Congress ends a busy session with vast appropriations
A detailed review notes the 1903 Congress completed major budgets totaling about 1.85 billion dollars, ratified the Santo Domingo treaty, advanced immigration restrictions especially against Japanese labor, and passed hours of service and anti injunction measures. It highlights railway, postal, tariff, and public works bills, plus bridge and harbor projects shaping commerce and prosperity.
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Santo Domingo
Algeciras
Pacific Coast
Orient
Gulf Ports
Alaska
Josed
Ito
Congress
Brownsville
Senate
Post Office
Andry
Tuwney
Committee On Appropriations
Uncle Sam
Treasury
Panama -Canal
Meat inspection and insane clinic dispute in Illinois
The article describes a proposed meat inspector's duties to visit slaughterhouses inspect animals before slaughter and stamp carcasses for human food and notes a political victory against holding insane clinics. Speaker Shortleff led opposition to insane clinics with a unanimous committee vote after four hours of testimony from doctors and hospital heads.
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Jri
Shortleff
House Appropriations Committee
E.G. Hirsch
Chicago
State Board of Charities
Podstata
Elgin Hospital
Green
Kankakee Hospital
George W. Webster
Chicago Medical Society
State Board of Health
J. F. Perry
Galesburg
Frank Norberry
Jacksonville
L. C.taylor
Springfield
Taylor
Railroad Labor Bills and Passenger Safety Proposals
Two bills by Carmelus J. Ton seek to limit continuous railroad work to sixteen hours and to require full train crews with defined compositions for passenger and freight trains. Backed by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the measures aim to reduce wreck dangers and include penalties for noncompliant cars. A separate hatch safety measure proposes roof hatches on all passenger coaches by July 1 1908, with fines for noncompliance.
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Carmelus J. Ton
Hagman
Brotherhood of Railway Treinmes
Ilinois
Levice
Themas J. McNally
City Council Chamber of
Chicago
Pension bill for Illinois teachers introduced by Senator Ettelson
A bill to create a pension fund for Illinois school teachers after twenty five years of service or proof of disability has been introduced by Senator Ettelson. Four classes of subscribers are proposed with annual assessments of ten, fifteen, or thirty dollars depending on service years.
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Illinois
Ettelson
Hall Bill Bans Nonconsensual Surgeries and Vivisection
Senator Hall of Chicago proposes a law to prohibit surgical operations without the patient’s prior consent and to ban vivisection on warm-blooded animals unless it eases an ailment. The measure frames a strict patient consent standard and restricts animal testing.
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Senator Hall
Chicago
Hall
Uniformity Commission Proposal Aims To Harmonize State Laws
Representative Hearn introduced a bill establishing a commission to promote uniformity of state legislation. The governor would appoint five commissioners to study laws across states for four years without salary. Divorce laws criminal code and other statutes differing widely would come under its review.
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Hearn
Illinois convention bows to politics in union row
A Springfield Illinois convention struck out sections calling for political discussion from the state president's report amid heated debate led by John Mitchell and Thomas Burke. A defense fund of 5000 dollars was approved for Moyer Haywood and Pettibone, with potential increases authorized. The rest of the convention adopted other measures as the day closed.
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Mitchel
Henge
John—Mitchell
Thomas-Burke
United “Mine
America
Illinois
Springfield
Garagay
Mitchell
Moyer, Haywood
Col Vespasian Warner Sued Over Prenuptial Agreement
Col Vespasian Warner of Clinton former Congressman and pensions commissioner is sued by his stepmother executor of John Warner’s estate. She alleges misrepresentation to induce an ante nuptial contract promising a life interest and seeks to set aside the agreement plus her rightful dower and share. John Warner died last year leaving about 1.5 million dollars and 6000 acres of land.
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Col
Vespasian Warner
Clinton
Commissioner of Pensions
John Warter
John Warner
Isabelle Robinson
Greenfield
Warner
Thaw Legacy Lives In Illinois Station Name
The Springfield division town in Illinois was named years ago after Jacob Thaw, the financier father of the defendant in the Thaw case. He bought bonds for the line and was honored with the town name. An inspection tour in winter halted by snow led the Thaw party to a depot, where a path was shoveled from train to station for refuge.
