Vast pension funds approved by appropriations committee
A summary of the day’s capitol news notes a $161,018,000 pension appropriation advance, various senatorial selections including Burton and Shively for U.S. Senate, Brandegee’s re-election, and a flurry of foreign and domestic events from crime in Illinois to earthquakes in Mexico and mining disasters in West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On Appropriations
Bacon
Senate
Tennessee
General Assembly
Theodore Burton
Cleveland
Ohio
J. 8. Foraker
United States
B. F. Shively
Hemenway
United States Senate
Indiana
Theodore E. Burton
Grover Cleveland
Penrose
Pennsylvania
Brandegee
Connecticut
State Assembly
Root
Bryce
Great Britain
Canada
House of Representatives
Congress
Secret Service
House
How to Make an Ice Boat Tips and construction details
A detailed guide by J. H. Hubbard from the People's Home Journal explains building a boy sized ice boat. It covers materials like spruce backbone plank, oak cross-bars, stern boards, sail, mast, sprit, and runner construction, with measurements, rigging, and cost estimated at about 16 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Hubbard
People's Home Journal
Dewisa
Turner
Boy 18 Wireless Expert From Dorchester
Lewis W. F. Russell a 16 year old Dorchester boy on 110 Hamilton street has built a wireless outfit and shown progress over the past year He learned electricity after leaving school due to illness and was aided by Ernest McShane of South Boston and joined by Harry Williams of West Roxbury The trio communicated by wireless and Russell has occasionally caught signals from the navy yard and rant rock He uses a 30 foot roof pole and plans to extend it He invites other young men to visit his home to learn wireless work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis W. F. Russell
Hamilton Street
Dorchester
Boston Globe
Russell
Ernest McShane
National Street
South Boston
Harry Williams
Center Street
West Roxbury
Navy Yard
Rant Rock
Boston broker Cardenio King sentenced to hard labor
Cardenio F. King, once a Boston broker, received a sentence of not less than ten and not more than 14 years at hard labor. Other items note Charles S Cameron of the Tube City Railroad Company found guilty of conspiracy and bribery attempts tied to a local franchise, plus indictments and arrests involving city officials, Venezuelan envoy welcome in Paris, and other criminal cases across several cities.
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Cardenio F. King
Boston
Charles S.cameron
Tube City Railroad Company
Pittsburg
William A. Martin
Fube City Railroad
George Aunger
Ashtabula
Paris
Jose de Jesus Paul
Venezuela
Bordeaux
Fred W. Richardson
Elmira
Chicago
Buffalo
Frederick Corby Pole
Montreal
Cincinnati
Fred’ van Mater
Gualiiopolis
Hite
Earthquake Sighted Across Italian Regions and U.S. Shooting Tragedy
A slight quake shook Lombardy Venetia and Tuscany with no damage beyond panic. Lizzie Harbin, 41, was shot at home in Washington by Frederick J. Kraemer who then killed himself. President Roosevelt rode 98 miles by horse in 17 hours to prove a regent order to the army was not too severe. Eighteen Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association members were found guilty in Cleveland of rule violations. International balloon race and Gordon Bennett Trophy discussed in London. Herthy Taylor accused of assault involving sisters-in-law at Minden.
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Lombardy
Venetia
Tuscany
Italy
Lizzie Harbin
Washington
Federick J. Kraemer
Roosevelt
Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association
Cleveland
Internatonal Association of Aeronauts
London
Aligon
Helvetia
James
Gordon Bennett
Herthy Taylor
Minden
Antiquity of Bow and Arrow in Pyrenean Caverns
A study of mural paintings and engravings in Pyrenean caverns shows bows and arrows were in use at a very early period. In a Niaux grotto carvings depict bidons, horses, deer and wild goats with arrows striking animals, some arrow-heads painted red.
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Pyrenees
Niaux
The Youngster's Advice Proves Father Is Not Far Older
A five year old asks his mother how much older the father is. She replies eighteen years and the child makes a witty remark about the age gap, highlighting a playful misunderstanding in a domestic moment.
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Jack
Arrys
State Capital Gossip An Insurance Department
Des Moines reports on a proposed Iowa insurance department bill. Senator Dowell seeks a four year appointive term with senate confirmation and governor removal with council consent. The piece notes governor support, bipartisan interest, and ongoing legislative maneuvering amid related public health funding concerns.
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Des Moines
C. C. Dowell
Polk County
the Auditor of State
Executive Council
Dowells
Senate
Senate Insurance Committee
W. P. Whipnlo
House Committee
Garst
Carroll
Dowell
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Harvard College
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Charles W. Eliot
Samuel Higgins
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
New Haven
W. H. Ray
Arcadia Mines
Birmingham
Ala
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Hamburg
Solomon Loughner
Erect B. F. Carroll
John H. Carmichael
Hlte Methodist
Battle Run
Mich
Gideon Browning
Carthage
Browning
Lick Branch
Bluefield
W. Va
Moss
New York
Carvalho
Bradford Merrill
Edward
Clark
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Tombs Prison
Hearst
New York American
Beryl Benjamin Laska
Denver
Lewis
Bosnias and
Herzegovina
Joseph Cross
Hogers
Joliet
Peakskill Military Academy
Nat Peekskill
N. Y
Mexico
Spencer, Moore & Co
Duluth
L. V. Cline & Co
Lorin Farr
Utah
Ogden
Utah Hot Springs
Frank A. Vanderlip Y
James Stillman
National City Bank
F. L. Hine
George F
Supreme Judicial Court
Joseph Leiter
Gen. Stoessel
Nebogatoff
St. Peter and St. Paul
Korea
Ito
Fusan
Japan
James York
Mankato
Mina
Tomas Estrada Palma
Cuba
Central Valley
Orange
County
Apoud
Boy
Dorchester Lad
General News
Bow and
Cerro Gordo
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
Chicago Great Western
Oelwein
Marshalltown
Geneva
Iowa Central
Burlington
Nes
Whitecloud
Atween
Randolph
Hastings
Gliman
Railroad Commission
Glenwood
Ames
Iowa
Ames College
Amas
Guy A. Feely
Feely
Iowa House
Black Hawk County
Lore Alford
Gilbertville
Duncan M. Feely
Susans
Forty-ninth
Iowa Volunteer Infantry
State University of Iowa
Waterloo
Elmer F. Feely
Faely
Lodge
Knight of Pythian of
Weaver
Board of Agriculture
A. V. Storms
C. M. Young
Mra. McFarland
John 3B. Sullivan
Anderson
Messenger
T. T. Anderson
Taft
Sherman
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