Glass Bill Approved Amid Democratic Opposition
The administration currency bill advanced from the House banking committee despite protests by Neely Eagle and Regedale. Glass aims to bring the issue to a caucus vote next Monday with open discussion anticipated, while critics push for public access to the proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Banking and Currency Committee
Representatives Neely
Kansas
Eagle
Texas
Regedale
South Carolina
Wilson
Senate
Hitchcock
Glass
Savings Bank and Trust Company
Bulkley
Neeley
Wingo
Ragsdale
Eagie
House Committee
GARB OF SEPTEMBER MORN AFFECTS CLARITON PA ARRESTS
In Pittsburgh on August 5 a Clairton church founder and hostelry owner James Parnham and social figure Mrs Katella Sekar were arrested in a Pittsburgh hotel room. They identified themselves when detained and posted $600 bail each for a hearing.
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Pittsburgh
Clairton
Episcopal Church
James Parnham
Katella Sekar
Homewood
Joni W. Sekar
Fugasel
Parnham
Hubby
Sekar
Fireproof Blue Mountain House Loss in Maryland Blaze
A Blue Mountain House fire at Pen Mar on the Western Maryland Line destroyed the resort built 30 years ago at 225000. Losses totaled about 260000 with 150000 in jewelry from guests. One guest Mrs Brown of Pittsburgh leaped from a third story window with her baby, fell on a porch roof, and was taken down unconscious but revived. Two men, B F Metzgar and Malcolm Frank of Norfolk Virginia, were slightly burned. Nearly 100 guests fled the blaze aboard a special Blue Mountain Express to Baltimore, many in nightclothes. several lost clothing and valuables including Mrs Albert F Fox and daughter Margaret Fox who escaped but lost belongings and possibly jewelry.
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Washington
Hagerstown
Blue Mountain House
South Mountain
Pen Mar
Maryland Failway
Blue Mountain
Western Maryland Railroad
Baltimore
Blue Mountain Express
Albert F. Fox
Columbia National Bank of Washington
Margaret Fox
Elie Mountain House
Mr. Fox
Miss Fox
Mr Fox
Harry Friedlander
Massachusetts Avenue Northwest
Bankers Accept Invitations to Aid McAdoo on Crop Funds
Secretary McAdoo has invited Southern bankers to confer at the Treasury about the $50,000,000 crop movement funds with Macon and Augusta, Ga, newly added to participating cities. He also investigates a suspected concerted campaign by New York banks to push down United States 2 percent bonds to defeat the currency bill.
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McAdoo
Alden Smith
SecPtary
New York City
Treasury
Congress
New York
Committee On Banking and Currency
McAdoo J
Smith
Senate
Hitchcock
Owen
Banking Committee
Hake Smith
Thia
Democratic Party
Treasury Department
Hej
Macon
Augusta
United States
Camp Ordway Drills Amid Field News From Harpers Ferry
Stam Correspondent reports at Camp Ordway near Harpers Ferry W VA the DC militia trains in camp routines. Chaplain Stevenson quarrels over a cot, Capt Brockway improves mess service, recruits suffer sunburn and minor injuries, hospital facilities expand, Camp orders begin field drills, and Capt Stephenson runs a model canteen amid scarce ice cream and beer.
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Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Stevenson
Maj
Hodgson
Brockway
Hugh Stephenson
Flret Infantry
Stephenson
Grotto Outing Yields Many Athletic Contests and Events
Members of Kallipolia Grotto No 15 Mystic Order Veiled Prophets held a beach outing at Chesapeake Beach with numerous athletic events. Results include El mira McLennan and Helen Williams in youth dashes, Clara Myers and May Niswander in girls events, and wins by George Shaefer and others in florist races. Baltimore florists beat Washington florists 4 to 1 in baseball, with bowling, quoit, and sack race winners listed, plus band concerts and dancing as part of the merrymaking.
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Baltimore
Washington
Maryland
Kallipolia Grotto
Mystic Order
Chesapeake Beach
Elmira McLennan
Helen Williams
Evelyn Myers
Eugene Lydianne
Llosa Greble
Bernard Dove
Clara Myers
Helen Nugent
Grant Miller
Henry King
May Niswander
W. H Labofish
B. Wilson
Grotto
P. Dawick
C. Tolson
Ralph Zeg
Willam Simonds
Lawrence Barney
Louis Miller
Rose Friedberg
Helen Royal
Louis
Millard
Ralph Zea
Shipe
J. H Faunce
J Crawford
Louis Millard
George Co
Shaefer
R L Jenkins
B. Daniel
Oscar B Johnson
Yosephina Nanten
Richard Carnage
Gene Zea
W. Lingbach
George a’Brien
George Shipe
Alice Reid
W . Linger
O B. Robinson
Bauer
Simmonds
Cooke
Washington Florists
Baltimore Florists
George ¢ Shaefer
R M McLennan
Eiker
G C Dalglish
Willam H Ernest Quoits
Mesars Fritz
George Cooke
Samuel F Shreve
Charles Zurhost
E W Zea
Julius Egloff
Harie Scroggina
George C. Dalgiish
Wiliam H. Irnest
George Y. Cooke
Charles A Stevens
Ida Hayes
William F Gude
Theodore Schandon
William Scantlebury
Milton J. Fillius
Clara Naecker
Outing Run Smooth by Grotto and Florist Committees
The transportation committee led by Charles Zurhost as chairman of judges for the grotto and William H. Ernest as chairman of the florist's general committee, with others handling details, guided the outing to success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Zurhost
William H. Ernest
Thine Collins SLAIN Amid Demand for Deeper Probe
The District division of the Order of Railway Conductors plans to ask Maj Sylvester to reopen the investigation into the death of George W. Collins whose mutilated body was found in the river last Saturday. Secretary H. C. Staves sent a full report to grand secretary W. J Maxwell. The group cites four knife wounds and pocket theft as evidence of foul play and demands a more vigorous police inquiry.
