Wreck Victims Over Thirty Injured In Submerged Cars
A Canadian Pacific train plunged into the Spanish River near Nipissing Ont on a bridge. The wreck left at least thirty dead or injured as cars tumbled, with many bodies recovered and others believed burned. Rescue divers including Conductor Reynolds worked amid icy water to save passengers as officials reported multiple fatalities and injuries.
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Nalin
Ont
Wua
Jovenh Henkault
Matheson
Ort
S. J. Saunders
Ortilla
Oat
Spinkzle
Chisholto
Minn
C. Honde
Sault Ste. Marie
Nick Nieklanko
Lawrence
Mass
Thoma Reynolds
North Bay
W. 3. Well
Sudbury
David Brodie
District of
Reynolds
Emergg i
Che
Lee
Onso Rousel
Seo
Brodie
Morrison
Poe
Carde
W. J. Bell
General Hospital
Put
Wakely's Slayers Caught in Chicago Case
Chicago June 24 Aybao leader of the Filipinos who murdered Thiden BK Wakely of Chicago and H. D. Everett In Many 1908 with three companions has been captured by the constabulary per information received by Ebenezer Wakely father of the slain man from the band of inferior affairs.
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Wakely
Chicago
Aybao
Hend
Thiden
BK. Wakely
H. D. Everett
Ebenezer Wakely
Bfitan
Inpur
Paris Floods Turn City To National Diagmeter
Paris faced record floods with widespread homelessness across the north, east, and west while the Seine neared bridge arches. Chalons sur Marne reports vast water flow downstream. a water main burst cut water to five southern districts. Alfortville dam burst. 200 houses overwhelmed, residents fled, belongings left behind.
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Paris
Seine
Pont Les Arts
Pont de Alma
Chalons
Sur Marne
M. Kepine
Alfortville
Trial Stirs Naval Circles in Boston Court Martial
Naval circles in Boston buzz over the coming court martial of Paymaster George P. Auld and Assistant Surgeon Ansey B. Robnett at the naval yard on January 31. Auld is charged with insulting and assaulting Dr. Edward B. Cowles, cousin of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, while Robnett faces a charge of being a particeps criminis. The proceedings promise social tangles, possibly linking to the broken engagement of Miss Madeline Sray Swift, daughter of Rear Admiral William Swift, and Harry Duar Storer, a New York and Atlanta society man.
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Boston
George P. Auld
Ansey B. Robnett
Madeline Sray Swift
William Swift
Harry Duar Storer
New York
Atlanta
Unionist Gains Continue in British General Election
London dispatch reports ongoing Unionist gains in the British general election. Voters weigh the budget, peer privileges, and the free trade versus tariff reform issue as returns come in.
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London
Will Pay Honor To Founder Ex-Patients Of Sanitarium
Twenty five former tuberculosis patients cured at the Adirondack Cottage sanitarium will join a February 1 celebration in Saranac Lake to mark the institute founding by Dr Edward L. Trugeau. Attendees span many states with TB workers and professionals expected to attend.
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Saranac Lake
N.Y. Daa
Adirondack Cottage
Edward L. Trugeau
America
Ten Pretty Co-Eds Leave Syracuse University Abruptly
Ten pretty coeds at Syracuse University left Dean Hall amid claims of too stringent rules. They departed with belongings after charges about late hours and fraternizing with football players stirred campus talk. Flour Trial Ordered in antitrust case against Washburn Crosby. Attorney General Denman seeks action over price fixing to kill competition.
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Syracuse University
Syracuse
Dean Hall
University
Columbus
Washburn-Crosby Company
Denman
Stevens
Plyra
Hatiweed
Attorney General Leads Packers Prosecution Effort
Washington reports Attorney General Wickersham will direct the government’s packing-house probe with strong legal talent. Wade H. Ellis plans immediate Chicago start to handle prosecutions if indictments arise. Army investigators in Chicago, Omaha, and Kansas City prepare reports to back grand jury action and potential trials.
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Washington
Wade H. el Ua
Chicago
Packers’ Trust
Ellis
Department of Justice
Wickersham
Cilcaga
Moody
Packer
Bee
Secretary of War
Omaha
Kansas City
DIES WEALTH IS HIS PILLOW IN QUIET DEATH
Jensay City Missouri man USUA T Schoon age 70 is found dead in a squalid room with head on a box containing 78000 in securities and a nearly empty morphine vial. Coroner cannot determine if death was accidental or deliberate. A will bequeaths all estate to relatives named Goetz living in Kempsville Missouri.
