Ohio probe on high food prices forms a public committee
Lieutenant Governor Treadway and Speaker Mooney appoint a four member bi partisan inquiry into the cost of living led by Daniel Webster Williams. The panel will meet in executive session and later hold public sessions to gather information on high prices and possible remedial legislation.
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Judiciary
Senate
Williams
Harmon
Denman
Day
Wachenhimer
Lyman
Wachenheimer
Toledo
Daniel Webster Williams
Jackson County
Jackson
Ohio University At
Athens
United States
Cardiff
Wales
I. W. Gotschall
Democratic Senate
Fayette
Fulton County
Fayette Normal School
Archbold
Delta
Gotschall
Farmers and Merchants’ Bank
Alleged Railroad Rate Discrimination Probed in Senate
A brief Ohio Senate session proposed a new probe into railroad rate discrimination tied to merged interests. Senator Deaton urged a resolution referencing the Interstate Commerce Commission report from 1909, which linked Toledo & Ohio Central Zanesville & Western Kanawha & Michigan to Hocking Valley Railway control, and claimed Ohio laws may be violated amid shipper complaints.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Senate
Deaton
Champaign County
Interstate Commerce Commission
Toledo & Ohio Central
Zanesville & Western
Kanawha & Michigan
Hocking Valley Railway Company
Ohio
Grand Jury Probes High Food Prices in Lorain County
In Elyria Ohio on January 14 the Lorain county grand jury summoned twenty five grocers butchers and citizens to testify about rising food costs. They will investigate whether prices are arbitrarily fixed and seek facts from local merchants and residents.
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Elyria
Associated Press
Lorain County
Grand Jury
House Regulars Push Speaker to Deny Re election Bid
In Washington on January 14 it was reported that over twenty Cannon loyalists in the House are pressing the speaker to declare he will not seek re election as speaker. Their aim is to ease their own chances of renomination by removing the uncertainty over his candidacy.
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Senator Gotshall
Senate
Gotshall
House
Patterson
Tuttle
Commercial Tribune
Washington
House of Representatives
Associated Press Dispatch
Pittsburg
E. H. Jennings
F. A. Griffin
Columbia National Bank
Republican
Max G. Leslie
Charles Stewart
F. F. Nicola
Blakeley
Leslie
Ballinger-Pinchot
Forester Pinchot
Interior Ballinger
Congress
Taft
Alaska
Writ of Habeas Corpus Issued in Kidnapping Case
Philadelphia report describes a magistrate hearing where only one detective testified after Roberta Delanon and Frederick Cohen were brought in from Chicago. The waiter faces kidnapping charges as the girl’s grandfather Robert Buist seeks relief. Cohen is detained without bail for a two week follow up, with a writ returnable next Monday.
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Philadelphia
Associated Press
Roberta Delanon
Frederick Cohen
Chicago
Robert Buist
Vardaman Gains Five Votes in Final Senate Ballot
Jackson Mississippi January 14 Associated Press reports one ballot for United States senator. Former Governor Vardaman captured 74 votes, up from 69 the previous day, while the outcome remained unresolved.
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Vardaman
Jackson, Miss
Associated Press
United States
Five Caught in Bribery Probe of Smoky City
A bribery probe in Smoky City results in five individuals being taken into custody. Police say the suspects are linked to tampering and illicit payments connected to municipal contracts. Authorities declined to name the suspects but emphasized ongoing investigations.
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Smoky City
Despondent man ends life in Burnet Woods
Albert W. Nulsen 41 a former bookkeeper and grain trader residing at 2626 May avenue Walnut Hills shot himself in the temple in Burnet Woods at 11 15 last night He died about an hour later at German Deaconness hospital Despondency seems the motive a note found on him details.
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Albert W. Nulsen
May Avenue
Walnut Hills
Burnet Woods
A. W. Nulsen
Nulsen
University
Wetherby
Roberts, Hall & Criss
Walnut Street
J. Nevin Roberts
Witnesses in Ballinger Pinchot inquiry may have lawyers
Conferees weigh allowing counsel for witnesses and whether a single attorney can represent all dismissed officials. Some want to bar forensic delays but plan to restrict the inquiry to the current session. The note on a fatal shooting in Burnet Woods is also reported.
