Troops En Route to Manila From Chicago and New Orleans
Columbus February 20 The government plans moves of eight infantry units under Capt Taggart en route to San Francisco where they will sail aboard the Logan on March 15. The journey includes testing a patent cooking device aboard the train with potential wider government adoption. Four companies from New Orleans leave for San Francisco this afternoon, totaling 260 men and 15 officers.
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Serippa News Association
Columbus
Eighth Infantry
Taggart
Chicago
San Francisco
Logan
Promiew Tork
New York
New Orleans
Five burned to death in Tunnel Hill fire
Five persons perished in a morning blaze that nearly wiped out the village of Tunnel Hill Pennsylvania. The dead include Mrs Mary Grogan and her four children ages eleven ten and eight with one unidentified body found.
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Scripps News Association
Tunnel Hill
Penn
Mary Grogan
Wells Case Probes Mutual Reserve Officials by Grand Jury
The grand jury began an inquiry into charges by James D. Wells a former Mutual Reserve Life Insurance official. Attorney General Jerome had four wagon loads of books and papers brought before the jury as evidence in the case.
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Scripps News Association
New York
The
Grand Jury Today
James D. Wells
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
Jerome
Grand Jury
Pope Opposes Separate Choirs For Women
Vatican attache reports the Pope favors keeping women choir singers in general church use but rejects forming a separate body for liturgical services. The U S report centered on Archbishop Kean of Dubuque Iowa who was said to support thawing restrictions on female choristers.
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Roma
Vatican
America
Kean
Dubuque
Iowa
Interstate Commerce Panel Reports Coal and Oil Discrimination
The House committee on Interstate Commerce approved a substitute for the Tillman joint resolution, removing "Other products" and adding oil products for examination of railroad discrimination and monopolies in coal and oil. President nominates John Edwards of Ohio as assistant secretary of state and midshipmen to ensigns. Supreme Court grants writ of error in case involving Senator Patterson, fined for contempt over a Colorado court article. Inter-church marriage and divorce conference seeks absolute divorce after postnuptial infidelity and proposes two year evidence period for divorce suits.
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Scrippr News Association
Washington
House
Interstate Commerce Today
Tilman
Tillman
Senate
John Edwards
Ohio
Supreme Court Today
United States
Patterson
Supreme Court of Colorado
Inter-Church Marriage and Divorce Conference
Congress
Eastern Syndicate Buys Warehouse in Grande Ronde Valley
The Oregon Produce Company sold storage warehouse No. 2 to a large Eastern syndicate for 12500 cash, via agent Geo Powers. The deal aims to build cannery, fruit dryer, cider factory in North Yakima, Toppenish, Medford and Ashland, with possession June 1 and plans to store this year’s fruit crop.
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Grande Ronde Valley
la Grande
Oregon Produce Company
Geo. T. Powers
North Yakima
Toppnish
Washington
Medford
Ashland
Oregon
Powers
Eee
Gust
Miners Amid Turmoil as Stuenenberg Case Rock Oregon
Baker City reports Steve Adams alias Dickson of the Western Federation of Labor arrested on suspicion of complicity in the Steunenberg murder. Detectives seek Jack Simpkins. St. John and Vincent alias face questions in Caldwell amid broader federation tensions. Executives in Denver claim mine owners seek to crush union labor and that Moyer and Haywood are innocent. Several federations members were arrested. further arrests expected.
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Scripps News Association
Baker City
Steve Adams
Stave Dickson
Western Federation of Labor
Haines
Stunenburg
Jack Simpkins
Dickson
Eer
Orchard
Boise City
Wallace Idaho
St. John
Steunenberg
Vincent
L. J. Simpkins
Caldwall
Canyon County
Denver
Western Federation
Moyer and
Haywood
Western States
Montana
Moyer
Colorado
Smith Edward Green
Robert Green
Miners Killed in Mainland Mine Gas Explosion
At the Mainland mine fourteen miners died in a gas explosion yesterday, officials report. Twelve bodies have been recovered. two remain inside the mine. Of the recovered corpses eight identities are confirmed as John Peters, Archie Miller, Wm. Ryan, Peter Divisco, Musale Nizzi, Macale Orem, Steven Labana, and John Breman.
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Scripps News Association
Waitsburg
Colo
Victor Fuel Company
John Peters
Archie Miller
Wm. Ryan
Peter Divisco
Musale Nizzi
Macale Orem
Steven Labana
John Breman
Suspects demand trial as Colorado abduction probe surfaces
The defense demands immediate trial for Moyer Haywood and Pettibone, while threatening habeas corpus to reveal evidence. Four officers testify to Orchard’s confession with limited detail as Judge Smith orders a Caldwell grand jury to hear witnesses in the murder case of ex governor Steunenerburg. Richardson says the federal court may test state authority to abduct Coloradan suspects from Colorado.
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Moyer
Haywood
Pettibone
Orchard
Smith
Caldwell
Pettsboro
Steunenerburg
Richardson
Colorado
Packers Win a Point in Packers Case
Chicago February 20 The court admitted as evidence a letter to Attorney General Moody from the President regarding the prera buslawmi investigation. Packers contend the letter shows coordination of the department of commerce in procuring evidings while the court held the President acted in his official capacity binding the government.
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Scrippe News
Chicago
Packers
W. H. Moody
Prera
Run on Bank in Chicago Follows Bank Failure Rumors
A panic hit Jackson Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago on February 20 as rumors spread after the Bank of America failed and state scrutiny of securities began. In London, King Edward opened the levee of the season today.
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Scripps News Association
Chicago
Jackson Trust and Savings Link
Bank of America
London
Edward
Woman Drowns Three Children In Plymouth Steamer Tragedy
A passenger on the Plymouth reports a woman threw her three children overboard and then leapt in herself. The note left for John Walters of Brooklyn indicates she was despondent. The victims were a girl, eight, a boy, five, and an infant. all bodies unrecovered.
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Angina
Plymouth
Worran
John Walters
Brooklyn
N. Y
Mre
B. G. Allen
Mercury Claimed Three Lives in Stockton Inquest
Stockton February 20 Mercury caused the deaths of James Barnett and two children who died last week in this city. An inquest is underway with the stomach analysis confirming mercury as the cause and sensational developments anticipated.
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Scrippe News Association
Stockton
California
Mercury
James Barnett
Gord
Oner Southworth
Jamas Area
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Cty
E. F. Richardson
Boise
Goodin
COODS
Acrippa Nowa
Fall River
Masa
Newlin
Newlin Drug Company
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