McKinley Memorial Group Leads National Fund Drive
The McKinley National Memorial Association, based in Cleveland, leads a national effort to raise subscriptions for a memorial at Canton. Ex Secretary of State William R Day is president, Marcus A Hanna is vice president, Myron T Herrick treasurer, and Ryerson Ritchie secretary. Governors of states and territories are honorary members.
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United States
William McKinley
Canton
McKinley National Memorial Association
Cleveland
Ohio
Washington, D. C
Washington Arch Association
Potomac River
Arch Association
William KR. Day of
Marcus A. Hanna
Myron T. Herrick
Ryerson Ritchie
Findings in Sehley Case Upheld by Navy Secretary
Secretary Long disposes of the Sehley case for the Navy by adopting the court inquiry findings and conclusions. He approves the findings of fact and the majority opinion, and holds the court could not have ruled on command at the battle of Santiago. He accepts there should be no further proceedings.
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Sehley
Long
Navy Department
Court of Inquiry
Santiago
Jacksons Given Heavy Penalties in Immoral Practices Case
Theodore and Laura Jackson were found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey of immoral practices and fraud. The judge imposed fifteen years and seven years respectively in penal servitude. The prisoners listened in astonishment but remained silent.
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Jacksons
London
Theodore
Laura Jackson
United States
Ann Odelia Diss de Bar
Old Bailey
Jackson
Cabinet Change Provoked By Secretary Gage Retirement
Secretary Gage proposes to retire within two months or by early spring. The President seeks to persuade him to stay. Possible successors named include Judge William H. Taft, Myron T. Herrick of Cleveland, and General F V Greene of New York.
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Gage
William H. Taft
Philippines
Myron T. Herrick
Cleveland
F. V. Greene
New York
Pere Marquette Car Ferry No 16 Damaged in Ludington Harbor
While entering Ludington harbor during a south gale the Pere Marquette car ferry No 16 hit a sand bar disabling machinery and breaking the main feed steam pipe. One man was killed and many were seriously scalded as steam escaped. the ship is believed to be a total loss.
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Ludington
Mich
Ludington Harbor
Pere Marquette
No. 16
No 16
Four Die In Farmhouse Fire Near Summerville
A severe house fire at the John Ashbaugh farm near Summerville Jefferson County Pennsylvania killed four people and left one severely burned with doubtful recovery. Four others were injured in the blaze.
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Summerville
Jefferson County
John Ashbaugh
Argentina Chile Seek Smoothing of Longstanding Rift
Insiders say the dispute between Argentina and Chile has moved beyond its most serious stage and that current negotiations promise a satisfactory settlement. Only details of reconciliation remain to be settled.
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Chile
London Special Reports Mme Vsilka Dead Miss Slone to Be Released
A Rome telegraph dispatch cites a Constantinople source claiming Mme. Vsilka is dead and American captive Miss Slone will be released almost immediately. The report reflects ongoing wartime prisoner concerns and diplomatic backchannels.
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London
Constantinople
Rome
Daily Telegraph
Mme. Vsilka
Miss Slone
Zacatecas Market House Fire Kills Forty Five
A San Antonio special reports a fierce blaze in Zacatecas Mexico that destroyed the city market house. Forty five people died and more than twenty were seriously hurt, some fatally.
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San Antonio
Zacatecas
Mexico
Fire destroys Blue Front hotel at Fowlertown Indiana
A large frame structure the Blue Front hotel in Fowlertown Indiana burned to a total loss. Most furnishings were saved, but the building could not be saved.
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Fowlertown
Ind
Farmer found unconscious as hogs attack near Oakland
J. Sandbloom an 88 year old farmer living near Oakland Nebraska was found by his nephew near hog pens in a state of unconsciousness after exposure to the cold. Hogs were feeding on him before helpers drove them away. He may die from his injuries.
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J. Sandbloom
Oakland
Neb
Sandbloom
Train crash near McKeesport injures many
LB and O passenger train number 14 collided with a freight caboose at Scott Haven near McKeesport Pennsylvania. No passengers were killed but several were lightly hurt. Engineer rank Hughes of Glenwood likely fatal injury.
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Scott Haven
McKeesport
Rank Hughes
Glenwood
Murdered by Burglar Harriet Murphy in Pittsburg Home
Harriet Murphy a 30 year old church and social leader and Kingsley House fund treasurer was shot dead in her Pittsburg home by a porch climber burglar. Her brother and two servants were present. The killer escaped. motive believed to be money from Kingsley House collections.
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Harriet Murphy
Harriet P. Murphy
Kingsley House Fund
Pittsburg
Miss Murphy
Captain Voss Reaches Sydney in Canoe Voyage
News from Australia reports Captain Voss and his forty-foot canoe arrived at Sydney on November 20 after leaving British Columbia. Aboard was Louis Degante, who was washed overboard five days out. mate Luxton chose the steamer route, and Voss continues toward Ceylon on his around the world voyage.
