Roosevelt message reports regular session advances
The Fifty-eighth Congress begins in regular session as President Roosevelt aims to push two general appropriation bills before the Christmas recess. The plan includes renewing unconfirmed extra session appointments and reorganizing the commerce and labor bureau to strengthen domestic and foreign markets while ensuring fair corporate conduct. The article notes expected recess around Dec 22 and return after New Year.
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Senate Transitions to Fifty-Eighth Congress and Appointments
In Washington on December 7 the Senate quietly moved from the Extraordinary Session into the Fifty-Eighth Regular Congress. The Cuban reciprocity bill was set as the main business with a vote planned by December 16, and chairmanships were reorganized due to retirements and shifts. President Roosevelt sent Wood’s promotion to major general and a list of confirmations and recessions to Congress, framing a message on progress in commerce, labor, and antitrust enforcement.
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Robber with revolver shot by police in San Francisco
In San Francisco a robber held up six men in a saloon and fled after a shot from Policeman Skelly. The firearm wounded the thief in the leg and a bystander boy, George King aged 15, in the abdomen. The assailant, identified as Harry Howard, was captured. the boy's condition is precarious.
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New Scheme for Peasants in Russia
Moscow discusses a proposed peasant reform law to be submitted to an elective body of provincial committees elected by zemstvos. The inquiry into peasant poverty cites passport and labor restrictions and education as key issues, urging equality before the law and better peasant education for reforms to succeed.
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Amalgamated Stock Leads Upward Push in Markets
Amalgamated's strength lifted the general list as buyers moved large blocks into Amalgamated and Anaconda, while Brooklyn Rapid Transit advanced despite selling pressure. Standard stocks rose with St Paul and Missouri Pacific, though the railroad market showed only small overall movement amid easing in London influenced declines.
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Compelling Men to Vote Proposed in Madrid Cabinet Plan
Madrid reports a new cabinet plans electoral reform including a clause making voting mandatory for all electors. The bill targets turnout with compulsory exercise of the franchise as part of broader reforms.
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Shows an Increase in Imports and Trade Figures
In London the Board of Trade reports a rise of 16 027 500 dollars in November. The statement notes higher imports and related economic activity, signaling improved trade momentum despite incomplete wording. The document highlights the overall jump and key contributing sectors.
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Fire scare disrupts six day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden
Panic broke out when a prankster shouted Fire as a pile of paper burned under a sleeping man’s chair. Riders leapt from the stands and toppled rails, with several falls on the track and one rider, McLean, knocked unconscious. Referee Reeves halted the race, restored order, then racing resumed as leaders lagged the record pace.
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Black Hand Threats Spur Disappearance Complainant
Nicholas Parella, a complainant in a case against four Italians who held him up, has vanished after leaving his Brooklyn home for work. Police suspect he was spirited away by Black Hand agents amid threats to witnesses and detectives, with threatening letters also sent to officials and others connected to the case.
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Weather forecast for Vonnecticut district
Forecast warns fair weather tonight with a chance of light snow in northwestern areas. Expect generally fair conditions elsewhere with light winds and no major precipitation anticipated.
Sermon in Throne Hall Delays Propaganda Meeting in Rome
Rome December 7 The propaganda congregation did not meet due to the advent sermon at the Vatican attended by the pope. Father Paolo Della Pieve preached from the throne hall pulpit as cardinals saluted the white kneeling figure and the pope’s hand was kissed in the adjoining room. The pope later received American college members for Immaculate Conception celebrations.
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Sleeping Sickness Epidemic Warns Africa Mission Board
New York reported that the board of foreign missions issued a statement on the sleeping sickness ravaging parts of Africa. Disease first appeared in Uganda three years ago near Lake Victoria, with 68,000 deaths and 10,000 in the last five months. A British commission links spread to a fly named kivu. no antidote exists. Early symptoms include headache and swollen neck glands followed by prolonged sleep.
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Conference yields plan to mend Pittsburg rail labor rift
A conference in Pittsburg between a special committee of motormen and conductors and J D Callery, president of Pittsburg Railways Co, aims to bridge employer employee differences. The company will review schedules to aid workers without harming operations while ballots gauge worker sentiment. voting ends Tuesday.
