New Board's First Meeting on Isthmian Canal Commission
Chairman Shonts Gov Magoon and Chief Engineer Wallace led Taft in outlining the Panama Canal project. A special engineering commission will study plans while labor contracts seek 2000 Japanese and 2000 Chinese workers. Wallace says tide level feasible. BunauVarilla Bates and others submit plans for review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shonts
Magoon
Wallace
Taft
Isthmian Canal Commission
Commission
New York
Canal Commission
Panama Railroad Company
Canal Comm
Admiral Endicott
Col Ernst
Col Ernst, Gen Hains
Mr. Harrod
Board of Consulting Engineers
United States
Canal
Panama
Isthmus
Bunau-Varilla
Washington
Lindon W Bates
Chicago
Engineering Commission
Forger's Sentence Suspended in Athens Trial
Colyer Jr recently brought from Richmond to Athens faced two forgery charges in Superior Court. He pleaded ill health and a Virginia sentence, with Judge Russell suspending the sentence pending good behavior. Colyer then departed for Nashville. They demand relief from headaches liver complaints and bowel disorders with Dr King’s New Life Pills priced 25 cents at druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Colyer, Jr
Richmond
Colyer
Virginia
Russell
Olger
Nashville
Tenn
Polygamistic Victory Over Smoot Challenge
Frank J. Cannon reports a polygamistic victory as Smoot’s challenge to the apostle quorum and the investigation fail to occur. The conference ends with no inquiry, the church reaffirming polygamous leadership and presenting a new epoch since the manifesto. Smoot acted under President Smith's guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank J. Cannon
Smoot
Washington Post
New York
Darwin R. James
Interdenominational Council of Women For Christian and Patriotic Service
Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake
Utah
Reed Smoot
Washington
Apostle Quorum
Smith
Church and Union Ecclesiastics
McLaurin Loses Suit Over Promissory Note
Former Senator John L McLaurin was found liable for 41 639 26 in the U S Circuit Court in Charleston for a promissory note to the International Trust Company of Baltimore. McLaurin, president of the Brunswick and Birmingham Railroad and VP of the Brunswick and Western Construction Co, signed the notes personally. Defense claims of deceit were not enough to invalidate the obligation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
United States
John L.mclaurin
International Trust Company
Baltimore
Brunswick and Birmingham Railroad
Brunswick and Western Construction Company
McLaurin
Trust Company
Defense
Rockefeller Gift Accepted by American Board of Missions
The Prudential Committee of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions voted to accept $100,000 from John D. Rockefeller. It held returning the gift would condemn the donor and misjudge his motives, asserting gifts must be received regardless of giver's character. The action prompts appeals to Congregational churches and Christendom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Prudential Committee
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
John D. Rockefeller
American Board
Mr. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Columbus
Ohio
Washington Gladden
D. C
Congregational Church
Treasury
Congregational Churches
Christendom
Mrs Mary A Luce Dies in New York State Burial Set
Mrs Mary A Luce died yesterday morning at 215 Second Street Southeast the home of her son Dr Charles R Luce She is survived by two daughters Mrs Otto Luebkert and Mrs James Potter Funeral services will be held at the residence this morning at 1 o'clock Burial will take place in Clayville New York The Sunday Post Washingtons Favorite Newspaper
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary A Luce
Second Street
Charles R. Luce
Luce
Otto Luebkert
James Potter
Cassville
Clayville
N. Y
Taft to Consider Castro Reply in Arbitration Row
President Taft will study Castro’s reply to Bowen’s arbitration proposal without sending it to President Roosevelt. Venezuelan efforts shift focus to the Olcott case to dodge asphalt dispute, while the State Department pursues a cautious path toward a future settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Castro
Olcott Case
Bowen
State Department
United States
Olcott
Taft
Widow seeks administrator for Judge Cole estate
