Notable 1904 Telegrams From Across the World
Summary of brief items: Florence Carlyle exhibits in Philadelphia. Vanderbilt sails to the Mediterranean on Valiant. Fortifications bill grows by 311000, Fasig-Tipton sales totals. Annie Tallent dies after entering Black Hills. A husband kills wife then commits suicide in St Louis. Boer prisoners reach Crimea aboard a Russian steamer. Lick Observatory eclipse expedition sails from San Francisco. Cassini presents photo album to McKinley. Rockefeller donates 250000 to Brown University. Michie dies at West Point. Leland dies in Caldwell. Mine deal denials. Whist expert William Pole noted. Youngstown tube plant rumor denied. Otis to enlist Ninth Infantry at Fort Sheridan. Knox cabinet chance rumor. UPR bonds authorized. Carnegie offers library funds. First beet sugar factory in Indiana planned. St Louis exposition appropriation passes. YMHA founder George Williams may attend Jubilee. Submarine cable to Honolulu authorized. Holland dies by morphine. Minneapolis bans boxing. William Hill dies in Denver. Serb queen birth reported. Venezuela petroleum finds noted.
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Florence Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Philadelphia
W. K. Vanderbilt
Savannah
Mediterranean
Senate Committee On Appropriations
New York
Annie D. Tallent
Black Allis
Higin
Charles B. Bent
St. Louis
Ceylon
Crimean
Colombo
William H. Crocker
Lick Observatory
Sumatra
San Francisco
Count Cassini
McKinley
John D. Rockefeller
Brown University
Brown University Alumni Society of New York
University Club
Charles A. Leland
Supreme Court of New Mexico
Caldwell
J. P. Morgan
J. D. Rockefeller
Fairmont
W. V
Wiliam Pole
Oxford University
George D. Wick
Youngstown, O
Youngstown
Otis
Department of Lakes
Twenty-ninth Regular Infantry
Fort Sheridan
Washington
P. C. Knox
Pittsburg
Griggs
Knox
Senator Quay
Alexander Millar
Union Pacific Company
Andrew Carnegie
Centralia
Indiana
Senate
Perkins
Honolulu
Charles Holland
Redding County
St. Joseph
Minneapolis
Ames
William P. Hill
New England
J. R. Williams
Denver
Colo
Mr. Hill
Concord
Isaac Hill
New Hampshire
Vienna
Neue Freie Kresse
Queen of
Servia
Margarita
Maracaibo
Venezuela
Nation in Court as Lawyers Seek Change of Venue
Mrs Carrie Nation and five co defendants faced continued charges for the Murphy joint raid in Topeka with Nation acting as her own attorney She challenged the court’s pace and claimed prejudice amid a growing expectation of a bitter legal fight and venue change requests from defense attorneys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
Hazen
District Court
Carrie Nation
Murphy
Eva Harding
Rose Crist
Madeline Southard
C. Chadwick
C. R. McDowell Swere
Nation
Stark
Ralf Stark
Judge Hazen
Mrs. Nation
Edward Wilder
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
Compromise Aims to Limit Death Penalties in Pekin
Pekin correspondents report foreign envoys and the imperial court nearing agreement on sentences for high officials. The proposed terms include life imprisonment for Prince Tuan Duke Lan and General Tung Fu Hsian, with Chwang strangled and Yu Hsien decapitated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Pekin
Morning Post
Imperial Court
Prince Tuan
Duke Lan
Tung Fu Hsian
Prince Chwang
Yu Hsien
Chao Shu Shio
Ying Nien
Chi Hsien
Hsu Chung Wu
Dr. Morrison
Times
Haskell Elected President Of National Creamery Group
ST PAUL Minn Feb 22 The morning session of the National Creamery Buttermakers association read technical papers and adopted resolutions urging passage of the oleomargarine bill now before Congress Gee IF Haskell of Lincoln Neb was elected president
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul, Minn
National Creamery Buttermakers’ Association
Gee
Haskell
Lincoln, Neb
Mob threatens lynching of professor in Kansas
Wichita report says Sheriff Gano of Medicine Lodge confronted Prof. Hamlin, a 22 year old country school teacher charged with assaulting a 9 year old girl named Greyer. Hamlin boarded with the Greavers and was pupil of the girl. He remains in peril of lynching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Kan
Gano
Medicine Lodge
Anthony
Hamlin
Gre Yer
Greavers
Kidnaper Callahan Held In Cudahy Case
