Election Results Show Republicans Maintain House Edge
Washington reports 223 Republicans and 163 Democrats elected to Congress. Nationwide Tuesday votes in 42 states produced few surprises with GOP gains in several states while New York Governor race drew wide attention. Oklahoma delegates to the constitutional convention favor Democrats.
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Washington
Congress
New York State
Charles F. Hughes
Roosevelt
William Randolph Hearst
Democratic and Independence League
Hughes
Massachusetts
Curtis Guild
John RB. Moran
Peston
Independence League
Pennsylvania
Stuart
Michigan
Iowa
New Hampshire
North Dakota
Connecticut
Minnesota
Indiana
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Ohio
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arizona
Hoeh
Kansas
Missouri
Cannon
Nicholas Longworth
Cincinnati
J. W. Wadsworth
House Committee of Agriculture
New York
Babcock
Republican Congressional Committee
Rhode Island
James H. Higgins
Penn
Utah
Wyoming
Nevada
Colorado
Montana
Texas
No More Talks Over Japanese School Policy
San Francisco reports that Secretary Metcalf will not hold further conferences with the city board of education regarding their decision to set aside a separate school for Japanese descendants. The board insists on testing the state law in court and will not back down.
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San Francisco
Metcalf
Board of Education
Mystery Murder in New York Tenderloin Hotel
A severely disfigured young mulatto woman was found dead Sunday in a squalid room at the Criterion in the Tenderloin district. The body is believed to be a murder victim, but identification is pending.
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Tenderloin
New York
The
Criterion
West Thirty-seventh Street
Robbers Loot Loukianoff Monastery in Moscow
A band of masked robbers raided the Loukianoff monastery Sunday night in Moscow. They killed the abbot general the prior and a monk and looted the chapel of sacred objects and a large sum of money.
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Moscow
Loukianoff
Meeting of former Moderate Party adjourns without action
In Havana on November the meeting of members of the former Moderate party adjourned without choosing a new party name or drafting a new program. The gathering focused on reorganizing options but did not finalize any changes.
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Havana
Sir Henry Durand to resign as British ambassador
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand the British ambassador to the United States will resign his post and retire from public life at the end of the year outlining a long diplomatic career and service.
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Henry Mortimer Durand
United States
Roosevelt to Visit Panama Canal Sites En Route to San Juan
President Roosevelt traveling with Mrs. Roosevelt Surgeon General Rixey and Assistant Secretary Latta on the battleship Louisiana is due to reach Colon Thursday. He will meet local officials and dignitaries then tour canal areas by train across the isthmus, inspect conditions, and continue to La Boca Gatun and Cristobal with a reception for canal employees. He plans to leave Colon November 18 for San Juan Porto Rico.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Rixey
Latta
Panama
Louisiana
Colon
Amador
Arius
Theodore P. Shonts
Stevens
la Boca
Ancon
Culebracut
Gatun
Cristobal
Canal
San Juan
Porto Rico
President Roosevelts Party Enjoying Nice Voyage
Wireless reports from Dry Tortugas indicate the Louisiana convoy is steaming southward in column under fine weather. The president and Mrs. Roosevelt are greatly enjoying the trip and spending much time on deck aboard the battleship Louisiana.
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Washington
White House
Louisiana
Roosevelt
Dry Tortugas
Hitchcock Worn Out Ready to Retire from Cabinet
Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock will retire on March 4 1905. James R Garfield of Ohio will succeed him as Commissioner of the Interior with Herbert Knox Smith to fill Garfield's current post. White House statement also notes Commissioner Richards will retire March 4 1905 and mentions possible France ambassadorship for Hitchcock.
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Washington
Interior
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Roosevelt
James R. Garfield
Ohio
Herbert Knox Smith
Garfield
Richards
General Land Office
White House
Hitchcock
Interior Department
France
Moody Named Supreme Court Justice by President
The president announced the appointment of Attorney General William Henry Moody of Massachusetts as justice of the United States Supreme Court to replace Justice Henry B. Brown who retired some time ago. Moody is expected to retire from the justice department late December.
