Elgin Echo Chronicle A Busy Week In National Affairs
Senator Burkett seeks law to curb federal courts. Tariff disputes with Canada spark delays. Labor leaders threaten food famine and call for union funds withdrawal amid streetcar strike. Fireman strike vote and coal mine strike prophecy shape labor tensions. Roosevelt tours Africa and headlines include divorce cases and political clashes.
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Burkett
Canada
United States
Philadelphia
Roosevelt Out Of African Jungle After Long Expedition
Col Roosevelt resumes public life after a year in the wilds. He and his party halt at Renk on the White Nile and meet newspaper correspondents aboard the Dal. He refuses to discuss politics, praises British officials, and reveals hunting exploits and a vast Africa trophy collection. his son Theodore Jr is engaged to Miss Eleanor Alexander.
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Roosevelt
Minneapolis
Prince Henry
Prussia
Germany
England
Russell B. Harrison
T. C. Platt
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Richmond
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Renk
White Nile
Soudan
Reginald Wingate
Slrolar
Nile
Europe
Theodore, Jr
Eleanor Alexander
New York
Dal ‘F
Colonel Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt
Sa Are
R. T. Cunninghame
Egypt
Naples
Budapest
Paris
Holland
Christiania
Berlin
London
America
New
Yook
Lands Restored to Entry on Grand River Lands
Lands withdrawn by former Secretary Garfield along the Grand River in Colorado and Utah for power prospects will be restored to entry by Secretary Bal Unger after review shows only 12,392 acres are usable. A Senate-passed House bill authorizes a one-year withdrawal to favor state entries, curbing speculative preemption under the Carey act.
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Garfield
Secretary of Interior
Secretary of the Interior
Grand River
Colorado
Utah
Bal- Unger
Senate
Dam Break Floods Colorado Dam and Rail Line
A breach at the Jumbo dam of the Julesburg irrigation district west of Sedgwick released millions of cubic feet of water, causing $350,000 to $500,000 in damage. Several people, including hunters, are believed drowned as five miles of Union Pacific track and miles of telegraph lines were washed away. Passenger train No. 15 bound for Denver barely avoided disaster after encountering three feet of floodwater.
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Colorado
Julesburg Irrigation District
Sedgwick
Colo
Union Pacifi
Denver
Roosevelt in Khartoum lands amid jubilation and delay
Colonel Roosevelt arrived in Khartoum at five o'clock Monday, still in khaki due to civilian clothes delays. He anchored at Daloff Gordons Tree to finish a book, received mail of unlikely trophy requests, and was welcomed by Slatin Pasha and Wilson Bey.
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Dore Roosevelt
Khartoum
Roosevelt
Gordon’s Tree
White Nile
Omdurmann
Slatin Pasha
Wilson Bey
Largest steer slaughtered in West at San Francisco
A huge steer weighing 2,500 pounds live and 1,500 pounds dressed was killed in San Francisco. Government data show United States livestock and poultry valued at 5,128,486,000 on January 1, 1910, up 613,227,000 from 1909. In Marshall Missouri farmers report wolves causing heavy losses of pigs and poultry this winter.
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San Francisco
United States
Marshall
Dead in $800000 Jamestown Hotel Fire
A massive blaze swept through the Jamestown business district on a Monday morning damaging the Gokey and Duffy buildings and the Sherman House hotel. Fire captain Hanson was crushed by a falling wall as embers spread with rising winds. 125 hotel guests escaped, while Erie Hall Bijou Theater and Briggs Block were destroyed as flames leapt across a 120 foot street. The total loss neared 800000 dollars with earlier estimates around 100000.
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Jamestown
N. Y
Hanson
John
Gokey
Duffy
Sherman House
New York
Erie Hall
Demand for arbitration ends strike deadlock in Philadelphia
The 4000 or more striking employees of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company press for arbitration to resolve the dispute. Business leaders and civic groups urge mediation, appealing to Gov. Stuart at Harrisburg and federal authorities to end the stalemate. The prolonged strike cripples Philadelphia’s industrial life and raises threats of wider action if no accord is reached.
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Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Philadelphia
Eltty
Hfe
National Civic Federation
Stuart
Harrisburg
Eight Inch Fall Kills New York Night Watchman
John Spilar, a night watchman at a building site in New York, died after an eight inch fall. He stood on a beam and toppled backward, striking a plank with the back of his head, resulting in a fractured skull.
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John Spilar
New York
Cannon Humiliation Signals End of Cannonism in House
The incident marks the worst defeat for Speaker Cannon this session as insurgent Republicans and Democrats overrule his orders. An appeal overturned his ruling on privileged business, with 111-163 and 42-163 votes against him, and a prior 121-163 vote showing growing insurgent strength and wavering Republicans openly opposing the Illinois politician.
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Cannon
Insurgenta
Imnois
Minnesota Education Law Prompts School Enrollment
The State labor department notes 6000 children placed in school after a new compulsory education law. Iowa education leaders oppose modern Intercollegiate athletics, proposing a unified athletics department under Dr William Everett. Quincy pastor and author Dr William Everett dies. Augustana College fund drive aims to raise 60000 with 200000 from other synod conferences. Wisconsin regents review Emma Goldman and Parker Sercombe visit claims university not responsible for visitors.
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Minnesota
State Labor Department
Trewin
Iowa State Board of Education
Iowa Board of Educational Control
William Everett
Quincy
Mays
Atlantic
Oxford
Cambridge
Augustana College and Theological Seminary
Rock Island
Augustana Swedish Lutheran Synod
State Board of Regents of
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Board of
Visitora
Emma Goldman
Parker H. Sercombe
Thaug
Lydia Pinkham’s Compound Praised by Brookfield Woman
A Brookfield Missouri woman credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with reversing severe health decline during menopause. She reports weight gain loss of work capacity and improved wellbeing after using the remedy for years. A physician offer for free confidential advice is noted. Also a short anecdote recounts a lion attack on carpenters’ tent after a ladder overhangs.
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Brookfield
Lydia H. Pinkham
Sara Lovstandat
St Avingston Street
Lydia KE. Pinkhar
Inkham
The Return of Anthony Drexel Jr Engagement News
Anthony Drexel Jr after announcing his engagement to Miss Marjorie Gould dined at the Knickerbocker Club on Fifth Avenue. He quipped about Philadelphia wealth and parsimony, recalling a tale of a miserly millionaire checking his valet’s trousers and rewarding him with a quarter before taking them back.
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Anthony Drexel, Jr
Marjorie Gould
Knickerbocker Club
Fifth Avenue
Drexel
Philadelphia
Thompson
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