Mrs Elizabeth S Cole asks the probate court to appoint attorney R H Golden Donaldson as administrator of the estate of late Justice Charles Cole who died March 17. She asks for a guardian ad litem for minor daughter Louise Cleaves Cole and for Fred Hammond Cole, a son from a former marriage. The estate includes a home at 1705 N Street NW valued around 22000, Union Trust stock, a life policy, a half interest in a law library, office furniture, notes, bank deposits about 1200, and other assets. Debts are mainly final illness and living expenses not exceeding 1500. The widow says she lacks business experience to act as administrator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Cole
Elizabeth S. Cole
RH. Golden Donaldson
Charles ©. Cole
National Bank of Washington
Union Trust Company
Cole & Donaldson
Cole
Minister Found Guilty After Elopement Probe
Wilkesbarre Pa April 12 a ten minister jury found Rev Charles Wesley Smith guilty of attempting to persuade the sixteen year old daughter of Cr Herion a Binghamton church member to elope with him and recommended dismissal for one year with possible reinstatement after repentance. His wife and father reacted with emotion as the verdict was read.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilkesbarre
Wyoming
Charles Wesley Smith
Fairview Church
Binghamton
Judge Kimball Sentences Drunk and Disorderly Man
Charles Diller appeared before Judge Kimball in Police Court charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct after his wife Mollie Diller testified he raged at her northwest store. The judge imposed a thirty day sentence in the workhouse despite her plea for leniency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Diller
Kimball
Mollie Diller
Charlie
The Little Minister and Op O Me Thumb in Washington
Miss Adams returns to Washington to star as Lady Babbie in The Little Minister at the National with Op O Me Thumb, plus others including the musical comedy Sagant Blue and acts by Daniel, Williams, Abbott, Munroe, and Eckert. The program features a double bill, vaudeville novelties, and new productions at multiple theaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miza Adama
Miss Adams
Empire Theater
New York
Toen
Lady Babble
Amanda Affick
London
Arthur Byron
CB. Dillingham
Frank Daniels
Columbia
Washington
Daniela
Blanche Hing
Annie Abbott
Georgia
Miss Abbott
Chabcot and
Hammond
Sandow
Foster
Clark
Czar
Russia
Mias Abbott
George W. Munroe
Bridget
Mr. Mource
Christo
Jacob Glass
the Land of Two Moone
T. W. Eckert
Emma Berg
Burke
Dempsey
Misses Tobin
Leipzig
Frick Starts Inquiry Into Equitable Society
Henry C. Frick as chairman of the directors investigation committee sends a letter to James W. Alexander demanding a complete record of all Equitable Life Assurance Society financial transactions relations with related firms and a full list of employees with salaries. The request covers loans commissions under writings contracts and all other disbursements and seeks testimony from officers directors trustees and staff with protections for informants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hauitable Life Assurance Society
James W. Alexander
Henry C. Frick
Messrs. Harriman
Bliss
Ives
Ingalls
Frick
Alexander
Society
Mercantile Trust Company
Equitable Trust Company
Mercantile Safe Deposit Company
Equitable Society
Uone
The Lighter Side Of Life Joke Exchange
A brief comic exchange between a sonneteer and a joke writer debating pay. The sonneteer asks about earnings and the joke writer reveals a fee of fifty per, then asks what it is for noting it is just for fun.
Verses and Inquiries on Great Minds and Poetic Angst
A collage of quips, poems, and jokes mingles classical references with playful digs at genius and craft. From Euclid to Othello, writers scramble for elegance, while a speaker laments villanelle verses and yearns for a bolder theme.
Companion Evils in a Fragmented Dialogue
A fragmentary dialogue features Priscilla Myrtila and Jack discussing fashion, bills, and singing terms. The exchange hints at evolving appearances and social tensions within a constrained, theatrical mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Priscilla
Myrtila
Census Under Way in DC Districts Counts Beset by Refusals
Special care is taken by Maj Sylvester's volunteers as 125 enumerators begin sweeping the District of Columbia for a census. Night finds many tired yet determined workers, with outlying areas needing several days more. Delays stem from residents resisting questions about children in school. precincts split into districts, with data recorded by building to avoid repeats. Totals will be processed over thirty days at Chief Clerk Kemp's office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
del Clarence Edwards
Bureau of
Insular A Affairs
Mills
Col Edwards
Insular Bureau
Leon Pepperman
Panama
Department
Wallace
Chicago
San Franccisco
Paris
Madrid
Morocco
Tangiers
