Taft to Call Special Congressional Session on Reciprocity
Washington March 2 Republican leaders meet at the White House to decide on an extra session of Congress to consider the Canadian reciprocity treaty. Taft reportedly favors an earlier gathering before April 4, with Democratic and Republican leaders alike acknowledging an extraordinary session is likely. March 20 was discussed as a potential date for convening.
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New York
Interurban rail project not abandoned says Freye
E W Freye of Chicago denies reports the Sheboygan north interurban line to Sturgeon Bay and Green Bay is dropped. He accuses rivals in Sheboygan and Green Bay of trying to block the plan to keep the field for a line they will build soon. He vows to return in spring to push the project toward a successful issue.
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Tragic murder shocks Rome as princess slain at hotel
Rome reports Princess Di Trigona, a lady in waiting to Queen Helena, was murdered in a small Rome hotel. Lieutenant Paterno, an Italian cavalry officer, is alleged to have strangled her and then shot her. Details remain unknown or suppressed as authorities investigate.
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Associated Press
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Princess di Trigona
Helena
Paterno
Leutenant
Illinois House bill proposes permanent debarment for bribery
Springfield March 2 Republican caucus ends with no Canadian reciprocity act endorsement. Following the session opening Representative Piercy introduces a bill to permanently debarr any candidate convicted of bribery.
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Springfield
Til
Tllinois
Jones
Piercy
Mount Vernon
Illinois House
Levee Park Planned in La Crosse After Jury Decision
Milwaukee dispatch reports La Crosse jury condemnation ruling guarantees a levee park stretching into the river. The project will bank the Mississippi at La Crosse for a distance of several hundred feet and cost about 100,000 dollars.
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Milwaukee
Wis
la Crosse
la Bresce
Misssippi
Everal
Joke on suffragists in Madison meeting
Madison March 2 Fifty of one hundred advocates for women suffrage who formed the local equal Suffrage society were victims of a prank. The second phase of petitions supporting suffrage saw the word Against written into the petitions, with many signatures before the ruse was found. Miss Mary Swain Wagner led the movement, proposing that charter members be those who signed the petitions, but members objected to signing away their rights. The meeting adjourned without action on petitioners.
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Wis
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Desire Work Reported on Coffee Monopoly Probe
Representative Norris of Nebraska introduced a privileged resolution asking the attorney general to report to the house on investigations into a possible foreign controlled coffee monopoly involving the Brazilian government and Sao Paulo with J. I. Morgan & Co. The measure seeks steps taken to enforce anti trust laws, any prosecutions, and results, reflecting market turmoil in New York coffee trades days earlier.
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Washington, D. C
Judiciary Committee
House
Norris
Nebraska
Sao Paulo
J. I. Morgan & Co
Brazil
New York
Butter Seized From Milton Dairy for Adulteration
United States revenue officers seized 15,000 pounds of butter owned by Milton Dairy Company stored at A. Bonth & Co in St Paul for containing more than sixteen percent moisture classed as adulterated. District Attorney Houpt filed suit in U S district court alleging violation of the 1902 butter adulteration law.
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Associated Press
St. Paul, Minn
United States Revenue Officers
Milton Dairy Company
A. Bonth & Co
United States
Houpt
United States District Court
Civil engineers honored voyage to inspect Panama Canal
Eight civil engineers from the American Society of Civil Engineers and their families sailed from New York aboard the Zacapa at Taft's invitation to inspect the Panama Canal. They will stay in the canal zone for a week as guests of Colonel Goethals. A second New Orleans party will depart to Colon about the same time.
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Associated Press
New York
Taft
Panama Canal
American Society of Civil Engineers
Panama
Zacapa
Eanal Zone
Goethals
New Orleans
Colon
Confer On Reciprocity Ottawa Dispatch
J G Foster United States consul general at Ottawa was summoned to Washington by Secretary Knox for talks on reciprocity. The State Secretary seeks information on the likely effect of any delay in ratification by the Senate and how Canadian authorities might react to possible amendments.
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Ottawa
J. G. Foster
United States
Washington
Knox
Senate
Canada
Shippers Hearing Set After Engineering Board Ruling
Secretary Dickinson informed Vice President Sherman that a hearing would be held Monday for ten New York representatives including tippling interests objecting to the engineering board's recommendation denying the right to extend the pier heads in the Hudson River.
