Canvass shows Roosevelt wins with large margin in 1904 vote
The official canvass of the November 8 presidential electors was completed, listing Roosevelt 7,627,632 votes and Parker 6,080,064 with Debs 391,587 and other parties totaling 13,508,496 ballots cast nationwide. The report details state by state results, party gains, and electoral counts, noting Roosevelt carried 32 states to McKinley’s 28 under the 1900 apportionment with 336 electoral votes.
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Chicago
Minnesota
North Dakota
Washington
Roosevelt
Parker
Debs
Swallow
Swallow Prohibitionist
Watson
Peoples
Corregon
Holcom
Continental Labor
Croosevelt
McKinley
Bryan
Alabama
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Mississippi
New Hampshire
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Delaware
New Jersey
New York
Rhode Island
West Virginia
Nebraska
Barker
California
Illinois
Massachusetts
Missouri
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Michigan
Montana
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Utah
Wisconsin
Socialist Labor Party
Colorado
Connecticut
Continental Labor Party
104 Years Old. Poughkeepsie Woman Birthday Milestone
Mary Shepard of Poughkeepsie New York celebrated her 104th birthday born in Ireland on December 25 1800. She remained active sitting up all Saturday night to attend five oclock mass at St Pauls church and walked several blocks to the church. A separate Louisville Kentucky report notes a deadly head on collision between trains near Maud's Station Illinois with one killed and nine injured.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Mary Shepard
Ireland
Shepard
St. Pauls Church
Beven
Louisville
St. Louis
Southern Railway
Maud’s Station
Roosevelt Aims Four Big Reforms This Winter
President Roosevelt plans a broad program including tariff revision railroad rate regulation national licenses for corporations and federal oversight of insurance companies. He seeks to enact major reform measures this session addressing economic regulation and corporate governance with executive and legislative support anticipated.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Czar Suggests Reforms in Ukase Declaring Autocracy Upholded
Emperor Nicholas issued a reform ukase detailing eight topic areas from the zemstvo memorial. It promises referral to ministers with prompt reporting on relief measures, preserves autocracy, and pledges stricter enforcement against officials, independent courts, fair trials, and broader press and religious liberty.
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St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Ukase
Congress of Zemstvos
Council of Ministers
Constitutional Assembly
Czar
Prosecution Aims at Breaking Paper Trust Tie
Attorney General Moody filed a US district court petition in St Paul seeking an injunction against the General Paper Company and 24 related pulp and paper firms forming the paper trust. The action, under the 1890 anti trust law, asks dissolution of the alleged restraint on trade.
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St. Paul, Minn
Moody
United States District Court
United States
General Paper Company
The
Paper Trust
Congress
War veteran Gen William H Powell dies at 79 in Belleville
Belleville Illinois December 27 Gen William H Powell longtime friend of President McKinley and former commander of the Illinois department G A R died at his Belleville home. At his death he presided over Western Nail Co of East St Louis and served as internal revenue collector for the Thirteenth District under President Roosevelt. He led the Second Cavalry Division under Gen Sheridan and was wounded at Wytheville Pa. He was 79 years old.
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Belleville
William H. Powell
McKinley
Illinois Department
Powell
Western Nall Company
East St. Louis
Internal Revenue
Thirteenth District
Roosevelt
Second Caval Division
Sheridan
Wytheville, Pa
Burned to death in Shanty tragedy at Old Town Maryland
In Old Town Maryland on December 27 Mack Nimarick his wife and child and Anna and Maseaun Cole all Slavs perished in a shanty housing 50 railroad laborers. An oil coal explosion is suspected with foul play feared as Nimarick carried a large sum Sunday. Two Slavs are reported missing.
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Old Town
Mack Nimarick
Anna
Maseaun Cole
Nimarick
Wabash
John Nichols
College Suffered by Fire in Lebanon Valley College
Lebanon Valley College in Annville suffered total loss of the main building from a fire whose origin is undetermined. The estimated damage is around 70,000 dollars.
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Lebanon
Lebanon Valley College
Annville
Eas
Patterson Jury Fails to Reach Verdict in Nan Patterson Case
New York December 24 26 Nan Patterson the alleged Caesar Young singer faced a hung jury twice reporting no verdict and was discharged She fainted upon learning the result and faces possible retrial The case drew sensational attention due to Young a sports figure and Patterson a Floradora girl with a claim that Young killed himself in the cab ride to the pier
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New York
Nan Patterson
Caesar Young
Davis
Miss Patterson
Jerome
Misa Patterson
Europe
Young
Bishop Under Fire Over Talbot Presentment
New York December 28 The presentment in the case of Bishop Talbot of Pennsylvania has been made public. Im morality lying and criminal libel are among the specifications on which trial of the prelate will be sought by prominent Episcopal clergymen and laymen.
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New York
Talbot
Pennsylvania
Federal Judge Quits in Ohio Resignation Forwarded
Cleveland report states Judge Francis J. Wing forwarded his resignation to the president for the northern district of Ohio. He was assured the resignation will take effect on February 1. This confirms the judicial leadership change and date of entry.
