Crisis in Santo Domingo as US treaty stalls
News from Santo Domingo reports acute tension after the US Senate delayed treaty action. President Morales warns of possible uprisings and foreign demands, notably Belgium seeking $25,883 monthly customs receipts, potentially triggering US ultimata and Monroe Doctrine concerns. Foreign powers move to seize ports as Dominican finances threaten collapse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgium
United States
Santo Domingos
Republic of Santo Domingo
Senate
Santo Domingo
Morales
Kingston
Castine
Chattanooga
Samana ‘Bay
Detroit
Puerto Plata
Dixie
Monte Crist
Sigsbee
Guantanamo
Barker
Sumner
Jamaica
Santo Domingo Sugar Tax Controversy Reaches State Dept
A New York firm owned by Hugh Kelly & Co. protests Dominican production tax on sugar, alleging violation of Morales decree exempting sugar from taxes. Attorney Drammond Kennedy presented the complaint to Acting Secretary Atlee, seeking judicial review of the tax and referencing a July arbitral award. The steamer Aurora reportedly awaits load at Azua with sugar on board, taxed at 10 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santo Domingo
Drammond Kennedy
New York
Hugh Kelly & Co
State Department
Atlee
Domiinican
Morales
Aurora
Azua
Kennedy
Dawson
Reader Answers Joubert Shows Letters Signed Morales
Special to The Washington Peat reports two Diaz era letters published by the Readers purporting to prove Morales invited A B Reader for interviews in January 1906. The letters, in Spanish on Dominican crest paper, are dated January 5 and January 3 and address Reader and E Perez.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morales
Washington
New York
Euailio C. Joubert
B. Reader
Reader
Dominican Republic
Carson F. Morales
Constitutional de la Republica
A. B. Reader
E. Perez
Republic
Mr. Reader
Santo Domingo
Atlas
Perez
Jamestown Exposition advisory board to include Cleveland
Norfolk on March 22 reports the Jamestown Exposition Company will name a hundred member advisory board at its April meeting. Former President Grover Cleveland will head the list after endorsing the exposition and offering any service to aid the movement. Notables named for invitation include Woodrow Wilson President Eliot Cardinal Gibbons Admiral Dewey Gen Chaffee Gen O Howard Thomas Edison and others. The item also notes Santo Domingo financial inquiry by Prof Hollander and ongoing government discussions related to the United States assumed control of fiscal affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Grover Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton Universality
Eliot
Harvard University
Cardinal Gibbons
Admiral Dewey
Chaffee
O. Howard
Thomas A. Edison
George Weatinghouse
Simimons
Blaine
A. Coke Smith
Henry Watterson
Chester S. Lord
George
Foster Peabody
Thomas Nelson Page
Ana Winston Churchill
Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo
Morales
United States
Prof
Hollander
Johns Hopkins University
Porto Rico
Senate
Congress
Judge Abbott
Point Comfort
Newport News
Norfolk& Washington Steamboat Co
New York
Boston
Alive or not in vault mysterious Indiana case
Mrs Susan Sulger died entering her Cannellton home ten days earlier and was placed in the cemetery vault. Residents believe she may be alive prompting Cincinnati specialist involvement and an official inquiry. The strange delay and in vault watch add to the eerie mystery surrounding the case.
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Indiana
Tech City
Ind
Susan Sulger
Cannellton
Cincinnati
Sebaat Bey
Ittervale
Retreat at an End Overtaken by Japanese
A Times dispatch from St Petersburg reports Russian forces concentrating south of Changchun with official circles optimistic they will contest the remaining 150 miles to Harbin. It notes Japanese cavalry in front of Russian lines near Machantzy, and describes retreating Russians along major roads toward Kirin and Changchun with artillery fire heard and efforts to reform.
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Kirin
Gunshun
Pass
Washington
London
Times
St. Petersburg
Changchun
Harbin
China
St Petersburg
Sakharoff
Mukden
Kuropatkin
Linovitch
Hag
Petersburg
Linevitch
Machantzy
Tokyo
Kaiyuan
Tie Pass
Gunshum Pass
Pursu
Liao Yang
Shakhe
Tse Pass
Nicholas
Negral
Tie Puasa
Col
Maitel- Gof
Rirapelé
Iris
Unsha
Neelereeral Banking Department of
Union Trust Co
Troops Swarm Into Roa Station Camp As Red Cross Rounds Up Relieved Defenders
A vast military camp has grown at Roa Station as Red Cross relief arrives. Army facilities overflow the native hamlet with troops advancing north while fresh units from Russia move south to relieve exhausted rear guards. Gunfire echoed through the night.
