Senate wrangles over reciprocity and amendments near adjournment
Washington reports an expected extra session as Taft and reciprocity supporters press the Senate for a vote on the Canadian agreement and related measures including popular election of senators and a permanent tariff board. Borah moves to set next Monday for the election vote while war claims bill stalls in the House.
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Washington
Congress
Taft
Friends
Senate
Lorimer
Permanent Tariff Board
General Age Penaslona
Panama Canal
Pse
Wber
Clay
Delliver
Borah
Sutherland
House
House Wille
Mrs Eddy Letters Blocked From Auction in Library Case
In Suffolk Superior Court Judge Richardson issued a temporary injunction preventing auctioneers from distributing a catalogue or publishing any part of letters written by Mary Baker Eddy. Attorneys for Henry M. Baker, executor of Eddy's will, argued the literary property had passed to Baker and that neither Eddy nor she gave consent to publication.
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Mra
Eddy
Baker
U.S. Halts Rebel Expeditions Tied to Hornet Case
In New Orleans a federal indictment charges General Manuel Bonilla, General Lee Christmas, Colonel Morlan Davids, and Joseph W. Beer with violating neutrality laws over a filibustering expedition by the steamer Hornet. Bond set at $1,000 for Beer. Bonilla and Christmas were reported in Honduras with the revolutionary army. It was unclear if the U.S. would bring them to trial.
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New Orleans
Manuel Bonilla
Honduras
Lee Christmas
Mlorlan Davids
Joseph W. Beer
Hornet
Beer
Bonilla
Christmas
David
Revolutionary Army
United States
Thirteen Firemen Overcome by Smoke at Armour Lard Refinery
Thirteen firemen were overcome by smoke at Armour & Company lard refinery in Union Stock Yards Chicago. Fire confined to the fourth floor but raised fears of a repeat disaster that claimed twenty four lives a month ago. Firemen were rescued. all will recover. Loss: $15,000.
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Chicago
Armour & Company
Unio
Thaws Lawyer Faces Disbarment in New York
Clifford M. Hartridge, attorney for Henry K. Thaw, faces disbarment proceedings after the New York appellate division denied his motion to dismiss. He is accused of professional misconduct for spending over 35000 during the Thaw case and seeking informants who knew Thaw and advising them not to talk. His counsel denies compensation to influence witnesses or evade the district attorney.
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Thaw
New York
Clifford M. Hartridge
Henry K. Thaw
Supreme Court
Hartridge
Thaw Hartridge
Mississippi River Rises Five Feet In Two Days
Davenport Iowa Feb 18 The Mississippi River rose another foot and a half in the last twenty four hours for a total rise of five feet in two days. Heavy rains swelled the Maquoketa and Wapaipinicon rivers widening to four miles in places. Thirteen families near Wheatland fled their homes by boat. A cottage at Stone City was washed away and destroyed.
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Mississippi
Davenport
Iowa
Maquoketa
Wapaipinicon
Wheatland
Stone City
Missing New York heiress tied to Idaho arrest name mixup
Bandpoint Idaho February 18 authorities hold a young woman who gives the name Dorothy Wilcox as a possible Dorothy Arnold the missing New York heiress. She initially admits being the heiress but then denies it.
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Bandpoint
Idaho
Dorothy Wilcox
Dorothy Arnold
New York
South African Animals Proposed for Southern Swamps
Washington reports Major Fr. C. Burnham will travel to South Africa to study importing certain South African gormala for swamps in Louisi ana and other Southern states. He cites reindeer import success as precedent and expects these animals to boost meat supply while promising disease precautions.
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Washington
Loulwiane
C. Burnham
South Africa
Major Burnham
John Haye Hammond
Broussard
Louisiana
Burnham
Alaska
Lapland
Omnibus Claims Bill Triggers Late Night House Fight
Washington reports show a heated two day debate over the Omnibus claims bill in the House with senators, members dozing in lobbies, procedural fights, and a filibuster that began on February 18. The bill, valued at about two and a half million dollars, includes seven hundred thousand for French spoliation claims central to the clash. Representative Mann of Illinois led the opposition amid Democratic support and Speaker Cannon's absence.
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Washington
Bewan
House
Cannon
Olmetead
Pent la
Mann
Illinois
Equine Breakfast Food Cuts Feed Costs
A new high cost of living angle notes grain costs for horse feed. The Department of Agriculture tested a cocoanut and peanut meal ration on ten Morgan yearlings and four work horses at a Middlebury farm. The animals initially resisted, but all remained on feed and finished in good condition, saving 15.75 per ton compared with whole oats, with the mix costing 28 per ton versus 44.75 for oats.
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Washington
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Middlebury
Insurrectos Threaten Mexican Town Near Guggenheims
News from Mexico City reports about 300 insurrectos near Moctezuma feared to plan an attack on the town. Guards have been deployed to protect the Guggenheim miller at Asarco after a band seized a passenger train near Halardena, robbing W. J. Hamilton, a Guggenheim representative.
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Mexico City
Moctezuma
Guggenheim
Mexican Vice Consul Ghuerb Assassinated in Cordoba Argentina
An official report states the Mexican vice consul Ghuerb was assassinated in Cordoba Argentina during a daytime attack tied to financial disputes between the Mexican government and a visiting group from At tonboyr, who exhibited there last year.