New York
A. H. Woots
Russia
Academy
Lyceum Theater
Gladya St. John
Nian Calder
Ida Nicolai
Beatrice Gambles
Adelaine Fell
Andy Gardner
Julia Murray
W. J. Kelly
Fred Law
Higgins
Bergman
Perry
Lulu Ryan
Emma Wood
Kernan
August Faust
Wrestier
Bnty
Maj. Sylvester
Eah
Kemp
Daughters of the American Revolution announce congress committees
The forthcoming continental congress opens Monday at 10 am with nine announced committees led by Mrs. Charles Warren Fairbanks for dedicatory exercises and Mrs. Miranda Barney Tulloch for credentials and badge. Funeral of Judge Lawrence Weldon held at the Hamilton Hotel with Justice Fuller and Justice Harlan present. body accompanies to Bloomington for burial. Washington's Favorite wraps with a closing line about quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Continental Congress
Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution
National Society
Memorial Continental Hall
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Althea Randolph Bedie
Franklin E.rocks
Julius C. Burrows
Heron Crosman
Mary Desha
Ella Loraine Dorsey
Julius J. Extey
John W. ¥Oater
James M Fowler
Augusta D. Geer
Hamlin
Susan Riviere Hetzel
Julia K. Hogg
Elizabeth Bryant Johnston
de B. Randolph Ke
House
A. D. Brockett
Robert 3. Jones
Edward Bennett Rosa
Henry W. Samson
Charlotte Emerson Main
Clarendon Smith
J. Morgan Smith
Walter Talbot
Walter Harvey Weed
Mary 3. Lockwood
William M. Liggett
Alice Quitman Lovell
Mary Evans Rosa
John F. Swift
Mirande Barney Tulloch
iMrs
Mary Evans Roas
Franklin E.brecka
Henry E. Burnham
John N. Carey
Julius J. Eatey
Auguste D Geer
Mary 8
Lawrence Weldon
Bloomington
Til
Hamilton Hotel
Wallace Radcliffe
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Fuller and
Harlan
United States Supreme Court
Taft
District Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Fifer
Cullom
Officers Deny Gambling After Seventh Precinct Trial
Police officers Hofman and Walsh faced a police trial board on a craps allegation at the Seventh precinct station. Testimony failed to yield direct evidence as witnesses were absent or recalled uncertainly. The trial adjourned to today at 1 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. A. Hofman
Joseph G. Walsh
Seventh Precinct
Corporation
A. Leftwich Sinclair
L. H. Farquhar
Farquhar
O. B. Gray
Henry Snyder
Lambert
Mattingly
Bloom
Smith
Hilton
Hall
Hofman
Walsh
Short
Sinclair
Tissman
George W. Ash
Saunders
Simpson
Lieut
Jordan
Short and Conners
Reunion at Manassas Plans Cabinet Attendance
The thirty sixth annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Potomac will be in Manassas Virginia May 10 and 11. A cabinet committee led by John C Rixey invited in town officials and Secretaries who wish to attend. The program includes dues reception corps meetings a business session public exercises a campfire and a battlefield picnic with restricted attendance for members and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Society of the Army of the Potomac
Manassas
John C Rixey
Congress
Eiglith
Virginia
George C. Round
George H. Patrick
J. B. F. Thornton
J. J. Davies
John McGill
D. D
Bion
Jague
Charles B. Nicolode
Henry M. Clarkson
Newell Dwight Hillis
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
N. Y
Daniel E. Sickles
Nicol Hall
J. B. F. Thornston
Prince, William County
Henry House
Battle Field
U.S. V
Funeral of Michael P Canty at St Aloysius Church
Funeral services for Michael P Canty were held at his late residence on 519 H Street Northeast and continued with a requiem mass at St. Aloysius Church. Both rites were attended by Division No. 2 Ancient Order of Hibernians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael P. Canty
H Street
St. Aloysius Church
Division No. 2
Ancient
Order of Hibernians
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Ernst, Hains
Harrod
Pittsburg
Emil Paur
Mme Gadski
Washington Festival Chorus
Convention Hall
Arthur Smith
Sanders and
Stayman's
Gladden
Christ
Mary A. Luce
Capitol Hill
Sunday Post
Giddings & Steele
Pennsylvania Avenue
Charles P. Neill
Tidewater
Banere
Syung
Hood
Lottie Williams
Lafayette
Charles E. Blaney
Miss Willams
Josie
Apt
Charlie Abe
Shepard
Moving Pictures
Don Quixote
Kreisler
Fritz Kreisler
Ecayil
Frits Kreisler
Josef Hofmann
New National Theater
Messrs
Kreister
Hofmann
Frits Krelter
Balade
Mezurka
Eves Conor Franck Fartini
Joseph Hofmann
Sareenage Ee Ldset
Kreutzer
Wagner
Mendelssohn
Andre Benoist
Philpitt
Frigk
Alexanders
Neudad
Euclid
Johnny
Othello
Desdemona
Spenser
Sonnet
Julie
Bobby Herrick
Villanelle
Jack
Polige
Bluecoats
Wellville
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