Fires Ravage Multiple Buildings Across Three Cities
Chicago fire devastates the Mayer building and Hotel Florence in Adams Street, killing one firefighter and injuring many as a wind-driven blaze spreads. Portland fights a $900,000 plus loss, confines the inferno to the initial block after ten hours. Baltimore reports 40 thousand barrels of crude oil burned at Canton with $100,000 loss and one injured.
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Mayer
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Adams Street
James Gallaugher
W. P. Dunn & Co
Dinse, Page & Co
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Kann Bros
Portland
Maine
Milliken, Cousens & Co
Standard Oil
Baltimore
Standard Oil Company
Canton
Railroads Seek Single Government Case on Commodity Amendment
Washington January 27. Operating vice presidents of many large railroads met the president to urge that, while enforcing the commodity amendment to the railroad rate law, only one case be brought by the government and be finally decided by the Supreme Court. The roads call the law unconstitutional and the president referred the matter to the Interstate Commerce Commission for full discussion.
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Washington, D. C
Supreme Court of the United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Missouri Supreme Court appoints commissioner in Harvester ouster case
Jefferson City Mo Jan 27 The Missouri Supreme Court sustained Attorney General Hadley s motion for appointment of a commissioner to take testimony in the ouster suit against International Harvester company and appointed Judge Theodore Brace.
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Missouri Court
Hadley
Harvester
Jefferson, City, Mo
The
Supreme Court Today
International Harvester Company
Theodore Brace
Eleven Prowned at Sea Off New Jersey Coast
Reports to the Maritime Exchange indicate barges were capsized during last week’s storms off the New Jersey coast with the probable drowning of eleven persons.
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Maritime Exchange
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Stock Exchange Reopens After Three Month Suspension
Pittsburg stock exchange resumes business today after a three month shutdown due to the recent financial furor.
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Pittsburg
Pittsburg Stock Exchange
Gladys Vanderbilt Weds Count Szechenyi Before Gotham 400
The wedding unites Gladys Vanderbilt with Count Laszlo Szechenyi in New York at Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt’s city house near Fifty-seventh Street and Fifth Avenue. The scene includes The Plaza Hotel and The Breakers Newport, with Der Mexoe Castle cited as the Hungarian residence of the groom.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
New York City
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Fifth Avenue
New York
Plaza Hotel
Underwood
Newport
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Breakers
Castle Dermexoe
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Miss Vanderbilt
Countess Szechenyi
N. Y
Gladys Moore Vanderbilt
Hussars
Vanderbilt Residence
Count Anton Aigray
M. J. Lavelle
St. Patrick's Cathedral
J. Byrne
Gaull
Ruth
St. Patrick’s Chancel
Vanderbilt
Reginald Vanderbilt
Meanest state 15 penn grafters on colorado court's grill
Indianapolis Jan 27 United Mine Workers president Mitchell announced retirement from the union after April 1. Western Federation of Miners secretary Haywood spoke blaming corporate control of courts and legislatures in Colorado and urged closer ties with the UMWA. Mitchell opposed sympathetic strikes.
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Ind
Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
W. D. Haywood
Western Federation of Miners
Haywood
Colorado
Federation of Miners
Bank Quits the Race Liquidation Begins
The liquidation of the Bank of North America started today with no official statement issued. An opinion suggested depositors would be paid in full within sixty days, and the closing caused little surprise in financial circles.
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New York
N. Y
Bank of North America
Interurban Car Plunges Down Embankment Near Salem
An interurban car on the Youngstown and Ohio Electric railway left the track three miles east of Salem and plunged thirty feet down an embankment this afternoon. Fifteen passengers were injured but none fatally.
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Salem
O. Salem
Youngstown and Ohio Electric Railway
Here
Japs Target Frisco Armory Maps in Guard Shootout
San Francisco police report bullets used with deadly intent by national guard sharpshooters thwarted a second attempt to rob the Fifth Infantry armory. The building housed valuable military maps ofSan Francisco coast defenses and peninsula topography, leading authorities to suspect Japanese spies sought access to armory secrets.
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Cal
National Guard
Fifth Infantry
National Guards
Coast Defense
Peninsula
Tresspassers
Thaw Case Near Jury Verdict In Mental Insanity Trial
New York January 27 reports the fourth week of Harry K Thaw trial with the defense ending its case tonight and the prosecution’s rebuttal to follow. Dr Charles Francis Bingaman, the Thaw family physician, testified on Thaws nervousness and convulsions, with foreign witnesses Dr Sydney Russell Wells describing acute mania and incoherent behavior in 1899. Nurses and other experts testified that Thaw suffered simple mania and irrational acts from infancy to the homicide, as the jury deliberates and Justice Dowling prepares to charge.
