Five Great Divisions Of United States Army
Washington Dec 15 The secretary of war approved the general staff plan creating four divisions in the United States and one in the Philippines. Atlantic division will merge East and Gulf with headquarters at Governors Island New York and Atlanta Georgia for the Gulf. Missouri and Dakota departments shift with Wyoming added to Missouri. northern division headquartered in St Louis. Pacific division combines California and Columbia with headquarters in San Francisco. Southwestern division becomes Colorado and Texas departments with Oklahoma City as headquarters. Philippine division unchanged. Division commanders named Corbin Bates MacArthur Sumner Wade. Effective January 1904.
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Washington
General Staff
United States
Philippines
Atlantic
Department of the East
Governor's Island
New York
Governor’s Island
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Department of Dakota
Wyoming
Department of Colorado
St. Louis
Pacific
Department of California
Columbia
San Francisco
Colorado
Department of Texas
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Arkansas
Oklahoma
Indian Territories
Oklahoma City
Okla
Corbin
Bates
MacArthur
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Sumner
Wade
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The
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Haines
Department of the Lakes
Department of
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Robbe
Aes Department of California
Department of the Columbia
En Ihn
Culateao
Baldwine
Lee
Darcy Tempor Ennos
Luzon
Department of Visayas
Carter
Eral Ot
Noted efforts to reorganize assets after sale of Lake Superior group
New York December 15 Speyer & Co bought Consolidated Lake Superior assets at public auction for 4500,000 despite creditor protests. Legal challenges and liens accompany the bid as stockholders seek reorganization terms with welcomed and pledged funds reportedly totaling over 36 million. Toronto observers report premier talks and a large loss to Canadian shareholders with government wage and railway construction claims noted.
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New York
Consolidated Lake Superior Company
Speyer & Co
Clergue
Hay
Imperial Bank of Canada
Charles F. Orvis
Lake Superior Company
Francis C. Davison
Lake Superior Common
Speyer
Stanley Electric Company
Pittsfield
Mass
J. G. Carruth
Philadelphia
Foley Bros
Porter & Whalen
Algoma and Hudson Bay Company
Lake Superior
State Supreme Court
Toronto
Ont
Ross
Dominion
Fire losses in Rochester reach half a million
Rochester report estimates total fire damage from last night at about half a million dollars with roughly zero coverage by insurance. Fire crews battled the blazes through the night, and investigators are assessing the sites for the cause and extent of the destruction.
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Rochester
N. Y
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Promises Teething Relief
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a universal remedy used for over fifty years by mothers. It claims to ease teething pain, wind, and diarrhea, and promotes the product as a trusted cure, mentioning Fore alave palm and senna as ingredients or related cures.
Northern Securities Case Arguments Concluded in Trial
The final day of arguments centers on Knox asserting that the Northern Pacific and Great Northern merger creates a trust and destroys interstate competition. He asserts Congress can prohibit such combinations and warns of the vast power of a securities holding scheme. Defense counters that the case concerns property rights, not interstate commerce, and that the law requires a broader interpretation of restraint.
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Knox
Northern Pacific
Great Northern Securities Company
Congress
Act of Congress
Northern Securities Company
Great Northern
Messrs. Morgan and
Hill
Suport
Comny
Burlington Road
MR. Young
Mr. Knox
George B. Young
Securities Company
Comerce
Supreme Court
Young
Great Northern Road
Northern Securities
Various World Developments Include Japan Attache's Departure
Lieut. Col. Kurado Torasuke the Japanese military attaché at Rome received orders to leave Rome at month end and return to Japan. The Austro Hungarian budget stands near 194 balances at about $74,995,000 with an extraordinary credit of $3,000,000 for army field howitzers and mountain artillery. Lieutenant Schilling sentenced to fifteen months for maltreating subordinates after 618 charged cases in Metz. Silesia provincial committee votes to join St Louis exposition sending drawings and photos of Queiss dams. At St Petersburg Polytechnic a student named Kogan delivered a violent speech. no arrests made within university. Armenian revolutionary plot in Caucasus officially recognized by Interior Minister De Plehwe per Moscow dispatch. Dispatches from Indo China report massing of French on Siamese border with occupation of a large Siamese territory said planned but Paris denies. Extreme German Conservatives press for return of Bismarck era anti Socialist laws. Chancellor Von Buelow says he does not believe in legislation. Government remains staunchly opposed.
