Fatalities and Injuries in Northwest Hunters Open Season
The article notes 14 fatalities and 21 serious injuries among hunters during the northwest open season of 20 days. It mentions coal miners in England largely support an eight hour work day after extended talks. It also references inviting women from Europe Asia and the United States to assist in a World’s fair project, with broad hemispheric involvement seen as key to success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwest
England
Europe
Asia
United States
Insurance Bias Against Christian Science Converts
Life insurance firms do not insure Christian Scientists not from opinion but because adherents decline policies. Converts embracing Christian Science have been observed giving up their life insurance.
States push for rapid admission in present session
With Oklahoma Arizona and New Mexico pressing for statehood Congress may act this session. There is little objection to Oklahoma but Arizona and New Mexico face less favorable sentiment from senators and representatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Arizona
New Mexico
Statehood
Congress
Tragic Football Deaths Mostly From Small Schools
A significant feature in connection with the deaths from football shows none occurred at big schools. Most players belonged to small, ill trained teams. Many fatalities happened in villages where the basics of the game were hardly understood. The record remains serious.
Burlington Railroad hires forceful response to train robbers
The Burlington Railroad Co informs trainmen that $1,000 will be paid to every employee who kills a train robber. Conductors and brakemen are armed with revolvers and urged to practice. Prosecution will follow every capture, with several headquarters set up to detect offenders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington Railroad Co
Cuba on brink of race tensions over Palma invites
The article reports Havana white leaders pressuring President Palma to exclude Negroes from state receptions this winter while Black residents threaten disruption if not invited. The piece frames a looming race conflict linked to annexation pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Havana
Palma
Pope Leos Encyclical Creates Scriptural Commission
The pope appoints a commission to interpret the Scriptures according to current needs, granting it final authority. Modern research has altered many beliefs about Holy Writ, and this move signals a progressive, hour driven approach by the pontiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo
Prediction of record trotter pacer season fades
Early year forecasts predicted record breaking pace for trotters and pacers in 1902 but few records have been made. Some drivers think great horses were driven too hard all season, reducing speed and endurance.
Postmaster General Opposes Married Women on Government Rolls
The postmaster general explains his strong opposition to women who have married while employed by the government and whose husbands are living. He argues a wife’s place is at home, and that a second salary is unnecessary if the husband cannot support both. He believes one salary suffices for a family.
Cotton Crop Outlook Turns Positive After Mild Fall
The 1901 02 cotton season faced drought in Texas and the southwest and heavy rains in the South Atlantic, yet yields reached 10 768 195 bales. A milder fall and no killing frost improved picking, with estimates near 11 million bales and expectations of steady prices.
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Texas
Southwest
South Atlantic
Second Session of Congress Opens With Sworn In Members
The fifty seventh congress met at noon with many inquisitors present. The senate held a 12 minute session marking the death of Senator James McDullan of Michigan and the house saw an hour of routine roll calls and swearing in of vacancies. Bills included one by Mr Joy to punish election frauds and a resolution by Mr Taylor to test Virginia elections under its new constitution. Gen Russell Alger was sworn in as Michigan senator to replace McMillan. Rev Milburn’s chaplaincy resignation was noted. The senate later considered an omnibus statehood substitute admitting Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one state. The house approved 50,000 for the coal strike commission expenses amid debate. The deaths of Reps De Graf fenreid and Sheppard were announced. The bodies adjourned to the 3d.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
James Mc Duillan
Michigan
Joy
Alo
Congress
Taylor
Virginia
Russell A. Alger
McMillan
Alger
W. Ef. Milburn
Cuslom
Sheppard
Texas
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Burton
Personal and Political News From Washington and Berlin
Dr F A Gardiner treats catarrhal appendicitis as he attends Hon Thomas Reed in Washington. Reed's wife and daughter arrive. Emperor William removes Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovitch from cuirassier colonelcy over new marriage. Roosevelt's Monroe doctrine praised by German agrarian organs. Henry Nicolaus acquitted in bribery case as Folk loses first trial. Dr Salmon warns on foot and mouth in New England. Julian Ralph ill from hemorrhage at Southern hotel. Behrens warns a repeated attack could be fatal.
