Rescue of Gillmore Details of Captivity End
Manila reports recount Lieut. J. C. Gillmore from the Yorktown describing eight months in insurgent hands. He tells of harsh treatment in Tino's jurisdiction, rescue by Col. Hare and Maj. Taggart, and the perilous escape on December 18 with rafts and river travel.
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Manila
J. C. Gilmore
United States
Yorktown
Baler
Luzon
Luther R. Hare
Thirty-third Volunteer Infantry
Maj. Price
Hotel Oriente
Aguinalde
Aguinaldo
Tino
Col. Hee
Lieut
Howse
Thirty-fourth Volunteer Infantry
Gilmore
Abalut
Grand jury adjourns after seven weeks in Ingham County
Lansing Jan 8 After seven weeks of work the Ingham county grand jury investigating charges of official corruption in state offices was discharged at noon Saturday. Eleven people indicted including Edgar J Adams speaker of the house William A French state land commissioner Charles H Pratt D Judson Hammond Fred A Maynard Will L White Harold A Smith Arthur F Marsh Eli R Sutton and J H Brown with additional unnamed defendants. Arraignments to proceed today. several indicted military officers are appointees of the governor but no knowledge of fraud by him is implied. One more likely defendant Brown of Battle Creek is named. The body shifted focus to other nonofficial defendants connected to military supplies fraud.
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Lansing
Mich
Ingham County
Charles H. Pratt
D. Judson Hammond
Pontiac
Fred A. Maynard
Will L. White
Harold A. Smith
Arthur F. Marsh
Republican State Central Committee
Eli R. Sutton
University of Michigan
J. H. Brown
Battle Creek
State Livestock Commission
Kalamazoo
Senate Week Set for Speeches on Philippine War and Finance
The Senate plans a speech filled week starting with Pettigrew's information resolution on the Philippine war. Morgan and Beveridge will discuss the race question and Philippine issues. The House has no set program, aside from the urgent deficiency appropriations bill likely to pass amid possible war conduct debates.
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Washington
Senate
Pettigrew
Morgan
South
Aldrich
Beveridge
Hobart
Army
Philippines
Gage
Roberts
House
Probaly
Farm dispute ends in fatal shooting near Posey county
Evansville Ind Jan 8 James Rutter a Posey county farmer shot and killed neighbor Frank Spottsville after trespassing on Spottsville s farm When Spottsville ordered him off Rutter fired his revolver He attempted to flee across the river to Kentucky but was captured and jailed at Mount Vernon Ind
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Evansville
Ind
James Rutter
Posey County
Frank Spottsville
Rutter
Spottsville
Kentucky
Mount Vernon
Hulings appoints Vaughan as surgeon general of veterans group
Gen. Willis J. Hulings announces Lieut. Col. Victor C. Vaughan of Michigan will serve as surgeon general of the National Association of Spanish American War Veterans. The appointment was announced from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on January 5.
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Lancaster
Willis J. Hulings
National Association
Victor C. Vaughan
Michigan
Association
Railway Trust Split Into Zones Under Magnate Control
The United States is divided into zones to run rail lines under a coordinated trust. W K Vanderbilt leads the plan with bankers and magnates shaping each zone to regulate charges and prevent pooling. Collis Huntington, E H Harriman, the Goulds, Porter, and others will steer lines in specified regions. James J Hill and J P Morgan would direct the Northern Pacific and Great Northern, with the Belmon ts overseeing Louisville and Nashville.
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New York
United States
W. K. Vanderbilt
Southern Pacific
Collis P. Huntington
E. H. Harriman
Central Western
Union Pacific
Goulds
H. H. Porter
Rock Island
Missouri Pacific
Northwest
James J. Hill
J. P. Morgan
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Belmonts
Louisville & Nashville
Gear's Man Wins
Des Moines Iowa January 8 Republicans nominate Dr D H Bowen of Alamakee for speaker with 43 votes to 38 for W L Eaton of Mitchell the result boosts Gear's bid for re election to the US Senate The vote suggests Gear holds about 50 in the house and 25 in the senate forming a strong joint ballot majority Hartford City Indiana January 8 Montpelier tin plate mill with 200 workers closes its doors likely permanent move to Elwood or Anderson and a $27000 local bonus already paid sparks injunction plans
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Des Moines
Republican House Caucus
D. H. Bowen
Alamakee County
House
W. L. Eaton
Mitchell County
Cummins Wing
Iowa
Gear
United States Senate
Mr. Eaton
Senate
Hartford City
Ind
Tin plate plants to restart in Pittsburgh area
Pittsburgh and Kensington tin plate plants, shut by American Tin Plate six weeks ago, will resume operations today, bringing employment for about 1,000 workers.
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Pittsburgh, Pa
Pittsburgh
Kensington
American Tin Plate Company
Tragic Electrocution Ends Life Of Local Lithographer
Galveston Texas January 8 Charles Fouche Hayes was killed instantly after contacting a live insulated wire while tacking advertising banners around a building. Eleven hundred volts passed through his body as the insulation gave way, ending his life at the Grand Opera House where he worked as a lithographer.
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Galveston
Tex
Charles Fouche Hayes
Hayes
Grand Opera House
Warren mills to grant 10 percent raise. strikers to return
Stafford Springs Connecticut January 8 officials of the Warren woolen mills stated that the ten percent increase demanded by the sixty striking weavers would be granted and that the strikers would probably resume work today.
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Stafford Springs
Conn
Warren Woolen Mills
Globe National Bank Receiver Appointed in Boston
Comptroller Dawes names Daniel G. Wing as permanent receiver to wind up the affairs of the failed Globe National Bank of Boston after appointing him temporary receiver.
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Washington
Dawes
Daniel G. Wing
Globe National Bank
Boson
Berea founder Rev. Fee Not Dead but Recovering
Reports last week claimed the death of Rev. John G. Fee founder of Berea College and abolitionist are false. Dr Fee is recovering and Berea has received many floral tributes from well wishers who thought him dead.
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Richmond, Ky
John G. Fee
Berea College
Fall particulars from Illinois Central agents sought
Fall particulars concerning all of the above can be had of agents of the Illinois Central, or by addressing A. H. Hanson, G. P. A., Chicago.
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Illinois Central
A. H. Hanson
Chicago
Mull's Lightning Pain Killer Promises Instant Relief
Unnamed advertisement for Mull's Lightning Pain Killer claims it kills any pain instantly whether internal or external. Promises absolute purity and lists prices of 25 cents and 50 cents with availability at all druggists.
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