Cabinet adopts rule on federal appointments nationwide
The cabinet approved a general policy limiting appointments to federal posts to incumbents with satisfactory service, applying to all departments. It also considers retirement, with some brigadier generals eligible after forty years. a later announcement is expected on specific appointments and promotions.
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Conela Buel
Sora
Iles
Brigidwer
Toros
Bertie
Republican
Anderson Faces Senate Clash Over Colored Man as Internal Revenue Collector
Opposition to the nomination of a Black man for Internal Revenue Collector in the New York City district grows as the Senate Finance Committee weighs the Anderson appointment. Reported resistance from several senators suggests a possible Senate refusal, with only a few backing the nominee and others remaining noncommittal.
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Bers
Finance Committee
North
South
Anderson
Tno
New York
Internal Revenue
New York City
Senate
A S W Anderson
Bisconthrea
Ait
Alusau
Platt
Connecticut
Spooner
District Judge Nomination and Senate Confirmations
The President nominated District Judge Edward Whitson of the Eastern District of Washington and Brigadier General Allen Smith among army officers. The Senate confirmed several nominations for consuls and diplomats including George E. Anderson, Robert Chilton Jr, Hunter Sharp, Robert Brent Moshes, William Phillips, Henry Pletcher, Thomas Ewing Moore, Charles Wilson, William Blumenthal, Lewis Einstein, Craig Wadsworth, John Ridgely Carter, and Jerome Martin. Iowa Senators defer confirmation of George L. Dobson for Nottingham consul. The GOP elite in Iowa oppose the Dobson nomination due to a political dispute with Frank W Mahin.
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Senate
Judgie Edward Whitson
Washington
Allen Smih
Sixth Cavalry
Rdy
Sesson
George E. Anderson
District of Columbia
Antigua
Robert Chilton, Jr
Toronto
Ontario
Canada
Hunter Sharp
Serth Carellaa
Kabe
Japan
Robert Brent Moshes
Collingswood
Willam Phillips
Massachusetts
Segational
Peking Chine
Henry P Pletcher
Pennsylvania
Lisbon
Portugal
Thomas Ewing Moore
Columbea
Roumania
Servia
Charles $. Wilson
Maloe
Greece
Montenegro
Bulgaria
Athens
William Blumenthal
New York
Paris
France
Lewis Einstein
London
Craig W Wadsworth
John Ridgely Carter
Maryland
Jerome Martin
New Mexico
Las Cruces
Society at the Booths for Benefit of Working Boys Home
A St Patrick Day benefit at Rauscher's features booths from many nations to aid the Working Boys Home and Children's Aid Association. The American booth, led by Miller, will include a Philippine village, navy and army reps, ice cream at the north end, and a Japanese tea garden. France and Dutch booths will showcase cuisine and costumes, with a German booth and garden dining, and numerous local ladies and dignitaries assisting across all booths.
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Working Boys’ Home and Children’s Aid Association
Working Boys’ Home and Children's Aid Association
Rauscher’s
St. Patrick’s Day
Ass Editi
Miller
Miss Chaffee
Army
Maxwell
Navy
Dewey
Cowies
Thomas Gaff
Chaffee
Morton
Taft
Islands
North Pale
Rockhill
China
Booth
Lee Phillips
Chentung Liang Cheng
Herbert Wadsworth
France
Cleveland Perkins
Joh Poor
Clearing Sea of Derelicts and Name Change Case
Navy faces clearing twenty seven derelicts from Brandiago to Newfoundland endangering Atlantic shipping. Lebanon steamer likely outfitted at Portsmouth NH for this service as Congress funded dedicated vessel. Justice Anderson approves Rev George Franklin Hopkins and Dr Saleni A Hopkins hyphenated Armstrong Hopkins name change to preserve Mrs Hopkins scholarly and missionary identity.
