Congress At Work Across World And Domestic Affairs
Panama dominates Senate debate as Carmack and Spooner clash over administration. House and Senate cut and restore civil service funding, consider Oklahoma statehood, and pass a pension bill for Civil War veterans. Other items cover lynching, corrupt officials, bank failures, labor disputes, disasters, and international tensions shaping a busy week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Panama
Senate
Carmack
Spooner
Civil Service Commission
Newlands
Depew
Latimer
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Teller
Numerous 1900s News Vignettes Highlight Turmoil and Tragedy
The era’s flashpoints include a bank run at Superior First National drawing 325000 in withdrawals, a Chicago labor picketing tactic, and a Detroit convention tying river navigation. Gen Gordon’s burial in Atlanta marks Civil War echoes, while Chicago funerals face carriage shortages amid strikes. Lynching cases emerge in Virginia and Florida, poisoning deaths in Arkansas, and a halted Chicago building code vote. The Auburn bank failure, church closures in Chicago, Havre fire losses, Iroquois inquest, and Ruth Cleveland’s sorrowful note close the round of national crises and policy debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wis
First National Bank
Chicago Federation of Labor
Lake Carriers’ Association
Detroit
Mich
John B. Gordon
Oakland
Atlanta
Chicago
Elmore Moseley
Sussex County
Alexander, Ark
Chicago Council
Farmers’ Bank
Auburn
Ind
Jumbo Clark
High Springs
Fla
Diplomatic Corps
White House
Roosevelt
Cummins
Iowa
Canada
Havre
Mont
Musham
Cleveland
Ruth
Notable Deaths and Political Moves Across States
A roundup notes deaths of Col. Charles Denby Evansville Ind former US minister to China in New York. Ohio legislature reelects Marcus Hanna US senator for six years starting March 4 1905. Col. Thomas M. Gunter dies Fayetteville Ark aged 76. Alan S. Bushnell former Ohio governor dies Columbus aged 79. E H McCutchen bank head dies Holstein Ia of typhoid. Commodore William W. Dungan retires dies Baltimore 68. Mrs Ruth Brown Thompson daughter of John Brown dies Pasadena Cal. Hanna calls for Republican convention in Chicago June 21. Dr Pollock F Hyatt consul at Santiago de Cuba dies Jer sey Shore Pa 78. Lyman E Barnes ex-congressman 1892 dies Appleton Wis 49. Mrs Linday Allison alleged oldest US resident dies Pensacola Fla 133. James Lawrence Blair former St Louis Exposition counsel dies Eustis Fla.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Denby
Evansville
Ind
United States
China
Jamestown
N. Y
Ohio
Marcus A. Hanna
Thomas M. Gunter
Congress
Fayetteville
Ark
Alan S. Bushnell
Columbus
E. H. McCutchen
E. H. McCutchen & Co
Holstein
William W. Dungan
United States Navy
Baltimore
Ruth Brown Thompson
John Brown
Pasadena
Cal
Hanna
Chicago
Pollock F. Hyatt
Santiago de Cuba
Jersey Shore
Lyman E. Barnes
Appleton
Wis
Linday Allison
Pensacola
Fla
James Lawrence Blair
St. Louis Exposition
Eustis
Restless Tribes Support Colombia as Moscow Dispatches Claim Volunteer Fleet
Admiral Coghlan reports growing Indian unrest on the isthmus with many tribes backing Colombia. Moscow dispatches claim Russia has mobilized the entire volunteer fleet while Seoul faces panic and American marines guard railroads and legation property.
