Chinese peace commissioners sign joint note amid palace protests
Peking reports Prince Ching signed the joint note on Saturday and Li Hung Chang on Sunday after a period of illness described as Brights disease. Prince Ching protests a potential appointment of Chang Chih Tung as envoy, urging Sheng as preferable. ministers see Chang Chih Ting as a suitable Chinese plenipotentiary.
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Peking
Prince Ching
Li Hung Chang
Chang Chih Tung
China
Sheng
Cheng Chih Tung
Chang Chih Ting
Samoans Receive Promised Money For Surrendered Arms
In Tutulia Samoa on January 1, over 41000 dollars promised by Britain Germany and the United States is being distributed to Samoans for surrendering arms after the last war. Governor Solf orders natives to deliver all German Samoa guns before month end as British and American residents gradually depart.
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United States
German Samoa
Pennsylvania Coal Wins Record Canadian Contract
Philadelphia firm secures what is believed to be the largest coal contract awarded to an American firm by the Canadian government. The 100000 tons of Pennsylvania bituminous coal must be delivered April 1 to St John New Brunswick Halifax Nova Scotia St Johns Newfoundland and St Pierre Miquelon. Indians Can Cut Timber.
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Philadelphia
Sydney
Cape Breton
Pennsylvania
St. John
N. B
Halifax
N. S
St. Johns
N. F
St. Pierre
Miquelon Island
Bill Passed for the Benefit of Grand Portage Indians
The House approved Representative Morris's bill to let Grand Portage reservation Indians cut timber on their allotments. The Indian Office backs the plan to boost annuities via cedar pole and paving block sales, aiming to increase tribal income.
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Grand Portage
Reward Offered for Return of Missing Bass Frazer
Captain N H Frazer of Union Springs offers 500 reward through Atlanta police chief Albion Hixon for the return of his son Bass Frazer who was reportedly abducted from a school in Atlanta.
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Birmingham
Ala
N. H. Frazer
Union Springs
Albion Hixon
That
Place
Bass Frazer
Atlanta
Domestic Exports for 1900 Rise to $832 Million
Washington January 14 The Bureau of Statistics reports that domestic exports for 1900 reached 832 364 250 dollars, a net increase of 119 000 000 from the prior year.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Statistics
Rumor of Butler appointment in Canada command
Loxpoy January 14 rumor suggests Sir William Butler will be named lieutenant general commanding troops in Canada succeeding Lord Seymour in a senior military post.
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Seymour
Loxpoy
William Butler
Canada
William Frederick Ernest Seymour
Civil Officers Issue Ultimatum to Philippine Insurgents
Manila dispatch reports Northern Mindanao operations led by Brigadier General Robbs with forces under Colonel Birkheimer destroying insurgent strongholds near Santa Ana. Major Case advances in South West Cagayan as surrenders rise in Luzon. Civil officers in Zambales offer 30 pesos per rifle to insurgents to quit, warning of enemy status if they fail to return home by January 30.
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Manila
Mindanao
Robbs
Cagayan
Birkheimer
Twenty-eighth Regiment
Santa Ana
Luzon
Zambales
San Antonion
MacArthur
Debate over religious instruction in Philippine public schools
Manila reports the first discussion of a bill to create a public instruction department reveals a clash over allowing priests and ministers to teach religion outside school hours for half an hour thrice weekly with parental written consent. Stakeholders split between eliminating religious teaching and permitting it, while Judge Taft says US commission remains indifferent to all religions.
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Manila
Department of Public Instruction
Federal Party
United States
Central Catholic Society
Taft
United States Philippine Commission
Thirty seventh Sails as Volunteers Depart from the Philippines
Washington dispatch reports General MacArthur sending word that the transport Sheridan left Manila Thursday with 27 officers and 654 enlisted men of the Thirty-seventh volunteer infantry while transports Logan and Lennox also reached Manila.
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Philippines
Washington
Jan
Adjutant General
General MacArthur
Manila
Sheridan
Thirty-seventh Volunteer Infantry
Logan
Lennox
Navy selects Olangapo for new Philippine naval base
Secretary Long reports Admiral Remey's message that the board chose Olangapo on Subig Bay as the site for a permanent naval station in the Philippines. He has sent to Congress a recommendation for a 1000000 dollar appropriation to develop the station.
