Immigration Report Demands U S Law To Limit Aliens
Washington reports Commissioner Powderly urges Congress to enact laws to regulate assimilation and exclude Chinese paupers anarchists polygamists and other enemies of order. Immigration for 1901 reached 487000 with Italian arrivals up 36 percent. The report criticizes enforcement of Chinese exclusion and recommends stringent rules for Chinese seeking passage to foreign territory to show a valid business engagement.
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Washington
Commissioner of Immigration
Congress
Italy
Bureau
Java
United States
Young Girl Fends Off Burglars With Hammer
In Chicago on November 16 a 16 year old Berwyn student Ruth Hunbry defended her home by striking burglars with a heavy hammer. After she struck the men several times, one gripped her throat and wrested the hammer before the pair fled empty handed.
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Chicago
Ruth Hunbry
Berwyn
Depression in German iron industry widens distress
Berlin reports 35000 iron workers idle as a prominent mill owner urges abolishing American meat duties to ease hardship. Washington notes sustained US manufacturing demand for global raw materials with imports in the year ending September 1901 at record highs, and a steady rise since 1890.
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Washington
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
Patience Rewarded as Freeman-Freeman Nuptials End
Metuchen New Jersey November marriages at last. Dr Charles M Freeman and novelist Miss Mary B Wilkins wed after long betrothal delays and repeated postponements. The couple, after a morning in New York, returned by train and were driven to Freeman's home, where they live as man and wife.
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Metuchen
N. J
Charles M. Freeman
Mary B. Wilkins
Marrige
Dr. Freeman
New York
Peirce Named Third Assistant Secretary of State
Washington November 16 AP appoints Herbert H. D. Peirce of Massachusetts as third Assist Secretary of State, succeeding Thomas W. Dreidler of West Virginia who resigned by request of Secretary Hay.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Herbert H. D. Peirce
Massachusetts
Mr. Peirce
Thomas W. Dreidler
West Virginia
Hay
Vitasimmons Declares Retirement from Boxing
Rob Vitasimmons responds to Jeffries’ challenge by saying he will not fight again now or ever and that no inducements from Jeffries or others could persuade him to return to the ring.
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New York
Rob Vitasimmons
Jeffries
Jeffrey
Antlers Club Opens Church Boarding House on East Market
The Antlers Club now runs a boarding house in the former city hospital area on East Market Street near the City Hospital. I. Ht. Manton recently vacated the premises. Harold Parsons serves as club president with a growing membership.
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East Market St
I. Ht. Manton
Qity Hospital
Harold ©. Parsons
McKinley Pa to get ninth post office in memory
Washington announces the establishment of a new post office named McKinley in Montgomery County Pennsylvania to honor the late President. General Sherman is named as first postmaster designate for the McKinley post office in McKinley town, marking a commemorative postal site.
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Nineteenth Postoffice
Washington
McKinley, Pa
G. J. Shirman le
McKinley
Montgomery County
Murders Tied to Two Men in Kyansvilie Case
Police now believe the murder of Mrs. Goo Ratley and Jemna Henner was done by two men. They claim one well known local man killed not only the Renner girl but two other women by strangulation at different times. The deaths remain a mystery.
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Kyansvilie
Ind
Ohio mobilization costs for McKinley funeral
Columbus reports show total National Guard mobilization expenses for the McKinley funeral in Canton largely under the $75,000 defiency allowance. Per diem, quartermaster, and commissary costs total hundreds of thousands, with added items for State House draping and transportation leaving a final estimate between 12,000 and 15,000 plus small miscents.
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Columbus
Ohio National Guard
McKinley
Canton
State Emergency Board
San Francisco Urges Chinatown Obliteration For Sanitation
Doctor J. M. Williamson, president of the San Francisco Board of Health, in the annual report to the Mayor, calls for depopulation of Chinatown with leveled buildings, tunnels, and cellars, to place residents away from the peninsula. He quotes that only then will sanitary laws be enforceable and safety assured, arguing against tolerating a foreign community he claims remains perpetuated in filth for tourists and other interests.
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San Francisco
Cal
J. M. Williamson
Trustees to Hear Trial Sermons of E G Mason at Universalist Church
Trustees of the Universalist church will meet Monday evening at the residence of J C Kapp, 155 South Summit Street, to act on the trial sermons of Rev E G Mason of Wightstown New Jersey who will preach Sunday morning and evening at the Universalist church.