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Coghlan
Isthmus
Colombia
Moscow
Seoul
Corea
Memorial hospital site offered by City Hospital
Directors of City Hospital at 83 Plymouth Place Chicago propose gifting the site and building for a memorial hospital to the Iroquois Theatre fire victims. Police in San Francisco report evidence linking Leon Speder to a conspiracy to murder a victim to swindle insurance firms. Three men implicated, with further arrests expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hospital
Plymouth Place
Chicago
Memorial Hospital
Iroquois Theatre
San Francisco
Leon Speder
Joseph Blaise
Christian Israelites
Boston
Loraine Rogers
Spring Valley
N. Y
Rogers
Brooklyn
United States Supreme Court
Carter
State of
Texas
Macedonia
America
England
Illinois Steel Co
Panama Canal
Senate
Teller
Messrs. Hale
Gorman
Post Office Department
House
District of Columbia
Veterans in Life From Topeka Agency List Long-Lived Figures
A Topeka agency record names Thomas E. Sauls of Webb City Missouri as 160 years old and a veteran of three wars. Segt John Martin, last survivor of Custers regiment at the Big Horn, has been placed on the army retired list. W J Hannan of Corning California is over 103 and still an active carpenter. Laurie Thomas Poe of Rushville Indiana just turned 92 and remains active as justice of the peace with 40 years in office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Topeka
Thomas E. Sauls
Webb City
Segt
John Martin
Custer
Big Horn
W. J. Hannan
Corning
Tehama County
Cal
Laurie Thomas Poe
Rushville
Ind
From the Fatherland Berlin Directory Marks 200 Years
The 1904 Berlin directory notes the empire’s postal system with 56,000 post offices reporting a 200000 drop in letter card sales. A planned Leipsic central station costs 32500000 with two tracks. Prussian nobility chafes as Wilhelm II favors merit over rank at his receptions.
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Berlin
Leipsic
German Empire
Germany
Wilhelm II
Ex Governor Bushnell Dies In Columbus Office
Former Ohio Governor Bushnell dies at 1 52 a m after several days illness and double strokes. Born September 16 1834 at Rome New York he moved to Ohio as a youth and later led Warder Bushnell Glessner as president. He served Civil War service and two terms as governor from 1895 to 1897.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, O
Bushnell
Gov
Rome
Oneida County
N. Y
Ohio
Cincinnati
Springfield
Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company
Lynching Rampage Across Several States Reported
Gainesville High Springs and nearby towns report mob violence as three black men are lynched after alleged crimes. Jumbo Clark is hanged and shot near High Springs following accusation of assault on a white girl. In Sussex County Virginia Elmore Moseley is lynched by a mob after acquittal for killing a man. In Tallulah Louisiana Butch Riley is seized and lynched after a jail transfer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butch” Riley
C. C. McMillan
Tallulah
Miss
J. J. Brennan
Chicago
Bridewell
State Department
Republic of Panama
Guatemala
United States
Candy Trust
New York
Belen
N. M
Edward K. Landis
Philadelphia
John Robinson
Kirksville
George Conkle
John Harris
Drasbach
Atlanta
Grant
Department of the Lakes
Bates
St. Louis
Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
Michigan
Roosevelt
Jackson
Seymour R. Church
San Francisco
Citizens’ Bank
Mount Ayr
Ray Dunning
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Smoot
Utah
Franklin Union No. 4
Brentano
la Salle
George Udell
Passaic
N. J
G. F. Utterback
Sigourney
la.) Savings Bank
Gainesville
Fla
Jumbo Clark
High Springs
Clark
Petersburg
Sussex County
Elmore Moseley
Moseley
Vicksburg
Japan Stands United in Warlike mood over Russia
All Japan shows patriotic unity as war with Russia seems likely. Government receives offers of aid amounting to millions of yen while public backs decisive action to protect Manchuria interests and international balance of power.
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Tokio
Japan
Russia
England
United States
Asia
Manchuria
China
London
Seoul
The
Daily Mail
Allen
M. Collin de Plancy
Corea
Peking
Komura
Washington
State Department
Hay
Count Sassini
Mukden
Antung
New Mandamlie Theater Fire Wipes Calgary Block
Fire at the new Normandie theater in Calgary gutted the block after starting from the furnace. The blaze destroyed six large stores within the building and caused an estimated loss of 280000 dollars. The theater, set to open Friday night, was not yet in use.
