Six Men Hold Key to Ohio Speakership Fight
In Columbus the Republican factions struggle over House leadership with Price and McKinnon vying for Speaker. Key unpledged members Crist Pool McNeil Nihart Foster Lochery hold balance of power as Cox arrives to back Price. Local option and saloon interests shape lines in the battle.
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Columbus
House
Price
McKinnon
Crist
Pool
McNeil
Nihart
Foster
Lochery
Viva Voce
Ohio anti-Saloon League
Hanna
Foraker
Wort
New City Officials Begin Work Amid Shakeups in New York
Greater New York’s new officials start work as Mayor Low arrives at City Hall. Appointments include George L. Archer and John E. Smalley as confidential clerks and John DeWitt Warner with Henry Rutgers Marshall to the municipal art committee. Colonel Partridge asserts command of the police, and Cantor moves to uncover asphalt trust secrets while auditing departments and replacing staff with no salaries.
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Philadelphia Times
New York
Greater
Low
George L. Archer
John E. Smalley
John DeWitt Warner
Henry Rutgers Marshall
Municipal Art Committee
Charles T. Barney
Charles F. McKim
Messrs. Warner and
Marshall
Fine Arts Federation
Warner
Col. Partridge
Police
Partridge
Murphy
Devery
Cantor
Borough of
Manhattan
Department of Highways
William Hepburn Russell
Asphalt Trust
Broadway
Weehawken
Board of Estimate
Perez M. Stewart
Linking of saving institutions and banks urged
Boston January 2 W Murray Crane sworn in for his third Massachusetts governorship. He called for a 5 million dollar program to erase grade crossings at 500000 yearly pace and urged legislation to dissolve interlocked savings banks and national banks. He also proposed barring presidents or cashiers of banks from serving as savings bank officers.
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Boston
W. Murray Crane
Massachusetts
State House
Britain invites Clyde yards to bid on warships
The Admiralty issued bids for two battleships of 16 500 tons each and five first class cruisers plus two protected cruisers. Officials seek prompt bids and may accelerate twenty ships already under construction. The new battleships will carry superior gun power.
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Glasgow
British Admiralty
Clyde Shipyards
Messages to Notables by Rev Parker at City Temple
In London on January 2 Rev Joseph Parker read messages to notable figures at the City Temple service. The notes were sent to King Edward and to President Roosevelt, each sentence drawing hearty cheers from attendees.
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London
Joseph Parker
City Temple
Temple
Edward
Roosevelt
Sultan Releases Americans In Tripoli Case
January 2 report from Constantinople says two naturalized Americans arrested in Tripoli Syria for tax resistance to military service were released after US Minister John G A Leishman protested to the Porte. The Ottoman government ordered no molestation of American citizens.
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Constantinople
Tripoli
Syria
United States
Turkey
John G. A. Leishman
Porte
Mules to carry field guns against Boers in South Africa
Liverpool dispatch reports the government plans tougher action against Boers in the mountain districts. The plan calls for mounting small field pieces on muleback as used on the Indian frontier.
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Liverpool
South Africa
Duchess Palace Blast Rumor Refuted in Kiev
A reported explosion under the balcony of the Grand Duke Constantine’s palace in Kiev is proved unfounded on investigation, per a Patrie dispatch. The Paris report is corrected, clarifying no blast occurred at the palace in European Russia.
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Paris
Constantine
Kiev
European
Russia
Patrie
Militia Deployed as Welsh Mine Riots Flare Again
Bangor in North Wales remains under military control after fresh clashes between strikers and quarry workers at Lord Penrhyn's Bethesda works. Fire and property damage prompted a cavalry detachment from Aldershot and militia forces to be drafted in.
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London
Bangor
North Wales
Lord Penrhyn
Bethesda
Aldershot
Everett Moore Syndicate Pressed by Bankers Trust
Cleveland bankers take control of the Everett-Moore Syndicate which controls Ohio and Michigan electric railways and numerous telephone lines. The committee reports the group solvent and seeks an eighteen month debt extension backed by all creditors. The move follows temporary financial strain and construction of several utilities.
