Zemsky Sobor Debate Warns of Restored Czar Power
The article reports on discussions among court circle factions about reviving Zemsky Sobor influence to crown a new ruler, amid fears the old autocracy could be revived. It notes Emperors and advisers weighing arguments for or against summoning the assembly and the potential political upheaval if liberal elements gain influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zemsky Sobor
St Petersburg
Yoser
Viemmsky
Leo Deonoviten
Tolstoz
Tommuitt
Considera Tan
Feirshar—-Sela
Tomsself Hays
Gald
Mary
Aloscow Gazette
Alexander
Russia
Seta
Jerome
Erik
Diamonds and Hearts Amateurs Show At Odd Fellows Hall
An entertainment last evening at Odd Fellows Hall Seventh street Torfiowest benefited Camp No 1 Pro S of A and Camp No 7. The Ideal Dramatic Club presented a three act comedy Diamonds and Hearts with William Cooley as Abraham Batnes Bernice Halsterd as Bernice Abermetry and Miss Ern ey riding honors. The program closed with dancing. The British presented Elmer Fillsworth Ross a plate via the State Department for his aid to the Cordelia Hays shipwreck crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Seventh Street
Torfiowest
Ideal Dramatic Club
Diamonds and Hearts
William Cooley
Abraham Batnes
Ern‘ey. Abermetry
Bernice Halsterd
Botish
State Department
Elmer Fillsworth Ross
Cordelia Hays
Portland Me
Kelvin
Glasaw
Work Wonders for Women Electric Bitters
Seldom powerful tonic claimed to invigorate the female system and cure nervousness headaches and constipation. Advertises by doctors and druggists with a large circulation and a price or payment note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Nelson
Cardui
Cardus
Hale Praises Douglass At District Commemoration
Frederick Douglass birthday was observed with Douglass Day programs at M Street High School and Wormley School. Rev. Walter H. Brooks and Rev. Edward Everett Hale spoke on Douglass’s education, freedom work, and public service. Pupils sang patriotic songs. Lewis H. Douglass and wife attended. Miss E. F. Wilson leads Wormley School activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Douglass
M Street
Dr Hale
Douglass
Lincoln
Washington
Harriet E Gibbs
Wormley School
B T Perkins
Mount Zion M. E Church
West Washington
Lewis H Douglass
E. F. Wilson
Injunction Against Smoke From Purity Ice Plant
An equity suit filed in the District Supreme Court seeks restraining the Purity Ice Company from emitting dense smoke, soot, and cinders from its large stack. Complainants Fiora M Gill May B Miller Charles E. Wrey and Thomas Martin describe themselves as nearby property owners. The court set a show cause date for February 24 at 10 a.m. The petition notes coal burning since last eighteen months and alleges nuisance to homes porches carpets and laundry while a company manager has been fined seventeen times since December 3 1903 for a public nuisance. An exhibit cites plant respiration damage to conifers from sulfur fumes and black coating harming trees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Supreme Court
Purity Ice Company
Fiora M Gill
May B Miller
Charles E. Wrey
Thomas Martin
Ice Company
Fourth
Wifth
Anderson
Altorness Lester & Price
Ernst A Bessey
Bessey
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Plant Indus
Funeral of James Donohoe Chief engineer of District plant
The funeral for James Donohoe of 8 Thirteenth Street Southwest was at St Dominic's Church. A Requiem High Mass was celebrated by Rev Walher J. Ford and interment was at Mount Olivet Cemetery. Survivors include his wife Mrs Margaret Davey Donohoe. He had served as chief engineer of the District sewage disposal plant for six years and previously for ten years at the United States Electric Light and Power Company plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joames Donohoe
Thirteenth Street
St. Dominic’s Church
Walher J. H Ford
Mount Olivet Cemetery
Charles E Shu- Shrue
Morris F Flynn
