Porter Porter Dies Former McKinley Private Secretary
London dispatch reports Lord Kitchener stating 18 officers and 555 men missing from Gen. Clements force in Natal. Casualties through December 7 include five officers and nine men killed and six officers and forty five wounded. Pomfret, Conn obituary notes John Addison Porter died shortly before two this afternoon.
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McKinley
Evening Journal
London
Lord Kitchner
Clements
Clement
Pomfret, Conn
John Addison Porter
Senate Talks Treaty Spooner Digs Up History
Washington reports on the Clayton-Bulwer Pact and Hay-Pauncefote amendments. Senate debates vote timing as Lodge presses for action while Mason and Money seek canal focus. Culberson urges abrogation by diplomatic means. Spooner favors canal rights but opposes disregarding 1850 terms. Lindsay backs ratification with cautions.
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Washington
Senate
Committee On Foreign Relations
Mason
Morgan
Great Britain
Butler
Culberson
Lodge
Britain
Spooner
United States
Record of US gold and silver production for 1899
The 1899 mint report shows gold output at 71,053,400 dollars and silver at 358,858,700 dollars, with gold production the highest in U.S. history, surpassing 1898 by 86,500,400 and exceeding estimates by 4,062,400.
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United States
Washington
Mint
World Mineral Output in 1899 Shows Shifts in Gold and Silver
The 1899 global mining picture shows Alaska, Colorado and Utah driving gains in placer silver. Gold output rose led by the United States and Canada, with heavy losses in Africa due to the Transvaal war. Klondike and Mexico remain key silver producers, while industrial gold and silver consumption totals are given.
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California
Alaska
Cape Nome
Colorado
Utah
United States
Canada
Klondike
Australasia
Africa
Transvaal
Mexico
Senate Secret Session Deliberates Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
Washington reports say the senate spent most of yesterday in secret session debating the Hay-Pauncefote treaty while a brief open session adopted a holiday recess from December 21 to January 3. Debate on war revenue reduction continued with tax on beer and telegraph receipts debated and adjusted.
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Washington
Senate
House
Ways and Means
Wild Frisco Storm Breaks Telegraphed Silence
A December San Francisco storm with winds near sixty miles per hour disrupted telegraph lines cutting city from outside contact. Thunder rain and lightning accompanied a torrent that toppled a gas tank at North Beach releasing 248 000 feet of gas and sparking a fire. a North Beach house was blown over with no injuries reported.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Gas and Electric Company
North Beach
AS GOOD AS ACQUITTED
Jessie Morrison's murder trial in Eldorado Kansas ended in a hung jury with nine voting for acquittal and three for manslaughter in the fourth degree. The case will go to the spring court and a bond release is expected pending judge Shinn's decision.
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Eldorado
Kan
Jessie Morrison
G. Olin Castle
Castle
Miss Morrison
Shinn
Saginaw Sugar Company Plans Big Saccharine Factory
The Saginaw Sugar company formed in Saginaw Michigan with 300000 capital. Officers include William Penoyer president and general manager J Nelson secretary rank Penoyer and W H Boutelle treasurer. Factory cost 500000 with 600 tons daily capacity to be built by Kilby company Cleveland.
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Saginaw, Mich
Saginaw Sugar Company
Cleveland
Bay City
Cheboygan
Caro
Stoek
Saginaw
William Penoyer
J. Nelson
Rank
Penoyer
W. H
Seven Die in Dunkirk School Fire at Fredonia State Normal
From the smouldering ruins of the Fredonia State Normal and Training School destroyed by fire at 6 am yesterday one charred body has been recovered and a revised missing list confirms seven perished. The blaze caused about $200000 in property loss.
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Dunkirk
Fredonia State Normal and Training School
Fist of Missing
Senate approves amendment to Hay-Pauncefote treaty on canal defense
In executive session the Senate voted 65 to 17 for an amendment allowing the United States to defend its interests and maintain order in the canal. Elkins proposed a radical alteration, while ministers argued for limits but pressed national security and sovereignty in relations to the canal. The discussion also touched on temperance at Fort Snelling and the canteen as a tempting factor among troops.
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Washington
Senate
United States
Yeas
Nays
Baird
Beveridge
Frye
Foster
Hansborough
Lindsay
Mason
McCumber
McEnery
McBride
Morgan
Money
Stewart
Tillman
Wellington
Wolcott
Gallinger
Elkins
Allen, Money
Thurston
France
Senate hearing on army reorganization bill expands
In Washington the senate committee on military affairs continued the hearing on the army reorganization bill. Archbishop Treland and Bishop McGoldrick opposed the ban on canteens arguing the post exchange supports temperance and morals. Archbishop Treland cited Fort Snelling as evidence of the canteen’s protective role.
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Washington
Senate Committee On
Archbishop Treland
Bishop Mc Goldrick
Treland
Fort Snell
Safe care and Dr Pierce medicine for children
The notice extols the safety of a faithful dog and motherly care but warns germs in air water and food threaten children. It promotes Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a vegetable remedy for children aiding appetite energy and blood quality citing Mrs Ella Gardner of Waterview Va as a testimonial.
