Open Letter on Virginia Debt Sparks Lawmaker Debate
Charleston West Virginia February 24 special Democratic members in both houses refuse to be bound by the joint conference action on a Virginia debt commission and indicate an open letter to the public. A senate resolution to publish joint mine investigating committee evidence passed. Senators Haslett Post and Thorn granted three day leaves. Senator Fisher indefinitely due to a ill child. House amendments to the McDermott railway bill alter the measure. Thorn bureau of public accounting bill read first time. A motion to suspend rules failed.
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Charleston
W. Va
House
Senate
Virginia
Joint
Haslett
Post
Thorn
Fisher
McDermott
House Judiciary Committee
Wetzel
Bureau of Public Accounting
Treasury calls banks to return public funds
The secretary of the treasury announced a call on national banks to withdraw about 25 percent of public funds held in active deposits of $100,000 or more where withdrawal does not impede treasury business. The move would release roughly $35,000,000 back to the treasury.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury Department
Treasury call outlines payment schedule to March 238
Payments under this call will be made as follows: ten percent of the amount called on or before March 9 and the remaining 15 percent on or before March 238. Advices from across the country indicate that this portion of government funds on deposit with national banks can be withdrawn without detriment to financial conditions.
Noted Educators Gather for National Conference
Educators of national reputation gather in Washington at the New Willard hotel for the forty sixth annual conference of the department of superintendence of the National Educational Association. The meeting will advance rural and agricultural education and push for larger federal funding. Sessions occur at the Metropolitan M E Church with other venues used. President Roosevelt will host visiting educators at the White House Thursday.
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Washington, D. C
New Willard Hotel
Department of Superintendence
National Educational Association
Department of Rural and
Roosevelt
White House
Train Derailed West of Sedalia Injures Two
Westbound Missouri Pacific passenger train No 1 from St Louis to Kansas City left the rails two miles west of Sedalia. The baggageman and engineer were slightly hurt. No passengers were injured.
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Sedalia
St. Louis
Kansas City
Pure Water Means Health Distilled Water Ad
Bluefield Bottling Co advertises palatable distilled water for sale at drug stores and newsstands with phone contact 282. The copy emphasizes health benefits of pure water.
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Bluefield Bottling CO
Two Battleships to One Commercial Vessel Debate
In Washington on February 24 the senate debated ocean mail subsidy and currency bills. Senator Gallinger urged the mail subsidy to boost the American merchant marine, while Senator Depew supported it. White and Simmons criticized the Aldrich currency bill, and Gallinger warned of naval imbalance if the measure fails. An army appropriations bill was also considered with debate on military spending and pay.
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Senate
Senator Gallinger
Depew
Simmons
North Carolina
White
Maryland
Gallinger
United States
Evans
Golden Gate
Pacific
South Atlantic
Gulf Coast
South America
Mr. Gallinger
Hampton Rocks
San Francisco
Danlzell
Hull
Iowa
Styndon
Texas
Holliday
Indiana
Burns and Johnson May Fight for Championship in England
London reports a British syndicate may stage a Burns versus Johnson heavyweight title bout in England within the next few months. The offer comprises a purse to host the match in this country.
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Burns
Johnson
London
Tommy Burns
Jack Johnson
Johnston
England
American Car Leads in New York to Paris Race
Late today the leading American car was near Chesterton Indiana forty one miles from Chicago with race progress about a mile per hour.
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Chicago
Chesterton
Ind
Speaker Overrules Rules Committee On House Floor
Washington February 21 The speaker overruled the committee on rules on the house floor forcing a dispute with Representative Dalzell who had proposed a resolution to investigate alleged peonage in the southern states. The objection by Representative Mann prevented immediate action.
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Wasington
Committee On Rules
Fits
House of Representatives
Representative Dalzell
Dalzell
Mann
Illinois
Hitchcock Trial Postponed Amid Public Sentiment Shift
Raymond Hitchcock the comedian had his trial postponed for one week by Justice Dowling due to counsel commitments. Public sentiment has shifted from certainty of guilt to belief he may be the target of blackmail or misrepresentation as new details emerge about a supposed victim and her brother’s guilty plea.
