Hepburn Bill Power Shifts in Senate and GOP Drift
A Dickinson column analyzes the Hepburn rate bill maneuvering in the Senate with Aldrich at the center. It notes Republican misgivings and the potential for Democrats to gain credit if the bill passes under their auspices while a new, assertive Senate leadership emerges across parties.
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Democrats Hold Strong Senate Lead On Rate Legislation
The Senate Democrats appear more unified than Republicans with Bailey guiding rate legislation strategy. The piece notes Tillman’s respect but Bailey’s lawyerly pull, while Republicans brace for new leadership as Roosevelt roils party alignment. Knox Spooner Hale and others may surface as contenders in a pending Senate row.
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Castro's Ambitious Aims in Venezuela Raise US Intervention Hope
Dispatch from Willemstad reports Fresuent Castro vows to humble France and end the Monroe Doctrine, then target Americans Englishmen and Germans. Venezuelans seek American protectorate as the better class calls for immediate humanitarian intervention to restore order. A separate note extols Moet & Chandon White Heat 1990 champagne sales in New York, deeming it the champagne of the day.
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France
United States
Moet & Chandan
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Henderson Dies Former Speaker of House in Iowa
Funeral in Dubuque, Iowa, for David Bremner Henderson former Speaker of the National House of Representatives who died at Mercy Hospital after a bout of paresis. The longtime Iowa congressman resigned renomination in 1902 and spent his later years practicing law in New York and Dubuque. Funeral services to be held Thursday with a eulogy by former Congressman George D. Perkins.
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George D. Perkins
Sioux City
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National House
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New York
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Reed
Feud Battle Forces Fatal Woes In Tennessee
In Cannon county near De Kalb lines two mountain clans clash at a candy pulling. Sem Blair is fatally wounded after four stomach shots. Bob Motley and Richard Johnson suffer fatal throat wound and groin injuries. Johnson, accused by Motleys of aiding illicit distillery, is sought by a sheriff as violence stirs in the Pea Ridge region.
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Governor to Witness Hanging in Shreveport Parish Jail
Governor Blanchard plans to witness the execution of Charles Coleman, condemned for murdering Margaret Lear, at the parish jail in Shreveport. The hanging is scheduled for Thursday between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The governor will return from Baton Rouge with the state seal and sign the death warrant upon arrival. Monroe guards are being released while three companies remain at the jail until after the hanging.
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Sir Mortimer Expected Guest of Student Volunteers
Nashville Feb 25 The fifth conclave of the student volunteer movement will convene in Nashville over the next five days. Chair John R. Mott will open sessions at 3 pm in the Ryman Auditorium for 4,000 to 5,000 delegates. Sir Mortimer Durand British Ambassador and several foreign missionary secretaries are among arrivals.
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John R. Mott
Ryman Auditorium
Sir Mortimer Durand
United States
George Robson
Edinburgh
Scotland
Herbert Lankester
London
England
Karl Imties
Stockholm
Sweden
UPSET BY HUGE WAVE ABOARD Liner TOURAINE
A heavy sea tossed the New York and the French liner Touraine injuring several aboard. New Cinean consul general A Ortuzar his wife secretary four children and a governess were dining when a swell knocked them from chairs. The Ortuzar children suffered cuts and bruises as bandages were applied. Steerage passengers Valent Paoli and Paria Lugi were also injured.
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Duel Over Girl Ends in Death in South San Francisco
Special to The Washington Post reports Eugene Peguillon was killed by Bernard Myers in a pistol duel. Myers fled and was not captured. Two youths under twenty one pursued the dispute over Belle of the district Hisle Fevier, who preferred Peguillon. The duel occurred after a crowd gathered in an empty lot as they measured the ground. Eyewitnesses could not determine if Peguillon fired.
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San Francisco
Eugene Peguillon
Bernard Myers
Myers
Hisle Fevier
Peguillon
Pistola
Morley upholds civil supremacy in India dispute
London reports Morley finalizes first India act supporting civil government over military authority in India. The decision backs Lord Curzon’s stance against Gen. Kitchener. Most London papers approve. Daily Telegraph questions whether the arrangement will avert a broader controversy given the high stakes.
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Murder at Chilean Legation Sparks Brussels Siege
Brussels reports say Senor Waddington, son of the Chilean charge d affaires, shot Senor Balmaceda, secretary of the Chilean consulate. Balmaceda, 20, is related to Chilean officials. Waddington, 19, is sheltering in the legation as police surround the building. Belgium demands his surrender. crowds grow restive and may lynch him if seen in public.
