Mister Mills On His Muscle In Tariff Clash
A political sketch notes Mister Mills pressing a tariff bill even if Springer blocks it. It mocks conservative stance on peace with Chile, cites Harrison's delayed message, and mentions Springer fearing Mills after vote losses. It also hints at Mills repealing the McKinley tariff act and discusses Stewart and Craig matters with Pittsboro counsel.
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Harrison
Springer
Mills
Andy Stewart
Craig
Pittsboro
Stewart
Political theater in the House stirs over Mills and Springer
A parsing of private letters and public maneuver shows Roger Mills aiming to disrupt the Crisp administration. He plans a sweeping tariff revision bill, clashing with Virgil Springer in committee battles. Speaker Crisp's illness delays House work while Chile tensions rise, fanning war hopes.
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Mr. Springer
Mr. Mills
Chile
House
Senate
Peaceful settlement sought in Chile crisis as Congress weighs contested election
Amid international tension, ministers, the president, and Secretary Blaine explore a peaceful end to the Chilean dispute. Reports say Chile seeks more time for investigation, while U.S. Congress debates the Twenty fourth Pennsylvania district contest between Craig and Stewart. The committee hears hours of argument with allegations of unregistered votes and ballot box tampering. The outcome may hinge on party lines and committee support for seating Craig or Stewart.
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Montt
Blaine
Mercurius
New York
Grace
Congress
Chile
Craig
Stewart
Twenty
Pennsylvania
W.S. Gailler
Uniontown
Mr. Craig
J. Craig
W.J. Brennen
Pittsburg
W. J. McCarrell
Morrisburg
W. J. Brennen
Steward
Brennen
Gillespie
Greenville
Mercer County
Keyburn
Philadelphia
Ligutxek
Liner Ohio Seized by U S Naval Authorities in Washington
The American liner Ohio was pressed into U S government service amid tense US Chile relations. The ship, loading for Liverpool, was ordered to halt cargo and to take aboard coal for ballast while charges for detention accrue. Ohio's seizure is a precautionary government measure, not a warning to the public.
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Philadelphia
Jao
Washington
Ohio
United States
American Steamship Company
Liverpool
Chile
Soct
American Ag
United States Merchant Marine
American Line Steamship
The
Washinton
Egan Not Recalled Debunked Rumor in Washington
In Washington on January 72 a wild rumor claimed Secretary Tracy recalled Minister Egan from Chile. The story circulated widely but was proven false. Tracy stated the report was entirely untrue.
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Washington
Tracy
United States
Egan
Chile
Carelessness Costs Four Lives At Bluewater Crash
A westbound special train and an eastbound Atlantic and Pacific passenger train collided at Bluewater station, 107 miles west of Albuquerque, killing four crew members including Engineer Taylor, Fireman Hengzin, Engineer Moore, and Extra Conductor Moran. No serious passenger injuries reported. Both engines demolished. Authorities investigate possible criminal cause.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Atlantic and Pacific
Bluewater
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
Taylor
Will Hengzin
Moore
Moran
Two men die of coal gas in Brooklyn drinking spree
New York January 22 two men James Cassidy and John Herman were suffocated by coal gas in Brooklyn after a night of drinking. Early reports say the victims were found in a tenement room and died from gas exposure as a result of a leaking stove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn
James Cassidy
John Herman
Retiring figure faces suit after stove pipe incident
A fragmented report indicates a group or individual connected to a stove pipe incident led to a lawsuit. Details are unclear from the readable text but imply legal action following an earlier event.
Bounced for Partisanship in Banking Bribery Case
W D Dickson teller at Deshler National Bank is relieved by millionaire president W G Deshler after evidence before the grand jury ties marked $500 bills to Chairman Hahn of the Republican State Committee amid a Sherman canvass. Deshler, a Sherman friend, acted on learning of the marks, while Hahn explains the marks were found during scrutiny of his campaign expenditures. The affair follows reports of bank bills marked for possible bribery, with Dickson cited as acting under political opposition to Sherman.
