Foraker Advocates Action on Brownsville Raid Soldiers
Senator Foraker urges Senate to authorize a tribunal to hear cases from the Brownsville raid investigation and to reinstate soldiers found innocent. He cites President Roosevelt and a War Department report stating colored troops led the shooting and calls for limits on espionage while continuing the inquiry.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Secretary of War
Herbert J. Browns
Department
W. G. Baldwin
Brownsville
BK Company
Senate
Browne Eays
Boyd Conyers
Company HK
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Monroe
William Lawson
Twenty-fifthh Infantry
Conyers
Lawson
Foraker
Senator Foraker
Mr. Foraker
Twenty-fifth Regiment
Southern Pacific clerk arrested for embezzlement
San Francisco December 14 Elmer Long a clerk in the freight department of the Southern Pacific railway was arrested today charged with embezzling about 10000 dollars worth of jewelry and coin from a jewelry store in Atlanta Georgia. An Atlanta officer will come to take Long back for trial.
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San Francisco
Cal
Elmer Long
Southern Pacific Railway
Atlanta
Long
Army Surgeon Retired by Presidential Directive
Washington December 14 By direct order of the president Colonel Philip Harvey of the medical corps has been placed on the army retired list reflecting a formal demotion from active duty the action being effective immediately and noted in army records
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Washington
Philip Harvey
Medical Corps
Army
Tariff Hearing Moves Through Holidays
Washington reports the Ways and Means Committee will focus on the steel schedule in drafting a tariff bill during the Christmas recess. Charles M. Schwab will testify, Andrew Carnegie is subpoenaed but not yet appearing, with Henry Frick and Judge Gary already heard. The panel plans to hear more manufacturers to fill gaps and reconcile Republican and Democratic positions on lumber metal and paper duties. Colonel Joseph W. Allison urged duty reductions on pressed camel's hair cloth used in cotton seed oil processing.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Charles M. Schwab
Andrew Carnegie
Henry ©. Frick
Pittsburg
KB. H. Gary
Champlark
Joseph W. Allison
Texas
Organized Baseball to Fight Coast Outlaws
Chicago December 14 The findings of the national commission on the Detroit Chicago World Series dispute will be released next Wednesday or Thursday Harry Pulliam president of the National League said after meeting with San Johnson president of the American League The two commissioners then departed for San Francisco to assist the Pacific Coast league in its trouble through the coast dispute
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Chicago
National Commission
Harry Pulliam
National League
Pulliam
San Johbnson
American League
Milwaukee & St. Paul
San Francisco
Pacific Coast League
California State League Embarks on Organized Baseball Quest
A movement seeks to unite the California State League into a formal organized baseball structure or to initiate a reprisal action. The effort centers on establishing governance, scheduling, and competitive standards to elevate the league’s status.
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California State League
Hains Jury Drawn in Yacht Club Killing Case
Six jurors seated to try Thornton J. Hains on charges of being an accessory in the killing of William Fe. at Bayside Yacht Club last summer. Defense plans to portray the act as defense to protect his brother, with Hains to testify. Evidence may include a confessed letter from Claudia Hains and letters Thornton wrote to Captain Hains.
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Flushing
N. Y
Talesmen
Thornton J. Hains
William FE. Anais
Bayside Yacht Club
Peter C. Hains
Hains
Thornton
John M. McIntyre
Fort Hamilton
McIntyre
Claudia Hains
Darrin
Shay
Philippine Islands
Mutilated Body Found in Idaho Rooming House
Iahe Falls Idaho December 14 The body of a man believed Waldo A Schlack of Dillon Montana was found in a rooming house yesterday His head was mutilated with an axe found nearby A bank withdrawal of several hundred dollars from the State Bank of Helena accompanied Schlack to the hotel by another man now missing Relatives live in Columbus Ohio
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Iahe Falls
Idaho
Waldo A. Schlack
Dillion
Mont
Schlack
State Bank
Helena
Sehlack
Columbus
Ohio
Roosevelt sends bills to Congress for school rifle practice
In Washington on December 14, President Roosevelt forwarded two draft bills to Congress. One empowers the secretary of war to issue equipment and supplies for field instruction in civil educational institutions. The other allocates $100,000 annually to promote rifle practice in public schools colleges universities and civilian rifle clubs. Both measures have Secretary Wright's approval.
