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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1905
Page
4
The Panama Canal Commission plans direct appointments for two thousand laborers of Chinese, Japanese, and Italians to staff canal instruction work. Bids will set daily wage and government payment per laborer, including family maintenance advances. The process aims to avoid involuntary servitude and open August 16 for bid forms.
The Panama Canal Commission reported Gov Magoon outlines progress on Isthmus construction. Lumber arrivals strengthen ongoing work at Corozal and Pedro Miguel. Forty rooms added to the Culebra hotel and foundations prepared for a second wing. Immune employees at Panama to be housed at Ancon with bachelor quarters planned as foundations are laid.
AV Leon Pepperman acting chief of the Panama Canal Commission says advertising will be secured directly from newspapers after bias review. Law requires sworn rate statements from daily papers and trade journals to be kept on file by the commission. Drake appointed stand-in president of the Panama Company during President Shonts' absence. Yellow fever case reported among canal employees. quarantine parts of the republic lifted by official cable. Judge Kimball sentences Elizabeth Griffin for disorderly conduct after recognition in court.
Aldig Birdsey Browne, prominent Washington corporation lawyer, joined the firm Britten & Gray after admission to the bar in 1879. Born December 11, 1857, in Jerome, he studied in Washington, earned a law degree from George Washington University, and became a director and trustee for multiple institutions. He married Mary B Delahay on December 1, 1880, and they have seven children: Helen, Alexander Britton, Aldia Jerome, Jesse Delatay, Arthur, Mary Browne.
The dispute over the legality of inmate detention at Government Hospital for the Insane centers on Alexander F Willis. Justice Wright demands Willis be examined by jury if not released, as Attorney Evans and two physicians clash with Superintendent White over access and procedural steps. The case has drawn wider reform interest and potential government action.
New York July 21 966 000 loan on Equitable Trust Company books indorsed by James Hyde and Alexander Jordan. State officials seek purposes of the loan with banking records and possible links to losses from speculative ventures and blackmail actions against the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
naval squadron under Rear Admiral Bisbee sails from France to transport John Paul Jones body to Chesapeake Bay. Telegraph message confirms arrival at government torpedo station. Also notes Topeka pension agency rolls 115,868 pensioners and Argentine Legation to operate in Magnolia Mass for summer.
Local carpet cleaning service urges carpets to be cleaned before hot weather to avoid moth damage and keep floors clean. They offer full service, safe mothproof storage, and claim low cost.
In Traveray City Michigan a patient, Mrs Mary Larkin, was killed by fellow patient Mrs Ernestine Berge with a granite iron vessel as the attendant was away. Nurse Misa Fenton and two helpers restrained Berge. Berge later claimed a nightmare and memory gaps while presenting no prior homicidal history.
A crowded Sunday excursion boat Sirius struck a hidden rock near North Brother Island. Passengers, mostly women and children, were rescued from the mud flats by police and Massa float. The vessel later steamed to a repair dock, avoiding a Slocum-like disaster.
Mrs Gertrude Schultz died at her home 1996 Barclay street after a long life in Baltimore born in Westphalia Germany in 1840 she immigrated in 1852 survived by two sons Frederick Schultz of Baltimore and Charles Schultz of Detroit eighteen grandchildren and nine great grandchildren funeral Saturday at her home with interment in Baltimore Cemetery
Federal Judge Edmund Wadd Jr ordered public sale of Hampton Roads Railway electrical properties between Newport News and Point Comfort Va. Receivers have run the assets for two years. Sale place Hampton Va. five weeks after commissioners named by the court publish notice by advertisement in Philadelphia Newport News and Hampton.
Francis Sut Miller, seventy, while pitching hay at a Cumberland farm near Hyndman on July 21, was struck and killed by a bolt. A burning hay wagon was pulled from the barn to save the structure as other workers, including Sut Miller’s son, were badly injured.
A large crowd gathered in Luray Virginia for a reunion of Confederate and Federal soldiers. The procession moved from the courthouse led by the Winchester Drum Corps, with participation from the Warren Tight Infantry Page Rifleman and local veterans. Orators Rev W. W. Fricklern Maj J. McDowell Carrington Capt D C Grayson spoke, reel races offered prizes including 125 dollars in gold, and visitors could tour the Luray cave with free admission for old soldiers. Gen T J Rosser of Charlottesville, invited to speak, declined due to health.
The University of Virginia board of visitors filled three professorships at a late session in Charlottesville. Richard H. Whitehead was elected professor of anatomy and dean of the medical school, Albert Le Fevre named professor of philosophy, and Bruce R. Payne chosen for secondary education at the Curry School. One gynecology vacancy remains for the fall meeting.
Fairfax County Republicans met in convention to endorse Judge L. Lewis for governor and recommend State Chairman Slemp. H. L. Bouton chaired. M. H. Church elected chair. A. J. Grinnesley secretary. Delegates to Roanoke State convention named. Payne nominated for House of Delegates.
The Dallas News finds the bright spot in Senator Mitchell's conviction for complicity in Oregon land frauds. It credits a maturer public mood with passing a reform law and its practical enforcement, while noting partisan voices and labor views on socialism and justice. It cites the New York Globe on anti socialism and a Chicago Post on the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. It also notes Africa’s fading glory, Morocco questions, and campaign reform worries from The South Bend Tribune.
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