Democrats Worry Roosevelt Over Panama Treaty Row
Washington reports that President Roosevelt faces Senate opposition over the Panama Canal Treaty and the nomination of Buchanan as minister to Panama. Democrats challenge the office creation and legality, while Republicans probe precedents as Buchanan proceeds toward Panama. Treasury notes, gold reserves, and fiscal plans accompany the political rift.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Panama Treaty
Canal
Buchanan
Republic of
Panama
Gorman
Isthmian Republic
Fire destroys Herrmann works. Battalion Chief Coleman killed
A massive fire at the Herrmann furniture and varnish factory on Mott Street in New York killed Battalion Chief Martin Coleman and damaged property worth about 250000. Fire alarm dispatches rose through multiple alarms as Captain Jones and Father Smith helped evacuate Italian residents. Coleman and Jones were trapped when walls collapsed, with Coleman later found beneath debris.
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New York
Coleman
Lieutenant Jones
Father Smith
Jones
Chief Coleman
Bennett
East Tenth Street
Richard Joice
Confession of Four Murders By A Cook
In Brooklyn, ship’s cook Frank Henry Burness confessed to killing Captain George B. Townsend of the lumber schooner Charles Buckley on November 10. He also claimed to have murdered three other men previously, seeking execution over prison. The trial was continued.
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New York
Frank Henry Burness
Brooklyn
George B. Townsend
Charles Buckley
Cacia Platy
Charlestown
Maass
Havana
Henry Hecker
Governor Denies Extradition Over Comma Rule
Des Moines dispatch reports Governor Cummins refused New Jersey’s requisition to extradite Fred Shivers charged with wife desertion. He argues New Jersey law invalid due to omitted comma and added conjunction, asserting desertion requires leaving the State to complete the crime, thus extradition cannot proceed.
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Des Moines
Cummins
New Jersey
Fred Shivers
Columbia
Sealed Express Car Robbed of Valuables in Transit
A Baltimore and Ohio express car en route to New York was robbed near McKeesport Pennsylvania as the train left the station. A conspirator inside opened the car seals while a partner on the platform snatched parcels and fled. several packages dropped contained jewelry, with the car later resealed at West Newton and full extent to be learned upon reaching New York.
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M'Keesport
United States
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
New York
Elry
West Newton
New Or
Senator Hanna Shows Improvement After Illness in New York
Senator Marcus A. Hanna of Ohio, lingering at the Waldorf Astoria since Saturday with grip, is greatly improved though still in bed. Officials say he should be able to leave his room soon as he recovers in New York.
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New York
Marcus A. Hanna
Ohio
Waldorf-Astoria
No. 4 Shot Taken From Head Of Elizabeth Gillespie
The grand jury probing the Elizabeth Gillespie murder ordered the head shot removed and examined. Under taker R A Steele and Dr Lewis C Cowen retrieved several dozen No 4 shot now in the jury's possession. Journalists and witnesses were questioned as the panel slows toward indictments.
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Indianapolis Journal
Rising Sun
Ind
Elizabeth Gillespie
Margaret Gillespie
Elizabeth
Harry R
Cassius McMullen
R. L. Davis
Grand Jury
DE Ae
Riot at Sunnyside as strikers seize nonunion miner
A riot erupted when thirty striking miners went to the home of a nonunion worker and ordered him to quit. He fled, was pursued, and rescued by company guards. Italian strikers were arrested and are under guard. Castle Gate mines opened with eighty nonunion workers. no further demonstration occurred.
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Sunnyside
Utah
Castle Gate
Mount Carmel Murder Case Draws Coroner Jury
Mount Carmel NL Dec 21 James Reinsmith once in Oxford Kan was accused by the coroner's jury investigating the murder of Elizabeth Lacey an aged woman killed at her home seven miles from Mount Carmel by a shot through a window. Reinsmith is the divorced husband of Mrs Lacey's daughter. The killer fled unseen and the verdict rests on circumstantial evidence.
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Mount Carmel
James Reinsmith
Oxford
Kan
Elizabeth Lacey
Reinsmith
Kishineff Massacre Promoters Convicted
Two Russians named Gnetschin and Marosjekie were sentenced to seven and five years penal servitude respectively for murder as authors of the Kishineff massacre last spring. Twenty-two others received one to two year terms, one person got six months, twelve were acquitted, and forty-eight civil actions were dismissed. Convicted individuals must pay legal costs.
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Kishineff
Bessarabia
Gnetschin
Marosjekie
Narrow escape as rescuers reach Isle Royale mine blaze
In Houghton Michigan on December 21 fifteen rescuers descended 700 feet through old mine shafts to reach bodies of the Petersons and Gregorivich found suffocated in the Isle Royale fire. Gas exposure forced a rescuer to retreat and prompted thirty volunteers to aid as others were overcome.
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Isle Royale
Houghton, Mich
Petersons
Gregorivich
Captain Moyle
Eee
Picketing of Funeral Homes Barred by Chicago Police
Chicago police under Chief O Neil ordered an end to picketing near homes of mourning where funerals are to start. Union livery drivers, on strike for four days, had disrupted burials, prompting officials to demand settlements away from houses of mourning and warning such actions will not be tolerated.
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Chicago
O'Neil
J. R. Wadsworth
Charles Stevens
Liverymen’s Union
Operation Without a Parallel in Surgery at St Josephs
Dr William Jepson chair of surgery at the State University led a remarkable operation at St Josephs Hospital in Sioux City. John Norstrom of Danbury Conn fell from hay loft, fractured neck and nearly paralyzed. third cervical vertebra fragment removed and false tissue cleaned, bone replaced. Patient progressing well with strong recovery prospects. Previously only lumbar dislocations had been treated similarly, never near the medulla oblongata.
