Congress News Notes on Treaties and Legislation
The report covers actions in Congress and the Senate on the week of dates around 1902. It notes ratification of a Spain friendship treaty, the pension and deficiency bills, duty reductions on Philippine goods, and the pure food bill. It also mentions court cases, health issues, business developments, and international affairs including Venezuela and Japan.
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Congress
House
Senate
Spain
United States
Miners Threaten Strike Over Grievances at Drifton
More than 4,000 miners at Drifton Pennsylvania threaten to strike unless Coxe Bros. & Co. address grievances and re employ onion miners. The unrest comes amid broader labor tensions and wage disputes across U S industries.
Reading Railroad President Faults Coal Operators Over Price
President Baer of the Reading railroad criticized independent coal operators for pushing coal prices to 11.50 a ton to dealers and about 14 to consumers. He said there is no way to force sale prices down to railroad-set levels and that public or railroad actions may not curtail the high charges.
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Baer
New York
Reading Railroad
Mr. Baer
Judge Invalidates Sutherland Prize Money Claim
United States Judge Thomas in Brooklyn ruled the $1,000,000 prize claim by Lieut Commander Sutherland and the Eagle crew, for destruction of the Spanish steamer Santo Domingo during the Spanish American War, invalid. The case centered on the sunken vessel and cargo valued as prize money.
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New York
United States
Thomas
Brooklyn
Sutherland
Navy
Eagle
Santo Domingo
All Hope Abandoned for John C Hall Crew
Wreckage identified on Stony Point shores confirms the missing steamer John C Hall and her nine crew are lost after sinking in a December 11 gale on Lake Ontario. The John R Noyes and Charlotte were involved in the voyage with coal for Deseronto. the Noyes drifted south and the crew of the Hall were not saved.
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Henderson
N. Y
John C. Hall
Stony Point
Oswego
Lake Ontario
Charlotte
John R. Noyes
Deseronto
Noyes
The
Charlotte Life Savers
Anglo German Alliance Provokes Press Debate in Britain
London discussions on the Venezuelan imbroglio show strong calls for pacific settlement. British opinion questions war risks, cites US cooperation, and warns of German leverage and potential Monroe Doctrine clash.
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London
Balfour
Venezuela
Admiralty
United States
Great Britain
Venezuelan
Henry Norman
Germany
Margarita Island
Daily News
the Times
Robert Giffen
Foreign Office
Robert
Sir Robert
Almost Impregnable Caracas a Venezuelan Stronghold
Paris reports M. Thiesse a former French minister to Venezuela says Caracas stands behind 6000 foot mountains making it almost impregnable. Venezuela can field 400000 troops and has educated officers though lacks cavalry. A rail line from La Guaira to Caracas could be cut by destroying a bridge. If Caracas falls, guerrilla warfare would follow.
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Venezuela
Paris
M. Thiesse
France
Germany
Caracas
la Guaira
Spain
Andijan Earthquake Totals Devastation and Hunger Threats
An earthquake destroyed Andijan in Russian Turkestan on Tuesday. Authorities fear unknown fatalities and report the town of 30,000 faces starvation while surrounding villages feel tremors. A railway line near Andijan was torn apart for a long distance.
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Ashkabad
Russian Turkestan
Andijan
Tobin Convicted in Murder of Captain Craft in Empire Hall
Thomas Tobin was found guilty of the murder of Captain James B. Craft of Glen Cove L I whose decapitated body was discovered two months earlier in the Empire music hall. The defense argued insanity but experts testified Tobin sane.
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New York
Thomas Tobin
James B. Craft
Glencove
L. I
Empire Music Hall
Clerks Hit by Railroads Salary Reductions
Western railroads struggle to hire mechanics and respond by cutting salaries for office clerks. Roads cite high wages for mechanical help as the reason for retrenchment. Clerks lack formal organizations but plan to protest the pay reductions.
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Topeka
Kan
Jealous husband fatally shoots wife then kills self in St Joseph
In St Joseph Missouri on December 18 John Williams aged 53 fatally wounded his wife 43 then shot himself after lying in wait for an hour due to jealousy. The couple leave nine children.
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St. Joseph
John Williams
Williams
Uncle Sam Demands Corea Pay for Electric Railroad
A Seoul dispatch reports the United States minister to Corea has demanded $1,500,000 owed to the builders of the electric railroad in a move to secure payment.
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Uncle Sam
Corea
St. Petersburg
Seoul
United States
Man Found Dead in Hotel Room in Detroit
A man registered as Fred E. Kelly of Buffalo New York was found dead in his Hotel Cadillac room last evening with a bullet wound in his right temple and a revolver in his hand. He worked as a baggage man and express messenger on the Wabash road.
