Mitchell Declines UMWA Top Post After April Retirement
Indianapolis January 28 President Mitchell announced at the United Mine Workers of America convention that he will retire April 1 and will not seek office. He urged loyalty to his successor and opposed sympathetic strikes. W. D. Haywood of the Western Federation of Miners called for closer ties and mutual support between the two organizations. Delegates Sullivan and Owatt were elected to the international mining congress in Paris.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
W. D. Haywood
Western Federation of Miners
United Mine Workers
D. A. Sullivan
Ohio Miners
Alexander |Owatt
Kansas
International Mining Congress
Paris
Senator Bailey Not Present at Nevada Senator Dinner
Washington dated report says Senator Newlands hosted a dinner at Woodley for half the Democratic Senate with guests including Bacon Bankhead Bryan Clarke Clay Duberson Daniel Jeff Davis Foster Frazier Johnston Latimer and McCreary. Senator Bailey of Texas was not present and no political significance was attached to the event.
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Washington
Newlands
Nevada
William Jennings Bryan
Woodley
Senate
Bacon
Bailey
Bankhead
Bryan
Clarke
Clay
Duberson
Daniel
Jeff Davis
Foster
Frazier
Johnston
Latimer
McCreare
Texas
Jim Crow Phones Proposed in Oklahoma Senate
Duthrie Oklahoma January 28 Oklahoma contemplates Jim Crow telephones alongside Jim Crow cars if a Senate bill regulating telegraph and telephone companies becomes law. The measure passed the committee of the whole in the Senate signaling possible enactment.
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Duthrie
Okla
Oklahoma
Senate
Committee of the Whole
Third Term For Both in Unusual Marion Wedding
Amanda Ensminger aged 61 daughter of the late Robert Kerr, married Milton Windigler 60 of Wooster in Marion. The ceremony by Rev Byron C. Platt marks the third marriage for both. Ensminger was once married to Senator Shannon Alley. Alley alleges she urged marriage with a $5,000 promise to develop a Montanan mine and claims she has one lung left.
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Ohio
Marion
Amanda Ensminger
Robert Kerr
Crawford
Milton Windigler
Wooster
Byron C. Platt
Shannon
Alley
Butte
Mont
Madison County
Special West Virginia session opens with county salaries and temperance debate
Charleston West Virginia January 28 special session convenes to tackle 37 urgent items. Governor Dawson will read a tax reform message as lobbyists oppose the county salary bill. Temperance petitions fuel a liquor prohibition amendment set for November. Debate over party emblems on ballots and a public service commission bill also loom.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Dawson
Theodore Alvord
Anti-Saloon League
J. H. Gaines
Republican State Committee
Taft
Gaines
Cannon
W. C. Grew
Morgantown
House of Delegates
Public Service Commission
Hughes
New York
Burglary Confession Involving Three Young Boys
In St Louis on January 28 three youths Thomas Olsten five Frank Olsten eight and Harry Arter twelve were arrested on suspicion after confessing to breaking into Anton Opperman saloon. They entered by using a hatchet to chop through the floor and stole cigars whisky wine and tobacco. The burglary occurred at four in the morning.
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St. Louis
Thomas Olsten
Frank
Harry Arter
Anton Opperman
Taft Heads to Cleveland to Address Tippecanoe Club
Secretary Taft plans a trip from Washington to Cleveland for an address to the Tippecanoe club, scheduled for tomorrow after his departure tonight.
Independents Lose Their Case In U S Supreme Court
In a Peckham opinion the U S Supreme Court ruled for the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway and the Lehigh Valley against the Penn Refining Company of Oil City Pa. The suit challenged alleged rail shipping discrimination favoring Standard Oil and sought reparations ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Washington
Jan
Justice Peckham
Supreme Court of the United States
Penn Refining Company
Oil City
Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway Company
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Standard Oil Company
Western Pennsylvania
Standard
Interstate Commerce Commission
Man pays fare to watch trolley crew scowl
Addison Wolfe of Huston paid five dollars plus costs after walking along a Washington and Canonsburg Railway trestle while an interurban car paused to avoid him. The conductor and motorman protested as Wolfe refused a ride, saying it was worth it to see the crew show regard for others.
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Washington
Addison Wolfe
Huston P
Wolfe
Washington and Canonsburg Railway Company
Huston
House Adopts Plan to Probe Meck Charges
Columbus report shows the house backing a senate proposed joint committee of six to investigate the Meck charges. The move aims to probe alleged misconduct and determine findings and possible actions.
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Columbus
House
Senate
Canton Girl Seeks Balloon Ascent With Frank Lahm
A 21 year old Canton woman, who met aeronaut Frank Lahm in Paris, asks to join him on an ascent with the Canton Aero club. Lahm consents and will pilot if weather permits, marking the club's first woman ascent and ongoing negotiations for a private park for ascensions. Eight cities beyond Canton are already represented in the club.
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Canton, O
Canton
Paris
Frank
The
Aero Club
Lahm
Independent refiners win high court reversal in refinery case
The dispute over a sum of about $13 000 involving ages win interest rose through the United States circuit court for the western district of Pennsylvania and was upheld there. The circuit court of appeals for the third circuit reversed, and the Supreme Court affirmed the appellate ruling.
