Session Opens as South Carolina Legislature Looks Ahead
Columbia hosts the forty day session with Lieutenant Governor McLeod and Speaker Whaley presiding. Governor Ansel’s message highlights railroad rate plans, railroad commission power, and pending laws on labor contracts, prohibitions, and liens. Dispensary issues near Augusta are debated amid notes of possible rail relief.
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South Carolina
Columbia
Senate
McLeod
House
Whaley
Ansel
Southern Railway
Finley
Railroad Commission
Brawley
Atlantic Coast Line
Seaboard Air Line
North Augusta
Augusta
Georgia
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Nevada Senate Seeks Troop Stay in Goldfield
The Nevada state senate in Carson City passed a resolution urging President Roosevelt to keep troops in Goldfield until a law is enacted to fund a police force or alternative peacekeeping method, ensuring order in the mining district.
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Goldfield
Nevada State Senate
Carson City
Walsh Found Guilty Of Loan Fraud At Chicago National Bank
John R. Walsh, president of the defunct Chicago National Bank, was found guilty on 64 counts of misappropriating bank funds. Jurors faced long indictments, with one member tearfully confirming the verdict. Walsh faces imprisonment of not less than five years with no option for fines. He remains free on $50,000 bond as a new-trial date was set for January 28. The case stemmed from 1905 bank closures and claims of $16 million in loans on fictitious notes across Walsh’s allied institutions.
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Chicago National Bank
Walsh
Elbert Palmer
Harvard
Palmer
Attorney Miller
Mr. Palmer
Judge Anderson
Anderson
Federal Grand Jury
Home Savings Bank
Equitable Trust Company
War Talk Renewed on Fortifying Hawaii
President Roosevelt urged Senator Dolliver to strengthen Hawaii swiftly renewing war talk with Japan in Washington. The remark signals administration concern and readiness for any possible emergency.
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Roosevelt
Dolliver
Iowa
Washington
Japan
INDUSTRY RESUMED AS CASH RETURNS TO BANKS IN NEW YORK
A sweeping telegraphic survey reports better industrial conditions across the south and midwest with mills mines and factories rehiring workers. Bank cash in New York rose by 26 185 800 and interior banks expanded their surplus reserves by 16 551 425 to 22 635 475 signaling renewed liquidity and a brighter outlook alike for railroads coal mines and manufacturing sectors.
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Middle West
America
New York
Wall Street
New York City
New York Central and
Hudson River
Cortelyou to quit as secretary of the treasury
A Washington special says Cortelyou will resign from the cabinet at an early day. Postmaster General Meyer likely to succeed him. Rumors of a rift with President Roosevelt tied to Taft nomination. Officials cite cabinet clashes and a desire to restore calm after the panic.
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White House
Cortelyou
Treasury Department
Culberson
Tillman
Senate
Wall Street
Meyer
Post Office Department
Treasury
Knickerbocker Trust Company of
New York
Civil War Averted by State Judges Adhering to Federal Injunction
Declaration by Federal Judge Jones in Montgomery Alabama during railroad case hearings says state judges’ obedience to a federal injunction while urged to disobey prevented a civil war. He spoke as Judge Weakley argued federal court had no jurisdiction and that matters lay with state judges.
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United States Court
Montgomery
Ala
Weakley
Weakly
Many Buried in Single Grave at Boyertown Horror
Coroner Straus ordered all unidentified dead to be buried at once in Fairview cemetery. Twenty unclaimed bodies were consigned to a single trench as six boys and girls sisters and cousins were laid to rest together.
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Strausser
Boyertown
Fairview Cemetery
Rome Lawyer Charged With Mail Fraud in Clearing House Scheme
Charles E. Davis, a Rome Ga attorney, was arraigned before U S Commissioner Printup on a charge of attempting to defraud by using the mails. The government seeks to prove he circulated clearing house certificates and met a Philadelphia printer to produce 50000 of them, claiming ties to the Atlanta clearing house. The printers alerted the secret service, who passed the case to postal authorities.
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Charles E. Davis
Rome
United States
Printup
Davis
Philadelphia
Atlanta
Secret Service
Florida East Coast to open Miami Knight's Key line
The Florida East Coast railway will open the new road from Miami to Knight's Key on January 16. Steamers already ply between Knight's Key and Key West and Havana, taking six hours, and tourist trains will run through to Knight's Key from that date.
