Southern States Panama Conference Seeks Gulf Port Steamers
Delegates from a broad southern region urged President Roosevelt to run at least two Panama Canal steamships from a Gulf port. They argue current New York bias harms Gulf coast industries and demand investigation into eastern state purchases and western access to isthmian trade. Former Senator Blackburn warned splitting ships would hurt workers and that no southern discrimination exists.
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Gulf Coast
New Orleans
Southern States
Panama
United States
Gulf of Mexico
New York
South
Gulf States
Mississippi
Ohio
Missouri
Alabama
Georgia
Roosevelt
Gulf
Colon
Panama Canal
Blackburn
Kentucky
Canal Commission
Secrets of
Taft
Isthmus
Gulf Port
No Panic in London's Stock Market Says Rothschild
Lord Rothschild told an Associated Press representative there is absolutely no danger of a panic in London over a Stock Exchange settlement. He warned of only possible small failures and said fears of big financial trouble and nationwide railroad nationalization are unfounded. Investors remain confident the market will bridge current difficulties.
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Lordoohschild
London
Lord Rothschild
Associated Press
Roosevelt
Secretary of the Treasury Accepts Substitution for Bonds
The Secretary of the Treasury announced substitution for United States 4 percent bonds of 1907 held for public deposits. Eligible replacements include other government bonds Philippine bonds Manila city Porto Rican District of Columbia bonds Hawaiian bonds and state municipal and high grade railroad bonds at 90 percent of market value. Substituted bonds must be assigned to the secretary for redemption under the March 14 1907 circular.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Washington
United States
City of Manila
District of Columbia
New York
Massachusetts
Department
Commutation Sparks Violent Reaction in Jail
In Hattiesburg Mississippi March 26 a condemned man known as Red Daniels leaped with joy at news of his sentence commutation by Governor Vardaman. He struck his head on a steel ceiling, fell unconscious, and suffered serious injury in the Augusta jail.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Vardaman Red Daniels
New
Augusta
Honduran President Reorganizes Army for Prolonged Fight
President Bonilla of Honduras has reorganized his army and plans extended resistance against Nicaraguan forces. The update came to the state department from Philip B. Brown, secretary of the American mission to Honduras and Guatemala, now in Tegucigalpa.
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Washington
Bonilla
Honduras
State Department
Philip B. Brown
Guatemala
Teguicagalpa
German Prince Arenberg Dies in Grefeld at 35
Prince von Arenberg a Centrist leader in the reichstag died in Grefeld Germany at age thirty five. The obituary notes his prominence in German politics and his death on March 26.
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Grefeld
Germany
Prince von Arenberg
Reichstag
Extra rifles and cartridges seized in Browneville probe
Testimony by Corporal William Ryan of Company K Twenty-sixth Infantry alleges soldiers secured 5000 to 7000 rounds of ammunition at Fort Brown and diverted 1000 rounds to a Brownsville junk dealer for $10. He claims rifles were defaced and kept as surplus, with several guns missing after the unit left.
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Washington
William Ryan
Twenty-sixth Infantry
Browneville
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Ryan
Brownsville
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Fort Brown
Cheesman
H. M. Fields
Philippines
Company K
Texas Rangers
Corporal Means
Parker
United States
Creager
Joseph H. Barnett
Eyos
Mondo Thomas Taylor
B. Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownesville
Taylor
Fort Niagara
Neb
Woman Shot to Death in Whisky Mob Attack
In Patrick county near Charity, Anna Hall was killed and her sister Jane Hall badly wounded by a mob of about a dozen men. Authorities link the attack to illicit whisky operatives who suspected the sisters of spying for revenue officers. The sisters lived with their nephew. the male head of the household was absent and escaped injury as the house was riddled with bullets. The incident occurred about seventy-five miles from Danville.
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Anna Hall
Stuart
Charity
Patrick County
Jane Hall
Danville
Treasury opens larger public deposits to aid bond redemptions
Washington reports Secretary of the Treasury expands public deposits to 15 million dollars for customs receipts to help redeem 1907 bonds and finance April disbursements. Checks for April interest on registered bonds and consols are mailed. subtreasury officers to cash on presentation and April coupons. In Paris Texas, Mann Shilling, 16, wins 1000 dollars from the Crescent City Derby. his brother George Shilling, a jockey, was killed in New Orleans last year.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
National Bank
New York
United States
Paris
Tex
C. H. Shilling
Mann Shilling
Montgomery
Crescent City
eGorge Shilling
New Orleans
Kiowa Parents Ask School to Let Children Home
In Lawton Oklahoma on March 26 Kiowa parents fear the world will end March 28 and appeal to the Anadarko Indian school to permit their children to return home. Catholic mission fathers urged them to keep their children at school.
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Lawton
Okla
Anadarko
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