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Washington
William Henry Moody
Massachusetts
Supreme Court of the United States
Henry B. Brown
Moody
Department of Justice
Dunmore Man Dies After Hat Pin Stabbing
Thomas Dougherty, a prominent Dunmore resident, died in a Scranton state hospital after being stabbed by an unknown woman. He refused to name the attacker, suggesting a woman was involved, and the postmortem found a fine instrument such as a hat pin had pierced his heart.
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Scranton
Thomas Dougherty
Dunmore
Dougherty
Last Revolutionary Widow Esther Sumner Damon Dies
Rutland Vermont November 12 Mrs Esther Sumner Damon said to be the last surviving widow of a soldier of the revolutionary war is dead at her Plymouth Union home at age 93 She married Noah Damon in 1835 when she was 21 Noah Damon served through the Revolutionary war enlisting in 1775.
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Rutland
Esther Sumner Damon
Plymouth Union
Noah Damon
Damon
Bridgetender Blamed for Thoroughfare Wreck in New Jersey
Atlantic City November 8 coroner's jury holds Daniel Stewart the aged bridgetender responsible for the Thoroughfare wreck of October 28 and says he will be arrested on criminal negligence charges.
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Bridgetender
Atlantic City
N. J
Daniel Stewart
Stewart
FourYearOld Killed In Accidental Shooting At Home
In Medway Pennsylvania on November 6 Hazel Nice aged four was accidentally shot and killed by her five year old nephew Wallace Chambourn. The children were alone in a room when the boy found and fired a revolver.
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Medway
Hazel Nice
Wallace Chambourn
Madrid dispatch clears Alfonso assassination rumor
The Paris report that King Alfonso was assassinated was false according to a Madrid dispatch to Reuters. In Baton Rouge, Democratic Congressman elect H. L. Favrot shot and killed Dr. H. H. Aldrich in a private quarrel.
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London
Reuter Telegram Company
Madrid
Paris
Alfonso
H. L. Favrot
H. H. Aldrich
Baton Rouge
Stensland and Hering Sentenced in Bank Embezzlement Case
Paul O. Stensland, former bank president, and Henry W. Hering, cashier, were sentenced by Judge Pinckney in Chicago to indeterminate penitentiary terms for embezzlement and forgery. Stensland testified to a decade of real estate losses and misusing bank funds. both men pleaded guilty and were sent to Joliet.
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Chicago
Paul O. Stensland
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
Tangier
Henry W. Hering
Pinckney
Criminal Court
Stensland
Joliet
Hering
White man Crockett acquitted in Alabama murder trial
In Dothan Alabama Judge Henry Pearce dismissed the murder jury with a stinging rebuke saying the panel acquitted William Crockett because he was white and killed a black man. He warned jurors they could not face the town afterward.
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Dothan
Ala
William Crockett
Sam Henderson
Henry Pearce
Crockett
Faculty Resignations After Centenary Stabbing
All Centenary College faculty members resign except Prof Moncrief following the stabbing of Rev Dr Miller by Moncrief. Two days earlier the student body left campus and returned home due to Moncrief remaining.
Gummere Stays in Fez Over Indemnity Demands
American minister to Morocco Mr. Gummere remains in Fez awaiting payment by the Moroccan government of claims for indemnity filed by American citizens over alleged outrages. He will not depart Fez until the demands are satisfied.
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Tangier
Gummere
Morocco
Fez
Fatal gasoline blaze claims Wabash farmer’s wife
Mrs John Sinclair aged forty five, wife of a well known farmer five miles south of Wabash Indiana, overturned a gasoline can on a stove while preparing supper and was burned to death in the subsequent fire.
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Wabash
Ind
John Sinclair
Market Quotations From Indianapolis to Toledo
Market notes list grain and livestock quotes from Indianapolis Cincinnati Chicago New York East Buffalo and Toledo. Wheat corn oats hay cattle hogs sheep and lambs show bid and ask ranges with varying contract months and prices across major markets.
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Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Chicago
New York
East Buffalo
Post Office Robbed of Registered Letter in Fayetteville
Tuesday reports a registered letter worth 3000 dollars stolen from Fayetteville North Carolina post office. Also noted 364 skilled laborers sent to the Isthmian canal zone in October and a five man crew lost when a boat capsized near New Brunswick. A monthly Philippines transport begins on the fifth. A Newfoundland hurricane causes heavy shipping and fishing damage. Chicago rail switchmen threaten strike.
