Witness Accuses Ballinger Aides in Alaska Claims
Louis R. Glavis, a land department official, closes testimony before the Ballinger-Pinchot committee alleging animus between Ballinger and the forestry service. He accuses Representative McLachlan and Representative Kinkaid of Alaska claim interests and says Hallinger advised against pursuing McLachlan. He also details attempts to obtain letters from Dennett and claims to possess the Cunningham journal as proof of fraud in Alaskan land entries.
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Washington
Morea
Secretary of the Interior
Ballinger
Louis R. Glavis
United Land Department
Bis
Ballinger-Pinchot
Congressional Investigating Committee
Glavis
Land of
Ice
Land Ofclils
McLachlan
California
Kinkaid
Nebrensky
Land Office
Kinid
Hallinger
Dennett
Gravis
Tafts
Mero
Dunningham Journal
Cou
Alaska
Eight Die as Train Crashes at Stoots Nest Station
London reports eight killed and about thirty injured in a London and Brighton railway wreck near Stoots Nest station. A Brighton bound train struck the station at 40 miles per hour, overturning a Pullman and wrecking third class cars and part of the building. Passengers including former American consul general Robert J. Wynne escaped with minor injuries and aided the wounded.
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London
Stoots Nest
London & Brighton
Brighton
Robert J.wynne
Father Hodnett Dead
Rev Thomas Pops Hodnett Irish patriot and priest died at the rectory of the Church of the Immaculate Conception where he served as pastor. Born February 2 1845 in Glin County Limerick Ireland he remained loyal to Ireland and supported political social and economic reforms. He was a relative of Irish poet Gerald Griffin.
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Chicago
Thomas Pops Hodnett
Ireland
Gerald Griffn
Kansas day banquet marks Sunflower state anniversary in Chicago
Kanaan Society of Chicago held a large banquet in Chicago to celebrate Kansas day the anniversary of Kansas entry to the union. Notables included Secretary of Agriculture James S. Coburn Eugene Ware former pension official Chancellor Frank Strong University of Kansas and Ewing Herbert editor of the Brown County World. Illinois attendees featured Rock Island President Mudge Burlington President Haters and others such as Benjamin Wincher John Sebastian and W J Black.
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Kanean
Chicago
Kangan Society of
S. D. Coburn
Eugene F. Ware
Frank Strong
The
Universlty of
Kansas
Ewing Herbert
Brown County World
Kansana
Mudge
Rock Island
President Haters
Burlington
Benjamin Wincher
John Sebastian
W. J. Black
Will Bring Up Dead Miners From Closed Mine
Chicago January 31 after three months of suspense the widows and orphans at Cherry are prepared to recover the bodies of their husbands and fathers from St Paul Coal Company mine W W Taylor says nine shafts will reopen Tuesday concrete cap will be removed and helmet men lowered into the mine hoping to bring out 180 bodies in the second and third veins some may be incinerated or washed away but every effort will be made to reach the mouth of the shaft danger of fire is considered and normal temperatures in recent days are cited
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Chicago
Cherry
St. Paul Coal Company
W. W. Taylor
Coal Company
Mr. Taylor
Convict Black Hand Gang Sentences Hit Federal Prisons
Ten members of a Sicilian Black Hand gang were sentenced in federal court and sent to Leavenworth Kansas to serve from two to 18 years. Antonio Vicario, 20, was sent to El Mira reform school. Three defendants got new trials. two indicted members flee to Italy. The group’s total term totals 60 years. Salvatore Limo leads with 14 years.
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Toledo
Leavenworth
Ken
Antonio Vicario
Reformatory
Elmira
N. Y
Italy
Salvatore Limo
Marion
Garve
Woman Murdered by Fiend in Domestic Tragedy
The scorched body of Mrs. Alice Van Zandt was found across a stove in her kitchen, bound with oil soaked cloth and lace. Husband Jesse Van Zandt is detained by police as investigators probe the case, with the four year old daughter disputing his initial statement after a neighbor reported a sulfur smell triggering the blaze.
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Cineinnaw
Alice Vat Zandt
Jesse van Zandt
Death of Bishop Cyrus D Foss Boldly Spans Nation
Bishop Cyrus D Foss retired Methodist Episcopal leader dies in Hahnmann hospital tram stroke of paralysis endured while riding a trolley car January 1. Surrounded by family at bedside at death. Born Kingston New York January 17 1884. Father and brother both noted Methodist ministers.
