Fortify Panama Canal: House OKs $3,000,000 for work
After five hours of debate the House approved fortifying the canal and appropriated 800,000 dollars to begin construction with total costs estimated at 412 million. Tawney opposed. Sherley backed fortification arguing neutrality and security. Senate sentiment reportedly favors protection of the waterway.
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Panama Canal
House
Senate
Tawney
Minnesota
United States
Sherley
Kentucky
Smith
Extra Session Likely for April on Taft Canadian Pact
The plan for an extra congressional session to act on the Canadian reciprocity agreement gains ground with Taft fixing April 1 as a possible call date. Clark and Underwood seek a month’s grace to map Democratic strategy. Aldrich rumors are dismissed as unfounded. The Senate shows no change in McCall bill timing, while insurgent Republicans oppose the pact. The fifth Booklovers’ contest count is featured in The Post.
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Underwood
Aldrich
McCall Bill
Senate
Taft
Champ Clark
Neat House
Representative Underwood
Alabama
Ways and Means
McCall
Cauy
Washington
Jekyl Island
McCatl Bil
White House
Cummins
Hrnston
Clapp
Hale
McCumber Smoot
Seek Nation's Ald Will Appeal to Voters Mass Meeting Launches Scheme
A large mass meeting at Convention Hall endorses raising government clerks salaries. Fulton R. Gordon criticizes Taft for muzzling petitions and urges universal letter writing to press for higher pay. Senators and representatives from several states attend, urging nationwide support and a public sympathy drive.
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Taft
Congress
Convention Hall
Con- Btess
Washington
Hoogevelt
Mr. Gordon
Senator Brown
Nebraska
Voper and
Cary
Wisconsin
Benavel
New York
Goulden
Carlin
Virginia
Davis
Minnesota
Wilson
Pennsylvania
Heflin
Alabama
Gordon
May reopen Twigg inquiry in Grace Blosser death case
The Washington Poet special reports Cumberland Maryland indicates the April grand jury may take new action in the Grace Blosser and Charles Twigg deaths on their wedding eve. State's Attorney Robb supports pursuing new information including statements by Mrs. Helsat and others about events in the Blosser home.
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Cumberland
Grace Blosser
Charles Twigg
Robb
Koon
Maria Helsat
Currie Lee
Grace Slosser
Hlosser
Dorothy Montgomery
Beneman
Mlosser
POTASH DISPUTE MAY SETTLE WITH GERMAN SYNDICATE
Potash exporters and German syndicate reps reportedly reached a deal to end the tax dispute quickly. Losses to U S buyers under the higher export tax would be shared equally by sellers and buyers. The United States may press tests for domestic deposits to curb German monopoly.
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Germany
United States
Woman Leaps From Hotel Window In Sleep
Mrs Arthur Wainwright, in Brooklyn, hurled herself from the third floor of the Eastern Hotel after dreaming two men and a woman were stabbing her. She struck her head, suffered brain concussion, and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital with slim chances of recovery. Police found her husband later in Brooklyn claiming he also had a dream predicting injury. The case ties to hysterical fear and a prominent Massachusetts family.
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Washington Post
New York
Arthur Wainwright
Brooklyn
Bellevue Hospital
Exchange professor host in Berlin dinner honors exchange plan
Professor Charles Alphonso Smith of the University of Virginia, a visiting exchange professor in Berlin, hosted a dinner with many principal professors present. He noted the emperor's interest in the educator exchange between America and Germany and toasted the university. Prof. von Trott zu Solz, Prussian minister of public instruction, replied warmly to American efforts. Prof. and Mrs. Smith depart for the United States on March 2.
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Berlin
Charles Alphonso Smith
University of Virginia
University of Berlin
Smith
America
Germany
Herr von Trott Zu Solz
FORGER AN ARMY DESERTER IN CANADA
George Willers of New York confessed desertion from Governors Island New York preferring ten years in an American prison to thirty days in a Canadian jail. He was arrested in Sault Ste Marie Ontario for passing two forged checks and elected to be sent back to New York as a deserter.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
George Willers
New York
Governors Inland
Willers
Ontario
Canada
Smuggling Charge Shocks Athinai Liner Officials
Federal officers arrested captain, officers, and eight crew members of the Athinai of the Hellenic Transatlantic Steamship Company on charges of conspiracy to violate immigration laws. Bail set at 195000. trial ordered for March 1. Accused included agent Nikolas Galanos, ship’s surgeon Dr Diakoyatos, and captains and officers. The scheme allegedly enlisted aliens as crew and passengers to bypass Ellis Island inspections. Company counsel calls case "a piece of spitework" and cites prior trouble with authorities.
