Turbulent World News Highlights From Global Reports
Ten thousand Russian troops occupy Mukden. A fire devastates 150 houses in Jeveale. Sir Michael Herbert estate sworn at 39 620. Harold Hanne sentenced for Seattle holdup. Cholera hits Vigan with 22 cases and 21 deaths. Ogawa kills Emma Nepptuma in Aberdeen. Rio de Janeiro reports 29 plague deaths. Angus McPhail convicted of murder in Leverett. Bulgarian sultan may grant Macedonian amnesty. Four children killed by nitroglycerin in Bucks Run. Anthenaeum collapse in Mula kills several, injures twenty. Governor Peabody sets aside court martial verdict. Fire at Kearsarge mine yields eight dead. Six men dead, ten wounded from Jona Island explosions. Cyprian Clay dies in San Diego. Sioux party captured after Sheriff Miller death. Oscar C Simpson murdered in Tucumcani. Paterson silk designers strike amid wage rise. Caspar Irnst arrested for embezzlement. John Williams chosen Mississippi caucus minority leader. Nantamo incident ends with child shooting. Lyon county woman drowns with infant. Mormon church buys Carthage jail for 44000.
Congress Opens Busy 58th Session with Flood of Bills
The Fifty eighth congress opens its first day in session. Senator Frye presides as senate organises after an extraordinary session. Speaker Cannon leads the house with committee appointments to come and hundreds of bills introduced including a New Mexico statehood measure and a trust regulation bill. The house adopts rules from the prior congress and requests presidential communications on Panama revolts.
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Frye
Senate
Nev. J. J. Prettyman
Washington
Congress
Pio Tom Frye
Hoar and
Gorman
Cullom
Hanna
House of Representatives
Joseph G Cannon
Illinois
New Mexico
Rodey
Bartholdt
Palmer
Rep
Pennsylvania
Kiitt
Foreign Affairs Committee
House
Public Service
Panama
Battle at Theatre in Wallace Idaho Opera House
Two killed and two wounded after a gunman clashed with police at the Wallace Idaho opera house entrance after a James Neill company show. Miner William Cluff fired on Officer Rose, wounding the officer and hitting W F Fims in the head. Rose and Policeman McGovernwere also wounded as Cluff was shot three times by the officer. A stampede followed as crowds fled the foyer.
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Wallace Idaho Opera House
James Neill
William Cluff
Rose
Cluff
Opera House
Fight Over Lover Sparks Scrape in Schuylkill Haven
In a Schuylkill Haven suburb two 15 year old girls Millard Orlando of the former place and Laura Sarton of Cressona fought for a young man's hand for about a half hour. The Cressona girl sustained a black eye. Police arrested both girls but released them with a reprimand.
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Schuylkill
Haven Pa
Will
Millard Orlando
Laura Sarton
Cressona
Coal Miners Strike Expands in Colorado Utah Wyoming
In Trinidad Colorado district miners walk out en masse despite officers plans to limit impact. 800 plus miners join the union as camps like Gray Creek Bowen Tercio Starkville Peachmont report near-total quits though Wyoming resists. Winter Quarters Utah notes workers intend to keep working.
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Iemrat
Trinidad
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
United Mine Workers of America
Primero
Gray Creek
Bowen
Tercio
Starkville
Peachmont
Rocky Mountains Fuel Company
Winter Quarters
Utah
Russia and Japan Near Settlement in Far East Talks
Negotiations between Russia and Japan have progressed to a stage where a settlement is expected soon. No terms are disclosed, but a friendly adjustment of differences is reported, with war prospects vanished. Berlin officials deem the Vienna report of an alliance between the czar and the emperor as an idle invention.
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Russia
Japan
Vienna
William
Berlin
Representative Cannon Chosen Speaker by Republican Caucus
At a Saturday night Republican caucus in the house hall, Joseph Gaxinnon of Illinois was unanimously selected as the party candidate for speaker of the house. A resolution adopted set elective officers for the house and the rules of the Fifty seventh congress were retained for the Fifty eighth. The caucus decided fifty votes are needed to call a caucus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Representatives
House
Joseph Gaxinnon
Mlinois
Pennsylvania Pugilist Meets Death in a Prize Fight
Clarence Doolittle is under arrest in Franklin Pennsylvania charged with murder of Willis M Kingsley a local athlete and football player. Kingsley was declared winner after three rounds but ruptured a blood vessel and died despite physicians remaining with him through the night
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Doolittle
Franklin
Willis M Kingsley
Doolittle
Kingsley
Immigration law to see tougher Chinese entry enforcement
Commissioner General Sargent forecasts stricter Chinese immigration enforcement after the conference. Secretary Comtelyou backs firm, fair law application. Chinese inspectors along the Mexican border to be increased amid reports of encouragement of Chinese immigration to that country.
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Conference of Immigration Commisssioners
Sargent
Com Telyou
Colombia Means War Senator Morgan Warns of Complications
Senator Morgan comments on the Colombian crisis saying U S troops landed under treaty cloak multiple times. He warns Washington will face a series of complications similar to Indian territorial aggression and Tipton era warfare from Colombia’s actions.
