Foraker Delivers Senate Acquittal Critique on Brownsville Action
Ohio Senator Foraker speaks in the Senate calling President Roosevelt to account over discharging the three negro companies of the Twenty-fifth Infantry and argues the action exceeded constitutional power. He contends the affair requires a court martial and labels the punishment as unlawful while challenging the president’s interpretation of eyewitness testimony and Major Blocksoms report.
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Washington
Nec
Senate
Foraker
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Woraker
Brownsville
WANTS A GO AT THE WITNESS
The debate centers on Blocksom's claim about Captain McDonald of the Texas Rangers as a brave witness in Brownsville. Foraker urges cross examination while Modge stresses constitutional liberty and the need for both sides of the testimony. Yoraker wins unanimous consent to make the Senate military committee's investigation mandatory.
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Blocksom
McDonald
Texas Rangers
Brownsville
Foraker
Tim
Modge
Yoraker
Senate
Stickney Submits Facts On Freight Car Utilization
Washington reports President A B Stickney of the Chicago Great Western presents Interstate Commerce Commission with figures on freight car use. He estimates average loaded car distance at 250 miles and rail haul time at 24 hours, with loading and unloading by shippers totaling nine days 16 hours. He argues faster loading could effectively double freight equipment without cost or new capitalization.
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Washington
A. B. Stickney
Chicago Great A Western Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Stickney
Consignees
Shippers Seek Legislation to Speed Car Loading
The writers argue shippers are inseparable and must wait on each other. They warn that slippers consuming nine days to load and unload a car delay transportation and urge legislation to compel timely loading and unloading within a reasonable time.
Uniform Postage Proposal For Second Class Matters
Washington notes from the annual report of the Second Assist ant Postmaster General Madden proposes a single uniform rate for all printed matter. He cites a 44 million pound rise in second class matter and suggests 1 cent per four ounces or 4 cents per pound, with postage payable in money and expedited handling in mills.
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Washington
Madden
Senate debates Roosevelt action over Brownsville troops
Washington December 21 observers followed an extended critique of President Roosevelt’s discharge of the twenty-fifth infantry after the Brownsville raid. Senator Foraker led the attack with Lodge replying briefly. The senate adjourned to January 8, 1907 after a brief session. The house also adjourned to January 8 1907 with empty desks and no business of note done. Members lingered to wish Speaker Cannon season’s greetings.
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Washington
Foraker
Senate
Roosevelt
Twenty-Fifth Infantry
Brownsville
Lodge
House
Cannon
Labor and Capital Named to Nobel Prize Board
Washington announces John Mitchell of United Mine Workers and Marvin Waghitt of Chicago and Northwestern Railway named as labor and capital representatives on the president's Nobel Peace Prize board of trustees.
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Washington
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Marvin Waghitt
Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company
Total Grain Production in 1906 Report
A U.S. Department of Agriculture bulletin shows 1906 grain production in bushels: corn 2,927,416,091. winter wheat 492,888,004. spring wheat 242,872,966. Average weight per bushel: spring wheat 56.5 lb. winter wheat 59.2 lb. oats 38.2 lb.
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Washington
Agricultural Department
Senate salary bill moves to raise pay to seven five hundred
Washington December 21 Gallinger has opened the senate fight for higher pay for Congress. He introduced an amendment to the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill proposing salaries of senators representatives and delegates be increased to seven thousand five hundred dollars annually.
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Senate
Washington
Gallinger
Congress
Hitchcock Order On Five Tribes Land Stands
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock asserts the withdrawal of one million acres from the five civilized tribes remains in effect. Restoration only possible if ongoing legality inquiry finds authority was exceeded.
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Washington
Dee
Secretary of the Interior
Hitchcock
Senator La Follette bids to revalue railroads and probe property value
Washington December 21 Senator T La Follette has introduced bills to amend railroad rate legislation passed last session and to add a section authorizing investigation into the valuation of railroad property.
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Washington
T la Follette
Bill To Be Signed By President Urgent Deficiency Bill
Washington Pec 21 The president signs the urgent deficiency bill. The action formalizes funding measures and clears a legislative hurdle. Details on affected programs were not disclosed in the brief report.
