Shaw Named to Gage Post in Roosevelt Cabinet
President Roosevelt invites Iowa Governor Leslie M. Shaw to replace Secretary Gage, praising him as a solid Western leader with tax and railroad reform experience. The move could retire Secretary Wilson and shifts Iowa politics toward Shaw, with Myron T. Herrick and Senator Hanna weighing in. Women push to oust Secretary Long, citing social pages as pressure. Schley controversy ends with Navy quiet. Hanna to address New York Board of Trade January 28 as head of labor federation work continues.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Roosevelt
Leslie M. Shaw
Iowa
Gage
James L. Wilson
A. B. Cummings
White House
Cummings
Shaw
Myron T. Herrick
Hanna
American Bankers’ Association
Mr. Herrick
Wilson
New York Board of Trade and Transportation
New York
American Civic Federation of Labor
Ralph
Sharp fighting with Boers in South Africa claims heavy losses
Lord Kitchener reports engagements on December 18 to 20 across the Orange River and Transvaal colonies. About 150 killed or wounded, with British losses heavy in the Transvaal. Commandant Keyter captured. Damantt wounded. Damantt’s troopers suffer severe casualties before holding the kopje.
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London
Lord Kitchener
Johannesburg
Orange River
Transvaal
Beginderyn
Britz
DeWet
Dartnell
Campbell
Landberg
Botha
Damanti
Tafel Kop
Orange River Colony
Kopje
Damantt
Keyter
Kope
Tafe Sop
Colonel Damanti
MacKenzie
Commandant Smith
Lake Bannagher
Eland Spruit
Krieze
Cornet Mahon
Prisoners With Measles Isolated on Hawkins Island
Boer prisoners of war landed on Hawkins Island have been isolated after several showed a mild form of measles in Hamilton Bermuda on December 23.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Hawkins Island
Railroads Earned Nearly Two Billion in 1901 Earnings
The Interstate Commerce Commission reports that US railways operating 192 198 miles had passenger earnings of 426 909 210 and freight of 1 114 740 770. Total gross 1 578 164 205 with net earnings 555 007 929 and dividends 121 108 637. The surplus from operations was 77 544 735.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Last of a Famous Brotherhood Passes Away
Concord, Mass. date Dec 23 William Ellery Channing the last of the brotherhood including Thoreau Hawthorne and Emerson who made Concord famous died today He born Boston November 29 1818 An author of marked originality and poetic power though less disciplined than his three contemporaries His nine published volumes and copious manuscripts promise further selections He married Ellen Fuller in 1842 and leaves five...
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Concord
Mass
William Ellery Channing
Thoreau
Hawthorne
Emerson
Conford
Boston
Ellen Fuller
Sis É Garet
Turkish influence cited in Ohio pardon of Dahrouge
Governor Nash pardoned Abraham Dahrouge, convicted of larceny in Hamilton County in 1894 and sentenced to three years, after the board had rejected the petition. Dahrouge claimed Turkish conspiracy plots and betrayal by a Syrian associate, citing letters from Senator Hanna and Elmer Dover among papers, with political influence noted.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Nash
Abraham Dahrouge
Court of Common Pleas
Hamilton County
Ohio Penitentiary
Dahrouge
Board of Pardons
Noticg
Cincinnati
Ali Farough Bey
Washington
Dahrtouge
New York
Turkey
M. A. Hanna
Elmer Dover
Hanna
Cleveland
Dover
Salim Caraboobad
Insurer Farmers' Mutual Hail Fails in Kansas City
A receiver was appointed for the Farmers' Mutual Hail Insurance Company incorporated January 21, 1901. The firm, which did over $2,000,000 in business, failed due to heavy losses in Colorado and South Dakota and reduced crops.
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Kansas City
Farmers’ Mutual Hail Insurance Company
Mutual
Colorado
South Dakota
New York Democrats Nominate O Grady in Seventh District
Joseph F. O Grady was chosen by Democrats who did not attend last week’s Belmont convention to stand for Congress in New York’s Seventh District.
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Joseph O’grady
Belmont
New York
Joseph F. O'Grady
Perry Belmont
Briere Found Guilty in Charters Fatal Family Tragedy
In Charters France, after a week long trial, farmer Briere is convicted of fatally harming four daughters and a son among his household. The case spurred testimony from his surviving daughter and conflicting accusations of itinerant attackers and a possible motive involving marriage to a widow.
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Chartres
France
Briere
Queen Alexandra’s Health Worsens Then Improves
Reports from London say Queen Alexandra’s condition grew serious with anxiety among doctors. A noon bulletin noted progress as Christmas plans at Sandringham were scrapped and the royal family would stay at Marlboro House. Later reports said a chill caused the illness but it was not dangerous. Her Majesty is expected to leave her room in a few days.
