Senate votes pending as Japanese exclusion sparks long debate
Senators Bacon and Tillman press filibuster over immigration bill while President uses warnings of an extra session to push a vote. California agrees to admit Japanese children to public schools, steamship interests lobby, and a conference report vote is slated for today.
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California
Senate
Japan
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Tillman
Aldrich
New York
Europe
Crane
Mg Atick
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South Carolina
Depres Es
Commerce Ee
White House
Lodge
Congress
Schmitz
San Francisco
Washington
Therby
Japan Denies Agreement on San Francisco Labor Restriction
Tokyo dispatch denies any deal to limit Japanese laborers in the United States. In San Francisco, the Japanese Exclusion League opposes Mayor Schmitz’s temporizing and calls for an exclusion law as stringent as the Chinese. League president Tvettmoe says pending bills will pass in the State legislature. Root’s immigration amendment is deemed unsatisfactory.
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California Exclusion League
Washington
London
Tokyo
Times
Japan
San Francisco
United States
League
A. Tvettmoe
Trehmoe
Sacramento
Sun
Roor
Vell
Tyehmoe
Scamitz
Root
Bible Society denies trust rumor in national press
Officials of the American Bible Society in New York say a rumor that the society forms a trade restraint with the British and Foreign Bible Society and the National Bible Society of Scotland is unfounded. Treasurer William Foulke notes the alliance is informal and long-standing. the society sells at cost and even provides Bibles for free to those who cannot pay. The British and Foreign Bible Society agrees with the benevolent aim.
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Washington Post
New York
American Bible Society
Octopus Hunter
British and Foreign Bible Society
National Bible Society of Scotland
William Foulke
Mr. Foulke
Girl Thrashed Burglar in Locust Street Home
Philadelphia February 15. Sadie Hagen sister of pugilist John Hagen defended her home at 3812 Locust Street by striking William Wilson who attempted to steal papers. Mrs Hagen woke, Wilson fled down stairs, then struck Mrs Hagen. Sadie Hagen fought back until police arrived. Wilson jailed without bail.
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Philadelphia
Willam Wilson
Jack O’brien
Locust Street
O'Brien
John Hagen
Wilson
Sadie Hagen
Lnger Long
Sadie
Harris
Seventeen Irishmen Held Over Theater Rioting Case
In New York on February 15 Magistrate Stearns held a three hour hearing in the Myrtle avenue court concerning seventeen Irishmen arrested January 41 at the Orpheum Theater Brooklyn for boisterous opposition to the Russell Brothers in the Irish servant girl act. Seven were discharged and the rest were held in 500 bail each for grand jury action on rioting charges.
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Washington Post
Orpheum Theater
Brooken
Russell Brothers
Stearns
Myrtle Avenue
Grand Jury
Beresford Explains Acceptance of Channel Fleet Command
Mexico City February 1 Vice Admiral Charles William de la Beresford clarified reports on his command. He said he declined the channel fleet upon returning from the Mediterranean but accepted it after modifications approved by the Admiralty. He did not disclose the modifications he suggested.
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Channel Fleet
America
Mexico City
Charles William de la Beresford
Hame
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Cambridge needs money to fund university expansion
The Duke of Devonshire, Cambridge chancellor, appeals to the public for 1.6 million pounds to upgrade equipment and establish new professorships, noting 115,000 pounds of benefactions since January 1899 and urging immediate support. A London report notes the university’s funding gap and pressing needs amid modern requirements.
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English University
London
Duke of Devonshire
University of Cambridge
Shonts Urges Railroad Reform And Merchant Marine Bid
Theodore P. Shonts led a New York Iowa Society banquet urging a square deal for railroads, stockholders, and the public. Secretary Leslie M. Shaw pressed a merchant marine to exploit American manufacturing and Panama Canal benefits, warning of industrial stagnation and the need for safer, adequate transport and faster rail improvements.
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Iowa Society
New York
Shaw
Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw
Theodore P. Shonts
Panama Canal Commission
Interborough Metropolitan Company
Iowa Society of New York
Waldorf-Astoria
United States
Panama
Shoxts
Public statement urges open reform and industry support
Gen Genville M Dodge presided as a resolution was adopted and telegraphed to U S Senator William B Allison praising his service and urging cooperation with the President for better corporate practices and fair labor treatment to avert economic crisis. The appeal calls for publicity over legislation and support from eminent financiers while safeguarding against agitators.
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Genville M Dodge
United States
William B. Allison
Washington
Reward for Walker Wall Street Shows Anxiety
New Britain Connecticut February 15 the Savings Bank of New Britain directors authorize a reward of 5600 to 10000 for the arrest of William F Walker treasurer who defaulted with 3640000 in securities hypothecated to bankroll stock speculation Wall Street is anxious over the missing bonds and stocks and the creditors fear crippling losses if held liable for their return to owners
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New Britain, Conn
Savings Bank of
New Britain
Willliam F. Walker
Walker
Philip Corbin
New York
Rawlings
Bis City
Wall Street
Savings Bank of New Britain
The
Baptists of Connecticut
William F. Walker
Astoria Crashes Into Pier On West Twenty Third Street
In New York this morning the Anchor Line steamer Astoria struck the West Twenty third street pier, tearing 150 feet of the side and roof. Panic followed as timber fell. one girl, Bizzie Patten, was injured. a trunk crushed her right thumb. Pier damage estimated at about 2000.
