World News Roundup From Early 1900s Dispatches
Reports note D D Skinner a twelve year old boy loses an arm in a hunting accident near San Jo es California and fatal wound. Walter Brown shoots Eddie Evans in New Castle Wyoming. Mrs Sanderson of Stockton California dies after cutting throat and wrist. Deer Creek Oklahoma town hall and several buildings burn for a loss of 60000 with 8000 insurance. Oklahoma Indiana statehood proposal surfaces. Mrs Phelps Montgomery of Portland Oregon named board member at Fair commission. Mort Collins California linked to plank saw hinge project pending congressional action on duties. US Philippine commission allocates 1000 to Iloilo harbor and 3000 for Cagelayan river works. House committee favors direct election of US senators. Chinese officials uncover treasure valued over 1 100000 taels buried in Pekin palace. Potatoes in Stockton worry of market drop. Antone Myrvold Sacramento boy killed attempting to jump a freight train. George Renardsles Sacramento shoots himself. President signs 376000 government check from Boxer uprising. funds may go to China. Carnegie libraries proposed in Mexico. Russia to abolish capital punishment. Detective Palmer Victoria arrests Younger for yearlong theft. Sheriff Wells pursues suspect. German foreign office denies involvement in European intervention. Wyoming stock inspectors to enforce laws. Land Commissioner Boyd sails to Washington to present Hawaii land law views. Coal analysis near Cody Wyoming shows less mix and more carbon. Emperor William asks Berliners not to illuminate on his birthday for charity. Vicious burglaries in Mondale spark talk of vigilance committees.
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Pekin
Stockton
Cal
Antone Myrvold
Sacramento
Sunday
George Renrdsles
United States Navy
Vien Tsin
China
Wau
Boyd
Honolulu
Washington
Hawaii
Cody
Wye
Turlington
Sheridan
William
Berti
Mondale
Week in Congress January 24 Summary
This week in Congress the deficiency appropriation bill continued with an item for a military joint staff ruled out on a point of order but offered as an amendment and adopted as part of the DIN. The House public lands committee reported favorably the Lacey bill to compel attendance of witnesses for generals and offices. In the Senate the bill creating a department of commerce resumed, a resolution sought information from the War Secretary on tariffs and customs in the Philippines, and Senator Mason introduced a bill prohibiting the importation of opium for smoking purposes into the United States.
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House Public Lands Committee
Senate
Department of Commerce
Philippines
Mason
Senate Debates Budget and Warship Acknowledgment
A fragmented report notes a failed move to raise rural carrier rates from 0 to 200 per dozen and a push on lane amendments and agricultural appropriations. It also records Senator Mason’s unsuccessful bid to expedite Congress thanking Rear Admiral Schley and a Philippine bill tied to pending securities before adjournment.
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Hovst
Agricultural Department
Congressional
Mcknley
Senate
Mason
Congress
Schley
Sautingse
Moniluy
Urgent appropriation bill passes amid party split in WI session
The urgent deficiency appropriation bill failed on a 126 to 1 vote after Democrats and Republicans united against a recant statement by the president detailing how 850,000 for army barracks at Mantla would be spent. Seventy three pension acts were passed, including one for the widow of Rear Admiral Paolo, commander of the Texas at Seutlingo. House adjourned until Monday.
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Horst
Sieteon
Richepin Parisian figure in royal ties suit and swashbuckling tale
A vivid portrait of M. Jean Richepin a famed French writer and dramatist seen as a key Parisian figure. The text notes his alleged involvement with Sara Bernhardt in sensational incidents and his authorship of Mme Bernhardt’s suppressed book while recounting his diverse career and dark African origins. It also includes a brief outline of English and foreign wheat market rankings centered on London Norwich Liverpool Mark Lane and others.
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M. Jean Richepin
Litterateur
New York
du Bary
David Belasco
Paris
Sara Bernhardt
Mile
Colombie
M. Soudan
Bernhardt
Richepin
Mme, Bernhardt
Marie Pigeonnier
The
Francais
M. Richepin
Africa
Picardy
Norwich
Liverpool
London Graphic
US firm eyes Palestine electric railway projects
United States Construction of Cleveland seeks to build electric railway lines in Palestine with new conduit from Mount Sitia to Damascus. Chicago and Cleveland promoters cite European reports that Sultan of Turkey may grant concessions to allow American investment to proceed in the Orient. Proposed routes include Cairo to Mount Sinai and the Red Sea coast to Mecca with vast pilgrim flows, while Jerusalem area towns could host short links to serve Zionist activity around Jerusalem.
