Swiss railways to come under government control vote
The Vienna Progress notes Switzerland voted by more than two to one to place all railways under government control. The piece also mentions Pasteurized butter entering Minnesota markets, a notable dairy exhibit prize, and an intended rural school program. It includes quirky reports on magnetic polarity in a Paris sketch and strange notes on New Jersey rattlesnakes used for commercial purposes.
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Switzerland
Alps
Kansas
Nebraska
New York Mail and Express
London Standard
Seientista
Seath
Mirani
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New York Tribune
Hiram Skate
Pike County
Penn
Vast US militiaman pool in President McKinley report
A tabled report to President McKinley states 10 078 576 able bodied men available for military duty in the United States with 112 082 already in the militia forming the nucleus of a large fighting force. It notes a skeleton army could recruit up to 100 000 on short notice and cites state guards in all but Alaska and Indian Territory ready for active service.
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McKinley
United States
United States Army
Alaska
Indian Territory
Texas
Connecticut
Nevada
Oklahoma
Indiana
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Lee Takes Departure From Havana On Fern With Consuls
General Lee and staff boarded the dispatch boat Fern at Havana while Consuls Springer and Barker joined earlier. Crowds lined the Machina wharf as ships departed with Lee, dignitaries, and Red Cross representatives. The Maine wreck loomed nearby as Spaniards hissed. Lee and party spent Sunday aboard the Fern before heading to Tampa.
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Havana
Lee
Fern
Springer
Barker
Machina
General Lee
Conan Coulson
Blanco
Goodby
Buny
Susie
James A. Dudley
Pensacola
Limber
Eylyn
Olivette
Clara Barton
Red Cross Society
Bache
Fores
Dola
Drain
Johnston
Pepper
Redding
Akers
Franks
Downing
Nichols
Seavel
Mews
G. Lawton Childs
William Lawton
Brunner
United States
Casa Nuevo
Key West
Leo
Tampa
Frances Willard Cremated Amid Requests For Cremation
The body of Frances Willard was cremated Saturday at Graceland cemetery in Chicago. Though little beyond her wish for cremation was known, the appointment of such a procedure followed her repeatedly expressed desire as the former president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
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Frances BE. Willard
Graceland Cemetery
Chicago
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
War Revenue Plan Nears Intro in Congress
Ways and Means Committee members and treasury officials draft a war revenue measure to start as hostilities with Spain begin. A substantial beer tax rise from one dollar to two dollars per barrel and a large tobacco tax increase are agreed, with possible additions on bank checks drafts bills of lading mortgages and similar papers patent medicines and nostrums.
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Ways and Means
Ways and Means Committee
House
Treasury
Congress
Spain
New Cruisers Picked Names from Morgan Line
Washington dispatch reports Secretary Long has chosen names for the government’s new auxiliary cruisers purchased from Morgan Steamship. The vessels will be known as Yan kee Dixie Prairie Yosemite reflecting the El Nord El Rio El Sol and El Sud origins.
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Morgan Steamship Line
Washington
Long
el Rio
el Sol
Yosemite
Armistice for five days in Cuba reported by Madrid
A Madrid special reports the queen regent granting a five day armistice in Cuba. Spain informs the US that the ceasefire is unconditional and aims to enable negotiations while offering to refer the Maine issue to maritime powers. Washington signals war remains likely unless Spain yields.
Powers Seek Armistice Backed by Madrid Report
Madrid dispatch in The London Daily Mail says ambassadors urge armistice to uphold the influence of the powers with President McKinley and the rebels in Washington. They claim support for Spain if the United States maintains hostility, aiming to end the Cuban war through a negotiated halt.
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Madrid
London Daily Mail
Acta
Washington
Spain
McKinley
America
Forty Thousand orphans from Turkish massacres in Anatolia
Advices from Constantinople report the Armenian patriarch has sent the Turkish relief committee a list of forty churches wholly or partly destroyed in the recent massacres in Anatolia. He estimates forty thousand orphans as a result, their parents killed in the violence.
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Turkey
Constantinople
Turkish Relief Committee
Anatolia
Fatal Snow Slide in Alaska Claims Many at Chilkoot Pass
Details from Alaska raise the toll of the Chilkoot Pass avalanche reported near Seattle. Sixty nine bodies recovered and 150 missing feared unaccounted for. A conservative estimate places deaths between seventy five and one hundred amid uncertainty over the final count.
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Alaska
Seattle
Chilkoot Pass
Engagement in Porto Rico Rumor of Insurrection Reported
The Quebec Line steamer Fonte belle from St Thomas brings news of an uprising in Porto Rico. An engagement between insurgents and Spanish troops reportedly leaves about twenty dead. Two filibustering expeditions had landed a month earlier, supporting rumors of revolt.