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Washington Post
New York
Anchor Line
Astoria
West Twentythird Street
Bizzie Patten
Asotria
Tolstoyesson Indicted for High Treason in Pamphlet Ink
In St Petersburg February the son of Count Lee Folstei, Tolstoyesson, was indicted for high treason for printing the latest political pamphlet written by his father. The report notes involvement of Baltimore retail prices and trains, with several garbled phrases about publishers and costs.
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St Petersburg
Count Lee
Folstei Hag
Lady Filo claims cattle partnership with Beresford in Mexico
El Paso Feb 15 Irora Wolf known as Lady Filo asserts she was business partner of Lord Dalavan Beresford claiming cattle branding on a Mexican ranch proves it. Lord Charles Beresford executor disputes partnership and says no out of court settlement. probate of British will in London will decide her legacy.
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Irora Wolf
Filo
Dalavan Beresford
New Walm
Charles Beresford
England
London
Charles ‘Beresford
Mexico
Man Attempts Murder at City Hall Station
A well dressed man, likely insane, tried to shoot Capt. D O'Brien of the detective bureau at Chicago's City Hall. O'Brien knocked him down and seized the revolver, then officers restrained the attacker who fought violently. The suspect was later sent to hospital for the insane.
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Chicago
Central
D. O’brien
Detective Bureau
Real estate dealer Hanover found dead in New York hotel
Louis N. Hanover of Arlington New Jersey a leading real estate dealer was found dead in his hotel suite bathroom at the Hotel Aldine New York. A bullet wound and a pistol with one empty chamber were by his side the coroner ruled suicide. His wife had recently filed for absolute divorce against him.
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New York
Louis N. Hanover
Arlington
N. J
Aldine
Fourth Avenue
Henry J. Goldsmith
Hanover
Bank and store safes blown open near Lake City
In Lake City Florida on February 15 a railroad ticket office safe was blown and $300 taken. A safe at John B. Roberts store in Wainvisid eight miles from Lake City was blown open. Walt Hemingway of Savannah was held on suspicion and later found dead in jail after suspected poisoning.
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Lake City
Fla
Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad
John B. Roberts
Wainvisid
Wwasiblown
Walt
Hemmingway
Savannah
Hurls Self Under Train After Parents' Death
Columbus Indiana February 15 Courtland Carter twenty five years old eluded officers four years then leaped in front of a moving freight train on Indianapolis Southern Railroad at Helmsburg to end his life He had earlier broken jail and swam White River after escaping a reformatory transfer The death of his father and mother at his sister's home near Helmsburg weighed heavily and he burned photographs and letters including images of his late parents prior to the fatal act
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Ind
Courtland Carter
Indianapolis Southern Railroad
Helmsburg
Here
Carter
Pennsylvania
Jeffersonville
Reformatory
Russell Carter
Brown County
Young Carter
Poison Test a Secret in Ida Binge Case
New York report says district attorney investigators refuse to confirm a claim that bichloride of mercury was found in the champagne dregs given to Ida Binge. The inquiry continues as Mrs Wellan’s $5,000 witnesses and detectives track movements at the home for inquest. In Topeka a senate vote bars the Kansas City Star from intragallery coverage over its editorial on railroad reform. Local real estate sale notes Naples Virginia area.
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New York
Ida Binge
Peter A. Austen
Leopold Wallan
Smith
Wellan
Topeka
Kang
Phe
Represent
Kansas City Star
Senate
Custody Drama Halts as Bassett Divorce Trial Unfolds
In Omaha Mrs Charles C. Bassett endures a brutal cross examination in her Washington divorce suit against Charles C. Bassett. A jailbreak attempt on her children prompts armed guards and house confinement. Rev E Lawrence Hunt resigns as Brooklyn preacher amid revelations of courtroom coaching and alleged entanglements.
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E. Lawrence Hunt
Washington
Brooklyn
Bassett
Washington Post
Omaha
Nebr
Charles C. Bassett
Charles Co. Bassett
Noble Street Presbyterian Church
Hunt
Mr. Bassett
Salles
Redick
Mr. Hunt
Navy
Hilary Herbert
Lost His Ring At Waldorf In Poker Night Theft
New York detectives arrested John Bales of 619 Sixth Avenue and Tony Pappa at 152 West Twenty eighth Street on a charge of stealing a diamond ring worth 350 dollars from R. S. Coggeswell’s Waldorf Astoria suite on February 6. Bales, a Greek employed to collect dishes, allegedly admitted taking the ring and claimed he gave it to Pappa. The case involves a Pittsburg millionaire and the ring’s disappearance after dinner.
