War on Aori Ended Marks Change in Attitude in Tokyo
Tokyo announces Viscount Aoki to remain as Mikado's representative in America, signaling Saionji ministry enjoys support from both factions. The move ends rumors of recall amid pressures over immigration and citizenship demands. Ambassadors comments stress enduring friendship with the United States as ties are steadied by business and political interests. Secretary Rout departs for vacation, with routine exchanges likely minimal until late summer.
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Tokyo
Mikado
America
Saionji
Flowery Kingdom
Viscount Aoki
The
Japan
United States
Washington
Saioni
Aokis
Okuma
Rout
Utica
Aohi
Buena Vista
Root
Mexico
Bacon
Roots
Alice
France
Building of penitentiaries under direct report system
Attorney General Bonaparte directs monthly progress reports on the Leavenworth Kansas and Atlanta Georgia penitentiaries. The Navy like reporting method replaces trips. work is largely done by U S prisoners and economies from centralizing inmates have begun to materialize.
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Bonaparte
United States
Leavenworth
Kans
Atlanta
Navy Department
Department
Ugarte Seeks Roosevelt Interview for Honduras Recognition
Senor Ugarte, representing Honduras provisional government of President Davila, plans to appeal to President Roosevelt after failing to gain State Department recognition. He carries credentials and seeks a Washington posting to explain conditions and push for formal recognition and a robust consular system. He claims 9 percent loyalty and aims to secure contracts and protections for foreigners amid Cabrera health rumors.
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State Department
Senor Ugarte
Davila
Honduras
Roosevelt
Washington
Harriman Report Soon Delivers to Attorney General
The Interstate Commerce Commission will finish its inquiry into Harriman lines by July 1 and hand the evidence and report to the Attorney General. Officials foresee possible anti trust action against Rock Island, Union Pacific, and the Chicago and Alton, amid Rock Island's control of the Alton. The report will urge securities regulation and caution against future railroad reorganizations, while avoiding new law recommendations.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Harriman
Alton
White House
Rock Island
Commission
Hails Return Youth Leaders At YMCA Reception
YMCA greets Woodward and Sleman upon their Orient trip for the Shanghai centenary conference. They met four foreign secretaries in Japan Korea China and India and shared experiences. Ed win La Ferra retires as director and receives a gold pin before moving to New York. A reception committee led the introductions and a Sunday meeting will feature their reports.
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S. W. Woodward
John 5. Sleman, Jr
Young Men’s Christian Association
Orient
Y. M
Messrs Woodward
Sleman
Shanghai
China
Japan
Korea
India
Woodward
Far East
Edwin S. la Ferra
Association
la Ferra
New York
M. M. Shand
Edward W. Hearne
H. W Arnold
Jones
Mr. Sloman
MERSER ASKED TO QUIT OVER INSPECTOR FEUD
New York June 21 Theodore T Merser inspector of hulls in the department of steamboat inspection second division forwarded his resignation to Secretary Oscar Straus of the Department of Commerce and Labor after a department request An investigation by Assistant Secretary Murray highlighted friction with Captain HEH M Seeley inspector of boilers who joint reviewed boats in the second division Seeley’s alleged bias toward the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad drew criticism and was backed by Captain Tin D Harris Chief of the division Straus ordered Merser to resign following the inquiry outcome.
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Hull
New York
Theodore T. Merser
Department of Steamboat Inspection
Oscar Straus
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington
Department
Merser
Murray
Department of Commerce
Hehm Seeley
Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad
Seeley
Tin D. Harris
Straus
West Virginia Officials Face Civil Service Probe
The Federal officeholders named by Henry Wise face Civil Service Commission scrutiny after a conference with the President and Secretary Cortelyou. Most officials cited are in the Presidential class and immune from criticism, while White and Henshaw are in the classified service and the case against them is sent to the Treasury Department.
