Notable Week in Review Reflects Global and Domestic Turmoil
Summary of diverse items includes the death of former Congressman James J. Belden of New York, King Christian of Denmark’s illness, Captain Frederick Pabst’s death, and George B. McClellan becoming New York’s mayor. It notes Alaska statehood debates, Weyler’s Cuba campaign book and chapters, plus a police court record showing 793 convictions from 1 029 cases in Danaon during the year ending November 30, 1903.
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Danaon
Enforce Laws Questioned in Portland Gambling Case
Judge Clelland rules in a Municipal Reform suit that Portland officers must enforce gambling laws. The decision says monthly fines and informal arrests do not properly punish or suppress gambling. An alternative writ of mandamus orders the officers to act as statutes require or show cause by January 5.
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Portland, Or
Clelland
R. Livingston
Municipal Reform Association
Williams
Charles H. Hunt
Hogue
U S policy eyed as war fears rise in Far East
Paris dispatch quotes a high ranking general saying war is inevitable and that Japan is determined to fight the United States, though no immediate war is expected. He notes distrust of U S policy and warns Russia would be unhappy, with tension mounting in the Far East.
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Paris
the &J
Russia
Japan
Railroad Changes Stir Up Top Posts Across Lines
Reports from St Paul claim General Manager Thomas Cooper will move to New York New Haven Hartford. George Slade will join Northern Pacific, J M Gruber to Great Northern, George O Somers to Rock Island. George T Slade, Hill’s son in law, would succeed Cooper at Northern Pacific. Gruber to return to take Slade’s place. Somers rumored for a key Rock Island post as the Great Northern leans into shifts.
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St. Paul
Thomas Cooper
Northern Pacific
New York, New Haven & Hartford
George Slade
J. M. Gruber
Great Northern
George O. Somers
Rock Island
George T. Slade
James J. Hill
Cooper
Mr. Gruber
Slade
Hill
George ©. Somers
Blabon
Calumpit Fire Destroys 250 Homes Leaves 1000 Homeless
A major blaze in Calumpit Bulacan destroyed 250 houses on a Sunday. Several lives were lost and about 1,000 residents became homeless. Loss estimated at 75000 dollars with no insurance. Calumpit lies where the Quingua and Pampanga rivers meet, 27 miles from Manila. Population 15,712 per recent census.
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Manila
Calumpit
Pampanga
Bulacan
Luzon
Pan American Railway charter granted to span continents
Guthrie Oklahoma December 80 a charter is granted to the Pan American Railway Company to build a railroad from Hudson Bay to the Argentine Republic with a 250 million dollar capital. Charles F Beach Jr of London M L Muhlman and C M Rawlins of New York are principal incorporators.
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Guthrie
O. T
Pan-American Railway Company
Hudson Bay
Argentine Republic
Charles F. Beach, Jr
London
England
M. L. Muhlman
C. M. Rawlins
New York
Seattle Health and Infrastructure Metrics Lead State News
Seattle reports show building permits totaling over six million dollars in the last year and bank clearings rising to 206 million. Five hundred eighteen divorces were finalized by Seattle courts. A city charter amendment requiring injury claim filings within thirty days was upheld as constitutional by the Washington Supreme Court.
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Seattle
City of
State Supreme Court
Cathedral Dedicated in Westminster Fostered by Bourne
The Most Rev Francis Bourne was enthroned as Archbishop at the new Westminster Cathedral. The brick Byzantine edifice is half a mile west of Westminster Abbey and rises 300 feet with a red brick campanile and a bronze domed top. Built over eight years from plans by Cardinal Manning and initiated by Cardinal Wiseman, the consecrated building marks the first Roman Catholic cathedral in central England since the Reformation.
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London
Francis Bourne
Westminster
England
Cardinal Wiseman
Cardinal Manning
Westminster Abbey
Ex Congressman John M. Glover Released After Wounding
Cripple Creek Colorado reports ex congressman John M. Glover wounded in the arm and jailed by the military on Tuesday. He has been released by order of Col Ver deckberg. The wound is not serious with no bones broken.
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Cripple Creek
Colo
John M. Glover
Col. Verdeckberg
Mass layoffs hit Philadelphia textile mills over cotton prices
Philadelphia on December 30 reports 4,000 workers including men women and children in textile mills laid off indefinitely due to the high price of cotton.
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Philadelphia
Fire at Iroquois Theater Kills Hundreds in Chicago
A devastating blaze at the Iroquois Theater during the play Mr Bluebeard on December 31 1903 caused an estimated 536 to 562 deaths with many more injured. The fire likely started from a ground wire and spread as the asbestos curtain failed. Police and fire crews launched a rapid rescue, aided by lanterns from nearby merchants, transporting bodies and treating the wounded amid chaotic scenes.
