Odell claims Higgins plot to wreck party and senatorial shifts
In a wide interview Odell accuses Higgins and himself of conspiring to wreck the party. He cites a 1904 Washington visit where the president allegedly urged replacing Depew and Platt with Black for senator. Parons wins NY county Republican chair in a runoff after ODell opposition. The NY assembly speakership fight sparks a long unusual political rift, with Higgin's endorsement of James shaping the scene.
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New York
Odell
Washington
United States Senate
Platt
Depew
Impeachment talk surrounds New York politics
State Senator George E. Maltby accuses Governor Higgins of coercion in naming Wadsworth for speaker as allies from the Merritt forces back the charge. Odell accuses Roosevelt and Higgins of trying to wreck the Republican party for personal aims. Higgins later says Roosevelt did not know of the speaker suggestion, a statement Albany questions as truth.
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George E. Maltby
Murray Hill
Merritt
Higgins
Wadsworth
Ls Insurance
Aldridge
Tutsgins
Odell
Crovernor B. J. Odell
Republican State Committee
Roosevelt
Tligeius
Republican Party
Tle
New York
Buffalo
To A
Albany
XN. Y
Washington
James W. Wadsworth, Jr
State Assembly
No communication with president on speakership dispute
A political figure states no talks with the president about the speakership. He says in a recent Washington visit he discussed nothing on that topic and that Roosevelt could have summoned him to confer for party harmony to avoid conflict.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Folk Orders Raids On Clubs To Enforce Liquor Laws
Governor Folk compels police to raid clubs accused of evading the Sunday liquor law and dodging dram shop licenses. He says clubs have no right to sell liquor without a license, and raids should occur even on weekdays if public sales occur. The governor�s directive targets social clubs chartered to evade taxation and regulation. Congress adjourns for holidays. Senate and House liftoff brief, with Gearin sworn in and minimal business. Payne jokes about exhausted oratory as lawmakers pause until January 4.
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St. Louis
Stewat
Board of Police Commissioners
Governor Folk
Cint
Folk
Congress
Washington
Senate
John M. Gearin
Oregon
House
Payne
Ends Society's Music Graft
Philadelphia officials issue ultimatum to stop inviting musicians to the homes of the rich for entertainment under social pretenses. Constantine von Sternberg and other notable music makers condemn the practice and demand it cease.
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Philadelphia
Constantine von Sternberg
Plot to Smuggle Chinese Across Border Foiled
Sault Ste. Marie police uncovered a plot to smuggle Chinese nationals across the border on Christmas Eve. Three tramps were overheard plotting, with China men reportedly heading northwest and currently hiding in laundries on the Canadian Sea. Authorities are watching for a cap ture.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Coal shortages spark Northwest coal famine fears
Superior Wisconsin reports coal dealers worry about a looming soft coal shortage as a car shortage in the east slows bituminous deliveries. The lack of rail cars hampers movement to the northwest, leaving the region short of fuel.
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Superior
Wis
Northwest
Lake Superior
Gas Costs 37 Cents Per 1,000 Cubic Feet
New York December 22 cost estimates for gas production show per 1900 cubic feet at 56 to 57 cents after deducting 3 174 286 for the contingent and depreciation fund and 50 803 fixed charges from the year ended October 31. Robert W Carter secretary of the Consolidated Gas Company provided the figures.
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New York
SOIG
Robert W. Carter
Consolidated Gas Company
Breathes an Hour After Death At City Dispensary
Miss Rosie Fischer was pronounced dead from carbonic acid poisoning at the city dispensary. For an hour after her heart ceased she breathed spasmodically. Dr. W. S. Lawrence noted the breathing as reflex spinal action, saying breathing after death is rare but not unknown to medical science.
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St. Louis
Rosie Fischer
W. 5
Lawrence
Two Killed by Train In Chicago Crossup
Michiel Tansey a 30 year old of 127 Superior street and Richard Trapley a one year old of 156 Chi eneo avenue were killed when a wagon they rode was struck by a Chicago and Northwestern train of empty passenger coaches at the Carpenter street crossing. The wagon was buried fifty feet and one horse was killed.
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Chicago
Piece
Michiel Tansey
Superior Street
Richard Trapley
Chieneo Avenue
Chicago and Northwestern
Carepenter Street
Emperor king rejects cabinet resignations in Wetervary crisis
Taungiury December 22 The emperor king declares he cannot accept the resignation of the Wetervary cabinet due to current political circumstances.
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Thuchapest
Taungiury
Wetervary
Obituary and notes on British figures and scholars
Clathes AW. WHis, once an admirer of King Madward in childhood, dies in Newark. AJ Parker becomes Colorado and Southern vice president after five years of grub stake. The Earl of Cranbrook, oldest surviving British ex cabinet minister, known as Gatherie Perdy, is celebrated. Jaimes Tiley the poet visits southern battlefields for a new book. The Earl of Aberdeen hails from a long-lived family. The 1682 tithe stayed with the fourth bearer by 1860. Professor Brander Matthews of New York urges a museum gallery for drama showing theater development.