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Princess Elizabeth Marie shoots actress in Vienna incident
Princess Elizabeth Marie, granddaughter of Austria’s emperor and King of the Belgians by blood, narrowly avoids murderess stigma after shooting and wounding an actress while her husband Prince Otto of Windisch Graetz met the woman. In Jones Tennessee a card game ends with a fatal stabbing when Gargyle kills Reagan after a trumped ace. Baltimore suffers a $100000 fire damaging Friedenwald Printing and Frank & Adler stores.
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Libertad Fastest Warship Afloat in Speed Trials
Speed trials of Libertad and its sister ship Constitution, recently sold to Great Britain by Chile, averaged 20.3 knots, marking Libertad as the fastest battleship afloat. A separate Auburn Kentucky fire caused a loss of 15 pounds.
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Wages of mill suit over death of Wallace Hayes
Abner P. Hayes filed for $5009 damages against Consolidated railroad, alleging his father Wallace P. Hayes of Bethlehem was struck and killed at the Bridgeport depot crossing on February 21. The case, returned to the January term of Titchfield county superior court, notes Hayes served as Bethlehem’s representative in the last legislature.
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SolicitAlms Case Highlights New York Ties
A man linked to New York’s prominent families, William W. Morris, received six months detention for begging in the street after his refined appearance prompted magistrates to review the case. The incident underlines social distinctions and legal boundaries in the metropolis.
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City News Roundup Highlights Local Events and Births
A Wednesday night concert continues in the city. A son was born yesterday to Mr and Mrs M F Cassin of Baldwin street. Miss Winifred Egan of Cohoes is visiting friends here. A daughter was born yesterday to Mr and Mrs Patrick Sheehan of 82 South Leonard street. Joseph Gaffney of Park place leaves for New York for study. Co G basketball vs Brooklyn A C at the Armory tomorrow after drill. Remains of Mrs Joseph Derigon of Cottage place buried in Bridgeport after death at Waterbury hospital. A O H divisions vote to attend services at St Francis Xavier's on the Sunday before Christmas. James McDermott arrested at Miller Co's coal yard after altercation. Buddie Hynes, son of James A Hynes, remains bedbound from scalding but anticipated recovery. New skating rink opened at John D's pond with James Hayes as manager and pavilion and electric lights planned. A pool tournament at Talma club attracts many. prizes for first to third. On Sunday December 20 a new Eagles aerie will be instituted in Danbury with four to five hundred members expected.
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Wages Cut Hit Cotton Mills Across Several States
Boston Dec 7 The wages of about fourteen thousand cotton mill operatives were cut by about ten percent today in New Bedford Fitchburg Baltic Taftville Fisherville and Pawtucket. In total around eighty thousand workers have faced pay reductions during the crisis with Berkshire county workers slated for a further cut next week. Mills had largely enacted the reductions since November 20 across Fall Rivers region.
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Five Bodies Recovered After Hanna Gas Explosion
Five men killed by a gas explosion at the Hanna mine on June 30 have been recovered. The bodies, believed to have died after lingering for days, appear to have succumbed to damp conditions. Forest fires in San Bernardino mountaintops are now thought controlled, with a bridge over City Creek saved by back-firing. In St Petersburg, Ambassador McCormick is officially notified of Russia’s move regarding Panama’s republic, linked to czarist decrees after his return from Skierniewice.
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Treasury estimates show big increase for year ending 1905
The treasury has transmitted gross estimates of appropriations required by the government for the year ending January 31, 1905. The requested appropriations total 2,624,502,146 dollars, up from 589,189,112 dollars in 1904.
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Panama ratification of canal treaty confirmed by junta
Official confirmation arrives that a real canal treaty has been ratified by the Panama junta and will be sent to the senate for ratification. The move comes as the government wires in a formal notice and the president plans to push the measure forward today.
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Emperor William Condition Reported In Paris
Paris dispatch notes auditive sources reporting Emperor William's health as less satisfactory than official statements admit. Information arrives amid cautious reports from Paris on the imperial condition dated December 7.
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Beating the Record in Waterbury Penny Ad
The Democrat reports 76 written responses to a single penny-a-word ad in Waterbury, noting it as the largest such response ever. The paper explains higher numbers in print but omits personal office applications and mentions a NO RENT-48 furnished room ad at the Bank Hotel, 290 and 292.
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