Senators Propose Harsh Measures Against Anarchy and Anarchists
The Senate opened with a flood of bills and resolutions, led by measures from Mr Hoar for presidential protection and from Mr McComas and Mr West addressing anarchists. Proposals include death penalties for president or officer killings, deportation or exile for anarchists, and a penal colony option. Also on the docket are Philippine revenue bills extending bank charters and excluding Chinese, plus Pacific cable construction.
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Washington
Senate
Mec-Comas
Maryland
West
Missouri
Morgan
Alabama
Hoar
McComas
United States
Sam
Init States
Anarchist Deportation and Immigration Bill Details
The article outlines sections of an anti-Anarchist law enabling deportation of convicted aliens deemed Anarchists at U S expense, with penalties for return. It notes appointment of twelve immigration agents and that declaring intent to naturalize does not bar proceedings. Also covered are bills on extending bank charters and Philippine revenue, with Senate actions.
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Burton
United States
Special Board of Inquiry
Owen
Eight-year-old boy slain by eleven-year-old schoolmate in Newport
Cincinnati dispatch reports a noon stabbing on Newport streets as eight year old Joseph Creelman died after a quarrel with eleven year old Kadle Armines. A third boy’s brick struck Armines, who fled with a pocketknife, later surrendering to police with his uncle the captain. Both families described as excellent.
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Cincinnati
Newport
Joseph Creelman
Kadle Armines
Creelman
Armines
Creeiman
Plummer
Wabash wreck found caused by railway negligence and crew errors
Adrian Michigan December 4 coroner jury blamed Wabash Railroad Company and Train No 4 crew for last week near Seneca collision. Negligence cited for lacking head end brakeman signals misread orders and improper braking signals by engineer Aaron Strong conductor George Martin fireman Bastian and brakeman A W Dittman. Meanwhile Burlington detectives near Beverly Missouri probe for possible attempt to wreck Denver Kansas City train. lamp theft preceded high speed derailment with no serious injuries.
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Adrian
Mich
Seneca
Wabash Railroad Company
Aaron T. Strong
George J. Martin
Bastian
A. W. Dittman
Leavenworth
Kan
The
Standard
Burlington Railway
Beverly
Kansas City
Cadet Floggings At Temperance University Shock Harriman
Four senior class members at American Temperance University bound gagged and whipped Lester then tied him to a tree. They placed him under a hydrant and turned on the water before leaving him. He survived two hours, found half frozen and in a semiconcious state. The accused will face trial in state courts.
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Harriman
Tenn
American Temperance University
Lester
Sasiad
Isthmian canal report backs Nicaragua route for US
The Isthmian canal commission favored a Nicaragua waterway and estimated construction at 189 million dollars, with Panama at 144 million and a concession cost of about 69 million. It said Nicaragua, though longer, offers cheaper operation and better sailing winds, while Panama has harbor advantages and shorter transit. Morrison files minority Panama critique seeking different terms.
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Isthmian Canal Commission
Congress
Nicaragua
Panama
Lake
Commission
Nicaraguan Canal
Panama Canal
South America
Gulf Ports
Atlantic
Pacific
United States
Costa Rica
Panama Canal Company
George S. Morrison
Nicaragua Canal
Colombia
Two Canal Measures for Isthmian Waterway Debated
Senate introduces two bills authorizing an Isthmian canal across Nicaragua and Costa Rica. One bill seeks presidential authority to acquire and control necessary territory for excavation and operation from Greytown to Breto, with funding from treasury. The other proposes a perpetual U S lease with a six figure annual appropriation, a nonpartisan commission, and guarded contracting under fixed canal dimensions.
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Washington
Senate
Morgan
United States
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Greytown
Caribbean Sea
Lake Wicaragua
Breto
Pacific Ocean
Perkins
Rivas
Isthmian Canal Commission
Prince Henry and Wilhelmina’s Consort Duel Report
Amsterdam dispatch reports a possible duel between Prince Henry of the Netherlands and Major Van Tets after a Het Loo dinner incident. Van Tets wounded, Prince Henry alleged for drinking and gambling. Queen Wilhelmina’s marriage strained, with broader speculation on royal tensions and mother daughter rift.
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Amsterdam
Prince Henry
Netherlands
Wilhelmina
Major van Tets
Het Loo
Holland
Germany
Tole
van ‘Lers
Oklahoma Senator Fairbanks Seeks M Kinley Name Change Bill
Oklahoma's Capital Senator Fairbanks introduces an admission bill and a Chinese exclusion bill amid other measures. The move aims to secure state residency terms and regulate immigration alongside broader legislative actions.
