Rural free delivery rules set under civil service order
Regulations approved by Postmaster General and Civil Service Commission establish rural free delivery carriers for February 1 start. Carriers to be nominated by route patrons with a central examining board selecting based on simple tests. Examinations limited to those living near routes and with required equipment. Age and political considerations barred. Indiana routes listed with distances, populations, and carriers. Cuban sugar tariff debate noted with Senators Lodge and Aldrich aligned to protect beet sugar interests.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Dec
Smith
Civil Service Commission
Roosevelt
Civil-service Commission
Machin
Post Office Department
Eee
Tlural
Ener
Indiana
Crown Point
Lake County
Henry W. Wise
Merrillville
Ind
Delong
Fulton County
Jacob
O. Ginther
Delphi
Carroll County
J. H. B. Whistier
B. H. Montgomery
Elkhart
Elkhart County
William M. Kauffman
Greensburg
Decatur County
Paul Perry
P. L. Doles
New Carlisle
St. Joseph County
Charlies N. Whitaker
United States to Trim China Indemnity Payment
Washington reports that the United States will reduce its demand on China for indemnity from 25 million to 7 million, with 2 million sought for claim settlement. The move aims to settle losses and expenses tied to the Boxer uprising while preventing other powers from claiming excess funds. China to receive relief while keeping a share for credits to the powers. The protocol's implications and bond handling remain under discussion.
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Chicago
Record-Herald
Washington
China
United States of China
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
Hay
Peking
Japan
Army Chief Miles Resumes Command Amid Controversy
Lieutenant General Miles returns to the War Department office as he accepts the situation with grace and vows to avoid further controversy. The move is not expected to alter his future official and social prospects.
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Washington
Miles
Army
War Department
Major General S M B Young to Command Lake Department
CHICAGO DEC 24 Major General S M B Young who now leads the Department of California will take command of the Department of the Lakes with headquarters in Chicago on March 1. The transfer follows his own request and is part of a notable promotion path. General Otis will retire March 26 1902 and General MacArthur is expected to succeed Young in California.
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Chicago
S. M. B. Young
Department of California
Department of the Lakes
Elwell S. Otis
Muse Pines
Young
California Department
MacArthur
Ground to death as two men die beneath engine wheels
In St Louis two men, John W. Taylor chief engineer of the Terminal Railroad Association, and William Austin Kent of Louisville Ky., were ground to death when they jumped from a moving gasoline car to avoid a collision with a Wabash switch engine in North St Louis.
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ST. Louis
John W. Taylor
The
Terminal Railroad Association
William Austin Kent
Louisville
North St. Louis
Letter Says Admiral Sampson's Mental State Hopeless
Urbana dispatch reports Mrs. Elizabeth Burling Sampson replying to a Champaign friend. She states Rear Admiral Sampson is too ill to grasp sympathy and his brain is tired beyond hope, though physically comfortable and happy. The letter references the Schley controversy and Palmyra, noting a long life of duty.
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Urbana
John B. Weeks
Champaign
Sampson
Palmyra
West
Elizabeth Burling Sampson
Tetnus serum case implicates city janitor in child deaths
Henry R. Taylor a Black janitor and assistant to the city bacteriologist admitted under oath that he issued toxic antidiphtheritic serum for public use, believing it not dangerous enough to kill. He said October supply ran out and he distributed Sept and Sept 30 vials, shielding the office amid the tetanus inquiry.
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Louis
Tetanus Court of Inquiry
Henry R. Taylor
Health Department
Desmond
Taylor
Wells
De Wet’s Christmas Coup Routs Firman Camp at Zefontein
London reports General Rundle says De Wet’s commando rushed Colonel Firman’s camp at Zefontein on December 24. Three Yeomanry companies and two gun batteries were overwhelmed. Heavy casualties feared as two regiments of light horse pursue the Boers. A blockhouse quadrangle is being built nearby, with De Wet’s attack stretching to Lindley and Bethlehem. A Boer prisoner smuggling incident occurred aboard the Goth off Ascension.
