La Follette Loses Bid in Wisconsin Legislature
Governor La Follette failed in both houses during the extra session as all his major proposals were defeated. The capitol building bill survived with a linked eight hour day clause debated but not amended. Minor measures passed while the university inquiry was urged by the university president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
la Follette
Senate
Assembly
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Social Democrats
State University
Wisconsin
I. N. Lenroot
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Friends of
Insurance Company
Miss Alice to Marry Soon
Formal announcement was made by the presider and Mrs. Roosevelt of the engagement of their daughter Alice Lee Roosevelt to Nicholas Longworth representative in congress from Ohio. The wedding is expected around mid February and may take place at the White House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Alice Lee Roosevelt
Nicholas Longworth
Congress
Ohio
Cincinnati
White House
Sunday Schools To Hold World Convention In Rome
The central committee representing 250,000 Sunday schools with 26 million members met in Philadelphia to vote for the world fifth convention in Rome Italy, May 20-23, 1907. Representatives from the United States and Canada attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Philadelphia
Catenittee
Rome
United States
Canada
Democrat Succeeds Mitchell in Oregon Senate
Salem Dec 14 Gov Chamberlain announces John M Gearin of Portland will replace the late John H Mitchell as United States senator from Oregon Gearin becomes the first Democratic senator from Oregon since 1878 indicating a political shift and regional change in the Senate representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchell
Salem
Chamberlain
John M. Gearin
Portland
John H. Mitchell
United States
Oregon
Gearin
New York Teamsters Strike Over Closed Shop Refusal
New York December 14 Teamsters employed by Clark Chapin Bushnell wholesale grocers strike after the firm refuses to sign a closed shop agreement. A general strike in the grocery district is feared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Steamer Fouls Barge Near Bart Jetta Reef
The Chester W Chapin steamship from New York fouled a barge off Bart Jetta reef in dense fog near New London CT. The incident occurred as the vessel proceeded toward the city today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New London
Conn
Chester W. Chapin
New York
Bart Jetta Reef
Thir ‘City
New York Life Officers Change Amid Insurance Inquiry
The New York Life Insurance company saw leadership shifts as George W. Perkins resigned as first vice president and finance committee chair. Alexander J. Orr became vice president, John Clafin took the finance chair. Mutual Life elected Charles A. Peabody as president at 60000 annually, with McCurdy’s 150000 salary noted. Senator Dryden pressed federal supervision of life insurers to bolster authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New York Life Insurance Copany
New York
Legislative Committee
Prudential Life Insurance Company
Metropolitan Life
George W. Perkins
New York Life Insurance Company
Alexander J. Orr
City Rapid Transit Company
John Cilaffin
NR. B. Claflin
Peabody
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Rufus W. Peckham
Emory McClintock
Elihu Root
United States
John ¥. Dryden
New Jersey
Prudential Life Insurances Company
Lfe
Witte Declared a Failure by Grand Dukes Conference
A report from St Petersburg dated December 12 states a Tsar skoe-Sea conference of grand dukes and court officials decided Count Witte had proved a failure and that firm measures should be adopted under Prince Svilatopolk-Mirsky. A further conference is said to be planned with Witte absent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Helsingfors
Finland
Berlin
Nasha Shisha
Tsarskoe-Sea
Count Witte
Svilatopolk-Mirsky
Cannon Announces House Committees of the Ninth Congress
Speaker Cannon revealed the chairmen for major House committees in the ninth Congress. Notable names include Payne of New York for Ways and Means, Tawney Minnesota for Appropriations, Hepburn Iowa for Interstate and Foreign Commerce, and Hitt Illinois for Foreign Affairs, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cannon
Payne
New York
Tawney
Minnesota
Jenkins
Wisconsin
Hepburn
Iowa
Ilinois
Hull
Foss
Illnois
Postonce
Post Roads
Overstreet
Indiana
Fowler
New Jersey
Loudenslager
District of Columbia
Babcoc’s
Mondell
Wyoming
Howell
Crumpacker
McCreary
C. B. Landis
Industrial Arts and Exposition
Cardner
Massachusetts
Mann
Illlinois
Olmstead
Cadet Acquitted of Manslaughter at Naval Academy
Midshipman Minor Meriwether Jr was tried by court martial for causing the death of Midshipman Branch. He was sentenced to confinement within the naval academy limits for one year and publicly reprimanded by the secretary of the navy. The sentence was ordered carried out, but the ban on serving on any practice ship attached to the academy was remitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Meriwether, Jr
Branch
Naval Academy
