Nevada Assembly pushes anti Japanese land measure
Carson City reports an anti Japanese resolution introduced in the Nevada Assembly calls for California to ignore presidential admonitions and enact strict limits on Japanese land ownership. It asserts war with Japan is likely someday and condemns President Roosevelt for allegedly coercive federal meddling.
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Carson
Nev
Nevada
California
Wheelas
Senate
Assembly
Japan
Frree
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Great
Commonwealth of California
Chicago Eyes Lake Calumet as Great Lakes Addition
Chicago Harbor commission explores turning Lake Calumet into an inland harbor linking to Lake Michigan by canal and to the Mississippi via a deep waterway. The plan would dredge the lake and add rail and dock facilities on filled land, potentially boosting Chicago's lagging lake commerce.
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Chicago
State of Illinois
Great Lakes
Chicago Harbor Commission
Calumet
Indiana State Line
Five Lakes
Commission
Lake Michigan
Mississippi
Milwaukee
Duluth
Cleveland’s Face in New Gold Note Designs
Secretary Cortelyou approved fresh designs for ten and fifty dollar gold certificates. The ten dollar note features President Cleveland and a laurel wreath while the fifty dollar note shows General Grant with an oak leaves wreath. Both faces present a pedestal effect with large corner numerals, and gold bronze backs are planned. Treasury officials deem the designs superior and expect issue within three months.
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Washington
Cortelyou
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Cleveland
General Grant
Treasury
Retrial of Standard Oil Case Set for February
Chicago action set for February 23 with Judge Landis presiding. Fifty witnesses subpoenaed including J. A. Moffatt head of Indiana Standard Oil. Officials served include G. W. Stahl treasurer John G. McDonald auditor and Edgar Bogardus traffic manager.
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Chicago
Landis
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
A BY Anderson
Indianapolis
J. A. Moffatt
G. W. Stahl
John G. McDonald
Edgar Bogardus
Gmelich Inaugurated Missouri Lieutenant Governor
Jefferson City Missouri February 4 Jacob Gmelich republican was inaugurated lieutenant governor after a joint session counted 346 642 votes for him versus 346 465 for democrat William R Painter The recount confirmed his election and the ceremony followed.
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Jefferson City
Jacob Gmelich
Missouri
Assembly
Gmelich
William R. Painter
First Philippine hemp cargo reaches New Orleans
New Orleans on February 4 reports the arrival this week of the first Philippine hemp shipment to the port, the largest ever brought to an American port. The 8,000 bales, valued at 250000 dollars, will go to Chicago for binding twine production as a possible substitute for Mexican sisal.
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New Orleans
Manila
Chicago
Busse Kills Woman In Revolver Accident
Chicago. George Busse, brother of Mayor Fred A. Busse, accidentally shot and killed Mrs. Lucius C. Tuckerman at 305 North Clark Street. The weapon discharged while he demonstrated its use to his housemaid Bertha Lambke. General A. C. Girard, Mrs. Tuckerman’s father, and Alfred, 6, were present. No arrests. Mayor Busse aided victims and notified police.
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Chicago
George Busse
Fred A. Busse
Lucius C. Tuckerman
Milton
N. Y
Walton
North
Clark Street
Bertha Lambke
Girard
Cincinnati
Russian Police Head Arrested for Treason in Paris Revelations
St Petersburg Feb 3 M Lopukine former director of police in the interior ministry has been arrested on treason charges connected to Paris revelations. He allegedly belonged to a revolutionary group and provided information to Curtseff in Paris, aiding the denunciation of Azef a secret police agent.
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St. Petersburg
M. Lopukine
Ministry of the Interior
Paris
Azef
Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party
Lopukine
Curtseff
Tumble Weeds Cause Blockade Across Prairie
In a blizzard the Russian thistle or tumble weed caused wide damage across the prairies. It stalled trains in cuts and filled yards alleys and fences. A Miller real estate touring car burned when forced through thistles near Oberlin, with occupants escaping.
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Oakley
Kan
Oberlin
Miller Real Estate Firm
Elden
New York Declares Street Cars Sanitary After Tuberculosis War
New York reports victory in the citys battle against the Great White Plague on streetcars. Governor Hughes public service commissioners inspected ten thousand cars for nine months, ordering cleansing and disinfection. Inspectors recorded a shift from filthy to sanitary cars, ending the siege on transit germs.
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New York
Gotham
Hughes
Countess de Lesseps Dies in Paris
Paris February 3 Countess de Lesseps widow of Ferdinand de Lesseps creator of the Suez Corinth and Panama canals has died.
