Weather patterns shift across regions with scattered rain
High pressure zones over the Gulf south Atlantic and Lake regions contrast with a low pressure area in the middle Mississippi valley. A storm forms in the extreme northwest while California sees rain. Overall, weather is fair with clouds in the southwest and Dakotas.
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Gulf and South Atlantic States
Lake Regions
Northwest
Plateau
Mississippi Valley
Texas
Colorado
Dakotas
California
Rock Island Train Buried in Snow Across New Mexico
Special to The Light reports the Rock Island passenger train arrived this morning covered with snow after a heavy snowfall blanketed northern and central New Mexico overnight.
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Paso
Tex
Rock Island
New Mexico
Loomis Speech Sparks Colombia Panama Debt Debate
Assistant Secretary Loomis criticized Colombia's stance on the Hay Herran treaty at a New York club banquet, prompting expectations about General Reyes's forthcoming state department filing. A Caribbean Sea battalion under Brigadier General George Elliott is formed and to be stationed in Colon, assembled in Philadelphia. Rear Admiral Coghlan reports quiet conditions on the northern coast from Colon.
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Washington, D. C
Loomis
New York
Colombia
General Reyes
Washington
Reyes
Mr. Loomis
Tam
State Department
United States
Anama
Department
Moody
George Elliott
Marine Corps
Carribean Sea Battalion
Carribean Sea Squadron
Colon
Philadelphia
Dixie
Aledia
Coghlan
Navy Department
South Dakota and Midwest Group To Cuba Lands
A party of about twenty people from South Dakota Iowa Michigan and Illinois reached Mobile en route to Cuba. They have purchased 2400 acres of grazing land and 48900 acres of timber land in Puerto Principe province and will locate there.
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Mobile
Ala
South Dakota
Iowa
Michigan
Ilinois
Cuba
Puerto Principe
Grand Opera House Announces J Howard Kyle in Robmary
Manager Sidney H Weiss at the Grand Opera House announces Christmas matinee and night performances of J Howard Kyle in a revival of RobMary a famed Empire Theatre NY comedy hit. Seats go on sale Tuesday at 9 am December 22 with prices from 25 cents to 1 50. Early purchase advised as good locations are limited. Prices abolished.
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Sidney H. Weiss
Grand Opera House
J Howard Kyle
Robemary
Empire Theatre
New York City
Dee
Francis Joseph affirms Dreibrund in throne speech
Emperor Francis Joseph declares Austria Hungary will renew the triple alliance and keep peace in the Balkans. He notes harmonious Austria Russia relations, urging Turkey toward Christian protections, and calls Servia’s dynastic change a crime demanding moral regeneration. The budget requests funding for quick firing guns in 1904.
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Vienna
Francis Joseph
Leo
Austria
Russia
Balkans
Europe
England
Servia
War Office
Porte complains over Attarian embarkation at Alexandretta
Constantinople reports the porte has complained to the United States legation about Alexandretta officials preventing the embarkation of Attarian, a naturalized American citizen. The porte wants local authorities to secure passage on an Italian steamer at government expense, hoping this move will remove the main cause for reparations.
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Constantinople
Porte
United States
Legation
Alexandretta
Attarlan
Davies
Hom
Attarian
Cholera Rages in Kerbera South Baghdad
An epidemic hits Kerbera South Baghdad from December 9 to 12 with 176 deaths reported as cholera sweeps the area.
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South Bagdad
Constantinople
Kerbera
Brooklyn Leaves Beirut for Gun Practice in Egyptian Waters
The United States flagship Brooklyn departed Beirut on December 14 and is reported bound for Egyptian waters to conduct gun practice.
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Constantinople
United States
Brooklyn
Beirut
Typhoid Epidemic Traced to Water Supply Changes
Sanitary expert Dr. George A. Soper reports in Engineering News that Butler Pennsylvania typhoid cases peak not yet reached and ties outbreak to unfiltered water from Conoquensing Creek during waterworks changes. From Oct 20 to Nov 1 the water system bypassed filtration, dates include epidemic onset and by Dec 14 there were 1247 cases and 51 deaths.