Indiana Statue for Owen Proposed by Hemenway
Senate and local figures push a Smithsonian statue in honor of Robert Dale Owen Indiana figures press for an army post in Louisville and for new rural free delivery routes. Fairbanks submits bills on Chinese exclusion Oklahoma statehood and other petitions while unions seek anti anarchy measures and naval construction support.
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Robert Dale Owen
MR. Hemenway
Louisville
Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Fairbanks
Oklahoma
Statehood
McKinley
J. H. Clawson
Rob Roy
Ind
J. E. Martin
Covington
F. A. Nave
Attica
D. E. Wilson
Mellott
F. 8. Mergenthaler
Rockport
Mine Workers
Staunton
Knightsville
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Acton
Union
Federation of Labor
Bass Post
Anthony Wayne Post
Fort Wayne
Mary A. Logue
Etna Green
Thomas A. Owen
Greencastle
Indiana
Smithsonian Institution
Hemenway
Owen
Congress
Three New Rural Free Delivery Routes Announced for Indiana
Washington reports Indiana gains for rural free delivery to begin February 1. Routes include Covington and Fountain County with one carrier covering 254 miles, and Lafayette with 29 and a half miles. Stockwell, Conroe, and Fountain post offices will see changes as mail shifts to rural carriers.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Indiana
Covington
Fountain County
George W. Crane
Fountain
Lafayette
Tippecanoe County
Harry W. Pauls
Star
Stockwell
Carrier
Glenn Murphy
Conroe
Fitcham Named Bank Teller Stealing Over One Hundred Thousand
Ballston New York December 4 Bank examiner Graham spent the day verifying 400 outstanding interest bearing certificates and found more irregularities tied to teller Fitchams accounts The bank hopes to reopen next week after losses wipe out its 11600 surplus Fitcham claims his misdeeds stem from family extravagance and says he took less than the reported total The defalcation extends over twenty years with principal assets and liabilities outlined at closure
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N. Y
Graham
First National Bank
Donaldson
Fitcham
Examiner Graham
Return of Soldiers Nine Hundred aboard
The Hancock transport arrived in San Francisco from Manila with 900 soldiers and two deaths aboard. Congressmen Weeks and De Armond were among the passengers, with bodies from the Sheridan and Warren also on board. Deaths include several soldiers from the Eighth through Twenty first Infantry and a Marine. Remains returned for officers Freeman Crockett Williams.
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San Francisco
Hancock
Manila
Warren
Sheridan
Nagasaki
Kobe
Weeks
de Armond
Willis G. Harriman
Third Infantry
Mary C. Solon
Elbert E. Manning
Eighth Infantry
Daniel M. Martin
Sixteenth Infantry
Jay E. Watkins
Fifth Infantry
Andrew H. Denton
Marine Corps
William C. Willis
Thirtyfirst Coast Artillery
William Good
Twentieth Infantry
James A. Hilbourne
United States Volunteers
Frederick Jones
Eighth Cavalry
D. G. Freeman
Twentyfirst Infantry
T. Crockett
Twenty-first Infantry
James C. Williams
Twelfth Infantry
General Bell bans native vino use by Luzon troops
Brigadier General Bell orders soldiers in northern Luzon not to drink the native vino spirits under threat of court martial. The spirits have been linked to insanity and incitement to crime, prompting the prohibition in the December decision.
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Washington
Bell
Luzon
Plattsburg Troops Move to Wappine Islands
Plattsburg New York December 4 The third battalion of the Twenty seve nth Infantry departed Plattsburg barracks this evening heading for the Wappine Islands Capt Charles H Lone steel commands the unit.
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Plattsburg
N. Y
Twenty-seventh Infantry
Plattsby Barracks
Wappine Islands
Charles H. Lonesteel
Self-confessed perjurers testify in Sullivan trial
In Chicago on December 4, two jurors Thomas Smallman and Frank B. O’Brien admitted perjury and bribe-taking while serving on juries. A third conspirator and the former bailiff joined as witnesses in Alexander Sullivan’s court case, revealing they helped Lynch derail the trial.
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Chicago
James J. Lynch
Alexander Sullivan
O'Brien
Lynch
Sullivan
Treasury report details growing gold use and currency shifts
The annual report by Secretary Lyman J. Gage outlines government finances for the year ending June 3, with receipts about 60.2 million and expenditures 62.5 million, yielding a deficit and adjustments in gold reserves, silver certificates, and national bank note redemptions. It notes rising gold circulation, the shift toward larger denominations, and the ongoing replacement of smaller notes by silver certificates, highlighting per capita circulation and overall monetary expansion.
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Lyman J. Gage
Gage
The
Treasury
United States
New York
ISM
National Bank
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