France and United States Strengthen Ties at Paris Chamber Banquet
At the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris a banquet highlighted Franco American friendship. Francis Kimbel praised the alliance and urged broader U S awareness of the Franco American commercial treaty. Consul Gowdy praised Roosevelt era prosperity and noted record Paris exports surpassing London. M Destournelles de Constant lauded American republican traditions and urged more U S France exchange. Kimbel was re elected president and officers retained.
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Paris
France
American Chamber of Commerce
Francis Kimbel
Chamber
Roosevelt
Loubet
Kimbel
United
McAkinsey
Mr. Gowdy
London
Gowdy
New York
M. PD Estournelles de Constant
America
United States
Europe
M. Destournelles de Constant
M. Millerand
Commerce
Reform step in gold standard parity bill debated
Chicago Journal reports a House committee bill to keep legal tender silver dollars in parity with gold at all times. It would require the treasury to exchange gold for silver dollars in specified sums and aims to fix gaps in the Gold Standard Act of 1900, removing past political risk and paving the path to banking and currency reform.
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Chicago Journal
House Committee On Coinage
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
John G. Carlisle
Lyman J. Gaze
Bryan
Congress
Requests for money fill The Independent’s pages
The Independent recounts varied pleas for small loans from readers. A woman sought five dollars to stock a candy store to support three children, a jobless man hoped to buy tin barns to resell after election day, and a Bible book agent described poor sales and his canvassing without success.
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Independent
Sam
Unclear Quote on Loans and a Mouse Trap Idea
A fragment describes a person wanting to borrow four quarters to invest in a sample mouse trap. The speaker claims the need would be abiding, RESTIBDERY, perpetual, and perennially recurring, implying a recurring demand or cycle. The text is cryptic and lacks concrete entities or events.
Sloops of War Condor May Be En Route to Honolulu
Victoria B C January 17 Captain Fleet Esquimault station suggests the overdue sloop Condor is sailing to Honolulu after a storm drained coal. Progress will be slow away from trade winds, delaying arrival beyond the original schedule. The US revenue cutter Grant sails to Vancouver Island to inspect wreckage near Cape Beale. The Lagos steamer went ashore near Madeira. crew saved and mails hoped to be recovered.
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Victoria
B. C
Fleet
Esquimault
Honolulu
Hawaiian
United States Revenue Cutter
Grant
Vancouver Island
Cape Beale
Funchal
Isla
Madeira
Lagos
Liverpool
Las Desertas
Atlantic
Medeira
Funston to Undergo Second Operation on Return
General Fred Funston, recently home from Manila on sick leave, will soon have another operation. Lieutenant Burton J. Mitchell said Funston, now in Oakland, will travel East for surgery in Kansas City under Dr. Ernest Robertson's direction. Robertson confirmed Funston will seek medical care in Kansas City for complications after the Manila appendicitis operation.
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Iola
Kan
Fred Funston
Manila
Burton J. Mitchell
Pacific
Funston
Oakland
Cal
Mitchell
Kansas City
Ernest Robertson
Robertson
General Funston
Spirits told her Yates arraigned in fraud case
Mrs Rebecca Belle Yates alias Eddie a noted clairvoyant was arraigned in Detroit on an 1897 indictment charging use of the mails in a fraud scheme. She waived examination and was sent to jail in 1000 bail. The case alleges she contacted Mrs Cordelia L Common of Cleveland and claimed spirits revealed real estate and money in Detroit that belonged to Mrs Common and offered to secure the property for her.
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Detroit
Mich
Rebecca Belle Yates
Eddie
Wheeling
W. Va
United States
Graves
What Causes Sleep Type
A young physiologist proposes that glands in the stem secrete a narcotic substance stored until habitual tiredness triggers its release, causing sleep. Sleep would continue while the natural narcotic remains in the blood. excretion may reduce it. Supporting notes include health urine containing narcotics. Lauder Brunton’s observations on wakefulness and sleep under will.
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T. Lauder Brunton
Bluffing a Burglary Goes Wrong in Household Tale
A Detroit Free Press humorous item recounts a man who tries a bluff after hearing a prowler. He asks his wife where his revolver is, only to be told loudly that there is no such thing in the house. The anecdote ends with a lighthearted aside from the Philadelphia Press about a stage farce remark.
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Detroit Free Press
Brown
John
Milton Leather Board Mills Destroyed by Fire
A Milton New Hampshire fire wiped out the leather board mills with estimated losses around eight thousand dollars. No casualties reported and investigations underway to determine origin of the blaze.
