Passes on three transcontinental roads for Minnesota lawmakers
The Minnesota Legislature gains passes on three transcontinental roads for all 189 members during an off year breaking a precedent. Details note the Northern Pacific joins in the unusual transport effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
House
Senate
Northern Pacific
Ardmore
I. T
Springer
United States
Hammond
Caddo Bridge
Springer Road
William Goddard
Greensburg
Goddard
Charles Haas
Avondale
Chicago
B. P. Cheney
Cheney
Julia Arthur
Boston
Inauguration of George K Nash as Ohio Governor
Brief items note George K Nash's Monday inauguration in Columbus marking his second term as Ohio governor. Other dispatches report a forest fire in Indian Territory, a major Fayette Missouri opera house fire, and various national events including a Navy hospital death and rail accidents.
Pan American Exposition bondholders seek receiver
The List mortgage bondholders have applied for a receiver for the Pan American Exposition Company. Maryland legislators caucus nominate Arthur Pac Gorman for U S Senate. H W Gekey & Sons shoe factory in Jamestown N Y closed awaiting affairs adjustment. Two McKim children die in Coal City Pa house fire. Smallpox case at Princeton causes alarm. Sheldon Manufacturing Co of Binghamton enters involuntary bankruptcy with assets 48000 and liabilities 35000. Julia Foraker wed to Francis King Wainwright in Washington. Fifteen killed in New York Central tunnel crash at 56th Street. George D Stratton of Equitable Gas and Electric charged with $6000 theft. Robert H Jenkins of Everett Mass dies after election speech. Panama canal touted as superior to Nicaragua route. John P D Rockefeller offers Brown Univ 75000 for building if 25000 endowment raised by June. Bodies of Joseph Caskey Sr and Jr found shot in Cawden N J. Elbridge S Brooks dies in Somerville. Charles Caleb Creston found dead by gas in Philadelphia Germantown. Perry Belmont defeated by Montaine Lessler in Seventh District race. Taunton bank deficit tied to cotton futures speculation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Arthur Pac Gorman
United States Senate
H. W. Gekey & Sons
Jamestown
N. Y
Philip McKim
Coal City
Princeton
N. J
Sheldon Manufacturing Company
Binghamton
Julia Foraker
Foraker
Washington
Francis King Wainwright
Philadelphia
New York Central
Vifty-sixth Street
Park Avenue
New York
George D. Stratton
Equitable Gas and Electric Company
Utica
Robert H. Jenkins
Board of Aldermen
Everett
Mass
Panama
John PD. Rockefeller
Brown University
Joseph Caskey
Joseph Caskey, Jr
Cawden N. J
Elbridge S. Brooks
Somerville
Brooks
Charles
Bristol County National Bank
Taunton
Ing
Ewer
Vast late 19th century incidents from Kansas to Ohio
A digest of crime accidents and political notes from across the Midwest. Died figures include Wiswell from pericardial disease after severe cold. Col Ireland and Representative Gabrin death hints. Rail wrecks near Chicago and Marguette counter with deaths. Bank collapses in Grand Junction and East St. Louis robbery. Extra session planned in Minnesota. wheat idle around Wichita. many small local events.
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Powder Gang
Omaha
Hans Timme
John Rolfas
Rolfas
Timme
Albert Gabrin
Denver
Mr. Gabrin
Alice
Frank Simonton
Union City
Mabel Simonton
Simonton
Col
Frank St. Ireland
Nebraska City
Neb
Col. Ireland
Democratic State Committee
Gov
van Sant
Minnesota
Tax Commission
Wichita
Khan
Kansas
Chicago
Rock Island and Pacific
Philippines
Columbus Barracks
Ohio
Twenty-second Street
Margnette County
Mich
Nezaunee
Cheengy
Pittsburg
Edmond Palmer
Deg Plaines
Ashlie
Ellisville
Palmer
Woabash
Lagro
Ancvtte Trosht
John Brumbaugh
W.C Humphrey
Elmer Harrison
Coltsville
Youngstown
Ohnio
Laprota
Harrison
Multiple calamities and legal actions reported across states
A Glendora mill fire in Mississippi involves Shulte Hardwood Lumber Company. John Banks seeks a Knoxville divorce citing tight lacing and ill health with desertion. A Monongahela collision near Shinunstown West Virginia injures six and wrecks two engines plus a mail car. Oxford Mississippi convicts Whit Owens of aiding murder of US deputies Montgomery. life imprisonment. North Carolina Governor Aycock sets February 25 for six white hangings, amid appeals to the Supreme Court.
