Week's News Across Nation And Abroad
Roosevelt dismisses Historian Maclay from the navy department after appeals to civil service. Armored cruisers will be fitted for wireless telegraphy. Grover Cleveland joins the National Civic Federation arbitral panel. Rural free delivery carriers go civil service February 1. Political or religious affiliations barred in applications. Panama Canal bid may fall to 40 million and Nicaragua could lose. Navy may open a permanent Great Lakes naval training station, likely Chicago, with congressional funding. Chinese ambassador Wu Ping Fang asks Congress to study the Chinese Exclusion Law before any extension.
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Roosevelt
Maclay
Navy Department
Civil Service Commission
Navy
Grover Cleveland
National Civic Federation Arbitration Committee
Civil Service
Washington Dispatch
Panama Company
Nicaragua
Great Lakes
Chicago
Congress
Wu ‘Ping Fang
Secretary of State
Labor conference yields plan for employers and workers
New York labor conference appoints a great committee to draft a plan to settle disputes between employers and employees. The aim is to resolve conflicts without lockouts strikes or boycotts.
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New York
Uncertain outlook for National League baseball season
The piece notes dire prospects for the National League if owners quarrel before spring and legal battles decide control, casting doubt on a prosperous season. It highlights disputes and potential court rulings as key factors shaping the league's near-term future.
Dead Letter Office Records Noted Mail Totals
The national deed letter office received 507 257 pieces of mail in the past fiscal year. Opened letters contained money totaling 42 854 72 dollars while drafts money orders mortgages and related items aggregated 1 178 970 59 dollars. The phrase letter that never came suggests some pieces were lost in the dead letter office.
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National Deed Letter Office
Edict Bans Foreign Schools and Christian Employment in Turkey
Following a Turkish girl’s graduation from an American medical college in Turkey an imperial edict limits foreign schooling. It prohibits Christian teachers in Turkish homes and forbids Turkish women from appearing in public with Christian female escorts.
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American Medical College
Turkey
Pier construction contract let for Waxford Ireland
The contract for a great pier at Waxford Ireland has been let as the eastern terminus of a new transatlantic steamer line. Parliament plans to rush mail passage to the east, promising the shortest route and quickest passage, contrasting with the former 30-day trip.
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Waxford
Ireland
Parliament
New England Banks Outnumbered by Western States
Population basis shows New England has one bank for every 7056 people, while western states average one bank for 1986 people. Iowa leads states with the most banks per capita.
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Newingland
Iowa
Union
Marconi Claims Wireless Signal Across 1700 Miles
Signor Marconi announces successful wireless transmission from England to the American continent, a distance of 1700 miles, without wires. The dispatch hails the achievement as the most wonderful scientific discovery of modern times.
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Signor Marconi
England
Chicago to Open School of Instruction for Laundry Girls
A new school of instruction for laundry girls will be established in Chicago. The promise is that diligence and proper training will end smudgy linen edged collars and rough shirt bosoms as laundresses earn a diploma to hang over their washtub indicating mastery of the trade.
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Chicago
Senate ratifies Hay–Pauncefote treaty with 72 to 6 vote
The ratification in the Senate with a strong 72 to 6 majority pleases Americans by tacitly recognizing the Monroe Doctrine, freeing the United States from the Clayton–Bulwer treaty constraints, and allowing Isthmian Canal construction without incurring other governments' ill will.
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Senate
Great Britain
United States
Wisconsin native Payne to become fourth postmaster general
Henry C. Payne will be the fourth postmaster general from Wisconsin, with prior holders including Alexander W. Randall under Andrew Johnson, Timothy O. Howe under Arthur, and William S. Vilas under Cleveland. Other western men in the office listed include James N. Tyner Indiana under Grant, Walter Q. Gresham Indiana, Frank Hut ton Iowa under Arthur and Don M. Dickinson Michigan under Cleveland. They all served fractional terms in the administrations noted.
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Henry C. Payne
Wisconsin
Alexander W. Randall
Andrew Johnson
Timothy O. Howe
Arthur
William S. Vilas
Cleveland
James N. Tyner
Indiana
Grant
Walter Q. Gresham
Frank Hutton
Iowa
Don M. Dickinson
Michigan
Community Urges Joint Action Against Profanity Among Youth
A call to parents teachers pulpit and police to curb boy profanity and risky associations, stressing early intervention to steer youths from destructive language and social circles. The piece also cites Mrs. Carl Asheno defending her husband the alleged hypnotist in a Kansas death burial case claiming the coffin shaft air supply and nocturnal feeding were fabricated.
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Carl Asheno
Kansas
Air
Atheno
Athena
Gloucester schooner missing in gale off New England coast
Eliza T Park hurst of Gloucester with eight crew is posted missing and believed to have foundered in the gale of November 25. The report lists missing crew and suggests a marine tragedy near Cape Ann.
