Deep Waterways Report Backs 28-Foot Liner Route
The Deep Waterways Commission report urges building canals to a navigable depth of 28 feet between the Great Lakes and the sea. It favors Niagara ship canal first, with gradual development of lake channels, aiming for largest sustained capacity and fastest overall completion. A canal bill contemplates $100 million in stock and $100 million in guaranteed bonds, under U S control. The plan includes American engineers directing construction with an eleven member board.
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Chicago
Duluth
Atlantic
Deep Waterway
Washington
Deep Waters Ways Commission
President Angell
University of Michigan
John B. Rusgell
Lyman J. Cooley
Vilas
Great Lake
Great Lakes
Seaboard
Lakes Michigan
Superior
Niagara Ship Canal
Tonawanda
Olcott
Lake Ontario
Canadian Seaboard
St. Lawrence River
American Seaboard
Lake Champlain
Hudson River
Oswego-Oneida
Mohawk Valley
Commission
International commission eyed for Great Lakes works
A commission is urged to conduct surveys and data gathering to control Lake Erie levels and plan shipping corridors including the Niagara Ship Canal Oswego-Oneida-Mohawk and St. Lawrence Champlain routes. Costs exceed 600000 with staged funding and multi year investigations to measure lake outflows and determine final levels amid rising Great Lakes traffic and wheat trade concerns.
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Lake Erie
Niagara Ship Canal
Oswego- Oneida-Mohawk
St. Lawrence-Champlain
Commission
Great Lakes
India
Argentine Republic
Uruguay
Senate votes to take up Nicaragua Canal bill
Washington January 19 The senate yesterday voted to take up the Nicaragua Canal bill giving the measure the unfinished business status so it will be considered from day to day and final action is secured.
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Washington
Senate
Anglo American arbitration treaty pushed by Gresham
Correspondence sent to the senate shows the initiative began in 1895 with Secretary Gresham but was dropped then revived after the Olney letter on the Venezuelan boundary. Salisbury instructed Pauncefote to present a rough heads draft on March 6, 1896, and negotiations then aimed to secure success on both sides. The same date notes a bubonic plague alert in Bombay prompting U S marine hospital vigilance to prevent importation.
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Washington
Senate
Gresham
Olney
Salisbury
Bayard
Pauncefote
Bombay
Marine Hospital Service
United States
Senate Confirms Francis for Interior Secretary
Washington January 19 The senate in executive session confirmed D R Francis nomination as secretary of the interior with no vote recorded.
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Senate
Francis
Washington
D. R. Francis
Interior
Union Labor After Sherman In Bricklayers Convention
The Worcester convention of bricklayers and plasterers opened with charges against Senator Sherman of Ohio for backing a contractor using non union labor on nine Washington northeast buildings. A Washington union letter urged Sherman to hire union men and urged Ohio delegates and officials to act. The letter was made public and petitions were ordered to be sent to Ohio representatives in Congress.
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Worcester
Mass
Brick- Layers and Plasterers International Union
Sherman
Ohio
Washington
Bricklayers Union No. 1
Bricklayers’ Union
International Union
Washington Union
Ohio Unions
Masonic Firemen Urged to Remove Aprons in Funeral
Detroit on January 19 reports a protest by Masons after Fire Chief Elliott ordered six Masonic firemen acting as pallbearers at Patrick Black’s funeral to remove their Masonic aprons. The fraternity argues the action, and the matter will be considered by the fire commission, largely comprised of Masons. Elliott says firefighters may wear only department uniforms.
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Detroit
Eliott
Fireamn
Patrick Black
Canton
McKinley
Charles A. Pillsbury
Minneapolis
Pillsbury
Associated Press
William M. Hahn
Mansfield
Speakers’ Bureau
Insurance Commission
Teen shoots brakeman on Main Street in Grafton
Parkersburg report says Frank Cornwall aged 18 son of Taylor County school superintendent shot and killed Tom Hazlipp, a Baltimore and Ohio railroad brakeman, after Hazlipp was beating another railroader. Cornwall intervened, was knocked down, then fired. The incident occurred on Main Street in Grafton, West Virginia.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Frank Cornwall
Taylor County
Tom Hazlipp
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Main Street
Grafton
Cornwall
Hazlipp
Train collision at Chester station injures official
Waupun Wisconsin January 19. A head end collision between passenger trains on the Chicago and Northwestern railway occurred at Chester station yesterday. R Moulton assistant superintendent on one of the trains was seriously injured. Trains on the line were delayed two hours.
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Waupun
Wis
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Chester Station
R. Moulton
Earthquake Shock Felt in Red Bud Illinois
A distinct earthquake shock was felt in Red Bud Illinois at 1 23 p m yesterday, preceded by thunder like roar and seeming to come from the east and fade toward the west.
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St. Louis
Republic
Red Bud
Ills
Caucus Fight Over Palmer Seat Shapes Illinois Ballots
Springfield Illinois January 19 The Republican joint caucus for Palmer successor drew crowded interest as Mason Lorimer and others vie for the seat. Ballots showed Mason 46 Lorimer 89 then Mason 45 Lorimer 40 with other names scattered. Adjournment set for 8 pm with next day legislative balloting to begin.
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Springfield
Ills
Repubiican
Palmer
State House
C. A. Allen
Vermilion County
E.J. Dwyer
Chicago
Stubblefield
McLean
Ward
Perry
Paddock
Senate
Reeve
House
William E. Mason
Lorimer
Hitt
Hopkins
Aurora
Co. E. Carr
S.W. Allerton
George BE
Adams
Joseph Cannon
Mason
Cannon
Carr
Allerton
Joint Assembly
Tanner
Senators bolt caucus for Hill successor in New York
Three Democratic senators and two assemblymen bolted the caucus to nominate a United States senator, leaving Hill supported by 36 votes. The five defectors plan to back Hill on the ballot, while others argued loyalty and responsibility amid party divisions.
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Boise City
Ida
Claggett
Duboise
Lewis
Dubois
Nelson
Albany
N. Y
David B. Hill
United States
Wilber S. Porter
Watertown
Robert GC. Titus
Buffalo
Hill
Guy Rose
Chicago
Democratic Party
States Senator David Bennett Announcement Met Tepid Response
A states senator named David Bennett delivered an announcement that drew no applause or visible enthusiasm, leaving spectators unmoved and quiet. The event reflected a muted reception rather than a rallying moment.
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David Bennett
Cahaba Bridge Fiend Palatka Confesses
Sam Palatka, described as cross eyed and emotionless, confessed to engineering the Cahaba bridge disaster in Alabama three weeks earlier. Captured in Eatonton, Georgia, he claimed motive was money and stated how he moved a rail to cause the wreck, admitting several deaths and injuries.
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Atlanta
Sam Palatka
Cahaba
Alabama
Palatka
Eatonton
Putnam County
Georgia
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