Navy chief defends battleship construction before House committee
Rear Admiral Capps, head of the Navy Bureau of Construction, spent an hour with the House Naval Affairs Committee defending against magazine charges that navy methods are incompetent. He said critics misread a highly technical subject and that construction methods are sound and successful in results.
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Washington
Capps
Bureau of Construction
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Com
Mittee
Department of Construction
Admiral Capps
Rioting in Berlin as Socialists Interpellation Planned
Rioting broke out near the Reichstag in Berlin after plans to discuss the Prussian suffrage system. About 200 unemployed men and youths marched toward the Reichstag, faced police-guarded bridges, and many were wounded. Ten officers were injured. several rioters were treated at a charity hospital. Estimates show 60,000 unemployed in Berlin.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Spree
Count Szechenyi Served In Assault Charge
Count Laszlo Szechenyi faces a police court summons this afternoon for assault following an incident with a jealous photographer Edmund T. Reil. The event centers on a attempted snapshot and marital betrothal to Miss Gladys Vanderbuilt next Monday as reported from New York.
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Count Haled
New York
Laszlo Szechenyi
Gladys Vanderbilt
Edmund T. Reil
MIL Settle the Question
Andon dispatch reports the MIL home office addressing a lingering question with a decision expected. The brief note notes officials moving toward resolution and an outcome impacting regional operations.
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MIL
Andon
The
Home Office
Old Letters Bolster Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Tragedy Case
District Attorney Jerome wraps cross examination of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw as defense introduces a 1903 letter from Thaw corroborating her account of relations with Stanford White. The letters, read in court, show their influence on Thaw and were previously among strongest defense evidence. Justice Dowling overrules objections after Thaw waives confidential relations to identify the letters.
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Justice Dowling
Thaw
Frederick W. Longfellow
Senate probes injunction in Hitchman Coal case
Washington reports the Senate debated authorizing a committee to probe the injunction issued by Judge A Stone G Dayton in Hitchman Coal and Coke Co. v John Mitchell. Senator Culberson pressed the resolution, while Senator Hale warned against harassing judges. The chamber also debated revising the federal criminal code. In the House an amendment made it a crime for government officers to leak advance crop statistics.
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Washington
Senate
Hitchman Coal and Coke Company
John Mitchell
Astone G. Dayton
United States Circuit Court of
Northern District of West Virginia
Culberson
Hale
United States
House of Representatives
Des Moines to Patrol Hayti After Disturbed Conditions
Washington reports U S forces increase in Hayti with the cruiser Des Moines to be dispatched to the island to protect American interests. The gunboat Eagle will supervise until Des Moines arrives, following news that St Marc was retaken and an American property burned. Des Moines departs Weston for New York to take on ammunition at the usual prices and at Norfolk Virginia.
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Washington
Hayti
Des Moines
Eagle
Marvell
St. Mare
Haxtien
Camain Marvell
St. Marc
Weston
New York
Norfolk
Market snapshot of grain and livestock across cities
Indianapolis markets show Wheat No 2 red around 98 cents, Corn No 2 54 to 57 cents, Oats No 2 mixed 49 cents with hay prices for clover timothy and mixed. Cattle 4 to 6, hogs 3.50 to 4.45, sheep 2 to 5, lambs 4 to 6.75. Receipts include 18,000 hogs, 1,500 cattle, 300 sheep. horses scarce at opening auction. Similar figures in Cincinnati and Chicago with modest price ranges for wheat corn and livestock.
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Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Chicago
Tiger Moves From Swamps Near Snyder's Gulch
Hazleton Indiana January 22 a tiger terrorizing Pike and Gibson counties has moved into the swamps of Snyder's Gulch ten miles northeast of town. Residents report hearing the beast from a dozen times while others watched waterlogged brush filled terrain and a hundred acre swamp. A near tragedy occurred when hunter Harry Russell aged seventeen fired a musket blast shattering his arm and injuring him possibly fatally.
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Hazleton
Ind
Pike
Gibson Counties
Snyder's Gulch
Warren
Robert Armstrong
Wills
Perry Young
Scott Ennis
William Roschipe
Congress Creek
Carl Robb
Harry Russell
Patoka
Russell
Prison Fugitives Tangle With Muncie Police
In Muncie Indiana acting on Braddock Pennsylvania tips police arrested Robert Carr alias Christopher C Fell believed to be a clever crook. He boasted of saloon plans and a $1580 credit with a local bank but Braddock says he has no funds there and is wanted for bank fleecing. He cashed small checks around town and is said to be a fugitive from Fort Franklin Kentucky prison.
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Muncie
Ind
Braddock
Robert Carr
Christopher C. Fell
Frankfort
Carr
Railway Man turned to Death in Cottage Fire
James R. Meriwether of Fort Wayne died in a Rome City cottage fire while checking the family dwelling. The Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway chief clerk was alone when flames engulfed his clothing, observed by two ice fishermen half a mile away as they rushed to help but could not save him.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
James R. Meriwether
Rome City
Meriwether
B. H. Hudson
Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway Company
Oharred
Ae Anes
Governor Appears in Court as Attorney in Louisville Case
Governor A E Willson, while in office, appeared in Jefferson County Circuit Court as legal counsel for Joseph Grider a negro waiter suing the city a contracting firm and a real estate company for damages after a fall into an excavation. Willson had accepted the case before his election to preserve the negro's rights.
