Secretary Long Defends Prize Money Rules in Schley Debate
Secretary Long answers critics over prize money distribution from Santiago victory. He notes laws in 1898 set shares for fleet commander regardless of presence and explains the Navy did not enact those laws, that the Court of Claims handled allocations, and that reforms followed after irregularities were spotted. A Schley resolution seeks 12000 for bronze tablets marking naval victories.
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Schley
Long
Santiago
Knute Nelson
Minnesota
Nelson
Sampson
Cuba
Navy Department
Court of Claims
Department
Anarchism Topic Gains Attention in New Year Sessions
Washington reports the Senate and House resumed amid holidays with bills on immigration and anti anarchist measures drawing focus. Dalzell proposed tightening alien entry rules that ban those linked to plots against government and anarchists while Grosvenor’s bill calls death penalty for assaults on government officers.
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Washington
Senate
House
Sewell
New Jersey
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
United States
Grosvenor
Diaz Portrait Gift Circles US Mexico Ties
John Barrett, delegate to the Pan American congress in Mexico, presented President Roosevelt with a large photographic portrait of Mexican President Diaz. The gift was a return compliment after Roosevelt earlier sent Diaz a Diaz portrait. Also in Washington, W B Douglass and M D Munn arrived to discuss legal matters with officials.
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Diaz
Washington
John Barrett
Pan-American Congress
Mexico
President Diaz
Roosevelt
Mrs. E. Waite Credits Dr. Pierce for Wellness
A Chicago woman reports six years of ovarian trouble with pain fatigue and poor sleep. After using Favorite Prescription eight bottles and Golden Medical Discovery one bottle she recovered and now sleeps well has strong appetite and improved energy.
Supreme Court Petition Seeks Mandamus in Northern Pacific Merger
The mission of the United States supreme court to file a petition of mandamus against the so called Northern Pacific merger is noted. Douglass did not reach Washington until late in the afternoon.
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United States Supreme Court
Northern Pacific
Douglass
Washington
Pacific coast lawmakers craft broad Chinese exclusion bill
Washington January 7. Senators and representatives from the Pacific coast have completed a comprehensive Chinese exclusion measure. The bill will be introduced in both houses in a few days and its provisions are perpetual until repealed.
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Washingtn
Pacific Coast
Iowa Governor Shaw Names New Treasury Secretary
Washington report notes Governor Shaw of Iowa recently appointed a new secretary of the treasury. He visited the executive departments yesterday, calling on the several secretaries before leaving for home at six p.m.
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Washington
Shaw
Iowa
Treasury
House to consider new assistant postmaster generalship
Washington January 7 source reports a bill by Watson Indiana to create another assistant postmaster general role. The nominee would oversee free city and rural delivery service. The move aims to expand leadership in postal operations.
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Washington
Watson
Indiana
Canteen Reestablishment Bill Introduced in Congress
Washington Jan 7 The canteen issue gains fresh momentum as Representative Kern of Illinois introduces a bill to reestablish the army canteen. The measure aims to restore morale and provide a centralized facility for soldiers' meals and refreshments ahead of ongoing budget discussions.
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Washington
Kern
Illinois
Trio of killings shocks West Union Iowa
West Union Iowa January 7 1910 Homer M Neff county surveyor former clerk shot Miss Rose Falls in the Commercial hotel room killing her wounded rival Emmet Sullivan who will recover then shot himself in his room Neff a longtime resident died instantly at about 8 to 9 p m He was about 45 and had an excellent if eccentric reputation
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West Union
Homer M. Neff
Miss Rose
Sullivan
Neff
Journey of a Bottle from Illinois to the Pacific
A bottle sent from Bloomington Illinois in 1900 turned up off California after an epic 10 000 mile voyage. Walter Roeder received a letter from Jesse Wilson of Santa Monica reporting the find. The note asked Roeder to confirm when and where the bottle was found.