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Balmaceda
Senorita Waddington
Legation
Waddington
Belgium
Seventeen year old revolutionist wounded after police assault
Saint Petersburg reports a seventeen year old girl Mile Spiridonova who shot Chief Luzhenoffsky at Tambov and is now in hospital in serious condition with a fractured skull and extensive injuries. She is hailed as a second Charlotte Corday as Liberal circles condemn the torture she endured by Cossacks and officers before confessing.
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Ferrets to Carry Wires in Terre Haute Project
In Terre Haute Indiana superintendent Cline of Bell Telephone details an underground conduit installation using ferrets to pull leads. He notes the idea, once a joke, works in tests with a harnessed ferret dragging a light line toward a meat lure at each manhole, while rats lure the ferret ahead.
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Actor Corbett Disappears During Stage Run in Conn
William D. Corbett, rising actor, vanished after Friday rehearsal in Winsted while touring with the Duke of Killcrankis company. His wife is in New York. manager A L Shepard suspects temporary dementia as he left in undetermined circumstances with his costume found at a hotel.
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Washington Post
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NO MINERS STRIKE SETTLED AS TO SOFT COAL
Indianapolis and Pittsburg reports show no settlement yet in the coal wage dispute. Vice President L Lewis of the United Mine Workers asserts no general strike in April and bituminous operators will restore earlier wage reductions. Operators Robbins and Taylor acknowledge no change and pledge no compromise without a meeting. Tomorrow the miners will be canvassed in Pittsburgh to gauge support for a strike, including input from miners and their wives.
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John Mitchell
Miners’ National Organization
East Chicago Mayor Fires Police Chief in Dawn Head Injury
Hammond Indiana reports Mayor W F Hale of East Chicago dismissed Police Chief Thomas Conroy after Conroy threatened to shoot. Hale struck Conroy with a hickory single-tree, fracturing the mayoral head. No arrest announced. Auction today at 11 a m of old mahogany furniture and rugs at Washington Art Galleries.
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Attempt to wreck train near Oneida New Mexico
West Shore No 1 Chicago Limited express was halted two miles east of Oneida by a hot box odor. A wooden wedge wedged under the pony trucks was found, pushed ahead by the pilot, smoking from friction. Robbery motive suspected.
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John Scanlon
Fire breaks out at Alton moving picture show
Special to The Washington Post Alton UL February 26 four hundred children at St Marys School Hall were watching a film when a roll of celluloid 800 feet long ignited from a spark and filled the hall with smoke. Sisters struggled to restore calm as about fifty were hurt in the panic but none seriously.
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Murderer in a Well Shot Twice by Pursuers
Georgia youth Lee Wright killed his sweetheart Annie McIntyre after she refused marriage. He shot her aunt and uncle who tried to intervene, then leaped into a well to escape a lynch mob. He survived a long fall and later was dragged from the well and jailed. Wright preferred drowning to mob death and was wounded by a sheriff before capture.
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Armed outbreak in Guanabacoa leaves two dead four wounded
In Guanabacoa early today about thirty rioters attacked twenty five rural guards. A sergeant and a corporal were killed. four guards wounded. Rioters fled after return fire. authorities search for culprits. A separate brief notes a fatal shooting near Canton, Georgia over whisky.
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Alarmed in Pekin Dyn amite at Palace Gate
Panicked rumors of a coming uprising prompt doubled palace guards at the Forbidden City and armed police. Amid warnings from Tokyo and rumors of internal palace quarrels, dynamite found outside the gate heightens tensions as foreigners remain unworried and tranquil city life continues.
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Forbidden City
Funeral by street car for Chicago priest
The Rev Martin Van Delaar of St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in South Chicago dies Thursday night. As per his will, his body will lie in state in a street car after services at the church, followed by mourners in similar conveyances to end a tradition of extravagant funerals.
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Chicago
Martin van Delaar
St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church
Death After Arrest For Union Treasurer
Edward J. Shelley of 339 Ninth Street Brooklyn treasurer of New York Photographers Engravers Union No 1 died soon after a warrant for misappropriation of 1834.73 funds was served. He protested innocence, grew pale, wrote a note to his wife, then collapsed at the threshold of his room and died, the doctor citing epileptic death.
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