Start Probe into Copper Mine Strike Opens in Hancock
A congressional committee begins hearings in Hancock to probe the copper miners strike. Seven questions guide the inquiry from interference with postal service to peonage and illegal combinations in copper production and transport. Governor Ferris letters offer mediation context amid the dispute.
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Hancock
Mich
Over Hoice
Congress
Hancock City Hall
Edward Taylor
Colorado
John €. Casey
Pennsylvania
Joeph Howell
Utah
W. C. Hamlin
Missouri
RM Switzer
Ohio
House
United States
April ruling on suffrage act and case hearing in Springfield
Feb 9 brief for appellees in Seowa v. Czarnecki in the city of the woman wut case filed in the supreme today. Arguments will be heard by April term at latest. Also report Two killed in wreck near Bigelow Minnesota as Chicago line train from Kansas City to Minneapolis wrecked. several injured.
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Springfield
Seowa Ve. Czarnecki
Supreme
Stour City
Chicago, Paul
Omaha
Kamas City
Minneapolis
Bigelow
Minn
Reo
Weather Outlook for Quad Cities Area Tonight and Tomorrow
Unsettled tonight and Tuesday with occasional snow likely. Warmer tonight with low around 15 degrees. Light variable winds. Temperatures show 7 am reading near 5 above zero and last night low of 2 below. No precipitation expected. humidity near 74 percent at 7 pm and 92 percent at 7 am. Astronomical notes include Mars Saturn in evening sky and Castor Pollux near Mars around 2 pm. Local forecaster J M Sherier signs off.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Londoners Back a Supreme Navy
A mass meeting at Guildhall London led by the lord mayor expressed unqualified support for Britain’s policy of a supreme navy. About a thousand bankers merchants and ship owners signed the call and pledged to back any measures to secure naval supremacy and British commerce. The gathering represented several billions in capital.
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London
Eng
Guildhall
Judge Petit Attacks Municipal Court in Chicago
Chicago February 9 The municipal court faced a broad critique from Judge Petit chief justice of the circuit court who accused the court of truckling to corporations in a case involving a boy charged with stealing three brass journals from a railroad. The court dismissed the case.
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Chicago, Ill
Municipal Court of
Chicago
Petit
Circuit Court
Federals Worry Major Leaguers
Baseball owners and officers from near and far gathered in New York as meetings of the three major leagues were held. The visit aimed to cover league business, but the Federal league threat loomed as a dominant issue this winter. Arthur Wilson of the New York Giants joined the Toronto Federal league club.
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New York
Federal League
Chicago
Arthur Wilson
New York Giants
Toronto
Socialists in Sweden Demand Peace Over Armament Costs
A Stockholm demonstration of thirty thousand socialists urged restraint on armament spending and called for peace and fraternity. Premier Staal said Sweden may need new sacrifices for defense, while the government resisted infantry service extension until after the general election. King Gustave urged timely defense decisions, sparking cabinet tensions and possible resignations.
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Stockholm
M. Staal
Gustave
Villa and Castillo in Mexican turmoil linked to tunnel disaster
Reports connect General Francisco Villa with protecting Spanish subjects and aiding in identifying responsibility for the Cumbro tunnel tragedy on the Mexico Northwestern railroad. Maximo Castillo is described as an outlaw to be dealt with by Villa if captured, while Vera Cruz fuels political tension as Germany and the United States exchange questions over Huerta’s embargoes and oil control.
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Washington, D. C
Francisco Villa
Cumbro Tunnel
Mexico Northwestern
Villa
State Department
Bryan
Edwards
Juarez
Castillo
Constitutionalists
Maximo Castillo
Huerta
Carranza
Madero
Diaz
Constitutionalist
Wilson
Torreon
Vera Cruz
Aguila Company
Mexican Railway
Tampico
Mexico City
Germany
Goethals Suspends Panama Official John Burke
Colonel Goethals, head of the canal commission, suspended John Burke, commissary manager, after hearings found possible gratuities and irregular business claims. Chief Clerk Sheipley of subsistence was also suspended for incompetence and Burke's case will be sent to the U S attorney in New York.
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Panama
Goethals
Canal Commission
John Burke
Commissary Department
Burke
Sheipley
Subsistence Department
Judge Finds No Evidence of Fraud in Rock Island Brewing Case
In Peoria, Judge J Otis Bande? clears Rock Island Brewing and president Otto Huber of fraud. The court rules the Rock Island firm owes the Schneible trustee $1,691.75 with interest, while condemning the Buffalo books as unreliable.
