Senate and House Debates on Tariffs and Statehood
The period covers debates on coal duties and tariff policies, with West, Aldrich, Tillman, and Foraker speaking in the Senate. The House enacts a coal duty rebate and advances the army and department of commerce measures. Privates pension bills pass, and memorial observances honor late Rep Tongue of Oregon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Messrs
Re West
Carmack
Aldrich
Committee On Finance
West
Tongo
Oregon
T House
Committee On Merchant Marine and Fisheries
House
Representative Tongue
Nuance Committee
Doliver
Rotary
Minn
Grosvenor
M. Clark
Tillman
Cumming
Oklahoma
Arizona
New Mexico
Ways and Means
Army
Signal Corps
Army Transport Service
Con-Greas
Till
Department of Commerce
B. F. Moody & Co
Keokuk
Cuban insurgents threaten town seizures over pay arrears
Former revolutionary army members in Cuba vow to seize every town from Point Maise to Cape San Antonio if owed wages are not paid by March. The report notes wider world events and a busy news day with political, safety and industry items.
Steamship St Louis Safe After Sighting Off Nantucket
Reports from New York say the American Line steamer St Louis, inbound from Southampton January 3, was sighted off Nantucket lightship at 6 40 p m Friday going dead slow. Signals to the south shore lightship were unintelligible in a gale and the ship appeared low on steam, indicating possible boiler trouble and risk of not reaching New York before Sunday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Line
St. Louis
Southampton
Nantucket
South Shore
Yale Students Arrested in Ticket Speculator Assault Case
Three Yale seniors Bradford Ellsworth William R Orshwein and Harold M Sawyer were arrested in a civil action by Sidney Troeder a Roxbury Mass ticket speculator who sold Yale Harvard football game tickets. Troeder alleges they assaulted him during ticket handling on November 20 and stole a diamond pin and 12 tickets demanding 2500 in damages. He was previously convicted and fined for assault in city court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Yale
Sidney Troeder
Roxbury
Slass
Bradford Ellsworth
New York
William R. Orshwein
St. Louis
Harold M. Sawyer
Bridgeport
Troeder
River Head Man Acquitted in Foster Death Case
Louis A. Disbrow was found not guilty of killing Clarence Foster at Good Ground on June 9. The jury deliberated briefly. prosecutors argued the last sighting with Foster and Miss Lawrence was damning, while the defense claimed Foster and the girl caused their own deaths. District Attorney Smith said he would not retry the indictment against Disbrow for Miss Lawrence’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
River Head
L. I
Louis A. Disbrow
Clarence Foster
Foster
Miss Lawrence
Smith
Disbrow
Plague in Mazatlan reports eight new cases and four deaths
Mazatlan reports eight new plague cases and four deaths on Friday. Several houses burned due to contamination as Jazarello patients continue dying. Ex-President Ezeta is gravely ill in hospital. Relief funds arrive amid a gloomy, stagnant economy and unusual Chinese exemption from the plague draws attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mazatlan
Mex
Ezeta
Republic of Salvador
A Single Handed Fighter in Luzon
Manila January 17 Constabulary Inspector Fletcher patrols Luzon province of Ibay alone when attacked by forty bolo men. He kills five attackers and is wounded but escapes. He later forms a pursuit party that kills six more. A native who murdered five American soldiers at Binangonan cemetery on Decoration Day last year has been sentenced to death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Constabulary
Fletcher
Ibay
Luzon
Binangonan
Telephone workers strike may spread to Missouri and Kansas
National officers of the Telephone Workers union are in Topeka as Missouri and Kansas employees strike. They threaten a general walkout of Bell line workers in both states if demands are not met. A second item notes Boer generals planning a new tour of Europe and the United States beginning next February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Kansas
Topeka
Kas
Telephone Workers’ Union
Bell
Brussels
Botha
Europe
United States
Theft of Della Robbia bas relief from Florence church
It is reported that Luca Della Robbia’s Descent from the Cross, a famed bas relief valued at 100000 dollars, has been stolen from the San Severo church in Florence. The report comes from Rome dated January 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Luca Della Robbia
Indiana Officials Depart for St Louis World's Fair
Gov. Durbin Lieut Gov Gilbert Speaker Marshall and senators Kittinger and Fleming and Representatives Cravens Luhring and Steutsman left Indianapolis for St Louis to look after Indiana's exhibit interests at the World's fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Indianapolis
Ind
Durbin
Gilbert
Marshall
Kittinger
Fleming
Cravens, Luhring
Steutsman
St. Louis
Col A G Hennisee Retired From Fifth Cavalry
Washington reports Col A G Hennisee of the Fifth Cavalry placed on the retired list on Friday by operation of law due to age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Col
A. G. Hennisee
Fifth Cavalry
Mississippi State Funds Distributed for January Schools
State Superintendent Whitfield announced January common school fund distributions totaling 833,333 dollars two thirds of the annual appropriation. Counties received 735,023.80 dollars while separate districts got 98,304.20 dollars Yazoo County led with 15,268 educable children earning 20,217.89 dollars. Meridian, Vicksburg and Natchez followed by educable counts and shares. Court notes report a demurrer in the Tippah county school funds case and Attala county lynching indictments for ten to eleven white citizens and related arrests.