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Clathes AW. Whis
Madward
Newark
AJ Parker
Colorado
Kilwa
Earliar Cranbrook
Gatherie Perdy
Earl of Aberdeen
Brander Matthews
New York City
Insurance Probe Focuses on Solvency Not Management
New York December 22 Francis Hendricks state superintendent of insurance testified before a legislative committee that examinations by his department aim only to confirm solvency. He said no inquiry into management extravagance officer salaries agent commissions or lending to insiders is conducted. He argued such matters require trust in company directors and would be too extensive to police.
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New York
Francis Tendricks
Insurance
New York State
Legislative Committee On Insurance
Hendricks
Isaac Vanderpoel
Insurance Department
German Method Differs in Legal Expense Scrutiny
An insurance inquiry reveals lack of state demands for detailed legal disbursement statements from New York Life, Equitable, and Mutual Life. Witness Hendricks notes no prior notice of wash-sales, year-end loans, or salaries. official exams compare sworn reports to books, with random checks on supply-voucher approvals and no challenge to their legitimacy.
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Hendricks
New York Life Tustrance Company
Equitable
Mutual Life
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Hughes
New York Life
Prussia
State Insurance Department
New York
New York State Department
Thiekes
Isaac Vanderpoel
Insurance Department
McCurdy
Hides and Skins Consumption and Imports Peak Worldwide
A shoe retailer notes the country as the largest consumer of hides and skins, using millions of goat, sheep, calf skins and various hides annually. Imports total about 50 million dollars in hides and skins, with Germany importing one third less and England and France each importing half as much.
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Germany
Doga
England
France
Colombian Revolt Rumors Reach Washington Weathered Trial Planned
The state department received cable reports of an attempted disposal of President Reyes in Hogata on Wednesday as part of a plot to overturn the government. Prominent men were arrested for court martial, including a former cabinet minister and five opposition leaders. Colombian officials expressed surprise, while Mendosa said Bogota had not confirmed the dispatch and refused to publish his government’s communication.
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Washington
State Department
Hogata
Reyes
Mendosa
Four Lions Loose After Roanne Train Derailment
Four lions escaped from a menagerie train near Roanne France and spread terror among residents. One lion was killed after being surrounded in the Vendrenages forest while two others were driven back to their cages. In Shanghai order is restored as the mixed court dispute ends and guards continue patrols.
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St. Etienne
France
Roanne
Vendrianges
New England Society Dinner Honors Pilgrim Fathers Anniversary
New York December 22 The New England society in Brooklyn held its annual dinner to commemorate the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. Speakers included Senator J P Dolliver of Town and Representative J Adiam Bede of Minnesota. LaCrosse Wisconsin December 22 Snow covers southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin with 5.6 inches on the ground delaying traffic as temperatures hover just below freezing.
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New York
New England Society
Brooklyn
J. P. Dolliver
Town
J. Adiam Bede
Minnesota
LaCrosse
Wis
Wisconsin
Market Quotations and Livestock Prices in Chicago and New York
Chicago grain and livestock markets show mixed futures for Wheat Corn and Oats with varied contracts. Hogs, cattle, and sheep receipts and price ranges are reported, with buyers bidding for pigs, light, rough packing and heavy packing, while New York quotes Crops and Veals reflect steady to slow trading and price levels across cattle hogs and lambs.
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Chicago
UTI
Chicrago
Dee
Noo R. BU
Edge
Aist Daffalu
N.Y
Phitnning A Stevens
Live Stock Commission
Mast Bietside
Qhote
Right to Some Fees Sparks Illinois Bond Fee Suit
A Sangamon county circuit court case at Governor Deneen's request seeks to test the law allowing the state auditor to collect a town ship bond registration fee. The suit targets ex-state treasurer Henry Whittemore and bondsman Floyd Whittemore for potential refunds dating back decades, involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. Meanwhile Chicago officials consider preemptive repayment to the state, triggering political uproar about future fee collections and possible law changes.
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Springfield
Sangamon County
Cirenit
Deneen
Henry Wiit
Floyd K. Whittemore
Value of Illinois Property in Uline Raised by Board
Springfield Alabama December 22 The total value of all taxable property in Uline is 5 486 480 885 as determined by the state board of equalization which has finalized its reports and adjourned The valuation upon which tax rates will be assessed for Man is 1 007 206 177 This grand total comprises personal property 215 851 809 lands 842 760 009 bets 4390 088 370 steam railroads 85 708 108 electric and elevated railroads 6 045 890 The excess of railroad capital stock over tangible is 334 500 000 and the excess of capital stock and bonds of corporations other than railroads over tangible assessment 12 942 970 This marks an increase over last year of 14 522 004 There is an increase of 12 570 01 in personal property lands and lots an increase of 2 12 08 in the appraisal of railroad property and a decrease of 89442 in the appraisal of the capital stock and bonds of corporations other than railroads The decrease follows a taxable property overstatement in 103 which would have reduced stock and bond appraisal
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Springfield
Uline
State Board of Equilization
Death of Dr. John Warner in Clinton
Clinton news reports the sudden death of Dr. John Warner aged 86. He relocated to Clinton sixty years ago and served as a Civil War veteran wounded at Shiloh. His son, Commissioner of Pensions Warner, notes the family endowed Clinton with a hospital.
