Miners Close Case in Scranton Strike Hearing
The coal strike commission hears final miner witnesses after 19 days and about 160 testimonies. Chairman Gray condemns child labor as he questions railroad coal company links and fare structures. Darrow and Lloyd press evidence on railroads’ control while noting penalties for underpaid wages.
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Childen
Scranton
anthracite coal strike commission
Gray
Clarence
Darrow
Henry D. Lloyd
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Ins
Roof Collapse Injures Sixteen At Philadelphia Round House
A roof of a Pennsylvania Railroad round house in Philadelphia collapsed under ice and snow, injuring 16 workers including engine wipers drivers and firemen. Eight to University Hospital three to Medical Chirurgical five to Presbyterian Hospital. rescuers and firemen saved many as flames briefly broke out.
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Raine
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Thistieth
Arch streeta
University Hospital
Medica
Presbyterian Hospital
Pennnsylvania Railroad
West Philadelphia
round house
Powelton avenue
Tablet to Breckinridge Honored at Naval Academy
A bronze memorial tablet was placed in the Annapolis Naval Academy chapel for Ensign Joseph Cabell Breckinridge of Kentucky, the first martyr of the Spanish American War. Breckinridge was washed overboard from the torpedo boat Cushing en route to Havana with dispatches on February 11, 1898. Born March 6, 1872 at Fort Monroe, the inscription calls him Proto Martyr of the War With Spain. The tablet measures 38 by 42 inches.
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Naval Academy
Annapolis
Joseph , Cabell Breckinridge
Kentucky
Breckinridge
Cushing
Havana
Maine
Joseph Cabell Breckinridge
Spain
Died of Hoccoughs at Rochester Harbor
In Rochester Newfoundland a man named Johan Revbel a harber died after days of constant b e c o n e h i n e from illness. Physicians made efforts to alleviate his suffering but were unsuccessful.
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Hoccoughs
Rochester
Johan Revbel
harber
Girl Sets Fire to Herself in Newark Belleville Girl Burned
Anna Stanfield, 17, of Belleville, discharged from Newark city hospital, was returned badly burned to the institution after claiming a boy set fire to her dress with oil. John Murray says flames were extinguished as he heard her screams and found no one nearby. Police doubt the oil on dress. self-immolation suspected. President and Mrs. Roosevelt hosted a large dinner with many dignitaries including Holmes, Hoar, Lodge, Neilson, Burrows, Dryden, Hanna, Warren, Sherman, Littaeur, Brooks Adams, Slater, Dietrich, and Gwynne. The steamship Mississippi was launched in Camden for the Atlantic Transport Company, sister to the Massachusetts. Reading detective William Y. Lyon, 72, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and $100 fine for extortion in two cases. The Monte Rey Biertne Railway Company was chartered in Tremon to operate street cars in Monterey, Mexico with Baltimore corporators Leroy W Sperry, Edward F Mass, and Simon J Blach.
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Newark
N. J
Anna Stanfield
Belleville
city hospital
Anne
South Sixth street
Roseville
John Murray
Washington
Roosevelt
Justice
Holmes
Hoar
Lodge
Neilson
Burrows
Dryden
Hanna
Warren
Sherman
Littaeur
Brooks Adams
Boals
Slater
Dietrich
Gwynne
Reading
William Y. Lyon
Mexcan Railway
Jersey
Tremon
Monterey Biertne Railwayy Company
capital
berg yertenday
cty
Monterey
Meosico
Leroy W Sperry
Edward F. Mass
Simon J. Blach
Baltimore
A New Picture of the Empress of Germany
A recent photograph by Bieber Berlin shows the empress of Germany as a pleasant matronly woman focused on her large family. The caption notes empire worries are not troubling her and that her domestic life runs smoothly.
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Bieber
Berlin
Germany
empire
Glenn Court Martial Formed in Manila Trial Time Chosen
A Manila court martial convened to try Major Edwin F. Green of the Fifth Infantry for allegedly killing seven prisoners of war. Major Glenn Bret challenges jurisdiction while witnesses from Samar are awaited. Captain W C Rogers of the 27th Infantry faces charges of disrespect toward General Davis after a denied leave request.
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Chaffee
Smith
Manila
Edwin F. Green
Fifth Infantry
Glenn Bret
Advocate Godier
Major Glenn
United States
Samar
W. C. Rogers
27th Infantry
Glenn
Rogers
Davis
Bishop Talbot on the Stand in Irvine Conspiracy Trial
In Huntingdon Pennsylvania on December 16 the defense rests as Bishop Talbot testifies in the conspiracy case brought by Dr I N W Irvine against Mr and Mrs Alexander Bilcott The bishop admitted drafting a letter describing Irvine as slimy and urging conviction to expose him despite being married The ecclesiastical inquiry criticized his language toward women and accused him of misusing church funds The defense's key witness, Talbot, dominated the proceedings before the rebuttal.
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Irvine
Huntingdon
I. N. W Irvine
St. John’s Church
this place
Alexander Bilcott
Bishop Talbot
Elliott
Dr. Irvine
Union Station at Washingt on Definite Plan and Funding
Congress passed a bill to fund a new Union railway station north of the Baltimore and Ohio depot site at Delaware and Massachusetts avenues with a large plaza park. The government will pay Pennsylvania Railway 1.5 million and Baltimore and Ohio 500,000. The urgent deficiency bill then appropriated 500,000 to eradicate foot and mouth disease in New England. Senate sessions discussed militia efficiency and omnibus statehood, with Pettis sparring over reserve force provisions and Dillingham opposing the statehood bill.
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Congress
Washington
Des
senate
union railway
Baltimore and Ohio
Delaware and
Massachusetts avenues
Pennsylvania Railway
plaza park
New England
house
Proctor
Pettis
Pettus
United States
biI
Senator Dillingham
Vermont
Treaty with Spain Could Be Ratified Before Holidays
Washington December 16 There may be an effort to ratify the new treaty with Spain before Congress adjourns for Christmas holidays. The text has not been published in full, but the agreement signed at Madrid on July 3 contains 31 articles detailing amicable relations and maintains the Paris peace treaty in force. The treaty would likely run 14 years with a one year mutual abrogation period. no ratification deadline is set.
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Gray
wells
Darrow
judge Gray
Pennsylvania
Congress
Washington
Mal ria
tatens
ile
wth
Spain
post office
teneral
intenor
Delegate Ela Dead in Philadelphia Hospital
Colonel John W. Ela, delegate to the National Civil Service Reform League convention and president of the Civil Service Reform League of Chicago, died in a Philadelphia hospital after a paralytic stroke at the hotel following a banquet address. Mrs. Ela, summoned from Chicago, arrived and was with him when he failed.
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Ela
Philadelphia
John W. Ela
National Civil Service Reform League
Civil Service Reform League of Chicago
Chicago
Natonal Service League
England bids arbitration in Venezuela crisis amid clashes
London reports the foreign office has ratified orders to curb hostilities in Venezuelan waters while arbitration is considered on claims against Venezuela. Britain argues to uphold the Monroe Doctrine and protect British and German subjects' interests as Britain, Italy, and the US engage in a tripartite approach amid naval actions and a threatened blockade.
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Lord Granborne
England
Venezuela
London
foreign office
United States
Lord Lansdowne
house of Lords
Lord Langdowne
Carnens
house of commons
Viscount Cranborne
Great Britain
Henry White
Schwann
South Africa
Roosevelt
Lord Cranborne
Balfour
Caracas
Boweh
Italy
Berlin
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