Conditions on Canal and Wallace Testimony on Isthmus
In Washington on February 7 John F. Wallace former chief engineer on the Isthmian Canal testified before Senate committees. He said a year of work showed his successor ignored analyses and that the War Secretary refused to use his findings. Wallace described material delays cabling orders and warned the French excavators were not economical or fit for use. He opposed an eight hour day and warned contracting would raise costs by about twenty percent.
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Washington
Senate
John F. Wallete
Admiral Walker
Mr. Wallace
Wallace
Four Times Shot Kills Young Man Near Jewett Texas
A young man named C. F. Hagoog from Grand Saline Texas was shot and killed at a railroad camp four miles north of Jewett while returning from a saloon near the Houston and Texas Central right of way. He got into a row with Patrick Foley at Foley's camp and was shot four times. Officers have not determined who fired the fatal shots. Foley suffered a severe wound to the hand.
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C. F. Hagoog
Grand Saline
Tex
Houston and
Texas Central
Patrick Foley
Foley
Forty Years an Invalid Die Mrs Bennett Passes in San Antonio
Mrs. A. W. Bennett widow of A. W. Bennett and mother-in-law of B. F. Yoakum died Tuesday night in San Antonio after a long illness described as forty years invalidism. She had been gradually sinking for some time.
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A. W. Bennett
B. F. Yoakum
San Antonio
Runaway Horse Injures Two in Grimes Oklahoma
In Grimes Oklahoma on February 7 Mrs Anne Croneger aged seventy was killed and her daughter Mrs Zelphia Myers injured when a runaway horse caused a sand bank collision. Mr Alvers was thrown face down into a sand bank narrowly escaping suffocation. In Washington the National Association of Minvtcon War Veterans announces its thirty third annual reunion in the city February 22 and 23 with Mrs Moore Murdock of this city in charge.
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Grimes
Okla
Anne Croneger
Zelphia Myers
Alvers
Myers
Washington
National Association of
National Capital
Moore Murdock
Bill for New District in Indian Territory Introduced
Senator Long of Kansas has introduced a bill in the Senate to create the Twenty-eighth recording district in Indian Territory within the Cherokee nation. A second bill proposes terms for Federal court at Bartlesville and Wilburton seeking official court locations.
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Washington
Senator Long
Kansas
Senate
Indian Territory
Bartlesville
Wilburton
Missouri woman dies after wedding reception in Kingfisher
Mrs. W Harmon of DeKalb county Missouri collapsed with paralysis while greeting guests at a wedding reception in Kingfisher Oklahoma and soon died. She was visiting a sister in the town.
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Kingfisher
Okla
Fire destroys six shops near Jackson after eight hour blaze
Jackson Mississippi February 7 A fire at West Station about forty miles north of Jackson destroyed six business houses a bank and a livery stable causing an estimated loss of two hundred thirty thousand dollars The blaze lasted eight hours
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Jackson
Miss
West Station
Generosity 10 Grd Citizens of Valath Accord
Citizens of Valath Accord react to a grant offer amid tension over aid and policy. Local leaders emphasize fair distribution while critics urge transparency and accountability in the funding process.
Duluth Strangers Pay Funeral Costs for Young Woman
Miss Bessie McFarland, 22, a New Orleans worker, faced sending her mother's body from Duluth to Ohio without funds. Citizens chartered aid after her telegraph pleas, paying burial expenses and transport while her mother, Mrs. Mary McFarland, died of consumption in an Ohio home. Neighbors covered the casket with flowers.
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Nuluth, Minn
Ohio
New Orleans
Strang
Bessie McFarland
Duluth
Mary McFarland
Bessie
Homeseekers Start for West and Southwest
The Record-Herald reports 15000 to 25000 homeseekers left Chicago on Tuesday bound for Memphis St Louis Kansas City and Omaha. Passenger men watching the movement call it record breaking with more people seeking homes in the south west in the last three months than in any comparable period. John Sebastian Rock Island passenger traffic manager called the movement almost beyond belief.
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Chicago
the Record-Herald
West
Gateway of Chicago
Memphis
St. Louisa
Kansas City
Omaha
Southwest
John Sebastian
Rock Island
Prizefight death in Colma leads to manslaughter charge
Autopsy on Alexander Devin, the boy killed in an unlicensed prizefight at the Colma club pavilion, results in manslaughter charges against Chiefie Johnson. Authorities seek Johnson’s whereabouts as San Mateo sheriff and local police pursue him. Inquest postponed to Friday afternoon due to witness issues.
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Boy
Colma
San Francisco
Alexander Devin
Colma Club
Chiefie Johnson
Johnson
Sanmateo County
Special Medals Ordered for War with Japan
An imperial rescript reported by Russki Invalid orders medals for all war participants with Japan. Port Arthur defenders receive silver, land or sea combatants light bronze, noncombatants dark bronze. Gossip says Admiral Bireliff is replaced by Dikoff as minister of marine with Shoukain and Balk nif named vice ministers.
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St. Petersburg
Japan
Russki
Port Arthur
Admiralty
Bireliff
Marine
Dikoff
Shoukain
Balknif
Mile. Mauricia Dethiers Dies In Circus Accident
Lisbon dispatch reports Mile. Mauricia Dethiers, famed Parisian performer, in her act The Circle of Death collided with the arena when her automobile left track. Chest crushed arms and limbs broken surgeons say she is dying as women spectators faint and a mob threatens to burn the circus.
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Chicago
the Tribune
Lisbon
Mile
Mauricia Dethiers
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