Port Arthur Siege Tales and POW Flows
Reports from London and Tokyo recount vast Russian losses at Port Arthur with 24 000 prisoners and 878 officers, and 25 491 men paroled. Maj Gen Kondratenko, not Stoessel, is named as the fortress defender held by prisoners' stories. Officers Fock Smirnoff and Nogi receive honors and plan to go to Japan.
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Port Arthur
London
Daily Telegraph
Kondratenko
Seventh East Siberian Rifle Brigade
Stoensel
Daily Mail
St. Petersburg
Far East
Tokio
Manchuria
Kuropatkin
Mukden
Shakhe River
Stoessel
Nogi
Berlin
William
Gen
Broesse
Washington
Foreign Office
Smirnoff
Fock
Gorbatvocky
Willmann
Japan
Pusan
Gen. Fock
Swayne Impeachment Articles Drafted by House Committee
Washington January 11 the select committee of the house completed 12 articles of impeachment against Federal Judge Swayne. The charges include obtaining money by false pretenses using the property of a bankrupt corporation in receivership and without compensation, disobeying the law requiring him to reside in his district, and contempt of court involving E T Davis Simeon Belden W C O Neal.
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Washington
Select Committee of the House
Swayne
E. T. Davis
Simeon Belden
Circuit Court of the United States
W. C. O'Neal
District Court of the United States
Mutineers Killed in Manila Prison Break Attempt
News from Manila reports about 500 convicts at Bilibid prison attempting an escape on December 7. Sixteen prisoners were killed and 40 wounded in the clash, as reported from San Francisco on January 10.
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Eixteen
San Francisco
Manila
Bilibid
Bishop Spalding Stricken in Peoria
Bishop John L. Spalding suffered a severe paralytic stroke at his home on North Madison Avenue and remained under care with his brother Dr. Leonard H. Spalding beside him. At 65 he showed partial speech recovery after head leeches. later reports said his condition slowly improved though his left arm returns function while the leg remains useless.
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Peoria
John L. Spalding
Madison Avenue
Leonard H. Spalding
Gillespie Convicted in Twin Sister Murder Case
James Gillespie was found guilty of murdering his twin sister Elizabeth Gillespie on December 8 1903 and sentenced to life in prison. His sister Belle Seward Myron Barbour and Carrie Barbour face separate trials later. motions for new trials denied and appeals granted with 60 days to file.
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Rising Sun
Ind
James Gillespie
Belle Seward
Myron Barbour
Elizabeth Gillespie
Cornet
Elizabeth
Gillespie
Supreme Court
Carrie Barbour
Ohio County Court
Dining car derailment kills Illinois athlete in wreck
Ralph C. Roberts, captain of the University of Illinois baseball team from Keokuk Iowa, died after a dining car derailed on the Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago and St. Louis line near Rising Illinois. Twelve others were severely injured as the 60 mph train plunged down an embankment and the cafe car was demolished. Some injured were treated at farm houses and Champaign hospital. Three crewmen aboard the Alice M Colburn schooner were washed overboard and drowned near Vineyard Haven Massachusetts on January 3 with a fourth injured.
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Urbana
Ill
Ralph C. Roberts
Keokuk
University of Illinois
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago
Champaign
Vineyard Haven
Mass
McLeod
Alice M. Colburn
Bath
Nobska
Vineyard Sound
Navesvik
Matthew George
Newfoundland
Martin Solen
Represents Grace seeks probe of brewer fund allegations
Jefferson City Missouri January 11 Representative Grace of St Louis introduced a resolution in the lower house calling for an investigation of a report that St Louis brewers gave twenty one thousand dollars to Thomas K Niedringhaus chairman of the state Republican committee and caucus nominee for United States senator to influence legislation during the current session. Grand Rapids Michigan January 10 Charlie Chandler a leading local lawyer collapsed and died in the probate court while questioning a witness. Doctors attributed death to heart failure brought on by an acute illness.
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Jefferson City
Grace
St. Louis
General Assembly
Thomas K. Niedringhaus
State Republican Committee
Caucus
United States
Grand Rapids
Mich
Charlies Chandler
President Roosevelt Pushes Early Extra Session on Tariff and Rails
President Roosevelt favors an early extraordinary session to push a fair tariff revision and rapid rail legislation. He backs detailed committee work, aims to meet in October if needed, and prioritizes interstate freight rates and a strong naval program.
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Congress
House Committee On Ways and Means
Senate
House of Representatives
Congress Proceedings Sketch Senate Statehood and Fortifications
In Washington reports show the Senate canvass date set for February 8 for the presidential vote and ongoing debate on the statehood bill. The House tabled cotton statistics requests and approved fortifications funding of 6.75 million dollars. Further sessions covered banking currency reforms and impeachment charges against Judge Swayne. The inaugural ball for the pension building was authorized. The joint statehood bill advanced with Indian affairs amendments accepted.
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Washington
Senate
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Houses
Congress
House
Secretary of Agriculture
House Committee On Appropriations
Hoar
Pension
Committee On Banking and Currency
Charles Swayne
Committee On Indian Affairs
Louise Michel Dies In France At 76
Paris announces the death of Louise Michel a prominent communist and revolutionary agitator who died in Marseilles aged 76 after a long career of anti government activity. She rose to prominence in the Franco Prussian war joining an ambulance corps and later supported the commune before her exile to New Caledonia and subsequent imprisonments.
