Congress at Work and World News Highlights
Senate debates Panama canal treaty and land grants for soldiers homes in Idaho and Wyoming while House discussion centers on the urgent deficiency bill and political topics. Notable items include a statue appropriation, flag protection bill, Lincoln statue, arbi tration hopes with Colombia, and McKinley birthday tributes. Lake Michigan freezes over, record automobile runs by Vanderbilt, major business failures, and varied disasters and weather records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Simmons
CN. C
Suport
Idaho
Wyoming
House
United States
Abraham Lincoln
Washington
Congress
Wisconsin
Marquette
Statuary Hall
Capitol
Panama
Colombia
McKinley
Multiple 1910s News Clippings From Across the Nation
A roundup of brief reports notes 103 rescuers pulled from Cheswick Pa mines with 80 still trapped, record snow in Atlanta, a White House dinner for Supreme Court justices, and a $225,000 loss from North Tonawanda lumber fires. Barney Oldfield wins the American auto title at Ormond Fla in 46 3 5 seconds. Louis Cohen’s three children suffocated in a New York tenement fire. A panic in St Louis theater is quelled with no injuries. Secretary Shaw warns on duty for imports. Illinois plans a $150,000 circular temple in Vicksburg Miss for Illinois troops. Six Chicago union leaders indicted on riot charges. Michigan records 46 degrees below zero in the Upper Peninsula and cattle frozen stiff. Four men die in a Briar Hill Coal shaft accident near Brownsville Pa. Milwaukee arrests for doodling. New York City health dept to supply antitoxin to others amid a trust dispute. At Bellingham Wash Gotch defeats Tom Jenkins for world wrestling title.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allegheny Coal Company
Cheswick
Atlanta
Roosevelt
White House
United States Supreme Court
North Tonawanda
N. Y
Barney Oldfield
Ormond
Fla
Louis Cohen
New York
Harlin
St. Louis
Shaw
Illinois
Vicksburg
Miss
Chicago
Upper
Michigan
Briar Hill Coal Company
Brownsville
Milwaukee
Wis
New York City Health Department
Trust
Bellingham
Wash
Frank A. Gotch
Humboldt
Tom Jenkins
Cleveland
Illinois GOP convention set for May in Springfield
The Illinois republican state convention will be held in Springfield on May 12. Reports note multiple prominent deaths including Mrs Annie Chambers Ketchum author of The Bonnie Blue Flag and Mrs Julia Flynn both in their 80s and 100s respectively, while others mention long lives and political ties across the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Annie Chambers Ketchum
New York
Katherine Kendall Steele
Franklin Pierce
Lyndheboro
N. H
John W. Daniel
United States
Virginia
Mary Schaferewski
Menominee
Mich
Stephen W. Kellogg
Abraham Lincoln
Waterbury
Conn
Julia Flynn
Chicago
Abby B. Frost
George Francis Train
Omaha
Lucinda Hoosier
Wartrace
Tenn
Europe Russian notes threaten war and blocs Baltic
Reports say Germany and Denmark would block the Baltic if war erupts between Russia and Japan. Russia refuses to consider China’s integrity as tensions rise and preparations for conflict spread across empires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitaker Wright
London
William
Germany
Russia
Japan
China
Colombia Plans Panama Expedition Backed by U S Assurance
Colombia intends an expedition against Panama with Generals Reyes and Cavallera promising that the United States will resist landing beyond the canal zone. W. W. Russell becomes head of the American legation at Panama. Theodore Peteroff, famed dog faced man, dies in Salonica. Consul Skinner reports Americans may trade in Marseilles from Abyssinia. Russia warns it will not seek war unless attacked by Japan. Bogota dispatch notes Colombia cannot prevent war over Panama. Florence Maybrick reportedly released from prison after 14 years and a half of life term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Colombia
Russia
Japan
Bogota
Florence E. Maybrick
Edward
Multiple World News Briefs From A Busy Day
Rockefeller resigns from United States Steel as reports reach of prison fire at Dawson Springs Kentucky where a minor state prisoner died. Mint reports January coinage total 7 518 780 dollars. Delaware division engineer Penn Cooper roasted in wreck near Farnhurst Delaware. fireman and six passengers injured. American Manufacturing Brooklyn warehouse fire claims three firemen. Desert crossing deaths near Moapa Las Vegas Nevada total 20 to 30 bodies found. Theodore Peteroff Jo Jo dog faced man dies at Salonica. NYC usury crackdown moves to penitentiary for one year or 500 fine. Senate committees investigate Dietrich charges. House debates DC spending and diplomatic appropriations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Rockefeller
