Congress Holds Week's End Reconvenes and Debates Statehood
Both houses reconvened after recess as the senate opened with a resolution on campaign contribution questions. The joint statehood bill dominated debate while the fortifications and medical corps measures moved forward. The house passed the fortifications appropriation and confirmed W D Crum to Charleston customs collector on a strong vote.
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Congress
Senate
Thomas W. Lawson
Alton B. Parker
Judiciary Committee
House
Representative Mahoney
Ilinois
Mann
Illinois
Medical Corps
Army
Ordnance Department
Secretary of Agriculture
House Committee On Appropriations
Bard
United States Senate
W. D. Crum
Charleston
S. C
Crum
Port Arthur Falls in Russo Japanese War
Reports detail the surrender terms at Port Arthur with officers allowed parole to Russia while privates remain prisoners. Japan blocks all remaining citadel assets and prepares to press the war. Russian casualties exceed 11 000, Japanese 50 000. Gen. Nogi holds 35 000 prisoners, 21 000 ill. Public opinion in Japan doubts quick peace. Russia faces unrest and potential crisis, with Stoessel to face court martial.
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Port Arthur
Russia
Japan
Fort Arthur
Nogi
United States
Port Danny
Moscow
Sergius
Stoessel
Kuropatkin
Rosestyenskys
Kniaz Souvaroff
Train collision and multiple injuries on Ninth Avenue structure
A rear end crash on New York's Ninth Avenue elevated line left one dead and six or more seriously injured as three trains collided. Boat boiler explosions killed twenty men on the Ohio River. Various other items include a bank closure in Minnesota and a court martial at Fort Sheridan for Capt Mulliken.
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Ninth Avenue
New York
First National Bank of
Faribault
N. Y
Windsor Print Works
North Adams
Mass
Ohio River
Knights of Zion
Chicago
Africa
A. Hopkins
Multiple global events unfold across politics and crime
A broad digest notes a range of events from a Bishop Talbot presentment in Philadelphia to strikes in Transcaucasia with casualties, a Springfield fire destroying city hall, and legal actions including Nan Patterson bail denial. It also covers Slavic reforms, hospitalities, indictments, deaths, and legislative clashes across Missouri Colorado Indiana and Massachusetts.
Notable Obits and Political Moves in Early 1900s News
Former Gov. William Claflin of Massachusetts dies at his Newtonville home after a brief illness. Reports mention clashes over custody of Mrs. Chadwick in Cleveland and the suspension of charges against Bishop Talbot. Roosevelt talks forest preservation. Thomas, Chicago musician, dies at 69. Several fatal accidents, political shifts, and legal actions span across states, with renewed focus on governance and public safety.
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William Claflin
Massachusetts
Newtounville
Cleveland
Chadwick
Talbot
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Forestry Congress
Washington
Theodore Thomas
Chicago Orchestra
Chicago
Weatherly
Gov. Johnson
Minnesota
Margaret Downs
Marinette
Wis
Pentoga
Mich
Silesia
New York City
Beef Trust
Supreme Court
George H. Williams
Oregon Territory
United States
Oregon
Grant
Portland
Ore
Joint Merchant Marine Commission
Congress
Muriel Byram
Chicago Board of Education
W. A. S. Graham
South Africa
Yates
Ilinois
Commissioner of Immigration
Col
A. A. Rodman
Grand Commandery
Knight Templar
Iowa
Rodman
Julius Caesar Burrows
Michigan
Greenville
N. C
Frank Nowegki
Morris Run
Haven Ditzler
Earl
St. Charles
Bennie
Philadelphia
Roosevelt Seeks Special Session on Tariff and Railways
President Roosevelt submitted to a joint Senate and House committee an ultimatum on tariff revision and railway legislation. He plans a special session of the Fifty ninth Congress in the fall to revise the Dingley schedules and to consider interstate commerce legislation if not completed this session. The conference included Senators Allison Aldrich Spooner Platt and Representatives Cannon Payne Dalzell Grosvenor Tawney, with no public agreement reached.
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Chicago
The
Chronicle
Washington
Roosevelt
Fifty-Ninth Congress
Congress
Fifty Ninth Congress
Allison
Iowa
Aldrich
Rhode Island
Spooner
Wisconsin
Platt
Connecticut
Cannon
Serenor E. Payne
New York
John Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Gen. Grosvenor
Ohio
James A. Tawney
Minnesota
Loeb
Large Japanese POW transfer after Port Arthur capitulation
Tokyo reports Gen Nogi says Russian prisoners taken under capitulation total 878 officers and 23,491 men. Parole figures show 441 officers and 229 orderlies released. Generals Smirnoff and Fock choose to go to Japan as POWs. Stoessel will return home January 12. Earlier reports claimed Fock and Smirnoff were killed at Port Arthur.