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Whitfield
Yazoo County
Meridian
Vicksburg
Natchez
Educable Amount
Adams
Alcorn
Ase
Amite
Copiah Sete Renee
Covington
DeSoto
Seesaw
Franklin Ee
Greene
Grenada Sete Eee
Halcock
Eenee
Harrison Aeee
Hinds Sail Exe Ociewae
Jefferson Eee Ewes
Jones Sous Eee
Laflore Aee
Lincoln Seeker Eee
Lowndes Penanwee
Eaae
Madison
Marion See Eee
Marshall Oo
Monroe
Aeeee
Montgomery Aeee
Neshoba Oaee
Scott Oanesteeeee
Sharkey
S'mpson Sheer Eeae Siaith
Tallahstehie
Tate Ee
Tishomingo A Aesee
Tunica
Union
Webster Smenene
Wilkinson As Sees
Winston Seaeeeeee
Yalobusha Sean
New Albany Bank Organized with $50,000 Capital
A new bank capitalized at 50000 has been organized in New Albany and preparation is underway to commence business. Officers include W. B. Robbins as president Paul Rainey as vice president St. Patterson as cashier and directors Dr. B A Gassaway J. E. Tate John Scott R. H. Stephens and B. F. Whittington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Albany
W. B. Robbins
Paul Rainey
St. Patterson
8. A. Gassaway
J. E. Tate
John Scott
R. H. Stephens
B. F. Whittington
Coal Shortage Shuts Yazoo Mills Pressing Factories
The coal scarcity grips the state as cotton factories and oil mills face closures. In Yazoo City the Producers' Oil Mill and the Mississippi Cotton Oil Co. mill halted operations due to lack of coal after both had placed orders but could not obtain fuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yazoo City
Mississippi Cotton Oil Company
Charles Scott Gifts Lot and Rectory to Rosedale Church
Hon. Charles Scott presented a New Year gift to the Episcopal Church at Rosedale. He donated a lot and rectory as a memorial to his deceased grandchild. The property fronts the principal street and adjoins the parish church, totaling about 300 feet frontage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Scott
Episcopal Church
Rosedale
Rail commission weighs bus line race seating ruling
The railroad commission received a Biloxi complaint alleging Pearl River steamboats between Pearlington and English Look Out lack separate white and colored accommodations. The panel will address the issue at the next meeting and seek to compel segregation if within its authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Railroad Commission
Biloxi
Pearl River
Pearlington
English Look
Mississippi Louisiana Water Line Case Moves to Late February
Attorney General McClurg filed a demurrer in the U S Supreme Court in Washington in the Louisiana vs Mississippi water line case. Hearing requested for late February or early March with Louisiana’s representative reportedly agreeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClurg
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Louisiana
Mississippi
Greenville’s New Railroad Stock Sold Out
Greenville plans a new street car line as all stock has been taken. Bids for track and rolling stock are received but not opened while a committee surveys property owners beyond the proposed route to assess contributions for extending the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenville
Tragic Lynching and Fire at Meridian Mills
John Hollins was pulled from a train near Drew by masked men and shot after being accused of a sexual assault. A fire at Meridian cotton mills damaged the dry room last week, about $1,600 loss, origin undetermined, but the factory brigade prevented a larger blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hollins
Drew
Meridian
Confederate records donated by Gen. Samuel G. French
The Mississippi Archives and History Department reports progress collecting Confederate era archives. Gen. Samuel G. French of Laurel Hill Florida seeks to donate his manuscripts detailing Mississippi troops ordnance and equipment, highlighting his long service from the Mexican War to the Civil War and his book Two Wars. He is eighty five and active at Laurel Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Archives and History
