Statehood for Arizona discussed amid push for admission
A lengthy speech argues Arizona should be admitted as a state, highlighting growing population, wealth, and resources. It cites tax base, mining wealth, agriculture, railroads, forests, and potential economic growth. Emphasis on self government and opposition to territorial status. Arizona’s potential as a major mining and agricultural power is projected.
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Washington
Uremoury
Nathan D. Murphy
Arizona
Geuie
Uuse
Arigona
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Congress
Nevada
Maine
Masachusetts
Northwestern
Idaho
Anzona
United States
Union
Admirals Shellborn’s Successor Fight Heats Navy Circles
The Navy debates who will replace Rear Admiral Philip Shellborn, Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, as he retires next March. Capt. John F. Hanscom and Capt. Francis T. Bowles lead a heated, politically wired contest with ties dating to October 10, 1888. Bowles remains active until 1904, while Hanscom retires May 21, 1904, and the clash echoes past Schley-Sampson tensions.
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Navy
Philip Shellborn
Bureau of Construction and Repair
Navys Department
John F. Hanscom
Cramps
Phildelphin
Francis T. Bowles
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Hanscom
Cit
Bowles
7 Taomes
Hauser
Annapolis Academy
Naval Academy
Century services in England at end of the century
London reports conclude end of century religious services with sermons from Archdeacon Farrar. He warned England may face a concert of European powers next century and urged a wake up for serious trade competition from Germany and the United States. He cited comments on drunkenness comparing England to the United States.
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London
Westminster Abbey
Frederick W. Farrar
England
Germany
United States
Charles Sielson
Lexington Greet the Century Parade In Lexington
Lexington prepares for the century transition with a torchlit street parade at 10 pm and addresses at the Opera House and Court House. Leading churches plan midnight services and St Pauls Catholic Church will host its first midnight mass. The Masons will hold a banquet until 2 am.
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Lexington
Opera House
Court House
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
Funeral of two girls who died after bonfire push
Hackensack New Jersey December 30 The funerals for Rosie Crolovoinski and Mamie Mobile who died after being pushed into a bonfire were held the same day last week. About one hundred children attended Rosie's funeral including Frank Wenzel who is alleged to have caused the death.
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Hackensack
M. S
Rosie Crolovoinski
Mamie Mobile
Frank Wenzel
British steamer Dora reports submerged wreck sighting near sea danger
The British steamer Dora from Wilmington, arriving at Queenstown, reports a propeller injury and on December 22 passed a submerged wreck in latitude 44 and longitude 40. Three mast stumps showed fifteen feet out of the water, presenting a major navigation hazard.
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London
Dora
Golding
Wilmington
N. C
Queenstown
Montreal firm to build coke ovens for Cape Breton coal
A Montreal company forms to build extensive coke ovens using Cape Breton coal. The coke will be shipped to smelters near Sudbury, Ontario. From July to November the Sudbury area facilities began nearly 700 cars of coke from Everett, Ss.
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Montreal
Quebec
Cape Breton
Sudbury
Ontario
Everett
Orthodox Jewish Union Holds Biennial Meeting at Eldridge Street
The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations met with delegates from ninety six congregations in the U S and Canada at Eldridge Street Synagogue. President Rev Dr H Pereira Mendes led with remarks on reform Judaism and intermarriage while resolutions called for English explanations before festivals, AP submissions, and chaplains for armed services. New officers and secretaries were elected from major Orthodox leaders across New York City Montreal Louisville Baltimore and Philadelphia.
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Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations
Eldridge Street
United States
Canada
H. Pereira Mendes
3. Drachman
Max Cohen
Isadore Hirshfield
J. Buchhalter
I. N. Dembitz
Louisville
S.solis Cohen
Mendes
State Board of Law Examiners
University of the State of New York
Associated Press
Washington
United States Army
A. Friedenwald
Baltimore
H. Kk. Sarasohn
New York
Jacob Mecht
Albert Lucas
P. Kiein
Dr. Schaffer
Newport
R. I
D. M. Kablan
Montreal
Julius H Greenstone
Philadelphia
A. Fein
B. Drachman
Memorial Services for Thomas G. Shearman at Plymouth Church
A memorial service for Thomas G. Shearman of Brooklyn was held at Plymouth Church with speakers including William Lloyd Garrison Henry George John S Crosby and Edward M Shepard. The Reverend Dr Lindsay presided as tributes praised Shearman s measured civic effort and precise use of statistics in social reform debates.
