Pilgrims Hear Ambassador Deny War With Japan
New York February 21 The prophecy of White law Reid American ambassador to the court of St James that there will be no war with Japan sparks a joyous Pilgrims of the United States dinner at Delmonico's with 400 guests. Choate presided and jokes about Mark Twain and Pierpont Morgan add to the lively evening while Reid dismisses war as a possibility.
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Reid
New York
Whitelaw Reid
Court of St. James
United States
Delmonico
Washington
England
Japan
W. Butler Duncan
Joseph H. Choate
Choate
Mark Twain
Clements
Congress
Pierpont Morgan
Morgan
Engineers and Trainmen Will Not Stand
In Cleveland on February 21 Warren Be Stone grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and William G. Lee assistant grand master of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen vowed to use the full power of their unions to block wage cuts they call unjust. They argued trainmen are paid on mileage and only used when railroads need them.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Warren Be, Stone
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood
William G. Lee
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Transfers Dominate DC Railway Tract Debate in Congress
Washington lawmakers focused on the District of Columbia railway tract bill extending streetcar lines to Union Station. Universal streetcar transfers drew special attention with no amendments offered beyond strengthening the provision. Tomorrow also to be devoted to DC business.
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Washington
D. C
House of Representatives
District of Columbia Railway
Union Station
Alsa
District of Columbia
Farmer Bales Snow For Ice By Summer Use
Arcola Alabama February 21 W W Pepper who lives northeast of town near Newman is baling snow with hay balers for next summer. He found last year the baled snow yields ice of better quality than ordinary frozen or manufactured ice and plans a larger operation after easily selling last year s output. The baled snow is said to stand hotter weather than regular ice.
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Arcola, al
W. W. Pepper
Newman
Weather forecast for Wyoming and Washington DC
Weather report notes warmer Saturday and fair Sunday for Wyoming and Washington DC. Local forecast shows 24 hour period ending 8 p.m. February 1 2008 with a maximum 45 degrees and minimum 12 degrees. Palmor Bague Director.
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Washington, D. C
Wyoming
Uta
A. None
Palmor
Bague
Disagreement in Kiser Case Delays Verdict
In Boulder Colorado on February 21 the jury in Frank R. Kiser and John W. Reeve murder case was discharged after a split deliberation. The pair confessed setting fire to the Colorado and Southern freight house on August 10 1907 during a switchmen strike. The blaze triggered a dynamite car explosion killing three and injuring others. Reeve had been tried and convicted previously, while Woodward was named as the torch contributer in earlier testimony.
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Boulder
Colo
Frank R. Kiser
Kiser
John W. Reeve
Colorado & Southern
Reeve
Woodward
Turtle’s grief over owner’s departure in York
William H. Banner of York Pennsylvania mourns the death of his pet anapping turtle named Dick. The animal shared more than two years with its owner and reportedly pined away after being found dead in the cellar where it hibernated.
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Pat
York
William H. Banner
Block Signal Crimes Reach Wyoming Juvenile Court
Three Rawlins youths Arthur Brown Henry Garish and Earl Holmes aged 12 to 14 were sentenced by Judge D H Craig to the Colorado reform school at Golden for wrecking railroad signals in two incidents. They used a Santa Fe switch key to open and lock track switches and damaged semaphore lamps and signal wires along two miles to three miles east of Rawlins. The crimes were traced after a handcar was stolen and rolled to Seminole, where signals were severed. The youths showed no remorse and were committed to reform school until adulthood.
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Wromes Court
Arthur Rn
Henry Garish
Earl Holmes
D. H. Craig
Third Judicial District
Colorado
Golden
Holmes
Garish
Windrow
Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Rawlings Yards
Rawlins Yards
No. 6
No. 5
Clarish and Holmes
Rawlins
Seminole Station
Seminole
Hormosa
Craig
Colorado Reform School
Wyoming
Kansas for W. J. Bryan in State Convention Demonstration
Kansas Democrats in the state convention unanimously resolved to cast a solid vote for William J. Bryan for president at the Denver convention. A lengthy demonstration followed the resolution adoption as seven congressional districts caucused to name delegates. The afternoon session set the delegates and platform, with emphasis on unity and tariff critique.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Kansas
Denver
William J. Bryan
United States
Tts
Harris
W. H. Ryan
Washington Star's Veteran Editor Noyes Dies in Pasadena
Crosby Noyes veteran editor of the Washington Evening Star died at Hotel Raymond Pasadena after a grip illness. He was 83 and surrounded by family. He leaves a widow and three sons and a daughter. One son Frank B. Noyes heads the Chicago Record-Herald and AP.
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Washington Star
Los Angeles
Cal
Crosby
Noyes
Washington Evening Star
Raymond
Pasadena
California
Frank B. Noyes
Chicago Record-Herald
The
Associated Press
Burglar Identified as Hatfield McCoy Feudist in KY Case
A young man arrested after a seven-thousand mile chase claims to be James A. Baker of Columbus Ohio. He is charged with murder and a string of post office and railroad robberies and is alleged to be a Hatfield McCoy feudist from Kentucky. Real name Dickinson reportedly. Held on $5000 bond after arraignment. Detectives say he admitted other burglaries in New England for which another man is held.