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Louisville
Commonwealth
Jefferson County Circuit Court
A. E. Willson
Frankfort
Joseph Grider
Willson
Attempted train wreck thwarted near Porter Falls
New Martinsville West Virginia January 22 a suspected attack on a Baltimore Ohio passenger train at Porter Falls six miles south failed when engineer J W Bull spotted a large boulder on the track. Samuel McCormick a recently discharged section hand was arrested hiding nearby. Passengers were tossed from seats but no serious injuries reported.
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New Martinsville
W. Va
Baltimore & Ohio
Porter Falls
Here
J. W. Bull
Samuel McCormick
White coal found in McLean County Kentucky
McLean county in Kentucky reports a new vein of white coal discovered beneath a farm near Wrightsburg. A preacher from Matisonville returned from revival work in the mountains with mineral specimens. The coal is white and very light, produces no soot or cinders, and leaves ashes like wood.
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Louisville
McLean County
Kentucky
Wrightsburg
Matisonville
Girls Barred from Local Act Under Illinois Child Labor Law
In Denville IL two singing and dancing sisters Babe and Ola Hudson ages twelve and fourteen were forbidden to continue their local theater act by Illinois factory inspectors. The law bans employing under sixteen between 6 p m and 6 a m. They had performed before President Roosevelt in St Louis and before Governor Deneen at the state fair. Their home is Decatur IL where they are being trained for grand opera.
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Denville
Moosevelt
Charles Dereen
Tlinois
Babe
Ola Hudson
Ilinois
Presint Roosevelt
St.nis
Iig
Goverram Deneen
Deeatur
Memphis theaters kept closed over overcrowded exits risk
In Memophis Tennessee on January 22 Building Commissioner Dan C Newton ordered ten moving picture and vaudeville theatres to stay closed claiming violation of the city ordinance on public safety overcrowded exits. The order remains until the city council acts or until safeguards are installed.
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Memophis
Tenn
Dan C. Newton
Emineil
Moving picture shows closed in Chattanooga by police order
Chattanooga Tenn Jan 22 moving picture shows and all places of amusement in the city were closed last Sunday by order of the chief of police. The moving picture people say they will not press to close drug stores and other businesses and plan to show religious pictures and reopen next Sunday free to the public.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Moving Picture People
Walk Gave Him Away
St. Louis police arrest William J. O Keefe alias Joseph Talbott on an indictment dating ten years for assault and robbery. Detective Ferriss identified him by a pigeon toed walk pattern. O Keefe had been away a decade, recently returning from Louisville to attend his father’s funeral.
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St. Louis
William J. O'Keefe
Joseph Talbott
Ferriss
O'Keefe
O’keefe
Louisville
Train Wreck Blocks Louisville Nashville Service
A Louisville and Nashville passenger train en route from Louisville to Nashville wrecked between Bag a and Hatten, near Frankfort Kentucky, on January 22. No injuries are confirmed in the fragment, with authorities likely inspecting the scene for cause and damage.
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Frankfort
Louisville
Nashville
Baga and
Hatten
Grand jury to probe alleged financial crime link in Gotham
A New York grand jury appointed a special committee to investigate a widespread belief that officials linked to financial institutions and public service corporations in the city have committed serious crimes. The panel seeks evidence, will review laws, and asks newspapers to aid in gathering information.
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New York
Grand Jury
Justice Dowling
Supreme Court
Grand Jury Jn
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Provident Life Assurance Society
Rittenhouse
Colorado
Provident Life
Jerome
Springer Riles Trusts in Denver Address
President John W. Springer told the National Association meeting in Denver that the US senate is controlled by millionaires backed by trusts. He attacked protectionists and urged ending monopolies of railroads life insurance and other utilities insisting violators must be held to account even to hanging them if needed.
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Springer
Denver
National Association
Colorado Cattle and Horse Growers’ Association
John W. Springer
United States Senate
Massachusetts
Record Saled White Barley Tobacco Tops World Market
In Lexington Kentucky on January 22 a half million pounds of white barley tobacco was sold on the loose market here, exceeding all prior world sales. Representatives from every major American manufacturer attended the event as prices reached exceptionally high levels.
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Lexington
America
Gunpowder Stages Ignition Inflammation And Combustion
A historical explanation of gunpowder behavior describes three stages ignition inflammation and combustion. It notes ignition starts fire on a grain and inflammation spreads the flame across powder. Combustion means each grain burns and explosive expansion forms gases.
Why Snow Appears White in Light of Crystals
A Chicago Tribune note explains snow whiteness arises from blending elementary colors in crystal radiance and air spaces between particles. It cites over a thousand snow crystal forms and mentions colors like pink seen at certain angles.
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Chicago, Tribune
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Dovey
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