Congress Deadlocks on Salaries and Reed Smoot Seating
The Senate debated Reed Smoot seating while Idaho's Du Bois spoke in favor. House actions included shelving the legislative appropriation bill and voting to raise top officers and cabinet salaries to twelve thousand dollars. Multiple appropriation bills passed as recesses and adjournments followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Dubois
Idaho
House
Congress
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Secretary of the Interior
William B. Bate
Tennessee
Panama
Navy
International Harvester Company
Judiciary Committee
Whyte
Rayner
Cannon
Knox
Ilinois
State Department
Nelson
Wisconsin
Pacific Railroads
Department of Commerce and Labor
House District of Columbia
Explosion wrecks steamer on Mississippi near Gold Dust landing
The steamer W T Scovell bound for the Vicksburg Davis Bend trade exploded at Gold Dust landing seventeen miles south of Vicksburg Miss. The crew and passengers numbered about fifty with many feared dead or missing. The blast blew the craft to atoms, tossing timbers across the river and causing rapid sinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi River
Vicksburg
Miss
W. T. Scovell
Davis Bend
Scovell
Vesuvius Eruption Drops Ashes Over Naples
A Naples special reports another Vesuvius crater collapse causing an ash shower. No detonations or earthquakes preceded it. For about twenty minutes a heavy ash rain alarmed Naples residents as women prayed to the Madonna for mercy at Christmas. The ash rain soon ended and calm returned.
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Naples
Vesuvius
Jett Confesses to Town Marshal Cockrill’s Murder in Court
Curtis Jett testified for himself in Cynthiana Ky claiming he killed Town Marshal Cockrill four years ago in Jackson. He admitted opening fire from the courthouse stair while Cockrill stood across the street after a prior exchange of shots. Jett previously implicated Judge Hargis and Sheriff Ed Callahan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis Jett
Commonwealth
Cockrill
Jackson
Cynthiana, Ky
Jett
Hargis
Ed Callahan
Court House
Farmer Near Warrensburg Talks Nonstop Until Collapse
John Fish a Warrensburg area farmer has spoken for almost a week without sleep or pause. His coherent monologue reveals no madness but leaves him emaciated and near collapse. Physicians warn he may die if this continues.
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John Fish
Warrensburg
Ohio
Infant dies in house fire caused by stove ignite
Five weeks old baby of Mr and Mrs Frank M Jones of Indianapolis Indiana died after bed clothing wrapped around the infant caught fire near a heating stove. Mrs Jones left the child on a chair and the clothing ignited from the stove heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank M. Jones
Indianapolis
Ind
Arson Trial Ends With Acquittal for Josephus Yarger
Josephus Yarger, tried in Bluffton Indiana for arson, was acquitted. Prosecutors alleged he set two barns ablaze on April 23 while his house showed coal oil saturation.
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Josephus Yarger
Bluffton
Ind
Yarger
Italian man on Erie train injures five in Meadville
John Ferrati a 46 year old Italian passenger aboard an Erie Railroad train traveling from Chicago to New York went berserk at Meadville Pennsylvania striking five people with a club before passengers and a guard subdued him.
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John Ferrati
Chicago
New York
Meadville
Patrick Gets Life Impire In Sing Sing
Governor Higgins commutes Albert T. Patrick sentence for the murder of William Marsh Rice from death to life imprisonment. A separate Leadville robbery after a masked bandit shot and killed Joe Dale, a Denver Rio Grande ticket agent at the depot.
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Patrick
Higgins
New York
Albert T. Patrick
Sing Sing
William Marsh Rice
Leadville
Colo
Joe Dale
Denver& Rio Grande Depot
National Capital Notes Mention Various Federal Nominations and Bills
The report lists Senate actions and presidential moves including ratification of a patent treaty with Guatemala, Roosevelt renominating Ridgely for Comptroller of the Currency, and bills on New Mexico statehood and Civil War pensions. Also noted are wage increases for Washington navy yard workers and canal funding proposals for a Mississippi to Rio Grande route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Guatemala
Patterson
Tennessee
Congress
Teller
New Mexico
Roosevelt
William B. Ridgely
Washington Navy Yard
Lacey
Iowa
Henry Fairfield Osborn
New York
Smithsonian Institution
Louisiana
Texas
Mississippi River
Rio Grande
O. K. Paddock
Paul Morton
South Omaha
Nebraska
E. Lt. Howe
John A. Mclsibenny
Messrs. Harlan, Clark and Clements
William Barrett Ridgely
Ceage
Great Britain
Albert T. Patrick
William March Rice
Mystery aboard the Celsis as Plymouth voyage begins
The narrator, Pederick, and Mary depart London for Plymouth aboard the yacht Celsis. A prior break‑in and missing letters hint at a trap linked to New York police plans. Mary’s safe arrival is reported as the crew encounters a formidable new second mate, Francis Paolo, while a pursuit begins at sea.
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London
The
Admiralty
Black Anchor Line
Roderick
Spezia
Black Anchor Steamship Company
Rocket
Mary
Celsis
York
Portsmouth
Martin Hall
High Seas
America
Hudson River
Hall
Captain Black
Francis Paolo
Pederick
Salisbury
Plymouth
New York
Honesay
at¢Salisbury
Atlantic
Captain York
Paris
Niagara
Night Talk of Pirates and a Mysterious Ship
Paolo’s watch reveals longing for home but curiosity dominates. Roderick speculates on Captain Blakk and the nameless vessel while York tracks steamers. The pair ponder piracy and the unknown man Black in a tense, speculative moment aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paolo
Lfe
Blakk
Roderick
York
Thame
Pounds
The Nameless Ship Mystery Aboard the Celsis
On the Celsis the narrator questions Paolo the new second mate and watches a blue flare signal a great ship. Dreams blur fact as Paolo's behavior unsettles him and a gunshot and thunderous volley shock the crew as fog lifts revealing a distant warship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan
Leeward
Between Stock Quotation Quips and Printer’s Wit
A quirky dialogue blends financial jargon with literary tropes as bankers and brokers discuss a stenographer and the reading habits on the job. The exchange riffs on villains with white teeth and heroic romance while noting temperament and memory in a social vignette.
Story of the Independent Telephone
The independent telephone movement begun about ten years ago faces financial reckoning as many firms fail or require new capital. Promoters used anti monopoly rhetoric to recruit investors, forming local Home or Citizens companies, selling stock, and profiting before the system collapses under over capitalization, depreciation, and ruinous low rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independent
Citizens' Company
People’s Company
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Montpelier Herald
Lu Sn
Stoosevelt
Mississippi
Babe
Arsen
Iron Pirate
Mate
Philosophy of the Times
Baltimore American
Hitte—Windig
Pitts
Hittie
Aage
John
Scott
Story OF the
Independent Telephone
Syracuse, N. Y
Journal
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