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Bloomington
Als
Illinois
Pacific Ocean
Walter Roeder
Jesse Wilson
Santa Monica
Cal
California
Roeder
Mackinaw River
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Ocean
Cape Horn
Pacific Coast
Nebraska House Speaker Seeks Removal of State Treasurer
Lincoln Jan 7 Governor Savage received a recommendation from William G Sears speaker of the last legislature to remove State Treasurer Steufer over alleged irregular deals. Sears suggests a special session or impeachment. The governor declines both actions and other state officers reportedly endorse his decision.
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Nebraska House
Lincoln
Neb
Savage
Steufer
William G. Sears
House
Sears
Supposed Robber Shot In Madison Dispute
Henry Selig a local dairyman fired on an intruder at 1 a m Sunday on his northeast Madison premises. The man was shot in the left side and died at 8 30 a m. Frederick Scudder age 26 a discharged employee of Selig proved to be the wounded man.
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Madison
Ind
Henry Selig
Selig
Frederick Scudder
Rayner Examines Schley Case in House
Hon. Isador Rayner counsel for Admiral Schley addressed the House floor with Rep. Cummings of New York, learning the general situation of bills in the Schley inquiry and naval affairs matters yesterday.
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Rayner
Washington
Isador Rayner
Admiral Schley
House of Representatives
Cummings
New York
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Schley
State records vanish in Mosher case in Nebraska
State records essential to prosecuting a suit against Charles W. Mosher and his principal associate David E. Thompson, a recent U S senate candidate, are mysteriously missing from the secretary of state office in Lincoln Nebraska.
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Lincoln, Neb
Charles W. Mosher
David E. Thompson
United States Senate
Secretary of State
War Office Denies Boer Intelligence Double Shooting Report
London Jan 7 The War Office citing Lord Kitchener rejects a Pretoria telegram claim that two intelligence officers sent to parley with surrendering Boers near Warm Baths were treacherously shot by concealed fighters. The denial counters the earlier dispatch and questions the alleged incident.
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London
War Office
Lord Witchener
Pretoria
Intelligence Department
Warm Baths
Governor Durbin invites Soldiers' Home officers to Indianapolis dedication
Marion Ind Jan 7 Governor Durbin extends invitation to Captain J H Chapuanian governor of the Soldiers' Home to bring officers and members to Indianapolis to take part in a dedication ceremony near May.
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Marion
Ind
Durbin
J. H. Chapaunian
Indianapolis
Choose Canal Route Should Be Free To Buy Panama
Analysis of canal route decisions in Congress argues for presidential discretion in selecting the Isthmian canal, weighing Panama and Nicaragua options, sea level versus locks, and the impact on costs. The piece notes a scramble for committee seats after Senator Sewell’s death, cites a White House encounter over a jailed man, andشرح outlines District of Columbia divorce law changes and Indiana financier Overstreet’s rising role on banking issues.
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Congress
Nicaragua
Panama
Panama Company
United States
District of Columbia
Senate
Wellington
Maryland
Overstreet
Indiana
Banking and Currency
Indianapolis
Virchow Suffers Thigh Fracture After Streetcar Slip
Berlin January 7 report says Professor Rudolph Virchow sustained a fractured thigh when he slipped alighting from a street car Sunday. He is reported to be doing well.
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Virchow
Berlin
Rudolph Virchow
Railway Engineer Killed In Railroad Collision
New Orleans January 7 A passenger train on the Mississippi Valley Railroad bound south collided with a switch engine at Jacksburg yesterday Engineer Samuel Craig was killed and another conductor injured in the crash.
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New Orleans
Mississippi Valley Railroad
Trials in Cuban postoffice fraud cases continue
In Havana on January 7 the Cuba postoffice fraud trials heard testimony from stamp clerks Mora and Mascara about surcharged stamps paid to Neely and the lack of records. Reeves, a defendant, testified for three hours, his account conflicting with earlier statements as Neely warned he risked implicating himself.
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Audiencia Court
Seneres Lanua
Desvernine
Estes G. Rathbone
Rathbone
Seneres Lanuga
Mora and Mascara
Charles F. W. Neely
Neely
Moya
Reeves
W. H. Reeves
Post Office Department
Cuba
Court of First Instance
Webster Davis Sets Case for Boer War Aid in Congress
Webster Davis of Kansas City spoke to a large Omaha audience on Boer sympathizers in the United States. He said Congress must act to end the Boer War and announced plans for a petition drive nearing 1,000,000 signers to urge sympathy for the two South African republics. He also said he has retired from politics to focus on literature and speaking.
