Horrors of the Congo Unearth Cannibal Killings
Capt. Guy Burrows after six years with the Congo Free State condemns conditions as a disgrace to civilization. He cites 500 cannibals armed to massacre unarmed natives and alleges forced labor and the shotgun rule. He says rubber companies are state tied with government stakes and reforms are mere dust in eyes of public.
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London
Guy Burrows
Congo Free State
Free State
Burrows
Leopold
Upper Congo
Congo Freetate
Africa
Wisconsin Scientist's Remark At Chicago Convention
At Chicago on January 3 a Wisconsin scientist, Prof. H. L. Russell of the University of Wisconsin, told the American Society of Naturalists that certain germs die by their own action in water, making water and milk toxic to them. The talk described water as a germ poison and noted that bacteria death purifies water. A related discussion on heredity, led by E. B. Meek and P. W. Lutz, traced dog markings to ancestors with fractional inheritance.
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Chicago
American Society of Naturalists
H. L. Russell
University of Wisconsin
Sedgwick
Russell
Dr. Jordan
University of Chicago
E. B. Meek
P.W. Lutz
Five Die in Macon Roundhouse Boiler Explosion
A boiler blast at the Central of Georgia shops in Macon Georgia on January 3 killed five men and injured eleven. The victims include John M. McDonald Tosh Hodges Uriah Cornelius James O’Neil and an unidentified man. One body was so mutilated race could not be determined. Heads of two victims were blown off, the roundhouse was wrecked and a painter nearby was blown 100 yards away. Windows across five blocks were shattered.
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Macon
Central of Georgia Railway
John M. McDonald
White, Machin
Tosh Hodges
Uriah Cornelius
James O'Neil
Packer Colliery No 5 Reopens After Flood
In Girardville PA the Packer colliery No 5 resumed operations after a severe storm flood, employing about 800 men and boys. Preston colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co. remains idle, with officials fearing it will take months to clear water. Shaffer estate mine at Lawrence is also idle with ruined inside workings and potential abandonment, together employing over 2,000 workers.
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Girardville
Packer
Preston
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co
Lawrence
Shaffer
Dowager Empress Reforms Look Failing in Pekin
Pekin January 3 news reports dampened hopes that the dowager empress would reform after the past year. Foreign observers fear for stability as Gen Yung Lu seeks to form two anti foreign army corps to counter pro foreign Chinese leaders. Other notable actions include the governor ordering the suppression of the city’s sole independent newspaper and the closing of the local industrial school.
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Hias
Pekin
Yung Lu
Bricklayers Strike Over Working Hours in Richmond
In Richmond on January 3 the bricklayers faced a near total work stoppage with about 200 men out of work. They accuse contractors' association of locking them out over a dispute on hours from 8 to 5, favoring 7 to 4.
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Richmond
Contractors’ Association
Sampson's illness worsens despite treatment advances
Washington January 3 reports Admiral Sampson's health declines steadily as medical science fails to halt the malady. He grows less responsive to care and the condition progresses toward a final outcome.
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Sampson
Washington
Jan
Ssampson
Paris brewer seeks world fair barrel exhibition
Albert Bare of Paris applies to the world’s fair management for a concession to erect a mammoth barrel where breweries worldwide may compete to dispose of beverages. The proposed barrel would rise 60 feet high and stretch 90 feet long.
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St. Louis
Albert Bare
Paris
France
World’s Fair Management
Maine Reports Record State Surplus of 300000
Augusta Maine January 3 The state has a 300000 surplus today due to taxation laws passed by the last legislature. The improved finances are described as the best in Maine history.
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Maine
Augusta
Investigation of Czolgosz Sanity After McKinley Shooting
New York report by Dr. Carlos F. MacDonald and Edward A. Spitzka concludes Czolgosz was sane and legally responsible for the McKinley assassination. They describe his anarchist creed, lack of accomplice testimony, and the autopsy finding no mental disease.
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President McKinley
New York
McKinley
New York Medical Journal
Carlos F. MacDonald
Edward A. Spitzka
MacDonald
President MacKinley
Spitzka
Three Trains Collide West of Johnstown Pennsylvan ia
Three trains wrecked near SQ tower seven miles west of Johnstown Pennsylvania. One man killed and four railroad workers seriously injured with several others lightly hurt. First collision involved train No 14 and a side track freight, followed by a second westbound freight crashing into the wreckage sending debris into the Conemaugh river.
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Johnstown
Pennsylvania Road
Pittsburg
New York
Conemaugh River
Pension Department Created for 30000 Steel and Wire Workers
Notices posted in Chicago mills announce a pension department for American Steel and Wire Co. employees. Signed by President William P. Palmer, the department aims to retire long serving workers who have reached age or physical need for relief from duty and place them on a pension roll.
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Chicago
American Steel and Wire Co
William P. Palmer
General Botha Urges Boers to Keep Fighting Amid Possible War Vote
Johannesburg report says General Botha has sent a note to Boer commandos urging continued resistance as Parliament may seek another war vote to push Britain to end the South African conflict.
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Johannesburg
Botha
South Africa
Died a Rear Admiral in Chelsea Death News
Washington reports that Captain Richard P. Leary U S N who died at Chelsea recently was promoted to rear admiral on the eve of his death without knowing it. The promotion troubled him in his final moments as the appointment was made just before he died and learned by his brother in law after the Annapolis funeral.
