Speaker Ship Prospects Stir Washington Political Talk
Washington dispatch notes Col Henderson will finish his term as Speaker and cautions that many claimed Republican candidates are jockeying for positions. State blocs seek plums in clerkship, committee chairmanships, and other offices to trade for support. Cannon of Illinois emerges as leading candidate, with internal rivals poised to unite against him.
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Washington, D. C
Henderson
Cannon
Illinois
Hopkins
Pension rolls hover just under one million in 1902 report
The annual pension commission report shows 999,446 names on the rolls as of July 1, with 738,809 soldiers and 269,637 widows and dependents. It details payments totaling $137,504,268 for pensions and notes pending cases and appeals, along with long-run costs of administering the system.
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Washington
D. C
Eugene F. Ware
United States
Bureau
Mexico
Spain
Million-dollar estate plot exposed by Laura Biggar trial
New York reports Laura Biggar, key figure in a scheme to obtain a million-dollar estate through a fictitious marriage and a bogus baby, remains a fugitive from Jersey justice. Authorities expect her to surrender with a bondsman as the case unfolds.
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New York
Laura Biggar
Jersey
Hendricks
Bayonne
Wilbur Heisley
Riage
Bennett
Robert ‘Ray Hamilton
Dr. Hendricks
Mars
Calderhead Defends Trusts Against Organized Labor
Kansas Republican W A Calderhead, from the Fifth District, calls trusts a godsend and rejects efforts to regulate them. He brands organized labor as the country’s greatest menace, arguing labor disputes threaten liberty and safety and stave off progress.
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Peka
Kan
W. A. Calderhead
Kansas
Rev Charlton resigns as First Presbyterian pastor in Seymour
In Seymour Indiana Rev J F Charlton resigns after a church split fueled by a dispute over city waterworks policy tied to the water company. Charlton accuses two elders of pressuring him for backing the water utility while church workers back his leadership.
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Charlton
Europe
M. S. Blish
W. F. Peter
The
Water Company Corporation
Burned at the stake in Corinth after confession
Corith Mississippi Oct. 2 A young black man Tom Claris alias Will Gibson was burned at the stake after admitting to the murder of Mrs. Carey Whitfield on August 19. He declared he deserved the fate in front of hundreds of citizens as fuel was piled high. In New York Brooklyn a dramatic custody scene ended with a mother surrendering her 1 year old to her husband saying she did not want the child.
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Bennett Heirs
Laura Biggar
Bennett
Sawyer Hawkins
New York
Bayonne
Samuel I. Frankenstein
Broadway
Stanton
Corinth
Miss
Tom Claris
Will Gibson
Mississippi
Carey Whitfield
Clark
Steers
Brooklyn
Kate Gately
President Street
Gately
Mrs. Gately
Tin Workers Face Unprecedented Slump in Tin Industry
An Amalgamated Association statement from Pittsburgh notes a sluggish tin and shore industry not seen before. It cites numerous new tin and sheet mills raising capacity beyond domestic demand and questions whether a special convention or conference of tin lodge representatives is needed to address workers welfare.
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Pittsburg
Amalgamated Association of Tron, Steel and Tinplate Workers
Japanese Bond Loan Planned by Major Banks
London Oct 2 report confirmed that Baring Brothers Hong Kong Shanghai Bank and Yokohama Specie Bank will issue next week twenty five million in Japanese consuls bonds at five percent interest.
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London
Baring Bros
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank
Yokohama Specie Bank
Republican Club Leagues Hold National Convention
In Chicago on October 2 about 400 delegates gathered at the First Regiment armory for the National Republican League of Clubs convention. The program includes four business sessions and mass meetings, with Roosevelt’s 1904 renomination commonly anticipated. candidates for league president include Moore, Redding, Woods, and Johnson. President Hamilton addressed the assembly after Roy West’s welcome.
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Chicago
Ill
National Republican League of Clubs
Roosevelt
League
J. H. Moore
Pennsylvania
Sydney R. Redding
Little Rock
Arkansas
Richard Woods
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Shirley E. Johnson
Kentucky
Roy 0. West
Hamilton
GOAL OPERATORS TO BE SUED BY THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON
Boston leaders move to sue coal operators in Pennsylvania over the anthracite strike. Prominent lawyer Herman W. Chaplin advocates public need to operate mines and seek receivership if courts do not resolve the dispute. Mayor P. A. Collins helps sign the petition authorizing T. D. Roberts to file suit.
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GOAL
Boston
Mass
Herman W. Chaplin
Pennsylvania
Chaplin
Court of Equity
P. A. Collins
T. D. Roberts
Bank of England raises discount rate to four percent
The Bank of England boosted its discount rate from three to four percent today. The move follows strong demand for money and reflects tightening funds in the New York market.
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London
Bank of England
Soldiers Practice the Art of War at Fort Riley
At Fort Riley Kansas on October 2 exercises in outpost duty filled a maneuver program for the Kansas and Colorado national guard. Regular army officers supervised while the national guard worked through its problems. Assistant Secretary of War Sanger observed the afternoon artillery practice in cold unpromising weather.
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Fort Riley
Kan
National Guard
Kansas
Colorado
Sanger
Metal and Money Market in New York
New York markets report Mexican dollars at 14014 cents, silver at 50.7 cents per ounce, copper trading around 11.55 to 11.75 cents.
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New York
New General Officers of the Army Named
President names new brigadier generals in the regular army. Colonel Ernest I. Kimball becomes assistant quartermaster general. Colonel Chambers McKibben of the Twenty fourth Infantry stationed at Fort Harrison Montana. Colonel Charlie C. Hood of the Sixteenth Infantry stationed at Fort McPherson Georgia.
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Washington, D. C
Ernest I. Kimball
Chambers McKibben
Twentyfourth Infantry
Fort Harrison
Montana
Charlie C. Hood
Sixtenth Infantry
Fort McPherson
Georgia
Great Rush of Water Floods a Big Town
Camden, New Jersey, faced a reservoir break near the Delaware river releasing about eight million gallons. Water surged along Twenty seventh street flooding cellars and causing extensive damage across the town.
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Camden
N. J
City
Delaware River
Twenty Seventh Street
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Pensions, Post Office
Census
Fowler
New York, Ontario & Western Railway
Senator Quay
Buncombe
Politigs
Indiana
Blish
Guilds
Baby
York
Metal and Money Market
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