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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1912
Page
12
President Taft discusses tariff making in The Outlook and urges a deliberate, data driven system to replace current haphazard revisions. He argues for a permanent machinery to measure coat of production and defend reasonable protection while avoiding sudden rate shocks.
A speaker defends American producers and fair profits amid tariff debates. He criticizes Congress for delaying tariff board reports on wool, cotton, steel, and other schedules, while warning that cuts must reflect informed, practical protections for U S industry and workers.
Carts have been sent out for the first in a series of National Republic club smokers to be held at the clubhouse at 147 Pennsylvania Avenue tomorrow night. The program features C. J. Blanchard’s lecture on America’s National Park with Carbaugh, Han sen, Pierce, Dennison, Goetginger, Man ford and Byron Band presenting a mix of songs, dialect stories, recitations and more.
An old advertisement extols tiny illnesses like whooping cough measles mumps and chicken pox as mild childhood woes. It touts promul sion a cod liver emulsion Ozomulsion as a tastier remedy and offers a free sample by mail to senders at 548 Pearl St noting relief and stronger children.
The case against Lewis advances to the American Bar Association general council to meet in Milwaukee next August. Wickersham handles Lewis case as members debate propriety of the executive committee and possible court intervention if internal rules are violated. The ousting vote in January was cast by a committee including Gregory and Wadhams. the opposing committee included Hinkley and Helm among others.
Aubrey Bowie shot and killed a negro named Adam Howard on the Stringfallow estate in Culpeper County after Howard allegedly attempted to assault Bowie's young daughter. Bowie surrendered to authorities, was arraigned, and released on a $3,000 bond pending the March circuit court term. Howard had prior penitentiary and county road terms.
London February 2 Mrs Kate Ames was granted a decree of divorce from Hugo Ames the author and former private secretary to Sir Julian Pauncefote in Washington He withdrew his defense The suit alleged misconduct and desertion and a second marriage in America as bigamous Ames had a prior Idaho divorce claim but she contends it is invalid in England.
At St Galriel near New Orleans the Mississippi River packet J E Trudeau burned to the water and sank. Eight crew members, all negroes, were missing and believed drowned. The incident occurred early morning with authorities and rescuers rushing to scene.
The United States moves to dissolve the United States Steel Corporation and its subsidiaries. Replications label defendants' answers evasive and uncertain and the case is at issue. George Pepper named assistant prosecutor, master to take testimony, hearings to follow in New York and other cities.
United States Judge Angell acquits seven defendants in the bath tub trust case in Detroit. The court freed W A Myler Alexander Walker LC Huesman Max Garbel John Clifford and Reid Tarpenter while J L Wright remained not freed. Two others would have been acquitted but chose to continue with the case. The decision followed a defense motion to free those not charged in direct government testimony.
United States District Attorney Sherman T. McPherson announced charges against fifteen corporations for failing to file 1910 income tax returns. Fines of ten thousand dollars each are sought as many cases proceed in Cincinnati and Columbus. The move is part of a broader drive involving hundreds of similar proceedings initiated at the request of the IRS commissioner.
In Pittsburgh Feb 2 Kenneth H Morton and Joseph J Jackson faced United States Commissioner Mark A Foote after Morton confessed a Wells Fargo express robbery of 8 000. Morton said he and an accomplice hid the loot from a trolley car run between Pittsburgh and Butler and split the proceeds, with Jackson claiming he knew nothing until Elwood City. Jackson claims Morton gave him 2000 and he then buried the money behind his Harmony boarding house.
The Maryland Virginia Railway will increase capital from 1 million to 70 60 thousand to acquire and electrify the Bluemont branch of the Southern Railway. The line, between Bluemont Lewinsburg Alexandria, runs through Virginia and will join electric city lines via the Aqueduct bridge. No trains will cease during electrification and electric operation is aimed for early spring.
Charles Diggs, colored, shot Louise Dorgey at the Glen Echo home of ex mayor John A. Gar gett, is in Rockville police court, waived preliminary hearing, committed to jail without bail for murder, to stand for the March term starting March 16. Diggs admitted the shooting but gave no motive.
Creditors of Cal C C Wilson former president of United Wireless Telegraph Co seek a writ of Rabess to bring him from Atlanta where he is imprisoned to testify in his bankruptcy case. They allege Wilson disclosed assets by sending over 40000 to Europe and hope to locate the funds.
A farmhand suspected as Edward Di Donato alias Dennis Di Donato was jailed in Queens County after detectives found the name in his notebook. He is held in Troy pending identification in the December 13 murders of four Morner family members on their Troy area farm.
Chicago february 9 two prominent National Cash Register Company officials were arrested on indictments returned in Cincinnati charging violation of the Sherman act. Robert Patterson director of NCR and president of a motor car company and Cherlen T Walmsley manager were among those detained in Chicago tonight awaiting further proceedings.
Wholesale market report lists assorted fruits vegetables poultry and meats with distorted OCR. Entries include apples oranges potatoes cabbage peppers okra tomatoes Florida Virginia and New York items with mixed prices and unit labels difficult to parse.
In New York a young butcher named James Judns, grief stricken after his wife Katie’s death a week after their baby’s birth, killed the baby and then shot himself at his home. Two sisters heard the shots after reading a threatening letter from him. Separate dispatch: Albert Porrs of Glen Echo faced Justice on an abduction charge, posted $20 bail for a March 6 hearing.
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