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Voss
Australia
Captain Voss
Sydney
British Columbia
Fiji
Luxton
Louis Degante
Ceylon
Consolidation Formed for Asbestos Firms Johns Manville
The L W Johns Manufacturing of New York and the Manville Covering Company of Milwaukee unite as the H W Johns Manville Company with 1500000 capital and offices in New York City. Branches extend to Boston Philadelphia Chicago St Louis Columbus Pittsburg and New Orleans. Four people die in Columbus boarding house by suicide using chloroform and locked rooms.
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Milwaukee
New York
L. W. Johns Manufacturing
Manville Covering Company
Wis
H.W. Johns Manville Company
New York City
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
Columbus
Pittsburg
New Orleans
Roogms
Ohio Girl Shows Courage in Youngstown Hold Up Attempt
A stranger entered the Youngstown office of Justice Webb and threatened clerk Clementine Hamilton who refused to open the safe containing 2000 dollars. She freed herself, obtained a revolver, and the assailant fled the scene.
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Ohio
Justice Webb
Youngstown
Clementine Hamilton
National Board of Arbitration Formed in New York Conference
General Board of Arbitration reports a national board to settle disputes of national importance between labor and capital. The body will have equal representation from labor capital and the general public and will address major conflicts between workers and employers.
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General Board of Arbitration
New York
National Board of Arbitration
Two Prisoners Die by Suicide in Jail and Insanity Ruling
Albert H. King, convicted of fixing a foot race, killed himself with morphine in Brookville jail while awaiting a two to fourteen year sentence at Michigan City. Oliver Tarriman Sr, about seventy, worth at least five million, has been declared insane and incompetent by a Port Chester commission at the request of his eight children.
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Albert H. King
Michigan City
Brookville
Ind
Oliver Tarriman, Sr
Port Chester
N. Y
Starriman
Crowds Witness Mail Theft at Third and Olive
Three men knocked down a mail wagon driver outside the old post office at Third and Olive Streets St. Louis and fled with registered Christmas matter. Oscar Kelly’s mail sacks were seized in the failed heist.
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Third and Olive Streets
St. Louis
United States
Oscar Kelly
Two Die in Sunset Express Wreck Near San Ardo
A northbound Sunset Express from San Francisco and a southbound Sunset Express from Salinas collided near Uplands between San Ardo and San Lucas. Both engines left the tracks, cars telescoped, fire destroyed Train No 9, Express Messenger Mason and Fireman Garland were killed, four injured. Among passengers were eighty discharged soldiers and the All American baseball team from Hastings en route to Los Angeles.
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Southern Pacific
San Francisco
Uplands
San Ardo
Cal
Salinas
San Lucas
Mason
Garland
Los Angeles
Nine Die in Gas Explosion at Pittsburg Furnace
An explosion of accumulated gas at the Jones and Laughlins fur nace in Pittsburg killed nine workers and injured others. The blast hurled molten metal and slag from a furnace over a platform 120 feet high, with doomed men unable to escape as the elevator failed and the platform burned.
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Soho
Jones & Laughlins
Pittsburg
Robbers Attack School Superintendent in Home Invasion
Robert M. Smith superintendent of the Wantal training department of the Chicago Dubie schools was assaulted and robbed at his home. He lay unconscious for eighteen hours after three suspects two men and a woman gained entry and struck him with a gas pipe while valuables worth hundreds of dollars were stolen. The incident occurred while his family was away. Drugging is suspected.
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Robert M. Smith
Wantal Training Department
Chicoo Dubie
Elevator crushes William Hicks in Chicago building
William C. Hicks editor of a bulletin issued by a commercial agency was killed by a suddenly dropping elevator in the Jefferson block Chicago. Hicks had visited a printing firm on the third floor and was crushed between the floor and the elevator car while entering with James K. Burns supervising.
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William C. Hicks
William ©. Hicks
Jefferson Block
Chicago
Hicks
James K. Burns
Licks
Husband and Wife Found Dead in Parson, Ian
John F. Bull and his wife were found dead at their Parson home. Bull, a prominent real estate and loan broker and choir leader, and his wife were stabbed to death. Indications suggest the wife acted first and Bull died by suicide.
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John F. Bull
Parsons
Ian
Bull
Methodist
Missing Man Murdered In Oak Level Rock Burial
The headless body of a man was found beneath rock at Oak Level Alabama. Identified as Prof Chandler a school teacher from Limebranch Iowa who taught near the Alabama line in Cleburne County. He was seen last October with 124 dollars and then disappeared the following day.