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Detroit
Cadillac
Fred E. Kelly
Buffalo
N. Y
Wabash Road
Howard to Have a New Trial Granted
Frankfort Kentucky December 18 The court of appeals has granted James Howard a new trial. Howard is under sentence of life imprisonment for the Goebel murder.
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Howard
Frankfort
Court of Appeals
James Howard
Goebel
Venezuelan Crisis Deepens With Bowen Granted Full Powers
The Navy sends officers to Caracas to assist American Minister Bowen as Castro backs a Caracas settlement. German and British moves crowd the scene as La Guaira blockades loom and U S ships prepare for possible actions along the Orinoco and Caribbean coast.
Keokuk Marshal and Justice fatally shot in Farmington
City Marshal R W Coulter and Justice A E Musgrave were fatally wounded last night in Farmington Ia by deputy sheriff Geo Stillwell who was later killed by a posse. Coulter tried to arrest Stillwell on a disorderly conduct warrant. Stillwell shot Coulter in the stomach and shoulder then killed Musgrave in the head.
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Keokuk
R. W. Coulter
A. E. Musgrave
Farmington
Geo. Stillwell
Coulter
Stillwell
Musgrave
Upheld Common Law Marriage in Nebraska
Nebraska supreme court rules that a later common law marriage is valid if the couple lived together after the legal waiting period. The decision concerns a husband who sought to void a marriage formed less than six months after his wife’s divorce, deeming the union unlawful yet legalized by the statute.
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Lincoln
Neb
Supreme Court
Beckham Seeks Re election as Kentucky Governor
Frankfort Kentucky December 20 Governor Beckham announced his bid for a full term as chief executive. His current term ends December 12 1903 and the election is set for November next year.
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Beckham
Frankfort
Engineers' Wages to be Raised on Northwestern Rail
Chicago dispatch reports 5000 locomotive engineers and firemen on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Co will receive wage increases totaling $600,000 annually. The new scale becomes effective January 1.
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Chicago
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Co
Elasticity in Currency: Banks Should Issue More Than Bond Value
Comptroller Ridgely urged New York bankers to allow national bank note circulation to exceed the par value of deposited bonds. He proposed government guarantees and a tax-funded reserve to backnotes, arguing this would add elasticity and improve the currency system.
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New York
William B. Ridgely
Wilson
Princeton University
Robert S. MacArthur
Chaffee
John S. Wise
New York State Bankers’ Association
Waldorf-Astoria
Ridgely
Dewey's Ships Move Toward Trinidad and St Thomas
Washington reports Admiral Dewey will rendezvous with principal fighting ships next week at Trinidad off Venezuela and at St Thomas near Porto Rico. Rear Admiral Higgins leads the North Atlantic squadron at Trinidad on the Kearsarge, with Sumner aboard the Iowa at the St Thomas group. Crowninshield commands the European squadron from the Illinois at St. Thomas, while Coghlan leads the Caribbean division from the Olympia at St Kitts. Dewey will keep Mayflower as flagship and spend much of the ten days in San Juan, currently at Culebra with the fleet.
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Washington
Navy Department
Dewey
Caracas
Diehl
Marietta
la Guaira
van Duren
Lopez Baralt
United States
Bowen
Castro
Venezuela
State Department
Falke
Lake Maracaibo
Victoria
Maracaibo
San Juan
Porto Rico
Albany
Moody
Berlin
Germany
Hague Tribunal
Fiere
Belgium
Spain
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Penalosa
Rolando
Riera
Solague
Orce
Douglas
Carenero
Guanta
Cumana
Carupano
Orinoco River
St. Thomas
Higginson
Kearsarge
Sumner
Iowa
Crowninshield
Illinois
St. Kitts
Coghlan
Olympia
Mayflower
Culebra
Immense Indiana Ditch Aims to Reclaim Marsh Lands
Preliminary steps are under way in Laporte Starke Forter Lake and Jasper counties to build a vast artificial waterway east of the Mississippi planned to reclaim Kankakee marsh lands. A 14 mile section in Laporte and Starke is let for 120000 with overall cost near 1000000. Assessments on benefited lands will fund the project.
