Wireless log of Republic disaster marks heroics at sea
New York A. H. Ginman at Siasconsett Nantucket and Jack Binns aboard Republic gain praise for guiding rescue. The log details Binns relay of C Q D calls, later aid from Florida and Baltic ships, and the Republic sinking after a dawn collision with unknown steamer.
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New York
Jack” Binns
Wireless
Republic
White Star
Florida
Binns
A. H. Ginman
Marconi
Siasconsett
Nantucket Island
Cal
Zall
MSC 9
Ambrose Light
Lon
Mos Co
Ballic
MSC
Campbell Held on Murder Charge in Wife’s Death
Chicago man Frank Dufferin Campbell was held to the grand jury in municipal court in bonds of 15000 after arrest in Kewanee Illinois. He failed to provide security and was jailed at Harrison street station. The hearing was continued 10 days per police request.
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Murdé
Chicago
Frank Dufferin Campbell
Kewanee
Ill
Harrison Street
High Winds Damage New York City Buildings
Strong winds ripped roofs from houses and toppled a three story frame structure in the Bronx. Suburban buildings suffered roof loss while harbor craft were torn from moorings and sent adrift.
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New York
Bronx
Pioneer Parson Dies at 85 in Mt. Vernon
Rev. William Richardson a pioneer Baptist minister in this region died of pneumonia at age 85 after more than sixty years in the ministry. He leaves three sons and two nephews also in the ministry.
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Mt. Vernon
William Richardson
In Pursuit of Ladrones
Manila reports the constabulary pursues a band of Ladrones who raided Laguna warehouses looting three sites and abducting 180 people including several women. The gang fled after the raid.
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Ladrones
Manila
Laguna
Blizzard Grips Montgomery and Northeast Missouri
The region endures the worst blizzard of the season with strong winds and heavy drifting. Train services and road traffic are impeded as snow piles up and visibility remains limited.
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Montgomery
Missouri
Music Hall Manager Shot in Covent Garden Hotel
London promoter George Scott a leading European theatrical figure was shot at the Tavistock hotel Covent Garden on Friday as police investigated motive and suspects.
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London
George Scott
Europe
Tavistock Hotel
Covent Garden
Senate probes TCI U S Steel merger in Roosevelt era
Washington witnesses Oakleigh Thorne of the Trust Company of America and George W. Perkins of J Pierpont Morgan Co testified before the senate judiciary committee. Perkins supported the president’s claim that absorbing the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co was necessary to strengthen the steel group.
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Washington, D. C
Tennessee Coal and Iron Co
United States Steel Corporation
Senate Committee On
Oakleigh Thorne
The
Trust Company of America
George W. Perkins
J. Pierpont Morgan & Co
Steel Corporation
Mr. Perkins
Roosevelt
Tennessee
Socialists In The British Labour Meet In Portsmouth
The British Labour Party opens its ninth annual conference in Portsmouth with the largest attendance on record. Philip Snowden, termed Europe’s ablest Socialist, presides as official proposals push for measures to employ, tax wealth, and curb monopolies. Proposals include a government job guarantee and a heavy super tax on large incomes.
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Philip Snowden
Portsmouth
England
British Labor Party
Europe
Snowden
Taft Welcoming Demonstrations on Isthmus During Panama Visit
President elect Taft arrived at Colon and traveled to Culebra greeted by Panama officials led by Lieut. Col. Goethals. The North Carolina and Montana arrived with a welcoming convoy as Taft toured Gatun dam site and conferred with canal engineers. He and his party planned to sail for New Orleans next Friday.
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Panama
Wm. H. Taft
Isthmus
Taft
Colon
Culebra
Col. Goelthals
Panama Canal Commission
Gatundam
United States
North Carolina
Mr. Taft
Charleston
Montana
Col. Goethals
Joseph Blackburn
Canal Zone
William C. Gorgas
Cristobal
Obaldia
New Orleans
Panic and mergers touch Tennessee Coal and Iron stake details
Congressional testimony in November 1907 reveals Mr. Thorne denying TCA interest in the Tennessee Coal and Iron deal and noting no merger necessity. He admits syndicate links to major figures like Schley Guthrie Hanna Gates Berwin Black and says he delivered stock to J P Morgan & Co. Perkins discusses panic driven considerations to avert bank failures via US Steel absorbing Tennessee Coal and Iron and replacing loans with 5 percent mortgage bonds.
