Broad city news notes on crime cost and culture
A compendium of observations: daily death rates in New York streets, Diaz’s stance on bullfighting, Germany's memorials to Bismarck, Mrs. Chadwick’s possible sentence, Kuropatkin as geographer, and a New Year’s reception. Also notes on flower production, postage stamp trials, Mme Melba’s renaming, Lacey and Gillett congressional actions, rising crime rates, Pitman shorthand Bible, and a Bible reading pace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Pitman
Wanamaker Grabs Record $2 Million Life Policy
Rodman Wanamaker of Philadelphia adds 1.2 million to his life insurance, boosting his total held in one company to 2,000,000. Previously the largest single-company policy was 1,500,000 issued to James C. Colgate of New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rodman Wanamaker
Philadelphia
Wanamaker
James C. Colgate
New York
Grizzly Bears Compared to Tigers and Lions in Heard Tales
A writer extols the grizzly as the savagest beast in the western hemisphere, likening it to the tiger of Hindustan and the lion of Africa. He claims the grizzly has never been whipped by anything but cunning and armed men, though the sentence trails off.
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Western Hemisphere
Central
Africa
Hindostan
Congress in Brief and War News Roundup
The report covers Senate and House actions including electoral vote canvassing set for February 8, and passage of the Shackelford resolution on Panama Railway Company investigations plus an appropriation bill. It notes statements by Senator Mitchell in harsh terms and reports on Russo Japanese War developments from Nagasaki to Port Arthur, prisoner exchanges, and Russian losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Mitchell
Oregon
United States Senate
Congress
United States
House
Shackelford
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Panama Railway Co
Senate
Stoessel
Nagasaki
Japan
Odessa
Mistchenko
Manchuria
Toshikion
Russia
Kuropatkin
St. Petersburg
New Chiang
Port Arthur
Nogi
Tokio
Major fires hit New Orleans clubs and churches
Fire destroyed the Athenaeum clubhouse and nearby properties in New Orleans, including the Young Men's Hebrew Association hall and Clio street Evangelical church, with losses estimated around 100000 dollars and many structures damaged. Nine lives were reported lost in a Decatur mine disaster in HK.
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Athenaeum
New Orleans
Young Men's Hebrew Association Hall
Clio Street Evangelical Church
Decatur
Thrilling escape as fire destroys school for stammerers
At Brighton near St Louis a fire destroyed the Dodge and Clark school for stammerers. About forty students escaped death by leaping from windows to lightning rods and roofs. One student burned. no fatalities. Night watchman Clinton Clark and superintendent Henry Dodge alerted occupants. May Patrick, 20, climbed to a roof and descended a rod to safety. Some used stairs, others fled via porch roofs or ladders.
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St. Louis
Jan
Dodge & Clark School
Brighton
Grantinn
Clinton Clark
Henry Dodge
Dodge
May Patrick
Woodburn
Ill
United States Senators Elected by State Legislatures
Dispatches from the capitals list the Wednesday election of U S senators by state legislatures in joint session. Notable results include Depew re elected in New York, Beveridge and Hemenway in Indiana, Knox in Pennsylvania, Burkett in Nebraska, Petrrows in Michigan, Clapp in Minnesota, Aldrich in Rhode Island, Lodge in Massachusetts, Crane for Hoar's term, Hale in Maine, McCumber in North Dakota, and Sutherland in Utah.
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George Sutherland
Utah
United States
Thomas Kearns
Eugene Hale
Maine
Nelson W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
United Mine Workers’ Convention
Indianapolis
Ind
Nevada
George
Nixon
William M. Stewart
Andrew Carnegie
Citizens’ National Bank of
Oberlin
Pine Grove
W. Va
Russia
China
Gen. Popoff
Moscow
Poltavatsky
Commercial School
Morozoff
Moscow University
Chicago
New York
Chauncey M. Depew
Indiana
Albert J. Beveridge
James A. Hemenway
Charles W. Fairbanks
Pennsylvania
Philander C. Knox
M. S. Quay
Mr. Knox
Gov. Pennypacker
Nebraska
Elmer J. Burkett
Charles H. Dietrich
Michigan
Julius Caesar PB Trrows
Minnesota
Moses E. Clapp
Massachusetts
Henry Cabot Lodge
W. Murray Crane
George F. Hoar
R Eugene Hale
North Dakota
O. P. J. McCumber
Bedford murder case leads to two arrests
Bedford Indiana January 19 two men Frank Evans and William Elmer Browning were arrested on warrants sworn by attorney John H Underwood for the murder of Miss Sarah I Shafer on the night of January 21 1904. Mrs Cox Browns divorced wife says Browning told her he and Evans planned to assault Shafer and killed her with a sling shot and a rock in a cab shed after meeting in an alley.
