Baseball Amalgamation Declared Inadvisable By Spalding Johnson
Ban Johnson and A G Spalding meet to discuss the two major leagues amid plans for harmony. They oppose amalgamation on any basis and confirm the American league will stay unchanged. Spalding supports four National League clubs and envisions eight at most. They urge a joint conference to draft a uniform playing code for February in Buffalo. Spalding heads to New Mexico and California for a bicycle race following.
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National
American
Spalding
Chicago
B. Johnson
A. G. Spalding
Johnson
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Johnson and Spalding
P. T. Powers
National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues
Buffalo
New Mexico
California
Nature
Walsh
McCullough Building
West Third Street
Davenport
Players Ready for Fight Over Minor Leagues
Dale Gear of the Players' Protective Association warns of an imminent clash with the National Association of Minor Leagues. He says players will resist being treated as slaves for accepting better pay elsewhere and cites a reported declaration by labor officials. Gear says he will push the issue to President Daly and confront Powers' organization directly.
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Kansas City
Dale Gear
Players’ Protective Association
Wrhich
Players’ Organization
National Association of Minor Leagues
Gear
Labor Association
Daly
Western League chief fights Gear over salary claims
Kansas City dispatch quotes James Whitfield asserting Secretary Gear misrepresented Western league talks at Tuesday’s meeting. Whitfield says Gear could have attended, calls his statements secondhand, and notes the league has no salary limit and would pay as much as or more than the Tebeau Hickey group.
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Kansas City
James Whitfield
Western League
National Association of Minor Leagues
Gear
Dale Gear
Tebeau-Hickey
Finish of a Bike Race in Philadelphia Armory
A great crowd at the Second Regiment armory witnessed the finish of the six days race in Philadelphia on January 18. Spectators saw riders conclude a grueling six day event with local cyclists among the contenders and a dramatic final sprint to the line.
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Philadelphia
Second Regiment Armory
Moore Sets American Plunging Record at Natatorium
At the New York Athletic Club natatorium on January 18 George P. Moore of the Brooklyne Mass. swimming club broke the American record in plunging for distance with a 59 foot mark, surpassing the previous 58 foot record.
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New York
New York Athletic Club
George P. Moore
Brooklyne
Mass
Childs Wins Decision in Chicago Heavyweight Bout
Frank Childs the colored champion heavyweight boxer defeated Walter Johnson of Chicago by decision in six rounds at the Chicago Athletic Association. Johnson started strong in two rounds but faded, while Childs dominated the later rounds. Preliminaries saw Young Sharkey and Charley Mason draw after a spirited contest.
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Chicago
Frank Childs
Walter Johnson
Chicago Athletic Association
Fred Russell
Denver
Childs
Russell
Johnson
Young Sharkey
Hot Springs
Ark
Charley Mason
Fraternities Back Plan for 1904 Olympian Games
Chicago January 18. Twenty four Greek letter fraternities attended the meeting of the committee of the International Olympian Games association. Resolutions favored a fraternities convention in 1904 at Chicago while the Olympian tournament proceeds.
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Chicago
Maher and Sharkey Freed After Bail Posted
Peter Maher and Tom Sharkey, arrested yesterday on law and order society involvement, appeared before the magistrate and were discharged this morning. The magistrate ruled they had committed no overt act and set bail at 5000 dollars to keep the peace.
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Philadelphia
Peter Maher
Tom Sharkey
Law and Order Society
PASSENGERS TELL OF WRECK AT VICTOR DES MOINES REPORTS
Des Moines passengers from the Rock Island wreck near Victor describe the boiler explosion that toppled sleepers. Miss Flossie Brainerd recalls waking to a jolting crash as cars left the track. Fireman and engineer scalded, baggagemaster with three broken ribs, expressman slightly hurt.
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Des Moines
Rock Island
Victor
City
E. C. Finkbine
Dean
Iowa City
Northwestern professor attacks Methodist creed and Sunday school
Chicago January 18 The Record Herald reports Professor Charles W Pearson of Northwestern University argues biblical infallibility is superstition and that miracles are poetic fancies He campaigns that Methodist leaders are silent and church teachings evasive, calling Sunday school instruction nearly farcical and inadequate.
