Richardson Faces Senate Hold on Greenville Postmaster Job
In Washington, Editor Jeff Richardson of The Greenville News, newly named postmaster at Greenville, struggles to secure confirmation amid opposition from Senator Tillman. Tillman and McLaurin split, with White House talks aimed at a compromise. The dispute centers on Richardson’s editorial personal attacks attributed to The Greenville News owner A B Williams. Georgia figures led by Senator Clay and Rep Griggs meet the president, seeking posts for Atlanta and Albany allies, but Missed opportunities limit debate as callers disperse.
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Old Washington
Jeff Richardson
The
Greenville News
Greenville
Tillman
McLaurin
South Carolina
White House
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Hils
Titman
W. B. Gilbert
Albany
Wright
Messrs
Mayson
Hill
J. C. Jenkins
Atlanta
Department of Justice
Play
Washington
Panama Route A Death Trap for Canal, Contractor Testifies
S W Plume of New Orleans told the Senate committee on inter-oceanic canals the Panama route would be difficult to excavate due to moist soil fed by springs. He called the isthmus section the most unhealthy on the continent, noting engineers and officials sent there largely died in months.
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Flume
Washington
S. W. Plume
New Orleans
Senate Committee On Inter-Oceanic Canals
Panama
Plume
Isthmus
Legislative Money Measure Passed In Brief House Action
Washington February 6 The house spent the day on the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill with rapid progress. Seventy four of the one hundred pages of the bill were disposed of before adjournment. The senate was brief and featureless. Mr Talbert of South Carolina opposed the move to cut southern representation over franchise abridgement.
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Washington
E. House
Talbert
South Carolina
Adoption of the Metric System Heard In Washington
The house committee on coinage weights and measures heard reports from manufacturing and business houses on adopting the metric system. Professor Elihu Thompson of General Electric Co attended, with sentiment evenly favorable to adoption.
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Washington
House Committee On
Elihu Thompson
General Electric Company
Monument to Mercer Proposed for Fredericksburg
Representative Jones of Virginia introduced a bill in the house to appropriate 75000 for erecting a monument at Fredericksburg Virginia to John Hugh Mercer. The monument was authorized by an act of congress passed in 1877.
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Washington
Jones
Virginia
Teeay
Fredericksburg
John Hugh Mercer
Congress
Commission urges revived federal railroad regulation in 1900 proposal
Washington report on a lengthy final industrial commission memorandum to Congress urges strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission. It calls for uniform classifications, stricter tariff filing rules, longer notice for rate changes, and penalties to curb rebates, plus expanded powers over rates and classifications and a permanent auditor corps. The document also supports agriculture measures including export meat inspections, nursery stock rules, beets protection, forest preserves, improved rural delivery, and road-building funding.
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Department of Agriculture
Patrick Trial Is Adjourned In New York
The Albert T. Patrick trial was adjourned until Monday after Recorder Goff received a letter from the physician tending Juror Campbell saying he could attend tomorrow only if absolutely necessary. The doctor advised Campbell stay at home until Monday.
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New York
Albert T. Patrick
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Campbell
Marine Band Barred From Competing With Civilian Bands
Washington February 6 The house labor committee reports favorably Bartholdt Missouri bill to prevent the United States marine band and other army and navy bands from competing with civilian bands or individuals The measure would not hinder performances at the White House or on governmental occasions.
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Washington
House Committee On Labor Today
Bartholdt
Missouri
United States Marine Band
Bartholidt
White House
Daniels as Arizona marshal nominee linked to prison record
Washington reports President Roosevelt surprised by Ben Daniels named as U S marshal for Arizona amid a senate hold up. Cheyenne dispatch cites a Wyoming convicts record with larceny three and a half years and a Brace game in Denver and Cripple Creek. Arizona Republicans may seek to block the appointment pending fuller vetting.
