Secretary Long's Navy Year Report Rewards Bravery and Growth Needs
Secretary of the Navy Long releases the annual report for 19 detailing praised bravery in operations including the China campaign. It calls for more officers and enlisted men, notes looming needs as ships are completed, and recommends reviving the office of vice admiral. The document discusses official organization and questions of foreign territory in pay claims. Continued on Third Page.
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Secretary of the Navy
Long
Uncle Sam
China
Davy
Vesels
Bureau of Navigation
Hanna's Shipping Bill Faces Republican Resistance
The Times Bureau reports that key Republicans including Burton Hull and Hemenway signal opposition to the ship subsidy bill in its present form. Acheson Morris and Dalzell back the measure, arguing it supports the merchant marine and allied industries, while party pledges pressure passage.
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Washington
Hanna
Congress
Burton
Ohio
River and Harbor Committee
Representative Hull
Iowa
House
Hull
Acheson
Pennsylvania
Morris
Minnesota
Dalzell
Wrecked St. John schooner Advance washes ashore at Wallis Sands
The battered hulk of the St. John schooner Advance ran aground on Wallis Sands with four or five crew unaccounted. Lifesavers waited hours as heavy surf prevented boarding. the ship, sailing from St. John NB for Boston with alewives and shingles, is a total loss. There is uncertainty whether the crew were rescued or drowned, with a possible reach to the Isle of Barbary eight miles east.
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St. John N.B
Boston
Violent Lake Erie Storm Hits Northern Ohio
A brutal Lake Erie gale hammered Cleveland and northern Ohio with north winds up to sixty miles per hour, heavy rain and sleet. No ships left port as telegraph and telephone lines again suffered major damage, delaying continued coverage on the fifth page.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Lake Erie
Strangely Grand Courtroom Scene In New York
In New York on November 26 Louis Gourdain accused of maintaining a lottery caused a circus in court as he subpoenaed Bishop Potter James J Corbett J Pierpont Morgan Police Captain Price and President McKinley Other subpoenas were missing and a fellow prisoner claimed Gourdain mailed summons to figures from the Czar to Queen Victoria The Recorder later canceled the subpoenas after learning Gourdain was insane and in a straitjacket
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the Times
New York
Louis Gourdain
Bishop Potter
James J. Corbett
J. Pierpont Morgan
Price
McKinley
Gourdain
Russia
Kid’’ McCoy
Queen Victoria
Kruger
Count Boni Castellano
China
Li Hung Chang
Prince of Wales
Edna May
Goff
Potter
August
Jim’ Corbett
Joe” Walcott
York
Recorder Goff
Tammany Committee Meets on Vice Suppression Plan
The Tammany investigating committee met at 190 Bowery to hear a report from the group that will call on Chief Devery. Complaints were flowing in but deemed minor and to receive attention. James B. Reynolds declined to comment on the plan to segregate vice and warned action depends on the committee’s good faith before any definite line is set.
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New York
Tammany Investigating Committee
Devery
Bowery
James B. Reynolds
University Settlement
Irvington Street
Tammany Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Steamer Jones Still Beached Off Isle of Wight
Ocean City Md November 26 heavy southeast winds and high sea hinder rescue attempts to move the English steamer Margaret Jones from the Isle of Wight beach. Tug crews and wrecking boats plan a high tide effort at 11 o clock tomorrow as conditions worsen and the vessel remains wedged broadside to the shore.
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Ocean City
Margaret Jones
Isle of Wight
North American
Spartan
Somers N. Smith
Lottle
Wrecking Company
Schooner In Distress Off Spring Lake Reported
A two masted schooner near Spring Lake station was seen with her flag upside down signaling distress. Weather conditions were severe with gale force winds, suggesting the vessel may be aground.
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Spring Lake Station
Timms
Atlantic City
Schooners Ashore Rescued Off Cedar Point
Special Telegram to Tux Tres, Cleveland, November 26. After heroic efforts the men of the saving station at Cedar Point succeeded in saving the crews of two big schooners which went ashore there during the gale this morning. Among the crew of one schooner was a woman who was saved.
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Cleveland
Cedar Point
Princeton Dorm Burglar Captured by Ill-Timed Stalking
A Princeton student resident chased and captured a dorm burglar after spotting him picking a room. The thief, identified as Frank McDonald of Newark, was led to the proctor's office where jewelry was recovered, and students crowded to identify the loot.