United States Steel Corporation
Dawson Springs
Mint
Penn Cooper
Delaware
Pennsylvania Railroad
Farnhurst
Del
R. C. McCoy
American Manufacturing Co
Brooklyn
N. Y
Moapa
Las Vegas
Nevada
Theodore Peteroff
Jo- Jo
Salonica
Turkey
Peteroff
United States
New York City
District Attorney's Office
Court of Special Sessions
Senate
Dietrich
Nebraska
House
District of Columbia
Prize snuffboxes gifted to Hohenzollern museum in Germany
The Kaiser presented thirteen agate and jasper snuffboxes to the Hohenzollern museum, formerly owned by Frederick the Great. Elsewhere, South African compensation boards paid £4,200,000 for wartime property seizures by the military. The Servian Institute of Journalists asks parliament to strike a press law clause that could prosecute insults to foreign rulers. Prussia plans a new agricultural school at Delitzsch, Saxony, a railroad town of 10,500 people near the Leipsic to Magdeburg line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick the Great
Hohenzollern Museum
Servian Institute of Journalists
Servia
Delitzsch
Saxony
Leipsic
Magdeburg
The Man Who Knows It All
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph lists varied opinions of a self styled know it all. Friends say he is nipped bluffing twisted in a trance full of hot air not on the level off his trolley blamed for rats in his garret and merely playing to the gallery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
Russia's Answer Delayed as Russia Aims to Please Japan
Paris reports another delay in Russia's note to Japan with aims to avert rupture. Lamsdorff hoped for czar approval soon but the draft was incomplete delaying submission to Tuesday or Wednesday. Baron Hayashi says Russia's decision not yet taken and mobilization of Manchurian reserves continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
St. Petersburg
Count Lamsdorff
Russia
Japan
London
Baron Hayashi
Great Britain
Tien-Tsin
Port Arthur
Daily Mail
Che-Foo
Sasebo
Nagasaki
Groff Testifies In Postal Trial On Fastener Invention
Samuel A Groff, inventor of the street letter box fastener, testified in a Washington postal trial about how he conceived the device and efforts to recruit partners. He said the post office order was placed before Lorenz proposed backing sentiment among postmasters in 1894. He also noted he had no further contact with Lorenz until nine years later. Diller F Groff added that if the government buys the fasteners, the Groffs will pay Lorenz his share of profits per the 1595 agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Samuel A Groff
Washington Post Office
Lorenz
Machen
Samuel A. Groff
Diller F. Groff
Diller B. Groff
Mr. Lorenz
Japanese of Africa
Consul Skinner describes Abyssinia as rapidly modernizing under King Menelik and likens its people to the Japanese of Africa. The U S mission arrived aboard the Victoria and noted a large royal reception, Camp Roosevelt, and rapid development including roads bridges and telegraph lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Consul Skinner
Abyssinia
Marseilles
Menelik
United States
Robert P. Skinner
Skinner
Victoria
Aden
Machias
Roosevelt
Ethiopia
King Menelik
Africa
Gas Explosion Kills Two in Pittsburg Home
An explosion of natural gas in the West Liberty home of Henry Magel yesterday killed Henry Magel aged 55 and injured six others including his son Charles 20 who had both legs burned away. The blast wrecked the house when Magel carried a lighted candle to a leak in the gas main.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Henry Magel
West Liberty
Charles Magel
William
Annie
Otto
Charles Almasy
Magel
Five Victims Die in Maple Hill Mine Cage Explosion
Five rockmen were killed when a powder explosion tore apart a steel cage at Maple Hill colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co in Mahanoy City Pennsylvania. Victims Jones Morgan 35 Mackey John 28 Junius Joseph 35 Savage Adam 23 Huderick John 31 fell 300 feet to the shaft bottom. The mine is among those visited by the anthracite strike commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mahanoy City
Maple Hill
Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Co
Jones
Morgan
Mackey
John
Junius
Joseph
Savage
Adam
Huderick
Anthracite Strike Commission
Memorial Day Observed at Harwich Mine After Explosion
Pittsburg reports work nearly halted at the Harwich mine as memorial services and funerals filled the day. A large crowd from western Pennsylvania gathered while two more bodies were recovered, bringing total recovered to 152 with 111 identified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Harwich
Pennsylvania
Whitney Undergoes Appendectomy in New York
