Breeches Buoy Saves Crew From Stranded Schooner
A Long Island schooner named the 5. Miteheusk ran aground near Moriches. Lifesaving crews from Moriches, Forge River, and Patrick stations fought high waves to operate the breeches buoy. Nine men plus Captain Borensen were rescued, with lines, gear, and shore support enabling safe landings before daylight.
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Roagh
Griffin
Tattle
Moriches
Hitchcock
Motlehos
Forge River
Patrick
Seaman
Kit Moriches
Borensen
Girl Discovers Fire On New Haven Bridge in The Bronx
In New York City a bridge on the New Haven Railroad line near East Chester road burned after sparks from a passing locomotive. Mabal Biulds, daughter of Tax Commissioner August C. Biulds, found the first clue of trouble and alerted the station agent. A heavy freight train narrowly avoided wreck as crews battled the blaze. later, passenger trains arrived and helped fight the fire. Twenty-two sailors drown when the British steamer Borges foundered off Cape Finisterre during a hurricane. survivors totaling twenty were brought to Bristol.
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New York City
East Chester Road
New Haven
Bronx
Mabal Biulds
August C. Biulds
Chester
Harlem River
Fhoxpex
Caio
Dranatch
Bristol
Borges
Glasgow
Cape Binisterre
Bino
Fourteen Soldiers Declared Insane During Philippines Campaign
A list from the Puerto Rican Military Reservation sent to Washington names fourteen soldiers deemed insane amid the Philippine campaign. Nearly all suffered mental breakdowns linked to campaigning. Also notes the hanging of murderer Edward Crashinger, aged ninety, at Bunbury Prensbter.
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Philippines
Bax Fauxciico
Asane
Wnt
Washington, D.C
Prusidio
Thomas F. Collins
Company 1
Sixth Infantry
Owen H. Wission
Thomas F. T
Anton Barber
Gomany E
Fourth Infantry
Michael Gallagher
Twenty-third Infantry
George M. Barton
Philip
Edward Crashinger
Bunbury
Boyles Ua Torre
Cressinger
Governor McLaurin for Senator Nomination at Jack Mise
Governor McLaurin nominated by a joint Legislature caucus for the Vale Senate term starting 1900. Votes and positions noted as members declined to vote. A monument to Cuban Patriot Maximo Gomes laid at San Cabo marks spot of General’s death. foundation stone to be erected in memory.
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Maximo Gomes
San , Cabo
Memlat
Manila Plague Strikes as War Dept Reorganizes Quarantine
A plague outbreak in Manila prompts a shift in quarantine policy with the War Department transferring authority to the Marine Hospital Service. Surgeons are en route to establish a rigid quarantine line in the Philippines as two deaths occur and isolation measures begin. The disease has been controlled elsewhere by disinfection and sanitation, but the threat of spread remains if it reaches new areas, especially among Europeans.
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Spoels
Wyman
Pallispinine
Texas
War Department
Marine Hospital Airvice
Java
Philippines
Atami
Alexandria
Egypt
Kobbe
Japan
Vienna
Austria
Jane
Dows
Fresh Outbreak in Honolulu Reported in December
In Honolulu a renewed bubonic plague outbreak follows a 13 day quiet period. Ethel Johnson dies December 23 and two new Chinese cases surface December 25. Plague clusters appear at Palama and Pawan with Palama cases deemed highly severe.
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Sax Francisco
Ethel Johnson
Pawan
Palama
Mondula Fe
Manila
Saling
Guan
President nominates Bates and Wheaton to major general
Special from Wasmixatox D C states the president sent to the Senate nominations for army officer promotions. Brigadier General J C Bates is named to be Major General of Volunteers and Brigadier General Lloyd Wheaton is named to be Major General of Volunteers by brevet.
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Wheaton
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Wasmixatox
D.C
Senate
J. C. Bates
Volunteere
Lloyd Wheaton
Volunteers
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Lloyn Wheaton
Army promotions and senior appointments detailed
To be Brigadier-Generals Colonel B. M. Young Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Mac Arthur and Lieutenant-Colonel Willam Ludlow. Also a number of other appointments and promotions in the regular and volunteer army.
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4. B. M. Young
Arthur Mac Arthur
Willam Ludlow
President McKinley Hosts White House Dinner with Cabinet
The first formal dinner of the local season at the White House was hosted by President and Mrs. McKinley. Cabinet members and their wives were the guests of honor, joined by members of the Senate and House. The Marine Band provided music as guests, numbering about seventy.
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D. CO
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McKinley
Find
Senate
House
Marine Band
Ture
Gunboat Mariette Reports Arrival to Fleet
The Navy Department in Washington confirms the gunboat Marietta arrived at Mania. Brooklyn New Orleans Nashville and Newark have reached the main fleet. Marietta is among ships dispatched to Near Admiral Watson to join the Aslatte station. Reports from Achalkalek in Tifaussia detail ongoing movements.
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Watson
Navy Department
Washington
Marietta
Mania
Brooklyn
New ‘Orleans
Nashville
Newark
Aslatte
Boer Suttle Clash and Boer War Movements Reported
British and Boer forces clash as operations unfold with prisoners taken and communications about reinforcements and divisions. General Frewell notes Boer commando actions. war office outlines immediate mobilization and division shuffles, including redeployments from Gilralive and Malta toward the Transvaal.
