Troops Inquiry Opens With Harris Denial Over Brownsville Shooting
Senate Military Affairs committee began its Brownsville shooting investigation with Sergt Jerael Harris of Company D testifying he had no knowledge of who fired and that soldiers in his unit could not have taken part. Harris described prior tensions between soldiers and locals and said gun cleaning and inspection would rule out covert use. The hearing will continue as more discharged Twenty-fifth Infantry members attend in the corridor and await further questioning.
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Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Brownsville
Twenty-fifth Infantry
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Jerael Harris
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Texas
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Summitee Room
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Senator Warren
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McDowell
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Mr. Fassett
Chauncey Depew
Grant-Greeley
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Fairbanks
Indiana
Spooner
la Follette
Wisconsin
Keystone State
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Culberson
John Wesley Gaines
Tennessee
House
Gaines
Florida
The Bitters Cure Claims Across Many Walks of Life
An advertisement proclaims that The Bitters have cured thousands of men in all walks of life of stomach liver and kidney ailments after others failed. It invites skeptics to try one bottle of this celebrated remedy.
Gambling at Ohio fair invites presidential caution
President Roosevelt was warned he cannot attend the Ohio Colored Educational and Agricultural Association fair in Columbus next summer. A delegation invited him, but officials including Vice President Fairbanks and former Ohio Representative Taylor advised against attendance citing gambling as a recurring feature.
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Roosevelt
Ohio Colored Educational and Agricultural
Columbus
Lansing
Fairbanks
Taylor
Ohio
Ralph Tyler
War Department ends Catholic church parade order at Columbia post
Following war department instructions a modified order requiring Roman Catholic recruits and NCOs at Columbia post to form in line and march to church doors on Sundays was revoked. Attendance remains optional while church call is announced to be sounded.
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Columbus
Onte
War Department
Columbia Poat
Roosevelt clears Hanks Harriman charges in ICC probe
The special committee finds Hanks and Harriman failed to substantiate claims of errors in the Interstate Commerce Commission statistics. President Roosevelt reports the charges are disproved and orders no further action. The investigation covers alleged data misstatements and the possibility of reducing freight and passenger rates without harming wages or dividends.
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Messrs. Hanks
Harriman
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate
Charles S Hanks
Harvard
George W. Harriman
Anid
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Smake
Charles P. Neill
James R. Garfield
Starek
Interstate Conmmerce Commission
Ths
Messrs. Hanks and Harriman
Hanks
Alsou
Roosevelt
Messrs
Hanks and Harriman
Lake Superior Terminal Company
Mr. Hanks
Mersrs
Neill
Garfield
Mr. Harrin
Mr. Biarek
Mr. Harriman
M¢É
Interstate Commerce Commisal
Adams
Facl
Austin
Nell
Mr. Neill
Mr. Adams
Neail
Starck
Washington, D. C
Charles Starck
Messrs. 3
Cleveland
Best Teacher Says Grape-Nuts Eases Digestive Woes
Dak woman praises Grape-Nuts after years of stomach trouble and indigestion. She reports renewed strength and steadier nerves once she began breakfast with Grape-Nuts, claiming it beats other cereals and that experience is the best teacher. The ad notes Pontum Co. Battle Creek Michigan and promotes The Road to Wellville.
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Mname
Pontum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Pligs
Naval Cadet Officers Named for Brigade of Midshipmen
The Washington Port Annapolis announces the new cadet officers for the brigade of midshipmen to serve during the current week until graduation on the 11th. Richard S. Galloway is cadet commander at large, with Frederick T Stevenson as brigade adjutant, and Karl W. Pritchanl as chief petty officer. Command roles assign Samuel L. Henderson, Adtal E. Ewing, and Saymour E. Holiday to respective battalions, with numerous junior lieutenants leading each company and battalions across the First to Twelfth Companies and Fitch to Eleventh.
