Vrooman confirmed as regent amid partisan debate
Kansas senate approved Carl Vrooman for regent of the State Agricultural College despite strong opposition from Populists. Supporters argued for stability in education while opponents called him an anarchist and warned of political upheaval if partisan shifts recur. Vote was 16 to 15 with several absentees.
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Carl Vroomen
Willess
Senate
Besst
Republcans
Theresa
Kansas
Harrison Kelley
Vroorman
Young
Jumper
Vrennan
Board of Charities
Sens
Measin
Vrooman
Titus
Fenson
Braddock
Caldwell
Cam Berl
Cocke
Crossan
Field
Porney
Helm
King
Lupier
Pritchard
Shafter
Youns
Andrews
Anderson
Battey
Farrell
Baie
Et Seins Holni
Tonegon
Fra Ie Pitus
Ward
Zimmer
Coleman
Lewellins
Mathews
Reser
Sheldon
Starks
Wks
Senate confirms Carl Vrooman to state board of regents
Senate in executive session confirms Carl Vrooman as a member of the state agricultural college board of regents. The vote tally and details about prior resolutions are reported as part of the session notes. Several named senators participated in the discussions and final decision.
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Senate
Carl Vrooman
Board of Regents
Jumper
Mvrocman
Benson
Caldwell
Campbell
Cooke
Prossax
Field
Forney
Hanna
Hart
Voters Named In Fragmentary Roll Call
A partial list names Helm and allied figures as supporters and Andrews and others as opponents in a split vote. The fragment mentions Tennyon Jumper Lamb Morrow Ward and Zlinger among those who did not back him, with Helmick Hessin among the dissenters.
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Helm
Kins
Lupier
Pritchard
Ryan
Shaffer
Stone
Titus
Young
Andrews
Anderson
Battey
Jelty
Folten
Helmick
Hessin
Tennyon
Jumper
Lamb
Morrow
Ward
Zlingier
Zimmer’s Harsh Words Spark Senate Opening Feud
At dawn the senate clashed over a supplemental corporation bill with Senators Jumper Zimmer and others trading sharp lashing rhetoric. The dispute centered on calling absentees and the threat to adjourn, as several members were absent due to illness or choice, leaving the chamber tense and heated.
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Senate
Jumper
Zimmer
House
Tirwidock
Coleman
Householder
Stocks
Armstrong
Lewelling
Reser
Sheldon
Helm
Osage
C. C. Clemens
Abe
Farrelly
Senate advances bill on visitation and city attorney elections
The senate discussed the express bill to grant visitation core powers to authorities during business acts and await governor signature. City Attorneys to Be Elected in second class cities. The senate passed the house bill for this election plan, marking a legal shift.
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Senate
House
Ttl Pope
Investigation panel to probe city state departments
A Jefferson City report notes a senate resolution adopted by acclamation proposing a commission to inspect every department of municipal and state government. The panel would examine alleged misconduct and corruption, summon witnesses, and report findings to the governor for possible further action.
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St. Louis
Jan
Jefferson City
Senate
Tike County
Atx
BL. Laula
St. Laula
Boule Thandinge
Mistionere
Come Mittes
Samen
Corgpel
Niensat
Botte
First Report On Havana Customs House After Siege
Washington reports from Havana reveal Colonel Tasker H. Hiss’s December 28 dispatch detailing Cuba’s customs office. He notes Spaniards removed most fixtures, leaving walls and floor intact, and outlines steps to inventory staff, salaries, and reputations. The new American team totals six Americans, with three deputy collectors, inspectors, and a stenographer.
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Washington
Gan
War Department
Havana
Tasker H. Hiss
Biles
Customs House
Buty
Colon
Mist
Custom House
Southwestern Fuel Co Delivers Heat Phases Promptly
A distressed family situation prompts the Southwestern Fuel Co to offer prompt delivery of heat phases at no greater cost, advertising telephone service for quick contact and emergency assistance.
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Southwestern Fuel Co
Lehigh Valley Pennsylvanian brags on coal supply prompt service
Fears about the Damurn alights NR 6. Fears are entered for the week of the steamer Baemret from London, now three days out. We carry a large stock of the genethe Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania and bragite, fresh-mined, after sale. We can fill your order for base-burner or furnace sites the same day order is sent in. Telephone 193.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baemret
London
Lehigh Valley
Pennsylvania
Southwestern Fuel CO
Lights Go Out In Kansas House During Disorderly Session
Lawmakers in the Kansas House faced a blackout when the electric lights failed mid session. Members used printed bills as torches, shouted, and clashed before temporary restoration. The outage was caused by a malfunction in the state house lighting system.
