Statehood Fight to Test Support in House this Week
Washington dispatch outlines a busy congressional week. The statehood bill faces a test of insurgents versus stalwarts on the rule preventing amendments as Arizona and New Mexico statehood hangs on a referendum provision. Other measures shift around in the Senate including railroad rate issues and merchant marine and pure food bills as urgent deficiency funding moves forward.
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Great Mass Meeting Condemns Terrible Russian Atrocities
A mass meeting in Belasco's theatre Washington denounced mass atrocities against Jews in Russia. Senators Patterson Latimer Overman Clark and representatives Sul yer Bennett Sulzer Rainey Hinshaw Taylor Moon Trimble and Associate Justice Stafford attended. Sulzer presented resolutions endorsing Roosevelt and urging action to stop crimes and support peace and humanity.
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European anxiety eases as Russia day peace expected
Reports from St Petersburg and Moscow predict a quiet anniversary of the Father Gapon march with only possible protests in towns. authorities abroad show reduced war scare and Belgian alarm over German mobilization and plans to reshape Belgium and Holland to expand German influence.
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Inauguration Peace Near in Kaiser's Berlin Meetings
Berlin crowds attend socialist gatherings under tight police control as demonstrations in Russia and tripartite suffrage debates are discussed. Officials deploy extra forces, close halls early, and urge orderly exits amid warnings of possible unrest in the capital. Kansas City dispatch reports a Canadian man, John Downer, found aboard a Santa Fe train in a demented state, to be transferred to humane authorities.
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Winter cold spreads across Missouri Iowa and beyond
A widespread cold wave grips western Missouri eastern Kansas and northern Oklahoma with heavy snow and sharp temperature drops. Overnight lows fall to near or below zero across Nebraska Iowa and the Dakotas while a warm spell in the Ohio Valley and New York ends with record highs before cooling again.
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Revolutions Outlook and Tax Refunds Highlight London Ledger
The Times correspondent notes ongoing revolutionary tensions in 1906 with the bureaucracy maintaining control through force, but a confidence in eventual freedom. Also reported is a Niagara Park poll tax refund connected to a Toronto visit by three HMS Drake officers and Admiral Battenberg’s party.
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Eighteen Die In Wild Panic At Philadelphia Church
Eighteen people were killed and nearly twenty injured in a stampede after a loud cry of fire caused a panic at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Philadelphia. The church crowd surged toward the stairs causing many to fall and be trampled. the disaster struck as firemen arrived to help the frightened worshippers.
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Wreck survivors reach port as King David drifted ashore
Victoria reports the Queen City rescued sixteen King David survivors after the steel ship dragged its anchor and grounded on Baio reef on November 14. They endured five weeks in a driftwood camp with a large fire and provisions for months before rescue. Washington notes Roosevelt conferred with Woodruff and four Republican leaders on a possible successor to John Sharkey as port collector and discussed Odell's possible chairmanship. Woodruff denied candidacy.
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Victims Buried As They Slept At Alta Mine
Ball Lake Utah Jan 21 Last of six bodies buried by a snowslide at Alta was recovered after communication with the mining camp was restored The avalanche struck about midnight sweeping the boarding house and saloon where men slept Three of five who were in the saloon crawled to safety. many frostbitten The rescuers worked from 7 am until the last body was found The dead include Albert Bennett George Claybourne John Braickbrton Otouin Gray Jerry Murphy William Powell Cray a Californian and others from various regions
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