Congress Sets Out War News In Briefings Of Far East Conflicts
The week outlines impeachment moves against Judge Charles Swayne, a Senate bill on interstate lottery transport, and Shackelford resolution approvals. Far East updates report Russian raids, Japanese countermeasures, and naval actions near Port Arthur, with casualties and prisoner transfers noted. Local incidents include Chicago fire damage, a Veedersburg murder, Fort Riley deaths, and a Moscow assassination attempt.
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Congress
Charles Swayne
House
Senate
Shackelford
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Panama
United States
Various 1905 News Bits From U S And Europe
Simon Burford leaves in 1865 for Montana to become a notable figure in that territory. Essen, Germany denies Bertha Krupp’s pill report. Western Missouri Episcopal clergy term divorcees tandem polygamy. Indianapolis coal miners prepare for another 1906 fight. The St Louis cruiser will be ready after Delaware River construction. Elmer J. Burkett poised as Nebraska’s youngest US senator. Missouri singer Courteney Thomas to Monte Carlo and Brussels. El Reno’s BE K Brown dies in Kansas City after poisoning. National Live Stock association splits from rail and packers. U S Secret Service chief announces a new counterfeit two dollar bill. Smoot case witnesses say polygamy fading in Utah. Neepawa Manitoba theater fire causes $50,000 loss. Reading Pa ecclesiastical court adjourns. Red Men plan Powhattan Pocahontas monument in Petersburg. Fulton County vault robbed of $5,000 to $10,000. Count Pueckler jailed in Berlin for Jew baiting. Silas Garber, Nebraska governor, dies in Omaha. Connecticut’s Bulkeley chosen for US senator. Lodge renominated and Crane to fill Hoar term. August Anheuser Sr. dies in Germany. cousin of St. Louis Busch. Africa bishop Hartzel sails for Liverpool. German mine owners vow to suppress strikes. Children taken from New York foundling asylum face habeas corpus. Brodie L. Duke sanity hearing ordered. Ellis Island immigration may exceed records. Chicago Press Club marks 25th anniversary. Santa Fe wreck near Raton kills three. Beveridge active in Senate races.
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Eine Cy Mont
Mattones Ubeasce
Indianapolia
An & War
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Delaware River
Warshp
Elmer J. Burkett
United States Senate
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Iowa
Misa Courteney Thomas
Missouri
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Brussels
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el Reno
Okla
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Wilkie
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Lyons Register
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Smoot
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Manitoba
Ecclesiastical Court of Inquiry
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Talbot
Order of Red Men
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Wauseon
Count Pueckler
Germany
Berlin
Silas Garber
Omaha
Ohio
Morgan G. Bulkeley
Connecticut
Republic Caucus
Hartford
United States
Joseph R. Hawley
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
W. Murry Crane
Hoar
August Anheuser, Sr
Krueznach
Adolphus Busch
J. C
George Harvey
New York
Gov. Cummins
Raton
N. M
Las Vegas
Albert J. Beveridge
Poverty in New York Exposed by Philanthropist Letter
Washington reports a New York philanthropist describes unemployment in the metropolis as the nation’s worst. About 100000 idle men, 40 percent higher than last year, and 50000 children in school breakfast programs signal a vast crisis. The letter notes charities overwhelmed and stresses immediate relief over long term immigration limits.
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Washington
Sargent
Bureau Ofmmigration
New York
Department of Charities
Congress
Remarkable Storm Hits St Louis January Dawn
A early January storm in St Louis began as snow then sleet and rain causing widespread suffering among the shelterless. Police stations and charitable homes sheltered many, and a man was found frozen to death in a doorway at 1238 Franklin Avenue as streetcar service collapsed and schedules were abandoned.
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St. Louis
Franklin Avenue
Chicago Press Club marks 25th anniversary banquet
The Chicago Press club celebrated its silver anniversary with a banquet at 106 Madison street. Guests included Col. George Harvey of New York and Gov. Albert E. Cummins of Town, who praised the American press. About 240 members and guests attended.