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Milt
Seon
Crisp
House
Senate
Boncombe
Convarevs
W. D. Dickson
Deshler National Bank
W. G. Deshler
Anl
Hahn
Republican State Committee
Sherman
Deshler
Neil House
American House
Mr. Dickson
Dickson
Columbus Police Commission
A Fine Church in Ashes in Connellsville
The Catholic church at Connellsville burned completely at 1 a.m. destroying interior paintings records and furniture. Firefighters from two local companies aided by New Haven fought flames on a cliffside site unable to save the structure. The blaze started in the sacristy over the furnace and may have been linked to a prior Thursday night flare.valued at about 1000000 with only 25000 insurance coverage and built in 1880 this church was the county’s finest edifice with a stone cost of 50000.
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Connellsville
New Haven
Slone
First Rain Breaks Four-Year Drought in Dougaxco
A steady two day rain falls in Dougaxco Mex breaking four year drought. Crops will not harvest until August but state government has purchased 25 000 bushes of corn for starving wards and estimates 500 000 bushels more will be needed for six months with all grain to be bought in the United States.
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Dougaxco
Mex
Srevial
United States
A Plumb for Pennsylvania Likely Bradley Successor
Washington January 22 Special says talk already centers on the probable Bradley successor on the Supreme Court. President Harrison could choose from the circuit including Pennsylvania Delaware and New Jersey. Pennsylvania is favored with Chief Justice Paxton or Judge Mitchell of Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court as leading candidates. If from New Jersey, Judge Green of New Jersey would be the pick.
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Wasuvnctos
D. C
Justice Bradley
Supreme Court
Harrison
Bradley
Pennsylvania
Delaware
New Jersey
Paxton
Mitchell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Green
Cyrus W. Field In Danger Of Pneumonia
Cyrus W. Field took a cold on Thursday that developed into lung congestion by Friday. The ailing financier's weak condition prompts fear that pneumonia may follow. Last night his temperature ran high and his physician notes the illness was contracted without exposure.
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New York
Cyrus W. Field
Austria Hungary negotiates with Rothschilds for gold currency
The Austrian and Hungarian finance ministers have begun talks with the Rothschilds to secure a gold supply for a gold currency. A demand of 100 million dollars is cited, with bankers saying the funds can be obtained without unsettling money markets, a development that spurred a broad stock market rally on the exchange here.
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Rothschilds
VinxNa
Dan
Austria
Hungary
Cleveland the Man and Chicago's Role in Cleveland's Candidacy
Philadelphia January 22 Secretary of State William F Harrity reports the Democratic National Executive Committee favors Cleveland as the national candidate in 1904 tariff reform as the issue The committee expects Pennsylvania to send Cleveland delegations and Chicago to host the convention with strong Democratic support across states, especially in Pennsylvania, for Cleveland’s renomination and political momentum
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Philadelphia
William F. Harrity
Washington
Democratic National Executive Committee
Pennsylvania
Harrity
State Central Committee
Scott
National Executive Committee
State Committee
Gorman
St. Louis
Committee For
Cleveland
Chicago
Milwaukee
Vilas
Peck
Wisconsin
New York
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Kansas City
San Francisco
St. Paul
Chi
Democratic Party
Grover Cleveland
Union
Court of Death by Eloquent Contraption Describes Mechanical Execution
The article recounts an execution device where a weight drops to suspend the prisoner without human handling. J. B. Barnaby’s body was placed in Swan Point Cemetery after nine months in a receiving vault, witnessed by family. John H. Con travels to New York to meet District Attorney Stevens and prepare for another chapter in the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
J. B. Barnaby
Swan Point
Haig
John H. Con
New York
Stevens
Old Lady's Yarn of Lost Inheritance in Woodshed
An elderly woman living in a law yer’s rear woodshed in Sioux City claims she is General Patterson and Colonel Graham’s daughter. She says she carried a Mexican War flag at Chapultepec, accuses Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania of keeping her inheritance, and that she lost about 15000 dollars after moving from New Orleans. Now in poverty, she retains some heirloom jewelry and keeps several precious pieces, while authorities consider care for her.