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Cleveland
Everett-Moore Syndicate
Ohio
Michigan
Cuyahoga Telephone Company
United States Telephone Company
Federal Telephone Company
Stark County Telephone Company
Columbiana County Telephone Company
People’s Telephone Company
Detroit
Wood County Telephone Company
Electric Street Railroad
Cleveland Electric Railway Company
Detroit United Railway Company
Toledo Railway and Light Company
Northern Ohio Traction Company
Cleveland, Painesville and Eastern Railway Company
Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Company
Lake Shore Electric Railroad Company
Sntes
Messrs
Henry A. Everett
FE. W. Moore
H. R. Newcomb
Myron T. Herrick
J. J. Sullivan
Calvary Morris
Kaufman Hays
E. G. Tillotson
W. ©. Mather
Mesers
Everett
Everett-Moore
Everett- Moore Syndicate
Million for Consumptives in England
A $1,000,000 fund in King Edward's name supports a tuberculosis sanatorium for 100 patients in England with 12 beds for wealthy residents. Eighty eight beds are for the poor with small contributions. Four thousand dollars goes to prizes for essays and plans, with an advisory committee named from top physicians.
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London
British Medical Journal
Edward
England
William Henry Broadbent
Richard Douglas Powell
Hermann Weber
Royal College of Physicians
Francis Henry Laking
Charles Theodore Williams
Brompton
Royal Meteorological Society
Miss Ellen Stone Reported Free in Vienna Dispatch
A Vienna dispatch via Sofia claimed Miss Ellen M. Stone, the American missionary held captive, has been released though not confirmed. State Department officials in Washington said the last advice indicated she and Madame Tsikas were alive and well but still in captivity, with no new details available.
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London
Central News
Vienna
Sofia
Ellen M. Stone
Washington
State Department
Miss Stone
Madame Tsaiskas
Roman Catholics Outnumber Others in Three Cities
Census bulletin shows Montreal Toronto Ottawa combined Roman Catholics total 22,423 compared with Church of England 96,358 Presbyterians 68,582 and Methodists 62,208. Since 1881 Catholics rose by 67,067 in Montreal 10,121 in Ottawa and 7,174 in Toronto.
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Ottawa
Census Bureau
Montreal
Toronto
Church of England
Presbyterian Church
Methodists
Weather Forecast for Eastern States Turn Winds Brisk
Partly cloudy with fresh south winds shifting to northwest then brisk. For Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Friday partly cloudy with cooler north areas. Saturday fair with brisk northwest winds. For Delaware and Maryland, Friday and Saturday partly cloudy to fair, colder with fresh south winds turning northwest and brisk.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Local Weather Report From Early January Bureau Notes
A clipped weather bulletin from the United States Weather Bureau provides a Thursday January report. It lists temperatures with a maximum around 40s and a minimum near 20s, along with mean temperatures and rainfall accumulation since January 1. The text preserves period-typical terminology and references normal levels and sunshine.
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United States Weather Bureau
Eulean
Cray Sp
Toma Eade
Ocean Liners Arrive From New York in Key Services
Arrivals tallied of liners including Pretoria Cherbourg and Amsterdam Rotterdam from New York along with La Savoie Havre and Germaine Queenstown service entries.
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Pretoria
Cherbourg
New York
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
la Savoie
Havre
Germaine
Queenstown
Vanderbilts Gain Likely Control of Reading Railway
Stock activity in Reading Railway shows over six million dollars in shares traded in Philadelphia and New York with large blocks of common and preferred stock. Market chatter links J Pierpont Morgan and the Vanderbilts to the deal, suggesting control via the voting trust and alliance with Pennsylvania interests and the Central. observers anticipate an official announcement within days and potential reorganization mirroring Northern Securities plans.
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Reading
Philadelphia
New York
Reading Railway
Vanderbilts
Morgan
Pennsylvania
Vanderbilt
New York Central
Central
Reading Securities
Voting Trust
J. Pierpont Morgan
F. W. Olcott
Drexel
Morgan Banking
Mr. Morgan
Erie
Lackawanna
Lehigh Valley
Northern Securities Company
Goulds
Reading Room
Gould
Jersey Central
Tidewater
George A. Huhn & Sons
Promoter Wakefield Charged With Perjury in Copper Syndicate
Wakefield, young promoter of large financial ventures, held in Cambridge on larceny arrest, faces perjury charges in South Framingham. District Court warrant alleges he swore falsely as treasurer of the International Copper Syndicate regarding capital stock when filing returns to the Commissioner of Corporations. Bail procedures await his capture.
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South Framingham
Mass
William C. Wakefield
Cambridge
Wakefield
International Copper Syndicate
Cleveland at Edwards coronation
Ex Secretary of the Navy Hilary A. Herbert backs Grover Cleveland as the United States envoy to the coronation of King Edward VII in London. He praises Cleveland as a dignified patriot with exemplary American character and nonpartisan stature. In New York, friends of Cleveland favor the choice though officials decline comment.
