Schley Presses White House Appeal For Reversal
Washington Jan 7 Admiral Schley met with the president to seek approval of an appeal against Secretary Longs actions and a dissenting court of inquiry verdict. Raynor and Teague will assist in preparing the appeal, while Schley declined to discuss the talks.
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Washington
Jan
Schley
White House
Secretary Long
Raynor and
Teague
Schiim
Maryland
John Paul Jones
Santiago Bay
Winfield Scott Schley
Long
Santiago
Knute Nelson
Minnesot
Nelson
Feet
Sampson
Cute
Navy Department
Court of Claims
Department
Rayner
Isador Rayner
House of Representatives
Representative Cummings
New York
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Douglas
Minnesota
Supreme Court
Northern Securities Com Company
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Imperial Court Enters Forbidden City in Pekin
In Pekin on January 7 the imperial court including the emperor and the dowager empress entered the forbidden city this afternoon. The scene was described as the most brilliant the city had witnessed.
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Pekin
Forbidden City
Train wreck in Rock Island yards injures three recruits
Soldiers' special bearing 900 recruits for the Philippines from Columbus was wrecked in Chicago Rock Island yards today. Three men injured as others jolted. governor orders the line halted. Cincinnati dispatch reports a boxing fight near Cincinnati to be prevented by Sheriff Taylor under orders from Governor Nash. Frederick Morganthaler, renowned Palace Hotel chef, dies at 62 in San Francisco.
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Chicago
Philippines
Columbus
Cincinnati
Nashfins
Taylor
Cincinvati
Mike Shreck
Larry Temple
Abbey Club
San Francisco
Frederick Morganthaler
Palace Hotel
McKinley Day Observance Urged Across States
Governor Nash of Ohio appeals to every governor to mark January 29 McKinley’s birthday as a day of universal observance. The effort comes from the Ohio auxiliary of the McKinley National Memorial association to unite citizens in honoring the late president.
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Gov. Nash
Ohio
Canton
United States
Tri City Ministers Hold Monthly Meeting
The Tri City Ministers Association met at M. C. A. chapel. Rev. G. S. Rollins of Edwards Congregational Church Davenport spoke on The Significance of the New Emphasis Laid Upon Christian Nurture. The talk drew hearty commendation. The next meeting is planned for the first Monday in March afternoon.
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Tri-City
M. C
G. S. Rollins
Edwards Congregational Church
Davenport
Rollins
Peace Seems Likely in South America
Buenos Ayres on January 7 reports Argentina and Chile have reached agreement on protocol wording. Dispute now to be arbitrated by a British commission as the mechanism to resolve tensions moves forward.
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South America
Buenos Ayres
Argentina
Chile
Kissing Stage in Miller-Muening Breach Case
Chicago on January 7 reports a talky session in the breach of promise case where Henry Huening detailed his past romance with Lizzie Miller of Burlington. The couple discussed kissing on rides, with a Leindecker couple allegedly matchmaking. Huening proposed thrice before Miller agreed, with an escape clause for love elsewhere. The dispute ended with Huening marrying another woman and noting he now has a boy.
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Chicago
Miller-Muening
Patton
Iuening
Lizzie Miller
Burlington
Wis
Lizzie
Leindecker
Kiesing
Hnening
Buenling
Hoening
Mixx Miller
Swan
Huening
Misa Miller
Henry
Miss Miller
Customer and coat disappear together in fraud
Louis Pfoh, grocer, was duped when a stranger entered his Third Avenue and Fourteenth Street shop and left promising to pay later. The man vanished with a bill and a good suit owned by Jok. Elsewhere Warren Kincaid lacks a suit after suspecting a roomer. Magistrate Johnson fined Frank Wieher $1 for a plain drunk.
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Louis Pfoh
Third Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Jok
Warren Kincaid
Fourth Avenue Mau
Nineteenth Street
Johnson
Frank Wieher
Explosion in Colorado tunnel kills two in blast
In Idaho Springs Idaho on January 7 Ernest Wheeler and John Be Clard were killed and A B Lawes fatally injured. Two others were seriously hurt in a premature powder blast in the New House tunnel.
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Idaho Springs
Col
Ernest Wheeler
John BE Clard
A. B. Lawes
New House
Congress resumes as Senate notes Sewell death
Washington reports the Senate and House resume after holidays. The Senate adjourns after announcing the death of Senator Sewell of New Jersey. Bills of note include immigration restrictions and anti anarchist provisions with death penalties for assaults on government officers. The House moves to the Nicaragua canal bill and to establishing Philippine civil government with a governor and two-chamber legislature beginning 1904.