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Shulte Hardwood Lumber Company
Glendora
Miss
John Banks
Knoxville
Oxford
Whit Owens
Montgomerys
United States
Gov
Aycock
North Carolina
Supreme Court
Beckham
Kentucky Legislature Dismisses Lawlessness Reports
The Kentucky Legislature at Frankfort dismissed reports of widespread lawlessness, affirming that the states’ legal supremacy guarantees citizens protection. A series of industrial and transport incidents followed including a Beaumont Texas sale, a Kansas City Southern bid, a fatal rail collision in West Virginia, a South Carolina ex-governor’s prison term, and a Texas oil gusher near Columbia with widespread interest and flooding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Frankfort
Union
Port Arthur Channel and Dock Company
United States Marshal
Beaumont
Texas
Max Pam
Kansas City Southern Railway
Norfolk and Western Express
Columbus
Ohio
Norfolk
Gray
W. Va
New York
Franklin J. Moses
South Carolina
Boston
Equitable Mining Company
Hogg
Keyser’s Mound
Columbia
Foreign News Roundup From Global Capitals and Conflicts
The report surveys Pekin as a capital entrance flash with oriental splendor, Paraguayan revolutionaries oust Aceval and install Carvallo, and a new ministry follows a fatal Senate riot. Paris funds uplift electric street railways in Mexico City at low fares, while South Africa’s year in review notes Boer and British losses and a Boer raager capture. American sailors clash with Russians near New Chwang. A parasite discovery near Bathurst is reported. The American China Development Company seeks bonds for Hankow Canton Railroad, linking Canton to Pekin. Plans for Mecca electric pilgrimage and Red Sea routes arise from US Construction Company in Turkey and Egypt projects.
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Pekin
Aceval
Hector Carvallo
Senate
Paris
Mexico City
South Africa
London
Mokwuani
de Beers
New Chwang
China
State Department
Conger
Sirtred Jones
Liverpoel School of Tropial Medicine
Maj Toss
Dutton
Bathurst
Amercan Clina Development Company
Hankow-Canton
Canton
Pekio
Mecca
United States Construction Company
Turkey
Cairo
Egypt
Mount Sinai
Red Sea
Damascus
Hepburn Isthmian canal bill debate and Panama route spread
Congress engaged the Hepburn Isthmian canal bill with debate on the Panama route after Panama company offered to sell its property to the United States for 40 million dollars. Key figures questioned the route choice while support for Panama grew, and final passage favored Nicaragua 170 to 120 in a separate vote.
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House of Representatives
Panama Company
United States
Cannon
Illinois
Reeves
Committee On Appropriations
Committee On
Hepburn
Panama
Congress
Canal
House
Nicaragua
Button
Ohio
Fletcher
Minnesota
Lassiter
Virgina
Bishop
Michigan
Press
Northwest
Page Morris
Duluth
Roosevelt reviews Schley court findings after conference
Reports say President Roosevelt consents to review the Schley court of inquiry findings following a recent meeting with Admiral. other items include a shipboard blaze at a Sarnia mill causing $40,000 damage, and naval postings as Rear Admiral Wildes prepares for Asiatic squadron duty.
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Roosevelt
Schley Court of Inquiry
Jas
Shell
Cleveland and Sarnia
Sarnia
Ont
Frank Wildes
Pensacola Navy Yard
Navy Department
San Francisco
Asiatic Squadron
Remey
Arthur H. Noyes
Alaska
United States Court of Appeals
Joseph Wood
C. A. S. Frost
Bristol
Green Island
Vancouver
Skaguay
McIntyre
Verona
Fira
Washington Notes on Army, Canteen and Immigration
The President recently signed 1,800 army commissions. Congressman Kern introduced no bill to re establish the army canteen. Advocates of Chinese exclusion prepared a bill to bar Mongolians from the United States. Contractor Peirce will finish the Chicago post office around May 1 with penalties totaling 50 500, likely remitted due to foundation delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kern
United States
Peirce
Chicago
How to Veneer Fashionably
An ironic piece on snow time vanity and pretend wealth. It jokes about hiring furs from pawnbrokers to woo a girl, featuring remarks about a mayor, a senator, and jewelry as social theater. The voice mocks aspirational elegance and costly show.