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Thomas G. Shearman
Brooklyn
Plymouth Church
Shearman
William Lloyd Garrison
Boston
Henry George
Johns. Crosby
Edward M. Shepard
Lindsay, Parker
Garrison
Theodore Parker
Mr. _George
David A. Wells
Edward Atkinson
Partsof Woman Body Found in River Near Rochester
Disjointed report states the head and arms of a woman were found nailed in a wooden box upstream from Charlotte after the dismembered remains were found near Summerville. A hotel informant declined to name himself and suggested officials have hushed up details.
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Rochester
Summerville
Charlotte
Prairie fire roasts family near Stillwater moving to Rogers Mills
Gotlieb Stack er and kin, traveling from Stillwater Oklahoma to Rogers Mills County, were asleep in their wagon when a prairie fire swept through Friday night. A seventeen months old baby died, a boy is dying, and a young woman will lose both legs. The mother’s life is not expected to be saved. They escaped in a dugout several miles away as horses suffered burned eyes and hair. The blaze was driven by a sixty mile per hour wind.
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Wichita
Kan
Gotlieb Stacker
Stillwater
Oklahoma
Rogers Mills County
Changes in State Board of Health Shakeup Promised
A great shake up is predicted in the personnel of the State Board of Health. Secretary Baxter T. Smelter is said to be succeeded by William E. Johnson of Waverley. Dr Johnson was surgeon in the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment New York Volunteers, led by Colonel Gen. B. F. Tracy.
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State Board of Health
Baxter T. Smelter
William E. Johnson
Waverley
Johnson
One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment
New York Volunteers
B. F. Tracy
Race of the Atlantic liners ends in near tie
The Cunard liner Etruria and American ship New York raced westward from Dec 22 toward New York with passengers aboard during Christmas. The English liner briefly outpaced the American until late Thursday, but the Etruria regained speed then lapsed from view by midnight. The Campania reportedly won the final leg, while captains denied any race claiming company rules prohibit racing.
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New York
Atlantic
Path
Iea
St. Louis
Campania
Etruria
Mills
McKay
Cunarder
Blackmailer Trapped in Brooklyn Slavery of Rumors Scandal
Brooklyn police capture John Hanna, nineteen, at a Bushwick Myrtle rendezvous after he extorted $15,000 from Augusta Stutz’s father Louis Stutz, a Brooklyn provisioning dealer, claiming to silence rumors about Miss Stutz. Hanna admitted writing the letter. bail set at 5000 dollars.
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Brooklyn
Augusta Stutz
Louis Stutz
Broadway
John Hina
Hamburg Avenue
Leonard and
Fegnersin
Stutz
Hanna
Bushwick
Myrtle Avenues
Mr. Stutz
William F. Weger
Coffee Flask Explosion Shocks Third Avenue Station
A coffee flask exploded at the downtown Third Avenue Elevated Railroad station on One Hundred twenty-fifth Street. Ticket chopper William Grossman had forgotten the coffee while heating it for his meal, and a rain crowd triggered a blast sending a black liquid shower over passengers. Thomas Brady, the ticket agent, secured the safe and warned officials as a police officer arrived on the scene.
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William Grossman
Third Avenue Elevated
Twenty-fifth Street
Grossman
Thomas Brady
Brady
Dosoris Pond Case Settled in Oyster Bay Court
The Court of Appeals affirmed the Appellate Division and Special Term rulings in the Dosoris Pond ownership dispute. Desoris Pond Company, as lessee, claimed fishing and shellfishing rights while defendants argued town title and citizen rights. The case centered on Long Island grants and the authority of Leonard Jacob over East Island, with decisions sustaining his ownership contentions.
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Oyster Bay
Dosoris Pond
Court of Appeals
Appellate Division
Wilmot M. Smith
Desoris Pond Company
Leesee
Edward J. Campbell
Desoris
Leonard Jacob
Charles A. Dana
Charles Pratt
Percy Chubb
Glen Cove
Long Island
Crown of England
New York
Andrus
Dorsoris Pond Company
East Island
East Beach
Bay of Water
Desoris Millpond
Jacob
Tragedy in Abbeville as Sheriff and Suspect Die
A drunken dispute in Abbeville ends with Sheriff Kennedy and a suspect named John Dansby fatally shot. Kyle of Massachusetts, supervising a cotton mill project, dies after being wounded during a pistol duel in a hotel. Dansby dies from chest wounds after being shot by the sheriff as he fled.
