Roosevelt facing Japanese issue China protest at White House
Newspaper records detail political maneuvering over anti Japanese legislation in California. Chinese groups plan a memorial to President Roosevelt while officials in Washington seek a unified stance. The report notes conferences at the White House and Secretary Bacon denying direct US confrontation with Japan.
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San Francisco
Roosevelt
Chinese Penevolent Association of California
White House
Washington
Flint
Kahn
Bacon
Claughlin
California
Newberry
Wright
Japan
State Department
O'Brien
Tokio
Sacramento
Cal
United States
Grove L. Johnson
Stanton
Clergy Fight Salome as Philadelphia Opera House Sells Seats
Philadelphia clergy attack Hammerstein production of Salome with Mary Garden in the title role. Several ministerial bodies adopted protest resolutions at weekly meetings as tickets sold out in five hours. The opera opens Thursday at the Hammerstein house.
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Philadelphia
Salome
Hammerstein’s
Opera House
Mary Garden
Narrow Escape for Ships of War
Charleston South Carolina February 8 The torpedo boat destroyer Worden arrived late yesterday from Norfolk after the roughest trip its commander Lieutenant Richardson said was the worst he had ever faced The Worden left Hampton Roads Friday with torpedo boats Porter Shubrick and Stockton The Porter returned early a terrific gale forced the Porter back The Stockton reached Beaufort North Carolina Shubrick at Morehead City but Worden made Charleston safely
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Charleston
S. C
Worden
Norfolk
Richardson
Hampton Roads
Porter
Shubrick
Stockton
Beaufort
N. C
Morehead City
Storms Disrupt Southern California Rail Lines and Communications
A Pacific coast storm disrupts rail and telegraph service from San Francisco through southern California. Washouts wash away 700 feet of Southern Pacific track at Oceano, halting trains. roads are impassable and rivers may rise with warming. Travel between Bakersfield and Los Angeles blocked by washouts and landslides on Santa Fe and Southern Pacific routes. Taft departure noted from Colon with party leaving for home.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
California
Southern Pacific
Oceano
Pacific Coast Railroad
Bakersfield
Los Angeles
Santa Fe
Cortelyou Named President of Gas Company
Washington Feb 8 Officials in Washington report Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou has accepted the presidency of the Consolidated Gas company in New York. Cortelyou has not affirmed or denied the statement but there is little doubt of its truth.
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Washington
Rock Island Prison Feeding Funds Under Scrutiny
A Chicago citizens association report accuses sheriffs of feeding prisoners at a cost below the state approved rate and pocketing the difference. In Rock Island county the sheriff collects 40 cents per day per prisoner, while paying about 7 cents for meals, with the rest kept as profit. The issue mirrors Cook county findings and questions the legality and accounting of prisoner-board payments. County officials and the sheriff’s records are under examination as the debate over proper costs continues.
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Rock Island
Citizens’ Association
Chicago
Cook County
Supreme Court of the State
Supreme Court
Strassheim
Rock Island County
Sherif
Chicago Board
H.B. Hubbard
Another Coquelin is Dead in Short Span
Paris reports the death of Ernest Alexanders Honore Coquelin known as Coquelin Cadet, brother of Benoit Coquelin who died Jan. 27. Also in Paris, poet Catulle Mendes was found dead in a railway tunnel at Saint Germain, death believed accidental.
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Paris
Ernest Alexanders
Honore Coquelin
Coquelin
Cadet
Benoit-Constant Coquelin
M. Catulle Abraham Mendes
Saint Germain
Chicago Real Estate Man Accused Of Forging Mortgages
Police allege Elmer C. Duensing obtained between forty and fifty thousand dollars by forged mortgages. A warrant was issued for his arrest in Chicago after he reportedly disappeared from home in December. In Lyons New York the county grand jury indicted Mrs. George A. Sampson for first degree murder of her husband Harry Sampson, a nephew of Admiral Sampson.
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Chicago
Elmer C. Duensing
Duensing
Lyons, N. Y
George A. Sampson
Harry
Admiral Sampson
Cromwell testifies before Panama libel grand jury
William Nelson Cromwell appears as a witness in New York before the federal grand jury engaged in government actions against the New York World and others over allegedly libelous Panama canal purchase coverage. He previously stated neither he nor his firm held Panama Canal stock and that no public figures had pecuniary canal interests.