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Jos
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Roosevelt
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Ben” Daniels
United States
Hoar
Committee On
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Ken Daniels
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Gambier
Desperado
Senate Committee On the Judiciary
United States Penitentiary
Laramie City
Wyo
Kenjentin Daniela
M. C. Eddy
Lyndon
Osage County
Kans
India
Page
Benjamin Daniels
Denver
la Junta
Gol
Cripple Creek
Tt Fg
Department of Justice
Republian
Tirny
Colo
Cheyenne
Wyoming Penitentiary
Camp Carlin
Fort Tussell
New Mexico
Cuban Planters Plea for Tariff Reduction on Sugar
Washington February 6 The Cuban planters committee headed by F shed addressed a letter to the committee on ways and means urging a reduction in the tariff on Cuban sugars by ner cent.
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Washington
F. Shed
Mustiee
Ner Cent
Hay Whitney Wedding Shocks Washington Society
The wedding of Helen Hay Whitney and York Whitney, son of the Secretary of the Navy, was the season’s social highlight in Washington. Attended by the president, cabinet, and diplomatic corps, gifts reportedly exceed 400, including houses, a yacht, and jewels. The ceremony at the Church of the Covenant featured simple bridal attire and a formal reception at the Whitney home.
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Payne York
Whitney
Church of the Covenant
Washington
New York
New England
Hay Home
Henry, C. Lewes
Frederick Kernochan
J. N. Waterbury
Milton
Barger
Gougeneur
James N. Wadsworth
Geneside
N. Hugh D. Scott
Philadelphi
Charles L. McCarley
Hugene Hale, Srey
Agnior
Maine
Teants' Hamlin
Voldes
Tay
Thomanville
Judge Rules Service Valid On President Where Office Exists
Judge Thomas of the United States District Court held that service of legal papers on the railroad’s president is valid if he has an office in the city. The suit by Samuel G. Roraw against Southern Missouri and Arkansas Railway Company argued lack of local office. The decision centers on jurisdiction and valid service in the president’s office.
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New York
United States District Court
Samuel G. Roraw
Pier
York
Soutern Missouri d Arkansas Railway Company
Newman End
The
Missouri
Fete Time in New Orleans Knights of Momus Open Carnival
The carnival of 1902 opened with the Knights of Momus pageant on Byron themes featuring eighteen moving tableaux. A grand ball followed at the French opera house as visiting fleets and a large crowd arrive, with Albany burgesses due Sunday to heighten the festivities.
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Knights of Momus
New Orleans
Byron
Szigetvar
Buffalo
Subway Explosion Hurts Two in Park Avenue Blast
An explosion of dynamite in the Rapid Transit subway construction on Park Avenue between Forty first and Forty second streets today hurled a thirty pound rock through the Grand Union hotel plate glass door and shattered several windows. Two people were injured by flying fragments but not seriously.
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New York
Rapid Transit
Park Avenue
Forty-first
Forty-second Streets
Grand Union Hotel
Retail Shop Dealers' League Reorganized in Boston
More than two hundred boot and shoe dealers from eastern localities met in Boston on February 6 and reorganized the National Retail Shoe Dealers League. The body, once flourishing before 1891, aims to promote retail dealer welfare and improve relations with manufacturers.
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Retail Shop Dealers’ League
Boston
Mississippi River
Nattoyal Retail Shop Dealers’ League
Costly Fire Destroys Varsity Flat Building in Chicago
A five story flat building at the southeast corner of Sixtieth street and Els avenue near the university was destroyed by fire this evening. The owner and tenants face a total loss of 160000 dollars. The structure contained thirty seven flats. In Newport News, the senate passed a bill increasing the cost limit of a public building to 251 dollars.
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Varsity
Sixtieth Street
Els Avenue
Chicago University
Newport News
Washington
Fehruury
Senate Today
Taft outlines Philippine taxation and tariffs plan
Governor Taft told the senate committee the Philippine commission aimed to scrap internal taxation, retain a poll tax, and rely on customs duties. He said land taxes existed under Spain, faced fraud, and that 5,000,000 private acres limit private ownership. He argued customs are vital to government funding and praised tariff adjustments to favor luxuries versus necessities while urging fair treatment of Philippine exports to the United States.
