Against Gillett Bill False Economy Is Restrictive to Personal Liberty
Editorial argues Taft reform on government salaries risks depriving workers of savings via a compulsory contributory plan. It asserts the Gillett retirement bill imposes heavy deductions, harms average civil servants and families, and questions the policy’s economic logic and fairness. The piece cites deduction ranges and questions the bill’s impact on effort and future needs.
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Pow
Taft
Gillett
Civil Service Commiesion
United States District Court
Cumberland
Rose
Baltimore
Salares
Congress
Gillett bill faces opposition from Western Maryland merchants
Moses K Albert a Hagerstown merchant was adjudged bankrupt and Henry H Keedy Jr elected trustee as creditors debate the Gillett plan. The piece argues the measure harms personal liberty and service efficiency, citing salary impacts and opposition from opponents. An unrelated train collision in Missouri leaves one dead and nineteen injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses K. Albert
Hagerstown
Henry H. Keedy, Jr
Flost
Chicago, Burngton and Quincy
Editor John M Julian Dies of Pellagra at 36
John M Julian editor of the Salisbury Evening Post and secretary of the Nye Memorial Association died after a two week illness from pellagra in Salisbury North Carolina. He served in the North Carolina legislature and was private secretary to Len 3. Ovarman in the U S Senate. He was 36, survived by wife and three children. He was son of D R Julian, the Yates County sheriff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bpeetat
Washington Post
Salisbury
John M Julian
Salisbury Evening Post
BHI Nye Memorial Association
Julian
North Carolina
Len
Ovarman
United States Senate
Julan
Washington
D. R. Julian
Rowan County
Baby Fatally Burned in Oil Lamp Explosion in Richmond
In Richmond on Sept 18 a confectionery owner found his 14 month old Henry fatally burned and his 3 year old daughter Ethel scarred when a nurse attempting to heat milk ignited her clothing by an oil lamp explosion. The nurse Lassie Webber was badly burned and unlikely to recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Richmond
Hmanuel Vtanian
Broadstreet
Henry
Ethel
L.fe
Lassie Webber
Generals Attend Reunion at Antietam Battlefield
Civil War veterans gather in Sharpsburg Maryland for the thirty ninth annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Potomac. Public exercises include prayers welcomings orations and tributes with notable attendees Gen Daniel E Sickles Gen Horatio C King Gen Frederick D Grant Gen John C Black and Gen J E Duryea present. Tomorrow Indiana State monument dedication awaits.
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Sharpsburg
Society of the Army of the Potomac
General Society
Antietam National Cemetery
W. S. Hubbell
Military Order of the Medal of Honor
William Blackford
John T. Lockran
Thomas Walsh
Brooklyn
New York
Frederick D. Grant
U. S
John C. Black
J. E. Duryea
Cumberland Y M C A drives toward goal with $3 592 raised
The Cumberland Y M C A campaign aimed at 55000 raised 3592 yesterday with Herman Billmeyer contributing 2130 and John W Young 1462. Total donated to date stands at 33286. Also notes changes in church calls, local incidents, and official meetings across Maryland and nearby areas.
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Cumberland Y. M. C. A
Herman Billmeyer
John W. Young
Virginia Briefs Report Seasonal Return and Probate
The Rev. Thomas Heath of Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church Cape Charles returns from summer abroad. The will of Alexander Pratt of King George county valued at 20000 dollars. widow receives 3000 dower, remainder split among five children. Executors named John L Pratt and Dr F C Pratt. Petersburg District Baptist Association adjourns at High Hills Church near Jarretts Sussex county selecting Thomas Memorial Church Drewryville Va as next meeting site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Heath
Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, Cape Charles
Alexander Pratt
King George County
John L. Pratt
F. C. Pratt
Petersburg District Baptist Association
High Hills Baptist Church
Jarretts
Sussex County
Thomas Memorial Church
Drewryville
Prisons Experts Try Ice Cream Soda in New York
Frederick H. Mills guides visiting British German Belgian Swedish and other prison officials to a Broadway ice cream parlor where twenty vanilla sodas are served. The group, curious about American luxuries, vows to try them again though one German delegate overindulges and suffers a stomachache.
