Calls on Legislators for Action in Anthracite Scranton Case
Dec 1 Scranton Pa. reports a foul strike commission hearing where Chairman Gray urged Pennsylvania lawmakers to consider a law banning night work for young girls after testimony of exhausted workers. John C. Haddock, president of the Plymouth Coal Company, notes miners ten prices and waste, while prices from New York reach 11 and 12 a ton.
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Scranton
Gray
Commonwealth
Pennsylvania
John C. Haddock
Mymouth Coal Company
Marddock
Hahiook
New York
Whipped the Evangelist in Wileon Kansas
A man named Eve Edwards was whipped by a mob from a Methodist church after a service. He faced threats and a request to leave town, opposing his marriage to Bye Wein, a local self-taught teacher.
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Wileon
Kde
Announcement of newspaper misprint about election in Brown County
Fragmentary OCR note describes a misread annou ncement and references a man from Brown County and a tale about a wagon trip through Kansas. It mentions a festival, a quvey story, and an old man named Festialoe, with unclear sequence of events and uncertain details.
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Hiawatha Ran
Ee. i
Mins
Lide Novos
Kansas
Festialoe
Ollinin
Death of Willie Cox in a venomous poisoning case
The report details Willie Cox dying here from poisoning after a failed attempt to administer a narcotic to a boy. The evidence was inconclusive and medical testimony could not prove the inducing cause or effective remedy, leaving the death described as painful.
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T. Ma. Dee
Willie Cox
Thieves Cut Te'errand Wires In Clarence Night Burglary
A gang opened the Clarence tank and cut telegraph wires to stop an alarm. A heist of about 2000 pounds occurred while residents were awakened by an explosion. The thieves fled on a handcar before authorities caught them.
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Clarenee
Dee
Clarence
Cownter-Charers Cattleman Cleared in District Court
Kansas City man AL Tartine of Coffeyville Kan was acquitted in district court on charges of defrauding Mills & Co out of 204000. He immediately sued the firm for 202000 alleging malicious prosecution.
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Kansas City
Wan
Dee
Wo—R. AL Tartine
Coffeyville
Kan
Teer
Mills & Co
Kelly Reaches Ace Limit at Tipeky Kansas
Rev Bernard Kelly of Kansas, a United States Army chaplain, reached the age limit and was placed on the retired list yesterday. He served in the Civil War and afterward became a Methodist preacher.
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Tipeky
Kan
Bernard Kelly
Kansas
United States Army
Kelly
Interurban line work starts from Wichita to McPherson
Work has begun on the interurban electric line to connect Wichita and McPherson Kansas. Thirty men and teams are engaged in the project. Little grading is needed as the route will run along existing highways.
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Wichita
Kan
McPherson
Judge Alexander Martin Dies at Missouri University
Judge Alexander Martin, dean of the Missouri University law department for five years, died suddenly from heart paralysis in Columbia, Mo. Dec 16. In Springfield, Mo Dec 16 councilman H C Tompkins filed suit to halt Carnegie library tax payments, claiming the $5,000 annual levy election was illegal.
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Jodge Alexander Martin Eadh
Columbia, Mo
Alexander Martin
The
Missouri University
Carnegie Library
Springfield
H. C. Tompkins
Reward Offered for Dead Burglar Delivery in Seattle
An ordinance in Seattle Washington on December 16 proposes a $300 reward for delivering the body of a burglar to city authorities. The measure targets lethal encounters with burglars and seeks swift justice through citizen cooperation.
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Seattle
Waeh
Death of Col. Abernathy Leaves Leavenworth Heirloom
Leavenworth Kan Dec 16 Col J L Abernathy former Leavenworth resident and prominent Kansas City banker and manufacturer died at the home of his son in law Surgeon General fate fer Lone aged about 80 He served as lieutenant colonel in the Eighth Kansas during the Civil War was mayor of Leavenworth for three years starting in 1874 and headed the metropolitan police board during enforcement attempts of the prohibition law He left an estate exceeding 1900000 with major furniture interests in Kansas City Mo generous gifts to Park College Parkville Mo and a free kindergarten in Leavenworth for poor children He also led the First Presbyterian Sunday school for over two decades.