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Hawkins
Pstol
Pproctor
Frank McDonald
Newark
Murder of Day A Deep Mystery
Frank H. Hamilton, newspaper man, was arraigned on first degree murder charges in the West Hotel stabbing of Leonard Day. Reported rivalry with Day over a woman fuels speculation another arrest may follow. Day’s funeral was held at the West Hotel.
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Minneapolis
Frank H. Hamilton
Leonard Day
West Hotel
Day
Hamilton
Young Day
Krause Cement Works Destroyed by Fire
Easton November 26 Fire destroyed three Krause Sone cement plant buildings at Martin s Creek eight miles from Easton with an estimated loss of 200 000 mostly insured. The blaze started in the coalhouse and spread quickly despite relief by overland fire apparatus and horse relays. Only the power boiler and row houses survived as the rest burned. origin unknown. The plant formerly owned by William Krause Sons of Philadelphia had operated about a year and will be rebuilt.
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Easton
Krause & Sone
Martin’s Creek
William Krause & Sons
North Fifth Street
Philadelphia
Thieves Strike Westville Home Steal Silverware and Breakfast
Thieves entered Zacharias Patterson's Westville residence by prying a front window and robbed silverware clothing valued at $100. A roasted rabbit was taken, leaving half the morning meal gone. Police have a clue tying the incident to a prior robbery on Newbold Avenue. Chief Marple pursues the case.
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Tar Times
Gloucester City
Zacharias Patterson
Westville
Newbold Avenue
Chief Marple
Philadelphia Boys Detained in New York
New York police at Wakefield station report detaining Elwood Walton aged 17 of 1640 Newkirk Street Philadelphia and Warren Eberhart 15 of 27 Oxford Street Philadelphia. The youths said they had run away from home.
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New York
Wakefield Station
Elwood Walton
Newkirk Street
Warren Eberhart
Oxford Street
Philadelphia
Cousin of President Dead in Minneapolis Home
Mrs Joanna Robinson, a second cousin of President McKinley, died at her home 682 Lawrence Avenue, Minneapolis yesterday. She was 75 years old. The record contains incomplete text and several garbled phrases.
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Minneapolis
Joanna Robinson
President McKinley
Lawrence Avenue
J. Paul
Mra
Robinson
Senator Cushman Davis Nearing Death in Saint Paul
In Saint Paul on November 26 reports say United States Senator Cushman K. Davis is near death as his strength fades and dissolution seems certain. Physicians note delirium, inability to take nourishment, and continual suffering while his family and doctors stay at his bedside awaiting the end.
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St. Paul
United States
Cushman K. Davis
Asisters
Stones
Lankaster
Senate
Eloped to wed her tiny lover from Burnside to Courtlandt
Miss Mary Weikel, 17, left Burnside two miles from Shamokin to marry Claude Brubaker, a 23 inch tall vaudeville performer. Brubaker, once with Garnella Brothers, is 20 years old and weighs 70 pounds. She traveled in the rain after receiving a ticket, staying overnight with a friend before boarding a Pennsylvania train to New York.
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TIMES
Shamokin
Mary Weikel
Burnside
Courtlandt
N. Y
Claude Brubaker
Brubaker
Garnella Brothers
New York
Miss Weikel
Mary
Used Knife and Rope End Life Attempt by Gardner
Charles Gardner a 44 year old resident of North Fifth Street made two suicide attempts yesterday morning first cutting his throat in a stable near his home and then at the Tenth district police station after arrest Police officer Agnew found him in the stable with a throat wound and a penknife nearby Gardner was locked in the cell where he hung from the door bar with suspenders The suspenders’ tightness reopened the neck wound Dr Wyant dressed the wound and Gardner was sent to Philadelphia Hospital
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Charles Gardner
North Fifth Street
Tenth District
Agnew
Tenth
Gardner
Wyant
Philadelphia Hospital
Killed by the Flyer on Chestnut Hill Line
James Welsh aged 24 of Sunnyside avenue was struck and killed by the Chestnut Hill Flyer on the Reading Railway between Reading Terminal and Chestnut Hill at Belmont station. He stepped from a shifting engine to the track as the express passed, the impact throwing his body about fifty feet. Life was extinct at once. his brother John witnessed the tragedy.
