Roosevelt Orders Federal Troops in Readiness at Goldfield Nevada
Washington Dec 4 President Roosevelt ordered federal troops held in readiness to restore order at Goldfield Nevada after a miners revolt. Governor Sparks asked Washington for protection with a regular garrison planned at Goldfield while local banks and mines struggle amid unemployment and rising unrest.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Goldfield
Sparks
Nevada
San Francisco
NO PROSPROCT PO PALSY SETTLEMENT OF SUE
Coldfield Nevada December reports a mining strike deadlock with both sides accusing the other of breaching terms The miners claim gold wage payments violate no clause while mine owners allege strike voting rules were ignored A Goldfield negotiator proposes low grade ore sales to ease tensions and a state chamber of commerce mass meeting is postponed pending developments
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Coldfield
Nev
Dee
Stetler Combine
Vame
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Congress
Funston Says Goldfield Report Ready for Troop Move
General Funston announced receipt of a confidential Goldfield report indicating readiness to deploy troops. Up to about 1400 soldiers would be sent, including the Twentieth and Twenty-first regiments, if action is ordered.
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San Francisco
Funston
Goldfield
Lincoln Banks On Cash Basis Report
Lincoln Neb reports that Lincoln banks are practically on a cash basis as of this afternoon. Bl y ie, manager of the Lincoln clearing house, stated cashiers’ cheers are being completed as fast as they are presented.
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Lincoln
Lincoln, Neb
Pew
Bl Yie
Lincoln Clearing House
Newlands Introduces Inland Waterways Bill for Nevada
Senator Newlands proposes an inland waterways commission to develop U.S. channels with a fifty million dollar fund. The plan coordinates with Army Engineers and other agencies, allowing bonds to cover shortfalls and reserving irrigation and forest conservation as possible projects.
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Washington
Renator Rowlands
Nevada
Army Engineers Service
Reclamation and Forestry Service
Bureau of Soils
iMurton la Chaireian
Georgia Canal Proposal Between Mississippi and Atlantic
Senator Bacon introduced a bill to study the practicability of a canal linking the Mississippi River valley with Georgia waters. He noted a similar proposal was considered twelve years ago when conditions were unfavourable. The plan envisions a canal about 100 miles long connecting the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Bacon
Mississippi Valley
Georgia
Mississippi River
Atlantic Ocean
President Nominates Porto Rico and Dakota Officials
Washington announces nominations for Regis H. Post as governor of Porto Rico Cre-appoint ed William P. Willoughby as secretary of Porto Rico and Judson La Moure Jr as customs collector for North and South Dakota. A large list of postmasters and army promotions was sent to the senate.
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Washington
Regis H. Post
Porto Rico
William P. Willoughby
Judson la Moure, Jr
North
South Dakota
Senate
Henry O Havemeyer Dies After Illness in Illinois
Henry Osborne Havemeyer president of the American Sugar Refining company died at Merriville stock farm Comack Illinois from heart failure following an attack of acute indigestion on Thanksgiving day. His widow and four children survive him.
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Henry O. Havemeyer
New York
Henry Osborne Havemeyer
American Sugar Refining Company
Merriville Stock Farm
Comack
Congress to Tinker With Currency Reform Plan Outlined
The new House committee on banking and currency met for two and a half hours to discuss the currency question. They authorized a five member sub committee to draft a currency bill to restore elasticity and address reserve balances. They aim to avoid increasing paper money but seek effective measures to prevent absorption of reserve funds by reserve city banks and to curb overloaning.
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Washington
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Son Follows Father to Death by Own Action in Missouri
In Maryville a man named A H Moorehouse died by suicide after a telephone report of trouble. He was about 30, son of former Missouri Governor A P Moorehouse who also killed himself in 1891. Dr J Worh found Moorehouse with a gunshot wound to the temple and another to the heart. no motive is given.
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St. Joseph
A. H. Moorehouse
J. Worh
Maryville
Moorehouse
Mr. Moorehouse
Myra
Moorhouse
Troops to Proceed to China Prepared at San Francisco
San Francisco December 4 Army transport Thomas will sail for the Philippines tomorrow carrying three cavalry companies and two more from the Sixth Cavalry to Fort Stotzenberg on Luson Island where 3,9000 troops are stationed. They are held in readiness to proceed to China should Boxer troubles widen.
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San Francisco
Thomas
Philippines
First Cavalry
Sixth Cavalry
Fort Stotzenberg
Lusen
Hing
Taft Receives Russian Welcome Amid Panama Yellow Fever Praise
Secretary Taft met Emperor Nicholas at Tsarskoe Selo and discussed Philippine assembly and U S Panama ist h fever fight while Russian leaders hosted a dinner in his honor. Mrs Taft canceled her European travels to join him aboard the President Grant.
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St. Petersburg
Tatt
Nicholas
Tsarskoeselo
Russia
United States
Taft
Roosevelt
Semenovsky Regiment
Mr. Taft
Trans-Siberian
Asia
Philippine Islands
Philippine Assembly
Panama
Edwards
Iswolsky
Stol
Oklahoma Roads Must Segregate the Races
Oklahoma legislature adjourned without passing the Jim Crow bill after lengthy debate with amendments offered. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission is to publish a Jim Crow order tomorrow mandating separate coaches for whites and blacks.
