Congress to Begin With Short Week as Senate Organizes
Washington reports the new session opens with a light schedule. Senators Brandagee Warner Frazier and Labollette have not taken oaths yet. A brief week includes reading the president’s message and possible a Republican caucus to set committees and steerage. Emergency Panama Canal appropriation may follow in week two.
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House Session Opens With Limited Immediate Action Expected
Washington December observes a slow start as committees are formed and a Panama Canal emergency appropriation may pass late in the week. The first week centers on speaker elections and house officers with rules adopted after oath. Committees to be announced soon and daily bill introductions expected.
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Burning the Lodges of Indian Sealers Priests Mourning Seafarers
Victoria reports tribesmen burn lodges of Indian hunters of the sealing schooner Fawn and burn totems on rocks to mourn missing sealers. No news of the Fawn. Maid of Orleans report of November 16 foundering is disputed by the Queen City.
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Six Day Bicycle Back Opens in Madison Square Garden
The thirteenth annual six day bicycle race began in Madison Square Garden with sixteen teams of two riders. Prizes total 4850 dollars as teams, including foreigners, compete through a nine day event ending next Saturday. In Berlin a proposal to open the frontier to foreign cattle imports was rejected.
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Jews Appeal to Nations to Save Them From Massacre
Odessa reports fear of a fresh massacre as anti Jewish proclamations circulate among regiments. Jewish leaders urge civilized nations to intervene to prevent catastrophe, citing inability of local authorities to maintain order amid isolation from St. Petersburg.
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Pittoburg Threatened With Flood
Flood danger grips Pitsburg and lower valley as Ohio and Allegheny rivers rise. Davis Island dam 2.12 feet above normal, Second Street Bridge Allegheny at 22.6 and climbing. Monongahela near crest, rainfall heavy in Allegheny and Monongahela valleys. Forbes reports rising water at Beaver, Etna flooded, low lands between Isabella Furnace and business district become a lake. McKeesport mill water up to first floor. Government weather alerts aid preparations to limit losses.
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Terrible Eruption Impends From the Rumbling Volcano of Anarchy
A late dispatch from St Petersburg reports rising government confidence as workers' councils aim for a compromise reopening factories while telegraph and post staff face mass discharge threats. Protests and arrests loom amid martial rhetoric and mutinous outbreaks in Poland and nearby provinces.
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Mutiny in Baltic region sparks heavy casualties
Reports describe a sapper mutiny near a fortress with a thousand rebels marching to barracks and clashing with artillery and infantry. After fierce firefights, about two hundred mutineers surrendered, leaving fifty dead and one hundred wounded as a court martial forms.
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Mormon colonies flood tolling Sierra Madre reports
El Paso Texas December 3 George Lunt a Mormon guide in the Sierra Madre mountains northern Mexico reports the Juarez river has risen flooding Mormon colonies for twenty five years colonies Colonia Pacheco houses washed away Cave Valley farms devastated livestock drowned and implements swept away. crop damage exceeds ten thousand dollars.
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Wreck Near Timpas Strikes Westbound Santa Fe Train
A westbound Santa Fe train from La Junta, Colorado derailed near Timpas, crushing the baggage car and causing a derailment of the mail and other cars. Mail Clerk Baldin of La Junta survived with injuries, while Engineer Bourne escaped with a bad shake. Conductor Hook led the crew as No. 9 was rerouted.
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Crazy woman holds fort in passenger car in Kansas
Ina Berry, traveling from Spokane to Tulsa, occupies a passenger car at Girard, threatening to shoot if disturbed. She has driven out other occupants with a pistol and fortifies the toilet room, firing at a dummy placed near the door. Police seek nonlethal restraint. no meals have been eaten.
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Government will have to fight for gold dust
Mrs. George E. Adams, wife of the Seattle assay office cashier embezzler, hires an attorney and will contest government attachments on Adams property to fund her and her infant. Public sentiment blames Superintendent Wing as calls for his resignation grow amid fears Alaska gold shipments to San Francisco.
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Highest Honors for Dead Korean Minister
The emperor orders the highest posthumous honors for Min Yung Whan who killed himself in protest of Japanese rule. His body bears letters to foreign ministers asking Korea’s case be intervened. Gendarmes patrol to curb unrest as some link his death to the legation withdrawal and hopes of American intervention.
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