Roberts Case Looms in House Action on Seating
Washington January 23 The special committee laid out the program for considering the Roberts case with debate to follow seating or unseating. Roberts to plead, debate after. Senate moves include polygamy inquiry and North Carolina disfranchisement debate. House action minimal with small-arms funding dispute.
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Ohio
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United States
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Democratic Party
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Ind
Appropriations
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District of Columbia
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Wilhheeses
Smith
Montana National Bank
Murray
Montana House of Representatives
Gage
Congress
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State Department
Paris
Philippine Commission
John Ruskin Dies After Influenza at 81 in London
London news reports the death of John Ruskin age 81 from influenza on Saturday. The eminent critic will be buried at Coniston churchyard after a Thursday funeral. Born February 8 1819 in London, he studied at Oxford, authored Modern Painters and other works, and founded St George's Guild in 1871. He lived in retirement at Brantwood since 1885.
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Copley
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Harding
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Brantwood
Count Boni de Castellane Denies Paris Slurs On Us
New York and Paris dispatches report Count Boni de Castellane and Countess de Castellane arriving in New York aboard the La Bretagne from Havre. He angrily denies rumors of losses in stock speculation and says no challenge to De Rodays. He threatens legal action and says he will sue for damages, while defending his marriage as harmonious. Prof. Hagen Hazen, a leading weather forecaster, died in Washington after injuries from a bicycle collision with a pedestrian.
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Countess de Castellane
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Havre
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Paris
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the Figaro
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Minister of Finance
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Hagen
Washington
Henry A. Hazen
Weather Bureau
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British Assaults Near Spion Kop Move to Night Attack
London reports a standstill in Gen Buller’s operations at Speirman’s Camp with Warren holding ridges while Boers counter fire from higher ground. Plans shift to a night assault on Spionkop as British infantry risk heavy fire on daylight approach.
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Dulles
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Cornet
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Cornet Hellbrow
Lee Meétfords
Loss by floods in Japan devastates Hokkaido district
Official reports detail December inundations in Hokkaido province northern Japan that destroyed property valued at over 6 000 000 yen. Thirty five towns in Shikari district were ruined. In Tsakkaido since September at least 17 285 houses were submerged or washed away. Total damages reach 13 000 000 men. One hundred fishing schooners and other craft were destroyed or sunk. Overall lives lost number 189.
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Japan
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Tsakkaido
Filipino proposal and political notices across cities
Manila correspondent Mabini writes Filipinos fight Americans to win liberty under a government that serves the people. They seek Congress to hear them, proposing a civil commission or Filipino delegates to the U.S. A cabinet official says Aguinaldo’s plan is feasible and aims to reveal Filipino desires. Separate brief items note an extra California session called, Indiana GOP plans, a governor race hint, and the death of Brig. Gen. Charles W. Squires in St Louis.
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Regard
Manila
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Aguinaldo
Congress of the
United States
Congress
Pacife
America
Washington
Charles Emory Smith
Sepor Mabini
Philippines
St. Louis
Charles W. Squires
Squires
New Orleans
John &. Phelps
Preliminary exam in Tiffin for Orpha Sheets poisoning charge
In Tiffin Ohio on January 24, the preliminary examination of Miss Orpha Sheets accused of poisoning her sweetheart Jaude Tuttle on December 1 was conducted before Mayor Johnson of Greenspring. She waived examination and was bound over to court without bail.
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Jaude Tuttle
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Greenspring
Policy Reversed General Receives Transvaal Delegate
Washington January 23 Montagu White, arriving from New York, will be received as the consular and diplomatic representative of the Transvaal republic. The state department has determined to grant recognition, reversing prior policy. White will present credentials within ten days and then engage with Secretary Hay in limited diplomatic duties.
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Montagu White
New York
Transvaal Republic
State Department
White
Hay
Great Britain
Mine workers seek wage rise across coal runs
Indianapolis January 23 members of the operators scale committee met to consider miners demands for a 20 cent per ton run of mine coal rise and a seven cent differential. Secret talks indicated operators may grant ten cents, while I n dian a and Illinois groups pressed for 25 and 10 cent differentials and screens. The gulf between sides widened as speeches argued against a 20 cent rise.
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Dennison
Indiana
Four Perished in Fire in St Mary Market Area
A midnight fire in New Orleans’ St Mary market area rapidly spread through a brick building with poor tenements. Four people, mostly Sicilians, were found dead or dying. several others suffocated before aid arrived. The Giordano family is named in connection with the incident. The origin remains undetermined.
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