Class Laws More Tariff Is Greatest Evil Speech Tells South Carolinians
President Woodrow Wilson denounces class legislation and money madness in a Waldorf Astoria address to the South Carolina Society. He argues tariffs distort balance and warns against punitive taxes on wealth, urging a genuine reform that avoids special privileges and favors for any class. Leslie Shaw and Judge McCullough also speak on Calhoun and current reform debates.
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Woodrow Wilson
New York
Princeton University
South Carolina Society
Waldorf-Astoria
Wilson
Leslie M. Shaw
Shaw
United States
Investor confidence and railroad expansion urged amid panic
A local panic is blamed on psychological causes while urging investors to back railroad expansion. The speaker argues double tracking transcontinental lines is essential, warns against demagogues and government confiscation, and urges protection for investors to fund increased trackage.
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Pacific Coast
Belief Boy Found Sparks Delaware Search Effort
Dover reports indicate little Horace Marvin near return to parents after long distance calls with Dr Harvey Marvin in Dover. Officials and lawmakers push Roosevelt to use postal service in kidnap case, with Senator J Frank Allee meeting the President to urge cooperation.
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Delaware House
Alice
White House
Dover
del. Mar
Erie
Horace Marvin
Horace
Harvey Marvin
Marving
Canada
Port Huron
Bria
Hastings
Richards
Lea
Land Frauds Charged in New Mexico Coal Lands
A Santa Fe grand jury returned six indictments against individuals tied to Utah Fuel Company and Denver and Rio Grande Railroad for fraudulent land deals on San Juan County coal lands. Robert Forrester, Utah Fuel geologist, is named among the accused for conspiracy to defraud, subornation of perjury, and perjury related to filings on government coal lands based on information from F. C. Desendorf of the General Land Office.
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Albuquerque
N. Mex
Mar
United States Grand Jury
Santa Fe
San Juan County
Utah Fuel Company
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
Salt Lake City
Robert Forrester
F. C. Desendorf
General Land Office
Disvision
New Mexico
Arizona
Accuses Gov Hagerman in Timber Land Sale Probe
The New Mexican House adopted a report demanding an investigation into Gov Hagerman over 7000 acres of timber land shipped from the Territory to the Pennsylvania Development Company of Pittsburgh. The panel finds he signed 23 deeds without legal warrant and deems the disposal a fraud on the people and Territory institutions.
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New Mexican House
Santa Fe
N. Mex
Praise for G W Writes Hopeful Letter to GWU Fund
The George Washington University site fund gains over 1600 at a New Willard Hotel meeting. Subscriptions total 122315 with 3800 more since March 1. Endorsements come from President Roosevelt and Secretary Cortelyou, who urge broad national support for a 400000 site fund. Clergymen, bankers, and judges back the plan, stressing local contribution and future growth.
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Citizens’ Committees
George Washington University
New Willard Hotel
Merch Tf
Thomas H. Anderson
Macfarland
Neadham
University
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Cortelyou
Ing
Washington
George B. Cortelyou
War ships storm Trujillo as Honduras joins alliance
Salvador openly allies with Honduras in the war against Nicaragua. On March 10 a column of 2,500 Salvadorean troops landed at Amapala under Gen Jose Dolores Presa and moved toward Choluteca. Gen Bonilla leads Honduran forces toward Segovia with support from Nicaraguan revolutionists Chamorro and Chavarria. Guatemala refused Honduran revolutionists passage to invade Honduras.
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Amapala
Bonilla
Honduras
Segovia
United States
Princeton
Corrito
Nicaragua
Paducah
Port Limon
Costa Rica
Chicago
Marietta
Central America
Nero
Guantanamo
Trujillo
Salvador
Panama
Mar
Choluteca
San Miguel
Jose Dolores Presa
Ruef Case Postponed to Await Supreme Court Action
San Francisco March 18 The Ruef extortion trial moved to March 25 at Judge Dunne’s request to await the U S Supreme Court writ of error granted by Judge Hebbard The writ will be argued in Washington next Monday The Ruef Dinan conspiracy case also continues by consent to next Monday Pellman Gage Sale at Sloan’s 1407 I Street attracted a large social gathering with favorable notices The sale opens after 11 tomorrow The pew in St John’s Church at Seventeenth and H will be sold promptly at noon Friday
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Taylor
Dover
House
Roosevelt
Marvin Boy
Senate
San Francisco
Mar
Abraham Ruef
Dunne
United States Supreme Court
Ruef
Hebbard
Washington
Dinan
Wis
Pellman-Gage
Sloan's
Pellman G
St John's Church
Sucteenth
H Streets
CATTLEMEN SENTENCED IN NEBRASKA LAND FRAUD CASE
Omaha Neb March 18 four prominent defendants in a federal land fraud case were sentenced by Judge Munger. Bart Lett Richards William G Comstock each fined 1500 and jailed one year in Douglas County Jail. Charles G Jameson Acquilla Triplett fined 500 and eight months in jail. Indicted May 1906 for conspiring to defraud the United States of use possession and title to about 200000 acres in NW Nebraska. Trial began November 1968 and ended December 20 with guilty verdict. Appeals motions to be argued later.