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Guthrie
Okla
Oklahoma Corporation Commission
California Fruit Growers Seek repeal of exclusion act
In a Marysville convention the California Fruit Growers memorialized Congress for swift action to repeal the Chinese exclusion act. They argue that labor shortages in orchard and farm work threaten multi million investments and fear extending exclusion to Japanese would cause vast losses and possible industry extinction.
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California
Morning Journal
Marysville
Cal
California Fruit Growers
Congress
West
Chicago Burns Scrip No Longer Needed
The article reports that scrip in Chicago is no longer required as a cash clearing move nears completion. Depositors have received money with minimal questions as checks totaling thousands of dollars are retired and bank responses remain prompt. The piece also notes a New York Grand Jury request for a month long term jury due to grave questions to be addressed.
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Chicago
Matra Grand Jury
New York
Wen
Jerome
Supreme Court
Smelter Trust declares dividends and Oklahoma murder arrest
Mr Jerome declined to answer if the jury would consider banking and trust matters. The American Smelting and Refining company directors declare regular quarterly dividends of 1 4 percent on preferred and 2 percent on common stock unchanged from last quarter. In Lawton Oklahoma Mrs Holly Hollingsworth of Greenville Texas was arrested on a charge of murdering her brother near Greenville a month ago and will return without requisition papers.
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Jerome
Banking
Smelter Trust
New York
American Smelting and Refining Company
Lawton
Okla
Holly Hollingsworth
Greenville
Texas
Alberta
William Riley
Greenvile
Steve Adams Ordered to Stand Trial in Colorado
Governor Gooding issued a requisition for Steve Adams who is to be brought from Idaho to Telluride Colorado for the murder of Arthur Colhina. Adams had been tried in Cat hdrum Idaho for the murder of Fred Tyler but the jury disagreed and he faces further proceedings.
North Carolina Court Disputes Federal Power
The North Carolina supreme court reversed a superior court ruling in a case over an $846000 fine against Southern Railway for selling tickets above the legal rate. The court also addresses the constitutionality of penalties against railroad officials and the authority of federal courts to enjoin state actions involving such suits.
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Raleigh
N. C
State Supreme Court
Long
Superior Court
Southern Railway Company
Gotham Nears Blue Law Sunday Entertainment Ban
New York announces no charged admission entertainments next Sunday after a Supreme Court ruling by Justice O Gorman. Mayor McClellan and Police Commissioner Bingham confirm obedience to the law while theater owners weigh legal steps and possible legislative changes to the blue law restrictions.
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Morning Journal
New York
Supreme Court
Justhe O'Gorman
McClellan
Bingham
Penny Arcades
William Hammerstein
Victoria Theater
Justice O'Gorman
Dry Farmers Meet in Ot Louis Second Annual Session
The second annual session of the Trans-Mismeiel Dry Farming Congress opens in Ot Louis with President Fisher Harris announcing the three day program. Nearly a thousand delegates from dry farming states are expected to discuss arid land reclamation and irrigation methods and the use of experimental farms under state and federal guidance.
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Senate
House of Representatives
America
Convention of
Rivers and Harbors Congress
Union
Congress
National Congress
Congress of the
United States
Elihu Root
Ransdell
Cyrus P. Walbridge
St. Louis
Gulf Waterways Association
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
City of
New York
New Orleans
Gustave H. Schwab
North German Lloyd Steamship Company
Merchants
Europe
Echwab
Bryan backs postal savings and bank guarantees for deposit security
In Pittsburg William J. Bryan discussed President Roosevelt’s message and praised the idea of government funded campaign finance. He endorsed postal savings banks to reduce hoarding and urged a government guarantee system for banks to protect depositors during panics. He argued deposits should be insured and publicly supported, not left exposed to losses.
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Morning Journal
Pittsburg
William J. Bryan
Lincoln
Neb
Washington
New York
Europe
Mr. Bryan
Roosevelt
Bryan
Postal Savings Bank
Postal Bank
Policyholders Urged to Withhold Proxies in Mutual Reserve Row
New Orleans reports the policyholders committee of Mutual Reserve Life Insurance warns not to send proxies to company officers for the December 19 meeting in New York. Proxies should go to William Hepburn Russell in New York or W D Robinson in New Orleans to resist proposed power to levy assessments.
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Morning Journal
New Orleans
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company of
New York
J. W. Whyams
Louisiana House
United States
The
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
Cmpany
William Hepburn Russell
Broadway
W. D. Robinson
Policyholders’ Committee
Receivers Appointed for Jamestown Exposition
In Norfolk on December 1 Judge Waddill named a court to appoint receivers for the Jamestown exposition company. The court will review suggested names for two to three receivers within two days to protect creditors. Nominated for receiver include Director General Alvan H. Martin, Dr. Carter Perkins, J. A. Cromer, E. L. Brooks Johnston, B. F. Pated, W. O. Pender, and George A. Schemis.
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Norfolk
United States
Waddill
Expossition Company
Itis
Alvan H. Martin
de. Carter Perkins
Newport Newa
J. A. & Cromer
EL Brooks Johnston
Baward F. Pated
Ant WO. Pender
Wll
George A. Sehemis
Hampton
Three More Miners Die In Payette Mine Disaster
The Naima mine of United Coal near Payette City recovered three additional bodies, raising the death toll to 27 with two identified. Rescue teams continue work as authorities confirm the tally.
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Tate Tavos
Naima
United Coal Company
Payette City
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