Negotiations In Progress to Buy Panama Canal Rights
Paris dispatch reports American embassy officials weighing French law to safeguard US interests as $40 million payment for the Panama Canal property nears. Consideration includes appointing a liquidator to receive funds versus direct payment to former officers, with Porter deeming such a claim unlikely and a liquidator unnecessary. Inquiries suggest the company has full rights to sell its property.
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Paris
United States
Panama Canal Company
Porter
Eighth Annual Session Discusses National Questions
The American Academy of Political and Social Science plans its April meetings in Philadelphia with speakers including George B. Cortelyou on trade extinction agencies. Topics cover government control of financial institutions immigration antitrust law, with participants Ridgely, Killburn, Cleveland, Sargent, Giddings, and Beck.
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Academy of Poliical and Social Science
Philadelphia
American Academy of Political and Social Science
George B. Cortelyou
William B. Ridgely
D. Killburn
Banking Department
New York State
F. A. Cleveland
New York University
F. P. Sargent
F.H. Giddings
Columbia University
James M. Beck
Immigration case appeal to Supreme Court denied
In San Francisco Judge De Haven denied the habeas corpus plea in the Lee Wing Chang case. A notice of appeal has been filed and the matter will go directly to the U S Supreme Court. The case centers on whether immigration commissioners’ rulings are final for Chinese natives seeking entry.
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U. S. Supreme Court
San Francisco
United States District Court
de Haven
Lee Wing Chang
United States Supreme Court
Police Action Barbarous In Public Arrest Parade
In Cleveland a man arrested for an attempted saloon robbery was publicly paraded for hours handcuffed to two detectives to identify him. The action drew a censure from the city council as barbarous and out of touch with modern standards. Also notes retirements, a fatal shooting in Montgomery, a ship floated in Pensacola, and Telluride’s expulsion of union men.
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Cleveland
Kohler
Americus Light Infantry Ordered to Preston Action
Americus Georgia on March 1 9 the Americus Light Infantry raced to Preston Webster County by train to shield two white men Henry Morgan and Sidney Farrell from lynching by enraged locals. Morgan confessed to a crime tied to arson that damaged the town and vaulted losses to 806 000. Harrell accused of hiring him. Both suspects were arrested Monday and jailed in Preston as Judge Littlejohn ordered militia deployment for protection.
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Americus
Americus Light Infantry
Preston
Webster County
Henry Morgan
Sidney Farrell
Morgan
Sidn Harrell
Harrell
Preston Jal
Isaeked
Littlejohn
Women Arrested for Theft in Atlanta Shoplifting Ring
Two white women, dressed modestly, refuse to identify themselves as City Detectives Kilpatrick and Sanford arrest them Monday afternoon. They are held in the police barracks over a trunk containing about 500 dollars worth of goods believed stolen from Whitehall street shops. Contents include silk bolts, five hats, embroidery and other fine dress materials awaiting identification.
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Atlanta
Kilpatrick
Sanford
Whitehall Street
Young Beecher Charged With Criminal Assault in Birmingham
William Knight Beecher, accused of criminal assault on Felicia Knight a 10 year old girl from Marysville Tennessee, was arrested in Birmingham Alabama. He has ties to a prominent religious family including a cousin of the late Henry Ward Beecher and relatives in New York and Tennessee. The sheriff of the relevant county was summoned to transport him.
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Young Beecher
Birmingham
Ala
William Knight Beecher
Felicia Knight
Marysville
Tenn
Beecher
New York
Henry Ward Beecher
Rensslaerville
N. Y
Lynching Report From Baudera Mississippi
News of a negro lynching at Baudera near Laucier five miles south of the county seat. A mob hanged the man for attempted murder of a section foreman on the Howison tram road, with an inquest verdict of death by unknown parties. The piece also notes political declaration filings and a reported poisoning in Evergreen, Alabama, with a drug advertisement at the end.
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Laucier
McHenry
Miss
Baudera
Howison
Justice of the Peace
Funeral of Korean queen dowager shadows Seoul
Telegraphic briefs note a strange funeral in Seoul for the Korean queen dowager. Other items report demurrers in a Ware county peonage case, Mississippi labor shortages as many negroes avoid fieldwork, and market shifts with New Orleans futures and New York prices down. German officials urge reinforcements to quell a southwest Africa native rebellion. Patrick Larkin’s body identified after the Alabama Great Southern wreck near Kewanee Miss and sent to Chattanooga. Knox seeks a mandamus to enforce the Chinese exclusion act.
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Korea
Seoul
Thomas McClellan
Ware County
Savannah
Speer
Mississippi
New Orleans
New York
Africa
Berlin
Patrick Larkin
Alabama Great Southern
Kewanee
Miss
Chattanooga
United States
Knox
Supreme Court
Federal Juice Wing
Ohio
Drake's Palmetto Wine Promises Quick Cure Messages
Readers report rapid relief from chronic constipation and long lingering illnesses after using Drake's Palmetto Wine. Testimonials claim cures for constipation and severe lingering ailments with rapid improvement after limited use. A free test bottle offer is extended to readers by Drake Formula Company in Chicago.
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Geo. W. Pelton
Akron
Mich
Drake
N. J. Knight
Pierce St. New Bedford
Mass
Drake Formula Company
Cheney’s Expectant best cough medicine ever tried
Millville Indiana resident S. T. Powers endorses Cheney’s Expectant as the best cough remedy he has ever used. The overheard endorsement is shared as a reader’s note from ordinary street gossip.
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Cheney
S. T. Powers
Millville
Ind
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