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Charleston
S. C
Abbeville
William Kyle
Massachusetts
Kyle
John Dansby
Dansby
Tony
Doctor in a cab fare dispute at city intersections
Dr Alexander Campbell of 557 Fifth Avenue hired a hansom with James Ryan of 521 West One Hundred and Thirtieth Street. After a lengthy ride to multiple hotels and a drug store, Campbell offered 2.50 but Ryan demanded 5.00 or station ride. The sergeant authorized 1.75, Campbell then left to pursue license revocation against the cabman.
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Alexander Campbell
Fifth Avenue
Central Park West
Seventy-sixth Street
James Ryan
West One Hundred
Youse
Ryan
Campbell
West Sixty-eighth Street
Dr. Campbell
Smallpox Outbreak Hits Tenement in Brooklyn
Mrs Denedetta Dewear and her seven year old daughter Amelia were removed from 116 Middleton Street Brooklyn to North Brother Island with smallpox. Police take charge of the tenement. Residents to be vaccinated and house fumigated. No new Manhattan or Bronx cases reported.
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Denedetta Dewear
Amelia
Middleton Street
Brooklyn
North Brother Island
Manhattan
Bronx
Quarantine Lifted Between St Paul And Winona
ST PAUL Minn Dec 30 Dr Justus OHage Health Commissioner of St Paul says the new Winona Health Board has taken proper smallpox precautions and the quarantine is raised Intercourse between the two cities returns to normal trade and travel
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Winona
ST. Paul, Minn
Justus O’hage
St. Paul
Odell Moves to End Special Attorneys Payroll Fight Looms
Governor elect Odell plans to drop about forty special state attorneys from payrolls and shift their duties to the Attorney General. The move aims to cut costs, as these lawyers receive thousands in fees. Ex-Assemblyman George C. Austin, paid $4,500 for Manhattan State Hospital work, reportedly organizing opposition to Odell’s plan.
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Odell
George C. Austin
Abraham Gruber
Manhattan State Hospital
Smallpox Case Reported in Elmira
Elmira records one smallpox case, a seven year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. John Dutt of Beach Street. The Board of Health has enacted strict precautions to curb spread of the disease.
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Elmira
John Dutt
Beach Street
Board of Health
Sailors' Snake Stories Stir Brooklyn Longshoremen
A Brooklyn waterfront crowd hears alleged deep sea yarns from three old sailors. A 110-foot Amazonian snake and a giant river serpent are described in tales from Java and the Straits Settlements. The speakers include a blue-bloused sailor, an imaginative foremast man, and a ship-trader known for snake stories.
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Tebo
Twenty-fourth Street
Brooklyn
Java
Straits Settlements
Bantam
McDougall
Jimmie
Jim
Hevin
Willie MacDougall
Ennough
William
Amazin
Two Cod Fishermen Die In Mystery After Boat Capsize
Sea Isle City reported the bodies of Thomas Carlson and Charles Petersen recovered from an overturned boat tangled in its anchor chain. Lifesavers pulled the cable to retrieve the two men, found dead. cause of death unresolved. Both men had reportedly been under the influence and urged to stay ashore before setting out Wednesday afternoon.
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Sea Isle City
N.J
Thomas Carlson
Charles Petersen
Samuel Shick
Shick
John Cole
Carlson
Petersen
Luxembourg Museum Buys U S Paintings From Exposition
Paris report notes Luxembourg Museum purchases include Walter MacEwen's A Sunday in Holland and Humphrey Johnson's Portrait of a Woman from the United States section displayed at the Paris Exposition.
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Paris
Luxembourg Museum
Walter MacEwen
Holland
Humphrey
Johnson
United States
Fire Devastates Canadian Village in Ontario
A disastrous fire swept West Lorne Ontario tonight destroying a main business block. Loss estimated at $125000 as residents formed a pall brigade awaiting aid from St Thomas and Ridge town until the fire was checked.
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West Lorne
Ontario
St. Thomas
Ridgetown
Mother Dies Rescuing Baby From Burning Home
In ENGLISH Indiana on December 30, Mrs. Cornelia Barth fatally burned while rescuing her one year old baby from a fire at St. Croix. She had left the child asleep in the cradle and was at her mother's house less than 100 yards away when the blaze was found.
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English
Ind
St. Croix
Cornelia Barth
Refuses Call to Rockefeller's Church in Cleveland
The Rev. Dr. W. W. Weeks of Toronto declined a call to Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland, a church associated with John D. Rockefeller as a leading member. The church has been without a pastor since last summer.
