Panama Route Report Supports Panama Canal Path
Washington dispatch notes the Isthmian Canal Commission backs the Panama route for a US controlled canal, amid a sales-timeline debate. Senate delays on interoceanic canals until Senator Hanna returns. House pins Philippine reforms and troops funding as Lodge pushes for quick action. A broad defense of a Manila post and a Prince Henry visit funding are also discussed.
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Reconcentration to Feature Campaign Against Batangas Insurgents
Washington reports General J Franklin Bell shifts to a vigorous strategy in Batangas and Laguna provinces after failures to subdue the insurrection. The plan includes a modified reconcentration zone, martial law, and ruthless pursuit of spies and traitors with executions only with superior officer approval. Bell says all locals are viewed as potential enemies and targets for punitive action, emphasizing the wealthiest and most influential.
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Batangas
Manila
J. Franklin Bell
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Laguna
Sugar Conference Threat Shows British Countervailing Duty
The sugar conference reports Britain may impose a countervailing duty on sugar if bounties are not withdrawn. Delegates adjourn to Wednesday to confer with governments on this and other new developments.
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Brussels
Patrick on Trial in Millionaire Murder Case
New York January 21 Recorder Goff opened the Patrick murder trial for millionaire Rice. Prosecution plans three weeks and defense one week for evidence. Valet Jones tests the case, with witnesses including handwriting experts and chemists. Cantwell & Moore defend Patrick with help from William Milliken. Mrs Addie M. Francis may corroborate Jones’s alibi. The defense likely questions Jones’s sanity and the confession.
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Millionaire Rice
Omuarles T. Jones
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New York Bar
James Osborne
Robert 3
Charles F. Jones
Cantwell & Moore
Dr. Kennedy
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William Milliken
St. Louis
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Jones
Addie M. Francis
West Fifty Eighth Street
Aliionaire Rice
Witthaus
Battles and revolts across seas and Formosa
Dispatches from Panama report insurgents attacking the Lautaro with Padilla Darien and Galitan while government ships reply from Las Bovedas The Philadelphia remains near the battle as U S interests watch Venezuela Formosa and other unrest receive brief notices including a poisoning suicide and labor unrest in Terre Haute Indiana
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Panama Canal Company
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