Joker in the Santo Domingo Treaty Allegations
A Senate Foreign Relations hearing revealed alleged massive graft tied to a “deuda de ferda” debt script worth millions. Dominican officials supposedly exploit the instrument to claim value from U S customs funds, threatening revolutions if the treaty is ratified without amendments.
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United States
Santo Domingo
Eppers
Senate
Pagland
Germany
France
Santo Domingue
Little Island Republic
Amerecins
Joubert
Carlos Morales
Treasry
United States Senate
Dominican Debt Script Bill Sparks Political Turmoil
The January 4 1906 gazette notes President Morales planned to pay the long deferred debt using tonnage dues, while contracts show steamship taxes paused for three years. Rumors of immediate payments spread as investors seek 100 cent dollars upon treaty ratification, amid exiles and imprisonments under President Caceres.
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Deuda-Deferida
Morales
Congress
United States Senate
United States
Roosevelt
Caceres
Four Senators on Sick List Detained from Senate Duty
Four United States Senators are kept from official Senate work. Cullom at St Augustine Florida recovers and eyes return home to health. Heyburn Idaho to undergo appendicitis surgery. Gorman absent due to illness but not serious. Hale Maine absent two weeks with improving health and potential return this week.
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Cullom
Heyburn
Gorman
Hale
United States
Senate
Ness
St Augustine
Fla
Florida
Washington
Foreign Committee
Yates
Illinois
Ilinois
Idaho
Senator Hale
Maine
Rail bill debate nears vote with unity expected
The article outlines a near unanimous expectation for approval of the statehood program in the Senate. It notes ongoing delay in finalizing the railroa d bill vote, with Speaker Cannon guiding debate and Republicans led by Hepburn and Democrats by Adamson.
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Cannon
Hepburn
Sibley
McCahi
House
Littlefield
Maine
Gen. Grosvenor
Lamar
Florida
Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Senate Debates Canal Bill as Eight Hour Law Sheds Light
The Senate prepares to tackle the urgent deficiency bill with canal matters dominating discussion. Proposals on the Canal Zone eight hour law abrogation and War Department funding for the canal are set to fuel debate, while Bacon, Scott, Foraker, and McCumber outline plans on Morocco, telegraph operators pensions, Isle of Fines treaty, and pure food bills. The calendar remains sparse with no ship big flags discussion anticipated.
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Arizona
New Mexico
Canal
War Department
Senator Foraker
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McCumber
Funeral of Col Higgins in Norfolk cemetery ceremony
Thousands attended the funeral of Col A M Higgins of the Seventy first Virginia Regiment in Cedar Grove Cemetery Norfolk. Military and civic organizations formed the cortege with army and navy officers present. Governor Swanson and Adjutant General Nalle attended along with numerous officials and more than five thousand civilians.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Cedar Grove Cemetery
A. ME. Higgins
Seventy-first Virginia Regiment
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Navy
Old Point
Gov
Swanson
Naire
Claude A. Swanson
William Nalle
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Fita~gibbon
N. B. Joyner
Marshall Tartall
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H. B. Johnson
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U. & Mlc
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John T. Spann
R. A. Lumber
Joseph T. Lawless
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J. W. Brown
Oscar Marx
C. Brooks Johnston
Dr. C. F. Newpill
Albert L. Gorter Dead A Baltimore Real Estate Figure
Albert L. Gorter a prominent Baltimore real estate figure and noted club member died this afternoon at age 53 from a complication of grip and tonsillitis. He belonged to Maryland and Baltimore clubs and the Elk Ridge Uni Club and was survived by his wife. He was born in Baltimore, son of tobacco merchant Gasse Anne Gorter, and later entered real estate after his father’s death in 1879.
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Maryland Club
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Elk Ridge ‘Uni Club
Mr. Gorter
Gasse Anne Gorter
Denth
Virginia judge to target fake social clubs with liquor license
Richmond readers report Judge W H Mann will introduce a sweeping bill to require all social clubs to obtain a barroom license, aiming to shutter fake clubs and bring high class venues under tax rules. Some established clubs oppose the measure, resenting parity with clubs that avoid the law.
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Washington Post
Richmond
W. H. Mann
Mann
Virginia
Victim of Yellow Fever in Colombia Railroad Work
Special to The Washington vest Richmond reports that J. S. Charles of Williamsburg learns his son Robert M Charles, 29, a government railroad construction resident engineer, died of yellow fever in Cartagena. The family had no news for three months and quarantine laws prevent moving the body for eighteen months.
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Washington
Richmond
Cartagena
Colombia
J. S. Charles
Williamsburg
Robert M Charles
Obituaries report Stebbins Broyles Griffith and Shmefeliow in Virginia
Virginia obituaries note BP Stebbins of Page County died near Luray aged 82. Mary A Broyles of Luray died at 84. Charles H Griffith of Page County died at 38. Altice Larcomb Shmefeliow died in Richmond at Blair Stringfellow home after typhoid fever. Burial in Hollywood, Richmond, planned.
Murder Ends Old Grudge in Cedar Grove Saloon
J F Montague, Cedar Grove saloonkeeper, was shot by Harvey Elswick who entered his shop about 11 pm and fired three times. Claude Montague, his brother, disarmed Elswick and released him, unaware the killing was fatal. Montague died within thirty minutes. Elswick, a coal miner from Monarch, was captured nearby and jailed. Flo was intoxicated at the time, and an old feud sparked the incident.