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Manitoba
Deg
Piteve
Wyoming
Philadelphia
Important Kidney Cure Claim by Mr Major in Detroit
Detroit Jan 13. A sensational statement by Benjamin Major of Jane and Hurlbut avenues claims a cure for kidney and bladder troubles using Dodd's Kidney Is. He reports long suffering followed by complete recovery after trying many medicines. The piece notes Washington’s business prowess and mentions canal and railroad ideas tied to his era.
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His ‘Majesty's Dockyard
Portamouth
England
St. Jacobs Ol
Rabbets
Jacobs Oll
His Majesty's Dockyard
St. Jacobs
Arthur Creswell
Commercial Road
Vogeler
Elizabeth S. Rabbets
Grafton Street
Mile End
Landport
St. Jacobs, Ltd
Baltimore
Detroit
Mich
Benjamin Major
Jane and
Hurlbut Avenue
Major
Dodd
I Do Not Think I Could Be Stingy With The Gas
A stern parent questions a hopeful suitor about supporting his daughter. The young man hesitates then concedes he can manage except for being stingy with the gas, a wry exchange noted by the Denver Times.
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Denver Times
Trouble Ahead and Miscellany Snippets in One Page
A collage of quotes and brief items including a dialgoue fragment about a boy receiving a lickin, a mock English shopper line about hiring, Putnam faceless dyes claim, lumbermen judging trees by sound, Piso's Cure advertisement, a Washington DC address with a 1901 date, a Mencius quote, and Mrs Austin’s pop cake ad from Russ Company in South Bend Indiana.
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Thebrimfield News
Brimfield News
Addison Pacey
Piqua
Obie
Third National Bank
Piqua National Bank
Harry B Chick
Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City
Casher
Timothy
Hogan
Calamvtis
Blackwell’s Island
Ohin
Benjamin C. Keig
Madison
Wis
Keig
St Paul Road
Alderman Lisses
George K Nash
Tush Kamp
Naval Hospital
Coastel Harbor II
Newport
R. I
Dow
Wartshorne
George W. Hinman
Fuastery
Chicago Inter Ocean, Charles T Yerkes
William Penn Nixon
Andrew Carnegie
Rock Island Road
O’keene
C. T. Mme
Nouene
Department of Agriculture
Western
Milwauthee
George XII
Wiswell
J. Pearsons
Wooster University
Jewett
Kansas State Penitentiary
Sulhers
Thomas Redmond
Thomas Seruges
Ind
Iho
Grand Western
Key Station
Utah
Frank Cowell
Salt Lake
Knoickerbocker Ice Company
Racine
Wisconsin
A. B. Phillips
Ashtabula
David Palio
Southern
Himeis National Bank
East S. Louis
Supreme Court of Imhiana
J. D. Choate
Colorado Sanitarium
Boulder
Colo
Choate
National Stock Yards Bank
East St. Louis
Ill
Robert Sidman
St. Louis
Margaret
Smt
Cole
Jim Younger
Minnesota State Board of Pardons
Northfield
Newhouse Tunnel
Idaho Springs
Huse
Topkins
Eisus
Eribry
Burdett
Nebrisa
Ruberts
Massachusetts
St. Lois
Brooklyn
Brooking
St. Loui
Philadelphes
Mra
McKanley
Kenswegor
Objio
Town
Barney
Hearney
Richardson
Tennessee
Gaines
Lever
Representative Stokes
Nelson
Department of Commerce
S. G. Sharp
Deboe
Rep
Blackburn
Dem
Sharp
Goebel-Taylor
Goebel
Brudder
New York Evening Journal
B. Borden
P Street
Washington, D.C
Mencius
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