Senators Clash Over Hay Pauncefote Treaty In Senate Debate
The Senate spent about five hours in executive session December 10 weighing the Hay Pauncefote treaty. Senator Money of Mississippi denounced the treaty as an insult to Americans while Senators Teller Stewart Frye and others argued over its terms. Money urged abrogation of the Clayton Bulwer pact and stronger U.S. control of the canal project, with officials signaling possible diplomatic efforts to erase the treaty’s restraints. Frye backed the treaty, denying reports of Secretary Hay's resignation and asserting support for the measure.
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Great Britain
Nicaragua Canal
Buchanan
England
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Stewart
Frye
Nicaraagua
Costa Rica
Hay
Foreign Relations Committee
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Old Maid Sings and Wry Observations on Love
A collage of wry maxims on love and women with aphorisms about marriage, flattery, and society. It includes snippets on independent women, parental views, and gendered behavior, followed by brief notes on stock yards, clergy ratios, and ancient crafts.
Bee Festival Returns to Town With Family Fun Event
Local organizers announce a weekend bee festival featuring demonstrations and crafts for families. The event will attract residents of the town and nearby communities with activities suitable for children and adults alike.
Lipton Can Have A Match For Cup Defense
After a Boston conference with signers builders and a number of Boston men Thomas Lawson the financier and owner of the Boston yacht Sa announced he would fund a new yacht to defend the American cup against Liptons Shamrock II Design by B B Crowinshield of Boston George Lawley of South Boston will likely build the craft Nat Watson is tipped to be sailing master for the defense effort.
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Thomas Lawson
Horse Sa
Thomas Lipton
Lawson
B. B. Crowinshield
George Lawley
South Boston
Nat Watson
Philippine tariff bill to fix duties and discuss
The Manila dispatch says the Philippine commission prepared a bill to fix duties on imports and exports with a public discussion planned. The measure would tax imports from the United States and prohibit explosives adulterated wines false trademarks and gambling apparatus. Duty rates are not yet fixed. In Texas a detachment of the Thirty seventh regiment captured fifty two prisoners in the suburbs of San Antonio and San Benito. many escaped but some were overhauled by the gunboat Laguna de Bay.
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Philippine Commission
Manila Dispatch
United States
San Antonio
San Benito
Thirty Seventh Regiment
Laguna de Bay
No Dead Saints Love Lightens Labor's Load
A compact line suggests love as a remedy for hardship, contrasting with grim imagery of saints. The verse centers on emotional solace rather than ritual or martyrdom, implying affection eases burdens.
Siam’s elephant corps and foreign residents in China
The king of Siam maintains an elephant corps of about 500 trained for army use under a general. A decree from March 17, 1899, cites 19,421 foreigners residing in the open ports of China by year end 1898.
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King of Siam
China
Ram’s Horn Meditation on Faith and Service
A Ram’s Horn reflection argues a church lacking prayer is heartless and warns against giving ground to evil. It insists closeness to Christ avoids weightless burdens and condemns preachers chasing salary over service.
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Christ
Pointed Paragraphs on Motives and Thought
A railway engineer’s motive in traveling is a locomotive. Love shares symptoms with delirium, while conscience differs from a toothache in its pull. The text humorously notes that women think as men do but dilute thoughts with words, ending with a fragment HOMEMADE PHILU Se.
Aged Brooklyn Businessman Ends His Life
Uriah C. Dunlap a leading Brooklyn merchant was found dead in his study with a bullet wound and a revolver beside him. Police say depression due to his ill daughter may have driven the 66 year old to suicide.
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Uriah C. Dunlap
Brooklyn
Mr. Dunlap
Annuity for British Soldiers in South Africa War
The London war officer announces a new annuity for every officer and man who served in South Africa since October 10, 1899. The minimum payment is £5 and the total cost is roughly £1,000,000 to complete the payments.
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London
South Africa
Mob Executes Black Suspect in Rome Ga Fatal Assault
A Black individual who fatally harmed Mrs. Joseph White, wife of a local farmer near Rome Georgia, was captured and killed by a mob. Mrs. White does not expect to recover.
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Mra
Joseph White
Sear
Rome, Ga
Mra. White
Deaths in the Philippines list varied causes and corrections
General MacArthur clarifies a telegram misidentifying Corporal John A. Dolan as dead. The report lists deaths from dysentery, wounds, combat, typhoid, and other illnesses among named soldiers in the Thirty-seventh infantry in the Philippines, with several accidental or erroneous death notes.
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Waldschmidt
Owen Reilly
Henry Carpahan
Leroy Taylor
Alfred Hartley
John Dudley
Ulric Jusseaume
John Richty
William Dodd
William K. Hardens
Grant Latimer
George Givens
Shane Doyle
Vincent Zlatnicki
Henry G. Sullivan
Isaac Thomas
Charles A. Stinnett
Samuel Hardy
MacArthur
John Dolan
Thirty-seventh Infantry
John A. Dolan
Belgian King Reaches San Francisco After Storm and Fire
The transport Belgian King arrived in San Francisco after a 35 day voyage from Manila marked by a devastating typhoon. The ship rode a sea of danger for two days, lay beam ends for 48 hours, and suffered a coal bunker fire after repairs in Hong Kong.
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San Francisco
Manila
Hong Kong
Taku
Misfortunes of Prof Towne In Georgia Insane Asylum
Aged professor J W Towne who left Nebraska after prominence as a college president died in the Chattahoochee Georgia state insane asylum. Wealthy from ventures in Florida orange lands he and Mrs Towne suffered through the 1895 freeze and a later house fire with his wife’s death, leading to his decline.
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J. W. Towne
Georgia
Nebraska
Chattahoochie
Towne
Forida
Accidents On Philadelphia Road Injure Twenty At Gray's Ferry
Twenty persons were injured when an empty box car jumped the track at Gray's Ferry station in West Philadelphia. The express train to Washington at 11 a.m. suffered coach damage. Miss Emma Dougherty of Chester had both legs broken and is in critical condition. Miss Ella Little of Chester was dangerously injured.
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Gray's Ferry
Washington
Emma Dougherty
Chester
Ella Little
Daly Brother Claim Baffles Obituary Note
Rev. P Daly of the Hot Springs soldiers home in South Dakota asserts he is Marcus Daly’s brother after reading the obituary of the Montana millionaire. The two brothers were separated as children when the family was poor. Daly says he never imagined the massive fortune belonged to his long lost sibling.
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Hot Springs
Marcus Daly
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P. Daly
Montana
Mr. Daly
Daly
Railroad School of Instruction Car 106 Heads West
Instruction car 106 of the International Correspondence School of Scranton Pa under Manager Coutts and W W White lecturer with assistants has left Chadron Neb for Cheyenne to instruct railroad employers there. The car carries the original mechanism of a fifty car freight train and a ten car passenger train and the course may continue to rail workers by correspondence until graduation and diplomas are awarded.
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The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
W. W. White
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Fire Makes 300 Homeless in Borlange Sweden
A blaze in Borlange near Falum Sweden rendered about 300 people homeless and caused damages estimated at half a million in local currency.
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Falum
Sweden
Stands by the Throttle After Wounding on Train
A damaged clipping describes Engineer Hanselman of the Louisville, Evanaville and St. Louis in his cab, wounded by a gunshot while the train maintains speed around fifty miles per hour. A passenger suffers a sharp pain as the scene unfolds in the cab.
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