Robbers Hold Up Rock Island Train Near Hulbut Arkansas
Five bandits halted a westbound Rock Island train near Hulburt Arkansas, binding the engineer and loading the express and mail cars with plunder. Telegraph lines were cut, a posse arrived too late, and $65,000 to $75,000 was reported stolen from an Oklahoma bank shipment.
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Memphis
Tenn
Rock Island
Hulburt
Ark
Wells-Fargo
Oklahoma
Chicago
Rock Island Railroad
Hook May Lose Court Position
Washington reports after a Taft cabinet session the nomination of Judge William C. Hook to the supreme court will be held up likely not sent to the senate today. Oklahoma protests say railroads may opt to furnish dining and sleeping car accommodations in degrees. hooks friends cautious. Nagel and Senator Sutherland again considered.
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Washington
Taft
William C. Hook
Supreme Court
Senate
Hook
Oklahoma
Nagel
Sutherland
Gompers Exonerates Mitchell From Contempt Case
Washington Feb 7 President Gompers of the AFL exonerates John Mitchell former AFL vice president in a contempt case saying Mitchell did not sign the pronouncement and his name was attached as a formality. He did not see the subject until it was printed and was sentenced to nine months in jail for contempt.
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Washington
Gompers
American Federation of Labor Today
John Mitchell
Mitchell
Kimmel Case Lawyers Address Jurors in St Louis
In St Louis on February 7, attorneys for both sides in the Kimmel case made statements to the jury. The dispute centers on whether Andrew J. White is truly George A. Kimmel, as he asserts.
Woman uses ribbon to strangle herself in Chicago
Chicago Feb 7 Miss Emma Sint ger a housekeeper on Lake Shore Drive hanged herself with a silk ribbon Despondency ill health and the near death of her brother in a sanatorium are given as believed causes
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Chicago
Emma Sintger
Warren M. Salisbury
Lake Shore Drive
Fred Sinizer
Galena
Fasting Specialist Sentenced in Penitentiary Case
Port Orchard Washington February 7. An indeterminate sentence of two to twenty years was imposed on Mrs Hazzard the fasting specialist for causing the death of Miss Claire Williamson an English woman. Egg famine grips Mason City Iowa with eight dozen eggs the limit per customer today and none available at any price.
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Port Orchard
Ward
Hazzard
Claire Williamson
Iowa
Mason City
Police Excited by Arnold Clues
New York police, in a rush of hope, pursued a report that Dorothy Arnold, missing since December 12, 1910, had boarded a train to Philadelphia. Detectives waited at 1:14 in Philadelphia for her arrival, only to find no trace of the missing woman. A later Philadelphia report said a girl identified as Miss Arnold was found but proved not to be the missing person.
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New York
Dorothy Arnold
Francis R. Arnold
Philadelphia
Miss Arnold
Weather Forecast for Rock Island Area
Fair tonight and Thursday with colder air and a low near zero. Temperature at 7 a m is 12 degrees. Yesterday’s high 21 and last night’s low 72. Wind 10 mph. Humidity 90 percent at 7 p m and 84 percent at 7 a m. No precipitation. Astronomical events note sun sets 5 24 rises 7 02 moon rises 11 06 p m with moon at greatest libration west.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Silent Witness Miss Hogan Sentenced Six Months Jail
Miss Hazel Hogan known as the silent woman remains silent in court and is jailed six months for contempt after refusing to testify against four men charged with robbing her of 1700 dollars. Dr Irvine Sisinger linked to the heist may influence her actions. Her sentence runs to July and fines total 1700 dollars unless paid. A writ of error may still be sought by her counsel.
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Chicago
Hazel Hogan
Irvine Sisinger
Wilkerson Attacks Witness in Packers Trial
Chicago on February 7 reports District Attorney Wilkerson charged John M. Chaplin head of Swift's accounting department with giving inconsistent answers to questions since the grand jury. Packers' counsel objected to admitting grand jury testimony. the argument was lengthy and the court reserved decision.
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Chicago
Packers
Wilkerson
John M. Chaplin
Swift
Federal five member commission to regulate interstate corporations
Washington reports on February 7 describe Rep Martin of South Dakota introducing a bill creating a federal five member corporation commission to regulate interstate corporate affairs. Other items note a push for expanded presidential powers in foreign relation matters and a Post Office Department fraud order investigation involving EB Lewis. King Frederick of Denmark is reported to be ill with pneumonia and Governor Aldrich in Nebraska urges Republicans to unite behind Roosevelt.
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Washington
Martin
South Dakota
Federal Corporation Commission
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Cortelyou
House Committee On Expenditures
Post Office Department
EB. G. Lewis
St. Louis
People’s Bank
Fifty Die in Siberia Snowstorm Near Ishim
A Siberian snowstorm near Ishim on February 7 trapped fifty people in a drift. Forty four bodies have been recovered, with searchers continuing to dig for others feared buried.