P J Mahan
Division No 4
Ancient Order of Hibernians
William Davern
James A McDevitt
Daniel O'Brien
Spaulding Council
Knights of Columbus
Martine Engineers’association
Donohoe
United States Electric Light and Power Company
Second
N Streets
Margaret Davey Donohoe
Bill of Lading Hearing Postponed Until March 22
The Interstate Commerce Commission postponed the hearing on adopting a uniform bill of lading for railroads in the official classification territory until March 22 after yesterday's scheduled session. The move delays potential standardization across carriers and impacts shipping documentation expectations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
President to visit Texas for Rough Riders reunion in March
President Roosevelt plans a Texas trip to attend the Rough Riders reunion in San Antonio on March 31 with stops at Louisville Dallas Austin and Fort Worth en route He may later decide on an extended hunting trip in Colorado and will return to Washington mid May before spending June in Oyster Bay plans dependent on official announcements and invitations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Dallas
Austin
Fort Worth
Rough Riders
San Antonio
Colorado
Texas
Washington
Houston
Loeb
West
White House
Cinnibar
Mont
Yellowstone Park
Oyster Bay
Brodie appointed as assistant chief of Record and Pensions
The President signed the commission of Maj Alexander Q Brodie displacing Maj Edward Fowler of New York as assistant chief. Brodie, governor of Arizona, is expected to move to Washington to assume duties. Also noted are Lowell's appointment to circuit judge for the first circuit, Frederick Dodge named district judge, and brief remarks on EB Harriman's White House visit and a Texas Washington society meeting. A Negro, Frank Mack, was convicted of assault and disorderly conduct. Isaac Rosskam's will leaves over 500000 to Jewish charities including National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives Denver and United Hebrew Charities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Q. Brodie
Record and Pension Office
Edward §. Fowler
New York
Brodie
Arizona
Washington
Lowell
Francia C. Lowell
United States
Massachusetts
Congress
Frederick Dodge
Boston
Moody
EB. H. Harriman
White House
Mr. Harriman
Morton
Harriman
Frank Mack
Eva Stern
Mack
Iives
Jewish Charities
Philadelphia
Isaac Rosskam
National Jewish Hospital For
Denver
Colo
Theological Seminary of America
Free Hospital For
White Haven
The
United Hebrew Charities
Hebrew Education Society
Defects Found in Ohio Turret During Trial
Defects discovered in the forward turret of the battleship Ohio after firing her bag guns during a Santa Barbara Channel test voyage. A board of inspection reported four or five rollers defective, with minor changes needed. No serious flaws. repairs to take about thirty days before Ohio sails to Asiatic waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Ohio
Santa Barbara
Board of Inspection
Navy Department
Asiatic
Oil for the Navy Abolishes Brand Specifications
Secretary Morton announces the Navy will not specify brands in oil orders. Oil must meet broad specifications, but any responsible bidder whose product meets standards may be accepted. If the Bureau of Steam Engineering cannot improve specs, recommendations go to the department for action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Department
Navy
Bureau of Steam Engineering
Morton
Department
Orders to Army Officers Military transfers and assignments 1905
