German Pressure Over Venezuela Leaders Growth in Caracas
Berlin reports indicate Germany will delay action until Dr. Schmidt Leda arrives in Caracas around Jan. 5 while pressuring Castro with coercive measures possible in four to five weeks if talks fail. United States observers note tolerance toward Germany and hope to avoid uniting Venezuelan sentiment against Berlin. The Gazelle remains near Kiel awaiting outfitting for Caribbean deployment.
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Berlin
O. Schmidt- Leda
Venezuela
Caracas
Herr von Pilgrim-Baltagzi
Castro
Schmidt Leda
Castre
Germany
United States
Baron von Riehthofen
Uncle Sam
Foreign Office
Venezuel
Frandée
One-Party Victory as Cuban Election Returns Begin
In Havana and Santiago de Cuba on January 1 the national election produced a single ticket for Tomas Estrada Palma with Bartolome Maso withdrawing in protest. Maso supporters did not vote and returns were sparse as the Nationalist ticket swept the contest amid low turnout and bleak weather.
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Cuba
Havana
Tomas Estrada Palma
Democrats
Bartélome Maso
Palma
Maso
Manzanilla
Bartolome Maso
Santiago de Cuba
Argentine Orders Warships in Argentina Italian yards
The Diario reports Argentina has contracted with Ansaldo and San Pedro Arena yards in Italy to urgently build two armored vessels of 8,500 tons each at 17,000,000 francs per ship. The government already paid 15,000,000 francs as an initial installment.
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Buenos Ayres
Diario
Ansaldo
Sestri
San Piero Arena
Italy
Bad Aliases to Burn
Davenport Iowa January 1 Dr Jackson D Thomas of Philadelphia alleged to own aliases J J Dudley Evans Sawyer Morgan Brooks Beaty Bruner Tillman Hiatt and others was brought from Philadelphia Monday by Detective Charles Gatland and bound over to the January grand jury by Justice Hall He is charged with swindling Hat Co Putnam of this city out of 2 King Edward and Queen Annet te have gone to Sandringham.
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Jackson D. Thomas
Philadelphia
J. J. Dudley
Evans
Sawyer
Morgan
Brooks
Beaty
Bruner
Tillman
Hiatt
Phiiladelphia
Charles Gatland
Justice Hall
Hat Cc
Putnam
King Edward
Queen Anette
Sandringham
Haste at table linked to stomach disease says medical note
The article warns that swallowing food hastily causes digestion issues and stomach diseases. It cites Ips of ice water and hot coffee as harmful habits and recommends Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as an effective cure for stomach ailments.
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Pierce
Mrs Mary E Lewis of Tanner West Virginia Praises Pierce Medicines
A Tanner West Virginia resident recounts long illness and severe weight loss. She credits Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Favorite Prescription and Pleasant Pellets with restoring health after doctors and other medicines failed. She reports weight gain from ninety to one hundred forty pounds and improved vitality. She mentions receiving free medical adviser material by mail.
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Mary E. Lewis
Tanner, Gilmer Co
W. Va
Dr. Pierce
War on the merger will be a fight to a finish
Governors and attorneys general of seven northwestern states unite to block the proposed consolidation of the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Burlington railways. Minnesota will file lawsuits. congress urged to empower the ICC to set maximum interstate rates. Governor Van Sant calls the meeting a success.
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Mont
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Burlington
Northwestern
Minnesota
Douglas
van Sant
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Idaho
South Dakota
Hunt and Toole
Power Suit Against Northern Pacific: Judge Dissolves Injunction
Judge William Lochren in Minneapolis dissolves the temporary injunction in Peter Power vs Northern Pacific Railway. The ruling allows retirement of $75,000,000 in preferred stock from earnings and blocks indirect consolidation plans via Northern Securities or Burlington. Power vows appeal to the U S Supreme Court.
