Death ends Phillips shooting case in New York
New York dateline reports novelist David Graham Phillips died at Bellevue Hospital at 11 07 after being shot six times by Fitzhugh Voyle Goldsborough near the Princeton Club. Physicians noted a lung perforation and worsening condition led to fatal collapse. Senator Beveridge and other writers visited, while motives remain unclear amid reports of enmity over a novel supposedly caricaturing Goldsborough.
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New York
David Graham Prallups
Fitzhugh Voyle Goldsborough
Princeton Club
Cramercy Park
Bellevue Hospital
Philips
Eugene Puller
Mr. Philips
John B. Walker
Lucius
Fuller
Harrison Philips
Carolyn Frevert
Frevert
Harthon Phillips
Hotchkiss
Walker
Senator Beveridge
David Graham Phillips
DePauw University
Washington
Thillips
George Horace Lorimer
Samuel Gisbe
Saturday Evening Post
Vuda
I Nilups
ELOPING HEIRESS TO WED IN LOS ANGELESAGE
Roberta Burst de Janon, Philadelphia heiress and sole heir to a $1,000,000 estate, reportedly eloped with waiter Stephen Glaser. A Los Angeles marriage bureau record shows Glaser and 18 year old Mary Roberta Burst de Janon obtained a license. New York directories could not locate Glaser.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Roberta Bulst de Janon
Philadelphia
Robert Burst
Miss de Janon
Sas Angeles
Glaser
New York
New
York City
Stephen Glaser
Glasers
Stephen H. Glaser
Wall Street
Permanent Tariff Board Planned With Five Members
A House Ways and Means Committee measure creates a five member permanent tariff board, dropping the commission name in favor of tariff board status. The President would name a chairman and two new Democrats to the panel, with staggered two to six year terms and term limits to ensure mixed party representation. The board will investigate tariff questions on its own initiative or under Congress directives.
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Commission
Longworth
House
Ways and Means Committee
Tarf
Congress
Dalzell
Tariff Board
Henry C. Emery
James B. Reynolds
Massachusetts
Alvin H. Sanders
Chicago
House of Congress
Navy Yard Inquiry Ordered Over Delayed Warship
The Navy Department appointed a board to probe claims private suppliers delaying Florida battleship construction at Brooklyn Navy Yard. The vessel, slated for July completion, faces machinery division delays blamed on castings from private interests. The inquiry panel includes Lieut. Commander Roscoe C. Moody, Lieut. Commander W. Norris, and Lieut. Commander F. B. Burne.
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New York
Navy Department
Florida
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Roscoe C. Moody
Bureau Steam Engineering
Washington, D. C
W. Norris
F. B. Burne
Admiral Reeder Dead in Paris Retired U S Navy Officer
Rear Admiral William Herron Reeder U S N retired died in Paris after months of illness. Born August 4 1848 in Muscatine Iowa he entered the Naval Academy in 1862 and rose through the ranks serving at Washingtons Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting. He commanded the schoolship St Marys and the Brooklyn Navy Yard and married Ellinor Wells in Washington on November 29 1873.
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Paris
Washington Post
W. H. Reeder
Wiliam Herron Reeder
Muscatine
Iown
George Reeder
United States Naval Academy
Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting
Washington
St Marys
Brooklyn Navy Yard
yHe
Ellinor Wells
Washington, D. C
Indictment Aimed at Rixey Over Virginia Safe Deposit Collapse
A grand jury reports President C J Rixey of the Virginia Safe Deposit and Trust Corpation in Alexandria as responsible for the bank failure placed in receivership December 29. It charges false certified overdraft figures totaling tens of thousands of dollars and overdrawn personal accounts, with indictments pending before Judge L C Bailey.
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C. Jones Rixey
Virginia Safe Deposit and Trust Corporation of
Alexandria
L. C. Bailey
Corporation Court
W. H. Sweeney
Commonwealth
G. Brent
John L. Jeffries
Mr. Rixey
Norfolk
Bailey
Virginia Safe Deposit and Trust Corporation
C J. Rixey
Dc. J. Rixey
State Corporation Commission
C. J. Rixey
Virginia Sofe Deposit and Trust Corporation
Ender
Cc. J. Rixey
Commissioner of Insurance
State of
Virginia
Jury Confronts Rixey Over Virginia Safe Deposit Trust Case
The Grand Jury reports C J Rixey controlled the Virginia Safe Deposit and Trust Corporation with little oversight by directors other than him. Witnesses recall testimony as the panel reconvenes amid expectations of indictments and legal talent for Rixey.
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Grand
Trust Corporation
W. H. Sweeney
J. Lawler
James Bayne
C. J. W. Summers
John W. May
D. R. Stan
Shin Bone Grafted In Arm At City Hospital
Boston report: Dr Frederick J Cotton at City Hospital performed a pioneering operation on William Favor of Malden. A 2.5 inch segment of shin bone was removed and grafted into his arm after arm fracture. The procedure, untried in the United States, follows European successes and the patient is reportedly doing well.
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Boston Hospital
Washington Post
Boston
Mass
Frederick J. Cotton
City Hospital
William Favor
Malden
Favor
Europe
Paver
Cotton
Roosevelt backs Taft for 1912 renomination
In New York on January 24 Col. Michael J. Cady of Brooklyn declared Roosevelt supports Taft for a second term. He said Roosevelt told him the fact, explaining to district Republicans that the Progressive League aims to boost Taft. The announcement ended speculation on Roosevelt’s stance.
