Week in Brief: War Russia Japan and US Congress
Week in brief reports the Russo Japanese War progress in the Far East and unrest in Russia with 30 000 strikers in St Petersburg 144 Lodz dead and 200 wounded. It notes czarist plans delayed by court circles and 40 000 Lodz workers unemployed. In US Congress the senate funds DC and diplomatic programs, honors Frances Willard statue, and Mann bill for canal zone governance passes the House amid sharp exchanges between Hearst and Sullivan.
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St. Petersburg
Lodz
Zcemsky
Russia
Gopon
Acye
Senate
District of Columbia
Congress
Frances E. Willard
Illinois
Miss Willard
House
Canal Zone
United States
San Domingo
Bacon
W. R. Hearst
Sullivan
Massachusetts
Hearst
Peace terms eyed as Russo-Japanese War nears end
Czar Nicholas reportedly weighing Japan’s peace terms and signs point to an imminent end of the war. General Grippenberg reaches St. Petersburg and accuses Kuropatkin of ordering a retreat at Heikoutai despite potential Russian victory.
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Czar
Nicholas
Japan
Grippenberg
St. Petersburg
Kuropatkin
Heikoutai
Assassination, political turmoil, and legal probes amid tumult
Grand Duke Sergius of Russia was killed by a bomb thrown by a socialist revolutionary in Moscow. The murder is seen as part of a terror campaign against imperial figures. Roosevelt orders a broad inquiry into Standard Oil methods with focus on the Kanens field, likely nationwide in scope. A Russian officer admits placing the shell that killed the czar. A Cincinnati newsboy dies after a whisky wager. A strict anti trust bill replaces the 1893 law, now unconstitutional per the Supreme Court. A New York Hotel Winton fire claims one life and injures several. An Owen Kelly case in Los Angeles links to a Philadelphia grocer. Oscar P. Bonney, former judge and Chicago bar member, dies. Wisconsin assembly starts corset protests. The Great Blizzard of 1886 era losses loom as Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas panhandle report 50,000 cattle lost.
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Sergius
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Moscow
Roosevelt
Department of Commerce and Labor
Standard Oil Company
Kanens
Neva
John Nichola
Cincinnati
Supreme Court
Ihotel
Chicago
Wisconsin Assembly
Kansas
Oslahuuia
Panhandle
Texas
Eli Bugg
Mound City
Chris Mathis
Bugg
Nan Patterson
Caesar Young
New York
John H. Grannis
Gettysburg
Saybrook
Conn
Alexander Mead
Teleto
O. Mead
Big Sandy River
Theenup County
John Shaw
Quincy
God Hoch
Dun
Headstreet
Panama Railroad
House Committee On Inter- State and Foreign Commerce
Canal Commission
West Virginia
White
Great Britain
United States
Queenstown
Tretzad
Manning Harris
Edwards
Missouri Pacific
Avoca
Neb
Tire
Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis
Minn
Claude 8. Snively
Lonsdale
Duluth
James R. Garfield
Department of Commercce and Labor
House of Representatives
Daniel H. McCarthy
Rebecca Snyder
Ida Shade
Liberty
West Carrollton
Brooklyn
Edinboro
State Normal School
Lowa
Jay Cooke
Charles D. Barney
Ogontz
Philadelphia
Cook
State Department
Bowen
Venezuela Supreme Court
Castro
New York Asphalt Company
Grosscup
Beef Trust
Wisconsin
Milnois Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Deneen
Operaton
Equitable Life Asauranca Society
Hyde
Alexander
Palley
Santo Domingo
Island Republic
Kentucky Wesleyan College
Omllat School
Methodist Episcopal Shurch South
Winchester
Manchester
Eny
D. Groves
Kalamazoo
Mich
Bishop Spalding
Peoria
Lew Wallace
Turkey
Crawfordsville
Ind
C.G. McKbiben
Derby
Cone
Providence
R. F
Tonopah
Nev
Elizabeth Dudding
Springfield
Inn
Jack Taylor
St. Louis
National League Baseball Club
The
Association
Pitts- Urs
N. J
Charles Bieger
Emma Bieger
Kansas City
Missouri Supreme Court
Lake Superior
Calumet
Kan
Friends’ Educational Conference
Richmond
W. William Douglass
Supreme Court of
Rhode Island
General Assembly
EB. E. Tillinghast
Gov. Warner
Michigan
John T. Hoffmann
Wayne County
Hoffmann
Detroit
Cleveland
Eas
Harriman Lines
Tix
Feely
James Piersall
Lexington
Campbell
Board of Pardons
Gov. Pennypacker
Pennsylvania
Kate Edwards
Samuel Treason
B.A. Falkenburg
Denver
Col
Woodmen of the World
Los Angeles
National Fraternal Congress
Austin H. Young
Hennepin County
Kansas Senate
Garth Thompkins
Madisonville
James Bream
London
Edward
Leiter
Zeigler
Lucy Jackson Myrick
Vermont
Middleville
George Gary Soule
Plainwell
Ellis Soule
Citvattorney
Spokane
Wash
Montana
Brevaart
Eli
Wart
Washington
Prince Louis of Mattemberg
Qetoler
Multiple Global Events Span War, Trials, and Politics
A mix of trials, executions, political shifts, and disasters is reported. Eli Bugg is hanged in Mound City for murder, Nan Patterson faces a new trial in New York, and obits note Dr. Grannis and Gen. Lew Wallace’s deaths. Bills authorize oil refinery funding in Kansas, while Panama canal hearings reveal railroad fee practices. Fires, accidents, and criminal cases across states fill the page, with Roosevelt pushing investigations and diplomacy amid public policy debates.