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Chicago
Chicago Press Club
Madison Street
George Harvey
New York
Albert E. Cummins
Town
A Russian Quaker Colony to Settle Near Los Angeles
New York reports that two hundred thousand Russian Quakers plan a permanent colony near Los Angeles California local organizer P A Deamens claims to have served in the Russian imperial guard and was banished for joining the Molokanys sect refusing to bear arms He says the group will establish a lasting settlement in California.
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Los Angeles
Cal
P. A. Deamens
Molo
Kanys
Fire devastates Chelsea Academy of Music and adjoining buildings
A blaze starting at 12 15 this morning gutted the Academy of Music on Broadway Chelsea and spread to the Hotel Savoy and a four story brick tenement rear. By 1 PM the fire was out of control prompting aid from Boston Everett and Revere. Reports say two men may have perished from collapsing walls. twenty families evacuated with likely safe escape.
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Chelsea
Mass
Academy of Music
Broadway
Wreck On Santa Fe Near Wagon Mound Kills Three
Las Vegas NM Jan 13 A rear end collision between the California Limited and a freight train near Wagon Mound three miles south of Ra ton killed three men and fatally injured two others while scores more were injured in dense fog. The doomed firemen were A M Cochran Melvin Kas Grueneberg and Philip Treinensheiner. Engineers F G Boomer and P A Allison survived. The passenger train carried Pullman cars and sustained heavy damage though sleepers largely escaped. Traffic resumed slowly all day.
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N. M
California Limited
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Wagon Mound
Raton
A.M. Cochran
Melvin
Kas
Grueneberg
Allison
Limited
Tipton
Port Arthur Turned Over After Siege Report
Washington reports Gen. Nogi delivered Port Arthur including forts guns and ammunition with 645 large to small calibers. Nagasaki says 1,600 Russian POWs and 50 officers arrived, Gen Stoessel to sail January 16. Other dispatches note Russia weighing peace, and various personal notices from New York to Vermont.
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Tokio
Nogi
Port Arthur
Sevastopol
Nagasaki
Japan
Kaga
Sunuki
Inasa
Stoessel
Europe
Dual associations now form amid cattlemen split in Denver
The National Live Stock Association fractured over its new constitution as cattlemen, horse and swine growers, and allied industries split off to form the American Stock Growers' Association. The new body will admit individual members only and reject amalgamated associations, aiming to resist railroads and packers in cattle industry control.
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Col
National
Ve One
American Stock Growers’ Association
Tragedy as New York Fire Kills Ja Family
A New York fire at 133 West One Hundred and Thirtieth street early Sunday morning killed lawyer Wm. T. Maron and his family, including wife Ellen four and Marion six months, plus servant Annie Wells. Neighbors heard cries of murder or burglars, but investigators found no sign of foul play. The father and youngest child were untouched by flames. others likely died from suffocation, with charred bodies found in a closet under the roof scuttle. Firefighters faced smoke as they attempted entry.
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New York
Wm. T. Maron
Ellen
Marion
Annie Wells
West One Hundred and Thirtieth Street
Fire Eats Through Schwarzschild Beef House in Chicago
A four hour blaze at Schwarzschild Sulzberger beef storage in Chicago’s stockyards caused under 5000 dollars in damage. Sawdust packed eight feet between walls ignited, likely by spontaneous combustion, making the fire unseen as crews battled with water from over twenty engines.
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Chicago
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Company
Murder in First Degree Verdict in Kansas City Case
Kansas City jury returns a first degree murder verdict against Frank Holtman for complicity in the May 10 killing of printer Clarence Meyers. Aggie Meyers, widow of the victim, is jailed for complicity. Holtman’s conviction rests on his confession. defense offered little. The confession describes a premeditated brutal act.
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Kansas City
Frank Holtman
Clarence Meyers
Aggie Meyers
Holtman
Missouri Governor Announces Board Appointments
Gov Folk disclosed plans to name Andrew C Maroney as president of the board of election commissioners and John F Lee as the other Democratic member. A C Stewart is tapped as general counsel for the St Louis Union Trust Co and president of the St Louis board of police commissioners replacing William G Frye. Benjamin Schnurmacher will represent Republicans on the board. Appointments await Senate confirmation Monday.
