PASS SOLDIER BILL Sensational session ends in no legislation
Congress approved the Brownsville Twenty fifth Infantry bill granting discharged soldiers the right to prove innocence and restore to the army. Debate included jabs about Japan and prophecies, with opposition insisting justice to all. No statehood for New Mexico or Arizona this session. Partial Navy report accepted. agricultural amendments rejected. Deficiency bill passed with about 70 million in appropriations including Panama canal funding and marines transfer costs.
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Washington
Mar
Congress
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownsville
Tex
House
Slayden
Texas
Roosevelt
Cochran
New York
Mr. Gaines
Tennessee
Mr. Cochran
Mr. Burleson
Samuel
New Mexico
Arizona
Committee On Territories
Nelson
Beveridge
Gang
Senate
Pacific
Messrs. Scott
Kansas
Hanger
Iowa
Lamb
Virginia
Committee On Appropriations
Panama Canal
Castro Denies Assassination Plot in Public Statement
Dresden report notes Cipriano Castro, former president of Venezuela, publishes a sworn denial of conspiring to murder Juan Vicente Gomez. He says the sole charge is encouraging Gomez's murder and argues his prior actions show support, not malice, toward Gomez.
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Dresden
Mar
Cipriano Castro
Venezuela
Juan Vicente Gomez
Republic
Senor Castro
Gomez
Norfolk Pays Homecoming Tribute To 2000 Sailors
Norfolk Virginia honors 2000 American battle fleet officers and bluejackets with a marching parade through Main Street. Sailors, assisted by coast artillery from Fort Monroe and marines from the navy yard, receive cheers from a city crowded with veterans and residents. Admiral Taussig reviews the procession as the fleet’s younger personnel captivate onlookers with disciplined bearing.
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Norfolk
Old Point Comfort Dock
Coast Artillery
Fort Monroe
Norfolk Navy Yard
Brooke Avenue
Granby
Main
Virginia
Virginia National Guard
Admiral Taussig
Navy
Suffragettes Released After Month's Imprisonment
London dispatch reports three suffragists freed from Holloway after serving a month for attempting to interview Prime Minister Asquith. Christabel Pankhurst urged further action as rival Despard received a lighter sentence, and a March 30 raid on the House of Commons was planned with Lancashire delegates to join.
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London
Holloway
Asquith
Holborn
Sperry Stays With the Fleet After White House Visit
Secretary Newberry said there was no plan to relieve Admiral Sperry of command of the Atlantic fleet after a conference. If Sperry requests relief, another rear admiral would be appointed. Sperry dined with the president at the White House and will stay in Washington until Monday before returning to the flagship Connecticut.
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Washington
Mar
Newberry
Navy Department
C. S. Sperry
Atlantic
Sperry
White House
Connecticut
Union Leader Fatally Stabbed During Meeting
George Rush, president of Local Union No. 459 United Mine Workers of America at Bannock, was likely fatally stabbed last night by Italian members during a meeting after he ruled against the foreign members. Police investigate as union ties strain.
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Str.hod
Wheeling
W. Va
Mar
George Rush
United Mine Workers of America
Bannock, C
Rush
Missouri Solon Kerr Dies in Pneumonia Battle
Jefferson City Mo March 1 E M Kerr Hickory county representative in the Missouri house died Saturday of pneumonia in a sudden passing that removes a longtime lawmaker from the lower chamber. Kerr served in the lower branch and was known for his public service in Hickory county.
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Missouri Solon
Jefferson City
E. M. Kerr
Hickory County
Missouri General Assembly
British Army Increases to 805000 Man Force
London reports the army estimates for 1909 10 set a grand total of 804 973 men up from 799 610 in 1908 05. The rise reflects expanded manpower and adjustments in force strength across regiments and services.
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London
Swindle ring fleeced victims in prize bouts across nation
Post Office Inspector Swenson links a band of swindlers to fake prize fights and races that netted over a million dollars from about a hundred claimed victims nationwide. Leader J Maybray, jailed in Little Rock, and a diary in his trunk detail hundreds of targets including bankers and wealthy traders. Names span Alaska to Florida with the scheme planning to move to Council Bluffs and begin March 15, 1908.
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Maybray
Little Rock Ark
Post Office
Swenson
Post-Office Department
New Orleans
Council Bluffs
A. C. Craft
Thomas Cale
Alaska
National Congress
P. N. Whalen
James Servais
Port Arthur
Conn
G. Alspaugh
Terre Haute
Ind
Adolph Yeske
Hardin
Mont
Thomas Cole
Fond’. du: Lac
Wis
Edwin James
Blue Springs
Neb
George L. Brown
Norton
Kaw
John Corbin
Chicago
R. W. C. Shull
Minneapolis
William H. Stine
A. Harringston
C. E. Haygood
Garden City
M. Meyer
Bristol
S. D
John Hermelbreight
Bancroft
Z Piermont
Maryville
A. E
Pierce
Tipton
Frank Fosdick
Pueblo
Col
R.B. Shores
Blue Earth
Minn
F. X. Roetle
Neenah
Henry Rushert
Douglas
Wyo
C. A. Nelson
Alma
Mich
C. Nelson Pratt
Toledo, CO
John Bieder
Sioux Falls
Toledo
M. Masfield
Winnebago
George 8
George F. Castle
Britt
Alexander Delain
Pembina
Ralph P. Mattingly
Nashville
Tenn
W. H. Bedford
Bolckow
J. E. Harrington
Hartzel
D. Cc. Harrington
Pipeston
Thomas Age
Swift Plant Fire Rips Chicago Union Yard area
Swift & Co.'s buttering plant at Forty first and Justine streets in the northwest corner of the Union Stock Yards burned Saturday. Loss about 160000. Firemen battled the blaze amid wind driven flames threatening nearby structures. some firefighters were overcome by heat and smoke. (Other items note Paxson & Comfort Company building fire in Philadelphia with 100000 loss and two injured, and a riot at Constantinople over The Merry Widow performance.)