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New York
James A. Baker
Columbus
Ohio
Kentucky
Dickinson
Baker
New England
Clubs Closed After Midnight Under Pittsburg Order
Police order all Greater Pittsburg clubs closed at midnight with hotel clubs allowed guest access but sale of minors forbidden. Action follows numerous complaints from parents and wives prompting the crackdown.
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Pittsburg
Acenon
Greater
Mqnor
Baseball magnate forgets wedding day in rush to league meeting
W D Mansfield owner of the McKeesport franchise in a Pennsylvania league became so interested in a league meeting that he forgot his wedding day to Miss Margaret Butler of Pittsburgh. He halted the meeting, ran five blocks, and was married an hour late.
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McKeesport
W. D. Mansfield
Margaret Butler
Pittsburg
Weu
Plea for Building Large American Navy
Senator Perkins of California urged upbuilding the navy and sending a fleet to the Pacific. He described a projected Pacific fleet of 18 battleships and multiple cruisers destroyers torpedo boats and submarines with total tonnage to protect U S interests and noted American naval strength exceeds France Germany Russia and Japan.
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Pacific
Washington, D. C
Perkins
California
Senate
Pacific Ocean
San Francisco
France
Germany
Russia
Japan
New York to Paris auto race segments reach Chicago
Two crew members of a French car arrived by train with a speed shaft needing repair in Kendallville Ind. The crew rate Siberian snowdrifts as harsher than any Arctic drift Captain H Hanson a Norwegian explorer spoke in Chicago about the snow since New York.
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Chicago
New York
Paris
Kendallville
Ind
H. Hanson
Biberia
Russia to Build Fleet With Naval Budget Plan
Representatives of the Russian admiralty presented to the Duma defense commission the financial outline for a naval program to be finished by 1917. The plan covers battleship construction and hydrographic work at several ports with total expenditures of 1,078,000 rubles, rising from 43,500,000 rubles in the 1908 budget for four new battleships.
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St. Petersburg
Admiralty
Commission of National Defense of the Duma
Russia
Fort Collins Electric Road Pushes Work
Denver February 21 A building permit was issued by Denver Interurban Railway to build a brick barn on Market Street between Twenty second and Twenty third for the Fort Collins electric line of the Colorado and Southern. A compromise between Tramway and Southern gives the latter access over the Twenty third Street viaduct and requires the Tramway to rebuild and strengthen the viaduct. Connection with the Tramway’s new Eighteenth street line is planned, and active work will proceed to implement the compact.
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Denver
Colo
Denver & Interurban Railway Company
Market Street
Twenty-third
Fort Collings
Colorado & Southern
Tramway
Southern
Twentythird Street
Eighteenth Street
Fleet to Return Through Subz Canal Visit Australia Hinted
Washington February 21. An invitation for American battleships to visit Australia was extended by Prime Minister Alfred Deakin. Secretary Root said movements are not yet decided and while a return via the Australian route is possible it would be premature to promise.
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Subz Canal
Washington, DC
Australia
Alfred Deakin
Root
Anarchist Circulars Stymie New York Police
After a three weeks search detectives give up locating printers and distributors of an anarchist circular sent to East Side workers. The pamphlet urges arming workers and killing Wall Street parasites. Investigators suspect the circulars were printed in Chicago then shipped to New York.
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New York
Two Arrests In Poisoned Candy Case In Missouri
In Kansas City Missouri Feb 1 Mrs Sarah Morasch sister in law of Charles Miller father of Ruth Miller the four year old died Feb 12 in Kansas City Kansas from poisoned candy intended for her half sister Ella Van Meter Morasch was arrested at Harrisonville Missouri on complicity in the death Morasch's 17 year old daughter Blanche was arrested yesterday by Kansas City Kansas police on the same charge Van Meter who ate the candy recovered
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Kansas City
Sarah Morasch
Charles Miller
Ruth Miller
Kan
Ella van Meter
Harrisonville
Father of Cheyenne Man Dies in Omaha
A telegram from Omaha yesterday announced the death in that city of H. Stovel, superintendent of the Union Pacific shops, and brother of V. H. Stovel, foreman of the Cheyenne machine shop. V. W. Stovel went to his brother's bedside several days ago.
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Omaha
H. Stovel
Union Pacific
V. H. Stovel
V. WH. Stovel
Lincoln Centenary Association Formed in Chicago
To celebrate Lincoln birth a Lincoln Centenary association was organized last night in Chicago with aims to observe the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth on February 12 in a manner designed to command world wide attention.
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Lincoln
Husdraoti
Chicago
Lincoln Centenary Association
Abraham Lincoln
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Muskogee
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