James Callahan, an ex convict, is jailed on charges of complicity in the Cudahy kidnapping. Eddie Cudahy identifies him as the street contact and guard at Melrose Hill house. Detectives Wyer and Dueberry arrested him at 53rd and Poppleton. Chief Donahue delays public announcement pending confirmation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
James Callahan
Kelly
Wyer
Dueberry
Callahan
Dail
Donahue
Cudahy
Eddie Cudahy
J. H. Burris
Nineteenth and
Grand Avenue
Burris
Jim Callahan
Lincoln
South
Pat Crowe
Ministers Call Mass Meeting to Close Wichita Saloons
The Wichita Ministerial Association resolved to hold a mass meeting on Sunday February 24 at 3 30 PM in the auditorium to push for immediate withdrawal of saloons from the city A prominent member Rev J D Rutehte who heads the association did not attend the meeting and supports regulation over prohibition
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Miristerial Association
Ministers’ Association of
J. D. Rutehte
The
Episcopal Church
Ministerial Association
Troops Guard Nebraska City Courthouse After Hall Frampton Killing
On orders from Governor Dietrich, Company C of the Nebraska National Guard moved to the courthouse in Nebraska City to guard the jail corridor against a lynching of Hall Frampton, the black suspect who killed his stepdaughter Ella Clark. Troop deployment calmed the mob mood after daytime excitement.
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Nebraska City
Dietrich
Nebraska National Guard
Court House
Hall Frampton
Ella Clark
White Pass Yukon gains control of Dawson line
Advices from Tacoma report the White Pass & Yukon road has purchased the Canadian Development company. The acquisition extends the railroad from Skagway to Dawson and gives the White Pass railroad control of all interior waterways, including the Atlin route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Wash
White Pass
Yukon
Canadian Development Company
Skagway
Dawson
White Pass Railroad
Atlin
National buttermakers convention opens in St Paul
The national convention of buttermakers begins in St Paul with several hundred delegates attending. A machinery exhibition is the largest yet shown. Judges have finished scoring all 846 entries. prize winners will be announced Thursday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul
Edward to visit Germany on royal yacht Victoria and Albert
King Edward plans a brief trip to Germany sailing on the royal yacht Victoria and Albert to see his sister the Dowager Empress Frederick, departing Saturday evening. The visit is expected to be brief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Edward
Germany
Victoria and Albert
Frederick
Sampson Ill at Home. Barclay Acts Commandant
Rear Admiral Willis T. Sampson, commandant of the Charlestown navy yard, is ill at his home at the yard. Captain Barclay is acting commandant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Willis T. Sampson
Charlestown Navy Yard
Barclay
Rivers and harbors funds set for vast river system bill
Senate commerce committee trims total river and harbor bill by about 25 percent and revises items. The measure totals near 60 million dollars with major allocations listed like Mobile harbor 68,818 dollars and Mississippi river segments totaling millions. The Nicaragua canal amendment was defeated and the bill will be reported to the Senate tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Committee On Commerce
House
Senate
Mobile Harbor
Alabama
Southwest Pass
Mississippi
Calcasieu River
Louisiana
Sabine Pass
Texas
Columbia River
Galveston Channel
Coneaut Harbor
Ohio
Fairport Harbor
Cleveland Harbor
Sandusky Harbor
Grand Harbor of Refuge
Michigan
Milwaukee Harbor of Refuge
Warrior
Tom Bigbee Rivers
Red River
Ouachita
Black Rivers
Galveston Ship Channel
Trinity River
Brazos River
Arkansas River
Arkansas
Upper White River
Tennessee River
Chattanooga
Riverton
Cumberland River
Nashville
Big Sandy River
West Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio River
Detroit River
St. Clair Flats
Middle
West Neebish
Calumet
Illnois
Indiana
Illinois
Rock River
Ilinois
Mississippi River
St. Paul
Sioux River
South Dakota
Missouri
Sioux City
Missouri River
