Washington Notes of Interest from Congress Topics Discussed
Senator Terrell pushes education bill extending Morrill act aims to fund state programs in agriculture and mechanics. Panama Exposition contest heats up between New Orleans and San Francisco as Taft weighs German potash tariff clash with major stakes for fertilizers. Champ Clark to drive mule to Speaker chair prompts mixed reactions. body of Bob the Trapper found after accidental buckshot incident at Lake Pontchartrain.
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Panama
Champ Clark
Team of Mules
John Corrigan
Washington
Atlanta Constitution
Washington, D. C
Senate
Committee On Agriculture
Dolliver
Terrell
Georgia
Congress
Friends of Education
Otis
United States
New Orleans
San Francisco
Golden Gate
California
Taft
Germany
Club
Adamson
Roddenberg
Lee
Hughes
State Department
Robert Muntz
Bob the Trapper
Pontchartrain
St. Charles Parish
Muntz
Christmas Night Train Robbery Stops Missouri Pacific No.112
A bandit robbed more than one hundred passengers aboard Missouri Pacific Train No. 112 from Leavenworth Junction, stealing money and watches and shooting a man who resisted. He boarded at Leavenworth Junction and fled at Kansas City Junction after posing threats to crew and passengers.
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Missouri Pacific
St. Joseph
St. Louis
Leavenworth Junction
Leavenworth
Northwestern Junction
Kansas City
Kansas
Kansas City Junction
Mrs Eddy Not Dead Sees Resurrection Proclaimed
Augusta H. Stetson, excommunicated leader of the First Church of Christ Scientist in New York, declares Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy will rise from the tomb in a visible form. She asserts Jesus’ third day resurrection precedent will recur, marking the millennium and proving there is no death for believers.
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Augusta H. Stetson
First Church of Christ, Scientist
New York
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Newton
Mass
Jesus Christ
John
Patmos
Schooner Fire Kills Two and Injures Two at Tampa Docks
A gasoline drum explosion aboard the schooner Lillie White, docked at Gulf Refining Company in Tampa, killed two seamen and seriously injured two others. The ship wrecked and sank, but at low tide the injured were rescued as flames were extinguished. Fire Chief Torres led the rescue squad and kept further explosions at bay amid about 200 drums aboard.
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Lillie White
Key West
Gulf Refining Company’n
Tampa
Christmas killings mount in the Palmetto State
A Christmas season in South Carolina brings a string of deaths and injuries, including eight white victims in eight intentional homicides and several accidental fatalities. In North Carolina, Oscar Clark killed Dr J Calhoun and wounded A H Calhoun near Bryson City after a Whisky fueled celebration, then fled toward Tennessee.
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South Carolina
Wain County
Asheville
N. C
Oscar Clark
Dr. J. Calhoun
A. H. Calhoun
Mission Hospital
Bryson City
Clark
D. J. Calhoun
Tennessee
Rich Stealing Suspect In Jail On Jewelry Charge
Lilly McDowell, jailed in St Louis on stealing jewelry from attorney H Chateau Dyer, with about 6000 value and 12000 on deposit in a Pittsburg bank. Dyer attaches account. Ira J Mix of Chicago supplied information, detectives seek more accounts nationwide. Police estimate total jewelry value at least 14000, across homes served.
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Louis
Lilly McDowell
St Louis
H. Chateau Dyer
Pittsburg
Bank For Savings
Dyer
Ira J. Mix
Chicago
Starvation on the brink in Chinese provinces
A consular report from Nanking via the Shanghai papers describes appalling famine across seven northern Anhui Kiangsu counties affecting about 2.5 million people. Floods ruined autumn crops and refugees roam villages, prompting theft of food and money as desperation grows.
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China
State Department
Nanking
Shanghai
Anhui Kiangsu
Rosda
Engineer Dies as Fireman Stops Pittsburg Express
At about 50 miles per hour near Bird-in-Hand Pennsylvania engineer H C Beck of the Pittsburg Express collapsed from heart failure. Fireman Walter Moore reached the cab and assisted, bringing the train to a stop as a physician on board assessed the death.
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H. C. Beck
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Birdin-Hand, Pa
Walter Moore
Freman
Americus Georgia announces tuition free spring program
The Third District Agricultural and Mechanical School offers a tuition free spring term with three companies and a battalion of cadets. A new girls home with well equipped shops and laboratories supports a high school course and associate relation state colleges. Board is seven dollars monthly. Dormitories are full with a few vacancies after January 1. Write Principal J M Collum Americus Ga for catalog.
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J. M
Collum
Americus
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E. E. Jarrell
Butler, Georgia
General Merchandise
Taylor County
Butler
Tam
E. &. Jarrell
Farmers & Merchants Bank
M. T. Chapman
I. F. Peebles
H. J. Peagler
Ass't
L. F. Montfort
W. S. Witham
Horton’s Drug Store
J. L. Williams
Buena Vista, Ga
Pennsylvania Avenue
William Booth
Salvation Army
Mrs. Eddy
First Church of Christ
Mother Eddy
Palmetto State
North Carolina
H. H. Pierce
COX & Pierce
Farmers Union Warehouse CO
Butler, GA
Farmers Union
Harmon
Agricultural and Mechanical
Edwards’ Warehouse
Fountain Warehouse
Beer
J. C. McCants
Scalesman
Butler, Sa
Harley Riley
Sbrsie Riceeces
Harley
A. C. Chancellor Co's
A. Ean Company
Columbus
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