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Roa
Red Cross
Urgpedn
Russia
Fanix
Attempted assassination shocks city streets
A fragmented report describes a chaotic shooting where Poline Demterel was struck in the street and wounded. Several shots were fired causing panic as bystanders feared a fatal attack. Police have not released a formal statement or the suspect’s whereabouts.
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Poline
Demterel
Russian Pacific squadron seeks juncture with Togo
The report from St. Petersburg on March 22 indicates that Admiral Rojestvensky plans to join Admiral Nebogatof with the second Pacific squadron within ten days and then proceed to meet Admiral Togo. The third division, commanded by Rear Admiral Nebogutofg, has left Suda Bay for Fort Said.
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St. Petersburg
Miral Rojestvensky
Nebogatof
Togo
Mine Explosion Kills Six in Princeton Mine
A Princeton Indiana mine explosion kills six miners and injures four, with two fatally. Rescuers face after damp gas as roof timbers collapse, delaying recovery for hours. Names of the dead include Hudson Weatherly Edmond Geiser Albert Geiser Harry Taggart William Bigge George Dill.
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Princeton
Ind
Princeton Coal and Mining Cempany
Hudson Weatherly
Edmond Geiser
Albert Geiser
Harry Taggart
William Bigge
George Dill
John Dil
William Jones
Dill
Plot to Kill Five Men In Feud Case Testimony
Testimony in the Thomas Cockrill homicide case details a plot to murder five men in retaliation for Cockrill's killing of Benjamin Hargis. Witnesses link James Hargis to planning executions and threatening statements. White, urged to shoot, declined and returned the pistol, with further threats tied to Hargis and associates.
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Cac
Jeff” Smith
White
Cockrill
James
Hastgin
Jim Cockrill
Callahan
Dectinea
Hares
George ‘Smith
Curtis Jett
Wiitness
Hargis
Judge Hargis
Lexington
Towboat Sinks on Ohio River Near Wheeling
An unidentified towboat with all on board sank in the flooded Ohio River at Beaire Ohio four miles below Wheeling after striking a channel pier of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge. The exact number of lives lost is not known.
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Nicholas Nicholaievitch
Mukden
Lineviten
Alce
China
Gunshu Pass
Manchuria
Te Pass
Sipinghai
Tie Pass
Oyama
Tehai River
Liao River
Szores, &c
Washington
Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio
Beaire
Baltimore and Ohio
Doctors Plead Guilty In Shakespearean Swindle Case
New York March 23 Dr Henry A Laine and his assistant William Hale were arrested for swindling John McCullum a Mount Vernon carpenter out of 10000 to 40000 via false claims of radium cures. Indicted for grand larceny first degree. The accused returned $10000. judge remanded prisoners. Hale previously jailed in England for practicing medicine without license. Laine tied to Josiet case for eighteen months.
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Washington Post
New York
Henry Alaine
Thirty-fourth Street
William H. Hale
John McGullum
North Sea Street
Mount Vernon
McMahon
Derrane
County Medical Society
Abraham ‘Lev
McCullum
England
Aupin
Vice President Fairbanks Visits Greensboro in Southern Swing
Special to The Washington Post Greensboro N C March 22 Vice President Fairbanks spoke to a distinctly Southern audience at the Tarheel Club banquet amid a large Republican gathering Representing counties from coast to mountains the attendees welcomed him as a potential next president The event marked a bold push to win North Carolina for the GOP with a plan to attract independents and expand party influence in the region The banquet stretched past midnight as attendees debated prohibition and enjoyed mineral water while Fairbanks and party toured the city then prepared for a Washington return tonight
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Washington Post
Greensboro
Fairbanks
South
Georgia
Ana
Tarheel Club
Black Belt
North Carolina
Rand
Guilford Battlefield
Cornwallia
Yorktown
Washington
Southern Railway
Col
M. W. Richards
Virginia
Senator Overman
Congress
Blackburn
Bluecoats
Yelteas
Internal Revenue
Erkes
Dixon
Montana
M. M. Parker
Wolf Declined Presidency of B nai B rith Lodge
In New Orleans on March 22 the Constitution Grand Lodge of B nai B rith retained the secret work. Memorials praised A N Simon of Hanover Dr Leo Horowitz of Krakow and President Leo N Levi. Wolf was unanimously re-elected president but declined. Officers elected included Adolph Pause bicamp and J B McIus Solomons. A Levi memorial volume fund of 2600 was approved. A sanitarium proposal for Hot Springs Ark was referred to charity committee. The session and banquet followed.
