House Approves 500000 Anti Trust Enforcement Fund
Washington dec 17 the House adopted a Hepburn style amendment to the Legislative Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill authorizing 500000 for the Attorney General to enforce the anti trust laws. The move reflects hopes to test existing statutes and shape future reform with ongoing Senate and House consideration continuing beyond this session.
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Tribune
Washington
House of Representatives
Judiciary Committee
House
Hepburn
Knox
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Bartlett
Georgia
Department of Justice
United States
Philippine Commerce Shows Growth Despite Quarantine Slowdown
Washington reports consistent expansion in Philippine commerce amid cholera quarantine rules. Eight months to August show imports rising to 21,553,312 dollars, with U.S. shipments driving gains, hemp exports increasing, and export duties exempt for U.S. bound Philippine products under a March 1992 act.
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Washington
Philippine Customs Houses
United States
Philippine Islands
Railroad Combinations Shape Future Interstate Regulation
Washington reports that railway consolidation suppresses competition and concentrates control among a few owners. The Interstate Commerce Commission urges amending the law, cites secret rates and injunctions, and seeks orders for fair published tariffs and broader safety rules on braking systems.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
China to Pay Boxer Indemnity in Silver
Unofficial advices report China will pay the next Boxer indemnity instalment in silver. The move is said to be driven by revenues and finances that are payable in silver, with a gold shortage and internal strain making gold payments impractical.
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Washington
China
New Offic ers Named by Repub Union Assembly Group
The Repub Union of the XXVIIIth Assembly District held a Tuesday night meeting at the clubhouse No 16 Eighty-first Street and elected officers, including President William C Hecht First Vice President Felix Simon Second Vice President Charles Glogger Recording and Corresponding Secretary Carl F Schmitt Financial Secretary Byman Stahl Treasurer Joseph Mann Sergeant at Arms Patrick Haggerty and a board of trustees.
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Repub- Union
Joseph Harris
Martein, Levy
Manko Guggenheim
Samuel Rosen- Saac DeLara
Burton McGregor
Joseph Gus
Edward J. McDonough
Aaron Davidson
William H. Farley
Julius Weil
House Ways and Means backs Philippine tariff relief bill
The House Ways and Means Committee authorized a favorable report on Cooper's Philippine Tariff act amendment reducing Philippine product duties to 25 percent of current schedules. The bill would also credit duties already paid and exempt Philippine exports used in the U.S. from Philippine export taxes. Democrats urged free trade, but Republicans largely supported the measure. minority reports argued against the current rate but in favor of reducing duties if possible.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Cooper
Insular Affairs Committee
Philippines
United States
The
Philippine Commission
Payne
Richardson
Tennessee
McClellan
New York
Moody pushes for more ships and training vessels
Secretary Moody urged Congress to authorize two steel training ships at 375000 dollars each and one wooden sailing brig at 50000 dollars. He also pressed for two battleships near seven million dollars each and hospital ships. He opposed more submarine torpedo boats until current ones are tested and the Naval Academy cost limit may be raised to ten million dollars.
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Tribune
Washington
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Congress
Moody
Connecticut
Louisiana
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Academy
Diamonds Seized at El Paso Smuggled From England
Special Agent J F Evans reports the seizure at El Paso of diamonds valued at about 24000 believed smuggled from England via New York. The stones, including a 192 gem necklace and a brooch, are held by the El Paso customs collector awaiting a hearing. A young man and a wealthy woman described as from India are linked to the case.
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Washington
J. F. Evans
el Paso
Tex
Secretary of the Treasury
England
New York
India
Salt production in Michigan shows year decline reversal
State Salt Inspector Dunwell reports for the year ended November 30, 1902 that 65 salt blocks in Michigan produced 4,994,245 barrels of salt, a net increase of 585,856 barrels from 1901, despite overall fall in production.
