United States Presses Caribbean Lease and Trade Pacts
The week’s items include a proposed 99 year lease of the Galapagos Islands to the United States for 35 million dollars and guarantees of Ecuadorian sovereignty. Taft aims to press a reciprocal trade agreement with Canada allowing free exchange of grains dairy produce fruit fish eggs poultry live stock and paper pulp without export restrictions.
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Galapagos Islands
Taft
Canada
David Graham Phillips
Fitzhugh C. Goldsborough
St. George's Episcopal Church
New York City
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Christian Science
Halcyon Lake
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Cambridge
Mass
Lawrence C. Phipps
Denver
Margaret Rogers
Platt Rogers
Edward D. Kelly
Detroit
Foley
Ann Arbor
Mich
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
Archbishop Ireland
St. Pauli
Stephen W. Glazer
Roberta Buist de Janon
Los Angeles
Cal
Senate
William Lorimer
Illinois
Senator Paynter
Kentucky
Legislators Hear of Many Troubles in Indiana
Legislative hearings itemizes woes of township trustees and assessors. McCardle cites lost state funds due to incompetent assessments and low deputy pay. Proposals seek higher pay, reorganization, and new rules on elections, hiring, and taxation.
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McCardle
Indianapolis
House Committee On
Indiana
John W. McCardle
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Washington
Missouri
Monument Place
Circle
Columbia Club
Me‘Cardle
Liquor Question Takes Precedence In Indiana Legislature
Indianapolis Jan. 28 The liquor question dominates the session with efforts to craft a saloon regulation bill. Senator Proctor introduced a new measure. the senate committee substituted it for the Fleming bill, widening the license from one per 600 to one per 1000 residents. The move aims to avoid brewer branding and boost passage prospects. House members tour state prison duties and discuss bills on child labor, penal farms, schooling, and municipal government expansion amid adjournments until Monday.
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New Orleans
Monmouth
Quincy
Kewanee
Tfl
New York Journal of Commerce
House
Alfred W. Dodsworth
Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin
Labor Committee
Jeffersonville
Spencer
Hammond-Gary
House Committee
Hammond
Gary
Senate
Carleton
Evansville
Col
C. CG. Schroeder
Indiana National Guard
Indianapolis
Proctor
Senate Committee On Public Morals
Fleming
Michigan City
John B. Faulkner
South Bend
Oliver Hotel
Fogarty
Chicago
Faulkner
Seidensticker
Strickland
Racey
Frisa
Furnas
Mitchell
Buennagel
Galbraith and Guild
Thornton
Scott County
Board of Trustees of
State Reformatory
Allen, St. Joseph
Vigo
Lake
Marion Counties
Marion County
Allen County
St. Joseph
Lake County
Wright
Cook
Williams
Clare
Danville Judge testifies in Vermilion vote probe
Judge E R E Kimbrough of Danville Alabama testified before a grand jury in Vermilion County and admitted the truth of reports of bags of money being distributed on election day, saying the funds were for legitimate campaign expenses. Other items include a hung jury in a Wheeling murder trial, a possible bribery linked Senate case, a Canadian rail collision injuring seven, a cigar makers strike ending in Tampa, a rabbi t calf report, and taft dispatch on Santo Domingo Haiti tensions.
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E. R. E. Kimbrough
Danville
Vermilion County
Kimbrough
Laura Farnworth Schenk
Wheeling
W. Va
John O. Schen
Canadian Northern
Meltford
Sask
Tampa
Fla
Stover
New York
Walter Kasang
Norwich
N. Y
Perry
Oklo
Ill
Platt
Taft
San Domingo
Haiti
Suspected thieves rounded up in Jeffersonville raid
Jeffersonville police claim they disrupted an organized gang that had been robbing Pennsylvania freight cars for weeks. After an all night hunt Chief of Police M A Wall and Special Pennsylvania Officer Whiteman arrested two suspects, Oscar Evang and Earl Penix, both well known to police.
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Jeffersonville
Pennsylvania
M. A. Wall
Whiteman
Oscar Evang
Earl Penix
D F Kraffert Dies in Michigan Hotel
Mount Clemens Michigan January 28 D F Kraffert of Plainville New Jersey a noted iron producer died suddenly in the Park hotel while visiting the city
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D. F. Kraffert
Michigan
Mount Clemens
Mich
Plainville
N. J
Park Hotel
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