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William Nelson Cromwell
Panama
New York
Federal Grand Jury
The
New York World
Mony
Panama Canal Company
America
Canal
Douglas Robinson
Charles P. Taft
Panama Canal
Bryan denies auto wreck report in Tampa hotel tale
William Jennings Bryan reached Jacksonville from Deland and denied a Saturday night report of a car crash near Tarpon Springs in which he allegedly was injured and treated in a Tampa hotel.
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Jacksonville
Fla
William Jennings Bryan
Deland
Tarpon Springs
Tampa
Illinois club plans $45000 Illinois Building at Alaska-Yukon fair
The Illinois club of Seattle urges Illinois to appropriate 45000 dollars for a permanent Illinois building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opening June 1 in Seattle. The state would own the building after the fair and donate it to the University of Washington.
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Seattle
Wash
Illinois Club of
Lincoln
Illinois
Legislature of
University of the State of Washington
State of Washington
Peary
Minneapolis
Unois
Washington
Olinda
G. M. Savage
Indian teacher arrested over embezzlement at Chilocco school
Samuel M. McCowan of Degraff Kansas a noted Indian authority was arrested in Guthrie Oklahoma on an indictment charging embezzlement and misappropriation of federal funds while serving as superintendent of the Chillicothe Indian school. England's king and queen departed London for Berlin this morning.
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J .M. McCowan
Guthrie
Okla
Samuel M. McCowan
Degraff
Kan
Chillico
Oklo
Last Chance Bid for Illinois Governor Seat Seen
Springfield report says Senator Hopkins will make a final bid in the Illinois legislature toward the governorship as last week’s ballot stands. Governor Deneen’s friends will not oppose a recount for General A E Stevenson’s vote claim, while Browne episode coverage fades amid Republican resistance to probes.
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Springfield
Hopkins
Deneen
A. E. Stevenson
President's Caller Arrested by Guards
A presidential caller from Connecticut approached a policeman near the White House asking directions. The sergeant sent him to the precinct, but Secretary Loeb confirmed the caller had a genuine White House appointment, and he was allowed to keep it.
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Washington
Connecticut
White House
Loeb
Downcaster
Pope Receives Sailors in Private Audience at Vatican
Rome February 8 the pope granted a private audience to 14 officers and several sailors from the American supply ship Celtic He expressed pleasure and gratitude for Americas aid to Italy after the earthquake like disaster The Lemp divorce case in St Louis began with wife Lillian Handlan Lemp testifying first against husband William J Lemp Jr
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Celtic
Rome
America
Italy
Lemp
St. Louis
Lillian Handlan Lemp
William J. Lemp,Jr
Blanche Walsh Is Taken Sud denly In Kansas City
Blanche Walsh the actress was brought by special train from Fort Smith Ark where she fell ill Saturday night while performing an engagement and was placed in University Hospital Kansas City Mo on February 8 which halted her appearances and prompted medical attention from doctors and staff at the facility
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Kansas City, Mo
Blanche Walsh
Fort Smith
Ark
University Hospital
Fast train hits open switch wreck near Coldwater
Train No 2 known as the fast mail on the Illinois Central northbound wrecked near Coldwater Mississippi when it ran into an open switch. One train man was killed and about twenty injured, several fatally, as rescuers rushed to the scene.
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Coldwater
Miss
Illinois Central Railroad
Ottumwa Murder Probe Sees Suspects Questioned
In Ottumwa Iowa on February 8 authorities charged Joe Hopkins with first degree murder in the death of Clara Rosen. Ten suspects were examined as police probed the case, with Hopkins in jail after failing to explain his whereabouts Friday evening. A search warrant sought his diamond ring and a home search looms as the inquiry continues.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
Joe Hopkins
Morrell
Clara Rosen
Joseph Hopkins
Hopkins
Wabash Road May Pay Bonds, Court Holds
Federal Judge Ray ruled in favor of the Wabash Railroad in a stockholder suit seeking to halt a plan to issue 30 million dollars in debenture bonds. The plan to retire bonds issued in 1889 and retired by 1906 was upheld as equitable, denying the challenge by James Pollitz.
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New York
Ray Today
Wabash Railroad Company
Equity
James Pollitz
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Committee On Legislative Communication
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Gillett
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Lauck
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Montana
Taft
Colon
William H. Taft
Cortelyou
GAS CO
Citizens’ Association of Chicago
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Cromwell
Bryan
England
Berlin
London
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Queen Alexandra
Senator Hopkins
Deacon
Hush Browne
Browne
Florence Miller
College Inn
Lee O'Neil Browne
John J. McLaughlin
Sullivan
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Pope
Wabash Road
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