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Washington Post
Charleston
W. Va
J. F. Monttague
Cedar Grove
Harvey Hiswick
Montague
Claude Montague
Elswick
Monarch
Kanawha
Jair
Flo
Elopers Married After Elopement in Maryland
Charles F. Barham, Waynesboro architect, arrested in Greencastle for pointing a revolver at Miss Ruth Wiles during an elopement with Miss Mary J. Wiles. Barham married by Justice Mastice in Hagerstown with four witnesses. The couple planned a wedding trip to Washington after secret Baltimore marriage. Barham was later released on the gun charge.
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Washington Post
Hagerstown
Charles F. Burham
Waynesboro
Greencastle
Mary J. Wiles
Davia Wiles
Wellys Mills
Wiles
Ruth Wiles
Martin
Mary Wiles
Washington
Baltimore
Barham
New Virginia Fisheries Board Slate Reported
Special to The Washington Post Richmond Feb 4 Rumors place Senator George B Keezer of Rockingham as the sole retained member of the incoming fisheries board W McDonald Lee of Irvington is named chairman Bland Massie of Nelson County is chosen from the Piedmont section and the secretaryship is between Dr Moore of Northampton and S Wilkins Mathews of Accomac The board ranks next to the corporation in importance under the governor and public interest runs high in the likely selections.
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Washington
Northampton
S. Wilkins Mathews
Accomac
Mrs Lillian Waters Dead in Rockville Typhoid Fatality
Mrs Lillian Waters wife of Washington Waters Jr of Rockville Md died this afternoon after a long illness aged about thirty five Typhoid fever and heart affection caused death She is survived by her husband and two children She was daughter of the late Rev David Keener of Baltimore The husband works for the Washington office of Standard Oil Company Funeral arrangements not announced.
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Page County
Luray Caverns
Stanley
Luray
Stebbins
Tompkins County
N. Y
Kansas
Mary A. Broyles
Perry Broyles
Allegheny Mountain
Rockville
Washington Post
Willian Slice Waters
Washington Waters Jr
Jury Acquits Thomas Lamb of Murder in North Carolina
Special to The Washington Fest Wilmington N C Feb 4 The jury acquitted Thomas C Lamb a young man from Filorence D C charged with murdering Alice Owens after a long trial with out for deliberation since Thursday afternoon The verdict labeled as not guilty came at eight oclock describing the case as one of the hardest fought in the county.
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N. C
Thomas C. Lamb
Filorence
D. C
Alice Owens
Lady Grey Dies After Brain Injury From Accident
London reports Lady Grey wife of Foreign Minister Sir Edward Grey died from concussion suffered when thrown from her trap at Emingham Northumberland last Thursday She never regained consciousness Richmond man dies in New York Carter B Neal of Neal Bilford dies in New York city of pneumonia after forty eight hours illness Wheeling man Gaylord W Carter dies after ingesting large dose of chloral Norfolk mother of John Halstead burned to death in her sleep Berkeley Spring church calls Rev B H Dupey Martinsburg Presbyterian Church faces six month vacancy Henry White dies of lockjaw at Protestant Hospital shot two weeks earlier Wabash tunnel completed linking Cumberland to Cherry Run finishing sixty five mile Wabash connection to Atlantic seaboard
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Sir Edward Grey
Emingham
Northumberland
Richmond
New York
Washington
Carter B Neal
Neal & Binford
Hoffman House
Thomas D. Neal
Greanor Neal
James B Pace
Tri State press group forms in three-state region
A meeting of Maryland Virginia and West Virginia publishers in Martinsburg W V discussed railroads paying cash for ads, with some lines proposing free time tables. A tri state press association committee was named including W W Brown Vernon Simmons and others. Also Cumberland MD reports Dr Philip Clark aged 78 found dead in bed survived by wife and children.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Qty
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
C. W. Bryan
Martinsburg Statesman
Louis K Junkle
Charlestown Frre Press
tri-State
C. W. Bushons
Strasburg News
Cumberland, Md
Ifep
Philip Clark
David Farrin
Washington, D. C
Michael Clark
Cumberland
Denial by President Barr on railroad presidency report
Norfolk Va Feb 4 President J M Barr of the Seaboard Air Line says there is absolutely no truth in a Richmond report that he had accepted the presidency of the Missouri Pacific or any railroad. Special cable from Washington notes tonight. The Merritt Chapman Wrecking Company floated the stranded schooner Maggie S Hart ashore at Hatteras.
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Washington Post
Norfolk, Va
Richmond
Missouri Pacific
J. M. Barr
Seaboard Air Line
Merritt & Chapman Wrecking Company
Maggie S. Hart
Hatteras
Finman oyster bill and hill landmark highway plan
Hyattsville Feb 4 The Finman oyster bill and Dr Burtiud Hill a Prince George County delegate proposed permanent highway from Washington to Baltimore via the Washington and Baltimore turnpike were warmly endorsed at Vansville Farmers Club meeting at Charles H Stanley LaureI Fort Myer Runaways Caught Charlottesville Va Feb 4 A Fort Myer detail brought back two runaway privates who left the garrison earlier today after a brief tour they reported to the recruiting officer for transport back to Fort Myer.
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Hyattsville
Dr. Burtiud
Hill
House of Delegates
Prince George County
Washington
Baltimore
Washington and Baltimore
Vansville Farmers’ Club
Charles H. Stanley
Laurei
Fort Myer
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