War Cloud in Sight over Venezuelan Matters
A Washington dispatch says war between the United States and Great Britain looms over the Schomburg line dispute. Britain refuses arbitration and asserts maps show western limits. Olney and the president weigh Venezuela’s stance and a possible early congressional ultimatum. Congress would decide whether to authorize force if England does not yield.
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Curcaco
Times-Herald
Washington
United States
Great Britain
England
Atlantic
American Congress
Ambassador Bayard
Marquis of Salisbury
Olney
Lord Salisbury
Schomburg
Holland
Presint
Venezuela
Venee
Congress
President to hunt in North Carolina sounds for rest
The President sails from Washington to a North Carolina hunting trip aboard the lighthouse tender Maple. Accompanied by Dr O Reilly Commander George F Wilde naval secretary and Commander Benjamin P Lamberton the party seeks rest from congressional tasking. If weather holds they expect to be away until the 12th to 14th.
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Washington
Congress
North Carolina Sounds
Dr. O'Reilly
George F. Wilde
Naval
Lighthouse Board
Benjamin P. Lamberton
Reunion of Blue and Gray To March in New York Parade
New York during next summer will feature a Civil War veterans parade with Union and Confederate soldiers marching together in blue and gray. Chauncey Depew Martin T Ahon Andrew Dickinson Charles A Dana John J Garnett and other noted New Yorkers organized at City Hall for the event planned for July 4 in the streets of New York.
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Bye
Gray
New York
Chauncey Depew
Martin Tahon
Andrew Dickinson
Charles A. Dana
John J. Garnett
Theity Hall
Philadelphia Mint Keeps Nine Presses Busy For Bronze Cents
The Philadelphia Mint remains busy to supply bronze cents with nine presses running at full capacity. Daily output averages about 400 000 cents, while the single double eagle press produces around pieces each day.
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Philadelphia Mint
Elphia
United Mint
Miners win advance in coal wage talks
Miners in Biren Crry Iowa claim victory as coal mine operators concede an wage increase after a period of bargaining. The progress comes amid a push by workers to improve pay and conditions, with details on the exact figures still unsettled.
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Biren Crry
Heavy Storms Wreak Coastal Havoc Across British Isles
London reports persistent heavy weather with numerous shipwrecks and damage to ships and telegraph lines. The light ship at Dee mouth lost crew of five, and the Dutch bark Libertas wrecked near Nieuwe Diep with only two saved and four bodies recovered. Antwerp traffic halted as Scheldt navigation fails. Frieeland liner Friesland sails to New York.
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London
British Isles
Dee
North Sea
Antwerp
Scheldt
Red Star
Friesland
New York
Libertas
Kotka
Nieuwediep
Quiet Note From Pauncefote Delivers to Olney on Venezuela
Lord Salisbury's reply to Olney about the Venezuela boundary dispute was delivered to Secretary Olney at noon. Sir Julian Pauncefote sent a note through Donelson to request an appointment, and he presented it in person. Officials sought to keep the matter quiet, but publicity spread, with the note likely to be treated as official secrecy until the president reviews it for Congress.
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Washington
Lord Salisbury
Olney
Bayard
Donelson
State Department
Julian Pauncefote
Julian
Congress
Associated Press
Business Men's League Raises Funds for Republican Convention
In St Louis on December 9 the Business Men's league reported 550000 pledged cash or guarantees toward securing the Republican national convention. The group agreed to guarantee any additional necessary amount and to entertain delegates. Plans include alterations to the exposition building for a 15000 seat hall. Headquartered at Arlington hotel Washington, a special committee has full power to use the league guarantee and will begin work immediately.
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St. Louis
Business Men’s League
Arlington Hotel
Washington
Exodus of Wisconsin Swedes to Tennessee Colony
Quiet preparations begin for a large exodus of Wisconsin Swedes to a 1 000 000 acre tract in Northern Tennessee. The project aims to establish the first Swedish American colony with customs from Gotland and Oland observed in dress, occupation, language, and religion. The chosen lands promise milder seasons and a landscape reminiscent of Sweden.
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eaGe
Wis
Wisconsin
Tennessee
Gotland
Oland
Sweden
Concession to Chinese Rail Line Won by American Syndicate
Port Townsend Dec 10 A Chinese government concession grants an American syndicate a 200 mile railroad from tidewater to Pekin to serve a coal rich district. Prominent figures named include Senator Calvin S Brice Whitelaw Reid ex Secretary of State Foster and others.
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Port Townsend
Wash
Tidewater
Pekin
Calvin S. Brice
Ohio
Whitelaw Reid
The
New York Tribune
Foster
Three Trainmen Killed In Harlem Rail Wreck
Three railroad workers died and two were injured in a New York and New Haven line wreck in Harlem. The dead include engineer Thomas Fitzgerald and brakemen Frederick Maples and Thomas C. McNally.
