Aldrich bill introduces emergency currency plan in Senate
Senator Aldrich outlined a broad measure authorizing up to 250 million in emergency currency backed by state and local bonds and railroad first mortgage bonds with 75 percent collateral. The plan tightens bank reserves, details collateral limits, and sets Treasury redemption rules while aiming for rapid Senate passage and a favorable House review.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Aldrich
Senate
Treasury
United States
United States of America
Secretary of the Treasury
Sub-Treasury
Committee On Finance
Cannon
House
Committee On Banking and Currency
Fowler
Warner Seeks Tariff Commission in Senate Bill
Senator Warner of Missouri introduces a bill to create a tariff commission of three Board of General Appraisers members in New York. The panel would investigate tariff conditions and report to the Treasury, whose findings go to Congress. The President endorses the concept. commission would provide information for tariff readjustment without delegating legislative power.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Warner
Missouri
Senate
Tariff Commission
Board of General Appraisers
New York
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Ballinger resigns from General Land Office post
Washington announces Richard A. Ballinger will resign as Commissioner of the General Land Office effective March 4. Frederick Dennett of North Dakota will succeed him, selected by Ballinger for the reorganization work. Dennett is promoted on merit without political endorsement.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Richard A. Ballinger
General Land Office
Frederick Dennett
North Dakota
Judge Ballinger
Dennett
Ballinger
Land Office
Resolution Proposes Inquiry Into Brownson Incident
Representative Gill of Maryland offers a resolution to disclose Navy Department letters and reports on Surgeon Charles F. Stokes appointment to command the Relief and on Rear Admiral Willard H. Brownson’s resignation as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. Stokes received orders today and sails to San Francisco tomorrow to take command once the Relief is ready.
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Washington
Gill
Maryland
Admiral Brownson
Committee On Naval Affairs
Secretary of the Navy
House of Representatives
Navy Department
Charlies F. Stokes
United States Hospital
Relief
Willard H. Brownson
Bureau of Navigation
Surgeon Stokes
Metcalf
Dr. Stokes
San Francisco
Courthouse Fire Follows Racial Clash In Bryson City
A fire at Bryson City North Carolina destroyed the county courthouse and all records dating back fifty years after a white versus black confrontation left five whites wounded. The town council imposed a curfew requiring black residents to be indoors by nightfall.
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Tribune
Asheville
N. C
Bryson City
Steel stock offer to employes at eighty seven a share
United States Steel finance committee voted to offer preferred stock to employees this year at 87 a share. The plan began five years ago with 82 a share, last year’s price was 102. The stock closed yesterday at 89 percent, touched 9 during the day, with a low of 5.
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United States Steel Corporation
Greene and Gaynor Commitment Ordered in Georgia Case
Macon Ga Jan 7 The order committing the Greene and Gaynor prisoners to Atlanta Penitentiary was issued today and they will be taken to Atlanta at once to begin four year sentences The time already served will not count unless future disposition is made
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Macon
Greene and Gaynor
Atlanta
Insurance Probe Targets Provident Life in Manhattan Grand Jury
A special Manhattan grand jury investigating banking and financial concerns begins with Provident Savings Life Assurance Society. Assistant District Attorney Kresel leads, aided by the Attorney General. focus includes a possible sale to a Philadelphia syndicate. Three witnesses, Hubbard, Vrooman, and Baur, testified amid a broad line of inquiries into the Provident Life affair.
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Provident Savings Life Assurance Society
Grand
Manhattan
Kresel
Society
Philadelphia
Thomases
W. R. Jones, Jr
Oriental Bank
William R. Montgomery
Hamilton Bank
Montgomery
Kiesel
Ralph K. Hubbard
the Provident Life
John Vrooman
Arthur Baur
Mount Royal Steamer Reaches Queenstown Safe After Storm
The Mount Royal finally entered Queenstown on January 7 after days of heavy gales and boiler trouble. The ship carried 300 Hungarian immigrants and a crew of about 100. all passengers and crew are well, with one infant fatality reported after the voyage. Passengers praised the captain and officers for their handling and resilience during the siege of the storm.
