Stirring Times in Africa Amid Central Africa Ventures
Dec 18 report describes Emin Backs recovering from a fall, a banquet for Henry Staley, and Colonel Evan Smith praised for opening Central Africa to commerce. Stanley’s expedition, plans for a railway linking Mombasa to Victoria Nyanza, the Mansourah yacht sailing for Cairo with dignitaries, and conflicts in East Africa including Bashir’s capture. Lisbon and Brussels news cover Serpa Pinto, Congo Free State councils, and Portugal England tensions over Nyassa and Zambesi.
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Emin Backs
Rmak
Henry
Staley
Evan Smith
Megatoenera
Stanley
Tlemere
Mombasa
Victoria Nyanza
Mansourah
Vacha
Cairo
Bushiri
Inns
Wai
Bashir
Wasega
Wissmann
Quillimane
Asties
Shire River
Portugese
Usboo
Janides
Lake Nyassa
England
Portugal
Zambesi River
Portumese
Delegos Way
Oporto
Senhor H. Barros de Gomes
Marquis of Salisbury
Delaxon Bay
Brussels
Congo Free State
Leopold
London
Evan-Smith
Serpa Pinto
Iy Pinto
Lisbon
Mr. Johnston
Mozambique
Mozanhque
Two Steamers Sunk In Collision In North Sea
The Leerdam and the Gawquansin collided in the North Sea, sank, with all aboard saved and transported to safety by the French steamer Erna. The vessels were en route Amsterdam to Buenos Ayres and from Buenos Ayres to Hamburg respectively.
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Leedam
Gawquansia
North Sea
London
Leerdam
Amsterdam
Buenos Ayres
Gawquansin
Butts
Hamburg
Ven
Erna
Influenza Epidemic Spreads in Central Germany and Boston
Reports from Berlin indicate influenza cases rising in Munich Mayence Cassel and Seipste while Boston records two dozen cases and officials fear wider spread. A Times Lisbon correspondent notes Empress diamonds were not stolen and had not been left in the woman.
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Germany
Berlin
Munich
Mayence
Cassel
Seipste
W. St. Wheeler
Windsor Hotel
Thomas 1. Allen
London
the Times
Lisbon
Murderer's brothers and sisters recount brutal abuse by their father
In St Louis on December 15, Emil Guenther's siblings allege a torture chamber existed at home where their father George Guenther mutilated and tortured them with chains whipping and whiskey. The claims, supported by neighbors and local papers, describe years of abuse before Emil killed his father at age eighteen.
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Wisson
St. Louis
Emil Guenther Hove
George Guenther
TKA4
Charles Guenther
Tre
Emil Guenther
Hatelet
Sacramento River Impaired by Recent Flood Break
The Sacramento River navigation is endangered after a flood created a vast sandbar and a wide break below the city on the Paine levee. Authorities urge swift action to clear sand and preserve the river’s old channel, warning that ongoing shoaling and mining debris threaten future navigation and statewide waterway use. Public officials seek a 10,000 appropriation from the War Department while steamboats struggle to pass and small vessels run aground on the sandbar below Sacramento.
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Thmento
Paine
Yolo County
Sacramento
Dwyer
Tll
Waterman
Stanford
War Department
Sacramento River
San Joaquin
National Civil Service Reform League to Aggressively Press Action
Executive Committee at Clark's Restaurant, Twenty-third, plans to publish articles from December to June advocating Congressional reform. Aimed at thorough examination of all civil service classes, with a committee to publish proposals and oversee staffing changes in Washington led by William Dudley Font and others.