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West Virginia
Cis
Greene
Cortelyou
Civil Service Commission
Henry Wise
Grafton
United States District Attorney
Northcott
United States
Lil Hott
Internal Revenue
Babcock
Denham
Clarksburg
Schott
Bluefield
W. W. White
Welch
C E. Henshaw
Martinsburg
White
Henshaw
Classified Service
Tressury Department
After Shoe Machine Company Antitrust Investigation Opens
The Department of Justice will pursue possible Sherman act action against the United States Shoe Machine Company of Boston after a Friday complaint. Attorney General authorized that proceedings may be started pending fuller fact finding. Frederickburg reports a June 11 marriage of C. W. Butterworth and Miss Marie Littie in Milford Virginia.
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Frederickeburg
C. W. Butterworth
Richmond, Fredericknburg and Potomac Railroad
Milford
Mise Marie Littie
John R. Estile
Mtony Gregk, Va
Ordination Sermon Highlights Virginia Diocese Service
The eighty fourth session of the Episcopal Seminary of Virginia closed with an ordination sermon by Rev. William E. Evans. Deacons from Virginia and Southern Virginia were admitted, and several candidates ordained to the priesthood. Assignments announced include Harrison in Northumberland, Lewis in Goochland, Mason in Albemarle mountains, Vaughan in Essex, Green in Page, Gibson in Gloucester, Buskle in Emporia, Pendlaton in Accomac, and Marshall to Brazil.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia
Washington
Robert A. Gibson
Southern Virginia
Revérdy B. Tucker
Virginia
George W. F Peterkin
West Virginia
William E. Evans
Alabama
Monumetal Church
Richmond
Thomas Lowry Sinclair
Lorenzo Davenport Vaughn
Ivan Marshall Green
Alexander Stuart Gibson
H B. L
James Gilmer Bosie
William Gibson Pendleton
J. MB. Gill
All Souls' Church
Portsmouth
Franca R. Lee
St. Paul's Church
Lynchburg
H J Geiger
St. John's Church
Hampton
Henry G. Lane
Robert Evans Browning
D. C
Northumberland County
David Henry Lewis
Goochland County
Wiley Roy Mason
G P Mayo
Albemarle County
Lovereo Davenport Vaughan
Essex County
Page County
Gloucester County
James Gilmer Buskle
Emporia
William Gibson Pendlaton
Accomac
Myron Barraud Marshall
Brazil
China
Trades Council
Railway Men's Union
Colvin
Awards at McDonough honor students and kin of Maryland official
At La Plata Maryland on June 21 the McDonough Institute awarded the Adrian Posey gold medal for general excellence to Koska Mudd a relative of Representative Mudd. Other prizes went to Joseph McGill for first prize declamation Margaret Williams for first prize recitation Frederick Matthews for declamation and Rebecca Wilmer for recitation. In Richmond Governor Swanson received a California state telegram announcing Wade E H Wood’s extradition requisition from Virginia for a criminal assault case.
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Adrian Posey
Koska Mudd
Washinston Pont
la Plata
McDonough Institute
Ekoska Mudd
Representative Mudd
Maryland
Joseph McGil
Margaret Williams
Frederick Matthews
Rebecca Wilmer
Washington Post
Richmond
Gov
Swanson
State Executive Department of
California
J. N. Gillett
Virginia
Wade E H. Wood
Rockingham
Bowman Shot While Resisting Arrest in Matewan
In Matewan West Virginia on June 21 Ishon Bowman is dying from a gunshot wound inflicted by Marshal J B Maynard during an attempted warrantless arrest for a misdemeanor Bowman resisted. Maynard inflicted the wound and is under investigation.
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Matewan
W. Va
Ishon Bowman
J. B. Maynard
Bowman
Maynard
Virginia Obituary: Charlene Wise dies at 21 of illness
Leesburg May 31 Charlene Wise daughter of N Wiss of this place died this morning at her father's home from pneumonia and typhoid fever aged twenty one. He was a civil engineer recently with Western Maryland Railroad at Hancock Maine. She was married. Frederick Halsey McCulloch aged sixty five died tonight at his son in law Dr Samuel M Morricon's home. Born Fort Wayne Ind he lived since the war on his farm near Oernoch in Aylkhighem County. He left a wife and one daughter.
