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Newspaper
Missouri Marshall Republican
Location
Marshall, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1901
Page
1
In Marshall Missouri on June 14 1901 President McKinley signs a statement declaring he is not a candidate for a third term and would not accept a third term if nominated. He says his only ambition is to serve the country well during the remainder of his second term and asks the nation to focus on pressing issues.
At a Thursday meeting the proposed reduction of claims by America was rejected. Hay's plan to submit vouching for claims to The Hague tribunal was considered. Russia withdrew opposition, salt tax guaranteed to powers if import duties rise with harbor improvements by China and tariff readjusted by an international commission.
One of forty six candidates reporting for examination at the West Point Military Academy last week qualified. The list names twenty two accepted cadets including William P. Abbott Minnesota Owen S and S Albright Tennessee Leonard S Arnold Arkansas Hugh H Broadhurst North Carolina Edward S Curtis Missouri James S Dusenbury South Carolina William C Kelly Kentucky Philip J R Kiehl Wisconsin Thomas H Lowe Missouri John Lund Iowa Clarence A Mitchell New York Charles J Peterson Illinois Wesley W Price Texas Walter Prigden North Carolina William W Rame Pennsylvania Louis P Schoemaker New Jersey Buckner F Scott West Virginia Robert A Seager Indiana James Blaine Shouse South Dakota John Starkey Illinois Ralph Talbot Colorado Hewett L Wells Michigan.
The interior department accepts the Chickasaw compromise to manage their own schools with teachers passing a stringent examination. Upon agreement, the government will release tied up school taxes.
The Cuban Constitutional Convention adopted the Platt amendment by a 16 to 11 vote. Supporters listed include Capote, Villuendas, Jos, M. Young, Tamayo, Monteaguedo, Delgado, Betancourt, Giberga, Liorente, Quesada, Sanguilly, Nu nez, Rodriguez, Berriel, Quirez, and Ferrer. Opponents named were Zayas, Ale man, Endaldo Tamayo, Juan Gualberto Gomez, Cisneros, Silvala, Forteon, Lacret, Portuondo, Castro, and Manduley.
The State Board of Pardons commuted the life sentence of O Kelley who killed Bob Ford the Jesse James player. Ford died in Creede Colorado. With good behavior allowance he has about four years remaining to serve from a sentence dated July 12 1892.
Plans for a national consolidation of twenty one leading plow factories are underway. Judge Vincent of Chicago oversees the matter and will incorporate the combine at once with a capital of seventy five million dollars.
The twelfth biennial head camp of the Modern Woodmen of America assembled in St. Paul with 629 delegates present. Reports show a net gain of 211,370 members since the last meeting, bringing total membership to 630,000 across 9,700 local lodges in the world’s largest fraternal society.
A tornado hit eastern Oklahoma last Saturday damaging wheat crops and destroying nearly all Eddy’s buildings. Four people were killed and many injured as the storm swept through the town, with wind and hail causing extensive agricultural losses. In Chicago, Bryan is ousted from Democratic groups as Carter Harrison surfaces for the presidential bid.
Italian anarchists and socialists in Vermont are tense after Eugenio Ristoli of Naples is detained by prosecutor Hoar on a breech of the peace charge. He was guarded by six Italians amid accusations from anarchists that he is a spy sent by the Italian consul general in New York. Hear Bax asked the New York consul general to aid the investigation.
Not legally qualified claims allege twenty four probate judges in Oklahoma lack rightful authority as they were not elected by voters and must be gubernatorially appointed. The case is before the supreme court, and a ruling could remove the twenty four from office if the opinion is sustained.
About 5,000 nobles of the Mystic Shrine attended the twenty seventh annual session of the imperial council, with delegates from nearly all states present in Kansas City this week.
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