Extra Session in June to Revise the Tariff
President Roosevelt weighs calling Congress in extraordinary session next summer possibly June 1 to revise tariff schedules. He favors spring action but wants thorough debate, while lawmakers prefer more time and fear midsummer sessions. He also pushes interstate commerce reform as a priority, resisting pooling and rebates as side issues.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Weys and Means Committee
House
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
Divorce suit reveals harsh details in McKee case
Pittsburgh January 3. Mrs Elizabeth S McKee filed for divorce from Andrew Hartupee McKee of New York in a suit tied to Phipps cases. Contends cruelty desertion and brutal treatment. Master recommends divorce. McKee allegedly left Allegheny residence two years ago. Settlement valued at 300000 with life income to McKee. Father sued for 100000 over supposed inside information on Colorado Fuel and Iron.
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Pittsburge
Elize S. McKee
Andrew Hartupee Meklne
New Fork
Phipps
E. L. Mattern
A. Hartupee McKee
Henry Sellers McKee
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
East Thirty-sixth St
McKee
William Hartapee
Genevieve Chanler Phipps
Lawrence C. Phipps
New York Central Service Schedule Fragment
Train schedule fragment notes arrival times at Cleveland Cincinnati and Indianapolis from New York with 6:22 p m depart and 7:05 a m next day arrival and 3:00 p m at Indianapolis. Ad indicates no excess fare.
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New York
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
New York Central Service
Raids raid West Twenty ninth Street disorderly houses
Captain Cottrell and Inspector McLaughlin led a raid at closing time on several West Twenty ninth Street venues. About 130 prisoners were taken including eighteen women at one house and the managers of two establishments. Warrants cited disorderly conduct. authorities say ongoing complaints prompted the operation.
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Cottrell
McLaughlin
West Twenty-ninth-st
West Twenty-ninth St
Broadway
Bohemia
William Pann
Mott
Savoy
Twenty-ninth-st
Haymarket
Society For the Prevention of Crime
McAdoo
Parkhurst Blasts Police Over City Gambling and Chinatown Conditions
The Rev Dr Charles H Parkhurst as president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime accuses Police Commissioner McAdoo of neglect and corruption in Chinatown and West Side gambling and brothels. He cites reports from real estate dealers and frequent citizen complaints, urging action from Mulberry Street rather than public praise. The letter was delivered to the commissioner by Thomas L McClintock, with Parkhurst at Lakewood.
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Charles H. Parkhurst
Society For the Prevention of Crime
McAdoo
Police Department
Society
Thomas L. McClintock
Parkhust
Lakewood
Mulberry Street
Chinatown
West Thirty-seconds
Society For the Revention of Crime
Inspector Walsh
Captain Cottrell
Walsh
Cottrell
Munici
City Hall
New York City
New York Storm Paralyzes Traffic and Trains
A forty knot nor’easter crippled Bronx streets and city transit. Cars stalled, horses fell, chimneys toppled, and windows shattered as Union Railway, Fifth Avenue, and crosstown lines ground to a halt. Trains on the Central and New Haven railroads ran late, while lodging houses overflowed and a dock shelter offered coffee and beds to the homeless.
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New York
Bronx
Union Railway Company
Emery
Broadway
Thirty-second-st
Fourteenth-st
Breslin
Twenty-ninth-st
Sixth
Eighth Ave
State St
Battery Place
Snes
Lexington
Madison Aves
Forty-second St
Thirdave
Seventy-sixth St
William Hopkins
Patrick Kane
Hopkins
New-York
New Haven
Hartford
Grand Central Station
Central Road
Southwestern
Lake Shore Limited
Eastern Express
New Yorker
Day Express
Metropolitan
Central
New Haven Road
Boston
City Lodging House
York
Twenty-sixth-st. Pier House
Olive Tree Inn
Pier 36 Blaze Engulfs Clyde Steamship Offices in Snow
Firefighters fought icy slush and sleet for three hours at Pier 36 North River between Spring and Charlton streets. The Clyde Steamship Co offices burned, damage about 30000 dollars, as steamers Apache Carib and city fireboats fought the blaze with ladders and streams amid ice and wind. By midnight the fire was nearly out.
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Pier 36
North River
Spring
Charlton Sts
Clyde Steamship Company
Darage
Krueger
Croker
Charleston
Jacksonville
Wilmington
George B. McClellan
Abram S. Hewitt
New Yorker
City of Columbus
Ocean Steamship Company
Savannah
Willcox Takes Charge of New York Post Office
William R. Willcox yesterday formally assumed control of the New York Post Office succeeding the late Cornelius Van Cott. He emphasized merit over influence, announced staff changes, and released 1904 revenue figures showing a net government profit of 9.7 million dollars and total receipts of 14.69 million dollars, up 8 percent from 1903.
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William R. Willcox
New-York
Cornelius van Cott
Thomas F. Murphy
Morgar
Conger to run for Governor after return from China
Sioux City Iowa January 3 minister Conger plans to return home to seek the governorship appealing to church sentiment. He says he and his wife converted the Empress Dowager and predicts an edict favoring Christianity and Western institutions opening development in China like Japan’s rise. Seaboard Florida Limited departs New York daily January 12 at 12 25 noon arriving St Augustine 2 10 PM.
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the Tribune
Sioux City
Iowa
Conger
China
Japan
Port Arthur Surrender Terms and Aftermath
Articles of surrender for Port Arthur set January 3 noon as the transfer time and require Russia to reveal weapon positions and fortifications. Russian officers may keep side arms and depart on parole. enlisted men become Japan's prisoners. Port Arthur forts seized by Japan. city reportedly wrecked. Sources note peace overtures require Japan, while Baron Hayashi says Japan will not make them. The Baltic fleet’s second division reached Madagascar.
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Port Arthur
Russia
Japan
Che-Foo
Tokio
St. Petersburg
Baron Hayashi
London
Madagascar
Etse Shan
Sun-Shu Shan
Antse-Shan
Army
Navy
Indignant at Peace Talk Terms of Surrender
Telegraphs from abroad on peace talks provoke strong official and Liberal reaction in St Petersburg. Russians condemn any halt to hostilities until victory in Manchuria, defend Stoessel’s actions and argue for stronger terms or an alliance with Japan. The capitulation terms for Port Arthur are outlined with detailed articles and parole conditions.
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Port Arthur
Russia
Stoessel’s Port Arthur Siege Report Compromised By Heavy Losses
Dispatches from Che Foo describe Port Arthur's fortress deteriorating under Japanese assaults. Casualties mounted as bombardments intensified and ammunition ran out. By late in the siege, the garrison faced dwindling supplies and mounting sick and wounded with 300 new casualties daily.
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St. Petersburg
Stoessel
Che-Foo
Stamp
Port Arthur
Searty
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Tenderloin
Tuxedo
DR. Parkhurst
Wililcox
Clyde Steamship Offices
W.r.willcox
Post Office
Seaboard Florida Limited
New York Daily
St. Augustine
Handscrest and
Quidkes
Florida
Port
Churia
General Stoessel
Nicholas
War Office
Admiralty
United States
France
Far East
Vilny
Nogi
Arthur
Sanitary Corps
Rihlung Mountain
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