Roosevelt Backs Inland Waterways Report Endorses Immediate Funding
President Roosevelt endorses the Inland Waterways Commission report and urges funds for immediate work, proposing a single federal commission to coordinate rail and water transport, power, irrigation, and defense. The Mississippi would become an arm of the sea, with rapid start and self funding.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Commission On Inland Waterways
Commission
National Commission
Mississippi
Mackenzie
Waterway Commission
Defense of Republican tariffs by Dalzell in House debate
Washington February 27 Dalzell of Pennsylvania defended Republican policy and protective tariffs arguing they made the United States the leading manufacturing nation and that any revision would follow Republican principles. Houston criticized trusts and urged tariff revision amid other remarks on Civil War pensions and gold reserves. The army appropriation bill was read for amendment as the house adjourned.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Republican Party
United States
Houston
Tennessee
Sherwood
Ohio
Boutell
Illinois
Clergyman Guilty of Larceny in Second Degree
A Hennepin county district court jury found Rev. Samuel White guilty of larceny in the second degree. The verdict follows hours of deliberation and stems from a loan business scheme in Minneapolis. The sentence likely places him in state penitentiary.
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Minneapolis
State Penitentiary
Samuel White
Hennepin County
Mminneapolis
Minnesota Retail Hardware Dealers elect officers
The Minnesota Retail Hardware Dealers association names officers for the coming year President Amons Marchel Perham Vice President E H Heines Renville Treasurer H H Heydon Chatfield Executive committee C F Lander St Cloud Charles Grill Sherburne J C Stuhlman St Paul The secretary and national delegates to be appointed by the president.
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St. Paul
Minnesota Retail Hardware Dealers’ Association
Amons Marchel
Perham
E. H. Heines
Renville
H. H. Heydon
Chatfield
C. F. Lander
St. Cloud
Charles Grill
Sherburne
J. C. Stuhlman
National Association
Train attacked by ten brigands in Kielce
Ten brigands raided a train in Kielce Russian Poland on Feb 27. They hurled three bombs and fired many shots, killing one soldier and wounding four others including three trainmen. The thieves fled on the engine with $10,000 in gold.
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Kielce
Russian
Poland
Senate Advances Emergency Currency Bill After Penal Code Passage
Washington Feb 27 after passing the penal code bill the senate moved the emergency currency bill to unfinished business giving it clear right of way. Senator Culberson and Senator Nelson spoke with Culberson proposing amendments including requiring national banks after Jan 1 1909 to hold lawful money in their own vaults for reserves and prohibiting deposit of public funds in banks for speculative purposes or stock exchange dealings.
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Washington
Senate
Aldrich
Culberson
Dem
Tex
Nelson
Rep
Minn
Stock Exchange
Banking Critique and Panic Era Debates
Senator Culberson denounced a pending currency bill while arguing it would empower financiers and foster stock market manipulation. Senator Nelson supported deposit guarantees and criticized New York lending practices and bank conduct during the panic, blaming big banks for deepening financial distortions.
Ohio man arrested for wife murder near Maynard
In Wheeling West Virginia on February 27 Isaac Crane of Maynard Ohio is under arrest for the murder of his wife. After a quarrel Mrs Crane fled the house Crane allegedly shot her twice in the back as she ran and she died on the highway.
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Wheeling
W. Ok
Isaac Crane
Maynard, O
Two Die Threatened in Five-Story Tenement Fire
Fire in a five story tenement on First street in New York leaves twelve seriously burned, two may die. Colegio Barbette and daughter Lena suffer most as residents scramble to roofs or fire escapes while firefighters rescue others.
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New York
First Street
Colegio
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