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Boston
Washington
Richard P. Leary
Chelsea
Fairfax Irwin
Annapolis
C. F. Wells
Villa Ridge
Ill
Mr. Wells
MacLeod to Turn State Evidence in Water Contract Case
Grand Rapids, Jan 4 Stilson V MacLeod indicted with City Attorney Lant K Salsbury Thomas E McGarry and Henry A Taylor of New York for conspiracy to foist a 4 000 000 water contract on the city has confessed and agreed to testify against McGarry and Taylor Salsbury already convicted MacLeod case to be dropped in consideration of his action.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Stilson
Few Railroads Panic to Courts in 1901
The Railway Age notes that in 1901 only four small lines asked for receivers, totaling 73 miles, the fewest since courts began controlling railroads for creditors. No major lines went insolvent that year, marking a comparatively calm period.
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Chicago
The
Railway Age
Fire destroys most Catoosa town buildings
An early January fire in Catoosa Indian Territory nearly wiped out the town’s commerce. The blaze consumed nearly every business structure and caused about $80,000 in losses, with the Bank of Catoosa building among those destroyed.
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O. T
Catoosa
I. T
Bank of Catoosa
Forakerites Win Control in Ohio Assembly Fight
In the January caucuses, Hanna men won control of the house while Foraker men took the senate. House nominations included Speaker W. S. McKinnon and many clerks. Blenkner praised after 40 years in service. Senate choices featured F. B. Archer as President Pro Tem and F. E. Scobey as Clerk. A U S senator nomination contest followed with Baker winning on the first ballot.
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General Assembly
Hanna
House
Foraker
Senate
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A. G. Comings
Burgess L. McElroy
C. L. Williams
H. Hughes
E. Howard Jones
J. C. Riley
H. E. Scott
Andrew Jackson
Frank Newcomer
David Yarnell
Fred Blenkner
F. B. Archer
F. E. Scobey
L. E. St. John
E. F. Brown
W. E. V. Blake
Richard Lynch
L. S. Pardee
William King
Charles W. Baker
Cincinnati
J. H. Clarke
Cleveland
A. W. Patrick
New Philadelphia
P. J. Hartington
United States
Baker
Canton holdings sold to Everett-Moore syndicate
President W. A. Lynch and Manager H. C. Fogle announced they sold the Canton Massillon city and inter urban lines to the Everett Moore syndicate. They maintained the properties were on a paying basis and stockholders received cash for their interests.
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W. A. Lynch
H. C. Fogle
Canton-Massillon
Everett-Moore Syndicate
Sent Him to an Asylum In Cincinnati
Cincinnati authorities declared George Huesman insane and sent him to an asylum after previous dismissal for disrespecting President McKinley during the assassination news. Testimony linked years of sunstroke and a severe electric shock to his condition.
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Cincinnati
George Huesman
McKinley
Youngstown Telephone Co. Secure, Not Tied to Syndicate Embarrassment
Youngstown Telephone Co controlled by the Everett Moore syndicate will not be affected by its financial embarrassment. The firm is on a paying basis and able to meet obligations. Local banks hold no securities of the syndicate.
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Youngstown
Youngstown Telephone Co
Everett-Moore
Missing cashier baffles Cincinnati police
Cincinnati January 4. John G. Thomas cashier of the Wells Fargo Express Co in Cincinnati has been reported missing since Monday night. An examination of his books shows everything correct and there is no clue to the cause of his absence.
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Cincinnati
John G. Thomas
Well-Fargo Express. Co.i
Verdict awards Mrs Smith 5400 against Hayes estate
In Toledo on Friday the circuit court upheld a lower court ruling granting Mrs Adelaide Smith of Fre mont a $5400 judgment against the estate of the late President R B Hayes. The decision marks a second circuit court consideration of the case.
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Toledo
Circuit Court
Adelaide Smith
Fremont
R. B. Hayes
Burglars Steal Silk in Medina Dry Goods Store
Burglars entered Parish and Stratton's dry goods store in Medina and carried away over 1500 dollars worth of silk. In Columbus the same gang of safe blowers faces the penitentiary after a jail plot is uncovered. Nottinghams post office safe is looted in a bold early morning robbery. a battle with the postmaster ensues as the gang escapes toward Collinwood.
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Parish & Stratton’s
Columbus
John Jones
Lewis McComb
James Price
Howard Benton
Ohio
Clinton County
Gaeriff Vandervort
Cleveland
Nottingham
Collinwood
English and German hop crops and a man’s claim of electric water
England’s hop crop stands near 660 000 hundredweight while Germany’s supply drops from 558 800 to 313 500 hundredweight from 1900 to 1901. A New York man asserts drinking electricity in water rejuvenates him by ten years in a year restoring teeth sight hair and vitality and says a glassful ready to hand can ring a small bell.
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England
Germany
New York
The Consolation Prize in Detroit Bride Story
Louise-Alice stops giving bridal presents and quits. Ethel questions her reason. Louise explains she feels happier buying a new book with money from a wedding invitation.
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Alice
Ethel
Detroit Free Press
Family Pride and the Costly Doctor Visit
A sympathetic visitor notes Mr. Cumrox has an ordinary cold but Mrs. Cumrox claims they have made it special by hiring the city's most expensive physician. The scene reflects social humor in Washington Star style.
Uncertain Taste in a Candid Exchange
A scene from Smart Set features Daisy ridiculing Burroughs for fearing a house dog. He admits the dog may eat from Daisy’s hand but worries it could also take a bite from his leg in a humorous exchange.
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Burroughs
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