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Omaha
Neb
Webster Davis
Kansas City
South Africa
Congress
Roosevelt
Colorado State Bank Closes in Grand Junction
The Colorado State Bank, among Grand Junction’s oldest financial houses, has shuttered after Hanover National Bank of New York demanded loan repayment. The $30,000 loan to Colorado Sugar Co. triggered the suspension, sending ripples through the local economy.
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Grand Junction
Colo
Colorado State Bank
Hanover National Bank of New York
Colorado Sugar Company
New York
Bryan speaks at Jackson day banquet in Wooster
Hon. William J. Bryan lectured at the Jackson day banquet in Wooster on steadfastness. He urged the Democratic party to adhere to its late platforms and noted his plans to keep engagements in New Haven and Boston later in the week.
Tilinois State Poultry Show Opens in Joliet
Not less than 2000 fowls are on exhibition at the Tilinois State Poultry Pigeon and Wet Stock show which opened in Joliet yesterday and will close Jan 10. The Will County association has charge of the local arrangements, which have been completed on an elaborate scale.
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Tilinois
Joliet
Tils
Will County Association
National Business League backs repeal of war revenue taxes
Chicago January 7 The executive committee committee on commerce and committee on manufactures of the National Business League met jointly yesterday and unanimously voted in favor of repealing the remainder of the war revenue taxes.
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Chicago
Committee On Commerce
Committee On Manufactures
National Business League
Mayor Knight Served with Gas Price Injunction
Buffalo authorities report Mayor Knight has been served with an injunction blocking enforcement of the city ordinance setting natural gas maximum prices at 25 cents per 1,000 cubic feet.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Knight
Mystery of Hrdlicka Wife Suspected in Husband's Death
St Joseph Michigan January 7 police guard the cottage of Mrs Hrdlicka after the death of her husband. He was a Singer Sewing Machine agent behind in accounts fueling death by suicide theory. She had three marriages with a Chicago ex husband still living and a second husband who died suddenly. her mother and infant daughter died in the same week. She held a Prudential policy for 1500 dollars. Sheriff Frederick Pahing led the careful inquiry.
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St. Joseph, Mich
Widow Pays Final Assessment Before Husband's Death
A fragment notes that Mrs. Tirditeka paid the last assessment on Friday, one day before her husband died. The due date was January 1, 1902.
Advance Guard Sets Des Moines for Opening of Legislature
Des Moines gears up for the Iowa General Assembly as W S Eaton of Mitchell County tips to be speaker and opens house HQ at the Savery. Lt Governor Herriott coordinates senate committees while lawmakers rush in to arrange lay plans before the session begins. Caucuses for house and senate organization are slated for Saturday night with full caucus rosters to be formed.
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Des Moines
Jan. T
General Assembly
W. S. Eaton
Mitchell County
Savery Hotel
Herriott
Senate
House
Farmer in Custody After NebrasKan Neighbor Shooting
Pawnee City Nebraska January 7 Frank Fritch the farmer who on Saturday night shot and killed his neighbor Wil Hunseker is in custody and under physician care He was himself severely wounded in the exchange Hunseker's friends say Fritch was not attacked and fired twice at the victim while Hunseker fired once in return before collapsing.
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Pawnee City
Neb
Frank Fritch
Wil Hunseker
Hunseker
Fritch
Mng Nan
Tragic Springfield Fire Kills Three Children
Three children died in a suburb of Springfield when their mother a colored cook locked them in a room with a fire before leaving for work. The incident occurred yesterday in Norfolk Virginia area suburbs.
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Norfolk
Springfield
Markets Report From Chicago and St Louis on Livestock and Grains
Hogs receipts 45,000 with sales mostly 6.25 to 6.55. cattle receipts 30,000 with steers 6.70 to 7.70 top and other grades listed. sheep 28,000 with western and native lambs priced. East Buffalo quotes: cattle 6.50 to 6.65, hogs 6.15 to 6.65, sheep 4.00 to 5.76. St Louis grain shows wheat to 92c May, corn 68-70c, oats up to 49c, rye 68c, barley steady.