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Peoria, I
J. Otis
Jose Schattner
Schreibler Company
Buffalo
N. Y
Rock Island Brewing Company
Schneible Company
Joseph Schattner
Buffalo Concern
Otto Huber
Huber
Humphrey
Rock Island
Big Wolf Shot by Kansas City Police on Linwood Boulevard
A large gray wolf pushed into Kansas City’s South Side during severe cold and hunger. It bit two people, including a streetcar rider Miss Anna Harrison, whose muff diverted the animal. a milkman and a Black house servant also遭遇ed bites before police in an automobile killed the beast.
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Kansas City
Linwood Boulevard
Anna Harrison
Army Airman Dead in Attempt at Altitude Record
Lieutenant H. B. Post of the first aero corps United States army was killed in San Diego in a 50 foot hydro aeroplane fall while attempting an altitude record. Witnesses said the engine exploded after he appeared to escape the craft. The death raises government aviator fatalities to 16 since 1908 with 15 in the army and one in the navy, and a world total of 435.
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San Diego
Cal
H. B. Post
First Aero Corps
United States Army
Washington, D. C
Post
Navy
Rock Island Slump Dampens Wall Street Open
The New York stock market opened weak as Rock Island securities dropped to new lows. Declines in Rock Island common and preferred, Rock Island Pacific four per cent bonds, and lingering pressure on New Haven and New York Central followed federal inquiries. Oil shares on the curb, including Atlantic Refining, tumbled from 820 to 7 43 in early trading.
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New York
Rock Island Securities
Rock Island Common
Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific
New Haven
New York Central
Atlantic Refining
Standard Oil
Good Roads Law Declared Valid by Springfield Court
In Springfield Illinois Judge Creighton of the Sangamon circuit court upheld the good roads law from the last assembly. Jacob Martens of McLean county sued officials to stop payments and the court sustained the demurrer. Martens plans to appeal. Also in Washington Brady of Detroit was nominated for collector of internal revenue for the First Michigan district.
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Springfield
Creighton
Sangamon
General Assembly
Jacob Martens
McLean County
Brady
Ryan
Martens
Washington, D. C
James B. Brady
Detroit
Michigan
Copper men push export tied antitrust stance
Washington February 9 government sanction of producer and manufacturer combinations selling to foreign markets to combat buyers urged by John D. Ryan head of Amalgamated Copper. He would amend restraints of trade to exclude export business. Amalgamated controls about twenty percent of U S copper output amid fierce competition. New York also reports February stock decline and rising domestic demand with deliveries up sharply.
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Washington, D. C
John D. Ryan
Amalgamated Copper Company
House
Judiciary Committee
New York
Copper Producers’ Association
Court Disallows Ship Line Exemption in Titanic Test Case
London court of appeals rules White Star Line cannot limit liability on tickets for passenger losses even amid Titanic warnings. Test case stems from Irish farmer seeking damages for his son’s death. Also reports Walter S. Lowden injured by a locomotive in East St. Louis and Wausau Paper Mills plant fire in Brokaw.
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London
Eng
Court of Appeals
White Star Steamship Company
Roland Vaughn Williams
Walter S. Lowden
East St. Louis
Walters. Lowden
Internal Revenue
Frank O. Lowden
Oregon
Ilinois Court of Claims
Memphis Mercantile Bank Chief Charged in Shortfall Case
Ten Mercantile Bank directors file in chancery court alleging insolvency due to a $788,804 shortfall attributed to president C Hunter Paine. Auditors found loans high for season, Paine offers $350,000 personal estate. Paine pleads guilty in criminal court and bonds at $250,000. jailed after refusing security.
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Memphis, Tenn
Mercantile Bank
Chancery Court
C. Hunter Paine
Paine
New York
Memphis
Bank
Manning Held as Accessory in Love Tragedy
Newark court holds Charles J. Manning as accessory to the killing of Mrs. Manning after Hazel Herdman shot the wife and killed herself. Herdman died next day. funeral plans set for both women. A predeath letter may influence Manning’s fate. In Washington, the president expects repeal of Panama Canal tolls during the current session.
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Newark
N. J
Charles JL Manning
Hazel Herdman
Manning
Miss Herdman
Arthur J. Herdman
Washington, D. C
Congress
Panama Canal
Prince Henry to Visit Argentina in March Sail
Berlin reports Prince and Princess Henry of Prussia will sail about March 10 for Argentina following Theodore Roosevelt's example. German newspapers note Roosevelt’s trip aimed to bolster U S influence in South America and say Germany may counteract with this visit.
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Germany
Prince
Princess Henry of
Prussia
Theodore Roosevelt
Argentina
Roosevelt
United States
South America
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Big Wolf
Potomac Rescue
Androscoggin
Maine
Bay of Islands
Potomac
Cutting
H. F
West Bay of Islands
President Amalgamated Company
Capital Committee
Ship Line
London Appeals Court
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Brokaw
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