National health department movement gains support
One hundred prominent men form a committee to push a national health department with a cabinet or bureau role. Prof J Pease Norton of Yale leads the drive, seeking annual funding of 100 million dollars to curb death and disease, notably pneumonia and tuberculosis, with contributions from Edison and Roosevelt cited. Dr Thomas Darlington warns TB toll averages 400 daily and urges state and individual education.
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New York
Havye
Health
J. Pease
Norton
Yale
American Association For the Advancement of of Science
Ithaca
Roosevelt
The
Marine: Hospital Service
Irving Fisher
Andrew Carnesie
Thomas A. Edison
Archbishop Treland
John Mitchell
John
D. Long
Booker Washington
Felix Adler
James’ R. Garfield
Leonard Wood
Army and Navy
Labor, Census and Immigration Bureaus
Citirens
Boston
Twentieth Century Club
Thomas’. Darlington
United States
Darlington
Four Nebraska Land and Feeding officers guilty of fraud
In a federal case in Omaha four defendants including Bartlett Richards and Will G. Com stock were convicted on 36 counts of conspiracy to defraud the government of public lands and perjury. The group allegedly sought title to large tracts within the Spade ranch by fraudulent homestead entries under the Kinkaid law. The jury deliberated two hours. A government crop bulletin lists 1906 production: corn 2,927,416,001 bushels. winter wheat 492,988,004. spring wheat 242,372,366.
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Omaha
Neb. Dee
Federal District Court
Bartlett Richards
Will G. Comstock
C. C. Jame
Nebraska Land and Feeding Company
Spade
Aquilla Triplett
Public Lands
Cherry
Sheridan
Box Butte
Nebraska
Kinkaid
Government
Washington
Agricultural Department
Texas Siftinge Founder Knox Dead
New York Dec 20 John Armoy Knox once widely known editor and proprietor of Texas Siftinga died at his home of heart disease. Born in Ireland in 1880 he was the son of a bank president of Bel-
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Texas Siftinge
New York
John Armoy Knox
Texas Siftinga
Hoe
Ireland
Bel
Senate Adjourns for Holidays After Fierce Debate
Washington December 21 The senate closed its last session before the holiday recess after a sharp critique of President Hoosevelt action in discharging the Twenty Fifth Infantry during the Brownsville raid. Senator Lodge replied briefly and Senator Scott urged a full senate military committee investigation. Ballinger urged raises for congressional salaries, proposing 7500 annually for all members. the measure failed in the house. The senate adjourned to January 8 1907 and the house to January 3. Mondell won approval to extend entry settlement on the Shoshone Indian reservation. A large crowd extended season greetings to Speaker Cannon whose spirits were high with public appreciation.
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Washington
Senator Foraker
Senate
Hoogevelt
Twenty-ffth Infantry
Lodge
Scott
Ohio
Senate Military Committee
Ballinger
Congress
House
Mondell
Wyoming
Cannon
Bishop McCabe Dies in New York Hospital
New York Dec 20 Bishop Charles C McCabe of the Methodist Episcopal church died at 5 20 a m in a New York hospital mourning his death apoplexy after several days illness in the city en route to Philadelphia He was born Oct 11 1836 at Athens Ga and entered the Ohio conference in 1860 as chaplain of the 122nd Ohio infantry He endured Libby prison after Winchester battle later famed as Chaplain McCabe He helped raise funds as secretary of the Methodist Missionary society and served as chancellor of the American university at Washington Dec 10 1902.
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New York
Charles C. McCabe
Methodist Episcopal Church
Philadelphia
Ohio Conference
The
Methodist Church
One Hundred and Twenty-second
Ohio Infantry
Winchester
Libby
McCabe
General Conference of the
Portsmouth
Board of Church’ Extension
Methodist Missionary Society
American University At
Washington
Boat Explosion Kills Several on W. T. Scovil steamer
In a disaster near Gold Dust landing south of Vicksburg Mississippi the steamer W T Scovil exploded killing at least ten to sixteen people and injuring about as many. White victims include Capt John Quackenboss and Clerk Wate Quackenboss both of Vicksburg as well as Lavellberger from Jackson and Clerk Joseph Smith of Yazoo City. The vessel sank after the blast disrupting freight loads and sending debris over large distances. Also noted, over 500 scientists will attend the AAAS annual meeting at Columbia University starting December 27 running through January 2.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Mississippi River
W. T. Scovil
Davis Bend
John Quackenboss
Clerk Wate Quackenboss
Lavellberger
Jackson
Glerk
Joseph Smith
Yazoo City
Misa
New York
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Columbia University
Iaat
Shippers blamed for car shortage and pending legislation
Washington reports data on average freight car use and loading times as a basis for policy. President Stickney cites 250 mile haul, one day two hours transport, and nine days loading unloading per car. Senator Hansbrough drafts measures to empower the ICC and regulate loading, idle equipment, and train tonnage limits amid the crisis. A late item notes a fatal department store gasoline lamp explosion in Albia, Iowa, causing extensive losses.
