Senate Hears Cuban Reciprocity Bill After House Passage
The Senate discussed the Cuban reciprocity treaty bill after it arrived. Cullom and Bailey sparred over committee referral while Lodge supported foreign relations reference. The House had passed the measure 335 to 21 with both parties split on dissent. Democrats tried but failed to amend the bill. Claude Kitchin was sworn in in the House before adjournment.
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Senate
House
Cullom
Committee On Foreign Relations
Bailey
Cuba
Teller
Alley
Lodge
Claude Kitchin
North Carolina
Williams
Rathbone Reiterates Charges Against General Wood Before Senate Panel
Major Estes G. Rathbone testified before the senate committee on military affairs in Washington on November 21. He reiterated prior charges against General Leonard Wood, including alleged acceptance of money from a gambling house in Cuba and improper associations. He also accused Wood of issuing unconstitutional and un-American court instructions while military governor.
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Estes G. Rathbone
Cuba
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Leonard Wood
Rathbone
Wood
Jal Alai
White House crank arrested in Washington
A 34 year old Negro man named William B. Howard was arrested in Washington on November 22. He claims to be from Atlanta Georgia where he has worked as a shoemaker and is a deacon at Friendship Baptist church. He sought presidential protection and is held in a police cell awaiting examination.
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Washington
White House
William B. Howard
Howard
Atlanta
Friendship Baptist Church
Postal Fraud Cases Postponed In District Court
Washington November 21 The trial of postal fraud cases involving August W Machen former superintendent of the free delivery system Samuel A and Diller B Groff of this city and Mr and Mrs Orge Lorenz of Toledo Ohio was postponed in the district criminal court to January 11 continuing the proceedings scheduled for Monday awaiting further dates.
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Washington
August W. Machen
Samuel A. and
Diller B. Groff
Orge Lorenz
Toledo
District Criminal Court
Senator Newlands Proposes Cuba Statehood Path
Washington November 21 Senator Newlands author of the Hawaii annexation resolution introduces a joint resolution inviting Cuba to become a state of the United States on terms of equality with the states Porto Rico would become a county or province of Cuba
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Newlands
Hawaii
Cuba
United States
Union
Porto Rico
Newspaper Train Will Run Through Chicago Route
President Led yard of the Michigan Central notifies the Second Assistant Postmaster General that the early morning newspaper train out of Chicago will not be abandoned. Missionary Dies in China reported from Washington on November 21. Consul Gea-
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Chicago
Michigan
Ledyard
Michigan Central
Shallenberger
China
Washington, Ney
Gea
Missionary Ella Torrence Robb Dies in Takhing
Canton dispatch reports Ella Torrence Robb, a Denigon Kan missionary, died in Takhing while serving in China. The notice appears in a state department dispatch from Canton.
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Canton
China
State Department
Takhing
Ella Torrence Robb
Denigon
Kan
Comptroller Calls Banks for Report on Dec. 17 Close
Washington report states the comptroller of the currency has issued a call for the condition of national banks at the close of business on December 17.
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Washington
Comptroller of the Currency
Forty Years On The Bench Judge Gary Celebrates Service
Chicago November 21 Friday marked the fortieth year of consecutive service on the bench in Chicago of Judge Joseph E K Gary. The long public career is said to be without a parallel among elected officials in the United States or Great Britain. He presided over many memorable trials including the anarchists executed for the Haymarket bombing.
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Joseph EB. Gary
Chicago
Joseph EK. Gary
Joseph E. Gary
United States
Great Britain
Gary
Haymarket
Telegraph operator killed in Elmira theft case
A New York Central telegraph operator W I Clendenen was murdered at Elmira New York after sending a warning message. His body lay with a bloody spike maul nearby and cash missing from his pockets believed to be $400 to $500. A well dressed stranger seen near the town matched a description and was arrested later at Allenwood.
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Elmira
N. Y
New York Central
Brown
Oak Grove
W. I. Clendenen
Clendenen
Allenwood
Tom Horn Hanged for Murder in Cheyenne
Tom Horn was executed by hanging at 11 o'clock a.m. in Cheyenne Wyoming for the murder of 14 year old Willie Nickell, son of ranchman K P Nickell. No rescue attempts occurred and the ceremony passed quietly despite earlier reports of multiple attempts.
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Wyo
Tom Horn
Horn
Willie Nickell
K.P. Nickell
Iron Mountain
Veteran jurist praised at court as anniversary observed
Though two years past, the jurist displays vigor and firmness his colleagues applaud in a courthouse gathering honoring his long service and anniversary.
Divorced Parents Attend Princess Elizabeth Funeral
In Darmstadt on November 21 the grand duke of Nesse and his ex-wife Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha met at the funeral of Princess Elizabeth, the 6 year old daughter of the grand duke. The pair, tears flowing, walked beside the hearse as royal attendees aided in carrying the coffin to the mausoleum.