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Eliza T. Parkhurst
Gloucester
Mass
Tammany
Richard Croker
Perry Belmont
Congress
John 1D
Crimmins
New York
Trenton
New Jersey City
National Bank of the Republic
Philippines
Richard Phillips Leary
United States Navy
Guam
Marine Hospital
Chelsea
Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad
United States
Sewell
New Jersey
Camden
Bradstreet
Dun
Multiple Fatalities Reported Across States In 1900s Crime, Fire, and Accidents
Reports detail two deaths from asphyxiation in Indiana and an additional death of a man dying from escaping gas. A shooting in Bra vil, Indiana, ends with a 18 year old son killing his father and a third death in a land dispute near Wilmot, Arkansas. Chicago manufacturing accidents yield multiple fatalities. Other items note political shifts in Washington and Maine, a sleeper finding in Elizabeth City, a Newport mine suicide, and fundraising for the McKinley monument.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Henry Shaffer
Annie James
Henry Anderson
Nicehard Watkins
Bravil
Theodore Watkins
Wilmot
Ark
Chicago
Germany
Sun
Memphis
Tenn
American Bridge Works
Alabama
John B. Rogers
Washington
Isaac Westoberore
Newport
Tronwood
Mich
Kimberley Mines Report $17 Million Yearly Diamond Output
The stockholders of De Beers Mining Company are informed that the Kimberley mines produce 17000000 dollars worth of diamonds each year.
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de Beers Mining Company
Kimberley
British and colonial war reports and global events update
A roundup of early 20th century dispatches notes a Progreso fire destroying one million dollars of property, Boer forces capturing British yeomenry at Tweefontein, and heavy losses in a night attack. Other items include battles near San Jose with casualties, royal and Zionist news, naval movements to La Guayra, a Nice marriage under consular license, Samar ambush losses, a 17 hour defense in Honda, and a drop in English iron production from the prior year.
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Progreso
Yucatan
de Wet
Tweefontein
Chaffee
San Jose
Edward
Baske
Switzerland
Hera
Palestine
Kruger
United States
Vineta
la Guayra
Venezuela
Republic
Chauncey M. Depew
Miss Palmer
Nice
Roosevelt
Samar
An Honda
Colombia
England
Fire Destroys Alexandria Apartment in Chicago
Fire swept an Alexandria apartment building in Chicago leaving 125 people homeless. Property loss estimated at p100,000 as insurers assess damage and residents seek temporary housing.
Rural mail carriers to be paid monthly
The section notes a shift to monthly wages for rural mail carriers. Other items mention Senator Clark buying 66 paintings in Vienna for 320000 dollars and Andrew Carnegie planning a 1000000 dollar gift to Yale.
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Senator Clark
Vienna
Andrew Carnegie
Yale
Henry Strachmeyer
Quincy
Great Men Who Have Been Entertained by the Michigan Association
The Students' Lecture association at the University of Michigan, famed for inviting leading orators and actors, lists past guests Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward Beecher, Grover Cleveland, and Joseph Jefferson. The 1901-02 lineup includes Min ister Wu prior guests and a large slate of distinguished speakers. Officers include George W. Maxey as president, Leonard O. Meigs as secretary, and James Strasburg as treasurer, with active engagement to attract future figures such as Henry Irving and others.
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Association
University of Michigan
Athletic Association
Students
America
Wendell Phillips
Henry Ward Beecher
William McKinley
Michigan
Washington
Grover Cleveland
Harrison
Joseph Jefferson
Madame Rhea
Henry Irving
George W. Maxey
Students’ Lecture Association
Good Government Club
Minister Wu
Ann Arbor
George R. Wendling
Henry Watterson
Sarah Grand
Smith
William FF. McDowell
J. Hamilton Lewis
Max O’rell
Leland T. Powers
Charles Pattell Loomis
Clark Howell
Hamilton W. Mabie
Cleveland
Archbishop Ireland
Pennsylvania
Mansfield Normal School
Mansfield
Maxey
New York
Hornellsville
N. Y
Logan
United Mine Workers
John Mitchell
Central Debating League
Minnesota
Chicago University
Northwestern
Chicago
Literary Department
Leonard O. Meigs
Oakdale
Wash
Whitman College
Daily Argus
Times
Inlander
James Strasburg
Univerrsity of
Strasburg
R. Fi. C
State Lands Sale Proposal Highlights Timber Only Plan
State lands discuss selling timber rather than land. Land Commissioner Wildey notes no extra value in land versus timber and argues advertising and clerical costs would drop. Public sale yielded 3 360 acres mainly primary school lands in Mackinaw Chippewa and Schoolcraft counties selling for 6 052 dollars.
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Wildey
Auditor General
Mackinaw
Chippewa
Schoolcraft
Pardons Board Backing Ellis clemency case
The Michigan board of pardons recommends clemency for John Ellis of Isabella county who was jailed in 1894 for 12 years. He faced a conviction based on a traveling preacher’s daughter serving as a domestic and an alleged involvement by Ellis’ wife. An obituary notice later turned out false and sparked a local push with 600 signatures and support from the prosecuting attorney and Judge Dodd.