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Sioux City
Patterson
Graham
Mexico
Taylor
Chapultepec
Vandorn
Pattison
Pennsylvania
New Orleans
Madhouse Murder at Dixmont Ends In Death
An inmate at Dixmont insane ward strangles fellow patient John McFee, a Pittsburg shoemaker, with bed sheets while a third inmate, A Williams, previously committed for mental impairment, lies in the ward. Keeper Leonard rushes to intervene, McFee dies, Williams subdued, coroner calls for inquest.
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Dixmont
John Johnson McFee
Batchelor
Allegheny County
Brownella
A. Williams
McFee
Charleroi
Washington County
Graham
Leonard
Williams
Rownella
McGifin
Heep
G. C. Graham
Arl
Eros
McDowell
H. Grant Miller
OFA
Another Rail Horror Near Blue Island In Rush Hour Ditch Fire
A Chicago news report cites a line about a Rock Island line theater train from Chicago derailing in Blue Island at 3:20 AM with the coach fire burning. The message notes such theater trains carry revelers returning from city amusements and implies another fatal rail disaster may be recorded.
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Cutcaco
Chicago
Rock Island Road
Blue Island
City
Anonymous letter settles Virginia Consolvo property
In Nortona Virginia, a long court dispute over a city homestead ends when an anonymous letter reveals a hidden will in an old trunk left by W. Consolvo. The will, dated earlier, leaves the property to Miss Virginia Consolvo and is admitted to probate in the Corpo Court today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nortona
Consolvo
Virginia Consolvo
W. Consolvo
Thanks for favors received from railroad workers
New York January 22 Special says the Pennsylvania Railroad raised wages for bagbaggagemasters brakemen and parlor car attendants on the New York division and a committee was formed to draft resolutions of thanks to General Manager Charles E Pugh General Superintendent F Walcott Jackson and other officials for faithful service and fair treatment by the company
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Charles E. Pugh
F. Walcott Jackson
Brice Issues His Call for National Democratic Convention
The Democratic National Committee in Washington D C announces June 21 1820 as the convention date in Chicago. States receive double their Electoral College representation, territories and DC get two delegates, inviting all to join in the move toward pure economical constitutional government. Calvin S Brice and Smow P Sienton sign as secretary and chairman, January 21, 1802.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasnixetos
D. C
Democratic National Committee
National Democratic Committee
Washington
Chicago
District of Columbia
United States
Calvin
Brice
Smow P. Sienton
Skin grafting at Kansas City hospital campaign
In Kansas City at the German Hospital D. Markowitz, badly burned by an explosion, underwent skin grafting yesterday and again today. Members of the Independent Order of Benjamin volunteered grafts for a planned 300 pieces. Six men donated skin yesterday and four more did so today to aid Markowitz’s wounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
D. Markowitz
Independent Order of Benjamin
Third District GOP Convention Elects Delegates in Donaldsonville
In Donaldsonville on January 22 the Third District Republican Convention elected two delegates to the National Convention, endorsed Harrison’s administration, and instructed the delegates to vote for him for President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donaldsonville, LA
Harrison
Dr Graves to Hang Himself in Colorado Penitentiary
Denver January 22 Special Dr T Thatcher Graves is awaiting death for the murder of Mrs J B Barnaby in the Colorado Penitentiary. He will hang himself if the execution takes place using a unique mechanical contrivance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Col
T. Thatcher Graves
Colorado Penitentiary
J. B. Barnaby
Grip at the Camps Cripples Northland Work Force
DuLout Jan 22 A severe grip spreads through mining and lumbering camps near Duluth. News from Biwabic Shaw Canton and other West Mesaba mines says the disease affects all workers and many are seriously ill. Three physicians rushed to the locations as 4000 lumber workers face work stoppages.
