Contractors Dig Interview on Canal Contract Plan
An interview with a member of the President's expert commission reports Secretary Taft favored private contracts for Panama Canal work if feasible. He cautioned plans depend on data, with Wallace noting most of the canal could be contracted except the Culebra cut. The commission will decide whether government or private firms should build, while Shonts is credited with backing the plan and eight hour labor rules pose cost considerations.
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Expert Commission
Taft
Panama Canal
War Department
Wallace
Culebra
Ghonts
Stevens
Corps of Engineers
Anal Commission
Shonts
Stevens Will Remain As Chief Engineer At Canal Project
Panama October 23 Chief Engineer John F Stevens denied rumors of resigning stating there is no truth to the report. He said he is satisfied with his work and will stay until the canal system is finished. Stevens visited Colon to review the water supply project for Colon, due for completion next December.
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Canal
Panama
Canal Zone
John F Stevens
Stevens
Colon
Brooke to accompany Taft to Panama for fortifications study
Lieut. Mark Brooke of the Corps of Engineers is added to Secretary Taft's party to Panama to inspect and report on fortifications for the Isthmian canal. Brooke, who handled carnal property during the U S purchase from the French canal company, travels with Taft to the project.
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Mark Brooke
Isthmus
Taft
Power Stock Suit Against Judson Hoadley Recounts Trial Proceedings
In New York, the stock broker case Franklin Scott & Co. vs Judson Hoadley and Joseph Leiter proceeded as witnesses testified. Lawyers argued partnerships and pooling in International Power stock, with Justice Amend ruling on motions before closing statements by Edward Mooney and opposing counsel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Imony
Willb Franklin
George Isham Scott
Franklin, Scott & Co
Cyrus Field Judson
Joseph H Hoadley
Tut
International Power Company
Joseph Leiter
Chicago
International Power
Tras
Justice Amend
McCook Board
Leiter
Judson
Hoadiey
George C Graham
L’amo- Teaux
Mr. Beard
Graham
Hoadley
Leser
Edward IL. Mooney
Butchers Celebrate Fiftieth Anniversary Banquet in Washington
The Washington Butchers Beneficial Association marks its fiftieth anniversary tonight at National Rifles Armory on G Street near Tenth. President Christopher Rammling will preside and deliver the welcome. Delegates from Baltimore join local members for a banquet and ball with German addresses by Rev. James Buhrer and Myer Coten. Guests include Baltimore association delegates arriving at seven. Officers listed: Rammling president, J B Dietz vice president, Fritz Hess secretary, George J Bessler treasurer, Carl Mudler chair, Kert Hammer, Frank Wel Bant Sr.
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Washington Butchers’ ‘Beneficial Association
National Rifles’ Armory
G Street
Tenth Street
Christopher Rammling
Charles Graff
Antone Ruth
James Buhrer
First Reformed Church
Myer Coten
Baltimore Butchers’ Beneficial Association
Washington
Charlan Starak
Washington Journal
J .B. Dietz
Fritz Hess
George J. Bessler
Carl Mudler
Kert Hammer
Frank Wel- Bant
Dentist Rankin Held On Harassment Claim
Margaret Brett, a manicurist, accused dentist Arthur Rankin of persistent harassment including sending her a cabload of flowers and stalking her with her fiancé. Rankin denied the charges claiming she was the pursuer. Magistrate Steinert ordered Rankin to stay away for six weeks. Rankin’s wife attended.
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Miss Brett
Rankin
Washington Post
New York
Arthur Rankin
West Side
Margaret Brett
Misa Brett
Dr. Rankin
Brett
Steinert
President's Rate Idea Takes an Optimistic View
Samuel Spencer of Southern Railway arrived in Washington and praised President Roosevelt's Raleigh railroad speech. He notes the shift from absolute to maximum rates and from immediate to delayed enforcement, arguing the administrative body can set fair, reviewable rates while preserving railroads' leeway amid car shortages and freight congestion. He warns that absolute rates could fix unfair regional advantages and cripple carriers.
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Samuel Spencer
Southern Railway
Washington
Hig Way South
Roosevelt
Raleigh
N. C
Spencer
Interstate Commerce Commission
Attorney Generals
Congress
Commission
Cincinnati
Chicago
St Louis
Atlantic Seaboard
Favors Rate Legislation Convention Set for Chicago Next Thursday
A radical group backs enacting a federal railroad rate fixing commission to end discrimination. Delegates from across the country will gauge public sentiment, aiming to show momentum for new law in the next Congress. E P Bacon leads the call from St Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
E. P. Bacon
St. Louis
Congress
Explosion at Good Hope Church Harms Dozen in Panic
In Good Hope Ohio a gas machine explosion at the Methodist Episcopal church during services fatally injures janitor Charles R. Bell and injures about thirty others as worshippers stampede for exits. The church suffers severe damage.
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Brown
Washington Court House
Ohio
Methodist Episcopal Church
Good Hope
Charles R. Bell
Poison Mystery at Buffalo Ends in Deaths
Elias Haffa and his wife Dora were found dead at 188 Kreiner Street Buffalo. Albert W. Berlins, a boarder, was found unconscious and hospitalized. Arsenic poisoning is suspected in a case with a mysterious aspect. A son reports frequent quarrels between Haffa and his wife.
