Convention Choose St Louis for 1904 Democratic National Meet
Washington dispatch reports the Democratic National Committee selected St Louis to host the 1904 convention on July 6. Chicago was initially favored but a shift in committee opinion moved the decision to St Louis amid debates on press influence and candidate support. Bryan met with committee members afterward, declining to reveal early stance on Panama issues.
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Washington
St. Louis
Chicagola
Eley
Chicago
Knapp
New York
Chienga
Altman Jones
J.T. McGraw
West Virginia
D. le Bilyston
Virginia
Portland
Ore
Pacific Coast
Yhe
Bryan
William J. Bryan
High Hotel
Jones
Shoreham
Goulh
MAKE CHARGES OF FRAUD Several Consulates in China Are to Be Investigated
Washington Jam 14 The president orders the state department to thoroughly investigate United States consulates at Shanghai Canton and Amoy Raising past charges of misconduct and mutual recriminations among consuls. The inquiry aims to underpin a full overhaul of consulates in the Orient and exposes antiquated practices in manifests commercial paper certification and identification papers for Chinese entering the Philippines Governor Taft had warned of lax admission standards and fraud opportunities.
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China
Washington
Jam
State Department
United States
Shanghai
Canton
Amoy
Baals
Orient
Lucas
Philippines
Taft
Ukc
Iowa editors honored on assay commission for 1964
The presidential announcement names Cyrenus Cole Cedar Rapids editor and George D Perkins Sioux City editor among appointees to the 1964 assay commission testing weight and fineness of coins. Other members include H G Torrey and J G McPherson. The panel will meet in Philadelphia on February 10.
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Cyrenus Cole
George D. Perkins
Washington
United State
William Alden Smith
Michigan
Geo. D. Perkins
Sioux City
Cyrenus Cale
Cedar Rapids
Ludwig Loevinger
White Lake
H. G. Torrey
New York
Hanna Relected in Ohio Senate and House Ballot
Ohio lawmakers cast ballots for United States Senator on January 4 in Columbus. The house voted 66 for Hanna with one vote for John H. Clark, while two Republicans and one Democrat were absent. In the senate Hanna received 29 votes and Clark 4 amid a party divided roll.
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Ohio
Clark
Columbus
House
Senate
United States
Hanna
John H. Clark
Fria r Land Bonds Purchase Approved in New York Deal
Washington creditors confirm the acceptance of a New York firm representing Fiske Robnson and National City Bank for the entire seven million Philippine bond issue. The action covers the government purchase of trier lands as 107.577.
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Financiers
New York
Washington
Dhemical
Rey Flake & Bong
Fiske & Roblnzon
National City Bank
San Blas conflict fuels Panama tensions and colonial claims
A chaotic dispatch describes San Blas Indians, Colombians, and U S Navy activity near the gulf of Darien. Colombian representations allegedly provoked hostility among local tribes, with a flotilla including gunboats and cruisers repositioning as forces move between Panama harbors and nearby bays. Reports from Cartagena cite troop movements and shifting loyalties among indigenous groups as the clash over territory unfolds.
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Colon
Tio Hoyten
Indiana
Calen
Panama
Hen
Banwaitis
San Blis
Banersey
Casibny
San Blas Court
Gulf of Darien
Atlante
Puertaello
Gateon
Qulebri
Grim Rescue Clash Over Clallam Disaster Involves Crew
Victoria reports the British cruiser Grattan found the body of Bruno Gehan, customs officer of the Clallam, near Race Rocks after a launch wreck. Passengers, mostly women and children, perished when a lifeboat swamped as the steamship Clallam failed to signal for aid. John Davis of Nanaimo accused Captain Roberts of delaying rescue to safeguard the vessel. He said the Clallam remained afloat only twenty minutes after warnings were voiced.
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Clallam
Victoria
B.C
Jin
Grattan
Bruno Gehan
Race Rocks
Lelman
John Davis
Nanaimo
Roberts
Holyoke
Davis
Davin
The Machen Trial Examinations Continue in Washington
Washington January 15 The cross examination of John J Rowley chief clerk in the office of the first assistant postmaster general in the Machen trial continued today He testified that signatures and initials were placed by subordinates for three years before he became chief clerk He said the practice was tolerated until the postal investigation and that Wynne was told to review legality He could not recall discussions with Wynne about office expenditures and Machens attorney accepted a statement that prior to the investigation he heard no criticism of the Golf fastener.
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Washington
John J. Rowley
August W. Machen
Machen
Wynne
Trowley
Wynn
Kumler
Grolf
Clerks Kidnapped At Drug Store Ambush
Robbers entered the O. H. Collins drug store last night and forced clerk Wilbur Quirk to open the safe. They struck him, bound his hands, and left him in bed in serious condition. Two masked men were seen near the scene.