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Jensay City
Dan
Usuat Schoon
Goetz
Kempsville
Picaraguan Rebels Beaten Near La Libertad
San Juan Del Sur Nicaragua Jan 24 The advance guard of the revolutionary army attacked government outposts at La Libertad. The fighting was hot but the small force was repulsed after about thirty minutes. The action signals Gen Chamorros column near Acoyapa and an imminent decisive attack on the government position.
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San Juan del Sur
Nicaragua
Revolutionary Army
la Libertad
Chamorro
Acoyapa
Girl Beats Thug in Lane, Loses Cash in Scuffle
In Cleveland on January 24 Miss Lula Van Fleet a Lincoln High School teacher struck a highwayman who attacked her threw him into a showbank and jumped him. In the struggle she dropped her purse and the robber picked it up before fleeing.
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Cleveland
Lula van Fleet
Lincoln High School
Child of Six Burned to Death in Terre Haute
Virginia Nef six years old was burned to death when her kimono caught fire in Terre Haute Indiana January 34 her father and mother Mia and Mrs William Neff were badly burned trying to save her life Also Fort Wayne political leader Dr Henry A Read aged 71 collapsed and died on January 24 a former city councilman and reader in Democratic politics of the county
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Terre Haute
Ind
Virginia Nef
Heath
Mia
William Neff
Fort Wayne
Henry A.read
Ballinger Pinchot Quiz to Begin This Week
Washington plans the Ballinger Pinchot investigation with a Tuesday meeting of the joint Congressional commission to outline surface work and begin laying out witnesses briefs and testimony. The committee expects late summer action, potential Alaska visits, and sessions in the Senate office building as a special room is prepared.
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Washington
Ballinger
Gifford Pinchot
Glavis
Shaw
Price
Alaska
Senate
Two Bandits Captured After Rail Robbery Near St Louis
A.C. Eames of the Missouri Pacific Railway secret service said the robbers who held up a passenger train near St Louis on Friday night are identified and will be arrested today. A teenage girl, 18, provided crucial help, living in the mountains near Eureka. Police searched the county’s northern area for the outlaws. Late last night Gillespie reported two bandits were jailed in Boscar.
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St. Louis
A. C. Eames
Missouri Pactie Railway
Eureka
Gillespie
Matson
Six-master Wrecked Off Martha's Vineyard Rescue Amid Storm
A stranded American schooner Mette Crowley wrecks three miles off Martha's Vineyard after a Baltimore to Boston voyage. Skipper Levi Jackson and four sailors aboard the Priscilla rescue 15 aboard including Captain Haskell, his wife, and 13 crew. Mrs Haskell endured ten hours lashed to the wreck before dories from Priscilla saved them.
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Edgartown
Mass
Mette
Martha’s Vineyard Island
Baltimore
Boston
Levi Jackson
Priscilla
Haskell
Has
Lady Lytton Freed After Jail Disguise Revealed
Lady Comsuimee Lytton sister of Lord Lytton was released from Walton jail after serving half of a two week sentence for smashing jail windows. She had hidden as a laborer named Jane Warton but was identified, ending her custody. The incident follows scrutiny of Home Secretary Gladstone actions in Newcastle jail cases and ties to treatment of women prisoners.
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Liverpool
Comsuimee Lytton
Lord Lytton
Walton
Jane Warton
Jandy Constance
Home
Gladstone
Newcastle
Ezra Kendall Dead Comedian Dies of Apoplexy in Indiana
Ezra Kendall, famed comedian and star of The Vinegar Buyer for years, died suddenly at a Martinsville Indiana sanitarium. Cause listed as apoplexy amid weeks of nervous breakdown. tour halted, company disbanded. Also notes Gompers mediation offer rejected by Philadelphia Rapid Transit and missing funds case at Routhbridge Savings Bank with $100,000 attachment.
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Cleveland, C
Ezra Kendal
Vinegar Buyer
Martinsville
Ind
Bank Candler
Routhbridge
Mass
John A. Hall
Mystery surrounds killing of Anna Schumacher in Rochester
James K. Hall, a sailor aboard the prison ship Southery at the naval station in Portsmouth, confessed to County Attorney Weldener Sheriff Gillette and Assistant District Attorney Healer to the August murder of 12? year old Anna Schumacher of Rochester. Hall's tale emerged after he could not sleep and spoke of the crime to fellow inmates who urged him to reveal details under promise of leniency. The commandant of the station then relayed the confession to Rochester authorities for action.