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Chandler
Oak Level
Ala
Limebranch
Alabama Line
Cleburne County
Steamer Wiatawha Hell wrecks after lock accident
The steamer Wiatawha Hell on the Charleston to Montgomery route went over lock No 3 at Paint Creek on the down trip, broke in two, and wrecked. Eight deck hands drowned. officers saved. Also Omaha indictments against business men for maintaining gambling devices.
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Charleston
Montgomery
W. Wa
Paint Creek
Omaha
Manila Fortifies For Possible Rising With Heavy Guns
Reports from Manila indicate authorities fear a potential uprising and are fortifying exposed areas. Gatling guns are installed at the southern Luzon department HQ, a gunboat may anchor in the lagoon behind the HQ, and Fort San Tiago receives rapid-fire Gatlings. A small Gatling on the Buffalo, Gen. Chaffee’s launch, is noted.
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Manila
Department of Southern
Luzon
Fort Santiago
Bride reports James Nolan missing after marriage in Chicago
James Nolan 55, a member of Nolan Hayes & Co a Pasadena mining firm, vanished after a Milwaukee business trip. his bride Helen C Xoch says he took 15000 in mining securities and fears foul play.
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James Nolan
Nolan, Hayes & Co
Pasadena
Cal
Mr. Nolan
Chicago
Helen C. Ixoch
Nolan
Milwaukee
Central
Baldwin Company Expands to Grow Piano Business
Baldwin Company doubles capital stock from 10000 to 1250000 to consolidate and extend Baldwin, Ellington, and Valley Gem Pianos and Hamilton Organs. Chicago Heights plant will enlarge and Chicago factory moved to suburb.
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Baldwin Company
Baldwin Piano Company
Ellington Piano Company
Valley Gem Piano Company
Cincinnati
Hamilton Organ Company
Chicago
Chicago Heights
Marconi Wedding Postponed Amid Wireless Experiments
Miss Josephine Holman of Indianapolis engaged to Signor Marconi postpones their marriage as he concentrates on pioneering wireless telegraphy. A fire in Aberdeen aims at the State Normal School, causing about $20,000 in losses with N. P. Frazier & Co. of St. Paul as contractors bearing uninsured damages.
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Aberdeen
S. D
State Normal School
N. P. Frazier & Co
St. Paul, Minn
Appeals to Highest Court by Minnesota AG
Attorney General Douglass will press a state case against Northern Securities before the U S Supreme Court shortly after January first. He seeks a bill of equity akin to injunction relief in the action.
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Douglass
Minnesota
Northern Securities Company
United States Supreme Court
Stage mishap injures Newark dignitaries on horse drawn coach
Eight people aboard a stage carrying prominent Newark men including five Aldermen were hurt when eight horses drawing the vehicle ran away and overturned it. All eight sustained heavy injuries but none fatally. In other news, orders from Washington direct the cruiser Philadelphia to sail from San Francisco to Panama with urgency as isthmus affairs reach a crisis.
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Newark
N.J
Panama
Washington
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Isthmus
Nitroglycerin Factory Destroyed Near Butler
A nitroglycerin factory operated by B. Humes & Co. at Butler Pennsylvania was destroyed by an explosion. Victims Thomas L. Edwards 37 and Charles D. Parker 25 were killed with no remains found. Admiral Schley through his attorneys has filed a bill of exceptions with the Secretary of the Navy challenging the court of inquiry findings.
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B. Humes & Co
Butler
Thomas L. Edwards
Charles D. Parker
Schley
Admiral Schley
Secretary of the Navy
Court of Inquiry
Train Robber Identified in Knoxville Arrest
A Chicago detective identifies Harvey Logan as a suspect among Great Northern express robbers, with the man under arrest in Knoxville Tennessee and his name disclosed by the detective.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Chicago
Harvey Logan
Great Northern Express
Russian Painter Makovsky to Paint Roosevelt Portrait
President Roosevelt begins sitting for a portrait by Russian artist M Makovsky who is court painter of St Petersburg. Makovsky has painted the Czar and grand dukes and arrived in the United States with Count Cassini as Washington hosts a major embassy function.
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Roosevelt
M. Constantine Makovsky
M. Makovsky
St. Petersburg
Czar
United States
Count Cassini
Washington,d
Changes for the Cabinet Shakeup in Washington
Rumors swirl after Secretary Gage plans to resign with Governor Crane of Massachusetts tipped for Treasury. Reports also cited treasurer Ellis H. Roberts and assistants O L Spalding and H A Taylor likely to depart. Possible resignations of Navy Secretary Long and Interior Secretary Hitchcock discussed as McKinley era cabinet reshapes unfold.