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Hall Werock
Breidenthal
Heht
Shouse
Chautahaua County
Cewt Ury
Bourbon
Ani
John Brown
Jefferson
State House Electric Light Plant
Garfield Pleads for Federal Building in Washington
A Cleveland delegation appeared before the hoes committee to advocate a new federal building on Shevand Lane. Members included HA. arfeld, a son of a former president, plus Cleveland Chamber of Commerce officials and local dignitaries. The group urged federal action, noting Cleveland’s public needs mirror those of 40 years earlier.
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Washington, Inn
Cleveland
Hoes Committee
Crebeland
Abilene
Tex
Breakthrough overland Klondike record claimed at Skaguay
Seattle notes from January report William Welsh Frank Tekote and W Devine of Portland claim fastest overland Daw son to Skaguay route. They left Dawson December 12 and reached Skagway December 29. Two New Yorkers Grobesite and Bernard endured river ice and near drowning with hefty losses and injuries. A Yukon river freight line mill burned near Dawson December 19, with horses perishing and property damage.
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Seattle
Wash
William Welsh
Frank Tekote
W. Devine
Portland
Ore
Klondike
Dawson
Skasuay
Skagway
Antone Grobesite
Albert Bernard
New York
Lecond Thirty Mile
Tacoma's Old Debt Won't Be Validated by Court
Judge Carroll ruling sustains by the supreme court would revalidate nearly $1,000,000 of warrants issued by Tacoma. Warrants sold by city treasurer Borges were cashed, resold to buyers, and stamped not paid. The city never benefited. the loss fell on the warrant buyers and their agents. Ten other suit cases await decision, with appeals anticipated to the supreme court.
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Tacoma
Wash
Jam
Superior Court
Carroll
Supreme Court
Borges
Borgs
Judes Carroll Mies
Ity
Hoggs
Holsers
Browns Apology Over Heated Remarks in Legislature
Representative Brown of Cawley agreed to apologize before the house for remarks about the governor’s influence by money. He admitted saying things not fully true in the heat of last night’s debate, a move praised by Populists and Democrats as the resolution would be set aside. He produced a letter showing the requisition was drafted by a lawyer for the requester, not by Governor Leedy or state staff.
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Brown
Cawley
House
Leedy
Storm at Mobile Blows Through City As Wires Fail
After nights of rain a heavy storm swept Mobile at about 9 AM with northwest winds near 40 miles per hour. Property in the northern city areas was damaged while Western Union wires eastward were severed by the storm. Two men were blown from wharves into the river with no lives reported lost at that time.
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Mobile
Als
Tbe
Union
Tron
Mobile and Ohio
Track Under Water Railroads Badly Damaged in Mississippi
Heavy rains caused extensive washouts in central Mississippi with the worst conditions in years. Hundreds of feet of track on the Ilingis Central north of Luckton completely submerged. traffic on the line indefinitely delayed. On the Alabama and Vicksburg railroad between Bolton and Edwards seven miles of track eight feet under water.
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Luckton
Miss
Mississippi
Ilingis Central Road
Alabama and Vicksburg
Bolton
Edwards
Ring bill cuts state printer fees by twenty percent
The house passed the Ring bill reducing state printer fees 20 percent at 2 35 this afternoon by a 66 to HM vote. The measure now advances to the governor for action.
Kansas House Sees Bill On State Printer Fees Passed
Brown of Pratt and Brown of Cowley seek action on Senator King’s bill to cut state printer fees twenty percent. The measure, read third time, passed in the Senate earlier this week. McDonald, a former representative, attended the session and was granted a courtesy chair near reporters. Rhodes arrested for obtaining money under false pretense. a horse dispute with Mrs. Ew ing over a plated watch ended without recovery. An evening tenography class begins in the rooms, announced by Miss Ella B. Dentin.
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CW. McDonald
Crowd County
McDonald
Kansas
Cuba
Brown
Cowley
Pratt
King
Senate
Arkansas
Southwestern Fuel CO
W. C. Rhodes
Chas
Ewine
Rhodes
Ewing
Record Breaking Term In Hazen Court Sentences
Times-Star report from Lima notes Judge Hazen’s term set a criminal record with 18 sent to the penitentiary, 4 to the reform school, 1 to the reform school, and 34 jury cases tried. The Collins murder case stretched a month. 164 court cases discussed, 77 dismissed. Fire destroyed the Lima paper mill property of American Straw Bound Company, with $125,000 loss and $70,000 insurance.