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Hitness_ Central
Springfield
Ilinois den
Jacob Thaw
Aris
Danville Professor Weds His Former Sweetheart’s Daughter
Professor Jonathan Rigdon of Danville Indiana marries Miss Alberta Smith twenty year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Alfred Smith of Fairfield His former beloved mother was twenty when she studied under him and was betrothed years ago Time separated them and both later married The professor is fifty three years old and Alberta is ten years younger than her husband’s partner-in-law
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Herman Belek
V Vrzal
Vrzal
Jerry Vrzal
Roberts
Knopf
Chicaga
Arthur Keigley
Percy
Keigley
Grand Jury
George D. Bradford
Waverly
Greenville
A. K. Ellis
Sons County
Rville
Chicago
Murray McHaney
Minnie Lauder
Ellis
McHaneys
Clendenin
Monmouth
John W. Gauld
Kewanee
Joseph Selph
Selph
Blye
J. B. Bartholomew
Peoria
Avery Manufacturing Company
Bartholomew Automobile Company
Trith
Bartholomew
Paul Berak
J Ra
Loomis Street
Metropolitan Elevated Railroad
Walter R. Schussier
Orland
The
William G.boyden
Industrial Home For the
Blind
William J. Jackman
John J. Bondy
Centralia
Marion County
J. E. Oakleaf
Moline
Rock Island’ County
Robert Ho Block
Amarshall
Wanden
Woods
Woodstock
Eldrede
Charles
Danville
Jonathan Rigdon
Ind
Indiana
N Lit
Alberta Smith
Alfred Smith
Fairfield
Prof
Rigdon
Upset Lamp Blaze Ends in Infant's Death
Baby Mary Schweitzer, 1% years old, in No West Pullman, toppled a lit lamp while mother was away. Mrs Schweitzer left the home to fetch wood, returned to find the child enveloped in flames. She extinguished most of the fire with a blanket, but the physician could not save the infant.
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Mary Schweitzer
West Pullman
Schweitzer
Mics
Militia Receives Delayed Battery Equipment Award
Miletia Colorado unit finally gets $50,000 worth of latest model field guns and accessories after a long delay. Gunners had faced reports rivals used influence to secure gear for themselves, with timbers caissons and harness forming part of the deliveries.
Nine Risers Explosion Injures Miners at Lumaghi Mine No 2
An underground air tank explosion 200 feet below the surface at Lumaghi mine No 2 near Collinsville injuries nine coal miners. Two are in serious condition as workers at the shaft bottom were knocked down and blistered by hot air and debris.
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Lumaghi
Collinsville
Tate Confesses Involved Dougherty In Peoria School Board Robbery
Edwin S. Tate, known as the gentleman burglar, confessed to involvement with N C Dougherty and others in the Peoria school board safe robbery in January. The confession claims Dougherty and associates paid $4 500 for the job with Tate receiving 2 500 while a prominent attorney and a police-connected woman also profited. The scheme allegedly included destroying evidence and implicating other prominent residents in Chicago Joliet and Peoria.
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Tate
N._C
Dougherty
New York
N.C
John G. Flynt
Indiana Avenue
Chicago
Peoria
Gand
Joliet
Ln Nelson
Anid
Board of Education
Monerson
Inries
Defense Fund For Operators Aids Miners In Strikes
The Illinois Goal Operators Association plans a strike defense fund. When strikes are called, operators will support fellow mines, not individual owners, with assessments based on tonnage to aid non-affected mines. This shifts financial backing from single operators to the wider association during labor disputes.
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Milnola
Illinois
Helen Dixon Accused of 600 Theft From Insurance Firm
In Bloomington a Northwestern Life Insurance Co agent implicates Helen Dixon as stenographer and bookkeeper in thefts. An initial shortage of 900 was found after torn pages of the ledger. Dixon blamed burglars. the agent covered the shortfall. Bondsmen withdraw security. Dixon is jailed.
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Helen Dixon
Insurance Company
Bloomington
North-western—Life—Insurance_Com
Miss Dixon
Moore
Fat Man Blocks Railroad Incident Captured
Valentine Rodemeier, about 303 pounds and five feet tall, halted an Illinois Central train by wedging between ties on a trestle over Richland Creek. Crews freed him after a second train arrived. a rescue involved pulling him from the girders.
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Valentine Rodemeier
Illinois Central Railroad
Richland
Miners Propose Food and Goods Support for Strikers
In Springfield the Phe-Sinole Mine Workers of America amended their constitution to replace strike per diems with a commissary system. Under a general strike, relief will be food clothing coal and other items from strike funds. Local strikes will grant five dollars per week to strikers. Elizabeth Tennery and her sister Kate died recently in Paris and Mount Sterling respectively from pneumonia and tainted cheese illness.
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Phe-Sinole_Mine Workers of America
Springfield
Paris
Elizabeth’ Tennery
Kate Tennery
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Lahoma
Mr. Collier
Madrid
Gave & Panquet
Diplomatic Corps
Senor Starian Piney Millet
San Francisco
Mumittee
California
Scott
George Town
Caleb -Powers
William Goebel
James Howard
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of Columbia
Dot Executive
Miliary Acad Poy
Eer
Eae
Er Seaae Davenvas Efia
Deneen
Shurtleff
Judiciary Committee
TIN
F.—T._Brown
James Kennedy
Pana
Lee Carter
Merrisby
Ramsey
Peter_Blepper
Nation
Deborah McMahon
Sterling
Frederick Simons
Philip Couture
Kankakee
Thaw
Miletia-Co
Defense Fund For Operators
Girl
FAT Man Blocks Railroad
Dea
Stadler
Mount Sterling
Flo
Germany
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