19 Jan 1901
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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1901
Page
1
The governor presents a comprehensive budget outlook praising county and township reforms, urges further amendments, and advocates nonpartisan prison management, stricter fish and game laws, road improvements, debt reduction, and anti monopoly actions while stressing public health, education, and judicial integrity.
Report from Shanghai notes Italian warships at San Mun bay for target practice amid Allied plans to advance into Shan Si. Washington expects immediate negotiations led by Peking ministers with Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching. Li’s health delays signing. Russians pledge railroad handover to Germany. British stance on aiding Chinese relief criticized.
Me Jan 14 The farmer Thomas Meshier aged 24 was murdered and his mother Mrs Krufis Meshier aged 40 was also killed in a Porthind Maine residence by one or more men who forced entry and ransacked the house taking valuables. A Negro man William Hands was arrested at Scarborn with Meshier’s bloodstained money draft and clothing stains linking him to the crime.
Drifting ice floes along the Atlantic coast near St Johns threaten the coast. The coast steamer Virginia bound north was unable to penetrate the ice. Vessels report ice sweeping outward toward transAtlantic steamers and likely to reach latitude of Cape Race this week.
Rainey, clerk of Davidson County circuit court, was arrested on a charge of embezzlement in office. The warrant, issued at the request of Fidelity and Casualty Insurance Co of Baltimore, cites bond obligations and a bail set at 10,000.
Oriental reports say an overcrowded West river steamer lost its rudder and was swept onto rocks near Canton, sinking within minutes. Of about 500 passengers aboard, 150 are reported drowned.
In Washington on January 14 Joseph Yates Paige longtime chief clerk of the controller of the currency died of pneumonia. Boston reports Rev John Alexander Dowie leader of the Zion City project began a three day meeting in Hoxton. New York notes the death of Commodore Alex Henderson United States Navy retired born July 12 1822 in Washington D C.
The Senate debated the canteen provision linked to the army reorganization bill for hours, while the House approved the Burrleigh plan boosting House membership to 386. Washington notes show continued river and harbor discussions and pension bills, with delays and personal clashes in sessions.
Us. Adm. Thomas F. Phelps of Washington D. C. died in a New York hospital Thursday night from pneumonia after being brought there from a hotel two days earlier. He came to the city with Miss N. R. Adams, Mrs. T. R. Mason, M. Mason and Mrs. J. A. Adams to be with Mrs. Phelps who has been ill at the hospital for three weeks.
Washington report says C L Vawter the United States marshal at home Alaska has sent his resignation to the president. He is described as from Montana and F E Richards of Washington has been recommended for the vacancy.
A Peking dispatch dated Monday reports Russians in Chi Li province distributing 10,000 rice rations for Emperor Nicholas.
Pittsburgh report says Harry K Deer a 22 year old messenger for Farmers and Mechanics Bank at Sharpsburg Pa fled with $10000 in coin from the Merchants and Mechanics Bank in Pittsburgh. The item notes Adm Dewey and a brief line on medical status in Washington.
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