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Miller
Tan
O. H. Collins
Wilbur Quirk
Scout
Elevator tragedy at Brown's Shoe Factory in St Louis
Eight workers died and two were severely hurt when a crowd pressed against a sixth floor elevator door at Brown's Shoe Factory. The door failed and ten people fell into the shaft as others pushed to enter. Operator James Jonson was arrested, claiming the gate broke but that workers opened it while waiting for the car.
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St. Louis
Brown's Shoe Factory
James Jonson
Turkey Accepts Macedonian Reform Pact and Refugee Repatriation
Constantinople reports the porte has fully accepted the Macedonian reform scheme and agreed to repatriate Macedonian refugees. It grants amnesty to political prisoners except agitators. A mutiny erupted in Van amid pay shortages as about 500 soldiers challenged mutineers and attacked the palace, prompting a counteraction by loyal troops.
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Turkey
Russia
Constantinople
Porte
Van
Amenia
Anguy Mage UN
Wertvon
Stock Men Push Independent Packing Venture Against Trust
National Live Stock association endorses forming a stockmen company with 6 million to establish independent packing houses to compete with the beef trust. They seek rate adjustments, oppose a national humane association, and urge consumer relief through lower prices. fault the packers for high consumer costs.
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Portland
Ove
Tve
National Live Stock Association
Trafic Managers’ Association
Chicago
National Humane Association
Packers’ Trust
America
Meat Trust
Adams
Nebraska
Martin ‘Gald
Interior Department
Agricultural Department
Meath
Charles I. Stubbs
Denver
William F. Skinner
Sugar Trust Officials vow to resist investigations
New York January 16 H C Hare Mayer president of the American Sugar Refining Company told stockholders at yesterday's meeting that there are objections to public disclosure of corporate affairs. He repeated his point that a business corporation is an aggregation of individuals and opposed publicity.
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Sugar Trust
New York
H. C. Haremayer
American Sugar Refining Company
Freak of lightning hits Utah mine depths
Salt Lake City January 16 A dramatic accident from a lightning storm shook the Scottish Chief mine in Park City as miners James Malone and Harvey Roberts 500 feet underground were struck by a bolt racing along the tunnel tracks. Both men were severely burned and unconscious at first believing an explosion had occurred. They crawled to the tunnel mouth through falling snow and thunder.
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Utah
Salt Lake
Scottish Chief
Park City
James Malone
Harvey Roberts
Mmouth
Malone
Roberts
Unclear excerpt from Chicago Record Herald dialogue
Fragmentary quote depicting a restless mood with a speaker dismissing worry. The garbled text references appetite, gratification, trouble, and a fatherly claim about waist and arms, offering little coherent narrative or identifiable events.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Ens
Itv
Pehaw
Russia's hold on China tied to sieged Pekin archives
Eliza R. Seidmore argues in the Chicago Tribune that Russia gained vast leverage over China by securing hidden state papers during the 1900 Pekin siege. She cites confiscated archives from the imperial palaces and the Tsungli Yamen, including private papers and palace treasures, which allowed Moscow to influence Chinese affairs and present itself as a benevolent ally while keeping the full history of the reign in its grasp.
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Pekin
Chicago
Russia
China
Eliza R. Seidmore
Chicago Tribune
Forbidden City
Winter Palace
Tsung-Lin Yamen
Foreign Office
Summer Palace
Democratic Convention to Meet in St Louis Coliseum
St Louis, Jan 16. The Democratic national convention will be held in the Coliseum built after the 1896 Republican gathering. The hall seats about 15,000, cost 180000, measures 189 by 318 feet, with a single span roof and strong acoustics. It is the first Democratic convention in St Louis since 1888 when Thurman was nominated for vice president.
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St. Louis
Coliseum
Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
Thurman
Forice
Race War Feared At Normal City Indiana
Reports from Normal City Indiana describe rising alarm over racial tensions with armed groups and police guarding homes as a race war threat grows. The article also notes unrelated briefs about railroad politics in Utah and Oregon, a Panama canal endorsement in Portland, a Hong Kong railway riot, and a Springfield post office robbery sentencing.
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Normal City
Ind
Bunlee
Shipbuilding Case Postponed Over Receiver Appointments
Newark Jan 13 The motions to appoint two permanent receivers for the United States Shipbuilding Co were postponed until next Monday. W D Guthrie counsel for Charles M Schwab admitted the company is hopelessly bankrupt, while bondholders contended fraud prevents admitting bankruptcy to the litigation.
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Newark
N. J
United States Shipbuilding Company
W. D. Guthrie
Charles M. Schwab
Greatest flood in years threatening Ohio river crisis
Cincinnati reports a wall of water thirty miles long and nine feet high menacing the city with the worst flood in navitation history. River men fear rapid rise as gorges and ice jams advance, with vessels breaking ice and boats struggling to move upriver toward Cincinnati and nearby harbors.
