House Refuses Four Battleships for Two
Washington April 15. By a 198 to 183 vote the House rejected the President's plan for four battleships and backed the Naval Affairs Committee's twoship recommendation. Amendments for one ship and for three ships failed. The debate lasted three hours with party lines blurred. The bill now proceeds to a final vote with the Navy increase as the main issue. Two fleet colliers of 16 knots and 1,240 tons were approved at $1,800,000 each, and the bill authorizes $107,837,000 in expenditures.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
House of Representatives
Committee On Naval Affairs
Tawney
Hobson
Representative Foss
Rayal Committee
Messrs
Burton
Longworth
Cochran
Representative Goldfogle
New York
Government Yard
House
Congress
The BattleShip Fight in Congress Over Naval Bill
Washington faces a heated session as the House resumes debate on the naval appropriation bill. Speakers from Ohio, Alabama, New York and Mississippi spar over four new battleships, maritime power, and the Monroe Doctrine amid claims of military buildup and racial tensions influencing policy.
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Washington
House
Burton
Ohio
Hobson
Alabama
Mr. Cockren
New York
San Francisco
Pacific
United States
Rainey
Illinois
Congress of the
Japan
Seeck
Carnegie Gift Proposes Enlarging Pittsburg Schools
Pittsburg April 15 Andrew Carnegie offers to give 3 000 000 more to the Carnegie Technical schools on condition the city buys forty two acres adjoining the current site. Ground cost is put at 1 250 000. His gifts to date total about 150 000 000.
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Pittsburg
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Technical Schools
Suit for Biltmore Land In US Court Proceedings
District Attorney A E Holton files a test suit in a US Court to prove federal ownership of western North Carolina lands covering eight counties with towns and villages, 100000 residents, 50000 acres of George W Vanderbilt's Pisgah forest preserves, railways, and mines. It alleges 1783 Cherokee treaty ceded the lands to the Indians, who later ceded to the US, while NC treated the lands as its own.
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Tribune
Asheville
N. C
A. E. Holton
United States
North Carolina
George W. Vanderbilt
Pisgah
Indian Territory
Denial by Lehigh Valley on New York Public Service Review
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company answers the Business Men's Association complaint, challenging the New York Public Service Commission's authority to investigate and grant relief. It argues Article 3 of Chapter 429 of 1907 is unconstitutional on due process and contract clause grounds. A hearing is set Friday before the state commission.
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Auburn
N. Y
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Public Service Commission
State of New York
J. F. Schoperkotter
Public Service Commissions
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
State Commission
Lawyer George Scofield Jr Dies at Clifton Home
George Starr Scofield Jr died yesterday morning at his Clifton Staten Island home from injuries said to stem from a fall downstairs, though his son disputes the cause. Born November 10 1848 he practiced law in New York City and Staten Island, headed Richmond Republican committees, and helped found the Staten Island Cricket Club. He served as Deputy Commissioner of Water Gas and Electricity for the Borough of Richmond and belonged to St Johns Episcopal Clifton Sons of the Revolution Staten Island Club and other organizations. He leaves a wife a daughter and a son.
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George Starr Scofield, Jr
New York Avenue
Clifton
Staten Island
George S. Scofield
Mr. Scofield
Hawkins
Columbia University
New York City
Low
Richmond
Scofield
Republican County Committee
Staten Island Cricket Club
Staten Island Club
Sons of the Revolution
St. John's Episcopal Church of
Harry Wiman
George Scofield, Jr
Tragedy at Institute as Father Shoots Daughter Then Kills Self
Dr C O Swinney formerly of New York, visiting in Marion, North Carolina, shoots his daughter Nellie Swinney at the Normal and Collegiate Institute reception room and then fatally shoots himself. Nellie, a student, is injured and believed fatally. Swinney had opposed suitors and confronted her as she played piano before the tragedy.
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Tribune
Asheville
KN. C
O. 8Winner
New York
Marion
N.C
Nellie
Normal and Collegiate Institute
McKinley Home Transferred to Mrs Rose Klover
The Canton Ohio home of President McKinley was transferred for 21000 dollars to Mrs Rose Klover after an appraisal of 20000 dollars. Personal effects of the late President, including gifts from the 186 porch campaign and White House years, are to be divided among the five heirs.
