Promotions and Objections Mark Army Nomination Battle
Washington January 18 The Senate likely to confirm new army officers after Lt Gen Youngs retirement. Chaffee confirmed as lieutenant general while Gillespie and Mackenzie await action. Objections to Mills nomination highlight retroactive promotion flaws and length of service versus rank.
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Washington
Senate
Youngs
Chaffee
Gillespie
Mackenzie
Kobbe
Sanger, Bates
Randolph
Mills
McCaskey
West Point Academy
War Department
Col. Mills
Cavalry
Senate Week Forecast: Post Office Inquiry and Canal Debate
Washington plans a busy week with a Senate inquiry into the Post Office Department and debate on the Panama Canal to resume Tuesday. The Republican majority aims to move the treaty to executive session after committee reporting. House actions include urgent deficiency, army, and private pension bills as well as District of Columbia matters. Hepburn pure food bill slated for Tuesday.
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Washington
Senate
Postoffice Department
Committee On Postoffice
Committee On Foreign Relations
Committee On Appropriations
District of ‘Columbia
Pension Expenditures Rise Dramatically in United States
Analysis shows that by June 27, 1890, the pension total would exceed 62 million dollars in additional outlays, pushing annual government pension payments to about 200 million dollars. The data indicates a significant upward trend in federal pension costs.
Firing Record at Brooklyn Battery Impresses Navy Officials
Washington reports the Brooklyn cruiser battery firing at Alexander Egypt was highly satisfactory with rapid hits. An unofficial European fleet letter notes five inch and eight inch hit rates, eight hits in six minutes thirty eight seconds, and a novice pointer achieving perfect four for four in two minutes twenty three seconds.
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Washington
Brooklyn
Alexander
Egypt
G. H. Bushey
Landsman
Porto Rico School Affairs Report for 1903
The annual report by Samuel McCune Lindsey shows 1,005 schools operating in Porto Rico with 70,216 enrolled students, about 19 percent of the island’s estimated school population. The education department had $547,767 from insular funds, $545,106 spent, and total education expenditures reached $817,815 for the year.
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Porto Rico
Washington
Samuel McCune Lindsey
Department of Education
Desertions From Navy Exaggerated Report
Commander Alexander Sharp says the seventy five deserters from the Asiatic fleet at Honolulu were overstated. About sixty deserted, many returned before sailing, others were arrested, and fewer than thirty remain missing.
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Navy
Washington
Alexander Sharp
Bureau of Navigation
Honolulu
Birthday of Republicanism in Michigan Leaders Invite President
Sixty six prominent Michigan citizens led by Governor Bliss arrived in Washington with Michigan lawmakers to invite the president to Jackson Michigan for the July 6 celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Republican party. They bring data asserting the party was born under the oaks at Jackson on July 6 1854.
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Washington
Michigan
Bliss
Jackson
Mich
Paroled Wrecker Key Released From Indiana Prison
Great indignation rose in Wabash Indiana as James M Key once jailed for wrecking the Commercial Bank at Andrews and serving part of a sentence was paroled. Judge Branyan had opposed release while prosecutors and the public were unaware. Allegations of outside influence and impending forgery charges surrounded the surprise decision, with Key reportedly in St Louis.
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Wabash
Ind
Andrews
Huntington
James M. Key
Key
Branyan
St. Louis
Man Dreams He Is in Runaway and Dies Soon After
Jacob Harlan of Union City died in Richmond Indiana after a nightmare he had while asleep. He awoke trembling and in distress and, in response to his wife, described a dream of running away, then collapsed and passed away shortly thereafter.
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Richmond
Ind
Jacob Harlan
Union City
Harlan
Mae Tae
Surrender and peace terms in Russo Japanese war
London reports the surrender of Russia to Japan as Britain vows to honor the Anglo Japanese treaty. Terms include opening Manchurian ports, withdrawal to Korea, and possible abandonment of Port Arthur. Czar seeks peace despite prestige loss amid British diplomatic influence and Japan’s stronger financial stance.
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Manchuuria
Seoul
Port Arthur
London
Russia
Japan
Great Britain
The
Times
Manchouria
Corea
Balfour
Manchester
Daily News
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Standard
Tien-Tsin
Daily Mail
China
Mukden
Mancheoria
Manchooria
Tokio
Europe
Daily Graphic
Far East
Black Sea
Baltic
Chinese militia club forms with armory on Sacramento
A new Chinese militia group in Sacramento plans modern warfare drills and ancient Chinese tactics. The brigade, 100 members strong, includes students from the State university and professionals from Chinatown. Edward L. Park and Wong Kim lead the movement. Members range 16 to 30 years old.
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America
Sacramento Street
State University
Chinatown
Edward L. Park
Daily
Chinese World
Wong Kim
Blacks in Slavery in Texas
Galveston Texas January 18 The federal grand jury found insufficient evidence for indictments but raised serious claims of peonage in Texas. Hundreds of plantations employ thousands of blacks with typical pay of 50 to 75 cents a day. Allegations describe bondage on remote plantations where descendants of former slaves remain unfree and some are kept ignorant of emancipation. Marriage among enslaved individuals is reported as loosely regarded.
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Galveston
Tex
Federal Grand Jury
Texas
Rich ex mayor ends life in crisis of illness
Colonel John H. Bacon 75 former Colorado Springs mayor in 1880 shot himself after years of rheumatism and insomnia. He left a note describing his pain and loss of pleasures. Survived by widow Mary Weaver and a son, an attorney. Estate valued at 250000. bacon spent youth in Michigan then Iowa where he served as trustee of Iowa Agricultural College and provost marshal of the first district during the war.