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Cincinnati
Cinelnnaath
Col
Coney Island
New Richmond
Moscow
Maysville
Campbell Creek Landing
Queer City
Twifu Street
Charles Turner
Fittsburg
Fee
Alleghany
Freeport
Scott Dawson
Ohio
Monongahela
J. L. McSeeters
Jim Brown
Favor Annexation Says Rutherford McCormick
Rutherford R. McCormick of Chicago and son of the United States ambassador to Russia is traveling home from a Panama voyage. He says Panamanians favor annexation by the United States and defends the administration’s earlier intervention as preventing a massacre amid Colombian forces near Cajon. He made two Isthmus trips and notes Americans are warmly treated there.
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Rutherford McCormick
Panama
New Orleans
Ruttherford R. McCormick
Chicago
United States
Russia
Iaj
Cajon
Genseral
McCormick
Isthmus
Calon
Rock Island plans 163 million bond issue to 1934
President Leedy of the Rock Island railway circulated to stockholders that a March 4 meeting will seek approval for a bond issue not to exceed 163 million dollars. Bonds would bear 4 percent interest and mature in 1934, with 15 million available immediately and the rest reserved to retire Rock Island bonds and fund acquisitions and improvements.
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Rock Island
New York
Leedy
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway
Roc Island
Tly Company
Gompers Advises Laborers to Prepare for Low Mood
Samuel Gompers addressed the International Hod Carriers and Building Laborers' convention in Trenton on January 16. He warned of industrial low mood and urged union men to endure it with frugality and disciplined effort, offering a hopeful outlook for recovery.
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Trenton
N. J
Hod Carriers and Building Laborers
Samuel Gompers
Bribery probes in St Louis target railroad bill plea
St Louis Circuit Attorney probes two alleged bribery schemes tied to a railroad excursion ticket bill and a proposed pneumatic tube service. Grand jury investigates payments to influence passage, including a $10 000 deal with corbin St Louis brokers and a $15 000 alleged bribe linked to Thomas Barrett.
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St. Louis
Danly
Corbin St. Louis
Killhe
Grand Jury
New House of Aelegites
Thomas B. Barrett
J. W. Peebles
Chicago
Whichbarerett
Meade Singe Barrett
She Hill
Univer- Phoumiatic Rangsnussian Company
Neg
Peebles
Barrett
Hey Wbhly
Aklornex A
Garesehe
Moe
Doarrett
Funeral for General Gordon Ends Confederate Era Tribute
General John B. Gordon was buried in Oakland Cemetery Atlanta after memorial exercises at the state capitol. Thousands attended including governors, statesmen, Confederate leaders, and veterans who honored the South's last Civil War figure with eulogies as Confederate societies paused at 10 o'clock.
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Atlanta
Dan
Southland
Juhin B. Gordon
South
Quakland Cemetery
House of Representatives
State Capitol
Gordon
Southern
Styuar
Pirate Escapes With Philippine Robbery Link
George Herman, once chief inspector of constabulary, fled confinement after a piracy raid in the Philippines. He and A. J. Johnson reportedly boarded a vessel they had stolen, triggering a manhunt. In a prior chase near Bayuan, a pearly boat was found abandoned with Johnson dead, and Herman blamed for multiple killings during the escape.
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George Herman
Philippines
Manila
Constabulary
A. J. Johnson
Coobu
Herman
Bayauan
Johnson
Indiana Bulletin Urges Reaching Farmer Boys From Cities
Tollianapolis Indiana January bulletin from the state board of public instruction urges teachers to emphasize the hardships of city work and to keep farmer boys on the farm. It cites emigration to cities, warns of sapping state vitality, and asks schools to run busy workshops to teach the value of honest toil and farming life.
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Tollianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Chicago
State Board of Public Instruction
Bulletin
Iro
Revolution Wins In Uruguay War Fight
Buenos Ayres reports a Montevideo dispatch that General Muniz with 2500 government troops retreated before the revolutionaries led by General Saraiva at Nico Perez and Santa Clara. Muniz reportedly resigned citing heart disease. War Minister Vasquez is expected to assume supreme command of Uruguayan government troops after a January 11 defeat at Paso de Toros that left 25 killed and 45 wounded.
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Buenos Ayres
Montevideo
Uruguay
Muniz
Nico Perez
Santa Clara
Saraiva
Vasquez
Paso de Toros
Prisoners cremated in Pratt City town hall fire
A jail holocaust in Pratt City near Birmingham began when a fire blamed on an unspecified cause trapped inmates. Three prisoners were cremated, two fatally burned and two seriously hurt as the blaze sparked a mass escape before officials restored order.
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Birmingham
Ala
Tvere
Pratt City
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