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Canton
Ohio
McKinley
Rose ©. Klover
Helen McKinley
White House
Storm Damage in Texas Leaves Widespread Destruction
Beaumont Texas April 16 heavy rains cause extensive damage to towns railroads and sawmills in the area. bridges are feared undermined and a fire started by lightning swept through a well at Security Oil Company burning twenty four cars and causing a loss of 144900 dollars.
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The
Tribune
Beaumont
Tex
Security Oil Company
Death by Own Action of Dr McDowell in Harlem Apartments
Dr Alexander B McDowell a son of the late Confederate officer F Benjamin McDowell killed himself in his West 129th Street rooms after kissing his five year old son Alexander B Jr Mrs Purcell who rented the rooms hurried to summon help as a razor lay beside him A will leaves all to his child executors named including Dr Henry Hazen and Frank B Keech McDowell studied at Columbia Medical School married life burdened by loss of his wife prior to his death.
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Alexander RB. McDowell
F. Benjamin McDowell
West 129Th Street
Alexander B., Jr. Goodby
Elizabeth Purcell
Henry ©. Hazen
West 56Th Street
Keech, Loew & Co
McDowell
West Point
Columbia Medical School
Washington
George Washington University
New York Infants’ Asylum
West Side German Hospital
Dooley
Chicky
A. M. Crosby
Atlantic City
Hazen
Frank B. Keech
Keech
Dr. McDowell
Reech
A Blow to Liberals in Irish League Meeting
John Redmond told the United Irish League in Dublin that changes in the ministry shifted Ireland’s stance toward the Liberal party and Irish voters would not back Winston Churchill in the Manchester bye election. He warned Asquith and Birrell over home rule and urged Ireland to push the issue at the next general election while not withdrawing Nationalists from Westminster.
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Dublin
John Redmond
United Irish League
Ireland
Liberal Party
Winston Spencer Churchill
Manchester
Redmond
Asquith
Birrell
Lord Rosebery
Westminster
Fights in Nicaragua Reported by Steamer Passengers
W R Coffman of Bloomington reports about sixty whites and Indians killed in Mosquito Indian bush warfare on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast. Whites about twenty dead. fighting began over a month ago at Peinzapolca Ber and Cape Gracias. Indians captured, beaten, and imprisoned after clashes with soldiers and volunteers.
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New Orleans
Nicaragua
W. R. Coffman
Bloomington
Caribbean
Peinzapolca Ber
Cape Gracias
Honduras
Many Delegations Warned as Republican Conventions Lag
The Tribune reports that over one hundred districts have not reported to the Republican National Committee by the April 16 deadline to call and advertise state and district conventions. If uncalled, delegates from these areas will be invalid, risking exclusion from the Chicago national convention.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Republican National Committee
Chicago
Elmer Dover
National Committee
Taft
Fischer
Texas
Cecil Lyons
Dallas
Waco
Lyons
Oregon
McCarren
Senate
Kings County
Montana Loss Millon Dam Break Drowns Livestock Flood
Helena April 15 Following the Hauser Lake dam break the Craig town area suffered destroyed homes and the Great Northern tracks were washed out. Two men drowned hundreds of cattle and other stock perished as floodwaters rose. Damage from the flood and dam loss is estimated near 1 million dollars with rebuild projected at 250000. Additional flood threats to nearby facilities prompted dynamiting the Black Eagle dam to protect the smelter.
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Helena
Mont
Craig
Great Northern
Hauser Lake
Helene Power Transmission Company
Hyams Granted Intervention in Mutual Reserve Receivership
Judge Ward allows Joseph W. Hyams New Orleans chairman of the policyholders committee to intervene in the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company receivership. Hyams may file a dependent bill for himself and other policyholders joining the proceeding. Ruston represents Hyams. office listed at 220 Broadway. An appeal will be sent to committee members for contributions.
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Henry G. Ward
United States Circuit Court
Joseph W. Hyams
New Orleans
Policyholders’ Committee
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
John Edward Ruston
Mr. Hyams
William Hepburn Russell
Charles E. Rushmore
Ward
Hyams
Assembly of Louisiana
Ruston
Broadway
Rustan
Boy Auto Victim Wins $10,000 Verdict
Thirteen year old John Fatael obtained a verdict for 10 000 from the White Sewing Machine Company for injuries after being struck by one of its automobiles two years ago on June 15 at Tenth avenue and 3d street. The boy’s leg was fractured and he suffered shock. testimony was corroborated by a playmate.