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Chicago
Record-Herald
Charles W. Pearson
Northwestern University
Evanston
Pearson
Methodist Church
Train Orders by Phone at Illinois Central Railroad
Illinois Central plans to replace telegraph with a telephone order system at major stations. Officials and employees will use wired phones to transmit orders and messages. Proponents cite safety improvements and lower operating costs.
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Illinois Central Road
Chicago
the Record-Herald
Illinois Central Railroad
Judge Denies Sullivan Motion In Conspiracy Trial
Chicago January 18 Judge Smith denied a motion for a new trial for Alexander Sullivan recently convicted of conspiracy to keep James Lynch a fugitive from justice out of the state. The court also considered a motion for arrest of judgment under advisement.
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Chicago
Smith
Alexander Sullivan
James Lynch
Freedom for Mrs Barnes in Illinois murder case
In Jacksonville Illinois on January 18 the case against Mamie Barnes for murder was dismissed after key witness William Ferguson refused to testify. The state’s attorney cited lack of a case without his testimony and Ferrguson’s plan to seek a new trial. Mrs Barnes and her mother Mrs McWilliams left for Quincy after the dismissals.
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Jacksonville
Ill
Mamie Barnes
William Ferguson
Danish Navy Officer Thorvald Fritsche Dies in New York
Lieutenant Thorvald Fritsche, son of Bratsraad Fritsche of the Copenhagen Chamber of Commerce, dies in New York. A former Danish navy officer, he served 12 months in the American navy with the North Atlantic squadron and received congressional thanks. He later rejoined the Danish army before moving to New York a year ago.
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New York
Thorvald Fritsche
Bratsraad Fritsche
Copenhagen
Italian Composer Marchetti Dies in Rome
Rome January 18 composer Philippe Marchetti the Italian composer is reported dead in the capital. The obituary notes his lifelong contributions to classical music and his influential work in Rome's artistic community.
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Rome
Philippe Marchetti
Million Dollar Life Insurance Check Reported
A $1,000,000 check was received here for the life policy on Frank H. Peavey the late Minneapolis millionaire. It is described as the largest check ever drawn for a life insurance payment.
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St. Paul, Minn
Frank H. Peavey
Minneapolis
Strike May Close Paper Mills in Wisconsin
Paper manufacturers from two districts in Wisconsin met in secret talks and reportedly refused to grant any union demands. A prolonged shutdown is viewed as preferable by leaders, with May as a potential strike start.
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Appleton
Wis
Old Scotsman Claims Panacea for Eye Ailments in Colorado
Bruce McIntire a 65 year old Scottish immigrant living in a cabin at 807 East Highth Street in Cripple Creek asserts a secret discovery to cure nearly all eye diseases and strengthen sight. He treated Ralph Carver and Annie Bowen with apparent success and plans to seek backing from a Boston drug firm before returning to Leadville.
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Cripple Creek Herald-Democrat
East Highth Street
Bruce MclIntire
McIntire
Ralph Carver
East Seventh Street
Carver
Chrysolite
Ralph
Mr. Carver
Annie Bowen
S. J. Bowen
Aspen
Mrs. Willis
Hast
Herald-Democrat
Iman
Boston
Leadville
Mr. McIntire
Glasgow
Scotland
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Reading
Threat to Kill President Sentenced by Fort Canby
Astoria Oregon January 18 Frank Rakowski a soldier in the United States army was degraded at Fort Canby and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. After Christmas he drank in a Chinook saloon and declared President McKinley deserved his fate and vowed to harm Roosevelt as Czolgosz did McKinley. He was tried and convicted before a general court martial. Rakowski formerly resided in Chicago.
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Astoria
Ogn
Frank Rakowski
United States Army
Fort Canby
Rakowski
Chnook
McKinley
Roosevelt
Czolgosz
Chicago
Robbers hold up a dozen in Omaha gambling room
Two men, Frank Williams and Frank Jones, robbed a gambling room at 4 am in central Omaha, taking the cash box and $200 from patrons. A police squad captured them ten minutes later. all stolen money was found on the suspects.