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Washington
Pec
Pietro Cuneo Dead Ex-Consul and Editor at Union Republican
Upper Sandusky Ohio December 21 Pietro Cuneo former United States consul at Turin Italy and longtime editor of the Union Republican has died after a paralysis struck him Wednesday leaving him unconscious until death Cuneo's career spanned fifty years shaping local journalism and public affairs
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Sandusky
Pietro Cuneo
United States
Turin
Italy
The
Union Republican
Sayers Wins the Decision in Fifteenth Round Bout
Baltimore December 21 Maurice Sayers of Milwaukee won the decision over Amby McGarry after fifteen rounds. McGarry was wild and both fighters clinched repeatedly as the referee struggled to separate them.
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Sayers
Baltimore
Maurice Sayers
Milwaukee
Amby McGarry
McGarry
Newspaper Men on a Tour Visit Vicksburg Park
A group of fifty newspaper men from Wisconsin Indiana and Missouri are visiting Vicksburg Mississippi touring the Vicksburg National Park on December 21.
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Vicksburg, Miss
Wisconsin
Indiana
Missouri
Vicksburg National Park
Better Late Than Never Digestion Advice Ad
Advice urges careful eating to avoid dyspepsia and bowel trouble and promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a pure digestive tonic. Claims it treats stomach liver and bowels with permanent relief from constipation biliousness and headaches. Sold by druggists for 50 cents and one dollar with money back guarantee.
Excursion Rates for The Holi days to North-Western Line
Excursion tickets offered at reduced rates on ten dates in December and January for travel to stations on the North-Western Line including C P M Q R y and to other lines. Tickets valid for return until January 7 1907, with full details available from agents.
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North-Western
C. St. P.M
QO. R’y
Chicago & North-Western R'y. Momen
Prouty predicts 2 cent passenger rates nationwide
Vermont I C C member Prouty arriving in Kansas City from St Louis discusses the rate law and its effects. He cites 2 cent fares east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio, says rebates halted, notes freight rate adjustments, and praises the Roosevelt era as a triumph of progress while warning public concern over press bureaus like Standard Oil.
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Kansas City
Dee
2D. C
A. Prouty
Vermont
Interstate Commerce Commission
St. Louis
Mississippi
Ohio
Pittsburg
Ohio River
America
Roosevelt
No Famine Denied by Northern Pacific Officials
St Paul reports quote Northern Pacific president Y Howard S Elliott denying circulating famine fears in North Dakota. Elliott says no official has information or complaints of shortages along the Northern Pacific line and coal supplies should prevent any fuel hunger. Grocers in western territory also deny any food shortage.
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St. Paul
Y Howard S. Elliott
Northern Pacific Railroad
North Dakota
Eliott
Northern Pacific
Western Territory
Cattlemen Hear Grievances Over Car Shortage
Kansas City December 21 cattlemen testified at the car shortage hearing of Interstate Commerce Commissioner C A Prouty. They described inability to ship cattle to market due to scarce cars and claimed railroads preferred cotton and railroad ties over cattle cars.
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Kansas City
C. A. Prouty
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Southeastern railroad men meet grain dealers' committee here
Representativ es of southeastern railroad lines conferred with a committee of grain dealers from Catra HL Bynansville Ind Memphis and Nashville Tenn Henderson Ky and St Louis to discuss a proposed readjustment of grain rates to the southeast and Carolina territory.
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St. Louis
Southeastern Railroad Lines
Catra
Bynansville
Ind
Memphis
Nashville
Henry White Guilty of First Degree Murder in Franklin
Henry White, a Black man, was found guilty of murder in the first degree for killing Marshal George Basore of Franklin. The verdict was read in Franklin as bells rang and whistles blew, with no recommendation for clemency.
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Lebanon, O
Dee
Henry White
Marshal George Basore
Franklin
Dog coughs up diamonds in Boston case
Mrs. Lou Burton of Boston plans X-ray tests on her black and tan Fanule after the dog coughed up two diamonds in a week. The stones are valued at about £30 each, prompting the investigation into possible hidden gems.
