Roosevelt asked to arbitrate Venezuela crisis amid Anglo German accord
Washington reports Germany and Great Britain united in pressing President Roosevelt to act as arbitrator in the Venezuelan dispute. The president is seen as reluctant but likely to accept if no other solution emerges, with The Hague tribunal seen as stronger ground for arbitration.
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Great Britain
Germany
Venezuela
Washington
Roosevelt
Roosevelt On Erday
London
Berlin
International Tribunal
the Hague
John Hay
United States
Castro
Dewey
Great
Britain
Berliny Dee
Port of Spain
Trinidad
St. Lucia
Mr. Hayward
Greatritain
High Seas
Margarita Island
Mr. Waggard
Herr von Pilgrim- Baltazzi
Caracas
Mayor Johnson Tax Bureau Blocked By Court Ruling
Judge Phil Lips of the common pleas court ruled that Mayor Johnson's city funded tax bureau is illegal. The city auditor and treasurer are restrained from paying salaries to bureau employees. Johnson set up the bureau to educate the public on the tax question.
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Cleveland
Phillips
The
Common Pleas Court
Johnson
Methodist Episcopal bank fund reaches full target
Rochester reporter notes Rev. J. M. Mills final report shows all 20,000,000 raised in cash and pledges for a three year effort. Over 500,000 for educational purposes received in 45 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
N. Y
J. M. Mills
Methodist Episcopal Bank Offering Fund
Army Officers Honor Mrs McKinley in Canton Visit
Distinguished United States Army officers in Cleveland for a chamber of commerce banquet join Gen. S. M. B. Young in Canton to pay respects to Mrs. McKinley. Louisiana Purchase Flag Day observed in St. Louis with a holiday and groundbreaking anniversary for the world’s fair.
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McKinley
Canton
United States Army
Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce
M. B. Young
Washington
St. Louis
Gov. Dockery
Wells
New Trials Granted In Des Moines Murder Case
Des Moines Iowa December 22 The supreme court Saturday ordered new trials in the cases of Phillipps and Brooks two negroes convicted of the murder of Marshal Sunblad of Lake City and sentenced to be hanged December 18. Frozen to Death In Logansport Aged 72 John McGreevy a 72 year old former Cass county poor farm inmate died of exposure after becoming intoxicated and straying from home on December 22.
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Des Moines
Supreme Court
Phillipps
Brooks
Marshal Sunblad
Lake City
Logansport
Ind
John McGreevy
Cass County
Mat Hunter
Homer Holland
Mt. Ayr
Molland
Iowa
Car Collision Kills Trolley Worker in Detroit Suburb
In Detroit a Detroit United construction car was struck by the Pierre Marquette passenger train near Dearborn street. Otto C. Desginder, 23, a street railway trolleyman, suffered a broken neck and died shortly after the crash as the train headed to Saginaw at two a.m. Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
Detroit United Railroad
Dearborn Street
Pierre Marquette
Saginaw
Otto C. Des Ginder
Street
Coal strike commission hears miners and operators clash
Scranton Pa December 18 and 19 and Philadelphia January 5 reports show the anthracite strike commission hearing testimony from operators and nonunion lawyers. Witnesses describe boycotts brutal acts and a reign of terror in the fields during the mine workers strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Coal Strike Commission
Miners’ Union
Ile
Gray
Philadelphia
Change in Law Needed For Railways Consolidation
Washington reports the Interstate Commerce Commission warns that rapid railway consolidation suppresses competition and concentrates control. It urges amending the Interstate Commerce Law to address new conditions and notes no convictions or indictments in previous grain rate investigations.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
West Railway
Williamsport man dies from waterworks tunnel blast injuries
James Ossman of Williamsport Pennsylvania died in Cleveland after injuries from last Sunday's explosion in the waterworks tunnel. Four fatalities are now linked to the accident, with remaining injured expected to recover. Separately New York reports the death of Gen Peanuts, a noted midget clown with Barnum and Forepaugh and Sell's circuses, a 38 year old Japanese performer two feet one inch tall.