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London
Associated Press
Queen Alexandra
Sandringham
Marlboro House
Tragic sleigh ride ends with drowning and suicide
In Powell River near Middlesboro Kentucky a seven year old girl Jessie Marion drowns after ice breaks during sleigh ride with Charles Preston who nearly saves her. He shoots himself in front of Jessie’s mother, Mrs Chas Marion, after she upbraids him.
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Commercial Tribune
Middlesboro
Powell River
Charles Preston
Chas. Marion
Jessie
Preston
Marion
Pan American Congress Backs Railway Plan and Chicago Addition
At the Pan American Conference in Mexico City United States delegate Volney W. Foster won approval to add Chicago to cities with a claim to a branch of the Pan American Bank. The session also approved most of Senator Davis Pan American Railway project and discussed a general extradition treaty aimed at countering anarchy with provisions stretching extradition to propagate anarchist ideas.
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Mexico City
Volney W. Foster
United States
Chicago
Pan-American Bank
Bolivia
Ecuador
Chile
Oe Martinez
Seale
Torward
Raigosa
Davis
Pan-American Railway
Committee On Extradition and
Mexico
McKinley
America
Dr Young predicts uprising in Cuba
Lexington dispatch quotes Dr. F O Young after visiting his brother Lt Lucien Young. He says a Cuban insurrection will occur within a year and that annexation is the island’s hope. He cites the thinking class favoring annexation and officers sharing the view.
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Lexington
Cuba
F. O. Young
Lucien Young
Columbus man confesses to eighteen burglaries this season
Charles Johnson alias J F Davis admitted operating an extensive fence for stolen goods and confessed to eighteen burglaries in Columbus this season.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Charles Johnson
J. F. Davis
Rathbun guilty of manslaughter as jury verdict reached
Newell G. Rathbun found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Charles Goodman a tramp in a case aimed at defrauding Metropolitan Life Insurance Co of 4000. Jury deliberated about fifty hours Judge Marsh warned of a possible January 1 verdict. Rathbun's lawyers planned a new trial. Goodman body found in a hotel and later shipped to Little Rock Ark for Rathbun's wife.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Newell G. Rathbun
Charles Goodman
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Marsh
Rathbun
Little Rock
Ark
Louisville
United States Army
Evansville
Salvation Army
Six Die, Eleven Hurt as Street Car Wrecks in Allentown
A street car on the new Coopersburg line jumped a curve near a mountain foot, struck a pole, and tore the car. Six people died including Rev. Tobias Kessler and Dr. Jacob Fetzer. 11 were injured. Motorman Stocker failed to stop the train on a steep grade amid wet rails and snow.
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Allentown
Hére
Coopersburg
Tobias Kessler
Albert ‘Yeager
Jacob Fetzer
Ambrose Reinhard
Freedensville
Irwin Rennel
Zibn Hill
Frank Wesley
Ahentown
Stocker
Booker T. Washington Meets President in Cabinet Room
Booker T. Washington, head of the Tuskegee Normal Institute, visited the president in the cabinet room. Secretary Hitchcock and Secretary of the Interior accompanied him. Washington did not comment on their discussions, but Southern appointments were believed to be discussed.
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Washington
Booker Washington
Tuskegee Normal Institute
Tuskegee
Ala
Hitchcock
Interior
Largest bid for stock exchange seat reported
In New York on December 23 bids of 77500 were made for seats on the Stock Exchange five seats were understood to be for sale none sold yet but an offer reached 30000 for one seat The sale of a single seat on Saturday brought 75000 a new record price
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New York
Wall Street
The
Stock Exchange
Won't Take a Dare and Marries in Jest
In St. Louis a playful dare between Dr. E C Walden son of Bishop J M Walden of Cincinnati and Miss Bessie Simms led to a rapid wedding. The couple met at 3702 Olive street with friends present and planned a brief wedding trip after a supper bet settled the match. Both come from influential families. Walden works in the city bacteriological department.
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Commercial Tribune
ST. Louis
E. C. Walden
J. M. Walden
Cincinnati
Bessie Simms
Olive Street
C. H. Brooks
Rialto
Brooks
Dennis
W. T. Borden
Walden
Miss Simms
Mr. Walden
Mr. Brooks
Mr. Dennis
Jacksonville
Ill
Bishop Sees Surprising Son Marriage News at Hill sboro
Bishop John M. Walden learned last evening of his son's wedding while at the Hotel Sterling. The 30 year old physician, a Johns Hopkins and Cincinnati alum, was unnamed in the report but is said to have ties to St. Louis and a high court appointment regarding a tetanus case. The bishop plans Christmas dinner with family in Hillsboro and will learn full details from his son today.
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John M. Walden
Hotel Sterling
Commercial Tribune
Bishop Walden
Royal
Hillsboro
Walden
Ohio Wesleyan University
University of Cincinnati
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
St. Louis
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