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Chicago
Swiftt & Co
Forty-first
Justine
Union Stock Yards
Philadelphia
Arch Street
Paxson & Comfort Company
Undertakers’ Supplies
Los
Taft Arrives in Washington for Inaugural Week Ceremonies
President-elect Taft lands in Washington from New York with wife Helen and enjoys a gay city welcome. He is made an at sight Mason and elected to the National Farmers Union. Taft will stay at Dupont Circle, aids in cabinet formation, and attends Peace Society events while planning writings and a Taft brothers reunion.
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Washington
Taft
New York
National Farmers’ Union
Roosevelt
National Capital
Mrs. Taft
W.J. Boardman
Dupont Circle
Mr. Taft
Franklin MacVeagh
Treasury
Carnegie Hall
Hampton Institute
Peace Society
Hiihy Root
Henry W. Taft
Forty Eighth Street
Hotel Astor
Elihu Root
Baron Takahira
Mr. Root
Ambassador Bryce
Joseph Choate
Nevada
Congress
Hoosier Brewers on Strike at Terre Haute Brewery
Terre Haute Ind March 1 Two hundred fifty employees of the Terre Haute Brewing Company walked out on Saturday over wage and hour terms. The strike includes all but firemen and teamsters, as talks failed to reach a new contract agreement.
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Hoosier Brewers
Terre Haute
Ind
Mar
Terre Haute Brewing Company
Two Murdered for Pay Found Near Gratztown
Pittsburg radios report two men were found dead Saturday in Gratztown Westmoreland county near here. Authorities say they were murdered and robbed with two empty pay envelopes located beside the bodies. Investigators search for suspects and motives in the case.
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Pittsburg
Gratztown
Westmoreland County
Here
Riots In Lisbon Carnival Mark Anniversary of Assassination
A Lisbon carnival riot triggered by echoes of the February 1, 1908 assassinations led to heavy clashes with police. Crowds hurled stones as workers and women joined rioters, police fired, troops were summoned, and thousands of arrests followed as military cleared the streets.
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Lisbon
Mar
Carlos
Amelie
Manuel
Costa and
Buissa
Sunday Attacked by Self-Proclaimed Fan at Springfield Rally
In Springfield on March 1 the evangelist Billy Sunday was assaulted by a man named Sherman Potts using a pogey whip as about 8 000 people watched. Police describe the attacker as a religious fanatic while Miss Edith Anderson and choir leaders Fischer and Butler accompanied Sunday. Five injured in crash near Columbus on the Ohio Electric Railway. a Springfield car carrying passengers collided with another after a curve. No fatalities reported.
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Springfield
Billy
Fischer
Butler
Edith Anderson
Sherman Potts
Sunday
Patta
Columbus
Ohio Electric Railway’ Company
West Jefferson
Junken the Fort Madison escapee tied to repeated assault plan
Alleged jailhouse confidences and a Missouri inmate letter bolster claims that Junken, released from Fort Madison, planned to rob and assault women again. Sheriff Griffin notes Ottumwa theories that he hunted an easy victim, with Miss Rosen killed days after release. Junken seeks counsel from Attorney 3. Joe Brown before trial.
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Sher
Griffin
Megra
Polk
Couritys
Alpert Evans
Missouri
Junken
Fort Madison
Evans
Miss . Rosen
Ottumwa
Rosen
Joe Brown
Chuck
St. Louis
Ben Ness
Albia
Des Moines
Killed By His Wife Near Hermitage Tennessee
Nashville reports farmer Ben F Hurt near Hermitage was killed during a yard fight when his wife struck him with an axe. The incident involved Hurt and his stepson Harvey Hurt in a domestic confrontation. An internal revenue statement from Washington shows January collections at 18,399,651, down from the prior year by 1,516,474.
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Nashville
Tenn
Ben F. Hurt
Hermitage
Hurt
Harvey Hurt
Washington, D. C
Internal
Riots in South Omaha Led to Preliminary Hearing
Seven of the alleged participants in the South Omaha riots were bound over to district court after a preliminary hearing before Police Judge Callahan of South Omaha. The hearing took place in Omaha Nebraska.
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Omaha
Neb
South Omaha
District Court
Justice Callahan
Havana observes fourteenth year of uprising as independence holiday
The island marked the fourteenth anniversary of the uprising at the start of the war for independence as a national holiday. In Jefferson City Missouri Governor Hadley announced the appointment of Henry Caulfield as excise commissioner of St. Louis.
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Havana
Jefferson City
Henry
Caulfield
St. Louis
Hadley
Ethel not engaged says White House denial
Washington D C emphatic denial refutes report that the president's younger daughter Miss Ethel is engaged to marry. The denial was issued by William Phillips, third assistant secretary of state, and stated at the White House.
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Ethel
Washington, D. C
William Philipps
Rom
Noted Oil Man Dies in Pittsburg Pennsylvanian Pioneer
William Culley McKegy, a western Pennsylvania pioneer oil man and one of five Americans to engage in portland cement manufacturing, died at his home in Pittsburg.
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Pittsburg
William Culley -McKegy
Pennsylvania
America
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