West Point Holds Centennial Exercises at Militia Academy
West Point celebrated the 100th graduating class with diplomas presented by President Roosevelt. Generals Dick and Miles and Secretary Root spoke on the parade grounds as cadets and guests gathered for the outdoor ceremony amid bright weather and notable attendees.
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Cuba
Porto Rico
Spain
Philippines
Hoot
Senator Morgan Opposes Bond Plan for Isthmian Canal
In Washington the senate debated the isthmian canal question with Mr Morgan of Alabama opposing the Fairbanks bond amendment. Morgan argued construction costs should come from current treasury receipts and criticized the Panama concessions. The session covered diplomacy with Nicaragua and Costa Rica, Spooner and Fairbanks amendments, and possible treasury borrowing.
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Water cure and village burnings in Philippines hearings
Frank H. Evans testified before the Senate on 1900 actions in Batan and Orano. He described water cure incidents and burning of several native villages to flush out insurgents, with orders to destroy huts along the coast. Edward Norton corroborated humane treatment “except in isolated cases” and cited cases of water cure and village arson during operations.
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Orane
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Los Angeles
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United States Steel files answer in stock retirement suit
United States Steel Corp. filed an answer to Hiram Barger’s suit from Sullivan County New York to stop retiring 200 million dollars of preferred stock and replacing with bonds. The filing asserts by law the company may amend by laws with stockholder vote. It denies plans to convert bonds to common stock and says directors’ retirement of preferred stock was approved by nearly all capital stockholders.
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Hiram Barger
Sullivan County
New York
Emery
Release Awaited for Barrows Officer After Manila Trial
Capt. Frank W. Barrows, formerly of the 30th Infantry U S S Warren, arrives in San Francisco awaiting release from a five year term after a Manila court martials conviction for commissary frauds. The pending order stems from the Deming Supreme Court ruling that volunteer officers cannot be tried by regu lars and vice versa.
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Heaviest Man in World Henri Cannon Dies in San Francisco
Henri Maurice Cannon, reputedly the world’s heaviest man, died suddenly of heart disease in San Francisco. Born in Zurich 52 years ago, he rose as a heavyweight athlete specializing in wrestling and weightlifting. At his death he weighed 612 pounds after years of rapid growth.
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Henri Maurice Cannon
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Elephant Executed After Break from Chains in Tours Park
About 3,000 spectators in Tours France watched the execution of Barnum and Batley's largest elephant at midnight in the city park. The animal broke its chain on the way to the station, attacked keepers, and was killed as two hundred men struggled to restrain it with a rope.
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Barnum & Batley
Cable link to Honolulu and Manila moves forward
The Commercial Pacific Cable company asks San Francisco officials for street use permission to lay a conduit from Fulton street to its Hobart building office. The plan aims to install a submarine cable connecting San Francisco with Honolulu and Manila, with operation expected by November and work to start within 90 days.
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Honolulu
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Commercial Pacific Cable Company
Fulton Street
Hobart Building
Market Street
Montgomery
Waller and Day Return Home From Manila
Maj. L. W. T. Waller and First Lt. J. H. A. Day of the Marine Corps arrive from Manila with a battalion of Marines after being tried and acquitted in the Philippines on cruelty charges. Both officers are enfeebled by service and will be taken to Mare Island before reporting to the Senate committee in Washington.
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J. H. A. Day
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Philippines
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Senate Committee
Irrigation Bill Debate Shapes House Proceedings
The House adopts a general debate rule on the irrigation bill, with five minute readings planned for amendments. Speakers including Mendell Tongue Terrell Shallenberger and Ray argue for and against the measure while Olmstead defends the rules committee amid a dinner of reallocations and land policy themes.
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