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Milton, N. H
Jan
Milton Leather Board
Hohenzollern Sails For New York Prince Henry Visit Planned
Berlin reports the imperial yacht Hohenzollern sailed from Kiel to New York for Prince Henry’s US visit. Secretary Hay and Dr. von Holleben arranged a two trip program with launches, White House calls, and a McKinley memorial address. The entertainment aims to be national in character with formal official lines and selective military presence.
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Berlin
Hohenzollern
Kiel
New York
Admiral von Tirpitz
Imperial Admiralty
Prince Henry
United States
W. H. Beehler
Hay
Von
Washington
White House
Capitol
Congress
Columbia
Germany
Countess Von Waldersee Hints at US Visit in April
Countess Von Waldersee told an Associated Press correspondent that she and Field Marshal Von Waldersee hope to visit the United States in April but no decision has been made. Emperor William today received Coquelin senior, the French actor, now performing at the Royal Theater here.
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Countess von Waldersee
Associated Press
Field Marshal von Waldersee
United States
Xan
William
Coquelin
Royal Theater
Rich Gold Fields Rewarding Prospectors
Mail advices from the Thunder mountain gold district of Idaho indicate ongoing development despite heavy snow. Prospectors gather at Mackay Boise Salmon City Ketcham and Weiser awaiting trails to open. Oregon Short-line plans stage coaches from Ketcham to the new fields starting May 1.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Thunder Mountain
Idaho
Mackay
Boise
Salmon City
Ketcham
Weiser
Cincinnati Mayor invites Prince Henry of Prussia to visit
Mayor Julius Fleischmann plans a Cincinnati visit invitation to Prince Henry of Prussia after consulting leading citizens. Secretary Hay and the German ambassador will relay the invitation. Col. Leopold Markbreit Leopold Kregbolte Max Burgheim and M. E. Ingalls assist in drafting. Enthusiasm runs high among residents and Germans alike.
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Cincinnati
Julius Fleischmann
Hay
Washington
Prince Henry of Prussia
Leopold Markbreit
Leopold Kregbolte
Max Burgheim
M. E. Ingalls
Milwaukee Mayor invites Prince Henry to visit city
Milwaukee Mayor Rose telegraphed an invitation to Prince Henry to visit Milwaukee during his February trip to America. The message was sent to Herr Von Holleben, Germanys ambassador in Washington.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Rose
Prince Henry
America
Herr von Holleben
Washington
Emperor William alarm to church circles in Berlin
In Berlin the Emperor's approval of Professor Delitzsch's view on the Hebrew origin unsettles ultra orthodox state church circles. In Gotha he hinted churches share equal affection with him and aims for unity. Delitzsch thanked the Emperor for tolerance enabling Babylonian studies. Also reported: Countess von Linden funds butterfly research. Tariff prospects dampen. U S envoys Porter and Hitt head to St Petersburg. Berlin rumors about Hamburg Amerika and North German Lloyd pooling with US lines.
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Berlin
William
Delitzsch
Gotha
Emperor William
Babylonia
Earthquakes Devastate Chilpancingo Mexico City Capital
Chilpancingo Guerrero state capital endures two days of panic from tremors, with barracks wrecked, churches damaged, and streets split by fissures. Soldiers saved, Governor Mora aided survivors as towns like Clipa Tixtla Iguala and Zumpango report casualties and widespread destruction.
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Mexico City
Chilpancingo
Guerrero
Alameda
Seventeenth Battalion
Mora
State Palace
Nicholas Bravo
San Mateo
Ower
Clipa
Tixtla
Marchitlan
Igala
Zumpango del Rio
Webster Davis Delivers Petition For Boer Sympathy
Webster Davis leaves for Washington with a petition bearing 212604 signatures from citizens of the South and West urging Congress to declare sympathy for the Boer republics in South Africa. The document, four steamer trunks full, will be handed to the Boer consul in New York for delivery. Dr G B Clark of Mauresa, opposed to intervention, arrives in New York amid reports he seeks Roosevelt’s favor for intervention, which he denies in response to Paris Matin and Times correspondence.
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Kansas City
Webster Davis
New York
South
West
Congress
Davis
United States
South African Republic
Orange Free State
Great Britain
Washington
G. B. Clark
Mauresa
London
Ivernia
Roosevelt
Paris Matin
Clark
The
Times
Montrose Released From Quarantine After Boer Prisoners Landed
The British transport Montrose, arrived from Cape Town with 120 Boer prisoners, was released from quarantine in Hamilton Bermuda. Prisoners were landed on Hawkins and Morgans islands after arrival yesterday.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Montrose
Cape Town
Hawkins
Morgans Islands
Robbery at Adams Express Office in Union Station
Hartford police report the Adams Express Office in Union Station was robbed of a transfer money pouch destined for Boston at 2 pm. The pouch held all funds from Highland division points west to Poughkeepsie about 1000 dollars. Former employee William Oliver was arrested on suspicion and held on $2000 bail.