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New York
George A. Soper
Engineering News
Butler
Mining Man Robbed in Variety Theater
In Texas a mining man was drugged and robbed of $600 in a variety theater and held prisoner for forty eight hours. Garnishment proceedings to stop two drafts of $600 target restitution. The incident was disclosed in court today in El Paso.
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Paso Tex
Plymouth's Sir H J Waring Former Mayor Passes Away
Sir H J Waring, who served as mayor of Plymouth on three occasions, has died. The long time civic leader had guided the city through multiple terms and was widely known for his public service and local contributions.
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H. J. Waring
Plymouth
England
Supreme court awards $5000 to whitecapping victims
Louisiana Supreme Court increases damages to $5000 for Peter Warner and two others who were attacked by thirty Dodson citizens in a bid to learn incendiary fire authors. The court held the assailants acted as a lawless mob, elevating the offense from a local riot to a state level.
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New Orleans
Louisiana Supreme Court
Peter Warner
Reuben Brown
Edward Warner
Dodson
Winne Parish
Ohe
Supreme Court
Louisiana
Romance in Deathbed Will Reveals Hidden Wife
A fifty three year New York school principal Alpheus de Dubois dies after a life of modest means and frugal living. Probate reveals a fortune of about $250000 and a bequest to his daughter from a wife long separated. The wife and child’s whereabouts are unknown, adding a secret romance to the late educator’s decades of secrecy.
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New York
Alpheus de Dubois
Keys
Professor Dubois
Rear Admiral Rodgers Narrowly Escapes Gas Poisoning
New York December 16 Rear Admiral Rodgers commandant of the New York navy yards his wife Mrs Rodgers their son Frederick and four servants narrowly escaped asphyxiation from coal gas in the commandant s house at the yard The admiral Mrs Rodgers Frederick and one servant a Japanese were attended by a physician and soon recovered The furnace in the basement began emitting gas filling almost every room The admiral woke choking flung open a window and carried his wife and son to fresh air Prompt attendance restored them.
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New York
Rodgers
New York Navy Yards
Rogers
Frederick
Fire claims Crosby family in Johnstown home tragedy
In Johnstown Pennsylvania on December 16 a house fire from a kitchen stove killed James Crosby's wife and his 13 year old daughter Grace. Their son James is missing and presumed to have fled or hidden.
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Johnstown
James Crosby
Grace
James
Cattleman Loses Diamond Pin in Kansas City Theft
A San Antonio cattleman reported an early morning theft in Kansas City with a woman arrested for stealing a diamond pin. The incident occurred as the man, seeking to recover the lost item, reported the crime to local authorities.
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Kansas City
San Antonio
Live Stock Shipments Rising From Victoria Texas
Live stock shipments accelerate from Victoria Texas with thirty five calf cars leaving in recent days. Louisiana emerges as the main destination as cattle movement continues.
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Victoria
Tex
Louisiana
Veteran New York Journalist Dee Nesseney Dies at 71
Dee Nesseney a longtime New York newspaper veteran and former New York Press Club president died after a long illness at age 71 Born in Ireland he served in senior roles at several leading dailies in the city
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New York
Dee
Johnny Hennessey
New York Press Club
Ireland
French Ambassador Sails for New Orleans to Ease Tensions
Washington dispatch reports M Jusserand, the French ambassador, leaving the capital for New Orleans to press negotiations toward a settlement in the escalating tensions surrounding the Outa Purchase and to seek mem dente.
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Washington, D. C
M. Jusserand
Washington
New Orleans
Father fined for beating Rita as daughter clings to life
Celso Resendez, Rita Resendez's father, was arraigned in corporation court and fined 200 for beating and striking the 16 year old. Rita survives a throat cut as authorities search for the still at large assailant, while she endures a dangerous wound sewn shut with black thread.
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Celso
Resendez
Rita Resendez
Celestro
Corporation Court
Ed. Steves
Yong
Recorder’s
Rita
Sea drying up at Taganrog as waters recede rapidly
The sea of Azov is disappearing with Taganrog’s coast exposed for thousands of feet. High winds fling sand over the town, vessels lie high and dry, harbor activity collapses, and factory work dwindles due to water shortage.