Panama Canal Fees Attract Senate and House Probe
Washington Feb 20 The Panama railroad fees paid to Isthmian Canal Commission members were examined by a House Interstate Commerce subcommittee led by Hepburn Vice President Drake testified that most commissioners attended executive board meetings and received fees except Gen Davis Parsons Grunsky noted President Roosevelt authorized by bylaw fees but not objections The Swayne impeachment case saw testimony barred and statehood debates postponed Frances Willard honored with Illinois statue in Statuary Hall becoming the first woman represented there.
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Washington
Panama
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Drake
Hepburn
Isthmian Canal Commission
Gen
Davis
Parsons
Panama Railroad Company
Canal Commission
Harrod
Grunsky
Roosevelt
Swayne
Senate
House
Quay
Frances
Willard
National Capitol
Linois
Miss Willard
Lew Wallace Funeral Held Private in Crawfordsville
Crawfordsville Ind Feb 20 Gen Lew Wallace funeral Saturday afternoon was private per his wish. Only family and a few intimate friends attended. The boy lay in the library building till noon and thousands viewed him. Business was suspended as the city honored the memory of the dead.
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Lew Wallace
Crawfordsville
Ind
Fatal Mine Accident Traps Gunboat Car in Pottsville
Five men killed and 33 injured in a No. 2 slope collapse at Lytte No. 1 colliery in Pottsville. A gunboat loaded with 18 men toppled into the shaft after timbers on the east track were knocked down. Names given for the dead include Henry B. Moore and Daniel Deegan among others. two injured were hospitalized with nonfatal injuries. Rescue work began immediately.
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Pottsville
Lytte
Henry B. Moore
Daniel Deegan
Sylvester Pollock
Peter Mostofsky
George Kuttler
Pottsville Hospital
Hfe
Painting for President and Five Die in Fire Island Falls
Washington news reports Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng presents to President Roosevelt a painting of the dowager empress as a gesture of goodwill. In Maine, five people die in a Howe Brook plantation dwelling fire, bodies found inside after a locked door hindered escape. Chicago items note Burke losing a $30,000 check recovery suit and a basement blaze injuring two. A Denver doctor is acquitted of murder in New London Mo. Also, ex-Congressman Bergen dies at 77 in Philadelphia.
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Washington
Chentung Liang-Cheng
Roosevelt
China
United States
White House
Fire Island Falls
Howe Brook Plantation
Here
John Shorey
Oakfield
Shorey
Samuel Antworth
Howe Brook
Antworth
Sergius Death May End Conflict Amid New Far East Dangers
Diplomatic circles largely expect peace after the tragedy of Grand Duke Sergius as war risks grow in Manchuria. Japanese and Chinese bandits threaten rail routes, with 10 000 attackers from Mongolia and a Russian detachment ambushed near Harbin. Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia's visit to St Petersburg sparks talk of imperial peace negotiations.
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St. Petersburg
M. Witte
Committee of Ministers
Gripenberg
Grant
Sergius
War Office
Mongolia
Harbin
Maiser
Friedrich Leopold
Prussia
Berlin
Manchuria
William
Nicholas
Tokio
L’ed
Shakhe
Kuroki
Kuropatkin
Oyama
Liuonengfang
Goudzhou Pass
Foreign Office
Japan
Russa
Audacious Bronx Hold Up and Broad Sidelight Robbery
A bold hold up in the Bronx sees Mr and Mrs John W Cornish attacked in front of their home as a highwayman snatches a 5000 diamond brooch from Mrs Cornish. He fires at Cornish then flees after exchanging shots with a policeman. The report notes a police chase with no hits. Also mentions saddle presented to President Roosevelt by Arizona Rangers and death of former mayor George J Englenart of St Joseph Missouri.
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New York
Bronx
John W. Cornish
Baddle
Phoenix
Ariz
Meb
Rangers
Gov
Trodie
East
Roosevelt
Rt. Joseph
George J. Englenart
St. Joseph
East Grange
N. J
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Union
Congressional
Robert B. Burke
Kava- Ywigh
South Halsted Street
Bernstein & Wait
New London
P. Jones Watson
Christopher A. Bergen
New Jersey
Deal
Haverford
Grand Duke
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