United States Takes Formal Possession of Porto Rico
The flag was raised at noon Tuesday over San Juan as the Eleventh infantry and Fifth artillery landed. Rear Admiral Schley and General Gordon led ceremonies with the palace visit. Guns fired from Port Morro and San Cristobal welcomed the flag as crowds applauded. The U S evacuation commissioners completed their work and reports go to Washington.
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Son Juan
Porto Rico
United States
Fifth Artillery
San Juan
Schley
Gordon
Eleventh Infantry
Sixth
United States Cavalry
Brooke
Admiral Schley
General Gordon
Port Morro
Dean
Lien
Grant Castle
LMM
Ile Ye
San Cristobal
United States Revenue Cutter
Senor Munoz Rivera
Autonomies Council of Secretaries
King
Intendencia
Captain General's
United States Evacuation Commission
Washington
Southern Railway stockholders hold annual meeting in Richmond
The Southern Railway Company held its annual stockholders meeting in Richmond Virginia with Joseph Bryan presiding and Joseph F Hill elected secretary. The president and director's report for the year ended June 30 1898 was presented by Colonel A B Andrews. An Anglo American syndicate is reportedly forming to buy Cuban bonds signaling potential financial shifts. A Havana cannon is expected to be captured by Americans.
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Richmond
The
Southern Railway Company
Joseph Bryan
Joseph F. Hill
A. B. Andrews
Masrid
Eglishmen
New York Herald
Havana
Peck Asks Favor for Lafayette Monument Site
Paris council meeting notes a letter from W. W. Peck United States commissioner asking for a Lafayette monument site in the 1900 exposition grounds. The council president thanks the U S for sympathy and forwards the request to the exposition commissioners for consideration.
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Exposition Grounds
Municipal Council of
Paris
W. Peck
United States
Nashville and Decatur Railway Stockholders Elect Directors
Stockholders met in Nashville for the annual session and elected directors. Directors re elected Dr D B Cliffe as president and Samuel Seay as secretary. Officer reports were described as very satisfactory and encouraging.
New York Democrats Rally at Tammany Hall Meeting
Twenty thousand people packed or clustered around Tammany Hall on Tuesday night to ratify the Democratic state ticket. James B. Rustica chaired the gathering as Eustice praised the state convention and nominees. Governor Campbell criticized Roosevelt’s treatment and recounted army unit losses, stirring cheers amid the political fray.
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New York
Tammany Hall
James B. Rustica
Jr. Eustice
France
James B. Campbelly
Ohio
Buffalo Bill
Campbell
Roosevelt
Florida
Sixty-ninth
Astle
Russia Gains Strong Point in Chinese Province Occupation
A Shanghai dispatch to a London agency says a Russian regiment occupied the town of New Chwan in Liso Tong province and forts at the Linon river mouth on October 15, gaining control with native troops fleeing. The absence of resistance signals a near British withdrawal from Manchuria, strengthening Russia strategically.
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Gots
Hagland
Shanghai
London
Aays
New Chwan
Liso Tong
Linon
New Chwar
Li Hung Chang
Manchuria
Russia
Vanderbilt gets new line from New England system
The New York World reports papers signed in Rutland,Vt., where the Rutland railroad from Bellows Falls to Burlington transferred from the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co to Percival W. Clement, William K. Vanderbilt, and Dr. W Seward Webb. The controlling stock block is said to cost 3 million dollars.
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New England
New York World
Rutland Railroad
Bellows Falls
Burlington, Vt
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
Percival W. Clement
William K. Vanderbilt
W. Seward Webb
Spaniards Leaving Porto Rico In Large Embargoes
General Wade head of the American Evacuation Commission to Porto telegraphed Tuesday night that six thousand Spanish soldiers had been embarked for Spain and that arrangements had been completed for another 40,000 to depart in the near future, with the American commission notified by the Spanish for embarkation.
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Porto Rico
Wade
Porto
War Department
Spain
Troops From Camp Meade Ordered South After Philadelphia Jubilees
War department directs six troopers of the Third Cavalry to move from Camp Meade to Augusta Georgia for duty with the Second Army Corps after the Philadelphia peace jubilee ceremonies. This marks Camp Meade's first southern deployment.
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War Department
Third Cavalry
Philadelphia
Anguata
Second Army Corps
Camp Meade
Brooklyn
Irishmen Back France in Dublin Meeting
Mr William Redmond Parnellite MP for East Clare spoke at a Dublin home rule meeting on Friday evening calling for three cheers for Major Marchand. The crowd responded with great heartiness as Redmond declared the sympathies of Irishmen are with France.
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William Redmond
East Clare
Dublin
Major Marchand
Redmond
France
Naval mobilization rumors strain Franco British tensions
Paris dispatch reports Toulon navy yard feverishly active with war materials and ships readying for service. French and British officials debate Fashoda rights and possible conflict as England asserts defense of its perceived spheres, fearing a new war after eighty years of peace.
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Paris
Echo de Paris
Toulon
Ironelads
Trehonsart
Bovines
Jemmapes
Valmy
Alger
Levrier
Calman
Bien Hoa
Gironde
Petit Parisien
Navy Yard
Tempe
M. Lockroy
Murderous Husbands Kill Wives Then Die in Jersey City
Two jealous husbands killed their wives and then shot themselves in Jersey City on Sunday. Henry Jones shot his wife at their Van Horne Street home before fatally wounding himself. Moments later gunfire at a Montgomery Street flat left Garrett French mortally wounded and himself dead.
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Jersey City
Henry Jones
van Horne Street
Montgomery Street
Garrett French
Pennsylvania Railroad
Hobson Returns Home From Cuba As Work Continues
A dispatch from Caimanera Cuba reports Naval Constructor Hobson has sailed to Philadelphia via Jamaica. The Colon wreck camp was party built and work continues in his absence. Preliminary steam trials of the Taranta Maria Teresa engines were set in factory.