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Cleveland, O
James Ossman
Williamsport
New York
Peanuts
Barnum’s
Yforepaugh and Sell’s
Rockefeller Plans Major Gifts to University of Chicago
John D. Rockefeller will donate 1,000,000 to the University of Chicago endowment and 226,000 to cover a deficit. An additional 210,700 in gifts was reported at a convocation in Chicago on December 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John D. Rockefeller
University of Chicago Endowment Fund
Five Puglughi Children Die In Fort Lee Gas Explosion
In Fort Lee New Jersey a acetylene gas tank exploded destroying the Puglughi home. John Puglughi was away. five children Ida 14 Tilly 12 Irene 10 Adeline 7 George 5 were killed. Mrs Puglughi severely injured found 200 feet away. House roof and sides blown out. An adjoining cottage damaged. Debris burned. tank supplied illumination for the building.
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Fort Lee
N. J
John Puglughi
Ida Puglughi
Tilly
Irene
Adeline
George
Puglughi
Boers Plan Trek to Colorado and Southwest
Nearly 9 000 Boers are said to prepare to trek to America and settle in Colorado New Mexico and Texas Gen Samuel Pearson formerly quartermaster general of the South African republic leads the movement with headquarters in New York Colorado contacts report land prospects for settlers and Gen M de Villiers inspecting lands conveys favorable views from the state. In Asia a devastating quake at Andijan kills 3 officials 2 soldiers and 150 natives and injures 300 natives and 17 soldiers destroying 9 000 homes and 130 Russian residences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
New Mexico
Texas
Denver
Samuel Pearson
New York
M. de Villiers
Tashkend
Asiatic
Russia
Andijan
Russian Central Asia
Ohio State Senator Wilhelm Dies Unexpectedly
Canton Ohio December 19 State Senator George W Wilhelm of this county died unexpectedly of heart failure He served in the Ohio House twice and in the Senate twice and was widely known across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton, O
George W. Wilhelm
Lower
Ohio House
Senate
G A R Council Sets 1903 Encampment Dates
The council of administration of the department of Illinois Grand Army of the Republic met in East St. Louis and fixed May 5 6 and 7 1903 as the thirty seventh annual encampment dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East St. Louis
Ill
Council of Administration
Department of Illinois
Grand Army of the Republic
Congress Moves to Enforce Sherman Act with 250000
Washington reports note Georgia Democrat Mr Bartlett offered an amendment to inject 250000 to enforce the Sherman anti trust law and to direct the attorney general to prosecute violators. The measure gained agreement with both parties while Hepburn proposed a larger 500000 for immediate enforcement. Capstone actions include pension and deficiency bills and tariff debates on Philippine duties.
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Washington
Bartlett
Hepburn
Iowa
Senate
Secretary of Agriculture
New England
House
Philippine Islands
United States
McCall
Mass
Democrats
Louisville business man I C Whayne found dead with gunshot wound
I C Whayne a Louisville manufacturer was found dead Wednesday night near Jacob Park with a breast wound. He held life insurance totaling 240000 with 50000 more applied for. Coroner Kelly called for exhaustive inquiry and an inquest is set for Saturday. A shotgun lay near the body, one barrel empty, the other cocked. Whayne’s friends suggest accidental discharge while crossing a fence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
I. C. Whayne
Jacob Park
Prison sentence in Michigan murder case
Hastings Mich December 19 Mathias Utzler also known as John Brantlinger pleaded guilty to the murder of Mrs Robert Garrigan in Johnstown township He had admitted ravishing his victim after death Judge Smith sentenced him to life solitary confinement at hard labor in the state prison at Jackson and Utzler was taken there Monday night.
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Hastings, Mich
Des
Mathias YW
Utzler
John Brantlinger
Robert Garrigan
Johnstown
Smith
Jackson
Man with disordered mind kills, wounds family then commits suicide
In Lapeer Michigan on December 17 John Best 28 a single man with a troubled mind rose at night and cut Jasper Clegg 60 with a razor badly wounded his mother and sister then shot himself dead Clegg boarded at the Best home Best had been in the insane asylum a year earlier and was released six months later as cured
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lapeer, Mich
John Best
Jasper Clegg
Clegg
Best
Order Restored at Port au Prince Shooting and Executions Reported
Port au Prince Haiti reported order restored after fighting. Several people wounded including two Italians seriously. Two men executed during the day without trial. United States legation protected by troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Au Prince
Haiti
United States
Second Trial Set for Margaret Hossack Murder Case
Margaret Hossack, age 60, prepares for a second trial in Winterset Madison county on murder charges for killing her husband John Hossack with an ax as he slept in December 1900. Convicted of murder in the second degree, she served a year of a life sentence before appeals released her on technical grounds and bonds. The case rests largely on circumstantial evidence and the testimony of a witness whose sanity failed after the trial.
