Senate considers Hay-Pauncefote canal treaty action
Senator Lodge reports the foreign relations committee favoring the Hay-Pauncefote Isthmian canal treaty and plans daily executive sessions until action. Senator Hoar offers a resolution on deporting and punishing lynching instigators and introduces bills on conspiracy restraint of trade and other topics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Washington
Lodge
Committee On Foreign Relations
Hoar
Massachusetts
United States
Thurston
Gamble
Warren
Penrose
Freedmen’s Bureau
Perkins
Teller
Territory
Alaska
Trans-Alaskan Railroad Company
Mason
Territory of
Hawaii
Civil Rule Announcement on Boer Concentration Camps
Lord Onslow announced from Crewe that South African concentration camps are now under civil control. He said the camps will be kept in healthy condition and that inmates may move to the coast. Large camps will be split into units of 2000 to 3000, with further action if conditions fail to improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lord Onslow
Colonial Office
Crewe
South Africa
India
Berlin Interpellation on Chamberlain Speech Delayed
Dr. Hasse faced a setback as Dr. von Thielmann's illness postpones a Reichstag debate on Joseph Chamberlain's Edinburg remarks. The planned discussion on veterans' pensions was halted when Thielmann contracted influenza, stalling the anticipated sensational session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Hasse
Reichstag
Edinburg
Joseph Chamberlain
von Thielmann
Treasury
Chamberlain
von Thielman
Costly Manila Rentals Prompt War Dept Action
Washington reports the United States spends about 12000 dollars monthly on Manila military buildings and more for other sites. Officials plan relief measures, noting the burden of furnishing quarters for officers and troops at various garrisons and the likelihood that convents and monasteries now used by soldiers may continue to be utilized for some time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Manila
War Department
Philippines
Chaffee
Batangas
Laguna
Luzon
Samar
Minoro
Cebu
Borol
McArthur
Triple Hanging in Taytay Report Shocks Manila
From Manila the military authorities report the hanging of the president of Taytay the chief of police and the vice sergeant for murdering seven natives by stabbing and burying them alive during American occupation. A priest sentenced to death had sentence commuted to twenty years. Thousands witness the executions including 15 presidentes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taytay
Manila
Presidente
Leposoy
Presidentes
Trolley and Light Deal Faces Pittsburg Vote
Stockholders in a Philadelphia firm approved a 116000000 end to an era of expansion. The agreement transfers control of Consolidated Traction and multiple Pittsburgh transit and utility entities, including Monongahela Street Railway, Pittsburg and Birmingham Traction, Southern Traction, Suburban Traction, and related Heat and Light interests, with the deal to take effect July 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Philadelphia Company
Wolle
Consolidated Traction Company
Monongahela Street Railway Company
Pittsburg & Birmingham Traction Company
Southern Traction Company
Suburban Traction Company
Mono
Horror at an Execution in Arkansas
Bud Wilson, who killed guard R. H. Naylor at Yell county convict camp last September, was hanged in Danville. The trap opened at 9 45 and the body was lowered at 10 15. After death the body twitched and moved in the coffin, was removed, revived, and re taken to the scaffold where it again became rigid and then limp. Doctors ruled death by strangulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Bud Wilson
R. H. Naylor
Yell County
Danville
Wilson
Freight Train Plunges 300 Feet Near Fraser River
From Vancouver British Columbia Friday morning a Pacific freight train on a curve 400 feet above the Fraser river encountered a rockslide. Engineer Randall signaled to reverse as the train slowed to five miles per hour. The engine toppled 300 feet down a sheer bluff toward the river. Randall and fireman Petruff died. Three cars were wrecked and tumbled over the bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
B. C
Pacific
Frazer River
Randall
Petruff
Lead Price Fixed At Three And Half Cents
A New York Tribune special reports that lead producers and American Smelting and Refining have agreed on a lead price for future contracts. The price is set at three and one half cents per pound, down from the current level by half a cent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
New York
United States
American Smelting and Refining Company
Warfare on the Negroes in Andalusia under martial law
Governor sends troops to aid Sheriff Bradshaw as Opp mob threat grows in Andalusia. Rioters, including three black men killed near Opp, spark widespread alarm as authorities brace for further violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andalusia
Ala
Bradshaw
Opp
Two Die in Carnegie Fire At Klee Home On Broadway
A Friday morning blaze in Carnegie, Pennsylvania killed two family members and left seven injured. Victims include Mrs. Sarah Klee, 43, and Mary Klee, 9, while survivors are Samuel Klee 50 Ida 20 Anna 17 Rachel 10 Eva 10 Jenny 6 and Harry 4. The two story frame house housed a grocery on the ground floor owned by the Klee family.
