Debated discharge of Twenty-fifth Negro troops in Senate
The Senate debated President Roosevelt’s discharge of the Twenty-fifth Infantry’s black soldiers after the Brownsville raid. Foraker denounced the action as Misconceived power and biased testimony, urging a full investigation. Lodge defended the president. Scott praised the regiment’s record and cited historical service.
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Washinger
Foraker
Senate
Bay
Roosevelt
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownsville
Lodge
Scott
Ohio
Senate Military Committee
Senator Lodge
Blocksom
Zanesville
Vallandingham
Captain McDonald
The
Texas Rangers
Knox
Military
South Carolina
Twenty-Fifth Regiment
Twenty-fifth
Tenth Cavalry
White House
Arbiters Rule Pay Rise for Southern Railway Machinists
Washington reports Alfred P. Thom and P. J. Conlon, the agreed arbiters, set wage increases for Southern railway machinists. All shops except Birmingham and Sheffield gain 2 cents per hour from Aug 31, 1906, Birmingham and Sheffield gain 12.5 cents, apprentices gain 1 cent. New scale effective Sept 1, 1906 through Nov 5, 1907.
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Southern Railway
Washington
Alfred P. Thom
Southern Railway Company
P. J. Conlon
International Association of Machinists
Birmingham
Sheffield
Ruling by Infidels, Bishop Claims in France Refer
Little Rock dispatch reports Coadjutor Bishop John Morris returning from Rome and Paris stating that France is ruled by infidels and that the state church conflict stems from a broad anti religious drive. He blames divisions among Bourbonist, Orleanist and Bonapartist factions for Catholic persecution and calls government atheistic.
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Morris
France
Little Rock
John Morris
Rome
Paris
Hamilton Hanged for Parsons Family Killings in Missouri
John Hamilton, twenty, was hanged in Houston Missouri for the October 12 killings of farmer Barney Parsons, his wife, and three children. He confessed after the massacre, disposed of the bodies in a creek, and fled toward Iowa before his capture. This execution marked the county's first legal hanging.
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Parsons
Houston
John Hamilton
Hamilton
Barney Parsons
Iowa
Ten Terrorists Executed in Riga at Sunrise
Ten terrorists were executed in Riga as part of a robbery and bombing gang involved in murders over a month. The group also plotted to kill Baron Koeller-Sakomelsky, governor general of the Baltic provinces, with the executions taking place at sunrise.
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Riga
Russia
Baron Koeller-Sakomelsky
Baltic
Jeffries Will Not Fight Johnson in Los Angeles Telegram
New York telegram reports J. Jeffries, visiting Los Angeles, will not fight Jack Johnson the Black boxer. In Kansas City several shippers testified on car shortages before Interstate Commerce Commission Commissioner Prouty. Caracas reports President Castro cannot live much longer. death expected soon.
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Jeffries
New York
New York Evening Herald
Jam
J. Jeffries
Los Angeles
Jack Johnson
Heard Shippers
Kansas City
Prouty
Interstate Commerce Commission
Castro
Caracas
Religious education urged by church leaders in New York
In New York on December 21 Bishop Greer of the Protestant Episcopal diocese and Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler led a Church club discussion urging increased religious education for children. Butler warned secularization over a century and called for family and church based instruction beyond Sunday schooling. Greer pressed for urgent, clearer steps to deepen religion in children's minds and character.
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New York
Coadjutor Greer
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Church Club
Butler
Greer
Postmaster Nomination for Tulsa Turns to Senate
Washington Dec 21 The president submitted the nomination of J D Seaman for postmaster at Tulsa I T for confirmation by the Senate.
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Tulsa
Washington
Senate
J. D. Seaman
I. T
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Jett
Cyanthiana
Mr. Cockrill
Marcum
McComo City
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George Moore
Religious Education
Texas
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Gillette Razors
Cravenette
Oxford
Bryan
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