Loenikar reports on Ifo rnians discuss JapanEse question with president
Loenikar notes a discussion led by officials with the president regarding a Japanese question. The meeting highlights domestic concerns and potential policy implications.
12 Feb 1907
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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1907
Page
1
Loenikar notes a discussion led by officials with the president regarding a Japanese question. The meeting highlights domestic concerns and potential policy implications.
Mayor Schmitz and the San Francisco delegation faced White House questions after a cabinet session on the Japanese school issue. Roosevelt urged rescinding the Oriental school order while noting California voters oppose Japanese immigration. Schmitz said separate schools were to ease crowding, not exclude whites. Delegation spokesmen pledged unified statements.
Rabies is epidemic among sheep in Western Wisconsin per Dr Henry Roeme of the U S department of agriculture visiting La Crosse on February 12. One flock of eighty sheep was condemned and killed amid fears the disease has spread to other flocks. Stringent measures will be taken to stamp out the epidemic.
A new British expedition to the South Pole will depart England in October led by E H Shackleton, formerly third lieutenant on the Discovery Antarctic voyage, with influential support backing the mission.
A fragment notes Pierre, D. and Maidieu to Martin as targets of an inquiry. The committee accuses them of making charges and declares no payment for any costs. Names of the charges are demanded as the investigation proceeds.
Report from St. Petersburg dated February 12 notes slow election returns with Moscow and Odessa showing strong opposition wins. Kazan lists forty five Octoberists and thirty five opposition electors. Smolensk and Voronezh go to Social Democrats. Vladivostok names three Socialist electors, two jailed or exiled. Minsk vote carried by Liberals but canceled on petition. possible second vote before parliament. Priest Gregori Petroff seeks to overturn parliamentary disqualification for Christian Socialistic stance. Group of Toil reports most ex-deputies re-elected except Alladin who did not sign Viborg manifesto.
Four men attempted to hold up a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern freight train near Terre Coupe, twelve miles from South Bend. After a prolonged running fight with citizens of Terra Coupe and New Carlisle, the posse and robbers exchanged many shots. the robbers surrendered once out of ammunition.
Telegraphic brief reports snow for the first time in many years in Mexico City. Brooklyn Tommy Sullivan signs to fight Abe Attell in Tonopah Nevada. King Edward awards the Order of Merit to James Bryce, the British ambassador to the United States.
Dr. Charles Wagner testifies that Harry Thaw did not know the act was wrong when he shot Stanford White. Mrs. Thaw recalls a cafe Martin note and says Thaw never carried a pistol except in New York City. The defense and prosecution spar over insanity evidence as new courtroom rules limit spectators.
The White House statement says the president contacted Postmaster General Cortelyou to see if mail bans can block papers publishing full disgusting details of the Thaw case. It notes he does not know if feasible but wishes it done if possible.
Judge Bunn grants an alternative writ of mandamus directing ten railroads to comply with the Minnesota railroad and warehouse commission rate order effective Jan. 24. Writs served on Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha et al. Railways seek federal injunction claiming rates are so low as to be confiscatory.
In Wallace Idaho on February 12 the life of Steve Adams opens a courtroom fight between state prosecutors seeking Adams' conviction for the murder of Fred Tyler and the Western Federation of Miners defending Adams against charges tied to the Steunenberg assassination.
An earthquake of considerable violence was felt in Charlottesville at about 23 a.m. Dishes rattled as Professor F. W. Reed recorded the tremor at the University of Virginia. The quake lasted about twenty seconds.
In a head on collision near Gates Mills two fast moving cars on the Eastern Ohio traction crashed. A dozen people were injured and both cars were wrecked and burned.
A sharp quake was felt in Kingston Jamaica early today but caused no damage. The tremor disrupted morning activities without injuries or structural harm.
President Bonilla of Honduras reports Nicaragua massing troops on the border and preparing an invasion. Honduras vows to resist, while Nicaragua aims to test U S involvement and maintain its regional power balance.
A Washington conference among Secretary Root Assistant Secretary Bacon and Mexican ambassador Creel led to plans for identical notes from the United States and Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua urging restraint and recommending arbitration in Salvador. Rules for arbitration are outlined, with similar messages to El Salvador Costa Rica and Guatemala.
In Allentown Pennsylvania Edwin Reidnauer a baker and his four children Percy eight Fannie five Pauline four and Arthur two were killed when a doughnut fat spill ignited a blaze. Reidnauer attempted rescue but died from smoke. Mrs Reidnauer escaped to summon help.
In Minot North Dakota February 12 sentences from fourteen to twenty years were handed down for the Sawyer bank robbery. Charles Sullivan received eighteen years John Hayes seventeen E G Robinson fourteen years and ten months and Robert Conroy twenty. Robinson confessed first and received a lighter sentence. The four men had looted about five thousand dollars and were led before Judge Goss guarded by two bailiffs. They will be transported to Bismarck immediately.
A special dispatch from St. Petersburg reports an infernal machine discovered accidentally in a chimney of Count Witte’s house. The device was timed to explode after the family retired for the night, posing a dangerous plot against the former premier.
A trolley car traveling twenty miles an hour passed an open switch near Wyandotte harming ten passengers and fatally injuring probable victim Miss Ida Kamin of New Boston Michigan.
William Honey Mellody of Boston, world welterweight champion, won the decision in the fourth round against Willie Lewis of New York in Valley Falls Rhode Island. Lewis’s seconds threw up the sponge.
The senate passed the army appropriation bill totaling 81 million dollars. An amendment allowing reduced rates on army supplies and transportation for officers and enlisted men failed on a McCumber point of order. Another proposal to raise pay by 20 percent failed by Hale. Monuments and memorials funding followed, including statues for Nathaniel Greene at Guilford Courthouse and General Schrivner of Midway, Ga. Carter won adoption of adding William H. Crook to the retired list as a major.
Washington notes that in committee the house backed a flat 4 cent street railway fare with eight tickets for 25 cents in the District of Columbia, but the amendment failed in the full house. a no quorum call ended the session at 5 10 p m while the Indian appropriation bill moved to conference with Sherman Lacey and Stephens named as managers.
In New Orleans on February 12 a blue sky carnival drew about 200,990 spectators as King Pex arrived by the Mississippi. The Proteus Krewe featured twenty floats depicting Arabian Night tales the Queen of Serpents realm. A masked street pageant led to the Krewe ball at the French Opera House and a general ball with society leaders.
Imperial California February 12 last water through Colorado river break shut off after long struggle by Southern Pacific Railroad. New and Alamo rivers carrying water to Salton Sea dry up in the valley, with Salton Sea expected to fall steadily and nearly disappear in about ten years due to evaporation. Floods caused little damage to cultivated lands.
A blaze at the Waverly House family hotel in City Square Charlestown killed one man, injured many, and left more in danger as exits were blocked. John Harrigan, 35, is named among the deceased. Firemen aided guests by raising ladders to upper floors. several guests used fire escapes to reach the street.
A fire destroyed the Coliseum Annex in Chicago injuring five firefighters from a gas explosion. The blaze threatened the main building and caused about 75,000 dollars in losses to the annex and to exhibitors at the Chicago hardware show opening Wednesday.
William Goff a night cashier at the Capital restaurant in Bellaire Ohio was shot and killed at 1 am by Belmont county deputy state game warden O T Borham after a quarrel. Borham, a former inmate of Columbus penitentiary, fired following a blow by Goff.
In La Crosse Wisconsin on February 12 William Striggzel a farmer of Chaseburg died by suicide. Authorities say excessive Bible reading led to mental derangement as the alleged cause of the act.
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