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Leasenworth
Kan
Dee
Cole J. L. Abumathy
Leavenworth
Abernathy
First National Bank of
Kansas City
Eighth Kansas Regiment
Col. Abernathy
Citizens
Kennee
Gov
Humphrey
Metropolitan Police Board
Col.senothy
First Presbyterian
Park College
Parkville
Salaries of Isthmian canal commission debated
Washington December 16 Senator Morgan of Alabama asked to refer his bill to fix the Isthmian canal commission salaries to the committee on interoceanic canals. He cited $1,000 monthly pay for each commissioner and 29 months of service with time spent in Nicaragua and Panama. He pressed for action to prevent corruption and to highlight the need for proper provision before the joint committee on charters and appointments.
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Washington
Senate
Morgan
Ala
Isthmian Canal Commission
Committee On
Pantia
Morgin
United State
Wheaton Merwe
Industrial plan eyed for 4000 acres near Kansas City
Swift interests propose forming a new industrial community on 4000 acres in Chay county opposite Kansas City. The plan includes rail access, warehouses, shops, and general facilities for housing workers, reflecting long-standing concession for substantial railroad trade potential.
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Katia City
Jonprer
Agauur- Swift
Chay Cumnty
Kansas City
Farmers Trust moves to regulate grain sales in county
Farmers in Crainand Neb reach for a Farmers Trust company title and call for regulation to ensure fair prices for grain. They allege market fluctuations harm farmers, with buyers sometimes pressing for lower prices despite overall market trends. The movement also encompasses stock shipments and local trade concerns. Washington reports Gen Bliss delivered a Cuba reciprocity treaty to Hay offering 20 percent tariff cuts for Cuban imports and sharp reductions on American exports. Galena invites Senator Bailey to deliver the Grant Birthday address on April 27, following figures like McKinley, Roosevelt, and Judge Speer in prior years.
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Crainand
Farmers’ Trust Company
Washington
Gen. Bliss
Havana
Squiers
United States
Cuba
Washington Tuewlay
Hay
Wreck on Alabama Creek Southern line near Moundville
A limited express on the Alabama Creek Southern railroad wrecked near Moundville sixty miles south of Birmingham at three am. Arnall had been removed near a trestle. Two express messengers are believed dead. No passengers reported killed.
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Birmingham
Ala
Mabama Creat Southern
Mound Ile
Here
Arnall
Worn OCR Snippet Describes Rail Route Extension Plan
A garbled note from Topeka Kansas hints at a proposed extension of the Mix seed Poeise line along the White River valley between Otesville Ark and Carthage Ma, coordinating with a poet group that runs from Fort Scott to Topeka. The text mentions Te Topeka and Poile’s White River valley route and a link to the KX DV.
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Topeka
Kan
Dee
Poeise
White River Valley
Tne
Otesville
Ark
Carthage
Fort Scott
Toneka
Fragmentary note on presidential power in Is hand region
A damaged text fragment discusses a tie Waottegten and Beetie Senter For gher jotreducedt a bite pravice on av ocomeent for the Ishand of Gham. It asserts the president authority to seiert Tehson oof PrSans who shall exereise all military civil and diticte power for the inhabitityvots of the Is hand.
Ohio River Flood Threat Near Gallipolis
Ohio River rises four inches per hour and stands at 58 feet threatening floods in Gallipolis area. Roads to the town submerged as Kanawha and Ohio rivers continue rising. Portsmouth dispatch notes lower land floods forecast.
