Messina Earthquake Toll and Rescue Efforts Expand
Reports from Messina Calabria and Reggio describe a vast disaster with estimates of up to 200000 dead. Italian King and Queen oversee relief, while US and other crews aid salvage amid roving looters and harrowing scenes of survivors and crushed ruins.
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Roosevelt Defends Secret Service Remarks to Congress
President Roosevelt replies to a House resolution on the use of Secret Service men. He denies accusing Congress as a body and cites debates in the Congressional Record. The message questions whether Congress wants the government to have an effective crime-detecting instrument and defends Secret Service actions.
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Terrorist Plot Arrests Targeting Czar at Tsarskoe Selo
Police say twenty arrests were made linked to a vast terrorist plot against the imperial family after a bomb exploded in St Petersburg’s Case Central. The blast killed a waiter and damaged the building, with suspects including individuals at the emperor’s Tsarskoe Selo palace.
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Tsarskoe Selo
Central
St. Petersburg
Police Blames Explosion for River Boat Wreck
A police boat on the Missouri River at St. Joseph Missouri was wrecked by dynamite blasts. Authorities suspect criminals carried out the explosion, which rattled the city and raised concerns over river safety.
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Bost
Missouri River
St. Joseph
O'Connell Named Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco
Mgr Dennis OConnell rector of the Catholic University at Wallington is appointed auxiliary bishop of San Francisco in a church announcement.
Supreme Court Refuses Review of 29 Million Fine on Standard Oil
Washington June 5 The Supreme Court denies certiorari in the Standard Oil rebate case leaving in place a Second Circuit reversal. Judge Landis had imposed a 29 million dollar fine for railroad rebate practices and the case returns for a new trial.
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Standard Oil
Su- Washington
Standard Oil Company
Supreme Court of the United States
Fuller
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Second Circuit
Landis
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Approval of Aid for the Dependent Children
Universal approval has been accorded the movement initiated by President Roosevelt calling a conference in Washington January 25 and 26 to discuss caring for the country’s dependent children. Messages from prominent Americans express sympathy with the issue, and the conference is expected to have far reaching effects on destitute and neglected children.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Supreme Court Denies Reid Pay Suit Over Brownsville Riot
The U S Supreme Court refused to interfere in Oscar Reid vouching pay for a negro soldier discharged over the Brownsville riot. The court held the amount involved was not sufficient to bring the case to the Supreme Court, upholding the district court ruling in New York.
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Brownsville
Supreme Court of the United States
Oscar Reid
District Court For
Southern District of New York
Reid
Chicago Prices Rise on Cold Wave Forecast for Wheat
Chicago grain and provisions close firmer as a predicted cold wave lifts winter wheat. Wheat May at 1.08 1/8, July 99 1/4. corn and oats mixed higher. South Omaha live stock receipts show cattle sluggish, hogs steady, and sheep largely unchanged with varied weights and prices.
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Chicago Live Stock Word Muggy Jan Fourth Report
Cattle receipts 87 000 down 10 20 cents with steers 4 60 to 7 66 cows 3 00 to 5 25 heifers 2 50 to 4 60 bulls 2 75 to 4 50 calves 3 50 to 9 00 stockers and feeders 2 00 to 6 00 Hog receipts 46 000 steady to stronger choice heavy 6 10 to 6 20 butchers 6 00 to 6 15 mixed 5 00 to 75 59 choice light 6 55 to 6 05 packing 5 65 to 6 08 plan 4 25 to 5 50 bulk of sales 5 65 to 6 10 Sheep receipts 26 000 wethers 4 75 to 5 00 lambs 7 00 to 7 60 yearlings 6 25 to 6 75
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