There were originally seven teams, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee and St. Louis. New York was correctly anticipated to add a team.
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Saturday, January 29, 2000
Thursday, January 27, 2000
Saturday, January 27, 1900. Boxers, naming an island, and Hyman Rickover.
Diplomats for the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany and Italy sent notes to the Chinese Foreign Ministry (the Zongli Yamen) requesting an imperial decree suppressing the Boxers and the Big Swords Society in Shandong and Zhili.
A Senate Committee voted unanimously to refer to Puerto Rico legally as "Porto Rico", rather than the name we normally use, which had been what President McKinley ordered it to be called via Executive Order. Also, In the U.S. Treasurer was authorized to retire the Puerto Rican money in favor of U.S. coinage, at the rate of 60 cents per peso.
Hyman G. Rickover was born in Vistulaland to a Jewish Polish family. He'd become the "Father of the Nuclear Navy" in the US, retiring well above the normal mandated retirement age in 1982. He died in 1986.
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Wednesday, January 24, 1900. Battle of Spion Kop.
Monday, January 24, 2000
Wednesday, January 24, 1900. Battle of Spion Kop.
Boers at Spion Kop. Kop is a Boer word for "head".
An an 8,000 Boer force defeated a 25,000 British contingent in the Battle of Spion Kop. The British took 243 dead and 1,250 wounded, and 300 captured. The Boers 68 killed and 267 wounded.
The assault was badly made by the British, failing to appreciate the nature of modern rifle fire.
A council of the Chinese "Grand Councillors, Grand Secretaries and Presidents of the Board" agreed that the Guangxu Emperor should abdicate. P'u Ch'un, age 14, was announced as heir apparent to the throne.
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Friday, January 21, 2000
Sunday, January 21, 1900. Frontier types and technology.
Frontier personality and later Montana lawman, John "Liver-Eating" Johnson, died at age 75.
Born with the last name Garrison, in Pattenburg, New Jersey, he was a sailor in the Mexican War before deserting after striking an officer. He became a frontiersman following that. In 1847 his wife, a Salish Native American, was killed by a young Crow man and his fellow hunters causing Johnson to launch on on a years long campaign of revenge which featured eating the livers of killed Crow warriors. He served for a time with the 2nd Colorado Cavalry during the Civil War and was a lawman in Montana for a time thereafter. He died in a veterans home in California, and was buried in a Los Angeles veteran's cemetery, before being reinterred in Cody, Wyoming in 1974, following the popularity of the film Jeremiah Johnson, which was based on his life.
Anne Ellsworth Smith, the original operator on the Baltimore–Washington telegraph line, who had sent the first telegraph message on May 24, 1844, at age 17 of "What hath God wrought?" died at age 73.
Former Wild Bunch member Willard Erastus Christianson, born Erastus Christiansen, and also known as Matt Warner, was released from prison in Utah after being pardoned. He went on to later being elected as a justice of the peace and serving as a deputy sheriff in Carbon County, Utah.
In spite of having a violent temper and having lived a life of crime, he had a reputation for being extremely honest.
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Saturday, January 20, 1900. A fire in Honolulu's Chinatown and "Die Erwerbung werthvoller Küstenstadte der Neuenglandstaaten wäre das wirksamste mittel, den frieden zu erzwingen"
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Disaster, Disease, German Kriegsmarine, German Navy, Germany, Hawaii, Honolulu Hawaii, United States
Thursday, January 20, 2000
Saturday, January 20, 1900. A fire in Honolulu's Chinatown and "Die Erwerbung werthvoller Küstenstadte der Neuenglandstaaten wäre das wirksamste mittel, den frieden zu erzwingen"
A terrible fire broke out in Honolulu's China town when health officials ordered controlled burns in the area to address the bubonic plague. They grew out of control and destructive.
At the request of German Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the director of the German Imperial Naval Office, Admiral Otto von Diederichs presented contingency plans for a naval blockade and limited armed invasion of the United States.
Frankly, the concept was absurd.
Perhaps emphasizing its absurdity, the size of the German navy would have had to been doubled, according to the report.
Of course, militaries engage in contingency planning, which is often absurd, all the time. Having said that, German concepts of messing around in North and Central America were fairly common and always absurd right up until the US entered the First World War.
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Friday, January 19, 1900. Captured.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, baseball, Crime, Health, Mental Health, Philippine Army, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines
Wednesday, January 19, 2000
Friday, January 19, 1900. Captured.
Filipino guerillas captured an American troop train at Alaminos, Laguna.
Boston Beaneater's catcher Marty Bergen killed his wife and six year old duaghter with an axe, and then killed himself. He'd become mentally unstable after the death of his son. He was such a good cathcer, that he later received some votes for the Baseball Hall of Fame.
As horrific as this sounds, a much beloved, I'm told, great uncle of mine did the same thing, kill his wife and daughter, while deranged, then killing himself. He turned out to be suffering from a brain tumor.
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Thursday, January 18, 1900. Battle of Mazocoba.
Tuesday, January 18, 2000
Thursday, January 18, 1900. Battle of Mazocoba.
The Battle of Mazocoba was fought in Sonora, Mexico between Yaqui rebels and the Mexican army. It resulted in largescale Yaqui losses, but not conclusive tactical conclusion.
Frederic Remington's 1896 depiction of a Yaqui rebel.
Yesterday was our first mention of the Yaqui people and the Yaqui Wars. Yaqui resistance to Spanish, and then Mexican, authority dated from 1533 to 1929.