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Mexico City
Cordoba
Gobuerb
Attonboyr
Tie
Colorado coal miners are refused
In Denver on February 16 the Colorado Supreme Court denied an application for supersedeas by sixteen striking miners sentenced to one year in county jail. The court ruled Judge Whitford correctly granted an injunction restraining strikers in Boulder County, and held Denver courts had jurisdiction as union offices were in Denver and the strike was directed from there.
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Denver
Supreme Court
Northern
Colorado
Greeley W. Whitford
Whitford
Northern Coal and Coke Company
Bouder County
Bandits Blow Southern Express Safe Near Gainesville
Four men robbed the Southern railway train No. 96 near White Sulphur Springs, Ga., at 3:15 a.m. stealing about $700 while holding the crew at gunpoint. No injuries reported, pursuers seek the bandits.
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Gainesville
Southern Railway
White Sulphur Springs
Real Estate Dealer Falls to Death from 11th Floor
Chicago Feb 18 W T J Plummer a real estate dealer leaped from the eleventh floor of the Chamber of Commerce building today and died instantly His body struck the rotunda floor causing injuries to two bystanders while the motive remains unknown.
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Chicago
W. T. J. Plummer
Chamber of Commerce
Plummer
Two Dark Horses Enter Colorado Senate Race
Denver February 18 report says two more dark horses joined the Colorado senatorial contest. Former Congressman John C. Bell as a Democrat and Dr Join Graes as a Republican each received one vote. Adam e lost four votes while O Donnell gained four.
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Colorado
Denver
John C. Bell
Dr. Join Graes
Adame
O'Donnel
First Death in Family Reaches Rawlins Roots
Mrs. James Rankin died in Kingman Arizona this morning. A Rawlins pioneer she taught school here in early Geys and was sister to Postmaster P J Smith. She is the first of nine children to die, the youngest now 64.
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Rawlins
Wyo
James Rankin
Kingman
Ariz
P. J. Smith
Tramp Dies After Falling From Freight Train
Colorado Springs Colorado. A man giving the name Gus Meyer of New York fell from a Rio Grande freight train near Fountain while stealing a ride. He lost both legs and his right hand, dying a few hours later.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Gus Meyer
New York
Rio Grande
Fountain
Earthquake Shock Reported From Georgetown University
An earthquake shock of considerable severity was registered on the seismograph at Georgetown University in Washington today. The disturbance is estimated to have been felt as far as 3,000 miles from Washington.
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Washington
D. C
Selaniograph
Georgetown University
Murderer Miteunaga Denied New Trial in Wilson Case
The Colorado supreme court refused a new trial for Miteunaga the Japanese convict in the murder of Mrs. Katherine Wilson. He is ordered to begin a life sentence immediately in Denver.
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Denver
Miteunaga
Katherine Wilson
Supreme Court
Lorimer Plans Senate Defense on Bribery Charges
Washington date line reports Senator Lorimer gave notices that he would address the Senate next Wednesday on the questions raised by the bribery charges tied to a election.
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Washington
Lorimer
Senate
Weather Forecast for February 1 1911
Local weather data for the 24 hours ending 6 pm February 1 1911 shows a maximum temperature of 2 degrees and a minimum of 6 degrees with no precipitation expected. Forecast sways toward Sunday with possible Monday conditions.
Underwriters Agent Threatens Fire Rate Rise in Cheyenne
A Denver letter from D W Canfield of the Rocky Mountain Underwriters Association claimed Cheyenne’s fire department had decreased protection and announced a 25 percent insurance rate increase effective February 18, 1911. Local officials and agents impeached the charges and Canfield failed to substantiate the alleged equipment removals or resignations cited to justify the hike.
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D. W. Canfield
Rocky Mountain Underwriters’ Association
Cheyenne Fire Department
Denver
Canfield
Cheyenne
Trenver
Bresnahen
Trostic
Sary
Tiehtine Giessen
Percy Hoyt
Fhamen
Rocky Mountain
T. J. Cahill
Colo
Wyo
Wyoming
Page ‘Iti
Osrance
J. D. Wright
Mark Chapman
Wallace C
Bood
Hinckle
Riner
Beuner
Kabis
Wyoming Legislature Advances Reapportionment and Bills
In session this morning the legislature pushed key measures including reapportionment, a ballot reform bill, and child welfare act. The house and senate approved several amendments, including a state game commission with a strong warden system and a Rawlins peniteniary wing funding tax.
Union Pacific to Install Wireless Telephones on Trains
Union Pacific plans to equip its entire system with wireless telephone gear to send messages from moving trains to stations. Dr Frederick Milliner of Omaha, an electrical expert for the railroad, says two wireless stations will be built 103 miles apart at Omaha and Cheyenne to maintain contact with moving trains. The system use is demonstrated with receiving apparatus attached to an umbrella, enabling calls over distances without blocking signals.
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New York
Union Pacific
Frederick Milliner
Onmba
New York City
Milliner
New York Railroad Club
Ney
Nob
Cheyenne
Wyo
Omaha
Muvner
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fMeet
Cranney
Hosking
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Laramie County
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