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Washington Post

Location

Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America

Date

Feb 12, 1906

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United States aims to aid Latin America not rule it

A report outlines U S Secretary of State plans for a Rio Janeiro trip during Pan-American conferences. It emphasizes assurance that Washington seeks resource development rather than domination, while explaining that U S policy upholds the Monroe Doctrine and European restraint. The piece notes Latin American reaction and the goal of explaining U S purposes to South American nations.

Rio Janeiro United States

Monroe doctrine to be reinterpreted for Latin America

The piece argues European diplomats spread anti US sentiment in Latin America to pressure a broader Monroe doctrine. It suggests Secretary Root will push a new interpretation and a tribunal under the Bureau of American Republics to settle disputes, influencing Rio Janeiro talks and a South America tour next summer.

Roosevelt Roaseaye North Europe Tme Argertin Armerican Utsraml Evelt Americas Manrore United States Mrr South America Stooseyvelt Root America Func Soni Tribunal Bureau of American Republics Washington Santo Domingo

Firemen Rescued as Store Fire Rages Across Broadway

Fire destroyed more than $250000 in property in a six story store and factory building at 26 38 Broadway New York today. Four upper floors collapsed trapping several firefighters who were rescued by fellow men after packing boxes toppled. The blaze involved Phillips Anderson & Co Helier & Co J F Goldtone Louis Auerbach Cohen Lang and Slipita Dinkelspiel clothing makers.

New York Broadway Theames Phillips, Anderson & Co Helier & Co J. & F. Goldtone Louis Auerbach Cohen & Lang Sliplita & Dinkelspiel

Tariff to Hear Lawmakers at Pittsburg Banquet

Congressmen Charles E. Littlefield and Eugene N. Foss arrived for a Merchants and Manufacturers' Association tariff banquet to debate reciprocity and respond to arguments. James Francis Burke toasting, with Charles H. Grosvenor and Joseph H. Gaines among the speakers. Moet & Chandon champagne leads imports, with 99,287 cases into New York last year, up over 50 percent from the next-largest brand.

Pittsburg Charles E. Littlefield Maine Eugene N. Foss Boston Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association Foss Ohio Joseph H. Gaines West Virginia Moet & Chandon Champagne Lst United States New York Mort & Chandon Champagne Mort & Chandon

Dolan Defends Vote to Preserve Wage Scale in Miners Row

Patrick Dolan of the Pittsburg district United Mine Workers explains his Indianapolis vote to maintain the present wage scale. He criticizes John Mitchell and argues a single small district can block an agreement, detailing past strikes, state issues in Illinois, and the risk of a nationwide strike if the current resolution stands.

Pittsburg Indianapolis John Mitchell Patrick Dolan United Mine Workers of America Dolan Illinois Perry Hinois Lingis TlHnois W. D. Ryan United States Michigan British Columbia New York Tle Dail Wny American Federation of Labor Mitchell Haskins Ohio Hi Ins Ryan Mark Hanna Roosevelt Southwest Maryland Kentucky

Platform of a Scottish American labor leader

A veteran trades unionist with thirty five years in Scotland and America speaks on leadership duties. He notes past leaders including Alexander McDonald and declares a platform to tell the people truth, striking a stance of rising and falling with miners and the public.

Mitchell Trades Union Movement Scotland America Alexander McDonald

Burglar Trio Nabbed After Edson Villa Heist

Special to The Washington Post Three burglars forced a window into Franklin Edson Jr.'s Irvington on the Hudson country villa and stole 2500 dollars in silverware. A milkman sighted them fleeing and a chase ensued before detectives on a trolley car captured two of the suspects and recovered the loot.

Washington Post White Plains N. C Franklin Edson, Jr Edson Manhattan Irvington-on-the-Hudson Eugene Fee Shay Fee Wee Police Staton Tivington Mr. Eolson Thomas Nesiy

Rioters Fight Police Siege at Chicago Parish House

Three thousand Lithuanians besieged the Providence of God church parish house in Chicago for over an hour to attack Father Edward Stefanowicz. Four attackers shot, one fatally, and six policemen injured by flying bricks as women led with two hundred in front. Lieut. Maurice Moore and Canalport officers defended the building. fifteen rioters jailed.

Chicago Washington Post Catholic Church of the Providence of God Fighteenth Union Streets Edward Stefanowicz John Tammalis Styme Maurice Moore Canalport Avenue

Three Killed by Train Near Selizland York Pa

Three men from a fast northbound freight crew were struck and killed by an accommodation on the Northern Central Railroad near Selizland sixteen miles south of York. Conductor Silas Alder of Baltimore engineer John Baughman of New Freedom Pa and brakeman Frank McFadden of Baltimore died when a burst wheel caused them to alight and a passenger train No 18 struck them as escaping steam hid the oncoming locomotive.