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Washington
Senate
House
Sewell
New Jersey
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
United States
Grosvenor
Hepburn
Iowa
Cooper
Wis
House Committee On Insular Affairs
Philippines
Philippe
Robbers Blow Vault In Northeast St Louis Bank Heist
Six masked men burst into the National Stewards Bank on Northeast Street in St Louis last night. They gagged the night watchman and a fireman, blew open the vault with dynamite, and escaped with $5,000. No clues yet.
Death of G N Wiswell Prominent Wisconsin Man
George N Wiswell president of Milwaukee Mutual Life Insurance died after three weeks illness at age 50. He was known nationwide for service as sergeant-at-arms at the national Republican convention in Philadelphia and as assistant sergeant-at-arms at Chicago Minneapolis and St Louis conventions. Wiswell served as marshal of the eastern district of Wisconsin under Harrison and was an active Mason Knight of Pythias and Odd Fellow.
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Milwaukee
George N. Wiswell
Milwaukee Mutual Life Insurance Company
Wiswell
Philadelphia
Chicago
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Wisconsin
Harrison
Mason
Knight
Pythias
Governor Savage urged to remove Nebraska treasurer
Lincoln reports a formal recommendation from Speaker William G. Sears urging Governor Savage to remove State Treasurer Steefer over alleged irregularities. Sears also hints at a special session for impeachment if removal is not taken. Savage declines to act, with the indication that other officers endorse the decision.
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Lincoln
Neb
Jan
Savage
Tresaurer Steefer
William G. Sears
House
Charles W. Mosher
David Eb.thompson
United States Senate
Secretary of
Bottle Travels 10,000 Miles From Illinois to Pacific Coast
A bottle sent from central Illinois in 1900 carried a message by Walter Roeder learned by Jesse Wilson in Santa Monica. The bottle drifted down the Mackinaw river to the Mississippi and Gulf, then around Cape Horn to the Pacific, before washing ashore in California. The voyage over 10,000 miles is chronicled in a mystery of ocean currents.
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Bloomington
Als
Illinois
Pacific Ocean
Walter Roeder
Jesse Wilson
Santa Monica
Cal
California
Roeder
Mackinaw River
Horn
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Ocean
Cape Horn
Pacific Coast
Web Davis Speaks On Boer War Policy And Congress Action
Web Davis addressed an enthusiastic audience about South Africa conditions. He described Boer sympathizers and urged petitions to Congress to extend sympathy to the two republics. He said he has retired from politics to focus on literature and speaking, claiming a majority of people and lawmakers favor action for the Boer cause.
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Aml
South Africa
Rooseveltt
Congress
Mystery of Mrs Hrdlicka in Pearl Street Murder Probe
In St. Joseph Michigan police guard the scene at 712 Pearl Street amid a death and alleged mortgaged life policy linked to Mrs Hrdlicka. The deceased husband, a Singer agent, was behind on accounts fueling theories of suicide or foul play as Sheriff Collins investigates the family ties and insurances.
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Mich
Chicago
Bigin
Hld
Prudential Insurance Company
Frederick PD. Collins
Hrdlicka
Diaz
Washington
John Barrett
Pan-American Congress
Mexico
Roosevelt
Loosevelt
Dias
Back for Fresh Air in Escape From Reformatory Sewer
Frank Struneck of Brookville, serving burglary time, crawled through a sewer from the Jeffersonville reformatory toward the river. He traveled about a mile and a half before the narrowing pipe overcame him with foul air. He was pulled from the manhole nearly dead.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Frank Struneck
Brookville
Reformatory
Liberty
Venezuelan insurgents land near Valdecoro in Curacao
In Curacao on January 7 General Riera and Venezuelan insurgents boarded the Libertador and landed on Venezuelan soil near Valdecoro with arms. The Libertador is said to have captured the gunboat Zumbador, originally the Agosto. In Kansas City a farmer Carl Fishner shot and likely fatally wounded Mrs. Mary L. Wallace near Shawnee while they traveled with two children. The shooting occurred after a dispute over allegedly stolen corn. Fishner fled but was captured.
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Pawnee City
Neb
Frank Fritch
Will Hunzeker
Hunzeker
Cave In
Madison
Ind
Henry Selig
Selig
Frederick Scudder
Se Te
Castro
Willemstad
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Riera
Libertador
Valddecoro
Agosto
Kansas City
Carl Fishner
Mary L. Wallace
J. H. Wallace
Shawnee
Kan
Wallaces
Rich Hill
Custer County
Fishners Farm
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