Congress Meets in Session Amid Panama Critique and Post Office Scrutiny
The week brings Senate talks on Cuba reciprocity and post office irregularities. In the House, a judicial code bill is introduced and $250,000 is allocated to combat cotton boll weevil damage, with adjournments to the 11th and 12th. Senator Morgan criticizes the administration over Panama policy while Senator Scott calls for a Darien canal route probe. Maj. Gen. Chaffee’s nomination to lieutenant general is received.
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Post Office Department
United States Senate
Warner
III
United States
Morgan
Panama Republic
House
Senate
Scott
Darien Canal
Chaffee
Northward naval station urged for Lake Michigan coast
Rear Admiral Taylor advocates a naval station for Lake Michigan at Lake Bluff and Racine as preferred sites.
Government clerks push back seven hour workday order
In Chicago, clerks protest a cabinet directive mandating seven hour workdays. Across the country, events ripple from inquest findings on the Iroquois Theatre fire to local labor tensions, with officials debating duties during strikes and reforms in public service.
Personal and Political Deaths and Honors Across Cities
Obituaries note the deaths of notable figures including arctic explorer Julius Frederick in Indianapolis at 85, Parke Godwin in New York at 88, Ruth Cleveland at Princeton at 15, and Elijah J. Woodruff in Toledo at 101. Richard Olney emerges as favored for president in Massachusetts Democratic resolutions. John Hutchinson marks his 84th birthday in Milford amid a famed singing lineage.
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Julius Frederick
Greely
Indianapolis
Ind
John Reed
Decatur
Warren Barnhart
Barnhart Bros. & Spindler
Chicago
Elijah J. Woodruff
Foledo
Parke Godwin
Evening Post
New York
Ruth Cleveland
Princeton
N. J
Frank H. Child
Newport
R. I
Richard Olney
Massachusetts
Democratic State Committee
John H. Hutchinson
Milford
Mass
Diverse World Tensions and Disasters Stir Global Headlines
Reports from around the world note a mix of political, military, and public health events. Diplomatic talks in St. Petersburg falter as conflicts loom. Taft sails to the United States from Manila. Turkish forces mobilize amid fears of a Monastir massacre. an explosion in La Tesca, Mexico, kills 20 and injures 40.
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Herbert J. Croft
Chicago
Frank J. Croft
St. Petersburg
Corea
Palma
Montreal
Que
Port Arthur
Corean
Gov. Taft
Philippine Islands
Manila
United States
Monastir
la Tesca
Mexico
Japan
Russia
War Clouds Gather Over Central America and Far East
A US fleet at Colon prepares for possible clash with Colombia as American forces bolster ashore. Panama hosts a dinner for foreign recognizers of its independence. Santo Domingo shelled. US legation struck and city hall damaged. The Chinese emperor endorses the US and Japan treaties. Mukden and Antung opened as ports. The czar may yield to Viceroy Alexeiff on war, and Credit International in Paris suspends with 1.4 million dollars losses. Germany vows neutrality if Russia and Japan fight.
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United States
Colon
Colombia
Panama
Santo Domingo
United States Legation
Mukden
Antung
Alexieff
The
Credit International
Paris
Russia
Japan
Germany
Supreme Court Upholds NY Food Adulteration Statute
The ruling sustains the New York law prohibiting adulteration of food products. Missouri arbitration panel finds the St Louis Transfer Co strike inadvisable and urges workers to return at old wages. Fire at Peoples Brothers in West Philadelphia kills eighty four horses and causes $50,000 loss. Russia competes with Japan in ship deals but minister of marine denies plans to buy foreign vessels. Old St Patrick church in Lowell destroyed by fire. Notre Dame academy saved by fireproof wall. Senator Cullom introduces a bill for a national arbitration tribunal. Ex Governor John Young Brown dies at Henderson Kentucky. Chaffee receives first pair of lieutenant general shoulder straps from Lt Gen Young. Senate spends most time in executive session. many appointments confirmed.