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Jackson
State Board of Pardons
John Ellis
Isabella County
Ellis
Owosso
Isabella County Friends of
Dodd
Large 100000 Acre Timber Sale In Upper Peninsula
One of the area’s largest land deals sees 100000 acres of hardwood timber sold from Lac La Belle company of Laporte Indiana to the Manistique Iron company for 212000 dollars. The timber will fuel coke ovens at Manistique furnaces consuming about 8000 cords monthly, a supply projected to last twenty years in Alger county. Two Soo men previously arranged an option on adjacent Canada land for 5000 dollars but dropped the deal, missing a potential 70000 dollar gain.
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Upper Peninsula
Lac la Belle Company
Laporte
Ind
Manistique Iron Company
Manistique
Iron Company
Alger County
Soo
J. E. Whaten
Abe Frenzlauer
A. E. Runnels
John E. Kraft
Rock Lake
Canada
Leslie
Soo Men
Ancient Indian burying ground found near Newaygo
A mound near Newaygo yielded eight skeletons with warlike tools including battleaxes and stone hatchets. The remains indicate the Indians were tall and robust, with some skeletons reaching seven feet in height and broad in proportion.
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Newaygo
Pennsylvania hemlock trust eyed for market control plan
The proposed $20,000,000 hemlock trust in Pennsylvania draws attention among upper peninsula residents. Experts suggest cornering timber requires control of large Lake Superior tracts to succeed.
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Pennsylvania
Upper Peninsula
Lake Superior
Wife lost overboard on voyage home from Europe
Dr. Harry McNeal of Ann Arbor recounts his wife’s disappearance from the Seigenland as the ship lurched returning from Europe. He says she fell to the deck when a list of the craft threw her against the rail, a board gave way and she went into the sea.
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Harry McNeal
Ann Arbor
Seigenland
Europe
Regrets His Act Drebenstedt Tries Saloon Prohibition
William V Drebenstedt, an American citizen from Owosso, was convicted twice in under two weeks for keeping his saloon open on Sundays. He says he loves his new country no more and plans to return to the Fatherland.
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William V Drebenstedt
Owosso
Drebenstedt
Des Moines Courthouse Fight Echoes in State Politics
Work begins on Polk county courthouse in Des Moines as state supreme court ends prolonged litigation. City signs $300,000 in contracts while army post prospects waver over a $50,000 water main, water company balks, and Congress member Hull is ill, dampening hopes for the post.
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Des Moines
Polk County
State Supreme Court
Congress
Army
E. S. Otis
Philippines
War Department
Army Post
Water Company
Hull
Washington
Judge Brannan Rules Mulct Tax On Cigar Houses
In Muscatine Judge Brannan holds Herman Gremmel and partners liable for mulct taxes as a wholesale and retail cigar business. The ruling confirms similar assessments against other Muscatine cigar houses and involved a temporary injunction against property sale.
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Brannan
District Court
Muscatine
Herman Gremmel
Muscatine County
Gremmel
Cresco plans two interurban lines for northeast Iowa
A Cresco business group led by Senator Lyons aims to build two electric road lines to connect to Waterloo Denver and Osage Mason City with routes southeast to New Hampton and west to Elma. Incorporation is planned in spring with surveys underway and no construction until then. Fatal gasoline accident claims Mrs Schnurr of New Hampton. A French savant links a microbe to baldness. A monthly steamship service between New York and the Philippines is proposed.
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Cresco Capitalists
Senator Lyons
New Hampton
Waterloo
Denver
Cresco
Elma
Great Western
Osage
Mason City
Daniel Schnurr
Larger School Buildings Required Across Western Canada
Western Canada faces rapid population growth with Manitoba Assiniboia Saskatchewan and Alberta needing bigger school facilities. Many new buildings stand half empty while immigration and birth rates rise. Canadian government agents promote free homestead laws and railway lands to attract settlers, with widespread ads listing agent locations.
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Canada
Manitoba
Assiniboia
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Government of Canada
New Bureau Proposed for Livestock by Federal Government
A federal plan suggests a livestock bureau. Red sealing wax is made from shellac Venice turpentine vermillion and gypsum. The world’s largest farm base sits in South Australia with 78 000 acres per squatter. A worker would need eight and three quarters pounds of egg white as a day’s food but with whole eggs could live on two and a half pounds.
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Bureau of Livestock
South Australia
A Wonderful Cure Symes Case at Wright City
Medical men discuss the Symes case in Wright City Missouri where Joseph G Symes suffered inflammatory rheumatism. After trying various remedies he used Dodd's Kidney Pills and improved rapidly, ending with six boxes and full recovery allowing him to work daily and sleep soundly.
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Wright City
Symes
Joseph G. Symes
Dodd
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