President's Message Rejected by House in Secret Service Row
The House adopted by 211 to 36 a resolution to lay on the table the portion of the President's annual message relating to the Secret Service. The debate lasted over six hours with 10 members speaking as Republicans and Democrats largely backed the resolution. The dissents listed were from Bennet Campbell Chapman Cocks Cooper Crumpacker Davis Douglas Driscoll Focht Foelker French Gardner Guernsey Hayes Henry Howland Jenkins Kinkaid Landis Langley Laning McLaughlin Madison Nelson Norris Parsons Pollard Pray Prince Reeder Reynolds Slemp Townsend Washburn and Wilson.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
House
Congress
Tawney
Milne
Bennet
New York
Campbell
Kansas
Chapman
Illinois
Cooper
Wisconsin
Crumpacker
Indiana
Davis
Minnesota
Douglas
Ohio
Driscoll
Focht
Pennsylvania
Foelker
French
Idaho
Gardner
Massachusetts
Guernsey
Maine
Hayes
California
Henry
Connecticut
Howland
Jenkins
Kinkaid
Nebraska
Landis
Langley
Kentucky
Laning
McLaughlin
Michigan
Madison
Nelson
Norris
Parsons
Pollard
Pray
Montana
Prince
Reeder
Reynolds
Slemp
Virginia
Townsend
Washburn
Wilson
Ilinois
United States
Union
Cong Bess
Department
Secret Service
Hentucky
Minister Not Killed In Church Slaying Mystery
Gideon Browning a carpenter from Adair Village is identified as the slain man at Battle Run Methodist Church Columbus Township. Pastor Rev John H Carmichael faces a $50 reward and scrutiny over possible links to the crime as investigators reveal Carmichael’s agitated behavior and a correspondence connected to the case.
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Port Huron
Mich
Gideon Browning
Adair Village
Little Battle Run
Columbus Township
St. Clair County
John H. Carmichael
Adair
Carmichael
Canada
West Virginia
Carpenter
Gaus Seeks Kelsey as Acting State Controller
The Telegraph reports Superintendent Otto Keiser may resign and Deputy State Controller act with Gaus ill and pressing for Kelsey to take over duties during his absence. If Governor Hughes delays, Henry D. Appleton would become Acting Superintendent.
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Tribune
Albany
Jan
Washington Life Insurance Company
Otto Keiser
Gaus
Kelsey
Hughes
Henry D. Appleton
Lincoln Memorial Bill and Washington Fire Tragedy
Congress leaders plan a Lincoln Memorial in Washington costing about 5 million with a 3.25 million land purchase and an arch centerpiece. In New York, a five story tenement fire at 666 and 668 Ninth Avenue killed a janitor and a 13 year old boy, injured multiple residents, and caused extensive damage after heroic rescue attempts by police and residents.
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Washington
Congress
Abraham Lincoln
House
Senate
National
Lincoln
Capitol
Union Station
McCall
Massachusetts
Elliott Woods
Ninth Avenue
West 47Th Street
Nicholas Gentner
Kitty Ford
Joseph Monahan
John Kerr
John
James Fay
Roosevelt Hospital
Gentner
Monahan
Miss Ford
Thomas Fay
Kerr
McManus
Guaranty Trust picks president candidate from Clark Williams list
The special committee of directors, A. D Juilliard, FE. H. Harriman and George F. Baker, are reportedly considering Clark Williams as successor to John W. Castles at Guaranty Trust. Williams, about 38, is state banks superintendent and former VP at United States Mortgage and Trust and Columbia Trust. He also serves on Governor Hughes's securities inquiry committee.
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A. D
Williams
United States Mortgage and Trust Company
Columbia Trust Company
Hughes
United States
Congress
Naval Constructor Sues Wife for Absolute Divorce
Naval Constructor Holden A. Evans of Mare Island Navy Yard filed for an absolute divorce in Salano County courts. He says his devotion to work and grave government duties left him unable to join his wife in social galas, causing great distress as she often left him and the children for social pleasures.