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United States Circuit Court
Western District of Pennsylvania
Circuit Court of Appeals
Third Circuit
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Fatally Crushed By Rolling Log In Lock Haven
In Lock Haven Pa Mrs Kate Myers wife of teamster George W Myers was crushed and her husband seriously injured when a rolling log slipped while they tried to prop it. Mrs Myers died from head and chest injuries while Mr Myers suffered a broken nose bruises and possible internal injuries. In Philadelphia Francis T Freeland retired mining engineer was found dead in his Colonnade hotel room upright in a chair with a half burnt cigar. Death attributed to cerebral hemorrhage. Mining securities worth about 18000 and 390 in cash found in his room.
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Lock Haven
Kate Myers
George W. Myers
Philadelphia
Francis T., Freeland
Denver
Colonnade
Probe Into Trafficking in State School Certificates
Charges raised by Senator Meek allege trafficking in state school certificates. A legislative committee will probe the state school commissioners office and the state board of school examiners. Representative Shuler proposes a bill to let municipalities sell gas or electricity to private customers. Fourteen insurance reform bills, redrafted by a joint committee, follow the New York insurance code.
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Meek
State Board of School Examiners
Shuler
Stewart
New York
Bronson primary law upheld by supreme court ruling
The supreme court today upheld the Bronson primary law and the call to select delegates to the Republican state convention. The judgments of the common pleas court in Franklin and Allen counties are sustained and will be taken to federal courts.
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Supreme Court
Columbus
Jan
Common Pleas Court
Franklin and Allen County
Canton Named Start Point for Summer Races
Races will be held this summer with Canton identified as the starting point for many ascensions. The note emphasizes Canton as the launch site for multiple events and climbs this season.
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Canton
Senator Dick Will Not Attend McKinley Day Banquet
In Cleveland on January 28 a letter to Tippecanoe club chairman Haserot says Senator Charles Dick cannot attend the McKinley day banquet planned for Wednesday evening. A prior letter from Senator Foraker had been received. Secretary of War Taft remains the principal speaker.
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Cleveland
Haserot
Tippecanoe Club
Charles Dick
Foraker
Taft
Driver Heroic Narrow Escape From Icy Embankment
Edward Shaffer, longtime twenty horse team driver for a circus, aided four women and others after a cab in a funeral procession slipped on an icy hill and plunged 200 feet into a ravine. The women and Shaffer survived with no serious injuries due to nerve and horsemanship.
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Martins Ferry
Edward Shaffer
Shaffer
Slavery Debate Reappears in Senate Triggers Wide Topic
Washington fate of slavery is raised again as senators clash over criminal code revisions. Hale calls to strike slavery provisions as obsolete while Hepburn argues white slavery persists and cocile labor exists in the Philippines. House topics include street railways and currency policy. Culberson presses Treasury replies on Panama canal bonds.
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Washington
Senate
Taft
Islands
United States
Hale
Hepburn
Philippine Islands
District of Columbia
House of Representatives
Fowler
Culberson
Texas
Secretary of the Treasury
Committee On Finance
Bar to Union Men Denied by Supreme Court
Washington January 28 The United States Supreme Court denied the constitutionality of the June 1 1898 act barring railroad companies in interstate commerce from discriminating against labor union members. Justice Harlan wrote the opinion upholding the law as repugnant to the constitution. Justice McKenna dissented noting the decision rests on narrow grounds.
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Washington
Act of Congress
United States Supreme Court
Justice Harlan
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
McKenna
Sacred Relic Owner Elmer Gauche Buried in Cincinnati
Elmer Gauche owner of a portion of the cross on which Christ was crucified was buried from the Church of the Assumption in Cincinnati. Born in Lorraine France he descended from a renowned ecclesiastical family. The sacred relic has passed through the eldest family member for 200 years.
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Cincinnati
Elmer Gauche
Mr. Gauche
Lorraine
France
Defense Ends and Jerome Begins K Thaw
A brief sports item notes a team changing defense strategy as Jerome enters the lineup. Coach evaluates adjustments for upcoming games amid lineup changes and tactical shifts.
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Jerome
Manic depressive insanity defense in Thaw trial
The Thaw murder case closes its defense with manic depressive insanity as the cause of Stanford White's death. Prosecution to begin rebuttal. possible commission to take Abraham Hummel's testimony on Blackwell’s Island. judge ready to travel if needed.
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New York
Stanford White
Pittsburg
Jerome
Abraham Hummel
Blackwell's Island
Littleton
Justice Dowling
Hummel
Thaw
New York City
Sydney Russell Wells
London
Mr. Littleton
James Clinch Smith
Tha
ouida the famous woman novelist buried in Bagni di Lucca
Florence January 28 funeral of Ouida portrays a pitiful end to a once celebrated writer. She died in poverty with only a few starving dogs and her loyal maid by her side. Her body rests in the English cemetery at Bagni di Lucca beneath a simple wooden cross.
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Florence
Elgin Butter Market Steady on Trade Board
Elgin Illinois January 27 butter prices held firm on the board and the weekly output was 800 pounds.
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Elgin
Elgin, Ill
Board of Trade
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