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Washington
Foreign Office
Tokio
Nogi
Smirnoff
Fock
Gorbatovsky
Willmann
Japan
Stoessel
Dalny
Port Arthur
Fusan
Sudden Death of Former Gov Lloyd Lowndes in Cumberland
The community of Cumberland Maryland mourns the sudden death of former Governor Lloyd Lowndes at his home on Sunday from heart failure. He woke in good health, prepared for church, but collapsed before help could arrive. His passing was attributed to heart failure after physicians were summoned.
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Lowndes
Maryland
Cumberland
Lloyd Lowndes
Actress Bettina Girard Dies in New York Hospital
Bettina Girard actress daughter of Gen Ordway of Washington died in Roosevelt hospital. Coroner’s office notified and opened an inquiry after she was removed from her West Forty first street apartments. At the hospital the name Elizabeth Witter appeared and the body was claimed under the name Ordway.
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New York
Bettina Girard
Gen. Ordway
Washington
Roosevelt Hospital
West Forty First Street
Elizabeth Witter
Ordway
Bishop Spalding Shows Improvement After Paralysis
Reports from Peoria Illinois say Bishop John L. Spalding, struck by paralysis at his residence Sunday, has regained some use of his left arm and speaks more freely. He still cannot move the rest of his left side and remains under care.
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Peoria
Ill
John L. Spalding
Dynamite explosion injures six at Ashland barn fire
While the Ashland fire department battled a blaze in George Wilkinson’s barn on Sunday a quantity of dynamite exploded injuring four firefighters and two spectators. The blast caused serious injuries to the six.
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Ashland
Wis
George Wilkinson
Team Ran Away Fatality Near Rapid City
Rapid City report says R. B. Vinson, said to be the son of a Baltimore man, was killed when his horse team ran away while driving east of the city. He was thrown out and dragged to death Sunday.
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Rapid City
S. D
R. B. Vinson
Baltimore, Md
Vinson
Navy Chaplain McGrail Dismissed by President Order
Chaplain Joseph I. McGrail is dismissed from the navy by order of the president. He is tried by court martial on the Asiatic station on charges of conduct.
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Washington, Jan
Joseph I. McGrail
Navy
Asiatic
Tragedy in Joliet Farm Ends in Triple Fatal Shooting
Illinois in Joliet on January 9 a family quarrel at Higginbotham farm preceded a sequence in which William Rapson fatally shot his son Herbert in the barn then killed Herbert's wife before fatally wounding himself.
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Illinois
Joliet
Ill
William Rapson
Higginbotham Farm
Herbert
Big fire destroys Kewanee plant valued at 180000
A major blaze in Kewanee Illinois wiped out the north part plant of the Kewanee Mining and Manufacturing Company. The brick and ice factory, valued at 180000 dollars, was entirely destroyed by the fire. The date noted is January 9. No further details on casualties were provided.
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Kewanee
Ill
Kewanee Mining and Manufacturing Company
Woman on Trial for Perjury in Gallaugher Murder Case
In Marengo the second trial of Mrs. Sarah Ellen Gallaugher for perjury linked to the 1902 murder of her husband James Gallaugher opened before Judge Byington after a Johnson county change of venue. Footprints pointed to Charles Halladay, convicted of complicity and sentenced to life. Gallaugher testified in her defense and was acquitted. later indicted for perjury, with the verdict set aside by the supreme court.
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Marengo
Sarah Ellen Gallaugher
Byington
Johnson County
James Gallaugher
Charles Halladay
Supreme Court
Albia
Joseph G. Smith
Monroe County
Fort Madison
Ames
Warburton
Iowa Corn Growers’ Association
Independence
Iowa Falls
Clinton
Burrier
Burlington
William Gillies
Firmyot Nairn & Gillies
Morton B. Peck
Elsworth College
British Honduras
Des Moines
Tom Bradley
Marquisville
Mercy Hospital
Beverly Walker
Waterloo
Christian Wolmsdorff
Brighton
Jefferson County
Eva L. Graham
Cedar Rapids
Clayton Smith
Ayr
Ezra C. McMaster
Mortgage Security Bank
Newton
A. G. Gorrell
Sib ley mother dies after self immolation in home
Crazed by worry over her two daughters health Mrs T C Alexander of Sibley cremated herself at her home by saturating her nightdress with kerosene and lighting a match. Family found her body after neighbors and firemen subdued the blaze.