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Atlantic
Navy Department 1
Brandiago
Newfoundland
Hydrographic Office
Navy Department
Lebanon
Portsmouth
Navy Yard
Hopkins
Justice Anderson
George Frank
Saleni A Hopkins
Burton T. Doyle
Arlington Fire Insurance Company Elects New Officers
At a board meeting held at 1505 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Arlington Fire Insurance Company elected 8. Thomas Brown as president, Herbert A. Gill as vice president, Edward McC. Jones as secretary, and Willam M. Beall as assistant secretary for the ensuing year.
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Wustees
Arlington Fire Insurance Company
Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
Thomas Brown
Herbert A. Gill
Edward McC. Jones
Willam M. Beall
Funeral of Gen Bate Witnessed by Supreme Court Cabinet
A state funeral for Tennessee Senator William Bate was held in the Senate chamber with President Roosevelt, Cabinet members, and the diplomatic corps in attendance. Clergy led by Chaplain Hale officiated, the body placed on a bier, and flowers filled the desks as the ceremony concluded with a prayer and a note on an escort train to Nashville.
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Senate
Gev
William B. Bate
Tennessee
Prent Roosevelt
Mmpers
Cabinet
Supreme Court
House
Eix
Root
Hiintt
Carmack
Morgan
Procter
Alger
Daniel
Pettus
Foraker
Mallory
Spooner
Culberson
Scott
Chamber
Fairbanks
Hale
Samuel H. Greene
Calvary Baptise Church
PF. J. Prettyman
Mount Vernon Square Methodist Church
South
Supreme Cou Diplomatic Corps
Aroae
Justice
Harlan
Takahira
Roosevelt
Loeb
Hay
Morton
Magdy
Greene
Prettyman
Bate
Hns
Nashville
Tenn
Southern Railway
Washington
Senator Carmack
Buten
Diplomatic Corps
Allison
Senatore Carmack
Overman
House of Representatives
Sims, Brownlow
Gaines
Gorman
Senator Bate
Berry
Blackburn
Knoxville
Tribute to Senator Bate Poem and Bible Ad
A patriotic poem honoring a late senator and a vintage notice promotes Thomas Jefferson’s Bible edition from The Post Business Office. The ad claims official plates, exhausted stock, and that the copy is unavailable through booksellers, urging examination at the office and offering the book at half price.
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Thomas Jefferson
Congress
Normal School Garden Work Praised By Secretary Wilson
Secretary Wilson commends the plan to train youth in agricultural science at city normal schools. The meeting at the Department of Agriculture highlighted the greenhouse program at Normal School No. 1, with two years of plant propagation work and classroom garden study.
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Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Normal School
Wildlett M. Hays
A. T. Stuart
Willett M. Hayes
Susan B. Lips
Washington
Normal School No. 2
Sarah W. Brown
Normal School No. 1
Orange House
Brads
Service Summons Quashed in Libel Suit Against Sun
Chief Justice quashes service of summons in Oscar J. Ricketts libel suit against Sun Printing and Publishing Association publisher of the New York Sun. Suit claims defamation over awards at the St Louis Exposition. Process on Correspondent Oulahan deemed improper under the District code.
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Ricketts
Clahaugh
Oscar J. Ricketts
Sun Printing and Publishing
New York Sun
The
Sun
St. Lows
Oulahan
Thurston
D. W. Baker
Hibbetts
A. S. Worthington
Charles L. Fratley
Warner Named Respondent in Pension Suit
Hon Vespasian Warner named as respondent replacing Acting Commissioner James Davenport in the Ossenberg pension case. Chief Justice Clubaugh postponed the show cause hearing to a future date. Ossenberg seeks a medical examination to prove alleged disabilities warranting a pension increase.
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Ossenberg
Vespasian Warner
Commissioner of Pensions
James Js. Davenport
Pensions
William _ Ossenberg
Clubaugh
Army Officers Ordered to/assignments and moves in 1905
Orders to army officers list leave approvals for First Lieut Alfred T Clifton and Second Lieut Henry B Brinkerhoff, plus transfers and duties for Capt Walter Baker and others. Includes board appointments at Fort Myer and Fort Sheridan, ordnance and engineer moves, recruiting assignments, and naval movements with ships arriving and sailing from various ports.
