Extra Session Sths on Currency Bill and Cuban Reciprocity
Washington report says President Roosevelt seriously considers an extra congressional session this fall to push Cuban reciprocity legislation and a currency measure like the Aldrich bill. Morgan and Aldrich talks center on averting money stringency, with Cuban aid viewed as essential for Cuba's sugar sector and U.S. imports. Some senators doubt an autumn session will occur due to looming state elections and congressional preoccupation.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Aldrich
J. Pierpont Morgan
Handa
Cuba
Morgan
Senate
Canal Strip
Britain Bluffs Castro Forces Venezuelan blockade end
A Sunday cablegram to the state department from United States Charge D Affaires Rascal at Caracas says Castro has raised the blockade of the Orinén river. Britain warned it would recognize rebel belligerency and impose neutral trade restrictions, potentially closing British ports to Venezuelan warships.
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Venezuclan
Atate Department
United States
Rasacil
Caracas
Orinsén
Castro
Great Britain
Venezuela
Newly Appointed Justice Day III Suffers Severe Grip Attack
The Associated Press reports Justice Day of the U S Supreme Court is seriously ill with a grip attack. His wife Mrs Day and two sons arrived in Washington on Wednesday to be with him as the family informs.
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Supreme Court
Associated Press
Justice Day
United States Supreme Court
Dream of News list of varied 1900s events and dispatches
A compiled digest reports price cuts at a Athens Georgia dispensary increasing profits. arrests of seventeen Black men in McRae Georgia for railway freight depot robberies. sermons in Savannah on gambling blamed on courts. a Mississippi manslaughter convict seeks new trial over a juror's citizenship. Evansville gas shutoff amid labor boycott. Colonel Cody appeals for underbrush protection to settlers. forgery scheme in England. Dolphin crew rescues Cubans in Havana harbor. King Edward meets Chamberlain about South Africa tour. Ocean Steamship Co to run Savannah New York ships. Florida Alabama etc updates include Roosevelt, Wilson, Moody, and exploration notes. various crimes, strikes, and political moves. tropical storms, floods, and international tensions. deaths of public figures.
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Southern Railway
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Trinity Methodist Church
Savannah
Evansville
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Cody
Tuffalo WI
Count de Bostari
England
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Dolphin
Moody
King Edward
Chamberlain
South Africa
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New York
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Ala
Joe Powers
Roosevelt
Congress
Wilson
Georgia
Howard
Oericultural Department
Tallulah Falls
Arizona
Standard Oil
Orinoco River
Castro
Venezuela
Honduras
Cuban Senate Ratifies U S Reciprocity Treaty
Three Cuban senators absent silence, Sanguilly leads opposition as Havana dispatch reports the senate voted 16 to 6 to ratify the U S reciprocity treaty. Fifteen conservatives and one nationalist voted yes, five nationalists against. three absentees were believed in favor. Senor Bustamante argued the 20 percent sugar duty cut benefits Cuba and boosts national prosperity and independence.
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Senate
United States
Senor Zayas
de Airo
Senor Sanguilly
Bustamente
Europa
Cuba
United States Senate
Senor Bustamente
Moody Resumes Journey Naval Secretary Leaves Charleston
Secretary of the Navy W. H. Moody and officials from Washington arrive in Charleston and immediately board the gunboat Dolphin for a West Indian waters cruise. The party sails shortly after noon, continuing their southern voyage.
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Cruse
West Indian Waters
W. H. Moody
Washington
Dolphin
South
Turpentine Camp Massacre Rumors Reported in Florida
Assessor Bullard of McMeekin Florida records a deadly clash between negro workers in turpentine camps near Orange Springs. A dispute between Megs camp workers and Law camp workers sparked a riot, resulting in many deaths and injuries.
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Florida
Assessor Bullard
McMeekin
Fla
Orange Bprings
Meg
Law
Hopeful At New Orleans As Storm Abates
The New Orleans river gauge read a little over 19.3 Sunday night, 0.2 below the 1397 record, but the shift from stormy to sunny weather brings renewed hope along the riverfront.
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New Orleans
Bandits Kill Six on Yaqui River Stage Coach Ambush
Adlapateh of Tucson reports Mexican bandits halted a stage between Pot om and Torin on the Yaqui river Sonora killing all six passengers including wealthy rancher Filiberto Alvarado and two young women from prominent families. The assault occurred midway between towns. bodies were looted and horses released. Authorities suspect bandits in the Yaqui mountains. Alvarado’s widow and associates confirm little money with him.
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Yaqui
Sonora
Filiberto Alvarado
Yagui
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Pofim
Guayamas
Yaqui River
Asy
Alvarado Had Been Married Only Two Months. With Him Were Senorita Julia Berido
Senorita de Gonzales
Trust Seeks Cotton Crop Control Amid Oil Backers
A Boston based brief alleges Standard Oil men back both sides of cotton trading to harness the crop through improved baling. Bully the cotton bull links to General Weld, Planters' Compress, and Sully’s exchange role. A C G Burrage, a Standard Oil man, troops in as director, profiting last year and aligning with H H Rogers to control American cotton trade.
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Standard Oil Company
W. Weld
Planters
Compress
Sully
Cotton Exchange
Price
A. CG. Burrage
Standard Oil
Planters’ Compress
Burrage
Murdered Millionaire Burdick Cuts Wife Out of Will
The will of the murdered Edwin T. Burdick, drawn December 8, 1902, and made public in Buffalo New York, February 27, leaves most property to his three children with $2500 to relatives. His wife is disinherited amid a divorce suit. Executors named are Augustus Kellogg George Dunston and George Miller. Guardians named are Charles Parke and Risey Tucker. Attorney Frederick Hartzell would not rule out objections from Mrs. Burdick’s side.