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Treasury
Lincoln
Johseon
Arthur
Semuee M. Morricon
Fort Wayne
Ind
Oernoch
Aylkhighem County
Ardayitle
Bite
No Hazing At Annapolis Board Finds No Evidence
Annapolis Md June 21 The board of investigation appointed by Capt Sands at the Naval Academy met yesterday and found no evidence of hazing. Several members of the new fourth class were reportedly examined. Unwritten codes among upperclassmen, including the second class, were discussed but no action will be taken before Capt Badger succeeds Admiral Lands in July.
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Washington Post
Annapolis
Board of Investigation
Capt. Sands
Naval Academy
Academy
Charles J. Badger
Admiral Lands
Badger
Admiral Sands
Midshipmen
Admiral Brownson
George P. Colvecoresses
W.S. Benson
Wife murder charges against Hatfield clan member
Harrison Hatfield of Gilbert, Williamson County, is under arrest in Williamson, W Va, charged with poisoning his wife after she died minutes after breakfast. A cat that ate table fragments also died. Hatfield, cousin of Bad Anse and Cap Hatfield, reportedly said he had to get rid of Becky. Judge Wilkinson vowed to curb crime in Mingo County.
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Hatfield
Washington Post
Williamson
W. Va
Harrison Hatfield
Gilbert
Becky
Anse
Cap” Hatfield
Feud
Wilkinson
Mingo County
Identification by Pictures Ties Victim to Family
Richmond June 21 two pictures found on a murdered young man in a Chesapeake and Ohio freight car at Russell Kentucky identify the victim as Harry Clark and the young girl as Miss Maude Humphreys daughter of Samuel Humphreys of Bowling Green street who boarded with the family in Richmond Three tramps are under arrest charged with the crime.
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Washington Post
Richmond
Chesapeake and Ohio
Russell
Harry Clark
Maude Humphreys
Samuel Humphreys
Bowling Green Street
Thomsons sue to break E W James will in Norfolk suit
In Norfolk Judge Scott dismissed a prior Richmond Circuit Court case by W B Thomson and sister Virginia Thomson to contest the will of E W James who left about 250000 to the University of Virginia and others. A new Norfolk City Circuit Court suit was filed to break the will and determine estate distribution to heirs at law.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Scott
Circuit Court
Richmond
W. EB. Thomson
Misa Virginia Thomson
E. W. James
University of Virginia
Thomsons
Thomson
Norfolk City
James
Keeps Bride A Prisoner In Haunted Domestic Tragedy
Grief struck Mrs. Nannie L. Booth of Danville Virginia after her youngest daughter Mary eloped with boarder Edward K. Breadas. Mary, claimed to be sixteen, wed yesterday and was kept captive by relatives. Booth attempted suicide by laudanum. Breadas appealed to police but civil action was advised.
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Washington Post
Danville
Mary
Nannie L. Booth
Mary Booth
Edward K. Breadas
Booth
Broadus
Testifies Against Father in Baltimore Murder Case
Nine year old John McNamee sobbed through tears as he described the night of April 30 when his father James McNamee, intoxicated, killed his mother Margaret by setting fire with a lamp. McNamee pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received a one year jail sentence.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
John McNamee
Judge Dobler
Criminal Court
Margaret McNamee
James McNamee
Cross Street
McNamee
Strike at Clifton Forge paralyzes C O freight depot
Clifton Forge Virginia June 21 a strike stops all freight at the Chesapeake and Ohio depot as ten truckmen refuse to load or unload after objecting to new rules set by new agent B J Stratton. Perishable freight held up and local business disrupted until replacement workers are found.
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Washington Post
Cutton Forge
Chesapeake and Ohio
B. J. Stratton
Mr Stratton
He Was $20,000 Short in His Accounts
The daily papers recount men ruined by racing debts and ruinous wagers. This tale shows a few saved by lucky “killings” as ponies helped pull them through.
