Roosevelt Praises Canal Work While Defending Integrity
President Roosevelt submits the Isthmian Canal Commission and Panama Railroad Company reports to Congress and Taft's transmission letter accusing Theodore Shonts of unauthorized acts. He rebuts charges as baseless while urging inquiry, senatorial briefings, and continued high salaries to ensure efficient completion of the canal project.
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New York Times
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Isthmian Canal Commission
Panama Railroad Company
Taft
Theodore P. Shonts
Hale
Garman
Senate
Committee On
Board of Consulting Engineers
Index to departments and page references
Amusements page 0 to 9 listings. Business troubles page 12. Commercial World page 12. Court calendars page 13. Financial News pages 10 and 11. Mering Intelligence and Foreign Mails page 12. New Corporations page 11. Real Estate page 14. Society page 9. United Service page 12. Weather Report page 0. Yesterday's Fires page 2.
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Commercial World
Financial News
Merine Intelligence
Society
United Service
Weather
Plot to kill the Czar prompts widespread Russian security
The 1906 dispatch reports plans to assault the Czar as he leaves the palace with extraordinary precautions at Tsarskoe Selo. It notes unrest across the Caucasus and Moscow, arrests and searches, and rumors of insurrection, railway turmoil, and a fled Viceroy seeking refuge.
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London TimEs
NEW York Times
ST. Petersburg
Tsarskoe-Selo
M. Kokertsoff
Paris
Tiflis
Transcaucasia
Manchuria
Siberian
Irkutsk
Moscow
Kharkoff
Perm
Kagan
Viadimir
London Denounces Russia at Mass Meeting
A large public meeting in Queen's Hall London denounces Russian anti Jewish massacres as an offense to civilization. Lord Rothschild presided with broad Christian representation. Resolutions urged Russia to grant Jews equal rights to Christians to prevent further atrocities.
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New York Times
London
Queen's Hall
Russia
Lord Rothschild
Ripon
Westminster
White House expulsion sparks House inquiry call
Rep Sheppard of Texas introduced a resolution to form a bipartisan committee to investigate the expulsion of Mrs Minor Morris from the White House last Thursday. The Evening Star reports Secretary Loeb allegedly sought to influence Star reporters, while Mrs Morris’s husband Dr Morris alleges brutal treatment and a legal push to label her insane.
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Sheppard
Texas
Minor-Morris
White House
Evening Star
Loeb
Morris
House
House of Representatives
United States
Mr. Sheppard
American Congress
The
the Star
Roosevelt
Post of Sunday
Prain
New York Times
Post
Jino
Congress
John Sharp Williams
Senate
Rough Riders Gift Silver Service for Alice Roosevelt Wedding
The Roosevelt Rough Riders plan a silver dinner service as a wedding gift to Miss Alice Roosevelt on her marriage to Congressman Longworth. The pieces will feature the regimental emblem and a trooper, with a relief of Col. Roosevelt in uniform on a platter. A delegation of Rough Riders' Association officers will accompany the gift to Washington.
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New York Times
Galveston
Jan
Roosevelt Rough Riders
Alice Roosevelt
Longworth
Col. Roosevelt
Washington
Rough Riders’ Association
Ten Dollar Horse Fined For Fast Driving
Magistrate Furlong in Gates Avenue Court fined Charles Polaski of East New York ten dollars after Polaski's horse allegedly exceeded the city speed limit. Polaski argued the horse could not move eight miles per hour, offering the animal in place of the fine. the magistrate refused and the cash was paid.
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Gates Avenue
Charles Polaski
East New York
McKie
Liberty Avenue
Polaski
Middy Miller Arrested Over Hazing Incident
Midshipman John P. Miller of Lancaster Kentucky was arrested in Annapolis on hazing charges against Henry G Cooper Jr of Oxford North Carolina and Max B Demott of Niles Michigan. The case involves a paralyzed midshipman in a classroom incident. A verdict was announced in the hazing case of Midshipman Petterson Marzoni and a second case against Midshipman Stephen Decatur Jr will be heard tomorrow.
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Annapolis
John P. Miller
Lancaster
Henry G Cooper, Jr
Oxford
N. C
Max B. Demott
Niles
Mich
Cooper
Miller
Petterson B. Marzoni
Stephen Decatur, Jr
Morrow
Chicago man sentenced in Oregon land fraud forgery case
Salem Oregon, January. A T Kelliher of Chicago, found guilty last week of forgery linked to Oregon land frauds, received a five year penitentiary term. Kelliher filed notice of appeal to the Oregon Supreme Court.
