Senate debate over post office fraud investigate
At Washington on December 9 the Senate discussed the post office department fraud probe. Mr Gorman called the investigation partisan and countered charges against its promoters while Mr Lodge defended the work as thorough, but the Penrose resolution was referred to the executive committee and then left unresolved.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Senate
Gorman
Lodge
Leedge
Executive Committee On Post Offices
Penrose
Jnce
House Votes to Seek Post Office Department Records
The House authorized the committee on post offices and post roads to request the postmaster general deliver papers for the post office department investigation. The goal is to obtain essential information for proper consideration of appropriation bills.
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House
Washington
Committee On
Post Office Department
Overstreet
Judiciary Committee
Isle of Pines
Cuba
Senate
Riots in Berkley over alleged voter registration actions
Democrats in Berkley, Virginia, force County Treasurer Lyons from office amid claims he was registering Black voters. Armed crowds patrol streets. militia may be called from Norfolk or Portsmouth. County Clerk Martin attacked in Berkley police station. Lyons allegedly kicked downstairs during the incident. Several shots fired, no injuries reported. Meanwhile Zion City governance returns to John Alexander Dowie after creditors' satisfaction ends receivership.
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Virginia
Norfolk
Dee
Berkley
Lyons
Portsmouth
Martin
W. S. Lyons
Convicted Mail Pouch Fraud Case Tied to Baltimore Clerks
In Baltimore, Thomas W. McGregor and Columbus Ellsworth Upton were convicted in federal court of conspiring to defraud the government over 20 000 leather mail pouches for the fre delivery service. Charles F. E. Smith acted as the principal witness against them.
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Veronoa
Baltimore
Thomas W. McGregor
Columbus Ellsworth Upton
United States District Court
Charles FE. Smith
Upton
McGregor
Bryan visits French chamber and senate in Paris
William J. Bryan visited the chamber of deputies and senate in Paris on Tuesday. He compared French parliamentary methods with those of the United States Congress and was accompanied by Senator Clemenceau who introduced him to Premier Combes. Bryan discussed American economic and political fairs with Combes.
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Chamber of Deputies
Paris
William J. Bryan
Senate
United States Congress
Clemenceau
Premier Combes
Bryan
Combes
Cotton Manufacturers Plan National Curtailment
At a Charlotte meeting with 100 delegates representing 244 292 spindles and 8965 looms a plan to curtail cotton goods production nationwide was laid out. A fifteen member North Carolina group was to meet others in Washington to form a unified national plan and call a future manufacturers’ meeting. The motion urged national entailment and a world market discussion in Washington.
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Alfred A. Thompson
Raleigh Cotton Mill
Mr. Thompson
Washington
North Carolina Association
Middle
New England
United States
Jail Dynamiting Plot Aimed At Freeing Chicago Bandits
Chicago reports an alleged plan to dynamite the county jail to release four prisoners Neidermeir Van Dine Marx and Roeski. A friend of Neidermier claimed the explosion would occur at 8:30 PM Tuesday. Plainclothes police guarded the jail. no suspects or activity were seen that night.
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Chicago
Neidermeir
van Dine
Marx
Roeski
Neidermier
Longley aeroplane wreck ends test on launch tramway
The Longley airship broke in two during a Tuesday test. it glided to the end of the tramway, broke apart, and fell into the Potomac river where Professor Manley and crew recovered it. In Wetumka Indian Territory a hunting accident left C R Louis critically wounded when a pistol fired from a pocket.
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Washington
Longley
Professor Manley
Potomac River
Wetumka
I. T
Dee
C. R. Louis
Four Shot at Segundo Coke Ovens Struggle in Trinidad
In Trinidad Colorado on December date four coal miners Italians and Sicilians were shot by guards at the Segundo coke ovens of Colorado Fuel and Iron. One man is dead another dying a third shot in the groin likely to die and a fourth jailed. Seven were in the party three escaped. Guards claim miners fired first. No guards wounded. Local tension with reports of planned attacks by Italian strikers as New Se settlement braces for violence.
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Trinidad
Colo
Segundo
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Logans
New Se
Gead
Nearly All Die as FireConsumes Freehold Family Home
In Clarksburg New Jersey a two story frame dwelling burned, killing Clayton Fowler forty two and his wife thirty five and their four children aged sixteen thirteen two and six months. The blaze started on the lower floor trapping the family as the oldest son leaped from a window to escape. The parents and three younger children perished.
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Freehold
N. J
Clarksburg
Clayton Fowler
Mrs. Afraid
Governor Grants Clemency to Father Felippe vil lahase
San Juan P R Dee Hunt pardons Father Felipe vil lahase the Catholic priest convicted Sept 30 at Humaco for violating civil marriage law. Attorney General Sweet opposed clemency but the governor cited assurances from the priest and bishop that violations would end.
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San Juan
R. Dee. Hunt
Felipe Villahase
Humaco
Sweet
Hunt
Territorial convention of negro voters convenes in Guthrie
About 300 delegates attended the 9-A territorial convention of negro voters in Guthrie Tuesday. R. Emmett Stewart was elected chairman and W. M. Fulbright of Oklahoma City named secretary. Street Commissioner Moody of Guthrie was knocked down and robbed in his yard of 3 dollars.
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Guthrie
Okla
R. Emmett Stewart
W. M. F Fulbright
Oklahoma City
Moody
Guthrie, Okla
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