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F. A. Gardiner
Thomas B. Reed
Washington
Reed
William
Paul Alexandrovitch
Brandenburg
Pistolkoff
Roosevelt
Henry Nicolaus
St. Louis
Folk
Salmon
Bureau of Animal Industry
New England
Julian Ralph
Southern Hotel
Louis H. Behrens
Mixed 1902 events sweep across industry and crime
On the 2d the coal strike commission gathered in Scranton to resume hearings on the 3d. Seventeen large malleable iron firms in Detroit agreed to fuse into a $20,000,000 concern. The Harriman system plans a pension fund for old workers following Union Pacific. A Lemore California post office burglary occurred on the 3d. Chicago board of trade fights open quotations. Oklahoma snowstorm reportedly affecting fever ticks on cattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Scranton
Detroit
Mich
Harriman
Oregon Short Line
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co
Southern Pacific Railroad Co
Explosion on the steamer Progreso rumors of harbor disaster
On the 30, while the steamer Progreso lay at Harbor View in San Francisco, an explosion occurred leaving 12 men missing and about twenty seriously injured. Property valued at $200,000 was destroyed. On the 3d reports from all Nebraska sections spoke of heavy snowfall and low temperatures, some localities verging on a blizzard.
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Harbor View
San Francisco
Nebraska
Senate closes as Oklahoma statehood favored by delegates
Brief Senate session ends behind closed doors after bills petitions and a concurrent resolution about the Pius fund case. Oklahoma and Indian Territory delegation resolutions favor uniting as one state while opposing the house omnibus bill. Major P S Scott dies in Petersburg Illinois at 81 after Civil War service. Fourteen killed by fire in Lincoln Hotel Chicago. Roosevelt denies pardon for J M McKnight. Turnstiles at Chicago livestock exposition reach seventy thousand. Nippur discoveries prize awarded to Prof W Heilpreicht. Sanitary Conference ends. Santiago de Chile chosen for March 1904 meeting. Oklahoma Territory shows broad support for uniting with Indian Territory into one state.
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Senate
Beveridge
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
House
P. S. Scott
Hingis Volunteers
Petersburg
Libby
Richmond
Lincoln Hotel
Chicago
Washington Bulletin
Thomas J. Reed
Roosevelt
J. M. McKnight
German National Bank of
Louisville
W. Heilpreicht
Lucy Wharton Drexel
Nippur
University of Pennsylvania
Washington
Santiago de Chili
Congress
World’s fair hall of philanthropy in St Louis appears assured
A valuable fire clay deposit was found in Jerseyville Illinois during excavations for a sew age project. Gov Dockery of Missouri says he will call a national good roads convention in St Louis. Generals and political leaders across the country are active as events unfold. Obituaries note long lives in Missouri Illinois and New Mexico. A Cuba cabinet change and a vow to strengthen the Navy are reported. A local pulse of social and religious tensions surfaces in Arkansas. A late night shooting in Fredericktown is reported with an ante mortem statement. A Mississippi man sings at a reception honoring the German World’s Fair commissioner.
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St. Louis
Jerseyville
Ill
Gov. Dockery
Missouri
Nord
Haiti
Mary Elizabeth Schemmer
Sarah J. McKinstry
Tazewell County
Inl
Delavan
J. P. Hubbell
Columbia
Jose Maria Chaves
New Mexico
Abiquiu
Carrie Koelsch
Neenah, Wis
Palma
Cuba
Tamayo
Little Rock
Ark
Methodist Episcopal Conference
Navy
Moody
Floyd Nifong
Fredericktown
Amanda Turley
John Alien
Mississippi
Theodor Lewald
St. Louis Club
Valuable fire brick clay found in Jerseyville sewer dig
Illinois notices record multiple incidents and events. A fire brick clay deposit was found in Jerseyville while sewer excavations were underway. William Dickson, 77, died in a runaway near Lewiston. A coal miner, W H Skinner, about 65, was killed by falling slate at Green Ridge. The young child of William Land of Carbondale died from burns. A railroad station at New Canton was robbed of 150 in express money orders. Bert Jones, 45, employee at Mattoon Big Your shops, dropped dead. Mr and Mrs Lewis J Hammond celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary in Joliet. A Lincoln peat portrait placed beside Robert in Mississippi's Hall of Fame. a Chicago preacher projects the largest and most imposing Christian temple in the world. P B Atherton, age unspecified, was robbed of 90 near Watertown.
