Senate Passes War Tax Repeal and Presidents Protection Bill
Washington March 21 Two measures pass the Senate repeal of war revenue taxes and a bill to protect the president and other officials. The protection bill sets death for killing the president or designated officers and up to 20 years for aiding, with a 10-year term for threatening or counselling. A guard detail is authorized for presidential protection. The repeal bill faced minimal opposition.
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Wellington
Breveted Gallantry In Spanish American War Nominations
President Roosevelt lists Rocky Mountain officers breveted for gallantry in action in the Spanish American War. Colorado officers receive ranks ranging from brigadier general to colonel for actions at Calumpit Guoupe Ridge and Manila. Utah Idaho Wyoming officers named for Manila river actions and other engagements with various brevet promotions.
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Roosevelt
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Veral Irving Hale
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Calumpit
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Manila
FF. A. Grant
Utah Light Artillery
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Mandalorian
G. A. Seaman
William C. Webb
Utah Lightillery
Ata Mesa
L. J. Deitrich
Wyoming
Lapazs
Harold D. Coburn
R. W. Young
Tullikan River
Marilos River
The Park Avenue Hoodoo
A Park Avenue tunnel project without loss of life caused major property damage. Undermined foundations from rapid transit tunnel work led to cave-ins at Nos. 05 and 55 Park Avenue, forcing east side residents to flee. Widespread walls and sidewalks shifted as rock seams slid into the tunnel, with financial losses estimated from fifteen thousand to one hundred thousand dollars.
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Stockmen Assist Sufferers In Drouth Stricken Arkansas
Kansas City hosts a Livestock Exchange appeal to raise funds for provisions for settlers in northern Arkansas drought. L. D. Loss of Handy Sharp County reports persistent drought since last April with crops failing, stock starving, and families subsisting on acorns as conditions spread northward across the Missouri line.
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Arkansas
Live Stock Exchange
L. D
Handy
Sharp County
Missouri Line
Arkansa
Short Line to Salt Lake Aimed From Denver
A New York meeting of the Tramway company and leading interests advanced plans for a Denver to Salt Lake City rail line. President I. H. Moffat pledged to lead construction if needed, linking Denver to Berthoud pass and Salt Lake City to connect with Senator Clark’s coast road. The route would shorten the Denver to Salt Lake City trip by about miles and cut ten hours, benefiting western rail traffic and Colorado wealth.
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Moffat
Berthoud Pass
Salt Lake City
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Locksland & Pacific
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Fort Worth
New Orleans
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Horn drunk claim fuels May defense in Tom Horn case
Cheyenne Wyoming March 22. Attorneys for both sides rush to gather evidence for a May trial billed as the state’s most notable. The defense seeks to prove Tom Horn intoxicated when he allegedly confessed to Deputy Marshal La Fors, while prosecutors cite numerous witnesses asserting Horn was sober at the key meeting.
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Tom Horn
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Inter Ocean
Tom Slorn
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Won't Boycott Our Tobacco In London Meeting
At a meeting of the Edinburgh Association of Retail Tobacconists a resolution was passed unanimously against signing the Imperial Tobacco Company agreement not to sell American goods for years. The group urged fair profit through minimum pricing to aid dealers in selling British products with or without bonuses. The chairman warned the proposal would enslave dealers as servants of Imperial Tobacco. Meanwhile Belfast dealers decided to accept the American terms.
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Sdinburg Association of Retail Tonists
Imperial To ‘O Company
Imperial Tobacco Company
Belfast
Chicago Crime Ties Hopkins to Bank Robber Friends
Chicago police focus on linking Joseph Hopkins to a series of robberies after a shooting by Dan Kipley nephew of ex Chief Ripley. Hopkins, identified as a bank robber and burglar, lived quietly in Palos Park with a charitable reputation and a wife known to officers as Blond Marie.
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Chicago
Hopkins
Joseph Hopkins
Dan” Kipley
Ripley
National Notories
Palos Park
Denver Markets Beef Prices and Weight Classes Snapshot
Market report lists beef steers and cows by quality from good to choice, cornfed and hayfed, with weights ranging from 1,100 to 1,200 pounds. Includes stockers and feeders, bulls and hogs categories. prices shown across several grades from fair to heavy, with several figures in dollars per hundredweight.
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Agricultural Prices and Grains Market Notation
A fragmentary list of commodity prices and notes including eggs, oats, corn chop, bran, alfalfa, timothy, and various grasses. Mentions per hundredweight prices and per ton figures from Colorado sources, with mixed notations and unclear units.
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Colorado
Officers On Trial For Murder At Manila Court Martial
The court martial for Major-Littleton Major W T Waller and Lt John D Day of the marine corps convened in Manila to try charges of executing natives on Samar without trial following a General Chaffee communication. Waller pleaded not guilty but admitted eleven men were killed. testimony indicated Waller ordered Day to shoot captured prisoners who refused to eat the provided food.