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Northern Securities Company
Treat Northern
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Lochren
Power
Powers
Northern Pacific Railway Company
United States Supreme Court
Rail ticket honored. sailors fight in Villefranche tale
A 1857 ticket was honored by the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific railroad. United States sailors from the Albany and Chicago fought at Villefranche Italy with one sailor stabbed. An unsuccessful attempt to rob Milford Savings Bank is reported amid heavy Norwegian railway blockages for over a week. Senator Platt of New York reportedly to marry Mrs T Saneroy.
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Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
United States
Albany
Chicago
Villefranche
Italy
Milford
Naval controversy and proposed legislation surface in Congress
The Jan 1 report notes bitter divides over Schley and Sampson boycotting any new inquiry while the navy faces a stalled impeachment debate. It covers wood pulp tariff debates, woman suffrage hearings, and a push to save California’s Mariposa sequoias. It also lists pension reform proposals and convicts goods labeling, plus bills on postal pay and McKinley day as a holiday. Arthur W. Dunn.
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California
William Alden Smith
Michigan
William McKinley
Henry C. Payne
Arthur W. Dunn
Food and Medicine as Fuel for the Human Dynamo
Dr. Loeb argues that energy from foods is converted into electrical forces fueling the body. Other papers by Dr. Mendel, J. T. Halsey, A. R. Cushny and J. Brlander discussed related findings on nourishment and vitality.
Clever fraud in checks shocks Hibbing banking region
Duluth reports a large scale check forging scheme reaching Hibbing on the Mesabi range. Counter checks from 20 to 75 dollars pretended to be from the Northern Lumber company and signed by a Weyerhaeuser corporation. Banks alerted and inquiries issued to stem the spread of the fakes.
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Duluth
Minn
First National Bank
Hibbing
Mesaba Range
Northern Lumber Company
Weyerhatser Corporation
Range
Notting ham Post Office Safe Exploded in Suburban Burglary
In Nottingham suburb burglars blown the safe of the post office and general store. Postmaster House and locals fired on the robbers with about twenty four shots exchanged. A bloody trail indicated at least one burglar wounded.
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Cleveland
Nottingham
Postmaster House
He May Be Fleishman the Other Way
Chicago reports identify a man found in Pullman with a throat cut as possibly Henry J. Fleishman the Los Angeles bank cashier who vanished December 7 with 100000 dollars. The dead man matches Fleishman in all respects except age, with observers guessing 25 to 30 while Fleishman is believed near 40. A caller who knew Fleishman questioned the identification.
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Chicago
Pullman
Henry J. Fleishman
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank of
Mpleishman
Fleishman
Where is Paul Egger left town to buy goods
Relatives of Paul Egger a large general store operator in Wilsonville Nebraska fear he was murdered and robbed after leaving Dec 15 for McCook with a 1423 draft to pay taxes and order stock. he did not visit the county treasurer and taxes remain unpaid. The draft was paid by a McCook bank and he has vanished with authorities assisting the search. his affairs are in good condition and no apparent voluntary reason is given.
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Wilsonville
Neb
Paul Egger
McCook
Egger
Markets Report Mixed Prices Across Hogs Cattle and Sheep
Chicago hogs feature receipts around 54 000 with a wide range from 4 60 to 6 75 for packing and heavy lots. Cattle receipts about 6 000 with varied quotes from 3 75 to 7 55 for different grades, plus feeder stock and veal. East Buffalo and St Louis notes show hogs steady to higher and sheep market strength. wheat and rye futures ease in some markets while others hold steady.
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Texas
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
St. Louis Grain
Ioc
Loeb Claims Life Is Electrodynamic In Nature
In Chicago on January 1 Dr Jaques Loeb of the University of Chicago argued that extending life in lower forms supports the view that higher organisms are electrodynamic. He suggested that food and medicines may lack intrinsic value for individuals, focusing on electrical aspects of life.
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Chicago
The
Physiological Society
Jaques
Jacques Loeb
Indemnity Fund Balance Debate Tacts at Peking Protocol
Washington officials expect US claims and campaign costs to exhaust the 25 1 000 000 indemnity fund allotted to China and the United States. Some powers hint at divvying any small balance but are unlikely to press the point. After US expenses for its own claims, little or no balance is anticipated.