Republicans Favor Statehood for Oklahoma and Adjacent Territories
In a house caucus, Republicans unanimously backed admitting Oklahoma and the Indiana Territory as one state and Arizona with New Mexico as another. The plan, to be in one bill, faced minimal opposition aside from tying Arizona and New Mexico together. Hearings on a constitutional amendment banning alcohol sales in the two territories began, with a full report expected after the holiday recess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
House
Oklahoma
Indiana Territory
Aniyong
New Mexico
Arizona
Adams
Wisconsin
Tawney
Minnesota
Hamilton
Committee On Territories
Shane
Strike in Russia Fails to Slow Telegraph Cutoffs
St Petersburg reports show minimal progress in ending the telegraph strike as wires remain severed across the Baltic region. The Imperial ukase promises local self government, a step seen as reviving decentralization and restoring a pre 1876 governor general style framework to address peasant reform, schools, and governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. St. Petersburg
Taydtkuhnen
East Prussia
St. Petersburg
Baltic
Ukase
Liberun
Lithuania
Hearst Loses Ballot Box Fight in New York Case
Albany, Dec 14. Court of Appeals upholds McClellan counsel claim that election law gives courts no power to order opening ballot boxes or a recount. Decision leaves ballots untouched and avoids re canvass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
Court of Appeals
New York
George B. McClellan
Alphonso to wed Princess of Justenburg soon
Madrid reports the betrothal of King Alphonso to Princess An of Justenburg is considered assured as he plans to travel to the Riviera later this month to meet her, a gesture linked to former Empress Eugenie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alphonso
Madrid
Ing Alphonso
Riviera
Jsuttenburg
Eugenie
Legal Array In Beef Case Opens in Chicago
An imposing array of legal talent and spectators attended the first proceedings today before Judge J Otis Humphrey in the United States court. Ten special pleas raised by the packers are to be settled by a jury trial before action on the indictment tied to the federal grand jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Nec
Beef Trust
J. Otis Humphrey
United States
Moody urges district attorneys to indict carrier rate discriminations
Attorney General Moody issued a circular to eighty five US district attorneys directing vigorous enforcement of the Elkins and talking act provisions against rebates and discriminatory practices by common carriers. The letter urges investigations of all complaints, submission of adequate evidence to grand juries, and indictments where warranted, including conspiracy charges to extend penalties beyond fines. It emphasizes using immunity where witnesses are needed and seeks to discourage unlawful rate practices through possible imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Moody
United States
Washington, D.C
Atttorney General
Supreme Court
Clune
Department
William HH. Moody
Attack on Jews in Lodz Wounds Twenty in Riots
A mob attacked Jewish shops and residents on Zeilezna street in Lodz Russian Poland. Twenty people were wounded by knives or revolvers as fighting broke out. Cossacks dispersed the rioters with a volley, wounding additional persons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lodz
Russian Poland
Zeilezna Street
Alice Roosevelt Engagement to Longworth Reported
Washington dispatch announces Miss Alice Roosevelt daughter of the president engaged to Congressman Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati. A wedding date is not yet fixed but plans call for a spring ceremony, possibly before winter ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Roosevelt
Washington, D. C
Nicholas Longworth
Cincinnati
Miss Roosevelt
Mutineers Attack Harbin Sagkeg in St Petersburg
Desperate fighting as mutinous Russian sailors and loyal troops clash in St Petersburg. The labor movement faces a new crisis after the interior minister orders arrest of M Krustaleff, head of the workers council. Cossacks patrol, riots erupt near the post office, two strikers and a guard killed, police and workers wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Daily Telegraph
Vokio
Fromm Moji
Harbin
St. Petersburg
Jane
Russia
Durnove
M. “Krustalefi
Targova Street
Krugtaleff
Chinese Students Depart From Japan
In Tokyo on December 15 two thousand Chinese students have already left the city, with eighty two hundred planning returns amid anger at the Chinese minister Yang Shu. A hostile manifesto targets the Manchu dynasty as tensions between the imperial university and government ease after Premier Katsura accepts the education portfolio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
Japan
Yang-Shu
China
Imperial University
Hubota Yasuru
Katsura
Miss Gudday to Wed Cincinnati Brewer
The Philadelphia Press notes Miss Gudday plans marriage to a Cincinnati brewer after jilting Jack Sterling. The match is described as a fortunate union with a wealthy suitor, highlighting the social drama surrounding the pair.