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Hazen
Reformatory
Reform School
John Collins
Collins
Lima Paper Mille
Times-Star
Lima
Armerican
Monetary Flux in Havana Cuba Stabilizes Currency
A Havana dispatch reports bankers wary over currency in circulation as Spanish and French coins wobble in value. McKinley fixed foreign coin values for customs, eliminating military action. Troop pay shifts toward circulating American money, but small change remains scarce. Eight to nine million Spanish silver pieces still linger, with prices quoted in Spanish money showing little change.
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Havana
New York
Tan
The
Tribune
Brooke
McKinley
Cuba
Plagiarism suit over Cyrano de Bergerac in Chicago court
St Louis reports a lawsuit filed in the U S circuit court at Chicago by 5 B Gross against Richard Mansfield and A M Palmer alleging that Rostand and Mansfield stole his 1876-79 English play The Merchant Prince of Cornville He claims he published copies in 1876 and that Rostand produced Cyrano in 1896 and that the English version was later sold in the United States Gross argues the idea was taken from his work Mansfield and Palmer dispute the claims asserting no grounds for the petition and calling the suit absurd
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St. Louis
Jan
Hémond Rostand
Olympic Theater
Richard Mansfield
United States Circuit Court
Chicago
B. Gross
Richard Mansfeld
A. M. Palmer
Lust Rileht
Gross
Tichard Insistfield
Newton A
Gross Figs
New York
Mr. Gross
Rostand
France
Coquelin
Daly
Man Gross
Mercedent Prince of Cornville
Mansfield
Cnicago
Directory leads to inaugural guest list in Wichita event
Major T. J. Anderson received the Wichita city directory by express and learned from a letter from Governor-elect Stanley that the directory was needed. Anderson, secretary of the inauguration committee, asked state officers for invitees and invited the Wichita publisher as the directory was secured for reference.
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T. J. Anderson
Express
Wichita City
Stanley
Midor Anderson
Wichita
Major Anderson
Wichita Directors
Wichita Directory
Burglaries Led to Prison Terms in District Court
Judge Hazen sentenced two young white men, F Ellinger and J Morton, to two years in the penitentiary. Ellinger, tied to a burglary at Gotton Noy’s home, pleaded guilty to grand larceny for a light sentence. Morton burglarized the Wyrnane bicycle store and stole tires, also pleading guilty to grand larceny. The companion McCoy, previously claimed insane, was sent to an asylum and escaped recently.
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Ellinger
Morton
Wyrnane
Deaths and Funerals for Shawnee County Pioneer Soldier
Saniah Cox aged 74 died yesterday at his home southeast of town. Funeral tomorrow at Linn Creek chapel. he came to Shawnee County in 1856 and was one of the oldest settlers and a veteran. Mrs Liza Childs wife of Captain J B Childs died yesterday on Lincoln Street. funeral tomorrow at two o'clock.
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Saniah Cox
Tree Asses
Linn Creek
Cox
Shawnee County
Liza Childs
J BR. Childs
Hom Tah
Lincoln Street
Market Report From Mucago Wheat Mixed on Rumors
Uncertain reports from Art Stover and Liverpool fueled nervousness in wheat trading with May futures slipping as traders booked gains. Corn opened higher, then declined as selling intensified. oats showed brief strength before losing support. Provisions remained narrow with poor grain quality weighing on prices. barley cash and rye cash offered, with Timothy at January and May bids noted.
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Mucago
Ciagrac
Chicago
Minneapolis
Ith
Liverpool
Eisner
Deaders
Esrb
Chicago Livestock Market Summary
Hogs receipts estimated near 2,001 head with strong to higher prices expected. Cattle and calves mixed with Texan, stockers and feeders around strong bids. Sheep receipts about 2, 1 shipments totaling over 1,200 with market weak to steady. Tomorrow's hogs sentiment indicates 5,000 head anticipated.
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Fom
Sinung
Auiers
Kansas City Revere Markets Amidst Mixed Cattle Prices
Market results show strong activity for cattle receipts and feeders, with Texas and Texas cow trends noted. Prices for stockers and feeders near 160 to 180, while corn futures drift lower and general market tone remains firm.
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Aanras Coty
Texrat
Balre
Texas
Wis
Ilene
Fier Ace OM
Gast Minrona
New York Money Market and Cotton Prices Report
New York money market news shows bonds and rates discussed with bank activity and treasury notes. Cotton market details uplands receipts and prices amid steady wheat and other grains. rental listings and local notices appear amid financial chatter and employment ads.
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