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Washington Post
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Taft
Michael J. Dady
Brooklyn
Republican State
Tellal
First District
Republican Clubr
Col. Cady
Roosevelt
Col. Roosevelt
New
National Progressive Republican League
Plaster Draping Placed on Marble Figures in Harrisburg
In Harrisburg on January 24 the first statue in the George Cray Barnard group was unveiled wearing plaster drapery. Barnard, in Paris, had promised this treatment amid protests against nudity. The plaster will stay until further orders. Artists have condemned the drapery as marring tall white statues, some reaching twenty feet.
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Warrisburg
George Cray Barnard
Barnard
Paris
U.S. Troops Rush To Border Amid Mexican Revolt
Four troops of the First squadron Third U.S. Cavalry under Maj. G. H. Morgan were ordered to the border to stop revolutionists from crossing into Mexico. A 46-man detachment left Fort Bliss for Palva Station for the same purpose as reports say the uprising grows and Gen. Madros claims a near victory at Ojinago with 150 Federals killed out of 200.
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Washington Boo
San Antonio
Tex
Third United States Cavalry
G. H. Morgan
Mexico
Fort Bliss
Palva Station
Madros
Ojinago
New York Bonds Offer Record Sale in City Finance Move
After seven hours of canvassing Comptroller Prendergast reported the $60,096,000 issue of corporate stock at 414 percent will be awarded at an average of 100.904 bringing the city with the premium to 30,542,441.50. The largest award of 11,000,610 goes to Kuhn Loeb & Co and J P Morgan Co for National City Bank and First National Bank. they failed by 4,241.50 on a bid of 100.87 for all or none.
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New York
Prendergast
Finance Department
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
J. P. Morgan & Co
National City Bank
First National Bank
Barnes Quits as Surveyor After Election as State Chairman
William Barnes Jr, newly elected Republican State chairman, sent his resignation as surveyor of the port of Albany to President Taft. Appointed under McKinley and Roosevelts, Barnes cites time demands from his chairmanship and his role as editor of the Albany Evening Journal as the reason for stepping down.
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Washington
Albany
William Barnes, Jr
Taft
Barnes
McKinley
Roosevelt
Albany Evening Journal
West Virginia Senatorship nominating crisis erupts
In Charleston on January 24 delegates and officials charged that the Watson Chilton nominations for the U S Senate were bought with money. Hubbard and Robinson led a belt against both nominees, while Republicans abstained awaiting senate organization. Arbitration progress reported with no agreement yet. next session could decide the joint election.
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Hubbard
Watson
Chilton
State Senate
Charleston
W. Va
Clarence W. Watson
United States Senate
William E. Chilton
Nelson
James W. Robinson
Harrison County
House of Delegates
Davis
Campbell
Huntington
Senate
United States
House
Merideth
Silver
Robinson
Hall
Wetzel
John W. Davis
Roosevelt Snubbed by National Progressive League Signers
The National Progressive Republican League kept Theodore Roosevelt's name off its declaration of principles after organizers advised against it. Reasons cited include avoiding third term propaganda and separating the party's goals from any one figure. Taft's stance remains that he will run if the people want him, otherwise he won’t seek renomination. The league aims to influence the 1912 convention, seen by insiders as a Republican faction maneuver. CONTINUED ON FIFTH PAGE.
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Theodore Roosevelt
National Progressive Republican League
League
Oyster Bay
Lst
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Taft
White House
Mr. Taft
Republican League
New League
Oregon
Congress
Girl Captured in Chest in Cincinnati Rescue
A Black assailant bound and gagged Alma Lammers, a household servant, and forced her into a cedar chest in Cincinnati. The lid closed and a water bucket toppled, drawing attention from passersby who found the chest open and the girl unconscious. she was rushed to a hospital where doctors fight to save her life.
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Cincinnati
Alma Lammers
Mrs. Taft
Mrs. Sherman
Mrs. Knox
Tate
Mrs. MacVeagh
Mrs. Meyer
Carnegie for forts not a warlike movement
Andrew Carnegie, at Taft era, says fortifying the Panama Canal is defensive not offensive. He supports arbitration treaties with Great Britain and urges peace advocates to back Taft's program, asserting the English speaking race can lead world peace through lawful dispute resolution. He envisions a broader arbitration pact and eventual abolition of private war. The piece also includes theater ad notes for Aida at the Lyric in Baltimore.
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Peace Society
Great Britain
Taft
Washington Post
New York
Andrew Carnegie
Pennsylvania Society
Panama Canal
Central News of London
New Orleans
Friends of Peace
United States
Senate
The
Phillips Dies of Wounds in City Affair
Author Phillips dies from battle wounds as reports expose political turmoil across pages. Progressive organization absence noted, while jurors fault doctor Rixey for handling a major failure.
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Phillips
T. R
Rixey
Charleston
Carnegie
White House
Wade
Martine
Taft
Columbus
i+B Society
Schenk
Peking
ldBoarder
Wiley
Taft Hosts White House State Reception for Supreme Court
The second winter state reception at the White House honored the Supreme Court and District judges with Mrs Taft in a display of gowns and dancing. Chief Justice White, slightly indisposed, departed early as Justice Hughes and others arrived with spouses amid Marine Band music and supper in the east room.
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White House
Judiciary
Marine Band
Taft
United States Supreme Court
District Courts
White
Fuller
Justice Hughes
Hughes
Justice van Devanter
van Devanter
Justice Lamar
Mexico
Senor Cassasus
Druge
Donna Beatrice Cusani
Bryce
Countess de Buisseret
Prince Houdacheff
Taf
Senator Root
Knox
MacVeagh
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