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Omaha
Nebr
Nebraska
Munger
Wilted States Court
Bart Lett Richards
William G. Comstock Ware
Douglass County
Charles G. Jameson
Acquilla Triplett
Federal Grand Jury
United States
Foraker Denies Any Understanding With Taft Movement
Senator Foraker and allies deny any agreement to back the Taft presidential bid in exchange for re election favors. He says no one is authorized to claim such harmony and he has no intention of supporting Taft in Ohio or elsewhere. The piece notes possible opposition by his senate coalition, possible candidacy, and potential influence on delegates.
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Taft
Foraker
Washington
Senate
Ohio
Mr. Foraker
Newfoundland fisheries dispute sparks Conservative push for arbitration
In London the House of Commons heard sharp Conservative critique of government delays on the Newfoundland United States fisheries issue. Sir Gilbert Parker and allies urged arbitration as the only safe resolution, while Under Secretary Churchill acknowledged the delicate diplomatic stakes and the potential for imperial interests to clash with local claims.
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House of Commons
Newfoundland
Churchill
London
Mar
Hose of Commons
Gilbert Parker
W. W. Ashley
Marl Percy
Alfred Lyttelton
Trioniet
United States
Death in McAdoo Tunnel Caisson Accident
Edward Rockey of Jersey City, 37, was crushed to death when a ladder slipped in a caisson box at the McAdoo tunnel terminal at Church and Dey streets. Robert Roga, 28, was injured, possibly fatally. The incident occurred during work in New York.
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New York
Edward Rockey
Jersey City
Robert Roga
McAdoo
Church
Dey
Rockey
Standard Family Coals
J Maury Dove
Temperance Celebration Smashes Over 100 Bottles in Collingswood
In Collingswood New Jersey near Philadelphia 500 residents watched as young women led by Mrs Elles Maussnef dubbed chief bottle smasher smashed more than 100 bottles of brown stout in a temperance protest at the Methodist church. The event followed a weekend bottling campaign that distributed about 180 bottles and saw 400 bottles brought for destruction though only 100 were ready for demolition.
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Washington Post
Collingswood
Camden County
Elles Maussnef
Methodist Church
Two Ships Wrecked as 600 Rescued Off Irish Coast
London reports the White Star liner Suevic wrecked near Prawle Point after colliding with the Jebba. Nearly 600 aboard include 160 children and many women. Lifeboats failed in heavy seas and fog. Crew remains with the wreck as other vessels ashore along the south coast. Captain Jones of the Suevic had thirty nine years at sea.
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London
White Star Line
Suovic
Hitler-Dempster
Jebba
Calabar
Delagoa
Plymouth
Liverpool
Prawie Point
Africa
Febba
Suevic
Mari&Details
Witte Gar Gpa
Seaater Bueviec
Sydney
New South Wales
Cape Town
Brandies
Lazard
Lizard
Falmouth
Grins
Jones
Rye
Dungeness
Dover
Cuckmere
Newstead
Novoreasysk
Black Sea
Woman in House of Commons Causes Alarm in Chambers
A woman disguised in male dress briefly enters the British House of Commons chamber before being escorted away. Attendants and MPs react with alarm, then learn she followed MP Kennaway for a ticket to the women’s gallery. She exits with escort, embarrassed by the misstep.
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House of Commons
Washington
London
Pankhurst Clew
Mr. Kennaway
Two Dead in Feud in Ashland Kentucky
In Ashland Kentucky a feud ends tragically as Frank Dutton is killed by Sam Rose and is then himself killed by Elias Dutton, brother of the first victim, in a village with ties to western Virginia. A posse pursues the remaining suspects as family vendettas erupt from past betrayals.
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Washington Post
Ashland
Frank Dutton
Hellear Tocey
Sam Rose
Elias Dutton
Frank Dutter
Bliag
Dutton
Rose
Virginia
Alcene Rose
Kentucky
Sam Rove
Frank Cutter
Ross
Bilas
Thaw Trial Advances as Last Experts Testify
The Thaw case nears verdict with four expert witnesses left. Hummel affidavit contradicts Nesbit testimony, implying Thaw attacked her with a cowhide whip in Tyrol, while police testimony brands Thaw irrational after the shooting. Delmas presents the record and Hummel sentencing remarks as Jerome’s remarks surface. Three alienists, Hammond, Jelliffe, and White, testify that Thaw was mentally unbalanced, unable to grasp his act, though form of insanity remains unsettled.
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Evelyn Nesbit
New York
Delmas
Jerome
Fitzgerald
Hummel
Harry K. Thaw
Europe
Abraham Hummel
Miss Nesbit
Thaw
Stanford White
Betten
Austrian
Tyrol
Supreme Court
County of New York
Harry Kendall Thaw
Abraham H. Hummel
Howe & Hummel
Plaintiff
Mr. Delmas
Graeme M. Hammond
Smith Ely Jelliffe
W. A. White
Government Hospital For the
Washington, D. C
Thaw Wag
4Evans
Wagner
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