Arbitration treaties dead declared by Hay in message
Washington February 13 President Roosevelt will not present the arbitration treaties as amended by the senate to the countries involved Secretary Hay said the senate has rejected the treaties by its amendments the president regards the matter as concluded by the senate and cannot present them in altered form Senator Cullom endorsed the senate's course a plan to push statehood bill to conference without concurrent senate amendments was outlined and two bills were passed by the House for bridge and dam projects on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers
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Roosevelt
Senate
Hay
Cullom
Committee On Foreign Relations
Washington, D. C
House
Missouri River
Pierre
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Mississippi River
Sauk Rapids
St. Cloud
Minn
Arbitration Treaties Ratified With One Small Amendment
Washington D C Feb 13 The senate in executive session ratified arbitration treaties with eight European governments After a second session the treaties were amended and ratified with only nine votes against the amendment by the foreign relations committee Southern senators sought an amendment to bar arbitration of bonds claims The change proposed altering agreement to treaty in article two and defined dispute scope and tribunal stages with several procedural safeguards
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Washington, D. C
Senate
United States
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Permanent Court of Arbitration
War talk in Peru dangers Chile with warpath warning
Valparaiso reports fear that Peru plans war after a 2.5 million loan for warships. Papers warn the Peruvian government may repeat its 1879 attack on Chile, arguing Peru acts on sentiment and treachery and cannot be trusted.
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Valparaiso
Peru
Boliva
Venfant Terrible
South America
Plans Inquiry Plans to Calm St Petersburg Unrest
Imperial decree creates joint commission to study workman discontent and propose safeguards. Senator Chidlovski to preside with government, industry, and worker representatives. Quiet on surface with arrests and sporadic protests, Lodz reports 144 buried and 200 wounded. Some factories resume work while two major plants remain idle.
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Chidlovski
Council of the Empire
Nevsky Prospect
Mali
Lodz
Warsaw
Poland
Patiloff Iron Works
Thumb Print Confession in Package Theft
Pittsburg February 13 Leroy Love an Adams express messenger confessed to stealing a package valued at 5650 traced by a thumb print on the seal. He accompanied detectives to his home and restored 3377 of the money.
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Pittsburg
Leroy Love
Adams Express
Love
Dubuque Husband Kills Wife and Self
Anton Westmark shot and fatally wounded his wife in Dubuque Iowa then killed himself. Jealousy cited as the motive. Essen coal strike ends with full shifts into ice mines today.
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Dubuque, Iowa
Anton Westmark
Essen
Ask President to Explain the Protectorate
Washington February 13 Senator Bacon introduced a resolution citing the January agreement between U S diplomatic representatives and the Dominican Republic and calling upon the president for information concerning it.
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Washington
Bacon
United States
Dominican Republic
Hoch Plots Insanity Defense In Holmes Case
Chicago February reports Hoch declares he is insane as his attorney plans to invoke insanity at arraignment. Slyter asserts Hoch was Holmes Castle janitor. Hoch denies it. Inspector Shippy doubts Hoch aided Holmes while Hoch taunts questions, eating dinner in a Chicago avenue cell.
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Chicago
George Slyter
Hoch
H. H. Holmes
Slyter
Shippy
Holmes
Johann Hoch
Isadore Plotke
Chicago Avenue
Small Engagements Mark Early Offensive Moves
Kuropatkin reports on February 12 300 Japanese cavalry attacking a bridge near Fengtze kong damaging 30 yards of railroad and delaying train service briefly. Japanese siege guns bombarded Pontilof hill and Sekseyan on the 11th with one officer killed and several wounded. Russian forces near Hsienchang repelled and wounded 11 with three killed after surrounding a cavalry detachment. Quiet in St Petersburg as Gen Kouldars takes command of the second army previously led by Gripenberg.
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Kuropatkin
Fengtzekong
Pontilof Hill
Sekseyan
Tokio
Oyama
Hsienchang
Kouldars
Gripenberg
Hearst and Sullivan clash in House over Boston murder links
In a heated House session Sullivan of Massachusetts challenged an article about Hearst from the New York American. Hearst replied he bore responsibility for the piece and accused Sullivan of a Boston saloon murder history. The dispute, amid debates on the railroad state question, gave way to District of Columbia business.
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Hearst
Sullivan
Massachusetts
Washington
House
New York American
W. R. Hearst
New York
John A. Sullivan
Boston
District of Columbia
Oldest Northwest church burns in Marietta fire
Fire at Marietta Ohio destroys the First Congregational church the first church built in the Northwest Territory. Built in 1788 the church suffered total loss with no reported injuries. In other notes a Mobile hotel fire reports 40000 dollars in damage with no loss of life while a Chicago flat blaze left 24 families homeless. Paris invites confirm a March 4 wedding for Elsie Porter daughter of Ambassador Porter to Dr Mende of Zurich.
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Northwest Territory
Marietta
Ohio
Mobile
Ala
Shistoric
Chicago
Webster Avenue
First Congregational Church
Edwards Confession Reopens Murder Case Web
Philadelphia reports a petition to reopen the Greason case after a fresh confession by Mrs Kate Edwards. She admits killing her husband with a hammer after giving him liquor, aided by daughter Mary who witnessed the act. Mary is under police watch in St Louis. The supreme court refused to reopen the case. pardons board to decide before Thursday.
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Philadelphia
Samuel Greason
Supreme Court
Greason
Kate Edwards
Mary
Unburned Letter Aims to Bind Senator Mitchell
A burned letter by Senator John H. Mitchell to Judge A. H. Tanner surfaces as pivotal in the Oregon land fraud case. The postscript urges secrecy and outlines plans to seize ledgers, guiding Tanner on expected testimony to shield Mitchell. Indictment and grand jury actions hinge on this coach-like correspondence tied to perjury allegations.
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Portland
Ore
United States
John H. Mitchell
A. H. Tanner
Judge Tanner Admits Part in Land Fraud Case
Judge Alfred H. Tanner confessed in Judge Billinger's court to conspiring with Senator Mitchell in a bid to defraud the United States of public lands. He said a partnership agreement allocated law practice proceeds to Tanner and government department work to Mitchell, reflecting testimony before a federal grand jury in Oregon.
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van Gesner
A. R. Biggs
Prineville
Ore
United States of Public Lands
A. H. