Respite for Road Track Purchase Delayed Navy Opposes Removal
The District Committee recommends extending two years for removing the Washington Navy Yard rail track to protect Navy fuel and material supplies. A plan to build a new spur along the Anacostia River faced opposition, with debate over government purchase and maintaining yard operations during the extension.
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District Committee
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Navy Yard
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Rairoad Company
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Railroad Company
Navy
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Amg Femlith
Beveridge Named as Administration Candidate for Temporary Convention Chair
The article details Beveridge being regarded as the administration pick for temporary presiding officer at the national convention. It notes plans for a keynote address and mentions opposition within the party to principles favored by the administration. The piece emphasizes the political maneuvering surrounding the temporary chairmanship and the potential impact on the convention’s direction.
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Beveridge
Ike Sis
Tipuk
Ioan Reo
Leadheny
Dave Figur
Santhon
Chat Nour
Republican Metional
Republian
National Committee
Fling at publishers prompts House telegram flood
The House hall overflowed with telegrams from publishers across the country urging relief from extortion by the paper cartel. The American Newspaper Publishers Association led a protest against Speaker Cannon and allies, pressing for a vote on the Stevens bill to aid the industry.
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Williams
Association
Maine
California
H Baker
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Amercan Newspaper Publishers Association
Cannon Payne
Dalzell
Stevens
Congliss
John Sharp Willams
Baker
Treckon
Miy
Payne
The
Ways and Means
Ani
Rake
Cautioned by President on Senate Pay and Committee Actions
The document outlines a presidential caution on Senate pay and committee maneuvers in Commerce. It references proposed bills and suggested amendments, with notes on who signed letters and the need to advance measures to improve governance. Also included is a bankruptcy petition involving a life insurance agent and a listing of individuals connected to the case across various Virginia addresses.
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Senate Pay
Tierefar
Renentitne Furton
Hell
Wasymeton Pont
Arcubahl Tiaynes
Fife
Mutual
Lebrais
Princeton undergrads form Grey Club to boost Fudge George Hamill
A group of Princeton University undergraduates organized a Grey Club today to further the candidacy of Fudge George Hamill of Delaware for the Democratic presidential nomination. The club lists Hamill as a leading figure, with officers including W. Hamill of Texas as president and Penn Hire of Pensacola, Florida as secretary.
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Princeton
Princeton University
Fudge George "Grey Princeton
Delaware
Houston
Texas
M Hamill
Tere
Jtauteni
Penn Hire
Pensacola
President Thanks Lawyers For Naturalization Work
The assistant United States attorneys at the Department of Justice were praised by President Roosevelt for their work on naturalization laws. He thanked Assistant Attorney General Cooley for arranging the conference and urged that quality stems from doing the work for its own sake.
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United States
Department of Justice
Cooley
Roosevelt
Ruskin
Canadian Senator Cosgrain Visits Senate Floor Tale
Canadian Senator Cosgrain visiting the Capitol spoke on a short stay to the States and weighed a couple at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The man bet his wife she weighed more. the scales could not be adjusted. Cosgrain weighed the pair, finding the wife two pounds heavier, a moment later revealed to be Gen and Mrs Ulysses S. Grant.
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States
Philadelphia
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Wilkie May Be Summoned By House Committees
Secret Service Chief Wilkie may be cited before House Appropriations to explain denying that agents were loaned to departments. Committees seek to know how his remarks arose and whether Service members were assigned to other agencies in violation of law.
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Dsawa
Mao
Wien
Whirl of Hospitality crowns new ship champion in upset win
Rival defeats Altiere 15 to 10 to claim the title and $15,000 for backers. Officers take a motor trip to nearby towns as three balls are awarded.
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Altiere
Proclamations and Bills Hover Over New York Politics
Albany reports say Gov. Hughes will not specify topics for the extra session while anti-gambling bills are likely priorities. The 10th New York Legislature adjourned with no revival of race trash gambling measures, and the public service scope for telegraphs and telephones remains unsettled. Meanwhile in Los Angeles the fleet visit nears end with large crowds, ship tours, a boxing finale, and a motorcade through city streets, as officials plan a final review and farewell events.
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Brown Shin
New Jersey
Walter Albert
Miassouri
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Schlosster
Senlessere
Jin Teffise
Aldersere
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Cisian
Schlossberg
Senator Davis Questions Ward On Indian Affairs Inquiry
Senator Jeff Davis demanded whether Ward suffered for sending Senate information on Choctaw and Chickasaw rolls. Ward, head of the Interior Department’s Indian Territory Division, denied retaliation and said a department rearrangement kept him in a comparable post. Garfield’s order abolished the division as no longer necessary, Davis to question Garfield.
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Senate
George A Ward
Ind
Interior Department
Senate Committee On Indian Affairs
Jeff Davis
Haman
Garfield
Ward
Davis
Wassessen
Department
Indian Territory
Health Office Record Deaths Reported to April
The Health Office lists numerous death reports including Marv Ki Jones 1227 Details St, aged 82. Charles H Norris 1300 Emerson St NE, 23, Joseph Towenthal Wash Asylum Hospital, 40, Edgar R Rucker 1147 Joth St AW, 46, Fran ces Lowery and Jane Johnson ages 68 and 26. Louise Hamilton 17 N Ave NE 26. Elzabeth Stewart 478 1st NW, 18. Calvin Lenore 008 ih St NW, years. Samuel William 4 Dudley Pl EW, 1 month. infant children Noah and Bertha Goggins 005 2nd St NW, months. James A. and Anna Jackson 3300 Lost NW, 1 day.