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Washiington
Long
Admiral Remey
Philippines
Olangapoe
Subig Bay
Congress
British Columbia teachers form first Canadian union
Vancouver BC January 14 The latest trades union is an association of school teachers in British Columbia It is the first teachers union in Canada and likely in the world It operates under the trades and labor council as if it were a carpentry or masonry union Secretary Long considers a board to reward navy and marine corps officers and men for distinction in the recent China campaign.
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Vancouver
B. C
Association
British Columbia
Canada
Trades and Labor Council
Walshmington
Long
Navy
Marine Corps
China
Diamonds found in British Guiana reported by Mandelbar
Kingston Jamaica January 14 reports that the steamer Mandelbar brings word of large quantities of diamonds found in British Guiana. A company has been formed in England to work the claims.
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British Guiana
Kingston
Jamaica
Mandelbar
England
Copenhagen
Danish West Indies
United States
Riksdag
Senate Passes Reapportionment Bill to President for Signature
In Washington on January 14 the Senate debated the army reorganiza tion bill amid a clash over the presidents discretionary power to raise army strength to the bill’s maximum. Bacon of Georgia attacked the provision while Platt of Connecticut defended it. An amendment allowing volunteer officers to grades up to captain in the regular establishment was adopted. The apportionment bill for U S representatives was passed without debate and goes to the president for signature.
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Washington
Senate
Bacon
Platt
Conn
Carter
United States
House
Pension Day as House Passes 170 Special Bills
Washington Jan 14 The House passed 170 private pension bills in a single sitting the most since the Fifty-first congress. The notable act increases General Americus V Rice pension from 36 to 100 for Civil War wounds and a lost leg at Vicksburg. The Senate had proposed 60 but the House set 100.
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Washington
House
Americus V. Rice
Cherokee County Judge Rules Titus Amendment Valid
Sioux City January 12 Judge Hutchinson in a Cherokee County case rules the Titus amendment valid and properly adopted. He also says officers elected at the last general election may take their seats under it and upholds the amendment to its fullest extent.
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Cherokee County
Titus
Sioux City
Hutchinson
Colonel Baasen Dead First Minnesota veteran and state secretary
Colonel Francis Baasen of New Ulm died at the soldiers home hospital from gangrene. He served in the Civil War in the First Minnesota, rising from private to lieutenant and quartermaster, and became Minnesota’s first secretary of state after statehood. The notice also includes mortgage and foreclosure advertisements for Beadle County South Dakota with sale dates in 1901.
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Minnesota
Minneapolis
Francis Baasen
New Ulm
Soldiers’ Home
Baasen
First Minnesota
Edmund S. Prentiss
Mary E. Prentiss
Beadle
South Dakota
George Wilson
Tombland
Norwich
Great Britain
Register of Deeds
County of
Andrew Riegel
Huron
N.W
South DA
Kota
Fifth Judicial Circuit
Eugenie
Taylor
Catharine Clifford
County of Beadle
Beadle County
Mipnehaha
Oramel A. Richardson
Charles H. Knapp
Sanborn
Jerauld
Miner County
Kingsbury
Minnehaha
Clark County
Codington County
Artesian Village
Sanborn County
A. Richardson
Zarta
Dakota
James E. Morrill
Sarah W. Morrill
W. 8. Davis
Richards Trust Company
City of Huron
Thomas B. Twombly
Oes E. Morrill
Harriet D. Sterling
Grace
Lindley
Charles G. Sterling
Susan A. Sterling
Francis A. Brown
Sarah J. Brown
Charles H. Ray
Pearl Creek
Saran J. Brown
E. H. Vance
Mrs McKinley's Nephew Lieutenant Barber Arrives
The body of Lieutenant James Barber, nephew of Mrs. McKinley, arrived in Canton accompanied by his widow who traveled from Hongkong. Funeral services and interment occurred the same day. President and Mrs. McKinley sent a floral tribute from the White House conservatory.
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Barber
Canton
James Barber
McKinley
Hongkong
China
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