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Salem
Ore
Jan
A. T. Kelliher
Chicago
Kelliher
Supreme Court
The Ideal Train to Florida
The Southern Palm Limited runs New York to St Augustine with an electric lighted train and Pullman equipment. Offices listed at 271 Broadway and 1185 Broadway.
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Florida
New York
Southern Palm Limited
N. Y
St. Augustine
Pullman’s Best
Brackett Plans New Move Against Senator Depew
Albany January 8 Senator Brackett says he will again offer a resolution demanding United States Senator Depew resign. He vows to force a recorded vote on the issue and warns colleagues he may speak up if opposed. Brackett denies current letter about a railroad pass affects his stance or re election.
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New York Times
Albany
Brackett
United States
Depew
Saratoga
Senate
Rock Island Route Opens Through El Paso After Storms
El Paso Texas reports traffic on the Rock Island transcontinental link through New Mexico resumes after five days of closure. A heavy storm threatens to stormbound again as crews battle thirty foot drifts in fifty miles of cuts. Freight delays loom with up to thirty days needed to clear blockages. copper mines and coke supplies face disruption.
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New York Times
EL Paso
Texas
New Mexico
Rock Island
Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fé
Arizona
Woman Boxer Slugs Attacker in Worcester
Mrs. Jane E Higbie of Brooklyn visiting her mother in Worcester knocked a male assailant unconscious with two uppercuts after he grabbed her arm near Irving Street. The woman, a Crescent Club boxing champion and foil expert, administered smelling salts to revive him.
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New York Times
Worcester
Mass
Brooklyn
M. A. Wood
Austin Street
Higbie
Irving Street
van Dyke
Miss Perkins
Destroyers In Collision Off Pine Beach
The destroyer Lawrence received a four by two and a half foot V shaped hole in its port side after a collision with sister ship Worden near Pine Beach at about 9 PM Saturday. Worden struck with a knife like bow, causing rapid flooding. Lawrence was towed to Norfolk and placed in dry dock, with Worden later anchoring.
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New York Times
Norfolk
Worden
Lawrence
Pine Beach
Lambert's Point
Real Estate Man Arraigned on Grand Larceny Charge
William Putnam Drew a Bronx real estate broker was arraigned in Tombs Court on a grand larceny charge brought by Emma Langley Moore of Brooklyn. Moore says she gave Drew 500 of a 1500 loan for investment in Brooklyn, but the money was not deposited and remains unrecovered. Adjourned to tomorrow, Drew held on $1,000 bail.
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William Putnam Drew
Marion Avenue
Bronx
Finn
Tombs Court
Emma Langley Moore
Kosciusko Street
Brooklyn
Moore
Drew
Brooklyn Savings Bank
Death by Own Action Shatters Connecticut Murder Mystery
Coroner Mix reports Charles A. Edwards of New York died by his own hand in the Hiller home, after three attempted suicides with a 22 caliber revolver and laudanum. The finding unsettles officials, while State’s Attorney Williams considers new lines of inquiry. The case involved diary notes and bloodstains challenging circumstantial evidence.
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Charles A. Edwards
New York
Hiller
Mix
Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
Dwight
Yale
A. Mercy Hiller
Charles A. Hiller
Connecticut
Williams
Tom Watson Contends Magazine Is His Own
Atlanta January article reports Tom Watson asserting ownership of his magazine. He states his contract gives him full control and that Town Topics holds a majority of stock but does not matter. he declares I am the magazine and without me the stock is worthless.
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New York Times
Atlanta
Tom Watson
Town Topics
Mr. Watson
McCall More Comfortable Despite Threatened Appendicitis
Dr. John Vander Poel said John A. McCall ex-President of New York Life showed a somewhat more comfortable day after a threatened appendicitis. He expressed hope McCall might avoid surgery.
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New York
John Vander Poel
John A. McCall
New York Life Insurance Company
McCall
Vander Poel
Seaboard Florida Limited Fastest to St Augustine
Seaboard Florida Limited makes quickest time to St Augustine leaving New York daily at 12:25 noon. Two other high class trains for Pinehurst Camden and Tampa. Resort booklets available at office 1,183 Broadway. Ady.
