United States Defends Right To Arm Defensive Merchant Ships
Washington reports that U S officials say merchant ships may carry defensive arms and that the U S does not accept wartime armed merchant ship requirements without warning after February 29. Senator Lodge warns such a shift would betray neutrality and ally the U S with belligerents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
state department
United States
Germany
Austria
Lodge
foreign relations committee
senate
Secretary of State
Lansing
Fire Rages in Park Place Mine in Mahanoy City
Fire swept the Park Place mine of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company in Mahanoy City Pennsylvania on February 19 causing heavy losses. The blaze is now under control.
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Mahanoy City
Park Place
Lehigh Valley Coal company
Roosevelt Visits St Thomas and New York Exports Rise
Theodore Roosevelt arrived in the Danish West Indies on the Guiana and toured harbor works and town sites before resting. He declined interviews amid political talk. In New York exports in January totaled 175.66 million, with domestic shipments at 172.29 million and foreign at 2.37 million, versus last January. An explosion at an Syracuse picric acid plant killed four and left six injured.
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New York
Syracuse
Senate Approves Nicaragua Canal Treaty With 55 to 18 Vote
Washington February 19. The senate approved the Nicaragua canal route treaty by fifty five to eighteen, fifteen Republicans voting yes and five Democrats voting no. The pact grants the United States executive propriety rights for an interoceanic canal, a ninety nine year lease of Great and Little Corn islands, and a naval base on the Gulf of Fonseca, with a $3 million payment to Nicaragua. The agreement allows a renewal term of ninety nine years, taxes waived by amendment, and funds to be used for debt reduction or other public purposes in Nicaragua subject to ministerial and secretary of state approval. The treaty was introduced by Secretary Bryan and ratification includes a proviso by Senator Broussard affirming good U.S. intentions and safeguarding the rights of Central American states.
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Washington
senate
Nicaragua
United States
canal route
arso
gulf of Fonseca
Great
Little Corn islands
Caribbean sea
Bryan
ratificati
Senaator Broussard
Three Hurt At Dupont's Explosion At Carney's Point
Three men were injured in a Dupont plant fire at Carney's Point Delaware with one seriously hurt. The injured were William Pomeroy William Allen and William Morrison with burns and injuries from falling glass and a broken ankle. The rifle powder press house was damaged and the origin was unknown.
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Carney’s Point
Wilmington
Del
Dupont company
William Pomeroy
William Allen
William Morrison
Carney's Point
rifle powder
Falls Kill Huntsman In Frightful Accident In Pa
Cract jing over rocks while fox hunting on the Spring Bush mountains near Chambersburg Pennsylvania, James Seibert slipped and discharged his own gun, fatally wounding him. He died instantly of a heart shot. Elsewhere in Lancaster a stenographer applicant, Berlie A Work, twenty nine, collapsed and died during a typing test at the Intelligencer office.
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Chambersburg
Cractjing
Spring Bush
James Seibert
Seibert
Oles
Lancaster
Berlie A. Work
intelligencer office
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