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Lieve
Thorne
Trust Company of America
Tennessee Coal and Iron
E. H. Gary
Henry C. Frick
Culberson
Mr. Thorne
Tennessee Coal and Iron Co
Guthrie and Hanna
John W. Gates
E. J. Berwin
H. 8. Black
Tennessee Company
J. P. Morgan & Co
New York
Perkins
Sexton Ainsworth Dies After Grave Accident
Wesley Price city sexton collapses and dies while digging the grave for his sister. The incident occurred as he fell into the open grave, ending a day of duties. Local officials mourn the sudden death and investigate the circumstances surrounding the accident.
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Ainsworth
Wesley Price
Sexton
Treasury Projection Shows Revenue From Saloon Tax Model
The document estimates $200,000 investment yielding $150,000,000 annually for the treasury. It also notes a saloon tax on the New York basis, the party’s model, adding another $50,000,000.
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Treasury
New York
Fleet To Morocco Heads West For Moroccan Ports
The entire 16 battle fleet sails westward from Smyrna and Marseilles toward Tetuan bay in Morocco to coal, provision, and salute the sultan. Split into divisions, ships include Missouri Ohio Louisiana Virginia New Jersey Rhode Island Connecticut Kansas Minnesota Vermont Wisconsin Illinois Kearsarge Kentucky. The fleets assemble in Moroccan waters then head home.
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Nice
Italy
Mediterranean
Tetuan Bay
Morocco
Schroeder
Missouri
Ohio
Louisiana
Virginia
Smyrna
Georgia
Nebraska
Richard Wainwright
Marseilles
Tangier
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Sperry
Connecticut
Kansas
Minnesota
Vermont
Villefranche
Potter
Wisconsin
Illinois
Kearsarge
Kentucky
Algiers
Children Burn House in Blizzard Threat in Rich Valley
In Wabash Indiana three children of Elizabeth Kirtland aged five and younger played with fire. They set fire to the residence while the mother was away. The house burned but the children were saved with difficulty during a blizzard that endangered Rich Valley.
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Wabash
Ind
Elizabeth Kirtland
Rich Valley
Woman Wins Divorce After Alleged Drunken Abuse
Mrs Charlotte Ewing Van Eman of a wealthy Philadelphia family was granted a divorce in Albuquerque district court on Thursday. She accuses her husband of brutal treatment habitual drunkenness non support and squandering her money.
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Albuquerque, N. M
Charlotte Ewing van Eman
Philadelphia
Kendall Sues Neighbor for Eight Thousand Dollars
Kendall of hall of near Cairo files suit against Charles Manning for damages totaling 8000 dollars alleging Manning charged him with stealing corn and canned goods from his home.
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Mo —Smith Kendall
Hall of Near Cairo
Charles Manning
Kendall
Manning
Annie Yeamans Stricken With Pneumonia in New York
Famous actress Annie Yeamans aged 73 is confined to her hotel apartment at the Gerard on West Forty fourth Street due to a serious bout of pneumonia. The news notes her long career and status as a beloved figure in American theater.
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Annie Yeamans
New York City
Gerard
West Forty-fourth Street
Leopold Prize Awarded For Aerial Navigation Study
Brussels reports King Leopold will give a $5000 prize this year to the author of the best work on aerial navigation. The award highlights growing interest in aviation research and could mark a milestone for pioneering scholars in 19th century air travel.
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Brussels
Leopold
John Mitchell Day At UMWA Convention In Indianapolis
In Indianapolis on Friday John Mitchell received a rousing reception at the United Mine Workers of America convention. Mitchell spoke about legal rights, the Wright decision, and the need for trial by jury while denying claims miners seek special privileges. A petition protesting the Wright decision was approved and will be signed by all delegates and officers.
