Dutch Take Venezuelan Gunboat After Brief Clash
The Dutch battleship Jacob van Heemskerk arrived at Willemstad towing the defeated Venezuelan coast guard vessel 23 de Mayo. The prize crew took aboard the guard ship and Venezuelan crew were landed. The 23 de Mayo had offered no resistance and rifles were removed. The Alance, a former American steamer, was captured in 1897 for contraband running. The Gelderland sailed for Venezuelan waters with a navigator expert aboard. The Jacob van Heemskerk plans to resume patrols along the coast.
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Margarita
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Morcy
Smallgnores Peace
Castro Sees Dr Israel and Hosts Hamburg Guests
President Castro undergoes a one hour medical exam with no decision on surgery yet. He and his Venezuelan wife entertain Herr and Frau Birtner from Hamburg at the Hotel Action Freu Birtner celebrating their silver wedding. Castro appears not greatly affected, declines most callers, and continues dispatches and correspondence amid press criticism abroad.
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Herr
Frau Birtner
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Action Freu
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Herr von Schoen
Goetsch
Caracas
Tareblatt
William
Tagliche Rundschau
Verezuclan
France Aims to Expand Trade With America
In a dinner gathering of merchants from foreign commerce circles and a plan for a bank of foreign commerce, M Cruppi the French Minister of Commerce paid a toast to Americans and Englishmen. He assured that France will not interfere with current good relations with the United States and Great Britain.
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United States
Persec
M. Cruppi
Srttai
Appointment of Soukhomilnoff as chief of the general staff
General Soukhomilnoff, governor general of Kiel, is named chief of the general staff in Petersburg on December 14. This high command appointment places a senior czarist official at the top of military planning.
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Petersburg
Soukhomilnoff
Kiel
International Conference Sifts for Creation of a System
Government plans an international conference to discuss an envisioned system related to erusiatice. Dec 16 Archbishop Giennon of St. Louis travels to Ireland for religious matters with the Congregation of Propaganda and the Vatican. Economic reports note tobacco sales and foreign capital trends amid earthquakes and bank expansions in Asia.
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Congregation of the Propaganda
the Vatican
Bolivian Railways Move Toward Speedy Construction
Bolivia and the Speyer & Co. syndicate plus the National City Bank form two companies with a $27.5 million capital to advance rail lines from La Paz to Oruro and onward to Pacific ports. An indefinite protocol suspends the earlier direct La Paz to Buenos Ayres route, aligning gauge with the Oruro Uyuni line and aiding future Pacific access post Panama Canal.
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la Paz
Eleodoro Villazon
Bolivia
Speyer & Co
National City Bank of New York
Ia Paz
Oruro
Uyuni
Antofagasta
Chili
Pacific
Panama Canal
National City Bank
Outrages by Satar Khan's Men Reported in Dilman
A Turkish detachment arrives at Dilman to protect Armenians from Kurdish raids led by Satar Khan who has pillaged Armenian villages and killed and mutilated residents. The Shah's envoy Aliul Mulk visits St Petersburg, aiming to push support for the Shah against revolutionists.
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Dilman
Satar Khan
Shai
Constantinople
Aliul Mulk
St Petersburg
Alexis
Ali al Mulk
Saxe Dinner a Love Feast Receives Albany Figures Support
A Democratic and Republican district dinner for Senator Martin Saxe featured Tom Grady extolling senators at Albany and Controller Metz boasting of watching the treasury. Abe Gruber served as toastmaster as voices from Grady and others praised honoree and reformers, with remarks from McCarren and other notable figures.
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Brooklyn
Tom” Grady
Albany
Martin Saxe
Abe” Gruber
Gruber
Senate
State of New York
Thomas F. Grady
Controller Metz
Treasury
Seastor McCarren
Job Hedges
Timothy L. Woodruff
Bisberg
NO GAMBLING SAYS BINGHAM IN CITY REPORT
Commissioner Bingham stated no gambling house or poolroom is operating in the town. Police suspect three Chinatown locations and one poolroom on upper Third Avenue, but the report aligns with the District Attorney’s recent findings.