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Hartford
French Lecturer Arrives for American Tour
Professor Leopold Mabilieau of the College of France arrived in New York aboard La Savoie. He will lecture on French society and social questions in Boston Philadelphia Washington Baltimore Brooklyn and New York, visiting Yale and Smith colleges en route, invited by the Alliance Francaise of Boston.
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New York
Leopold Mabilieau
College of France
Boston
Philadelphia
Washington
Baltimore
Brooklyn
la Savoie
Alliance Francaise
United States
Yale
Smith Colleges
Diamond stones near Lewiston deemed excellent quality
A Lewiston report near the diamond discovery area states some stones examined and tested were renounced the white sapphires of the Yogo distri. The dispatch notes stones show excellent quality and resemble the Yogo sapphires in color and luster.
Carnegie to be party in Cumberland Island suit
Heirs of Robert Stafford seek $2,000,000 and title to Cumberland Island off Georgia. Andrew Carnegie and his sister-in-law are named in a New York suit alleging a defective 1848 deed and dating back to Stafford buying the land while raising cotton and freeing Elizabeth Barnaby the “white slave.”
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New York
Andrew Carnegie
Robert Stafford
Sea Island
Cumberland Island
Georgia
Carnegie
Stafford
New London
Conn
Mary Palmer
Paris
Madora Vossburz
Frederick P. Engles
Lynnbrook
L. I
St. Mary's
Carnegies
Island
Anarchistic Soldier Degraded for Threat to President
Frank Rakowski, a U S army private from Fort Stevens, was degraded at Fort Canby and given a ten year term in the Alcatraz military prison for threatening to assassinate President Roosevelt. He spoke hostile words in Chinook after drinking, and was turned over to military authorities after civil arrest. He is to be transferred to California for imprisonment with dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of pay.
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Astoria
Ore
Frank Rakowski
United States
Fort Canby
Alcatraz Island
California
Rakowski
Captain Cloke
Fort Stevens
Fort Columbia
Wyo
Chinook
McKinley
Roosevelt
Czolgocz
Alcartraz Island
Radowski
Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago
Portland
Frank Radowski
Town Treasurer Confesses To Forgery And Embezzlement
Wellesley Massachusetts January eighteenth former Town Treasurer Albert Jennings admits in a statement to selectmen that he forged notes and embezzled twenty five thousand dollars. He notes include a forged five thousand dollar note cashed by the state treasurer a forged fifteen hundred dollar check discounted in Boston and an embezzled five thousand dollar note cashed by Natick Savings Bank. Jennings says the total is twenty five thousand and resigns as town treasurer after being released on bail.
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Wellesley
Mass
Albert Jennings
Jennings
Bradford
Boston
Natick Savings Bank
Editor Arrested in Monticello Publication Case
CHATTANOOGA Tenn Jan 18 Postoffice Inspector Williams was notified by Inspector Peer who made the arrest that Joel E Smith editor of the Constitution a weekly publication at Monticello Illinois has been taken into custody charged with an offense connected to his paper The report notes custody and the involvement of two inspectors in the arrest.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Postoffice
Williams
Peer
Joel E. Smith
The
Constitution
Monticello
Fila
Edison Electric Illuminating Co Concedes Liability in Subway Explosion
Boston January 18 In a move expected to end long litigation the Edison Electric Illuminating Company concedes liability for the March 4 1887 subway explosion that killed a dozen people and injured many more The agreement with Boston Gaslight Company may lead to payment of at least 59000 in Edison damage claims The blast occurred when a spark from electric light wires ignited leaking gas in the Tremont and Boylston streets subway section.
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Boston
Edison Electric Illuminating Company
Boston Gaslightsee
Edison Company
Tremont and
Boylston Streets
Bank Reimbursed by Bondsmen in Townsend Loss
Taunton Massachusetts January 18 The Bristol County National Bank from whose treasury Harry H Townsend formerly cashier is alleged to have taken thirty five thousand dollars was reimbursed today to the amount of two hundred thirty thousand by the bondsmen of Mr Townsend The bank it is believed will lose the other fifteen thousand
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UFE
Warner
Taunton
Mass
Bristol County National Bank
Harry H. Townsend
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