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Lord Kitchener
Johannesburg
Rundle
Firman
Zefontein
de Wet
Boera
Vereenignen
Valksrust
Harrismith
Kroonstadt
Bethlehem
Lindley
Fog Bound Express Crashes Wrecking Freight Car Fatality
In Cincinnati on December 26 an engineer unable to see a signal in fog struck a freight crossing. Four passengers and two trainmen were injured. Engineer John Spencer and Fireman Partlow escaped with minor bruises. A wrecking train en route to Hartwell killed Patrick McCoy and seriously injured William Nipper and Louis Tenbrink, the latter possibly fatally. The crane chain broke and struck three men aboard the moving wrecking train.
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Cincinnati
Magman
Chicago
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Hartwell
B. M. Payne
M. G. Leis
New York
H. F. Jacobs
Charles Bloom
John Spencer
Partlow
Patrick McCoy
William Nipper
Louis Tenbrink
Freight Collision Near Thessalon Claims Engineer Life
A Canadian Pacific freight engine collided with a light freight engine near Thessalon east of Sault Ste. Marie. Engineer McDavit of North Bay was killed and several others were badly injured, including Arthur Curtis Ottawa Charles Wash David Miller fireman M Christopher engineer and A Gould conductor all from Sault Ste. Marie. The wreck followed a freight engine delay at Dayton causing the express to be passed. In Lansing Michigan Mrs Eugene Mills and her daughter Hulda of Okemos were killed when struck by a westbound Grand Trunk express near the Artural College.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Canadian Sea
Webbwood
Ont
Canadian Pacific
Thessalon
McDavit
North Bay
Arthur Curtis
Ottawa
Charles Wash
David Miller
The
Express
M. Christopher
A. Gould
Dayton
Lansing
Eugene Mills
Hulda
Okemos
A Tural College
Fall of a Crane Kills Three at Chicago Steel Works
Three men die and four sustain injuries when a steel crane at American Bridge works collapses. Victims named as John Swan John Traver and Albert Rock. Injured include John Doyle Charles Warren Mathew Hogan and Patrick Murphy. Crane, rated for thirty tons, carried twenty at collapse. possible chain flaw cited. Thirty workers in vicinity with many narrowly escaped harm.
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Chicago
American Bridge Works
John Swan
John Traver
Albert Rock
John Doyle
Charles Warren
Mathew Hogan
Patrick Murphy
Murphy
Swan
Traver
Rock
Entitled to the estate in Pueblo court ruling
Judge Coulton in the County Court awarded Mrs Stella J Hobson widow of George H Hobson and their posthumous daughter Georgia a share of the $250,000 estate. He rejected attacks on the child's legitimacy born in Los Angeles and noted no testimony undermining the claim.
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Pueblo
Col
Coulton
Stella J. Hobson
George H. Hobson
Hobson
Georgia
Los Angeles
Will contest appeals over estate awarded to widow and daughter
In a probate matter the parties to the will contest gave notice of an appeal. The brothers and sisters objected to the widow and daughter receiving the estate, signaling ongoing dispute over the distribution.
Frances Ross Adjudged Insane After Convent Escape
Frances Ross, the young woman reputed to have escaped a Portland Oregon convent, was declared insane in Chicago on December 26. Medical experts cited religious melancholia and suggested sanatorium treatment. She testified freely but did not confirm her identity, carrying nearly three dollars and jewelry when admitted to the hospital two weeks earlier.
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Chicago
Frances Ross
Portland
Ore
Miss Ross
Severe hand to hand fight in Samar with bolomen
Manila report states Captain Schoeffel with eighteen men of Company E Ninth Infantry at Capday Island Samar faced a large bolomen force. A severe hand to hand combat followed, resulting in seven American soldiers killed and six wounded including the captain. The enemy suffered heavy losses. no property damage reported.
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Schoeffel
Ninth Infantry
Capday
Island of
Samar
Sued
Colombia Venezuela debate suspends war declaration edge
Reports from Colonia and Port towns indicate both nations still recriminate over arms and troop movements amid no war declaration. Colombia readies frontier troops, gunboat General Pinzon sails to Rio Hacha with 70 troops. Liberal forces in La Negrita mountains face containment. Venezuelan refugees gather in Martinique with Matos active and Ban Righ arrival. alleged cache includes 5,000,000 cartridges and 10,000 Mauser rifles.