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Cleveland
Francis J. Wing
Ohio
Christmas shopping tops Chicago record at forty five million
Chicago on December 26 reports Christmas shopping volumes reaching 45 million dollars, the largest in the city’s history. Elsewhere in Michie Marinette, Wis., on December 27, authorities link a feud to a shooting in Anamosa, Michigan, where Baptist Delfour killed EB M Hanson.
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Chicago
Michie Marinette
Wis
Baptist Delfour
EB. M. Hanson
Anamosa
Mich
Japanese assault at Port Arthur fails. heavy losses reported
Dispatch from Chefoo dated December 26 describes a Japanese night attack of about 5000 men with machine guns on northern defenses. They seized trenches, reached the watercourse beneath Payutsean mountain, then entrenched under enfilading fire with heavy Russian casualties. Russians claim 600 killed. 80 Japanese prisoners. Other notes report Port Arthur terms offer and a Hai near Housangtantun, Tallachiatun being seized by our forces.
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London
Daily Telegraph
Che‘oo
Port Arthur
Payutsean Mountain
Payuisean
Etse
Nagasi
Dalny
Nogi
Russia
Tokio
Housangtantun
Siaclantun
Frightful death by self action in St Louis home
In St Louis on Sunday Mary Lawson aged 38 leaped from a second floor window with her clothing in flames. She died later at City Hospital from the fall and burns. Husband and neighbors witnessed. he cites recent spiritualism study and finds an empty coal oil can and a charred match near the window, suggesting self-inflicted death.
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St. Louis
Mary Lawson
City Hospital
Battle 10 Death in West Virginia Bullet Strikes
In Huntington West Virginia December 28 Lucian and Ira Lucas brothers were killed and Octavo Adkins friend wounded in a Sunday night fight near Midkiff Lincoln county. The clash followed a dispute over Ira Lucas courting Adkins daughter Martha Williams and Miss Adkins. William Adkins survived but was shot at. he surrendered to officers.
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Huntington
W. Va
Lucian
Ira Lucas
Octavo Adkins
Midkiff
Lincoln County
Lucas Boys
Martha Willams
Miss Adkins
William Adkins
Adkins
Lucas
Octave Adkins
Winter Storm Paralyzes Northwest Railways and Kills Four in Chicago
A historic winter storm battered the northwest for 26 hours with 60 mph winds driving heavy snow, halting telegraph lines and crippling smaller towns. Great Northern traffic moved slowly while local routes nearly stopped. snow drifts blocked cuts and roads, and one train was reported snowed in near Bellingham. In Chicago a blizzard claimed four lives and injured many. Nebraska and Iowa faced their worst blizzard in years with oil fields hit hard by collapsed derricks and suspended drilling. In Indiana, a Tuesday blizzard caused one death and extensive property damage, with derricks toppled and hundreds of thousands in losses, including $200,000 in the Muncie field and $50,000 around Portland.
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St. Paul
Minn
Great Northern Railway
Watertown
South Dakota
Bellingham
Chicago
Omaha
Neb
Nebraska
Iowa
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Frank Cavanaugh
Muncie
Portland
Sioux City Fire Devastates District Killing Fireman
A major blaze struck Sioux City on December 24 at 8:30 p.m. burning two blocks of the retail center, destroying 25 buildings including three banks and injuring several. A fireman was killed while fighting the flames, with property losses estimated at 2 million dollars.
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Sioux City
Penul
President appoints W Hail Harris postmaster at Baltimore
The president names W Hail Harris as postmaster in Baltimore. A wide range of brief items follow, including population figures for New York, deaths in Brooklyn, London influenza impact, political moves, fires, and notable deaths.
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D. J. Gallery
Board of Trade
John J. Gallery
Chamber of Commerce
Gallery
Port Huron
George Bearss
Abel Brown
Belville
San Francisco
Nelson
Theodore Murphy
Stockton
Cabanniss
Reis
WAT Post
Patterson
Ore
P. Ormaby
William H. Davis
Albany
C. E. Loomis
Henry B. Young
George Sorenson
John Doe
Richard Roe
Cheyenne
Wyo
Union Depot
Denver
Col
Hugh H. Price
Black River Falls
Father
Lockport
Daisy” Leiter
Marguerite Hyde
Daisy”) Leiter
Mary T. Carver Leiter
Henry Molyneaux Paget Howard
Earl of
Suffolk and
Berkeshire
Nashville
Tenn
Luke Blackburn
W. H. McAllister
Bellevue
Ogden
Boone County
W. Hail Harris
Baltimore
New York City
Edward Murray
Brooklyn
Great Britain
Tonga Islands
T. F. Lillis
Kansas City
Leavenworth
Kan
J. J. Esch
la Crosse
Quakes
Vatican
Sacred College
Kaiser
Nathan Edward Spencer
Nashville, O
William G. Tanner
Marvin Hughitt
Northwestern Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
William Alvord
Bank of California
Pike Opera House
Cincinnati
Dolores
Samar
St. Croix
Calais
Council Bluffs
Fuller & Johnson Shugart Company
John Guy
Edgar Thomson
Carnegie Steel Company
Braddock
Stamford
Syracuse
Edward Donahue
Charles Heebe
Daniel Ferrier
Kid” Waddell
Paris
Kesegg
Ethan Peenee
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