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George Turner
St. Louis
Associaion
Acneasige
Gov. Pennypacker
Roosevelt
Alvey A. Adee
Chas
Harlem Keep
Geo. B. Davis
Louis A. Pradt
John C.boyd
U.S. N
American National Red Cross
Marsanng
France
Mme. Loubet
Illinois
Congress
Mississippi River
Congressional Committee On Interstate and Foreign
Germany
New York
Catherina Lubawa
Milwaukee
Brotherhood of Railway
Pennsylvania Railroad Co
Mobile
Ala
Thomas H. Carter
United States
Montana
Mon R. Burford
Canton
Virginia City
Mont
Essen
Bertha Krupp
Herr Krupp
Heck
Rheedt
Rhenish
Prussia
Scott
West Virginia
Elmer J. Burkett
United States Senate
Nebraska
Iowa
Courteney Thomas
Monte Carlo
Brussels
E. K. Brown
el Reno
Okla
Kansas City
Kansas University
National
Morgan G. Bulkeley
Connecticut
Republic Caucus
Hartford
Joseph R. Hawley
Bedford
Ind
Frank Evans
William Elmer Browning
John H Underwood
Sarah I. Shafer
Cox
Browning
Evans
Miss Shafer
Illinois Jury Fails to Reach Verdict in Cromer Murder Case
After two days and nights of deliberation the jury in the Herbert Cromer murder case failed to agree and was discharged by Circuit Judge R. D W. Holder in Belleville. The jury stood ten for acquittal. Cromer was accused of beating his wife on August 9 last year, injuries leading to her death on August 20. He denied the charges and said he forced to restrain her during fits. Much expert testimony was heard. prosecution largely by Cromer’s wife's relatives.
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Herbert Cromer
Marissa
R. D W. Holder
Belleville
Cromer
de- S
Grandmother Dies After Heroic Fire Rescue Effort
Mrs. Jane Carter, 74, died at her Carrollton area home from burns suffered while attempting to save her granddaughter Miss Emma Williams, 14, after a coal oil can overturned on the kitchen range December 3. The girl died shortly after from the blaze.
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Jane Carter
Carrollton
Miss Emma Williams
Miss Williams
Fire wipes out half of Pratt county business district
A fire in Miller's grocery destroyed half the Pratt county town's business section. Estimated loss reaches $60,000 with $20,000 insured. Lacking local fire protection, Aurora's department was wired for aid and two engines were rushed to the scene, saving the thriving village from total destruction.
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Leland
Pratt County
Miller's Grocery
Aurora Fire Department
Fire at West End hotel in Nashville narrowly stopped
Incendiaries strike again in Nashville with a hotel fire at the West End. Guests were saved by a timely discovery after a bucket of oily car waste was found, preventing total destruction of the building.
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Nashville
West End
Bryan Visits Jacksonville In Conference With Trustees
Col William Jennings Bryan spent a day at Jacksonville meeting with trustees of an Illinois college seeking a president. Bryan, an alumnus of the college, formerly lived in Jacksonville. In another item, the Kirkpatrick infant east of Pana smothered while the mother shielded it from cold during a drive. death noted only after reaching home.
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Bryan
Jacksonville
William Jennings Bryan
Illinois College
Morris Kirkpatrick
Pana
Multiple Local News Briefs From Illinois Papers
A compilation notes a child in Bethalto choking on a button and dying, Mount Sterling plans a new jail under $10,000, Hoopston presents a $2500 pipe organ to a Universalist church, Murphysboro man T Walker shoots himself and wounds his wife, Jerseyville losses total $25,000 in a fire, two robbers named Henry and Fred Miller caught at Pana, Christian County adds 51 rural delivery routes with nine new carriers, Wagoner Bros. store in Murphysboro suffers $3,800 total loss, Levi M. Donnelly a Shulton County Democratic figure dies in Lewiston, and Mr Harry Dearing marries Sylvia Watkins in Chandlerville with the bride age 11.
The New Birth Discussion in Jesus and Nicodemus
A 1905 Sunday School lesson analyzes John 3 on the need and nature of the new birth. It outlines Nicodemus quest and Jesus solemn declaration, explains birth through the Spirit, and notes the earthly, spiritual, and salvific aspects of being born again.
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Jesus and Nicodemus
Nicodemus
Jesus
Christ
Jesus Christ
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He Troy
B&b. W. Jarvis
New York City
Diaz
Bismarck
Gen. Kuropatkin
H. B. Stocke
Washington
Uncle Sam
Mme. Melba
Bessie Parkinson
Parkina
Kaw
Lacey
Frederick H. Gillett
Gilett
The
Chicago Tribune
Stames Merers
Sarah Shafer
Ine
Illinois State
Burns
the Firebug
Bethalto
Madison County
Edda
John Glassmeyer
Mount Sterling
J. S. Melerren
Hoopston
Universalist
Murphysboro
T. Walker
Blaze
Jerseyville
George D.locke
Pann
Witt
Henry
Fred Miller
Christian County
Wagoner Bros
Henry Borgamiller
Levi M. Donnelly
Shulton County
Lewiston
Harry Dearing
Sylvia Watkins
Chandlerville
J. Bf. Edson
Galilee
Jerusalem
Son of God
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