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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1905
Page
45
The Parama Canal board of consulting engineers met to study lock sizes and canal plans as they weigh sea level versus lock canal options. President Roosevelt will host the experts at Oyster Bay, with a luncheon and discussions on canal location and structure.
Berlin reports nineteen new cholera cases and seven deaths in the 24 hours ending noon today, raising totals to 123 cases and 39 deaths as a siege-like program extends from the Oder to the Russian border and from Danzig to Grodaszko. Hamburg batch includes 1000 emigrants from Bulgaria quarantined eight days, with 600 Russians and others from Germany and Austria. American consul protests detention of about 75 American citizens aboard Graf Waldersee. no more Russian emigrants booked until embargo lifts.
Vice President Fairbanks visited Sagamore Hill at Oyster Bay as a personal guest of President and Mrs. Roosevelt. He came with Mrs. Fairbanks who could not join due to illness from a heavy cold.
Domenico Musselino, cousin of Calabria’s Gentleman Brigand, lies at Jersey City City Hospital with a stab wound after an attacker slipped from a crowd at Ganze voort Market. It is the fourth attempted killing within a year. Also reported, Taggart divorce testimony closes in Wooster as witnesses appear, and Joe Ben Coleman is shot by South Carolina State Senator B. R. Blease in Saluda.
Hudgins & Dumas accuse that Panama Railway hotel bids were steered to Mr. Markel with alleged collusion and lack of advertised time, saying Shonts pressured a quick revision and that menus and prices favored the winner. Shonts calls the charges absurd and says bids were fair and openly considered.
Armour Car Lines contested ICC authority over refrigeration charges in a filing that asserts it is not a common carrier nor railroad agent. Separate responses detail relations with railroads including Southern Pacific and Santa Fe, claiming no secret understandings exist and that Armour sets and collects its own rates for icing and refrigeration services. The replies insist rates are just and that the commission has no jurisdiction over their paid business.
Gov Glenn directs full investigation into the death of Thomas Nall a patient at the State Hospital for the Insane and a diligent inquiry into inhumane treatment by any official or attendant. Directors must have sworn stenographic testimony filed with the governor.
Berlin dispatch reports Emperor William and Empress visiting Saalburg ruins with keen interest in excavation and restoration. Ross Winans of Baltimore, donor of the left gate, attended and was presented to the Empress as part of a large party of princes and commoners touring the fortified camp ruins.
In East Seventy first street a fire trapped Antonio Coletto and his two children under ten. He suffocated beside their bodies in the fifth floor hallway while rescuing his wife who escaped to a neighboring building. The incident followed his attempt to save the family. Guests of Gen Grant included M Witte and Baron de Rosen at Governors Island luncheon.
Reports from Pensacola and nearby cities describe eleven new yellow fever cases and one death, with a crew from the steamship Shawmut under observation in quarantine at the Delaware River. The spread includes New Orleans tallies and mentions a hospital clearance for a physician charged with reporting failures.
Secretary Hester releases his annual report from New Orleans detailing a 194 3006 cotton crop of 13,566,885 bales up 3,554, SL from 1903 1904. Regional gains are shown for Texas Gulf States and Atlantic States amid price, weight, and value figures.
The Census Bureau released a 1905 cotton gins report as of September 1 1905 counting round bales as half. Total 489 500 bales vs 374 821 in 1904. State figures include Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi Missouri and others with varying gains and losses. Ten year murder sentence Bristow Tennessee. Jeff Church given ten years after brutal stamping and shooting of James Campbell. Rev William T Capers named rector of Christ's Church Cathedral Lexington Kentucky succeeding Bishop Capers' son and Asheville Trinity Church rector.
In Annapolis on September 8 the Anne Arundel County Republicans completed nominations for seven county commissioners from seven districts and a county surveyor E Lacy Chinn. James H Murdock presided and Wilbur F Petherbridge read a petition urging resignation of Postmaster Washington G Tuck over alleged failures. action postponed.
Wood County files $100000 damage suit against Little Kanawha Railroad for not completing a bridge into Parkersburg or maintaining shops as required by bond conditions. Bonds of $175000 issued in 1896 were entrusted to the railroad to aid construction. The Little Kanawha syndicate and figures connected to President Ramsey Gowds Vanderbilt interceded in the dispute.
Parkersburg West Virginia editor Fred Merrick of the Social Rebel was jailed for ten days and fined twenty five dollars after refusing to answer grand jury questions in a bribery probe. He previously refused to testify and is from a prominent local family. Also reports on Supreme Court of Appeals business from various counties and a decision by the West Virginia Bar Association executives to hold the next annual convention in Fairmont on December 26 and 22.
Special to The Washington Poat Barboursville W Va report from West Virginia conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South notes adoption of a board of education plan for a joint school with the Kentucky conference at Paintsville Kentucky after lengthy debate. References to Dr Tigert Dr Du Pese Mr Shaw and a $5 donation are included
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