Mississippi
Samuel G. French
Laurel Hill
Fla
French
New Jersey
West Point
Grant
McClellan
Mississippi eight congressmen to receive commissions
Secretary of State Power issues commissions for the eight Mississippi members of Congress who will take seats March 4. The appointees are E. B. Chandler Jr in the First District, Thomas Spight in the Second, Benjamin Humphreys in the Third, W. S. Hill in the Fourth, Adam Byrd in the Fifth, H E J Bowers in the Sixth, F A McLain in the Seventh, and John B Williams in the Eighth. Several will depart mid February for Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of State Power
Congress
Mississippi
E. 8. Chandler, Jr
Thomas Spight
Benjamin Humphreys
W. S. Hill
Adam Byrd
H E. J. Bowers
F. A. McLain
John 8. Williams
Washington
Mississippi Historical Society to hold fifth annual meeting in Yazoo City
Dr. Franklin L. Riley announces the executive committee has set the fifth annual Mississippi Historical Society meeting for Yazoo City in late April. He notes the policy of alternating meetings between Jackson and other historically interesting locations across the state, a plan that has proven successful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin L. Riley
The
Mississippi Historical Society
Yazoo City
Riley
Jackson
Vardaman and Critz Address Meridian Voters
Maj. James K. Vardaman of Greenwood and Judge Frank A. Critz of West Point spoke to Meridian audiences last week. Vardaman addressed the courthouse afternoon meeting and Critz spoke at the city hall in the evening, both presenting State and national issues in a lively manner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James K. Vardaman
Greenwood
Frank A. Critz
West Point
Meridian
Maj. Vardaman
Judge Critz
Clerk Shot During Robbery At Yazoo City Store
Trasting Warren, a clerk at J. P. Roe's in Yazoo City, was shot in the stomach last week while opening the cash drawer. The pistol stored in the drawer discharged as he pulled it out, leaving him in a precarious condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Roe’s
Yazoo City
Warren
Mason Grand Lodge Invited to Columbus for Temple Cornerstone
Grand Master Harry T. Howard and Mississippi Masonic Grand Lodge officers are invited to Columbus on January 21 to lay the cornerstone of a new Masonic temple. A large attendance is expected and an elaborate program is planned across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry T. Howard
Masonic Grand Lodge of
Mississippi
Columbus
Masonic Temple
Governor appoints Ed Holloway to Yazoo levee board
Governor Longino appoints Edwin King Holloway of Penton De Soto County to the Yazoo Mississippi levee district board to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon Ira G Holloway.
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Longino
Edwin King Holloway
Penton
DeSoto County
Yazoo-Mississippi
Ira G. Holloway
Murder at the Jones store shocks Victoria area
O Neal Jones a 17 year old son of Rufus Jones of Victoria Marshall county was found murdered with an ax head injury at the Jones store near Bailey ton. Robbery appears the motive. In Byhalia a mass meeting of business men voted to establish a branch bank of Merchants and Farmers Bank Holly Springs with limited stock quickly taken.
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Delta Bank
Greenville
O’neal Jones
Rufus Jones
Victoria
Marshall County
Jones
Bailyton
Byhalia
W. Mullins
Merchants’ and Farmers’ Bank
Holly Springs
Merchants’ and
Farmers’ Bank
Brooks Story Surrenders to Serve Out Term in Mississippi
Brooks Story, the famed prisoner known for multiple escapes, turned himself in at Kosciusko sheriff Love to resume imprisonment and complete his ten year sentence for robbing the Durant express office in 1892. He hopes to restore his family's reputation and a petition for pardon will be sent to the governor.