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Alfred T. Clifton
Signal Corps
Henry 8. Brinkerhoff
Fourth Infantry
Walter I. Baker
Nagasaki
Tokyo
Japan
Hobert Smart
Engineers
Herbert Deakyne
Corps of Engineers
George Montgomery
Ordnance Department
Frankford Arsenal
Frank S. Borr
Fifteenth Infantry
Charles Morrie
Artillery Corps
Army Ratiing Board
San Francisco
Edgar Rvesell
Tracy C. Dickson
Field Artillery
Frank A Grant
Seattle
Coupeville
Wash
Robert G. Carter
Birmingham
Ala
John L. Barbour
Parkersburg
W. Va
Case Will Go to the Jury in Chadwick Trial Saturday
The Chadwick trial in Cleveland nears jury deliberations as Judge Taylor presses for completion. Attorney Garry pressures financial methods with loans totaling 157000 and 104000 on a day, while Wing argues conspiracy absence. Carnegie leaves Cleveland after subpoena, and other notes cover a brooch theft, Hargis writ denial, and a New York reform proposal.
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Garry
Cleveland
Ohio
Chadwick
Taylor
Thomas H. Garry
Judge Wine
J. P Dawley
Mr. Dawley
Divorce Helped Deal Wife Remain in Europe
A Sioux City report recalls Thomas Melham securing a divorce to enable a deed to land sold to the Great Northern Railroad. He sought reimbursement for divorce costs and a possible future wedding, claiming the divorce allowed him to sign over property without his wife’s signature while she was abroad. The court and railroad agents debated who should bear costs as Melham faces a awaiting European developments.
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Washington Post
Sioux City
Iowa
West Fourth Street
Thomas Melham
Great Northern Railroad Company
Melham
America
Europe
East Fourth Street
Gordon
John L. Snapp
Great Northern Company
Meiriam
Mr. Snapp
Great Northern
Alleged Insurance Plot Behind Cottage Grove Shooting
In Cottage Grove Oregon March 10 a letter claiming John Fletcher wanted to end his life led to discovery of a body with a bullet wound but alive. Suspect John Branton allegedly plotted to kill Fletcher to claim an $8000 life policy, borrowed the revolver, shot Fletcher, and urged him to say it was self inflicted. Fletcher later swore an affidavit accusing Branton.
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Cottage Grove
Oreg
John Fletcher
Fletcher
John Branton
Branton
Diamonds Seized and Forfeiture Sought in San Francisco
The collector of customs in San Francisco seizes twelve thousand dollars in diamonds connected to Louis Hospidal an agent for a French firm. Hospidal carried diamonds from Havana to Mexico then to San Francisco where he was arrested and released after surrendering the stones. The customs officer now holds them awaiting condemnation and forfeiture as smuggled goods possibly stolen property. The case is referred to Washington for instructions.
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San Francisco
Louis Hospidal
Havana
Hospidal
Mexico
Washington
Prairie Fire Sweeps North Dakota Town
A severe prairie fire starting eighteen miles west of Husendale, North Dakota, swept into the town on March 10, destroying many farm houses and hay. The blaze moved rapidly as winds shifted north, burning hundreds of livestock and causing extensive losses in the area.
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North Dakota
Husendale
N. Dak
Hanged Negroes Identified in Murder Spectator
Birmingham March 10 two Black men named Jud Brham and Alexander Robertson were hanged for murder of their sweethearts. Robertson in his cell identified Jim Williams, a spectator, as the policeman Bennett killer. Williams denied the charge and was jailed. Alderman Hart acquitted of bribery in Chicago. Train wreck at Corry Pa injures engineer and fireman. Father hanged for killing child in Toronto. Hood's Sarsaparilla ad copy closes the fragment.
