Senate Swears in New Senator and Nominates Judges
Washington reports Senator-elect ER. A. Alger of Michigan sworn in as the president’s message is read. House members, few Democrats in the Senate, discuss a general staff bill and nominations for Holmes Wright and Bethea. Senate debates Sherman act amendments while opening session honors McMillan. Henderson receives gavel. several anti trust measures move to judiciary. Hepburn proposes $500,000 for Justice Department prosecutions under the Sherman act.
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Senate
ER. A. Alger
Michigan
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Hull
House Committee On Military Affairs
Root
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Massachusetts
Supreme Court
Frank M. Wright
Illinois
Court of Claims
Solomon H. Bethea
Cullom
McMillan
Dr. Milburn
J. F. Prettyman
Henderson
Knox
Judiciary Committee
H. C. Smith
Congress
Hepburn
Iowa
Committee On Commerce
Department of Justice
Snook
Ohio
Committee On Judiciary
Contest Over Territorial Statehood Begins in Senate Room
Washington December 2 The omnibus statehood bill sparked immediate action after adjournment with a conference in Senator Hale's committee room. Republican opponents Allison Aldrich Hale Platt Connecticut Cullom Lodge Hanna Beveridge chaired by Beveridge discussed opposition to admitting Oklahoma New Mexico and Arizona.
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Washington
Senate
Hale
Allison
Aldrich
Platt
Connecticut
Cullom
Lodge
Hanna
Beveridge
Territories
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arizona
Cold weather forecast and Senate omnibus bill debate
The weather bureau warns a cold wave will hit regions west of the Mississippi tonight and Wednesday with snow in northern districts and a temperature drop in the lake region. In Washington, discussion centers on the omnibus bill to admit Oklahoma while Arizona and New Mexico faces strong opposition. Beveridge outlines a likely report and Republican leaders Quay and Elkins rally support from fifteen Republicans to pass the measure with Democrats.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Mississippi
Lake Region
Oklahoma
Committee On Territories
Beveridge
Arizona
New Mexico
Indian Territories
Quay and Elkins
Bills of Notable Import to National Affairs in Congress
Washington reports multiple measures in Congress of national importance. Bills include freeing paints colors varnishes glass and coal from duties, ordering Chicago river tunnels to be destroyed or lowered, creating a bureau of public roads, and questions about election registration lists affecting voters. Also notes resignation of Theobald from customs service.
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Washington
Congress
H. ©. Smith
Michigan
Chicago
J. E. Mann
Brownlow
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Public Roads
Taylor
House Elections Committee No. 1
Carter Glass
Virginia
United States
Theobald
Colletter Stranahan
Secretary of the Treasury
William H. Theobald
Customs Service
Storm wrecks a home injuring noted residents
New Orleans reports a daylight storm wrecking the home of Prof. John Denier, brother of Tony Denier the clown. The storm fatally injures the professor and leaves Mrs Denier in critical condition.
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New Orleans
John Denier
Tony Denier
Carmean Cleared of Embezzlement Charge in Iowa Trial
N A Carmean president of the Carmean Buggy company was arrested last week on embezzlement charges and found not guilty at trial yesterday in Marshalltown Iowa.
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Carmean
Marshalltown
N. A. Carmean
Carmean Buggy Company
Venezuela Accepts Part of Germany Claims in Caracas
President Castro hands German minister a written acceptance broad enough to delay or remove a joint ultimatum by Germany and Britain. Britain’s demands may be met, while the United States offers no obstacle to forcible collection. German cruisers Ama zone Ariadne and Niobe continue fitting out at Kiel and will likely head to the West Indies. Castro consults with Bowen over the shift in stance but officials refuse comment.