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Washington, D.C
Roosevelt
Congress
Secretary of War
Wright
Divine Healer Sehlatter Escapes Mob in Macomb Speech
In Macomb Illinois on December 14 a self styled Divine Healer Sehlatter proclaimed President McKinley an anarchist and said the assassination was fine but too late. A mob threatened him but police intervened and escorted him to the first train out of town.
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Macomb
Ills
McKinley
Sehblatter
Sehlatter
Congress to canvass presidential vote February 10
In Washington on December 14 Senator Burrows introduced a resolution requiring both houses to assemble in the House chamber on February 10 to canvass the electoral vote for president and vice president.
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Washington, D. C
Burrows
Committee of
Houses of
Congress
Admiral Evans Defends U S Navy in Dreadnought Clash
Rear Admiral Robley D Evans argues the latest U S battleships equal to English designs and vastly superior to the Dreadnought in a four magazine article. He pushes the 18 inch gun over the 12 inch and criticizes the belt edge height as a non fatal flaw while refuting Russian battleship comparisons. The piece also covers President Castro's German visit with Venezuelan officials and tours at Cologne and along the Rhine.
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Morning Journal
New York
England
Robly D. Evans
4 Magazine
Henry Ruetercdahl
Kyvans
Evans
Admiral Evans
Rock Island cuts beet sugar rate to Oklahoma
Salt Lake, Dec. 14. The Rock Island system announced a rate reduction to 55 cents per hundred pounds for beet sugar in carload lots of 60,000 pounds from Utah and Idaho refineries to Oklahoma common points. Previously intermountain refineries could not compete with eastern and southern factories in this market.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Idaho
Oklahoma
Rock Island
Pioneering Montana Leader Joseph Steele Dies in Deer Lodge
Helena Montana dispatch reports mortally Joseph Steele early Montana Colorado pioneer dies at his Deer Lodge home. He and his three brothers crossed into California Gulch before Leadville was built, tracing a frontier life.
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Helena
Mont. Dee
Joseph Steele
Montana
Colorado
Deer Lodge
Mr Steele
California Gulch
Leadville
Noted Odd Yellow Dead in Nashville
Jude John L. Nolen, grand sire of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of little World, died in Nashville at 11:30 tonight.
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Nashville
Tenn
Jude John L. Nolen
Independent Order of
Odd Pellows
Little World
Castro Given Ovation in Berlin Arrival
President Castro of Venezuela arrived in Berlin to a dense crowd with little security seen. The welcome contrasted with a frigid Paris reception as he faces concerns over possible ship captures.
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Paris
Naval apprentice confesses murder in Pittsburg case
Vallejo police report Chief Stanford received telegraphic request to probe the tale of L. P Stout a naval apprentice held aboard a Manila prison ship who admits murder in Pittsburg Pa but dates and victim remain unnamed and Pittsburg police cannot verify the account.
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Manila
Vallejo
Cal
Stanford
Telegraph
L. P Stout
Pittsburg
Pittsburg Police Have No Information Against Stout
Pittsburg police report no information against L. B. Stout on a murder charge or any offense. They seek Hermann Hirsch, accused of murdering and robbing Contractor McMillen in November last year. Police suspect Hirsch may have used an alias and fled to avoid capture.
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Pittsburg
L. B. Stout
Hermann Hirsch
McMillen
Hirsch
Army
Navy
Stout
Us East
Dying Millionaire Burns Fortune in Sickroom
A Moscow magnate named Peteroff, near death in St Petersburg reports, withdrew his entire fortune from the bank. Bank notes were brought to his sick room where they were piled and burned. He then summoned relatives and celebrated that wealth no longer harms them.
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London
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Peteroff
Canada Negotiates French Trade Treaty in Paris
Canadian Finance Minister W. B. Fielding arrived in Paris to push ratification of the Franco-Canadian treaty. Paris senators objected that the convention favors Canada while French protection interests oppose ratification. Fielding aims to remove obstacles and secure Senate approval.