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New York
New York and New Haven
Harlem
Thomas Fitzgerald
Frederick Maples
Thomas C. McNally
Minor items of interest from the era
Five human skeletons were unearthed near Larned Kansas by workmen. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough arrived at Monte Carlo. Cardinal Ignacio Perisco, head of indulgences and relics, is dead. A Chicago wholesale district fire caused about 200000 in losses. one fireman injured. Kirk soap factory fire caused 60000 to 70000 in damage. several employees escaped. Harvard Greek instructor Andrew T Bates died in Santa Barbara California after illness. George Morgan convicted of murder and sentenced to hang for Ida Gaskill rape and killing in Omaha. Coal freight rates from mines to Chicago and the West raised 50 cents per ton effective January 6. In St Paul recruiting office 1895 intake: 27000 applied, 5000 admitted to U S Army.
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Larned
Kan
Duchess of Marlborough
Monte Carlo
Ignacio Perisco
Congregation of Indulgences and
Chicago
Kirk
Andrew T. Bates
Harvard College
Santa Barbara
Cal
George Morgan
Ida Gaskill
Omaha
St. Paul
Ie States Army
Chicago raises funds for Republican national convention
Chicago has collected fifty thousand dollars as an offer for the Republican national convention. A committee will depart for Washington to present Chicago’s advantages before the national committee next Tuesday. Rates may rise to sixty thousand or seventy five thousand if the capital hints allow one admission per fifty dollar subscription.
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Chicago
Washington
National Committee
Armenian Citizens Committee Presses Turkey Tension
In Washington December 9 the Armenian citizens committee presented to Hitt and other senior foreign affairs figures statements about Armenians who are naturalized U S citizens. They claim Turkey bars return to old homes and blocks family reunification and forces naturalized Armenians in business to remit taxes to the sultan.
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Turkey
America
Washington
Hitt
United States
Congress
Sultan's anger over Said Pasha retirement
Constantinople report says Said Pasha declined the grand vizier post for health reasons and would live abroad. The sultan grew furious, fearing Said Pasha might join the malcontent party due to his popularity and anti English stance, with implications of a lethal outcome if he entered the Yildiz palace.
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London
Constantinople
The
Times
Pasha
Yildiz
Hayward Family Campaigns for Clemency in Minneapolis
Hayward and friends push Governor Clough to commute Harry Hayward’s sentence to life imprisonment. Prominent Minneapolis doctors attest to family insanity, while W. W. Hayward canvasses stores and offices urging signatures on the petition for executive clemency.
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Hayward, &Sr
Minneapolis
Hayward
Clough
Harry
W. W. Hayward
Governor Receives Hayward Case Papers in St Paul
Sheriff Holmberg delivered the Hayward case documents to Governor Clough in St Paul. The packet included the supreme court mandate refusing a new trial the district court judgment clerk satisfaction and the governor’s original mandate fixing June 1 for execution. The governor was away but execution date may be set within days.
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St. Pau
Holmberg
Hennepin County
Hayward
Clough
Supreme Court
District Court
Albany Seeks To Bar Expert Medical Testimony
A proposed measure in the New York legislature aims to abolish expert medical testimony by physicians and surgeons in court. A non partisans board to appoint qualified alienists would control such testimony with only absolute trial facts allowed from non board physicians.
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New York
Albany
N. Y
Senate
Three-Quarters of a Million Missing From Campaign Fund
In Cubcanco on December 5 an accusation alleges three quarters of a million dollars was stolen from the Democratic campaign fund for 1893 1894 and early 1895. M C McDonald and Alderman John Powers name misused funds, with Thomas Gahan confirming unresolved accounting and claims of personal benefit including trips to Europe West Baden and Hot Springs and costly residences.
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Cubcanco
M. C. McDonald
John Powers
County Central Committee
Thomas Gahan
Central Committee
Carter Harrison
Europe
West Baden
Hot Springs
Gang of Counterfeiters Convicted in Philadelphia
The Yehuda Brotherhood gang including Moses Rosengarten Max Frank Jacob Fineburg and Henry Greenberg Roumanian Jews were found guilty by a U S jury in ten minutes. The verdict breaks up one of the most daring coinring groups known to the secret service for years.
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Philadelphia
Yehuda Brotherhood
United States
Secret Service
Moses Rosengarten
Max Frank
Jacob Fineburg
Henry Greenberg
Union Mercantile Company Plans Cooperative Grocery in City
Street railway workers living near Twentieth Avenue West have organized the Union Mercantile Company and expect to open a grocery and market soon as a major step toward cooperative store keeping on a larger scale.
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Duvarh
Twentieth Avenue W
Union Mercantile Company
Maher Signs to Fight Fitzsimmons in Mexico
Philadelphia December 9 Peter Maher has signed to meet Bob Fitzsimmons for the world heavyweight title on February 14 in Mexico. John J Quinn Maher’s representative carried the documents from New York.