Washington Post York Northern Central Selizland Silas Alder Baltimore John ©. Baughman New Freedom Frank McFadden Leitzland

Two Die By Asphyxiation In Fort Wadsworth Room

Concord New Hampshire February 11 Private Frank M Norton coast artillery stationed at Fort Wadsworth and Mrs Nellie Fagan of this city were found dead from gas asphyxiation in a room broken open this afternoon. Authorities cannot determine if death was suicide or accident as they were last seen shortly after midnight and the gas was on when the door was forced open.

Concord N. Hi Frank M. Norton Coast Artillery Fort Wadsworth Nellie Fagan

Bryan Speech Sparks Chinese Anticipated Trade Boycott

Reports from Hong Kong say Chinese merchants misinterpreted a Bryan speech given at a dinner in his honor. They urged twelve changes to exclusion laws, prompting fears Congress would reject them and intensify the boycott. Canton dispatches blame the viceroy for anti foreign sentiment and call for action to expel him.

Spokane Wash Samuel Glasgow Seattle William Burtt William J. Bryan Hong’ong Bryan Shanghai Canton Hong Kong Congress Mr. Bryan Labor Party Bréan Hongkong United States

Predicts Great Massacre in China Warns Expatriate Friends

Cincinnati based report notes Wo ne Fong, former secretary of the Six Companies in San Francisco, visiting the city and predicting a massive massacre linked to Boxer trouble. He telegraphed warnings to Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco urging Americans to leave China before February 24 and seek German protection. He claims orders to expel foreign elements come from the Chinese Reform Association’s subordinate circles.

Cincinnati Ohio Il—Wone Fong San Francisco China Seattle Los Angeles Germany Ah Tiong Wai

Train to Havana Could Let Passengers Ride From Jersey City to Havana

Henry M Flagler plans a through Florida East Coast Line with train ferry boats. If feasible, passengers would board at Jersey City and stay in the same train to Havana, skipping car changes and boat transfers as the fleet is built.

Washington Post Mobile Ala Cuba Florida East Coast Henry M. Flagler Florida Florida Coast System Havana Flagier Florida East Coast Line Jersey City

Gen Sherman Bell to star in Denver melodrama stage return

Denver reports Gen Sherman Bell famed Rough Riders figure in a specially written play at the Broadway Theater. He will appear in a military themed performance with a dozen of his Cripple Creek era troopers, wearing the $1,000 uniform from the Worlds Fair reception days at the Planters Hotel.

Denver Washington Post Colo Sherman Bell Cripple Creek Gov. Peabody Ewell Planters Hotel

Fires Bullet Into His Head in South Orange

Charles C. Cameron a South Orange grain broker, prominent socially, shot himself in the forehead with a .22 revolver on the rear lawn of 118 Vose Avenue. Formerly with McReynolds & Co. of Chicago, he had been distressed over business after the firm’s failure. A Maryland native, 42, he leaves a widow and two small children.

Washington Post South Orange N. J Charles C. Cameron Vose Avenue South Rye Cameron McReynolds & Co Chicago

Wealthy Ithaca Resident Falls to Death From Hotel Window

Mrs. Mary N. Hulse, a wealthy Ithaca resident, plunged from a fourth story window at the Ithaca Hotel shortly before noon today and was killed almost instantly. Police believe a fainting spell caused her to open the window, lose balance, and fall to the pavement.

Hulse Ithaca Mary N. Hulse

Death of Third Agnostic Ends a Public Eye Era in Cincinnati

Cincinnati on February 11 reports the death of Jar Knox Polk Bigger the last of three agnostic friends who drew public attention for three months. The trio’s deaths followed a string of odd incidents including a wealthy New Yorker’s suicide and a doctor’s fatal fall. Bigger died after legal battles with the deceased’s daughter over cremation and burial rights. Rieger a former Confederate veteran linked to several secret societies as a resort operator on Fiflih street.

Washington Post Cincinnati Ohio Knox Polk Bigger Sunda William Drinker Society of Agnostics T. Tanski Dr. Tanski Bigger Miss Tanski Rieger Fiflih Street

Barker Goes to Pelham in Jewel Theft Case

Chief of Police BR H Marks of Pelham, N Y, transported Robert Barker, the negro butler, to Pelham after his arrest on charges of robbing Thomas H McInnerny’s Pelham Manor home. Barker allegedly stole jewelry valued at 2000, vanished after the theft, with most pieces recovered though some pawned in the city.