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Rockefeller
Cleveland
W. W. Weeks
Toronto
Ont
Euclid Avenue Baptist
John D. Rockefeller
Death by own action after fear of murder arrest
Abraham Beckerman a 31 year old cigarmaker, feared he had killed his brother in law Julius Cohn after shooting him twice. Beckerman shot himself yesterday afternoon at 107 East Eighty eighth Street after a quarrel at Cohns cigar factory on Third Avenue. An insurance policy for 2000 and a note to his mother in Russia were found. Police believed he killed himself to avoid arrest.
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Abraham Beckerman
East Eighty-eighth Street
Beckerman
Russia
Julius Cohn
Third Avenue
Cohn
Joseph Green
Annie Schwartz
Green
Martin Cohen
Julie Schwartz
Cohen
Mrs. Green
Presbyterian Hospital
Washburn shifts to Republicans in Pennsylvania revolt
State Senator Washburn of Crawford County announces his switch from Populist with Democratic and Prohibition endorsement to the Republican Party. He criticized Democrats for partisan aims and said the People’s Party is extinct, pledging to aid Republican councils and organization. The move shakes Senate control and prompts condemnation from Democrats and anti Quay Republicans.
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Harrisburg
Penn
Washburn
Crawford County
George A. Jenks
United States
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Quay
Bryan
People’s Party
Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
Republican Party
Senate
Col. Quay
William P. Snyder
Chester
Penrose
Flinn
Allegheny
William T. Marshall
Gov Pingree Paroles a Forger in Michigan
Jackson Mich Dec 30 Stonewall J Defrance a noted forger who served eleven years for defrauding a Kalamazoo bank has been paroled by Gov Pingree and will be released Monday morning. Defrance previously realized about 66000 by forgeries on the St Paul National Bank Flour City National Bank of St Paul and a Chicago bank.
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Jackson, Mich
Stonewall J. Defrance
Kalamazoo County
Kalamazoo
Pingree
Defiance
St. Paul National Bank
Flour City National Bank of
Scranton Street Car Strike Off Ends After Accord
Scranton Pennsylvania reports that at 12 45 this morning the street car strike ended after a week. President Clark, General Manager Silliman, and Directors John and Timothy Burke visited the strikers with a compromise vote. Workers had demanded a 3 cent raise and a ten hour day but accepted 2 cents extra and a ten hour shift.
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Scranton
Penn
Clark
Silliman
John and
Timothy Burke
Pastor Drops Dead During Services in West Superior
The Rev Anton L Moline pastor of the Scandinavian Free Church of God in West Superior Wisconsin collapsed and died during a service. He was twenty two years old and heart disease may have been the cause according to early reports.
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West Superior
Wis
Anton L. Moline
Scandinavian’ Free Church of God
Cit
Breakdown on DeKalb Ave causes Brooklyn Bridge delay
A car broke down on DeKalb Avenue at around 11 PM, halting traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge for about fifteen minutes as the vehicle stalled halfway across en route to Manhattan.
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DeKalb Avenue
Brooklyn Bridge
Manhattan
Miles Seeks stance on Alger beef controversy
Gen Miles, in Washington, says he has not read full extracts of ex Secretary of War Alger's article on canned and embalmed beef during the Spanish war. He is undecided about issuing a formal reply and notes that proper officers condemned certain actions, with about one hundred thousand soldiers returning home and telling their story.
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Washington
Gen. Miles
War Alger
Gen. Alger
Liles
Local Forecast For The Rocky Mountain District And Eastward
A cold wave will move eastward bringing rain or snow from the Northwest to the Gulf States by Tuesday morning. Temperatures drop sharply over the middle and northern portions with frosts in California and much colder conditions in the Atlantic States. Rain expected in the South Atlantic States on Monday while the lake region and Ohio Valley see mixed precipitation.
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Rocky Mountains
California
Gulf States
Ohio Valley
Lake Region
Atlantic States
South Atlantic
Middle Atlantic States
New England
Lower Lake Region
Upper
Upper Lake Region
Middle Mississippi Valley
Colorado
Lake
Atlantic
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Weather Bureau
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Bbc Sg Desamtyomena Ois
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Ee Senkeesss
Tiwes
Printing House Square
Pererrert Weather Bureau
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Ceee
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Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar Adverts
An old advertisement touts Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar as a sovereign remedy for coughs colds sore throats influenza and bronchitis urging readers to buy from any druggist with prices 25 50 and 3.00 and also promotes Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in One Minute.
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Hale
Pike
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