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IME
National League
National Civil Service Reform League
Clark's
George William Curtis
George Trasiursky Sherman
Robers
Charles J. Tonaparte
William A. Aiken
B . Mardonough
Silas W. Surt
Lam Potts
Merrill Wyman, Jr
Everett P. Wheeler
Fawand Cary
Willa Cary Sanger
Russell
Mtungis
Charles W. Watson
W. Pudsey Poulke
Tiwan
National Civil Service
Washington
Wiliam Dudley Font
Sherman 8. Rogers
Ch J Bonaparte
Tiehamt Mt. Dana
Wayne MacVeazh
Natural gas pipeline opens in Springfield Ohio
In Springfield Ohio a new natural gas system connected Merver fields to the city. A stand pipe seventy feet high was used to display the flame to thousands of spectators. The plant includes nearly sixty tiles of blackened equipment and a supply of 10,000,000 cubic feet of gas daily.
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Springfield
Ohio
Sprineheld
Olin
Spwekst
Calvins, Brien
New-York
Asa Bolushnell
Muir Associates
Merver
Uls City
Fis
West Bank river death and elopement arrests in Lansing
A Syracuse report states Ditman is dead and Disody is at the river. In Detroit a Free Press dispatch notes McNetton of Syracuse eloped with a married woman, later arrested in Lansing on adultery charges. Requisition papers prepared to bring McNetton back. his wife Ralston had not yet been arrested.
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Sehuyul
Ditman
Syracuse
Chant
Westnest
Detroit
Free Press
Lansing
Mich
D. Moretton
Ivison, Slakeman , Co
New-York
John Be Ralston
McNetton
New York
MeNetton
Alice
Mes Netton
Ralston
Smith& McNetton
Ivison, Blakeman & Co
Mogan
Tombs
Ile Nome I Byrmcine
Letting the Exfers Go and Aqueduct Board Hearings
The Aqueduct Commissioners accepted resignations of several assistant engineers and dismissed twenty six workers due to lack of work. They discussed injunctions on Section 4 with O’Brien and Cheek and considered arbitration while seeking counsel advice.
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O'Brien
Clark
Walter S. Church
Ken Mln S Church
Corporation
Consel Clark
O'Brien & Cheek
John O'Brien
T. Lovatt
Often & Clark
O'Brien & Chirk
Aitrien & Clark
Lovett
Tawyer
Scott and
Howe
Lavatt
Cronin Jury Secrets Reported In Chicago Controversy
Chicago special dispatch details alleged disclosures by jurors and visitors about Cronin trial deliberations. Juror Tiryan Inter courts attorney sessions and recounts ballots showing near evenly split verdicts. Also notes public reactions and related local items from Boston and Hartford.
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Cronin
Chicago
John Carver
Tanker Kean
Longenecker
Tiryan
Eage
Tearing Kogssoul
Kunze
Ilely Unl IL
Mr. Tiyan
Saledayoon
Forrest
Alt
Thomson Houston Stock Increase at Special Meeting
A special meeting of Thomson Houston Electric Company stockholders in Middletown Conn resolved to increase the preferred stock from 1 million to 3 million, yielding total capitalization of 6 million. The board will decide timing and method of disposition and set offering price within charter limits.
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Thomson Houston
Toston
Thomson Htouston Electric Company
Middletown
Conn
Christmas dividend declared for Corry bank creditors
Washington December 18 The Controller of the Currency declares a third dividend of 10 percent payable December 24 to creditors of the First National Bank of Corry Peat. This brings total dividends declared to correspond to the bank's owed amounts and notes forthcoming payments.
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Washington
First National Bank of Corry
Peat
Chali Tizaldio
Platt Opposes End of Open Enrollment in Republican Creed
The Republican County Committee meets to consider adopting a new constitution that would abolish the open enrollment system, replacing it with a district inspectors process. T. C. Platt and other leaders denounce the change as a move toward exclusive clubs and urge maintaining easy access to Republican membership.
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Republican County Committee
Republican Party
Itm
Board of Enrdment
Alan May Hae
T. C. Platt
Platt
Msid
Republicas
New York
Norfolk and North Carolina Canal Company elected officers
First annual meeting of the Norfolk and North Carolina Canal Company elected officers J.C. Short O. M Short Kagena T Lynell and others. Capital set at 1,000,000 with 500,000 to be spent on widening the canal linking Chesapeake Bay to Albemarle and Pamlico sounds and onward to Delaware Bay. Virginia legislature changed company name and increased capital. Also reports a fraud case in San Francisco over salted mines with damages sought and alleged stock manipulation.