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Chinatown
Upper Third Avenue
Babys act cost mother's life in gas explosion
Mrs. Charles Gardner died of asphyxiation at her Cheswick home after a gas leak ignited. Her husband and their two year old child were seriously burned as he shielded the child and crawled to the door. The house was wrecked and investigators note the child may have pulled a hose from a stove.
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Pittsburg
Charles Gardner
Cheswick
Gardner
Pittsburg Oysters Blamed for Typhoid Epidemic
Pittsburg city bacteriologist Dr. E C Matson warns the typhoid fever outbreak is linked to oysters swelling with dropsy and carrying typhoid germs He cautions the public not to eat raw oysters and notes the shellfish may be nourished near streams emitting the germs
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Tribune
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E. C. Matson
Orercr
Dr. Matson
Paris dancer and stage manager charged at Circle Theatre
Reginald de Veulle and Mile. Auber appearing with Joseph Smith in The Queen of the Moclin Rouge faced a magistrate after police reported a vulgar dance during Monday’s performance. The court released them without action. John M Delmour sues executors of Lawrence Delmour’s will claiming he was promised an estate and that funds were misused.
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Way
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John M Delmour
Lawrence Delmour
Larry
Delmour
Guatemala Defends Neutrality in Honduras Case at Central Court
Guatemala publishes its defence denying Honduras charges of neutrality violations and asserts it kept to non interference. Choate and Ivins oppose Honduras claims as unfounded, urging the court to dismiss on jurisdiction and evidentiary grounds. Guatemala’s defence notes its fortifications were defensive.
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William L Penfield
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Hon
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Salazar
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Bridge Engineer Quits After Resignation Letter
Chief Engineer C. M. Ingersoll of the Bridge Department resigned to Commissioner Stevenson yesterday. His letter cites entering the era to handle transportation questions as a principal purpose and hints at broader concerns within the department.
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Bridge Department
Stevenson
Brooklyn Bridge Chief Engineer Resigns Amid Transit Plans
The Brooklyn Bridge chief engineer resigns citing desire to end the mass of detail and will stay as a transportation consultant. Kingsley L. Martin is named to succeed him, with Modjeski appointed to study Manhattan Bridge plans. Martin, Brooklyn native and Stevens Tech alumnus, holds roles in local engineering societies.
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New Rules for Title Searchers Under Real Property Act
The Court of Appeals sets rules for title searchers under the real property title registration act, effective February 1. Attorneys seeking title examiner status must apply fifteen days before exams, pay $15, and may avoid personal exams if their credentials satisfy the State Board of Law Examiners. Bonds of 1.0 guaranteed by two sureties are required. The act aims to speed title transfers, ends land courts, and routes all determinations through the Supreme Court. registration costs average about $54.
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Supreme Court
Physician Testifies On Mrs Johnson Mental State
Boston telegraph reports Dr. Harry J. Knapp testified Mrs Caroline L Johnson shown impaired concentration since 1907 and unable to draft her will dated October 1908. He noted distress prior to the will and a Fifth Avenue house within an estate valued at $2,000,000. Brooklyn lawyer Frank Marrin failed to secure a certificate of reasonable doubt and faces Sing Sing sentencing after losing appeal.
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Caroline L. Johnson
New York
Newport
Harry J. Knapp
Johnson
SMO
Fifth Avenue
Frank Marrin
Brooklyn
Dike
Sing Sing
Caroline Barry
Justice Stapleton
Supreme Court
Marrin
Bishop Michaud Near Death in Lourdes
Late dispatches from Lourdes report Bishop John Stephen Michaud of Burlington Vermont critically ill with no improvement. Funeral arrangements are made and will be held in Burlington today.
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Lourdes
France
John Stephen Michaud
Michand
Ivins Says City Could Have Funded Subway Below City Debt Limit
William M. Ivins testifying before a legislative committee said the Fourth avenue subway could have been contracted on July 6 if not for the injunction against Controller Metz. He noted a July 1 borrowing capacity of about $2.8 million, rising to $5.1 million after a new tax levy, and claimed the Board of Estimate was ready to authorize contracts. Ivins criticized city tax methods as dangerously lax and warned that the current borrowing capacity of about $8 million blocked progress.