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Kurado Torasuke
Rome
Japan
Schilling
Metz
Silesia
Polytechnic Institute
St. Petersburg
Kogan
Siam
Paris
Prince Bismarck
von Buelow
Reichstag
Terday
Publicity for Bristow report favored by House panel
The House committee on post offices ordered printing and distribution of the Bristow report to Congress. It covers data collected by Fourth Assistant Bristow, minus evidence used in postal case prosecutions. The move aims to show the inquiry was conducted without fear or favor and to curb Democratic skepticism. The report also includes findings on Robert Tracewell, Henry Castle, and other treasury and post office officials.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
House Committee On Post Offices
Congress
Bristow
Overstreet
Roosevelt
Knox
Messrs
Conrad
Bonaparte
Robert J. Tracewell
The
Treasury
Henry A. Castle
Postufice Department
Patents Granted to Indiana Inventors in Washington
The list includes inventors from Indiana receiving patents today. Names span Plymouth to Hartford City with diverse items such as a mold for plastic shingles, pipe-core forming apparatus, trowel handle, computing attachment for dispensing pumps, hot-air engine generator, eye-glasses, adjustable grain-car doors, glass blowing tool, double faced corrugated paper machine, lamp attachment, thermostatic circuit closer, railway switch, fluid pressure regulator, clover hulling and serenteng machine, sieve and riddle for separators, nasal medicator, fire finished sheet glass, and cabinet among others.
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Washington
Noah D. Ackles
E. R. Koontz
Plymouth
Harry L. Bell
C. C. Sweetzer
Mishawaka
George H. Bishop
Lawrenceburg
Allen A. Bonzer
Ft. Wayne
Burger
John R
Myron W. Reynolds
Anderson
William C. Robby
Laporte
Joseph Ross
Vincennes
Press
W. N. Rumley
Tatvorte
Riddle
G. E. Seidel
Richmond
Harry G. Sit
Hartford City
J. H. Stiggleman
Tug Mattle M. sinks. six die in Mississippi river
Natchez Mississippi December 15 The 14 ton tugboat Mattle M owned by Dixie Transportation Company of New Orleans sank in twenty feet of water at 3 this morning on the old bed of Lake Concordia hauling cottonseed for Stand a 1 Company of New Orleans Chris Martin a white fireman of New Orleans and five Negroes drowned The boat overloaded and swamped in a disaster at the lake bed.
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Natchez, Miss
Mattle
Power's Flight to Canada Recalls a Sensational Case
The Supreme Court ordered a referee to take testimony on charges against Attorney George Alfred Lamb. The Northern Pacific Railway Company accuses Lamb of gross unprofessional conduct tied to liquidation proceedings in Peter Power's name. It alleges Power owned NP stock and Lamb knew it false and later induced Power to go to evade state court process.
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New York
Supreme Court
George Alfred Lamb
Committee On
The
Bar Association
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Railway Company
Lamb
Peter Power
Power
Northern Pacific Rail Company
States Circuit Court
Reduction in Wages Hits 30000 Connellsville Men
In Connellsville Pennsylvania 30,000 coke workers face an average 17 percent wage cut announced by the H C Frick Coke Company. The first wage reduction since the 1890s strike, notices were posted at all Frick plants. A year earlier the company had raised wages, while other notes indicate a broader price drop by Frick and allied firms affecting store goods at plant outlets.
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Connellsville
H.C. Frick Coke Company
Frick
Ayko
Policy Shop Keepers Indicted in Chicago Grand Jury Action
Chicago December 15. Indictments against policy shop keepers voted by the grand jury in a Citizens' Association action. Reported that 150 indictments were voted and many more would follow as the jury's work continues.
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Chicago
Grand Jury
Citizens’ Association
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