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Berlin
Castro
Venezuela
Caracas
Germany
Great Britain
von Richthofen
Lord Lansdowne
Uncle Sam
United States
Amazone
Ariadne
Niobe
Kiel
Navl
West
Lndies
Prsident Castro
Azones
St. Thomas
Schecter
Bowen
Pec
Seligman Mission Denied US Guaranty to Venezuela
London dispatch clarifies American misunderstanding of Seligman's mission. The Venezuela delegation seeks no US guarantee or backing. The aim was to brief Washington on a settlement plan should European powers threaten, not to solicit guarantees. In Washington, officials say Bowen's neutral stance on the Orinoco blockade remains and no recognition or denial has occurred. Gilliam murder mystery in Sioux City with coroner's verdict of murder but no identified suspects. robbery suspected.
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Venezuela
United States
London
Dec
Seligman
Washington
Associated Press
State Department
Bowen
Orinoco River
Orinoco
Sioux City
William Gill
Family honors Clem Studebaker with $50,000 gift for Epworth Hospital
In South Bend Indiana on December 2 the anniversary of Clem Studebaker's burial was marked by his family presenting Epworth Hospital directors with over $50,000 in additional contributions to fully fund a recently completed $75,000 hospital building.
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Clem Studebaker
South Bend
Ind
Epworth Hospital
Coal Combine That May Be Off
Indiana coal operators admit the consolidation deal may fail. They balked at financing terms and a 60 percent stock share to promoters watered to 25 million dollars. Operators also faced a five year non mining pact.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana
Consolidated Company
New York
Moore Bros
Rock Island
Cowardly Murder at Western Hotel in Greenville Alabama
Albert Ethridge aged 16 shot and killed John Kesner proprietor of the Western hotel after a dispute over meat. Ethridge borrowed a gun, waited at C P Springer drug store, fired at Kesner as he led a group of friends. He was jailed without bail as the coroner's jury sent the case to the grand jury.
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Greenville
Als
Pocahontas
Albert Ethridge
John Kesner
Western Hotel
Kesner
Ethridge
C. P. Springer
Wright
Helr Ethridge
Father seeks killer of son after fatal football injury
Charles Jordan of Sioux Falls searches for six weeks to identify the University of South Dakota player who tackled his son Harry Jordan, fatally injuring him in a September 25 game. Jordan said the tackler had vowed to "lay out Jordan" before the contest, but efforts to learn the assailant have failed.
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Sioux City
Charles Jordan
Sioux Falls
Harry Jordan
Jordan
University of South Dakota
Vermilion
Denial of Report on Czar Assassination Circulates
Vienna reports that rumors of the czar's assassination are unfounded and based on a Berlin story about the shah of Persia murdered. Also noted are a murder inquiry in Dublin Indiana after Edward Bu Thinking is found dead while hunting with friends, a base skull fracture, and a Kensington London property sale of 82 acres fetching 2 825 000 dollars.
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Vienna
United States
Berlin
Persia
Dublin
Ind
Edward Buisking
Gem
Indianapolis
Buisking
London
Kensington
Freight worker killed near Fort Wayne in railroad incident
Norval Wright aged 40 a former station man for the Pennsylvania Company in Chicago fell under a freight train east of Fort Wayne and his skull was injured. In Brussels an unconfirmed rumor says the Belgian steamer Leopold foundered in the North Sea with twenty eight persons aboard.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Norval Wright
Pennsylvania Company
Chicago
Brussel
Brussels
Leopold
North Sea
Chief of the Saints No Longer a Mormon Practices
Salt Lake City December 2 The Mormon church rejects polygamy and will not sanction marriages contrary to law President Joseph Smith states the church does not seek controversy but clarifies its position The census shows a dramatic decline in polygamous families from 1890 to 1892 with most subjects elderly and many deceased
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Salt Lake City
Associated Press
Joseph Smith
Mormon Church
Reed Smoot
United States
Smith
Woodruff
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Verdict awards 100000 to widow in railroad collision suit
New York Dec 2 A jury awarded Mrs Jennie M Leys 100000 in damages in her suit against the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad company over the tunnel collision that killed her husband in January.