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Forester Price
Shaw
Glavis
Congress
Sion
Senate
Taft Urges Conservation Reforms and Public Land Reclassification
President Taft outlines a broad conservation program focusing on waterways, irrigation, forest preservation, and reclassification of public lands. He urges congress to validate interior withdrawals, separate surface and mineral rights, and develop water power sites while preventing monopolies and ensuring public control.
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Congress
One-Pound Shell Used as Hammer Explodes
A one-pound shell kept as a Spanish-American war relic exploded in a Portsmouth house when children struck it against a nail. The blast blew out the side of the structure and injured Matilda Clark and her two children.
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Norfolk
Associated Press
United States Naval Hospital
Portsmouth
Matilda Clark
Arrests Hit Madrid Military Club Over Imbroglio
A Madrid dispatch reports the Military club building surrounded by police with eighty officers arrested and about two hundred officers implicated. The action follows a dispute over army officer advancement and a royal cabinet reshuffle led by King Alfonso.
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Associated Press
Paris
Madrid
Military Club
Barcelona
Bilbao
Prince Pignatelli Arrested in Plot to Destabilize Government
Prince Pignatelli was arrested in Madrid as part of a government crackdown on a conservative plot to embroil the army with the government. The Liberal press backs the action, with El Pais noting the aim to force the resignation of the War Minister Luque and trigger a cabinet fall. The Correspondance Militaire revealed the plot.
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Madrid
Associated Press
Prince Pignatelli
Federal Attack on Burney As Safeguard of Liberty
The government has collected damaging evidence against the Burley Tobacco Society and will bring federal cases to protect individual liberty. Secret investigations by Special Agent Harry W. Hoagland reveal violence by night riders, with many killed or driven from Kentucky’s Burley belt as authorities aim to end terrorism and expose “one buyer” and “one seller” propaganda. President Taft pursues law and order to restore security for tobacco farmers and natives harmed by the entrenched trust.
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Taft
Law and Order
Washington
Burley Tobacco Society
Harry W. Hoagland
Burley Belt
Kentucky
Farmers’ Pool
Wickersham
Blue Grass State
Ohio
Indiana
Missouri
Night Riders
Dove of Peace Nears Rest for Sale of Her Foot
Washington January 14 The dove of peace moved closer to a settlement among Republican factions in the house as a truce appeared possible. Representative Hayes California mediator for insurgents spoke of an understanding to attend the caucus for the investigative committee while future talks held no agreement. Democrats planned a Saturday caucus to name minority members of the Ballinger Pinchot committee amid talk of a possible Democratic Republican insurgent alliance.
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Dove of Peace
Congress
allinger-Pinchot
Washington
Representative Hayes
California
Taft
White House
Dwight
Representative Gardner
Massachusetts
Mr. Hayes
House
Ollie James
Kentucky
Slayden
Texas
Palmer
Pennsylvania
Parkersburg Bridge Gets War Department Approval
After years of protest the War Department approves the Parkersburg Bridge project across the Ohio River at Parkersburg West Virginia. Previously opposed as a navigation obstruction the plans gain consent as pilots and others withdraw opposition. The existing crossing is a private railroad bridge.
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Washington
Associated Press
Secretary of War Today
Parkersburg
W. Va
Ohio River
Pilots’ Association
Ohio
West Virginia
Manuel and Victoria of Connaught Wed in May
Paris dispatch reports from Lisbon that King Manuel of Portugal will marry Princess Victoria Patricia daughter of the Duke of Connaught in May. The formal acknowledgment cites an authorized source confirming the wedding plans.
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Manuel and
Victoria of
Paris
Associated Press
Lisbon
Manuel of
Portugal
Victoria Patricia
Duke of Connaught
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Tion
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Geological Survey
Pignatelli
Spain
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