Happenings of the Past Seven Days In Review
A digest of world events notes the death of Swiss consul Koradi in Philadelphia, and King Peter of Servia denying resignation plans. Reports cover outlaws captured, rail mergers hearings, land and forest policy actions, and international incidents from Kingston Jamaica to James town preparations.
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Boyd
St. Louis
Elph Koradi
Conwa
Philadelphbia
Senor Torrionete
Spain
Walter Spess
Bill Debolt
Mannford
I. T
Lver Dyer
United States
Tha
Boston
Root
Earl Grey
Canada
Ottawa
Prarie Oil and Gas Company
Atlcon
Indian Territory
King Peter of
Servia
Sigsbee
Main
Havana
Dunne
Chicago
Reuben R. Adams
State Senate
Ar- Raness
Albert B. Cummings
Iowa
John D. Rockefeller
Euclid Avenue Baptist Sunday School
Cleveland
Bailey
Texas Mga
Waters-Pierce Oi! Company
Congressional
Pino Roosevelt
Nin
Feneral
House
Congress
Tillman
Gensense
Stute
J. States
Representa
Roosevel
Megro
Eastern flood conditions cripple towns and leave thousands homeless
Flood outlook turned gloomy as the Ohio and Mississippi rivers rose again. Cities along the river suffered broken gas mains, darkened lights, and crippled transport and communications. Hundreds of families were displaced in Iron, Portsmouth, and New Port Kentucky with refugee shelters and aid efforts underway. Washington issued a flood bulletin predicting further rises and worsening food shortages.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Iron
Portsmouth
New Port
Manchester
Harris
Seventh Regiment
Washington
Weather Bureau
Mississippi
Ohio River
Missouri Legislature Debates Salaries and Bills in Session
The Missouri Senate and House consider a broad package including a pure foods measure, Civil War monuments funding, wage assignments, rail rate inquiries, and a two cent passenger rate hearing. A constitutional salary debate lands on 750 dollars while a corporation tax proposal and election-judge appointments advance. The House passes a surplus earnings tax bill for nonrailroad, nonbank corporations.
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Senate
House
Senator Gilmore
Devilbiss
Kimmerer
St. Louis
Missouri
Vicksburg
Miss
Lookout Mountain
Shiloh
Noyes
Dowell
Lewis
State Railway and Warehouse Commissioners
Senate Committee On
Railway Committee
House Committee On
Miller Objects to Criticism in Private Claims Debate
Washington House clashed over private claims bills as Mr Mann objected to committee review. Mr Miller the Claims Committee chair challenged a statement by Mr Marin, allowing only factual remarks. Applause followed, signaling House tempers in the dispute.
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Miller
Washington
House
Mann
Kan
Marin
House approves salary raise for top officials
By a vote of 133 to 92 the house adopted an amendment to the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill. It raises the vice president speaker and cabinet to 12000 annually and senators representatives territorial delegates and the Porto Rico resident commissioner to 7500. Increases take effect March 4, 1907.
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Senate
Brown
Divilbiss
Dorris
Hayman
Wornall
Gilmore
Fields
Eads
House
Baleed
Washington, D. C
Territories
Porto Rico
Arkansas Anti-Trust Suits Filed in Little Rock
District attorney filed suits Friday against Armour and Co Waters-Pierce Oil Hammond Packing Morris and Co and the Cudahy Packing Co for 1 833 000 alleging continued violation of the Arkansas anti trust law after a October filing. The action seeks penalties under the statute.
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Little Rock
Ark
Armour& Co
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Hammond Packing Company
Morris & Co
Cudahy. Packing Company
Brownsville Resolution Postponed in Senate
In Washington, on Friday, the Senate delayed further action on the Brownsville resolution at the suggestion of Senator Keep and set consideration for next Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
Washington, D. C
Senator Keep
Senate
Nebraska Anti tipping Bill Faces Senate Action
Lincoln lawmakers consider a Senate Judiciary committee bill to ban tipping and hold individuals or firms employing waiters or servants liable for tips as a misdemeanor with fines. A separate House bill by McMullen of Gage removes contributory negligence as a defense in civil suits by carrier employees and denies relief benefits contracts or indemnity insurance as a defense.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Neb
Senate
Judiciary Committee
McMullen
Gage
Senate Passes Jamaica Relief and Army Expansion
The Senate on Friday deferred Browns ville action until Monday and passed bills authorizing relief for earthquake struck Jamaica and increasing the army artillery corps. Senator Kittredge spoke on the lumber trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Washington
Brownsville
Jamaica
Lumber Trust
Kittredge
Santa Fe Wreck Keneas Topeka Kansas
Santa Fe passenger train No 4 the Chicago Limited from California derailed twenty miles west of Hutchinson Kansas. One engineer killed and a number of passengers injured in the eastbound wreck.