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Gallipolis
Ohio River
Portsmouth
Ohio
Kanawah
Craddock Brother Dies by Own Hand in Cottage Fire District
Robert Bruce Craddock brother of Mayor William N Craddock ended his life with a revolver shot in a one story frame cottage on TIO Ferry Street. No one was present when the shot was fired. Also reported: a million dollars of timber afloat on the Guayanotte and Big Sandy rivers amid heavy rainfall and full Ohio tributaries in southern West Virginia.
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Tio Ferry Street
Robert Bruce Craddock
William N. Craddock
Huntington
W. Va
Dee
West Virginia
Ohio
Big Sandy
Moon Urges Jefferson Territory Bill in House
Representative Moon of Tennessee introduced a resolution in the house directing the rules committee to draft a rule designating a day not later than January 12 for consideration of the bill that would provide a territorial form of government for the Indian Territory. The territory would be named Jefferson.
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Moon
Tanethie
Washington
Tennessee
House
Committee On Rules
Indian Territory
Jefferson
Guthrie Mourns Capt J C Cannon Hero Who Arrested Grant
Guthrie Oklahoma reports the death of Capt J C Cannon once sheriff of Sangamon County Illinois famed for arresting U S Grant. A law partner of Abraham Lincoln and personal friend of Robert Ingersoll he also claimed to have translated Egyptian scrolls.
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Guthrie
J. C. Cannon
Abraham Lincoln
Robert Ingersoll
U. S. Grant
Sangamon County
New Trial for Alleged Boodler
Jefferson City Mo Dec 16 In an opinion handed down this afternoon the supreme court reversed the verdict of the St Louis circuit court that found guilty Emil A Meysenburg the ex alderman charged with bribery and remanded the case for retrial.
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Jefferson City, Mo
Supreme Court
St. Louis
Emil A. Meysenburg
Unprecedented Austrian Cold Bites Iron Tradesman
Vienna reports severe weather across Austria causing acute suffering among the poor and unemployed. The iron trade alone employs 140,000 men currently without work, marking a harsher year than in recent memory.
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Vienna
Austria
President to appoint Dr Crum as college lector
Washington reports the president is expected to appoint Dr W D Crum the colored applicant as college lector at Charleston S C though no official announcement has been made Rockefeller adds 21 million to University of Chicago fund at a convocation in Chicago providing another large donation to the university and its programs.
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Washington
W. D. Crum
Charleston
8. C
Child Dies After Drinking Whisky in Chicago Home
Chicago December 16 Six year old Helen Haggarty according to her parents statements got from bed and drank half a pint of whisky She is dead Mrs Haggarty said the child had always had a thirst for whisky
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Chicago
Helen Haggarty
Irrigation Reform Up for Kansas Legislature
Topeka Kan Dec 16 One of the most important problems for the next Kansas legislature will be a better system of irrigation in the western part of the state.
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Kansas
Topeka
Kan
Bronze Bust of McKinley Approved by Senate
Washington December 16 The senate adopted a joint resolution offered by Mr Wetmore of Rhode Island appropriating 33000 for the purchase of a bronze bust of the late President McKinley.
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McKinley
Washington
Senate
Ten Inch Snow Stuns Hill City Farmers
Hill City Kansas on December 16 reports ten inches of snow on the level with no drift. Longtime locals say they never saw such a deep snow without drifting, despite twenty years of winter experience.
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Hill City
Kan
Macedonian workers hit by Turkish frontier guards at Pubnitza
Advices from the frontier report 24 Macedonian workmen returning home were struck near Pubnitza by Turkish guards. The incident followed a sweep of 1 Con Marees from their moorings. In Cincinnati, December 14, a rapid rise in water at Oktarier caused a 12 foot flood in four hours, sweeping 80 coal barges from their moorings and sinking many.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Pubnitza
Cincinnati
Gov Dockery Grants on Reapive
Jefferson City Mo len 16 Gov Dockery had granted William Gat lin of Poplar Muff a sentence of death to be hanged January 3 with a respite to February 6 1903.