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Morgan
United States
Colombia
General Reyes Named Panama Peace Commissioner
A cablegram from General Reyes reports his appointment by Colombia to act as peace commissioner with Panama. The mission aims to settle terms to honor the Isthmian independence, and Panama reacts with enthusiasm due to Reyes’s friendships and the hoped for solid recognition of independence.
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Panama
General Reyes
Colombia
Republic of Panama
Naval leaders tour Isthmus as Panama reports update
Rear Admiral Joseph Coghlan aboard the Mayflower heads for Panama to assume command of Atlantic naval forces. Admiral John G Walker, president of the Isthmian Canal Commission, travels to observe conditions and report to the president on any changes since the commission's last assessment.
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Joseph Coghlan
Atlantic
Panama
John G Walker
Isthmian Canal Commission
Walker
Isthmian Ranal Commission
Ita
Colombia protests US Panama actions over 1846 treaty
Official circles in Washington report that the United States of Colombia has lodged a protest with the state department. The protest questions the U S attitude and interpretations of the 1846 treaty between the United States of America and the United States of Colombia regarding events on the isthmus of Panama.
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Washington
United States of Colombia
State Department
United States
Panama
United Stata of America
Sleep ing Girl Dies After Prolonged Illness in Salt Lake City
Dessia Barbara Knecht known as the sleeping girl dies at her Salt Lake City home after a 47 day unconscious spell following a scarlet fever attack. She had been at St Mark's hospital and was moved home in May where she remained partly conscious but never fully recovered. A Vancouver dispatch notes public anger over the United States Alaska boundary matter surfaces during a minstrel show with loud anti American and anti flag reactions prompting an early curtain.
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Dessia Barbara Knecht
Salt Lake City
Miss Knecht
St Mark's Hospital
Vancouver BC
United States
Alaska
Germans Seek Revenge In Southwest Africa Action
A Windhoek dispatch dated November 5 reports that most colonial troops including a mounted battery and 300 men have moved toward Warmbad. The Bindetzwar tribe is said to comprise about 500 fighting men and is blamed for massacring the Warmbad garrison and nearby Germans and taking English families prisoner.
Mine Fire Kills Nine at Kearsarge Mine Near Virginia City
Fire at the Kearsarge gold mine six miles from Virginia City Montana early Friday morning killed nine men. Superintendent R T B Turner, from Butte, led rescue efforts and entered the burning tunnel but was not seen again. The dead were all single men from Butte area. about 170 workers aided in extinguishing the blaze. The mine is a major mining site with valuable ore.
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Kearsarge
Virginia City
Mont
R B Zvrner
Butte
Northwest
Kearsarore
Rtb Turner
Alder Gulch
Buriying
Mings
Turner
Near Battle With Colombians is Averted by Marine Courage
Panama dispatches recount a tense standoff between US Marines from the Nash Villa gunboat and Colombian troops under Colonel Abaos. Marines dug in near the steamship pier with freight cars for cover as about 400 Colombians gathered. Abaos ordered an advance but the Colombians refused, retreating as armored Americans warned they would not back down. Fifty Panamanian residents were armed, while the marine lieutenant asserted mission to protect American property and readiness to confront trouble if needed.
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Panama
Nashvilla
Abaos
Leutenant
Tragic Boiler Explosion At Ohio Agricultural College
An old traction engine boiler exploded during corn harvest at the Ohio State Agricultural College in Columbus. Engineer Charles Tepper died and seven were injured including Assistant Engineer John Delgarn who also died. President Vernon TW Davis and several students were among the injured as iron fragments damaged a barn over 160 yards away.
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Agricultural College
Ohio State University At
Columbus
Charles Tepper
John Delgarn
Vernon TW Davis
Governor Porfirio Melandes Named Civil and Military Governor
Porfirio Melandes was appointed Friday night as civil and military governor of Colon, Panama. The old government officials remained in office in title only after troops withdrew, with Prefect Cuadros and Alcalde Guerrero now nonentities and not under arrest.
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Republic of Panama
Senor
Porfirio Melandes
Colon
Cuadros
Senor Guerrero
Northwest Notes From Mont Mines and Trials
A roundup of casualty and crime items across the Northwest. Deaths from mining accidents in Dillon and Red Lodge Montana, drownings near Anaconda Missouri, and a fatal stabbing in Reno Nevada. Legal actions include Keefe murder verdict in Laramie and Horn murder appeal efforts. Also mentions coal miners’ wage strike outlook at Rock Springs and a mob attack trial in Basin Montana.
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Willam FL. Cody
Cheyenne
Wyo
Georgetown Lake
Anaconda
Moat
M Wright
Bert Williams
William Jamensky
Erick Paccola
Sam Puotinene
Red Lodge
Mont
Puotinena
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Aberdeen
Thera
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Leverett
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Oscar C Simpson
A. B Simpson
Tucumcani
N M
Peter Evra
Paterson NJ
Caspar J
Irnst
St Paul Capitalist
John Williams
Mississippi
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Rennie
Mormon Church
Carthage
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Hyrum
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Colorado
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Has
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Ife
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Nickell Stern
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