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Birmingham
Ala
Jud Braham
Alexander Robertson
Robertson
Jim Williams
Policeman Bennett
Williams
Chicago
Frederick “St. Hart
Hart
Corry
Evie
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsfield
Adams
Toronto
Ontario
Alexander Martin
Purinton Tells Women How to Fast Kiss in Seventeenth Street Salon
Special Washington Fest report from New York details Edmund Harle Purinton a slim young preacher who advocates fasting to awaken the soul and teaches how to kiss. At Mrs. Edward M. Schley’s residence he extols self denial, nakedness, and “The Kiss” as poetry. He also targets Roosevelt, praises self-control, and reads from his verse heavy with erotic imagery.
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Edmund Earle Purinton
New York
Edmund Harle Purinton
Edward M. Schley
West Seventeenth Street
Purinton
John D Rockefeller, Jr
Rockefeler
Dr Lust
New Jersey
Hernhart McFadden
Hall Caine
Roosevelt
Miss Davis Monument Inscription Sparks Mississippi Debate
Meridian Mississippi March 10 Mrs Margaret H Hayes daughter of Jefferson Davis urged the Confederate Veterans of Mississippi to have the state recognized on the Davis monument to be erected at Richmond Virginia She argues her father considered himself Mississippian and hopes the inscription is changed favoring Mississippi as the most beloved state Davis widow’s input urged also as preferred by Hayes Princeton Faculty Changes Princeton NJ March 10 Lovett elected astronomy professor at Princeton to replace Young Rockwood resignation listed also Russell and Dewitt named trustees Theater case Chicago March 10 venue change bid denied in Will J Davis manslaughter case Iroquois fire case docketed for trial Furnace explosion Johnstown PA March 10 three foreign men killed at Cambria Steel Works Gunfire and death Fort Wayne Ind March 10 Joseph Jobst killed wife then killed himself woman to survive filing for divorce
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Jefferson Davis
Meridian
Miss
Margaret H. Hayes
Colorado Springs
Confederate Veterans of Mississippi
Mississippi
Richmond
Davis
Princeton
N. J
Princeton University
Edgar Odell Lovett
Charles
Augustus Young
Charles Greene Rockwood
Archibald D Russell
New York City
John Dewitt
Chicago
Marenio
Will J. Davis
Fudge Kersten
Johnstown
Cambria Steel Company
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Culloms
Llanois
Reuds
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Vivo
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Naturalization Commission
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Smetler
Beales
Buco
New York Cie
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Star Department
Asan Gubard Hunt
Bussport Mureiu
Departmieni
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Teehans
Bhatia
Beare Lepartment
Ty Chios
le Hge
United States
Vegas
Joe Protaty
Ges
Oedaeas
DeLong Citzens
Vontie Wis
Ventinette
Wis
Isaac Ste
Lodas
Rousevele
George L. Dobson
Des Maines
Nottingham
England
Republican Organization of
Dobson
Frank W Mahin
Clinton
Woodson
Missouri
Society
Arlington Fire Insurance
Gen
MR. Roosevelt
Clea
Martha L. Gielooww
D. C
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It. Tracy
A. A. Cotten
F. M. Russell
Naval Academy
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Whipple
Pensacola
Paul Jones
Port Townsend
Stewart
Newark
San Juan
Érethuts
Guantanamo
Cacear
Hampton Roads
Yanket
League Island
Mrs. Chadwick
Wing
Spear
Judge Wing
Mr. Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Lake Shore Railroad
Carnegie
Sylvester T. Everett
Euclid Avenue
Somerville
Mass
Frank Burns
Scranton
Empire Theater
Hargis Brothers
Frankfort
Eky
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Breathitt County
Fayette Circuit Court
Cockrill
Jackson
Committee of
Cassie Chadwick
Wagoner
Akron
Aaron Wagoner
Akron Savings Bank
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Hood
Psyghig
Sapho
Eve
Mississippy
Fort Wayne
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Joseph Jobst
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