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Burdick
Edwin T. Burdick
Buffalo
N. Y
Mr. Burdick
Augustus
Ten Miners Indicted For Resisting Government Officers
Federal grand jury at Charleston West Virginia returned indictments against ten miners for resisting officers while attempting to serve process at Atkinsville before the battle at Stanford City. Names and specific charges are not provided in the report.
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Charleston
W. Va
Atkinsville
Stanford City
First National Bank of Florida Closes in Jacksonville
The First National Bank of Florida in Jacksonville is closed by order of the comptroller of the currency after an examination found the bank insolvent. National Bank Examiner Charles A. Hanna reported losses that exhausted capital and surplus, resulting in a deficiency in assets.
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First National Bank of Florida
National Bank
Charles A. Hanna
J. W. Norvel
Ft 9
Treasury Department
Supreme Court Quashes Habeas Writ in West Virginia Case
The United States Supreme Court on Monday quashed Judge Jackson’s habeas corpus writ in the case of Ellis Glenn alias E B Glenn. The ruling denies trial, labeling it the so-called man woman case that has drawn wide attention in West Virginia.
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United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court of
Jackson
West Virginia
Flis Glenn
Glenn
West Virgiia
Levees Break Above Memphis and Below New Orleans
Crevasses threaten Arkansas and Mississippi levees with floodwaters racing toward Memphis. At Trice’s land ing in Arkansas a three quarter mile crevasse opened, threatening Holly Bush and prompting large-scale sandbagging. Memphis faces widespread flooding and suspended streetcar service as crews race to shore up embankments amid rapid river rise. A second crevasse below New Orleans 60 miles sets water toward the gulf, impacting small farmers and rice growers.
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Trice's
Cael
Bedntime
Levee Board
St. Francis
Crittenden County
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Mississippi
New Orleans
Pointen-ln-Hache
Gulf
Attempted murder leaves family wounded in New Market town
Jos D Powers of New Market Alabama attempted to exterminate a family near their home last Friday. He shot through a window wounding John Winkle his wife two women a baby and a boy. Winkle's son was hit in the eye. Powers fled by train toward Tennans.
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New Market
Als
Powers
John Winkle
Winkle
Ron
New Conductor Killed On Atlantic and Birmingham Train
Edwin Yourg aged 19 and newly promoted to conductor was killed near Cordery Georgia on his first trip after falling between two cars of a freight train early Friday morning. The Atlantic and Birmingham railroad line operates through Cordery and connects to major hubs. The tragedy highlights railroad safety on live freight runs.
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Birmingham Road
Edwin Yourg
Atlane and
Birmingham
Cordery
Young
Cotton Bulls Trigger Massive Cotton Market Panic
The New York cotton pit erupted as Daniel J. Sully reportedly turned bear, triggering a Friday-to-Saturday crash. Prices swung from a dollar to 1.40 per sale while bears lost ground and bulls sold into the panic, leaving traders ruined and futures heavily short. Liverpool cables and southern rains influenced supply, with the week's high eroded by 44 points.
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New York
Daniel J. Sully
Theodore H. Price
Bully
Tr Jg
Sully
Egypt
Liverpool
Jong
Mr. Sully
Cotton Factors Acquitted In Embezzlement Trial
Henry Newman and Morris Hyman, once among New Orleans’ wealthiest cotton firms, were acquitted in a trial that drew wide attention. A prior dispute with Colonel Buckner over cotton prices foreshadowed the case, with settlements and accusations of overcharging arising from sales at different rates. The defense argued payments aimed to avoid litigation, while contending bulk sales averaged to protect profits despite higher claimed values.
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Henry Newman
Morris Hyman
New Orleans
Dess
Colonel Bickner
Vipa
Cotton Exchange
Trolley Line Assured Connecting South Carolina Capitals
Plan for an electric railway from Columbia to Aiken, linking with the Augusta-Aiken line, was set in motion with a charter application to the Secretary of State and a securing commission. The route would traverse Richland Lexington and Aiken counties, spanning about 50 miles.
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South Carolina
Aiken
Augusta
Columbia
D. C
Augusta-Aiken
Haking Columbia
Richland
Lexington
Strike Across Kansas City Spurs Violence by Drivers
Miolenca led a Wednesday strike by 211 drivers from Kansas City fourteen transfer companies seeking higher wages and union recognition. During the day about fifty men filled strike roles, though only limited work was done, and violence erupted as scuffles and disruptions occurred.
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Miolenca
Kansas City
Murder Specialist Hoossey Held in Philadelphia Case
Philadelphia file on “Dr” George Hoossey portrays a spree of alleged poisonings via arsenic and contract killings. Police link thirty four schemes to murder for insurance, revenge, or social gain, with $100 per target and a ruse involving a detective’s wife. Authorities probe death certificates and blank forms while revisiting past whispers of Hoossey’s nocturnal cures.
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Philadelphia
George Hooseey
William D. Dansee
Houssey
Shoyer
Catharine Dangee
Gavan
Hoossey
Bureau of Health
George Hoossey
Hammond
St. Marys Street
Vondom Hoossey
Tod
Batson Convicted Again in Louisiana Murder Trial
The second trial of A. B. Batson for the murder of seven Barl family members at Walsh, La, ended Thursday night in a guilty verdict as charged. The jury's finding means Batson faces a possible death sentence on a second conviction.
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Barl
Walsh
Lake Charles
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