Weyerhauser was incorporated in Washington state.
Pvt. Frank T. O. Walker would preform the actions that resulted in his being awarded the Medal of Honor. His citation reads:
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Frank T. O. Walker, United States Army, for most distinguished gallantry on 18 January 1900, while serving with Company F, 46th Infantry, U.S. Volunteers, in action at Taal, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Under heavy fire of the enemy Private Walker rescued a dying comrade who was sinking beneath the water.
Walker was a volunteer from Massachusetts. He'd die in 1904, at age 26 and apparently as a civilian.
The Delaware Supreme Court refused to admit Philadelphia attorney Carrie B. Kilgore as she was a woman, and therefore barred by a Delaware provision that attorneys at law musts be eligible to vote.
L. Frank Baum and illustrator W. W. Denslow jointly copyrighted their new book, The Land of Oz.
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Wednesday, January 17, 1900. Yaqui rebellion.
Monday, January 17, 2000
Wednesday, January 17, 1900. Yaqui rebellion.
British born Bringham H. Roberts of Utah was refused a seat in the House of Representatives as he was a polygamist.
It's hard to see this being done today, although as far as I know Roberts was the last polygamist to seek to be seated in Congress. Polygamy remains illegal in all fifty states, but with the erosion of nearly every other law pertaining to marriage, it's hard to see it withstanding a legal test.
While prohibited, his status as a polygamist was not held against him in the LDS, and he went on to have significant positions in the Mormon church.
Sonoran Yaqui Indians declared their independence from Mexico and asked for help from the United States.
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Tuesday, January 16, 1900. Guerilla warfare on Cebu.
Sunday, January 16, 2000
Tuesday, January 16, 1900. Guerilla warfare on Cebu.
Philippine General Arcadio Maxílom reorganized his forces on Cebu for guerilla warfare against the United States.
The United States Senate ratified the Anglo-German Treaty of 1899 in which the UK renounced its claims to the Solomons.
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Saturday, January 13, 1900. Insurrection counter factual.
Thursday, January 13, 2000
Saturday, January 13, 1900. Insurrection counter factual.
John Barrett, former U.S. Ambassador to Siam (Thailand), claimed in a speech at Lake Forest College that the insurrection lead by Emilio Aguinaldo in the Philippines had been brought about by an anti-expansion speech made on January 9, 1899, by U.S. Senator George F. Hoar.
Seems rather strained, to say the least.
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Friday, January 12, 1900. The Ford Detroit Automobile Company electric delivery van, Ford's first public offering, introduced.
Wednesday, January 12, 2000
Friday, January 12, 1900. The Ford Detroit Automobile Company electric delivery van, Ford's first public offering, introduced.
Henry Ford introduced his first commercial automobile, a two seat electric delivery wagon.
The vehicle was the produce of the newly formed, and short lived, Detroit Automobile Company.
The truck was plagued with problems, but it does provide an interesting example of how early on electric vehicles competed with gasoline and steam vehicles in the market. The current horror in some quarters on a vehicle being electric did not exist at the dawn of the motor age.
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Wednesday, January 10, 1900. Root declines.
Monday, January 10, 2000
Wednesday, January 10, 1900. Root declines.
Field Marshal Lord Roberts arrived at Cape Town to replace General Redvers Buller as commander of British forces in the Second Boer War. He was accompanied, as his chief of staff, by Lord Kitchener.
Secretary of War Elihu Root announced that he would not accept a nomination to be William McKinley's running mate in 1900. Vice President Garret Hobart had died in 1899.
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Saturday, January 8, 1910. Bhutan and the British Empire.
Saturday, January 8, 2000
Monday, January 8, 1900. McKinley and territories.
President McKinley added a large portion of land to the Navajo Indian Reservation.
President McKinley placed Alaska under military rule.
Okinawan migrants, some 27 in number, landed in Hawaii to work in sugar plantations. They were the first such immigrants to arrive there.
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Saturday, January 6, 1900. Boer War events.
Thursday, January 6, 2000
Saturday, January 6, 1900. Boer War events.
For the first time in centuries, the sword of the Gorsedd bards was unsheathed at Merionethshire in Wales and the chief bard "invoked the blessing of God on British arms in South Africa, and announced that the sword would not be sheathed again till the triumph of the forces of righteousness over the hordes of evil".
Boer troops fighting at Ladysmith attempted a raid on British positions resulting in 1,000 British casualties.
The German ship Herzog was seized by the HMS Thetis on suspicition that it was carrying supplies to the Boers, which it was not.
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January 3, 1900. No giggling.
Monday, January 3, 2000
January 3, 1900. No giggling.
Today In Wyoming's History: January 3: 1900 University of Wyoming coeds formed an "anti-giggling society", according to today's entry for the Wyoming State Historical Society. I guess this is a window into an earlier time, as it's hard to imagine coed giggling being a major problem of any sort today.
Sigh. . .I wish we lived in a time when this was a problem.
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Saturday, January 1, 2000
Monday, January 1, 1900. Boxer amplification.
The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, ("Boxers") killed Reverend S.M. Brooke from the United Kingdom, their first foreign missionary to be murdered by the Boxers.
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The Consolidated Royalty Building, where I work, back when it was new.
What the heck is this blog about?
The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?
Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book I've been pondering. And part of it is just because I'm curious. Hopefully it'll generate enough minor interest so that anyone who stops by might find something of interest, once it begins to develop a bit.
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