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Orla
Ana
Constitution Grand Lodge
B'nai B'rith
A. N. Simon
Hanover
Germany
Leo Horowitz
Kraken
Austria
Leo N. Levi
Levi
Hot Springs
Ark
Committee On Charities
Simon Wolf
Adolph Pause Bicamp
J. B. To
Bridge
Ont
Rmclus Solomons
Tivovnias
Ars Tagok
Furth
Jacob Rin
N. Galisck
Phil Bian
Joseph Hirsh
Fulane
Today in Briefs and Notices From the Issue
INDEX TO TODAY'S ISSUE PART ONE lists items including Kentucky murder plot disclosed theater manager assails Jerome receiver for investment company smallpox spreads in hospital weather and travel notes district government affairs and racing season opens. PART TWO covers testimony in Hooker inquiry labor suit stock markets and local financial affairs.
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Kentucky
North Carolina
Jerome
Russia
Castro
Army
Navy
Virginia
Maryland
Satie Alfonso
France
Washington’s
Senators
Hooker
Vitriol for Jerome in Defense of His Theater
Oscar Hammerstein invites District Attorney Jerome to visit the Lew Fields Theater and be kicked out of each of its twenty-two doors to prove they open outward. The Republican Club notes theater violations and urges enforcement, while the mayor’s committee calls theaters reasonably safe.
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Republican Club
Washington Post
New York
Oscar Hammerstein
Jerome
Lew Fields Theater
Hammerstein
Hammieratéin
Vénty
New
Wille
Chanretta
Victoria
Willie
Committee On
New York County
Dewey
Provident Investment Bureau in Receiver as Latimer Flees
Investigation reveals assets of about 3200 dollars against debts totaling 1 million as creditors allege 4 percent monthly returns funded by principal, with Latimer and associates blamed for reckless dissipation. New York readers and Philadelphia victims are cited, along with Storey Cotton Company links and a court-ordered receiver.
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Philadelphia
Washington
Provident Investment Bureau
Storey ‘Cotton Company
Wal‘nut Street
Florida
Canada
California
W. H. Latimer
Pennsylvania
Crystal Palace
Maine
Edgar J. Pershing
Robert M. Anderson
Holland
J. Hector McNeal
McNeal
Mo‘eity
Latimer
New York
Walnut Street
Storey Cotton Company
Back
Latimer’s Bureau
Kansas man loses bride in failed wedding bid
John W. Younkin arrived from Wichita Kansas hoping to wed Salina Miller in Claysville Pennsylvania but the ceremony was thwarted as the bride-to-be changed her mind and planned to wed another nearby man in a few days. The incident followed a series of aborted wedding dates and engagement talks.
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Washington Post
Claysville
John W. Younkin
Wichita
Kans
Sunflower State
Younkin
Salina Miller
Miss Miller
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Associated Press
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Nues of
Santo Domingan ‘Porta
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Joubert
Royal Pilsen
Warwick's
Ibth & G Nw
Brody
Bennings
Ake Pennsylvania R. R
Fifteenth St
Sunday Post
Ged
Graught
Jack Brugger
Campbell
Kanage Cityi
Attornay
New ‘York Ave
Penn
RB. RE
Ain Aireet
Er Firat
Inding
Catalomi
Pretended, Radhim Cure
Given
A. Royal
Yerkes
Berbow
Guliford
Neapow
Sali
Patrvanks
Wolf
Calton
Rebto
Shumate
Frith
Vorite
Part
Kansas
R. KR
Washingtons
Coldenstroth's
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