Madrid to end martial law and form new ministry
Restored calm in Madrid as Imparcial cites a ministerial report that martial law will be abolished and constitutional guarantees restored. The cabinet plans Thursday talks on current affairs and Friday’s submission of the cabinet’s resignation to the queen with Cortes convening soon to pass the budget and form the Silvela ministry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Imparcial
Azcarraga
Silvela
Memphis Woman Wins Philosophy Degree at Berlin
Miss Caroline T. Stewart of Memphis Tennessee was promoted to the degree of philosophy at the University of Berlin in a ceremony marked by all-women competitors. Her opponents included Jane Scherzer Mrs. Mary Montgomery and Frau Herter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Berlin
Caroline T. Stewart
Tenn
University of Berlin
Stewart
Jane Scherzer
Mary Montgomery
Frau Herter
Envoys Press For Compliance After Chinese Reply
The foreign envoys conferred over China’s response to punishing the guilty parties named by the powers. They found the reply unsatisfactory and declared they would insist on adherence to their original demands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perkin
German Expedition Aims to Clear Province and Supply Lines
A Pekin dispatch reported by the Cologne Gazette states Count von Waldersee’s force plans to clear Chi Li of Chinese soldiers and provide wholesale bread to the area. The German commissariat orders 1,000 transport wagons ready within eighteen days.
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Berlin
Cologne
Pekin
Count von Waldersee
Chi Li
German Commissariat Department
Nation Leads Day of Raids in Topeka
Mrs. Carrie Nation organized a Sunday campaign in Topeka queuing a day of dramatic raids. She led 600 armed supporters from the state house to raid saloons and a cold storage plant, smashing bars and vowing to close all joints, with Washburn students and local leaders in tow. She was arrested four times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
Carrie Nation
Nation
Senate to focus on appropriation bills this week
Washington Feb 18 The senate will devote most of the week to appropriation measures. The cost office and diplomatic and consular bills will be considered, with potential delays tied to the ship subsidy bill. Fortifications and Indian conference reports are on the agenda, while the army bill faces late-week action. Night sessions are unlikely to resume before session’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Senate
Cost Office
Danish West Indies sale talks collapse in London
Copenhagen reports the Danish government ends negotiations with the United States over selling the Danish West Indies. The halt follows a handsome bid from the Danish East Asian Steamship company to help administer the islands in the future.
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London
Copenhagen
The
Daily Mail
United States
Danish West Indies
Danish East Asian Steamship Company
Cigarette Dealers Win Tax Relief in Des Moines
Polk county board of supervisors remits taxes on cigarette sales prior to the Tennessee decision against the cigarette trust. Dealers here had mostly halted sales after the ruling, but the assessor had taxed all active sellers. An agreement with cigarette trust attorneys led to the tax remission.
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Des Moines
Board of Supervisors
Polk County
Tennessee
Cigarette Trust
Topeka Sheriff Arrests Mrs Cummins and Daughter in Quarry Man Murder
Sheriff Cook in Topeka Kan arrested Mrs Maggie Cummins and her 14 year old daughter Edna on a Jefferson County warrant. They face murder charges in the death of John Cummins their divorced husband and father. Edna is accused of poisoning the coffee that killed him and Maggie is charged with instigating the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
Cook
Maggie Cummins
Edna
Jefferson County
John Cummins
Menace to British Interest in Steel Combinations
The Standard admits American steel combinations pose a serious menace to British steel makers. It notes American users will be squeezed financially, and questions how long Americans will tolerate a policy allowing such combinations.