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Paris
Louise Michel
Marseilles
Commune
Versailles
New Caledonia
England
Surplus Seen After Exposition Debts Paid
At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company board meeting in St. Louis a financial report indicated a probable small surplus after remaining debts are settled, to be shared among stockholders. Two unknown men robbed six poker players on a house boat on the Tennessee river near Decatur Alabama, taking about $1,000 in diamonds and jewelry and $400 cash.
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St. Louis
The
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company
Decatur
Ala
Tennessee River
Pay Weavy Tax
Pay Weavy Tax New York Jan 10 Only 20 persons in Greater New York paid taxes on
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New York
City Hall Burned in Springfield Fire
Springfield Mass January 7 The city hall valued at over 50000 dollars was utterly destroyed by fire in under an hour on Friday.
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Springfield
Mass
Inaugural Day in Four States
Charles S Deneen sworn in as Illinois governor with oath by Chief Justice James B. Ricks. J Frank Hanly takes oath as Indiana governor with Hugh H. Miller as lieutenant governor. Joseph W Folk becomes Missouri governor as Chief Justice Brace administers oath. Edward W Hoch inaugurated Kansas governor as all new Republican state officers are sworn in.
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Charles 58
Deneen
Illinois
J. Frank Hanly
Indiana
Joseph W. Folk
Missouri
Edward W. Hoch
Kansas
Springfield
Ill
Charles
Hanly
Indianapolis
Ind
J. Frank Hanry
Lafayette
Hugh H. Miller
Columbus
Senate
Capitol
Paroled Murderer Hinshaw Freed After Ten Years
Indiana report states ex governor Durbin approves unconditional parole for William E B Hinshaw, jailed for his wife Thursa Hinshaw's ten year old Belleville murder case. Hinshaw to be released from Michigan City prison. Manila notes a January 8 Moro fight on Jolo leaves Lieut James J Jewell and a private dead and six others wounded. New York reports Levi P Morton donates 600000 to a charitable fund at a hospital by job the vine
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Indianapolis
Ind
Winfield T. Durbin
William EB. Hinshaw
Thurza Hinshaw
Belleville
Hinshaw
Michigan City
Manila
Jolo
James J. Jewell
United States Cavan
Inaugurations and events mark week ending Jan 11
Heavy rains end drought in Indian Territory. William L. Douglas inaugurated Massachusetts governor. Alva Adams sworn in as Colorado governor. Britain Cuba treaty exchange ratified. Eleven Swiss freeze to death ascending Mount Saint Bernard. Theodore Thomas autobiography ready for spring. Gomez declines Cuban presidential mention. Pacific Mail liner China sails to Orient with cargo and gold. Dr Alonzo H Sylvester dies by suicide in Berlin. Senator Cockrell accepts ICC post. Snow storms hit Kansas. wheat benefits. George Hanna farmhouse fire kills Mrs Hanna and infant. Nel Green shoots wife then himself. tragedy due to family trouble. House committee approves $138,250,100 pension bill. Douglas offers chief justice post to Judge John Aiken, who accepts. 1904 Pennsylvania anthracite output down from 1903. H O Barber sentenced for embezzlement. Fort Wayne men killed on railroad tracks. Gasoline tank explosion kills one in Greenland. Indian affairs bill totals $7,244,206. current year $9,878,480. John Calder dies at 86, Arctic expeditions member. Crew of Alice M Colburn drowned. Cincinnati Realty incorporated with $1.5 million capital to build hotel. New Year savings bank rush in New York. Morton and Dewey inspect battleship and squadrons at Hampton Roads.
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Indian Territory
William L. Douglas
Brockton
Massachusetts
Alva Adams
Pueblo
Colorado
Great Britain
Cuba
Mount Saint Bernard
Theodore Thomas
Maximo Gomez
Pacific Mail
China
San Francisco
Orient
Japan
Alonzo H. Sylvester
William
Berlin
Senator Cockrell
Missouri
Interstate Commerce Commission
Roosevelt
Kansas
George Hanna
Lisbon
N. D
Thomas Hanna
Nel Green
Elbridge Township
Mich
House Committee On Appropriations
Gov. Douglas
John Adams Aiken
Greenfield
Pennsylvania
H. O. Barber
Commercial Bank
Cambridge
J. R. Good
P. G. Ungerer
Fort Wayne
Ind
Ada
Hubbard
Greenland
House Committee On Indian Affairs
John Calder
England
Sir John Franklin
Alexis
Alice M. Colburn
Navesink
Cincinnati Realty Company
Cincinnati
Pike Opera House
New York City
Morton
Admiral Dewey
Hampton Roads
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Bertin
East Prussia
West Prussia
Posen
Miedringhaus
Republican Caucus
Niedringhaus
Bishop Spalding
Capt. Roberts
Uncle Sam
Kaeo Chronic
White House
Fifty-ninth Congress
Charles 8. Deneen
Ilinois
Gov. Deneen
Leland Hotel
Arsenal
Durbin
Hadley
Gov. Hanly
Joseph W
Brace
Gov. Durbin
Rev. Hinshaw
Levi P. Morton
Bt. Joba
Iday Sane
Chicago
Texas
Milwaukee
Kansas City
ST. Cattur
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