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Queenstown
Mount Royal
Lizard
Atlantic
Bermuda
Canadian Pacific Railway
Antwerp
St. John
N. B
Old Head
Kinsale
The
Christmas Celebrated Quietly by Russian Imperial Family
In St Petersburg the Imperial family observed Christmas thirteen days later by Gregorian time. A tree and gifts for Alexis and his sisters appeared in the Empress's apartments, with only household members present. Emperor Nicholas attended two trees at Tsarskoe-Selo and praised guards and Cossacks as grand dukes gathered. The Empress's illness is described as ordinary influenza and she will miss the New Year reception.
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St. Petersburg
Alexis
Nicholas
Tsarskoe-Selo
Dr Peters Sues Over Libel Claim in Cologne Gazette
Dr Carl Peters former Governor of German East Africa has filed libel action against the Cologne Gazette editor and Berlin correspondent over a letter to an English bishop in which he allegedly confessed to executing a negress in Africa. Many witnesses called. Peters previously sued the Munchener Post for similar claims. the editor was fined $125 and costs.
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Cologne
Carl Peters
German East Africa
Berlin
Comer Daughter Weds Buck In Alabama Ceremony
Miss Catherine Comer daughter of Governor and Mrs B B Comer married W Morley Buck of Port Dover Canada in Birmingham Alabama today.
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Birmingham
Ala
Catherine Comer
B. B. Comer
W. Morley Buck
Port Dover
Canada
Count Okuma Denies Kobé Speech Translation
Tokyo reports confusion after a London edition misquoted Count Okuma's Kobé speech. He says the translation was wrong and he never urged India to rise against Britain. He asserts friendly ties with Great Britain and outlines India trade as his sole point.
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Tokio
London
Count Okuma
Kobé
Count Obuma
India
Great Britain
Paris
Berlin
St. Petersburg
Okuma
England
Successor to Aoki Named for Washington Post
Tokio reports that Baron Takahira is chosen to succeed Viscount Aoki as Japanese Ambassador to the United States. The Foreign Office says the decision is made and instructions have been sent to announce the appointment to the State Department. The delay likely waits for Aoki to depart.
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Baron Takahira
Tokio
Italy
Viscount Aoki
Washington
Foreign Office
Associated Press
State Department
Aoki
America
Viscount Aoki Sails Home After Recall
Viscount Aoki Japanese Ambassador to America sailed for home aboard the Manchuria from San Francisco with Viscountess Aoki and I Iowagye. Consul General Kioke and Vice-Consul Matsubara accompanied them. Matsubara named consul at Seattle. Aoki refused to discuss immigration or other diplomatic matters since leaving Washington. He said Japan will limit emigration and that an exclusion law would offend Japan.
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San Francisco
Viscount Aoki
America
Manchuria
Aoki
I. Iowagye
Fairmount Hotel
Kioke
Matsubara
Seattle
Washington
California Presses Japanese Exclusion Bill
Representatives Hayes and Kahn of California met with President Roosevelt in Washington on January 7 to push the Japanese exclusion measure. The President’s stance remains unchanged as he awaits a fuller presentation amid ongoing Japan United States diplomatic talks.
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Washington
Hayes and Kahn
California
Roosevelt
Hayes
Japan
United States
Comment on Voyage of Fleet to the Pacific
The Tribuna questions Roosevelt’s fleet order amid U S press and public reaction. Baron Takahira says Japan will curb emigration, while Lloyd Griscom notes Japan’s growing population and attempts to limit outbound movement. Griscom also says U S Japan ties remain satisfactory and the dispatch of the fleet raises interest but little more.
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Rome
Tribuna
Pacific
Roosevelt
United States
Baron Takahira
Italy
America
Japan
San Francisco
Lloyd C. Griscom
California
German Pleasure Party Attacked Near Valparaiso
Residents of districts near Valparaiso and Santiago mistook a German led pleasure party for bandits. They attacked the party killing one and wounding five, including Frank Liszt a naturalized American who was seriously injured.
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Valparaiso
Chili
Santiago
Frank Liszt
Wireless link with Cape Blanco reaches 2210 miles
The wireless telegraphy station at Nauen Prussia maintained constant contact with the steamer Cape Blanco during its eight day voyage from Hamburg to Teneriffe in the Canary Islands a distance of 2210 miles.
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Nauen
Prussia
Hamburg
Teneriffe
Canary Islands
Chilian Cruiser Esmeralda to Meet US Fleet
The government will send the cruiser Esmeralda to Punta Arenas on the Strait of Magellan to receive the American battleship fleet due January 31. Esmeralda will participate with the fleet in Chilean waters.
