Demand for Senate investigation over presidents discharge of troops
The article reports on Foraker urging the Senate to investigate the president's discharge of three negro units from the 26th Infantry, arguing presidential power limits, due process under articles of war, and clarifying that only Congress may raise armies and set regulations. It notes a modified resolution directing the Senate Committee on Military Affairs to probe the circumstances surrounding the discharge.
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Foraker
Congress
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Lorge
Secretary Shaw to Head the Mutual Life
Washington December 20 It is reported that Treasury Secretary Lesite M Shaw may become president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York upon his Feb 1 retirement. Trustees have not formally offered the post but have indicated he may accept if desired. Shaw is considering the proposition though friends expect he will decline.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Lesite M. Shaw
The
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
Shaw
Mutual Life
Demands for 15 Percent Raise and 8 Hour Day for Rail Workers
In Chicago on December 20 the brotherhoods filed wage and hour demands with western railroad managers. About 45,000 workers on 47 systems seek a 15 percent pay raise and an eight hour day for brakemen and conductors on all through freight trains. The request totals roughly eight million dollars yearly. Trainmen and conductors act in concert, with railroads including Illinois Central and lines west of that route in the south and west of the Chicago Duluth corridor.
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Chicago
Illinois Central
Duluth
Rescuers Aim to Reach Entombed Miner Hicks Soon
Bakersfield California reports Hicks the entombed miner remains imprisoned but is in good condition and cheerful. Rescuers work on a new level and expect to reach him by five this afternoon.
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Bakersfield
Cal
Hicks
W T Scovil Disaster and Aerial Navigation Hopes
A Mississippi River steamer W. T. Scovil exploded near Vicksburg, with 10 to 16 feared dead and several injured among its mainly enslaved crew. In Paris, Captain Ferber advocates rapid aerial navigation, predicting wars with air flotillas and sweeping changes to customs, policing, and crime prevention as flying machines become common.
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Ferber
Wright Bros
Santos Dumont
Associated Press
France
Anarchy Menace as Venezuela Faces Unrest
From Port of Spain dated December 20, reports say President Castro is gravely ill and may die within a week. First Vice President Gomez would assume power with army support if he dies, amid rising bandit outrages and a threatened era of anarchy in Venezuela.
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Caracas
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Gomez
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National Wire placed in receivership in New Haven
In New Haven on December 20 the National Wire corporation, facing debts above two million dollars, is placed in receivership at the demand of its holding company National Steel & Wire of Portland Maine. The Maine firm seeks to raise new capital or dissolve the corporation and wind up its affairs.
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Conn
National Wire Corporation
East
National Steel & Wire Company
Portland
Maine
Ohio
National health department movement gains prominent backers
One hundred leaders from business science and religion join a national health department committee proposed by Professor J Pease Norton. The plan calls for a cabinet level department or a bureau under existing agencies with a proposed annual 100 million dollar appropriation.
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Department of Health
J. Pease Norton
Yale
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Ithaca
Irving Fisher
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas A. Edison
Archbishop Ireland
John Mitchell
John D. Long
Booker Washington
Felix Adler
James R. Garfield
Leonard Wood
Army and Navy
Norton
Cummins Proposes Car Shortage Remedy
Iowa Governor Cummins says he will urge February legislative action to fine railroads that fail to furnish cars within a set period and to require consignees to unload cars promptly rather than store goods. The plan follows a discussion with the president on the national car shortage.
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Washington
Cummins
Iowa
Plan for $60,000,000 coal merger near East St. Louis
Eastern capitalists promote a merger of all coal mines within 60 miles of East St. Louis with a $60 million capitalization. Officials of two large East St. Louis coal firms acknowledge the report while experts doubt full consolidation is attainable. The move surfaced at a Springfield operators meeting and involves about 150 mines owned by 40 firms.
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St. Louis
Ulinois
East St. Louis
Holbrook- Blackwelder Real Estate Company
Springfield
Three Die, Two Burn Injured in Zenobia Apt Fire
A blaze at the Zenobia apartment house in Buffalo on Prospect Avenue and Huron Street last night killed three residents and fatally burned two others. Forest fire department reports two firefighters killed and an assistant chief plus another firefighter injured by an explosion at a Savannah, Georgia fire at 9 pm yesterday.
