War Commission to Blame Army Chiefs and Congress
Washington dispatch says a forthcoming war commission report will blame Gen. Miles for camp locations and orders, Gen. Alger for weak relation with Miles, Breckinridge for leaving inspections, Shafter for campaign conduct, Brooke for Camp Thomas, and Congress for delayed smokeless powder funding. The report aims for a unanimous, nonwhitewash finding and notes no secret personal interests among officials.
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New York
The
Herald
Washington
Alger
Miles
Santiago
Igor
Porto Rico
Shafter
Breckinridge
Brooke
Camp Thomas
Congress
McKinley
War Commission
Army
Navy
Col. C. PF. Humphress
Stafl
Inspector Generals Department
Medical Department
Quartermaster General
Ordnance Department
Unified Puget Sound to Alaska rates set for passengers freight
Seattle representatives from all steamship lines agreed on uniform rates for Puget Sound to southwestern Alaska ports. Passenger fares increased to 25 dollars first class and 15 dollars second class to Skaguay and Taiga. Freight rates fixed at 8 9 and 10 dollars per ton. Livestock per head and hay per ton also priced. Rates take effect immediately.
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Seattle
Wash
Puget Sound
Skaguay
Taiga
Sharkey Victorious Surges to Front Line in Heavyweight Race
Lenox Athletic Club reports Tom Sharkey defeats Kid McCoy in a ten round finish, challenging Bob Fitzsimmons for the heavyweight title. Fitzsimmons offers a fight after three weeks with a $10,000 side bet. O'Rourke notes Tuesday night receipts near $40,000 with Sharkey earning about £15,000 and the loser $5,000.
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Lenox Athletic Club
New York
Tom Sharkey
Bob Fitzsimmons
Kid McCoy
Fitzsimmons
Cleveland
Sharkey
Tom O'Rourke
Records Destroyed at United Mine Workers Convention
Pittsburgh January 13 The fourth day of the United Mine Workers convention opened with word that the investigating committee had worked all night and would report later. At breakfast time unknown intruders raided the committee room at the St Charles hotel tearing eighteen ledger pages from the books and blotting others. Officials blamed an attempt to destroy Illinois records and disrupt credential seating while the convention planned to request car books.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers’ Convention
St. Charles
Illinois
Committee On
Vermont appoints Jonathan Ross as U S senator
In Montpelier Vermont January Benijaimin PF Frield declined the U S Senate appointment for family reasons. The seat was then offered to Jonathan Ross of St Johnsbury who resigns as Vermont chief justice to accept the post. Ross born April 20 1826 in Waterford VT was elected to the state supreme court in 1870 and chief justice in 1890.
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State Supreme Court
Outrage and Lynching After Murder Near Harper’s Cross Roads
Mrs. Nancy Welch a white widow and mother of five was raped and murdered near Harper’s Cross Roads in Chatham county. Herry Jones, a Black man, confessed and was taken from his home near Richmond to the scene where a mob of about 50 men hanged him.
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Raleigh
N. C
News and Observer
Gulf, N. C
Nancy Welch
Harper's Cross Roads
Chatham County
Herry Jones
Richmond
President declines Hoar resolution on peace commission instructions
The president says it is incompatible with public interest to supply the senate with confidential peace commission instructions. He notes that since the treaty may still face action in Spain after ratification, publishing the instructions now could jeopardize its completion.
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Washington
Senate
Spain
Filipino leader warns of war if Americans land at Iloilo
The Hong Kong Times correspondent reports Filipino refugees say Aguinaldo will view a U S landing at Iloilo as a declaration of war and will strike Manila immediately. He has warned foreigners including Spaniards to seek safe conduct into the provinces.
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Manila
Londo
Hong Kong
the Times
Aguinaldo
Iloilo
Chewing Gum Combine Nears Complete in US
New York January 13 the chewing gum manufacturers of the United States near a full consolidation as the final contracts and related steps were nearly finished Thursday closing the remaining gaps in the agreement the parties had been negotiating for weeks.