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Santa Fe
Keneas
Topeka
Kan
California
Hutchison
Aineer
Range Losses Expected From Heavy Snow
Pierre reports heavy snow across the region endangering live stock. Deep snow covers winter range, raising fears of significant losses and strain on grazing grounds.
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Pierre
Flood Wrecks Thirty Miles of Rail in Ohio and West Virginia
Flooded Ohio and West Virginia sections of the Kanawha and Michigan railroad stretch about thirty miles under water. Central dispatches report the Onie and Kanawhy rivers again overflowing.
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Columbus
Ohio
West Virginia
Onie
Kanawhy
State banks liable for twice capital in bank failure
Jefferson City Senator Hud gon of Livingston County proposes making state banks liable for double their capital stock if a bank fails. The measure mirrors national bank protection and would place state banks on the same footing as national banks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Hudgon
Livingston County
Unclear OCR Item About Sider Pou Sen Philadelphia
Fragmentary OCR note mentions Rodolph Koredi with scattered phrases about a government, 1900 date, a 60:4 ratio, and a potato inquiry. Names and facts are poorly legible. no clear event or outcome presented.
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Sider
Pou Sen
Philadelphia
Rodolph Koredi
Seches
Quire
Sorvite
Major timber deal targets Meramec lands in Missouri
J K Barnes of Des Moines buys all walnut timber on Meramec Iron Works lands in Phelps and Crawford counties. About 6 000 acres hold walnut worth 20 000 dollars. He plans a mill at St James with 150 workers to cut and ship 2 foot stock for gun stocks to government and Marlin Army Co. over two years. He expects 4 000 000 stocks from timber and roots.
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Des Moines
Meramec Iron Works Company
Phelps
Crawford Counties
Barnes
Marlin Army Company
Massachusetts
St. James
Arkansas
Union
Missouri Poor Houses Report Shows 2950 Inmates
The fifth biennial report of the state board of charities lists 2950 pauper inmates in Missouri poor houses. Of these 1615 are men and 1335 women, 1037 insane, 448 feeble minded, 180 epileptics, 603 ill or crippled and 162 paralytics. Thirty counties provide special wells for the insane, 27 institutions operate under lease, and 17 require able bodied to do manual labor. Twenty four counties failed to report on poor houses.
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State Board of Charities
Missouri
State Dairymen Elect Officers at Columbia Meeting
The state dairymen's association elected officers. Dr. George C. Mosher of Kansas City is president, J. H. Smith of Brookfield and Thomas Shields of Eureka are vice presidents, R. M. Washburn is secretary, and D. B. Matthews of Kirksville is treasurer.
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Corn Growers
Corn Growers’ Association of Missouri
Columbia
C. C. Raine
Canton
Lewis County
E. E. Loughlin
Rich Hill
G. H. Sly
Rockport
William Wallace
Vandalia
P. E. Crabtree
State Dairymen’s
State Dairymen’s Association
George C. Mosher
Kansas City
J. H. Smith
Brookfield
Thomas Shields
Eureka
R. M. Washburn
D. B. Matthews
Kirksville
Reward Offered for Arrest of Firing on Reverend Frye
Gov Folk issues proclamation offering 200 dollar reward to supplement county court’s 150 dollars for the arrest and conviction of the unknown shooter who fired from ambush at Rev L W Frye in his pulpit at Zadoc Stoddard County.
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Folk
L. W. Frye
Zadoc
Stoddard County
Aged Woman Dies of Starvation in St Joseph Home
Mrs. Catharine Adams aged 79 died of starvation at her daughter Mrs. J. B. Wilson’s home in St Joseph. She had been stricken with a nervous affection of the esophagus.
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Catharine Adams
J. 8
Wilson
St Joseph
Belated Funeral Sermon Unites Two Solomon Obituaries
The funeral of H G Solomon near Sapp Boone county was held with a rare plan. The minister preached simultaneously for H G Solomon and his wife Mrs Solomon who died ten years earlier using the same text and remarks.
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H .G. Solomon
Sapp
Boone County
Educator Dies of Polson and Missouri Farmers Session
Allan Moore 45 dies after taking laudanum inside Kansas City after tours of Missouri normal schools. He leaves a widow and five children. his sons Allen Jr and Roy will run his school. Nearly 1,000 farmers attend the Missouri farmers convention in Columbia with State Senator Warnall presiding and speakers from multiple state universities and stations.
