Congress Action Tops Week in Foreign Dispatches
Senate adopted Penrose and Foraker resolutions seeking full information on discharge of colored soldiers from the Twenty-fifth regiment. House moved to remove discrimination against American households in Littlefield pilotage bill. Convict-made goods commerce lines barred to allow states to curb convict-made shipping. Navy asks for three new battleships as large as the British Dreadnought. Metcalf reports U S merchant shipping at a record 26 000 vessels and 6 674 009 gross tons. 1907 output likely to exceed any prior year. Congress to appropriate 31 million to showcase Alaska resources at Seattle exhibit.
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Senate
Foraker
Secretary of War
Twenty-ifth
Congress
Leslie M ‘Shaw
the Treasury
House
Bonaparte
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Seattle
Wash
Roosevelt Denies Charges and Attacks Bellamy Storer
Roosevelt counters Bellamy Storer claims by exposing suppressed facts and accusing the ambassador of false testimony. The report lists numerous incidents including rail and bank crimes, deadly wrecks, fires, political alarms, and a mix of personal lawsuits and deaths across several cities, highlighting a turbulent period.
Multiple Events Mark Turbulent Era From Montreal Fires To National Incidents
The report lists a string of 1905 era events including a Montreal wholesale district fire causing $400,000 loss, coal mine tensions in KlaneS Ching, and foreign labor migration near Chiang Sha. It notes deaths of Alonzo Guenelon in Lewiston Maine, Dorsey Patton in California, and a series of political, economic, and military developments across the United States and abroad, including a public debt figure for the Post Office, railroad indictments in Utah, and a Canadian and Venezuelan crisis timeline.
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Hom Knupp Company
Mook
Krupp
Montreal
Chiang Sha
Doy
Alonzo Guenelon
Lewiston
BD Denla
Atate
South Dakota
Binck Hil
Ferdinand Hrunetiere
Pernand Honrotin
Chicago
Billy” Williams
St. Charles
New Orleans
Gelern Cortelyou
Department
Colorado
Mind
Salton Sink
Dorsey Patton
Iinois
Cook County
Repubican Marching Club
Santa Montes
Cal
Benjamin Z. Harris
A. C. Campbell
Antigo
Wis
Utah Buel Coal Company
Harriman and Gould
Utah
Johnny
Shapah
Fred Foreman
Montello
Nev
Carson
National Redite- Hon Mills
Florence
Col
Brent Treadwell
Alaska
Doviglas
Junean
Henry Smith
Elm Grove
John Balter
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Thomas Jefferson
United States
Adeline Thomson
Philadelphia
Shah of
Persia
John Holsten
Muscatine
Lfe
Bailey
Pierce
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Waters-Plece Oil Company
Davidson
Austin
Texas
Arthur Freeman
Connellsville
East Side
New York
Coghlan
New York Navy Yard
Frank Hennlon
Morristown
N. J
Locke
Jeanette Rothuchld
Becky
Japan
Coolle
Drake
Wauadron
Atantia
Nobel Peace Prize to Roosevelt Confirmed by Norway
Washington reports Norway’s minister and Nobel committee chair confirming President Roosevelt will receive the Nobel peace prize. The prize totals 183,538 crowns about 37,128 dollars, to fund a Washington conference on industrial peace chaired by top U.S. officials and a capital representative.
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Washington, D. C.C
Haugh
Norway
White House
Roosevelt
Atorthing
Loeviand
Nobel Committee
United States
Petree
Chrisutinia
Washington
Congress
Stockholm
Greek Seaman Bruso Rescues Two From Freezing Bar
Mitch ell Bruso, a Greek seaman, volunteered to row through a fierce northeast gale to reach the derelict Buena Ventura in tow of the Luckenbach. He rescued captain Ole Owar sond from immersion, then returned to save Beaman Charles Martin, both the only survivors of a five man crew. Bruso then endured a perilous return to the tug Walter A. Jaickenbach in icy conditions, earning praise from shipmates for extraordinary heroism.
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Providnece
R. L
Walter A. Jaickenbach
Mitchell Bruso
John Dalley
Bruso
Ole Owarsond
Beaman Charles Martin
Aruso
Ben
Senate reports 190 private pension bills. House debates approps
Congress actions mark the Senate favoring more than 190 private pension bills and approving a few private relief measures. The House started debate on the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill.