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United States Construction Company of
Cleveland
Palestine
Mount Sitia
Damascus
Chicago
Italy
Turkey
Orient
Cairo
Egypt
Mount Sinai
Red Sea
Mecca
January 27 House Actions on Training, Lands, and Commerce
The legislature adopted a resolution seeking tag for training documents from last summer and passed a bill funding the establishment of homes for teaching articulate speech. A department of commerce measure stalled, a land office reform bill failed, and debates on Philippine tariffs continued with no progress.
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Howse
Tose
Vermont
Wislies
ALDI
Clearwater Valley
Department of Commerce
Senate Passes Nelson Bill For Commerce Department
The measure to create a department of commerce and labor passed the Senate after amendments. It designates a cabinet secretary and details the department’s duties including collecting and distributing statistics, promoting foreign and domestic commerce, and overseeing related services such as the Coast Guard and public health agencies. The article notes the bill’s broad jurisdiction over commerce and related federal services.
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Nelson
Department of Commerce
Senate
Beiag
Department of Commerce and Labor
Charved
Thie Marine Hospital Service
Mrs Siddons House Faces Demolition for Underground Rail
The London residence of Mrs. Siddons on Upper Baker Street, once a hub for England's leading actors, is slated for demolition to build a new underground railway station with American investment. The three story brick house appears modest from the street but houses a preserved ballroom and several untouched interiors. Renowned portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds and sketches by Gainsborough anchor the site to its theatrical past.
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Joshia Reynolds
Mrs. Siddons
Municipal culinary expenses across major cities
Philadelphia with 1.2 million residents reports 29 million dollars in culinary costs, Chicago 1.7 million residents 2.7 million, Boston 500 thousand residents 27.45 million, Pittsburgh 25 thousand and 10 million, St. Louis 800 thousand and 70.7 million, Baltimore 610 thousand and 10.8 million, and San Francisco 360 thousand and 9,000,090.
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Philadelphia
Chicago
Boston
Pittsburg
St. Louis
Baltimore
San Francisco
Last Herd Of Buffalo From Great Plains Now With Scotty Philip
Frederick Dupree gathered a small herd of fifty full blood buffalo and fifty mixed bloods as the remnants of a once vast range herd. After Dupree’s death the stock went to James Philip of Fort Pierre known as Scotty Philip. The herd, wild on Cheyenne River, gains value as the last living specimens from this era, with one bull last sold for show purposes about ten years ago for $1000.
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United States
Milllonda
Missouri River
Rocky Mountains
James Philip
Fort Pierre
Scotty” Philip
Frederick Dupree
Missouri
Vaccination In the Hub Dinner Joke
A dinner party scene ends with a humorous misunderstanding about vaccination. A young man imagines himself privileged until his companion reveals she was vaccinated the day before in Boston and the joke is on his ignorance as she describes the pain and this awkward moment.
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Arma
Boston
Duchess of Fife and Princess Royal Title Debate
Increasing surprise in England as the duchess of Fife is not officially titled princess royal. Since George II's accession this designation has existed for monarchs' eldest daughters, including George III's and Queen Victoria's daughters, and now the question arises why the distinction should be kept or dropped amid past grounds for withholding it.
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England
Duchess ‘of
Fife
George II
Prince of
Hanover
George III
Victoria
Frederick
Edward
Senator Clark Purchases Preyer Picture Collection in Vienna
Senator Clark of Montana arrived in Vienna on December 7 aboard the Orient Express. Within ninety-five minutes he and Director BreDns of The Hamie gallery examined sixty-seven prewar pictures and signed a contract to buy them for 3 510 000.
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Senator Clark
Montana
Preyer
Vienna
Orient Express
Clark
Herr Preyer
Bredns
Hamie
Todine Found in White Blood Cells in Blood
Philadelphia Times reports researchers Grey and Bour who study Todine in blood, noting normal traces in toot?ne and finding Todine confined to Leucocytes. The finding deepens understanding of Todine distribution in white blood cells.
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Philadelphia Times
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