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Fayetteville
N. C
Isthmian Canal Commission
Canal Zone
New Brunswick
Philippines
Newfoundland
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Chicago
Sensational developments loom at Castel Lane divorce hearing
In Kentucky a duel on a Crab Orchard Depot street left Milton Estes dead after he was shot by James Kennedy. In Shelbyville Indiana a gas explosion tore through Rev G G Winters home injuring Winters his wife and son. Thomas W Alexander once a wealthy Atlanta cotton factor and club man pleaded guilty to embezzlement and received six years. The Agriculture Department sanctioned a committee to study human baby breeding as government scientists study breeding in animals and plants.
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Castellane
Crab Orchard Depot
Milton Estes
James Kennedy
Shelbyville
Ind
G. G. Winters
Winters
Thomas W. Alexander
Atlanta
Department of Agriculture
Wreck Claims Six Men Off Prince Edward Island
Six men die when a Norwegian bark sinks near Prince Edward Island after a Thursday wreck. The report notes the disaster and identifies the vessel involved and location.
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Prince Edward Island
Notable Losses and Deaths in Brief Chronicle
Lasalle A. Maynard, associate editor of Leslie's Weekly, dies. Alpine mills in Idaho Springs, Colorado, burn causing $100,900 loss. Jet Hicks, a negro, lynched at Sale City Georgia for murdering a white man. Five suffocated in a tenement fire on Madison Street, New York. Panama assembly passes bill banning gambling. New York stock market dull at mid-summer level. King Edward's birthday honors list has no notable features. Methodist Episcopal church board to raise $1,000,000 next year.
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Lasalle A. Maynard
Leslie’s Weekly
Idaho Springs
Col
Jet Hicks
Sale City
Madison Street
New York
Panama National Assembly
Republic
Board of Church Extension
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Sixtieth Congress Set With Republican 58 Majority
The sixtieth Congress will be Republican by a 58 vote majority. Relations between Germany and the Vatican remain strained. Pullman president Robert T. Lincoln plans retirement.
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Germany
Vatican
Robert T. Lincoln
Pullman Company
W. R. Shafter
Bakersfield
Cal
King Leopold’s lumbago crowds Vatican Spain pact rumors
Reports claim King Leopold suffering from lumbago. Vatican denies signs of rift between Spain and Holy See. A Syracuse thief loots Robert Dey home of diamonds worth $8000. J T Harahan takes active control of Illinois Central. Imperial Russia bars soldiers from political groups. Henry F Smith, Pittsburg scion, is shot by burglar in his father’s residence.
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Leopold
Belgium
Vatican
Spain
Holy See
Robert Dey
Syracuse
N. Y
J. T. Harahan
Stuyvesant Fish
Mlinois Central Railroad
Russia
Henry F. Smith
Pittsburg
Hinshaw Returned to Michigan City Penitentiary After Confession
Indiana news reports Governor Hanly revoked Hinshaw’s parole and ordered the life prisoner, for the murder of his wife, back to Michigan City. Hinshaw confessed to improper relations with Mrs. Freeman, following testimony and an attorney’s limited defense.
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Indianapolis
William E. Hinshaw
Michigan City
Hanly
Durbin
Hinshaw
Marion County
Reid
John
Duncan
Miller
George Freeman
Wabash County
Freeman
Burglars Blow Safes in Brazil Indiana Robbery
Five burglars using nitro glycerine wrecked the Brazil Lumber Company safe and looted about 14 dollars plus a few hundred in notes. They also blew the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad freight office safe and the W R Coons & Co grocery safe but took little cash. They traveled by a carriage drawn by two mules.