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Texas
East Buffalo
N. Y
St. Louis Grain
St. Louis
Jan
White
Howe
Milwaukee
C. Sarmple
Board of Trade
Low
Jose
Cape Cod
End of a County Seat Fight in Knox County
The Nebraska supreme court ends a twenty year county seat dispute by establishing Center as the Knox County seat. By April 1 all officials must move to the Wishendorf farm site twelve miles from Creighton. Niobrara Verdigris and Creighton merchants prepare for an exodus of businesses.
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Neb
Knox County
William Wishendorf
Supreme Court of
Nebraska
Center
Niobrara
Verdigris
West
Collision off Aveiro Drowns Seventeen Seafarers
A collision off Aveiro Portugal between a British and a Spanish steamer sinks eighteen Spaniards and one Englishman. The incident prompts disaster in the sea trade.
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Aveiro
Portugal
Statuary Hall
United States
Wade Hampton
German Deductions on U S Shipyards Stirwar and Labor Saving Gear
Berlin reports Nord Schwartz, sent to the United States by the German general staff, found American shipyards open to study. He praises U S workers, notes high wages offset by efficient pneumatic tools, and cites a large new shipbuilding combine aiming to cut material costs and centralize construction to outpace British and German rivals.
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Berlin
Nord Schwartz
United States
Marine General Staff
Tierr Schwartz
Herr Schwarts
Great Britain
Hlerr
Chicago
New Shipbuilding Combine
Herr Schwartz
Kissing Stage in Miller Huening Breach Suit
Chicago January session on breach of promise ends with witness Huening detailing love affairs with Lizzie Miller of Burlington. He recalls kissing incident with Leindecker couple and three proposals before acceptance, followed by a breakup over children. He later married another woman and says he has a son.
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Chicago
Miller Huening
Patton
Suening
Lizzie Miller
Burlington
Wis
Tigzie
Tie
Lizzie
Leindecker
Uample
Huening
Fuening
Ituening
Miss Miller
Troenng
Governor Halts Cincinnati Boxing Match Fight
Governor Nash telegraphed Sheriff Taylor to stop the proposed Cincinnati boxing match between Mike Shreck and Larry Temple. The Abbey club plans the event, but the governor views it as violating Ohio law and the sheriff moved to enforce the order.
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Cincinnati
Nash
Taylor
Mike Shreck
Larry Temple
Abbey Club
Palace Hotel Chef Frederick Morganthaler Dead at 62
Frederick Morganthaler, renowned chef of the Palace hotel in San Francisco, has died at age 62. His international reputation is noted in his obituary.
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San Francisco
Frederick Morganthaler
Palace Hotel
Syracuse laborer heir to South African property valued at 250000
William Barry of Syracuse New York a dollar a day laborer is heir to South African property valued at about two hundred fifty thousand dollars. Orange New Jersey will receive a site for a public school a city hall and a public bath costing ten thousand dollars. In the pearl button industry shell material is bought along the upper Mississippi river for two hundred seventy thousand dollars. The London Chronicle reports the pope is coming.
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William Barry
Syracuse
N. Y
Orange
N.J
Mississippi River
London Chronicle
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Winfield Scott Schley
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Elijah Bathcote
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J. M. Sprout
Frank R. Sagr
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T. J. Dempsey
Johnson
Harwood
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L. E. Latta
H. Knecht
Washington National Bank
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Gostalstae
Washington, Lowa
Wilson
Attorney At Law
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Temple Building
W. H. Butterfield
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Marsh W. Bailey
Laws
P. J. Hanley
Washington County Savings Bank
Schuyler W. Livingston
Washington, Iowa
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Attorney-At-Law
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Charley
Royal Tailors
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Philadelphia
R. A. Riley
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Jeffrey
Pree
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Asstash
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Brindley’s
Watson & Nicholson
Madison Medicine Co
Tate
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Emble Flower Co
Oskaloosa
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