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Littleton
W. T. Waller
John D. Day
Marine Corps
Samar
Chaffee
Waller
Robert H. Dunlap
Gridley
Quick
Cargadores
Arthur Marix
Marine Crops
Major Waller
Dr. Love
Railroads Refuse Fight and Cut Tariffs
Chicago March 22 Attorneys for several railroads slated for injunctions against secretly cutting rates met and reportedly agreed not to oppose government action. They argued persistent contest would admit that transport interests want the injunctions lifted to permit hidden manipulation. Today eastern lines from Chicago announced a tariff reduction on packinghouse products to take effect Tuesday.
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1Oids
Dublin Article Defends Dillon Lashes Chamberlain as Liar
London March 24 Irish Nationalists back Dillon’s charge that Chamberlain lies while Dublin papers mock his attire and predict his decline. The House of Commons drama centers on Dillon’s suspension amid protests by a Wormen graduates delegation urging female voting rights. Historian Lecky questions the rush of emotion in politics as women’s suffrage looms.
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Chamberlain
London
John Dillon
House of Commons
Mr Chamberlain
Irish Nationalis
Dublin Evening Telegraph
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Hlouse of Lords
Mr. Chamberlain
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Tailor and Cutters
Beatrice Parraden
William KB. Leeky
Dublin University
Mr. Lecky
Santos-Dumont to Organize Aerial Races in US Visit
Doris March 24. M Santos Dumont confirms acceptance of invitation to St Louis to help organize aerial races for an exhibition. He will sail April 4 on the Deutselland. He plans to form a series of airship races with rules to be short and clear. He expects two dozen entries and notes the US will advance the service. He will bring Santos Dumont No 7 to New York for initial work with American workmen. He aims to conduct tests upon return, not for prizes. The June period will include fights around London before a possible return to the United States to compete for any open prize. He cites a preferred prize of at least 50,000 dollars.
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St. Louis
Brazil
Germany
Russia
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New York
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London
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Antos Dumont
Marissa
Illinois
John Woodward
Leonard Calvitt
Union Point
Concordia Parish
Louisiana
Vidalia
Senate
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Wright
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Islands
Philippine Treasury
Lord Kimberley
House of Lords
James H. Fairchild
Oberlin College
Dakotas
Manitoba
Ellen M. Star
Madame Tsilka
California
Chicago
Edward
Colorado & Southern Railroad
John W. Gates
Dwin Haw
Eastern
Southern Wauific
Gould
Tutte
James Boyer
Washoe Copper Mining
Washoe Company
Boyer
Institution of Naval Architects
Admiralty
Supreme Court of California
James G. Fair
Iowa
House
Gaynor
Green
Savannah
Canada
St. Joseph
Mule
South Africa
J. N. Devan
Hannah
Orgia
Devaux
Georgia
Zanesville
Ohio
M. E. Crisswell
Muskingham College
Floyd Kram“ro
Lebanon
Mark Roy
New Concord
Russian battleship Retvizan joins czarist fleet in ceremony
In Philadelphia on March 2, the big battleship Retvizan, built at Cramps' yard for Russia, was formally added to the navy. Father Ratskofsky conducted a Greek rite as 750 crew and officers stood with bare heads. Captain St Chenvovitch signaled, the St Andrew cross rose, and the ship set for Cronstadt around April 12.
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Philadelphia
Cramps
Father Ratskofsky
St. Chenosvitch
St. Andrew
Cronstadt
Fort Wayne fire causes massive district loss
A series of telegram style items report a Fort Wayne business district fire with estimated losses from 175000 to 200000. Other notes include Marconi planning a Cape Breton wireless station, Serbia cabinet resignation over civil service reform, and a Philippine sailing plan for the 29th Infantry on the Sheridan around April.
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Fort Wayne
Indiana
Signor Marconi
Ottawa
Cape Breton
Servia
National Assembly
Twenty-ninth Infantry
San Francisco
Philippines
Sheridan
Miles Opposes Hawley General Staff Plan in Senate Hearing
General Nelson A Miles told the Senate military affairs committee that passage of Hawley’s general staff bill would force him to resign his commission. He argued the measure destroys army unity and cited Napoleon, Wellington, and Grant to justify a single army head. Miles noted Spain’s war as a warning on emergency leadership.
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Nelson A. Miles
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Hawley
War Department
General Staff Corps
General Staff
Secretary of War
Mites
Napoleon
Wellingriss
Grant
Spain
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Mamopa
Tlavana
Tavang
Alger
Oing
Congress
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Army
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Ton
Wireless telephony a success at public test on Potomac
Washington observed a public test by Nathan Stubblefield of Kentucky who demonstrated wireless speech transmission. The apparatus included transmitter receiver buzzer induction coil rods and wire linking two points. Officials say distance limits depend mainly on voltage or electromotive force.
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Washington
Nathan Stubblefield
Lexington
Kentucky
Potomac River
Georgetown
Stubblefield
Grocery clerks may strike in Denver dispute
Denver March 21 grocers and butchers push for 6 30 closing and prepare to replace walkout pledging to pursue a week’s notice. Clerks rejected a compromise proposal of 6 30 summer hours and 6 o clock winter hours, signaling a likely walkout starting Monday.
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Tie
Fifteenth Street
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Potomac
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