Kansas City Chosen To Host Event
Kansas City earns selection to host the upcoming event drawing attention from local officials and residents. Officials confirm venue plans and outline schedule highlights for attendees.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1901
Page
2
Kansas City earns selection to host the upcoming event drawing attention from local officials and residents. Officials confirm venue plans and outline schedule highlights for attendees.
In Chicago on December 6 the National Livestock association chose Kansas City as the site for its 1902 convention by an 821 to 555 vote, with Portland and Kansas City also debating hosting duties. The session adopted Olympian games resolutions and elected officers including John W. Springer as president and F. J. Hagerbarth as vice president.
The article notes England has bought 130000 horses and mules for South Africa while the United States sought 23000 animals but could secure only 3000. It covers a unanimous adoption of a report by the retiring executive committee praising officers and calling for a 25 cent per 1000 head livestock assessment. Secretary Maxwell of the irrigation congress gave an impromptu talk on water as vital to cattle raising. A H Dawson of South Dakota urged not crowding stock on the range.
An advertorial claim offers Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets as a one day cure for cold symptoms with No Cure No Pay. The price listed is 2% cents.
R G Dun and Co notes traffic congestion worsens and labor disputes hurt shipping. Fancy goods delays threaten holiday sales while wool markets rise with Coats Bros reporting 17.51 cents for 100 grades. Corn and wheat jump on demand, weather, and exports, with weekly U.S. failures totaling 287 and Canadian 28.
Bradstreet table lists bank clearings for principal cities for the week ended December 5 with percentage changes from the same week last year. Some totals exclude entries with other items or lack year-ago comparisons.
Herr Rakowsky editor of Praca in Posen was sentenced to two years imprisonment for insulting former imperial postmaster general Von Podsbielski and bringing state institutions into contempt. Publisher Herr Piedermann received six weeks' imprisonment for abetting Rakowsky.
New York Dispatch reports East Side politician Hochstein sentenced to one to three years. He was convicted after aiding a prisoner to escape from a state election officer on election day.
In Prairie du Chien Wisconsin on December 6 sixty five people fell ill at a wedding feast at John Mulky's home in West Point. Officials suspect coffee poisoning and some samples were sent to a chemist for analysis with all guests expected to recover.
Scranton Pa December convention of the American Federation of Labor reports 88 resolutions on labor aims. Edward F Melsweeney discusses immigration while McSweeney urges broader exclusion and reform. Resolutions denounce Wu Ting Fang and push independent labor action and Asiatic exclusion. Includes proposed 2 cent monthly defense tax and amended alien contract laws. Weather notesand horse racing results appear at end.
Not a single favorite led at the tape in Oakland races today as Sugden, the top pick, collapsed after the half mile pole in the closing event.
In New Orleans on December 6 Free State rider T O'Brien suffered a broken collar bone and two ribs after a fall from Free State while Kyne on Siah also broke a rib. In the day’s racing Cadet won the five furlongs with Crescent City second and Fademeny third in 1 01 5. Semi Coton captured the six furlong selling ahead of Olekma and Prince Esher in 1 15. Serpent won the six furlongs with Pyrrho second and Marcos third in 1 14 something. Boomerack led the six furlongs with Lady Kent second and Kohnwreath third in 1 14. Agim won the mile and a quarter with Littl Elkin second and Barbee third in 2 09. Wattt won the mile and 70 yards with Waterhouse second and Jessie Barbee third in 1 46 14.
Judge Newburger refuses to dismiss the murder indictment against Roland B. Molineux. The court denies a motion to quash and to inspect grand jury minutes related to the Barnett letters. The judge says the court of appeals can direct a new trial and has done so.
Bud Wilson who killed guard R H Naylor was hanged at Danville Arkansas. The trap was sprung at 9 15 and at 10 05 the body lay in the coffin. Movement appeared before the lid was placed and Wilson was revived by deputies to hang him again. Physicians later declared death by strangulation.
At 5 15 this morning near a dangerous curve 40 feet above the Prager river a Canadian Pacific freight train struck a rock slide. Engineer Randall and Fireman Petruff were crushed beneath the engine and killed instantly after the locomotive toppled 60 feet down the bluff. Both men were from Kemloops. Three cars wrecked the westbound train delayed six hours.
James G. Green was hanged at Stevenson's gallows at 7 45 this morning in front of 75 spectators for the March 24 murder of E. F. Benjamin at Underwood's Landing in Skamania county Washington. Green shot through a window during a party while guests dined and later confessed hoping to serve as a public example. He had been engaged to Mrs Nellie Brown but the engagement ended at her urging. He believed Benjamin caused the breakup and sought revenge.
The Hague December 6. In the chamber the socialists moved to urge the government, with Britain’s sanction, to relocate women and children from concentration camps in South Africa to another country. Debate postponed until next week.
In a fatal blaze a devoted mother perished alongside her child, leaving behind grieving relatives. Firefighters arrived to battle the flames as investigators review the scene for the cause.
In Carnegie Pennsylvania a early morning fire destroyed a two story brick house with a grocery on the ground floor. Mrs Sarah Klee and daughter Mary were killed. Father Samuel Klee and six other children were injured as they were lowered from windows into awaiting helpers. The father was forced to leave as flames spread through the structure.
The navy department announced Col. Robert L. Meade of the Marine Corps was acquitted of charges including drunkenness on duty and conduct harmful to morals. He is restored to duty at the Brooklyn Navy Yard pending formal review by Judge Advocate General Lemly and Secretary Long.
The court notes no connection of Colonel Denny or Major Lauchheimer with the case. The court of inquiry was ordered at their urging. Naval officials say the Meade matter is closed and forthcoming formal proceedings will not alter the court verdict.
Philadelphia December 6 A H Muller freed after arrest for uttering a remark that President Roosevelt should be shot. Judge Martin said the remark was foolish but not necessarily a crime.
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