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Taft
Senate Committee On the
Philippines
Senate
Philippine Islands
Carmack
MacArthur
United States
McKinley
Bell
Batanaas
Supreme Court
Spain
Iquattera
Manila
Commission
Culberson
United State
Patterson
Congress
Islands
SAVED FROM AN ICY DEATH ALL THE SAILORS FROST BITTEN
The coastwise schooner Charles Noble Simmons from Norfolk to Fall River laden with coal was towed into port by the steamer India. Captain Green was unconscious after a hurricane like gale broke the fore and main booms and icy wreckage struck him. five attempts to board failed as crew were frost bitten. The steward kept duty while three men were finally towed aboard and secured the vessel.
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New-York
Charles Noble Simmons
Norfolk
Fall River
India
Hancer
Simmons
Southern Lease suera System Wins Its Rights in Ohio Courts
Cincinnati February 6 The superior court sustained the recent lease of the Cincinnati Southern railroad to the Southern Railway for 65 years covering 339 miles. Judge Dempsey dissented on part of the ruling and the case goes to the supreme court. Also Richmond February 6 The Old Dominion Convention studied corporations with arguments by Judge Ingram and D Brooke. Chicago February 6 Jonathan Clark pioneer of Chicago died at Fruitland Florida aged 79 from heart disease.
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Cincinnati Southern Railroad
Chattanooga
Southern Railway
Dempsey
Smith
Jackson
Supreme Court
Richmond
Committee On Corporations
Ingram
D. {. Brooke
Norfolk
Kendall
Jonathan Clark
Chicago
Fruitland
Fla
Clark
England
Diath T
Gambling Houses Raided as Police Shut City Venues
San Francisco police last night closed most gambling houses, with few exceptions they were American establishments. The anti gambling bill introduced to the house prompted the crackdown amid ongoing illegal gaming despite existing laws.
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San Francisco
Pera
BO Ice
Fifty Year Policy Cancelled Over Age Error
Thomas Chalmers of Fraser Chelmers sues in superior court to overturn a life policy cancellation after faults in his age, traced to a 1851 policy of $2,100 and renewed in 1866 with a later $2,000 policy. His daughter’s Scotland parish register cited June 15, 1916 as birth, not June 14, 1820, prompting the dispute. Premiums continued on the first policy until 1901 when the company canceled it.
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Chicago
Thomas Chalmers
Fraser & Chelmers
Chalmers
Scotland
Herather
Former Buffalo City Treasurer Arrested for Misappropriation
Philip Gerst former city treasurer was arrested in Buffalo Wy February 6 charged with misappropriating funds. He was removed from office in December by Mayor Diehl after an earlier charge of misconduct and an admission of misappropriating 30000. An investigation into the treasurer's office has continued under Mayor Knight.
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Philip Gerst
Buffalo
W. Y
Gerst
Diehl
Knignt
300K County Democrats Off Bound for Charleston
A special train carrying about 245 Cook County Democratic members departed Chicago on the Big Four for Charleston to visit Exposition officials. The group will also stop at several other southern cities along the route.
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Charleston
Chicago
Cook County Democracy
Big Four
Death claims two oldest women of northwestern Ohio
In Foledo Ohio on February 6 the two oldest residents died. Mrs Hannah Torrens aged 14 years 7 months 14 days and Mrs Dora Euxteine aged 104 years 1 day were reported as the region’s oldest inhabitants.
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Northwestern Ohio
Foledo
Ohio
Northwestern Ohls
Hannah Torrens
Dora Euxteine
Refund on Porto Rican Goods Notice in Washington
The comptroller of the treasury rules no duties refunded on Porto Rican goods imported between April 1, 1899, and May 1, 1900 where no protests were filed. All refund applications must be sent to the secretary of the treasury for certification to Congress appropriation. Lita St
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Tracewell
Comptroller of the Treasury
Haas
Porto Rco
Pecretary of the Treasury
Lita St
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