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John Warner
Clinton, Til
Clinton
Warner
Shiloh
Plant to shut down for winter in Paris Illinois
Notice posted by Humphrey Dearth class works announces a December 2 shutdown through March 1. Seventy blowers and 150 other workers will lose employment during the closure.
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Paris
Humphrey- Dearth Class Company
Pioneer Lawyer Passes
Quincy Illinois December 22 Hope H Davis longtime lawyer dies at 87 after fifty years practice. Davis served in Illinois General Assembly in 1876 and was at times associated with Stephen A Douglas and Abraham Lincoln.
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Quincy, OL
Hope
Davis
General Assembly
Hlinots
Stephen A. Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Laborer Dies in Fall on Danville Bridge Construction
John Baln a laborer from Virginia employed in a bridge project near Danville fell from a bridge and was killed He had arrived a few weeks earlier from Virginia for work on the road camp workers mourn the accident and authorities investigate the scene.
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Danville
John Baln
Virginia
Scots cop in London blocks traffic near royal arrival
A young policeman fresh from Scotland, on duty in London to halt traffic for royal presence, refuses a noblewoman in an operatic detour. She appeals to let her carriage pass noting she is the wife of a cabinet minister, but the constable replies he cannot, even for such status, as he would not allow passage for the wife of a Presbyterian minister.
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Scotland
London
Gored to Death by a Bull at Kant Farm
George Feazter, 60, was killed when a bull gored him after he entered a stall on the Charles Kant farm near West Chicago. The incident occurred December 22.
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Chiesigo
George Feazter
Charles Kant
Chicago
Obese Ottawa man mocks egg breakfast riddle
A humorous Ottawa anecdote describes an aging man whose neglect of appearance grows with time. A young lawyer teases him, guessing breakfast by his smeared chin, but the man rightly claims his age makes the guess wrong and asserts the morning’s actual breakfast.
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Ottawa
John
Ead
New Equipment North-Western Trains to St Paul and Minneapolis
North-Western Line unveils daily electric lighted trains from Chicago with new Pullman drawing room and compartment sleeping cars, extra long berths, refined toilets, reading lamps, a lavish buffet car, and dining service featuring top table d hote meals from Chicago. Trains depart Chicago 6:30 p m daily for Madison 10:30 p m with return service via Freeport Illinois. booking details at Chicago & North-Western or W B Kniskern Chicago.
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North-Western Limited
St. Paul
Minneapolis
North-Western Line
Chicago
Madison
Freeport
Excursion Rates for Holidays on North Western Line
Holiday excursion tickets will be sold at reduced rates December 22 238 24 25 30 31 1905 and January 1 1906 good for return to January 4 1906 to points on the North Western Line including C P M O Ry to Union Pacific routes east of Cheyenne and Denver to Union Pacific R R Colorado lines and other western connections. Apply to agents Chicago and North Western Ry.
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North-Western
Union Pacific R. R
Cheyenne
Denver
Rio Grande
Colorado
Trinidad
D. 8
International Live Stock Exposition Tickets Sale
Chicago Great Western Railway offers round trip tickets to Chicago at one fare plus one third. Sale dates December 16 to 20 with final return on December 24. For details contact any Great Western agent or J. P. Elmer G P A St Paul Minn.
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Chicago Great Western Railway
Chicago
Great Western
J. P. Elmer
St. Paul
Minn
Special Holiday Excursion Rates For Students And Teachers
Ex cursion tickets sold at low rates on presentation of certificates from educational institutions via the North Western Line. Dates of sale and limits available from Chicago & Northwestern Ry agents. Half rates to golf tournament Mexico City via North Western Line. Round trip one fare Jan 1 to 12 with favorable return limits. Apply to agents.
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North-Western
Chicago & Northwestern R’y
Mexico City
Mex
Chicago & North-Western R’y
Opportunities on Chicago Great Western Railway Lines
Openings for business men professionals and manufacturers across Iowa Missouri Illinois Minnesota. Five towns on a progressive railway offer a square deal. Maps leaflets and full information available from Industrial department G W railway St Paul Minn or BE B Magill Mer Townsite department Omaha Neb. 1biltw12-31
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Chicago Great Western Railway
Iowa
Missouri
Illinois
Minnesota
Co. G. W. Railway
St. Paul
Minn
BE. B. Magill
Mer
Omaha
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