Sultan Asks for Reconsideration in Macedonia Dispute
Constantinople reports the Porte requests reconsideration of several modifications Turkey proposed on Macedonia. The revisions were rejected by ambassadors in their note dated December 8. A joint Turko Persian mission has been named to settle the frontier dispute of Kbpscca to avert a conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sultan
Constantinople
Porte
Macedonia
Baron von Cathce
Turkey
Pos Ca
Senate Debates on Rates and Panama Canal
Washington reports a series of Senate debates on railroad rate legislation led by Tillman and on the Panama canal with talks on emergency appropriation. Also notes Mitchell's death omission and Williams taking responsibility for committee criticisms. House coverage centers on insurance regulation debate and the Ways and Means Committee's role amid taxing power arguments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Tillman
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mitchely
Olean
Mitchell
House
Williams
Payne
Willams
Allison
Panama Canal
Shaw
Cure Money
Wouse
Teller
Scott
Morgan
Congress
Panama
Ways and Means Committee
Letts Is Captured After Tarnished Railway Case
Kansas City dispatch reports M Letts, formerly station agent for the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe at Princeton Kansas, arrested in Panama while using an assumed name as a canal commission clerk. He supposedly stole seventy thousand dollars in tickets and burned the depot to conceal the crime after escaping Ottawa Kansas following arson and robbery convictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Letts
Kansas City
M. Letts
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
Princeton
Kan
Panama
Canal Commission
Ottawa
Three Sent To Prison In Local Court
Towa City judge Byington yesterday sentenced James Morgan to four years in the penitentiary for burglary. Walter Alberhaskrey received eighteen months for stealing a watch, and Charles Williams was given six months for burning city mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa City
Tenatieff Arrest Claims Stir St. Petersburg
London dispatch reports a wild rumor in St. Petersburg that General Count Alexis Tenatieff has been arrested by imperial order for plotting a dictatorship. A check at Count Tenatieff s residence produced no confirmation or denial of the tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Times
St. Petersburg
Snys
Alexis Tenatieft
Count Tenatieff
Mutinous Soldiers Reported Killing High Rank Officers
Berlin dispatch notes private reports from Harbin Manchuria confirming earlier advice that mutinous soldiers have killed general officers of high rank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Lo'al Anzie Per
Harbin
Manchuria
Grisi in St Petersburg Park Meeting Two Marionettes
A fragment tells of the great opera singer Mme Grisi in St Petersburg. The emperor meets her with two girls and jokes about Grisettes, corrected by Grisi who calls them Marionettes. The tale ends with a moral about living free of fear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Cgrist
Signor Maria
St. Petersburg
Mme. Gris
Mme, Grisi
Mme, Grist
Also Mentioned on This Page
Capitol
New State Building
Alice
Charles A. Peabody
the Mutual Life
Statehood
Caucus
Indian Territory
Hearst
New York Mail
Mutineerd
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!