Agreement on China Points Reached by Foreign Envoys
Berlin and London dispatches report a broad agreement among powers in Peking on peace terms with China. Key points include punishing main culprits, witnessing executions, paying damages, stationing guards at the legations, razing Taku forts, and securing coastal communication. Negotiations on other demands continue.
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Peking
China
Peking Legations
Taku
London
Daily Mail
Tiensin
Belgium
Denmark
Holland
Spain
Russia
France
Times
Tien-Tsin
Morrison
the Times
Fighting with Triads and Boxers in South China
Nov. 11 Victoria B C reports Rebel Triads surge in Kwang-Se. Marshal Su calls for 80 000 to crush them as British forces guard Kowloon. Handy torpedo boat shelling rebels near Sanchuan. 40 killed. Imperial troops beat Boxers near Tsan-Tsou. 6 000 rebels killed and Boxer leader Chen killed after a ravine fight. Consul Goodnow cites 93 American and British missionaries murdered and 170 missing in Shan-Se and Pe-Chi-Li.
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Kwang-Se
Kuangning
Tsan-Tsou
Shan-Tung
Pe-Chi-Li
Yuan
Tsang-Chou
Mei
Chen
Consul Goodnow
Shanghai
Shan-Se
Closure of the Department of Santiago de Cuba
In Santiago de Cuba on November 11 Colonel Whitside received orders from the War Department fixing November 15 as the date to close the Department of Santiago de Cuba. Officers fear changes. most expect Santiago to become a district rather than a department headquarters. General Wood is due next Tuesday. Cubans condemn the War Department action, accusing Americans of favoring Havana.
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Santiago de Cuba
Whitside
War Department
Department of Santiago de Cuba
Santiago
Wood
Russians complain of allies harsh China policy in St Petersburg
In St Petersburg officials and press express growing restlessness over Allied actions in China. The Bourse Gazette warns Russians will reap foreign hatred caused by German and British hard line. Executions of Pao Ting Fu officials draw official dissatisfaction.
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Petersburg
Russia
Ays
Bourse Gazette
St. Petersburg
Pao-Ting-Fu
Siberian peasants urged to join Cossack caste
Petersburg reports the Russian General proposes Siberian peasants adopt the Cossack caste. Ten thousand signified willingness. The plan offers eighty two acres of land per recruit and requires four years of military service with reserves until age forty four.
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Petersburg
Sweeping Army Reform Plan for England Next Year
London reports a Daily Telegraph plan for a broad army reform to begin early next year. The private soldier will receive ten months of scientific drill and training rather than six weeks, reshaping the force through intensive nature-based exercises.
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London
Daily I
British Problems and Imperial Defence Reforms in Parliament
London reports the first post reorganizational council will meet at Windsor with plans to restructure military training, artillery, fortifications, and naval strength. An imperial defence council may coordinate Canada Australia and other colonies. ten months training replaces six weeks. Also notes stock markets, Yerkes urban rail plans, and US election reflections.
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London
Windsor
Lord Roberts
South Africa
Colenso
Magersfontein
Spion Kop
United Kingdom
England
Bodies Washed Ashore After Monticello Disaster
Survivor recounts the steamer Monticello wreck off Yarmouth Nova Scotia after a gale. Twenty three bodies recovered. Captain Harding found. lifeboats and wreckage line the shore as crews identify deckhands and travelers from St John and Essex.
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Harding
Monticello
Elsie McDonald
Murphy
Copeland
Benham
John Richmond
Essex
N. B
Whitmore
O. N. Coleman
Levi Brothers & Co
Jewellers
Hamilton
Ont
James Bam
Yarmouth
St. John
Rupert Olive
Adrift All Day In a Boat Off Long Island Sound
Patrick Gilfoyle a 37 year old Pelham Golf Club greenskeeper spent Saturday adrift in an open boat on Long Island Sound from 9 a m to 8 p m with no food and little clothing. His companions were Patrick Condon and James Murphy as a rescue tugboat finally found him near Execution Light and returned him to Port Washington after a long perilous night.
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Patrick Gilfoyle
Pelham Golf Club
New Rochelle
Long Island Sound
Patrick Condon
James Murphy
Huckleberry Island
Gilfoyle
Port Washington
Long Island
Timmins
Burglar Shot During Riverside Station Burglary
An unknown man was shot and killed last night at Gale's Ferry station of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad after resisting a holdup. Stationmaster George Brooks fired when the burglar refused to surrender, the charge striking the man in the chest. The body shows tattoos and scars. identity remains unknown, with speculation linking him to a Croton station burglary.
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New London
Conn
Gale's Ferry
Norwich and Worcester Railroad
George Brooks
Brooks
Croton
Ownership dispute over the Atalanta yacht heats up
Colombian Consul-General Emiliano Isaza says George J. Gould did not regain the Atalanta and a sale contract to Colombia remains valid. Colombia paid $60,000 toward the gunboat conversion. Gould allegedly kept $40,000. Venezuela’s consul says he has no info on a purchase or negotiations, and litigation to fix ownership may follow.