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Washington Post
New York
James F. Vallely, Jr
Michael F Colling
John Bales
Sixth Avenue
Tony Pappa
Pappa
West Twenty-eighth Street
R. S. Cogeswel
Pittsburg
Waldorf-Astoria
Usu
Dex Moinés Pioneer Builder Dies in Iowa Falls
Promoter and builder Dex Moinés of the Iowa Falls line and Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern died at his home in Iowa Falls from hardening of the heart. He was rated a millionaire and was known as a philanthropist who donated large sums to local charity. The notice lists housing and business ties and references to contemporary rail interests.
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Dex Moinés
Elsworth
Iowa Falls
Worthern
Burlington
Cedar Rapids
Northern
Iowa
Deceanis
M Stewart Rich Again Fortunes From Mining Tip
Special to The Washington Post from San Francisco reports eight years past the retirement at 70 W M Stewart of Nevada has become wealthy again. After losing a senate bid he moved to Tonopah, set up a law practice, faced strong competition, then a tip from rival Senator Nixon on a mining stock led to wealth of about 250000 dollars.
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Washington Post
San Francisco
WM. Stewart
Nevada
United States Senate
Tonopah
Idw
Nixon
Hugger of Girls Caught in Bloomington
Wesley Greenley, a carpenter, was arrested in Bloomington on February 16 after months of grabbing and hugging women and schoolgirls on the streets. He was caught near the former residence of Vice President A E Stevenson, with former Gov Joseph Walfer involved in the case. A shepherd dog accompanying him attacked his captors during the arrest.
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Carpenter
Ilinois
Bloomington
Wesley Greenley
A EH Stevenson
Joseph Walfer Greenley
Fifer
Suit filed for slander over chin tickling in Spencer Iowa
Mabel Lutterman sues banker George A Romey in district court alleging slander for tickling her chin. She seeks 4060 dollars damages, claiming the man patted, pinched, petted, and tried to put his arm around her, causing sickness and nervousness. Romey is prominent in local and state banking circles.
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Washington Post
Spencer
Iowa
Mabel Lutterman
George A Romey
Romey
Explosion Kills Woman After Husband Thaws Dynamite
Lenanon Pennsylvania February first Mrs Zeller wife of John Zeller of Annville was instantly killed by dynamite explosion at their home. Their two children Lydia thirteen and Mary five badly burned and lacerated with little hope of recovery. Zeller had placed three sticks of dynamite in the stove to thaw and left without warning. The blast wrecked the house tearing flesh and creating two large holes in Mrs Zeller. Lydia suffered severe facial and body injuries while Mary endured deep gashes and extensive burns from head to foot. Both children were ignited and badly injured.
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Lenanon
Zeller
John Zeller
Annville
Here
Lydia
Mary
Mrs Zeller
Mery
Marriage Hoax Triggers Girl to Attempt Suicide
In Asheville NC on February 15 Miss Nora Ramsey a seventeen year old society girl learned her marriage last week to Br Bradley a visitor here was a bogus runaway ceremony. The party travelled to Swannanoa for a fake wedding then returned to Asheville and stayed at the Hotel Berkeley. After learning the truth Miss Ramsey drank laudanum and doctors revived her. Bradley fled the city and remains missing.
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Washington Post
Asheville
Nwc
Nora Ramsey
BR. Bradley
Miss Ramsey
New York
Swannanoa
Ramsey
Berkley
Bradley
Doctor Shoots Man Aboard Rock Island Train In Hobart
In Hobart Oklahoma on February 15 Dr Beachem of Mangum calmly fired a six shooter at Charles Thomas aboard a Rock Island passenger train as it pulled in. Beachem claimed I killed him after his estranged wife ran off with Thomas about a year ago. Three shots were fired. two hit Thomas including a temple and neck area, killing him instantly before bystanders intervened.
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Washington Post
Hobart
Okla
Rock Island
Beachem
Mangum
Charles Thomas
Aromas J
Thaw case sees Patton ready to testify Monday
Princeton's former president Dr Francis L Patton will testify for Harry K Thaw Monday. The defense seeks a letter Thaw wrote from the Tombs to show his state of mind after arrest as jurors weigh sanity and a possible lunacy commission. Jerome, Delmas, and McPike challenge any move toward such a commission while doctors have not fully examined Thaw.
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Thaw
Patton
Slayer
Spec'al
Washington
New York
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Priceton University
Princeton Theological Seminary
Harry K. Thew
Stanford White
White
Madison Square Garden
Britton D Evans
Evans
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Dass
Tha
Patten
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Terome
Terranova
Jamnpy Jerom
Harry K. Thaw
McPike
Hartridge
Ferome
Jerome rdRy
New York State
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Princeton
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