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Colorado Springs
Col
John H. Bacon
Mary Weaver
Princeton
Bacon
Michigan
Iowa
Iowa Agricultural College
Iowa Agricultural Society
Lieut Hobson's Mother Dies in Colorado
The mother of Richmond P. Hobson died in Boulder after a long illness. She was 82 and born February 24, 1843 in Richmond Hill, North Carolina. Hobson will take the body to Greensboro Alabama for burial. she had lived in Boulder since last summer seeking health.
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Boulder
Col
Richmond P. Hobson
Shirley Davis
Greensboro
Ala
Richmond Hill
N. C
United Mine Workers Order Strike in Steel Corp Mines
Pittsburg district convention ends after ordering a strike in all U.S. Steel controlled mines where wages were cut. The United Mine Workers announce the action following wage reductions.
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Pittsburg
United Mine Workers of America
United States Steel Corporation
Death Sentence For Aged Man In German Couple Murder
Charles Ponier 74 was found guilty of first degree murder for killing Franz and Johanna Frehr in their Buffalo home on November 19, 1903. The verdict carries the death sentence.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Charles Ponier
Franz
Johanna Frehr
Miners Acquitted in Conspiracy Case
Report from Col. Jan 18 states miners are acquitted in a conspiracy case connected to blowing an entity labeled South Sun and Moon. The brief note affirms the outcome with limited details.
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George Wn
Narrow Escape on Echo River at Mammoth Cave Convention
Eighteen delegates of the National League of Commerce Merchants nearly drowned when their boat sank in the Echo River inside Mammoth Cave. Guides and rescue workers, including John Nelson and Charles A. Muehlbronner, pulled the party to safety after five hours. The group formed the Echo club with the motto All in the same boat and planned to meet in New Orleans in January 1905.
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Louisville
National League of Commission ’ Merchants
Chicago
Echo River
Mammoth Cave
John Nelson
Charles A. Muehlbronner
Pittsburg
Frank E. Wagner
J. L. Owens
A. W. Smith
Echo Club
New Orleans
Death in a Premature Blast Kills Miner in Illinois
In the Empire coal mine near Peoria Illinois five miles from the city a premature explosion at 6 PM Saturday killed F A Street and seriously injured Earl Street. Hart Street suffered severe head injuries and total blindness. The brothers survived only briefly after the blast before being found Sunday morning.
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Peoria
Ill
Empire
F. A. Street
Earl Street
Hart Street
Umpire Sought to Resolve Five Wyoming and Lackawanna Grievances
Hazelton Pa Jan 18 The conciliation board secretary T D Nichols asks Judge George Gray to appoint an umpire to decide five grievances from Wyoming and Lackawanna districts where conciliators cannot agree.
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Hazelton
T. D. Nichols
The
Conciliation Board
George Gray
Thir Judicial
Wyoming
Lackawanna
Socialist Mayor Born Expelled by State Party Board
Sheboygan Wisconsin January 18 Charles A Born social democratic mayor was found guilty by the state executive board of the party for violating party principles and was expelled from the organization.
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Sheboygan
Wis
Charles A. Born
Social Democratic
Denver Mayor Defies Courts In Early January Outburst
Fragmentary report notes Zeph T Hill, a Denver mayor, clashing with courts in January. Details unclear due to damaged OCR.
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Denver
Col
Zeph T. “Hill
Fale
BES ‘Tel‘Creex
Illumination Therapy Aids Diagnosis Then Fails to Cure Cancer
A medical report describes a patient swallowing a fluorescent liquid adapted for diagnostic use. Dr Kent notes fluorescence reveals abdominal interior during glow. Morton’s diluted solutions claim cancer cure. fluids are nonradioactive water made illuminable by external radium exposure.
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Kent
Iowa Farmers Control House Form Joint Farming Bloc
Des Moines January 16 Farmers in the Iowa house plan a farming bloc to guide all agriculture related bills. Led by John McAllister Linn County the group seeks to influence policy and resist sidelining by veteran lawmakers. Seventy one new members join the ruralist effort promising united stands on favorable and unfavorable laws.
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Des Moines
Iowa General Assembly
House
John McAllister
Linn County
McAllister
Aldermen Clash Over City Budget Fight
Joliet officials hold daily special meetings to pass the annual appropriation bill. The council splits on key details with debates described as long and spirited. A $50 000 appropriation from the finance committee aims to fund expert testimony and legal work for track elevation court action.
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Joliet
Mitchell Likely to Visit Paris and London for Labor Conferences
John Mitchell of the United Mineworkers may go to Paris in May to represent the international mines conference and to London in November for the American Federation of Labor at the British trades' congress. He has been selected by miners' conventions, with a final decision expected next week at the convention in Indianapolis.
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Indianapolis
Ind
John Mitchell
The
United Mineworkers
Paris
London
International Mines Conference
American Federation of Labor
British Trades’ Congress
Mitchell
Man Robbery Case In Police Court
In Cincinnati on January 16 William Payton, a Black man, was fined 200 dollars and sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse for stealing a pair of rubbers from a sleeping man in a stable. The extra fine was added after the theft was found to have occurred while the victim slept in a stable.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
William Payton
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Palin
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