Georgia Jury Admits Long Fight Over Removal In Harbor Case
United States Commissioner in New York ruled that Benjamin D. Green John Ead ward and William T. Gaynor must be removed to the Southern District of Georgia for trial on conspiracy to defraud the U S government. The Savannah harbor improvement scheme, supervised by O M Carter, produced vast evidence including 5 000 typewritten pages and hundreds of witnesses.
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New York
United States
Shields
Bejamin D. Green
John Eadward
William T. Gaynor
United States Court
Georgia
Savannah
Oberlin M. Carter
United States Army
Brown
United States District Court
Erwin
Benjamin D. Green
John F. "Gaynor
EH. H
Willian T. Gaynor
O. M. Carter
United States Engineers
Atlantic Seaboard
Underwood Libel Suit Seeks Damages in Nashville Court
General John D. Underwood sues Editor Cunningham of The Confederate Veteran and the Southern Methodist Publishing House for 50 000 damages. He alleges publication connected him with the Battle Abbey fund caused damages. The publishers seek severance arguing they only print The Veteran and lack policy control.
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Nashville, Tenn
John D.underwood
Cunningham
Confederate Veteran
Southern Methodist
Nashville
Tenn
Underwood
Battle Abbey Fund
Rio de Janeiro disaster drifts through fog and flood
In San Francisco a Friday night storm hampered searchers for bodies from the Rio de Janeiro wreck. Eleven bodies are recovered including six whites, four Chinese, and one Japanese as mail bags and cargo are recovered or reported missing. Authorities guard beaches and customs offices to curb looting while pilots note the vessel drifted in fog toward Fort Point.
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San Francisco
Rooney
Yokohama
Kobe
Honolulu
Port Spear
Baker’s Beach
Bay Shore
Fort Point
Baker’s
Ward
Fort Winfield Scott
Rio de Janeiro
Rio
Golden Gate
Jordan
Pacific Coast
Port Point Rock
Senator Morgan Forces Canal Bill To Front In Senate
In a parliamentary move during Saturday's session Senator Morgan pushed the Nicarauga canal bill to the forefront after weeks of dormancy. The discovery that the oleomargarine bill had lost unfinished business status revived the canal measure, but it was soon displaced again by the fortification bill as the day focused on fortification and the army appropriation bills, the fortification bill passing.
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Morgan
Senate
Concessions Committee Reviews Cuban Treaty Provisions
Senate relations with Cuba committee discusses a proposed army bill amendment. It envisions U S supervision of Cuban treaties and laws, control over debt, potential lease or sale of naval stations, and sanitary safeguards, with ongoing debate and a Monday meeting planned. The Isle of Pines issue looms as Cuban possession vs U S stance.
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Washington
Senate Committee On
Cuba
United States
Republic of Cuba
Spain
Butler
North Carolina
Isle of Pines
Question of Double Pay Probe Ordered by House
The house adopted a resolution to investigate employee pay, citing deficiencies in the recent debate on the deficiency bill. A committee was appointed comprising Moody of Massachusetts Overstreet of Indiana Long of Kansas Bailey of Texas and Newlands of Nevada to conduct the inquiry.
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Bailey
House
Moody
Massachusetts
Overstreet
Indiana
Long
Kansas
Texas
Newlands
Nevada
Topeka Mob Fails to Lynch Suspect in Topeka Jail
A mob of about a thousand men gathered at the Shawnee County jail after learning Slick Slater, a black man accused of raping a 17 year old girl, had been moved. Sheriff and deputies evacuated Slater by train to avoid lynching, with reports placing him later in Atchison jail.
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Topeka
Kansas
Slick’ Slater
Slater
Lottie Gerderick
Carbondale
Quist
Blater
Santa Fe
George Gerberick
Hoyt
Rock Island
Atchison
Mob Hangs Reeab Montgomery In Dyersburg Lynchings
A mob in Dyersburg Tennessee abducted Rebea Montgomery from the jail and hanged him from the Mike Lynching tree five times to force a confession in the assault on Miss Alice Arnold. Montgomery denied guilt as vigilantes sought a third accused man tied to Fred King’s confession. The group then returned him to jail and threatened further lynching.
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Dyersburg
Tenn
Rebea Montgomery
Mike
Fred King
Alice Arnold
Montgomery
King
Mother Saves Son as Daughters Cremated in Prattville Fire
A Prattville Alabama home fire killed Bessie and Alice Wilkes aged 16 and 18. The widowed mother Mrs Wilkes saved her son but could not wake the girls. One body was found in the hall and the other beneath a spring mattress she used in a bid to shield them from flames. A blind boy in the house delayed awakening.
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Bessie
Alice Wilkes
Mrs. Wilkes
Prattville
Ala
Boy Robber Seized After Bank Jackpot Heist
A 22 year old farmer boy Ar ther Hyer robbed F B Venum Bank Fosher Ill on Wednesday securing 1620 dollars before boarding a freight train. Citizens halted the caboose and captured him in the engine cab while the bank cash was recovered.
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F. B. Venum
Fosher
Ill
Arther Hyer
Cuba Deal Aims to Ward Cuba Under U S Control
Washington report states Cuba would be governed by a US backed arrangement after independence. Provisions include no foreign treaties, US intervention rights, validation of military occupancy acts, sanitation plans, and possible US lease of coaling or naval sites, with a future treaty to bind Cuba.
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Gaynors and
Green
Commissioner Shields
Carter
Congress
Uncle Sam
Cuban
Anid
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