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Colon
Colombia
Venezuela
General Pinzon
Rio Hacha
Honda
Magdalena
Castro
Lorenzo
la Negrita
Guajira
Cauca
Fort DE France
Martinique
General Matos
Maclay Dropped From Navy Yard Post Over Resignation Demand
Edgar S Maclay, historian and special laborer at the New York navy yard, was discharged after the Navy secretary ordered his resignation. The Civil Service Commission ruled removal was not a violation of civil service law and cited the president’s authority to dismiss civil-service staff for just cause with written reasoning.
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New York
Edgar Stanton Maclay
Navy Yard
Maclay
Putnam
Washington
Civil-service Commission
Edward 8. Maclay
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Proctor
John R. Proctor
Civil Service Commission
Secretary of the Navy
Edgar S. Maclay
Edgar 8. Maclay
Civil Service Act
Shaw Accepts Treasury Post in Roosevelt Plan
Des Moines reports Governor Leslie M. Shaw has accepted President Roosevelt’s offer to serve as secretary of the treasury. The governor said he plans to go to Washington if summoned, while finishing his term as Iowa’s governor. Shaw, a Denison banker and long-time political figure, earned Roosevelt’s favor for his gold standard stance in 1897 and his advocacy for Western farmers in tariff and finance.
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Aldrich
Lodge
Mr. Perkins
California
Senate
Roosevelt
Wood
Root
Senate Committee On Finance
Michigan
McMullan
Poe Beet
Burrows
Des Moines
Leslie M. Shaw
Shaw
Secretary of Treasury
Theodore Roosevelt
Washington
Chamber of Commerce of
New York
Chicago
Vermont
Iowa
McKinley
West
Bank of Denison
Bank of Marietta
Robbers Loot Flour Mill Safe in New Douglas Theft
Four men blew open the safe of H. A. Franze & Son flouring mill in New Douglas Thi on Christmas night and escaped with about $1.5, tied and beat two watchmen who were tied to posts.
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ST. Louis
H. A. Franze & Son
New Douglas
Thi
Fire on South Side Public Square Destroys Several Buildings
A large blaze on the south side of the public square in Anderson destroyed three buildings with others imperiled. A Western Union office was burned out and one man was badly hurt while attempting to save his effects. The largest elevator in Illinois at Decatur was also destroyed, with total losses still unknown.
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Public Square
Indianapolis Journal
Decatur
Ill
Shellebarger & Co
Illinois
Fire sweeps Hart Ford City and Alexandria blocks
Fire was discovered at 1 am in the two story brick building on the public square in Anderson Indiana. It spread to adjacent structures causing extensive damage across the courthouse square with explosions from natural gas and injuries to Dr. M A Rush. Firefighters gained control by 2 30 am as insurers assess total losses across multiple businesses.
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Indianapolis Journal
Anderson, Ind
Fie
Dr. Chittenden
Alema
D. P. Watson
Louis Loeb
Iels
Courthouse Square
Miller & Haynes
Chittenden
M. A. Rush
Gas explosion wrecks Hartford City home in Ind
A natural gas blast in Hartford City Indiana partly wrecked a frame dwelling owned by Patrick Martiarity and occupied by Edmund Squiffiet. A three year old son of Mr SouliMet and his brother in law Herman Gillis were severely burned. Gillis was blown into the yard and the child suffered burns to the head and hair. The blast traced to a gas main leak seeping into a sewer leading to the cellar. Debris caught fire but the flames were soon checked.
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Indianapolis Journal
Hartford City
Ind
Patrick Martlarity
Edmund Squiffiet
William Center
Franklin Street
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Daughteer
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Willemstad
Laguayra
the Civil-Service Commission
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Mr. Roosevelt
of the Treasury
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Ilinois
Hart
Ford City
Alexandria
Brickley & Co
Indiana Accident Insurance Company
Fears Brothers
Western Union Telegraph Company
B. W. Scott and
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M. A. Cox
August Brest
Howard Witt
George Goulding
W. D. Deitzon
George H. Teepe
Brown & Hewitt
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