World Happenings From Washington and Abroad
United States Chamber of Commerce members meet in Washington to discuss advising Congress. Osage Indian council turmoil and oil links prompt Justice Department review. Immigration bill passes house after long filibuster. Wilson security funding requested amid threats. Various trials, transport incidents, and international politics rounded out brief global notes.
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Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
Nagel
Congress
Interior Department
Uncle Sam Oil Company
Fisher
Department of Justice
Osage Indian Tribal Council
Secretary of the Interior
Dunne Must Wait Assembly Action
Springfield attorney general opinion holds Governor-elect Dunne cannot assume office until the election result is certified to the General Assembly by the secretary of state and declared in a joint session. The decision argues the assembly must determine the elected successors before any term begins, delaying Dunne’s take office despite Deneen’s willingness to step down. Breeders of Live Stock to Meet in Springfield February 4 to 6 with speakers Williams and Dorset and stock judging on February 6.
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Springfield
Stead
Deneen
Dunne
General Assembly
Secretary of States
William L. O'Connell
Joint Assembly
Supreme Court of
West Virginia
Ilinois
Goff
Wilson
Fleming
Walter Williams
School of Journalism
Missouri State University
M. Dorset
Biochemic Department
Bureau of Animal Husbandry
Washington
Master Plumbers to Meet in Illinois Capitol
Illinois Master Plumbers convene in Springfield for three days starting January 38 with welcome from the governor and city officials. Resolutions likely urge appointing a plumber to the state board of health and creating a state examining board for plumbers. A banquet and ball at the St Nicholas hotel cap the gathering with 700 delegates and guests.
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Illinois
Springfield
John 8. Schnepp
Resolutions Committee
State Board of Health
St. Nicholas Hotel
State Board of Health Meets Advances Infant Blindness Prevention
The annual meeting of the state board of health at the capitol approved a revision of the musical law to let midwives use medicines in newborns eyes to prevent blindness. An appropriation for purchase and free distribution of the medicines to midwives was recommended.
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State Board of Health
State Capitol
Webster
Supreme Court Reverses Commerce Court Ruling in Creamery Case
The U S Supreme Court reversed a commerce court decision that favored railroads over a New Orleans to Mobile class rate. It ruled the charge of combination in restraint of trade had not been sustained against Creamery Package Manufacturing and Owatonna Manufacturing. The ruling upheld the commerce court’s right to consider evidence the ICC relied upon and denied a broader overreach of federal jurisdiction.
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Washington
Commerce Court
Robert W. Archbald
Supreme Court of the United States
Senate
Archbald
Helm Bruce
Louisville & Nashville Road
Interstate Commerce Commission
New Orleans
Mobile
Alabama
Supreme Court
Commission
Creamery Package Manufacturing Company
Owatonia Manufacturing Company
Minnesota
Owatonna Fanning Mill Company
Wickersham
Federal District Court At
New York
James A. Patten
Americans Battle Mexicans in City Restaurant Brawl
In Mexico City on Monday evening three Americans dining in a restaurant fought 20 Mexicans after insults were exchanged. The Americans, aided by twelve policemen, subdued their opponents and were jailed. Crowds chanted death cries as Mexicans pressed for action, though no Mexicans were arrested. Rebel activity reportedly widens across the republic with raids and arson reported in multiple towns.
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Mexico City
Republic
Wyoming House Solons Riot Rages in Open Session
In Cheyenne on January 22 the Wyoming house of representatives erupted in a riot as Speaker Pratt and Speaker Pro Tem Wood clashed while presiding. The three quarter hour fracas halted parliamentary procedure with two confrontations between the leaders. A floor agreement ended the chaos with matters left as they stood.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
House of Representatives
Wyoming
Pratt
Wood
Colorado Again Has Two Senators
Washington reports Colorado now has two United States senators for the first time since 1911. Former Gov. Charles B. Thomas was sworn in as senator from that state Monday.
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Colorado
Washington
United States
Charles J. Hughes
Charles 8. Thomas
Crazed Soldier Kills Five in Austro-Hungarian Troop
A corporal in the Austro-Hungarian army, driven by a sudden mental collapse, shot and killed five comrades and fatally wounded three others at Nevesinje in Herzegovina on Monday. The attack occurred during a sudden outbreak of madness.
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Vienna
Austria
Nevesinje
Herzegovina
Ship Reaches Port Badly Wrecked
The Fur ness liner Chochina arrived at St Johns Newfoundland after fourteen days at sea from Baltimore for Leith with decks badly wrecked davits swept overboard and cabins smashed.