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Chestnut Hill
Reading Railway
Reading Terminal
James Welsh
Sunnyside Avenue
Thirty-fifth Street
Belmont
James
John
Belmont Station
Express
Proved Himself a Hero by Braving Fire at Mill
Fred Watts head sawyer at J. H. Brown’s mill acted with extraordinary bravery when the injector failed and boilers neared empty. While the engineer fled and men scattered, Watts entered the boiler room and quickly quenched the fires to prevent a potential explosion and save lives.
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Canton
Fred Watts
Watts
J. H. Brown
Bryan to Attend Jackson Day Banquet in Chicago
William J. Bryan has assured attendance at the Jackson Day banquet in Chicago on January 8. He is expected to outline his view on the party's future during the event. A separate Brooklyn police mystery concerns a severed ear found near trolley tracks on March Avenue, described as part of a gruesome case under investigation.
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Chicago
William J. Bryan
Bryan
Traxs
New York
Brooklyn
March Avenue
General Fitzhugh Lee Assumes Missouri Command
General Fitzhugh Lee travels to Washington to assume command of the Department of Missouri, relieving General Merriam. The transfer follows his relief from duty with the Division of Havana and Santa Clara. He met with War Department officials and spoke briefly with the press.
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Fitzhugh Lee
Department of the Missouri
Washington
Havana
Santa Clara
Department of Missouri
Merriam
War Department
Weather Forecast Maps Storm Path Near New York City
The southern storm remains central tonight near New York City and weakens on Monday. Rain or snow continues across the Atlantic States and Upper Ohio Valley with clearing in the South. Eastern NY and PA NJ DE MD expect fair weather Tuesday and Wednesday with brisk NW winds. Western NY and PA see fair conditions with possible Lake Ontario flurries and northerly winds.
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New York City
Atlantic States
Ohio Valley
Lake Region
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Ontario
Train disaster near Hinton reports two hundred dead
A Charleston to Wheeling telegram says a nine car Chesapeake and Ohio train derailed and plunged into the Greenbrier river near Hinton West Virginia. Widespread flooding is blamed on three days of heavy rain and wires are down hindering verification.
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Chesapeake’ and Ohio Railroad
Green Brier River
Hinton
Green Brier
Standard Oil wins Romanian oil concessions
London reports Standard Oil Company has secured mining and pipeline rights on all government tracts in Roumania and nearly a monopoly on oil wells. The concession price is stated as 400000 pounds.
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London
Standard Oil Company
Roumania
Bargains on Special Lots at Two-Thirds Retail Value
Panicked sales offer in Camas features special lots bought at deep discounts. Retail values sliced to about two-thirds, urging quick purchase before season ends. Local dealers promote limited stock across the season’s best bargains.
Men's Suits and Overcoats Sold at Low Prices
The ad touts men's suits priced 7.50 to 12 and overcoats, featuring kerseys beavers and friezes. It claims forty-six suit styles from a famed Eastern maker and notes the items are duplicates of pieces sold elsewhere for 30 percent more.
Our Own Overcoats in Philadelphia Offer Bargain Menswear
Our Own Overcoats emphasizes its leadership in selling more coats than any rival in Philadelphia. The ad touts Surtout Raglan and Pad dock styles with double breasted cuts, peak lapels, and prices from $18 to $25, plus boy wear and half price sailor suits. Broken lots reduced to $2.75 and double breasted suits at $4.50 highlighted.
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Philadelphia
Raglan
Perry and Co Clothing Ad Promotes Value at Chestnut Street
An advertisement for Perry and Company at 1520 Chestnut Street touts Wm. Fi Wanamaker style fashion and "Our sew N. RB. T." patterns. It claims good articles, smart buyers, and better prices for suits or overcoats with no extra cost.
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John D. Long
Times Bureau
Hemenway
Indiana
Appropriations Committee
Dalizell
Alpena, Mich
Whitefish Point
New England
Great Lakes
Morntnh, N. H
The
Wallis Sands
Isle of Bhorls
the Great Lakes
Tammany
Tux Tres
Pringetons
Thic
Times Pringeton
Princeton
G. R. Hawkins
Little Hall
Krause Cement Works
Timps
Westville House
C.K. Davis
Capitol
Manayunk
Charles G. Deeney
Ridge Avenue
MR. Bryan
West Virginia
Sretat
Tur Times
Wheeling
W. Va
Charles
Camas
Wm. Fi. Wanamaker
Meo
Perry & CO
Chestnut Street
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