Aldrich Bills Emergency Currency Plan Introduced in Senate
Senator Aldrich introduced in the Senate a broad finance bill to create emergency currency up to 250 million dollars secured by state and municipal bonds and first mortgage railroad bonds. The measure updates bank reserves, redeems notes in lawful money, and names standards for collateral while outlining authority for issue and oversight. The bill heads to the Finance Committee with expected steady consideration and possible tax changes.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Aldrich
Senate
Treasury
United States
United States of America
the Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Sub-Treasury
Committee On Finance
Cannon
Can
Renate
House
Committee On Banking and Currency
Fowler
Culberson
Warner proposes tariff commission to study schedules
Senator Warner of Missouri introduces in the Senate a bill to form a tariff commission of three Board of General Appraisers members in New York. The panel would investigate tariff conditions and report to the Treasury, with findings then shared to Congress. The President backs the idea as a nondelegating information tool.
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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 as Land Office head to March 4
Washington January 7 The Interior Secretary announced the resignation of Richard A Ballinger as Commissioner of the General Land Office effective March 4 Frederick Dennett of North Dakota to succeed Ballinger Dennett was chosen by Ballinger as his assistant for the office reorganization work and 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
ARMY
Edwin B. Babbitt
Ordnance Department
General Hospital
Washington Barracks
Arthur R. Jones
Cavalry
1St Cavalry
Christopher Jensvold
Infantry
Alfred A. Starbird
Sth Field Artillery
Dwight E. Aultman
Richard C. Croxton
Fort Ontario
St. Paul
Brownson Incident Sparks House Inquiry Move
Representative Gill of Maryland introduced a resolution to probe the Brownson incident and related Navy personnel actions. The measure directs the Navy Secretary to provide all official letters and reports on Surgeon Charles F. Stokes’s appointment to command the Relief and on Willard H. Brownson’s appointment and resignation as head of the Bureau of Navigation. Stokes was ordered to assume command and sails for San Francisco once the ship is ready.
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Washington
Gill
Maryland
Admiral Brownson
Committee On Naval Affairs
Secretary of the Navy
House of Representatives
Navy Department
Charles F. Stokes
United States Hospital
Relief
Willard H. Brownson
Bureau of Navigation
Surgeon Stokes
Metcalf
Dr. Stokes
San Francisco
Court House Burned After Riot in Bryson City
Bryson City N C Jan 7 a blaze destroyed the county courthouse and all records from fifty years amid a street clash between whites and negroes in which five whites were shot and others wounded A town council special meeting enacted a curfew for negros requiring them to be indoors by 9 PM tonight
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Tribune
Asheville
N. C
Bryson City
Steel Stock Priced for Employees at 87 a Share
At a finance committee meeting United States Steel Corp decided to offer preferred stock to employees this year at 87 a share. Five years ago the stock was offered at 32 50 a share and last year at 1 2. The stock closed yesterday at 89 percent, touched 90 intraday, with a low price of 4s.
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United States Steel Corporation
Greene and Gaynor Commitment Issued for Four-Year Sentences
Macon Ga January 7 The order committing Greene and Gaynor to the Atlanta Penitentiary was issued today. They will be taken to Atlanta at once to begin sentences of four years. Time already served will not be counted unless a future disposition is made.
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Macon
Greene and Gaynor
Atlanta
Insurance Probe Focuses on Provident Life Affair
A New York special grand jury investigating Manhattan banking and financial firms began with the Provident Savings Life Assurance Society. Assistant District Attorney Kresel aims to prosecute any official or director involved in illegal acts while considering the society’s attempted sale to a Philadelphia syndicate. Three witnesses were questioned and more are to be summoned as the inquiry continues.
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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 After Severe Atlantic Voyage
The Mount Royal belonging to Canadian Pacific Atlantic service arrived at Queenstown safely after weeks of heavy gales and boiler trouble following its departure from Antwerp on December 7. Three hundred Hungarian emigrants and about one hundred crew endured a brutal voyage with a hurricane and rough seas. one baby died on reaching Queenstown. Passengers praised the captain and officers upon arrival.
