Porto Ricans Citizenship and Isthmian Work Update
President Roosevelt backs giving Porto Ricans American citizenship and will urge Congress to grant it noting their progress and governance. He dismisses Porto Rico’s district attorney Pettinill for malfeasance and reports two faults on the Isthmus of Panama, with cabinet meeting long and Cuba topic under discussion.
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Washington
Porto Rico
Congress
Rio Janeiro
Europe
Roosevelt
Noah B. K. Pettingill
United States
Panama
Moody
Pettingill
First testimony in Richards Comstock land fraud trial
Omaha report notes T J O Keefe a Alliance newspaper man and U S commissioner testified about filing 46 Kinkaid law applications on June 28 1904 in the Nebraska Land and Feeding company office. He said fees were paid by applicants except in two cases where Richards paid. Other witnesses described filing on land for others or inducing homesteaders to do so.
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Omaha
Neb
Bartlett Richards
Will G. Comstock
Nebraska Land & Feeding Company
T. J. O'Keefe
Alliance
United States
Ellsworth
Kinkaid
Canadian Steamer Jones Wreck. 26 Die in Georgian Bay
A Collingswood Ontario bulletin reports the Canadian steamer Jones wrecked in Georgian Bay with 26 lives lost. Several bodies have washed ashore at Collingwood, Ohio.
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Jones
Georgian Bay
Cleveland, O
Collingswood
Ont
Collingwood
Jacksonville Men Indicted For School Supply Contracts
Jacksonville Ill November 27 C G Rutledge cashier Ayers National bank and J A Obermeyer druggist and school board member were indicted Monday on a charge of making unlawful contracts in purchasing supplies for public schools.
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Jacksonville
Ill
C. G. Rutledge
Ayers National Bank
J. A. Obermeyer
Board of Education
Budget to be laid Thursday in Ottawa House
Ottawa reports the budget will be introduced Thursday and tariff revision will be among the first matters taken up by the House of Commons as part of the fiscal program.
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Canada
Ottawa
House of Commons
Young bandit confesses in Missouri train robbery case
Claude Randall, 20, told prosecutors he robbed cars on a Chicago & Alton train between Glasgow and Slater after traveling from St. Louis via Mexico. He claimed his brother planned the Golden State Limited heist. Randall kept $1,500 and eight watches, denying money from workers. He was captured after a struggle on the moving train and jailed pending charges.
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St. Louis
Mexico
Wabash
Slater
Chicago & Alton Railroad
Golden State Limited
St. Louis Republic
Glasgow
Armstrong
Granite City
California
Missouri
Army Desertions Rise in United States Force
Washington reports a sharp rise in desertions for the year ended June 30 with 6,258 departures or 7.4 per 100 soldiers. Rates by branch show field artillery at 9.2 percent and cavalry at 7.8 percent. White soldiers averaged 8.4 percent while Black soldiers averaged 2.3 percent.
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Washington
United States Army
Field Artillery
Canal Zone Grows Healthy Despite Disease Fears
Washington November 27 Not a single American died on the canal zone from disease in the last three months, the Isthmian Canal Commission reports from Col W C Gorgas chief sanitary officer. Deaths among canal employees in October totaled 86 Negroes and two Whites, with the drop largely due to fewer pneumonia cases.
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Washington
Canal Zone
Isthmian Canal Commission
W. C. Gorgas
Col. Gorgas
Ponce de Leon
Panama
Burn victim at the stake in Steubenville assault
Frank Coulter a 28 year old glass worker was attacked by four men on a Steubenville street. They beat robbed and tied him to a stake building a fire beneath. The ropes burned freeing him. he swam the Ohio River and crawled to shore. He remained unconscious for hours and returned to Steubenville. Attacker names remain unknown and his condition is serious.
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Steubenville
Frank Coulter
West Virgnia
Ohio
Coulter
Private takeover of U S post office proposed by Chicago financier
Washington November 27 A congressional postal commission meeting sparked by W D Boyce of Chicago proposed privatizing the entire post office department under government control to operate as a private business. He argues private ownership would cut deficits and reduce postage rates two cents per item. The commission weighs the postal deficit and how much burden falls on newspapers and magazines.
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Washington
Congressional Postal Commission
W. D. Boyce
Chicago
United States Post Office Department
Boies Penrose
Boyce
Post Office Department
Government Department
Postal Commission
New York
Overstreet
House Committee On Post Offices
Madden
Rich Man Killed By Trolley In Altoona
Lawrence Fagan one of Altoona's wealthiest residents died from a trolley collision. He was knocked from his carriage two weeks earlier and had lingered between life and death since.
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Altoona
Lawrence Fagan
Airship La Patrie Flies Nearly Sixty Miles
In Nantes on November 27 the Lebaudy dirigible La Patrie completed another flight, covering nearly 60 miles. The operation adds to the fleet's demonstrations over the Seine-et-Oise department in France.
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Nantes
Department of Seine-et-Oise
France
Lebaudy
la Patrie
Heroine of coast storm saves schooner Gold Hunter
Mrs. Frank McGuire, lashed to the wheel for 48 hours, steered the Gold Hunter through a nordeasterly gale that battered the New England coast from November 11 to 14. Capt. McGuire and an assistant struggled below as the ship drifted 90 miles off Mount Desert Rock before reaching Machias.