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Washington Post
New York
Frederick H. Mills
International Prison Commission
Washington
United States
Mills
Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise
Home Office
Dr. von Engelberg
Ministry of Justice
Charles Didion
Belgium
Victor Almauist
Ministry of ‘Justice
Sweden
Broadway
Congress
Mins
Hotel Plaza
Fear America in China Seen by Japanese Paper
The Tokyo Koku min Shimbun reports policy shifts at Peking, citing Tang Shao Yi and urging Yuan Shih Kai to return. It predicts greater American influence in China and notes Tang’s China american ties and unfulfilled promises on Manchuria and railways. Copies arrived in Victoria, B C, Sept 16.
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Peking
Victoria
B. C
Kokumin Shimbun
Tokyo
Tang Shao Yi
Yuang Shih Kai
America
China
Kekumin
Yuan Party
Manchuria
Hotels Guests List Across Cities and States
A lengthy roster highlights hotel guests in Boston Chicago New York Philadelphia Pittsburg and more. The compiled list names numerous individuals and couples with their cities and hotels including Shoreham St James and others across the United States and abroad, from Raleigh to Los Angeles and beyond.
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Boston
J B. Gil
St. James
Leslie Ryder
Vinty
Raleigh
Thomas Mannix
Shoreham
Chicago
R. E. Janney
W. D. Smith
L. Fried
A. P. Rankin
Will ‘Rankin
A. H. Barter
H. J. Kubler
Sam Strauss
Kerfout
Trummer
Mr Mecklenburg
J.M. Ditton
John 0 Wood
F Cohan
George M. Cohan
GB. Walker
William Yemple
Willard
Johnson
John T. Tucker
Dudley
Newton
Postar
M.V Doscher
I. M. Lloyd
Ebbitt
Alfred Newmann
A W Decker
C. W. Warrington, Jr
B J. Burke
Philadelphia
F. J. Mitewall
Charles K Bennett
Sweeten
J. Gould
Misa Gould
J. E. Martin
Ebbiit
J. J. Gesseteman
Pittsburg
L. R. Richard
Sal, Brekstein
E. B Smith
James M. Meyers
Sakai
Brikika Ene for surwave honors Emil Falk of Iowa
Emil Falk gunner's mate on the battleship Iowa was commended for bravery on September 1 off Annapolis Massachusetts when he plunged between the hull and a lighter to save shipmate James E. Stanley who drowned after slipping between vessels. Falk, who dived repeatedly, faced crushing or drowning risk. Nicholson praised his conduct in the highest terms. Falk enlisted at Buffalo and is from Milltown New Jersey where his father Joseph Falk resides.
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Emil Falk
Iowa
James E. Stanley
Annapolly
Stanley
Falk
Nicholson
Navy Department
Buffalo
Milltown
N. J
Joseph Fall
Requests for Clerical Pay Hike Highlight 1896 Report
General Whipple reports rising living costs and urges substantial salary increases for office clerks. Salaries fixed since 1870, no raises amid mercantile and corporate wage hikes. National Guard convention in St. Louis from October 3 could drive War Department backed legislation and potential cooperation with the regular Army.
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Whipple
C. 5S. Whipple
Army
National Guard
St. .Louis
War Department
Army order lists officers' September visits and transfers
A military orders document for September lists officers including Lieut. Col. John T. Knight and Maj. Frasier A. Boutelle bound for inspections, visits to powder companies in New Jersey, and travel to California and the Philippines. It covers transfers to judge advocate roles, reassignments to Washington, D. C. and West Point, and reliefs at the Military Academy with subsequent station changes.
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John T. Knight
Layson Moore
First Cavalry
William J. Snow
Sixth Field Artillery
Frasier A. Boutelle
US 9A
William Tschappat
Ordnance Department
K. ‘I. Dupolict de Nemours Powder Company
Haskell
N. J
International Smokeless Powder and Chemical Company
Parlin
Blanton Winship
Department of the Fast
Hitetty
San Francisco
Cal
Department of California
John B. Porter
Philippines
Washington
D. C
Judge Advocate General
Army
Eral
Stuart C. Godfrey
Cleveland C. Gee
Corps of Engineers
Washington Barracks
David McC. McKell
Coast Artillery Corps
West Point
United States Military Academy
McKell
Lambert W. Jordan, Jr
First Infantry
Military Academy
Naval Orders and Assignments for Midshipmen and Officers
Naval officers and midshipmen receive duty assignments including Kinkaid to Annagolie Maryland and Rose to settle accounts. Promotions include Crapo to duty in New Hampshire and Bright to Puget Sound Navy Yard. Reports list ships arrived at Hampton Roads Newport Mare Island and sailings from Norfolk Boston Conneaut and San Francisco for various destinations.