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Indianapolis
Ind
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Tomlinson Hall
Mitchell
Mr. Mitchell
Io Jail
Samuel Gompers
Frank Morrison
Wright
District of Columbia
Organized Labor
P. J. McLester
Roosevelt
Magoon Departs Cuba as Gomez Becomes Chief Executive
Havana reports Gov. Magoon leaves as Cuba Libre becomes fact with President Gomez in charge. Inauguration festivities feature a Cuban band, a clerks' club ball where Magoon led the quadrille, and a front balcony ceremony watched by 100 guests from nearly a dozen countries.
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Havana
Cuba
Magoon
Cuba Libre
Gomez
Gov. Magoon
Clerks’ Club
Thomas Estrada Palma
Stay in the game message from labor unions to Gompers
United Mine Workers of America sent a telegram from Indianapolis to President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor. It referenced the Buck’s Stove and Range contempt case now before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and noted 1350 delegates at the Thirtieth convention, $2500 provided, and a pledge to supply more. The message declared three hundred thousand black diamond artists support the fight to a finish to determine legal rights.
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Washington, D. C
United Mine Workers of America
Indianapolis
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Federation of Labor
Buck’s Stove and Range Company
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Messrs Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison
Justice Wright
District Supreme Court
Executive Board
Bank conspirators found guilty in Columbus case
Jacob Kapner and his son Abraham Kapner, hosiery manufacturers, with J S Prettyman of Dresden First National Bank, were convicted in Columbus on eleven counts of misapplication of bank funds and three counts of conspiracy to wreck the bank tied to the Dresden bank failure of October 1907.
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Columbus
Ohio
Jacob and
Abraham Kapner
J. S. Prettyman
First National Bank
Dresden
United States
Negro Pupils Violence After East Night High School Tragedy
In Cincinnati three white boys are attacked after a high school incident. William Wyebold is dead and William Brill and Charles Ruff are dying after being stabbed by Atlas Tilford, a 17 year old colored youth. Tilford, a house man for Judge A C Thompson, faces trial amid race tensions. A second shooting of Richard Jones, 15, by Detective Walter Kuhlman follows, with investigators weighing race as a factor.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
William Wuebold
William Brill
Charles Ruff
Wyebold
Brill
Ruff
Atlas Tilford
Tilford
United States
A. C Thompson
Richard Jones
Walter Kuhlman
Big Four
Jones
Postmaster Pleads Guilty To Opening Misaddressed Mail
Thomas M Allen, postmaster at Cassville Missouri, pleaded guilty in federal court to opening mail addressed to another. Judge John C Pollock fined him 300 dollars and costs. No witnesses were called as the government and Allen presented the case.
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Joplin
Thomas M Allen
Cassville
John C. Pollock
Allen
Missouri Man Slays Wife in Oklahoma Hotel
Walter Harle a former Nevada resident shot and killed his wife in a hotel at Gage Oklahoma where they had lived for some time. Harle refused to plead at arraignment while friends filed an insanity plea.
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Arnett
Okla
Walter Harle
Nevada
Mte
Gage
Mharle
Delayed Messenger Delivers Oregon Electoral Vote
Washington reports that J. M. Butler arrived with Oregon's electoral vote on Friday. Butler believed the returns were due by February 10, causing a late arrival and confusion over the deadline.
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Washington, D. C
Oregon
J. M. Butler
Butler
Washington
August Belmont Recovering After Appendicitis Operation
August Belmont is resting at General Memorial hospital in New York following an operation for appendicitis. He is expected to recover fully within about two weeks.
Cracksmen Blow Carlton State Bank Safe
Cracksmen blasted the Carlton State bank safe on Friday night securing about $10 000 and escaping unseen. No explosion sound was heard.
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Carlton, Tex
Carlton State Bank
Slayer Given Indeterminate Sentence in Carmi Case
Carmi Illinois Thursday saw Frank Cherry sentenced for the murder of his neighbor Luke Brown. The outcome was indeterminate with a possible future review by the court.
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Carmi
Ill
Frank Cherry
Amade Luke Brown
Last Mey
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Crossland
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