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Sibley
T. C. Alexander
Hermit Found Murdered in Poweshiek County
Thomas Reed an 80 year old veteran of the Mexican War living near Brooklyn Poweshiek county was found murdered. Indications point to robbery and a desperate struggle with a hammer in his hand. Footprints of a man found in the snow and blood hounds ordered from Knoxville to aid the case.
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Marshalltown
Thomas Reed
Brooklyn
Poweshiek County
Knoxville
Davenport Businessman Hangs Himself in Store Anteroom
Carl Frickel a prominent Davenport merchant of 20 years ended his life by hanging in the store’s anteroom. The death reportedly follows a family history of insanity, his brother having been confined to an asylum months earlier.
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Davenport
Carl Frickel
Prominent Eldora Attorneys Named in $10,000 Damages Suit
C H Hess of Steamboat Rock sues Edward Loan Company Albrook Lundy and C B E alleging misrepresentation overcharges unauthorized compromises and damages seeking 10000 in damages. The suit names Edward Loan Company Albrook and Lundy individually as defendants.
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Eldora
Edward Loan Company
Albrook & Lundy
C. BE
Albrook
E. WW. Lundy
C. H. Hess
Steamboat Rock
Iowa and Des Moines News Briefs Highlight Political and Legal Dramas
Multiple Iowa locations report political maneuvers and legal events. Ben I. Salinger forms a partnership with Scott and Theophilus in Carroll. John Pickworth's $500 gift to the Iowa Children's Home Association noted in Decorah. Joseph G. Smith in Monroe County faces a pending death sentence with an ongoing appeal.
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Davenport
Ben I. Salinger
Carroll
Supreme Court
Iowa
George W. Scott
William Theophilus
Des Moines
W. H. Slingerland
Iowa Children’s Home Association
Decorah
John Pickworth
Deecorah
Beggars Formed a Trust in City Panhandling Row
A one legged youth Kempton organized a beggar syndicate in Park Row with 30 members at peak. Lookouts and roundsmen ensured order and earnings sharing while legal representation was funded from the pool. The mendicant squad was later broken up by Charity Organization Society officers.
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Kempton
Park Row
Mendicant Squad
Charity Organization Society
James Forbes
Forbes
New York
Normandy Cows Described by U S Consul as Superior Milkers
United States consul at Rouen Mr Haynes calls the Cotentin Normandy cattle long angular and non prepossessing in appearance yet breeds praised for high milk yield. He asserts these cows can produce about 40 pounds of butter monthly through most of lactation without special feeding. Attempts to improve them by crossing have failed.
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Normandy
United States
Rouen
Mr. Haynes
Haynes
Editor Seeks Wedding Details After All Gone
A California town editor visiting the bride's home the day after a wedding learned the couple had devoured every last scrap of the reception. Mrs. Jones lamented the missing details, saying the couple ate every bite and left nothing for him.
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California
San Francisco Bulletin
Tuberculosis as a house infection warning
McClure's notes that tuberculosis is primarily a house infection not spread on the street. It is not inherited or usually contracted from spoiled milk or meat. A consumptive's lingering bacilli in a home or foully aired workroom endangers residents and workers who share the space.
Foreign items touch tax, art, and war shifts
A roundup cites a single eyeglasses ban in the German army, India tax figures, economist William Smart on British wealth, Rider Haggard on English conditions, discovery of a Bellini Madonna in Trieste, Irish land purchase totals, a Russian parole breach, Britain's Egypt troop withdrawal plan, limited native forces, and a London need for horse ambulances amid no first aid system.
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India
William Smart
Exeter
England
Rider Haggard
Giovanni Bellini
Trieste
Austria
Diana
Sargon
Far East
Egypt
London
Kick Coming and Postal Delays Cited in Laughing Exchange
A Chicago Daily News exchange mocks slow mail with a man complaining that a promised check ten days late has not arrived. The other party defends the delivery service and the protest is framed as a lighthearted jab at postal delays.
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Chicago Daily News
Endorsement for Dean's Kidney Pills by Urbana veteran
Veteran Joshua Heller of Urbana Illinois testifies after 1899 that Dean's Kidney Pills relieved kidney trouble and back pain. He notes repeated effective results during attacks and endorses the product today as strongly as two years ago. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York sells it for 50 cents per box.
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Joshua Heller
Walnut Street
Urbana
Ill
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
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