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Sherman
New York
Tipping
Engineering Board
Hudson River
Taft Nominates Negro To Treasury Post In Washington
President Taft named James S. Napier of Tennessee as register of the treasury today. Napier, who is Black, would be the first African American to hold the post. The president also nominated Charles S. Henderson of Montana as United States marshal.
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Washington, D. C
James Sc. Napier
Tennessee
Taft
Register of the Treasury
Charles S. Henderson
United States
Montana
Napier
Prominent Insurance Executive Dies at 76
Henry M. Phillips longtime vice president of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, died today at age seventy six. He was a prominent figure in the industry and served with the company for several years.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Mass
Henry M. Phillips
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
Miners Return to Work at Crow's Neck Mines
Fifteen hundred miners at the Michael and Frank Mines in the Crow’s Nest district returned to work on March 2 after a stoppage. Winniges Man reports the restart across the district with steady employment resumed and no new strikes noted.
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Crow's Neat Pate
Tony
Democrats Line Up Fight Tariff Board In Senate Colloquy
Senate collogue reveals Democrats press to attach Canadian reciprocity as a rider to the permanent tariff board measure. Republicans resist, with filibuster tactics and threats of an extra session. Debate shows cross party tension as discussion turns to post office appropriations and the unfinished business of the tariff bill.
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Canada Parliament Debates Reciprocity Amidst Uncertain Outcome
Ottawa March 2 The ongoing reciprocity debate dominated today’s parliamentary program with Mr. Gorman of Welland set to critique from his Niagara Peninsula district while Mr. Lecher of Oxford Liberals voice support. Opponents canvassed constituents seeking western Conservative replies, and a long session is anticipated as coronation events fail to end the dispute. Sir Wilfrid Laurier plans England trip around May 12 for Imperial Conference and coronation with ministerial aides likely joining.
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Cridt
Niagara Peninsula
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Oxford
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Wilfrid Laurier
England
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Alan Aylesworth
Civil service hit as city official resists authority
Milwaukee moves to curb civil service power as City Comptroller Carl Chetz and a secretary clash with the civil service board over exemptions and appointments. In Saginaw Governor Osborn addresses the Republican state convention urging Canada reciprocity, praising Taft while noting border defense. A resolutions committee later omits reciprocity references from its platform.
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AL Talmer
Lords Read Veto Bill As Balfour Asks Lords Reform
Lord Balfour of Burleigh led the debate in the House of Lords on the veto bill for national occasions. The measure passed the first reading without division amid calls of fraud from critics. Asquith defended Liberal motives and urged a nonpartisan second chamber focused on revision and consultation.
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London
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House of Lords
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Balfour
Lowther
Asquith
House of Company
Lords
House of Commons
Father of Ban Johnson Dies in Cincinnati at 84
Cincinnati March. Prof. A R Johnson father of Ban Johnson president of the American League died here aged eighty four. Until retirement he was one of Ohio’s leading educators.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
March
A. R. Johnson
Ban” Johnson
American League
Johnson
Ohio
Indiana Bank Robbed in Matthews Heist
Marion Indiana March 2 robbers entered the Farmers State bank of Matthews last night blowing the door and escaping with an estimated 3000 to 5000 dollars. Details of the caper and suspects are unclear as investigators pursue leads.
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Associated Press
Marion
Tod
Farmers
Bank of
Matthews
Kuestermann to file contest over counted votes
Washington March 2 Representative Kuestermann will formally contest TF Konop’s seat in the house asserting thirty four votes cast for him were not counted. Wisconsin supreme court avoided merits ruling, saying congress must decide. He travels home with daughters Olga and Nunie Kuestermann.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court
Congress
Kuestermann
Fire destroys Mitchell flouring mills and elevator
Fire early today in Mitchell Indiana destroyed property valued around 100000 dollars including the Matthew Brothers elevator and flouring mills. The mills stored several thousand bushels of wheat and corn along with other grain.