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Boston
Lou Burton
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin for Children's Health
Recalled harsh childhood remedies and touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a pleasant laxative medicine for impure blood and stomach or bowel troubles. Claims wide cure range with money back offer, sold by druggists at 50c and 1.00.
Honor to Bishop McCabe funeral in St Pauls church
The funeral of Bishop C. C. McCabe at St. Pauls Methodist Church in New York is marked by simplicity. Prominent Methodist clergy and laymen from New York and Brooklyn attend as a US flag covers the casket. Bishops Goodsell Bashford Neely and Andrews, along with Dr Buckley and Rev Eckman, lead services and deliver eulogies before the body is sent to Philadelphia and then Chicago.
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New York
C. McCabe
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Brooklyn
United States
Daniel A. Goodsell
Boston
J. W. Bashford
China
T. BR. Neely
Buenos Ayres
Sk. G. Andrews
Dre. G. LP. Eckman
St. Paul's
J. M. Buckley
William ¥. Kelley
Andrews
Buckley
W. W. Kelley
Philadelphia
Chicago
They are good as caught
Buffalo detectives pursued a trunk containing about 150 pounds of plate and jewelry valued at 15000 stolen from Chicago hospital. The trunk was shipped to Montreal via the New York Central at night ahead of pursuing officers. A couple bound for Germany were tracked to a Buffalo hotel and to the train. telegrams were sent to arrest them and the conductor was ordered to hold the trunk.
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N. Y
Dee
Charles V. Stein
Chicago
Montreal
New York Central
Germany
Halifax
Exchange Street
Oshkosh Mirtha and Mayville leader commits suicide by hanging
Mayville report states William F. Borcher former Liederkranz Milwaukee director and eight year head of Oshkosh and Mayville chorus groups hanged himself atop a freight car ladder near the station. Officials attribute his act to despondency over a New York operatic manager’s rejection of an opera he wrote, leading to presumed insanity.
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Mayville
Wis
William F. Borcher
Liederkranz
Milwaukee
du Lie
Mayville Mannerchors
New York
Abbott endorses Roosevelt on Brownsville troops action
In New York on December 21 Dr. Lyman Abbott spoke at a Forefathers Day dinner marking the Pilgrims landing. He endorsed President Roosevelt's handling of the Brownsville affair involving Black soldiers, aligning with the administration's stance.
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Lyman Abbott
New York
Roosevelt
Brownsville
Prairie land sinks near Sierra Madre with new lake
El Paso Texas December 21 mining men arriving from the Sierra Madre mountains report a wide tract of prairie at the foot of a range spur slowly sinking. They describe a large lake of pure water that has formed in the area, signaling possible geological changes and potential impact on nearby claims.
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el Paso
Tex
Sierra Madre Mountains
Mexican railway consolidation bill approved by deputies
The City of Mexico report states the railway consolidation bill to create a Mexican company to take over the holdings of the Mexican railways has been unanimously approved by the chamber of deputies.
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City of Mexico
Mexico
Chamber of Deputies
Multiple Global News Items From 1907
Owing to coal shortages Helena Monts Light and Railway will close its gas works temporarily. Commander Peary's steamer Roosevelt arrives at Vineyard Haven en route to New York. Chicago car shortage probe blames shippers for slow goods movement. New York AG Julius Mayer sues American Ice Co over alleged ice trust dissolution. Bishop McCabe to be buried Sunday in Evanston Illinois. New York Governor Higgins keeps Patrick death sentence but commutes to life imprisonment. Austrian post office employees plan a 25000-strong strike over working conditions. Curtis Jett pleads guilty to ambush murder of Town Marshal Cockrill four years ago. says he had accomplices. Tsitsikbar Manchuria to open to foreign trade Jan 4. Rhodes scholar exams in US set for Jan 17-18, 1807. British Parliament will not dissolve after Lords defeat on education bill. Werner, 17, Radom Technical School student, tried and shot for Colonel Photta assassination.