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Mount Royal
Canadian Pacific Railway
Atlantic
Antwerp
St. John
N. B
Old Head
Kinsale
Irish
Lizard
Queenstown
The
Christmas Observed Quietly by Russian Imperial Family
In St Petersburg the Russian Christmas was celebrated thirteen days after the Gregorian date with a quiet royal observance. A Christmas tree for Crown Prince Alexis and sisters stood in the Empress's apartments, and Emperor Nicholas visited Tsarskoe-Selo for trees for the guards and Cossacks, praising soldiers and giving presents. The Empress's illness is listed as ordinary influenza and she will miss the New Year's reception.
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St. Petersburg
Alexis
Nicholas
Tsarskoe-Selo
Dr Peters Opens Libel Suit in Berlin Gazette Case
Cologne January 7 Dr Carl Peters former Governor of German East Africa has filed a libel action against the editor and Berlin correspondent of the Cologne Gazette seeking damages for a letter he allegedly sent to an English bishop in which he confessed to having executed a negress in Africa. Many witnesses were called. Peters recently sued the Münchener Post for libel alleging cruelty to natives during his governorship. judgment fined the editor $125 and costs.
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Cologne
Carl Peters
German East Africa
Berlin
Cologr-- Gazette
Peters
Africa
Mirnchener Post
Iss
Comer Daughter Weds W Morley Buck in Birmingham
Miss Catherine Comer daughter of Governor and Mrs B B Comer wed W Morley Buck of Port Dover Canada in Birmingham.
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Comer
Birmingham
Ala
Catherine Comer
B. B. Comer
W. Morley Buck
Port Dover
Canada
Okuma Denial Over Misprinted Kobé Speech
Misunderstanding from a London print of Count Okuma’s Kobé speech prompts denials from Okuma and the Japanese Foreign Office. He states a wrong translation caused the misread remark about urging India to rise against Britain and defends his pro trade stance with India and friendship toward Great Britain.
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Tokio
London
Count Okuma
Kobé
Count Obuma
India
Great Britain
Paris
Berlin
St. Petersburg
Okuma
England
Kebé
Japanese appoint Takahira to succeed Viscount Aoki as ambassador
Tokio reports the decision to name Baron Takahira as the new Japanese ambassador to Washington. The Foreign Office confirms the appointment has been decided and instructions are sent to announce it to the State Department. Departure of Viscount Aoki is delaying public confirmation.
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Tokio
Baron Takahira
Italy
Viscount Aoki
Washington
Foreign Office
Associated Press
State Department
Aoki
America
Viscount Aoki sails home after recall from U.S.
Viscount Aoki Japanese Ambassador to America sails for home aboard the Manchuria from San Francisco with Viscountess Aoki and I Iowagye. He declined to discuss immigration or other diplomatic matters since leaving Washington. He said Japan would restrict emigration and view exclusion laws as offensive to its dignity.
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San Francisco
Viscount Aoki
America
Manchuria
Aoki
I. Iowagye
Fairmount Hotel
Kioke
Matsubara
Seattle
Washington
California Delegation Pushes Japanese Exclusion Bill
Representatives Hayes and Kahn of California discussed with President Roosevelt the Japanese immigration issue. The Hayes bill will be pressed by California, though the President has not altered his discouraging stance due to ongoing Japan–United States diplomatic talks.
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Washington
Hayes and Kahn
California
Roosevelt
Hayes
Japan
United States
Voyage of fleet draws mixed views in Rome press
The Tribuna questions Roosevelt's Pacific fleet order amid domestic stir. Baron Takahira notes Japan aims to curb emigration and seeks no more than necessary population movement. Lloyd Griscom cites Japan's rising population and U S Japanese ties remain solid.
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Rome
Tribuna
Pacific
Roosevelt
United States
Baron Takahira
Italy
America
Japan
San Francisco
Germans Attack by Chilean Residents Killing and Wounding
In Valparaiso Chile on January 7 residents from rural districts organized for protection against bandits. A hamlet between Valparaiso and Santiago attacked a pleasure party of Germans by mistake. One man was killed and five were wounded. Frank Liszt, a naturalized American, was seriously injured.
