition and reduce extortionate city paving costs, while noting possible shift to alternate pavement if needed. He says he has not fully studied the issue and does not advocate a change without public support.
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Cantor
Borough of
Manhattan
Keating
Deutschland Arrives After Turbulent Atlantic Crossing
Stiff gales and heavy head seas marked the steamer Deutschland on the Hamburg to New York voyage. She slowed for passenger comfort, yet still covered 3.44 miles to port in 5 days 21 hours 56 minutes, nine and a half hours off her best time, carrying 388 cabin and 425 steerage passengers including General Isaac Kahn and Eugene Zimmerman among others.
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Southampton
Cherbourg
Isaac Kahn
Washington
Paris
Carlsbad
Eugene Zimmerman
Duchess of Manchester
Kimbolton Castle
Huntington
England
A. C. M. Pennington
U.S. A
Europe
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E. Jones
Eugene Fischer
A. L. Allaben
Dewet Clinton Blair
Richard Hall
C. Augustus Haviland
A. S. King
C. Lathrop
John G. Moore
Baroness de Pallandt
Hugh Pitcairn
United States
Freeda W. Redmond
Edwin M. C. Tower
J. Ullmann
Blanche Ullmann
Lucile Ullmann
Chaffee orders ports in Laguna Batangas closed soon
Manila Dec 5 General Chaffee issues orders to close all ports in Laguna and Batangas provinces. Quartermasters will stop rents for military buildings to cut insurgent funding. Ports closed to curb supplies reaching insurgents. Chaffee to aid General Bell in Batangas. Governor Taft improves and will sail home on the Grant before Christmas.
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Manila
General Chaffee
Laguna
Batangas
Chaffee
General Bell
Taft
United States
Ribot Criticizes French Budget In Sharp Speech
In Paris the Chamber of Deputies devoted sessions to the budget with M. Alexandre Ribot delivering a pointed critique. He said the current budget exceeds 1898 by 259 million francs, warned Europe’s states are trimming expenses, urged adherence to receipts, and urged truth about France’s financial condition amid forecast a 144 million franc year end deficit.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
M. Alexandre Ribot
M. Ribot
Europe
France
Chamber
Gompers Leads Large American Federation of Labor Session
Scranton reports 285 delegates representing over 1.5 million workers open the twenty first AFL convention at St Thomas College Hall. Gompers announces net union growth, strikes outcomes, and a plan to re enact the Chinese exclusion act while Richmond Virginia seat dispute prompts a separate colored central union. Edward McSweeney to speak on immigration.
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Penn
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
St. Thomas's College Hall
United Mine Workers
Central Labor Union
Richmond
Hotel
Jermyn
John H. Devine
Scranton Central Labor Union
Gompers
Morrison
John B. Lennon
Passenger’s leg misclassified by customs on arrival
A Detroit man, Joseph Leffkofsky, returning from Germany, disclosed buying two artificial legs for a leg amputation. An official initially failed to classify the artificial leg correctly, later listing it as a household supply, which are non dutiable.
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Deutschland
Customs Service
Joseph Leffkofsky
Detroit
Germany
Europe
State Soldiers' Home purchases questioned in New York
Bath New York December 5 a Steuben County Board of Supervisors investigation found large quantities of butter and Western beef bought for the State Soldiers' Home were raised outside New York and urges enforcement of Chapter 32 of the Laws of 1899. The report recommends sending copies to Governor Odell and Assembly Committee chair Frank Platt to apply pressure for strict enforcement.
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N. Y
Steuben County
Odell
Frank ¢. Platt
Assembly
Soldiers’ Home
English Naval Construction Head Appointment
London December 5 Philip Watts naval architect and director of the warship building department at Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth has been named Director of Naval Construction succeeding Sir William Henry White who resigns due to ill health the responsible designer of British warships since the first.
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London
Phiilip Watts
Warship Building Department
W. G. Armstrong
Dense Fog Shuts Paris Traffic After Train Collision
In Paris thick fog disrupted city life as river traffic halted and a suburban train collided with a light engine at Clichy Station. Five passengers were injured in the incident.
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Paris
Clichy
Fourteen Chinese Arrested for Illegal Entry in Ogdensburg
Ogdensburg New York December 5 fourteens Chinamen arrested near Rouse s Point brought here and committed for trial by Commissioner Gray for unlawfully entering this country A boy eight years old is among the group.
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N. Y
Rouse’s Point
Gray
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