Baltimore Man Dies by Own Action in Morgue
Baltimore, June 21. Arthur A. Asendorf aged 26 of 909 Mulberry street went to the city morgue and died by inhaling gas. Despondency from drink is given as the cause. He was a clerk for J H Asendorf & Co lumber dealers and marked lumber at the back basin yards adjoining the morgue.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
Arthur A. Asendorf
Mulberry Street
J H Asendorf
Rev Dr Hillyar Dead in Beaumont Texas
News from Beaumont Texas reports the death of Rev Dr James M Hillyar once an assistant in St Alban's Washington and later serving in Galion Berea Coshocton and Boston He was English born ordained in 1873 by Bishop Bedell survived by wife and several children interment held in Texas
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Beaumont
Tex
James M. Hilllyar
St. Alban’s
Hilyar
Washington
Protestant Episcopal Church
Bedell
Galion
Berea
Ohio
Trinity Church
Coshocton
Boston
Goldsboro
Chapel of the Good Shepherd
St. John's Parish
Accokeek
St. Alban’s Parish
Hillyar
Texas
First Hanging for Mingo in West Virginia Murder Case
Evans, Sam P., convicted of murdering his wife in Naugatuck West Virginia, faces the death penalty with no mercy recommendation. The execution date is pending, marking the first death sentence in Itteep County. A separate item notes apprentice Hamme drowning in the Elizabeth River after falling overboard at St Helena naval station.
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Elizabeth River
Norfolk
Hamme
St. Helena
St. Louis
Labor Bureaus to Be Examined in Peonage Probe
The Department of Justice plans a forthcoming investigation of New York labor bureaus and employment agencies linked to peonage cases in the South. Assistant Attorney General Russell, returning from a related mission, states workers are recruited by these groups and often sent south under false pretenses.
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Department of Justice
New York
Russell
South
Confidence men duel with modern farmer over agriculture hair-cut
A tale describes two confidence men challenging an up-to-date farmer and discovering that Agriculture had secured a hair-cut in a sharp disputed encounter.
Express Train Hold Up Shocks Crew In Harrowing Fight
A bold hijacking on an express train sparked a fierce struggle as the crew fought to repel the robber. Juniper Jack the Jaybird remains unnamed in this dramatic retelling of a perilous incident at speed. Captains who faced disaster stayed true to duty, choosing honor over fear.
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Aori
Cabrera
Lee
Guatemala
Prent Cabrera
Ewaskrape
Messrs. Woodward and
After Shoe Machine Company
Virginia Weddings
Virginia Episcopal Seminary
Diocese of
George B Cluous
Levi Y Welch
R H. Cox
Mberty
Alexandria County
L. C Barley
George Garrett
Louis Ledden
Rosalyn
Garrett
C C Carlin
Carlin
City Democratic Committee
Fleischmann
Nicol
Gordon
M'Donough
Capt
Badger Io
Kentucky
Virginia University
Clifton Forge
Cluett, Peabody & Co
Troy
W. W. Jacobs
What the
DR. Hillyar
Beaumont, Tex
Mingo
Henky
Zuzu
Ginger
Synational Biscuit Company
Juniper Jack
Jaybird
Armty
Navy
Lutz & CO
Thomas
Renee
Hudson Building
F Street
F. H. Waite
Tennessee
R. P. Andrews Paper C O.,, Inc
la. Ave
7Th
Pa. Ave
Columbia
Hilda Spong
Columbia Theater CO
Charlotte Walker
Jane
Henry Arthur Jones
Miss Bpong
Paly's Treater
Bena
Bie
Boo
Jee
Geraldine
SHARF
NEW National Theater
Matinee
Cavalleria Rusticana
Chimes OF
Normandy
Belasgo
Svening
Aarden Edwin Arden
Warcone
Lyceum
Big Burlesque Stock Company
Washington Luna
Park Mansomant
Haley
William A Haley
Bea
Elliott
Belair
Hwy Lake U. S. Marine Band
Dancing Eye
Great Falls of the
Potomac
Niagara Grand Whirlpool
Dancina
Elagsea
Teacore
Thia Offi
Washington Schools
Berlitz
St. Wlw
Eush
Fulton
Ninth Str Street
N. W
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Maurer
Jaradts
Jes Etiee
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