OUR LAWMAKERS NOW IN SESSION IN WASHINGTON
Washington reports note Congress opened with the usual ceremony and a short Senate session. Williams leads the Democrats in the House with a strong anti graft stance and free trade remarks for the Philippines. Tawney named to head appropriations. Cannon to set committees. Federal controls on foods drugs and liquors promised in Heyburn bill.
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Tawney
Washington
Cannon
James A. Tawney
Minnesota
Committee
Senate
Heyburn
Idaho
Ratify the People’s Choice Cannon for Speaker of the House
Chairman Hepburn declares the people have chosen Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois as speaker of the Fifty-ninth Congress. Cannon reads a typewritten speech, applauded, and urges wiser legislation balancing corporations, carriers, and the public. The Republican caucus renominates all house officers as last session.
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Washington
Joseph G. Cannon
Illinois
Hepburn
House
Cannon
Congress
Mine Horror in Diamondville Wyoming Disaster Kills Eight
Eight miners died in a blast at Diamond Coal and Coke Company mine No 1 in Diamondville Wyoming on December 4. Officials suspect a blown out shot caused the explosion which wrecked the mine. The shock was felt townwide and several bodies remain unrecovered amid after damp and wreckage. Among the dead are Robert Marshall Ferdinando Gabasdi Antonio Martignano John D Yimshaw William Wilson Henry Ringwood Gust Johnson Henry Usatalo and John John. Most victims believed to be English. Recovery work hampered by wreckage and damp conditions.
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Diamondville
Wyo
Diamond Coal and Coke Company
Robert Marshall
Ferdinando Gabasdi
Antonio Martignano
John D. Yimshaw
William Wilson
Henry Ringwood
Gust Johnson
Henry Usatalo
John John
War record doctor Meiere dies at 75 in Cripple Creek
Dr. Ernest J. Meiere a Civil War surgeon who joined the Confederacy and later served as consul at Amoy China in 1886 died of pneumonia at 75. A Maryland-born figure linked by marriage to Admiral Buchanan and once bride at a Lincoln ceremony, he lived in Colorado twenty five years practicing medicine in Cripple Creek and Leadville. Surviving are two children.
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Cripple Creek
Colo
Ernest J. Meiere
Confederacy
Meiere
Amoy
China
Cleveland
Soctor
Washington
Washington When Meeting On the Street. Dr. Meiere
Maryland
Admiral Buchanan
Lincoln
Dr. Meiere
Colorado
Leadville
Worst Fraud of All Sam Lost Will Be Enormous
East of the Mississippi River frauds in Oregon school lands are exposed with forged certificates. Gov Chamberlain and Land Agent Oswald West warn that eastern bankers have been swindled on thousands of acres, with forgeries across many states and several notable victims. Turbine Cunarder's Maiden Trip also noted in brief plus an Ohio suffragist death.
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Mississippi River
Oregon
Portland
Ore
Salem
Chamberlain
Associated Press
West
Oswald West
State Land Board
State of
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
New York
New Jersey
Ohio
Florida
H. Goddard
la Crosse
Wis
George Baldwin
Appleton
H. M. DeLaittre
Minneapolis
Cunarder
Liverpool
Cunard Line
Williams Leads Again as Democrats Unite Caucus
Democrats in the Mississippi House nominated John Sharp Williams as speaker after two hours of policy and procedure talks. Williams urged opposition to subsidies and support for anti trust legislation while outlining party principles and regional platform aims.
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Williams
House
Mary
John Sharp Williis
Veoly
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Tremont St
Boston
Mass
Women’s Christian Temporan Union
Physcians
Freeport, Ill
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John S. Harpster
Kimball
America
W. W. Kimball
Samuel
National Congress
United States Congress
Brandagee
Connecticut
Warner
Missouri
Frazier
Tennessee
Lafollette
Platt
Panama Canal
Sneaker Cannon
Democratic Party
Philippine Islands
United States
Diplomatic Service
Venezuela
Public Land Service
Post Office
Agricultural Department
Garatt
Cowherd
Charles A. Edwards
Texas
J. R. Taylor
Arkansas
Robert L. Douglas
South Carolina
Rev
Austin Crouch
Alabama
Yerkes
Internal Revenue Bureau
Wyoming
Dec
Sarah M. Perkins
Muclid Avenue
Down Street
Perking
THE
Grand Opera House
Dr.Day
Kuehner Bros
Telegraph Dept
BO & Dollmever
Ontwinter
GAS House Coke
Freeport Gaslight& Coke Co
H. J. Moogh Co
Me Guenther & Co, H. A. Paul Reiger
Kerlin
F. ‘A. Mensenkamp
Brewster House
Clifton House
John Luebbing
H. J. Leemhuis
Mark A. Hanna
John Bohn
W. Fef
Hillmer Wim. Secker
I. M
Willie Krehl
Winte
John Wagner
Metropol Kinne
J. F. Duck
Fred Sandmier
T. J. Gessner
Jos
Emmett Swartz & Flee
Kh. C. Rowan
P. Green
Chas
Melnick Mann
Robson Yeager & Byram
John Billerbeck
E. M. Harnish
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