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Philadelphia Times
Washington
Hilary A. Herbert
Cleveland
England
United States
Edward VII
Herbert
New York
Grover Cleveland
Edward VIII
London
Daniel 8. Lamont
John G. Carlisle
Thomas B. Reed
House of Representatives
William C. Whitney
Aiken
S. C
Charles
Fairchild
Locomotive Boiler Explosion Kills Five in Macon
In Macon Georgia a Central of Georgia Railway boiler exploded at the shops today killing five men and injuring eleven. The blast ripped the round house and shattered windows several blocks away. Names of the dead include John M. McDonald Tosh Hodges Urish Cornelius James O Neil and one unidentified man. Alderman Robert L. Willis was badly scalded among the injured with several others listed.
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Macon
Central of Georgia Railway
John M. McDonald
Tosh Hodges
Urish Cornelius
James O'Neil
Robert L. Willis
W. M. Wilson
Edward Hembrick
Henry Fox
Will Die
Peter Hammond
Doc’’ Meadows
Sam Marshall
P. H. Kellock
William White
James Handley
Round House
Willis
Poplar
Fifth Streets
Highwayman Dono van Shot Dead in Chicago
George F. Donovan, who tried to rob a Chicago street at Twenty first street and Calumet avenue, was killed by his victim Eugene Hector, a newspaper financial editor. A letter in his pocket dated Manila January 30 1901 addressed to Dear mother signs Will. Born Springfield Massachusetts, Donovan was a stenographer for the United States Philippine Commission. A Boston letter dated 1899 praised his faithfulness from Trinity Court, Dartmouth Street. Donovan was about 33. he discussed nothing about his affairs with colleagues.
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Chicago
George F. Donovan
Twenty-first Street
Calumet Avenue
Eugene Hector
Springfield
Mass
Manila
United States Philippine Commission
Boston
Trinity Court
Dartmouth Street
Beulah Wheeler Dies After Mistaken Arsenic Intake
Miss Beulah Wheeler a 22 year old social figure from Rome died in Detroit after taking arsenic by mistake for an antipurine medicine. She called for help after realizing the error and, despite all-night medical efforts, passed away just before dawn at her Second Avenue home.
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Detroit
Mich
Miss Wheeler
Rome
Weather Bureau to Set Two Storm Stations in Yellowstone
The Government Weather Bureau plans two stations in Yellowstone National Park for next summer. One at Mammoth Hot Springs and the other at the park lake will study why many storms from the Northwest fail to reach Montana. Storms crossing the Montana Idaho range travel to the park and vanish, reappearing in Wyoming or Colorado, leaving Montana without the system.
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Helena
Mont
Government Weather Bureau
Yellowstone National Park
Mammoth Hot Springs
Lake
Nortwest
Montana
Idaho
Park
Wyoming
Colorado
Gold and Cholera in Plenty From Java to Celebes Island
Colonel F. F. Hand arrived in Seattle from the Java Islands reporting severe cholera outbreaks in Surabaya with November deaths surpassing seven thousand. He recently completed a mining expedition to Celebes Island where he asserts abundant gold deposits.
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Seattle
F. F. Hand
Java Islands
Saurabaya
Hand
Celebres Island
Policeman George Huesman Declared Insane
Cincinnati January 2 The policeman George Huesman who was publicly degraded and dismissed last fall for disrespect toward President McKinley when he was shot was today declared insane and sent to an asylum. Testimony showed a prior sunstroke and a severe electric shock years earlier.
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Cincinnati
George Huesman
McKinley
Richmond Bricklayers Strike Paralyzes Work
Richmond Virginia January 2 Nearly all brick work here is suspended with about 200 bricklayers out of work. They claim they were locked out by contractors who demand that the working hours be from seven to five, causing the stoppage of most bricklaying in the city.
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Richmond
Ite
Hich
Cession of Streets to Baldwin Works Attacked in Council
An ordinance ceding Hamilton street from Broad to Fifteenth and Buttonwood between Broad and Sixteenth to Baldwin Locomotive Works faced criticism as Common Councils adjourned amid an opposition speech. Walton Penniwell denounced administration influence, noting conflicting recommendations and alleged political pressure behind the measure. A proposed amendment granting city entry to these streets for fire and water mains was defeated.
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Baldwin Locomotive Works
Hamilton Street
Broad
Fifteenth
Buttonwood Street
Sixteenth
Common Councils
George McCurdy
Walton Penniwell
Penniwell
15Th Ward
Converse
McCurdy
Pennewill
Pat
Ith Ward
J’ennewill
Charles J. Hepburn
Council Resignations Prompt Year–Start Meeting
Associates of McNichol Briggs and Ware pass resolutions of regret as Select Council recognizes the resignations at its first session of the year. The meeting largely honors the changes and records the departures of the three associates.
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McNichol
Briggs and
Ware
Select Council
Select
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