World News Briefs From A Busy Holiday Season
Congress adjourned for Christmas and will reconvene January 3. Roosevelt voices Panama Canal praise and vows action to protect Japanese in San Francisco. Foraker denounces Roosevelt troop discharge as unlawful. others report on labor, rail, and legal actions across the globe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Senator Foraker
Roosevelt
President Roosevelt
Panama Canal
President Roosevelt II
Metcalf
San Franccisco
Strauss
Department of Commerce and Labor
South Carolina
Hitchcock
Wilson
Twenty-fifth Regiment
Hansbrough
Isthmian Canal Commission
Alliance
Mixed wartime and crime notes from early 1900s press
The report catalogs diverse incidents: Capt. Edgar B. Macklin wounded at Fort Reno. a Brownsville riot connection. Frederick Elerbrock’s Chicago court attack. a mob lynching in Annapolis jail. divorce suit by Clara S. Heyl. Judge C. S. Cutting target of a shooting. Mrs. Rachel Brookfield Day’s death. bungled execution in Houston Mo. a St. Louis robbery attempt. the death of educator Blanche Lin. Minneapolis coal shortages. J Pierpont Morgan gift. St Stanislaus School fire with escapes. Western Ice Company bid for Knickerbocker control. Col. Andrew Jackson’s death. Paterson fire. Ann Arbor railway charges. New York police hunt for Hilt and Lucy Foulse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Salt Lake City
Dix
Illinois State Board of Equalization
John D. Rockefeller
Henry Biesterfeld
Elgin, Jr
Baldernock
Glasgow
Scotland
Roosevelt
Stokes and Bullocks
Riga
Russia
Baron Moeller-Sakomelsky
Baltic Provinces
Curtis Jett
James Cockrell
Jackson
BE. H. Aarriman
Colorado River
Salton Sea
Richards
Comstock, Jameson and Triplett
Nebraska Land and Feeding Company
Omaha
A. J. Stickney
Chicago Great Western Railway
Gov. Higgins
Albert T. Patrick
Earlce
William Marsh Rice
New York City
Julius Mayer
New York
American Ice Company
Ice Trust
Elizabeth Stalker
Williamsburg
Leadville
Col
Joe Dale
Denver & Rio Grande Depot
Frank Mills
Butler
Post Office Department
Edwin C. Madden
Austria
Vatican
Alex Compton
Wabash County
Ill
Keensburg
David Kellum
Rio Janeiro
Minneapolis
Blair County
United States
Department of Commerce and Labor
South
American Textile Woolens Company
London Chronicle
Joseph Chamberlain
Pietro Cuneo
Turin
Italy
Union Republican
Upper Sandusky
George Sutton
Wille Hoppe
Balline Billiards
Interstate Commission Company
Columbus
Ohio
Harry Kendall Thaw
Stanford White
Japan
Ambassador McCormick
St. Petersborg
Edgar B. Macklin
Twenty-fifth
United States Infantry
Fort Reno
Okla
By & Megro
Brownsville
Frederick Elerbrock
C. S. Cutting
Criminal Court
Chicago
Clara S. Heyl
Milwaukee
Lizette Schandein
Jacob Heyl
Schandein
Rachel Brookfield Day
Newark
N. J
Jobrockfield
Houston
Odn Hamilton
Mons
Hamilton
J . Muss Milling Company
St. Louis
J. B. Muss
Blanche Horeon Boardman Linin
J. Pierpont Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr
St. Stanislaus Polish Catholic School
Western Ice Company
New Jersey
Edward R. Thomas
Knickerbocker Ice Company
Andrew Jackson
President Jackson
Knoxville
Tenn
Hermitage
Old Hickory
Butler Opera House
Pattergon
Ann Arbor Railway
Todo Ice and Coal Company
Foulse Lucys
Salter boys saved from ice by Claude Conklin in Allerton
Salter brothers were rescued from under thin ice in Allerton by Claude Conklin who risked his life to pull them to safety. Several Iowa items follow including trials, accidents, and local notices across the state.