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United States
Athinal
Hellenic Transatlantic Steamship Company
Nikolas A. Galanos
Hia
Gekas Kolouras
Gerasimos Diakoyatos
Chatfield
United States Circuit Court
Immigration Bureau
Washington
Brooklyn
Ellis Island
Hellenic Steamship Company
A. C. Cass
Willias
Bones Explain Jail Mystery In Ohio Prison Escape
Columbus readers learn of a long unsolved prison escape mystery resurfacing after inmates found bone fragments in a tunnel within the Ohio penitentiary. Records show Scott Maythe attempted escape on July 7, 1840, with suspicions he hid inside the facility and was fed by others. A separate item notes Southern Railway sale of round trip tickets to Atlanta for 20.20, March 5 to 7.
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Ohio
Faw
Ohio Penitentiary
Svork
Scott Maythe
Maythe
Southern Commercial Congress
Southern Railway
Atlanta
Gatare
Briand and French Cabinet to Resign Next Day
Paris reports Premier Briand and his cabinet will submit their resignations Monday after a narrow confidence vote and a partyIntrigue backlash. Briand cites fatigue while debates over labor, clerical issues and the railway dispute continue to roil French politics. The president may invite a new ministry led by Lyon Bourgeois or Raymond Poincare to form.
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Chamber of Deputies
Louis Malvy
Paul Meunier
M. Briand
Gen. Brun
Fallieres
Lyon Bourgeois
Raymond Poincare
Finance
Theophile Delcasse
Em{le Combes
M. Delcasse
Republic
Death by Own Action Ties to Baldwin Name
A Baltimore death was reported as a man between 35 and 40 years old taking his own life by inhaling gas in a boarding house on Oliver Street. He attempted concealment but a pocket bearing the name Eugène Baldwin, New Haven Connecticut, appeared, suggesting ties to this name. The earlier dispatch mentions a Eugene Baldwin from Meshoppen, Pa, once employed as a bookkeeper in West Haven, with possible marriage plans, but this cannot be confirmed.
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Mediterranean
M. Pichon
Temps
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France
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Conn
Fei
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Baltimore
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Hns
West Haven
Meshoppen
Baldwin
Oliver Street
Eugéne Baldwin
Carnegie Money Tainted by Union Potters Protest Library Funds
Crooksville Ohio February 25 union potters protest the acceptance of 320000 from Carnegie to construct a public library declaring the money tainted by labor conflicts and urging city officials to reject it.
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Union Potters
Crooksville, Pa
Crooksville
Ohio
Andrew Carnegie
Lim
Carnegie Public Library
Rail link to connect Boston and Maine line planned
Boston and Maine Railroad will build a 107 mile double tracked extension from Hinsdale New Hampshire to Brattleboro Vermont to connect two divisions, making the New York New Haven and Hartford system independent of the Central Vermont line. The project costs about $2 million and follows a ICC decision.
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Seb
Interstate Commerce Commission
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Boston and Maine Railroad
T. E. Byrnes
New Hampshire
Connecticut River
Hinsdale
N. H
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Boston and Maine
Central Vermont
Grand Frank
Congress Condensed and Senate Deadlines in Flux
Congress summaries indicate opposition to Canadian reciprocity and efforts to fix a vote date on the Lorimer case. Bailey demands a Lorimer vote before adjournment, bills pass including a $200,000 Perry memorial at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, and an $140,000,000 sundry civil bill. Eulogies given for Tirrell and Lovering. A Tong murder in Findlay is reported. Travel offer listed for California via Washington Sunset Route.
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Burrows
Lorimer
Bailey
Commodore Perry
Put-in-Bay
Ohio
Tirrell and
Lovering
Massachusetts
Dix Gives Hug Views on Wasteful Nation and Tariffs
Special to The Washington Post Albany Feb 2 Governor Dix defends enforcing the Constitution while urging reforms to curb living costs. He backs modest tariff changes and gradual reductions, citing the 1906 earthquake example and the need for stable business planning. He favors broader U S Canada reciprocity but opposes forcing paper manufacturers to bear unequal duties.
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Albany
John A. Dix
State Capitol
New York
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