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Mitchell
Ind
Matthem Brothers
Peace talks in Honduras delay as ultimatum fades
In Puerto Cortez on March 2 peace negotiations aboard the US cruiser Tacoma between Dr Mem breno and General Rosales stalled with no threat of Manilla's ultimatum presented. Amicable agreement seems unlikely and a provisional Honduran president may be needed. American mediator Thomas Dawson urged a peaceful settlement to protect welfare and avoid international complications.
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Puerto Cortez
Manilla
Revolutionary Party
Membreno
General Rosales
Davila
United States
Tacoma
Honduras
Thomas ©. Dawson
Will Destroy Forests Bill Fails In House Vote
The house defeated a bill opening 1 5 million acres of surplus lands in the Craw Indh reservation in Montana. Gifford Pinchot warned that forest destruction would follow the revised amendment shaping timber exclusions in national forests. He urged action to strike the amendment at the forthcoming convention.
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Washington
House Today
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Senate
Washington, D. C
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National Conservation Association
Reyburn
Idaho
National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association
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Uin Forest Service
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Erregt Service
Warren
Wyoming
Scott
Kaneas
Weisbrod and Lampert in mayoral talk amid papers
Street talk centers on nomination papers for J W Weisbrod for mayor with denials from Weisbrod who has not joined the drive. Florian Lampert is floated as a Republican possibility. past notes suggest Lampert favored city waterworks purchase, citing 1894 receipts and operating costs in his comptroller reports.
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South Side
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Lampert
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House approves final Indian appropriation bill in conference report
Washington March 2. The house agreed to the final conference report on the Indian appropriation bill after a dispute with the senate. The senate withdrew a Fla amendment recognizing attorney claims totaling 90000 against the Colville Indians, and the house accepted the senate amendment ordering payment of traders' claims against individual Indians.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
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Senate
Senatorial Deadlock Persists. Justice Stapleton Emerges
Albany reports continued efforts to break the senatorial deadlock with no success. E. D. Stapleton is newly listed on today’s ballot as a justice of the supreme court and resident of Brooklyn. The Wo TOU business meeting is set for Friday afternoon, March 3, at Mrs. L. E. Knapp’s home, 49 Elm Street.
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Wo. Tou
L.E. Knapp
Berger and Seidel Speak to Wisconsin Assembly
Madison March 2 two Social Democratic officials not in the legislature addressed the assembly briefly. Congressman-elect Victor L Berger said Wisconsin should be proud to break the ice and Milwaukee Mayor Emil Seidel spoke in support of Milwaukee home rule bills. Clark’s referendum bill was reported for passage. Bancroft settled two large inheritance tax cases, 42000 and 95000, prompting talk of legislative oversight. The parochial school teacher exams bill faced strong opposition and was withdrawn.
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Wis
Victor L. Berger
Emil Seidel
Milwaukee
Berger
Congress
Wisconsin
Seidel
Clark
Judiciary Committee
Bancroft
Simmons
Kenosha
Jeffreys
Dahl
Playing With Matches Burns Wisconsin Farm Home
A Wisconsin dispatch reports a fire near Manitowoc at Rud Moisner’s farm home north of Milwaukee. Children playing with matches sparked the blaze, partially destroying the house. A rural carrier spotted the flames and rushed to the scene on a exhausted horse to aid the efforts, while neighbors fought to save the upstairs room where a child was found amid the fire.
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Wisconsin
Manitewoc
Rud Moisaner
Bomb Fails to Explode in City Car
A bomb thrown at the motor car of Superintendent Denham of the criminal investigation department failed to explode. A native youth was arrested as the would be assailant. Denham was not in the car, which was occupied by a public works official.
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Denham
Criminal Investigation Department
Portage and Two Rivers Team Tour Planned
A joint state tour by Portage Company basketball team and Two Rivers tradition team is being negotiated. The teams are currently en route on a coast tour and will undertake the state itinerary as soon as they return.
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Manitowoc
Portage
Two Rivers
Missouri Senate Commends Voting Against Lorimer
The Missouri Senate adopted a resolution commending United States Senators Stone and Warner for voting against Senator William Lorimer in yesterday's U S Senate session. The action was announced from Jefferson City on March 2 by Associated Press.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Senate Today
United States
Stone
Warner
William Lorimer
United States Senate
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