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Huron Streets
Savannah
Munro
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Congress Day Summary Ends With Adjournment
In Washington on December 20 President Roosevelt sent a message on the discharge of negro troops and a Senate debate was postponed to today. The pension calendar was cleared by passage of over 200 private pension bills. The House adopted a resolution to civil the committee on enrolled bills and add a clerk. A proposal to raise the clerk’s pay faced opposition. An absence of a quorum led Speaker Cannon to adjourn at 1 p m until today.
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Congress
Senate
Roosevelt
HOUSE
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Life sentence commuted for A. T. Patrick in Rice murder case
Albany reports Governor Higgins commuted Albert T. Patrick's sentence for the murder of Texas millionaire William Marsh Rice to life imprisonment. The action followed opinions from three of seven appellate judges that trial errors prejudiced Patrick, and the governor concluded the death penalty was unwarranted.
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Higgins
Albert T. Patrick
William Marsh Rice
Court of Appeal
Patrick
Beer halls at national homes yield profits for government
The last year profits from beer halls in national homes for disabled volunteers totaled 165 454 dollars. Inspector General Colonel John L Chamberlain reports the beer hall aids comfort health and welfare by providing regulated access to high quality beer.
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Washington, D. C
John L. Chamberlain
Bewailed Ige Shortage Impacts Local Saloons
The brief notes a criticism of the Ige shortage and predicts a larger public spend in neighboring saloons and dives. It claims consumers will receive cheap beer and bad liquors instead of pure beer. The statement frames the shortage as driving poorer quality alcohol for locals.
Interstate Commerce Hearing on Car Shortage Opens
The Interstate Commerce Commission opened hearings in St Louis on a car shortage. J R Crow of Kansas City testified that S T Fulton of Rock Islands Railroad held stock in Crow Coal but paid nothing for it earlier. Attorney General Mayor in Albany sued the American Ice Company for monopoly practices against New York City area supply and price controls.
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Kansas City
Interstate Commission
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Prouty
J. R. Crow
J. Crow Coal Mining Company
S. T .Fulton
Winchell
Rock Islands Railroad
Crow Company
Fulton
Rock Island
Albany
American Fee Company
Supreme Court
Fee Trust
New York City
New York
Hudson River
American Ice Company
Mountain Ice Company
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Brooklyn
Chinese Soldiers Move on Rebels Near Ping Kiang District
About two thousand Chinese soldiers from Nanking march to the front to engage rebels in the Ping Kiang district. They are armed with modern weapons and trained by European officers, supported by field artillery batteries.
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Ping Kiang
Nanking
Jett Confesses Alone Guilty of Cold Case Murder
Cynthiana December 20 Jett stunned the commonwealth by admitting he alone killed Town Marshal Cockrill in Jackson four years ago and is on trial for the crime He had previously implicated Judge Hargis and Sheriff Callahan in a prior confession
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A. G. Russell
Ashwood Landing
Mr. Russell
Ashwood
John G. O'Kelly
Gold Dust Landing
Mr. O'Kelly
Leval Verger
Jackson
John A. Quackenboss
Wade Quackenboss
Clark Schmidt
Captain Quackenboss
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Jett
Commonwealth
Cockrill
Hargis
Ed Callahan
Montgomery Ward Suit Targets South Dakota Merchants
Montgomery Ward & Co. filed in U S court accusing the South Dakota Retail Merchants & Hardware Dealers’ Association and leaders of conspiracy to boycott to block wholesalers and manufacturers from selling goods. Judge Carland set Jan 3 for show cause on a temporary injunction. The case is a test of catalogue house reach and could enable similar suits elsewhere.
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Ontgomery Ward & Co
South Dakota
Sioux Falls
S. D
Montgomery Ward & Co
Chicago
United States
South Dakota Retail Merchants & Hardware Dealers’ Association
Carland
Cabinet Decides to Retain Power in Parliament Crisis
London reports that the government will not dissolve parliament after the House of Lords defeated the education bill. Premier Bannerman withdrew the bill in the Commons, calling the Lords' rejection the most serious rebuff to his cabinet but not warranting a general election.
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London
Bannerman
House of Commons
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