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Jerseyville
Lewis J. Hammond
Joliet
Lincoln Peat
Roberte
Mississippi
Chicago
W. H. Skinner
Green Ridge
Girard
William Land
Carbondale
New Canton
William Dickson
Lewiston
P B. Atherton
Watertown
Bert Jones
Big Your
Mattoon
Twenty Five Years for 9 Killing in Jacksonville
Golmer Ham, 18, found guilty by a Jacksonville jury of murdering William Lyons after a dispute over a turkey. The court fixed a 25 year penitentiary sentence as seven jurors favored the death penalty. Ham claimed self defense, but evidence suggested otherwise. Ham cannot read or write and had never seen a railroad train. An effort for a new trial was announced.
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Golmer Ham
Jacksonville
Ham
William Lyons
Lyons
Nortonville
Exoneration of cruelty charges for soldiers' orphans home
Trustees report to Gov. Yates declares complete exoneration of cruelty to inmates. The panel releases two reports at a meeting with the Grand Army of the Republic inspection committee and the legislature's appropriations panel. They seek $65,000 yearly expenses and the cottage system with five cottages first year, plan to abandon the main building, and push manual training and new vocations for inmates.
Deaths and Local Notices Across Illinois Towns
Recent death notices include Dr. Z R Miller near McLeansboro and Mrs. Sarah J McKinstry, a Tazewell county pioneer aged 78 who lived in Delavan over fifty years. Miss Edna Waite, 27, nurse at Brokaw hospital Bloomington, formerly of Decatur. Mrs. Emma Matsler, 56, died near Huey with pneumonia. interment in Fairfield. Thomas Cunningham, Havana wagon maker. Mrs. B S Bellamy, 76, at Sandoval. Pana streets lit for first time in two months. lighting dispute unresolved, funded by J C Gallier to show the audience the way to The Night Before Christmas.
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Z. R. Miller
McLeansboro
Sarah J. McKinstry
Tazewell County
Delavan
Edna Waite
Brokaw Hospital
Bloomington
Decatur
Emma Matsler
Huey
Clinton County
Fairfield
Thomas Cunningham
Cunningham
Havana
Pana
J. C. Gallier
Stabbing at Water Town hospital fatally wounds attendant
Guy Miller, an attendant at the Western Hospital for the Insane in Water Town, was fatally stabbed by Peter Bertoline, an Italian patient and longtime trusted worker in the kitchen who had been employed there.
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Guy Miller
Western Hospital For the Insane
Watertown
Peter Bertoline
Bertolline
Sprit Valley
Prominent Mount Vernon Bride Locked in Springfield Jail
Mrs. Hugh Buchanan, from a wealthy Mount Vernon family in Indiana, is jailed in Springfield on a charge related to attempting to raise a postal money order for 2 Louisiana men totaling 20 dollars. The incident reflects a notable crime case involving a socialite in a prominent family.
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Sam
Hugh Buchanan
Mount Vernon
Ind
Springfield
Oklahoma Statehood Plan Merges Oklahoma and Indian Territories
Senate territories committee backs a substitute to admit one new state named Oklahoma from both territories. It preserves Indian rights, allows tribes to elect delegates to a constitutional convention, limits delegates to 120, and requires polygamy ban, debt assumption, two judicial districts, and division into counties up to 24. Vote 6 to 5 along party lines, Quay with Democrats.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Territories
Oklahoma
Indian Territories
New Mexico
Arizona
Quay
Territories
United States
Indian Territory
United States Courts
Oklahoma Territory
Congress
Osage and
Kaw
Senator Quay
House
Hazleton region wage inquiry under scrutiny crowdsourced photos
Testimony from a hundred photographs of Hazleton homes is examined in a wage inquiry. Commissioners question the documentary's data on wages, with witnesses detailing information gathered and requested for rapid facts, including statements and affidavits from Hungarians.
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Hazleton
Coxe
Hungaria
Appellate Court Grants New Trial in Gowes Murder Case
In Frankfort Kentucky on December 4 the appellate court awarded Caleb Powers a new trial after his conviction for Gowes murder and conspiracy. The original life sentence stands pending retrial proceedings.
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Caleb
Fowers
Frankfort, Ky
Des
Caleb ‘Powers
Gowes
Ufe
Reed's Illness Report from Washington Bulletin
Dr. F A Diner said ex-Speaker Thomas B Reed has an attack of intestinal appendicitis with tarrral symptoms but rest is advised. Dr T L Macdonald notes no need for surgical interference, Reed resting comfortably, temperature 101 and pulse stable. Mrs Reed and daughter Miss Reed are in New York.
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Washington
F. A.diner
Thomas B.reed
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Congressional Proceedings
Illinois State News
State of
Indian ‘Territory
Bureaus of Industry
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