Red Lake lands to open for settlement soon
Commissioner Lamoreaux awaits Secretary Smith to submit the proclamation opening the agricultural portion of the Red Lake reservation. He said the department intends to push the process and open the lands quickly. The tract covers between 900000 and 1000000 acres.
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Red Lake
Wasa Hineton
Lamoreaux
Smith
Red Lake Reservation
Mears Concedes in Fargo Court Case
E Ashley Mears has chosen not to continue the fight and has signed other deeds connected to the Mortgage Bank and Investment company of Fargo tied to suits similar to the Bank of Minot case. A contempt case remains on the docket for issuing circulars derogatory to the court, to be continued and dropped later.
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Mears
Farco
N. D
E. Ashley Mears
Bank and Investment Company of Fargo
Bank of Minot
Bishop Denies Chicago Cathedral Plan Costs Half a Million
Bishop Nicholas of the Greek church in San Francisco stated that a rash report claiming the Holy Synod ordered him to construct a grand cathedral in Chicago at a cost not less than $500,000 is erroneous and without basis.
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San Francisco
Nicholas
Holy Synod
St. Petersburg
Chicago
Van Houten To Be Hanged If Not Spared By Executive
Denver reports A W Van Houten who killed Richard Newell, superintendent of construction of the Midway Terminal railway, on December 19 1894 will face execution the week starting December 22 unless the governor interferes.
Arrested on a Double Charge in Jefferson City
Daniel Parce, a farmer, was arrested and jailed in Jefferson City Missouri on the charges of strangling his wife to death and committing a criminal assault on an idiotic woman.
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Jefferson City
Daniel Parce
Strike of Gold Becomes Certainty in Sauipa Colorado
Sauipa Colorado December 6 The gold strike is certain with about 300 people in the hills and land around the site staked. Assays range from five to twenty five dollars at grass roots.
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Sauipa
Colo
New Episcopal Diocese Organized
Lexington hosts the organization of the new Episcopal diocese formed by dividing Kentucky into two. The fresh diocese is named the Diocese of Lexington and is set to operate from Lexington.
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Lexington
Kentucky
German Detective’s Trial Trip in Kneels Horse Ringing Case
German official John von Millern has spent six months in the United States gathering evidence for the Kneels horse ringing case to be tried in Germany. He faced arrests across multiple states, used the alias John Miller, and was jailed repeatedly while collecting papers proving his identity. Kneebs plans to travel to Germany to answer charges.
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Sioux City
John von Millern
America
Chicago
Kneebs
John Miller
South Dakota
Northwest
Germany
Waldeck Lodge case reversal in Illinois Pythias dispute
The appellate court reversed Judge Brentano in the Waldeck Lodge Knights of Pythias versus Grand Lodge of Illinois dispute over using a German translation of the ritual. The case is remanded with instructions to dismiss, affecting fourteen Chicago German lodges and prompting likely actions by Grand Chancellor J. J. Brown.
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CuicaGco
Waldeck Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Grand Lodge of
Ilinois
Brentano
Waldeck
Chicago
J. J. Brown
Vandalia
Illinois
Meeting at Crookston Crowns Regional Convention on Opening Lands
In Crookston Minnesota on December 12 a regional convention gathers for the Northwestern Minnesota and North Dakota agricultural lumber and fuel exchange. The aim is to discuss opening Red Lake Indian timber and agricultural lands with minimal delay and to show local support for federal recommendations. Notables from the Northwest will speak amid railroad and hotel discounts.
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Crookston, Minn
Crookston
Minnesota
North Dakota
Red Lake
Baldwin
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
United Action
Red River Valley
American Captain Joins Cuban Fight in 1896
Captain Rosser Roemer of the Busch Zouaves now leads 200 Americans in Cuba fighting for independence. Sergeant Frank Hilligas also with the unit. A Havana letter confirms his move from St Louis after rumors he left for a remote destination.
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Roemer
St. Louis
Rosser Roemer
Cuba
Frank Hilligas
Zouaves
Atlanta Exposition
Atlanta
Havana
Mantazas
Cardlans
Anderson
Ed Anderson
Busch Zouaves
Anti Semitic agitator Ahlwardt arrives in New York for lectures
Dr. Herman Ahlwardt of Berlin, famed anti Semitic agitator, lands in New York aboard the Spree. He plans five lectures and says his aim is to start a campaign against Hebrews, claiming they encroach wealth and should be barred from office and citizenship.
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Herr Alhwardt
America
New York
Herman Alhwardt
Berlin
Grave Robbery Confession Shocks Vinton Community
John Cummings a painter confessed to grave robbery in Vinton Iowa. The body was that of a young lady relative of S R Christie the leading citizen of Marion. Cummings accuses five well regarded Vinton residents and says the crime was committed twenty two years ago. He promises more startling developments.
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Vinton
John Cummings
S. R. Christie
Marion
Cummings
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