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Countess DE Lesseps
Pariz
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Suez
Corinth
Panama
Opium Riots Calm As Troops Withdrawn In Amoy
Troops sent to quell opium riots in Amoy China’s Tungan district have been withdrawn and the better class of inhabitants return to their villages. Efforts to arrest riot leaders were unsuccessful after an edict prohibiting opium poppy cultivation.
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Amoy
China
Tungan
Triple Tragedy in Madison as Man Kills Couple and Is Killed
Dee Brown shot Henry Lochard and his wife in Madison Ohio last night. Lochard returned fire and killed Brown before dying himself. Mrs Lochard is expected to die. The incident leaves two dead and one gravely wounded.
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Madison, Oad
Sealby Hero of Sea Rescue and War Service
Vineyard New Jersey February 1 Captain Sealby showed heroism in multiple incidents. He saved 24 lives aboard the burning ship Durada after the Coptic tidal wave incident on October 26, 1900 while captain of the Celtic. He received a diploma from the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society for bravery. His Boer War voyage carried Australian soldiers to South Africa and he stood ready to aid Dewey at Manila. He holds numerous meritorious service medals.
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Dewey
Last dramatic hours on the Republic recalled by Captain Bealby
Captain Bealby and Lieutenant Williams recount the Republic’s sinking off New York on February 1. Bealby describes taking to the rigging, firing blue lights, and surviving the whirlpool as passengers showed fortitude. Williams recalls the ship’s stern plunge, the near break apart moment, and their final ascent to safety on the Gresham.
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New York
Bealby
The
Republic
Williams
Gresham
Seneca
R. J. Williams
Old Republic
Sealby
Lawmaker Bans White Marriage Across Races in Kansas
A Kansas House bill introduced by Rep W P Lambertson of Brown County prohibits white marriages with Chinese Japanese or other members of black or yellow races. It bars marriages with full or half blood relatives from those groups and sets penalties equal to those for marriage of cousins or close relatives.
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Topeka
Kan
W. P. Lambertson
Brown County
Four Deaths Mark Motorman Nerve Under Electric Cars
Chicago report on L A Brodway, motorman for electric cars, who seeks rest to recover nerve after four deaths and multiple injuries linked to his vehicles. He defends safety record, recalls frequent dangers at grade crossings, and notes no prior accidents caused by carelessness. He contends passengers often ignore risks and cautions at crossings.
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Chicago
L. A. Brodway
North Highland Park
Bredway
Brodway
Express
Evanston
Silk Thief Fails to Reform Life in Crime Run
Harry Rogers and Belle McCue were jailed for silk robbery in Winona Minnesota and later pleaded guilty to shoplifting in Pueblo Colorado. Rogers drew three to five years and the woman two to four years in the penitentiary. Rogers had claimed to leave crime for legitimate work but reverted to crime after release on vagrancy charges.
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Waterloo
Harry Rogers
Belle McCue
Houston
Winona
Min
Peublo
Colo
Rogers
Jersey Devil Bat Dares Police in Paterson Hunt
In Paterson New Jersey Sergeant Marner and a dozen locals hunted Sullivan's woods behind Riverlawn sanitarium for the famed devil bat blamed for recent South Jersey disturbances. Patrolman Carroll and witnesses joined the effort as Patsy McCue reports seeing a winged creature the size of a sheep with a mulelike head on the Singae road advancing with his trolley car.
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Paterson
N. J
Marner
West Paterson
Taylor
Carroll
Sullivan's Woods
Riverlawn
South Jersey
Patsy McCue
Singae
Burn the Constitution Proposal Shocks Oklahoma Senate
Guthrie Okla Feb 1 Senator Blair in the Oklahoma senate urged burning the constitution in a serious motion sparking a sharp reaction and an immediate adjournment. The remark ended a heated session following a favorable vote on the Tromas bill limiting new counties formation.
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Guthrie
Okla
Blair
Senate
Oklahoma
Tromas
Kansas City Father Pleads Guilty in Baby's Death
John David Stewart admitted guilt to manslaughter in the fourth degree for choking and shamming a 10 month old in his Kansas City home. Coroner and doctors ruled the child killed. Stewart was jailed and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.
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Kansas City
John David Stewart
Stewart
Baby
Evenine
Jim
Caesarian Operation on Lilliput Queen
Surgical experts marvel at a Caesarian on Mrs Ramsey a tiny mother from the Weis Ramsey vaudeville duo. The baby weighed four pounds at birth and both mother and child survived the high risk procedure three weeks ago.