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Charles H Norris
Emerson St Ne
Touise Schroeder
Joseph Towenthal
Edgar R Rucker
Jane FP
Young Jon
Frances Lowery
Jane Johnson
Jo Gps Thomis
Sears
Louise Hamilton
Elzabeth Stewart
Calvin Lenore
Harry Peindester
Samuel William
Dudley Pi
Gracie Henson
Martha L Simonds
Fla
Moe
Noah
Bertha Goggins
James A
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Fleet recruits to sail from Newport
The cruiser Pratire will sail Sunday in charge of Commander 4 A Ackerman from the naval training station at Hampton Roads. A draft of apprentice seamen cooks yeomen and petty officers will board before proceeding to Colon then Panama to join the cruiser Buffalo for Atlantic service. Some men may serve with the Asiatic fleet. Also, Republicans in the Eighth District met at Camden and nominated Thrasher for Congress with Taft and Evans for President and Vice President.
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Ackerman
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Hampton Toids
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Panama
Buffalo
Atlantic
Pacific
Asiatic Fleet
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Eighth Congressional District
Camden
H ‘Thrasher
Congress
Death by his own hand in Paris hotel linked to financial loss
Fritz Perrugia, brother-in-law of Leopold de Rothschild, prominent in Anglo Jewish circles, killed himself in his Grand Hotel Paris apartment. Motives unclear, but reports say heavy losses from speculations in Henri Rechette promoted companies. Perrugia ran a banking business in London.
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Fritz Perrugia
Leopold de Rothschild
Anglo-Jewish Association
London
Grand Hotel
Henri Rechette
Perrugia
Five Russian Warships Bigger Than the Dreadnought Ordered
London April 23 report says the Russian government has ordered five warships from Clyde builders. Each vessel is planned to be larger than the Dreadnought, per a trade journal.
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Clyde Builders
London
Clyde Shipbuilders
Ex President Cleveland Rallies Amid Health Rumors in Lakewood
Former President Grover Cleveland, ill with rheumatism gout and stomach trouble, improves in Lakewood New Jersey. Mrs Cleveland says there is no danger and plans to issue a press statement. Cleveland has kept to his hotel suite since March 16, with limited visitors and his 71st birthday observed.
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Lakewood
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland
Merce
Ting
Pronkton
Princeton
Pines
James N Berry
Full Hearing for Circumstances of GOP Nomination Contests
Indianapolis April 2. Chairman Harry S New of the Republican National Committee plans a full committee hearing before the national convention to resolve a large number of presidential nomination contests. The notice urges members to prepare for a possible early June meeting in Chicago if necessary, with the aim of orderly handling of all contests by the full committee.
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Ind
Harry S New
Republican National Committee
New Sad
Republicanational Committee
Chicago
Maine Wreck Removal Bill Introduced in Congress
Representative Sulzer introduced a bill to raise the sunken battleship Maine in Havana Harbor, recover bodies for interment in Arlington, and let contracts to the lowest responsible bidder with arrangements to be made with Cuba. Two Free State delegates from Massachusetts were elected uninstructed at the district convention in Holyoke.
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Havana Harbor
Sulzer
Secretary of the Navy
United States
Washington
National Cemetery
Arlington
Republic of Cuba
Free Bay State
Holyoke
Mass
Massachusetts
Chicago
William H Brooks
Frank H . Wright
Great Bartington
Fraud order on rail line scheme complex
The Postmaster General issued a fraud order denying use of the mall to a network including SS Paul Minneapolis and Seattle Electric Railroad Company and several construction and investment firms. The men formed multiple companies to sell stock and mislead investors while claiming to build a St Paul to Seattle rail line, with a convoy of alleged cars and 1650 mules promised to haul the load in thirty hours. Samuel A Phillips faced embezzlement conviction and seven year sentence, with further mail fraud indictment pending.
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Seattle
St Paul
Samuel
New Treaties Signed Preserve Baltic and North Sea Status Quo
Berlin reports that on April 23 treaties were signed at the foreign office by German secretary for foreign affairs Herr Von Schoen along with British and French ambassadors and Danish Dutch and Swedish ministers to Germany. The agreements maintain in substance the status quo on the Baltic coast and in the North Sea.
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Baltic Countries
Berlin
Baltic
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Herr von Schoen
Germany
Baltic Coast
Panama death rate drops among canal workers
Col W C Gorgas reports March mortality among Panama Canal Zone employees at 43 276 on rolls with 40 deaths yielding an annual rate of 12 47 per 1000 far below last year. Last month 36 387 workers produced 14 deaths or 40 23 per 1000, a rate about one fourth, suggesting 28 fewer deaths per thousand if the trend continues.
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W C Gorgas
Panama
Canal
General Linewitch Dies In St Petersburg War Leader
Lieut Gen Einesiteh aide de camp Tamperor Nich oas and commander of the First Manchurian army died of pneumonia in the evening. He was sixty eight. He fought in the Caucasus at age twenty one and served in the Russo Turkish war of 1877. He led relief efforts at Peking and assumed command of the First Manchurian Army on November 14, 194? replacing Gen Kuropatkin as commander in chief. He saw action at Mithden and other key battles showing notable bravery.
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