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Tribune
San Francisco
Holden A. Evans
Mare Island Navy Yard
Prometheus
Salano County
Evans
Naval Constructor
Detectives Subpoenaed as Grand Jury Hears Packers Probe
Secret Service agents routed private detectives loitering in hotel lobbies during the federal grand jury session on packers and railroads in Chicago. One claimed to be Charles Watkins was subpoenaed and questioned for a "lively half hour." H. A. Timmins, Morris & Co. head bookkeeper, dominated most of today’s proceedings. Hearing resumes Monday.
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Chicago
Jan
Federal Grand Jury
Secret Service
Charles Watkins
Grand Jury
H. A. Timmins
Morris & Co
Five Shaw School Boys Held After Peddler Death
Five boys aged eight to thirteen were arrested in Shaw School for the death of William Wachter, a peddler known as a miser, found with a crushed skull. Trey Lee confessed the boys stoned him for fun. Lee was held for criminal carelessness. others detained as witnesses.
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St. Louis
Shaw
William Wachter
Joseph Lee
George Remmel
Frank Mamie
Henry
Arthur Goebehardt
Trey
Wachter
Lee
Huntington Lots Sold on Riverside Drive Fronts
The Collis P. Huntington estate sold the block front on Riverside Drive between 111th and 112th streets totaling about eleven lots. Frontages measure 204 feet on 111th and 150.10 feet on 112th with a two story hotel building at the 112th street corner. This marks the second block front sale in this stretch in two months as Mrs Margaret Sage widow of Russell Sage recently purchased the block front between 109th street and Cathedral Parkway for 390000.
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Riverside Drive
111Th
112Th Streets
111T Street
112Th Street
Margaret ©. Sage
Russell Sage
109Th Street
Cathedral Parkway
Pastor Weds Abroad After European Vacation
The Rev. William L. Sperry of the First Congregational Church returned from a ten months European trip with a bride, Miss Muriel Laura Bennett of Dublin Ireland. They wed in Dublin two weeks earlier after a courtship started during his Rhodes scholarship at Oxford. Sperry kept the nuptials secret until he knew she would marry him.
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the Tribune
Fall River
Mass
Willian L. Sperry
First Congregational Churc
Europe
Muriel Laura Bennett
Dublin
Ireland
Sperry
Oxford
Bennett
Law Proposed Making Parents Liable for Delinquent Children
Secretary E K Whitehead of the Colorado Bureau of Child and Animal Protection urges a new state law to hold parents accountable for their children misbehavior. The bill allows complaints against parents and gives courts discretion on punishment after conviction to target the responsible guardian.
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Denver
E. K. Whitehead
Colorado Bureau of Child and Animal Protection
Whitehead
Lyons Mail case ends in death verdict in France
The Versailles court convicts Albinet in a high profile case resembling the play The Lyons Mail. He aided a November robbery of the Toulon express at Etampes, shot a guard, and fled with cash boxes, claiming a double culprit Leray resembled him. Witnesses testified Leray existed, despite police searches. A travel ad follows, offering a Washington trip for three days.
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France
Lyons Mail
London
Henry B. Irving
Assize Court
Albinet
Toulon
Etampes
Leray
Lesurques
Dubosc
Leroy
Pittsburg Arrests Bogus Check King in Raid Plan
Pittsburg police seized Julius K. Dillman known as a top bogus check manipulator after he was arrested for passing a counterfeit department store check. He confessed to aliases J D Gray and George E Curtis and to planned a raid on New York City. Warrants cover multiple cities and a ledger lists dozens of firms in many states including Montgomery Co Butler Brothers and Parke Davis.
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Pittsburg
Jan
Julius K. Dillman
New York City
Dillman
J. D. Gray
George E. Curtis
Rochester
Cleveland
Boston
Chicago
Buffalo
Montgomery & Co
Butler Brothers
Thomas Bailey & Co
Martin Bates & Co
Parke Davis & Co
F. H. Leggett & Co
J. H. Little & Co
Minnesota Wide Open Tax Stands Supreme Court Decision
The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld the wide open tax amendment allowing a tonnage tax on iron ore and validating the State Tax Commission. The ruling enables collection of millions in revenue from the Steel Trust. The Attorney General calls it the greatest victory any state has ever won.