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New York
Jennie M. Leys
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company
Reed Smoot and the Senate Position of Mormon Dignitaries
President Smith explains that an apostle or elder in the LDS Church is usually engaged in secular work and serves gratuitously, with some exceptions for full-time church duty. Reed Smoot is a banker and business leader, capable and active in mining, and his church status should not affect his public service. Church officials have served in Congress, and no legitimate objection rests on his potential candidacy.
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Smith
Smoot
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Church
Congress
Bribery Case Called Up in St Louis and Boston Wife Murder Trial
In St Louis the bribery case of millionaire brewer Henry Nicolaus tied to a railway franchise was called today. In Boston J Wilfrid Blondin was placed on trial for the murder of his wife with dismembered remains found at Chelmsford last June.
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ST. Louis St. Louis
Henry Nicolaus
Boston
J. Wilfrid Blondin
Chelmsford
Illinois November crop report highlights warm spell and good yields
Springfield report notes unseasonably warm weather most of November with a cold snap near month end. Rainfall ample in northern and central districts, southern rains late in the month improved conditions. Wheat in fine condition in north, fair in south, and acreage reduced due to Hessian fly fear and fall wetness. Rye excellent. corn nearing harvest. pastures green. hog cholera appearing in some areas. southern fruit buds swollen from warm spell.
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Springfield
Sees
Yates Bans Livestock Imports Amid Foot and Mouth Spread
Governor Yates issued a proclamation prohibiting the importation of cattle and sheep into Illinois from Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island New York New Hampshire New Jersey and Pennsylvania due to foot and mouth disease in New England states.
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Springfield
New England
Yates
Vermont
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New York
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Pennsylva
Denver Home Rule Aims to Abolish Arapahoe County
Governor Orman proclaims Bush amendment to Denver constitution creating city and county of Denver and South Arapahoe and Adams counties with home rule for the city. Officials resist handover of funds and offices as legal action is prepared by Municipal League and District Attorney Lindsley. In Wisconsin, Tomah posts office robbery ends with suspects fleeing after shot by town marshal. Dr Bartell alerted authorities.
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Denver
Orman
Arapahoe
South Arapahoe
Adams
Paul J. Sours
Elder
Seree
Hamilton Armstrong
Municipal League
Lindsley
Tomah
Wis
Bartell
Actress Kate Hassett Shot Dead in Philadelphia
In private life she was Mrs. Everett Beckwith of Chicago, married ten years to the road machine maker. Her parents live in Aurora, Illinois, where her father is a real estate dealer. Hassett retained her maiden name on stage.
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Chicago
Kate Hassett
Philadelphia
Everett Beckwith
Aurora
Beckwith
Costly Dig At Mass Mine In Negaunee Michigan
Marquette Michigan December 2 The first ore buckets at the Mass mine now under Cleveland Cliffs Anson property near Negaunee will be valuable when hoisted. The sinking of the shaft is costly and perilous with sand quicksand and two pumps running at 2000 gallons per minute. Five miners per shift fill buckets while danger from boiling sand prompts rapid retreat. Shaft depth is 130 feet with eighteen more to rock ledge uncover the ore body.
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Marquette, Mich
Negaunee
Cleveland Cliffs Company
Lake Superior
Clark Seamen Union Meeting Seeks Pardon for Mutiny Convict
The International Seamen's Union opened in Milwaukee with routine business. E W Clark, jailed at Thomaston Maine for mutiny for thirty years, sent a gavel to the presiding officer with a letter urging a pardon. Thirty-two delegates attend as talks focus on sailors' welfare and opposition to a ship subsidy bill.
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Milwaukee
International Seamen's Union
E. W. Clark
Thomaston
SECRETARY ROOTS FATHER IN LAW DIES IN NEW YORK
Salem H. Wales, father in law of Secretary of War Root, died this afternoon in New York. Other brief items note Harry Ferguson’s duck hunting accident at Van Auken lake near Hartford Michigan, a Chicago theft case involving a conscience watch, and an outbreak of foot and mouth disease affecting thirty eight cattle in Littleton Massachusetts with prompt containment measures planned.
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Root
New York
Salem H. Wales
Littleton
Mass
State Cattle Bureau
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