Debating Ship Subsidy Deepens Senate Rift Over Merchant Marine
Washington March 12. The senate devoted most of its day to the ship subsidy bill with arguments from McCumber and Depew defending subsidies to boost American shipyards. Also passed were bills on Hawaiian silver redemption, army general aides, and a ceremonial badge for Chinese campaign veterans.
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Washington
Senate
McCumber
North Dakota
Depew
New York
Committee On Commerce
Cullom
Committee On Foreign Relations
France
United States
Count de Randibeau
Hoar
Massachusetts
Marquis de Lafayette
West
Northwest
Pacific
Great Britain
Germany
Bacon
Georgia
Mr. Depew
Hawaii
Army
Cockrell
Bitter Attacks Over Pacific Cable in House Debate
The House clashed between Michigan's Mr Corliss and Alabama's Mr Richardson over the Pacific cable issue. Richardson defended government ownership while Corliss attacked a private monopoly, with sharp exchanges about motive and policy. The day closed with the death of Doorkeeper Glenn and a 4:30 adjournment.
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Washington
Corlies
Michigan
Richardson
Alabama
Sims
Tennessee
Dougherty
Missouri
Jackson
Kansas
Greene
Pennsylvania
Glenn
House
Senate
Census Bureau
Hopkins
Illinois
Loud
California
Congress
Corliss
Far East
United States Export Association of New York
F. B. Thurber
Mr. Thurber
American Asian Association
Heavenly Twins
United States
Manila
Commercial Pacific Cable Company
Coast of
San Francisco
Honolulu
Guam
Clark
Western Union Telegraph Company
Commercial
Pacific
Payne
New York
Editor and Publisher Fined for Printing False Imperial News
In Berlin on March 12, the Potsdam Zeitung editor received two months imprisonment while the paper’s publisher was fined 590 marks for publishing a false report claiming Emperor William repr manded the First Guards at their bar racks in December.
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Berlin
Potsdam Zeitung
William
Burns convicted in Bellville bank robbery case
Convicted for the National Stock Yards bank robbery committed on January 6. Co-defendants Sylvester Savignac and Charles Meyers were acquitted.
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St. Louis
John Stephens
Harrington
Burns
Bellvile, I
National Stock Yards
Sylvester Savignac
Charles Meyers
Cure a Cold in One Day Laxative Bromo Quinine
Advertisement promises a fast cold cure with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. It notes a money refund if it fails and features E. W. Grove’s signature on each box. Price listed as 25 cents.
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Grove
Havre Citizens Press to Remonstrate on New Land District
Havre entrains a mass meeting to protest Senator Gibson's bill creating a new land district with Great Falls as the office. A telegram urged Havre Choteau County as central in the district covering Choteau Teton Cascade Valley counties. Committees were named to raise funds and circulate petitions across towns in Northern Montana.
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Standard
Havre
Gibson
Great Falls
Clark
Caldwell Edwards
Choteau County
G.bson
Choteau
Teton
Cascade
Valley
Senate
House
Cascade County
H. Lo Meili
Frank Chesnut
Gray W. Richardson
Thomas Scott
Montana
Maita
Saco
Harlem
Glasgow
Hinsdale
Drowning
H. J. Meili
PD. H. Boone
L. Newman
EF. VY. Hauser
B. C. Wescott
Ministers Accept Chinese Indemnity Tenders
At a meeting in St Pekin on March 12 the bankers’ committee was urged to accept the February installment of the Chinese indemnity. Ministers could not agree on a method to reduce powers’ claims beyond pro rata share.
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Pekin
Bankers’ Committee
President nominates Charles M Gorham to mint post
Chicago March 12 The president nominates Charles M Gorham of California to be me er and refiner of the mint of the United States at San Francisco.
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Chicago
Charles M. Gorham
California
Meer
United States
San Francisco
No Undesirables Wanted Regulation at Tutuila Landing
Captain Lepree, commander of the U S N station at Tutuila, issues a rule banning indigent and undesirable passengers from landing within the naval station limits on the island. The regulation covers the entire island under station control and prohibits landings by restricted persons.
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Associated Press
Tutuila
Lepree
Naval Station of
Deposit to customs collector on demand for entrant
A sentence fragment notes that a person must deposit $50 with the collector of customs when demanded by the commandant, with the deposit intended to be returned upon leaving the settlement.
