Roosev elt reorganizes Panama Canal management
President Roosevelt signs an executive order reorganizing Panama Canal work to be run like a major railroad system with defined roles from chief engineer to labor quarters manager. A general council may oversee the canal zone, while further commissions reform awaits his return to Washington.
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Resolutions Denounce Roosevelt Dismissal Of Infantry Units
In a New York Afro American church on Sunday the action by President Roosevelt to dismiss three companies of the Twenty-fifth Infantry without honor was sharply criticized. A unanimous rising vote adopted a statement disapproving the president, citing longstanding respect for him.
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Roosevelt
Twenty-fifth Infantry
United States
Main witness dies in Talliaferro Cree murder case
Mrs. J B Cree the principal witness in the murder case of J S Cree in Fort Worth dies on Monday. El Paso reports heavy snow blocking travel and harming livestock while Winona Mississippi reports church demolitions and about thirty bridges damaged with losses near fifty thousand dollars. North Louisiana sees a wind and rain storm with lightning hitting homes in Arcadia and floods and washouts. A Tennessee cyclone passes Fayetteville Lincoln county with blown down structures but no deaths.
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Shreveport
Arcadia
Hearst Endorses Bryan for President in San Antonio Visit
Hon. W. R. Hearst spoke in San Antonio en route to Mexico, declaring he supports Bryan for president and urging a Jeffersonian Democratic platform without compromise. He noted a Hearst club in the city but favorably said Bryan could lead the party in two years. County officials invited him to speak on his return.
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Humane Society to Furnish Testimony on Cruelty
Washington reports the Humane Society will provide testimony about cruelty in railroad shipments after the thirty six hour law. The information accuses carriers of holding far west shipments up to ninety hours without feeding and prompts a push to reopen the rail transport limits at the next Congress session.
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Interstate Commission
Far West
Mrs Bailey Dead Mother of Senator Bailey Passes Away
Crystal Springs Miss November 19 A prolonged illness ends for Harriet Bailey mother of United States Senator Bailey of Texas She dies Sunday afternoon as Senator Bailey travels to reach her bedside He and his sister Mrs Childress were with her the hour of death.
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Illinois Central
Texas minister commits suicide on train in California
Rev. A. L. Young of Taylor Texas, traveling with his wife on an westbound Southern Pacific train, killed himself in a toilet room with a razor. He suffered from nervous prostration and melancholia and was westward for his health. Every muscle and artery in his neck were severed, the spinal column prevented complete decapitation.
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Bakersfield
A. L. Young
Taylor
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Southern Pacific
Noted Mason Col. Mott Dies in Galveston at 68
Galveston November 19 Colonel M F Mott general commander of the Texas Masonic commandery and longtime Galveston citizen died Sunday morning He was in his sixty ninth year He suffered injuries October 18 when he fell from a street car and never recovered He had been a Master Mason since 1865 and held many important positions in the order.
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M. F. Mott
Texas Masonic Commandary
United Daughters of the Confederacy Elect Officers
Gulfport Mississippi November 19 officers named for the United Daughters of the Confederacy. President Lizzie G Henderson Mississippi first vice A Voorhees California second vice D A S Vaught Louisiana recording secretary A L Bowdell Alabama corresponding secretary A E Ripley Missouri treasurer L E Williams Kentucky Norfolk next meeting place.
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Lizzie G. Henderson
Mississippi
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California
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Alabama
A. E. Ripley
Missouri
L. E. Williams
Kentucky
Norfolk
Senator Beveridge to Propose Child Labor Bill
Senator Beveridge announces that on opening day of Congress he will introduce a bill in the Senate to prohibit employment of children under fourteen years of age. The statement comes from Mond Indiana dated November 19.
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Monuments Dedicated by Iowa at Lookout Mountain
A large Iowa delegation led by Governor Cummins dedicated a monument at Lookout Mountain marking Williamson's brigade of Asterhaus division and the Fourth, Twenty-fifth and Thirtieth Iowa infantry and First Iowa battery. A second monument at Sherman Heights honored the Tenth and Sixth infantry and Seventeenth volunteer infantry with remarks by Cummins and other local officers.
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Missionary Ridge
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Sixth Infantry
Seventeenth Volunteer Infantry
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J. B. Vandell
Desperate Gun Battle Near South Side Elevated Station
Policeman Luke Fitzpatrick was likely fatally wounded after a fierce four on four gunfight with bank robbers at the South Sid L elevated station at Sixty third street and Madison avenue early Monday. Lieutenant Monahan and Officer Direct were wounded. the other three suspects escaped.
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Fitzpatrick
Charles Hanson
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Calve Betrothed to Rich American Sailor
Paris reports Mme Calve has been betrothed to a wealthy American and plans to quit the operatic stage. She left Paris at night with her fiancé after asking secrecy, her servants unsure of destination or his name, suspected aboard a yacht in the Mediterranean.
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New Orleans Seethes Under Abnormally High Heat
New Orleans reports a heat wave with humidity as the thermometer climbs from 82 degrees at 7am to 85 degrees at noon on Monday. The hot spell began Saturday night and extended from the weekend into Monday, with the city records showing 83 degrees by Sunday morning.
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Snow Hits Panhandle With Downed Wires and Plows
Cold storm sweeps the Panhandle with heavy snow on Monday. Wires were reported down in several areas and snow plows operated along the Fort Worth and Denver line. Temperature dropped to 12 above zero in Childress Texas.
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Panhandle
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Denver
Flattering Figures Show Large State Fair Money
Dallas November 19 The State Fair of Texas reports for 1906 net receipts from entertainment at 105770 90 total gross receipts 206750 78 and disbursements 106032 72 An overdraft from last year was paid leaving cash on hand 84402 80 to be used for improving fair grounds and maintaining a sinking fund
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Smith
Campbell fatally shoots three in Taft drug store
In Muskogee on November 19 Ira G Campbell killed George Sullivan and Sullivan’s son-in-law Marion Warren along with a negro preacher Thomas Flad in a Taft drug store. The shootings stemmed from an alleged forced marriage between Sullivan’s daughter and Campbell’s nephew Ed Campbell.
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Muskogee
George Sullivan
Marion Warren
Thomas Flad
Taft
Sullivan
Ed Campbell
Woman Suffrage Favored by AFL in Minneapolis
Minneapolis November 19 with one dissenting vote the American Federation of Labor declared for woman suffrage. The decision reflects union support for equal voting rights and marks a notable stance by a leading labor organization.
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American Federation of Labor
Strike Settled in New York After Driver Wage Talks
New York auto drivers and the New York Transportation company reached a settlement. Wages will be raised but workers will still log twelve hours daily.
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New York
New York Transportation Company
Sleet and Rain Hit Denison and Westfield Fatal Burn
Sleet and rain fell in Denison on Monday as high winds swept through the area. In Westfield Mrs. B. M. Elsey died from severe burns sustained in a prior incident, authorities report.
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Westfield
Tex
Elsey
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