Olmstead Aims a Blow at the South
A House privilege resolution directed an inquiry into disfranchisement of Black voters in Louisiana Mississippi South Carolina and North Carolina as Congress resumes after holiday recess. Quorum questions and roll calls followed amid tense procedural exchanges in Washington and ongoing debates over reapportionment and related bills.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Mississippia
Louisiana
Senate
Washington
House
Richardson
Tennessee
Mr. Richardson
Richardsoon
Underwood
Alabama
Underw
Henderson
Condition of iron market shows better prospects for mills and works
Cleveland January 3. The iron trade opens 1901 with generally good prospects though profits favor mills and steel works over blast furnaces. Mills cut wages while furnace men in the valley plan reductions. Pittsburgh finished material producers maintain wages. Raw material contracts and labor stay high with coke reduced. Prices likely stable, demand rising, no near term big rise expected.
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Cleveland
Mahouing
Shenandoah Valley
Pittsburg
Lake Superior
$3,000,000 FOR A HUSBAND Price Hutchinson Says His Wife Paid for His 3
Brunswick Ga Jan 3 After calling Willard Hutchinson the handsome young clubman and bean ideal of the matinee girls attorneys for his 80 year old wife succeeded in serving him papers in Brunswick to appear in New York or show cause why he should not surrender about 3,000,000 of New York property to his wife. Hutchinson is a 24 year old actor in George Clarks play When We Were Twenty One. He earns 35 a week. Mrs Hutchinson is 80 and has been married four times. She once held title to 3,000,000 in New York business block property which Hutchinson says she gave up for the right to bear his name and wed him.
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Bronswick
Willard Hutchinson
Clabman
Bean
Brunswick
New York
Hutchinson
George Clark
Willard
Louisa Chamberlain- Caldwell-Tompkins- Maceo Hutchinson
Young Har
Inson
Heavy Snowstorm Rages Across Oregon and California
A severe winter storm grips Southern Oregon and northern California. Telegraph and telephone lines are down, passenger trains run hours late while freight services halt. Snow depths reach 14 feet in cuts with 7 feet on the level, affecting Ashland Jacksonville Yreka Sisson Danswair and Siskiyou as the storm center shifts south. Coal famine threatens Cheyenne as mines run at reduced capacity and wages rise.
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Asmaxp
Oregon
California
Southern Pacific
Ashland
Dunsmuir
Sissiyou
Fime
Siskiyou
Canyon
Sacramento
Jackonville
Yreka
Sisson
Danswair
FIGHTING FOR BUSINESS Between Panama Railroad and Pacific Mail
Rate war at San Francisco and Central America ports in a clash between the Panama Railroad and Pacific Mail. After Jan 24 Pacific Mail will route Central American and Mexican Pacifico traffic via San Francisco and New Orleans. Both sides admit settlement prospects vanish. Panama adds Pacific Steamship and Chillan Navigation support. Mexican subsidies cited.
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Panama Railroad
Pacific Mall
San Francisco
Pacific Mail
New York
Europe
Southern Pacific
New Orleans ‘Ponte
Guayamas
Pacific Steamship
Chillan Navigation Com.y
Panama
Porta Ina
Kitchener Heartily Approves Ministers Action
General Kitchener dispatches General Forentier Waldecker at Cape Town praising ministers action and urging use of trains to move loyalists south of the enemy. He notes the enemy is mobile and calls for well mounted men to surround or drive them north while asking the premier to assist as possible. War supplies seized at Fraserburg road include 3090 split bullets 500 detonators and 160 pounds dynamite marked Condensed Milk.
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Carr
Kitchener
Forentier- Waldecker
Cape Town
Cape
Solony
Cape Tows
Fraserburg Road
Fraserberg
Pingree Attacks Courts in Scathing Inaugural Remarks
In Lansing Michigan the legislature opened in joint session to hear ex Governor Pingree’s inaugural address. He launched a sharp broadside against the courts, the legislature and the press, delivering a forceful punctuation to the new administration’s early moments.
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Rence
Laxsixo
Michigan
Pingree
Elisa
Train Jumped the Track in Minnesota Wreck
A Chicago Great Western passenger train derailed near Sargent Minnesota after striking a defective rail. Seven coaches left the track and burned baggage car. Baggageman Green, Conductor Healy and Car Porter Hudson were killed. The day’s other reports note coal and boiler accidents with several fatalities, plus a hotel strike by waiters in Mississippi.
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Chicago Great Western
Mixxeavois
Chicago
Sargent
Minn
Green
Healy
Hattet
Hudson
Desperate Battle with Bank Robbers Near Van Wert
A mob engaged nine gunmen who blew a safe near Cavette on the Cincinnati Northern line just north of Van Wert. About 50 shots were fired. one robber was wounded. the gang fled toward town as locals pursued. A separate report from Quitman, Georgia notes a black prisoner was lynched by a mob after a near Barney incident.
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Alabama
Lyn
Cavette
Cincinnati Northern
van Wert
Prominent Alabamian Colonel Williams Dies by Morphine
Jan 3 Montgomery reports Col H Williams a leading Elmore county figure died in Kyle House room by morphine. He left letters to family. son of ex congressman Thomas H Williams and brother of Hon H L Williams. Other items include lynching near Wrsoxvitas and various local incidents across Georgia and Florida.
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Sale
Elie
Montgomery
Montocomeny
Ala
H. Williams
Elmore County
Kyle
Cumberland Telephone deal expands upper East Tennessee reach
Cumberland Telephone completes a deal with Wexler and Roller of Bristol to acquire lines in Bristol Gate City Va Bloomingdale Peltier Blountville and Indian Springs Tenn and the line to Rogersville Tenn giving the company near full control of upper East Tennessee telephones. Also mentions Klondike report of Huster Fitzhugh killed by a snow slide in Alaska and notes on a French naval collision in Brest with damage to the torpedo cruiser Pleuras.
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Cumberland
Knoxville
Cumberland Telephone Company
Wexler& Roller
Bristol
Gate City
Bloomingdale
Peltier
Blountville
Indian Springs
Tenn
Rogeraville
Cumberland Company
Upper East Tennessee
Binuixouan
Ala
Klondike
Huster
Fitzhugh
Alaskan Comercial Company
Dawson City
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James Cannon, Jr
LaFayette
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Mary Devine
Minnie Arnickle
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Louis McAdams
J. M. Ray
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Kanena City
Hotchkins
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Jeyon Morschheimer
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William H Dcklons
United Stats Engineering Department
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Aris
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Brest
Menhi
Pleuras
London
London and Globy Finance Com Limited
IBY Mmay. A
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Blundell Jet
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Holman & GO
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