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Miami
Knight's Key
Florida East Coast Railway
Knight’s Key
Key West
Havana
Father Killed by Son in Davidson Ax Murder
Ezekiel Gregory, a farmer over sixty, was killed with an ax by his son Dave in Davidson North Carolina after a dispute about arising. The son drew a line with the ax into the earth and challenged his father to cross it. the father crossed and died instantly. Gregory is jailed in Charlotte.
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Davidson
N. C
Ezekiel Gregory
Dave
Gregory
Charlotte
Troops Stay In Goldfield As State Police Plan Formed
President Roosevelts telegram to Governor Sparks of Nevada says troops may remain for a reasonable length of time to allow the legislature to organize a state police force. The move aims to maintain order in Goldfield while authorities establish new policing powers.
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Roose
Si Sunday
Sparks
Nevada
Texas Bank Assigns Largest Savings Bank in Texas to Assignee
The Western Bank and Trust Company of Dallas, the state’s largest savings deposit bank with a $500,000 capital and over 4,400 savings depositors, has been placed in the hands of an assignee. Liabilities total $1,054,104.53 with no complete asset schedule filed.
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Western Bank and Trust Company
Dallas
Texas
Epitaph of Fool Woman Becomes Probate Item in Chicago
In Chicago a probate filing reveals the odd will of Mrs. Alvin Schaeffer, ex wife of a hotel man. She directs that on her tombstone the German phrase Here lies the sleeping beauty be inscribed in large golden letters.
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Alvin Schaeffer
Chicago
Appalachian National Forest Meet Urges Delegations to Push Bill
The Appalachian National Forest Association met in Atlanta to back a national Appalachian forest preserve of five million acres. Governors of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky would appoint delegations to press the Appalachian White Mountain bill before Congress. Governor Hoke Smith presided and urged southern civic groups to send delegates to Washington for the January 30 hearing.
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Carolinas
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Kentucky
Committee On Agriculture
Congress
Appalachian National Forest Association
Atlanta
United States
Hoke Smith
Washington
House Committee On Agriculture
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs
Newberry
8. C
Charleston
Belton
Spartanburg
Appalachian
South
Appalachian National Association
Congress of
Five Dagoes Under Arrest in Black Hand Murder Case
Confession by one of the slayers leads to exhumation of Jos Tritico’s body on a truck farm near St. Charles Louisiana. Four Italians are jailed in the murder case and police seek a fifth suspect.
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Black Hand
Jos Tritico
St. Charles
Thaw Case Delves Into Family Skeletons In Court
In New York the Thaw defense presents extensive family history and testimony on insanity to argue for Harry Thaw's sanity beyond doubt. Witnesses recount erratic conduct and the alleged hereditary taint, while coroner jurors noted irrational behavior after the Stanford White shooting. Alfred Lee Thaw testifies about insanity taints in the lineage and related asylums.
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Thaw
New York
Harry Thaw
Stanford White
Littleton
Matteawan Asylum
Alfred Lee Thaw
Richmond
Senate Demands Information On Canal Bond Issue
The Senate did not receive a Treasury reply to its information request on the Panama bond issue. Senator Culberson won passage of his resolution asking the secretary to report the circulating notes issued by national banks tied to Panama bonds, with Senator Aldrich noting delay and urging a prompt answer.
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Senate
Secretary of the Treasury
Aldrich
Culberton
Panama
Culberson
Georgia Governor Appeals for Southern Delegates to White Bill Support
Acting on resolutions from Atlanta by the Appalachian National Forest Association Gov Hoke Smith has sent letters to Southern state executives urging delegates be appointed to meet in Washington on the 29th to aid passage of the White bill in Congress.
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Atlanta
Appalachian National Forest Association
Hoke Smith
Associaton
Washington
Congress
New York Republicans Fail to Endorse Hughes After Bitter Fight
After one of the bitterest battles, the New York County Republican Committee adjourned at midnight without endorsing any presidential candidate. An attempt to endorse Governor Hughes failed and was put off for a month.
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New York
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