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Chewing Gam Combine
New York
United States
Andelina Sinks in Tacoma Bay Tragedy Drowns 19
The British bark Andelina, 2395 tons, capt G W Starling, sank off the St Paul mill wharf after a gale on Friday night. Captain, mate, and 17 crewmen drowned. Seventeen aboard perished when a ballast log adrift amid high winds caused the ship to capsize within minutes. Only one apprentice survived with injuries. Insurance listed at 100000. Bodies unrecovered.
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Tacoma
Wash
Nova Scotia
St. Paul Mill
Percy B. Buck
McKinley to Attend Home Market Banquet in Boston
William D B Plunkett president of the Home Market club reports arrangements for a February 16 banquet in Boston with President McKinley, Mrs McKinley Secretary Long and Postmaster General Smith to attend. Gov Walcott and Mayor Quincy to speak. The president will stay at the Touraine hotel and depart for Washington the day after.
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Boston
Washington
Four gang members linked to fatal store robbery and police death
Chicago police announce three men captured in Minneapolis and one in Watseka tied to the H C T Borrmann dry goods robbery and the January 5 murder of Patrolman Edward J. Waliner. Suspect Samuel Riteh provides confession of the Waliner killing and about a dozen other gang crimes.
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Chicago
Minneapolis
Watseka
H. C. T. Borrmann
Edward J. Waliner
Frank Ford
Thomas McFadden
Frank Johnson
Neefe
Samuel Iiteh
Riteh
John Wheeler
Wallner
Court Martial for Eagan Reported in Washington
Secretary Al ger held a long talk with the president and it is reported he will court-martial Commissary General Charles P. Eagan for vituperative remarks toward Gen. Miles before the war investigating commission. A charge of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman is expected. Gen Humphrey died in Adrian Michigan at age seventy one. he served as editor general of the state and warden of the state prison.
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Miles
Miami
Chickamauga
Camp Alger
Chickamanuga
Alger
Santiago
Mites
Washington
Charles P. Eagan
Gen
Gen. Eagan
Humphrey
Adrian
Mich
Wiliam Humphrey
Jackson
Harrison
War Inquiry Commission
Noted Physician Dead
Chicago report states Dr. Edwin M. Hale a leading homeopathic physician and author died here Sunday after a short illness.
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Chicago
Edwin M. Hale
Freight train collision burns a worker to death near Glenside
In a Sunday crash between a freight train and a locomotive on the Philadelphia and Reading line at Glenside several cars overturned and burned. John Ruth, a brakeman on the freight train, became pinned beneath timbers and died in the blaze.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia & Reading Railway
Glenside
John Ruth
Brafeman
Ban Against Blaine in Thémaston Me Jan 16
O'Brien a well known Democratic politician and ship manufacturer faces a ban in Thémaston Maine on January 16. The report notes O'Brien's influence in local politics and industry as the party seeks to curb his impact.
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Blaine
Thémaston
Esak
O’brien
Democratic Politime
Choate Named Ambassador to Great Britain
The president sent to the senate on Wednesday the nomination of Joseph H. Choate of New York for ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Great Britain. Also nominated were Charlemagne Tower to Russia and Addison C. Harris to Austria Hungary with James G. Monahan as internal revenue collector for Wisconsin.
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Washington
Senate
New York
Great Britain
Joseph Hodges Choate
Massachusetts
George Choate
Harvard Law School
William H. Barnes
Evarts, Southmayd & Choate
Choate
Fremont
Union League Club of
New York City
Charlemagne Tower
Pennsylvania
Austria-Hungary
Russia
Addison C. Harris
Indiana
James G. Monahan
Wisconsin
Desperate Battle Fights Fierce in Yemen Division
Constantinople dispatches report a major clash in the Yemen division with Shanel stormed and captured on November 30. About 4000 insurgents and 2000 Turkish casualties. Abdullah Vasha ordered to seize Sasbeh as Turkish advances continue amid spreading rebellion across Huadsehin and nearby districts.
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Constantinople
Yemen
Arabia
Shanel
London
Abdullah Vasha
Sasbeh
Sana
Huadsehin
Moulton Relieved as Havana Police Chief
Col. G. M. Moulton of the Second Illinois regiment is removed from Havana police duty and will return to his regiment. He will turn over department papers to John Gary Evans who seems set to become Havana mayor. A Cuban chief of police is likely to be appointed immediately. The transfer stems from temper incompatibility with Gen. Ludlow and Ludlow’s plan to discard Moulton’s policing methods.