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George W. Colling
Order of Railway Conductors
Collins
Maj Sylvester
H. C. Staves
Washington
W. J Maxwell
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Steves
Nurse Emma Krill Poisoning Case Hearing Delayed
Emma Elizabeth Krill a 24 year old trained nurse from Cornwall on the Hudson was arraigned in Newburgh on charges of poisoning Dr Stanley Tron. The hearing was postponed to Friday with former District Attorney Emerson Willis representing her. Krill childhood involved the mysterious disappearance of her mother in 1895 and the family moves to Stillman place. She worked at Middletown State Hospital and a Hudson hospital before meeting Dr Tron in New York.
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Washington Post
Utica
Emma E. Krill
Cornwall-on-the-Hudson
Stanley
Krill
Emerson Willis
Newburgh
N Y
Eimma
Elizabeth
Emma
State Insane Asylum
Middletown
Hudson
New York
Tron
Camp Ordway Afire Strikes West Virginia Encampment
Soldiers stationed at Camp Ordway endure a fierce blaze as officers conduct instructional schools for militia officers. Private Madden of Company F collapses from smoke and heat and is aided at the second cross station. In baseball, Company BE defeats Company A 12 to 7.
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Second Infantry
Anton Stephan
Glendie
Young
West Virginia
Madden
Seconds Red Cross
Noted Horses Defeat Pride o Prides at Greater New York Show
At Empire City park Greater New York Fair events featured Pride o Prides beating Corinna and Sonia defeated in an upset. Edward McLean's Pride o Prides took the 18 hands class, while Chesterfield ridden by Miss Dorothy Webb and Belle Beach ridden by Miss Belle Beach placed prominently in other harness divisions. The show highlighted strong performances by Mrs. Herbert Camp and several Long Branch champions, with multiple horses earning top ribbons in light and heavy harness categories.
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Long Beach
Greater New York
Dorothy Webb
Chesterfield
Bell¢ Beach
Sonia
Washington Post
New York
Empire City Park
Corinna
Harnées
Long Branch
Herbert Camp
Edward B. McLean
Pride O
Pride O' Prides, Once Owned By William H. Moore
Campbell Thompson
Fridk
Brize
W. A. McGibbon
Belle Beach
Clase
Misa Dorothy Webb
Belle
Eas
Herbert L. Camp
W A. McGibbon
Walter H. Hanley
Morning Glory
Wr A. M eGibbon
Lass
Edward McLean
Ch. m
Emil Seelig
Ch. Yn
Hite
Ch m
Marian
John J. Bushnell
Irvton
Hawthorne Denied Parole in Defraud Case
Dr William J Morton of Boston and co defendant Jauhlan Hawthorne, convicted of defrauding by misusing mails in a mining stock scheme, must remain in Atlanta penitentiary until October. The board had recommended parole, but the judge postponed release to honor the original sentence start date.
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W J. Morton
Prson
Jauhlan Hawthorne
William Jo Morton
Boston
Auuanta
Desman
Enous Kooery
Anderson Wins Reinstatement After 16 Years in Pension Office
Frank E Anderson formerly of Houston Texas had been dismissed from a 32000 annual post as chief of the law division of the pension office when President McKinley took office. After long efforts under several administrations his case was favorably acted on by an executive order from the President permitting reinstatement to an appropriate position in the bureau of pensions.
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F. E. Anderson
McKinley
Pension Office
Civil Service
Frank E Anderson
Houston
Tex
Bureau of Pensions
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Prophets At Beach
Miss Krill
Camp Ordway
Pride O’ Prides
Metibbon
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NeWgass
Thom Cinderella
W. M
Hoffmans
Teneriffe
Thomas Hazell
Gladys Center
Hennie Nutwood
W M
Hoffman
Mahlon Wilkes
Chatterbox
Em Seeling
Stephen Hickey
Ed Hal
Frank Barran
Hawthorne
U.S
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Joe
Dally
Alveri Impany
Lumpian
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Montana Canyon
St. Joe River
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Sisters
Geo. J. Lincoln
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Geo. B. Haynes
Madras, Cheviot, and
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Riggs
Valentine
Shoemaker Co
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NAT House Repair CO
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Bladgenarburg
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