Ten Dead in Enderlin Wreck as Passenger Train Collides
Ten persons were killed and at least twenty five injured when an eastbound passenger train on the Minneapolis St Paul and Sault Ste Marie Railroad collided with a switch engine at Enderlin North Dakota early yesterday. The accident occurred as the passenger railcar crowded with travelers home for the holidays broke apart and burned, with rescuers racing to free victims as flames spread. Authorities could not determine fault, and railroad officials withheld names of the injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry McCrory
W. E. Corey
United States Steel Corporation
Andrew Carnegie
Wilkinsburg
Louis P. Koeken
Philadelphia
Ellison
Metz
New York
Upper Manhattan
Bronx
Wilson
Department of Health
J Pease Norton
Charles C. McCabe
John Barrett
Colombia
Bureau of American Republics
W. T. Scovil
Vicksburg
Miss
George A. Morden
Boston
Lowell
Mass
Washington
W. W. Borden
Borden
Ind
Gerald Webb
Webb
Jefferson Davis
Buffalo
N. Y
Charles Rodman
University of Illinois
Central Hospital For the Insane
Jacksonville
Salter Boys
Allerton
Claude Conklin
Philo J. Brockway
Marshalltown
Independence
Brockway
United States
J. W. Trauman
Burlington
Glynn
Keokuk
Creston
J. L. Roby
Roby
Thayer
Z. T. Funk
Northwestern
Council Bluffs
Missouri Valley
Ohio Falls Woolen Mills
Louisville
Dubuque
Pickley
J. B. Hollenhors
Great Western
Hollenhors
W. W. Sibert
Joseph Bridges
Grace Aimee Reed
Boone High School
King
Eo Meyer
Muscatine County
Johnson County
Wabash
Des Moines
St. Louis
J. F. Frazier
Frazier
Collinsville
Iowa Falls & Northern Road
Hampton
Maynes Creek
Iowa
Hans Knoop
Holland
Tama
John Coleman
Coleman
Parsons
John Lamson
Fairfield
Central University
Pella
Garrison
John Wolfinger
Webster County
Fort Dodge
William D. McCrary
Mercy Hospital
Clinton
McCrary
Plymouth Gypsum Company
St. Paul
Minn
Minneapes,St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie
Enderlin
N. D
Moose Jaw
Can
Cara
Abso 7
Papal Secretary Merry del Val Faces Potential Removal
Rome reports indicate negotiations with France may fail if Papal Secretary Merry del Val stays in office. The pope intends to honor his word and retain him, despite opposition that favors a change. Mentioned candidates include Cardinals Vincenzo Vantelli AgHard Satolli and Ferri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
France
Merry del Val
Medel Val
Oleaga
Pius VI
Cardinal Consalvi
Napoleon
Vincenzo, Vantelli
AgHard
Satolli
Ferri
Russian Tyrant Glas Threat Aims at Noble Opponents in Tver
Dec 28 in Tver reports a high ranking Russian official, Count Alexia Ignatieff, accused by dissenters of ordering retribution for opponents of the regime. The narrative describes his menacing stride through a nobles’ hall as he faces possible vengeance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tver
Russia
Alexia Ignatieff
Council of the Empire
Kileff
Miner Rescued After Fifteen Days Beneath Earth
Bakersville Cal December reports a miner named L B Hicks trapped in a tunnel for fifteen days was rescued by fellow miners who tirelessly worked to free him. The article also notes German holiday preparations with Christmas trees placed in Rominten forest and the Imperial family's shopping bustle in Berlin as Christmas approaches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bakersville
Cal
L. B. Hicks
Potedam
Germany
Forest of
Rominten
Victoria
Ise
Eitel Frederick
Empress
Berlin
Chris
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Congressional News
Horatio
Ark
Savannah
John Armoy Knox
Texas Siftings
Illinois
East St. Louis
Cheadle
Montana
Bill” Hedican
Harbin
Manchuria
Cheshanowski
Lodz
Ruslan
Poland
George W. Harris
Goshen
Sarah Schafer
Bedford
Mexia
Tex
Citizen’s Bank
Felicity
Frank B. Sargent
Immigration
Honolulu
San Francisco
C. V. Stein
Hinsdale
New York and Mutual Life Insurance Companies
Missouri
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Waters- Pierce Oil Company
Republic Oil Company
Robert A. Anthony
Interstate Commerce Commission
Northwest
George 8
Indianapolis
Indiana Manufacturing Company
Sir John Long
Oakland
Iowa News
Huggard
Gicjvaz Sugar Refining Company
Samuel James
Nannie Wilson
W. L. McNamara
Smyth
Mount Pleasant
Captain Beckwith
McClure
Austin Western Scraper Company
Aurora, II
McCoy
Oskaloosa
Beckwith
Judge Baby
Aurora
Manchester-Davenport
Blood & Hale
Moline-Watertown
Manchester Road
Illinois Central
Manchester
Ine
Monticello
Chicago & Northwestern
Amber
Olin
Stanwood
Rock Island
Tipton
Moscow
Muscatine
Davenport
Wilton Bluegrass
Northwestern States Cement Company
Mason City
Sallie Pittman
Canada
States
Glas
Count Ignatieff
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