William C Whitney former secretary of the navy has had an appendicitis operation at his Fifth Avenue home and is reported to be recovering as well as possible after the shock of surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William C Whitney
Secretary of the Navy
Fifth Avenue
House votes to strike second mileage payment provision
Washington February 1 the house unanimously removed from the urgent deficiency bill the clause for a second mileage payment to senators and representatives this congress and then passed the urgent deficiency appropriation bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Congress
Local Directory of County Officials and Senators
The listing names numerous county and state officials including Member of Congress Joseph C. Sibley, senator Henry H. Cumings, Assembly L. C. Baker, President Judge W. M. Lindsey, Associate Judges Z J Weaver and A T Hackney, Prothonotary Hoomer M Putnam, recorder Charles D. Crandall, Sheriff Ralph N. Brown, Treasurer George U ey, County Commissioners F M Downing Frank Hagberg W H Houghtling, Commissioners' Clerk George F Yates, District Attorney Will S Clark, County Superintendent O J Gunning, Jury Commissioners W J Farnsworth J H Driscell, Coroner Dr W S Peirce, Deputy Coroners H S Perry J P, County Auditors A M Kennett Elmer E Thompson Frank McClellan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Joseph C. Sibley
Senate
Henry H. Cumings
Assembly
L. C. Baker
W. M. Lindsey
Z. ‘J. Weaver
A. T Hackney
George F. Yates
Will S. Clark
O. J. Gunning
W. J. Farnsworth
J.H. Driscell
W. 8. Peirce
H. S. Perry
J. P
A. M. Kennett
Elmer E. Thompson
Frank McClellan
Warren Borough Officials and School Directors Listed
The document lists town officers including Burgess Dr W S Peirce and Clerk W B Weed, with positions for Treasurer A J Hazeltine and Justices H S Perry C H Meacham. Also named are Collector Frank Barnhart Attorney Wm Schnur and Engineer D F A Wheelock. School Directors include W D Hinckley pres G Fe Yates sec F M E treas C W Arird and others.
Train timetable notes for Buffalo and Allegheny Division
Fragmented schedule data shows multiple train times and lines for the Buffalo and Allegheny Division with entries for Eastern and Western Standard times. Mentions leaves and express segments with several times and codes, but many details are garbled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Standard
Pulusy
Buffalo and Allegheny
Dunkirk
Allegheny Valley
Pittsburgh
B. EB
Amie
Secersvereel
Coolidge Found Alive After Drowning Report
W T Coolidge a Denver school teacher once listed as drowned in San Francisco Bay last fall has been found alive in Sheridan Wyoming. The discovery saves benevolent orders and insurers 11000 in life policies he held and he says he caused the earlier report to circulate due to estrangement from his wife to start life anew under an assumed name. He denies intent to enable relatives to collect insurance fraudulently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coolidge
Denver
Col
W. T. Coolidge
San Francisco Bay
Sheridan
Wyo
Tragedy at Webster Pa Firefight Leaves One Dead
In Webster Pennsylvania on Saturday night a party of five negroes fired on white men who mocked them. Two whites were wounded one fatally. A fleeing negro drowned in the Monongahela river during the fracas. Wounded are Robert Wilson 22 with a bullet at brain base and Robert Booth 26 with a bullet in the leg. The drowned negro’s name is unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webster
Monongahela
Robert Wilson
Robert Booth
Also Mentioned on This Page
Warren Mail
Lew Moor
Lake Michigan
W. K. Vanderbilt
D. G. Parr
Louisville
Columbus
William McKinley
Harry D. Egbert
John C. Saxton
John West
Salem
Ore
Canton
Hotel Metropole
Detroit
Missouri Pacific
Miller
Kan
Leigh Hunt
Far East
Upper Nile
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Wade
Iowa
Beef Trust
William K. Vanderbilt
Root
Hollandale
A. B. Baxter & Co
Denmark
Baltic
Progreso
Mexico
Tibet
India
Lord Wolseley
Pope Pius
Man
Groff
Whitney
Local Directory
Warren Borrough
Brailroad Guide
Philadelphia & Erie B. B
Edward Lindsey
Earl MacDonald
Dentists
Third Street
Warren, Pa
Telethons Connection
A.C. M’alpin
Vv. H. M’alpin
Schnurb
Warren
Bosim
Liberty and
Second Streets
Richardson
Warren, Va
W. A. Greaves
Dor’d
Suppe
Eastman Kodaks
Mr. Greaves
R W. Stuart, E
Hoffman Block
J W. Dunkle, A
Hoffman Building
Charles W. Stone, Ralph W. Stone
First Nat’l Bank
Superior and
Supreme Courts of
Yous Sill & Son
Exchange Block
Water Street
John Sill
E. Sill
Geo. Ball’s
PH T. Danforth
S. Keller’s Sons
Second Street
H S. Perry
Justice of Peace & Conveyancer
Woodard & Lesser
ISO
Kingston
Wall St
Royal Medicine CO
Wayne, Building
Morris & Mullen
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!