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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1901
Page
3
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Notice of Appointment. Executors named in a will seek estate letters in Douglas county. In Washington, navy secretary agrees the Philippine islands are U S territory for statute limits on naval desertion cases. A New Haven suspect in a stamp case is held on bonds. Chicago bankruptcy filing by E S Dryer Co. lists $2 million in liabilities.
Preliminary Interstate Commerce Commission report shows railways operated 152,193 miles with passenger earnings 426,109,210 and freight earnings 31,140,274,770, total gross 1,578,164,205. Net earnings 555,007,924, dividends 121,105,637, surplus 77,544,725. Also reports ongoing Denmark relations, dragging negotiations on cession of Danish West Indies, plebiscite possibilities, and potential U.S. actions.
Washington sources say Lieut. Gen. Miles may seek a court inquiry or a public reply to President Roosevelt and Secretary Root after a censure for remarks on the Schley case. The issue mirrors prior questions of whether punishment without court-martial is lawful, as officers consider retirement options near age 64.
Hartville Mo December 23 Charlee Freeman merchant Ozark county reports extreme hardship among mountaineers. Drought destroyed grain and vegetables leaving families subsisting on acorns. Local stores cannot extend credit and many merchants have failed. Freeman warns outside aid is needed to prevent the greatest US suffering until the next crop.
Allentown Pennsylvania reports six people killed after an electric car jumped a track near the foot of the high mountain between Allentown and Coopersburg. Wet rails and snow caused the slide. a pole tore the car and roof, trapping victims.
Dr. Ek. 0. Young reports that the Cuban thinking class favors annexation and that a vote would likely pass. He predicts uprisings due to prejudices and discontent among a certain class, with officers sharing the view that annexation is the island’s hope.
Washington dispatches report a tender for the office of secretary of the treasury to Gov. Leslie M. Shaw of Iowa after Secretary Gage’s term. Shaw had not replied by late last night and would not discuss the matter, awaiting information from Washington.
The Journal asks subscribers not receiving papers by 6 pm daily to inform the office, so steps can be taken for better delivery. Subscribers should deduct from the bill any papers that were missed during the preceding month.
Notice to advertisers that payments must be made in shvamos and that no barter trades are allowed except where payment is made. Reflects a formal demand for standard currency transactions.
A Chicago company advertises a $500 reward for a plan to cure illness with Privortinn UpTe-Dats. selling vegetable pills claimed to relieve Henteche with 100 pills per bottle, 10 cent boxes contain pills, 15 pills per box. Warnings include avoiding counterfeit mail with stamps. Nervita Medical Co. at Cor. Claton and Jeckson Sts, Chicago, lists Dick Bros. druggists in Lawrence as sellers.
Edgar Stanton Maclay demands naval legal procedure after Roosevelt sought his resignation for the Schley case. He argues civil service protections block dismissal without formal charges while stating he has violated no rules and will await charges, noting his role chiefly provides experience and information for his Yanks. Admiral Tarker sent the letter to Washington.
Attorney General Douglas announces two associates Munn and Wilson as legal experts in constitutional and corporate law to oppose consolidation of Great Northern Northern Pacific and Burlington in Minnesota Montana and North Dakota as governors respond to a nationwide conference urging support for the merger.
Harpers Weekly notes the president endures intrusions into private life and presses on personal morality. A letter reply from Secretary Cortelyou to a Sabbath lecturing constituent defends churchgoing and family time, asking which activity is objected to while contrasting temperance and abstinence.
Washington D C December 24 Booker T Washington president of the Tuskegee Normal Institute was in the cabinet room with the president yesterday. Secretary Hitchcock arrived and Washington left with the interior secretary. It is believed they discussed southern appointments. A distant blast from natural gas near Pelican Rapids Minnesota drew crowds as a two inch pipe burned high before shutoff. The New England Society of Pennsylvania held its 21st banquet in Philadelphia with guests from New York Baltimore Washington Boston and more. Flood damage in Easton Pennsylvania to Lehigh Valley Railroad property is estimated at 260000. The post office at Henson Oklahoma was robbed on Saturday with no details available.
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