Hale Re-elected to Senate. Noted Death and Deals
Eugene Hale wins a fifth term in the Maine legislature. J M W Geist, famed Pennsylvanian newspaper man, dies at 81. Hamburg American approves 9 percent dividend as Zeeland sails to reinforce in the East Indies. Major fire destroys Menominee Indian school with $50,000 loss. Roosevelt entertains diplomatic corps at the White House. 60+ guests present. Port Arthur holds 18,556 sick and wounded Russians. 3,657 connected to navy.
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Eugene Hale
United States Senate
Maing
J. M. W. Geist
Pennsylvania
Baring, Magoun & Co
Paris
Zeeland
Menominee Reservation
Hamburg American Steamship Company
Roosevelt
Diplomatic Corps
Port Arthur
Navy
James A. Hemenway
Indiana
Theodore Sandford
Bellevue
N. J
House Committee On Military Affairs
American National Bank of
Charles A. Eastman
Pacific Coast
Taft
A. G. Stewart
Iowa
Porto Rico
Willis Sweet
Idaho
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Congress
New England Shoe and Leather Association
Daniel J. Walsh
Butte
Anaconda Standard
Illinois House of Representatives
Shackelford
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hitt
Ill
House Committees On Foreign Affairs
United States
Culgoa
West Indies
Navy Department
Naval Court of Inquiry
Wilsom
Barnegat
Lankara Islands
Penang
Russian Trouble Spreads in Moscow Strikes and Riots
Reported labor unrest spreads from Moscow to St Petersburg as 1,900 Brok ley Metal Works employees march through the capital and draw in Sytin Printing. Reports of casualties mount as mutinous crowds threaten markets and clashes with troops reverberate, while reformers in St Petersburg hint at a provisional government and foreign loan repudiation.
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Provisional Government of
Russia
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Brokley Metal Works
Sytin Printing Works
Sytin
Vassili Ostrov
Kolpino
London
Daily Telegraph
Reform Party
Gorky
Annensky Arsenieff
Siberia
Insurrection in St Petersburg as Labor Uprising Unfolds
Reports describe a day of violence and near civil war in St. Petersburg with martial law in place. Troops guard Nevsky Prospekt as strikers form barricades on Vassili Ostrov and other districts. Empress dowager seeks safety at Tsarskoe Selo while Emperor Nicholas II faces 100,000 workers approaching the Water Palace.
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St. Petersburg
Vasilchikoff
Nevsky Prospect
Vassilli Ostrog
Tsarskoe Selo
Nicholas II
Sviatopolk- Mirsky
Water Palace
Palace Square
Gopon
President Roosevelt to Hunt Rabbits in Texas
The Republic reports Roosevelt plans a rabbit hunt in Texas between March 26 and April 3. He will attend a New York wedding on March 18 then travel by special train with Secretary Loeb to St. Louis, meeting Cecil Lyon of Sherman and W. S. Simpson of Dallas, both prominent Texas figures. Simpson was a Rough Riders member.
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ST. Louis
Republic
Roosevelt
Texas
New York
Loeb
Cecil Lyon
Sherman
Tex
W. 8. Simpson
Dallas
Simpson
The
Rough Riders
Russian Papers Defy Censorship In Crisis
Four Moscow papers including the Russ and Viedomosti vow to publish news unaltered as printers return to work. They draft a letter to the censor arguing for full facts on strike news and Sunday affairs, while Noyce Vremya and others withhold. Factories expect a restart. Father Gapon calls the czar to abandon liberty prayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Petersburg
The
Russ
Viedomosti
Novosti
Grashdanin
Noyce Vremya
Father Gopon
Rumors of Yellow Fever Reach the Isthmus
The Isthmian Canal Commission cabled Governor Davis of the Canal Zone about reports of yellow fever in the isthmus. No answer yet due to cable interruptions. The commission blames patient carelessness for existing cases and seeks an official report on current conditions while shipping medicines for canal zone sanitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Isthmian Canal
Canal Zone
President nominates Brodie for assistant chief post
Washington report says the president sent to the senate the nomination of Alexander O. Brodie of Arizona to be assistant chief of the record and pension office with rank of Major. Brodie is at present governor of Arizona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Alexander O. Brodie
Ariona
Record and Pension Office
Brodie
Arizona
Dinner in Honor of Lodge by Middlesex Club in Boston
United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge spoke for about forty minutes at a dinner in his honor staged by the Middlesex club in Boston. He attacked Interstate Commerce Commission rate supervision and proposed a special court that could revise but not fix rates, warning that without government rate oversight the nation would face a radical push for public ownership.
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Lodge
Boston
United States
Henry Cabot Lodge
Middlesex Club
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hilton promoted to passenger traffic chief for Frisco and Eastern Illinois
Alexander Hilton, formerly general passenger agent of the Frisco system and earlier assistant general passenger agent of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis railroad, has been advanced to passenger traffic manager for both the Frisco and the Eastern Illinois systems with headquarters in St. Louis. Hilton is renowned as a skilled railroader and widely respected for sagacity and fairness. He previously formed a notable record at the world’s fair and serves as president of the St. Louis association of general passenger agents. Hilton succeeds Bryan Snyder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Hilton
Frisco
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway
Eastern Illinois
St. Louis
Mr. Hilton
Hilton
Bryan Snyder
General Stoessel Talks on Port Arthur Surrender
London dispatch quotes General Stoessel from Nagasaki detailing the New Year capitulation as incidental. He cites the loss of 203-Meter hill, forts, and shell fire as shaping events, notes relief requests unanswered, and says officers chose imprisonment or captivity. He defends his stance while Russian officers blame Admiral Alexeiff and government for war failures.