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Chicago
Eddie Foy
Will J. Davis
Randolph Street
Dearborn
State Streets
William H. Thompson
Musham
Fire Department
Orr «& Lockett Hardware Company
Seattle Market Prices for Farm Produce and Livestock
Seattle dealers offer round lot prices for delivery on docks or in cars. Oats 22.23 per ton, barley 21, wheat 27, chicken feed 27, bran 21, shorts 21. Hay Eastern Washington new 21, Puget sound 13 15, alfalfa 14 15. Eggs strictly fresh ranch 32c per dozen. Poultry live hens 12 per lb, old roosters 8, spring chickens 3.75 4.75 per dozen, ducks 18 13 14c per lb, geese 10 11c, turkeys 18c per lb. Live stock beef cattle cows 3 34c, steers 4 4 4c per lb, sheep 34%6c, hogs 6 6Yc, calves 5 7c, lambs 2 2.50 per head. Hides and wool heavy salted steers over 60 lb 7 14c, medium 7c, light under 60 lbs 6%4c, cows all weights 64 4c, salted hips 7c, calf 8c, stags and bulls 5c, green hides 1c less than salted, dry hides 12 1ic, winter deer dry 14 20c, tallow 4 4%%4c, grease 14 2c.
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Seattle
Shorts
Washington
Puget Sound
Tacoma
Washington Creamery
Tacoma Wheat and Livestock Quotations
Tacoma market brief lists prices for grains and livestock. Wheat Bluestem 79c, cattle steers 4 4 1 2 cwt, hogs 414 5c, oats 24.50-26.50, hay ranges from 14.50 to 23.50, feed components priced from 20 to 28, poultry dressed turkey 20-23c, chickens 15-16c, live fowl and eggs noted with regional prices. Butter ranges 18-30c, eggs 25-32c.
Calamity Stuns Chicago After Sudden Theater Disaster
Chicago reels from yesterday's theatre calamity ranking with the great city fire in scale. News spread fast as hundreds flood toward the Randolph Street theater between State and Dearborn, while officers rush to control the panic and aid victims.
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Chicago
State and
Dearborn Streets
Randolph Street
Strikers' Attorney Warned to Leave District or Be Arrested
Telluride Colorado December 30 reports say Eugene Engley former Attorney General Cripple Creek counsel for striking miners has been warned to leave the mining district at once or face arrest. Deputy Sheriff Runnels warned J C Williams Western Federation of Miners official to depart within 24 hours or face jail. No official confirmation of mass arrests.
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Telluride
Colo
Eugene Engley
Cripple Creek
J.C. Williams
Western Federation of Miners
William Runnels
Lipton's Cup Challenge Delayed by British Opinion
London reaction to Sir Thomas Lipton's dinner statement about sending Shamrock IV and another America's Cup challenge is cool. Sporting men urge a pause until English designers produce a faster model while newspapers largely stay silent.
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London
Thomas Lipton
Pittsburg Glass Trust Scheme Abandoned
Pittsburg on December 30 reports the plan to form the Manufacturers' Window Glass Company with a capital of one million and control of at least 1,500 pots has been abandoned.
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Pittsburg
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State of
James J. Belden
King Christian of
Denmark
Frederick Pabst
Milwaukee
George B. McClellan
Express Gazette
Alaska
Congress
Weyler
Cuba
United States
Portland Court
WATCH
Far East
Mellen
Phillipine City
Pueblo
Pan-American Railway
Argentina
Washington State News
Fannie Felts
Oscar C. Haines
United Stas Revenue
Mannning
Federal Court Building
Whitman Electric Railway and Power Company
Colfax
Palouse
Glover
Holocaust IN
Seattle Market Report
Lipton
Abandon Glass
Paul Smits, M. D
J. A. Mapes
M. D. Physicians and Surgeons
Aberdeen General Hospital
DR. Watkins
Garner F and
Wishkah Sts
Nicholet
Everett E. Lane
D. D
Becker
U. C. Kinnison
Aberdeen, Wash
R. E. Whittaker
Wishkah St
Telephone
J.C. Cross
Attorney-at-Law
Herald Bldg
E. H. Fox
Aberdeen
Wash
C.A. Clark
R. L. Caldwell
Notary Public
J. C. Cross
I. W. Mason
Heron St
Bonney & Magee
Hotel Northern
J. P. Nelson
Prop
Wolff-American and
YALE
A. Ingebrightsen
G Street
C. Vammen
Heron
Fred Hewitt
Propr
Heron and Fats
Bowes & Thompson
L. W. Walker
Thomas R. Haye Bellatone
Penn
Harry A. Hayes
Hayes & Hayes
Bankers
Toe
M. Antigh
Walters
Wishkah
Royal Restaurant
M. Francescovich
Heron Street
Montesano
W. E. Crist
Bree
Treina
Stean Laundry
J. M. Lupton
Cor. H and
Hume
H. A. Tereda & CO
Zelasko
Pacific Transfer
Robert Lowry
F. Street
Aberdeen Livery and Transfer Co
Pfund Bros., Proprs
Grays Harbor
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