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Margaret Hossack
Winterset
Madidon
John Hossack
Seerley Defends Athletics at Cedar Falls Normal
President Seerley of the State Normal at Cedar Falls rejects critics of football and affirms athletics as part of a full education. He argues sports foster school spirit and physical development for all students, with athletics as a means to a stronger, well rounded physique rather than an end in itself.
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Seerley
Noremal School
Cedar Falls
State Normal School
Streh
Stock Breeders to Convene at Newton in 1903
Secretary F E H W White of the Iowa Improved Stock Breeders association announced the annual meeting will be held in Newton Jasper county on January 21 and 22 1903. Leading livestock authorities will discuss topics of interest to stock development. Newton is a major stock breeding center in the Midwest.
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FE. H W. White
Improved Stock Breeders’ Association
Iowa
Saloonkeeper Ed Deer Donates $100 for Charity
Creston saloonkeeper Ed Deer deposits $100 in a local bank for the Ladies' Benevolent Society to fund winter charity. He states the gift aims to balance money spent by men on liquor that harmed their families and cites unresolved suits over liquor sales to minors as the motive.
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Ed Deer
Creston
Ladies’ Benevolent Society
Imen
Question on validity of transfers by unfiled Iowa Homestead Co.
Special correspondence notes the Iowa Homestead company of Dubuque operated as a corporation without filed articles. The Secretary of State questions whether land transfers are valid and whether they cloud title. Transfers may require validation by a forthcoming legislative act.
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Secretary of State
Iowa Homestead Company
Dubuque
Farmer Samuel Myers kills scarce prairie wolf near LaMoille
Samuel Myers, two miles west of LaMoille, shot a large prairie wolf that had entered his cattle yard causing confusion. A worker alerted him and he fired the animal before it harmed cattle. the wolf is described as a large specimen now scarce in the vicinity.
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Samuel Myers
LaMoille
Mrs Hallam Organizes Boy Clubs in Sioux City
Mrs. Julia Clark Hallam, a prominent northwestern Iowa woman, has organized church linked clubs for boys in Sioux City over the past year. The groups focus on study and mutual improvement, with Hallam driving and inspiring eagerness in the youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Clark Hallam
Sioux City
Iowa
Nonunion witnesses report violence during coal strike in Scranton
About 30 nonunion men and relatives told the coal strike commission of alleged boycotts intimidation and violence by union men. Reports include attempted bombings property damage threats beatings and one shooting with several expelled from societies or lodges for being unfair workers. The commission meets at nine and adjourns for holidays.
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Scranton
Coal Strike Commission
Catholic Temperance Society
Ancient
Order of Hibernians
Gray
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Trade Review Highlights Holiday Retail Demand and Steel Consolidation
Dun and Co reports holiday trade surpassing expectations with strong demand in staple lines and brisk sales for top grades. Industrial activity remains high though fuel shortages cause delivery delays. US Steel absorbs外 plants and rail links while freight rates rise about ten percent from January 1. Failures total 267 in US and 16 in Canada, compared with last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
R. Gi. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
United States Steel Corporation
United States
Canada
Shootings and pursuit end in casualties at Farmington
City Marshall Coulter and Justice Musgrave were fatally wounded by deputy fish commissioner George Stillwell in Farmington. Stillwell was killed by a posse after a long chase. the incident followed Stillwell firing on Coulter and Musgrave during an arrest attempt.
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Keokuk
R. W. Coulter
A. J. Musgrave
Farmington
George Stillwell
Coulter
Stillwell
Musgrave
Jin
Furious Snowstorm Strikes Nebraska and Wyoming
Reports reach Omaha railroad offices of a severe snow and wind storm sweeping western Nebraska into Wyoming, causing travel disruptions and dangerous conditions across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
Nebraska
Wyoming
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Morrison
San Francisco
J. N. Morrison
Judge Advocate
Military Department of California
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Civil Life
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Young
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Miles
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la Guayra
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Simon P. Wolverton
Reading Company
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Dwellins Place
House of Representatives
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Newton
Town Homestead Company
Dumbugqnne
Nonunion Minera
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Trade Review
Northwestern Railroad
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