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St. Petersburg
Band of Robbers Escape Tombstone Jail for Mexico
Dec 16 report says Burt Alvord Billie Stiles and ten others escaped Tombstone Arizona jail delivery. Leaders described as west’s most desperate robbers and a posse searches the region for them as they are believed to have fled into Mexico.
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el Paso
Tex
Tombstone
Arizona
Burt Alvord
Billie Stiles
Mexico
Uriah Lott Injured, Shoulder Dislocated in Texas
Corpus Christi reports President Uriah Lott of the St. Louis Brownsville and Mexico railway dislocated his shoulder while visiting Santa Gertrudes. The overland trip to Brownsville is postponed due to the injury.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Uriah Lott
St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico
Santa
Gertrudes Mie
Baby burns to death in Del Valle home accident
Irwin M. Jones aged one, son of H G Jones, died after his clothing caught fire at his Del Valle home. He suffered severe burns to his head arms and body before help arrived and died from intense agony. The report also notes the death of pioneer merchant T B Carter at age 80 and mentions charter filings for Hyde Bee company and Coryell County Land and Abstract in Gatesville.
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Austin
Tex
Irwin M. Jones
H. G. Jones
del Valle
T. B. Carter
Travis County
A. J. Hilers
McCall
W. F Seabury
Representative Seabury
Starr County
Hyde Bee Company
Floresville
Coryell County Land and
Gatesville
Death of T C Wright in Driscoll fire
Thomas C Wright dies from injuries sustained in a dwelling fire in Driscoll yesterday afternoon. Special to The Light Corpus Christi Texas reports Wright died at 9 00 this morning in Alice after being moved there from the Driscoll scene. He had been in Corpus Christi earlier en route home.
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Driscoll
Corpus ‘Christi
Texas
Alice
Thomas C. Wright
Hechartee
Corpus Christi
Anegro's Head Cut Off at Roundhouse Tragedy
Thomas Shoon a 24 year old helper at the Inter national and Great Northern railroad roundhouse was killed when engine 104 backed over him in the freight yards at 6 o clock. Hustler Gaston Visner, in charge of the engine, and Shook Leaped as the engine moved. Shook had just married and lived at 1925 Brazos street near West Houston.
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Thomas Shoon
International & Great Northern Railroad
Gaston Visner
Hustler
Tom Shook
Matthews
Hustler Visner
Ger
Visuer
Thomas Shook
Brazos Street
West Houston Street
Cuban Bill In Senate Resumes Pension Appropriation Debate
Washington December 16 The Senate promptly took up a Cuban reciprocity bill and heard criticism of past Senate behavior while resuming debate on the pensions appropriation bill. Mr Gibson of Tennessee opened the session praising the president's Panama policy and urging prudent action.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
House
Spain
Cuba
Gibson
Tennessee
Panama
Democrats Split On Cuban Reciprocity Support
Democratic senators held a conference in Washington to decide their approach to the Cuban reciprocity bill and Panama canal treaty. They planned to vote together on Cuban reciprocity matters but allow individual choice on the bill, and postponed firm action on the canal treaty while continuing related meetings.
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Washington, D. C
Shortage Found in Yale National Bank Cashier’s Accounts
In Haven Cont December 16 an added shortage of 200 dollars brings the total known deficit to 17000 dollars in the accounts of Asa Bushnell cashier of the Yale National Bank who died by his own hand yesterday.
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Haven
Cont
Asa Bushnell
Yale National Bank
Yesum Day
Manning Elected President of Fair Board in Albany
Mrs Manning of Albany New York was elected president of the fair board of lady managers today succeeding Mrs Blair who resigned in Bt Louis Missouri on December 16 Manning won by 15 votes and was chosen amid a vote tally and accompanying remarks from board members including Mr Charles Robinson and others.
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Mrs. Manning
Blair
Bt. Louis, Mo
Myrs Manning
Albany
New York
The
Fair Board of
Iady Managers
James A. Blair
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