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Paris
Fielding
Canada
Senate
Federal Judge Scolds Attorneys For Delay In Missouri Case
Kansas City December 14 United States Judge Smith McPherson harshly reprimanded the lawyers in the Missouri passenger and freight hearing for tardiness. He warned he would not tolerate further delay as the case has dragged on for three years. The core issue is whether Missouri railways can sustain passenger service at two cents.
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Kansas City
Missouri
United States
Smith McPherson
Railroad depots dispute interstate tolls on trunk lines
Two witnesses Whitenton and Kimbell testified that railroads incur no extra cost for carrying state versus interstate passengers on through trains. They admitted intrastate riders sometimes travel as far on a train as interstate passengers, and that state and interstate passengers share the same equipment, undermining earlier cost claims. Attorney Lehman noted both trains carried both passenger types.
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HH. Whitenton
Chicago and
Rock Island
Arkansas
R. F E. Kimbell
Cotton Belt Railroad
Lehman
Court Martial Initiated Against Army Officer in Manila
A court martial convened at Mariveles to try Major Charles J. T. Clark of the Twenty sixth Infantry. He faces charges of drawing checks without funds at Wood National Bank San Antonio contracting unnecessary debts and dilatoriness in responding to official communications. Roosevelt seeks Belgian hunting permit for 1909 in Africa.
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Manila
Charles J. T. Clark
Twenty-sixth Infantry
Mariveles
Mataan
Clarke
Wood National Bank
San Antonio
Earl Granard Engaged to Miss Beatrice Mills
London reports the engagement of the Earl of Granard to Miss Beatrice Mills of New York, with the engagement announced by the king and queen. The Earl will sail to New York Wednesday and a January wedding is noted. His brother Donald Forbes gets leave to serve as best man.
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London
Earl of Granard
Beatrice Mills
Ogden Mills
New York
Earl
Donald Forbes
Harriman Case Upheld By Highest Tribunal
The U S Supreme Court ruled the Interstate Commerce Commission cannot press private transaction questions in an inquiry begun on its own initiative. Justice Holmes said inquiries should target complaints and privacy is protected in such proceedings. Dissenters argued this narrows the ICC’s reach and urged responses to all questions.
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Washington, D. C
Edward H. Harriman
Otto H. Kahn
Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Commission
Flolmes
Messrs. Harriman and Kahn
Harriman
Union Pacific Railroad
Justice Holmes
Harlan
McKenna
Justice Day
United States Circuit Court
Northern District of
New York
Kaho
Justice Moody
No Surprise in I C C Decision on Harriman Cases
Washington reports that the Interstate Commerce Commission sees the Supreme Court ruling as largely academic and not altering its railroad regulation powers. Chairman Knapp states the decision will not affect future investigations or the commission’s authority.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Supreme Court
Harriman
Kahn
Knapp
Storm sewer project defeated at city council meeting
The city council decided not to submit the $55,000 storm sewer to voters and postponed action on the sewer bond. The provisional contract with American Light and Water Co of Kansas City remains, keeping the bond issue at $290,000 for the sanitary system.
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American Light and Water Company of
Kansas City
Wrath
Coen
Samuel Gray
Fine Council
Los Angeles Contractors Seek Bid Against Kansas City Firm
George A. Rogers & Co and Archibald Douglas urged the council to reopen bidding for the sewer contract now provisionally awarded to American Light and Water of Kansas City. Rogers claimed local bonds could sell at a premium and promised a better bid if allowed to compete. The council, by a five to two vote, refused to reconsider the resolution that favored the Kansas City firm unless bond issues fail or the company proves unsatisfactory.
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George A. Rogers
George A. Rogers & Co
General Contractors
Los Angeles
Archibald Douglas
American Tight and Water Company of
Kansas City
Rogers
Alderman Hanley
Hanley
Hantey
Bullock
American Light and Water Company
American Company
Wroth
Learnard
Lise
Aote
Barnard
Nogers
Kansas City Fem
Council
Coudell
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