Imparcial Urges Spain to Raise Float in Face of U S
Maprip Dec 27 The Imparcial says in view of Minister Woodford reply to Spain’s note and America’s first communication the Spanish float should be increased to face a possible clash with the United States. El Heraldo claims U S encroachments on Spain’s internal politics are intolerable and must be resisted.
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Woodford
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Lo el Heraldo
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I Td
Pretentions of the United States Loom Over Spanish Cuba Notes
Madrid reports General Woolford’s note angering some Spanish papers by defending US actions in Cuba and criticizing Spain’s revolt handling. Officials fear American interference while Sagasta prepares a firm but friendly reply. Annexation sentiment grows among residents in Havana as Sherman denies any indemnity demand.
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Spanish West Indies
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McKinley
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Senor Sagasta
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Blanco
Sagasta
Washington
Madrid
Denmark Offered Greenland for Naval Stations
A Copenhagen dispatch reports Washington has proposed selling a narrow stretch of Northwestern Greenland to Denmark for naval and coaling stations. The offer aims to establish American bases in Greenland. Six Sons for Fallbearers. In Waukegan Illinois six grayhaired sons carried their father William Besley to his grave amid brief services. Honors for a Colored Gish West Superior Wisconsin notes in a state normal school oratorical contest Maurice Nichols first Edith Howard second Claudia Vaughn colored third. Mine Owners Make a Present. Creel Creek Colorado December 27 report owners of large and prosperous mines plan present.
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Copenhagen
Daily Mail
Washington Executive
Denmark
Greenland
Waukegan
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State Normal School
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Bill to Make the Pension List Public Likely Pass
New York Dec. 27. Following disclosures of pension fraud, congress may act to reform the pension system. The Herald polls influential members and finds strong support for a law making the pension list public to expose unworthy pensioners. Action expected after the holiday recess.
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Crisis in Japan Unites Parties OverTax Plan Resignations Expected
Yokoyama December 27 reports Count Matsukata and Marquis Saigo Tsugumichi resign from the cabinet. Marquis Ito likely to become new premier as the imperial diet dissolves before no confidence debate. Diet reopened with union of three major parties opposing proposed taxation and code amendments.
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Matsuukata
Saigo Tsugumichi
Marine
Marquis Ito
House of Representatives
Christmas at Anderson Glass Factories Reopens
Christmas fires lighted in Anderson window glass plants mark ending the longest strike in the industry. Notices urge 15 000 workers to report January 7 with wage increases of 18 to 17 percent from last year. Factories clear of old glass for first time since 1878.
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Appeal for Cuba Relief From Washington
The state department issues a plea for American aid to Cuba. Contributions of money, goods, and medicines may be sent to General Fitzhugh Lee in Havana with duty free treatment. The president urges generous support from the public to relieve destitute Cubans this season. Signed John Sherman.
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Department of State
Cuba
United States
Fitzhugh Lee
Havana
John Sherman
McKinley poised to modify civil service rules
President McKinley plans a sweeping order to revise civil service rules, removing about 5,000 of 43,600 offices from the classified service. The changes target nonwashington posts such as deputy collectors, inspectors, and treasury agents to satisfy reforms while preserving the law’s intent.
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Federal Decree Against City of Huron for $56,000
Judge Ostland of the federal court issued a decree of judgment against Huron for 56000 dollars plus interest in a suit by school bondholders seeking repayment. The city had attempted to repudiate payments arguing bonds were illegally issued due to excess indebtedness.
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City of Huron
British protest and rumored naval ultimatum near Korea
Shanghai dispatch says 17 British warships near Chemulpo support protest against Korea's government shift toward Russia. Britain demands McLeavy Brown's reinstatement. Japan may back the move while threatening action if Russia troops land. Other reports mention a railroad to Port Arthur and NSW plans to ship frozen meat to Russia.
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Daily Mail
Fall River Operatives Propose Fresh Plan to Manufacturers
Fall River Mass December 37 The strike mood among operatives has softened after careful review of conditions. A conference committee including all textile unions met again and resumed wage talks. The group adjourned awaiting the secretary's call. A new proposition to manufacturers was proposed and unanimously adopted though details were not disclosed.
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Evans Heirs Contest Will Over Estate Share
Paris reports that Dr Thomas W Evans will leaves the bulk of his estate to the Thomas W Evans museum and institute in Philadelphia. Relatives unhappy with provisions may contest the will. The will makes 30 family bequests totaling 250000 dollars. the rest of the estate runs into millions.
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Thomas W. Evans
Thomas W. Evans Museum and Institute of
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Striking Engineers Vote Against Employers Terms
London reports the engineers ballot outcome will be known in days but is overwhelmingly against accepting employer terms. Also in brief, a Japanese nail factory built in Tokyo with 250000 dollar cost and 500 kegs daily capacity, drawing attention to lower Japanese skilled wages.
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San Francisco
Charles W. Richards
Cleveland
Japan
Tokio
Mixed freight and passenger train derailed near Hibbing
A log fell from a flatcar striking a switch standard and tearing it out, derailing five cars including two refrigerator cars and the passenger coach. Ten passengers were aboard the car. three were injured.
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Duluth
Messabe
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Hibbing
Leiter’s Oats Squeeze Signals Reckoning for Speculators
In Chicago on Friday December 27 the wheat market nears a climax as Leiter’s alleged tricks unfold in oats. Shorts face a squeeze with oats contracts delivering stock scarce in elevators and 950000 bushels of contract oats found readable. Those who did not deliver will settle at closing prices as calls hit.