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Washington
Annapolis
Brigade of Midshipmen
Richard S. Galloway
Frederick T Stevenson
San Francisco
Cal
Karl W. Pritchanl
Indianapatta
Ind
Leutenant
Samuel L. Henderson
Iinboden
Ark
Edmund Almy
Allamont
Riley F. McConnell
Gate City
Henry ©. Gearing
Gry
Alfred H. Miles
Michael J. Torlinski
Leutemant
Thaddeus A. Thomson, Jr
Jonna H. Ingram
Leutenent
Eestie B. Brattan
Schuyler H. Heim
Army Orders and Naval Movements Report
Army retiring officers face board review in Omaha Nebraska with Col Edward Pratt and other officers leading the inspection. Assignments include First Lieut Robert Gollins to Eighth Cavalry and Rear Admiral W W Mezo returning home. Naval movements list arrived ships and sailing orders for multiple vessels along Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
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Omaha
Nebr
Edward B.pratt
Thirtieth Infantry
John M. Peter
Charles R. Noyes
Odors Cape
Aboad
Teat
W. W.mezo
D. C. Redgrave
Atlantic
Baltimore
G. F P. Lumeden
F.H. Stibbetts
Aval
San Fragciaco
Cal
W. 8. Jackson
Boston
Maan
Prdsra
G. R. Wi Ie
Prairie
W.G. Crap
No Leaks as Shaw Announces In Progress Reforms
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw in New York says reforms are in progress including a move to a double-entry bookkeeping system. He notes earlier cabinet statements, delays due to funds, and that no financial interests influenced his five years in office. He recalls efforts to hire trained staff and a special appropriation attempt before Keep Commission review.
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New York
Department
Knox
Pittsburg
Congress
Keep
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury Department
Straus Adopts Keep Idea Committee for Department
Secretary Straus of the Department of Commerce and Labor appoints a committee on business methods to consist of the disbursing clerk the chief of the appointment division and the chief of the printing division. The panel, created from Keep Commission findings, will advise but hold no administrative authority. It aims to simplify and standardize routine work including bookkeeping filing and office procedure. Recommendations go to the Assistant Secretary before any change. District Attorney Sims in Washington with officials to prep for the Standard Oil trial in Chicago March 4.
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Straus
Department of Commerce and Labor
Keep
Sims
Chicago
Washington
Standard Oil
Father John's Medicine credited for boy's weight gain and cough cure
Mrs G A Goodwin of Blossburg Pennsylvania writes of her son Walter recovering from a dreadful cough and loss of appetite after using Father John's Medicine. He gained weight from 65 pounds to an unknown pounds and the cough is cured. She praises the medicine, noting it is not patent but prescribed by Father John O'Brien. No narcotics or harmful stimulants involved. Cures colds and offers money back.
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G. A. Goodwin
Blossburg
Walter
John
Capitol Hearing Draws Large Colored Crowd At Brownsville Session
At the Senate Military Affairs Committee hearing in the capitol, a large contingent of colored attendees pressed into the corridor as fourteen discharged black soldiers testified in turn. The scene highlighted tensions over access and timing in the room.
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Brownsville
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Capitol
Warren
Military Affairs Committee
Straus Removes Head Tax on Foreign Officials
Commerce and Labor issues circular removing the $2 head tax on diplomatic and consular officers and other duly accredited officials of foreign governments serving or in transit in the United States. Secretary Straus found the law did not intend taxation on these officials.
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Straus
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
Peniolt
Hietax
List of Thirty Directors Named for National Bank Board
The document lists candidates for the board including James M. Baker Assistant Librarian U S Senate Joseph F Birch grocer Joseph H Bradley treasurer Columbia Land Dredging Company and many others with titles in banking real estate law and industry There are to be thirty directors in all and additional directors will be named from subscription lists.
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James M. Baker
U. S. Senate
Joseph F. Birch
Joseph H. Bradley
Columbia Land Dredging Company
Rignald W. Beall
Citizens' Savings Bank
Moore & Hill (Inc
Washington Tithe Insurance Company
William G. Carter
Golden & Co
W. Wallace Chiswell
People's Mutual Insurance Company
Richard E. Claughton
Traders National Bank
Virginia Safe Deposit Company
Alexandria
Charles D. Semmes
Semmes-Kelly Company
T. Franklin Schneider
National City Bank
Presley M. Rixey
U. S. Navy
Harry Wardman
A. Winter
M. A. Winter Company
United States Savings Bank
Charles E. Wood
Washington Exchange Bank
Health good in Canal Zone report on December health
Chief sanitary officer reports Isthmian Canal construction crews numbered about 1200 whites in December, with only one death that month. Yearly death rate at 11 per thousand deemed exceptionally small, and general population death rate satisfactory. No quarantinable diseases occurred during December.
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Isthmian Canal Commission
Feud of Latin Nations Hints at Nicaragua Honduras Rift
State Department hears rumors of trouble between Nicaragua and Honduras amid strong public sentiment. Reports recount a recent clash between Honduran troops and Nicaraguan political refugees on Nicaraguan soil, with deaths among Nicarican soldiers and Zelaya demanding action while Bonilla offered arbitration in El Salvador. Nicaragua now reportedly refuses arbitration entry.
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State Department
Nicaragua
Honduras
Zelaya
Bonilla
Salvador
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