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Kinkaid
Naval Hospital
Annagolie
W. W. H. Rose
G. R. Crapo
New Hampshire
Ansit
T. J. Bright
Navy Yard
Puget Sound
Wash
Robinson
Albany
J. M. Deem
A. W. Brown
Labanon
Hampton Roads
Wolverine
Dunkirk
Macdonough
Bailey
Stringham
Newport
Whipple
Mare Island
Lebanon
Norfolk
Hampton ‘Roads
Conneaut
Ohio
Boston
Hull
Truxtun
Paul
Jones
Perry
Prebie
Stewart
Lawrence
Galfsborough
Rowan
San Francisco
San Diego
Roumania to Aid Turkey in Secret Pact
The Matin reports a secret military treaty between Roumania and Turkey. Roumanian forces would assist Turkey if Bulgaria is attacked, with Austria and Germany said to have inspired the agreement.
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Austria
Germany
Paris
Matin
Turkey
Roumania
Bulgaria
Officer swept into sea on Swazi voyage to Marseille
Second Officer Funnell of the British steamer Swazi was swept overboard and lost during a gale after the vessel sailed from New York August 31 for Marseille and other ports. The ship, commanded by Capt Abbey, encountered a gale near Algiers on September 16.
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New York
Algiers
Funnell
Abbey
Marseille
Russian Diplomat Dying in Paris
Paris September 16 M Alexander Ivanovich de Nelfdorf the Russian ambassador to France lies near death after an apoplectic stroke suffered while traveling through Munich on August He has served as ambassador at Constantinople Rome and Paris across his career in service to Russia.
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Paris
Alexander Ivanovitch de Nelfdorf
France
Munich
Constantinople
Rome
Flooded Norfolk waterfront after heavy northeast gale
Norfolk Virginia reports seawall and lower streets flooded as high tides follow a northeast gale reaching 45 miles per hour near Cape Henry. Separately in Annapolis Maryland John W Martin petitions a mandamus against trustees to appoint a single school principal, citing legal provision and a push for a male head. An association convention announces officers with Paul Schultze of Chicago as president and next meeting in Kansas City.
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Norfolk
Washington Post
Cape Henry
Boagg
Annapolis
John W. Martin
National ‘Association
Bakers
Paul
Schultze
Chicago
M. J. Mulgrew
Dubuque
Iowa
Charles £. Abbott
New York
Kansas City
Baltimore
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Western Maryland News
Carolina
Vuauwe Dais
Baby
Grant
King
Potomac
National Cemetery
Antietam
Walter B. McKinley
Hancock
Episcopal Church
Davis
Westernport
Webster Wade
J. H. Wade
Boonsboro
Washington County Sunday School Association
Newton &. Funkhouser
Big Pool
Elizabeth Brown
J. FR. Bryan
State Board of Health
Washington County Water Company
Antietam Creek
Harry M. Shafer
Clements Construction Company
Hutton
Oakland
Shafer
The
Brotherhood of Railway Firemen
West Virginia
State Board of Embalmers
Parkersburg
Eliott Northcott
Colombia
Huntington
Bogota
T. R. Turner
Nicholas County
West Virginia Horticultural Society
Charleston
State University
E. H. Munson
E. J. Simonds
Nebraska
J. H. Cook
W. Va
Bluefield
Goodby
Arizona
Virginia Briefs
California
H. Philipps
C. F. Philippa
W. H Hobin
Stockton
F. B Elberson
Los Angeles
Raleigh G
Behrend
Richard Grimes
Connecticut
C. L. Lake
New Haven
Georgia
Illanois
George H Lindburg
T. Windle
Wits
Moline
W. M. Dillon
Riggs
Harry B. Schumacher
Missouri
H. Hextwell
St. Louis
Augustus Tunge
Joplin
A. Brettler
Peter Dorkin
Frank N. Horn
New York State
F. D Henry
Joseph Stoughton
Yonkers
B.M. Ryder