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Gov. Crane
Gage
Long
Washington
Massachusetts
Secretary Long
Navy Department
Hitchcock
Interior Department
McHinley
Sampson-Schley
Crane
Mass cabinet shuffle rumored with Crane for treasury
Massachusetts business leader may become secretary of the treasury in January. President may reshuffle within four weeks with Root Knox and likely Hay staying. Wilson’s continuation depends on his own wishes. Lodge recommended Crane as a conservative finance choice.
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Ble
Massachusetts
Treasury
Gov
Crane
Iis
Senator Lodge
Treasury Department
Root
Knox
Hay
Wilson
Europe Supplies Boost U S Potato Imports From Abroad
Ireland Scotland and Belgium ship potatoes to New York as eight year drought drives imports. Nearly 200000 bushels arrive in a week and over 500000 total. prices rise to 4 and 5 dollars per barrel while overseas buys cost about 0.70 per barrel. New York daily use around 25000 bushels.
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Ireland
Scotland
Belgium
Sam
New York
Ocean
Europe
They Must Speak Spanish in Mexico Rail Roles
American railroad men show interest in a new Mexican law requiring all railroad representatives and employees to speak Spanish. Many U S rounds have limited Spanish skills, prompting scheduled study and a planned English to Spanish initiative south of the Rio Grande.
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Mexico
Rio Grande
Senate approves Hay-Pauncefote treaty amid long debate
The Senate ratified the Hay-Pauncefote canal treaty by 72 to 6 after almost five hours in executive session. Several senators spoke for and against the pact led by Teller who opposed it. A resolution on anarchism was adopted and Knox's nomination as Attorney General was confirmed. House moves to vote on Philippine revenue bill. tolls and Dingley rates set for trade with the Philippines. Congress adjourns for holidays and will reconvene January 6.
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Senate
Bacon
Blackburn
Culberson
Mallory
Teller
Tillman
Bailey
Depew
Elkins
Rawlins
Hanna
Sewell
Daniel
Jones
Nevada
Patterson
Quay
Clay
Airbanks
McComber
McLaurin
Mississippi
Bate
West
Missouri
Committee On the Judiciary
Congress
Knox
Judiciary Committee
House
Philippine Islands
Payne
New York
Richardson
Tennessee
Swanson
Virginia
Grosvenor
Ohio
Robertson
Louisiana
Messrs. Thayer
Massachusetts
Shafroth
Colorado
de Armand
Morgan
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Littlefield
Maine
McCall
Davey
Broussard and Robertson
United States
Philippines
Philippine Commission
Roosevelt
William Penn Nixon
William P. Williams
Jonathan Merriam
Chicago
Hepburn
House Committee On Rivers, Canals and Commercce
Mel Ninsey
Cullom
Washington notes and naval developments summarized
The article reports on ongoing affairs in Washington including the Vermont receiving ship to be sold at auction, a proposal to promote Schley Sampson and Clark to vice admiral rank, and Congress to take up canal legislation January 7. It also notes civil service restorations, legal questions on congressional power over anarchy, and statements by officials on elections, anti counterfeiting penalties, and Philippine governance plans. Additionally it cites Admiral Sampson’s protest regarding Dewey findings, internal revenue stamp redemption, and assessments of naval strength comparing US and European fleets.
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Washington
Vermont
Schley
House
Bonine
Civil Service Register
Congress
Schley, Sampson and
Clark
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Root
Gem Maso
Admiral Sampson
Admiral Dewey
Gage
Philippine Commission
Islands
Yerkes
Internal Revenue
Clover
London
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N. M. Ci “Dna
DicKinley National Memorial Asso
Mr. Gage
Mme. Tsilka
Acajutla
la Libertad
Salvador
Libertad
Southern
Mount Washington
Charles B. Fitcham
First National Bank of
Ballston, N. Y
Albany
Governor Gregory
William Gregory
Rhode Island
Wickford
R. L
Mr. Gregory
Beatrice, Neb
Letton
Commandant Kritzinger
Lord Kitchener
Cape Colony
French
William Alden Smith
Michigan
Springdale
Ark
Grand Army of the Republic
Isles
Farmers’ Bank
John Laughner
Whitestown
Laughners
Eli Vorrance
Committee On Pensions
Robert Beath
John C. Blick
James R. Carnahan
Indianapolis
Charles G. Burton
W. H. Upham
Marshfield Wis
Henry E. Tainter
Hartford
Conn
John ©. Linehan
Penacook
N. H
Spencer, Neb
Williama Parker
Peter Hansen
Parker
Auties
White
Dexter Knight
Bryan
Idaho
Seyedmold Hay
Waight
Buaba
Gothenburg
Gothenbure
Szoooo
Ail
WE. Selvage
J’ortsmouth
Chan Baker
Selvage
M, Constantine Makovsky
Lyman J. Gage
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