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Pittsburg
Carnegie
Sarah Klee
Mary Klee
Samuel Klee
Ida Klee
Anna Klee
Rachel Klee
Eva Klee
Jenny Klee
Harry Klee
Klee
Broadway
Marriages and political moves in early 1900s headlines
Rev Father Anthony Politeo of St John the Baptist Kansas City Kansas wed Eva Springsteen in St Joseph Missouri. Oklahoma statehood bill advances with McKinley capital proposal. Cannon of issues include cannibalism reports in Samoa and a grand Pan American Conference ball in Mexico.
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Kansas City Times
Anthony Politeo
St. John the Baptist
Kansas City
Kan
St. Joseph
Eva Springsteen
Fair
Chicago
Atchison, Kas
M. C. Wetmore Tobacco Company
St. Louis
Continental Tobacco Company
Crozier
Ordnance
Ordnancé
Buffington
Fairbanks
Oklahoma
McKinley
Jessie Earl
Advance
Ind
Chicago Southeastern
Wall Street
Lushwartie Bay
Vancouver Island
Nome
Sheets
Ohio
Diverse 1901 News Digest From Coast to Midwest
The report surveys social reform debates in Portland with a battle over the Massachusetts plan for federation delegates. It notes wage raises for Twin City Rapid Transit workers in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Stillwater, and an arson attempt probe into a Beverly Missouri wreck. It covers Dunn’s Berlin sentencing for check fraud, Graham’s $5,000 breach of promise award, Cuban squadron Havana visit, a basket manufacturers trust drive, Considine’s post office robbery conviction, and Masonic Texas recognition of Mexican lodges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Woman's Club
Los Angeles
Twin City Rapid Transit Company
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Stillwater
Burlington Railway
Beverly
Francis Gordon Dunn
New York
Berlin
Davidson
Dunn
Edgar County
Paris
Ill
Rosa Ella Graham
Barnett T. Morrow
Morrow
Miss Graham
Wood
Cuba
North Atlantic
Havana
Mississippi
Williard Ducomb
Findlay
Ohio
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
District Court
Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas
Grand Lodge of
Valley of Mexico
City of Mexico
Grand Lodge
Benito Juarez
Coahuila
Grand Lodge of Texas
United States
Woods & Malone
Savannah
Conference Limits Word Machinery in Cigar Boycott Resolution
The American Federation of Labor conference met two hours in Scranton on December 9 with a vote to strike the word machinery from a resolution denouncing machine-made cigars produced by child labor. Debate ended by ruling the previous question, and the amended resolution was adopted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Boston
Emeline R. Balch
Manchester
N. H
New Jersey State Board of Health
New Jersey
Honolulu
Tutuila
Roosevelt
W. J. Bryan
Robert Fulton
Trinity Church Yard
New York City
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
New Berry
Fla
J. B. Esterlin
H. Johnson
Ernest Wade
Wells, Fargo & Co
el Paso
Tex
Col
Henry Watterson
Kentucky
Students’ Lecture Association
Ann Arbor
Mich
Abraham Lincoln
National Palace
Scranton
Conference of the American Federation of Labor
Committee On
Riot at Scranton during street car strike turns deadly
In Scranton Pennsylvania a major riot erupted as officers tried to arrest a man in a saloon. Miners attacked with drills clubs and bottles prompting fired shots and a retreat by police and non union motormen. Three mob members were wounded but not seriously.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Frank Schoffield
Cosgrove
Millar
Mystery over Nell Cropsey disappearance advances
In Elizabeth City North Carolina a search committee member预计 significant progress within 48 hours in the Nell Cropsey case. He suspects kidnaping as the truth behind her mysterious disappearance. A mass meeting drew over 1 000 people and raised about 200 dollars to aid the search.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth City
N. C
Nell Cropsey
Wilson Creates Division of Soil Management in Agriculture Bureau
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson announced a new Soil Management Division within the Bureau of Soils with Prof. F H King in charge. The division will follow soil surveys and study crop distribution and optimal cultivation methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of Agriculture
Department
Washington
Wilson
Bureau of Soils
F. H. King
University of Wisconsin
Two Trains In Collision Near North Yakima
A head end collision two miles north of North Yakima on the Northern Pacific killed two trainmen and injured five. Engineers Cooper and a fireman unnamed perished. Three engines and 83 cars were destroyed on a sharp curve caused by a misunderstanding.
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North Yakima
Wash
Here
Northern Pacific
Cooper
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Edward John Eyre
Jamaica
Byron
Sotheby's
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
First National Bank of
Charles E Fitcham
American Sug Refining Company
Theodore Molkinton
Germany
J. L. McAlister
Grand Central Hotel
Tacoma
F. H. Webber
Wichita
Kas
Shin
Clyde Moore
Standard Oil Company
Vincennes
Unio
Labor Mill
Wilkesbarre
Federation
Gompers
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