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Philadelphia
Cyrus D. Foss
Epiecopil
Hahn@mann hospital
Cyrus David Poss
Kingston
Gompers Urges Ten Cent War Fund From Unions
Samuel Gompers, head of the AFL, formally asks 6,000,000 union and farmers’ members to contribute ten cents each to a fund to oppose the steel trust. The circular, made public in New York, frames the move as self defense for American life and institutions.
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New York
United States
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Steel Trust
Gompers
Flood Devastates Paris Suburbs as Water Rises Fast
Paris correspondent reports Seine still high and rising, 12 foot flood in Gennevilliers and Colombes. Many shelterless victims receive aid by boat while troops guard unsafe areas. Looting abated but incidents noted near Charenton. Abroad relief praised. Paris authorities assure safety if health directives followed.
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Paria
Seine
Paris
St. Germain
Gennevilliers
Colombes
Jayal
Charenton
Ivry
Brig
Alfortville
Slatere
United States
Board of Health
Mad dog bites 12 people in Auburn street attack
A large English setter owned by Reginald FP Clifford ran through Auburn striking crowds of churchgoers. The dog, apparently rabid, bit six children and six men, broke a chain, was recaptured, and later killed. Heads to Cornell for hydrophobia testing.
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Auburn
Reginald FP
Clifford
Cornell University
Omaha Fears Over Uncooked Meat Parasitic Danger
In Omaha Feb 2 report on LL T Cooper promoting New Discovery claims it cures tape worms from uncooked meat. Residents report passing large parasites after use with priest Father Arnolis praising relief. City sales reach about one hundred thousand bottles with rising demand.
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Omaha
Net
LL T. Cooper
Cooper
John Baptist Arnolis
Father Arnolls
Taft Considers Suspension of Tax Law Publicity Clause
President Taft agreed to study whether the publicity clause of the corporation tax law can be suspended by administrative regulation after a White House meeting with John M. Glenn of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association. Glenn argued manufacturers oppose disclosing business information to competitors and the cabinet will discuss it Tuesday.
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Washington
Taft
John M. Glenn
Illinois Manufacturers’ Associaion
White House
Glenn
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Government mail rates cited as hurting second-class mail
Washington on January thirty one the house committee on post offices and post roads heard that government long hauls at a low rate yield little or no profit while express companies and railroads profit from short hauls. The inquiry into second class mail rates notes the government charges one cent per pound regardless of haul length.
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Washington
Malik
House Committee On Post
Post Rosda
Cook fails to write new twist on explorer tale
New York January 31 The revived interest in Dr Frederick A Cook following a claim he was discovered in a German sanitarium led to a report that he and his wife had failed to contact their two young daughters at the Mam ton institute on West Eighty First Street for weeks. Prof Shaw the institutes superintendent and instructor avoided publicity and would neither confirm nor deny the statement.
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New York
Frederick A. Cook
Mamton Institute
West Eighty-Arst Street
Shaw
Mystery sleep grips South Creek cotton merchant
J F Smithwick of South Creek North Carolina, wealthy cotton merchant, lies in a New Toledo hotel for sixteen days in a peculiar condition. Doctors are baffled as he has spoken only a handful of words and remains largely unconscious, while detectives seek a cause for the strange slumber.
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Toledo
J. F. Smithwick
South Creek
N. C
Star Hotel
Smithwick
Taft praised as a fine man by Arkansas senator
Senator Davis of Arkansas called Taft a fine man after his first White House visit, saying he liked him though they had not met before. Pietro Quiruns Hayes of Italy won the San Francisco marathon at Recreation Park in 2 41, the pair meeting for the third time with Hayes prevailing in two races. McKinley birth anniversary marked nationwide with Carnation Day observances and floral tributes at the tomb on Memorial Hill.
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Senator Davis
Arkansas
The
White House
Washington
Jef Davis
Taft
Pietro Quiruns Hayes
San Francisco
Doranto Pietro
Italy
Johnny Hayes
New York
Recreation Park
McKinley
Danton
O. Tan
William McKinley
United States
Not the Proper Atmosphere Assertion Outside St Ann's
A fragment from a Manchester Guardian item notes overheard chat outside St Ann's church about hearing the archdeacon. The exchange pivots on mood for business and the impact of attendance on daily frame of mind.
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St. Ann’s Church
Manchester Guardian
Doan's Kidney Pills Cure Tipton Woman's Back Pain
Mrs Elizabeth Wolf of Tipton Missouri recounts severe inflammation and back ache from last spring. After using Doan's Kidney Pills she reports relief and being well since, with the familiar advertising line noting Doan's availability at fifty cents a box from Foote Milburn Co Buffalo.
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Elizabeth Wolf
W. Morgan
Tipton
Saya
Doan
Foatere Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
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