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Caye
Hansbrough
Washington
A. B. Stickney
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Stickney
North Dakota
Northwest
Knapp
Commission
Damurrage
Albia
Iowa
Latimer Brothers & Cown
Mob Hangs Negro in Annapolis Jail Lynching Report
A mob of about 235 men broke into the Annapolis jail at dawn and hanged Henry Davis, also called Chambers, after he confessed to assaulting Mrs. Reid near Iglehams Station. Officers offered little resistance as the prisoner was dragged to a vacant lot by College Creek and executed with bullets. A coroner’s jury returned a verdict of death at the hands of persons unknown. The lynching appeared organized from St John’s College grounds, with Senior hall used as gathering point, though college officials denied student involvement. The mob paused at the gas plant en route, attempting to gain entry and dim lights.
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Annapolis
Henry Davis
John Reid
Iglehams Station
Davis
Chambers
College Creek
Davin
Calvert Street
Uged
St. John's College
Igleharts Station
Reid
St. John’s
Senior Hall
Negro shoots Capt Macklin in Oklahoma quarters
Captain Edgar B. Macklin of Company C, Twenty fifth United States infantry was shot twice and badly wounded Friday night by a masked negro who posed as a robber in his Reno Oklahoma quarters. Bloodhounds will be brought from Oklahoma City to track the assassin. Reports suggest the assailant may be among troops discharged by President Roosevelt for Brownsville riots. The shooting occurred while Capt Macklin and his wife were at the dinner table.
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Reno
Okla
Edgar B. Macklin
United States Infantry
Roosevelt
Brownsville
Oklahoma City
Macklin
Ginned Cotton Output Reveals Census Bulletin
Washington report notes a census bulletin showing by December 13 this year 1,099,001 bales of cotton ginned, compared with 1,297,319 bales by the same date last year, indicating a decline in early ginning totals.
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Washington
Overdue Steamer Pennsylvania Reaches Seattle
The Mer cantile exchange reports the overdue steamer Pennsylvania has arrived at Seattle from Valdez, ending a long wait. The vessel was sighted after a trip from Valdez and is now docked in Seattle, easing late shipment concerns.
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San Francisco
Merchante’ Exchange
Pennsylvania
Seattle
Valdez
White Labor Finds Panama Canal Progress in Race Talk
The isthmian canal commission report to Congress quotes that 2,500 Chinese laborers were invited in 1906 with option to raise to 16,000, bid rates to 9 to 11 cents an hour. It flags Negro labor as unsatisfactory and praises northern Spanish workers for higher efficiency and no deaths. The note covers housing gains, 25,000 employed, dredging costs, and bids opening January 12.
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Washington
Isthmian Canal Commission
Congress
Roosevelt
E Commission
Spain
United States
Theodore F. Shonts
Charles F. Magoon
Vse
Canal
John F. Stevens
Russian kills wife in Butler with iron blow
Max Kattle a Russia killed his wife Thursday night by striking her on the head with an iron and wounded a young daughter and a boarder. Police saved him from an angry crowd outside his home. he claimed a right to kill his wife. Fellow countrymen in Russia said he was wanted for murder there.
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Butler
Max Kattle
Russia
Kattle
Kaftle
News in Brief from the Nation and World
A sweep of brief items covers events from Alaska to Maine. Topics include strikes by miners and stevedores, calls to inspect the Panama canal, a fatal automobile crash in Minneapolis, attempted robberies in St. Louis, a divorce suit in Milwaukee, and coffee shipments halted by labor action in Ris. Janeborg. Other items note a Lee centennial event, a fatal Butler fire, a Jackson Ky. marshal murder conviction, Midway oil pipeline plans, a Yonkers recovery report, Elgin tree accident, a Glasgow parish church blaze, an anti ice trust action in New York, a Leadville masked robbery, a woolen mills merger, top army rifle shot Martin Dunbar, Day of Revolutionary descent in Newark, post office cost savings, the Lincolns’ educator death, Patrick’s life sentence commutation, Riga executions, and a Baltic plot to kill a governor general.
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Wrangel
Alaska
Milwaukee
Ris
Janeborg
Robert E. Lee
Washington and Lee University
Virginia
Frank. Mills
Butler
Curtis Jett
James Cockrell
Jackson
Lfe
Midway
Cal
Port Harford
John McDermott
Yonkers
N. Y
New York
Henry Biesterfeld
Elgin
Baldernock
Glasgow
Scotland
Roosevelt
Stobes
Bullocks
Julius Mayer
State of
American Ice Company
Ice Trust
Leadville
Joe Dale
Rachael Brookfield Day
Newark
N. J
John Brookfield
Post Office Department
Eewin C. Madden
Blanche Horton Boardman Lincoln
Fred D. Lincoln
American Woolen Company
New York City
Gov. Higgins
Albert T. Patrick
William Marsh Rice
Texas
Riga
Russia
Baron Moeller-Sakomelsky
Baltio Provinces
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Idea
M'Cabe
Tedby
Commerce Commission
Negro
Capt
Twentyifth Infantry
Panama Canal
Chicago
O. al Os Meat Creamery
Pesreeens A
Kansas City
ST. Louis
Rae Beese
Seeee
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