Forty Eight Die in Canadian Pacific Wreck Near Espanola
The Soo line wreck near Espanola Ontario left forty eight dead and ninety two injured as derailed cars plunged into the ice filled Espanola River. A diver was dispatched from Sault Ste Marie to recover bodies while survivors were treated in Sudbury and reports say the train No.7 from Montreal to Sault Ste Marie and Minneapolis derailed due to a broken rail.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Canadian Pacific
Espanola
Ree
Spanish River
Soo
Montreal
Sault Ste Marie
Minneapolis
Sudbury
Taft Loyalists Gain Momentum in House Caucus
Ohio Republicans push to force Taft’s legislative programme in the House with a planned general caucus. Leaders expect 90 percent of Republicans to back Taft, aiming to advance the administration’s agenda while managing Speaker Cannon’s stance and possible conflict.
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Ohio
Buckeye
Cannon
Danville Statesman
Nitroglycerin Accident Tears through New York Aqueduct Tunnel
Fifteen men die and five more are badly injured in a nitroglycerin blast in a tunnel for the Ashokan to New York City water project at Fishkill Landing. A torch mishap is blamed as a laborer trips and ignites a fuse setting off charges. R. K. Everett & Co. employs about 150 workers. Firefighters and workers rush to the scene as rescuers pull from the tunnel.
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Gotham
Fishkill Landing
N. Y
Associated Press
Ashokan
Catskills
New York City
R. K. Everett & Co
Mexico Urges Peace Policy In Central American Talks
President Taft conferred with Mexican ambassador Francisco De La Barra in Washington on January 21 over the Central American situation. Officials released only that a conference occurred, but sources say Mexico seeks cooperation with the United States to maintain peace in Latin American republics and does not intend to intervene in internal matters.
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Associated Press
Washington
Taft
Francisco de la Barra
White House
State Department
Mexico
Singer Mary Adele Case Weds William H Beam in San Francisco
Mary Adele Case, the singer once engaged to Claus Spreckels, married William H Beam in San Francisco on January 21. Beam is a nephew of former Secretary of the Navy Metcalfe. The match follows a prior engagement halted by parental opposition.
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San Francisco
Cal
Associated Press
Mary Adele Case
Claus Spreckels
William H. Beam
Metcalfe
Blanket Ballots Targeted By Short Ticket Advocates
At the Hotel Astor, the short ballot organization showcased four foot quilt like ballots from New York City’s recent municipal election as examples of “horrible ballots.” About two hundred attendees including political economists, educators and citizens heard Dr. Woodrow Wilson address the gathering and Elliott Goodwin speak on reducing elective offices.
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New York
Associated Press
Hotel Astor
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton University
Elliott Goodwin
Civil Service Reform Association
Two Cincinnati Trainmen Hurt In Collision Near Ottawa
Special Dispatch reports from Hamilton Ohio on January 21 that a collision between the first and second sections of Freight Train No 91 on the Chicago Cincinnati and Louisville railroad injured Conductor Kenney and Brakeman Smith, both of Cincinnati, in a caboose on a curve twelve miles east of Ottawa. Smith was reported in fatal condition. Trains were detoured over the C H D tracks today.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville
Okeawa
Kenney
Smith
Cincinnati
Kig
Comptroller Bars Clerks In Bank Examinations
Washington Jan 21 The Comptroller of the Currency Murray issued an order to all national bank examiners prohibiting bank clerks from assisting in examining banks where they work under any circumstances.
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Washington
Associated Press
Comptroller of the Currency
Murray
Black Hand conspiracy witnesses detail payments and letters
The Toledo trial of fourteen alleged Black Hand members features victims recounting payments in response to threatening letters. Witnesses describe $1,500 paid by Fabiano Chincola, a shipment of stamps used to identify suspects, and meetings in 1909. A separate Cincinnati case covers a $1,500 payment under threat to Chincola and other payments across cities.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Toledo
Salvatore Arrigo
Fabiano Chincola
Mari
Black Tiand Society
Sebastian Lima
Salvatore Rizo
Igazio Fazione
Columbus
Rizo
Cincinnati
Chincola
Francesco Spedara
Spedara
Frank Spinatti
Pittsburg
Baptiste Marcurio
Valley City
N. D
Ignazio
Augustine Anarino
Columbus, Q
Sicily
Gorge tears away tipple in Kentucky flood damage
A massive ice gorge from Wolf creek swept into Paducah and Caseyville causing about 75000 dollars in damage. The flood carried dogs cattle timber barges and even a barn, destroying a new steel coal loading device and several barges. The force of the collapse could be heard miles away.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Paducah
Wolf Creek
Mississippi
Caseyville
West Kentucky Coal Company
Floodes Erupt Near Decker and Hell's Neck
White river rose rapidly to twenty feet at Decker and near record highs. Flood victims at Hell's Neck face increased discomfort and danger as communications with lower Knox county are cut off except by telephone.