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Kosciusko
Miss
Brooks Story
Love
Story
Durant
Jackson
Georgia
Mississippi
Montgomery
Madison Station
Attala County
Annapolis graduate dies of yellow fever aboard Bogota
Lieut. Mitchell, a graduate of Annapolis and officer on the Colombian gunboat Bogota, died here Saturday night from yellow fever while stationed in Panama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Colombia
Lieut
Mitchell
Annapolis
Bogota
Silver Miners Expand Output Despite Low Silver Price
Mexico City on January 18 reports silver mine owners maintain high activity. They buy new machinery, upgrade plants, and widen operations to lift output while American mining machinery firms in the city show brisk business and crowded offices and shipping departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Desperate Buford Defies Arrest In Paducah Shootout
Four Paducah police scour the city for Louis Buford a heavily armed escaped jail inmate with a Winchester rifle and two pistols. He is linked to hold ups and a pistol duel with City Jailer Robert Menifee last summer and is believed allied with Kid Dovey and Alabama Charley. Police fear bloodshed if he is located.
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Paducah
Louis Buford
Buford
Robert Menifee
Jones
Houser
Orr
Outlaw Defies A Posse In Alabama Standoff
Tom Benton, a jailed black desperado who broke out three days earlier, shelters in a rural shanty near Hardyville Shelby County armed with a rifle and shotgun as fifty men press a siege. A defender named Tom Jones died and Sanders later succumbed to wounds. Benton fired on enemies, sparking a pitched battle. his horse was killed and another foe wounded. A log hut blocks approach and the house may be burned but no one will risk proximity. Benton vows to resist until starved and warns of lynching if captured.
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Birmingham
Ala
Tom Benton
Columbiana
Shelby County
Hardyville
Tom Jones
Sanders
Benton
Seventh Day Adventist Group Plans Southern Medical Mission
Nashville reports Dr J H Kellogg visits precede formation of the Southern Medical Mission and Benevolent Association with a Tennessee charter. The body aims to build sanitariums in southern cities for the poor and health food restaurants, with penny restaurants in emergencies. About 3500 men will be sent south to promote the venture and a weekly paper will serve as the campaign’s southern headquarters.
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Nashville
Tenn
J. H. Kellogg
Battle Creek Sanitarium
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Southern Medical Mission and Benevolent Association
Tennessee
South
Cauge
Southern
Birmingham sends coal to New York and Chicago relief
Citizens of Birmingham contributed fifty carloads of coal to ease fuel famine distress in New York and Chicago. Mayor Drennan notified Mayors Lowe and Harrison of the gift, with twenty-five cars allocated to each city and awaiting transportation.
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Birmingham
Ala
New York
Chicago
Drennan
Lowe and
Harrison
China hard pressed could pay war indemnity if officials not steal
Pekin reports China has not replied to a note signed by all foreign ministers except Conger. The note warns that failure to pay the war indemnity on a gold basis per the peace protocol would have grave consequences. If provincial officials collected revenues honestly, the indemnity could be easily raised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pekin
China
United States
Conger
Abram S Hewitt Dead Former Mayor of New York
Abram S Hewitt former mayor of New York and longtime congressman died at 6 this morning in his eighty first year. He was surrounded by his wife and all three sons and three daughters. He had suffered obstructive jaundice since January 8 with little hope of recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Abram S. Hewitt
Congress
Texas ranches to be divided for irrigation development
Austin plan reshapes large Texas ranches into small farming tracts under irrigation. The move includes four companies with $1.35 million capital to lay out town sites and build irrigation systems on ranch lands including Mrs Henrytta M. King's million acre holding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Texas
Henrietta M. King
Signal Interference Triggers Fatal Baltimore & Ohio Wreck