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Leiter
Board of Trade
Chicago
Denmark Willing to Sell West Indies Islands
Senator Lodge prepares a bill to implement the Republican platform backing the purchase of St. Thomas St. Croix and St. John from Denmark. The Senate previously asked the State Department to verify if the islands are for sale and any competing buyers. Denmark says it is still willing to sell as two European powers Britain and Germany are negotiating.
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Athlete John Casgrave Dies After Appendicitis Operation
John Casgrave, a well known athlete, died in the city hospital after surgery for appendicitis. He belonged to the New Jersey Athletic Club, Ridgefield Athletic Club, and the Tenth Battalion Athletic Association of the National Guard.
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Ridgefield Athletic Club
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National Guard
Minor items of interest from 1897 news
A roundup of short items reports injuries from an Asheville powder blast, deaths of Antoine le Mercier and Mrs. Mary Barnette, sports results from bicycle races and football, U S policy on China and Cuba, and local fires in Chicago. Also notes a phonograph plant planned in Muskegon with investors including Philip D. Armour.
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Marshall Newell
Harvard
Jimmy Michael
Arthur A. Chase
New York
Comte Anatole le Mercier
French Chamber of Deputies
Minneapolis
Blanco
Cuba
Madison
Wis
North Tonawanda
United States
Mary Barnette
McKinley
Milwaukee
Indiana
Chicago
Coliseum
Muskegon
Mich
Philip D. Armour
Dickens quips at whist party about last trump
At a whist party Dickens played and a lady woke as a player won the last trick with the king of trumps. Dickens told her you resemble the risen on judgment day, replying she woke by the pound of the last trump. Nuggets.
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Trump
Robbers Hold Up Trolley Near Norristown
Four highwaymen halted a Schuylkill Valley trolley at Swedeland as conductor Charles Galloway refused to surrender money and was shot dead. They rifled his body of money and a gold watch, then escaped toward Philadelphia. Motorman Matthias was injured by shots that missed. Four women passengers were not robbed.
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Schuylkill Valley
Swedeland
Here
Charles Galloway
Matthias
Philadelphia
Bohemian Farmer’s Family Die From Strychnine Poisoning
In Walsh county North Dakota a Bohemian farmer Jacob Jerry Payer and his four children plus his wife died from poison administered by Mrs Payer. The husband was away when the tragedy unfolded and the mother reportedly gave the fatal dose and dressed the children for burial before taking poison herself.
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Washington Society Woman Dies by Own Action After Tragedy
Miss Annie Virginia Wells, daughter of Lewis S. Wells, an attorney, dies by suicide in Washington following the death of her friend Miss Lelia Herbert, daughter of the ex secretary of the navy. The act, unpremeditated, occurred after Christmas celebrations and deeply affects her mother.
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Misa Herbert
Lelia Herbert
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Misa
Annie Virginia Wells
Lewis S. Wells
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Miss Herbert
Pennsylvanian Couple Shot to Death at Home
Milton Neal and his elderly wife were killed by an unknown gunman at their home near Jacksonville Pennsylvania nine miles southwest of Inprana. Neal was a leading and prosperous local farmer in the area.
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Milton Neal
Jacksonville
Here
Neal
Disappointment Over Loss of Land Hills
Simon Sullivan, 66, a Duluth area hermit, died of heart failure after failing in adverse possession attempts on land near Duluth Minnesota. The loss of land is linked to his death after years pursuing the property. Grace and Annie Nelson, Franklin Pennsylvania, home fire injuries leave Grace fatally burned and Annie severely burned as she tried to save her sister.
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Duluth
DuuLvin
Minn
Simon Sullivan
Sullivan
Franklin, Pa
Grace
Annie Nelson
Annie
Three Injured as Electric Car Races Down Hill
In Providence at noon a Camp Street electric car ran wild sliding down Olney street hill and crashing into a frame building at North Main. About 10 passengers were aboard with three seriously injured.
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Camp Street
Olney Street Hill
North Main Street
Glimmer's Mental State Shifts Amid Kong Popular Art Talk
Fragmentary report notes Glimmer appears more hopeful, giving up on deciphering what makes some Kongs popular. The text mentions art at work on perpetial themes and references a figure named Moti with unclear context.
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Glimmer
Pope Issues Encyclical on Manitoba School Question
Rone Dec 27 The pope's encyclical recalls Canada’s religious history and highlights Catholic rights under the federal agreement. It condemns religious neutrality in schools, praises bishops, and urges Catholics to persist in claiming full rights while offering partial reparations and the option to establish their own schools if needed.
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Manitoba
Rone
Canada
Higheltsness
Klondike King Displays Massive Christmas Tree in New York
James Clem ents, known as the Eldorado King of Klondike, exhibited a lavish Lafayette hotel Christmas tree adorned with 160 twenty dollar gold pieces Krondide nuggets and gifts valued at 385000, totaling 250000. Visitors could handle nuggets and guess their worth, each leaving with a nugget.
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New York
James I. Clements
Klondike
Lafayette Hotel
Santa Claus
Hotel Lafayette
Eldorado King
Strange West Texas Well Ceremony Seen in Field
A reader describes an odd outdoor scene on a west Texas road where a crowd gathers in Sunday clothes for a solemn ritual. Two mule teams harrow soil as hymn singing continues while locals explain a white rock pile marks a new well and a man named Jim has died in a blast at the site.
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Aoad West Texas
Gail
Pardner
Jim Stolinger
Jim
Detroit Free Press
Loong Vistaree Telephone Extends Long Distance Network
The Western Telephone Exchange Company reports its metallic long distance circuits now reach Park River Grand Forks Fargo Minneapolis St Paul and way stations and extend west to Sioux City Mankato and all intermediate points.
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Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company
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Grand Foras
Fargo
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Way
Sioux City
Mankato
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