Senate Secrecy in Santo Domingo Treaty Debate
The Tribune reports on Senate talks over the Santo Domingo treaty urged for ratification. It asserts executive session secrecy aids constitutional debate and predicts likely Republican support with Democratic backing to secure final approval.
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Tribune Bureau
Sie
Senate
Santo Domingo
Siti
Morales
Erro Ree Cain
Santo Domingos
Washington
United States
Republic of Santo Domingo
Roosevelt
Committee On Foreign Relations
Balderdash
Longe
Attack on Mr Depew and Albany politics unfold
The Albany legislature organized with James Wadsworth Jr elected Speaker. Governor’s message delivered. Senator Brackett proposed Depew resignation but withdrew after debate. A bid to abolish the Assembly Rules Committee failed. Grady proposed a public utilities commission to oversee NYC public service firms.
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Albany
James W. Wadsworth, Jr
Brackett
Depew
Assembly
Thomas F. Grady
Public Utilities Commission
New York City
Elsberg
Grady
Raines
Committee On Federal Relations
Depe
Coggeshall
Puerto Plata in Santo Domingo upheaval sparks fighting
Washington reports a Puerto Plata uprising with General Rodriguez battling forces of General Cespedes and Morales supporters, at least 25 killed and many wounded. Advices say street fighting and a massed attack expected, with Rodriguez signaling a presidential bid if Puerto Plata falls. The town is a key seaport exporting tobacco coffee and dye woods.
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Rodriguez
Cespedes
Cape Haytien
Puerto Plata
Santo Domingo
Morales
Demetrio Rodriguez
Caceres
Santo Domings
Monte Cristi
Train Ad Voicing New York Central Line Reaches Detroit
Advert says a fine train runs from New York to Detroit Grand Rapids Saginaw and Chicago leaving New York at 42 F M daily arriving Detroit next morning Grand Rapids or Chicago next afternoon via the New York Central Line.
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Detroit
Grand Rapids
Saginaw
Chicago
New York
New York Central
Adve
New York man slain in Yale area home
Charles A Edwards, a New York City financier and former Passaic Chemical Company president, was found shot in his brother in law Charles A Hiller's College Street home near Yale. An inquest was opened, police guarded the house, and authorities considered murder as the likely cause with a postmortem planned.
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New-Haven
Conn
Charles A. Edwards
Park-ave
New-York City
Passaic Chemical Company
New-Jersey
General Chemical Company
The
Chemical Trust
Charles A. Hiller
Pond
Hiller
College St
East Divinity
Yale
Hillers
Mr. Edwards
Edwards
New Haven
Bartlett
A. Maxey Hiller
Charles
Cheney
Samuel Harris
Timothy Dwight
New York
Charles A
Metcalf
Benjamin H. Cheney
Charles A- Hiller
A- Maxey Hiller
Superior Court
Features of Governor Higgins's Message
Governor Higgins urges stricter supervision of life insurance to curb evils found by the Armstrong committee. He calls for large state revenues, a taxation commission, repeal of the savings banks surplus tax, and reforms to mortgage and stock transfer taxes. Additional measures include election law reform, criminalizing corporate political payments, stronger factory inspection, and criticisms of educational methods including compulsory attendance. Gas at 80 cents, local option for liquor sales, Niagara Falls protections, and public utility regulation are recommended along with canal and other public works economy.
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Armstrong Committee
Niagara Falls
West snowbound trains stalled across six states
Telegraphed report from St. Paul and other cities shows trains ten to twenty hours late or not started as eighteen inches to two feet of snow burdens routes from Wisconsin to Minnesota. Chicago St Paul line delays eight to ten hours with risk of blockade. streetcars halted in St. Paul.
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The
Tribune
St. Paul
Jan
Chicago
Wisconsin
Hayward
North Dakota
Minnesota
la Crosse
Wis
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Des Moines
Iowa
Menominee
Mich
Prentice In Asylum After Illness Hidden News
Augustus B Prentice a New York lawyer of 155 Broadway and resident of 7 West Swlst st has been confined in a Bloomingdale Asylum private ward. Doctors say brain softening caused the crisis and a city magistrate ordered the commitment.
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Augustus B. Prentice
Broadway
West
Swlst St
Bloomingdale
Augustus Prentice
New York
Joseph H. Choate
Young Prentice
L. H. Finch
Prentice
Dr. Dana
Foster
Dr. Fisher
Bloomingdale Asylum
Snow Benefits Wheat as Kansas Suffers Fuel Shortage
The first heavy snow of the season blankets Kansas, two to four inches deep, easing drought in the wheat belt. The storm brings moisture long awaited, while fuel shortages in Meade County force farmers to drive as far as forty miles for coal. Local reports indicate reduced ice in southwestern counties if the blizzard lasts.
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The
Tribune
Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Cones
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Meade County
George B
Chorus Strike Shadows Faust at Metropolitan Open House
The Metropolitan Opera House faced a strike as Conried’s chorus walked out over union demands during the Faust premiere in French with Caruso and Mme Eames. Despite appeals, two men and six chorus women stayed, performances went on, and Conried defended artistic control while warning unions.
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Mr. Conried
Faust
Caruso
Mme. Eames
Marguerite
Metropolitan Opera House
Dippel
Conried
Philadelphia
Central Federation
Brackett Pushes Depew Resignation Probe in Senate
Albany January 3. Senator Brackett introduced a resolution demanding Chauncey M Depew resign from the U S Senate over ties to the Equitable Life Assurance Society. The measure triggered sharp exchanges with accusations and defenses as debate continued.
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Tribune
Albany
Brackett
Chauncey M. Depew
United States Senate
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Raines
Malloy
Coggeshall
Depew
Grady
Senate
United States Congress
Chauncey M. Depen
Famine Ravages Miyaga Fukushima Iwate Provinces
Thousands in Miyaga Fukushima and Iwate report famine worst in sixty years. A government tally shows 2 521 557 people facing extreme hunger with a million needing aid. Residents subsist on shrubs roots and tree bark as relief committees organize aid.
Windstorm Fatal Strikes Albany Area and Chemical Plant
A Jan 3 wind and rain disaster in Albany, Georgia, tore through the city at 1:30 PM. Several African American workers died near the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company plant while others were injured. The storm also toppled trees and damaged sheds, with homes largely spared in residential districts.
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Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company
Albany
Washington
Geo Cotton Oil Company
Becomes Count's Bride Miss Holbrook Wed in New York
Miss Lillian Holbrook daughter of Edward and Mrs Holbrook of No 6 East 52d Street wed Count Guillame de Balincourt of Paris yesterday afternoon at the bride’s home. Rev Wooster of Church of the Guardian Angel performed the ceremony. The count is Catholic and the bride Protestant. The bride’s father is president of Gorham Silver Company. The couple will reside in Paris.
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Lillian Holbrook
Edward Holbrook
Count Guillame de Balincourt
Paris
Mr. Wooster
King Alfonso Falls From Horse At Palace Exit
King Alfonso fell with his horse today while leaving the palace to attend a review. He was uninjured, remounted, and continued on.
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Alfonso
Madrid
Oldest Knight of Pythias Dies in Omaha at 92
John Taylor, reportedly the world’s oldest Knight of Pythias, died in Omaha today at age ninety two. A Philadelphia native, he organized the first Pythian lodge in Nebraska and held all state lodge offices, attending national meetings regularly.
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the Tribune
Omaha
Neb
John Taylor
Pythias
Taylor
Philadelphia
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Wolverine Limited
New-York
Higgins
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Caruso and
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MR. Raines
Senator Brackett
Cog Geshall
Insurance Investigation Committee
Japan
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