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Havana
G. M. Moulton
Illinois
John Gary Evans
Col. Moulton
Tragic drowning of Elmer King and bride near Grand Laven
Free Press report from Grand Uaven, Michigan, states Elmer King of Fruitport and his bridesman drowned in Spring Lake Tuesday night. They left home at seven to trade and were skating with a sleigh. King fell through open water in darkness and was not seen again.
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Detroit
Mich
Grand Uaven
Elmer King
Fruitport
Grand Laven
Spring Lake
King
Sagasta to Convene Cortes for Peace Treaty Ratification
Madrid reports Premier Sagasta will summon the cortes for January 25 or 30 to demand ratification of the peace treaty. A week of debate is expected. Spain has reminded Washington of the US peace commissioners undertaking regarding Filipino prisoners and seeks a prompt reply.
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Madrid
Senor Sagasta
Cortes
Spain
Washington
United States
Americans in Absolute Control
Manila reports a critical situation but Maj. Gen. Otis holds it well in hand. Rebels are concentrated on the town outskirts and their leaders have issued strict orders to act only on the defensive.
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Manila
Otis
Missing yacht Paul Jones vanishes after fruitless coast search
Biloxi reports say naphtha launch Paul Jones likely foundered with all aboard after a coast wide hunt. Captain Nielsen of the Georgia sighted a launch matching the missing craft on January 4 near Ship Island heading toward Grant's Pass, implying it did not reach Mobile as expected.
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St. Louis
Republic
Biloxi
Miss
Horn Islands
Paul Jones
Mississippi River
O. Nielsen
Georgia
Here
Ship Island
Scranton
Niesen
Grant’s Pass
Mobile
Balance of Trade Shows Record U S Export Surplus in 1898
The United States recorded a substantial trade surplus in 1898 with exports totaling 1 254 925 169 and imports 633 664 634 a net gain of 264 146 719 over 1897. December figures and five year comparisons highlight the year’s peak export levels and peak import years within six year window.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Statistics
TRUE TO HIS FAITH
Montreal January 17 Father Chiniquy died clinging to Protestantism. Born Kamouraska Quebec July 30 1869 he was ordained in 1833 and helped found St Anne Illinois after disputes with Bishop O Reegan. Lincoln defended him in court and Rome heard the case before the pope. He preached converts in 1860 and toured the western states Australia and the Antipodes. He faced many arrests and escapes during his lecturing years.
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Montreal
Can
Chiniquy
Charles Chiniquy
Kamouraska
Que
Tlinois
St. Anne
Kankakee County
O’ Reagan
Abraham Lincoln
Rome
Presbyterian Church
Presbytery of
Chicago
Western States
Australia
Antipodes
Smallpox Outbreak Rising in Hillsboro Kansas
A Hillsboro dispatch reports smallpox increasing in virulence with 21 defined cases, 16 in town and two in the hotel. Three new cases and three deaths occurred Friday. Lack of quarantine worsens the spread as Russians visiting Marion mingle with travelers. The state health board will be notified.
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Topeka
Kan
State Journal
Hillsboro
Marion
State Board of Health
Middletown Plate Cuts Wages in Response to Slump
Middletown Plate company announces a general wage reduction of about 12 percent. The firm employs around 300 workers and is not part of the International Silver company. Managers say dull business forced the cut.
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Middletown, Conn
Middletown Plate Company
International Silver Company
Women Athletes and Voters Stir Public Debate in 19th Century
In 1820 Maryland law allowed property holding women with no husbands to vote. The piece notes Sallie Faulkner visiting a West Virginia senator’s son in Wyoming and riding a bronco solo at a fort. It highlights Nevada’s female jockey Mrs Bagwell at age 24, weight 101 pounds, and claims expanding female participation in professions from acting to literature and the arts.
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Maryland
Sallie Faulkner
Senator Faulkner
West Virginia
Wyoming
Nevada
Dingley dies in Washington after pneumonia
Hon. Nelson Dingley of Maine, Republican leader in the House and long-time representative from the Second district, died in Washington at 10:30 pm from heart failure following pneumonia. Born February 15, 1832, in Durham, he rose from Maine state politics to chair the Ways and Means Committee and helped push tariff reform in 1897 under President McKinley.