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Charter Revision Commission
Legislative
Metz
Fourth Avenue
Ivins
Merritt
Dynamite Conspiracy Case Ends in Guilty Verdict
Mrs Isabella J Martin convicted of conspiring to dynamite Judge F B Ogden s home on March 19 19 her motive revenge over an insurance suit The maximum penalty is life The case also linked her to sensational claims about Baby John Martin and Princess Chimay with the youth confessing the act under her influence and revealing plans to target others.
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Cal
Isabella J. Martin
F. B. Ogden
Ogden
John Martin
Chimay
John
Report urges lifting Sunday liquor laws in New Jersey
Governor Fort's Crime and Dependency Commission filed a report urging changes to state liquor laws and Sunday amusements. The majority backs permitting sales of wines and malt liquor to hotels and restaurants on Sundays and repeal of blue laws for Sunday baseball. Some members signed minority or dissenting views amid resignations.
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Emil E. Williamson
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Caroline B. Alexander
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Long Branca
Two Vessels Lost During Gales Off Honduras and Salvador
Captain C A Decker arrived on the steamer Harry T Inge reporting the November 14 loss of his schooner Annie off Honduras. The crew escaped. the vessel sank with a cargo of Win coanuts and 34 000 in silver. The Kirkdale, owned by Lever Brothers, wrecked near El Triumpho on October 14. two crew members reached San Francisco, others returned via Panama after marching sixty miles to La Union.
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Decker
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Salvador
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Lever Brothers
Liverpool
Robert Rowlands
la Union
Virginia Railroads In Conference On Rates And Litigation
High Virginia railroad officials and counsel met in Richmond to push an agreed plan ending existing litigation. Proposals include a two and a half cent main line rate, a branch line rate to be set later, and two cent per thousand mile books, with pending lawsuits dropped. Albany and Portland reports add state and corporate testimony actions and a steamship asset sale confirmation.
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Tribune
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Virginia
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United States
Hargis Trial Underway in Kentucky Case
Mrs. Louellen Hargis reveals eighty dollar fund to aid Beach Hargis acquittal in the murder of his father. She mortgaged her Jackson home to raise the money and travels to Irvine where the trial is set to begin with both sides ready. Beach Hargis plans a self defense claim asserting his father choked him before the fatal shots.
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Lexington
Louellen Hargis
Beach Hargis
Mra Hargis
Jackson
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Hargis
Body of Chief Biggy Found Near Alcatraz Island
The body of Chief Pas Lee Biggy, who vanished from a police launch near Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay on the night of November, was recovered today by a freight-boat crew. The corpse, floating face upward on Goat Island, wore Biggy’s long coat and gloves. Harbor police secured a launch for removal and Sergeant Donovan identified the body noting facial disfigurement.
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Paslee Biggy
Alcatraz Island
San Francisco Bay
Goat Island
Donovan
Biggy
Thirtynine Years for Burglar in First Offence Case
Joseph De Rosa of Na Rivington street was sentenced by Judge Rosalsky in General Sessions to thirty-nine years in prison after pleading guilty to first offence burglary. Accomplice Hartman was also sentenced yesterday. The pair stormed Peter A. Johnson’s home at 42 East 2d street with a revolver and fled with goods valued at six dollars before a brief chase. De Rosa’s wife Mary is serving two years and six months for breaking into Mrs. Siegel’s home in Mamaroneck last November.
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Rosalsky
Joseph de Rosa
Na Rivington Street
Hartman
Peter A. Johnson
East 2d Street
Lovettinaal 15
de Rosa
Mary
Henry Siegel
Mamaroneck
Iceman Kills Saloonkeeper in North Bergen Duel
Anthony Merck a saloonkeeper at North Bere gen was shot and killed yesterday by Conrad Herwig a fire dealer residing at No 998 Summit avenue West Hobecken Merck died instantly after a quarrel Herwig was arrested later and charged with murder
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North Beregen
Conrad Herwig
Summit Avenue
West Hobecken
Merck
Herwig
Keeping Christmas An Article of Holiday Spirit
Hartley Davis crafts a warm Christmas piece filled with seasonal sentiment and charitable cheer. The prose celebrates generosity, community gatherings, and the timeless joy of the holidays through vivid, hopeful imagery.
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