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John Fatael
Seabury
White Sewing Machine Company
Bey
Tenth Avenue
3D Street
Scotti Saves Miss Farrar From Curtain Disaster
Baltimore April 15 Geraldine Farrar the Metropolitan Opera Company soprano was saved from serious injury when Signor Scotti pulled her back as the drop curtain descended toward her head at the Lyce Theatre during Le Traviata. The weighted curtain struck her hair, smashing the jeweled tiara she wore as Violetta. She was badly frightened but not hurt.
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the Tribune
Baltimore
Geraldine Farrar
Signor Scotti
Metropolitan Opera Company
Lyre Theatre
Miss Farrar
Mme. Farrar
Scotti
Violetta
Tennessee business reinsured by Hartford company
The National Insurance Company of Hartford reinsured the Tennessee operations of the Insurance Company of Tennessee in Nashville. Cooper and Hall were named general agents for Tennessee. The Union of Philadelphia business was also reinsured in the Mechanics and Traders of New Orleans with the same agents.
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Nashville
Tenn
National Insurance Company of Hartford
Insurance Company of Tennessee
Cooper & Hall
Tennessee
Union of Philadelphia
Mechanics’ and Traders
New Orleans
Two Drown in Chicago Gale
A heavy gale in Chicago reaching 47 miles an hour struck the city morning to night. It cost two lives as Joseph Sachsel and his nephew Arthur Freud drowned when their boat capsized on Lake Michigan off Wilson Avenue. Eleven men were rescued near Jackson Park by the life saving crew.
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Chicago
Joseph Sachsel
Arthur Freud
Lake Michigan
Wilson Avenue
Jackson Park
Prison Break at Penza Prison Leaves Ten Dead
Report from Penza describes a prison break in which eleven political prisoners attacked wardens, killed two, and released prisoners after tossing bombs. Guards pursued and shot eight attackers, leaving ten dead in the ensuing chaos.
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St. Petersburg
Penza
Lifesavers Rescue Men Off Fire Island In Gale
Two Fire Island lifesavers returning from the mainland in a small skiff were capsized in the Great South Bay during a gale. Captain Dixsee and the station crew launched a lifeboat and saved the men, who were only slightly harmed by the immersion.
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Fire Island
Great South Bay
Dixsee
Eight Die As Steamer Goes Down In Gothenburg
The small steamer Goetaelf capsized in Gothenburg on April 15. About forty were aboard. eight bodies have been recovered and others remain missing. Rescue efforts continued as the search for survivors or further casualties went on. A brief dealer advertisement for Dewey's Port Wine and Olive Oil followed.
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Gothenburg
Sweden
Goetaelf
de Ks
Legal Taboo on Indian Cigar Signs
Senator Landrum a Cherokee Indian introduced a bill to prohibit using Indian figures on cigar or tobacco signs. The measure appears certain to pass as the large Indian vote wields balance of power in Guthrie April 15.
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Tribune
Guthrie, Okla
Landrum
Threat to close all shipyards on coast
London reports the Shipbuilding Employers Federation threatened to close all shipyards if northeast coast workers who struck in January do not resume by April 2. The move would affect about 290,000 workers directly. Tyne workers again rejected their leaders' settlement with the employers.
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London
Shipbuilding Employers Federation
Tyne
Democrats in Riot as Convention Ends in Carnegie Hall
Wild scenes erupted as the Democratic State Convention ended at Carnegie Hall at 12:30 am. Delegates protested the new state committee names while McCarren and allies denounced Tammany Hall, leading to clashes and walkouts amid shouting and gavel strikes.
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Carnegie Hall
State Committee
Dene Gates
Murphy Conners
Harry W. Walker
Bryan
New York
Denver
Murphy-Conners
P. H. McCarren
Brooklyn
McCarren
Murphy
Kings County
McCcarren
Mason
Tammany Hall
Grady
Controller Metz
Upstate
Tammany
Tammany Organization
Charles N. Bulger
Oswego
Committee On
Kings
Tammany Men
Bulger
Carmody
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Charles Froeb
Alton R. Parker
A.B.M Dowell
Mr. Redmond
Lewis Nixon
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Big Boston Smelter
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MecCarrene
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MeCarren
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