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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1896
Page
2
A London dispatch notes Spanish forces in Cuba show no progress or winter plans while European powers drift apart over policy. In U S Senate debate, coinage and monetary options are discussed. Brazil sends thanks for Monroe Doctrine stance. Palm Beach Florida named a sub-port of entry as Dingley tax plans move through Congress with a party line vote of 203 to 81.
The text argues Britain’s refusal to arbitrate over disputed Venezuelan land shows might makes right and portrays Britain as a world bully defending sovereignty by force rather than law.
The United States Senate unanimously approved the house Venezuelan commission bill, provoking alarm in London clubs and diplomatic circles as England confronts a grave, unfolding crisis and fears that Uncle Sam is serious.
The nation has never seen such universal support for a policy matter as the presidents stand on the Venezuelan controversy. The commission to investigate the merits of the case passed both houses without a dissenting vote.
Lieutenant-Commander Rush, superintendent of naval war records, completed a volume containing the log of the Alabama. The account shows how a single small, moderately fast cruiser and a merchant marine can perform when they stay on task and waste no time.
The article notes a rising percentage in divorces alongside population growth across states. It attributes the trend to a view of marriage as a mere contract rather than a sacred union and questions whether the New Woman's ideas of liberty and better self-support are driving the change.
After a St. Louis theater performance, the audience rose as the orchestra played Hail Columbia. Applause swelled and Yankee Doodle and The Red White and Blue were added to the first number.
Within recent years Africa has been parceled out among the powers of Europe England having seized a broad belt from Cape Colony to the Nile. The piece asks what will protect South America Central America Cuba and Mexico from similar fate if Lord Salisbury rejects the historic US policy.
The article notes Japanese imitators have developed printing presses and type machines like those in America with trademarks. It warns that if left unchecked they may reproduce American silver dollars at full weight, urging vigilance over this deceptive capability.
A Parisian chocolate manufacturer has purchased Anticosti Island at the mouth of the St. Lawrence. The 3600 square mile island is 140 miles long and has remained largely French owned aside from a brief English-ruled period when an English syndicate pursued a land boom and lost nearly a million dollars.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe Manitoba school issue provoking colonial nerves. Mentions Privy Council in London and a stance against government interference. References Newfoundland and French colonies in a broader imperial context.
Secretaries lamont condemns interviews by officers about wartime plans as harmful to discipline and the nation. News items note personal and political tensions, a fatal lockjaw case from a splinter, and diplomatic moves including American ministers in Constantinople and Venezuela commission discussions. Vanderbilt opens a $5,000,000 castle at Biltmore with a Christmas celebration.
A Curacao cablegram reports the steamship Nansemond, Captain Laksy, from Curacao to Maracaibo, collided with the Spanish steamer Mexico near Aruba. The Nansemond sank with seven drowned, Captain Laksy among them, 35 lives saved by the tug Augusta. In Deposit, New York, 29 Jersey cattle infected with tuberculosis were killed by order of the state health board. In New York City, Thomas Quinn and Kate McCarthy were arraigned for stealing jewelry and diamonds from actor M. B. Curtis at 720 St. Nicholas Avenue.
An Algiers dispatch notes the French steamer Emile Heloise was sunk by the British steamer Bellerophon with 30 passengers drowned including 25 natives. In Scranton Pa a fire on the 26th largely destroyed Edward Lynn's residence. his nine year old daughter Belinda suffocated as she slept upstairs amid quarrel-related tensions. Three men died when the Sutherland Lumber Co sawmill burned at Ashland Wis on the 26th. two found dead in the boiler room and a third died from severe burns, one arm burned off.
A Constantinople dispatch says Turkish troops of about 10 000 with 24 guns besiege Zeitoun against 15 000 Armenian defenders without artillery. Other items note Christians appointed as assistant governors in Sivas Bitlis and Erzurum, Italian reinforcement plans against Abyssinia, Manitoba rejecting separate schools, Chicago women aiding Armenian relief, and a severe Indianapolis blizzard causing major disruption.
In the senate on the 27th Burroughs proposed a tariff bill as an amendment to the house bill, sent to the finance committee. Hill offered a gold or silver payment option resolution, laid aside. A territorial machinery transfer in Utah was approved. Ways and Means reported a gold reserve restoration plan via three percent bonds with certificates of indebtedness. Quay introduced a bill to pay heirs of John Roach for gunboat Dolphin work and dockage forChicago Boston Atlanta. Acrab, an insurgent chief shot at Cienfuegos, died after execution at six am. Acebo praised by family before execution. Avisar Arcn reported Rivers and 24 officers shot by mutinous Salvadoran soldiers. Weekly failures per R.G. Dun & Co.: US 322, Canada 40. Kwan-Ping wrecked near Pescadore. officers and many women missing. Des Moines: Dawson bound over for murder of son-in-law Walter Scott. Harry Hayward remains incinerated in Chicago.
A series of Illinois obituaries notes the deaths of Lucinda Sain of Arcala Norman C Woodley of Greenfield 75 Dr Franklin Grimes of Quincy 65 minister Alexander McCollum of Taylorville 76 Rev H R Penks 70 at Normal and others including Mrs W B Kidendall 77 of Cass county Robert C Ritchie 63 Osceola painter Kirk Buffham 53 of Bloomington and Clinton Fuller long time Stark county sheriff and postmaster at Kewanee plus Morrison Graves 60 a Cass county stock shipper. The report also covers Rev Cunningham resigning from Park Place Baptist Aurora citing lack of harmony and morality in members prompting church reaction.
Arrangements to close the Deluis orphanage at Aurora by the National Children's Society. The property valued at 5000 will be turned over to the city. aim to reduce costs by placing children directly in homes, removing the need for interim care.
At a Front Street theatre in Barlarx Md a gas leak sparked a blaze and a crushing panic during a performance by United Oriental Opera and Dramatic Co. Some 23 people died and several more were injured as crowds of Poles and Russian Jews surged toward exits. Police opened passages as ambulances ferried victims to hospital and morgue amid throngs seeking missing relatives.
Princess Louise Sophie wife of Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia and Baroness Colmar fell through thin ice at Griebnitz lake Bebelsberg near Potsdam. A witness Hankwitz and his son, aided by a ladder, saved all three as the ice broke away. They reached the castle exhausted but recovered from exposure.
Washington reports Secretary Carlisle and the president spent yesterday in talks at the treasury. Observers expect a rapid passage of a bond measure aimed at selling hundreds of millions in bonds, though swift Senate and House concurrence seems uncertain.
Judge John Davis has been appointed a member of the board replacing Walter Waldsin, who has resigned from the state department position. The change follows the recent appointment and vacancy notice affecting the commissions.
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