News in Brief from JHE dated items
Various brief items report deaths and notable events from 1902 including Joe Jones’s passing, tea labor needs in India, Cripple Creek gold value, New York labor growth, unclaimed Santa letters, a Manila sentencing, a NYC arrest over diamonds, Booth’s movements, Indiana editor Talcott’s death, a Cuban shooting in Santiago, diphtheria linked to pencils in Boston schools, a Scottish dynasty controversy note, McKibben to Tacoma coaching, a 191-piece silver service for Sargeant, Danville drummer boy enlistment, a Muncie glass workers co op, McMichael’s sudden death, Odell’s second term inauguration, Bulgarians vs Turks in Brenovo, Hagner fatally wounded, and naval committee plans to increase personnel.
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Cripple Creek
New York State
Santa Claus
New York
Manila
Hilario Placido
General Funston
Aguinaldo
Lfe
Henry Goodman
New York City
William Booth
Salvation Army
San Francisco
Salt Lake
Omaha
William C. Talcott
Indiana
Porter County
Valparaiso
Corona
Cubano Libre
Senor Insula
Republica
Santiago
Cuba
Board of Health
Boston
E. McKibben
St. Joseph
Tacoma Wash
Sargeant
Washington
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Co. P. Harder
Danville
Selier
James L. Wise
Muncie
Ind
Rev
J. B. McMichael
Monmouth College
Monmouth
Ill
Sugar Creek United
Brenovo
Monastir
Henry Hagner
Independence
Kansas
Santa Fe
Hagner
McCormick Harvester Company
Senate
House Naval Committees
Secretary of the Navy
Trusts Regulation Debate Moves Through Senate
In Washington the senate discussed a resolution instructing the finance committee to report a bill removing auto and coal tariffs with focus on governing trusts. Senator Hoar detailed his anti trust bill arguing publicity, regulatory power, personal liability for officers and strict penalties are needed to curb corporate control of wealth and potential national dangers.
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Washington
Senate
West
Committee On Finance
Finance Committee
Aldrich
R. I
Massachusetts
Lodge
Capitol Building
R. J
Hoar
Mass
Dingley
Congress
Nelson
Minn
Mrs Chamberlain Politely Engages Generals At Pretoria Garden Party
In Pretoria Transvaal a garden party for Colonial Secretary Chamberlain and Mrs Chamberlain drew Generals Botha Delarey and Cronje. Attendance was light yet Mrs Chamberlain tactfully aided the pacificatory effort by greeting and conversing with General Cronje after initially missing his name.
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Pretoria
Transvaal
Chamberlain
Chamber
Jain
Enterprising Paper To Be Published On Atlantic Lines
London reports a Daily Telegraph plan to publish a wireless news paper aboard a British liner between Liverpool and New York. The Marconi system will supply news and publication is slated to begin around month’s end.
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London
Daily Telegraph
Marconi
Liverpool
New York
Strike Gas In Wyoming Near Douglas
Cheyenne Wyoming Western Oil company reports a natural gas strike in the Benton basin about thirteen miles west of Douglas at 450 feet. Gas from an oil sand stratum shows promise of success while a small flow of oil and water is cased off. Drilling will continue to the second stratum at an estimated 1350 feet.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Western Oil Company
Benton Basin
Douglas
Bank Heist at Ordway Colorado Targeted Private Bank
Two robbers broke into the private bank of Billiman Williams & Co at Ordway Otero County Colorado Tuesday morning, forced the safe and secured about $2000. They fled on horses stolen from a nearby ranch.
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Denver
Ordway
Otero County
Colo
Billiman, Williams & Co
Perkins Must Resign Post in Leavenworth War Dept Report
Leavenworth Kan. The absence without leave of Lieutenant Howard O Perkins fourth cavalry United States army has been reported to the war department. In case of his return to duty his resignation will be asked for.
Armstrong to Take Key Treasury Post in Iowa Ties
Robert Armstrong of Iowa is tapped to become second assistant secretary of the treasury, succeeding General O L Spaulding of Michigan who resigns after years in Washington. Armstrong, 27, is a former private secretary to Secretary Shaw and starts after a career with the Chicago Record and New York bureau.