A messenger boy in a Cumberland tower allegedly turned a signal causing a derailment on the Baltimore & Ohio line east of Cumberland. Four railroad men were killed and three injured as passenger Train No. 10 collided with obstructing cars and engines. The boy Turner is accused of pulling the lever for a clear track while the operator had set danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
W. T. Simms
W. J. Moran
Hi. D. Sneeringer
John Butler
J. Hendricks
Baltimore
W. N. Christopher
Kinney
Cumber
Turner
Gift From Emperor to Roosevelt Delights White House
President Roosevelt received an edition de luxe of The Reform of the Higher School System in Prussia from Emperor William through Count Von Quadt. The German bound book features a fine frontispiece portrait of the emperor and represents high quality German printing and binding. Roosevelt expressed gratitude and asked Count Quadt to convey his appreciation to the emperor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
William
Count von Quadt
Prussia
Count Quadt
Senate backs Cuban Reciprocity Treaty prospects
Senators Aldrich Lodge and Spooner told President that the Cuban treaty, as amended, was satisfactory to nearly all Republicans. They reported the opposition now rests mainly with the Democratic side and that ratification should come in time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jan
Roosevelt
Aldrich
Lodge
Spooner
Senate
Treasury: Coal Placed on Free Duty List nationwide
The treasury department received an official certified copy of the act approved Thursday placing coal on the free list. On receipt, collectors of customs nationwide were telegraphed to implement the act immediately admitting all coal imported on or after the 15th without duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collectors of Customs
Washington
Treasury Department
Department
French Arctic Expedition Plans Revealed
Paris reports Dr. Jean Charcot unveiled an Arctic expedition under the Academy of Science and Public Instruction. A ship is being built at Saint Malo and will resist ice. The party sails from France on May 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Jean Charcot
Academy of Science
Ministry of Public Instruction
Saint Malo
France
Judge Cummings Critically Ill at Home
Judge S P Cummings a prominent democratic politician is critically ill at his Astoria home on January 17 with reports describing his condition as serious and unstable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Astoria, II
S. P. Cummings
Thames Freezes Over as Cold Wave Grips England
London reports the Thames frozen for the first time in years with Marlow ice nearly an inch thick. Drift ice forms in solid packs at Windsor and Richmond as an intense cold snap persists.
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London
Thames
Marlow
Windsor
Richmond
Washington House Debates Private Claims Bills
In Washington on January 17 Friday the House moved from the department of commerce bill to the consideration of private claims bills, advancing the regular order. The session focused on evaluating individual claims and potential authorizations.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
House
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News and Notes
Revolutionary Army
Cuba
Point Maise
Cape San Antonio
Lucido Maria Paroccchi
Agron & Wertheimer
Mexico
National Livestock Association
Kansas City
Portland
Ore
Good Ground
Westbrook S. Decker
Colorado
Denver
A. F. Gowan
Lynn
Mass
Canon City
Fifth
United States Cavalry
Weinber
Supreme Court
Rumsey
Castro
Venezuela
FE. G. Gonzales
Gov. Tillman
Columbia
S. C
Bartholdi
Uncle Sam
Sandy Hook Proving Grounds
Louis A. Dishcow
Mississippi State News
Common School Fund
Demurrer
Mortimer
Tippah County
Ripley
Lowrey
Jim Gaston
Monroe Hallam
Cross Roads
A. E. Kierk
A. R. Tucker
Bill Goff
Bob Milliner
Jim Green
John Green
Lee Whatley
Jim Whatley
Garrison Carlisle
Oliver Wasson
Noah Lindsey
New Bank At
Episcopal Church of
Hugh Miller Thompson
Lloyd
Board of Missions of
Church
Rowland
David Holmes
Abram M. Scott
Charles Lynch
Hiram G. Runnells
Joseph W. Matthews
John S. Guion
Thomas H. Williams
Thomas B. Reed
Robert H. B. Adams
John Black
James F. Trotter
Jesse Spight
Stephen Adams
Treasury
Washington County
Western Union Telegraph Company
John G. Cashman
Fred Sullens
Niles
Congressional Commissions
Historical Society
Vardaman and Critz
Indian Territory
Carpenter's
Ardmore, I. T
Charles May
Muskogee
Rothschilds
Guayaquiil
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Board of Health of
Acapulco
Desperado
Outlaw
Penny Restaurants
Cowman
Rosevelt
Judge Cummings I
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