Clowry Named President at Western Union
At the Western Union quarterly meeting General Thomas T. Eckert was elected chairman of the board. Colonel B. C. Clowry, currently vice president and general superintendent of the Western Union division in Chicago, was elected president and general manager. Clowry’s career includes service with the Illinois Mississippi Missouri & Western and Western Union firms and military service under Lincoln and Johnson during and after the Civil War.
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New York
Western Union Telegraph Company
Thomas T. Eckert
Col
B. C. Clowry
Western Union Division
Chicago
Clowry
Illinois & Mississippi, Missouri & Western and Western Union Telegraph Companies
C.v.l
Lincoln
United States Military Telegraph
Department of
Missouri
Kansas
Arkansas
Johnson
Loretta Orcutt Charged With First Degree Murder
Special Dispatch reports Loretta Orcutt was charged by County Attorney Harthorn with murder in the first degree. She allegedly shot her husband, Charles Orcutt, twice through the heart at their North Thirty-Fourth Street home on March 5 after he threatened to kill her. She has been jailed and hired Attorney Johnson to secure her release.
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Standard
Billings
Harthorn
Loretta Orcutt
North Thirty-Fourth Street
Charles Orcutt
Billings Man Pleads Guilty to Forgery
Morris Robinette waived time to plead in district court and pleaded guilty to forgery. His attorney asked for a light sentence due to it being a first offense and noted Robinette supported his 8 year old son in Kansas City. Judge Loud sentenced him to one year in the penitentiary for forging a $0 check on Rudolph Molt of Carbon county.
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Standard
Billings
Morris Robinette
H.S. Crippen
Robinette
Kansas City
Loud
Rudolph Molt
Carbon County
Tunnel Bill Passes Senate for NYC Pennsy Tunnel Franchise
The Pennsylvania tunnel bill passed the New York Senate authorizing a franchise to the Pennsylvania Railroad to build tunnels from New Jersey under the North and East rivers and to maintain terminals on Manhattan and Long Island. The franchise reevaluation period is set at not more than 25 years.
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Albany
N. Y
Pennsylvania
Senate
City of
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
New Jersey
Manhattan
Long Islands
Twenty Are Drowned In Steamer Providence Disaster
The steamer Providence on a trip between Vicksburg and Lake Palmyra was over turned by a sudden squall near Lone Landing at 2 AM. Twenty people perished, including Captain William Cassidy chief engineer Charles Roup and Dr N A Lancaster. Only nine were saved and recovery efforts began at once with a steamer dispatched to locate bodies.
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Vicksburg, Miss
Providence
Lake Palmyra
Lone Landing
William Cassidy
Vicksburg
Charles Roup
Clyde Scott
N. A. Lancaster
Palmyra
Lake ’Almyra
Cassidy
Scott
Roup
Lancaster
Objections Filed Over Discharge in Clark Bankruptcy
A bill of specifications in Fergus Falls Minnesota objects to the discharge in the N P Clark bankruptcy case. It claims Clark owns half of scattered lands across northern Minnesota, deeded to his sister Clara Co McClure who holds in trust. Lands valued about 700000. Accuses him of making false oaths about liabilities.
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Fergus Falls
Minn
N. P. Clark
Clark
Clara Co. McClure
Forest Reserve Boundary Bill Sent for Favorable Report
Washington March 12. The house committee on public lands ordered a favorable report on a bill to transfer from the interior to the agricultural department forest reserves when boundaries are permanent and to authorize the president to set parts of forest reserves as game and fish preserves.
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Washington
House Committee On Public Lands
Interior
Agricultural Department of Forest
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Nixon
Tammany
Tammany Organization
Lewis Nixon
Association of Naval Architects
J. P. Morgan
Leyland Line
Morgan
Pacific Cable
Richardson and Corliss Clash
Michi
Gan
Mercial Company
Prince Henry
Cide
Remonstrance
Chloroform
Patrick Atti AL
John J. Girdner
Albert T. Patrick
W. M. Rice
Osborne
Charles F. Jones
Rice
Isaac Newton Love
Post Graduate Hospital Medical College
Love
Moore
Patrick
Dr. Love
Girdner
Curry
Western Union Telegraph
Mississippet
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