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Calgary
Schoolboy Electrocuted in Helena Hawthorn Grounds
Raymond Hall age 14 died after grabbing a live electrical wire that had fallen to the ground on Hawthorn school grounds in Helena Montana. The incident occurred January 16 and the boy received 2200 volts instantly.
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Helena
Mont
Raymond Hall
Hawthorn
Oysters Scarce in Chesapeake Beds Causing Price Rise
Immense ice fields cover Chesapeake bay oyster beds making work by targers and dredgers impossible. Only bedded stock is available and prices advance due to shortage. In Fort Stevenson area five miners injured by dynamite blast at a nearby coal mine. Tom Wilson lost an eye Elmer Larson and John Reil suffered broken legs and other injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore, Md
Chesapeake Bay
Underwood, N. D
Fort Stevenson
Tom Wilson
Elmer Larson
John Reil
Memorial to McKinley Promoted as National Carnation Day
Dayton, January 13. The Carnation League of America creates a yearly McKinley day observance on January 29. Participants wear carnations to honor William McKinley, urging a silent patriotic remembrance begun in 1903 and spreading through Americans worldwide. The idea, proposed by Lewis G. Reynolds, gains widespread approval.
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Dayton, O
Carnation League of America
William McKinley
McKinley
Lewis G. Reynolds
Invaders Expected As Panama Prepares For Colombian March
New York dispatch says Panamanian forces are ready to move on short notice with 12 100 troops. Armories bustle as rifles and ammunition ship to interior Indians allied with Panama. Col Barette predicts victory and notes American aid while warning against invoking full troops. The San Blas Indians allied with Colombia are not expected to fight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Herald
Panama
Col. Barette
San Blas
Hanna denies presidential candidacy in Pittsburg interview
Senator M A Hanna says he has sent 2000 personal letters denying he is a candidate for the presidency and rejects talk as a closed incident. He adds opposition to President Roosevelt's nomination has been exaggerated by Democratic papers. He plans to issue the convention call soon, noting delays from Chicago hotel rate talks.
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Pittsburg
M. A. Hanna
Roosevelt
Hanna
Chicago
Calaveras groves petition to Roosevelt carries 1.4 million names
The Cala veras big tree committee of the Outdoor Art League of California has forwarded a mammoth petition to President Roosevelt asking him to aid in preserving the Calaveras groves of big trees. The petition bears 1,400,000 names from across the United States.
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San Francisco
Corbin Takes Command as Atlantic Division Chief
New York January 16 Maj Gen Corbin assumed command of the Atlantic division with headquarters at Governor's Island following war department orders creating the unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corbin
New York
War Department
Atlantic Division
Governor’s Island
Gen. Corbin
Turkish Powder Magazine Blown Up by Bulgarians
In Salonica Macedonia on January 15 a Turkish powder magazine in the Kum anova district near Uskub was destroyed by Bulgarian forces. Thirty Turks were killed in the blast.
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Salonica
Macedonia
Kumanova
Uskub
Conductor S. E. Clark Dies Sudden in Columbus
S E Clark of Galion Ohio an Erie railroad conductor died suddenly of apoplexy Wednesday afternoon in a committee room of the Ohio House while attending a meeting of the legislative committee of the Order of Railway Conductors.
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Columbus, O
S. E. Clark
Erie Railroad
Galion, O
House of Representatives
Legislative Committee of the Order of
Warfield Inaugurated Governor of Maryland Amid Snow
Edwin Warfield was inaugurated governor of Maryland in Annapolis as a large crowd gathered despite bad weather. The ceremony drew participants from across the state on Wednesday January 14.
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Annapolis
Edwin Warfield
Maryland
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Congress AT Work
Porto Rico
William
Prussia
Henry Keppel
Veterns
Asa Bushnell
Florida
Virginia
Mississippi
Island Kingdom
M’kinley
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