Special Message on Panama Canal Treat y Ratification
President Roosevelt's special message to Congress defends U S actions in Panama crisis and argues for ratification of the canal treaty. He cites Hay Pauncefote terms, Panama’s revolution, and U S responsibility to build an interoceanic canal while denying any U S complicity in the Panama revolt. He emphasizes national safety, treaty rights, and collective civilization.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Panama
United States
Colombia
Theanal
Congress
Canal Strip
Hay-Herran
Camal Strip
Hay-Merran
Panama Republic
Bogota
Republic of
Nicaragua
New Granada
Guaol Ork 3
Repubic
Atlantic
Pacific
Panama Canal Company
Panama Company
France
Republic of Panama
Great Britain
Germany
Denmark
Russia
Sweden
Norway
Peru
China
Cuba
Italy
Costa Rica
Japan
Austria-Hungary
Isthmus
Central
South America
Dark Side year in review 1903 records shock waves of crime
A Chicago analysis summarizing 1903 crime and disaster statistics. It notes 8,976 murders and 8,597 self inflicted deaths with poising and shooting as leading methods, 123 legal executions, 104 lynchings, and 1,935 shipwreck deaths plus 4,000 railroad disaster fatalities. It also cites Iroquois Theater fire as year’s crowning horror and vast philanthropic donations totaling about 76.9 million across education and charities.
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Chicago
Topeka
Kansas City
Gainesville
Spartansburg
S. C
Clifton
Ariz
Heppner
Ore
Portrait Artist T R Griffith Dies by Own Action
Salt Lake City report states T Rus sell Griffith, a portrait artist, committed death in his county jail cell. He attempted to sever wrist and throat arteries with a key, then used wool from blankets to plug nostrils and strangled himself with a handkerchief.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
T. Russell Griffith
Well Known Newspaper Woman Margaret Sullivan Dies
Chicago reports the death of Mrs. Margaret F. Sullivan a famed newspaper woman who influenced France’s President Carnot to grant her a place at the 1889 exposition she was married to Alexander Sullivan a leading attorney and prominent figure in the press circle.
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Chicago
Margaret F. Sullivan
Carnot
France
Alexander Sullivan
Senator Scott Denies GOP Chairmanship Offer
Washington reports that Senator Scott of West Virginia denies reports of being offered and declining the chairmanship of the national Republican executive committee by the president.
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Washington
Scott
West Virginia
National Republican Committee
Mill resumes at McKeesport Union works and tube mills soon
In Pittsburg on January 2 the National rolling mills of United States Steel at McKeesport resumed operations Friday, with tube and pipe mills set to start Sunday. The restart will provide employment to 1,000 workers.
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Pittsburg
National Rolling Mills
United States Steel Corporation
McKeesport
Train collision near Newville injures eleven
A Cumberland Valley passenger train struck an open switch near Newville on Friday. Eleven people were hurt, including Miss Foust of Shippensburg, who later died, with fears that more victims may succumb to their injuries.
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Carlisle
Cumberland Valley
Newville
Miss Foust
Shippensburg
Prominent Democrats Dine at Sherry's in New York
Notables from city, state, and nation gathered at Sherry's in New York Jan 5 to honor George B. McClellan as new mayor. Speakers included McClellan Olney Hill Towne and DeArmond. Bryan sent a wireless greeting praising western Democrats and 1900 vote totals.
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New York City
New York
Sherry’s
George B. McClellan
Richard Olney
Massachusetts
David B. Hill
DeArmond
Missouri
Charles A. Towne
Minnesota
Minnesota; ex-Gov. Pattison
Pennsylvania
William E. Gaston
Boston
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
Grover Cleveland
Alton B. Parker
Gorman
Maryland
John P. Morgan
Alabama
McClellan
Bourke Cochran
Olney
New England
Gov
Montague
Virginia
White House
Roosevelt
Hill
Towne
de Armond
William J. Bryan
Celtic
Mr. Bryan
Europe
Nova Scotian
Train held up by striking miners over import of colored workers
Five hundred striking miners from Merchants Coal Co in Somerset county halted a special Duquesne limited train carrying about 60 Black workers to the Boswell mines on the Baltimore and Ohio Berlin branch. The miners blocked switches at Garrett delaying passage and forced the cars to be emptied before the train proceeded to Rockwood.