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Valparaiso
Chili
Santiago
Frank Liszt
Wireless link connects Cape Blanco with Nauen station
The wireless telegraphy station at Nauen says it has kept constant contact with the steamer Cape Blanco during its eight day voyage from Hamburg to Teneriffe. The distance covered is about 2210 miles.
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Nauen
Prussia
Hamburg
Teneriffe
Canary Islands
Chilian Cruiser Esmeralda to Meet Fleet at Magellan
The government plans to send the cruiser Esmeralda to Punta Arenas on the Straits of Magellan to greet the American battleship fleet due there January 31. The Esmeralda will attend the fleet in Chilean waters.
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Santiago de Cuba
Esmeralda
Punta Arenas
Straits of Magellan
Crop Shortage Reports From India Due to Rainfall
A telegram to John Morley from Lord Minto reports that scant rainfall reduced wheat sowing by 4 percent and oil seed sowing by 37 percent. The note reflects a regional agricultural shortfall in the Indian Empire as of January 7.
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London
John Morley
India
Lord Minto
Indian Empire
Brooklyn Drydock Bid Opening Shapes Naval Dock Plans
The Navy Department will open bids next week to finish the Brooklyn drydock stalled eighteen months ago. Completion within thirty months is sought, funding and material costs loom large, with bidders wary of overrun risks. Navy orders and warship movements are also reported, noting ships arriving and leaving major yards and the Florida being placed out of commission.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Brooklyn Drydock
Naval
Navy Department
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Naval Service
Glenns speech stirs War Department debate in Washington
War Department officials debated remarks attributed to Lieutenant Colonel Edwin F. Glenn of the 23d Infantry, stationed at Madison Barracks New York, who is to lead his regiment to the Philippines. Critics say his "opera bouffe war" label and other comments question national defense and military administration.
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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 seeks business basis for service
In Washington a bill introduced by Iowa's Dawson aims to split the navy into personnel and material divisions with civilian leaders for the latter and naval officers for the former. The plan groups bureaus under new secretaries, consolidates yards and docks, and targets reduced 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
Big Guns Arriving at Manila
Victoria B C January 7 The steamer Tremont from Manila and Far Eastern ports brings Lieutenant Colonel Abbott US engineer corps who has been supervising the defenses of the Philippines. Large shipments of heavy guns were being received.
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Victoria
B. C
Tremont
Manila
Abbott
United States Engineer Corps
Philippines
Bondholders select committee for Seaboard Air Line bonds
A Baltimore dispatch reports that bondholders of Seaboard Air Line three-year 5 percent bonds chose a committee to protect their interests. Members include James A. Gray A H S Post Douglas H Gordon Gustavus Ober Frank Hambleton and John D Howard who reportedly own and control more than $1,000,000 of the issue. The deposit agreement sets committee service as unpaid and expenses not to exceed $0 per bond.
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Baltimore
Wall Street
Seaboard Air Line
James A. Gray
A. H.S. Post
Douglas H. Gordon
Gustavus Ober
Frank 5. Hambleton
John D. Howard
Death by Own Action Shocks 24 Year Old Harry Grey Duberly
The body of Harry Grey Duberly was taken to Stephen Merritt undertaking on 19th street and Eighth Avenue for a claimant. A former Grand Trunk Railway clerk at Niagara Falls left letters to Earl Grey and Miss Amy Hamshire pleading for help and confessing love as he took poison. Dutch relatives and connections to Earl Grey are noted, with inquiry into remittances and a missing 3 debt.
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Harry Grey Duberly
Hermitage Hotel
Stephen Merritt
19Th Street
Eighth Avenue
Mr. Radcliffe
Harry
Canada
Duberly
Grand Trunk Railroad
Niagara Falls
Ontario
D. Morice
Grand Trunk
Dooley
Young Duberly
Earl Grey
H. Grey Duberly
Amy Hamshire
W. H. Newcome
Hanbury Williams
Ottawa
Mans
Yarmouth
England
New York
J. Gray Duberly
Caister
Grand Trunk Railway
Niagara
Earl
Lord Mostyn
Hugh Wynne Mostyn
Buckworth
Ellen
Mostyn
Toronto
Mr. Mostyn
Buffalo
Ont
Amy Hampshire
Crowland
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