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The State Department, with its chief away, remained silent while the crisis over Cuba's lottery and her railroad bill (TiME, Aug. 13, Aug. 27, Sept. 3) developed or died out (it is too early yet to say which).
Recent exercises in Titusville, Pa., commemorated the discovery of petroleum by drilling there in 1859, by Edward L. Drake, "Founder of the American Petroleum Industry." Mr. Drake did not live long enough to realize the momentous consequences of his achievement, or its far reaching effects on industry. Indeed, it was...
The victory over the Moors is said to have averted a crisis in political affairs in Spain. The war has never been popular with the proletariat, but the honor of the Army was at stake. There was also an international, aspect of the war. Spain undertook definite obligations when the...
Except for the obvious approach of a financial crisis in Germany, with presumably dangerous effects to her Continental creditors, business news for the week lacks interest or particular significance.
The crisis came with the passage of the Lottery bill by the Cuban Congress over the President's veto. The. Cuban Lottery is a vested interest; Lottery agencies were a notorious source of graft; the President's son is Director of the system of State gambling. General Crowder...