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New York
N. Y
Justice Dowling
Charles Francis Bingaman
Thaw
Pittsburg
Harry K. Thaw
Bingaman
Sydney Russell Wells
London
Wells
Littleton
Lillian T. McBride
Frederick J. Burton Browne
Maurice Gauja
Paris
Rome
Britton D. Evans
Morris Plains
Jerome
Delmas
Argentine torpedo flotilla greets American ships in Buenos Aires
A division of Argentine torpedo boats welcomed the American torpedo flotilla as it entered Buenos Aires harbor at 8:30 am after departing Rio de Janeiro. A large crowd witnessed the arrival.
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Buenos Ayres
Rio Janeiro
Woman Who Killed Man She Loved Grilled On Stand
In Chicago on January 27 Assistant State's Attorney Day opened the case against Mrs Dora MacDonald charged with murdering Webster S Guerin. He said the relationship began when she was 31 and he 16 and forced Guerin from his job. He claimed her jealousy later derailed his picture business.
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Ill
Day
Dora MacDonald
Webster S. Guerin
McDonald
Guerin
Taft Philippines policy praised by Roosevelt in report
President Roosevelt submits Secretary Taft's Manila trip report to Congress. He praises American handling of the Philippines as wise and disinterested. Taft outlines four recommendations on trade, land and mining rights, a Philippine agricultural bank, and coastwise trade exemptions.
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Taft
Philippines
Cuba
Philippine Islands
United States
Kenies
England
Government seeks end to U S railroad control
Attorney General Bonaparte directs filing to set aside Union Pacific control of Southern Pacific and San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake. Action targets stock ownership in Santa Fe, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, seen as Sherman Act violations. Officials say case could force reorganization of major rail lines.
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Bonaparte
Union Pacific Railway Company
Southern Pacific
San Pedro, Los Angeles and
Salt Lake Road
Union Pacific
Oregon
Santa Fe
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Department
Missouri River
Pacific Coast
Portland
Chicago
the Tribune Today
John Callan O'Laughlin
Interstate Commerce Commission
Adair v United States Supreme Court Invalidates Pro-Labor Act
The Supreme Court ruled the June 1 1898 act forbidding railroad discrimination against organized labor members unconstitutional in the case William Adair v United States. Justice Harlan delivered the opinion, finding the statute repugnant to the Constitution.
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Washington, D. C
William Adair
The
United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Adair
Harlan
Coldest Winter Day in New Richmond Wisconsin
New Richmond Wisconsin records the coldest day of winter as the thermometer hits 14 degrees below zero on January 27. Local residents endure extreme freeze with open water, frost, and hazardous travel conditions reported.
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Wisconsin
New Richmond
Wis
Missouri Supreme Court Rules Free Rail Livestock Return Transport Unconstitutional
Missouri Supreme Court in Jefferson City on January 27 ruled that a state law requiring free return transportation for each car of live stock by railroads is unconstitutional. The decision cites discrimination in rates against other shippers and violation of due process of the Fourteenth Amendment, effectively taking property without proper legal process.
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Missouri Supreme Tribunal
Jefferson City
Missouri Supreme Court
Prominent Clergyman Dr J A Edgren Dies in Oakland
Dr J A Edgren a prominent divine and theological writer died at his Oakland home yesterday of heart failure. He founded the Swedish Baptist theological seminary of Chicago and was known for his scholarly contributions.
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Oakland
Cal
J. A. Edgren
Swedish Baptist Theological Seminary of Chicago
Newspaper Man Succumbs
Frank R. O'Neil vice president of the Pulitzer Publishing company and assistant manager of the Post Dispatch died today in St. Louis from pneumonia.
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St. Louis
Frank R. O'Neil
Pulitzer Publishing Company
The
Post Dispatch
Governor Magoon Sails to Washington on Hatuey
Governor Magoon left the city this morning aboard the cutter Hatuey bound for Washington with Havana reports confirming the departure.
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Magoon
Washington
Havana
Hatuey
Weather outlook for Iowa and Illinois with snow flurries
Partly cloudy Iowa with probable snow flurries in the east tonight or Tuesday. Warmer tonight and colder Tuesday afternoon. Illinois sees increasing clouds and probable snow flurries in the north tonight or Tuesday. Warmer tonight and in the south Tuesday. Sunrise 7 09, sunset 4 57, moonrise 1 04 am.
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Tllinois
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