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London
Wells in the Gulf Near Sabine Pass
A Beaumont dispatch reports Colonel W H Pope of Austin and Judge O M Carter of Fort Worth have obtained permission from the secretary of war to sink oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico near Sabine Pass in the oil pool area. Work will start once preliminary arrangements are completed.
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Austin
Tex
Beaumont
W. H. Pope
O. M. Carter
Fort Worth
Secretary of War
Gulf of Mexico
Oil Pool
Sabine Pass
Carter
Governing Bills of Health Issued for Philippines Vessels
General MacArthur issued regulations governing bills of health after January 1 in the Philippines. Bills are required for vessels bound from Philippine ports to the United States or foreign ports, but not for coastwise trade within the islands.
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Washington
General MacArthur
Philippines
United States
Philippine Islands
Remark by Professor Kaufmann on Women in PhD Exams
Professor Kaufmann of Breslau comments on Frankiein Immer wahr as the university’s first woman to pass the doctoral exam. He hopes study among women remains rare, arguing the women’s primary calling is wife and mother, which men cannot fulfill.
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Kaufmann
Breslau
Frankiein Immerwahr
Dealings With Crimes in Canada Opinion Piece
The Chicago Times-Herald editorial argues Canada’s crime record shows low murder indictments in 1899 and swift justice. It contrasts Canadian and American legal delay, touts immigration to Western Canada, and notes new land openings in 1901 including Saskatchewan reserves and railway lands with government sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Times-Herald
Dominion of Canada
Dominion
Canada
New York
Chicago
Quebec
Vancouver
Dreyer
Times-Herald
Western
Saskatchewan
Syrian banished by New Jersey judge after assault
A New Jersey judge sentenced a Syrian man to banishment after an assault arrest. The judge offered release if he left the country, and the man agreed. An officer escorted him to Hoboken and he was placed aboard an outbound steamship.
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I. New Jersey
Hoboken
Care of the Baby in Ivory Soap Tips
Advice from Liza R. Parker emphasizes daily warm water baths for infants using Ivory Soap. Ensure a well aired nursery and clean clothes washed with Ivory Soap, rinsed thoroughly and sun dried.
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Liza R. Parker
Bet His Vote Away For Life
In Minneapolis two plumbers John P. Courtney Democrat and Harry Wallace Republican bet their votes for life. The loser Courtney must cast his vote as the winner dictates. Courtney seeks another penalty but Wallace refuses to change the terms, insisting Courtney vote Republican thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John P. Courtney
Harry Wallace
Minneapolis
Courtney
Wallace
Carnegie offers match for Paterson labor lyceum funds
Andrew Carnegie proposes to double any amount raised by the people of Paterson New Jersey for the construction of a labor lyceum, following the plan originated by the local Knights of Labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Carnegie
Paterson
N. J
Labor Lyceum
Knights of Bor
Garfield Tea Benefits for Digestive Health and Purification
Garfield Tea is claimed to regulate digestive organs and relieve constipation. The preparation is said to purify the blood and promote overall health.
Northwest ern Hide and Fur Co. ad seeks trappers and farmers
The notice highlights the Northwestern Hide and Fur Co. of Minneapolis Minnesota as an old reliable firm with a national reputation for origin ating and compiling information on wild animals and their skins. It promotes their trapper's book and offers fur and hides sales or shipment with confidence. Readers are asked to mention the paper when writing.
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Northwestern Hide & Fur Co
Minneapolis
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Matas
Peter S. Michie
Department of Natural and Experimental Philogoaphy
United States Military Academy
West Point
N. Y
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Elect Haskell of
Kansas
Haas
Dawnson
Rear Admiral
Sampson II
Cheli Province
Gulf
MacArthur
Carnegie Labor Lyceum
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