Niagara Halls
Raleigh New Jersey
F. H Carleton
Newark
F. H. Stewart
Orange
Mahlenmartin
Glen Ridge
Philip Reid
Hoboken
George’ J. McKilvey
Jersey City
N. D. Hates
Dayton
Homer Hoffman
Nicev
M. BE. Beman
Dalphos
C. R. James
Cantor c. Brown
G. T. Etzenberger
Frana €. Burtseher
Cleveland
W. H. Allen
Akron
Pennsylvania
Frank Reader
John Read Nimer
A. B. Keane
York
Jonts Brooke
W. Stokes
Morristown
H. S. Elder
F. H. Martin
Nazareth
Tennessee
Ailen Smith
Knoxville
John & Frank
Memphis
Texas
Eugene Fox
el Paso
Samuel Hunt
Fort Worth
Ebbite
Virginia
M Frank
Paul Howard
E. J. Wilkinson
Chester Barnett
Fort Myer
J. M. Waller
H.T. Harrison
W. J. Harrison
Leesburg
Charies Ghoster Titus
Ephitt
W. F. Barth
Wellsburg
H.P. Brightwell
W. G. Rohe
Fairmont
K. Takaahati
Clarksburg
C. C. Booker
N. Wolfe
Switzerland
I. Feo
Hongkong
McLern Myatt
Whitehett Place
London
Benoit Cohn
Konigshere
F. Mutzenbecker
H. Mutzenbecker
Hamburg
Em! Behn
Berlin
Velix Otho
W. Olho
Moscow
Russia
Paul Tomenschein
Frague
Willer
Brikika
Navy
ARMY @EDERS
Weben
Soft
Derby
Westery
Somers
Henry ‘Heath
Jean-Mede Hata
Calvert Co
Highlands
Virginia Highlands
Twelfth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Lane Park
Ballard & Lanham
13Th Street
N. W
Niagara Falls
R. R
Vane
Holmes
Burchell
N. W. Burchell
John F. Ellis& CO
Penna, Ave
Knox
Keeley
State
Northast
Washington, D. C
Washington Schools
National
Cathedral School For Boys
Fig
Mount Saint Alban
Adone
J. L. Geegg
Emerson Institute
Revenus Cutter Service
Goeeldy Nutes
Inseow
H. Randolph
Columbia
Cal. Ave
Misses Lippincott & Baker
ST. Margarets
California Ave
Misses Lippincott
BAKER
Aia Ak
Star Laundry
Post
At Rducationse
George Washington University Department of Law
Ni Law School
Sheae
Arnea Landing
Qt Court OF Appeals
Department
George Washington
Stree College of Payioeering and Mechanic Arty
Mere Ae
Fifteenth
Teachers’ College
New Masonic Temple
H Street
Department of Dentistry
George Washington University
Department of Medicine
American Medical Association
Medical Examining Board OF England
W. G. Borden
Histon
Gunston Hall
N.W
Totaymeding Academie
College Pri Pepe Alory
Beverley A. Meson
Strayer'n
Strayer’s
Business College
GLO Masomic Temple
Ninth and
F Streets
University School For
Art Point
Annapoli
Robert L. Preston
Eighteenth Street
United States College OF Veterinary Surgeons
U. & Government
Hall-Noy
Kirlergarten
Sotlege
Frances Mann Hall
A. M
Bliss Electrical School
Eecehicad School
GuicaGo AE
Takoma Park
Washington School of Accountancy
Y.M. C. A. Institute
G Street
Emreil
H At
Sethune
Business School
New York Ave
Ldssons
Holy Cross Academy
Sis Courees
Nagawal Metropolitan Bank
St Nw
Law School
Am St
Law Department
Georgetown University
Iserninga
Deere
IL BR
Aegres
Lem
Wadnesday
Tuftion
Ros Watkins
Georgetown Law Sehool
Pa LE
Eacey
Lee Ka Eal Fyaps
Uae
Sobol Trbek
National Cathedral School
Mount ST Alban
B. T
Steinway
Dupont Circle
Georgetown
Barbour Walker
E. Capitol St
Miss Madeira
Vassar, Smith
Wellesley
MUBIC
Mies Lucy Madeira
Vassar
Nineteenth Street
Washington College of Law
Massey
Kaw York Ave
Phon. M
Weasue Ksnaguaoue
Mwae
Potomac School
Kate i. Estey
Eighteenth St
Washington Fest
Thoringn
Weil
Speak
Reid
Mlle
Prum’ Homme
Ind
Ave
Maryland Schoole
Peabody Conservatory
Harold Randolph
ML Vernon
Washington Fince
Amg
Tence Ritenes A ‘Uition
Cirenlara malied_ TOME SCHOOL
Hove
Endowed
Thoras & Baker
Port Deposit, Md
Rock Hill College
Elliott City
Chool
Nest
Warrenton
Botha Military Academy
Mes
Chris
Wan Manhood Fm
Cherget
WM. M. ER
Theo
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