World News Digest Highlights Rail Bill and Armament Talks
A wide survey covers congressional action on the Dalzell bill to create the Lake Erie and Ohio Ship Canal, licensing of motor boats, Mussel Shoals dam plans, and a $50,000 Gulf of Mexico biological station. Benchmarks include farm station funding, foreign ship registry repeal, and Boxer uprising threats, with multiple international notes and notable incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Committee On Railways and Canals
Dalzell
Lake Erie and Ohio Ship Canal Co
Ohio River
Pittsburg
Lake Erie
Ashtabula
Senate Committee On Commerce
Steamboat Inspection Service
Richardson
Ala
Tennessee River
Mussel Shoals
Taft
House Committee On Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Gulf of Mexico
House
Department of Commerce and Labor
Congress
Conference of Representatives
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Senate Committee On Indian Affairs
Indian Territory
Roosevelt Daughter Weds Nichols Longworth at White House
Miss Alice Roosevelt, eldest daughter of the president, married Nicholas Longworth in a formal White House ceremony led by Bishop Henry Yates Satterlee. The event drew a starry crowd, elaborate floral decor, and gifts numbering nearly a thousand as the couple set off on a honeymoon with plans to visit Cuba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth
United Mine Workers of America
Pittsburg
Dolan
Bellingham
John Mitchell
Peoria
Ill
Congress
Mitchell
Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co
London
Nganking
Stuyvesant Fish
The
Mutual Life Insurance Co
Mt. Vesuvius
New York
China
John Fryer
Department of Oriental Languages
State University
Berkeley
Cal
Germany
Chantung Liang Chang
Margaret
Italy
United States
Francis Joseph
Roosevelt
Alice
Longworth
Simpson
Boston
Alice Roosevelt
Fitzgerald
Duluth
F. H. Peavey & Co
Minneapolis
Louisiana
Bevier
Albert Kelly
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Charles D. Hayward
Gov
Stuenenberg
Idaho
Alice Lee Roosevelt
Nicholas Longworth
Washington
Moon
White House
Henry Yates Satterlee
Protestant Episcopal Church
Cincinnati
Ohio
Episcopal Church
Executive Mansion
Miss Roosevelt
Nellie” Grant
Algernon C. F. Sartoris
Prince and Potentates
Jardinieres
Marine Band Orchestra
W. H. Santelmann
Thomas Nelson Perkins
Mr. Longworth
Harvard
Bishop Satterlee
Friendship
John R. McLean
Tennallytown Road
Ethel
Capt. Cowles
Cuba
Magnificent White House Room Hosts Longworth Roosevelt Wedding
The state room, 40 by 80 feet, housed the Roosevelt Longworth wedding with about 1,000 guests. Cabinet members, foreign dignitaries, and Supreme Court justices attended, gifts were lavish, and the couple departed for Tampa en route to Havana aboard the Elysian car. Lynchburg and Charlotte stations reported sightings and crowd reactions as the newlyweds traveled by rail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Longworth
United States
Supreme Court
Taft Philippine Party
Ohio
Congress
New York
Miss Roosevelt
To Marry Mrs Gardner and U S Representatives
Washington on February 19 reports the president's daughter marriage precedent. Mrs. Jack Gardner of Boston and Representative W Rourke Cochran would imitate Miss Roosevelt and Representative Longworth in marriage plans following the nuptials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardner
Washington
Campen to resign water commission post in Isthmian zone
George A.G. Campen, water commissioner for the Isthmian canal zone, told friends in Lincoln that he intends to resign his post. He plans to sail for home from Colon on February 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
George AG Campen
Isthmian Canal Zone
Colon
Eastern capitalists buy Davenport Rock Island interurban lines
Papers signed reveal Eastern capitalists acquire traction, electric light, power and gas franchises in Davenport and Rock Island Moline Illinois and the interurban line to Watertown Illinois. The move consolidates utilities and transport across the Quad City area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Eastern
