Roosevelts stand on colored battalion discharge policy
Washington reports the White House will fight to reinstate the Twenty-fifth colored battalion, with President Roosevelt guiding the effort against any congressional move. Milton Purdy heads a probe to collect affidavits from Brownsville, as Sen. Foraker pushes to investigate all aspects of the discharge and the battalion affair. The president aims to present full facts to the Senate.
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Hivago
Congress
Washton
Chicago old-Herald
Roosevelt
Milton Purdy
Stal
Brownsville
Tex
Lavite
Artizans
Insc
Ersons
Sevelt
Supreme Court of the United Les
Jose
Rstang Hia Posliai
White Rouge
Browns
Atoni
Far
Senate
Committee On
Mill Affairs
Purdy
Prea
Fen Wrod
Nator Forakerse
Strathcona Passenger Steamer Burns Off Coast
The Strathcona, a 600 ton passenger steamer owned by Slaflas and Ganoso, burned to the waterline after fire broke out shortly after leaving Port Durforin. All 280 passengers and 13 crew were saved as engineers and firemen held their posts until lifeboats were launched and shore safety secured. The ship, two years old and loaded with cargo, was valued at 44,000 dollars. It later collided with the Havana in Halifax harbor and faced 30,000 dollars in damages.
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Malifax
Port Dufferin
Straihcona
Slalifas & Ganoso Steamship Company
Cunso
Guysborough
Strathcena
Aventus
Reid
Halifax
Otheors
Port Dur
Torin
Strathcona
Cory
Oatia
Havana
Halifaxs Harbor
Strike on Southern Pacific Raises Texas Louisiana Tie Up
In Houston on December 24 the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen declared a strike after a member vote. About 309 to 400 firemen walked out on Southern Pacific trains in Texas and Louisiana when the company allegedly signed an agreement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers months earlier, curtailing firemen seniority rights and representation on committees.
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Houston
Tex
Brotherhood of
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Scitch
Bay City Hotel Burns in Bay City Fire
Fra ser House, the oldest hotel in the city, was destroyed by fire Sunday. Night clerk awakened guests. few if any lives lost. John O'Neill, the fireman, was overcome and is probably fatally injured. Also noted were deaths by asphyxiation at a Washington hotel and updates on Capt. Edger A. Macklin's condition after a shooting. An Austrian postal strike ended for 25,000 holiday workers.
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Bay City
Sileh
Fraser House
John O'Neill
Macklin
el Reno
Okla
Edger A. Macklin
Fort Reno
NINE MEN KILLED IN RAILWAY WRECK AT ENDERLIN
A south bound passenger train collided with a switch engine in Enderlin North Dakota at 2 10 am on Sunday, killing nine men and seriously injuring thirty seven. The smoking car telescoped, fire broke out, and rescuers fought flames as physicians rushed to Valley City and local hotels became emergency wards. Names of the dead include Charles Backus Bergen North Dakota and Tony Green Velva North Dakota among others. The intercity train from Moosejaw Canada to St Paul Minnesota was late, and a coroner's jury began investigation into fault.
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Enderlin
N. D
Bee
Minneapolis, St. Paul
Sault Ste. Marie
Aigat
Ang
Flamas
Liste
Boderlin
Valley City
Charles Backus
Bergen
Danielson
Sheldon
Synltch
Colint Ignatieff Slain In Russian City Night Attack
In Tver on December 24 Count Alexie Tagattell a Kiev Volhynia governor general figure was shot in a hotel refreshment room by an unknown assailant. The attacker fired six bullets then attempted suicide but was captured. A separate Chicago item notes a man at 105 Edgmont Avenue killed, then suicide after a dispute over a copper cent shortage.
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Tver
Russia
Alexie Tagattell
Council of the Empire
Kiev
Volhynia
Podlotia
Lask
Penny
Chicago
Ha Woodrich
Edgmont Avenue
Ben
Auielde
Negro Lynched by a Mob in Annapolis Maryland
At least 26 men broke into the Annapolis jail on a December dawn, abducted Henry Davis also known as Chambers after his alleged assault of Mrs. Joan Reid near Iglehart Station. He was hanged from a tree by a mob, with shots fired and no resistance by jail officers or the prisoner, as crowds gathered. A coroner's jury later ruled death at the hands of unknown parties.
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Annapolis
Henry Davis
Joan Reid
Igleharts Station
Davis
Chambers
Jall
College Creek
Davie
Woman in Harlem Ends Life and Names Pet Care
New York dispatch reports Mrs Luli Grover died by poison in her Harlem home promising that President Roosevelt receive her property and arrange for her two Angora cats. Acting under orders, Henry L. Stimson supervised cremation and property transfer to the public administrator with notices to relatives.