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Santiago de Cuba
Esmeralda
Punta Arenas
Straits of Magellan
Crop Shortage Report From India Due to Dry Weather
A telegram to John Morley reports that low rainfall reduced wheat area this year by a percent and oil seed sown area by 37 percent, signaling a worsening Indian grain and oilseed crop outlook for the season.
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London
John Morley
India
Lord Minto
Indian Empire
Brooklyn Drydock Bid Watch Opens for Navy Yard Upgrade
Washington reports await next week's bid opening at the Navy Department for completing the Brooklyn drydock. Construction paused eighteen months ago and faces cost and material pressures. Navy orders list Army and Navy transfers and officer resignations. Movements include arrivals at New York and San Diego and ships ready for Norfolk and Cavite. The Florida’s commissioning status noted at Norfolk.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Brooklyn Drydock
Naval
Navy Department
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Naval Service
Apache
New York
Leonidas
Hampton Roads
Hannibal
Key West
California
San_ Diego
EL Fane Preble
San Diego
Cleveland
Cavite
Norfolk
Olongapo
Florida
War Department Deliberates on Glenn Remarks
Washington officials weigh Colonel Edwin F. Glenns controversial comments calling the Spanish American War an opera bouffe and his criticism of military administration and defense. The discussion follows past disputes at Columbus Barracks over church attendance and a pay bill amendment aiding infantry officers.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
War Department
Edwin F. Glenn
Madison Barracks
New York
Philippines
Glenn
New York City
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Columbus Barracks
Ohio
Navy reorganization bill aims to run force as business
A naval reform bill introduced in the House by Daw son of Iowa seeks a two division navy with civilian control of material and a naval officer headed personnel. It would create bureaus for navigation medicine surgery judge advocate general ship construction ordnance and supplies and would consolidate several existing bureaus to reduce overlap and delay.
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Washington
Dawson
Iowa
Committee On
Naval Affairs
Secretary of the Navy
Judge Advocate General of
Navy
Bureau of Navigation
Navy Yard
Naval Station
Bureau of
Big guns arriving at Manila defences
Victoria B C January 7 The steamer Tremont arrived from Manila and Far Eastern ports with Lieutenant Colonel Abbott of the United States engineer corps who has supervised the Philippines defences. Large shipments of heavy guns were being received.
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Victoria
B. C
Tremont
Manila
Abbott
United States Engineer Corps
Philippines
Seaboard Air Line Bondholders Form Protective Committee
A Baltimore dispatch reports that owners of many Seaboard Air Line extended three-year 5 per cent bonds named a protective committee including James A. Gray A H S Post Douglas H Gordon Gustavus Ober Frank Hambleton and John D Howard. The group is said to own and control more than 31 500 000 of the issue. The deposit agreement provides the committee will serve without compensation and bondholder expenses will not exceed 9 a bond.
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Baltimore
Wall Street
Seaboard Air Line
James A. Gray
A. H S. Post
Douglas H. Gordon
Gustavus Ober
Frank 8. Hambleton
John D. Howard
Death prompts inquiry into Harry Grey Duberly case
Harry Grey Duberly, found dead by his own hand in the Hermitage Hotel New York, left letters reproaching Earl Grey and declaring love to Amy Hamshire of Niagara Falls. Coroner Dooley examined the letters as investigators reveal a three-year Grand Trunk Railway payroll discrepancy at Niagara Falls and a distant Canadian noble connection.
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Harry Grey Duberly
Engelishman
Hermitage Hotel
Stephen Merritt
19Th Street
Eighth Avenue
Mr. Radcliffe
Harry
Canada
Duberty
Grand Trunk Railroad
Niagara Falls
Ontario
D. Morice
Grand Trunk
Dooley
Young Duberly
Earl Grey
H. Grey Duberly
Amy Hamshire
W. H. Newcome
Duberly
Hanbury Williams
Ottawa
Yarmouth
England
H. Grey Duberty
New York
J. Gray Duberty
Vilage
Caister
Grand Trunk Railway
Niagara
Earl
Lord Mostyn
Hugh Wynne Mostyn
Buckworth
Ellen
Mostyn
Toronto
Mr. Mostyn
Buffalo
Grane Trunk Railway
Niagara Falla Ont
Worman
Amy Hampshire
Niagars Falls
Lely
Crowland
Ont
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Amos W. Kimball
Harry L. Pettus
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