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Jefferson City
Benjamin Schnurmacher
Senate
Warner to Succeed Ware As Pension Commissioner
Washington January 14 The president will appoint Congressman Vespesian Warner of Illinois nineteenth district as commissioner of pensions. Warner, re-elected last November to a fifth term, was strongly endorsed by prominent G A R members and other veterans groups. The appointment goes to the senate today.
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Vespesian Warner
Illinois
Warner
Congress
Senate
Tragedy of the Strike Deepens in Fall River
January 13 reports another grim event in the Fall River cotton mill strike. John Neville, a weaver, killed himself with a razor after news of the Boston strike conference failure. Three striking loom fixers, James Logan, Michael Waddington, and Peter Hudson, were found unconscious from illuminating gas and expected to recover in hospital.
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Fall River
Mass
John Neville
Boston
James Logan
Michael Waddington
Peter Hudson
Dormitory Gift for Tuskegee Institute From Miss Emery
Between trains in Cincinnati on January 15 Booker T. Washington received a new Tuskegee dormitory donated by Elizabeth Julia Emery now in Europe. Emery has funded two dorms already, with her brother Thomas Emery arranging the third.
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Cincinnati
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee
Ala
Elizabeth Julia Emery
Europe
Thomas Emery
Acta
Reuben Williams
Girl dies by gas as mother grieves newborn
Chicago report: Mrs. Sarah Libman, distraught by a girl child, ends her life by gas inhalation and also causes the death of her three year old daughter Frieda. Neighbors rescue two other small children. Salt Lake banker B H Rhetler jailed for taking deposits while insolvent. Died in arms: Mrs. John B. Faber. Pembroke Wise, 72, veteran attorney, dies in St Joseph. Charles T. King, 3, dies in St Louis. Joplin population rise eyed as census work continues.
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Sarah Libman
St. Louis
Jan
John B. Faber
South
Jefferson Avenue
Dr. Faber
Pembroke V. Wise
St. Joseph
Charles T. King
South Twenty- Becond Street
Joplin
Peruna Ad Praises For Lung Cold Cure
An old advertisement extols Peruna as a preventive and remedy for catarrh coughs colds and lung illnesses. It cites testimonials from Mrs H B Adams and Mrs Frances Wilson claiming relief and speedy cure after using the product including a six bottle course and endorsement of its preventative value.
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H. B. Adams
Palmetto Club
New Orleans
Garfield Court
South Bend
Imd
Peruna
Asd
Spcom
Frances Wilson
Nelson St. Clinton
Mass
Perna
What Women Are Doing In Public Life And Business
A survey of professional women notes Mrs E Weatherred from Oregon at expositions, Gwen dolyn S Hamilton reporting on Jamaica cotton, and Mrs H E Root managing Wyoming opera bill posting. An Ohio clergyman cites 430000 professional women and rising numbers in law, journalism, clergy, medicine, and government, with women advancing in many fields.
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Wellesley
E. Weatherred
Oregon
St. Louis
Portland
Ore
Mies Gwendolyn S. Hamilton
Jamaica
New British Cotton Growing Association
West Indies
H. E. Root
Wyoming
Ohio
United States
Jest and Jollity at the Barroom Gate
A series of witty exchanges in a lighthearted social vignette. A Chicago girl asks about cooking school, a Boston cousin riffs on gastronomy, and a landlady compares boarders. A flirtatious young man boasts of love market skill while a maid replies with humor about a dusted restaurant corner. A veteran and a hobo exchange lines on discharge papers and luck.
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Chicago
Boston
Tartaric Truths and Wit in a Yonkers Stumper
A Yonkers Statesman humorous bit contrasts temper and intellect. A quip about love, marriage, charity, and life insurance toys with everyday woes and witticisms in a brisk, satirical tone.
Four years of Rheumatism Healed by Pink Pills
Mrs Dinsmore recounts years of rheumatism in hands and knees and failed treatments. After trying Dr Williams Pink Pills for four months she was completely cured with only minor later flare ups. The testimonial claims lasting relief and attributes recovery to the pills.
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Vermont
Rutland
Gary
Bell
Mary Rogers
Windsor
Dr. Williams
England
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