Cuban Question Sparks Senate Debate on Intervention
A Washington dispatch reports in the Senate, Senator Foraker denounces a Spanish rejection of U S mediation in Cuba while arguing for recognizing Cuban belligerency. Olney’s 1896 letter to De Lome is cited, outlining possible plans to pacify Cuba within constitutional bounds and noting the president’s desire for lasting peace.
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Senate Debates Cuba Policy With Foraker Cannon and Others
A Senate debate on Cuba featured speeches by Foraker Cannon Lindsay and Hoar. Foraker urged referring the Cuban resolution to committee and supported recognizing belligerency when reported. Cannon denounced Spain as Weyler. Lindsay urged warships and breaking ties if consuls face danger. Vest Morgan revealed State Dept hid consul names over risk to them. No action taken. vote on Hale’s referral motion expected Thursday. adjournment set for Monday.
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Mississippi's New Capitol to Cost 750000 Dollars
Mississippi will raze the old Jackson state house and replace it with a majestic 750000 dollar capitol. The senate approved the plan on Wednesday after a fierce fight. Construction will be by three commissioners on the present site, funded by forty year bonds payable in ten years at the state's option.
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San Antonio
Governor Atkinson Faces Dying Fateful Decision
A Washington dispatch reports Henry White’s fate rests with Georgia Governor Atkinson after the US Supreme Court denied the writ of error. White faces execution in Columbus on June 4 unless a commutation is granted.
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Dispensary Losses a Friend in State Journal Clash
The Columbia Daily Register declares the dispensary a political instrument that endangers equity and law. It urges the system not be kept in politics, warning that unscrupulous hands could erode justice and undermine social cohesion in South Carolina.
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Governor Taylor Considers Resignation Interview
The Chattanooga News reports Governor Taylor, passing through the city en route from Nashville to Tate Springs, saying he is considering resigning but has not decided. He adds he will not act hastily and would resign after key appointments are made, though he is tired of public life and may seek a more congenial sphere as his physicians advise a long rest.
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Democratic Party
Missing Conductors at Los Angeles Convention
Cornelius Curran of Baltimore and O B Dunn of Huntington Ind, delegates to a conductors convention in Los Angeles, disappeared after leaving their rooms. Curran went out with his wife and two children and has not returned, with $150 and a gold watch on him. Dunn left with his wife and deposited valuables at the Mento hotel. Police search continues with no trace found.
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Rockefeller Gift to Baptists Prompts Debt Offer
In Pittsburg the sixty fifth annual meeting of the American Baptist Home Mission Society opened with President H K Porter noting John D Rockefeller offered 260000 to clear the society’s debt if a matching 260000 is raised by July 1 1897. The Texas house approved a textbook uniformity bill set to take effect in 1898.
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Texas House of Representatives
Texas
Spanish Senate in Turmoil Over US Cuba Recognition
Heated Madrid debate follows US Senate resolution recognizing Cuban belligerents. A clash between Duke of Tetuan and Liberal Senator Comas ends with talk of a duel, the duke resigns, and premier Onnoyas assumes interim portfolio. Liberal senators refuse further sessions pending satisfaction for Comas and party.
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Saganta
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Canovas del’ Castillo
Comas
Liberal Party
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O Comas
Conductors adjourn as officers chosen for next year
The twenty sixth session of the grand division of the Order of Railway Conductors closed in Los Angeles California with officers for the coming year elected. P J Clarke was re elected grand chief conductor O H Wilkins re elected grand assistant conductor Martin Clancy re elected grand secretary and treasurer A B Garretson re elected grand senior conductor and W B Perking of Los Angeles re elected grand junior conductor.
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Terms of Peace With Greece Include Frontier Rectification
A dispatch from Constantinople to The London Daily Mail reports that ambassadors will present a note outlining peace terms. The note rejects abolishing capitulations for Greek subjects and the annexation of Thessaly, but allows strategic frontier rectification and an indemnity up to 116,000,000 francs.
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London Daily Mail
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Porte
Oscar Wilde Freed Leaves Prison, Plans London Return
Oscar Wilde is released from prison in London on Wednesday morning and travels to Paris before returning to London for literary work. He declares he will write under his own name and not disguise his identity, turning down 50 000 pounds for a prison experience story per the Pall Mall Gazette.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Will of Allah Drives Sultans Thessaly Move
Vienna dispatch reports Tageblatt says the sultan has consulted the Sheik Ul Islam who declares it the will of Allah to reunite Thessaly with Turkey. If acted upon, powers may find it very difficult to thwart his aim.
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Governor says legislature must raise at least a million from corporations
Governor Pingres of Michigan hints that to finish work by late May the legislature must pass a law to extract at least one million dollars more from corporations. If not, he will call an extra session.
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Pingres
Congress Members Visit Monticello Outing
About 60 members from both houses traveled from Washington to Monticello, Jefferson's home, for a day trip. Speaker Reed joined the House delegation. An installment of 50,000 dollars for Cuban relief was received by Consul General Lee and is on deposit with G Lawton Childs & Co. in Havana.
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Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
Reed
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Cuba
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Treasury
G. Lawton Childs & L Co
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Fire Leaves Sixty Families Homeless in Jersey City
A fire began at 1 30 o clock Wednesday morning on Newark avenue and First street in Jersey City and burned through the night. It rendered sixty families homeless and caused estimated damage of 31 000 000 to tenement houses. No fatalities have been reported.
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Supreme court grants new trial in Drought case
Georgia report notes major legal and military updates. A. E. Drought receives a new trial after a prior trial in Atlanta city courts. Colonel H. G. Cook to command the Seventh regiment on June 1. Colonel Guinn resigns as lieutenant colonel of the Third Georgia. Georgia mining and investment firm assets ordered sold June 17. Financials show Plant lines site deficit and rail bonds per mile. Twenty thousand Confederate veterans expected at Nashville reunion. Georgia camps mobilize strongly. Crop prospects improve across Georgia with better weather and harvests rising, though rust and worm issues persist in wheat.
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Judge Gumpkin
Atlanta
Julius L. Brown
Georgia Mining and Manufacturing and Investment Company
Nashville
South
Farmora
Ventilated packaging and swine feeding notes from 1896 farm gossip
A collage of farming guidance discusses the benefits of well ventilated berry crates and tight fruit packaging, warns against kerosene use for cattle, and covers swine feeding during gestation with emphasis on clean dry bedding, exercise, and the value of wheat, oats, and blasting a path toward better growth. It also surveys cross breeding among chicken varieties, indicates the importance of water management with windmills for gardens, and notes England's 1896 foreign trade figures.
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