Charter suit targets Manitoba and Great Northern Railway
In St. Paul a quo warranto case seeks to void watered stock from the Manitoba company as owner of Great Northern Railway. Attorney General Young probes the merger with the Great Northern and Manitoba entities, requesting no further dividends on void stock. Chief Justice Start orders the writ and a April 2 return.
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Burlington Rocks Big Horn Canyon Rail Route Clash
Burlington railroad contractors have begun a 123 mile line through the Big Horn canyon in Thermopolis Wyoming to block Northwestern from gaining the same route next spring. The canyon is a key northern Wyoming traffic artery and only road through Owl Creek mountains. Helena reports a January 3 Senate vote defeated White’s anti paso bill by 17 to 5 and a broad anti gambling measure passed after a divided vote.
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Burlington Railroad
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Forester for Pennsylvania Railroad Appointed
Former Agriculture Department forester at Washington was named forester of the Pennsylvania railroad, becoming the first forester for an American railroad. He will assume duties March 1. Blizzard threatens Texas. severe conditions reported statewide.
Busy Man's Corner News Roundup
Admiral Beranger former Spanish minister of marine dies suddenly. Coal cargoes head to Tacoma to ease western fuel famine. Arcola floated after stranding at Havana mouth. minor damage. Revolt reported in Manyangyi Kongo Free State per Antwerp advices. James Reese corpse found near Knox Indiana guarded by his dog. Russell brothers show ridiculing Irish in New York theater. Dynamite found near Piedmont Oregon rail line. Clash in Vannes France over seminary eviction. Marquise de Cuverville injures police commissary with umbrella.
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Chicago
Thomas Applegate
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Victoria Theater
New York
Russell Brothers
Piedmont
Ore
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Portland Railway Company
Vannnes
France
Marquise de Cuvervillé
Chicago Grain and Livestock Prices in Early January Report
Market brief from Chicago shows firm to steady tendencies across commodities. Wheat and corn futures move with May and July contracts amid mixed spot levels while butter eggs and live poultry hold steady. cattle ranges shown for steers cows and calves with varied weights and prices.
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Seven jurors chosen amid Thaw White trial delays
New York January 26 Seventy jurors? seven jurors named Nesbit rejected by the state as the Thaw trial proceeds amid rapid talesman questioning. Harold R Farre a printer and publisher is the only valued man selected among the new jurors with Malcom Fraser another new juror identified amid unclear listing of roles.
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Nesbit
New York
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Harold R. Farre
Mal. Com & Fraser
Delare
Thaw Trial Talesmen Questioned and Delays Continue
About 40, married and tense, Thaw’s jury pool sees growing excuses to dodge duty. Talesmen debate guilt fixedness as district attorney Jerome urges sworn testimony over newspaper reports. Of 51 examined, only three rejected. Nesbit denied relation to Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. Harry Thaw studies the reporters’ table as court adjourns until Monday.
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Auto racer in smash up near Ormond with steam car wreck
Fred A Marriott driven cigar shaped steam racer at two miles per minute to break the world mile record struck a ridge on Daytona Beach. The car leaped rolled over and splintered with Marriott pinned in the hood but the boiler released steam saving his life. He suffered serious injuries but is not fatally hurt.
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Bird's Point Under Water as River Rises
Bird's Point Missouri is inundated by floodwater with a new levee breach threatening previously dry areas. Rail service has halted on the Iron Mountain and Cotton Belt lines, and rolling stock has been removed from yards amid a ferocious wind and rainstorm.
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Meteor blamed for Big Four wreck at Sanford
Reports from Terre Haute Indiana and Vermillion Illinois claim a meteor passed near Sanford causing a loud windlike roar and a powder car explosion on the Big Four accommodation train No 3 at Sanford last Saturday night. Eyewitnesses in Vermillion and Sanford reportedly saw the meteor and sparks, with R E Brown of Edgar county Illinois asserting the meteor triggered the disaster.
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Relief work hampered by central control in Kingston
Health Officer of Kingston thanks the American battleship Missouri crew for assistance in erecting tents and establishing a hospital for earthquake sufferers. Reports deny sailors looting as earth tremors lessen. A cable from London and a White House discussion follow the Swettenham-Davis episode.
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London
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Indecent Art Sparks Omaha Fine and Confiscation
Omaha courts rule that works by famous painters including Van Dyck Rubens and Van Der Werff are indecent and cannot be sold in stores. John Greenberg is fined for selling reproductions and warned of jail on future violations. police confiscated works such as Rubens Judgment of Paris and Van Der Werff Magdalena. Other brief items note a 99 year murder sentence in St Louis and a 13 year old boy’s death in Pottstown.
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Hale Resolves to Check Lobbying in Senate Debate
In Washington on January 26, Senator Hale introduced resolutions aiming to curb lobbying and probe alleged order violations by government staff. The senate quickly debated them, sending the measures to future consideration. The session also moved through pension bills and a $1,000,000 loan to the Jamestown exposition company as a Senate amendment to the urgent deficiency appropriation of $379,000. A new child labor bill was introduced by Senator Simmons targeting interstate transportation of products made with underage labor. Separate discussions covered the agricultural budget, including a provision for free seeds and testing of rare seeds, with Mississippi's Mr. Candler urging continued free seed policy amid criticism of seed lobbies and bureaucratic overreach.
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