Private pension bills reviewed and smallpox rises noted
The brief cites scrutiny of private pension bills and a Kansas health report showing more smallpox cases. It lists hearings after the 13th, political caucuses selecting U S senators, and various international trade and political items, including rosters of officials and recent appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prussia
House Committee
Maryland
A. P. Gorman
United States
London
Kansas Board of Health
Funston
Hughes
Philippines
San Francisco
Germany
Pacific Cable Talk Debates Wireless Impact on Submarine Links
Washington hearing on the Pacific cable Hearings show Pacific Commercial Cable Company favors exclusive traffic deals beyond the Philippines with China and Japan Government and private rights clash over landing on foreign shores As public and private interests bid for control speakers cite Marconi impact and possible government role in Pacific cable projects and U S cable competitiveness James Foord and Thomas E Hughes advocate American-made cables and capital advantage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Committee On Commerce
Ward
Pacific Commercial Cable Company
Philippines
China
Japan
Far East
United States
Stewart
New Jersey
Germany
Venezuela
Hepburn
Mr. Ward
Atlantic
Marconi
Canada
James Foord
Asiatic Association
Scrymier
Cervera
Santiago
Scrymser
Santiago Bay
Thomas E. Hughes
ASKS PRESIDENT TO INTERFERE IN SAWAR SUPPLIES
The Chicago branch of the American Transvaal league adopted a petition urging President Roosevelt to enforce the neutrality law. Signers include prominent judges and lawyers. The petition argues the United States is neutral in the Anglo Dutch war and that stopping British military supplies from New Orleans could end the war. It asserts horses and mules for military use fall under military supplies per the Washington treaty and asks strict enforcement of article 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amerlan
Chicago
American Transvaal League
Roosevelt
United States
England
Great Britain
New Orleans
Frederic W. Taylor Named Chief of Agriculture at Exposition
Announcement at the world's fair headquarters states Frederic W. Taylor's appointment as chief of agriculture and acting chief of horticulture for the Louisiana Purchase exposition is confirmed by the executive committee. He has led both departments since early November after leaving Buffalo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Frederic W. Taylor
Taylor
Buffalo
Philippine Insurgents Flee Manila in Major U.S. Assault
Jan. 13 report from Batangas praises a successful expedition to Litoo with Wint and Wells destroying barracks and hamlets and provisioning 20 000 Filipinos for six months. No American casualties. The native constabulary is deemed able to control Misamis while Quinque town in Bulacan burns leaving thousands homeless.
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Manila
Batangas
Litoo
Wint
Wells
Henry Allen
Leyte
Insular Constabulary
Mindanao
Misamis
Davis
Wade
Quinque
Bulacan
Luzon
Hammond packing back to South Omaha for good
Reports from South Omaha say the Hammond Packing Company plans a permanent return to its former South Omaha site after burning the Hammond plant and rebuilding there. The company previously moved to Hammond Indiana and St Joseph, but now packing circles claim a lasting reoccupancy of the South Omaha field.
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Omaha, Neb
South Omaha
Hammond Packing Company
Hammond
Ind
St. Joseph
A. H. Noyes
Ghastly Midnight Visitor Stuns Nebraska Farm Family
Beatrice Nebraska January 11 a man covered with blood from a throat wound walked into the Worthington home nine miles from Liberty frightening the family. J Smith Diller of Diller Neb arrived from St Joseph where police held him as his mental balance failed. He wandered from Armour station to the barn and tried to end his life before being stopped and sent for medical care. He is expected to recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatrice
W. G. Worthington
Liberty
J. Smith Diller
Diller
St. Joseph
Armour
Worthington
Dull Week Ahead for Congress Focused on Cuban Reciprocity
Washington January 13 The House plans little major action next week with most work still in committee. Monday flags District of Columbia bills, then pension appropriation bills about 139 million dollars pass. Ways and Means has minor revenue stamp bills and adjournment periods amid focus on Cuban reciprocity hearings Wednesday at 10 A.M.
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House of Congress
Washington, D. C
House of Representatives
District of Columbia
Department
Ways and Means
House
State school fund grows from Essex estate sale
The permanent school fund in Nebraska increased by 1 438.27 dollars after York county property of John Stanley of England was sold. Stanley died intestate in 1892 with no known heirs or will. After ten years of searching, residue from the estate was turned over to the fund by administrator J. W. Purinton.
