The Archive · 1908

The United States

Service — THE DaY'S NEWS

New York, February 27.

Senator Foraker has introduced a Bill before the Senate to allow the re-enlistment of the Browns-ville troops.

The tunnel connecting New York and Jersey has been completed.

Mr. Elihu Root, Secretary of State, is reconsidering the invitation sent to the Pacific Fleet to visit Australia. It is possible that half the fleet will proceed to the Commonwealth after leaving Manila.—Qur Own Correspondent.

It will be remembered that rioting took place in August 1905 at Browns-ville, Texas, on the part of some men of a battalion, who fired into houses, killing one citizen and wounding another. When the troops refused to disclose the identity of the culprits President Roosevelt ordered the dismissal from the army of the entire "ce battalion of the 25th I—Ep.

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