London Transit Plans and South Africa Loan Drama
London reports detail Hampstead Underground progress and Waterloo to Baker Street link plans with Thames tunnel work. Yerkes brings American methods as British loan talks hinge on Dutch colonial mortgaging and indemnities while Kaiser Kruger visits France stirs tensions.
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London
Hampstead
Waterloo
Baker St
Paddington
Elephant and Castle
City
Trafalgar Square
Central London
South London Electric Railway
Finsbury Park
Inner Circle
Yerkes Syndicate
Sultan Receives Griscom in Constantinople Talks Cruiser Purchase
In Constantinople the Sultan welcomed United States Chargé d Affaires Lloyd Griscom last Friday. The meeting is believed linked to a pending U S naval cruiser purchase for the Turkish navy. Abdul Hamid asked about President McKinley’s health. Secretary Root at Santiago. The party travels by revenue cutter Kanawha from Manzanillo to Santiago with rough seas causing seasickness among landsmen except General Wood.
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Constantinople
Lloyd Griscom
United States
Abdul Hamid
McKinley
Santiago
Cuba
Elihu Root
General Wood
Mr. Root
Manzanillco
Colonel Whitside
Manzanillo
Kanawha
Jayne's Expectorant Advertisement Claims Soothed Lungs
An advertisement asserts Jayne's Expectorant allays irritation and heals sore lungs. Another line promotes Poland spring water as the purest natural spring water in the world.
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Jayne
Poland
Negotiations in Peking Progress Amid Chinese Crisis
Nov 17 dispatches report ministers optimistic about early negotiations with Chinese commissioners. US Minister Conger cites favorable signs for a preliminary settlement and notes potential major points of contention depend on Chinese acceptance of final demands. Military actions largely halted as German and Italian columns move north unopposed.
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Peking
Prince Ching
Li Hung Chang
Conger
United States
Associated Press
China
Nan-Kau Pass
Bad Sanitary Conditions In Peking Threaten Epidemic
Peking reports severe sanitation problems as foreigners occupy the city. Many Chinese keep coffins at home to avoid funeral interference, while garbage removal is blocked, causing enormous accumulations in houses and yards. Officials warn a winter smallpox surge could yield a deadly outbreak with many troops nearby.
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Peking
Allies Reach the Great Wall in Chinese Campaign
A telegram from German headquarters in Peking reports Colonel York's column reached Tsha-Tau on November 14, northwest of Beijing, with a large force of Chinese cavalry evacuating the position.
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Berlin
Peking
York
Tsha-Tau
Great Wall
Rumor of British Flying Squadron Reaches London
Hong Kong correspondent for The Daily Mail reports considerable commotion in London on the rumor that Great Britain plans to dispatch a flying squadron abroad. The report, if true, signals intensified naval air capabilities and potential new strategic moves for Britain.
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London
Hong Kong
the Daily Mail
Great Britain
Precious Chinese Manuscripts Lost in Fires
St. Petersburg dispatch reports the director of the Oriental Institute at Viladivostock declaring the destruction of libraries in Peking and Tien-Tsin by fire as irreparable. The loss includes numerous precious manuscripts on Chinese dynasties.
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St. Petersburg
Oriental Institute
Viladivostock
Peking
Tien-Tsin
Czar Doing Well After Favorable Day
Livadia reports Emperor Nicholas had a favorable day with rest and improved condition. He slept well overnight and this morning his temperature dropped from 101.6 to 99.6 and his pulse rose from 64 to 68 while he remained comfortable and mentally clear.
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Livadia
Nicholas
Special Prayers For The Czar In Russia
In St Petersburg officials express cautious optimism over Emperor Nicholas II illness. Bulletin tones deemed favorable by Foreign Office officials. They distinguish typhus from typhoid and note Russian habits and diet may influence infection. Special prayers are held in churches in St Petersburg Moscow and Kharkow for the Czar’s recovery.
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St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Foreign Office
Russia
United States
Japan
M.onarch
Moscow
Kharkow
German prisoners released urged in talks
Berlin reports the German Government is pressing Britain to free German prisoners who fought for the Boer side in South Africa. About 300 are said to be at St Helena and 250 in Ceylon as negotiations start in London and Berlin.
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Berlin
London
South Africa
St. Helena
Ceylon
Americas press reports intensified actions against Lukban in Samar
Manila dated November 18 reports a surge in rebel and American activity across Luzon with intensified operations on Samar to crush General Lukban. General Hare arrives with eight companies to reinforce garrisons, while gunboats guard the coast. Notable engagement north of Manila yielded heavy rice stores and casualties on both sides. MacArthur and Remey travel to Subic Bay as plans consider more Marines near Subig. Court martial of Captain McCalla continues aboard the Newark amid censorship rules.
