President Roosevelts push for better waterways gains support
President Roosevelt told a national rivers and harbors delegation at the White House that he will consult with congressional leaders and seek definite action to increase appropriations for improving the nation's waterways. The convention adopted a platform urging expanded water transportation to relieve rail freight limits and noting the Panama Canal's strategic importance. Indictments were returned against Gould interests officials over Utah Fuel land deals, with bonds set for individuals and company officials.
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Washington
Dec
Roosevelt
National Rivers and Harbors Convention
White House
Congress
Houses of
Panama Canal
Orient
United States
Coal land bills by Salt Lake grand jury indicts Harriman Gould units
Federal grand jury returns first indictments in a crackdown on coal raid grabbers. Named defendants include Union Pacific Rail road, Oregon Short Line Rail road, Union Pacific Coal, Utah Fuel, and top Harriman Gould officials in Utah. Indictments allege violation of interstate commerce laws with discrimination against dealer D J Sharp in Lake.
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Theodore Schulte
H. B. Windsor Insurance Company
Thomas Moore
County Recorders Office
Salt Lake
Grand
Utah Fuel Company
Marshall
Utah Fuel
Salt Lake City
Utah
Federal Grand
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Oregon Short Line Railroad Company
Union Pacific Coal Company
Harriman and Gould
Harriman Companies
Harriman
Union Pacific
Oregon Short Line
Railway strike teeters near Pittsburg amid yardmen dispute
Pittsburg December 8. Local railroad officials and yardmen face a critical stalemate over yard scale pay. If no settlement is reached within days a general strike may spread through the district. Baltimore & Ohio talks hinge on today’s meetings alongside Iowa Iowa Central wage increases for trains after four weeks of talks with conductors brakemen engineers and firemen.
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Pittsburg
Baltimore & Ohio
Iowa Railroad
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Iowa Central Company
Explosion at Oriental Powder plant kills two near Fair Chance
William Hinkle and Anthony Brose died in a magazine explosion at Oriental Powder company near Fair Chance Pennsylvania. Fire followed but was extinguished soon. Windows shattered two miles away in a horizontal concussion, observers note.
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Uniontown
William Hinkle
Anthony Brose
Oriental Powder Company
Fair Chance
Braden Hanged in Louisiana for Assault Claiming Sacrifice to Whites
Thomas C Braden alias Brady a 55 year old white man was hanged in Alexandria Louisiana for an assault on Miss Laura Warren at Lecompte on September 15. He had resided in Indiana and wrote to Terre Haute relatives claiming his execution was to appease white anger towards blacks and prove hangings were not race driven. He admitted guilt but said many southerners were also culpable and that as a stranger he must die.
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Alexandria
Thomas C. Braden
Brady
Laura Warren
Lecompte
Braden
Indiana
Terre Haute
Ind
Chester Penitentiary to Produce Chains for Prisoners
Chester officials plan a chain plant at the Chester penitentiary to employ convicts. Springfield reports the project aims to create work for prisoners and is not expected to conflict with free labor in Illinois.
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Chester
Springfield
Lake boat goes ashore in snow at White Fish Point
Grand Marias Mich Dec 8 An unknown steamer has gone ashore in a snow storm a mile and a half below White Fish Point Lake Superior. Tugs from the Soo have been sent for to aid in the incident.
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Grand Marias
Mich
White Fish Point
Lake Superior
Soo
Holsten Guilty and Shah Dead Rumors Across Posts
A Muscatine report states John Holsten, 65, formerly of Keithsburg, was found guilty of murdering his daughter Bessie and faces life in prison amid dramatic courtroom scenes. Separate dispatches note rumors of the Persian shah’s death and varying accounts from Teheran to London, with famine reports from central China reaching Washington.
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Muscatine
Iowa
John Holsten
Keithsburg
Bessie
Holsten
Fannie Smith
London
Paris
Persia
British Foreign Office
China
Washington
State Department
Shanghai
Livestock Charges Raise Interstate Commission This Morning
The Chicago live stock exchange and the Cattle Raisers Association of Texas filed a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission alleging that Star & Dia Nois Central and numerous other carriers transport livestock to Chicago from Texas and other points in the southwest and from the northwest at unjust and unreasonable rates. The rates have been in force since June 1, 1894, and the commission will hear the case at upcoming public hearings.
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Interstate Commission
Washington
Star & Dia Nois Central
Chacago
Milwaukee St. Paul
Chicago
Texas
Southwest
Northwest
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago Livestock Exchange
Cattle Raisers’ Association of Texas
Day in Congress Shows Bills Sent to House Floor
Washington report on congressional activity describes the House receiving the legislative appropriation bill as a special order for Monday vote day. A labor and manufacturer endorsed bill passed to modify interstate commerce rules on convict made goods. A bill creating a game preserve in the Olympic mountains was approved. Adjournment occurred at 3 p.m.
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HOUSE
Olympic Mountains
Washington
Chamber of Commerce Reports Insurance After Great Fire
San Francisco, Dec 8 The Chamber of Commerce special committee on insurance settlements after the great fire reports the burned area at 3000 acres with 520 blocks and about 25000 buildings. Insurance carried about 225 million and coverage totals about 235 million written by 100s of companies. value destroyed around 250 million. The vast insurance payout surpassed any previous city settlement.