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Portsmouth
Anna Schumacher
Rochester
Holy Sepulchur
James K. Hall
Southery
Naval Station
Weldener
Gillette
Schumacher
Hall
Navy
Hali
Elation
Taft and Tillman Clash Over Merits of Armies Abroad
Taft at a dinner defended not annexing Cuba and outlined the Philippines’ political relation to the United States. He praised government actions for Philippine progress while Senator Tillman denounced the Spanish American War and raised race and Cuba conditions, prompting a measured Taft counter.
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Cuba
Philippines
Washington
Taft
Canada
Australia
Tillman
Spain
Missing head found for murdered woman in Chicago
A boy in a vacant lot discovered the severed head of Mrs. Jennie Cleghorn, whose body was found earlier on West Seventeenth Street. The head shows slashes and a skull stab, suggesting knowledge of anatomy and possible removal after the body was dumped. Other brief items note a Philadelphia bank president’s death after shock from a bomb incident and New York politics-related arrest in a separate column.
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Chicago
Jennie Cleghorn
Negro Régort
Latin West Seventeenth Street
Four Nations Move to End Seals Slaughter agreement near
Washington reports that Great Britain Japan and Russia plan a joint diplomatic pact to curb pelagic sealing while expanding seal numbers. The United States has pressed for over 25 years. one obstacle remains Canada demanding compensation for vessel losses.
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Washington
Great Britain
Japan
Russia
United States
Canada
State Banks In Combination Prompt New Legislation
Madison Wis Jas 24 The state commissioner of banking has declared a new kind of trial a combination of banks in the small towns of the northwest The annual report asks for legislation to prevent such combinations The report shows a Minneapolis holding company controlling stock in 40 banks across Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota and the Dakotas Other similar holding companies are being formed The commissioner warns of dangers from banking trusts as they cannot supervise individual banks and the risk of defalcation by subordinate officials is high
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Madison
Wis
Jas
Northwest
Minneapolis
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Dakotas
Pinchot Succeeds Eliot as National Conservation Chief
Washington reports Gifford Pinchot chosen to succeed Charles W. Eliot as president of the National Conservation Association with Eliot remaining honorary head. Pinchot takes active charge in Washington and says the group will not engage in politics but push for better conservation laws in Congress.
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Washington
Gifford Pinchot
Charles W. Eliot
National Conservation Association
Eliot
Pinchot
King bans Lady Constance from court performances
King Edward ordered Lady Constance Stewart Richardson to stop appearing before him at court. Through Sir Edward Knollys she was advised not to appear again, and she reportedly collapsed when the command was issued. The monarch once admired her athletic dancing at the Salace Music Hall.
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London
Nan
Edward
Constance Stewart
Richardson
Salace Music Hall
Edward Knollys
Constance
Apelin
Tillman in Custody Suit Involving Senator’s Family
Washington Jan 24 Mrs Benjamin R Tillman Jr files suit against her father in law United States Senator Tillman to regain custody of two daughters. The children remain with Senator Tillman at his Washington residence as proceedings unfold in the case tied to the Five Civilized Tribes committee clerk role.
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Washington
Benjamin R. Tillman, Jr
United States
Tilda
Senatora Tilman
Mie
Senate Committee of the Five Civilized Tribes of
Lo- Mans
Senatora Tillman
Chaleman
Forged Bills Involving Cardinal and Florentine Theft
A nobleman in Rome is suspected of discounting 10 000 in Florence bills bearing Cardinal Trampolla's forged signature. In Columbus, Isaac Cameron, former state treasurer, and accomplices are sued for 211 000 in state funds misappropriated via interest. Roy E Pettit, Michigan county official and alleged embezzler, is seized in San Francisco after three years pursued by his father.
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Fioreng
Rome
Florence
Cardinal Trampolla
Ohlo
Columbus, CO
Isaac Cameron
Columbus Avings & ‘Trust Company
Court of Common Pleas
Franklin County
San Francisco
Seerif
Michigan
Roy E., Pettik
Wniversity
Corger
United States Navy
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Pacific
Tiene
Nationalista
Vernengees
Laborites
Gsine
Army
Girl
Thug
Purne
Sweetheart
Tad
Moura
Lady Lytton
Ezra Kendall
DEAD
Indiana
Gompers
Philadelphia
Sanuel Goners
American Federation of Labor
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Sailor
Darisa K. UL
Comacience Strickun
Talla
Taft and
Janu
Richard TH. Rushton
Fourth Street National Bank
Mr. Rushton
George 3. Duffy
Bingham
Wiaconsin
C. W. Eliot
Lady Constance
Sue Tillman
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