Court Hears Final Arguments in Schley Inquiry
The Schley court of inquiry convened with Mr. Hanna arguing that a May dispatch was a suggestion not an order and that the battle of Santiago involved no Brookyln issue. Capt. Parker defending Schley praised the officer and urged the case not a trial. The session adjourned at four o'clock until Wednesday.
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Washington
Hanna
Schley
Admiral Schley
Brooklyn
Santiago
Texas
Cook
Hodgson
Parker
Capt. Parker
Wrother
Noody
Commodore Schley
Cienfuegos
Schley Court of Inquiry Hearing Ends in Autoepilogue
The Schley court of inquiry neared its climax as Rayner delivered a three hour peroration praising Admiral Schley for a great naval triumph. Spectators wept and cheered, waves of emotion moved the courtroom, and Dewey urged decorum as Schley and Rayner received handshakes from supporters after the session.
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Washington
Schley
Rayner
Brooklyn
Commodore Schley
Oregon
Admiral Schley
Mr. Rayner
Admiral Dewey
Judge Advocate
Capt. Lemly
Capt. Parker
Department
Sanago
Hood
Potts
Bristol E
Otts
Lemly
Testimony dispute over Potts Rayner clash over Schley defense
The testimony includes Lieut Potts saying he was scared while Mr Rayner allegedly stretched it. Capt Lemly regrets a remark as Rayner presses his argument. Lemly accuses Rayner of traducing an officer and Rayner retorts that Lemly cannot traduce Admiral Schley.
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Lieut. Potts
Mr. Rayner
Admiral Schley
Lemly closes closing argument in Schley case
After 40 days and a 2000 page record the Schley court of inquiry adjourned its final public session. Captain Lemly read his closing address praising naval standards while faulting Schley's conduct in key movements and stressing duty to uphold naval propriety.
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Washington
Schley Court of Inquiry
Rayner
Capt. Parker
Admiral Schley
Chadwick
Lamps0n
Key West
Lemly
Commodore Schley
Capt. Lemly
Remey
Naval
Admiral Sampson
Schley
Cienfuegos
Hood
Sampson
Santiago
McCalla
Hodgson
Texas
Santago
John Paul Jones
Decatur
Perry
Farragut
Porters
Peculiar Accident Claims Life Of Mrs Archibald White
Mrs Archibald S White wife of the National Salt company president was found dead in the bathroom of her West Eighty sixth street residence. A fall on a slippery floor caused her head to strike a marble basin fracturing her skull. The maid discovered her body after not finding her mistress.
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New York
Archibald S. White
National Salt Company
West Eighty-sixth Street
Mrs William Textor Dies By Own Fire At Leavenworth
In Leavenworth Kansas Mrs William Textor committed death by own action at her home by saturating her clothing with coal oil and setting it ablaze. She was found burned to death after suffering a prior injury three weeks earlier with suspected mental derangement.
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Leavenworth
Kan
William Textor
Bank Failures in Russia and Riga Suffer Setbacks
Bank failures hit Riga as two financial institutions collapse in Russia. A banker named Smolian reportedly attempted suicide amid the turmoil.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
Riga
Smolian
President on trusts to push public business reforms
Roosevelt plans a strong push in his coming message to Congress for laws to force large interstate corporations to disclose security values and permit employee organizing. He favors amending the Sherman Act to aid justice in proving monopolies and seeks public fraud safeguards and investor clarity in stock purchases. He may back penalties or tax relief tied to disclosure and calls trusts a serious, solvable issue for states or the federal government.
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New York
Congress
Roosevelt
Washington Dispatch
New York Herald
United States Steel Corporation
Department of Justice
Publicit
Sheriff Captured by Escapees Use Farmer as Shield
Sheriff Cook of this county was captured by two escaped Fort Leavenworth inmates at Pauline near Topeka and held in Farmer Wooster’s house for hours. The convicts wounded both guards and Wooster, then fled as a posse closed in. Chief Stahl's eight Topeka officers arrived and negotiations began but the men refused to surrender.
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Topeka
Kan
Sheriff Cook
Fort Leavenworth
Pauline
Wooster
Cook
Deputy Williams
Farmer Wooster
Chief Stahl
Wooster House
Williams
Stahl
Internal Revenue Cuts Planned to Trim Uproar in Budget
Washington experts say the next Congress must cut revenues by about 130 million dollars annually to prevent a growing surplus. The Ways and Means Committee is expected to push substantial internal tax reductions, including abolishing most war taxes except beer and tobacco, with beer and tobacco taxes likely to fall short of future projections. Convicts Escape after seizing Sheriff and Wife as Shields in Topeka Farmhouse.
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Washington
Gage
Ways and Means
Monument to McKinley Erected in Tower Minnesota
Tower Minnesota unveiled the first monument to President William McKinley drawing thousands from across the state and Northwest. Gov Van Sant led ceremonies with speakers John Owens Thomas McKeon and Rev Dr Forbes as bands played Nearer My God to Thee.
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Tower
Minn
William McKinley
Gov. van Sant
John Ownes
Thomas McKeon
Dr. Forbes
Gun Accident Kills One Officer and Six Artillerists Aboard Royal Sovereign
In Athens on November 11 a fatal naval accident occurred aboard the British battleship Royal Sovereign near Astoria harbor. An artilleryman forgot to close breech before firing killing one officer and six artillerymen outright. The captain and 13 sailors were seriously injured.