Traction
Rock Island
Moline
Ill
Watertown
Mont Pelee Activates Near Martinique Report
Castries St Lucia Feb 19 The US cruiser Denver under Commander J C Colwell arrived from Martinique and reports Mont Pelee was active when the Denver left the island offering a hazardous volcanic warning for residents and shipping in the Windward Islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfonso
Ferrol Dockyard
Ena of
Battenberg
Kaiser
Bock and Polach
14Th Army Corps
Naval Academy
Congressional Committee
Henry Albert Bourdoir
Puella
Mex
Bourdoir
United States
Denver
J. C. Colwell
Castries
St. Lucien
Martinique
Mont Pelee
Clement Armand Fallieres
France
Loubet
Elysee Palace
Fallieres
John A. McCall
New York Life Insurance Co
Laurel House
Lakewood
N. J
Buttonwood
Parris Coal Co
Wilkesbarre
Britt Rogers
John J. Garrity
Savannah
Horskilde
Denmark
Christian IX
Paris
James B. Eustis
Cleveland
Countess de Castellane
Count Boni
Rutland
Reyes
Colombia
Orjobispo Bridge
Bogota
Edward
Ireland
St. Lucia
Bankers Warned Of Local Swindle Gang
James R. Branch secretary of the American Bankers association has sent warnings to members via a detective agency about swindling operations by a gang active in New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seistan
Persia
Yale University
William G. Sumner
United “States
B. F. Daniels
Nogales
Ariz
Michoacan
Mex
Kuropatkin
Batjanoff
Niverton
Somerset
County
Peter Callsson
New York City
White House
Company E
New York National Guards
Schenectady
N.Y
Kansas City
Ar Nhe
New York
James R. Branch
American Bankers’ Association
Association
UNN & Co
F St
Washington
Oklahoma
Santa Fe
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
Chicago
Ex Minister Squiers Ill on Board Yacht in St Petersburg
Havana February 19. Private letters report Herbert G Squiers former American minister to Cuba has been ill with stomach trouble for a month aboard his yacht at St. Petersburg Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Witte
M. Timir‘azeff
Liberal
Algeciras
France
Germany
Wilson Mizner
Charles T. Yerkes
Yale University Corporation
Cincinnati
Havana
Herbert G. Squiers
Cuba
St. Petersburg
Fla
George L. Campen
Ishmian Canal Zone
Lincoln
Neb
Colon
W. J.florence
Billy” Florence
New York
United States
Ben Daniels
Nogales
Ariz
Fowler
Santa Cruz
Pure Oil Co
Kansas Territory Ofl
Daiquiri
Santiago
LGR
Squiers
Uba
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Ony
Ling
Jonally
Co City
Eave Incisco
Via
Ay’s 'Deas EN
Erishness
Ddress
Roy
N.ve
Congressional Briefs
Tierra
H. Stantz
Pacific
Pomona
Pat Crowe
Edward A. Cudahy
Omaha
W. A. Tewes
Jersey City
Grand Rapids
Mich
Plainwell
Chapel Fowler
Charles H. Fairchild
Grand Rapids & Indiana
James A. Alexander
Equitable Life Assurance Society
John Wilton
People’s Saving Bank
Dr. Simmons
Rev. Kelly
Morris Caplin
Count Boni de Castellane
Anna Gould
Prince Chun
Richard Randall Ferry
Gomel
Russia
Robertus
Antone Stetka
Sydney
Daniel Cevely
Julian Berlel
Locust Springs
Mt. Carmel
Thomas Lorimer
Detroit
Davison
Durnovo
Carl Joubert
Nebraska
E. Fowler
Arcadia
Monroe County
Amzi Price
Lewis Price
Oscar Bolton
Representative
Mrs. Longworth
Island
Grant
Alexandria
Elysian
Washington and Southwestern Limited
Southern Railway
Tampa
Jacksonville
Lynchburg
Jacksonville Limited
Charlotte
N. C
Tribune Farmer
Agricultural Press
NEW York Tribune Farmer
Harrison News
Citizens’ Bank
Harrison, Ohio
Frank Bowles
Will
Anl
Walter Hartpence
Oseph Bernhard
Mirerchnant
Flarrison, Ohio
Sonable
Siggers
Washington, . C
Mother Gray
Children’s Home
Harrison
Ing Oo
Harrison Hiv
Gregory
Barblehead
Basa
D. R. Merrill
Tin Great Lakes
Ohio Central Lines
Hing
Findlay
Renton
Bueyrue
Cranville
Dnewars
ColuMbus
Toledo
St.marys
Marietta
Athens
Middleport
Gallipolis
Charleston
Wasita
Ohio Central
Moulton Houk
San Francisco
San Joaquin Valley
the Golden Gate
Yosemite, Grand
Canon of
Arizona
California
Harvey Meals
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R’y
Gen. Pass
Chcago
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