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Siberia
Ishim
Orozco Denies Chihuahua Secession Rumor
General Pasqual Orozco in a telegram to Juarez denies that Chihuahua is on the verge of seceding from Mexico or that he is disloyal to President Madero. He asserts loyalty to the federation and refutes the rumors circulating in El Paso.
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Orozco
el Paso
Texas
Pasqual Orozco
Chihuahua
Madero
Juarez
Heavy bond for bomb throwers in dynamite conspiracy
Indianapolis Ind Feb 7 Instructs were sent to government agents in at least 20 cities today to watch men indicted for alleged complicity in the dynamite conspiracy. Capsuses have already been issued and each states the amount of bond required the aggregate being 300000.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Deaths in a Day in Buffalo Former Justice White
Truman C. White former justice of the New York Supreme Court who sentenced Leon Czolgosz the assassin of McKinley has died in Buffalo on February 7. He pronounced the death sentence in the historic case.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Truman C. White
The
Supreme Court
Leon
C. Czolgosz
McKinley
Prodigal Returns With 2 000 000 For Mother
Morris Smith returns home after 20 years abroad and tells his mother he is worth 2 million dollars. He claims to own 17 800 acres near Harlem Georgia rich in gold platinum lead asbestos and mica and that millions lie in the mines he owns with two partners. He says he and his family, who came from Germany 22 years ago, moved west seeking fortune before striking Nevada and learning of Georgia’s mineral lands.
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New Haven
Conn
Morris Smith
Harlem
Germany
Morris
West
Kentucky
California
Alaska
Klondike
Nevada
Georgia
McGowan Denies Perjury in Liable Senate Hearing
Charles McGowan faced a senate committee after detectives accused him of admitting perjury in Lorimer testimony. He denied ever claiming perjury or seeking $5,000 from Wiehe for such acts, stating he earned $300 from Wiehe for five weeks of expenses in Washington and that he had delayed paying drilling-machine costs until October.
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Washington
Charles McGowan
Lorimer
Senate Committee
McGowan
Wiehe
Cigaret Box Bombs Baffle New York Police
New York on February 7 a bomb in a cigarette box killed Miss Helen Taylor at her West Seventy seventh Street apartment. A messenger boy delivered the box and Charles Dickinson sits in custody on a homicide charge while police probe the victim’s claimed name and former husband and seek the boy who delivered the device. Coroner Feinberg calls it a novel weapon with European parallels and hints at possible revolutionary connections.
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New York
Helen Taylor
Central Office
West Seventy-seventh Street
Charles M. Dickinson
United States Motor Company
Taylor
American Electric Fuse Company
American Igniter
J. H. Taylor
Muskegon
Mich
American Fuse Company
Church Street
Charles Dickinson
Edna Lamarrae
Freight trains clash near Cooper Station killing two
Kalsamazoo Michigan February 7 Grand Rapids Indiana freight trains collided near Cooper Station this afternoon two persons were reported killed and several injured Sugar on Way Back New York February 7 refined sugar advanced ten cents per hundred pounds today
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Kalsamazoo
Mich
Grand Rapids & Indiana
Cooper Station
New York
Powell Praises the Boy Scouts in Chicago Visit
Five thousand scouts performed at the Dexter pavilion in the stockyards as Lt Gen Robert Baden-Powell praised the Chicago troops. He called the movement an education in honesty, health, and self reliance, not military training, and toured the facilities after address.
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Chicago
Boy Scouts of
Dexter
Stockyards
Robert Baden-Powell
Mafeking
Boy Scout Movement
Robert
H. H. Simmons
Boy Scouts of Chicago
America
Hull House
Sir Robert
Hamilton Park
United States
O. W. Neeves
Will Seaton
Albert Patzleff
England
Boy Scouts
Emperor Seeks Stronger Army and National Strength
Berlin February 7 Emperor William opened the reichstag with a vow to augment the welfare of the people and preserve Germanys strength and prestige. He declared his duty to keep the defense power on land and sea and said measures toward that end will be submitted to the reichstag. No representative of the social democratic party was present.
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Berlin
William
Reichstag
Social Democratic Party
Presen
New Charges Face Wilson Report Held by House Panel
Washington notes a House committee plans a fresh inquiry into Agriculture Department actions under Secretary Wilson and Solicitor McCabe. The probe centers on suppression of Florida Everglades land reports amid land promoter pressure, with Elliott and Morehouse dismissed and Singleton suspended. Wilson may be called as a witness to address alleged report suppression and pressure from land interests.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Wilson
McCabe
McCabe-Wiley
House Committee On
Agricultural Department
Florida
C. G. Elliott
Department
A. D. Morehouse
F. E. Singleton
Frank Clark
E. R. Bathrick
Ohio
Congressional
Drainage Department
Elliott
Elliott and Morehouse
House Committee
Clark
Bathrick
Singleton
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