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Seaboard Florida Limited
St. Augustine
New York
Pinehurst
Camden
Tampa
Broadway
Ady
State Normal College Fire Destroys North Building
Albany report says a January fire in Willetts Street wiped out the North Building of the State Normal College. President Milne’s residence was damaged, one fireman injured, and total losses may top 200000 with about 80000 insured. A $5000 stained glass memorial window was destroyed.
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Albany
State Normal College
Willetts Street
William J. Milne
Dilke Appeals for Trust Renewal in Forest of Dean
Sir Charles Dilke issues a brief address to constituents in the Forest of Dean Division Gloucestershire asking for a renewal of their trust. He has represented the area in the House of Commons as an Advanced Liberal since July 1892.
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London
Charles Dilke
Forest of Dean
Gloucestershire
House of Commons
MELLEN TAKES MONTHS REST FROM RAILROAD POST
New Haven January 8 Charles S Mellen president of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad will take a month long vacation in the West marking his first rest since joining the line two years ago He will tour 8000 miles to the Pacific Coast and Mexico in his private car Connecticut with several directors and friends the trip follows the directors meeting in the East.
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New York Times
New Haven
Charles 8. Mellen
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
Mr. Mellen
Connecticut
Pacific Coast
Mexico
Pattison Inaugurated Ohio Governor In Glass Cage
John M. Pattison of Cincinnati was inaugurated Governor of Ohio in the Capitol with 4 000 to 5 000 troops in the parade. He reviewed the march from a glass cage while ill and standing on footwarmers. In his address he urged enforcement of Sunday laws in cities and praised Roosevelt on national insurance supervision.
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Ohio
John M. Pattison
Cincinnati
Central Union Life Insurance Company
Capitol
Pattison
Roosevelt
Estate heir Prentice deemed insane in Plattsburgh case
County Judge William P. Platt appoints three commissioners Arthur Sutherland Dr Edgar M Hermance and David Cromwell to pass on the alleged insanity of Augustus B Prentice a New York millionaire inmate of Bloomingdale Asylum The petition filed by Mrs Maud Prentice and Mary E Low and Ella Browning cites mental decline after his father s death and an affidavit from Dr Charles L Dana dated December 1 stating Prentice suffers from paresis.
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New York Times
White
Plains
N. Y
William P. Platt
Arthur Sutherland
Edgar M. Hermance
David Cromwell
Augustus B. Prentice
New York
Bloomingdale Asylum
Maud Prentice
Mary E. Low
Ella Browning
Prentice
Charles L. Dana
Woman Is Run Down By Bob Sled Crowd
Mrs Nelile Kelly of East Seventeenth Street was struck by youths riding a bob sled and suffered a broken leg while en route to the station to complain about her husband and mother in law. Her infant daughter was badly bruised when the sled hit her.
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Twenty Second Street
Station House
Nelile Kelly
East Seventeenth Street
Armour loses tax fight in Supreme Court ruling
The Supreme Court ruled against Armour Packing Company in favor of North Carolina on a state license tax for meat packing houses. Armour argued it did not slaughter in state and that the law interfered with interstate commerce and was class legislation. Justices Brown White Peckham and McKenna dissented.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Armour Packing Company
North Carolina
Armour Company
Brown, White, Peckham
McKenna
Ex-convict James Wilson sentenced for forging Tammany leader Murphy’s name
James Wilson of 240 West Forty-third Street pleaded guilty and received five years in State prison from Judge Cowing for forging the name of Charles F. Murphy, a Tammany leader, to a $500 check payable to Joseph Gaffney. The crime occurred at a saloon on West Thirty-fourth Street.
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James Wilson
West Forty-third Street
Cowing
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany
Joseph Gaffney
Murphy
Wilson
Nicholas Dowing
West Thirtyfourth Street
Gaffney
Chelsea Exchange Bank
West Thirty-fourth Street
Golf Tournaments at Pinehurst in January
Pinehurst North Carolina hosts golf tournaments January 16 to 20 with special rates available via Seaboard Air Line. Office contact 1 183 Broadway for details.
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Pinehurst
N. C
Seaboard Air Line
Broadway
Rogers Fling at Missouri Court During Standard Oil Hearing
At the 67 Wall Street Standard Oil hearing, H H Rogers defied the Missouri Attorney General Hadley by walking out during a photo session and later testifying at length. The exchange over whether Standard Oil Indiana offices exist at 26 Broadway highlighted tensions as Hadley pressed for direct answers.
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Wall Street
Supreme Court of Missouri
Standard Oil
Hadley
Missouri
Sanborn
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Broadway
Standard Oil Company
Western
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