Various Early 1900s World News Recap From The Week
The week’s items include pure food legislation passed, Churchill reported seriously ill in St Louis, Des Moines telephone girls end a six month strike, banking committee backing a currency bill, Italy declining a government exhibit at the St Louis fair, a Russian navy expansion planned for 1903, a large federal budget increase for ships, Brig Gen Hasbrouck to retire with Col Hays succeeding him, French authorities dropping the Ellen Gore death case, Solomon Hirsch dying in Portland, Gen Bliss delivering a Havana treaty to Washington, war claims bills for cable cut damages proposed, Santa Teresa seeking divorce from her Yaqui husband in Clifton Arizona, alleging forced marriage in 1900.
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Santa Teresa
Clifton
Arizona
Free Vancouver delivery route and new Davenport church dedication
Vancouver will receive a free delivery route while Davenport Presbyterians dedicate a new church. Seattle police receive curfew enforcement orders. Rockefeller adds another million to gifts to Chicago University. Mrs E B Erwin of Whitman county dies in Garfield at nearly 80. Sunnyside Federated church Sunday school counts 820 attendees. Franklin Stacey Whitney, leading Washington organized labor figure, is dead from pneumonia. Vancouver Catholic fair clears about 1300 dollars, the most successful yet. Everett engine repairer Floyd J Pickard sustains serious hip injury from a 58 pound casting. family lives in Seattle. Walla Walla church mass meeting aims to draft a plan to amend the state constitution for a state penitentiary chaplain.
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Floyd J. Pickard
Northern Pacific
Everett
Seattle
Operators Defend Anthracite Workers Claims Before Commission
Scranton Pa December 18. In opening remarks for the coal operators before the anthracite strike commission the counsel and ex congressman Wolverton faced miner charges. Darrow called witnesses including Danko father of a girl who testified to night work and revealed a $1400 annual income split among workers. Company officials disputed wage records. Judge Gray urged limits on child labor and questioned discrepancies. The railway defense argued UMW monopolies and wage comparisons, noting regional education and safety improvements while opposing a weighing system.
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Scranton
Eex
Wolverton
Darrow
Danko
Sinke
Gray
Pennsylvania Company
United Mine Workers
Fight Over Sherman Law Funding Spurs Large 1910 Amendment
Washington action sees Georgia Democrat Bartlett push a 250000 appropriation to enforce the Sherman anti trust act. Hepburn substitutes 500000 for immediate availability to hire special counsel and DOJ agents for prosecutions in U S courts with safeguards for witnesses and perjury. Separate item notes ICC investigation of grain freight rate increases from Mississippi River and Chicago to New York and East Coast points.
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Washington
Bartlett
Hepburn
Treasury
Department of Justice
United States
Mississippi River
Chicago
New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
Dynamite Explosion Injures Two at Ranch Stove
In Wilbur Washington on December 17 an explosion at Wade Cole's ranch four miles west of Hesseltine blew up while workers Gordon and Rusk thawed dynamite in a kitchen oven. Rusk escaped with minor injuries. Gordon was injured and later died. Mrs. Cole was knocked unconscious but expected to recover.
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Wilbur, Wash
Wade Cole
Hesseltine
Wilbur
Jesse Rusk
Thomas Giordon
Cole
Gordon
Rusk
Appropriations Favored for Cattle Disease Campaign and Mail Service
Washington December 17 Senate appropriations committee approved a favorable report on a bill authorizing 500,000 dollars for the cattle disease campaign in New England and a like amount for rural free delivery mail service.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Appropriations
New England
Drugists Must Pay Tax on Soda Water Flavored Drinks
Washington announces Commissioner Yerkes has ruled druggists and others who sell soda water Drinks with any distilled spirits wine or compounds added in any amount must pay the special tax for retail liquor dealers under the internal revenue law. The old liberal rule is revoked effective January 1 1903.
