Senators Fixing States Select Committeemen
Washington dispatch notes Senate committee assignments and vacancies after the death of Platt. Key seats go to Hale for Finance, Lodge contested, Beveridge eyed for Foreign Relations, Knox for Judiciary, with a scramble for the remaining panel. Census, Indian Affairs, Irrigation, and Inter Oceanic Canals face reorganizations as leaders weigh names and party balance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Committee On Committees
Senate
Platt
Committee On Finance
Hale
New England
Lodge
Hare
Maine
Committee On the Judiciary
Knox
Committee On Census
Quarles
McComas
Senator Burton
Kansas
Committee On Naval Affairs
Kearns
McCumber
Bard
Senator Ankeny
Mitchell
Oregon
Millard
Kittredge
New Members Enter Congress Amid Roosevelt Era Wave
Washington reports eighty three first time lawmakers join the House under the Roosevelt tidal wave. Veteran returnees include J Warren Keifer and Julius Kahn among eight veterans. Missouri yields the most new Republicans, New York follows, Ohio strong, with a reluctant nominee finally accepting with pay terms.
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Julius Kahn
California
Loren Fletcher
Minnesota
Charles A. Towne
New York
E. Spencer Blackburn
North Carolina
J. Warren Keifer
Ohio
Martin L. Smyser
William H. Graham
Pennsylvania
Marcus A. Smith
Arizona
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Joe’ Cannon
House
Roosevelt
Charlies A. Towne
Senate
Taggart
Missouri
Shanghai horrors prompt arrests of oyster boat captains
Baltimore reports the government expedition on the Chesapeake ends its first cruise reporting shanghai abuses aboard oyster boats. Captains William Wheatley George W Muir Tull A Price Alonzo Hoffman face hearings for beating crew and leaving men ashore. The Genesta case reveals extreme neglect of George Kissick as the Windom sails to Washington.
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the Tribune
Baltimore
Shanghai
Chesapeake
Shaw
Roosevelt
Windom
Cherapeek
Poons River
Washington
Sadie Gibson
McCabe and Clark
Deal's Island
Chesapeake Beach
William Wheatley
George W. Muir
J. B. Robbins
Oriole
Love Point
George Smith
Philadelphia
Annapolis
Tull A. Price
James A. Garfield
Lower Cedar Point
Potomac River
Robert Jenkins
Jenkins
Alonzo Hoffman
Smith’s Island
United States
Bond
George Kissick
Kissick
North
Cleveland Ave
Crimp
Big Mose” Harris
4Th and Callowhill Sts
Secret Service
Harris
Disaster at Port Perry Dam: Twilight Overturned on Monongahela
The Monongahela River towboat Twilight carrying about five hundred thousand ashes of coal broke over dam No 2 at Port Perry eight miles from Pittsburg. Fifteen men and a chambermaid were aboard. all were saved after dramatic rescues by a fleet of boats. The chambermaid Miss Peters, who could not swim, leapt to a coal barge and survived.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Monongahela Valley
Port Perry
Monongahela River
Llewellyn
Miss Peters
Jolt for the divorce court in three local cases
Richmond Indiana reports three distinct marital milestones. Cyrus Albertson with Cyrus Albertson? Wait. A double golden wedding anniversary planned for December 12 at the Brooks home. The Hinshaw family marks sixty years of marriage with nine living children. Clara Krass of Coal City and Klamant Krass celebrate twenty five years of marriage and nineteen children born to their union.
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The
Tribune
Richmond
Ind
Cyrus Albertson
John Brooks
Jacob A. Hinshaw
Lynn
Clara Krass
Coal City
Klamant Krass
L Car Hangs in Air At Williamsburg Terminal
An elevated Brooklyn Rapid Transit line train backed toward the Broadway terminal at Broadway Williamsburg and narrowly avoided a disaster, with 25 passengers aboard. The rear end of the car hung over the terminal while bumpers crashed onto the ferryhouse roof and four cars jolted, injuring several women and sending 400 ferryhouse spectators into a panic before the motorman stopped the train.
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Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Broadway Terminal
Broadway
Williamsburg
Broadway Ferry House
Ferryhouse
New York
W. H. Goldstein
William Howard
Howard
Ferry House
Improvements Planned for Mexico City Union Station
Mexico City plans a union station to serve all railroads and higher wharfage. Plans will be submitted for improvements estimated to cost 6,600,000 dollars.
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Mexico City
Lord Curzon Reaches Dover on Visit
Lord Curzon of Kedleston former Viceroy of India and Lady Curzon landed at Dover England today amid their arrival for a scheduled visit.
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Lord Curzon
Dover
England
Lord Curzon of
Kadleston
India
Curzon
Chaos and Mutiny Report in Russia and Baltic
Dispatches describe chaotic conditions in Russia up to December 2 as new mutinies erupt in the Baltic Provinces. Fighting rages at Kiev and Odessa fears another massacre as autocratic powers push Witte from power and seek a military dictatorship. A guard at the American Embassy in St. Petersburg travels via Berlin.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
Baltic
Kieff
Odessa
Count Witte
Berlin
Government Shows Confidence Amid Labor Tensions In Russia
In St Petersburg authorities signal a possible compromise to reopen government and private factories while telegraph and postal workers face discharge if they do not return to work. Protests are warned against with fines and imprisonment, as troops concentrate in the Baltic region and reform discussions continue under Premier Witte.
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M. Sevestianoff
Posts and Telegraphs
St. Petersburg
General de Dioulin
Baltic
Overnight to Chicago Pennsylvanian special
The eighteen hour Pennsylvanian special train leaves New York at 3 PM bound for Chicago arriving 8:35 AM. It departs Chicago at 2:45 PM arriving New York at 9:45 AM. Operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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Albany
Utica
Syracuse
Rochester
Buffalo
Iral Ta Falls
New-York
Chicago
Pennsylvania
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
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William B. McKinley
Senator Hale
Mr. Platt
Connecticut
Congress
Oyster Bugeye Commission Returns
Bydtkuhnen
M. Petrunkevitch
Moscow Society
Witte
Council of Ministers
Louisiana
Thomas A. Smith
Maryland
John Gill, Jr
Rockwood Hoar
Massachusetts
John W. Weeks
Edwin Denby
Michigan
Frank B. Klepper
Frank
William T. Tyndall
Cassius M. Shartel
John T. Watkins
Jot Welborn
Ernest E. Wood
Marion E. Rhodes
Fulkerson
Edgar C. Elis
John L. Kennedy
Nebraska
Henry C. Allen
New-Jersey
Marshall van Winkle
William W. Cocks
Charles B. Law
New- 16Th
Ernest M. Pollard
Nebraskaw-York
J. van Vechten Olcott
William S. Bennet
John E. Andrus
Frank J. le Fevre
Herbert Parsons
Artur P. Murphy
Fork
George E. Waldo
Wiliam
Calder
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