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Philadelphia
Lawrence A. Ramsey
Ramsey
Weghs
Miss Ramsey
Weis
Moving Picture Evidence In Brooklyn $50,000 Injury Suit
In New York a Brooklyn court admitted motion picture footage showing Stephen McGorty, aged 10, at play and injured after an incident on St Patrick's day. The film, presented by his guardian through lawyers, portrays a fall from a car and his athletic acts as he testifies to being the boy in the scenes. The suit seeks $50,000 damages from the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad company.
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New York
Ttocklyn Supreme Court
Justice Aspinall
Dykman, Qreland
Kuhn
Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad Company
Stephen MecGarty
Eighth Ave
Young McGorty
Franklin Avenue
McGorty
Fancy free denial in fraud case follows love letters
Charles E. Nord, jailed in Omaha and brought to Kansas City on fraud credit charges, claimed no woman has claims on him and that his heart is free. He noted letters from Chicago and Sweden denying personal ties and said money matters were business. Nord, about 40, described as not handsome, faced questions about alleged marriage references.
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Kansas City
Charles E. Nord
Omaha
Chicago
Nord
Dearborn St
Anna Heerhold
North Fortyfourth St
Ida M. Starn
Madison Ave
Sweden
Man Dies After Choking On Identity Amid Fall
Grand Rapids citizen witnesses an elderly man collapse near Union Station and painfully attempts to write his name on the pavement before dying of heart disease. The victim is later identified as 50 year old John Plekkoai.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Union Station
John Plekkoai
Secretary of State Succession Attributed in 1900s Record
Tiobert P. Bacon leaves the post as secretary of state with his chief stepping up to become United States Senator Root. John Callan O Laughlin, a newspaper editor, succeeds Mr Bacon as assistant secretary.
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Root
Secretary
Tiobert P. Bacon
Assetant
United States
John Callan O'Laughlin
Myr. Bacon
Chilean Peruvian Rift Triggers War Scene Shifts North
In Valparaiso Chile on January 30 the withdrawal of Chilean minister Sener Echenique from Lima signals escalating tensions with Peru. Chilean Admiral Wilson's squadron, now in the Strait of Magellan, is ordered north as the dispute centers on a tablet Peru refused to permit on a monument to 1879 war dead.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Peru
Sener Echenique
Lima
Wilson
Strait of Magellan
Cubans Celebrate New Independence
Citizens mark independence with fireworks at midnight and a full day of ceremonies in Havana. President Gomez reviews the parade under a triumphal arch in Monserrate square as General Gomes takes the oath of office. Provisional Governor Magoon and officers depart for home by harbor.
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Haryina
Jan
Palme
Monserrate Square
Gomez
Gomes
Buchanan Hits Snag in His Negotiations
Caracas reports that W. J. Buchanan, U. S. special envoy, and the Venezuelan government reached a deadlock over key points in the first protocol draft. Discontinuation is feared unless Washington drops its demand for arbitration of claims by the New York and Bermudas Asphalt Company and the Orinoco Corporation.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Port of Spain
Trinidad
W. J. Buchanan
United States
New York and Bermudas Asphalt Company
Orinoco Corporation
Falls From Train Kill Man Near Tracy
Edwin Jacobson, about 22, of a farm southwest of Tracy, was killed west of Tracy while attempting to alight from a moving passenger train at Balaton crossing. Coroner ruled accidental death after skull fracture from impact with a post. He had traveled from Balaton to Garvin and was found next morning by section men.
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Marshall
Minn
Edwin Jacobson
Tracy
Balaton
Garvin
Robertson
Cottonwood
Jacobson
Wiley the Pure Food Man to Move to Chicago
Dr. H W Wiley chief of the government bureau of chemistry will relocate to Chicago to head the editorial staff of What we Eat magazine published by Pierce Publishing and continue his crusade against adulterated foods.
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Wiley
Pure Food Man
Chicago
H.W. Wiley
Government Bureau of Chemistry
Pierce Publishing Company
Adulterated Foods
Rudowitz Freed After Political Character Ruling
Christian Rudowitz, freed in Chicago after Secretary Root ruled the extradition case from Russia political in nature, ends custody following the decision. The prisoner had faced potential extradition before the ruling.
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Chicago
Christian Rudowitz
Russia
Root
Ali village leaders arrested for earthquake aid theft
Twelve prominent Ali villagers including the mayor have been detained for allegedly diverting food and other supplies meant for earthquake survivors amid reports of activity at Mount Vesuvius in the area. The incident centers on misappropriated relief intended for victims and raises concerns over aid distribution.
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Rome
Ali
Messina
Mount Vesuvius
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