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New York
Raymond Hitchcock
Supreme Court of Justice Dowling
Hitchcock
Gerry Society
District Attorney's Office
Bank Deposits in Chicago Reach Historic Highs
Chicago banks report deposits at the start of February 15 totaling 2 345 051 824 dollars, the largest in their history. The rise reflects renewed confidence after the money panic, with funds flowing in from the western United States. The prior high was 340 495 702 dollars on March 20 1907.
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National Banks of
Taken to Marion
Roanoke Virginia February 24 Frank Cauthorn the young man tried at Christiansburg for killing his former sweetheart Ada Jones was acquitted of murder but found insane by the jury He was spirited out of Christiansburg and hurried to Roanoke county jail at Salem to prevent a lynching and today was taken to the Western State Insane Asylum at Marion for confinement
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Roanoke
Frank Cauthorn
Christiansburg
Ada Jones
Roanoke County
Salem
Western State Insane Asylum
Marion
Alkalin remains trapped in Arctic ice off Greenland
The Philadelphia bark Alkalin lies frozen in ice fields north of Greenland since October while sailing from the west coast toward Copenhagen and Philadelphia. The Danish cryolite mines company plans to send two ships north in April to search for the vessel and its twelve crew.
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Philadelphia
Greenland
Copenhagen
Blue Ribbon Record Ten Years Of First Place Attracts Dealers
The Blue Ribbon Extracts mark a decade of top performance with leading sales to dealers and strong consumer reception. The record highlights ten years of steady growth and market leadership.
Canonization Dream In Mass Murder At Denver Church
In Denver on February 24 Father Leo Heinrichs was killed during a sacrament at St Elizabeth's Church. The killer, Giuseppe Guarnacco, claims anarchist motives and may be deemed a martyr by some church members. Guarnacco, a Sicily native, had taught anarchy for twenty years and arrived in Denver two weeks before Christmas. He is said to have displayed anarchist writings and a list of rulers’ murders.
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Colo
Leo Heinrichs
Guiseppe Guarnaccio
St. Eliza‘beth’s
Leo
Father Busebrust
St. Elizabeth's
Father Provincial
Paterson
N. J
Father eLo
Sicily
America
Guarnaccio
Portugal
Supreme Court Rules Against Railroad Rate Law Repeal
The Great Northern versus United States case ends with the Supreme Court ruling against repealing Elkins act section 1 prohibiting rebates. Minnesota circuit court fines the railroad $1,000 for each of fifteen violations of the Elkins act.
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Washington
Great Northern
The
United States
United States Supreme Court
United States Circuit Court
Minnesota
Oil Lamp Explosion Sets Pittsburg Home Ablaze
A lamp exploded at the home of John Gushick in Pittsburg on February 24 causing a fire that seriously burned three people and sent twenty boarders fleeing in night clothes. Mrs. Gushick was fatally burned while her husband and a boarder suffered severe injuries helping to extinguish her burning clothes. Several others were slightly injured amid the panic as twenty boarders slept upstairs.
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Pittsburg
John Gushick
Morse case moves toward trial as plea remains
New York February 24. Charles W. Morse defense counsel Philip J. Britt asked Justice Dowling for leave to inspect minutes of the special grand jury that returned two indictments for grand larceny. The judge reserved decision. The date for changing or withdrawing the plea of not guilty was not set, and will be rescheduled for trial.
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New York
Philip J. Britt
Charles W. Morse
Justice Dowling
Lcave
Morse
Four mail clerks hurt in train wreck near Floville
A Jacksonville and Chicago limited train No. 14 on the Southern railroad derailed about five and a half miles south of Floville Georgia. The engine baggage mail and combination car and a Pullman left the track. Four mail clerks were injured in the incident.