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Evanston
Til
Higgins
New York
Albert T. Patrick
Lfe
Patrick
Post Office
Austria
Curtis Jett
Cynthiana
Tas
Cockrill
Jackson
China
Tsitsikbar
Manchuria
United States
House of Lords
Nomed Werner
Radom
Pokind
Dou
Photta
Corner Stone Laid For Illinois Temple Of Justice
In Springfield on December 21 Governor Deneen and state officials witnessed the laying of the corner stone for the Supreme Court building to be known as the Temple of Justice. The copper box held court documents and papers. the project is budgeted at about 300000 with furnishings.
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Springfield
Clovernor Deneen
Supreme Court
Temple of Justice
Supreme Court Commission
Chicago
Capital Avenue
Second Street
State House
Charles Radman
University of Illinois
Jacksonville
Efe
FDO
Illinois Star Bankers’ Association
Fraud in the Oil Region near MacLeansboro
Reports from Newton and Benton allege a gusher near MacLeansboro was salted after reaching 1218 feet without oil. Water pumped out filled casing with crude oil secretly shipped to Enfield and hauled at night to the well. The plug kept the oil oozing, inflating land prices and drawing crowds before workers fled in disgust as excitement turned to anger.
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Newton, Ill
Benton
MacLeansboro
Enfield
Disappeared farmer returns home to Rockford area
John Dierdorff, a Lanark Heb area farmer who vanished and was presumed dead, reappears in Rockford. He says a temporary derangement while en route to a sale sent him wandering and he later found himself in Des Moines Iowa Then he toured Iowa working for farmers and now appears fully recovered and back with his family.
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Rockford
John Dierdorff
Lanark
Dierdorff
Des Moines
Iowa
Idierdortz
Modern Gentle Laxative Advice in Old Remedy Ad
An 19th century style remedy ad promotes using a violent cathartic to open the bowels while claiming a gentle movement suffices. It endorses De Witt’s Little Early Risers as recommended and notes availability at all druggists.
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Kennedy
de Witt
Through Tourist Car Service To California
The Chicago Great Western railroad operates weekly tourist cars to California via Omaha and the C R I P line. For full details contact the Great Western agent.
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California
Chicago Great Western Railway
Omaha
Great Western
Coroner's jury fails to reach verdict in Hallworth death
Sparta UL Dec 21 The coroner's jury investigating Harold T Hallworth's death after his body was found in a buggy fate following a late visit to his sweetheart Miss Frances East adjourned without a decision though foul play is suspected. Two deep head wounds and signs of robbery noted.
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Sparta
Harold T Hallworth
Frances East
Peoria approves forty year electric franchise after bitter council fight
In Peoria Illinois on December 21 the city council passed an ordinance granting the Peoria Electric Company a forty year electric franchise after a bitter sensational fight. The public demanded gas but the gas company secured an ordinance for gas at a dollar.
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Peoria
Peoria Electric Company
Plucky Man Catches a Wolf at Grand Trunk Station
Lansing December 21 a wolf bound for an exhibition broke its crate at the Grand Trunk station. Carlos Rolfe a bag clerk saved the animal from escape while aiding others to rebox it. the wolf bit his hand during the incident.
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Lansing
Mich
Grand Trunk Station
Carlos Rolfe
Prisoners Freed Over Unpaid Bootlegging Fines
Charles Long and William Cox, federal prisoners convicted of bootlegging, were released from Shelby county jail because they could not afford the fines. They pleaded the paper act before Commissioner Shopp in Paris on December 21.
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Paris
Charles Long
William Cox
Shelby County
Shopp
Woman Dies Lacing Shoe After Collapse in Chair
In Bishop Hill, Mrs J T L Peterson aged 45 suddenly died while lacing her shoe and toppled from a chair. The incident occurred on December 21 in Kewanee HK. Police attributed no foul play and the death was reported as sudden.
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Kewanee
J. TL. Peterson
Bishop Hil
Freeport Association opens fifty-third series for saving
The Freeport Association announces the fifty-third series inviting investors to save systematically with real estate mortgage funds. Stock payments are fifty cents per share per month, highlighting local, profitable opportunities and urging immediate application.
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Building and van Association
Freeport Association
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