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Hazleton
Ind
Associated Press
White River
Decker
Hell’s Neck
Knox County
Public utilities bill seeks three member commission control
A Columbus dispatch reports Rep Frank Woods of Medina introduces a public utilities bill creating a governor appointed three member commission with broad power over all public service firms. It abolishes the state railway commission and transfers powers to the new body, with elected party balance and 5000 dollar salaries.
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Columbus
Public
Frank Woods
Medina County
State Railway Commission
Public Utilities Commission
Swift & Co. Morris & Co
Armour & Co
National Packing Company
National
Accident Bettws Shot In Eye Leads to Flight to Indianapolis
Thomas Taggart Democratic national committeeman for Indiana was accidentally shot in a Fayette Jefferson County hunting accident. Forty two birdshot hit his face shoulder and chest with feared loss of sight in one eye. He was accompanied by private secretary W H Norton and Indianapolis lawyer J E Bell and will travel to Indianapolis tomorrow.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Natchez, Miss
Thomas Taggart
Indiana
W. H. Norton
J. E. Bell
Indianapolis
Fayette
Jefferson County
Norton
Taggart
Meat price crisis prompts nationwide boycott push
A nationwide drive against high meat prices spreads from Cleveland to Milwaukee and New York. Citizens urge direct farmer sales and possible cooperatives while federal action looms against the beef trust involving Swift Morris and Armour. Meat prices fall in Milwaukee and Chicago while crowds push abstention to March.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Chicago
Milwaukee
Cleveland
New York
Associated Press
Anita Comfort- Brooks
Swift & Co
Morris & Co
Cudahy Company
Trolley Men Seek Help of Governor
Philadelphia January 21 The executive committee of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electrical Railway Employees prepared a petition to Governor Stuart asking for arbitration with the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company after a meeting with President Kruger produced no notification. The governor, in the city, could not state his position until he receives the petition.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Philadelphia
Kruger
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electrical Railway Employees
Stuart
Snow in Florida First in Memory of Pioneers
A snow storm with blizzard proportions rages from Louisville to the South. Snow falls in Montgomery Alabama for the first time in seven years and in Tallahassee Florida for the first time in memory of the oldest inhabitants.
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Florida
Louisville
Associated Press
Montgomery
Ala
Tallahassee
Fla
Night Rider slayers of Hiram Hedges may face law
Carlisle Kentucky January 21 H B Talley who moved from Sharpsburg says he sent the governor the names of night riders in the March 1908 killing of Nicholas county farmer Hiram Hedges. He offers to testify before a grand jury. Louisville report says federal detectives in Cincinnati link the slayer to a U S Army soldier and have names of raid participants for possible indictments.
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Associated Press
Frankfort
Armur Goebel
Phoenix
Ariz
Goebel
William Goebel
Kentucky
W. 8. Taylor
Caleb Powers
Willson
Arthur Goebel
Law
Hiram Hedges
Associated Press Dispatch
Carlisle
H. B. Talley
Sharpsburg
Nicholas County
Talley
Hedges
Louisville
Associated Fress
Evening Post
Burley Tobacco ‘Society
Cincinnati
United States Army
Shoutout of party gains in UK general elections
From late returns in London the Unionists hold 184 seats and the Liberals 159 with Laborites 32 and Nationalists 58. Unionists gained 81 seats while Liberals added 10 and Laborites 1. Reginald McKenna won for Abergavenny Monmouthshire and William Abraham was re-elected for Rhondda Valley by 8965.
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Associated Press Dispatch
London
Reginald McKenna
the Admiralty
E. G. M. Carmichael
Abergavenny-Monmouthshire
William Abraham
Rhondda Valley
Bermuda’s Sir Samuel Gray Former Bermuda Chief Justice Dies
Sir Samuel Brownlow Gray former Bermuda chief justice died in Hamilton at age 97. He served Bermuda in high judicial office and was born in 1823 with a career shaping the island’s legal framework.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Associated Press
Samuel Brownlow Gray
Guggenheims Near Rockefellers Grip on Coal Field
Charleston West Virginia January 21 Associated Press local Guggenheim representatives secured options on eighty percent of the New River coal field covering 200000 acres. The move aims to consolidate bituminous coal interests across Southern West Virginia Fairmount field and Pittsburg Coal Company yielding about seventy five percent of soft coal in the country.
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Charleston
W. Va
Associated Press
Gugenheim
New River
West Virginia
Fairmount
Pittsburg Coal Company
Guggenheims
Bank Robber Demanded All Money Got Only $60
A lone highwayman entered the West Burlington Savings Bank in Burlington Iowa and, signaling a revolver at cashier Victor Johnson, demanded all money in sight. Johnson handed him $60 in bills, and the robber fled the bank and disappeared.
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Burlington
Iowa
Associated Press
West Burlington
Aldrich South for His Health but Goes Fishing
Senator Nelson W. Aldrich arrived in Miami with his wife and two daughters for a health trip. He is suffering from a bronchial infection but planned to fish soon after arrival and declined to discuss political matters.
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Aldrich South
Miami
Fla
Associated Press
Nelson W. Aldrich
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Ead
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Italy
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Woods
Tom Taggart
Salt Lake City, Utah
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