Senate passes Gallinger child labor bill for District of Columbia
The Senate approved the Gallinger bill banning child labor under fourteen in almost all workplaces within the District of Columbia with fines for violations and daily penalties after warnings. Exemptions apply to dependent children as judged by Juvenile Court. The session also addressed railroads compliance with the commodity clause and discussed the Brownsville incident. Senator Foraker criticized a purported presidential letter while Senator Smith defended the President.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Senate
Warrere
Brownsville
Gallinger
Columbia
Geiegraph
Juder
Senator Foraker
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Western Maryland
Warner
25Th Regiment
Boen
Foraker
Smith
Michgen
Mr. Smith
Mr. Foraker
Still Day for Veterans in Prohibition Vote
The House voted 167 to 46 to continue prohibiting intoxicating liquor in national soldiers homes. Debates raged as sundry civil bill aims to remove the canteen from state homes and an amendment would add national homes. A gallery intruder, G F Gridley of Providence, shouted for recognition and was removed. investigators will check his sanity. Fenner, on immigration, admitted aiding rapid naturalization under old law, sparking a stir.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Mer
House
Tirrell
Massachusetts
Watson
United States
G. F. Gridley
Providence
Fenner
Immigration Commission
Catholic University Welfare Debate At Washington Board Meeting
Washington May 6 The board of trustees of the Catholic University of America met under Cardinal Gibbons to discuss how to maintain the institution. The Knights of Columbus offered to raise 40900 by subscription but trustees said that would not suffice. Ancient Order of Hibernians proposed scholarships from 8 to 40 dollars yearly, each division to support one. No action taken. plan to be discussed tomorrow.
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Washington
Catholic University of America
Cardinal Gibbons
Knights of Columbus
Ancient
Order of Hibernians
Publishers Testify on Print Paper Prices in Congress
Washington May 6 House committee investigating wood pulp and print paper heard publishers and newspaper managers testify about rising paper costs. They largely cited a decade of price declines and urged passage of the Stevens bill to remove duties on wood pulp and print paper above two cents a pound. John Norris of the American Newspaper Publishers Association said repealing the duty on mechanically ground wood pulp and on higher graded print paper was the association’s main demand. Chairman Mann summarized the situation as Norris gave his remarks and the hearing adjourned until tomorrow.
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Washington
House Committee
Stevens
John Norris
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Congress
Mariom
Mann
Norris
Sorene
Senate clears three Paris embassy building bills
Washington May 6 Senator Loge won favorable action in the Senate Committee on Relations on three measures to buy a Paris building for an American embassy. One is a bill and the others are amendments to the omnibus public buildings and the sundry civil bill. Each contemplates a total appropriation of 466000 dollars.
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Washington
Senator Loge
Senate Committee On Relations
Paris
Lights go out on disrupted subway meeting at Lyric Hall
A mass meeting in Greenwich Village to discuss extending streets and building a Seventh avenue subway was abandoned as legible resolutions could not be read. The crowd of seven hundred heard that opposition prevailed and a second session later endorsed the Elsberg bill for private capital subway construction, amid confrontations involving Alderman Tristam B. Johnson and Jacob A. Cantor.
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Lyric Hall
Greenwich Village
C. C. Hickok
Seventh Avenue
Tristam B. Johnson
Jacob A. Cantor
L. Barton Case
Daniel Daly
Cantor
L. C. Nedborn
Robinson
Hughes
Bedford
Redford
Nine Murders Surge in Northwest State Sparks Probe
A wave of reporters floods La Porte as four bodies are dug from the Guinness house ruins. John Larson of Chicago seeks to recover the bodies for his relatives and reveals family history, alleged poisonings, and adoptions tied to Mrs. Guinness. Sheriff Schulzer probes the Budsberg disappearance, with a $1,090 reward authorized by Laporte County officials as investigators pursue leads.
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John Larson
No. 992
Francisco Avenue
Chicago
Guinness
Trondhjem
Norway
Belle Paulsen
Max Sorenson
Austin
Ill
Sorenson
Jennie Olson
Jennie
Lola
Budsberg
Laporte County
Wu Ting-fang at Lotos Club Praises China and Confucianism
Wu Ting-fang spoke at the Lotos Club after other speakers, praising China and Confucianism, and urging a Confucian temple in New York. He joked about a simple diet, predicted a long life, and urged mutual respect while declining attempts at conversion.
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Wu Ting-fang
Lotos Club
China
Mr. Wu
United States
Chinatown
Peking
John Stuart Mill
Rabbi Wise
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Patrick McCarren
East
Fifth Avenue
Frank R. Lawrence
Minister Wu
Frederick D. Grant
Stephen S. Wise
J. W. Bashford
John Barrett
Martin W. Littleton
Robert 3. MacArthur
W. W. Yen
Job Hedges
P. H. McCarren
John&. Wise
Timothy L. Woodruff
Peru
Mexico
Grant
Lawrence
General Grant
Schurman
Cornell University
Army and Navy News Movements and Assignments May 6
Military orders issued shifting officers across Cavalry Artillery and Quartermaster branches. Promotions and leaves granted for Green Sea, Panama Canal Zone, and Sequoia National Park. Navy detachments assigned homeward awaiting orders. several ships and a Pacific fleet reported arriving at San Francisco with a planned southward cruise after May 18.