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Manila
Luzon
Samar
Lukban
Samar Island
General Hare
2D Infantry
Marinduque
United States
48D Regiment
Devereaux Shields
29Th Volunteer Infantry
14Th Infantry
China
21St Infantry
21St
38Th Infantry
38Th
Panay
Mindanao
Kagayan
Wheaton
Young
Tinio
Aglipay
Grant
Macabebee
Frederick W. Alstaeter
Engineers
General MacArthur
Subic Bay
Admiral Remey
Brooklyn
Philippine Waters
MacArthur
Subig
America
Europe
Philippines
Orient
Nine Days From Nash? Lovitt Arrives in Port After Stormy Voyage
The Nova Scotia barkentine F. B. Lovitt returned to port from a voyage that began August 21 in Montevideo. Severe gales wrecked topmasts and rigging, forcing a stop in Barbados for medical care. A late November delivery by way of the Highlands of Navesink halted by a quarantine, with disinfection for plague exposure at river Plate ports.
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Nova Scotia Barkentine
F. B. Lovitt
Montevideo
Barbados
Lovitt
J. C. Sanders
Levitt
New York
Navesink
Odell Faces State Finances and Prison Reform Challenges
Albany’s Governor-elect Odell begins gathering department cost data to shape his first message. Reports highlight rising indigent and insane care costs, prison system expenditures, and the need for new facilities. A major proposal favors locating a consumptives hospital at Dannemora with convict labor to reduce costs.
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Commissioner of Prisons
Odell
McLaughlin
Prison Commission
Clinton Prison
State Hospital
Cornelius V. Collins
Superintendent of Prisons
State Prison Commission
Prison labor earnings vs state costs analyzed by McLaughlin
McLaughlin notes prison earnings total 262 000 dollars from free labor outside prisons plus 100 000 dollars linked to wages of citizens in instruction supervision coal and other items leaving only 54 000 of net prison labor. Annual prison maintenance cost about 500 000 dollars. Last year earnings of prisoners about 11 percent of maintenance, taxpayers paying 89 percent to spare free labor competition. Total state costs for prisons reformatories and schools about 1 500 000 annually with earnings about 14 percent of total expenditures and taxpayers bearing 96 percent for protection of free labor.
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McLaughlin
Two Killed With an Axe in Trenton Farmhouse Fire
In Trenton New Jersey on November 18 a mother Mary E Vanlieu age 39 and her two year old son George were found dead in the Force farm ruins. Authorities say the mother and child were murdered to conceal a fire set in the home. The husband, a farm hand, returned after midnight and alerted neighbors but no trace of the victims could be found. A suspect named Robert Hensen a former murder convict was captured near Washington Crossing and brought to the city. police found blood marks and an axe at the scene.
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Trenton
N. J
Mary E. Vanlieu
George
Force Farm
Robert Hensen
Ella Quinn
Tucker St
Hensen
Vanlieu
Washington Crossing
D. Carley Files Petition in U S Bankruptcy Court
Francis Dighton Carley of East Orange filed for bankruptcy in Trenton. Lawyer William J. Linihan and Corbin & Corbin represent him. Frederick W. Leonard named as referee. Carley lists liabilities of 1,023,953 63 with assets only his wearing apparel and possible damages claim.
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United States District Court
Trenton
Francis Dighton Carley
East Orange
William J. Linihan
Newark
Corbin & Corbin
Jersey City
Frederick W. Leonard
Carley
Ernest M. Martin
Inman Swan & Co
New York
F. D. Carley
Kentucky National Bank
Louisville
J. Kennedy Tod & Co
New- York
Lawrence
Long Island
E. M. Martin
Brooklyn
Isaac N. Soles
Philadelphia
J. W. W. Newlin
American desks sold to the Czar in Copenhagen dispatch
A Copenhagen dispatch reports an American merchant in the city sold the Czar a number of Buffalo firm roll top desks and other American furniture. The items are to be shipped aboard the Czar's yacht Polar Star.
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Berlin
Copenhagen
Buffalo
Polar Star Roe Sraehe
Seventy seven hotels near Grand Central in New York
An advertisement touts 77 New York hotels reachable within one to fifteen minutes from New York Central’s Grand Central Station. It promotes Grand Central as the best place to land or start a visit in New York City.
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New York
New York Central
Grand Central Station
Titus to Spare Women in East Side Crackdown Provokes Debate
The Tribune reports intensified pressure on East Side vice with Captain George F. Titus promising to target tenement landlords and dive keepers rather than arresting women. He vows to purge open vice, seek aid from officials, and pursue legal action against property owners to curb public corruption and maintain decency.
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George F. Titus
Titus
Eldridgest
Herlihy
Paddock
Bishop Potter
Tribune
Devery
James B. Reynolds
University Settlement Society
Mr. Reynolds
Dr. Paddock
Royal Limited Important Change to Philadelphia Run
The Royal Limited via Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington begins November 3 leaving New York South Ferry at 3 35 p m and Liberty Street at 4 0 p m. Elegant day coaches with no extra fare join the Pullman parlor observation and dining cars. Advt purest natural spring water in the world.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
New York
South Ferry
Liberty St
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