Happenings From Seven Days In The World
A wide sweep of late 19th century notes covers congressional debates on the deficiency bill and territorial expansion, legislative moves in the Senate and House, and reactions to Hawaii and the Philippines. Domestic items report grain stocks, labor movements, McKinley’s southern tour, shipwrecks, fires, and legal actions. The Cuba situation, naval matters, and foreign affairs from Japan to China also appear with tensions and policy shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Platt
Conn
United States
Hoar
Hale
Perkins
Simon
McLaurin
Clay
Turley
Washington
House
Liliuokalani
Hawaii
Teller
Army and Navy
Williams
Miss
Philippines
Personal and Political Obituaries Across the Nation
Jonathan Norcross father of Atlanta dies at 91. Rev Dr Thomas McKee Brown longtime rector of St Mary the Virgin New York dies of pneumonia. Rev Dr Daniel Wise aged 83 dies at Englewood New Jersey. Martha Field known as Catherine Cole dies in Chicago. Thomas Ward Osborn former Civil War veteran and U S Senator from Florida dies in New York at 65. Capt Charles E Hawley retired U S N dies in Wilmington Delaware at 68.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonathan Norcross
Atlanta
Thomas McKee. Brown
St. Mary the Virgin i
New York
Daniel Wise
Englewood
N. J
Martha Field
South
Catherine Cole
Chicago
Thomas Ward Osborn
United States
Florida
Charles E. Hawley
Wilmington
Del
Foreign nominal changes and global unrest loom
Newsbriefs report a permanent British occupation of Crete proposed, amid wider turmoil. In Chung-Yang Chinese rebels killed a French priest and 100 converts, while artist Theodore Heine faces six months in Leipzig for charges linked to a William II satire. Also noted is a Paris marriage of Mrs. Demetrine Calline Bey to Le Baron Alexandry Oranguiana, and a fire devastates Greenshieldy & Co dry goods in MacInnes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crete
Chung-Yang
Theodore Heine
William
Holy Land
Leipsic
Demetrine Calline Bey
Paris
le Baron Alexandryd Orangiana
Greenshieldy’ Ous & Co
Aoa MecIn
Notable Obits and Society News from Illinois and Nearby
A roundup of local obituaries and landmarks includes death notices for Edwin D. Norton of Bondville and J. E. Rasback of Ridgway, plus S. F. Curtis of El Paso and others. Golden wedding anniversaries for Rev. George Walker and wife near Nashville, and Mr and Mrs Thomas Mathews in Carbondale. Also reports on Pure Food Drug and Seed work in Champaign, a $115,000 bankruptcy case by Reinharmer Co., and the Pekin beet sugar plant plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mason
Timothy Dwight
Yale, College
Edwin ‘D. Norton
Champaign County
Bondville
J. E. Rasback
Cor Assumption
Hudge Abbott
Ridgway
S. F. Curtis
el Paso
George Walker
Nashville
Beaucop
Thomas Mathews
Carbondale
S. M. Reinharmer & Co
Delavan
United States Circuit Court
Illinois Beet ‘Sugar Refining Co
Pekin
Nicaragua Canal Cost Estimates Reported for Future Senate Review
New York December 24 The preliminary report of the Nicaragua Canal Commission led by Gen. Hain Admiral Walker and Prof Haupt is ready and will be laid before the Senate committee during the Christmas recess or immediately after. It details projected earthworks including 85 million cubic yards in the western division and 75 million in the San Juan river cuts, with total excavation approaching 115 to 125 million cubic yards and overall cost projections running into the hundreds of millions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Nicaragua
Canal Cosion
Hain
Amiral Walker
Haupt
Senate
Congress
Greytown
San Francisco Basin
Florida Lagoon
Ochoa Dam
Carribella Sea
San. Juan River
San Juan River
Lake
Ochoa
San Carlos Embankment
Admiral Walker
Brito
Tomate
Ca Ludlow
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kansas City
American Federation of Labor
McKinley
Augusta
Gai
Fort Adams
Newport
R. I
Naval Board of Construction
Maine
Havana Harbor
Henry B
Henry. K. Mason
Chicago Lawyers
Terre Haute
Ind
Wade and
Butler
Admiral Sampson
Cuba
Serven
Civil Service Commission
Charles and
Elmer
Charles Hooper
United States Army
Middletown
Samoan
Navy Department
National Board. of Trade
Witten McDonald
Old Fruit
Howell County
Kansas City Times
Bliss
Kinley
Ru Ay
Seattle
Wash
California
Neeting
Samuel
John R. Brooke
Malden
Lexington
Lane County
Ore
Corbin
E.G. Rathbone
Ohio
Knox County
Melrose
Col
Edward S. Barrett
The
Sons of the American Revolution
Concord
Mass
Pennsylvania Railroad
Rahway
Ethan A. Hitchcock
St. Louis
Russia
Boston
W. Jewett
Rile National Bank
Woburn
N. H
Mike Hennessey
John O’connell
Crown Will, S. D
Porto Rico
Japan
Ludlow
Havana
Prince George ‘of
Greece
Canea
Tacoma
San Francisco
Honolulu
Manila
Spain
Edwin H. Conder
Shanghai
Thomas Crosby
Margaret Crosby
Edgewater
Frank Nye
Nye
Arbuckle Bros
Rosalie
Victoria
R. C
Skaguay
Wrangel
Atlin
Mexico City
Clayton
Senor Marizal
Mexico
Morella
Castellon de la Plana
Yale Divinity
New Haven
Wake Island
Pacific Ocean
Bennington
Tassig
London Times
United States District Court
Charleston
S. C
Brawley
Olinde Rodriguez
New Orleans
San Juan
Philadelphia
Schley
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Haevaria
Navy
Eresheld
Pure Food, Drugs ‘and Seeds
Pure Food, Drug and Seed Association
Initois
Champaign
University of Haineis
Springfield
Soo
Mary Quirk
Jo Daviess County
Galena
Ireland
America
T. M. Wells
Arcola
Douglass County
Indianapolis, Decatur & Western Railway
Indiana
Indianapolis
Perry G. Holden
University of Illinois
Minois Sugar Refining Co
J.H Harden
Eureka College
Gen. Wheeler
John Gibbs
Harrisburg
Wm. Wright
Wm. Portfield
John Carr
Dower's Grove
Aurora Police
Charles Hesse
National
George W. Curtiss
Freeport
Richard’ Collier
Champagne
Th ‘Pairdex
Charles Freebryant
Bank For
Hacdin County
Oppaniently
Reptagua
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