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Gov Dockers
Jefferson City
Gov. Dockery
William Gatlin
Poplar Muff
Miss Elizabeth Parkinson Debuts in Paris Opera
Miss Elizabeth Parkinson of Kansas City aged 24 will debut at the Opera Comique in Lakme on Monday. She studied with Mme Marchesi, has sung successfully in concerts, and will also perform Micaela in Carmen and roles in La Boheme Mireille and Manon Lescaut during a four year engagement. Her arrival in Paris follows a Sunday debut avoidance for Sabbath observance.
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Paris
Elizabeth Parkinson
Kansas City
Opera Comique
Lakme
Micaela
Carmen
la Boheme
Mireille
Manon Lescaut
Miss Parkinson
Fifty Buried in the Ruins at Perry Row House
The roof of the Pennsylvania railroad round house at Powelton avenue West Pettey collapsed this afternoon trapping men in the wreckage. Many injured were rushed to hospitals as the ruins caught fire and burned fiercely. no fatalities were reported.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Powelton Avenue
West P ~Etty
A Judge's Game of Cards in Douglas County Contested
Chief Justice Burgeas of the Missouri Supreme Court issued an alternative writ of quo warranto against Judge Asbury Burkhead to show cause why he should not be ousted. The suit alleges a card game between Burkhead and Ernest Thornberry during a Republican convention deadlock decided the nomination with a stake of 1375 dollars, raising questions of legality and office eligibility.
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Jefferson City
Burgeas
Supreme Court
Crow
Asbury Burkhead
Douglas County Court
Burkhead
Banc
Ernest Thornberry
Groom 7 and Bride 75 wed in Schell City area
Nevada Mo December 15. AJL son and Mrs Mary F Smith long time Schell City residents were married today. The groom is 57 years old and the bride 75.
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Nevada
Mary F. Smith
Schell City
American Trade Growth With China Reported In 1901 Data
The treasury bureau of statistics cites two official statements on growing US China trade. US imports into China rose from 5,093, haikwan taels in 1895 to 23,520,006 in 1901, while British, Russian, and continental European imports also increased. Cotton goods and flour lead US imports, with cotton goods meeting strong European anxiety and Jamieson noting US advantages in geography, transport, and machinery. Cotton yarns from India dominate some markets. The value of China’s cotton yarn imports in 1891 reached 48,000,000 haikwan taels (about $35,000,000).
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China
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
J. W. Jamieson
United States
Great Brit
Russia
Europe
United Kingdom
Jamieson
Great Britain
Japan
India
Colorado's Scenic Wonder Near Pine Grove Discovered
A new natural phenomenon titled the balanced rock sits about three miles from Pine Grove, 44 miles from Denver, towering 30 feet high on a granite base. By a trailless wilderness, the rock holds a slender cradle, 1 000 feet above the railroad, offering rare views of Lake Wellington and Giants' Castle. Postmaster Dake and H G Jones of the Colorado Camera Club helped publicize the find with a prize photograph.
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Pine Grrove
Sceldent Histemmier
Lake Wellington
Dake
Pine Grove
H. G. Jones
Colorado Camera Ehib
Eice Tesine
Denver
Giants’ Castle
Sophomores Painted Red at Kalamazoo College Party
Four Kalamazoo college sophomores were ambushed by freshmen, had their faces painted red and drenched with water on a campus party route to the ladies hall. One star pitcher faces suspension, with 25 others potentially at risk. The piece also notes a humorous aside about the German emperor and a jab at the Chicago Record-Herald.
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Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo, Mich
Ladies’ Hall
Startcher
Haeen
Chicago Record-Herald
A Poet Age and Unusual Feats in Daily Life
A Chicago Begford-Herald note claims trains reaching eight hundred in a hundred minutes are common now. It discusses men who eat 30 ducks in 30 days and a new task for convicts involving woodchopping to replace the treadmill at Derby Prison.
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Chicago Begf ord-Herald
Derbyp
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