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Washington
China
United States
Japanese General Yamaguchi resigns amid looting charges
Yokohama reports General Baron Yamaguchi who led Japanese troops in China has stepped down from command of the fifth division. The resignation follows public accusations of looting against him.
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Yokohama
Baron Yamaguchi
China
Doctor John Bell Pioneer Berrien County Leader Dies
Benton Harbor Michigan on Sunday Dr John Bell82 was the world’s highest ranking Knight of Pythias and a renowned physician in southwestern Michigan He led the Uniform Bank Knights of Pythias of the World as major general in 1908 and served as Benton Harbor mayor contributing forty years to the city’s growth
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Benton Harbor
Mich
Dee
John Bell
Omaha man George Rudio killed in Malta Illinois wreck
Omaha businessman George Rudio, Nebraska representative and general agent for J. S. Kirk & Co. for fifteen years, died in the Northwestern wreck at Malta, Illinois. His daughter, in Omaha, learned of both parents deaths and left for Chicago Sunday night. Radio was a prominent local commercial figure.
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Omaha
Neb
George Rudio
Northwestern
Malta
Ill
Nebraska
J. 8. Kirk & Co
Chicago
Kinsey Couple Celebrate 68th Wedding Anniversary
Warsaw Indiana December 31 Mr and Mrs Francis A Kinsey longtime Kosciusko county residents mark the close of the sixty eighth year of marriage and the sixty eighth anniversary of their wedding Kinsey now 93 and his wife 87 are in excellent health. They wed in Knox County Ohio on December 20 1883.
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Warsaw
Ind
Francis A. Kinsey
Kosciusko County
Kinsey
Knox County
Beloit Clergymen Fight Mayor Over City Vice War
Beloit's ministers and citizens accuse Mayor Simon Smith of allowing vice and warn of a crusade unless he acts. The Ministerial Union votes to press for suppression of alleged evils in the city.
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Geloit
Wis
Beloit
Simon Smith
Ministerial Union
Farrand, Noted Michigan Lawyer, Dies at 82
Port Huron Michigan obituary reports Bethuel Clinton Farrand longtime lawyer and pioneer dead at age 82. He partnered in law with Omar J. Conger William I. Mitchell E. W. Harris and others. Born Cayuga New York December 18 1820.
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Port Huron
Mich
Bethuel Clinton’ Farrand
Michigan
Omar J. Conger
William ‘I. Mitchell
E. W. Harris
Cayuga, N. Y
Navy Officer Arrives in New York From Cuba
Lieutenant Commander Lucien Young U S N former Havana port captain arrived in New York He will proceed to his Lexington Kentucky home pending orders from the Navy Department
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New York
Lucien Young
Havana
Cuba
Lexington
Navy Department
Treasury Strength Maintains Balance Amid Circulation Rise
Treasury Secretary Gage reports unexampled strength at year end with receipts exceeding ordinary expenditures by about 100 million. Since April 1, 1897, bonds totaling 58.7 million were redeemed for the sinking fund, leaving cash about 30 million higher than a year prior. Per capita money outside the treasury rose from 23.14 to 28.73, while gold in circulation jumped to 2014.8 million.
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Washington
Treasury
Gage
Congress
Department
United States
Castro Defends Venezuelan Policy In Open Letter
President Castro of Venezuela defends his liberal policy and urges united support for the fatherland while criticizing rivals and civil war pressures. He invites journalists to resume duties and asserts his government’s aims amid regional tensions. In Joliet, a council bid to donate 100 for Boer relief fails as legality is questioned.
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Misa Polley
Washington
Castro
Venezuela
United
Caracas
Joliet
Ill
Braun
Third Ward
Harrison
Chicago
Yates
Charlemagne Returns as U S Ambassador to Russia
Tower ambassador of the United States to Russia has returned from Paris to St. Petersburg. The piece notes his posting and arrival alongside other brief items from the era.
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Charlemagne ‘Tower
United States
Russia
Paris
St. Petersburg
New York
United States North Atlantic Squadron
San Juan de Porto Rico
Thomas McManus
Marion
Chicago
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