Roosevelt Responds to Panama Canal Graft Claims
President Roosevelt transmits a special message to Congress addressing alleged corruption in acquiring the Panama canal site. He debunks accusations tied to The News and The World and names figures including Charles P Taft and Douglas Robinson while denying any government misconduct or destroyed documents.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Panama Canal
Senate
House of Representatives
United States
Panama
Indianapolis
the News
Delavan Smith
Smith
New York
The
World
Joseph Pulitzer
Pulitzer
Charles P. Taft
William H. Taft
Douglas Robinson
Cromwell
Panama Canal Company
W. H. Taft
Mr. Taft
Divine Healer Is Driven From Town
A mob in Macomi Illinois threatened the self styled Divine Healer Schlatter after he claimed President McKinley was an anarchist and that his assassination was justified though not yet timely. Police escorted Schlatter to a hotel and then to the first train out of town ending in Quincy Illinois.
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Macomi
Ill
McKinley
Schlatter
Quincy
Preble County Joins Dry Ranks In Local Election
In Preble county Ohio the Rose local option election produced a dry majority of 1,020 from 6,088 votes ten percent fewer than November. Ten saloons closed, nine in Eaton and one in West Manchester while Eaton went wet by 46 votes and Governor Harris carried the county by 150. Washington county also holds a heated county option campaign as Senator Rose’s home county votes next Friday.
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Eaton
Preble County
West Manchester
Harris
Marietta
Washington County
Rose
Dutch Capture Venezuelan Coast Guard Vessel 93 De Mayo
A Dutch warship has seized the Venezuela coast guard vessel 93 De Mayo off the coast. The crew was landed on the Venezuelan shore today as authorities reported the action.
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Willemstad
Coast Guard
Suh wab Gives His Views Today in Tariff Hearings
The House Ways and Means Committee plans to focus on the steel schedule as it drafts the tariff bill for a special session. Schwab will testify today, Carnegie is subpoenad but may wait for others like Frick and Gary. Republicans and Democrats prepare divergent minority reports. hearings discussed lumber metal and pulp and paper. Colonel Joe W Allison urged duty cuts on pressed camels hair cloth used in cottonseed oil production.
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Washington
House
Charles M. Schwab
Andrew Carnegie
Henry C. Frick
Pittsburg
E. H. Gary
Joe W. Allison
Texas
Dorando and Long Boat Race Tonight in Madison Square Garden
New York tonight features a marathon between Dorando Pietri and Tom Longboat, two of the world’s top long distance runners. They will race the full 24 miles 365 yards, with Pietri favored after recent Derby win and Longboat’s prior setback to Percy Smallwood.
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Madison Square Gar
Johnny Hayes
Rando Pietri
Garden
Hayes
Tom Longboat
Longboat
Percy Smallwood
Philadelphia
Cambridge Attorneys Push For Judge Troette To Gov Harris
A large group from Cambridge travels to Columbus to urge Governor Harris to appoint Judge J A Troette to succeed Judge Burrows on the circuit bench. Pressure from candidates and supporters includes James Joyce, D L Rankin, and several local lawyers.
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Gov. Harris
Cambridge
Burrows
Judge Roberts
Harris
Gov
Harmon
United States Senate
Charles P. Taft
Foraker
Guernsey County
Columbus
James Joyce
D. L. Rankin
Gregg, Dugan, Hpagleson
Enos
Hains Case Defense Outlined in New York Trial
Alexander Jardin selected as seventh juror in the Hains case as jury sits amid wearisome tale testing. Thornton J. Hains faces charges of being an accessory in the killing of editor William E B Annis at Bayside Yacht Club. Defense hinges on crowd danger prompting Hains to draw his revolver and back the crowd. Justice Crane aims to conclude trial by week end.
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N. Y
Talesmen
Thornton J. Hains
Willam EB. Annis
Bayside Yacht Club
Peter C. Hains, Jr
United States Army
John F. McIntyre
Hains
Fort Hamilton
Captain Hains
Meiintyre
Claudia Hains
Darrin
Shay
Evans Defends U S Navy Against Dreadnought Critics
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans says American battleships are vastly superior to England's dreadnoughts in Hampton's Broadway magazine. He asserts the turret must be penetrated before disablement and dismisses comparisons with Russian ships as ridiculous. He also notes Uncle Sam is well equipped.
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Sam
New York
England
Robley D. Evans
Hampton
Broadway
Henry Reuterdahl
Chicago Poultry Show Opens With Grand Exhibits
The Chicago poultry show opens as a leading year end event with over 1,000 chickens entered and prizes totaling more than 10 000 dollars. Exhibits include chickens pigeons turkeys ducks geese and other birds valued up to 10 000 dollars for a single hen and 6 000 to 100 for many others.
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Chicago
New York
Boston
Papke Kelly Bout Middleweights Set For Twenty Five Rounds
In Los Angeles tonight Hugo Kelly the Italian of Chicago and Billy Papke the Illinois Thunderbolt meet at the Jefferies Athletic Club in a twenty five round middleweight bout. A large crowd is expected as both fighters are known for endurance. The winner will challenge Stanley Ketchel for the middleweight title.
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Los Angeles
Fistiana
Hugo Kelly
Chicago
Billy Papke
Ilinois Thunderbolt
Jeffries Athletic Club
Papke
Stanley Ketchel
Kelly
Ketchel
Brownsville Shooting Probe Names Colored Soldiers as Culprits
President releases Browne Baldwin report on the Brownsville Texas incident of August 1906. It states most members of Company B were active or complicit, with concealment deemed a grave offense. Foraker addresses the Senate as the inquiry continues.
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Washington
Senate
Brownsville
Tex
Secretary of War
Herbert J. Browne
Department
W. G. Baldwin
Company B
Senator Foraker
Chickens Gone but $800 Left in Coop Theft
Beloit resident Rollin Huff found a robber had dropped notes and checks totaling $800 after a chicken coop theft. A man known to Huff later asked to buy his chickens and confessed to the theft, with a settlement reached that concealed the offender's name.
Theodore Burton Starts for Ohio Senate Fight
Representative Burton of Ohio, after visiting President Roosevelt, reiterates that he will move to enter the senatorial fight and devote all effort to that cause. He declines comment on Ohio open election proposals without a caucus.
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Washington
Burton
Ohio
Roosevelt
Colonel Henry A Darling Dead After Civil War Service
Colonel Henry A Darling, eighty, veteran of Civil War, died at his son in law Judge L W Morris home in Toledo. He served in a Connecticut regiment and earned a major for defending supplies at Fort Gibson and aiding Major Banks's army. He was brevetted lieutenant colonel and served with Sherman at Atlanta. Mrs George Step, North Eleventh street, was summoned to Barnesville by news of her sister Mrs Leah Gleaves illness.
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Henry A. Darling
L. W. Morris
Darling
Connecticut
Fort Gibson
Banks
Sherman
Atlanta
George Step
North Eleventh Street
Barnesville
Leah Gleaves
Supreme Court Limits Interstate Commerce Questions in Harriman Case
The Supreme Court ruled that the Interstate Commerce Commission cannot press questions about private transactions in railroad securities during an initiative inquiry. Justice Holmes announced the majority opinion limiting inquiries to cases with complaints, while Justices Day Harlan McKenna dissented, warning the decision narrows the ICC’s reach.
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Edward H. Harriman
Otto H. Kahn
Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Commission
Interstate Commerce Law
Justice Holmes
Messrs. Harriman and
Harlan
McKenna
Justice Day
United States Circuit Court
Northern District of
New York
Harriman and Kahn
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