A long list of Army orders assigns officers to new posts including First Lieut James G Taylor to Alcatraz Island and Col John B Chamberlain to report to the inspector general in San Francisco. Capt Benjamin C Morse is sent to Fort McPherson with duty by May 1 after a revocation. Maj Herbert M Lord transfers to Boston for consolidation then official business. Col Stephen C Mills returns to Inspector General duty for the Atlantic Division via Governors Island. Chaplain George J Waring assigned to Eleventh Cavalry with temporary Fort Jay duty. Garlington and other officers receive transfers to the Philippines and related posts. A general court martial is appointed at Jefferson Barracks for Lt Albert J Mohn and others. Various naval transfers and appointments follow, including ship christening appointments and desertion case involving Midshipman Milton W Arrowood. The transport Thomas sails from Manila with 177 casuals and prisoners. Several vessels arrive at different ports, and Galveston is commissioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James G Taylor
Highteenth Infantry
Alcatraz Island
Cal
John &. Chamberlain
San Francisco
Inspector General of the Army
Benjamin C Morse
Seventeenth Infantry
Fort McPherson
Morse
Herbert M. Lord
Army
Boston
Mase
Stephen C. Mills
Inspector General
Governors Island
Atlantic
Ralph B Parrott
Leutenant
Twenty-second Infantry
Twentyseventh Infantry
J. Walker Benet
Ordnance Department
Clark Coal and Coke Company
Canton
Brereton
Fulton County
Ill
Yvicaty
Peorm County
Quartermaster’s Department
James P Drouthard
Ninth
Philippine Islands
Philippines
Moet
Jefferson Barracks
Eieut
Albert J Mohn
Fourth Cavalry
Follws Coil
Albert L Myer
Eleventh Infantry
Eaward A. Godwin
Ninth Cavalry
Homer W Wheeler
Eleventh Cavalry
William JG Welsh
Thireth Infantry
Ralph R Stogsdall
Thirtieth Infantry
William Kelly
Cors of Engineers
Edward Davis
William A
Street car vestibule talk and sewer contract settlement
Officials of street car systems urge no new legislation on vestibules as several railways report progress toward retrofitting cars this season and a House bill 18904 proposes temporary overhead trolley options while sewer contract settlements with John Jacoby are addressed through a compromise plan reducing District exposure to about seven and a half thousand dollars and a bond form for the Washington and Gettysburg Railway Company is submitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
House
District of Columbia
Dunlop
G T. Dunlop
Capital Traction Company
Cok Biddle
George H Harries
Washington Hallway and Electric Company
Capitol
Mount Pleasant
H Street
Eleventh Street
F Street
Ninth Street
North Capitol Street
Washington
Highway
Potomac River
Long Bridge
Maryland Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Committee On the
Senate
John Jacoby
Jacoby
Washington and Gettysburg
Maryland
Second Class Rate Case Seeks Clarification in Appeals
The Columbian Correspondence College challenged the Postmaster General over second class mailing privileges. The Court of Appeals heard briefs after Judge Anderson’s Pastrict Supreme Court ruling favored the Postmaster General. The case mirrors the Chicago Business College test and may go to the Supreme Court if affirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbian Correspondence College
Court of Appeals
Correspondence College
Justice Anderson
Pastrict Supreme Court
Chicago Business College
Charles A. Ray
Arthur A Birney
Henry H. Giassic
Personal Appeals for Aid From Associated Charities
Generous responses to letters sent by Col Hopkins and Col Archibald Hopkins, heads of the finance committee, show growing contributions to the Associated Charities to offset this year’s deficit. Donations listed include many named individuals and families, with totals noted, alongside reports of aid activity in January including new applicants, numbers helped, employment, schooling, and volunteer effort. A separate note covers a police court prelim held for J A Henson on a housebreaking charge after a stamps theft at G T Pyles’s Anacostia residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Hopkins
Archibald Hopkins
The
Associated Charities
Association
John Joy Edson
M_oP Moller
LH Chandler
Frederic A Bilis
Benjamin IF Snyder
G Butler
Henshaw & Bittinger
Edmonto R McCartney
J H Brivckenstein
Prince
L. H Boutell
Mise
Juna D Strong
L B Payson
F Wheeler