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Taylor
Bureau of Navigation
Lake Michigan
Lake Bluff
Racine
Mme
Lillian Nordica
United States
Europe
Chicago
Washington
China
Manchuria
Traeger
J. E. Marcell
Highland
Kan
Edmund H. Driggs
New York
House of
Minneapolis
Minn
H. Frazee
Iowa State Capitol
Russell Sege
Wall Street
Gus Gregory
New Madrid
George Marshall
Rafael Reyes
Hay
Panama
Anson
Tex
F. E. Macha
Pisek
N. D
Dietrich
Omaha
Neb
Commissioner of Pensions
Ware
J. H. Coutts
First National Bank of
Tipton
Cedar Rapids
United States Supreme Court
Missouri Board of Arbitration
St. Louis Transfer Co
Peoples Brothers
Philadelphia
Russia
Japan
Lowell
Mass
St. Patrick's Church
Notre Dame Academy
Senator Cullom
Volney W. Foster
Republican National Committee
Congress
Committee On Education and Labor
John Young Brown
Henderson
Ile
Chaffee
Young
One Hundred and Twelfth
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Sixth Cavalry
Senate
House
Minor News Items Briefly Recapped
A collection of quick notes: Milburn plans to move from Buffalo to New York. King Edward to visit Ireland again. Capt. Howard Blackburn to attempt a third Atlantic crossing in a small boat. Kansas's Samuel J. Crawford now sole union war governor survivor.
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John G. Milburn
Buffalo
McKinley
New York
King Edward
Ireland
Howard Blackburn
Gloucester
Mass
Atlantic
Samuel J. Crawford
Kansas
Postmaster General Payne Reports Postal Year Figures
Payne's annual postal department report shows fiscal year 1903 receipts 1534,224,443 and expenditures 138,784,487 with a 4,560,044 deficit. Star routes, pneumatic tubes, rail and electric lines expand, and 17 officials resign or are removed after an officer linked investigation.
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Washington
Payne
Department
Post Office Department
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Boston
New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
Congress
Postoffice Department
Postoffice Supplies
Postal Service
Secretary Hay Replies to Gen Reyes on Panama Question
Secretary Hay sent another note to Colombian envoy General Reyes in response to his protest over U S actions on the Isthmus of Panama. Officials offer no specifics but indicate the reply follows the general lines of the first note and declines reopening the Panama question.
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Hay
Gen. Reyes
Washington
United States
Panama
State Department
Timely Rescue Off Halifax Aboard Boston
Three miles off Yarmouth light the steamer Boston rescued the waterlogged schooner Lizzie Dyas crew. The men, from Church Point, N S, to Rockland, Me, had given up hope before the sea vessel arrived after a stormy passage from Boston.
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Halifax
N. S
Yarmouth
Boston
Church Point
Rockland
Federal control urged for naturalization in Missouri courts
Special examiner C. V. Van Dusen arrived in St. Louis to investigate state court naturalization methods. He has studied 26 states since his Knox appointment and argues naturalization power should rest with federal bureaus under federal regulation.
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St. Louis
Jan
Missouri
C. V. van Dusen
Department of Justice
Washington
Knox
van Dusen
Dun's Review of Trade Slow After Holidays in New York
The Usual dullness in trade after holidays persists with slow retail recovery due to bad weather. Wool market firming, but overall orders drop. wages irregular, several reductions planned. Cotton goods price swings restrain markets while new heavy woolens grow slowly. carpets and blankets show activity. U.S. and Canada failures rise from last year.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Trad
United States
Canada
Ex-Postal Official Sues Washington Newspapers for Damages
Michael W. Louis, former superintendent of supplies in the post office department, sues Joseph Bristow Henry C. Payne and The Washington Post for 50000 dollars. He claims an excerpt from Bristow's report defamed him by alleging improper contracts for ink and related items. Similar suits target Bristow and others, including Evening Star and Washington Times.
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Washington
Messrs
Bristow and Payne
Michael W. Louis
Post Office Department
Joseph Bristow
Henry C. Payne
Washington Post Newspaper Co
Gen. Bristow
Louis
Postmaster General
Bristow
Evening Star
Washington Times
Riotous Scenes Mark Memphis City Election
Memphis election wracked by violence as Ninth ward sees stolen ballot box set afire and two men shot in the counting room. Reports of irregularities in Fourth and Fifth wards followed by minor clashes citywide. C Simmon, shot in Ninth ward riot, hospitalized in grave condition at St Joseph's.
