Herreid and Van Sant Endorse Opposition to Northern Securities
South Dakota Governor Charles N Herreid cites state interests in resisting the Northern Securities railroad control. He notes Minnesota Governor Van Sant's letter and says SD will cooperate with other affected states, awaiting a governors conference and AG guidance. He praises the commission for prompt action and promises support to protect public interests.
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Sioux Fills
State Railroad Commission
Northern Securities Company
Pyle
Charles N. Herreid
Stanley
Commision
Herreid
Eureka
S. D
W. H. Stanley
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
Sioux Falls
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Pierre
van Sant
Minnesota
St. Paul
V. Sant
South Dakota
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Chicago
Milwaukee and St. Paw
Chicago and Northwestern
Soo Line
Burlington
Black Hills
Remont
Ilkhorn
Missouri Valley
Chicago and Northwest
Northern Securities Companies
Charles Neterreid
Fight for Harding prompts White House talks
Senators Gamble and Wittredge press to reinstate Major J. W. Harding after removal from Yankton Indian agency. They met with the president to urge reversal and clear his record amid charges they deem false. Gamble also pushes land taxation in Indian allotments, a Yankton building project, and pensions for several state residents. Wittredge seeks six months’ widow salary for former Senate employee John J. Healy’s widow.
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Washington
Gamble and Wittredge
J. W. Harding
Yankton
S. C
Hitchcock
South Dakota
Harding
Gamble
F. F. B. Coffin
Huron
Thomas Feneran
Madison
George W. Graham
Woonsocket
Iuuttredge
John J. Healy
Ipswich
Senate
Federal Officers Warned Not to Engage in Politics
Sioux Falls December 19 officials of the United States marshal and district attorney offices, including the chiefs, received circulars from the Department of Justice. The notices remind all federal officials within the department's jurisdiction that they must refrain from collecting campaign funds or holding political roles such as chairing gatherings or conventions.
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Sioux Falls
United States Marshal
United States District Attorney
Department of Justice
Department
Republican Senate Assignments Report Adopted in Caucus
Washington December 19 Republican senators met in caucus and adopted the report of the committee on committees completing the assignments for key panels. The list names members for Appropriations Finance Foreign Relations Commerce Judiciary Interstate Commerce Inter Oceanic Canals Naval Affairs Military Affairs Post Offices and Post Roads Privileges and elections Relations With Cuba Pacific Islands and Porto Rico Public Lands Indian Affairs Agriculture and Forestry with multiple senators per panel.
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Washington
Committee On Committees
Appropriations
Allison
Hale
Custom
Perkins
Sewell
Warren
Wetmore
Quay
Aldrich
Platt
Connecticut
Burrows
New York
Hansbrough
Spooner
Jones
Nevada
Rye
Lodge
Clark
Wyoming
Foraker
Fairbanks
Kean
Frye
McMillan
Elkins
Nelson
Gallinger
Penrose
Hanne
Mason
Depew
Hoar
Hawley
Hanna
Pritchard
Mitchell
Millard
Kittredge
Philippines
Mhale
Proctor
Beveridge
McComas
Dietrich
Warren Burrows
Quarles
Scott
Iikins
Dolliver
Deboe
Dillingham
Cuba
Connecticutt
Cullom
Spooner Deboe
Burnham
Pacific Islands
Porto Rico
Foster
Kearns
Burton
Bard
Gamble
Stewart
McCumber
Clapp
McLaurin
South Carolina
Agriculture and Forestry
Fractor
Secretary Root Denies Cuba Election Postponement
Secretary Root refused Sidel G. Pierra’s request to delay Cuba’s elections. He argues postponement would prolong American occupation and hinder Cuba’s independence, noting the central board was formed with broad Cuban approval and any delay would unsettle the new constitutional machinery and risk indefinite postponements.
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Root
Fierra
Washington
Sidel G. Pierra
Maso Party
Cuba
Mason
Palma
Postmaster General Smith Resigns. Payne Accepts Offer
Clarkson Washington reports that Postmaster General Smith tendered his resignation and it was accepted. Henry C. Payne, Wisconsin national committeeman, was offered the position and accepted it.
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Washington
Smith
Henry C. Payne
Wisconsin
Rhode Island Governor Gregory Dies in Office
William Gregory Rhode Island governor died in Wickford after a two month illness caused by a cold and chronic Brights disease. He had just returned to Providence last Friday and the lieutenant governor Charles Kimball becomes governor for the remainder of the term. Gregory, born in August 1849 in Astoria New York, rose from loom fixer to mill owner banker and state director.
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Wickford
R. I
William Gregory
Rhode Island
Bright
Gregory
Charles D. Kimball
Astoria
L. I
Indian asylum opened to treat demented red tribes in Canton
The National Indian asylum near Canton is slated to open this month to care for demented and insane Indians. Ex congressman O S Gifford will serve as superintendent, after a lengthy push by Senator Pettigrew and approval by the interior department. The 75 capacity facility, built at 52 500 dollars, sits on 100 acres and uses pressed brick and slate, with patients from various tribes and states.