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George J. Gould
Emiliano Isaza
Westminster Hotel
Driggs- Seabury Gun and Ammunition Company
Gould
Driggs- Seabury Company
Ordnance Company
Driggs-Seabury Company
Mr. Gould
E. Gonzales Esteves
Venezuela
Westminster
N. Bolet Peraza
Tug Joseph Stickney Tow Incident Falls Short Of Fatalities
New London report from Captain Olmsted describes the November storm incident involving the tug Joseph Stickney and her tow of three barges. Eight lives feared lost are not as serious as first believed, with the vessel and crew assessed for safety.
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New London, Conn
Joseph Stickney
Olmsted
Tug Navigator reports sighting Nora during Boston to New York trip
Captain Olmsted says the Nora was being pulled off West Chop Point by the tug Mercury in Vineyard Sound. Drifton and Waverly anchored at Gardner's Bay, Long Island Sound, Coastwise nearby for aid. He suspects another disaster besides the Myra 8. Weaver after noting a Luckenbach tug left Boston with tows but without barges.
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Navigator
Boston
New York
Olmsted
Nora
West Chop Point
Vineyard Sound
Mercury
Drifton
Waverly
Gardner's Bay
Long Island Sound
Myra
Night construction on Mount Vernon trolley line shocks owners
The Huckleberry trolley company secretly laid tracks on the North Fourth avenue bridge and began running cars by 6 pm Saturday after obtaining a city permit but lacking consent from Gould estate and partners. Police halted action Sunday, but owners withdrew to resist further injunctions.
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Huckleberry” Trolley Company
North Fourthave
Mount Vernon
Bronxville
Bronx
Fourth-ave
Common Council
Gould
A. Stephenson
Charles Barker
Thistleton
Incendiaries Fire at Bailey's Beach in Newport
Fire swept through central cottages at Bailey's Beach, property of the Spouting Rock Beach Association, causing $1,000 to $1,500 in damage. Insured and likely incendiary, investigators note a recent similar arson near Mahony stable.
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Newport
R. T
Bailey's Beach
Spouting Rock Beach Association
Mahony
Perished in a Snowstorm Near Lyon Mountain
Plattsburg New York November 11 Henry Lemaitre coachman for Assemblyman C. E. Johnson of the village died from exposure after joining a deer hunt with two companions. They became lost between Lyon Mountain and Ellenburg mountain. Lemaitre exhausted Saturday morning and could not continue. The body was found at 11 o'clock this morning after a search from Lyon Mountain. Lemaitre had been shot in the hand in a prior incident with burglars and was on vacation for that reason.
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London
Earl Cadogan
Ireland
John Grant Lawson
Thirsk and
Malton
York
Ways and Means
Local Government Board
Henry Chaplin
Thomas Henry Sanderson
Foreign Affairs
Order of the Bath
Earl of Clarendon
Earl of Selborne
Joseph Powell Williams
Gerald Balfour
Mr. Balfour
Yarmouth
City of Monticello
Fuller
Eldridge
Poole
Fripp
McGee's Sons
St. John
N. B
Rupert Olive
Prince Edward
Wilson
Johnson
Levi Nickerson
Robert Nickerson
van Renenberg
Austin Wickens
James Cole
John E. Whitmore
Stanley Ringer
Winslow Ringer
Henry Copeland
David Benham
Quartermaster Cook
Monticello
Petit Passage
Harding
Yarmouth Cape
Plattsburg
N. Y
Henry Lemaitre
C. E. Johnson
Lyon Mountain
Ellenburg Mountain
Lemaire
Lyon
Strife Over Confederate Veterans Split in Kentucky
In Lexington a rift in the Confederate Veterans Association emerges as Democratic members plan to withdraw and form a new, partisan group. Republicans and War veterans, including Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge and Gen. Basil Duke, denounce the move while some old-line Confederates prepare to oppose the change at a meeting the next day.
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Lexington
William Goebel
Confederate Veterans’ Association
McKinley
Yerkes
Republcan
W. C. P. Breckinridge
Basil Duke
W. J. Stone
RK. S. Bullock
James B. Clay
Yerkes Plans Railways Dwellings and Ship Canal
London reports Charles T. Yerkes proposes electric railways radiating north of London and low rent workman dwellings to ease overcrowding. He also backs the proposed ship canal linking Southampton to London.
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Charles Yerkes
London
Yerkes
Southampton
Charles T. Yerkes
The
Daily Express
Clergymen's Sore Throat Claim Advised Cure
An advertisement promotes Jayne's Expectorant as a cure for clergymen's sore throat. The ad repeats the claim and touts the product as a remedy. It also mentions pure natural spring water as a world’s pure product.
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Poland
Polanin
Jayne
Advu
Revisions to divorce laws pressured by courtroom fraud
The article notes a push to revise New York divorce procedures following a fraud crackdown led by Justice Beekman. It describes a proposed court attorney role to investigate contested cases, parallels with English law, and forthcoming legislative reintroduction amid arrests of Zeimer and associates.
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