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Tribune
St. Paul, Jan
Minnesota
State Supreme Court
State Tax Commission
Steel Trust
Rumor Claims Afghan Crossing Into Persia At Seistan Front
A persistent rumor from Teheran on January 8 says about 6,000 Afghans with six guns crossed the Seistani frontier into Persia. The Seistan frontier lies at the junction of Eastern Persia and Southwestern Afghanistan. An advertisement touts Salada Tea with a trial packet priced at 10 cents.
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Teheran
Seistani
Persia
Seistan
Afghanistan
Springfield High School color rush strike over reinstatement
Springfield Hi faculty reports February graduates suspended for color rushing and nine girl grads go on strike demanding the boys’ reinstatement.
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Tribune
Springfield
Springfeld High School Today
Americas Bid for Canada Dominates Roosevelts Clash
London papers spotlight U S politics with The Daily Mail warning that a Canada U S reciprocity treaty could lead to Canada becoming absorbed by the United States. It urges Canadian patience as free trade shocks push toward closer ties with Britain. The Daily Telegraph notes the U S Japan agreement’s significance over Yuan Shih Kai’s dismissal.
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Daily Mail
America
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United States
Daily Telegraph
Japan
Yuan Shih Kai
May Upset Physics Discovery by Comstock in The Tribune
Dr D F Comstock of MIT announces experiments concluding that matter and energy are different phases of the same thing The discovery is said to revolutionize physics and explain baffling phenomena He is expected to publish full details soon
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the Tribune
Boston
Jan
D. F. Comstock
Physics Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Comstock
Tom L Johnson Pressed Toward Congress Seat
Cleveland dispatch reports Tom L. Johnson weighing a bid for the 71st District seat in Congress after Theodore Burton moves to the Senate. Johnson’s associates say he will run to avoid paying a three cent fare issue tied to a mayoral bid. Burton names Joseph J. Rowe as clerk of the Rivers and Harbors Committee.
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Tribune
Cleveland
Tom L. Johnson
Congress
Theodore E. Burton
Senate
Burton
Charles Salen
Johnson
Joseph J. Rowe
Rivers and Harbors
National House
James H. Cassidy
Rowe
Goethals Declares Gatun Dam Safe and Canal Feasible
Lieutenant Colonel Goethals testifies before a special U S Congress committee that the Gatun Dam is safe and the canal is practicable. He details lock location changes for military and economic reasons and says seepage risks are eliminated. Fortifications should begin now to be ready by completion. Speaker notes $95 million spent to date.
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Panama
United States Congress
Goethals
Pacific
Sosa Hill
Gatun
Colonel Goethals
Girl’s Strange Auto Ride Tale From New York to Allentown
A 17 year old girl, Daisy Thaw of New York, was found unconscious on a doorstep in East Allentown. She described being abducted after meeting a man in New York, later joined by three other men, offered wine, and then lost memory after dizziness. Police suspect she was carried to a house and left on a porch after dark.
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the Tribune
Allentown
Penn
East Allentown
Daisy Thaw
No. 25
West Street
New York
Ory
River Front
Theft of Bonds From Paris Mail Wagon
A mail sack with bonds worth 320000 was stolen from a delivery wagon on the Chausée d Art in broad daylight. Police have no clues to the thieves. Seaboard's Florida service advertisement follows.
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Paris
Chausée d'Art
Senator Tillman in Secret Service Letter Controversy
The President released a letter to Senator Hale detailing alleged ties between Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina and the St Paul and Pacific Timber Syndicate. The documents claim Tillman urged family and his secretary to pursue land under dummy entries and pressed for government action to recover land for private gain.
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Jan. S
Hale
Benjamin R. Tillman
South Carolina
St. Paul and Pacific Timber Syndicate
United States
Tillman
Senate
Messrs
Fulton
Oregon
Department of Justice
Secret Service
Post Office
J. B. Knight
Wiliam E. Lee
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