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Lansing
Mich
Dunwell
Michigan
Senate Passes Pension and Urgent Deficiency Bills
The Senate adopted the Pension Appropriation bill for 139,847 dollars and an Urgent Deficiency bill totaling 1,140,400 dollars including 500,000 for the Agriculture Department to stamp out foot and mouth disease in the New England States. Senator Bacon of Georgia spoke briefly against the reserve force provision in the Militia bill.
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Washington
Senate
New England
Bacon
Georgia
Cuban Reciprocity Treaty Sent to Senate
The President sent the reciprocity treaty with Cuba to the Senate. It was received in executive session and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations without being read.
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Committee On Foreign Relations
Washington
Senate
United States
Cuba
Eulogies in Senate Mark Death of Senator Sewell
The Senate paid tribute to the late New Jersey Senator William J. Sewell with a day of eulogies led by Mr Kean. Senators Cockrell Allison Morgan Cullom Proctor Daniel Warren Penrose Depew McComas Quay and Dryden spoke. The body adjourned until Saturday.
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Washington
Senate
William J. Sewell
New Jersey
Kean
General Sewell
Cockrell
Allison
Morgan
Cullom
Proctor
Daniel
Warren
Penrose
Depew
McComas
Quay
Dryden
Senator Dryden
Sewell
Dewey's Fleet Exercises Continue at San Juan
The American fleet trains in squadron formation off San Juan as Texas joins the battleship fleet. Admiral Dewey notes errors by ships unfamiliar with the maneuvers and shares guidance with deck officers. Rivalry grows among vessels, seen as beneficial for post Christmas evolutions. Newark completed an inspection trial today.
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San Juan
Texas
North Atlantic
Admiral Dewey
Newark
Dolphin
Gloucester
Porto Rico
Ponce
St. Kitts
Medico-Legal Society Votes to Abolish Coroner Office
Annual dinner and election at the Hotel Montauk West Thirty-fifth Street reelects officers but fills deaths. Debate centers on abolishing the coroner and proposes transferring duties to health and magistrate authorities. A resolution calls for memorializing the legislature and inviting support from New York City organizations.
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Medico- Legal Society
Hotel Montauk
West Thirty-fifth-st
Luther R. Marsh
Herman Kornfeld
Silesia
John M. Harcourt
South Dakota
Harry R. Purdy
Dooley
Stephen Smith
New-York Medical Association
New York City
Senator Fuller Wins Endorsement for Elections Commissioner
At a Brooklyn Republican Executive Committee meeting, Senator Rudolph C. Fuller was unanimously endorsed to succeed Michael J. Dady as Elections Commissioner. Ex-Justice William Schnitzspan pursued the post but failed to command a majority. Fuller has 20 years in politics, mostly in the Xth Assembly District, and earlier led a Brooklyn Records Department post before becoming a senator in 1990.
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Republican Executive Committee
Brooklyn
Michael J. Dady
Rudolph C. Fuller
William Schnitzspan
Friends of
Schnitzspan
Fuller
Xth
Laying the Pacific Cable Progress Report
The cable ship Silvertown reports rapid progress toward Honolulu after a tough start. At noon today she had advanced 455 knots from shore at eight knots speed, with seas easing and weather improving. She left her anchorage six miles off San Francisco on Monday, averaging well over 12 knots per hour and expected to speed further with better conditions.
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San Francisco
Silvertown
Honolulu
Brooklyn church to call Dr Nacy Mayes Waters
Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church will call Rev Dr Nacy Mayes Waters of First Congregational Church Binghamton to succeed Rev Dr Robert R Meredith who resigned earlier this year The salary remains eight dollars a year and the call was unanimously approved by the church society
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Tompkins Avenue
Greene May Be The Man For Police Commissioner
General Francis V. Greene a former Republican County Committee president appears likely to be named Police Commissioner after January 1. Rumors say Senator Platt and Mayor linked figures will submit names to Governor Odell and President Morris, with Greene favored for discipline and full-time service.