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Brazil
Ind
Brazil Lumber Company
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company
W. R. Coons & Co
Banker Niblick Ends Life in Three Foot River
W H Niblick fifty two year old president of the Adams County bank committed death by his own hand and drowned in the St Marys river at Decatur Ind two women saw him jump in and sounded the alarm his body was recovered and life extinct the water was three feet deep he had threatened self destruction and been despondent for days leaving an estate valued at two hundred thousand dollars
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Decatur
Ind
W. H. Niblick
Adams County Bank
St. Mary's River
Rivalry Turned Fateful as Teen Fires Gun
Terre Haute Indiana November 6. Robert Van Allen and Alanson Liffick both teens argued over a girl. Liffick pointed a pistol and fired a shot into Van Allen s stomach. Liffick claims it was playful and that they remain friends.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Robert van Allen
Alanson Liffick
Liffick
van Allen
Farmer crushed to death by log in Martinsburg county
Salem Indiana November 6 William T. Jack a well known farmer of Martinsburg in this county was killed when a log fell from his wagon crushing him. He was a familiar figure in county institutes across the state.
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Salem
Ind
William T. Jack
Martinsburg
Jack
Woman Dies in Fire at Fairmount Home
Mrs Fannie Tyra aged seventy an invalid was burned to a mass in a fire that destroyed her Fairmount Indiana residence last night She was alone and investigators say the blaze started from an overheated stove
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Fairmount
Ind
Fannie Tyra
Jilted Bride Ethel Tucker in Shelbyville Tale
Shelbyville Indiana November 6 Ethel Tucker a betrothed woman is rejected by her fiancé in a case implying a rejection or broken engagement documented in local news. The brief item notes emotional distress following the jilt but provides limited further facts or outcomes.
Indiana Republicans Win Big in State and Congress
Official returns from 68 counties show the Republican state ticket with a 31 021 plurality, secretary Sims calling the figure conservative. Congress districts tilt toward Republicans with several seats won or led by GOP candidates. Democrats anticipate a sizable House presence, boosted by Marion County gains and local shifts.
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Indianapolis
Sims
Reiley
Democratic State Committee
Taggart
Hanly
Marion County
Foster
Chaney
Cox
Dixon
Holliday
Watson
Overstreet
Adair
Landis
Crumpacker
Rauch
Gilliams
Brick
Cromer
Fred Landis
Indiana Game Commissioner's 1905 1906 Report Placed With Governor
Indianapolis November 10 The commissioner of fisheries and game reports its 1905 1906 volume will cover fisheries game and birds in an 800 to 900 page book with about 200 illustrations including color plates. Free copies are limited and available through legislative representatives due to high demand.
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Indianapolis
Commissioner of Fisheries and Game
Election Whisky Tragedy Leaves Bloomington Men Injured
In Bloomington Indiana on November 6 Edward Deckard twenty six is dying after a pre election drinking binge. Bamm Kinser nineteen is a fugitive after a confrontation with Deckard. Several Chapel Hill youths drank whisky supplied by local politicians. Kinser struck Deckard with a club fracturing his skull. Deckard remains alive but is not expected to recover.
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Bloomington
Ind
Edward Deckard
Bamm Kinser
Chapel Hill
Kinser
Deckard
Stores Robbed in Mitchell Burglary Spree
In Mitchell Indiana on November 8 burglars entered the stores of A. R. Ewing & Son and Deifendorf & Son and the Cox meat market taking small sums. James Lowery the barber lost $25. Several homes were looted of small amounts. William Mantler detained a stranger on his property but the man escaped after being handed to authorities and remains at large.
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Mitchell
Ind
A. R. Ewing & Son
Deifendorf & Son
Cox Meat Market
James Lowery
William Mantler
Electrician Lyons Killed By Live Wire In New Albany
Harry Lyons, electrician with the fire department, died after climbing a pole to repair a cross of a fire alarm line when he touched a live United Gas and Electric Co wire. He slipped on a cross arm and was killed almost instantly.
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New Albany
Ind
Harry Lyons
Fire Department
United Gas and Electric Company
Child Dies After Bonfire Accident in Michigan City
Two year old Edward Bentley, son of Adelbert Bentley, died after his clothing caught fire from a bonfire started by his father while playing nearby in Michigan City Indiana on November 7.
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Michigan City
Ind
Edward
Adelbert Bentley
Lost Arm In Corn Shredder Near Connersville
Quincy Sherry a farmer was injured at work when his left arm was caught in a shredder east of the city and could not be saved the arm was amputated.
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Connersville
Ind
Quincy Sherry
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