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Robert Armstrong
Aseunte
O. L. Spaulding
Michigan
the Treasury
Washington
Robert
Armstrong
Shaw
Spaulding
Gage
Treasury Department
General Spaulding
Bob
Mr. Armstrong
Iowa
Chicago
New York
Iowa News Snapshot Mixes Crimes and Local Notes
Waterloo reports a single prisoner in Monona countys jail while Des Moines debates coal shortages. The piece recalls Robert Armatrong as a former treasury aide and notes a Cedar Rapids market ordinance, a young elopement capture in Dewitt, and a fire at Western Cereal’s Fort Dodge grain elevator. It also covers Davenport meeting plans, an upcoming St. Louis expo Iowa building, and a Sioux City blackmail arrest involving James J. Sherley.
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Waterloo
Monona
Des Moines
Iowa
Robert Armatrong
Knoxville
Dewitt
Bell Telephone Company
Bell Company
Town Implement Dealers’ Association
Davenport
Desi Moines
Western Cereal Company
Fort Dodge
Charles Heath & Sons
St. Louis
Taylor
Psioux
James J. Sherley
Sherley
John Avensdorf
Avensdorf
Glock
Row Over Self Government in Ida Grove Schools
Sioux City reports a clash over self-government in Ida Grove schools leading to Superintendent BE. T. Sheppard’s resignation. The board voted to implement the Chicago model, appointing Mrs. Jessie Johnson as successor. Citizens are divided as students prepare to form governing committees in a heated dispute.
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Sioux City
Ida Grove
BE. T. Sheppard
Prof
Sheppard
Mis
Jessie Johnson
Iowa
Chicago
Iowa Hunting Accidents Report Fatal, Serious
Close account records Iowa hunting incidents over the last few months. In two months ten fatal accidents occurred with names including Arthur Wilhite Muscatine Herman Underberg Clare Parker Ottumwa Frank Perkins Mount Zion Stephen Way Norwalk Edward Olson Fort Dodge Ernest Reed Ruthven Eddie Meeks Madrid James Shannon Nashua Peter Seer Victor. During the same period thirteen serious hunting accidents were reported in the state.
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Iowa
Arthur
Wilhite
Muscatine
Herman Underberg
Humboldt
Clare Parker
Ottumwa
Frank Perkins
Mount Zion
Stephen Way
Norwalk
Edward Oleson
Fort Dodge
Ernest Reed
Ruthven
Eddie Meeks
Madrid
James
Iowa Falls Road Finished Amid Rush To Meet Deadline
The Iowa Falls railroad, under construction six months, is completed to within Des Moines city limits and trains will soon operate linking with Illinois Central at Iowa Falls. The company rushed the work to beat a Wednesday deadline or lose about 76000 in tax. A separate report notes H Yordy from Waterloo captured Coonsy Cottner for a Parkersburg post office robbery with 1160 in stamps and money. Willard Hull of Marshalltown, who passed a Washington DC government exam for the consular service, has departed for Pekin via San Francisco in January.
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Iowa Falls
Des Moines
Illinois Central Road
Iowa’ Falls
H. Yordy
Waterloo
Coonsy Cottner
Parkersburg
Willard Hull
C. BH. Hull
Marshalltown
Washington, D. C
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Malvern
B. Wortman
JHE News
Rey
Joe Jones
Sam” Jones
India
MR. Hoar
Mrs. Chamberlain
Marconi Paper
Man
Atlantic
Wyoming
Colorado
Cousins
O. B. Beller
Garrison
Miss Hall
Vinton
Park
Fort
Morgan, Cole
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Falls Road
Strahan, Press
D. Havib
James J. Wilson
First National Bank
Strahan
A. Straten
A. Ww
G.D. Davis
Evans John Dyson A
David James J, Will Joh
Davis M. Ty Itvansimer
T. Conger O
A. Strahan
Lena Dolph
W. Bummers
A.m. Strohan Ring, Jr
I. F Hieywricks
W. H. Guru
Bank of Malvern
P. Kinney
Dean
South Side Public Square
Glenwood
E. Waitfield
Hawkin's & Mulholland’s
A. Parsons
Omcs
Wilson's
Scort
Mulholland's
Oun R. Robinson
M. R. Whitnall
M.D
Hastines
Towa
Poptomag
D. J. D, Laird
Milla County
Ravings Bank
Ay Vouila Couranuaniy
Edie Sags
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