Baker committee gains control in Cuyahoga county political dispute
The Republican state central committee recognizes the Baker committee as controlling party affairs in Cuyahoga county amid a three-way split with the Harvey and Roosevelt factions. Legal action is expected to define the controlling group. The panel also approves measures to waive primaries in single-list counties to cut costs and prevent mass conventions when no primaries are held.
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Columbus
Republican State Central Committee
Baker
Taft
Cuyahoga County
Ohio
Harvey
Senator Foraker
Cleveland
Roosevelt Committee
State Committee
Board of Elections
House Votes for the Probe in Ohio Legislature
Columbus, Feb. 4. The House adopted Senator Espy’s joint resolution for a joint investigating committee to probe Cincinnati and Hamilton county affairs. The panel will consist of three members from each chamber, with authority to summon witnesses and demand records. Three penitentiary probes were introduced amid claims of favoritism brutality and unsanitary conditions. The Meek school certificate trafficking inquiry named Joseph Sites of Fairfield as chair and H. Harla of Morrow as secretary, with five committee sessions weekly.
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Columbus
House
Espy
Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Ohio
Meek
Joseph Sites
Fairfield
H. Harla
Morrow
Mother of 25 Die at 100 in Newark Home
New York Feb. 4 Mrs Bohan mother of twenty five children died at age one hundred at her Newark New Jersey home.
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New York
Bohan
Newark
N. J
Cleveland
Frank Rockefeller
W. A. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
Dr. Livingston
Freeport, Ill
Democratic candidate George W. Smith commits suicide in Boone
George W. Smith, Democratic candidate for county superintendent of schools, died by hanging at his home near Pilot Mount in Boone on February 4. The death is reported as self inflicted. The article notes his candidacy and the location of his residence.
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Boone
George W. Smith
Pilot Mount
United Mine Workers elects Thomas L. Lewis president
Thomas L. Lewis of Bridgeport, Conn., is elected president of the United Mine Workers of America at the convention in Indianapolis. He wins 64,653 votes to 62,472 for W. B. Wilson, with John P. White as vice president and W. D. Ryan as secretary treasurer. Wilson pledges support, and the session adjourns with wage talks possible by a Feb. 27 joint conference.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Thomas L. Lewis
Bridgeport
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
W. B. Wilson
Blossburg
John P. White
Iowa
W. D. Ryan
Illinois
John Fahy
American Federation of Labor
John Mitchell
T. L. Lewis
John Walker
G. W. Savage
Ohio
Mr. Lewis
Wilson
America
United Mine Workers
Mitchell
John J. Mossop
Patrick Fitzsimmons
Pennsylvania
Harry Baker
William Young
William Fitzsimons
Arthur Blakely
Arkansas
Evelyn Thaw Visits Harry Thaw at Matteawan
Poughkeepsie N Y Feb 4 A brief preliminary mental examination of Harry K Thaw at Matteawan state hospital was conducted by Dr Allan W Ferriss and Dr Lamb. Mrs Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and Thaws counsel Daniel O Reilly visited, with Mrs Thaw expressing concern about his placement among the insane.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Harry K. Thaw
Matteawan State Hospital
Allan W. Ferriss
New York State
Lunacy Commission
Lamb
Thaw
Ferriss
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Daniel O'Reilly
William Thaw
Harry
Evans
Jelliffe
Supreme Court
Fishkill Landing
Matteawan
Unemployed Appeal For Work in Cleveland Mass Meeting
About 2,000 unemployed men gathered on Cleveland public square to petition the city council for public works and a temporary restaurant and lodging house. The petition also urged state legislature action on labor measures and was read to the council before being sent to the board of public service.
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Cleveland
Board of Public Service
Gray killer claim shocks Syracuse household
Syracuse, February 4. William H. Gray Jr., 18, told police he killed his mother Clara Gray after she lunged with a razor during a dispute. Neighbors say Mrs. Gray was high strung. Gray, a stenographer, had recent erratic work at the city hall.
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Syracuse
N. Y
William H. Gray, Jr
Clara Gray
Young Gray
Day Measure Tabled in West Virginia House
In Charleston on Feb 4 the prohibition amendment again faced pressure but was not voted on. Prohibitionists feared insufficient two thirds and moved to lay the measure on the table. Staunton tried to recall the local option resolution from the judiciary committee but reformers strengthened the opposition.
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Charleston
W. Va
House of Delegates
Prohibition
Richie
Staunton
Kanawha
Judiciary Committee
Political giants join in debate in Washington
Washington February 4 three giants of the house spoke as the Indian appropriation bill was debated The house passed a general widows pension bill granting 12 a month to widows of all honorably discharged soldiers and an extra 4 for those previously covered The debate opened with Townsend of Michigan praising Republican credits Cochran of New York challenged the president message praising Roosevelt as a crusader and foreshadowing opposition Bryan Hepburn Foraker linked condemnation to malefactors of the age.
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Washington
House of Representatives
House
United States
Townsend
Michigan
Republican Party
Cochran
New York
Roosevelt
Bryan
Hepburn
Ohio
Senator Foraker
Steamer St. Cuthbert burns off Nova Scotia coast
In a fierce blizzard the steamer St. Cuthbert burned near the Nova Scotia coast. Fifteen crew members drowned when a small boat swamped as they attempted to flee after fire. The remaining thirty seven, including the captain, were rescued by the White Star liner Cymric before it proceeded to Boston. News reached Halifax via wireless from Cymric’s Captain Finch.
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Halifax
N. S
Nova Scotian
Vessal
Cymric
Boston
Finch
The
Portugal Sees New Regime Amid Turmoil and Reforms
A Lisbon dispatch reports censorship hinders news, with telegraphs mutilated. Portugal forms a new regime under a king and cabinet, while revolutio nary currents and monarchist support influence the pacification program led by Rear Admiral do Amaral.
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Paris
Lisbon
Portugal
Franco
Do Amaral
Villa Vicosa
Admiral Do Amaral
Insurance Man Commits Death by Own Action
Cincinnati reports A. K. Murray an insurance adjuster, whose conduct was questioned in a suspected conspiracy to loot insurers by arson, killed himself in the Commercial Tribune building with a razor. Investigators had been probing an alleged plot by several agents and traveling merchants to fire stores to obtain insurance money. Two warrants were issued for Louis Levison and Harry Kohn on arson charges.
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Cincinnati
K. Murray
Commercial Tribune
Murray
Louis Levison
Harry Kohn
Congress Debates Return of 1894 Income Tax Law
Rep Hull of Tennessee introduces a bill to enforce the 1894 income tax law by the treasury secretary. He calls for Supreme Court review of key constitutional questions, notes potential $75 to $100 million revenue, and argues for broader taxation of income from property, stocks, bonds, and rents.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Representative Hull
Tennessee
Hull
Congress
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Treasury
United States
Ice blocks ferry as river freezes at Gallipolis
The Ohio River floodwaters drive the Francis ferry into ice near the West Virginia shore and strand it for hours before crews free the vessel and passengers. Nearby, the Pittsburg towboat Josh Coole and coal fleet face peril as gorges threaten Sliding Hill bend and Cheshire. Zero cold freezes the Great Kanawha, and Louisville severs river links for three years.
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Gallipolis
Francis
West Virginia
Ohio
Pittsburg
Josh Coole
Athalia
Sliding Hill Bend
Cheshire
Kanawha
Louisville
Cairo
Supreme Court rules boycott a Sherman Act conspiracy
The United States Supreme Court holds that a boycott constitutes a conspiracy in restraint of trade under the Sherman Act and those involved may be liable for damages up to three times actual losses.
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
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