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Cuba
Caimanera
New York Herald
Hobson
Philadephia
Jamaica
Colon
McKinley greeted by railway unions in Chicago gathering
President McKinley and his party left Chicago for Washington on the Pennsylvania Railroad amid an enthusiastic crowd. Police kept back thousands as he bowed from the rear platform. At the Firat regiment armory he addressed railway workers from several unions, opening a three day conference to draft labor legislation.
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McKinley
Chicago
Washington
Pennsylvania Road
McWilliams
Firat Regiment
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen
Order of Railroad Conductors
Railway Telegraphers Union
Actios
Canton
J. H. Walsh
Harrison
President McKinley
Brooke in charge as Porto Rico reopens civil government
Major General Brooke governs from the San Juan palace with Brigadiers Brooks, Grant overseeing districts, and ministers Rivera Blanco Lopez Carbonnet resigning while successors are named. The first orders are fair, the post office is formed, Special Commissioner Carroll arrived, and Porto Rico’s figures outline size, population, cities, and infrastructure amid a generally healthful, semi tropical climate.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
Brooks
Henry
Ponce
Grant
Brooke
United States
Carroll
Panama
New Jersey
Vieque
Mayaguez
Aguadilla
Arecibo
Pajardo
Naguabo
Arroyo
Railroad Sold At Auction to Satisfy Creditors
The St Louis, Kansas and Southwestern railroad, sixty miles from Arkanway City to Anthony, was sold at Kansas City Saturday under a US circuit court decree. Farmers' Loan and Trust Co. of New York filed the claim. Samuel Baker of Hamilton, Ontario, bought the line and equipment for 150,110 dollars on behalf of the creditors.
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St. Louis
State of anarchy in southern Philippines report
Reports from Manila describe a terrible state of anarchy in the southern Philippines. Spaniards are confined to principal towns while American forces capture rebel vessels at Cavite, with two vessels taken in the past week.
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Villippines
Manila
Philippines
Cavite
Plague Fears Grip Vienna Amid Urban Outbreak
Cable from Vienna reports bubonic plague spreading in the Austrian capital after a lab outbreak. Three new cases include two nurses and Barisch’s wife, with Dr Muller dead. Pneumonic form, strict isolation, rope barriers, and window pane prescriptions mark containment efforts. Jewish doctors face anti Semitic accusations amid rising panic.
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Vienna
Herr Barisch
Muller
Muller, the Physician Who Attended Herr Baarisch
Bombay
Pooch
Sisters of Charity
Herr Barish
Ehemest
Hoffroth Luding
Civil Service Push Targets Political Assessments in Fed Posts
A Washington dispatch reports the civil service commission launching a vigorous campaign against political assessments of federal officials and employees ahead of elections. It cites an order from the post office department and promises forthcoming treasury action to enforce. Acting Postmaster General Heath directs postmasters to sign and post the commission circular and to use every means to alert subordinates.
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Civil Service Commaleston
Washington Dispatch
Civil Service Commission
Post Office Department
Treasury
Heath
Commission
Paralyzed Judge Clarke Dies After Court Collapse
Judge Marshall J Clarke a renowned Georgia jurist born June 28 1839 in Lumpkin Stewart County suffered paralysis at 9 o clock Thursday while presiding in Atlanta Superior Court and died soon after. He held a leading rank among Georgia lawyers for years and was a native of Lumpkin.
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Marshall J, Clarke
Georgia
Dew
Marshall J. Clarke
Georgina
Atlanta
Clarke
Lumpkin
Stewart County
Bloody race clash in Scott county Mississippi
A Meridian Sunday special reports a deadly race conflict near Harpersville in Scott county. A white deputy is killed and several whites wounded while armed blacks reportedly kill about six or more in the mob action. Governor McLaurin tours the scene as the pursuit of roughly fifty Black suspects continues.
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Meridian
Miss
Mississippi
Scott County
Harpersville
McLaurin
Forest
Bill Burke
Charles Freeman
Burke
Wallace Sibley
James Johnson
James Hamilton
James Wells
Harperaville
Government opens bids for vast Cuba lumber order
The War Department invites bids nationwide for a gigantic hard pine lumber contract to supply Cuba. Bids target the southern sea coast towns and reconstruction efforts in Cuban towns. Firms may bid from any region, but the department may reject any bid.
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Cuba
War Department
United States
Department of the Gulf
South Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Dewey Coming Home to Visit Coastal Mining Interests
Admiral Dewey plans a homecoming in San Francisco arriving December 11 aboard the City of Peking from the orient. He has applied for leave of absence to visit his native band and explores several mining ventures on the coast, prompting the trip and his expected big time appearance.
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Adiral
San Francisco Evening Post
Admiral Dewey
Peking
San Francisco
Orient
Russia to Fri end France in Paris visit shows support
The Soir reports Count Muravief to visit Paris on orders of Emperor Nicholas to personally congratulate French foreign minister Delcasse for firmness in the Fashoda affair and to discuss how Russia can best extend support.
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Senr Senda An Mayoy
Paris
England
The
Soir
Count Muravieft
Nicholas
M. Delcasse
Russia
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Southern’s
Peck
Democrats
Vanderbilt
Augusta
Naval Board
Adrieal Schley
Carrera
Republic
Fashoda
French Republic
Britain
Michael Hicks
Thea Exchequer
North Shields
Lord Roseberry
Herbert Asquith
Egypt
Africa
Eveland
Major Brooke IN Charge
St. Louie
Kansas
Southwestern Goon
Musselmans Execued
Candia
Crete
Musselmana
Dewey
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