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Connellsville
Merchants’ Coal Co
Somerset County
Garrett
Boswell
Berlin
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Duquesne Limited
McFadden
Rockwood
Senate panel backs Wood for major general post
Washington January 5 The senate committee on military affairs voted 7 to 2 to report favorably Gen Leonard Wood nomination for major general affirmative senators were Proctor Warren Foraker Quarles Alger Cockrell Pettus with Scott and Blackburn voting no.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Leonard Wood
Proctor
Warren
Foraker
Quarles
Alger
Cockrell
Pettus
Scott
Blackburn
Famous Lawyer Thomas C Campbell Dies in Brooklyn
New York reports colonel Thomas C Campbell, famed attorney who helped prosecute Gov Goebel’s assassins, died Monday in a Brooklyn sanitarium. His death followed injuries from the Roamer schooner yacht wreck on December 10 near Rum Cay in the Bahamas.
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New York
Col
Thomas C. Campbell
Gov. Goebel
Kentucky
Brooklyn
Roamer
Rum Cay
Bahamas
President nominates Taft for secretary of war and other postings
The president sent to the senate the nominations of William H. Taft of Ohio for secretary of war Luke S Wright of Tennessee for civil governor of the Philippine Islands and Henry C Ide of Vermont for vice civil governor of the Philippine Islands.
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Washington
Senate
William H. Taft
Ohio
Luke Sr. Wright
Tennessee
Philippine Islands
Henry C. Ide
Vermont
Randall Nominated for Congress in Philadelphia Third District
Samuel J. Randall, son of the former speaker, was nominated by Democrats of Philadelphia's Third district. The district, long represented by his father, is heavily Republican and expected to be a tough race.
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Congress
Philadelphia
Samuel J. Randall
House of Representatives
Gravelle Sentenced for Threatening Letters to railroad
Helena Montana January 5 Isaac Gravelle convicted of sending threatening letters to the Northern Pacific Railroad Co was sentenced yesterday to ten years in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of five thousand dollars
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Gravelle
Helena
Mont
Isaac Gravelle
Northern Pacific Railroad Co
Capitol Fire Destroys Northwest Wing in Des Moines
Fire gutted the northwest wing of the Iowa state capitol in Des Moines causing about 500000 dollars in damage. Gov. Cummins ordered office contents moved and the legislature will convene next week in temporary quarters. Origin of the fire remains unknown with speculation it started from a candle or electrical issue.
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Des Moines
Iowa
House of Representatives
Cummins
Capitol
New York Capitol
Albany
State Capitol Commission
Victory for Dietrich as conspiracy indictment quashed
Omaha Jan 5 Judge Vandeventer sustains a demurrer to the conspiracy indictment against United States Senator Charles H. Dietrich, effectively quashing the leading bribery conspiracy charge. Other indictments alleging profits from government building leases and bribery in Hastings remain. The case envisioned trial with many witnesses before the ruling.
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Omaha
United States
Charles H. Dietrich
Vandeventer
Congress
Hastings
Neb
Dietrich
Jacob Fisher
Gen. Cowin
A Bandit's Brothers Arrested for Smuggling Tools
Otto Roeski age 22 and Herman Roeski age 33, brothers of Emil Roeski, were arrested in Chicago on January 5 on suspicion of aiding a jail escape. Otto confessed to smuggling saws to Emil in the county jail where tools were hidden in a crevice between ceiling and steel plating, soap used to conceal them.
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Chicago
Otto Roeski
Herman Roeski
Emil Roeski
Emil
Emil Rocski
Fire Damages Taunton State Hospital Women’s Wing
At Taunton Massachusetts on January 5 a blaze swept the upper story of the women’s wing of the state insane hospital. With all rooms and halls crowded by 500 female patients the smoke filled corridors were navigated and every patient was safely moved to the men’s department as the fire raged.
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Taunton
Mass
State Insane Hospital
No Fortifications in the Phillippines Report
A joint army and navy board report led by Admiral Dewey says Congress intends to hold the Philippines in American possession but notes no guns or earthworks have been built to defend any harbors in over five years. Secretaries Root and Moody transmitted the report to the House.
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Phillippines
Washington
Joint
Army and Navy Board
Dewey
Philippines
House
Root and Moody
Congress
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Panama Canal
Canal
Hubbard
Navy Department
Colon
Nashville
Department
Shaler
Col. Torres
Tobal
Amaya
Torres
Panama Railroad Company
H. M. Witzel
J. P. Jackson
Alcalde
Monkey Hill
Cartagena
Parama
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