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Congress
Washington
Senate
House
Oklahoma Tragedy In Woods County Farmer Dragged By Horse
Wealthy Woods County farmer Scott Smith was lured from his home by men on Sunday night. A rope was placed around his neck and he was dragged to death by a horse across the freshly plowed field.
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Oklahoma
Perma
Okla
Scott Smith
Woods County
Steamer Monarch Wrecked Off Royal Shore
The Monarch, a Northern Nallon Co steamship, ran ashore on Royal Street Sunday and is a total loss. Fort William reports the vessel wrecked with damage. Local authorities begin salvage assessments and investigate causes.
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Monarch
Fort William
Gat
Nallon Co
Royal
Roosevelt Kin's Maine Hunting Trip Sparks Local Laughter
Washington note recounts Kermit Roosevelt and cousin visiting Willing Sewall Roosevelt's Maine camps near Mattawamkeag lake. Describes Sewall as famed district collector, and mentions Quentin Roosevelt briefly causing classroom uproar at Force School by miming champagne toast while the teacher was away.
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Washington
Kermit Roosevelt
Maine
Sewallt Roosevelt
Lut
Sewall
Mattawamkeng Lake
Island Falls
Mattawamkeag
Sowall
Aroostook
Quentin
Force School
Massachusetts Avenue
Alfalfa Found in Siberia for Northwest S arid lands
Prof Hansen of the South Dakota Experiment Station reports finding a Siberian alfalfa suited to the cold dry lands of the U S northwest. The plant, with yellow flowers, resists temperatures to 30 or 40 below zero. Seed is obtained and will be thoroughly tested for adaptation.
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N. E. Hansen
South Dakota
Department of Agricultural
Siberia
Hansen
Wilson
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture
United States
Turkestan
Norway
Great boom in shipbuilding predicted for United States
A Chamberlain report predicts the current shipyards output will be the largest in half a century if not slowed by strikes. It notes 1,221 vessels totaling 418,745 gross tons built this year, with 40 Great Lakes steamers. 32 percent of trade carried by American vessels, and 26,006 documented U S merchant ships on July 20. It urges merchant marine reform and pilotage charges abolition from Virginia to Texas.
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United States
Commisssioner of Navigation Chamberlain
Great Lakes
Merchant Marine Commission
Senate
South America
Virginia
Texas
Rio de Janeiro
Chamberlain
Postal Treaty With Canada To End
A Canadian move to abrogate the postal convention expires May 7, 1907, risking the second class rate for newspapers. Congress probes the issue, with Senator Penrose chairing a joint inquiry since October 1, and a fallback to international rates if no new agreement is reached. Dozens of periodicals face denied privileges as Canada seeks changes, impacting cross border mail flow and advertising.
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Post Office Department
Canada
Senate
House
Penrose
Haw
Claus Malmate Ter
International Postab Union
United States
Cawisan Pov
Fabian Toe
Sree
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Great Bend
Kan
Atander
Danville
Lodz
Poland
Harry i. Koenigaburg
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Miraole Central
Parley
Iowa
Jefferson Hanks
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Peter Loway
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John Marsden Rhodes
Greenwich Savings Bank
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Ont
State Hospital For the Innune
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Henry White
Marshal Bashore
Lebanon
Warres County
White
Lapren
Pope
Rowe
Union Lumber Company
Sixth
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San Francisco
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Sarah Wiley
Grand Portage
Minnesota
Louisville
Joplin
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Peter Anserson
Brooklyn
Ecuador
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Hondo Castellane
Chamber of Deputies
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Philippines
Ralph P. Yates, Jr
Benjamin H. Smith
Luna
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Atlanta
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John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company
St Louis
William C. Sanderson
Mass
France
Michigan Central
Hay City
Detroit
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Mich
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Ariz
Joseph H. Stubbs
Indians Bureau of Statistics
Indianapolis
Edna McClure
Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw
Jack Richardson
Goldfield
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Houghton
Georgia Pardon Board
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Lynn
Lord Desborough
William Henry Grenfell
Reading Tron Company
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Angie Birdsong
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