Denounce Discharge Denounced by North Carolina Negro Baptist
The Negro Baptist Association of North Carolina adopted resolutions denouncing President Roosevelt for discharging three companies of the Twenty fifth Infantry. The body with 160,000 members protests the action as arbitrary and calls for a committee to seek review by the highest tribunal.
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Salisbury
N. C
Negro Baptist Association of North Carolina
Roosevelt
United States
Saloon Hold Up Ends in Multiple Deaths in San Francisco
In a Sixth and Brannan street saloon, two masked robbers attempted a hold up. Ex policeman George OConnell fought back, four others were shot, with OConnell and robber killed. Robber identified as Frank Burke. John Byrne arrested as a second suspect. two wounded men Lynch and Delatour survive uncertainly.
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San Francisco
John O'Connell
Sixth
Brannan
George O'Connell
Sixth Street
O'Connell
Cying
Stephen Lynch
Jouls Delatour
Michael Kennedy
Frank Burke
Central Emergency Hospital
Lynch
Delatour
John Byrne
Roosevelt urged to rescind discharge of negro battalion
New York on November 16 the Republican club approved a resolution urging President Roosevelt to rescind his order discharging dishonorably a negro regiment battalion.
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New York
Republican Club
Roosevelt
Memphis executive admits seventy thousand dollar shortage
J E Hutchinson, second vice president of Delta Cotton, confesses to firm members and police that he is about 70000 in debt. He attempted suicide with a razor on November 2 but recovered. The shortage spans ten years and is linked to the People’s Realty failure involving his brother in law as promoter and stockholder.
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Memphis
J. E. Hutchinson
Delta Cotton Company
Hutchinson
People’s Realty Company
Bal linger accuses Bixby and Beall of wrongful enrollment
Webster Ballinger, Washington newspaper correspondent, told the senatorial committee that Tams Bixby and Dawes chief clerk W O Beall were responsible for the wrongful enrollment of about 2000 persons of mixed Negro and Indian blood in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. Bixby and Beall deny the accusations.
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Muskogee
Webster Ballinger
Washington
Tams Bixby
W. O. Beall
Dawes Commission
Ballinger
Bixby
Beall
Voting Strength. Territorial Votes in Oklahoma Union
Muskogee Nov 16 The first accurate estimate of voting strength from the recent election for delegates to the Oklahoma constitutional convention shows Indian Territory with 101000 votes versus 94690 for Oklahoma Territory. The 1900 census recorded 392000 for Indian Territory and 396000 for Oklahoma Territory.
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Muskogee
Territories
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Bishop Tigert Ill With Tonsillitis In Tulsa
Bishop John J. Tigert of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, home in Louisville, Ky, is critically ill in Tulsa with tonsillitis. He came to preside over a conference but was unable to officiate and his family has been summoned.
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Tulsa
John J. Tigert
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Louisville
New York Central Guilty of Rebating Case
A jury in Judge Holt's court found the New York Central railroad guilty of rebating. The decision states the railroad granted rebates totaling 26000 dollars to the American Sugar Refining company.
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New York
New York Central Railroad
Holt
American Sugar Refining Company
National Farmers Union Affiliated With Labor Body
The National Farmers Union formed with over a million members joined the American Federation of Labor in a limited degree at its convention in Minneapolis. Leaders proposed that federation members demand union made produce and farmers purchase only union goods, despite concerns that past farmer groups favored other elites. The plan was approved by a decisive vote.
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Minneapolis
Can Society of Equity
National Farmers’ Union
American Federation of Labor
Society of Equity
American Society of Equity
Prominent Ky Lawyer James Hodge Dies After Fall
Hopkinsville Ky November 16 Hon James Hodge a leading Smithland lawyer returned home at the steamboat landing and fell dead almost instantly Lawyer Bush who shared that bar fainted at his home and died shortly after Both men were nearing seventy years of age and friends express shock at the double tragedy
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Hopkinsville
James Hodge
Smithland
Bush
Taft Recommends Withholding 45000 Acres at Fort Sill
Secretary Taft has advised the interior secretary to withhold 45000 acres of Kiowa Comanche Apache pasture lands in southwest Oklahoma from sale. The lands would be added to the Fort Sill reservation to enlarge the post and provide replacement pasture for adjacent landowners.
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Taft
Fort Sill
Okla
Secretary of the Interior
Oklahoma
Congress
Fort Sill Reservation
Four Die in Cotton Gin Boiler Explosion
Fort Smith Nov. 16 Four men were killed and twenty injured by the explosion of a cotton gin boiler at Clarksville with several casualties considered fatally hurt.
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Fort Smith
Clarksville
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Bryan
Geo.a
Parker Building
Adams Telephones
Drug
Richelieu Brand
Richelieu
Main Street
E. J. Fountain
North Carolina
Thers
Tivonesr
Bandita
Ballinger, Bixsy, Beall
Bishop Tigert
American Federation
Bank of
Bryan, Texas
U. S
I. H.O. Boatwright
H. O. Boatwright
J. W. Howell
L. L. McInnis
Guy M. Bryan, JR
W. C. Davis
Brazos County
Tex
Columbia Opera Co
Grand Opera House
Pasha Olivente
Erminie
Smith Building
City National Bank
J.B. Hines
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