Z Pickels
C . Goodpasture
T. S Childs
Dorothy Dashiell
Mre. Somers
F.T Wallis
John F Wilkins
Citizens’ Relief Association
Corcoran ‘Chom
Amance Committee
W. Bot
Emily Smith
Guile B. Wilkinson
Charles B Fonda
Rudolph Kauffmann
Victor Keufmizan
Friend of the Good Cause
TMC
Zed H. Copp
Wied
Martha A Beard
Margaret Gray
M. W Parker
Nettie C Jennings
Board of Managers
William If Baldwin
Unnion
Baldwin
Associated Charities of
Washington
J. A. Henson
Henson
G. T. Pyles
Harrison Street
Anacostia
Gage School Dedication Highlights Local Leaders
The dedication of the new Gage School on Second Street NW featured Commissioner West presiding, Rev Dr Newman delivering an invocation, and remarks by Henry B. Macfarland praising Nathaniel Gage as a teacher who inspired learning and honor. Emig and Prof A J Stuart added comments on teachers’ pay and learning center status, with musical performances and a portrait presentation. A Beethoven Study Club formed by J Hillary Taylor’s pupils met at 111 D Street SE, with Taylor guiding the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gage
Second Street
U and
V Streets
Henry L. West
Stephen M. Newman
First Congregational Church
Henry B .F. Macfarland
Nathaniel Gage
Macfarland
Bloomingdale Choral Society
North
Senate Committee On Appropriations
House
New York
Boston
National Museum
Congress
Washington
Morse School
Nathaniel Parker Gage
Hoover
Seaton School
Edward H. Thoman
Mr. Gage
Elizabeth A. Stuart
A.J. Stuart
M. EC. Walker
J.T. Freeman
Dr. Newman
Beethoven Study Club
J. Hillary Taylor
D Street Southeast
Taylor
Beethoven
Mozart
Helen Davis
Postmasters Appointed in Vermont Pennsylvania and Virginia
Fourth class postmasters named yesterday include William W Tinkham at Sheldon Junction Vermont Charles W Corle at Imler Pennsylvania James D Lytle Mile Run Virginia Maud Dixon West End Virginia Also listed are treasury receipts and expenditures with national bank notes redeemed 121065 government receipts 291584 customs 31236114 miscellaneous 38780 and expenditures 2100000
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Sheldon Junction
William W Tinkham
Pennsylvania
Imler
Charles W. Corle
Mile Run
James D Lytle
Virginia
West End
Maud Dixon
Treasury
National Bank
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Opaper Raheiye
Court Party
Czar
Pepicsenvitve Spalding
North Eithota
Noam
Enterfo Pyalnt
Lorenz
Morgan
George
Moundsville
Beach
Monroe College
Institutors of
Warming
Daniel W Sob
George B Hartwell
Edward Holcomb Wilam L. Penny
Joseph Loar
Hale Extols
M Street High School
James Donohoe
Hibernians
Castro
Caracas
Interior of
Venezuela
Leon Stein
UF Street
Roosevelt
New York City
Pennsylvania Railroad
Cowles
Douglass Robinson
Stokes
Officers of
New Texas Society
Pythian Hall
Hion
Oscar W. Gillespie
W. H. McNeil
Denton
H. C. W.marth
Danton
W. B. Suddarth
Gustave Bender
Weimar
J. D Currie
Glen Rose
C. H. Clifford
Blanche Wilmaith
Dorothy Wolf
Wigus
Hulling
Mr. Hanlein
Beara
CAM i
Wowman
Astacnea Navy Yard
Navy Yard
Pensacola
Flo
A Ward
EB Coontz
Newport News
Schenectady
N Y
Seattle
Wash
Moran Brothers
F Chesuer
Hancock
H. A. ‘Dunn
Naval Hospital
W W. Woodhull
Naval Station
New London
Conn
J Brennan
Wabash
Mass
Minnesota
St. Paul
Minn
Rose Marie Schaller
Gov. Johnson
Miss Schaller
Albert Schaller
Hastings
University of Minnesota
Middy
Milton W. Arrowood
North Carolina
Kearsarge
Thomas
Manila
Ninth Battery Field Artillery
Seventeenth Battery Field Artillery
Eighteenth Battery Field Artillery
MacDonough
Culebra
Paul Jones
Port Townsend
Whipple
Guantanamo
Abaranda
Norfolk
Sterling and Stewart
San Juan
Galveston
Ia Commission
Norfolk, Va
United Sates
Dunlop and Harries Averse
Postmaster General
Gage School
Clayton E. Emig
A. T. Stuart
Arrizton
Wia
Eros
Ian
Ali
Clhra
Young Women's Athletic Club
Dr. Lyon
Littlefield, Alvord & Co
Pennsylvania Avenue
Radway
Neady
Diamond Dyes
Burlington, Vt
Thora Nelson
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