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Memphis
Tenn
Ninth Ward
C. Simmon
St. Joseph’s Hospital
End of the Dietrich Trial in Hastings Case
The trial of Senator Charles H. Dietrich for alleged bribery related to a Hastings postmaster appointment ends as the circuit court rules he was not a senator during the acts. District Attorney Summers enters a nolle against related cases and both Dietrich and Postmaster Fisher are discharged.
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Omaha
Neb
Charles H. Dietrich
Hastings
United States Circuit Court
Vandeventer
Dietrich
Summers
Nolle
Fisher
Government raises federal work hours to 4 30 oclock
At a cabinet meeting on Friday an order will be issued in every department to extend the workday for federal employees from nine to four thirty thirty, adding a half hour to the current schedule. The change applies nationwide to all government workers.
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Washington
Department of Government
Sheriff Evicts Miners in Boswell Row
Somerset Pa Jan 9 Nearly all 30 miners who signed to work Friday at Merchants Coal Co Boswell repudiated their contracts Sheriff Coleman went to Boswell and forced eviction from company houses A few moved others stay with friends Mine officials refuse to recognize the union and have served notices on 60 more families to vacate by Tuesday unless they report to work.
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Somerset
Merchants’ Coal Co
Boswell
Coleman
Islands seek annexation to Panama from Colombia
A San Andres commissioner travels to Panama to urge annexation amid island unrest. Colombian troops are stationed on San Andres and Providence with more expected. Taxed residents struggle to pay and ports are closed, though American vessels trade cocoa nuts.
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Colon
Herald
Bocas del Toro
San Andres
Republic of Panama
Panama
Providence
United States
Boiler Explodes at Hicks Lake Sawmill Kills Six
Six men killed and four injured when a boiler exploded at H. W. Marsh’s Hicks Lake sawmill in Osceola county. The dead are Bert Lester, Len Chase, Mark Bradley, F. L. Morris, Len Dalton, and E. Powers, all of Dighton. Injuries include skull fracture, arm breaks, and scalp wound. The blast tore the mill apart as workers prepared to start the afternoon shift.
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Tustin
Mich
H. W. Marsh
Manistee
Hicks Lake
Osceola County
Bert Lester
Len Chase
Mark Bradley
F. L. Morris
Len Dalton
E. Powers
Dighton
William Ward
Horton Eather
Millbrook
Albert Douglass
Sawyer
Garrett Coal Mines Closed After Strike Victory
In Garrett Pennsylvania the Garrett Coal Company shut its mines after a temporary win by striking miners. Only two workers remained briefly under guard by two deputy sheriffs as hundreds of strikers gathered outside. The company then removed deputies, closed the mines, and planned tenement housing and import of foreign workers.
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Somerset
Garrett
Garrett Coal Co
Coal Company
Bryan Honored Guest at New Haven Jackson Day Banquet
William J. Bryan attended a Jackson Day banquet in Warner hall New Haven Conn with about 150 Democrats present. Gov. Garvin of Rhode Island and Rep. DeArmond of Missouri were among the guests. The event aimed to mark the campaign season's start in New England and Bryan spoke on a Conscience Campaign.
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Bryan
New Haven
Conn
William J. Bryan
Warner Hall
Gov. Garvin
Rhode Island
Congressman DeArmond
Missouri
New England
Typhoid Relief Committee Says Contributions No Longer Needed
Butler Pa January 12 The general relief committee in charge of typhoid fever relief work announces to the public that the need for further contributions has passed.
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Butler
General Relief Committee
Ratification of Perennial Treaty Rushes Through Senate
Havana January 12 The senate closed its legislative business and prepared to adjourn for spring while swiftly ratifying the permanent treaty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Senate
United States
Pneumonia Deaths Prompt Health Dept Action in New York
New York reports 364 pneumonia deaths last week. Commissioner Darlington blames public expectoration for spread and says energetic meals are being adopted to curb the disease. Last week saw about 100 more deaths than the same week last year.
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New York
Department of Health
Darlington
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