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Lincoln, Neb
John Stanley
South Dakota
York County
Nebraska
J. W. Purinton
Senator Dietrich Opposes Cuban Free Sugar and Tariff Cuts
Senator Dietrich rejects free Cuban raw sugar and any large tariff reduction under the Dingley Act. He argues benefits would mainly accrue to the Sugar trust and a few Cuban planters, and he opposes rebates that could wind up with the Sugar trust. He cites the Sugar trust’s recent actions against the domestic beet sugar industry.
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Washington
Dietrich
Cuba
Su-gar
Sugar Trust
Negotiations Not Yet Begun for Stone Release
London dispatch reports that no talks have opened with Miss Stone and Mme Tsilka’s captors. Dragoman M Garguili and W W Peet, en route from Salonika to confer, are instructed to deal only with letter carriers from Miss Stone to prove the prisoners are alive.
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London
Constantinople
Daily Mail
Miss Stone
Mme. Tsilka
M. Garguili
Legation
W. W. Peet
Missionary Society
Salonica
Manila teachers urged to teach English to Filipino children
Commissioner Bernard Moses head of the department of public instruction for the islands delivered an address to Manila teachers urging instruction of Filipino children in English. He warned wealthy Filipino families that sending their children to Spanish schools would neglect English and weaken their social position.
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Manila
Bernard Moses
Department of Public Instruction For
Islands
Condemned Felon Rhea Remanded to Penitentiary Cell
Lincoln Neb Jan 13 Warden Davis moved William Rhea a condemned inmate from his cell after a supreme court decision. Rhea received the news without visible emotion and will be kept under tight supervision with heightened surveillance to prevent escape. Hours later he sang joyfully as he faced a chance at freedom rather than execution scheduled for April 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln, Neb
Davis
State Penitentiary
William Rhea
Supreme Court
Rhea
Death sentence affirmed for William Rhea in Nebraska murder
The Nebraska Supreme Court upholds the death sentence of William Rhea for the January 4, 1901 murder of Herman Zahn in Snyder. Execution is set for April 25. Rhea argued insubstantial evidence and lack of premeditation. the court rejects both claims. If final, he would be the first to be executed under the new penitentiary law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln, Neb
Supreme Court
William Rhea
Herman Zahn
Snyder
Neb
Rhea
May Get Sugar Factory in M'Cook Nebraska
M I Cook Neb Jan 11 The city has been offered a chance to secure a sugar factory akin to Norfolk's The area has shown sugar beets can be profitably grown locally and a factory here would aid farmers in this region
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M'Cook
Neb
Norfolk
Columbus Priest Transferred to Quincy Ill
Columbus Nebraska January 13 Rev Father Marcellinus Kollmeyer longtime pastor of the local Catholic church has been transferred to Quincy Illinois. The move comes after six years of service during which he nurtured a strong attachment from parishioners.
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Columbus, Neb
Marcellinus Kollmeyer
Columbus Catholic Church
Quincey, IH
Happy Couple Forms 23-Child Family in Nebraska
Mrs A G Room and Homer Quick of Johnston Nebraska were married in Ainsworth by Rev Garner. The groom is 47 and the bride 65. The bride has fourteen children and the groom seven living children, making a total of twenty three in the family.
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Johnston
Neb
A. G. Room
Homer Quick
Ainsworth
Garner
Schley’s Quiet Day in Savannah Attends Two Churches
Admiral Schley spent a quiet day in Savannah visiting General W. W. Gordon. He attended services at Christchurch Episcopal in the morning and the Independent Presbyterian church in the evening, with both houses crowded for the events.
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Savannah
Schley
W. W. Gordon
Christchurch
Episcopal
Independent Presbyterian Church
Wood River druggist badly hurt in Montana wreck
D. E. Wilcox, formerly of Wood River, Nebraska, sustained serious injuries in a railroad collision at Collisburg, Montana, on Monday. Local reports say his condition is very serious.
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Wood River, Neb
D. E. Wilcox
Wood River
Collisburg
Mont
Bellwood Farmer Shoots Himself Near Lloyd Farm
Bellwood Nebraska January 11 John Lonmmer a farmer on the Lloyd farm south of Bellwood shot himself in the forehead with a revolver. The ball entered above the left eye and came out over the cheek bone. He will probably die.
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Bellwood, Neb
John Lonmmer
Lloyd Farm
Bellwood
Fraulein Kathe Brandt Dies in New York Theater
Fraulein Kathe Brandt, grandniece of Richard Wagner, died in New York City. She was a member of the German stock company at the Irving theater, and her father is a prominent theatrical manager of Berlin.