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Athens
Royal Sovereign
Astoria
Democratic party names Gen Bartolome Maso for Cuba presidency
For President of Cuba Havana November 11 The democratic party adopted Gen Bartolome Maso as their candidate for the presidency of Cuba.
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Cuba
Havana
The
Democratic Party
Bartolome Maso
American Schooner Seized at Horta Azores
Lisbon dispatch says a Portuguese gunboat seized the American schooner Nettie and Lottie at Horta Fayal Azores for clandestinely carrying 26 emigrants avoiding military service to a destination unknown.
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London
The
Exchange Telegraph Company
Lisbon
Nettie
Lottie
Horta
Island of Fayal
Azores
Conductor Killed in Street Car Accident
Chicago reports Conductor Jeremiah Cronin of the Twelfth street line was killed when a Van Buren street car struck his vehicle as he prepared to switch. The collision passed over both legs leaving him fatally injured.
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Chicago
Jeremiah Cronin
Twelfth Street
van Buren
Victim Dies in Hurley Theatre Fire Toll Rises
Ironwood Michigan November 11 William McLaughlin of Ashland dies in a hospital in Ironwood becoming the eleventh victim of the Klondike theater fire at Hurley. Ten skeletons have been found in the ruins.
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Ironwood
Mich
William McLaughlin
Ashland
Hurley
Death of Halil Rifat Pasha Shocks Constantinople
Private reports from Constantinople say Halil Rifat Pasha the grand vizier died not of natural illness. He had warned the sultan during the Franco Turkish dispute and after the Mitylene customs seizure rumors say the sovereign’s displeasure led to his death. Abdur Rahman Pasha named his successor.
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Vienna
Constantinople
Halil Rifat Pasha
Turkey
Mitylene
Halil Rifat
Abdur Rahman Pasha
Abdur
Old Turkish Party
Ireland's Hopes Outlined by Irish Envoys in Boston
In Mechanics Hall 8,000 attendees heard John P. Redmond P A McHugh and Thomas O'Donnell outline aims for Dublin. They urged unity of the Irish race and explained United Irish League policy while seeking moral and material backing from Irish in America and their descendants.
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Boston
Ireland
Mechanics’ Hall
John P. Redmond
P. A. McHugh
Thomas O’donnell
United Irish League
William Lloyd Garrison
Redmond
John B. O’reilly
House of Commons
America
Army Deserter Arrested Over Life Insurance Fraud Plot
Newell C. Rathbun, believed dead in Jeffersonville hotel, was arrested in Louisville on charges tied to a plan to fraudulently collect $4,000 on his life. He confessed desertion from the U S Army and claimed the supposed corpse in Little Rock belonged to W L Ten Eyke, not him.
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Louisville
Newell C. Rathbun
Jeffersonville
Ind
Rathbun
Little Rock
Ark
W. L. Ten Eyke
United States Army
United States
Skinner
Lou Root
Detroit
Rathburn
Plattsburg, N. Y
W. H. Ellis
Salvation Army
Ten Eyke
Paymaster Robbed of Nearly Five Thousand Dollars
Paymaster Stevens of the United States army reports a theft in transit from Atlanta to Fort Barancas and McRea. He carried about $5,000 in paper money and $200 in silver, but the paper currency vanished, leaving only the silver dollars. Police search for the culprit suspecting a professional pickpocket during the journey. Stevens believes the loss occurred before departure from Atlanta.
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Pensacola
Fla
Stevens
United States Army
Atlanta
Fort Barancas
McRea
Price of Danish Isles
Denmark proposes selling the Danish West Indies to the United States with citizenship for inhabitants, near free trade, a temporary 5 to 6 percent tariff for administration, and a purchase price of 3.5 to 4 million dollars. President Roosevelt must report to Congress on the reasonableness of the terms given the islands’ value.
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Washington
Denmark
Danish West Indies
United States
Roosevelt
Congress
Fire guts Lawrence Ice and Storage plant in Newcastle
The Lawrence Ice and Storage company plant in Newcastle was completely gutted by fire Sunday evening. Damage is estimated at 150000 dollars as the newly completed facility with expensive machinery was destroyed leaving only bare walls. Firemen faced danger from 28000 pounds of stored ammonia as the blaze, started in the oilroom, drew the watchman to fight alone until too late.
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Newcastle
Lawrence Ice & Storage Company
Alabama Voters Back Controversial New Constitution
Alabama voters approved the new constitution by a wide margin with estimates between 25 000 and 35 000. The measure tightens educational and property qualifications for non veterans and imposes four year terms for state officials. It shortens legislative sessions to quadrennial and limits taxation, funds schools, bars free railroad passes, and bans lobbying while punishing vote selling. Some fraud allegations were raised in Birmingham as white counties backed ratification and black voters showed unexpectedly strong turnout.
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Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
Birmingham
Jefferson County
Three Men Die in Massive Clay Slide at Mechanicsville
In Troy New York a landslide at Mechanicsville burying about 1000 tons of clay killed three Italian laborers. One body has been recovered and four other workers escaped.
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Troy
N. Y
Mechanicsville
Deportation Ordered for 100 Transit Chinese
Assistant Secretary Taylor ruled that 100 Chinamen detained in San Francisco as transit cases should be deported. The men had sworn they were bound for Mexico, but Taylor noted 99 of 100 similar cases return to the United States, indicating the group would likely attempt to reenter.
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Washington
San Francisco
Taylor
Mexico
United States
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