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United States
New York
Wichita
Kan
Harriman
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Seattle
Spokane
Portland
Ore
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hitchcock
The
Statistical Bureau
Keep Commission
Senate
Pueblo
Col
Canal Commission
Gatun Dam
MacAndrews & Forbes. Company
J. S. Young Company
Baltimore
Frederick C. Fairbanks
Steubenville
O. Malcolm R. Patterson
Memphis
Tennessee
San Francisco
Foss
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Kingston
Jamaica
Chicago
Lillian Dahike
Roosevelt
National Convention
Washington
Oklahoma Constitutional Convention
Philadelphia & Reading
Bridgeport
Kansas
Col. W. A. Harris
Nebraska
Norris Brown
Army
Navy
Jamestown
Carmack
Brownsville
D. W. Wade
Clone County
Kansas City
Foreign Mission Boards
Canada
Joes Roosevelt
United States Senate
Edward
Congo Free State
Stuart
Pennsylvania
W. Pennypecker
Polson
Allan Moore
Chillicothe( State Normal Schools
Bloa- Springfield
Stanberry
Blossom House
General Hospital
Moore
Missouri
Indiana
Missouri Farmers’ Convention
Columbia
Thomas J. Warnall
Clay County
J. W. Boles
Auxvasse
A. T. Grimes
Greenwood
W. R. Brown
Carrollton
C. G. Hopkins
Illnois Department Experiment Station
E. B. Forbes
Missouri Agricultural College
H. R. Smith
Nebraska Agricultural Experimental Station
C. E
Coal Company Sued Over Subsurface Vein Claim
A suit for 57000 damages was filed in Bates county court by the Lyons estate against Central Coal and Coke Company and J. N. Williams of Rich Hill as superintendent. Plaintiffs allege the company mined a six foot vein from under 20 acres of land six miles south of the city without consent.
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Coal Company
Bates County
Lyons
Central Coal and Coke Company
J. N. Williams
Rich Hill
Confederate burying ground asked for state aid in Missouri
The Confederate Veterans of Missouri seek a $20 000 appropriation from the general assembly for the improvement and maintenance of the Springfield Confederate burying ground. It is the only such site in the state and veterans have not previously asked for public funds.
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Confederate Veterans of
Missouri
General Assembly
Springfield
Joplin Daily American Suspends Publication
The Joplin Daily American has suspended after five months as an afternoon daily. Liabilities total about $16,000 with assets of $1,000. Partners include H Spearman, Lewis and W J Cochrane of St. Louis, and Richard Loper formerly of St Joseph.
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Joplin Daily
Joplin Daily American
H. Spearman
Lewis
W. J. Cochrane
St. Louis
Richard Loper
St. Joseph
A Grafter’s Directory Scheme Busted in Missouri
A canvasser pushed a county directory with a free book offer to patrons who bought ink for $1.50. The ink proved the blot on the scheme, limiting orders and exposing the ruse across several Missouri counties.
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Missouri
Local toll business absorbed by the People’s company
A partial report notes that the People’s firm has closed and absorbed the local toll operations from the big company, consolidating control of the area’s toll business.
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People’s
Tas Stotesbury Tribune Liquor Licensing Proposal
The Tas Stotesbury Tribune urges passage of a new law requiring every drinker of quor to obtain a five dollar annual license. The measure aims to regulate consumption and raise revenue for public needs.
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Tas Stotesbury Tribune
Testimonial Letter on Peruna Cure from Lt. Bowan
First Lieutenant Chas W Bowman of the 4th M S M Cav writes he used Peruna for throat troubles and cold, found it effective and plans to recommend it to friends. He asserts it helps prevent ailments when used as directed and urges readers to ask their druggist for the 1907 almanac.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. W. Bowman
Vois
Lanham
Peruna
Chas. W. Bowng
Henry Arthur Jones Urges Vernacular Drama Craft
Henry Arthur Jones advised Yale speakers on drama noting American vernaculars are picturesque if performance shines. He claimed no playwright succeeds without discipline and cited a New York man who has kept a diary for the first two weeks of January for seven years.
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Henry Arthur Jones
Msh
Yale
Philip
Rheumatism Healed by Dr Williams Pink Pills
Portland man Frank Little of Sonia Co Michigan recalls five years of rheumatic pain and paralysis. After trying doctors with no relief he used Dr Williams Pink Pills and reports complete recovery with renewed strength and sleep. Pills sold by mail for 50 cents a box or 2.50 a dozen.
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Frank Little
Portland
Sonia Co
Mich
Williams
Land
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L. H. Wright
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Chauncey J. Filley
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Filey
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Dr. Weatherby
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Dekalb County
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Oklahoma
Missouri Farmers Meet
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William Pink
Dearese Sues
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