Panama Canal Zone study trip by house committee
Twelve members of the House committee on foreign and interstate commerce travel from Charleston to Colon to study the Panama Canal Zone government and judiciary, plus canal construction. They aim to consider attaching the zone to a southern federal circuit, with return to Washington January 14. Members include Hepburn Cushman Kennedy Ryan Stevens Esch Townsend Knowland Hubbard Adamson Richardson Bartlet Morse Humphreys Lise Conner Loud and clerk J P Bryan.
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Panama Canal Zone
House Committee On Foreign and Interstate Commerce
Charleston
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Congressional
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Hepburn
Iowa
Cushman
Kennedy
Ohio
Ryan
New York
Stevens
Minnesota
Esch
Wisconsin
Townsend
Michigan
Knowland
California
Hubbard
West Virginia
Adamson
Georgia
Richardson
Alabama
Bartlet
Morse
Wisconson
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Lise
Conner
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Loud
J.P. Bryan
T R Has a New Scheme
Announcement from the White House on Sunday outlines a plan for a North American conference on natural resource conservation to be held at the White House on February 18. President Roosevelt has addressed letters to the Governor General of Canada the Premier of Canada and President Diaz of Mexico, to be delivered in person by Gifford Pinchot.
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White House
North America
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Canada
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Mexico
Gifford Pinchot
Disbarred attorney cannot hold office in Minnesota
Sioux Falls dispatch reports Judge Joro of the circuit court ruled Geo W formerly of Logan not eligible to hold the office of state's attorney for Minnehaha county after disbarment by the supreme court amid campaign irregularities in practice.
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Sioux Fall
Geo. W
Logan
Minnehaha
Egan
Hague Says Venezuela Row Provisionally Ended
The Hague reports the foreign office states the Venezuela Netherlands dispute is provisionally ended. The Netherlands will wait for the Gomes administration in Caracas to advance settlement proposals aimed at a definite resolution of disputes.
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Gomes
Caracag
Stricken Alone in Auto: Wealthy Manufacturer Dies in NY
Hiram B. Wealthy, a former Morton Trust Co. officer, dies of heart failure after an auto incident near Spring Naler. The 8 year old Hiam Berry and other details appear garbled, but the report notes his status as a wealthy manufacturer and an ongoing dispute with calling parties in New York Detective Bureau records.
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Berry
New York
Spring Naler
N.v
Hiram B
Morton, Trust Co
Show Men Defy Mayor Over License Closures
New York reports Sunday operation of hundreds of cheap theatres after Mayor McClellan canceled licenses on Christmas Eve. Injunctions bar police interference while a supreme court hearing seeks to rescind licenses. Exhibitors and allied organizations mobilize funds and support from clerks and others against closing orders.
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Supreme Court
McClellan
Manag
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Cler Symen
Prophet Lee J Spangler Disappears After World End Forecast
In Neack New York on Sunday prophet Lee J Spangler predicted the world’s end but vanished early yesterday. A crowd of women followers in white attended the burial of his coat at Oak Hill cemetery, while others scoured the area toward the mountain where he promised a meeting with adherents.
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N.Y. T
Lee J. Spangler
Lin
Oak Hill Cemetery
Germany to seek low tariff with America
Indications that Germany will be among the first European nations to seek a tariff arrangement with the United States. The goal is minimum tariff rates under the new tariff to be passed at a special congressional session after March 4, next.
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Washington, BD
Germany
America
Congress
Suffragists Seek Support from Mrs Potter Palmer in Chicago
Active suffrage workers plan to win Mrs Potter Palmer, Chicago social leader, to back the cause. Equal suffrage officers decided to learn her views and to mobilize influence for women's municipal voting.
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Potter Palmer
Chicago
Mra
Herailf
Equal Suffrage Organizations
Palmer
Big St Paul Brokerage House Suspends Business in One Day
Geraghty & Co a long established St Paul commission broker, with Fargo office, suspends operations citing dull grain market. J C Ger plans Chicago capital search to resume soon. Fargo manager McCarrel reports firm closed trades at night prices, attorney Cr D O'Brien handling matters, return sought by morning.
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Fargo
Geraghty & Co
Paul
Ile J. C. Ger
Chicago
R. McCarrel
Cr. D. O'Brien
Grobe
St. Paul
McCarrel Jett
Earthquake Strikes Southern Italy with Fatal Toll
Rome reports a serious and deadly earthquake hitting Sicily with calamitous damage in Caltanissetta Mineo and Catania. Calabrian news note three dead and sixty wounded, mass panic and evacuations as crews begin demolitions to prevent further danger.
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Italy
Sicily
Caltanissetta
Mineo
Catania
Gosta
Syracuse
Calabria
Stefaconi
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Inis
Three Boys Fatally Injured In Mine Powder Incident
Fairmont West Virginia December 2 Oscar Carr and three companions were probably fatally injured when a cigarette stump ignited mine powder. Injured youths include Oscar Hest sixteen with extensive burns and cuts, John Laughlin sixteen with facial and arm wounds, Elmore Sidwell sixteen burned on face and hands, Jennings Smith thirteen burned and cut, Sense Wilaga fourteen with severe head burns, and John Boland with eye damage. Most gravely hurt were taken to hospitals as local officials investigated. Phelan of Dickinson visiting Parag and soon to St Paul to finish western state trip.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Oscar Carr
Oscar Hest
John Laughlin
Elmore Sidwell
Jennings Smith
Sense Wilaga
John Boland
Burna
Hains Will Take Stand In Shooting Trial
In Flushing New York Thornton J Hains faces trial for the killing of William E Annis with his brother Captain Peter C Hains Jr The defense plans to call two eyewitnesses and several subpoenaed witnesses to argue the shooting occurred in defense of the brothers. Gen and Mrs Peter C Hains are expected to testify about Capt Peter C Hains mental condition. The case likely extends ten days with special prosecutor White noting exhaustive cross examination.
