Underwood Opposes Free Sugar and Free Wool Tariff Reforms
Washington dispatch reports Representative Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, House Ways and Means chairman, planning a staged tariff agenda. He expects first steel revisions, then chemical, then sugar, with wool and cotton under review as figures from the tariff board are compared to Democratic statistics.
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Democratic Party
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Tariff Board
Representative Underwood
Alabama
Ways and Means
Richmond
Underwood
Fronna Steel
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Wogl
Tarif Board
Treasury Department
Republicans Lead In Tariff on Ways and Means
Washington dispatch reports Republicans on the ways and means committee near ready to present their tariff bill before the Underwood Democrats. Both parties have resumed work and indications show it may be several weeks until either plan is presented.
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Nordwick
Sugar Trust
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Reider
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Washington
Ays and Means Committee
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Warrington disabled in gale off Cape Hatteras
The torpedo boat destroyer Warrington was reported disabled about fifteen miles northeast of Cape Hatteras while caught in a strong northeast gale. She is anchored safely as three other destroyers stand by and Onondaga and Salem are ordered to assist.
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Washington
Virginia Capes
Warrington
Navy Department
Cape Hatteras
Onondaga
Salem
Customs duties show loss and trade shifts at New York port
William Loeb Jr, collector of the port, reports that last year’s custom duties total $196,871,850, down from $212,999,259 in 1910. Domestic merchandise exports rose to $776,291,619, up about $99.66 million from the prior year. Gold and silver imports totaled $26,533,810 while imports last year reached $52,125,692. domestic gold and silver exports were $59,287,978 versus $832,121,066 the year before, and foreign gold and silver exports were $5,414,371 as against $36.457-
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New York
William Loeb, Jr
Commoner critiques Harmon’s stance on democracy
William J. Bryan attacks Governor Harmon in The Commoner, labeling him either a stand patter or a progressive while aligned with Wall Street. He argues Harmon’s real support comes from powerful interests and questions which faction would back him if his positions were fully known.
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Severne
Span
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Bie
Fittest Only to Survive in Yellowstone Elk Dieoffs
Complaints reach the interior department blaming starvation for elk deaths in Yellowstone park during winter. Officials say disease or old age are primary causes, with severe winters causing additional losses from poor vegetation. With 40,000 elk, feeding at $75,000 yearly is deemed not cost effective as natural increase will keep numbers within grazing limits.
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Washington
Interior Department
Yellowstone Park
Department
River Freezes Over at La Crosse
The Mississippi River froze from shore to shore as the first below zero night hit La Crosse Wisconsin with a low of 14 degrees below zero on December 29. Weather conditions halted normal river activity and marked the coldest spell of the winter so far in the area.
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Mississippi River
Yuan Shi Kai seeks fight for republic amid money fears
A Peking dispatch reports Yuan Shi Kai plans to fight for a republic but fears dissolution of the country, hindered by financial shortages and lack of imperial clan support. Wu Ting Fang and his party push for a national congress, while Yuan resents the call for a rump congress. Dr Suna Yat Sen is noted as elected president in Paris.
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Repub
Paris
Peking
New York Herald
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Yuan
Revolutionary Leaders Dismiss Yuan Shi Kai’s Control
In Shanghai on December 29, revolutionary leaders mock Yuan Shi Kai’s efforts to stall the crisis, asserting the situation has escaped his authority and is beyond his temporary management.
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Shanghai
Yuan Shi Kai
Farmer Anton Hushely Dies From Brood Poisoning
St. Cloud Minn December 29 Anton Hushely a well known farmer near Richmond in this county is dead from brood poisoning that led to lockjaw He lost his hand in a corn shredder recently He leaves a widow and a young son
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Minz
Anton Hushely
Richmond
Hunshely
Ech
Yeggman Mike Davis Captured After Minnesota Robberies
Mike Davis the infamous yegg was captured Dec 13 at Durand Michigan after a Dec 10 Gaines Michigan post office and store robbery. He faces an indeterminate Michigan prison sentence of seven and a half to fifteen years. Also tied to Cass Lake Mayor Dumas’s later Bemidji trial for alleged ring burglaries and arson.
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Mike Davis
Yegg
Pinkertons
Jane
Poposky
Minn
Durand
Mich
Gaines
Howard
Michigan
Marquette
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
K. T. Dumas
Cass Lake
Bemidji
C. K E. Keller
Minnesota
Fire destroys reptile store as snakes and parrots die
In San Antonio a blaze at W.O. Learn’s bird and snake shop released reptiles when water broke their cages. About two hundred parrots suffocated and two hundred fifty snakes died in the fire. Firefighters battled the flames as poisonous creatures wandered.
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