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Canton
Dee
National Indian Asylum
America
South Dakota
Pettigrew
Senator Pettigrew
Congress
Hhis
D. C
Pelton & Co
Milwaukee
Charles
United States
Canton Asylum
National Asylum
Washington
California
Minnesota
Great Rosebud
Pine Ridge
St. Peter Asylum
North Dakota
Missouri River
Iowa
Wisconsin
Six Nations
Cooper
Congressman Gifford
Gifford
Mattters
Ufe
Woman narrowly escapes death as lantern explodes on mail wagon
In Miller South Dakota on December 18 Mrs Myrtie Phinney a mail wagon driver faced a severe fire while alone ten miles out. Wrapped in blankets and a lantern between her feet the flame trapped her. She tossed burning coverings into Wolf Creek and managed to extinguish the blaze though she suffered burns.
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Miller
S. D
Myrtie Phinney
Wolf Creek
Imports of sugar exceed one hundred million in ten months
Treasury figures show ten months ending October 1901 total U S imports from the Philippines valued at 3 186958 million with only 222797 thousand dutied. Sugar accounted for 158159 thousand of the dutiable total while free imports included 2 945771 million worth of Manila hemp and 18 385 thousand others.
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Washington
United States
Philippine Islands
Supreme Court
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
Philippines
Tropics
Manila
Bureau of Statistics
Hawaii
Porto Rico
New Lottery Scheme Attracts Official Scrutiny
Washington news reports the assistant attorney general for the post office department warning newspapers that advertise a "clearance grab sale" lottery style scheme violate the law. The ads promise boxes with random contents priced 25 cents to 10 dollars and the chance to grab prizes, classed as a lottery under section 3,854, R. 8.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Market summaries across Sioux City Chicago and South Omaha
Sioux City hogs mixed and light at 6.00 to 6.15. heavy 6.20 to 6.40. Cattle varied with fat cows 2.50 to 4.00, steer stockers 2.50 to 4.00, butcher steers 4.00 to 6.50. Chicago hogs 5.20 to 6.55. cattle steady. sheep steady. South Omaha hogs 5.60 to 6.60. cattle 3.50 to 7.10. sheep strong. Kansas City hogs higher 6.20 to 6.75. cattle 4.75 to 6.50. calves 3.25 to 3.75. Grain and provisions quoted. cash wheat oats rye barley flax and seeds listed. pork 15.30 15.40. lard 9.24 9.85. Minneapolis wheat quoted December and May prices.
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Sioux City
Chicago
South Omaha
Kansas City
Northwestern
Timothy
Medairy
Labor and Capital Plan Gets Practical Test in New York
The Executive Committee of Thirty-Six, drawn equally from organized labor, industrial leaders, and public figures, will refine and test a plan to harmonize labor and capital. Notables including S. Gompers, J. Mitchell, H. P. Shaffer, and Grover Cleveland attended the closing session with Oscar S. Strauss and Ralph M. Wasley.
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New York
Labor
Capital
Organized Labor
Oscar S. Strauss
Ralph M. Hasley
Archbishop Ireland
Hanna
Samuel Gompers
Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Frank P. Sargent
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
United States
M. A. Hanna
James A. Chambers
American Glass Company
Pittsburg
William H. Pfahler
National Association of Stove Manufacturers
8. R. Callaway
American Locomotive Works
Lewis Nixon
Crescent Shipyards
Elizabetport
N. J
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
H. H. Vreeland
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Charles A. Moore
The
Machine Manufacturing Company
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
K. D. Ripley
James Duncan
Granite Cutters’ Union
Daniel J. Keefe
International Association of Longshoremen
James O'Connell
International Association of Machinists
Martin Fox
Iron Molders’ National Union
James E. Lynch
International Typographical Union
Edward E. Clarke
Brotherhood of Railway Conductors
Henry White
Garment Workers of America
Walter MacArthur
Coast Seamen's Journal
San Francisco
Grover Cleveland
John Ireland
Henry C. Potter
Charles Francis Adams
Boston
Cornelius N. Bliss
Interior
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Franklin McVeagh
Chicago
James H. Eckels
John J. McCook
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers’ Association
Palestine
Chas
M. Schwab
United Steel Corporation
Bishop Potter
S. R. Calloway
E. D. Durand
Industrial’ Commission
Theodore Marburg
Baltimore
W. H. Prater
Philadelphia
R. C. Kerns
St. Louis
R. M. Eastey
National Civic Federation
James Ryan
Marcus Marks
National Clothingmakers’ Association
Potter
John Phillips
John J. Donnelly
Coal Answers
Ohio
Ireland
Europe
Loss by Flood devastates rail lines across Pennsylvania
Philadelphia reports floods crippled state rail service over weekend and 2,000 homeless. Thousands repair roadbeds and bridges as lower coal region mines fill with water, delaying work for weeks. Estimates place losses at 3 to 5 million dollars and nine fatalities recorded so far.
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Philadelphia
Wolf Bros. & Co challenge NP Railway plan in New York
Justice Scott heard arguments in New York on the injunction against Northern Pacific Railway’s November reorganization plan to retire $75,000,000 in preferred stock. Wolf Bros. & Co and other plaintiffs contend preferred stockholders were barred from buying bonds, a privilege allegedly granted to common stock owners.
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Wolf Bros. & Co
New York
Scott
Supreme Court Today
Northern Pacific Railway Company
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Northern Securities Co
Railroad Commission
Kittredge and
Clarkson
Payne
O.S. Gifford
Minneapolis
Sargent
Brotherhood of Firemen
N. P
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