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Jacksonville
Chicago
Southern Railroad
Santa Fe to Hire 486 New Operators on Gulf Lines
Topeka Kansas Feb 24 The Santa Fe railroad says 486 new operators are needed on gulf lines to meet the nine hour work day starting March 4 About 60 more are required on the eastern grand division While not sure they can find enough men notices were posted at Newton shops informing employees not to report until March 2 About 200 workers are affected
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Topeka
Kas
Menexer
Santa Fe Railroad
Santa Fe
Newton
Nunzio Nasi Sentenced for State Treasury Peculation
Rome February 24 Nunzio Nasi once minister of public instruction was sentenced to eleven months and twenty days in prison for continued peculation from the state treasury. The senate in high court also barred him from public office for four years and two months. His secretary Signor Lombardo was acquitted for lack of evidence.
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Nunzio Nasi
Senate
Nasi
Signor Lombardo
Black Hand Outrage Strikes Brooklyn Music Store
Police sweep Brooklyn's lower district after a bomb blasts Peter Licata’s music store in the early hours. The blast shatters the front as two children are badly injured, amid ongoing threats to Licata which he had ignored.
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Brooklyn
Peter Licata
Italisa
Licata
Navy Battleships Draw Lima Crowds as Visitors Surge
Lima Peru February 24 crowds flock to inspect American battleships still drawing tens of thousands after four days. Yesterday 30 000 visitors from Callao toured the ships, enjoying thorough inspection of the great fighting machines and the chance to view the vessels up close.
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Lima
Peru
Callao
Navy Ordnance Officer Dies Suddenly in Norfolk
Lieut. Commander Isaac Knight Seymour of the United States Navy, ordnance officer at the Norfolk Navy Yard, died suddenly in Norfolk tonight in his forty first year. He was regarded as one of the best ordnance experts in the naval service. He is survived by a widow.
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Norfolk
Isaae Knight Seymour
United States Navy
Norfolk Navy Yard
Naval Service
Edison Improving After Ear Abscess Operation
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, underwent an ear abscess operation last night. He is resting quietly today and surgeons expect his release in a few days.
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New York
Thomas A. Edison
Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve and Oyster Ad Notice
DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve praised for plies and sold by all druggists. An old style want ad references George Elliot on reciprocal needs and urges sealing Sublette Barnes oysters. Dated 2 24 31.
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DeWitt
George Elliot
Sublette & Barnes
Elliott accused kidnapper seizes child after special train
Mrs. John W. Elliott filed for divorce in Fayette Kentucky and gained custody. She says Elliott abducted their child and led a chase through Kentucky Ohio and West Virginia. A writ of habeas corpus was issued but Elliott escaped on a chartered train before capture.
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Huntington
W. Va
John W. Enliott
Spencer
Elliott
Fayette County
Kentucky
Ohio
West Virginia
Woman Slashed in Dance Hall Incident on Scott Street
Lon Smith, a colored man, attacked Hester Self with a pocket knife during a crowded Scott Street dance hall event about 11:30 last night. Self sustained a four inch stab wound to the breast area but clothing spared a more serious injury. Police arrested Smith behind the O’Leary block and he awaits a preliminary hearing in Squire Godhey’s court.
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Scott Street
Lon Smith
Hester Self
Sith
Doe Fudge
Mary Pinkard
Smith
Waiters
Calloway
Green
O'Leary
Releigh Street
Squire Godhey
Death of Little Child Ernest Arters
The six month old Ernest Arters died at 12:45 this morning at his grandmother Mrs. Sarah Barrow's home in Ern est after a sudden pneumonia developed from a recent cold. His parents mourn with many friends. funeral services will be held at 3 PM Wednesday at the household and interment follows in Maple Park cemetery.
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Ernest
Ernest Arters
Maple Park Cemetery
Train Derailed Near Encinal with Passengers from Toledo and Chicago
A special train carrying a party from Toledo, Ohio, and Chicago led by Charles Gates reportedly derailed at Encinal, forty five miles from Laredo. All cars left the track and physicians are being sought as officials issue telegraph notices for help.
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Tex
Toledo
Chicago
Charles Gates
Encinal
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