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Washington
Yerkes
Internal Revenue Bureau
X Rays Detect Thefts In Japan Mint
A Philadelphia firm received a Japanese government order for several X-ray machines after selling an N-ray device to a Mikado representative. The device was used to detect swallowed coins by mint workers, revealing hidden coins as suspects left the mints daily. The test proved so effective that the Mikado ordered more machines to curb coin theft.
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New York
Philadelphia
Japan
Mikado
Alaska land laws push settlement with 320 acre homesteads
In Washington the senate committee on public lands endorsed a bill to grant 320 acre homesteads in Alaska. An amendment allows title after five years without government surveys, addressing settlement hurdles. House committee ready to accept the amended bill in conference, viewed as key to encouraging widespread Alaska settlement.
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Washingon
Alaska
Senate Committee On Public Lands
Viece
Congress
House
Treaty With Spain Ratified by Senate in Executive Session
The senate in executive session ratified the treaty of friendship and general relations between the United States and Spain. The vote was two thirds with no debate or division, and Senator Lodge, presiding, declared ratification carried.
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Washington
Senate
United States
Spain
Lodge
Supreme Court grants new trial in boodle case
The Missouri Supreme Court at Jefferson City reversed the St Louis circuit court verdict finding Emil A Meysenberg guilty of bribery and remanded for retrial. Meysenberg a St Louis city council member admitted receiving money from Charles H Turner of Suburban Railway via Philip Stock but claimed it was for stock in an electrical company. He had voted against the suburban bill, making this the first boodle case tried.
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St. Louis
Supreme Court
Jefferson City
Emil A. Meysenberg
Meysenberg
Charles H. Turner
Philip Stock
Mesenberg
Turner
Short Route To Dawson From Valdes Planned
Seattle reports a stage line will start by year's end from Dawson to Valdes with weekly service and four trips per month. The 435 mile route runs Valdes to Forty Mile then to Eagle City and Dawson, similar distances for passenger travel. The line is to commence operations by the first of the year.
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Seattle
Dawson
Valdes
Skagway
Eagle City
Seattle Market Report Prices for grains eggs poultry and livestock
Seattle market report lists producer prices for oats 24.25 per ton barley 24 per ton wheat and chicken feed 25 per ton bran 17 per ton shorts 18.40 per ton hay Puget Sound 8.10 per ton Eastern Washington 14 alfalfa 10 eggs strictly fresh ranch 38 cents a dozen poultry live hens 12 cents per lb old roosters 13 cents geese 8 cents per lb spring chickens 13 cents per lb beef cattle cows 27 cents per lb steers 44 to 44? per lb sheep 3.25 per lb hogs 6 cents per lb calves 5-7 cents per lb spring lambs 34 per lb.
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Seattle
Puget Sound
Washington
Wheat and livestock prices in Tacoma market list
A Tacoma market summary lists prices for wheat and livestock including cattle at 4.75 to 4 per cwt for steers and 3.50 for cows, sheep at 3.00, hogs at 6.00, veals from 7.00 to 9.00, oats 24.50 to 25.50, rolled oats 25.50 to 26.50, barley feed 25 and rolled 26, timothy 15 to 16 per ton, clover 13, alfalfa 11 to 12, and wheat at 26 with regional notes.
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Tacoma
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GEO
J. Harris & Sons
the Pat
Willington
Winston Churchill
Des Moines
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Fowler
Italy
St. Louis Fair
Hasbrouck
Col
Edward M. Hays
Thirteenth Cavalry
Fort Meade
8. D
Ellen Gore
M. de Rydzewski
Solomon Hirsch
Turkey
Portland
Gen. Bliss
Havana
Squiers
Cuba
Hay
War Claims Committee
Washington State News
Vancouver
Davenport Presbyterians
Rockefeller
Chicago University
E. 8. Erwin
Whitman County
Garfield
Federated Church Sunday School
Sunnyside
Franklin Stacey Whitney
State of
Walla Walla
Ment
Alaska Land Laws
Valdez
Seattle Market Report
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