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Uttar
Papel
Ani Mueaullug
Maesldies
Duce Woundelh
Saventy
Ineli
Frewell
Jaumuty
Lina
Annallnwesan Elekttr
Booth Alpin
Regitanaca
Cine Division
Gilralive
Malta
Hlitta
Tris Ansertad Tnt
Victoms Anthante
Thames
Atentnors
Anil
Transvaal
British acknowledge caputre and seizures in war report
A verbose dispatch states British forces captured Paraman. details include 129 peltowork captured with rifles and revolvers, multiple wounded on the English side, and activity around Pretoria via Veyburg. Also notes German and British positions, Portugal loan talks, and a Yale professor on seizures. The report mentions a German steamer seized by a British warship arriving at Denwax Natal.
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Premorta
Herenae Margie
Cornet
Pretoria
Veyburg
Merzog Delee
Denwax
Natal
Herzog
Hie
GEADLOCK OVER MODUS VIVENDI IN FRANCE ACTION CALLED
France urges immediate action on the modus vivendi with Great Britain as a renewal bill stalls in the colony. The Colonial Government cannot convene a session to pass the renewal yet London negotiators press for swift passage by local or British Parliament. Officials admit the crisis is grave and seek concessions to advance the measure.
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St. Jouy’a, N.T
London
Tramps Burned in Barn Fire Near Hamilton Farm
A barn on the Fox farm two miles south of Hamilton Ojo caught fire and burned to the ground. Eight tramps slept inside. six were recovered, with John Burgera and Charles Gray badly burned and possibly dying. James Duncan of Chester Peau perished in the blaze.
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Fox Farm
Hamilton
Ojo
John Burgera
Charles Gray
James Duncan
Chester
Peau
Boer and British Enlistments Stir South African War
Alar a number of American citizens are enrolled tn the various Colonial volunteer corps. The Government of France tins appointed Captain Demange military attache at the Boer headquarters. Many Qretans in Athens late offered their suevices to the Hruiseh Consul for the war in South Afria. The British Government tiny protested to Switzerland against enlistments for the Boers in that country. The South African medical students from Béloburah have arrived at Pretoria fro Datagos Bay with Gretons s médical.
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France
Demange
Fragmented OCR offers glimpse of era events and names
Readable fragments reveal a chaotic regional narrative with mentions of cities like New York and Boston, various personal names, legal language, and references to events such as a death in Pyrost Tits and a murder claim. The text mixes garbled phrases, possible dates, and scattered locations, implying a multi-topic wartime or civic record.
Stated Breach of Trust Ties Prominent Newton Case to Bank Losses
The report covers the Fidelity Deposit and Guaranties Bank case involving Stuart Mie On From the HumWie Phteliy Trust Company and Prominent Newton. It notes Newton’s £48000 loss linked to gambling and stock-market activity, with details on custody and a December 3rd jail date for linked figures.
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Cig Ticluly
Fidelity Deiat
L. Newton
Willir
Newton
Whiel Hue Pall Bis
Wight
Elie
Leds Cymnens
Willa
Noude Adomant
Ani
Atvnr
Oliwisings
Uae
Death of Dr McGlynn at Newburyport
The Rev Edward McGlynn rector of St Marys Newburyport died Sunday after a long illness of heart disease. Born in New York on September 27 1897 he was educated in public and parochial schools and became a noted scholar. Prayers were offered in Protestant and Catholic churches as tributes poured in from Newburyport and surrounding communities.
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Edwant McAlynn
St. Mary
Arlighit
iMaunsti
Guy Swarm
Newburygran
Honey George An
Dkma
Edward McGlynn
New York
American Prisoners Killed in Front of Firing Line
Cable report says during a reconnoiter near Arayat in Cavite Province Captain Leonban Sor and Lieutenants Erochs and Bates with two companions of the Twenty-fifth Infantry attacked insurgent camps. Five prisoners were paraded before a flag party. two were killed, two wounded, and two rescued. American losses were three killed and twenty wounded. insurgent losses about eighty killed and eighty wounded.
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Thom
Arayat
Siaxms
Leonbansor
Erochs
Ates
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Tus
Cavit
Cycling Noto Fremont Ohio test of wheelwen’s rights
Fragmentary OCR describes cycling and sidewalks, rights to Fire on thy sidewalke, with unclear phrasing. Mentions Maine vigor and local canvass by letter, noting bicycles on roads and paths, conflict over wheel access and urban conditions.
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Fremont
Ohio
Wheelwen
Anya
Maine
Fire Apparatus and Lumber Forest Depletion Warned
A San Francisco report outlines a portable tire top from a motor apparatus for quick fire suppression in streets and alleys, needing one operator. It notes rising brown water streams and compares to water towers. Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan face imminent pine forest depletion within a decade, due to aggressive logging and fires.
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Wlaver
Fall at the well leaves Miss Hudson uninjured
Miss Mary Hudson of Walden Georgia fell seventy feet into a deep well while peering in. A young man nearby rescued her. she escaped with scratches. Ed N. Smith, a three year old white boy, suffocated at Ensley furnace days earlier. In New York, corporations find it cheaper to provide free lunches to workers than send them out.
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Mary Hudson
Walden
Ed. N. Smith
Ensley Furnace
New York City
Connecticut board reports on abandoned farms seven years on
Secretary Gould of the Connecticut board of agriculture releases a woes on abandoned farms in the state. The first report seven years ago notes few abandoned farms, with some land idle. He lists 154 farms still titled as abandoned, including sites with buildings, and calls attention to shifts in farm towns due to industrial changes and the decline of sheep raising and cheese making as small factories, notably tanneries, vanish.
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Gould
Connecticut Board of Agriculture
Connecticut
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