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Indiana
Crown Point
Ind
Laporte
Starke
Forter, Lake and
Jasper
Mississippi River
Kankakee
Illinois State Line
Mysterious Indiana Beneficiary Found After Yearlong Disappearance
John De Camps aged 80, who vanished from near Greenville, Ohio a year ago, was located in Somerset Illinois. He and an elder brother once owned a $100000 estate. after the brother's death a sister filed for partition and a faction allegedly kidnapped De Camps to his niece Mrs Rogers in Somerset. The Greenville court is notified to restore him and his property.
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Marion
Ind
John de Camps
Greenville
Somerset
Here
de Camps
Rogers
Santa Teresa Seeks Divorce From Indian Husband
In Los Angeles on December 19 a young woman known as Santa Teresa filed for divorce from her Yaqui husband G. N. Rodriguez. The complaint alleges the marriage was forced at Clifton Arizona on June 22, 1900 by the suitor who threatened her with a revolver.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Santa Teresa
G. N. Rodriguez
Clifton, Ariz
Gen Wager Swayne Dies In New York Home
New York reports Gen Wager Swayne died yesterday afternoon at his residence due to a complication of diseases. His widow two sons and a daughter were by his deathbed.
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New York
Wager Swayne
Boers to Come to America Trek to Colorado and Texas
Nearly 9,000 Boers are reported ready to trek to the United States and settle in Colorado New Mexico and Texas. Gen Samuel Pearson former quartermaster general of the South African republic leads the movement with New York headquarters. Colorado friends contact him about suitable lands and Gen De Villiers surveys lands expressing favorable impressions of the state.
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America
Denver
Col
Colorado
New Mexico
Texas
Samuel Pearson
New York
Pearson
de Villiers
Vessels Free From Ice After Lake Erie Jam
The steamer S K Martin and schooner Charles Spademan were released from ice in Lake Erie off Bar Point and towed to Detroit River by tugs Home Rule and Columbia. Hanscomb, towed to Amherstburg, required both tugs. Five to seven foot windrows trapped her. seaman John Leehy drowned.
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Detroit
S. K. Martin
Charles Spademan
Lake Erie
Bar Point
Rsule
Columbia
Hanscomb
Amherstburg
Home Rule
John Leehy
Dancers Fight a Duel Ends in Beaumont Tragedy
A dance at the Natatorium in Beaumont Texas last night ended in a duel between John Brouch street commissioner and Frank Matthews. Brouch was killed Charles M Matthews fatally wounded and Frank Matthews struck by a bullet in the leg.
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Beaumont
Tex
Natatorium
John Brouch
Frank Matthews
Brouch
Charles M. Matthews
Earthquakes Rock San Jose Costa Rica
Two violent earthquake shocks struck San Jose on Thursday morning causing alarm among residents. The city responded with startled reactions as tremors rattled daily life.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Great Strides in Western Canada and Open Land Promise
The Edmonton Bulletin notes Western Canada’s rapid development and bountiful soil fueling excitement in Canada the United States and Britain. It highlights fertile land cheap labor and vast unbroken plains from Lake of the Woods to the Rockies offering homes for the landless. This year 1902 the main complaint is insufficient railway rolling stock to move harvests to market.
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Western
Canada
United States
Great Britain
The
Edmonton Bulletin
Northwest
Canadian Northwest
Lake of the Woods
Rocky Mountains
Wealth waits on industry in Canada
Crop area in Western Canada in 1902 reached 1 987 330 acres with a yield of 117 922 754 bushels. The message emphasizes abundant agricultural potential and room for growth across Canada, highlighting the link between industry and wealth.
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Canada
Western Canada Land Prices Rise Amid Influx From U S
Prices in Western Canada have surged about 50 percent over two years and migration into the country grows. An estimate suggests 25,000 acres of Canadian land are sold daily to buyers from the United States.
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Canada
United States
Is There Wealth in the Northwest Evidence in Wheat and Cattle
Doubts about Northwest settlement fade as 1902 yields prove wealth potential. Manitoba and Northwest grain production reached 117,922,754 bushels from 1,987,330 acres with farmers achieving higher value from wheat oats and cattle than elsewhere. Prosperity extends across Canada.
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Canadian Northwest
Manitoba
Northwest
Agricultural Diversity in the Canadian Northwest
The Northwest differs by region with wheat in the southeast, cattle ranching in the southwest, and mixed farming in the north. Soil and climate shape these patterns, yet the area offers unique wealth potential from any agricultural sector.
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Canadian Northwest
Territories
Manitoba
Quaint Advertisements and Wit From an Era
A collage of cartoonish lines and quotes from Punch and Town and Country mocks travel delays and romance. Ads praise Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar and Piso’s Cure for coughs while a Minnesotan letter from 1900 adds a dating touch.
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Hale
Pike
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