Ansewer BR. H. Marks Pelham Robert Barker Thomas H. McInnerny Pelham Manor Barker McInnerny

Slavic man arrested in dynamite plot at boarding house

George Carter a Slav was arrested in Brownsville Pennsylvania for attempting to blow up a boarding-house at Whitsett Fayette County with dynamite after quarrel with two fellow-countrymen. He threw a stick of dynamite into a stove causing an explosion that seriously injured two Slavs who were taken to a Connellsville hospital.

Brownsville George Carter Whitsett Fayette County Carter Connellsville

Peril of Troops in Tibet Denied

London reports both the foreign and India offices deny knowledge of any British garrison in Tibet being surrounded by hostile tribes. The item notes official denial of danger while highlighting the ongoing Tibet situation. Banks and savings appeals appear in the same clipping, urging surplus funds to be saved with Union Trust Co. at 2 percent.

Tibet London Foreign Office India Office Banking Dept. of Union Trust Co

Social and Person: & Sporting News and Cossip

INDEX TO 10-DAY'S ISSUE Pares 1-Europe's Eyes on South America Dolan Sues No Hope of Averting Strike Bryan's Influence In China More Money for Mail Service 2-Wodmen Leap Safely from Fire Vase Coo Supply for Philippines 38-Bad Answers Legislature Fist Fight in Colored Church 4-What Congress Has done Adams Defends Whipping post let 5-Week in Wall Street Reviewed 6-Editorial Comment Talks with Washington's Visitors T-Social and Person: & Sporting News and Cossip Events in Nearby Straw 13-Friends Rore a Peace Meeting

Europe South America Dolan Bryan China Wodmen Vase Philippines Congress Adams Wall Street Washington Sporting News Cossip Straw

Fire destroys Poughkeepsie trolley power and stock

A fierce morning fire gutted the power house and rolling stock for four trolley lines in Poughkeepsie. The three story brick building housed the trolley shed generator engine boiler and drying rooms of the Poughkeepsie City and Wanpingers Falls Electric Railway Company. Loss is estimated at 50000 with the interior reduced to ruins within an hour.

Poughkeepsie Wa Poughkeepsie Iirolley Poughkeepsie City and Wanpingers Alls Fledtric Railway Company

Fire Panic in Tenement at Piano Factory Blaze

Fire broke out at the Bramuller piano factory on Tenth Avenue and Titty First Street in New York causing $100,000 damage. The blaze threatened several adjoining four story tenements as residents fled. police ordered evacuations. Firefighters confined the fire to the factory after a hard fight.

New York Bramuller Piano Tenth

GABALS IN VENEZUELA SECRET DEAL WITH FRANCE

Reports from Venezuela claim Gen Velutini has a secret understanding with France and aims for the presidency amid turmoil over the French Cable Company's concession. Opposition to Castro grows as France is blamed. army strength and armament are vastly overstated. treasury shows 206000 balance. Castro vows to test the Monroe Doctrine as war fears mount and foreigners face expulsions.

Velutini Paris Castro Curacan Venezuela Une Vincente Gomeu Antonio Velutici France Pany Commissariat van Kestern

Mail Cars Wanted Data Before Committee

The Department urges a $43 250 000 appropriation for the next railway mail fleet year, noting current outlays and maintenance costs. Facts show payments for rental and weight-based charges, with concerns over railroad salaries and post office car usage, as witnesses discuss the funding and efficiency of railway post office services.

Department Ira E. Bennett Post Office Department Millwiy Beta Tenis Dunwre Fd Imchi Shallenberger Overstreet Lia House Committee M Shallenberger Afton Sappipu

Duel Fears Surround Two Georgia Officials

Special to The Washington Port Atlanta Georgia Friends fear a duel as Editor Joan Temple Graves of the Atlanta News and Col James W English Jr head a heated clash over litigation tied to an injunction preventing Graves from taking pay at the News Both men are famed for fighting reputations and bitter exchanges raise concern they may meet in person English a veteran staff chief and Georgia military figure has a history of quick resentments while Graves sees himself as a Southern chivalry heir The two are due in court tomorrow and friends fear a personal confrontation may not be avoided

Washington Atlanta Joan Temple Traves Atlanta News James W. English, Jr Povvernor News Graves English Gov. Terrell Cal ‘Harry Silverman New Orleans Cal English Georgia Cal. Graves Henry W. Grady

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