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San Francisco
Board of Trustees
The
Chamber of Commerce
Claims Fraud in the Thirty-Ninth District Contested
In Streator Illinois Mayor Lucey challenges the Thirty-ninth district state senate seat won by Gardner of Mendota. Lucey alleges precinct ballot fraud in Mendota and accuses the Mendota postmaster of failing to deliver political mail. A recount will determine Gardner's plurality of 115 over Lucey amid these irregularities. Also included is a separate bank robbery incident in Great Bend Kansas, with a suspect wounded and later changing his story.
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Streator
Gardner
Mendota
State Senate
P. J. Lucey
Lucey
Jealousy-Fueled Shooting Wounds Doctor in Stock Exchange
In Chicago on December 8, jealous husband Dolol sa Campbell shot Dr. Benjamin F. Harris in the law office of Hoyne O Connor Hoyne on the Stock Exchange Building's 10th floor. Campbell fired five shots then sat awaiting arrest as panic and alarm spread through the bustling office floor.
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Chicago
Whdol Sa C. Campbell
Lar
Benjamin F. Harris
Hoyne, O’connor & Hoyne
Stock Exchange
Campbell
Storer letter over Roosevelt ambassadorship dispute disclosed
Chicago dispatch reveals Bellamy Storer’s letter to President Roosevelt sharing his side of the removal as ambassador to Austria Hungary. The document includes exchanges with the president and Mrs Storer, noting Roosevelt influence on Archbishop Ireland’s cardinal appointment and tensions over Storer’s conduct and Mrs Storer’s actions.
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Austria
Ireland
Chicago
Dec
John Callan O’laughlin
the Tribune
Washington
Bellamy Storer
United States
Austria Hungary
Storer
Senate
Tribune
Ress
Bellamy
Maria
Paper Trust Beyond Reach of Prosecution
Minneapolis twelfth dec 8 a leading paper dealer says a national pool of paper manufacturers forms a trust immune to federal action. He warns the combine tightens trade restraint and has raised paper prices by six percent in recent operations. The plan borrows from the Parks pool used to avoid prosecution.
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Minneapolis
Minn
General Paper Company
Aeen
Photograph of Tell tale Check Shown in Burnham Trial
New York on December photograph of a check for 10010 payable to James Y Watkins as trustee signed by Timothy Donovan and later endorsed by Payn to United States Express and shown by the prosecution in the Burnham trial before the supreme court. The exhibit related to an alleged demand of 10900 upon the president of the Mutual te serve Fund Life association for suppression of an unfavorable report during Payn’s tenure as state superintendent of Insurance.
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New York
James Y. Watkins
Timothy Donovan
Louis F. Payn
Onler
Payn
United States Express Company
George Burnham, Jr
Supreme Court
Burnham
Mutual Te Serve Fund Life Association
Coal Famine in Kansas Railways Seize Coal for Engines
A severe coal shortage grips southwestern Kansas with coal dealers unable to fill orders as railroads confiscate supplies to fuel their engines. The shortage stems from limited coal availability and equipment shortfalls affecting railroad operations in Hutchinson and surrounding areas.
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Kansas
Hutchinson
Kan
Bishop Seymour of Springfield Dies of Pneumonia
Springfield dispatch reports Bishop George F. Seymour of the Episcopal diocese of Springfield died this morning from pneumonia. In Muskogee Oklahoma the National Good Roads Association annual convention elected officers A. Jackson of Maine as vice president Curt M. Treat of Chicago as secretary and E. C. Conway of Chicago as treasurer.
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Springfield
George F. Seymour
Episcopal Diocese of
Car Demolishes Bank Wreck. Passenger Dies in East Liverpool
A traction car of the East Liverpool Traction and Light Co. derailed at Jethro trestle in East Liverpool Ohio plunging over a 35 foot embankment. One passenger James Vale was killed and several others injured with reports that some may die.
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East Liverpool
Ohio
East Liverpool Traction & Light Company
James Vale
Gillette urged to repent crime
Herkimer New York December 8 Chester Gillett convicted of Grace Brown murder received a telegram from his mother urging repentance. She had previously stood by him and now said he confessed though Gillett insists no confession was made and seeks a new trial while maintaining innocence amid newspaper reports.
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Egypt
Storer
Bacon
Herkimer
N. Y
Chester BE. GiMeme
Grace Brown
Moother
Gon Hils
Gilette
Kans Populists Quit Merge with Republicans
Kansas populists announce dissolution and plan to join the Republican Party. Chairman Hanna calls a leaders conference over the holiday week to act. The populist state ticket received about 1,100 votes in the recent election. Hanna says Roosevelt is a good enough populist for him.
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Republican Party
Topeka
Kan, Dee
Kansas
Hanna
Roosevelt
Would Unite Farmers In Illinois Northward Move
The Farmers' Union of Illinois closed its Centralia meeting with officer elections. The group plans immediate efforts to expand the organization into northern Illinois from Nashville.
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Southern Illinois
Nashville
Farmers’ Union of
Ilinois
Centralia
Grover Cleveland Ill With Indigestion At Home
Grover Cleveland is ill at his Princeton home with acute indigestion suffering a week without improvement. Dr J M Carnochan said he is not in serious danger though in pain. In Washington Delaware the House passed a bill to regulate convict labor and manufactures under interstate commerce rules.
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Princeton
N. J
Grover Cleveland
J. M. Carnochan
Cleveland
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