Great Treasury Surplus in Prosperous Year for Nation
Treasury figures show a surplus near 90 million dollars for the twelve months ending the fiscal year. Despite large Congress expenditures and Philippine War costs, receipts exceeded expenditures by a sizable margin. Internal revenue fell while customs rose, with daily averages placing about 1.5 million dollars in receipts and outlays per business day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lamm
Treasury
Congress
Philippines
Tnele Sam
Tustomy Oo
VTLA
Sam
National Memorial University Under Construction at Mason City
The National Memorial University at Mason City Iowa is nearing completion funded entirely by Sons of Veterans and allied groups. The main building costs $100 007 sits on Fatriors Hill within a 16 acre site and will open in fall 1903. Barton Hall honors Clara Barton of the Red Cross with endowment plans totaling $1 000 000 to support a women's college and the museum aims to house the largest Civil War relic collection in the country.
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National Memorial University
Mason City
Iowa
Sons of Veterans of the United States
Fatriors Hill
National Civil War Museum
United States
Barton Hall
Clara Barton
American National Red Cross Society
National Alliance of Daughters of Veterans
Women's College
The
Memorial University
Rainfall for June Breaks All Records Across Corn States
The June rainfall across the United States set records, with several cornraising states showing marked increases over 1901. Tables hint at nationwide excess, including figures for New York Nebraska Missouri Minnesota Wisconsin Indiana and Louisiana, while a Chicago decade record is noted. The report also mentions unrest as the navy endures a coal strike impacting the Bureau of Equipment led by Rear Admiral Bradford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York
Missouri
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Bradford
Bureau of Equipment
Hias
Bailey Attacks Beveridge in Senate Chamber
Texas Senator Joseph W Bailey assaulted Senator Beveridge of Indiana after adjournment in the Senate Chamber. Beveridge was choked while seated. several onlookers intervened and separated them. Bailey objected to department papers on a Texas prisoner in a Mexican prison and to the papers related to the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Senate
Joseph W. Bailey
Texas
Beveridge
Bailey
Senator Beveridge
Texas Statesman
State Department
Violent Senate Disruption Over Navy Coal Supply
Report to the Secretary of the Navy warns of a near disaster as coal shortages cripple naval operations. A floor scuffle between Senators Bailey and an Indiana colleague is described, with multiple similar incidents listed from 1902 including Tillman, Spooner, Dolliver and Dietrich in heated exchanges and near blows.
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Ian
Indiana
Dorkeeper Layton
Spooner
Bacon
Hansbrough
Bailey
Lodge and Teller
Benstoxs
Tillman
Mec Laurin
Senate
Money
Dolliver
Mack
Patterson
Dietrich
Philippine Investigation Committee
Wee Ee
Rawlins
Fifty-Seventh Congress Enacts Landmark National Measures
The opening session of the fifty-seventh Congress features major laws linking seas to canals and governing colonies. Key acts include isthmian canal legislation, Philippine civil government, tariff and banking reforms, a permanent census office, and restrictions on oleomargarine. Tax repeal wipes out war-era levies, while irrigation and Chinese exclusion laws shape Western development and exclusion policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Pacific
Pei Pylacs
Cuba
Spain
Philippines
United States
Philippine Commission
West
Treasury Department
Neltie Islands
Revenue Cutter Service
Porto Rico
Martinique
Alaska
Washington
Marshal de Rochambeau
Isthmian Canal
Philippine Committee of the
Senate
House
West Indian Islands
Appropriations Near Billion-Dollar Mark In Fifty-Seventh Congress
The first session of the fifty-seventh Congress runs a near billion-dollar total, hitting 710 million with 217 million in increases. Major boosts include isthmian canal funding, post office, navy, and rivers and harbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isthmian Canal
Columbia
Mifitney Ac
Sanes
Ng Military Academy
NAVY
Post Office
New York Plans World Largest Dry Dock for 1200 Foot Vessels
New York will build the world’s largest dry dock with a cradle designed to hold ships up to 1200 feet long, 500 feet longer than the present biggest steamers. Experts foresee many 1000 foot class vessels within ten years.
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New York
Cumberland Presbyterians plan college at Adgerton
Notes of Current Events report that The Cumberland Presbyterians will establish a college at Adgerton forty miles southeast of St. Joseph Missouri. Chicago officials reveal wornout horses are slaughtered in the city and meat sold as beef. Tulie Opp the actress is divorced in London from Robert Lorraing, her former husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland Presbyterians
Adgerton
St. Joseph
Chicago
Tulie Opp
London
Robert Lorraing
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Minneapolis Journal
Aar
Navy Yard
Secretary of the Navy
Con
J. W. Bailey
A. J. Beveridge
Work OF Congress
Engrosaca
McKinley
Arizona
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Hoase
Apalachian Forest Reserve
Apalachian
Vancement
House of Representatives
Department of Commerce
Committee On Commerce
House Committee of Commerce
Fowler
Yorse
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