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St. Johns
N. F
Furness
Baltimore
Leither
Western Canada grows as post office work expands in 1912
A Winnipeg based report highlights heavy Christmas post office work with forty extra staff and special mail trains as Western Canada sees rapid immigration and settlement. The piece notes hundreds of new post offices, government support for towns along rail lines, and strong land prospects drawing up to 400000 immigrants in 1912, half from the United States.
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Western Canada
Winnipeg
Prairie Provinces
Old Country
Canada
Western Prairies
United States
Ottawa
Touching the Cardinal at Baltimore Convention
At the Democratic gathering in Baltimore last summer, two Ohio sergeants-at-arms, Col. John Bolan of Toledo and Capt. Joseph Dowling of Dayton, discussed touching Cardinal Gibbons as he left. Bolan joked about the cardinal and Dowling asked which pocket held it, then agreed to proceed.
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Cardinal
Baltimore
Ohloans
Col
John Bolan
Toledo
Joseph Dowling
Dayton
Bolan
Cardinal Gibbons
Joe
Dinner Table Quip Sparks Social Snub Joke
A witty exchange leads to playful banter about inviting twelve guests and the idea of a thirteenth guest spoiling the appetite. The remarks hint at social norms and etiquette in a lighthearted culinary setting.
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Sabath
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Wang
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George M. Reynolds
Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago
William Corcoran Eustis
William Rockefeller
Pujo
Samuel Untermyer
Money Trust Committee
Mr. Rockefeller
Palm Beach
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William B. Mason
Chicago
Richard W. E. Merington
Essex Falls
N. J
Marguerite Merington
Uranium
Halifax
N. 8
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B. B. Epting
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A. G. Boyce, Jr
Amarillo
Southern Railway
Riverside
Ala
E. L. Cragman
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Dalton
Lochie S
Louisville & Nashville
Cumberland City
John Fisher
Stanley Dobies
Lakeview Avenue
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Julia
Clarence 8. Darrow
Los Angeles
W. J. Ford
John D. Fredericks
Warren Live Stock Company
Francisb. Warren
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Put-in-Bay
Commodore Perry
Ohio Society
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Taft
Cipriano Castro
Venezuela
Ellis Island
Frederick W. Stevens
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H. P. Davison
Norman B. Ream
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad
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Watertown State Hospital
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Chicago State Hospital
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Kankakee State Hospital
Kankakee
Clesson C. Atherton
Elgin State Hospital
Elgin
Walter L. Treadway
Jacksonville State Hospital
Jacksonville
Whedon W. Mercer
Lincoln State Hospital
Lincoln
Emil Z. Levitin
Peoria State Hospital
Peoria
George W. Morrow
Anna State Hospital
Anna
Romney M. Ritchey
Francis J. Sullivan
Angelina Hamilton
Colin Thomas
Cook County Hospital
Harry C. Rolnick
Oliver P. Bigelow
Harry J. Dooley
Peter 8. Wimmer
Turner Avenue
Victor A. Bles
Minerva L. Blair
Graham M. Liser
Harry J. Free
Lucey
Aids
Patrick J. Lucey
Lester H. Strawn
George F. Ramsey
Mt. Carmel
Arthur B. Roy
Quincy
Don N. Detrich
L. H. Strawn
Thomas H. Dempey
Charles E. Woodward
Mede Cook
Streator
State Legal Department
Isaac Funk
Illinois Farmers’ Hall of Fame
Memorial Hall
College of Agriculture
The
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Urbana
John Andrew Holmes
A. P. Grout
Eugene Davenport
University of Illinois
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Illinois State Board of Agriculture
Thomas C. Kerrick
Elizabeth Funk
Doyle
Consolidated Chiropractic College
D. W. Metcalf
Elsie Merkle
Anna Z. Kirwan
Chester A. Harris & Co
Champaign
Chester A. Harris
John M. Dillavoy
Edward 8. Scott, Jr
Craig Letterworks
Everingham & van Dearr
Commerce
Solons
Western
Dowling
Popular Magazine
DR. Pierce
Mars
Alberta
Shine Country
Manitoba
Merchants L&t. Bldg
Cileage i. V. Michnnes
Jefferson Ave
Detroit
Fuente
Pt Somigration
Bale
Southern
Saskatchewan
McKinnon-Staste Land Co
Cedar Rapids
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