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Clark TP. Dudley
7Th Cavalry
James Frentican
Coast Artillery Corps
Iith Company
Fort Ward
Fort Stevens
John K. Cree
General Staff
War College
Charles J. Batley
George MR. Williamson
Fort Mason
Washington
Henry F. Lincoln
Fort Sam Houston
14Th Cavalry
Sequoia National Park
John RB. Barnes
Canal Zone
Panama
Brainer D. Btaughter
William L. Patterson
18Th Infantry
Fort Leaverwort
Philippines
Mare Island
San Francisco
Monterey
Pacific Fleet
Santa Cruz
Standard Quits Turpentine Field in Ohio
Standard Oil Company announces withdrawal from the turpentine business in Ohio after a long fight. Samuel T. Curtis, Cleveland agent, confirms wagons and operations will be pulled back, ending the company’s turpentine activities in the state amid price wars with rivals.
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the Tribune
Cleveland
Standard Oi Company
Ohio
Britton T. Day
Button T. & 5S
Ohie
Standard
Governors letter declines New York reception honor
Washington May 6 Chairman Payne of the New York delegation in the House reports a letter from Governor Hughes declining the invitation to attend a reception in his honor during the governors convention. Hughes says his duties require him to return to New York at once, though he would pleasure attend.
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Washington
Payne
New York
Hughes
Governor Grants Reprieve for Harry Orchard
Boise Idaho May 6 Governor Gooding granted a reprieve until July 2 to Harry Orchard who was sentenced to be hanged on Sunday of next week.
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Boise
Idaho
Gooding
Harry Orchard
Srnday
Charities Conference Opens in Richmond with Keynote
The National Conference of Charities and Corrections opened in Richmond at the Academy of Music before a packed audience. Governor Swanson urged just distribution of fortunes and monuments of charity, while welcoming remarks were given by Mayor McCarthy and R. A. Lancaster Jr. Presidents Mulry and Bijur spoke, and a telegram from President Roosevelt sent best wishes for the event.
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Richmond
Academy of Music
National Conference of Charities and Corrections
Swanson
McCarthy
R. A. Lancaster, Jr
Mulry
Mornay Williams
New York
Bijur
Jewish Conference
Thomas W. Haynes
Jewish Society
Roosevelt
National Conference of Charities and Cortions
Ice Trust Fails To Halt Grand Jury Inquiry
The third grand jury probe of American Ice Company continued as the Appellate Division refused to issue the alternative writ. Wesley M. Oler, company president, had sought to block the panel arguing it was not properly impanelled. James W. Osborne began calling witnesses, with Bennett, Harrison, and Robert A. Scott appearing, along with several clerks and documentary evidence in hand.
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ICE Trust
American Ice Company
Supreme Court
Wesley M. Oler
James W. Osborne
Jackson
Rand Sues Over Kinney Child Abduction Claim
Assistant District Attorney Rand of New York accuses local lawyers of fleecing him of $00 by arranging in Los Angeles for Joel Kinney, heir to tobacco magnate Francis Kinney, to be produced and spirited away again. Kinney has been in Pinkerton custody for thirteen years, traveling globally at family expense, and is described as a dangerous cocaine fiend unsafe for return to the Kinney family. Rand sought to take the youth to New York.
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Tribune
Los Angeles
Rand
New York
Joel Kinney
Francis Sherwood Kinney
Joe Kinney
Pinkertons
Wu Ting-fang speaks at Chinese temple fund drive
Wu Ting-fang, in slate robe and purple jacket, addresses the Confucius Society gathering in Dover Street to support a temple fund that will serve as a school of Chinese philosophy. He urges adherence to Confucian duties and warns against gambling and opium abuse.
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Dovers Street
Wu Ting-fang
Confucius Society
Chen Fen Chung
Chen
Mr. Wu
Dr. Chen
Cuban Army Chief Arrives to Study U S Military System
Major General Faustino Guerra newly appointed Cuban army commander arrived on the Havana from Havana to study American military methods. He will visit Germany and France, then Washington to meet President Roosevelt and West Point. He is noted for leadership in 1906 Palma government overthrow and served as a congressman. Captain Landa and Major Marti accompany him. Frank M Steinhart also aboard bearing his mother's body for burial.
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Faustino Guerra
Havana
Spain
Congress
Palma
Tomas Estrada Palma
Major Marti
José Marti
Landa
Guerra
Frank M. Steinhart
United States
New Trustee Elected at Temple Emanu El Meeting
The Temple Emanu El board elected Henry Sidenberg to fill the vacancy left by the resigning Louis Stern. Sidenberg, of G. Sidenberg & Co., has long been a temple member and is active in most Jewish charitable groups in the city.
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Temple
Emanu-El
Henry Sidenberg
Louis Stern
Sidenberg
Annual Congregational Meeting Sets Trustee Vote
A congregational gathering is scheduled for Monday evening to conduct the annual meeting and ratify the trustee selection. The event aims to confirm the slate and finalize governance actions for the organization.
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Catholic University Welfare
Suah
Postum (Cereal )Company, Limited
C. Creex
Mich
Dovers Str
Army and Navy News
NAVY
W. K. Wortman
Tennessee
G. P. Brown
California
F. I. Berrien
Minnesota
G. K. Castelman
Kansas
C. S. Freeman
Connecticut
J. W. Schornfeld
W. ©. L Stiles
Missouri
Charleston
FW. Spofford
Wolverine
FW. Perkins
WA. Mehritt
W. T. Helms
Naval Station
Cavité
G. L. Bayard
Navy Yard
Maryland
H. B. Stanford
Navy Department
League Island
F. C. Maxson
Portsmouth
C. W. Parker
Honolulu
Turpentine Field
Orchard
Grand Rapids Furniture Company
Lacoror
Charities Conference
WEST
Europe
Temple Emanu-El
T. M. Stewart
Ave
Fou
Columbus
Jems & Qoncer
West Dist St
Metz
Controller Metz
Nate Commercial Travellers
Travellers” Protective Association
Manhattan Beach
St. Louis
Merchants’ Association
New York Board of Trade and Transportation
John S. Whalen
Edward W. Townsend
Chimmie Fadden
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