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Norfolk and North Carolina
Me Norte
Norfolk and Nort Carolina Canal Company
Vhs
Virginia
Laetatsire
Norfolk and North Capelknke Canal Company
San Francico
Dee
Charles Lacy Plumb
Chicago
United States District Court
William Whalen
Bureka
Eureka
Whalen
Worth
Euros
St Patrick
St. Mag St. Meter
St Josughs
Liberty
Whaten
Gametork
Tinh
Chirag
Piomt
Trishmen
Railway Property Burned at Rockland Maine Fire
A morning blaze at Rockland Maine destroyed Kilns belonging to White & Case and a third near Cobbs Kiln, plus Tibbett's eyit loft and 250 feet of Lime Rock railroad trestle and seven cars. Knox and Lincoln freight depot caught fire but was extinguished. Fire of incendiary origin caused $41,750 in losses. liabilities exceed a quarter of a million.
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Rockland
Cobbs
White & Case
Tibbett
Eyit
Knox and
Lincoln Railroad
Ascrecate
Iisurwnte
Eeoos Chirime Company
Miners Progressive Union Opens National Convention
Indianapolis hosts the National Convention of the Miners Progressive Union as leaders plan to unify coal mine workers, push for work-hour and tonnage restrictions, and threaten suspensions across the district to force demands, with a defense fund proposed.
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Mineis
Indianapolis
Miners’ Progressive Union
United Poilon
Meitrido
Vandalism in Ceara and Para during Brazilian revolution
The Cyril from Brazil reaches Thooklyn after Para reports amid Ceara unrest. Naval cadets paint over royal street names with Republican ones, while palace oil paintings in Para are destroyed. A Provisional Government seeks rubber subsidy via J.C. Vianna, with merchants opposing the grant and Governor’s powers highlighted.
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Cyril
Brazil
Thooklyn
Para
Uute
Ceara
Naval College
Republic
Dom Pedro
Companinie Mercaattt of
Tira
W. St. Grace & Co
Senor
J.C. Vianna
Agai
J. Loewenthal & Cos
Toston
New York
W. H. Viruce
Kewellta
Jara
US Senate Move Urges Recognition for New Republic
Washington December 18 special Senator Morgan introduced a joint resolution urging the United States to recognize the Republic of Brazil Kinzit and grant full international comity. The measure vows to acknowledge the new government as lawful and sovereign, with notification to the public laws in force. The Assembly ceiling case and a train wreck report follow in Albany and other dispatches.
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Sen Aron Aunwan
Washington
Morgan
New Republic of Kinzit
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
United States of Americ
Braail
Breell
America
Kaptre
Nazil
United States
Tiravlt
Reall
Morrison
Kilo
Janiero
Brazil
WM Historile
Artion
Hoar
Dusiness
Massachusetts
Pension Oreran
United States District Attorney
Brewer Confirmed on Three Grounds in Senate Vote
Washington December 1 1905 Senate confirms Judge Brewer of Kansas as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by a 57 to 11 vote. Opposition centers on prohibition cases and a Dakota objection to nonresident court appointees, with final approval telegraphed to Brewer who will take the oath in Washington.
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Phelps
Casey
Mesérs
Wilson
Colquitt
Reagan
Blair
Irewer
Kansas
Breweries
Supreme Court of the United States
Messrs. Berry and Jones
Arkansas
Brewer
North
South Dakota
Dakota
Territory
Nebraska
Supreme Court
Lutzook
New Hampshire
Toy Aera Tenet
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Moody
Senate
Mor
Call
Judge Brewer
Omaha
Troutman
Washington
Ingalls
Uhey
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