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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1899
Page
1
Major General Leonard Wood sails for Havana as the new military governor of Cuba. He states there will be no uprising, reports 25 000 arms surrendered, and says the people are satisfied with American governance. He notes bandits are suppressed and cites a quiet eastern Cuba.
The policy favors Cuban rule in Cuba with education focus and improved roads and railways. It calls for reforming the judicial system to ensure fair trials while avoiding open tribunals. It notes a debate over troop use and stresses centralized authority under General Wood. Havana report quotes Senor San Miguel on subordinate military commands to prevent friction among commanders.
Be Was a Not John Haho but an Iowa Man Named Reynolds, Springfield, Ills., Dec. 18. Last Wednesday a well dressed man committed death by own action in a lodging house in this city and until Saturday evening the remains were unidentified, although they were supposed at first to be those of George John Hahn of Galesburg and later those of J. M. Smith.
Judge Choquet ruled US deposition evidence invalid due to improper notice and unsworn notes. With no evidence to support the charge, Mrs. H J O Neil of Chicago was acquitted and regained possession of the goods, while civil actions were withdrawn and she was released.
The National League magnates adjourned after a short session at the Fifth Avenue hotel with plans to reconvene for a report by a special committee tasked to devise wigs and means for a reduced eight club circuit. The committee includes John T. Brush James Hart Colonel John J. Rogers and A I Soden. An eight club league is seen as almost certain.
The chairman of the National Civil Service Reform League denies press reports of serious differences at a meeting over the resolutions and the investigating committee's report. He calls the reports wholly false and seeks to set the record straight.
Mrs. Julia Crosby pleaded guilty to the shooting death of her husband Nicholas Crosby at their Woodbine home. The motive cited as family differences. she faces a sentence expected to be twenty years in prison.
Benton Harbor Michigan December 18 The Wolverine Sugar company has paid nearly $20 000 to Berrien county farm on the proper notice to the counsel ler The same amount will be paid for December beets The farmers of the county will make nearly as much from beets as from peaches.
Articles of incorporation filed in South Bend for Indiana Power company with $100000 capital. The plan calls for a dam across the St. Joseph river at Elkhart and St. Joseph counties boundary and the construction of a canal for each dam extending from a point above to below the dam by a practicable route.
Des Moines Iowa December 16 E M Donald of Fort Madison defendant appealed a Lee county district court decision that he must pay a church subscription. He argued the contract formed on Sunday was illegal and lacked consideration. The supreme court overruled both claims.
Six days of debate on the currency bill closed with a raucous scene as Dolliver and Grosvenor pressed for a free coinage amendment. A New York Democrat objected, and the chair denied procedural changes while Democrats cheered a demanding floor fight.
In a heated debate, Lentz of Ohio accuses the administration of aligning with Great Britain and condemns U S actions in the Philippines and Africa. He cites large military force, questions prosperity metrics, and mocks patronage while praising naval victory figures amid partisan applause.
National committee members met with the president then Payne withdrew his plan for representation at the convention while Tanna urged the committee to act only on convention instructions. Other reform proposals were dropped as the panel debated currency measures and pro Boer sentiment surfaced in Washington.
Lansing grand jury reports seven men connected to Spanish war fund expenditures. Rumors claim over $50,000 profit from a single transaction with a Chicago supplier, with the same goods allegedly rerouted to Kalamazoo contractors and resold to the state for 67 000, involving multiple military board members.
A Cleveland, Akron and Columbus passenger train collided with a switch engine near the State insane asylum, leaving two men dead and one dying. The engines were hurled from the rails, and the passenger coaches remained on track. Injured in the switch engine cab were engineer A. G. Sherman, fireman Charles Ehlers, and conductor Harry Schultz. Sherman and Ehlers suffered severe leg injuries, and Schultz is expected to die.
London reports Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford appointed to lead in South Africa with General Lord Kitchener as chief of staff. War Office orders mobilization of the army reserve and seventh division for immediate deployment to Natal. Natives and colonies expressing support for mounted contingents amid ongoing Boer reverses and rebel sentiments in the north.
A Madison county, Indiana, noon Saturday theft saw $450 from the Model Radiator factory employer’s funds taken by a thief who slipped the manager’s pocket and coat lining. Police seek leads as the robbed manager was away ten minutes.
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