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Francis V. Greene
Republican County Committee
Senator Platt
Colonel Partridge
Washington
Low
Platt
Morris
Odell
Greene
Norton Goddard
Charles H. Murray
Woodruff
Ebstein
A. L. Kline
Kings County
Messrs Platt
Asphalt Trust
Woodbury
Elephant runs amuck in Hoboken pier escape
The 15 year old Indian elephant Gyp, part of the Hagenbeck consignment aboard the Patrétia, broke from keepers on Hoboken pier. It crashed through a glass door injuring Oscar Weigel, then chased along the pier before being recaptured and set to Buffalo aboard a train.
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Hagenbeck
Patrétia
Hoboken
Lackawanna
Buffalo
Oscar Weigel
Weigel
Thirdst
Gyp
Tax Reform Association Dinner Highlighted Taxation Debates
The New York Tax Reform Association held its annual dinner at the Hotel Savoy with President Julien T. Davies introducing speakers. Guests included Lewis Nixon and Bolton Hall as Davies urged franchise taxation and market-value assessments while James L. Wells and George F. Seward argued for equalized and scientific assessments.
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New York Tax Reform Association
Hotel Savoy
Julien T. Davies
Lewis Nixon
Wheeler H. Peckham
Charles R. Miller
Warner Miller
Dallas B. Pratt
Joseph B. Bishop
Bolton Hall
Edwin Gould
Howard Carroll
John S. Kennedy
Edgar L. Levey
Richard A. McCurdy
James B. Reynolds
Isaac N. Seligman
Edward N. Tailor
Francis E
George F. Seward
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber On
Lawson Purdy
New-York Tax Reform Association
Army and Navy Orders Issued With Transfers and Assignments
Washington December 17 orders announce officer reassignments and station changes across Army and Navy commands. Major Johnson designated to examining board at Fort Monroe. Barker and Newgarden moved to different posts. numerous quartermaster transfers including Miller Humphrey and Hyde. Lafitte to the transport Logan. Simonds and Baltzill reassigned to Fort Reno and Fort McPherson respectively. Horton and Pettus receive new postings. pay director Thomson to Mare Island for retirement evaluation.
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Charles F. Barker
Fort Monroe
Richard W. Johnson
Henry Page
Ogpen Rafferty
George J. Newgarden
San Francisco
Francis M. ©. Usher
Chauncey B. Baker
Fort D. A. Russell
Jeffersonville
Ind
Chickamauga Park
Quartermaster’s Department
Crosby P. Miller
Department of California
Daniel D. W
New York
Max W. Littell
Charles F. Humphrey
Edwin B. Atwood
William H. Miller
John McE. Hyde
Forrest H. Hathaway
Harry L. Pettus
Fort Hamilton
William E. Horton
Baltimore
Frank Daniels to star in new comic opera with Dillingham
Frank Daniels is set for next season in a comic opera by Harry B. Smith and Victor Herbert with management by Charles B. Dillingham. Daniels plays a French dressmaker whose millionaire patrons are show girls and where work girls strike on the eve of the Grand Prix. Also note a Carnegie Hall concert by Raoul Pugno Elsa Ruegzer and David Bispham at 3 30 PM next Sunday.
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Frank Daniels
Charles B. Dillingham
Harry B. Smith
Victor Herbert
Herbert
Beethoven
Daniels
Carnegie Hall
Raoul Pugno
Elsa Ruegzer
David Bispham
Lola Leonard Dies After Train Runover At Park Hill Station
Lola Leonard a nineteen year old from Van Cortlandt Park Avenue Yonkers suburb died at St Josephs hospital after being run over by a Putnam Railroad train at Park Hill on Tuesday evening. She slipped as she boarded and the wheels crushed both legs leading to amputation and shock. She wrote her name and address before ambulance transport. Her death follows injuries and loss of blood. A brother Clarence Leonard and sister Camé were at the hospital when she spoke to them.
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Lola Leonard
van Cortlandt
Park Ave
Caryl
Yonkers
St. Joseph's Hospital
Park Hill
Putnam Railroad
Miss Leonard
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Grau Opera Company
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