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London
Nagasaki
the Express
Stoessel
Kondratenko
Alexieff
Port Arthur
Chee Foo
Russia
Postmaster General cites Pogue duties and affiliation
Washington reports Wynne informed Texas representative Beall that Oscar Pogue had become president of the national fourth class postmasters at a salary of 1000 dollars a year and had visited Washington for weeks during a congressional session, casting doubt on his duties as Blum postmaster while leading the postmasters’ association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wynne
Beall
Texas
Department
Oscar Pogue
Blum
Tex
Pogue
Association of National Fourth Class
Congress
Talks on Statehood Move Through Senate Session
In Washington the statehood bill remained under consideration in the senate as Mr. Stone spoke in opposition for two hours. The remuneration bill for fur sealers harmed by suppression also drew lengthy debate but no action was taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Stone
Bryan meets official on national corporate license proposal
William J. Bryan visited Washington to discuss the Bureau of Corporations annual report with acting Commissioner Mr. Smith. The informal meeting covered his views on a national license for corporations and broader corporate control.
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William J. Bryan
Capital
Washington
Department of Commerce and Labor
Mr. Smith
Bureau of Corporations
Mr. Bryan
Bureau
Stoessel's Proclamation Prefers Surrender Over Death
Russian refugees from Port Arthur flood the area after a gale prevented landing. More than 2,000 refugees will be moved to three transports bound for Odessa. A copy of General Stoessel's January 7 proclamation arrives, urging surrender as resistance would be daily murder and urging officers to avoid useless sacrifice.
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Che Foo
Port Dalny
Port Arthur
Wight
Odessa
Stoesser
Grain diversions spark ICC inquiry into grain routes
Chicago reports the interstate commerce commission is examining diverted western grain shipments from Omaha and Kansas City to European ports via western lines through New Orleans and Gulf ports. Authorities probe if secret rebates caused shipments of corn totaling over 4,000,000 bushels by local and Omaha grain shippers via New Orleans rather than Chicago and Atlantic ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
the Chronicle Today
Omaha
Kansas City
New Orleans
Galveston
Gulf Ports
Interstate Commerce Commission
Atlantic
Resolution seeks suit against Morton and Stubbs over traink of trade
Representative Baker of New York introduced a resolution directed at Secretary Morton and asking the president to sue Paul Morton and J C Stubbs for entering into contract survey traink of trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morton
Washington
Baker
N. Y
Paul Morton
J. C. Stubbs
Merchant Found Murdered in Wyoming Store
George Gerber, a Laramie merchant, was found dead in his store with severe head injuries and throat cut. An iron bolt lay beside the body and a knife remained in the stab wound, indicating a brutal crime scene in Wyoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laramie
Wyo
George Gerber
Strick
Treaty Signed Between United States and Norway Sweden
Washington secretary Hay and minister Grip of Norway and Sweden signed an arbitration treaty. It mirrors the arbitration treaties currently under consideration by the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hay
Grip
Norway
Sweden
Senate
Brothers Reunite After Thirty Years in Escanaba
In Escanaba Michigan on Friday Henry Chooge of De Witt Nebraska and Charles Dhooge of Escanaba met for the first time since 1900. They had been separated when the elder brother left Belgium and emigrated to America. Charles Chooge had resided in Ocanabe since 1873 while his brother moved to Nebraska about ten years later.
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Escanaba
Mich
Belgium
America
Henry Chooge
de Witt
Neb
Charles Dhooge
Charles Chooge
Ocanabe
Nebraska
Burkett Elected U S Senator and Addresses Nebraska
Elmer J. Burkett of Lincoln was proclaimed United States senator for six years beginning March 4 after a joint Nebraska legislature session. He congratulated railroad policy supporters, pledged to serve all Nebraskans, and announced his resignation from the House to assume the new seat.
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Lincoln
Elmer J. Surkett
United States
Nebraska
Burkett
Representative Hall
McGilton
Roosevelt
Elmer J. Burkett
Mills County
Iowa
Tabor College
State University of Nebraska
Lancaster County
Senate
Homesteads in South Dakota Bill Sparks Committee Debate
Washington The house committee on public lands heard Senators Kittedge and Gamble and Representative Martin Burke in favor of a bill to raise the homestead claim from 16 to 640 acres in South Dakota. Proponents argued settlement would be retarded without the increase. The committee took no decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Dakota
Washington
House Committee On Public Lands
Kittedge and Gamble
Martin and
Burke
Conference on Beef Trust With Roosevelt and Attorneys
Attorney General Moody and Solomon H. Betha United States attorney for the northern district of Illinois met with President Roosevelt. They discussed beef trust questions and Betha planned to stay for further consideration as he had previously represented the government in related Chicago cases.
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Beef Trust
Washington
Moody
Solomon H. Betha
United States
Illinois
Roosevelt
Betha
Chicago
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Glenwood
Apye
Prison Commissioners For
Scotland
Narva
Winter Palace
Associated Press
Goppen
Isthmian Canal Commission
General Stoessel
Stoessel’s
John M. ‘Thayer
Ate
Phineas
Thomas W. Tinton
Peru
Hitchcock
Omah
Alvin Saunders
Algernon
Paddock
Beatrice Feet
Chas
H. van Wyck
F. Mandergon
Algernan
Beatrice
Wiliam V. Allen
Madison
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