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Machias
Frank McGuire
New England
Gold Hunter
Blue Hills
Portland
MccGuire
Peter Manan
Mount Desert Rock
Mrs. McGuire
Sugar Refining Co Fined 18000 for Rebates
A $18,000 penalty was levied on the American Sugar Refining Co by Judge Holt in the U S circuit court for taking rebates from the New York Central Railroad. Rebates totaled $26,000. 60 days were granted to appeal. Additional rebate indictments against multiple rail and sugar firms and individuals are expected as the grand jury resumes the inquiry and expands to other commodities.
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New York
American Sugar Refining Company
Holt
United States
New York Central Railroad Company
Stimson
Western Transit Company
Northern Steamship Company
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railway Company
New York Central
American Sugar Refining Company of
New Jersey
C. Goodloe
Edgar
Edwin Earle
Detroit
Nathan Guilford
Federal Grand Jury
French FinMin Pierre Merlou Shot on Boulevard Des Italiens
Pierre Merlou former finance minister under the Rouvier cabinet and newly appointed French minister to Peru was shot Monday evening on the boulevard Des Italiens by a woman named Allemagne. His injuries are not serious. The assailant was arrested and said she acted in vengeance.
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Paris
Pierre Merlou
Finance
Rouvier
Peru
Boulevard Des Italiens
Allemagne
Census report urges strict laws for accurate cotton data
Dr. S N D North reports the 1905 Census Bureau work cost 1,249,045 with gains for cotton planters. He calls for tougher laws to compel ginneries to report outputs, argues census data protected markets from speculators, and notes vast municipal debt and urban population shifts.
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Washington
Census Bureau
North
United States
News in Brief: deaths, raids, rail, and finance
Two Chicago children burned to death in their home. Bids for 15 million dollars in isthmi and canal contracts open December 17 in Washington. Baltimore and Ohio Southwest railroad raises switchmen wages four cents hourly. Judge Hanford overrules Washington state's wheat rates demurrer. Madison New York ads Drew Theological Seminary for sale for 490 dollars in back taxes. King George of Greece departs Rome for Greece via Brindisi. An unidentified girl falls from an elevated train platform in Chicago and dies. Alvarado gunboat transferred to Louisiana naval militia. Walter Paris, Washington watercolor painter, dies at 64. Budapest reports Servian regicide officers plot to install a German prince. Pittsburg councilman Martin arrested for bribery. A drifting Russo Japanese war mine kills ten and wounds 56 at Akita. Police guard Charles Gugavero after unsigned extortion letter. Capt Hugh H Henry dies after cancer operation. Cairo banks consolidate into First Bank and Trust with 300000 capital. Cuba Governor Magoon appoints a committee to take damages claims from the last insurrection.
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Chicago
Washington
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad
Hanford
Washington State Railway Commission
Madison
N. Y
Drew Theological Seminary
Alvarado
Spain
Louisiana
Walter Paris
England
Budapest
Servia
Peter
W. A. Martin
Pittsburg
Akita
Hondo
Japan
Charles Gugavero
St. Louis
Hugh H. Henry
Army and Navy Union U. S. A
Browne
First Bank and Trust Company
Old City National Bank
Enterprise Savings Bank of
Cairo
Magoon
Cuba
Landa
Audiencia Court
Reed
F. J. Kernan
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Big Stick for President
A four foot gourd sent to President Roosevelt from Marion Ohio to symbolize his trust busting policy. The note attached asks Roosevelt to attach the gourd to his next message and urge Congress to be good, signed by Democratic admirers of Marion. The despatch reports Congressman Grant E Mouser as the carrier of the gourd.
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Pittsburg
Marion
Ohio
Grant E. Mouser
Congress
Providence
Spirits Advised Investment In Denver Bathhouse Venture
In Colorado Springs on November 28 Mrs Pauline Youngberg testified in a stockholders suit that mediums influenced her to invest 4000 dollars in a bathhouse company. She claimed spirits at spiritualist meetings with president D N Hitchcock urged her to join the venture and promised profit.
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Colorado Springs
Col
Pauline Youngberg
Denver
Youngberg
D. N. Hitchcock
Hitchcock
French Warship Algesiras Destroyed by Fire
Toulon France torpedo school ship Algesiras stationed in harbor was totally destroyed by fire late Sunday. About 500 men were aboard when flames broke out, three ferried to safety. The ship of the line had served as harbor and torpedo training vessel, 5047 tons, built in 1855.
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Toulon
France
Algesiras
Girl Student Goes to Prison for Bank Fraud
Elsie Jacobs an 18 year old Mount Pleasant Iowa college student was sentenced in Galesburg circuit court to an indeterminate term in the penitentiary after attempting to defraud the First National Bank of Galesburg with a bogus check for 1000 dollars.
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Peoria
Ill
Elsie Jacobs
Mount Pleasant
First National Bank of
Galesburg
Yellow Fever Cases Rise in Havana and Rodas Cuba
Two new yellow fever cases were reported in Havana on Monday and two more were found at Rodas in Santa Clara province. The island total now stands at eleven cases.
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Cuba
Havana
Rodas
Santa Clara
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