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Dulouth
Duluth
Biwabic
Shaw
Canton
Mesaba
Whisky Trust Reorganization Under Consideration
Cricaco Jan 22 Special The Times reports a plan to reorganize the whisky trust uniting non trust distillers on 55 million capitalization and then merge with 80 distilleries the trust controls to form a joint stock company with a 75 to 100 million capitalization and a monopoly on spiritous liquors Garza and power by Frank G Carpenter in The Dispatch to-morrow
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cricaco
the Times
Whisky Trust
Garza
Frank G. Carpenter
Chinese Troubles Driven by Catholics Winning Suit
Missionary J J Pyke, stationed near Pekin, describes uprising around Tsun Hua as a national revolt. He says Catholics were attacked after winning a substantial property lawsuit against a Chi company, and that 90 000 rebels overran towns, massacred priests, and were driven back by 1 000 Imperial troops, quashing the rebellion.
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San Francisco
China
Great Wall
Jon
J. J. Pyke
Rio de Janeiro
Ma Fo
Tsun
Pekin
Pyke
Tsun Hua
Chao Yang
Pakow
Mr. Pyke
Chi Company
Crank interrupts play to profess love for actress Nellie McHenry
An enthusiastic crank at Bedford Avenue Theater Williamsburg during A Night at the Circus forced entry with a love letter for Nellie McHenry. He was escorted out by a policeman after being in the gallery front seat. The caller claimed long affection, was well dressed, and disappeared after being kicked to the street by Prepupaie H. B. Barnum. Miss McHenry said she has received similar letters for years.
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Bedford Avenue
Williamsburg
Nellie McHenry
Miss McHenry
New Explosive Terrorite Tested at Presidio
Experiments at Presidio Military Reservation test terrorite the new explosive that resembles blood. Four shells filled with the liquid were fired from a parrott rifle, causing considerable havoc along the opposite bluff during trials in San Francisco on January 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Presidio Military Reservation
Gossip and Death in the Capital News Briefs
This morning’s page gathers items from the national capital including Barrity predicting Grover’s arrival, a Dixmont tragedy, libel outcomes for Quay, a legal romance involving a Colored man, and a death of Justice Bradley. It also notes regional events, sports, and social updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Capital
Barrity
Grover
Dixmont
Quay
Pitsburg
Justice Bradley
Bradstreat’s
Dan’s
Europe
New York Life
Searenae
Greasers Go Home Towns Depopulated Migrants Question Return
In San Antonio readers are urged to weigh "Their Sole Return" as depopulation trends and migrating Mexicans prompt a wave of curiosity. The piece hints at forthcoming developments and asks who can answer the central query regarding return and residence.
Two Rebel Leaders To Be Shot Special Telegram Dispatch
Large Mexican population in Southwest Texas shows support for Garcia. Garza revolution gains organization as Mexicans flee to the border. Deming report says two Ascension leaders sentenced to be shot and over 400 sympathizers cross into the U S. Officials anticipate further operations and possible action at Ft Ringgold with orders issued to Captain Bourke and Major Morris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
Texas
Garcia
Mexico
Rio Grande
John H. Masuel
Sonora
Garza
Ward
Sechoue
Sipiel Mian
Esey
Garra
David S. Stanley
John G. Bourke
Ft. Ringgold
Louis T. Morris
Ft. Es
Ortakry Department
Carters Ors
Deming
N. M
Senor Pasalagua
Messilla Valley
Remiro Sais
Ascension
United States
Ascenion
Mandel
King
Neuces County
Seizure of Smuggled Art Brings 64 Paintings to U S Hands
New York reports Treasury Agent Traitteur and Customs Inspector Brown seized a batch of 64 imported paintings for non payment of duties. The works, once owned by I Spiriden and Colonel August Gross, were mostly taken from Fourteenth street art stores. Uncertainty remains over authenticity as skeptics question genuineness of the pieces.
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New York
Treasury
Traitteur
Customs
Brown
Uncle Sam
I. Spiriden
August Gross
Fourteenth Street
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Bowrar
Tam
Wasitine
Tor
Roger
Senate of the
Con Frese
Vir. Springer
W Ceelse
Committee On
Bosily
Corsicana
AvVantage
Durango
Austria-Hungary
Cleveland the Man
Mittee
Ican
Mee Fee
Democratic Committee
Louisiana
DR. Graves
Minnesota
Whiskey Trust
Allefor' Blaine
Murat Halstead
Greasers
Mexican
Sment
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