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Frauline Brandt
New York
Fraulein Kathe Brandt
Richard Wagner
Irving Theater
Derlin
Elk Horn Valley Medical Society Meets Profitably at Oxnard
NORFOLK Neb January 13 The Elk Horn Valley Medical Society held a well attended profitable meeting at the Oxnard Papers were presented by a number of physicians detailing medical topics and insights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkhorn Valley Medical Society
Norfolk, Neb
Oxnard
Nordica Injured In Georgia Train Collision
In Reeves Station near Rome Georgia a passenger train collided with a freight train early yesterday injuring famed singer Mme Lillian Nordica and bruising her accompanist E Romaine Simmons. An engineer was killed and three other railway workers were hurt. Nordica was taken to Chattanooga.
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Nordica
Rome
Southern Railway
Reeves Station
Mme
Lillian Nordica
E. Romaine Simmons
Madame Nordica
Chattanooga
Fall Results in Death at Hartington
Frank Stoppart of Hartington Nebraska fell from a road seven miles north of town and crushed his skull. He died about an hour after the accident.
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Hartington
Neb
Frank Stoppart
Forges Cattleman's Name In Superior Arrest
Harry Witt 17 from St Louis was arrested near Superior on forgery charges after presenting a clothing bill in a dry goods store. The order bore Enos Lester’s name, a wealthy cattleman. Witt fled but was later captured.
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Superior
Neb
Harry Witt
St. Louis
Witt
Enos Lester
Businessmen urge Peter Youngers for fourth district Congress
In Geneva Nebraska on January 11 about fifty businessmen asked Peter Youngers to announce his candidacy for congress from the Fourth district subject to the approval of the republican congressional convention next spring.
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Geneva
Neb
Peter Youngers
Diphtheria Prevalence Reported in Lexington Area
Diphtheria has been prevalent for some time in this neighborhood in Lexington Nebraska and January 11 reports indicate no deaths yet.
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Lexington
Neb
Beaver City suffers costly blaze in business district
Beaver City Nebraska reports a second major fire in four months damaging the business section with an estimated total loss around 20000 dollars. The blaze underscores ongoing fire risk to commercial blocks in Beav er City.
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Beaver City
Neb
Nebraskan Killed in Colorado Mill Accident
Word arrived from Livermore Colorado of the death in a saw mill accident of C. C. Richardson, son of D. Richardson of Alda Nebraska. The incident occurred at Livermore on January 11.
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Grand Island, Neb
Livermore, Colo
C. C. Richardson
D. Richardson
Alda
Remarkable case praises Vogeler Curative Compound
Mrs. Nettleton credits Vogeler's Curative Compound with saving her life after long battles with dyspepsia liver and kidney problems. She details rapid improvement after first dose and a second recovery when symptoms returned, urging others to try the remedy and noting a free sample offer from St Jacob's Oil Co of Baltimore.
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Vogeler
St. Jacob’s Oil
London
St. Jacob’s
Clay Street
Baltimore
Nettleton
Brighton Road
Blind man witness swears in Milwaukee assault case
The sole witness in a Milwaukee assault and battery case was William Brunner, 70, blind. He testified in German and, after being sworn, the defendant was convicted. The item ends with an ad-like note about Piso's Cure for consumption and a quip about theft.
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Milwaukee
William Brunner
Allen's Foot Ease advertised powder for foot discomfort
An old advertisement promotes Allen's Foot Ease powder to relieve nervous, cold and damp feet, and chilblains. It claims relief for sore feet and tight shoes with a 25 cent price and free sample offer. Address is Allen S. Olmsted of Le Roy New York.
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy, N. Y
Reflections Surround Our Souls Beyond Others Actions
The statement suggests inner reflections shape perception more than external deeds. It emphasizes subjective experience and personal understanding over judgments of others behavior.
Harlem Millionaire Max Heart Was Once a Bootblack
Max Heart, a Harlem millionaire, began his career as a bootblack and still preserves the original bootblacking outfit in his home.
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Max Heart
Russell's Unique Distinction in U S District Court
Alfred Russell of Detroit gained the rare status of announcing three presidential deaths in Detroit federal court. He called adjournments upon Lincoln's death as a young lawyer, again at Garfield's death, and a third time after McKinley's assassination in the Buffalo tragedy.
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Alfred Russell
Detroit
United States District Court
Lincoln
Mr. Russell
Garfield
Buffalo
William McKinley
No reliable clue to lover’s mood or stomach ailment
A reflective quip notes that appearances mislead about a man’s heartbreak or digestive distress, suggesting outward looks do not reveal inner states. The line plays on misread signs and common judgments, offering a witty take on mood and health.
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Ill
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Ben Daniels
Arizona
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Salina
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Census Bureau
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Platte River
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