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Buffalo
Elias Haffa
Dora
Kretiner Street
Albert W. Berlins
Haffa
Ohio Woman's Plack Supreme Court Interest Focuses on Ten-Year Case
Arguments concluded in the US Supreme Court in William Marvin v. Belle Trout over Ohio anti gambling laws and real estate liens. Pendleton argued constitutional limits and due process, while Mrs. Trout’s counsel asserted Marvin knew of gambling on his property and profited from it.
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United States Supreme Court
William Marvin
Belle B. Trout
Ohio
George F. Pendleton
John Poe
Lindsay
Frank Trout
Belle Trout
Ours
Trout
Clifford and Grogsman
Marvin
Pendleton
Por
Clifford & Grossman
Connecticut Billy Killed in Shelton Store Robbery
Ogdensburg New York October 22 the burglar killed by a clerk during a Shelton store robbery has been identified as Connecticut Billy a member of a widespread post office and store burglary gang Chief Inspector Watts of Boston traced him from photographs and a description circulated after his death The man linked to previous bank and jewelry jobs and later captured in Ohio and West Virginia Niles Harvard Tennis Champion Cambridge Massachusetts October 33 N W F Niles of Boston won the Harvard tennis championship defeating F J Sulloway of Franklin Falls New Hampshire in straight sets 6 1 6 3 6 0 He is also noted as national interscholastic champion
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Washington Post
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Jennison & Gallup Company
Shelton
Watts
Boston
Connecticut
Billy
Kelly
J. F. McCarty
Windsor
Windham County Savings Bank
Newfane
Warrenton
Ohio
Columbus
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Onio
Niles
Harvard
Cambridge
Mass
Crowe recalls Chicago diamond robbery and Cudahy kidnapping
Omaha prisoner Pat Crowe describes his first Chicago theft ten years earlier, robbing a woman of diamonds, shooting officers, and paying off two cops. He details the Cudahy kidnapping plot, forcing a boy’s release bid, remorse after the crimes, and his vow to reform. He notes the ransom and his disgust with wealth. He sits in Douglan County Jail recounting the episodes.
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Workington Post
Omaha
Nebr
Pat Crowe
Douglan County
Chicago
Cudahy
Davenport
Iowa
Governor Folk Faces Mansion Fire in Jefferson City
The Missouri governor’s mansion sustained about 10000 in damage after a fire in the second story hallway. Gov Folk, his wife and two guests escaped to a nearby hotel while the governor helped save portraits of former officeholders. The fire was extinguished after more than an hour. insurance fully covers the loss.
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Jefferson City
Folk
Quarantine Raised in Chattanooga and Mississippi Fever Report
The Chattanooga city and county board of health raised the quarantine today, in effect since July 28, while Natches Mississippi reported two new yellow fever cases, both colored, bringing total to 13. Quarantine was lifted at 6 o clock in the evening with freight restrictions remaining in place.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
City
County Board of Health
Natches
Miss
Brothers in law give skin grafts after railroad accident
Three brothers in law of John Boyce of Sugar Notch near Wilkes-Barre Pa donated large skin grafts to cover his shattered arm. The men, tied by marriage, offered their tissue in a remarkable act of aid on October 23, as the incident drew local attention.
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Washington
Wilkenbarre
John Boyce
Sugar Noeteh
Here
Bsan
Janes
Maniman
Beth
Faithful cook saves girl from would be assailant
In Wilmington New York Virginia James eight is rescued by the kitchen worker from Will Carter an eighteen year old black man who seized the child as her parents left for church. Carter fled but was captured by the sheriff and taken to Goldsboro to await further action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R Speetal
Washington Post
Wilmington
N. Y
Will Carter
Virginia James
Howard James
Wallace
Goldsboro
Robbery near Seventh and Streets Northwest Leaves Polaski Maimed
George Polaski, 27, a drover from Towns Creek Virginia, was robbed of a gold watch and about $350 plus a railroad ticket and valuables after being lured to a dark park spot by two unnamed men. He was beaten with a blackjack and gagged but managed to describe one attacker as tall with an English accent in a shabby suit and a faded derby, the other short with a vest and black slouch hat. Polaski was treated at Emergency Hospital and the suspects fled toward the Monument. police pursued unsuccessfully.
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George Polaski
Towns Creek
John Cunningham
Frank Hilte
Polaski
Hig Hotel
Monument
Washington
Seventh Street
Pulaski
Cunningham
Hills
Hilte
Pokeman McKeever
Destitute Van Dolsen sisters Die In New York Room
In New York City a 72 year old Matilda Van Dolsen died after a pair of strokes in a cramped East 129th Street room. Her sister Francesa, two years younger, shared a shrinking income from their father and grandfather’s estate, clinging to keepsakes amid dire want and refusing hospital care to avoid separation.
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New York
Matilda van Dolsen
Henry van Dolsen
Washington
Willam H. van Dolsen
East 129Th Street
Miss van Dorsen
Francesa
Miss van Deelsen
Sistera Hved
Kupferberg Case Faces Pardon Plea And Tenacious Court Conflict
In a lively Justice Wright court session Kupferberg's sentence of four months to the workhouse was questioned anew. Julius Peyser argued for mercy and filed a habeas corpus petition alleging lack of arraignment. The dispute centered on record defects and inadvertent misstatements influencing the earlier sentence, with both sides stressing they meant no disrespect. The court warned the point should have been raised earlier and vowed to set aside the sentence if needed, while maintaining a calm, cordial tone throughout.
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Justice Wright
Kupferberg
Julius Peyser
Clabaugh
Peyser
Turner
Wright
Tait
Kunferberg
United States District Attorney
Pegger
Ofice
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Richard W. Henderson
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Young Men of
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