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Elizabeth
Grand Duke of
Nesse
Frankfort
Skieriewice
Russian Poland
Victoria
Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha
Ile
Estel Friedrich
Bank Heist Shocks Green Mountain Residents
In Green Mountain Iowa ten miles north of Marshalltown three robbers forced residents indoors by gunfire before daylight. They blew open the village bank, took about $1,000, and fled on a bundled ear.
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Green Mountain
Here
Green Mountain Bank
Utah Governor Declares Law Must Take Its Course
Salt Lake City November 21 Peter Mortensen convicted of murdering James R Hay was executed by shooting at the state prison the time noted as 10 81 in the morning Mortensen selected the death by bullets over a different method In Geneva November 21 Antonio Romana the Italian who killed Nicholas Tomaso at Aurora in February was hanged He admitted guilt on the scaffold and expressed repentance.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Peter Mortensen
James R. Hay
Mortensen
Geneva
Antonio Romana
Nicholas Tomaso
Aurora
Priest attacked by mob at Colorado fuel camp
Father Berta a Catholic priest was attacked by about 200 miners and camp residents at Segundo, a Colorado fuel and iron camp. He was severely beaten and scratched before UMW officials rescued him. Miners claim he has pushed miners to aid the fuel companies, stirring resentment among foreign workers.
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Father Berta
Segundo
Colorado
United Mine Workers
Cleveland party to avoid arrest over Virginia game law
Norfolk party led by Grover Cleveland hunted at Black Bay for ducks but will not be arrested for violating the new Virginia game law. No game warden appointment existed after the law, and the State's Attorney said he would not initiate an arrest. Clerk Kellam noted none in the party held the required license.
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Grover Cleveland
Black Bay
Ackiss
Cleveland
Kellam
Sailor Captain Arrives At Gibraltar After Boston Departure
The 19 foot sailing boat Columbia arrived at Gibraltar from Boston where Captain Einsenbraum began a solo voyage to Marseilles on August 11.
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Einsenbraum
Boston
Marseilles
Trains Collision Kills Thirty-One on Big Four near Mackinaw
A work train laborers were killed when a Big Four local freight struck them five miles east of Mackinaw Illinois. Conductor John Mudge of Indianapolis blamed for not taking the siding. Eighteen victims unidentified. Injured include Fireman John Gehle and Conductor C W Hastings. A 14 year old school boy survivor witnessed the disaster.
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Mackinaw
Mackinaw Am Tremont
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Indianapolis
William Hatley
Frederick Bachman
Danvers
Thomas Bradiey
Tresnont
John Dorran
Bloomington
Stephen Culter
William Eads
Tremont
Joseph Harmon
Robert King
Charles B. Myers
John Shaw
John Smith
George Smith
T. Troy
John Gehle
C. W. Hastings
Bise
W. A. Harlan
Charlie Gennin
Herbert White
Harry White
James Smith
Christian Barr
Gus Thieband
John Duvganel
Charles Ford
Russell Noonan
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Odd Fellows Tax Proposal Defeated in Illinois Grand Lodge
The Illinois Grand Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows adjourned after defeating a five cent per member tax plan for an endowment fund for Odd Fellows homes. Trustees election was tabled. A $21,000 appropriation was approved for maintenance of the Odd Fellows orphans home at Lincoln.
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Springfield
Grand Lodge of Illinois
Order of Odd Fellows
Odd Fellows Orphans
Lincoln
Park theater blaze in Butler destroys property and injures firemen
Fire at the Park theater building in Butler, Pennsylvania, raged from 5:30 am to 9 am, destroying property valued at about 300000 and burying several firemen under bricks and timber. Chief Jacob Burckholder and firefighters Frank Ziegler Charles Douglass and Albert Walters were seriously injured. Green's Examination Begun in Binghamton, state senator George Kk Green faces bribery and conspiracy indictments over time recorders and stamp cancelling machines sales to the government.
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Park Theater
Jacob Burckholder
Frank Ziegler
Charles Douglass
Albert Walters
Penrose gets five year sentence for seduction at Stillwater
Fergus Falls Minnesota reports Harry Penrose alias Porter alias Gilmore convicted of seduction in district court and sentenced to five years at Stillwater by Judge Searle. He has long swindled women while traveling in the west and was once arrested at Vermilion but escaped. Also from Williamstown Massachusetts typhoid outbreak rises to eight cases at Williams College with three other suspects in infirmary and officials say epidemic avoided. In Boston the AFL refers Miller case to President Roosevelt requesting discharge if charges hold.
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Harry Penrose
Porter
Gilmore
Stillwater
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Ile
Vermilion
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Williams College
Eugene H. Leaning
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