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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1902
Page
1
Washington 24 The British and German formal proposals to President Roosevelt to arbitrate the Venezuelan difficulty have been received. They are shaped so the president can accept or decline, but he has not yet reached a decision.
In Chicago a nameless infant died of starvation linked to Mrs Nellie Campbell whose Grand avenue baby farm fed neglected children. Prosecutor Fake charges manslaughter as twelve jurors hear the case in Judge Chetlain's court amid claims the motive was keeping a husband from leaving rather than profit. The emaciated body was buried at Calvary cemetery with other nameless babies.
Geneva reports crown princess Louise of Saxony is living under an assumed name Fraulein von Oben with her brother Archduke Leopold in a Geneva hotel, joined by Professor Giron. Dresden says King George and Crown Prince Frederick know her whereabouts and plan divorce, citing their irreparable estrangement after violent scenes.
The La Crosse region endures a severe blizzard with high winds and frigid temperatures. Three inches of snow have fallen as a general storm stretches across the Dakotas Iowa and Minnesota causing railroad traffic delays.
The Washington cabinet meeting extended beyond two hours as plans to appoint a board of arbitrators for the Venezuela dispute emerge. President mulls arbitration, rejecting sole reliance on one man, while the Calvo Doctrine challenges intervention for foreign claimants.
Freehold New Jersey December 24 The jury returned a verdict acquitting Laura Biggar while finding Dr Charles Hendricks and former Justice of the Peace Samuel Stanton guilty of conspiracy to secure the estate of the late Henry M Pennett The ruling follows a trial in which all three defendants were charged with conspiring to steal the Pennett estate
Washington dispatch says Admiral Dewey has arrived at San Juan aboard the Mayflower and will spend Christmas in the Puerto Rico capital.
The crown princess criticizes court life and a marriage she finds oppressive. She accuses the prince of intemperance and cruelty, with rumors of years of liaison with an actress named Baste. Her dispute with her parents fuels a reported flight, while Archduke Leopold Ferdinand supports her. The king and crown prince know her whereabouts and maintain contact, but she remains intractable.
Gossip links a French tutor to the princess scandal as reports place her in Munich with that tutor after leaving Salzburg. The crown prince’s court reportedly questions the motive and hints at an illicit affair as the cause of the princess’s desertion.
Notices posted throughout the Connellsville coke region announce a voluntary wage hike for 20,000 Frick Coke Company workers, a subsidiary of United States Steel, averaging eight percent.
Grand Rapids Michigan December 24 in a rear end collision between a Pere Marquette passenger and freight at McCord during a heavy snow storm two passengers and three trainmen were more or less seriously hurt none fatally
In Albuquerque on December 24 a fire destroyed the Santa Fe railroad hospital. One patient died from exposure, two hundred patients were saved, and the loss was about 15000 dollars.
Illinois post office at Towanda was robbed of stamps and registered mail totaling about 1000 dollars last night. The story features a separate Vienna dispatch noting Archduke Leopold Ferdinand plans to assume the name Leopold Woelfling and resign his imperial ties. He intends to marry a Viennese companion after renouncing rank and decorations.
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