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Sioux City
St. Joseph's Hospital
William Jepson
State University
John Norstrom
Danbury, Conn
Jepson
Suit Against Mitchell in Coal Strike Case
In Binghamton New York Attorney A D Wales sues John Mitchell president of the United Mine Workers Union of America for twenty thousand dollars for services in settling the recent coal strike. Wales seeks an open commission to orally examine Thomas D Nicolls president of District No 1 of the United Mine Workers at Scranton Pennsylvania. Justice Geo Lyon adjourned the case until tomorrow. If the motion is granted a draft receipt will go to Beraston and examine Nichols.
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Binghamton
N. Y
A. D. Wales
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers’ Union of America
Geo. Lyon
Mr. Wales
Thomas D. Nicolls
United Mine Works
Scranton
Lyon
Beraston
Nichols
Union Men Threaten Trouble at Princeton
About 150 miners and union men surrounded the boarding house of Southern boiler makers in Princeton Indiana. Sheriff Beloat and Marshal Haley met the crowd and allowed a committee to confer with nonunionists. The marchers pledged to stay overnight and threaten possible removal of the imported workers if they resume work tomorrow.
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Indianapolis Journal
Princeton
Ind
Southern
Beloat
Marshal Haley
Dunsmuir Not Insane in Hopper Will Suit
Victoria B C December 21 In the Hopper Dunsmuir will case today defense evidence was given by H Prather a surveyor of Oakland and Patrick Nevin a coachman in the employ of the late Mr and Mrs Dunsmuir at San Leandro Prather testified about survey dates and Mr Dunsmuirs ability to follow instructions Nevin gave similar testimony
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Edna Wallace Hopper
Victoria
B. C
Hopper- Dunsmuir
H. Prather
Oakland
Patrick Nevin
Nevin
Miss Erline Sinclair Sues for 10000 Damages
Miss Erline Sinclair a nineteen year old school teacher sues for 10000 damages after being ducked in a pond by her pupils. The complaint alleges binding tying in a sheep trough and dragging into ice water for about fifty minutes. Defendants Floyd Deckard Inda Deckard Pearl Parks Katherine Parks Gertrude McClellan Jessie McClellan are represented by Charles D Hunt.
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Indianapolis Journal
Sullivan
Ind
Hays
Miss Sinclair
Odd Fellows Grand Master warns on Jan 10 2004
Springfield dispatch reports Grand Master Charles C. Pavey of the Ohio Grand Lodge issues a circular threatening expulsion for saloon keepers bartenders or professional gamblers who refuse to cease such conduct by January 10 2004 as part of a crackdown.
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Springfield
Charles C. Pavey
Ohio Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Seven Boilers Explode in St Louis Transit Powerhouse
A St Louis Transit Company power house boiler barrage exploded, killing four workers and injuring thirteen as brick walls collapsed and the truss roof dropped. Fire and darkness hindered rescue while cars halted briefly. missing engineer Robert Fulton presumed dead.
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ST. Louis
St. Louis Transit Company
W. Wilson
Louis Barber
Frank Steel
William_ Gantt
Dennis O'Leary
Peter Valley
Simon Moxon
Charles G Thompson
Joseph Grooms
Wilson
Barber
Robert Fulton
Gravelle dynamite case recounted by ex pressman in Helena
Myron Shanks testified Gravelle claimed responsibility for Northern Pacific sabotage and sought fifty thousand dollars. Gravelle allegedly blew the Livingston bridge and threatened Townsend if paid. Shanks described a late August meeting where Gravelle said a poor attempt failed and a second payment date passed quietly near the railroad yard.
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Helena
Mont
Gravelle
Myron Shanks
Northern Pacific
Livingston
Townsend
Shanks
Woolsey loney incident disrupts farmers cattle clash
Ardmore dispatch reports a violent incident near Woolsey involving farmers and cattle. A man named John was mortally injured in the fracas, with Stott's cattle alleged to have broken into a nearby field of Victory. Details are sparse and authorities investigate.
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Ardmore
I. T
Woolsey Loney
John Eros Fine
Stott
European powers warn Colombia over war risk
Diplomatic pressure is set to mount to avert a US Colombia conflict over Panama. European envoys inform General Reyes that retaking Panama would provoke war with the United States, urging restraint as Panama debt and The Hague references loom.
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Washington
Colombia
United States
Rafael Reyes
Panama
Bogota
Marroquin
General Reyes
Reyes
Hague
Europe
Isthmian Canal
Great Britain
Netherlands
Republic of Panama
Isthmian
Isle of Pines
Colombians land on Panama coast near Island of Pines
Reports from Colon detail about one hundred Colombian troops landing on the Island of Pines in Panama territory near Cape Tiburn. The move follows naval activity by the Mayflower and Bancroft with naval support from Nashville. Territorial tensions rise as Marines are deployed toward Bas Obispo near Emperador to secure the canal area.
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Colon
Island of Pines
Cape Tiburn
Gulf of Darien
Panama
Mayflower
Bancroft
Niembre de Dios
Nashville
Bocas del Terro
Coghlan
United States
Prai-ries
Bas Obys
Naval strategists discuss situation in Washington conference
Rear Admiral Taylor head of the Bureau of Navigation met with Capt. John B. Pillsbury Captain William Swift Commander Winslow and Lieutenant Belknap to review cablegrams from Rear Admirals Gragg and Coghlan. Instructions were prepared and submitted to Moody for approval as the discussion addressed ongoing naval matters.
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Washington
Taylor
Bureau of Navigation
General Naval Board
John B. Pillsbury
Bureau
William Swift
General Board of the Fleet
Winslow
Belknap
Gragg
Coghlan
Moody
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