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The
Universalist Church
J. C. Kapp
South Summit St
E.G. Mason
Wightstown
N. J
Universalist ‘Church
Dynamite Planted on Railroad Express Near York
York Pa November 16 a would be bomber placed dynamite on the St Louis express of the Northern Central at Houck s Mill near the resort area One and a half miles from York The train with two express cars a smoker a day coach an Indien car and three Pullman cars derailed after an explosion injuring no one reported The engine and cars were shattered and damaged but no other details are confirmed
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York
Wight
St Louis Express
Northern Central
Houck's Mille
Quiet Church Yard Burials In Evansville Histories
The body of Joseph D. Keith will be buried in Elberville village cemetery, Keith's former home, after a prison execution. Under state law relatives of a man hanged at the prison do not claim remains within 24 hours. if unclaimed, Warden Reid will ship the body at his expense to Keith’s widow for burial in the family cemetery. Keith formerly taught Sunday school at Alberville church where Nora Keifer was his pupil.
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Evansville
Ind
Joseph D. Keith
Elberville
Keith
Reid
Albervile
Ehurch
Nora Keifer
Girls Union Formed by Servant Girls in Findlay
Findlay Ohio November 16 8ply The new union formed here is for servant girls with a starting membership of 100. Its aims are higher wages shorter hours and greater privileges for members.
George W Cable The Celebrated Southern Novelist
George W Cable a famed southern writer born in Loulelinn and educated in New Origans public schools. He joined the Confederate army at nineteen, later pursued letters, and began his literary career in 1879. Noted works include Old Creole Days Madam Delphine Bonaventure and John March Southerner. Yale awarded an honorary degree, Washington and Lee conferred Doctor of Letters. The negro question he describes as needing to become taxpayer.
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Loulelinn
New Origans
Credit Tnl
Euu
Greole Fe
Madam Delphine
Disappointed Akron fans condemn Rubin bout in San Francisco
Akron residents, disappointed by Gus Rubin’s fight, called it a fake and a quitter. Family on Rubin’s Minneapolis Street home defended him, noting unfair treatment and alleging Jeffries fouled Rubin. Reporters described the Marquis of Queensberry match as the poorest in U S history, with Rubin leaving amid derision.
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Akron
San Francisco
Gus Rublin
Eleht Jong
Rubin
Inter
Gus
Haviug
Jeffries
Hope Laws
Rulslin Homestead
Nieman St
Democrat
Gusty
Charley
Charley Ruhlin
California
Atake
George Siler
Marquis of Queens
Berry
America
Roblin Ensoged
From Millionaire to Barn Dweller in New York
Robert A. Johnson once worth two million dollars twelve years ago is jailed on charges of breaking a fence at Mount Saint Vincent station on the Hudson. The property borders the Johnson estate and he now lives in a barn on the old place, supported by a surety company. He farms, irons, cooks, and tends his own clothes, the sole survivor of three Johnson brothers who once ran dry goods on Broadway. No record explains how he lost his fortune.
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New York
Robert, A. Johnson
Mount St Vincent On
the Hudson
Johnson
Engine
Milionaire
Robert Johnson
Johnson Brothers
Broadway
Corbett to Star in Finnigans Hall at the Grand
James J. Corbett headlines the Empire show at the Grand tonight. The vaudeville company, formerly at Cleveland’s Empire theatre, brings new changes to Finnigans Hall with a refreshed plot and eight standout acts. Critics praise Corbett’s monologue and the ensemble’s high crowd appeal.
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Finnigan's Hall
James J. Corbett
Grand
Empire Theater
Cleveland
Thele
Corbett
Railroad magnamates fear government control rise
In Chicago November 16 leading railroad presidents and general managers warn of looming danger from giant consolidations. Many fear financiers plan to unload holdings on the government and expect growing bids for government control of railroads across the nation.
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Chicago
Dig
Judge Nye to Rule Next Week on $145000 Bond Injunction
City Clerk Chix, Hersbell report receiving a letter from Judge D J Nye stating a decision will be issued next week on the $145,000 bond injunction. The judge’s note confirms an upcoming ruling date in the case.
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Chix
Hersbell
D. J. Nye
Asma
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Fitz
Antlers’ Club
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Universalists
Nora
Girls’ Union
Findlay
George W. Cable
Rublin
Jim Corbett
Finnegan
Chicago Capital
Judge Nye
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