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N. Y
Thornton J. Hains
P. C. Haina, Jr
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Hains Brothers
Bay Side
Annis
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Sal
Hains Concrete Mixer Co
Thornton Haine
Bay Ride
Sandy Hook
Weaver
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Hains
Thornton J. Haine
Peter C. Hains
William E. Annis
Bayside
Justice Crane
Supreme Court
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Will Ter
Thornton Havia
Annix
Thornton Hains
C. Raymond Weaver
Bayaide
Will
Taft Cabinet Under Consideration List
Washington December roundup lists taft cabinet prospects with names from multiple states. George Von L Meyer Myron T Merrick Robert Bacon H Swinney Frank B Kellogg Wade Biles Frank H Hitchcock James Wilson Gifford Pinchot James FR Case William Loeb II and others named for posts including treasury agriculture commerce and labor.
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the Treasury
George von L. Meyer
Massachusetia
Myron T. Merricl
Oale
Robert Bacon
New York
Fannistant
H. Swinney
Firet National Bank
Kansas City
Frank B. Kellogg
Pases
Wickershars
Ae. Aleon Ae
California
Wade Bille
Frank H. Hitchcock
James Wilson
Town
Gifford Pinchot
Interior
James FR
Ohio
J. B. Case
Kangas
Commerce and Labor
William Loeb
Ballinace
Aleattle
Wash
William RK. Wheeler
M. D. Pastor Slashes Throat With a Razor
Chicago reports a violent incident during a Go hanhar peace conference led by Dr Otoman Zar Adusht Ha Nin, with followers of Zoroastrian Persian teachings in the United States involved.
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Chicago
Otoman Zar
Adusht Ha'Nish
Maihsenan Temple
United States
Gompers Cuts Out The Unfair List
New York December 28 Notwithstanding protest against the fail sentences impound on Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and James Morrison the Central Federated Union received a letter from Gompers stating he discontinued the wedint patronize at its factory on counsel advice The Federationist labor organ notes the union also suspended its unfair list for a time and a resolution protesting Judge Wrights decision was circulated at the same meeting
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Gamuel Gomper
John Mitchell
Jank Morrison
Central Federated Union
Gompers
Ins Fator
Federationist
Central Federater Union
Slayers of Senator Carmack Denied Bail
Rev Robert L Dougherty a Kansas City native and son of Rev Jai Dougherty reportedly killed himself in Buchanan North Dakota after a mental breakdown. Born 1888 in Kansas City he graduated from Washburn College and studied at Hartford Theological Seminary. Six months before his death he accepted a call to the Congregational church at Buchanan.
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Kansas City
Robert L. Dougherty
Buchanan
Jai Dougherty
Kan
Dougherty
Kansas, City
Washburn College
Topeka
Hartford Usheological Seminary
Congregational Church
N. D
Bail denied for Cooper and co defendants in Carmack murder
Mellville Tennessee December 28 Judge Hart refused bail to Col Cooper Robin Cooper and John D Sharp charged with the murder of Senator Carmack.
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Mellville,Tenn
Hart
Col. Cooper
Robin Cooper
John D. Sharp
Senator Carmack
Pastor Dougherty Dies By Self-Inflicted Razor Act
Sunday morning in Buchanan County town Dougherty a 20 year old Congregational pastor committed suicide in his room behind the bank by cutting his throat from ear to ear with a razor a bucket catching the blood until faintness ended the act. A note to his father and brother blamed a nervous collapse and another note said he had planned the deed for Wednesday but nerves failed him. Coroner Todd ruled no inquest needed as a plain self inflicted death. Dougherty had been supplying the Barrie pulpit and was seen earlier in Buchanan in good spirits. Funeral arrangements not yet set.
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Waukesha
Wis
Donna Holt
HL Holt
Edward Garritt
Buchanan
Barrie
Dougherty
Buchanan State Bank
K. A. Buchanan
F. H. Keeler
Kansas City
Kan
Todd
Jamestown
Three steamers damaged by quake at Catania port
A dispatch from Catania reports Swedish steamer Asta Austrian steamer Budatwo and Italian steamer Crseoin damaged today by an earthquake and tidal disturbances at the port. Extent of injuries to the vessels not specified.
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London
Catania
Gichly
Asta
Budatwo
Crseoin
Taft and His Panama Trip From Savannah to Panama
Washington reports President elect Taft will sail from Savannah on a trip to Panama to review the canal charger and criticisms of the present canal. He travels aboard the armed cruiser North Carolina with the sister ship and will visit Panama for about three weeks before returning to Gibraltar. The trip aims to judge the advisability of changing to a sea water canal at this late moment amid heavy criticism.
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D.C
San
Taft
Savannah
Panama
North Carolina
Gibraltar
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