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New York
Luli
Grover
Harlem
Roosevelt
United States
Henry Lb. Stimson
Angora Carl
White House
Secret Service
Hanging of Hamilton Bungled at Houston Missouri
The execution of 20 year old John Hamilton for the murder of five Parsons family members failed twice as the rope broke on the first attempt and he moved upright before a second hanging succeeded. He was fatally injured by the fall and died before the second drop. The body was given to his father.
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Houston
John Mamillon
Barney Parsons
Hamilton
Seafold
Tfamiiten
Killed by a Railway Train in Youngstown
Erie train No. 7 struck a bunny carriage carrying Mr. and Mrs. Reese Edwards and daughter at Crab Creek Friday evening. Mr. Edwards was instantly killed, his wife fatally injured with a fractured skull, while the daughter escaped with minor injuries.
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Youngstown
Erie
Reese Edwards
Crab Creek
Keaoiman Defeats Gardner in Fourteenth Round Bout
In Los Angeles the San Francisco lightweight Keaoiman beat George Gardner of Lowell in the fourteenth round of a bout scheduled for twenty. Gardner’s seconds threw in the sponge as the referee halted the fight.
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Kaufman
Gardner
Los Angeles
Cal
Keaoiman
San Francisco
George Gardner
Lowell
Mass
Pacific Athletic Club
Charles H Keep to Lead New York State Banks
Charles H Keep of Buffalo, since May 1903 assistant secretary of the U S Treasury, will succeed Frederick D B Kilburn as New York state superintendent of banks. Governor Hughes announced the appointment Friday night. Guba freed from fellow fever in Havana as yellow fever case count drops to zero. last discharge noted Friday.
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Charles H. Keep
New York
Charles Hallam Keep
Buffalo
the Treasury of the
United States
Frederick DB. Kilburn
Erocr Hughes
Havana
Dee
Umea
Guta
Multiple Unnamed Figures Reported in Diverse Global News
A compiled roundup notes John Wiikle a wealthy Albla farmer died after ingesting carbelic acid near Lake Tay. London reports Lord Kirchéner wed Mrs Sloane Chauntey of New York. An arbitration agreement averted a New York railway strike while other items mention a Davenport bishop’s death, a $5 million Carn Products plant in Summit, and shopping delays in Chicago due to a Southside elevated breakdown.
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John Wiikle
Albla
Lila
London
Kirchéner Ig 9
Samuel Sloane Chauntey
New York
Henry Cosgrove
Davenport
Carn Producta Refining Company
Summit
Chiezxo
Chicago
Des Brow
Armstrongs
Newcastle on-Tyne
Alect Lassiter
Thiyty-Hist Street
Mortimer Dunand
Washington
Yale University
Bey
Ebenezer L. Betden
New York City
Breese Tenton Coal Mining Company
Carlyle, HI
Famine Aid Proclamation Calls for US Food Relief to China
President Roosevelts proclamation calls for US donations to aid famine stricken China. He asks Congress to authorize use of government transport vessels to carry flour and food to affected regions. Contributions via American Red Cross or taxpayers directed to Red Cross treasurer Charles Hallam Keep. In Chicago a tar vat explosion in Evanston caused a large fire with a man burned and a tall flame plume.
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Washington
Roosenvelt
United States
China
Congress
American National Red Cross
Red Cross
Department of State
Charles Hallam Keep
United States Treasury Department
Washington, D.C
Chicago
Dee
Evanston
Isaac Terry
Man Attempt to Kill Chicago Probate Judge
Frederick Elerbrock tried to murder Probate Judge Charles S. Cutting in a Chicago criminal court corridor. Cutting joined the struggle to disarm the assailant, and Elerbrock was later indicted for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.
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Chicago
Charles S. Cutting
Criminal Court
Frederick Elerbrock
Judge Cutting
Elerbrock
Healy
Ulerbrock
Murderous Work at a Dance in Breathitt County
In Breathitt County Kentucky a country dance on Gaus Creek ends in violent shooting. Thomas Gullett dies from a body wound while Walker Cole loses an arm after a torn and shattered limb. Little is shot in the back. The quarrel centers on whisky. In Emporia Kansas a rich farmer Monroe Morgan, 63, is found unconscious near the hospital and police suspect robbery and poisoning.
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Lexington
Gaus Creek
Breathitt County
Thomas Gullett
Walker Cole
Little
Emporia
Kan
Monroe Morgan
Btr. Morgan
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Morgan
Pierpont Morgan
J. Pierpont ‘Morgan, Sr
Isaac ‘N. Phelps
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Thirtyseventh Street
E. B. Macklin
E. Reno
Ceptain
Edgar B. Macklin
Twenty-fifth
United States Infantry
Oklahoma City
Captain Macklin
Sturn
Theqdore Roosevelt
S. Cutting
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Priday
Vatican
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Pacific
Montgomery
Ala
Charles D Faber
W. H. Murphy
Faber
Murphy
Chauncey
U. S. A. New York
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Garden City Golflab
United States Golf Association
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Hicks
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