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Omaha
Frank Williams
Frank Jones
Trainmen Hurt in Collision at Bee Creek Junction
In a rear end crash between Chicago Great Western and Grand Trunk's freight trains at Bee Creek Junction Mo this morning Fireman Miller of the Great Western and other trainmen suffered slight injuries.
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Bee Creek Junction
Chicago Great Western
Grand Tslan
Miller
The
Great Western
Peruna Advertises Cure For Catarrh Across the Body
An 1890s style ad claims Peruna cures catarrh wherever located and cites unsolicited testimonials from patients like D R Ramsey in Pine Bluff Arkansas Herman Ehlke in Milwaukee and B Runyan of Salesville Ohio describing relief from head nose and throat catarrh after using multiple bottles.
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D. R. Ramsey
Pine Bluff
Ark
Leon Ramsey
Herman Ehlke
Orchard Street
Milwaukee, Wis
Herman Ehike
HH. Runyan
Salesville, C
Runyan
McKinley Memorial Fund Reaches 23139 Dollars
General news items report Illinois auxiliary chair Revell announcing 23139 dollars raised for the McKinley National Memorial. Other wires note British chancellor HicksBeach says coal tax stays, Virginia diocese shifts oversight to Bishop Gib son, and Edward Brennan logs 60 fatal and 98 nonfatal coal accidents in Pennsylvania's seventh anthracite district.
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Alexander H. Revell
Illinois
McKinley National Memorial Association
Michael Hicks-Beach
Newcastle
Ecclesiastic
Virginia
F. M. Whittle
Robert A. Gibson
Whittle
Edward Brennan
Pennsylvania
France
Henry Sienckiewicz
Posen
Poland
Sienckiewicz
Warsaw
Russia
James Brown Potter
State Department
Clayton
Mexico City
China
Forbidden City
Temple of Heaven
Pekin
Cecil Rhodes
South Africa
New York
M. A. Hanna
United States
England
William McKinley
Morocco
A Ten Stroke for Peruna Catarrh Claims
A collection of customer testimonials from The Peruna Medicine Co. of Columbus Ohio praising Peruna for cures across catarrh complaints. Mrs Emilie Birckhoff of Ada Minnesota reports relief from nasal catarrh and lung issues after use. John Smith of Atchison Kansas cites bladder relief, Henry Entzion of South Bend Indiana notes bowels improvement, Peter Unger of Hawley Pennsylvania claims kidney cure, A W Graves of Hammond Indiana reports stomach relief, Miss Katie Lochman of Lafayette Indiana says pelvic catarrh eased. A free booklet on la grippe and catarrh is offered.
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Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Withers Held for Trial on Embezzlement and Forgery
John P. Withers former president of the National Bank of Beaumont Texas was held for trial by United States Commissioner Nicols in Kansas City for embezzling 20200 of bank funds. An amended bill also accuses him of forging three notes totaling 21975 to cover the deficit.
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Kansas City
John P. Withers
National Bank of
Withers
Illinois exposition picks Atwell as superintendent
William B. Atwell, president of the Macoupin County Farmers' Institute, appointed superintendent of the Illinois agricultural exhibit at the St Louis Exposition by the Illinois commission. He is a Blackburn University graduate.
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Carlinville
Til
William B. Atwell
Macoupin County
New Lake Steamer Launched in Detroit
The Western States, a new Detroit Buffalo line passenger steamer, was successfully launched at Wyandotte yards of the American Shipbuilding company. It is a sister ship of the Eastern States launched a month ago.
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Detroit
Detroit-Buffalo Line
Wyandotte Yards
American Shipbuilding Company
Kansas Farmer and Niece Killed in Burglary
C E Holt a wealthy farmer and his niece were found dead at their Greenleaf Kansas home on January 18. Police say burglars killed them during a burglary and stole the horse and buggy likely used by the assailant to escape.
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Kansas
Greenleaf
Kan
C. E. Holt
Remarkable mid December temperature drop in central west
A 5 degree fall in 36 hours chilled both people and livestock, stressing fruit and hardy species. The piece contrasts such drastic swings with places where yearly variation stays under 20 degrees, explaining why certain life forms thrive or fail across regions.
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Central West
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