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Washington
Nelson Dingley
Maine
House of Representatives
Dingley
Edith Dingley
E. N
A. H. Dingley
James C. Hope
Deale
Nelson Dingley, Jr
Durham
Androscoggin County
Lewiston
Dingrey
Confess
William P. Frye
McKinley
the Treasury
Ways and Means
House
McWinley
Dawes Praises National Bank Reports Record Resources Rise
Comptroller Charles G. Dawes calls the December 1, 1898 abstracts of national banks the most notable in U S history. Total resources reach 4.213 billion, deposits rise to 2.225 billion, loans and discounts total 2.214 billion, with cash up and rediscounts down since September 20.
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Washington
Charles G. Dawes
Woman and two children die in Michigan blizzard
A Hancock Michigan blizzard claim reports Mrs Thomas Uren and her children aged four and eight frozen to death. The bodies lay unrecovered until Thursday and were found by the husband half a mile from their home buried in a large snow drift after a search.
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Detroit
Mich
Tribune
Hancock
Thomas Uren
St. Louis Banks to Consolidate into State National Bank
St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes a merger of the State Bank of St. Louis and the Commercial Bank forming a single national bank. The new institution will be named the State National Bank with $2,000,000 capital and $400,000 surplus. Both banks are longtime leaders in the city’s finance.
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St. Louis
St. Teouis
The_ Post-Dispatch
State Bank of
Burglars Blow Safe at Iowa State University
Early today burglars broke into the main building at Iowa State University in Iowa City and blew open the safe with dynamite. The alarm was raised and the building alerted as investigators began examining the scene.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa State. University
Iowa City
Eagan Called Miles a Liar in Embalmed Beef Hearings
The War Investigating Commission rebuked Gen. C P Eagan for vituperative language in his testimony on the army commissary branch and returned his papers for revision. Eagan indicated he would amend his statement to remove the offending passages.
Quay and allies lose bid for Supreme Court removal
The Supreme Court dismissed the petition of United States Senator M S Quay Richard R Quay and ex State Treasurer Benjamin Ir Haywood to remove their conspiracy case to the Supreme Court. The case goes back to Philadelphia quarter sessions for trial with costs on the petitioners. The defendants claimed political prejudice would prevent a fair trial regarding a conspiracy with John S Hopkins in using state funds at People's Bank. They were arrested in October and posted bail after a preliminary hearing.
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Philadelphia
United States
M.S. Quay
Richard R. Quay
Benjamin Ir. Haywood
Supreme Court
Quarter Sessions Court
Philadelphia Court of Quarter Sessions
John S. Wopkins
People’s Bank
Steel firms in Pittsburgh form pressed steel cars group
Steel companies Schoen Pressed Steel and Fox Pressed Steel Equipment unite to push steel car manufacture. New entity to have about 10 million dollars in capital. Schoen plant prints 20 to 25 cars daily. upgrades will double capacity. Fox firm operates in Pittsburgh and Joliet, making pressed steel trucks bolsters and detail car equipment.
Beveridge Nominated for U S Senator on Twelfth Ballot
Indianapolis January caucus of Republican lawmakers nominates Albert J. Beveridge of Indianapolis for United States senator after a Taylor Steele consolidation and broad support. Hanly of Lafayette was Beveridge's strongest opponent in a hotly contested race.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Albert J. Beveridge
United States
Taylor and Steele
Hanly
Lafayette
Beveridge
Congress Extends Thanks to Miss Barton and Red Cross Officials
In open session Congress passed sixteen private pension bills and adopted a joint resolution thanking Miss Clara Barton and Red Cross leaders for relief work in Armenia and Cuba. The action reflects broad gratitude from lawmakers for humanitarian efforts.
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Congress
Carnegie Offer For Washington Public Library Building
Andrew Carnegie offered 250 000 dollars to build a public library in Washington. Congress would provide a site and maintenance funds, with steps to secure necessary legislation.
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Washington
Andrew
Carnegie
Public’ Library
Congress
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