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Quebec Line
Fontebelle
St. Thomas
Porto Rico
Cabinet Favors War as Cipher Telegrams Move to Press View
Washington report says cabinet members agree war seems unavoidable while cipher telegrams from Havana must be translated in the press censor presence. Britain would protect Americans if Woodford withdraws from Madrid. Spain’s minister in Washington has not received orders to depart.
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Washington
Associated Press
Havana
Woodford
News From Madrid Warships Sail for Cape Verde
Madrid reports fifteen Spanish men of war depart Cadiz for the Cape Verde islands while garrisons in Balearic and Canary Islands brace for action. French German Russian and Italian ambassadors present a peace note as Spain rejects further concessions. Valencia steamship firms offer privateering, with Biscay contributing over 25 million pesetas to navy funds.
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Cape Verde
Madrid
Cape Verde Islands
Balearic
Islanida
Mediterranean
Canary Islands
London
France
Germany
Russia
Italy
Senor Gallen
Senor Gallon
Spain
United States
Valencia
Barcelona
Biscay
President Hanged in Effigy at Lumberton Meeting
Indignation over McKinley’s message sparks an effigy hanging and burning in Lumberton New York. Citizens from all parties rally as the figure kneels before Mark Hanna. Inscription singles out McKinley as cowardly on Spain policy and predicts his downfall. A flag dragged in the dust by a gold chariot marked Hanna completes the scene.
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McKinley
Mark Hanna
Lumberton
N. Y
Attaw
Wea
William Mok
Ajay
Spain
United States
Whitecaps Leaders Convicted of Murder to Hang in Tennessee
Picas Wynn and Catlett Tipton, leaders of Sevier county whitecaps, have been convicted of the murder of Mrs. William Whatley and sentenced to death. Wynn already has a second death sentence pending from an earlier murder case at the fall term, now on appeal to the state supreme court.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Picas Wynn
Catlett Tipton
Sevier County
Whitecaps
William Whatley
Wynn
Supreme Court
Reform Club Endorses McKinley Peace Policy in Boston
Boston Reform Club meeting features stirring appeals for peace in Cuba. Hon Charles Francis Adams delivers the principal address. Resolutions back the president and Congress efforts to end Cuban suffering by peaceful means and seek arbitration over Spain's responsibility for the Maine explosion.
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Reform Club
McKinley
Massachusetts Reform Club
Boston
Charles Francis Adams
Congress
Cuba
Spain
Ovation to Bryan at Indianapolis League meet
William J. Bryan drew a five to six thousand audience at Tomlinson Hall in Indianapolis as the second convention of the League of Bimetallic Clubs of the Ohio Valley closed. He spoke about currency for an hour and a half and briefly on Cuba, urging focus on freeing America while discussing Cuba.
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League of Bimetallic Clubs
Indianapolis
William J. Bryan
Tomlinson Hall
Ohio Valley
Bryan
Cuba
America
Armistice News Reported From Madrid Cable Dispatch
Woodford, the minister at Madrid, sent a cable to President McKinley Saturday night announcing that Spain had granted an armistice in Cuba. He presented it as news of public interest to the United States, not as an official Spanish government communication.
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Madrid
Cuba
United States
Woodford
Blanco
Senor Gallen
Washington
Senor Sogasta
Senor Gullen
Hoe
Spain
Senor Sagasta
Senor Bernabe
State Department
Maine
Interpala
Great Britain
McKinley
Banks Called On for Union Pacific Funds Payment
The New York banks acting as depositories for government purchase moneys related to the Union Pacific have been informed by the treasury department that the remaining balance in their custody must be paid promptly. The amount due to the government is about 12 million dollars.
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Union Pacific
New York
Treasury Department
Debate Fails to Move Congress Over McKinley Message
President McKinley’s address to Congress prompted mixed reactions as the House and Senate debated the content, especially on Cuban rights. Cabinet aides met, capital crowds gathered, and a fierce House committee session yielded no concrete action on intervention or independence endorsements.
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McKinley
Congress
Spain
White House
Capitol
Committee On Foreign Affairs
House
Senate
Stewart
Allison
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Foraker
Committee On Foreign Relations
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Carmack Holds His Seat In Tennessee Contested Case
Washington dispatch reports the house election committee recommended seating Carmack in the tenth Tennessee district and rejecting Patterson's contest of the . Patterson’s bid to unseat Carmack was dismissed by committee No 1, solidifying Carmack’s position.
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Washington
Patterson
Carmack
Tennessee
House
House Election Committee No. 1
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