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Dr. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Ella Gardner
Waterview
Middlesex Co
Dr. Sage
Illinois seeks fourteen foot canal to Mississippi via Des Plaines
Washington December 14 Members of the Illinois delegation in congress are advised that the army engineers report on the Chicago sanitary canal link to the Mississippi is not entirely favorable to a fourteen foot canal from Lockport to the Mississippi though extending to St Louis forty miles may win approval. The cost is estimated at about 30 million dollars with no through St Louis estimate. Senate and House news notes Hanna spoke for ship subsidy bill and war revenue debate continued.
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Washington
Congress
Mississippi River
Great Lakes
Chicago Sanitary Canal
Commission of
United States Army Engineers
War Department
Lockport
Des Plaines
Illinois
Mis-sissippi
St. Louis
Mississippi
Harrison Denies Supporting Pending Ship Subsidy Bill
General Harrison says Republican leader Hernly misquoted his 1888 remarks and asserts he did not advocate the ship subsidy bill. He notes the earlier speech supported mail pay for steamships, not subsidy, and claims no meddling in legislation. A separate Des Moines item reports state agricultural convention actions and a push for a national park at the Mississippi River, plus forest reserve plans.
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Indianapolis
Harrison
Washington
Hernly
Des Moines
State Agricultural Convention
Ellison
Mississippi River
Kisapva Hone
Department of Agris Culture
Majuba Hill Recounted Near Pretoria in Transvaal Front
London dispatches relay tense fighting as De Wet and Beyers forces press near Nooitgedacht and the Magaliesburg. Casualties mount on both sides as Knox and French reinforce from Krugersdorp, with De Wet's followers reportedly captured. Kruger remains confident England will seek settlement.
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Pretoria
Knox
de Wet
Cranborne declines to talk hay Paines in London report
London dispatch notes Commons question on the Way-Paunecefote treaty and U S senate stance. Cranborne says no communications with European powers on neutral canal status. Lords Hardwick defends staying with his firm and rails at political attacks on stock brokers.insurgents in Panay reportedly take oaths of allegiance as Filipino forces consolidate control.
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Commons
Norman
United States
Senate
Lord Cranbone
Foreign Office
Great Britain
Nicaragua
United States Senate Committee
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Egypt
Suez Canal
Hardwck
Rosebery
Hardwick
India
Lord Salisbury
George Hamilton
Offics
Gladstone
Bertram Currie
Indian Council
Indian Office
Salisbury
Priest Refuses to Marry Them in Indiana City
In Columbia City Indiana on December 15 T W McFarland assistant ticket auditor of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway and Miss M A Casey of Chicago obtained a marriage license after arriving from Gutcher sanitarium at Larwill. Father Boccard at a Roman Catholic parsonage refused to wed them. They then sought Pastor Fischer of the Baptist church and were married.
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Columbia City
Ind
W. McFarland
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
M. A. Casey
Chicago
Gutcher Sanitarium
Larwill
Pather Boccard
Fischer
Baptist Church
Escapee Kuhns Seen North of Logansport in Pursuit
Marvin Kuhns the escaped convict was spotted Wednesday eighteen miles north of Logansport by August Zind who reported Kuhns with a swollen face and powder marks from a volley of bullets. Kuhns stole a horse from Zind’s barn and headed toward relatives near Auburn as officers pursue him.
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Logansport
Ind
Marvin Kuhns
Here
August Zind
Saveh
Kuhns
Zind
Auburn
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Jessie Morison
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Mississippi Canal
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Nooitwedacht
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Hekpoort
Nooltgeducht
Johannesburg
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French
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Lord Kitchener
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Letmer
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Wrede
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Lord Hardwick
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Cary
Frank Stewart
I. M. Sprouts
M. Keer
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A. S. Hays
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O. F. Haight
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Nything
Harwood
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Bailey
Hanting Marvin Kahn
T. J. Dempsey
J. Wilson
Attorney At Law
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Washington, Iowa
W. H. Butterfield
State
F& Residence Phone 250
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Atore
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EB. Cor. Sq
Iowa
China
Ino G Farer
GP &Ta Bcr&n Ry
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Hotel Allen
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J. Hanley
Feed and Sale
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Jeffrey
Presa
A. Anderson
Oaashier
J.T. Anderson
Washington County
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H. Wallage
Warre
We Bian
M. Keck
First National Bank
Wm. Blair
A. H. Wallace
Eck, J. D. Robinson
Frank Siam
Harn Tareon
E. Townsend, D. D
Columbian School of Osteopathy
Kirksville, Mo
Dixon & Matthews
Postoffice
Kemble
Kemble Flower Co
Oskaloosa, Lowa
Madison Medicine Co
Madison
Wis
R. F. Riley
Pantaloons
Cay
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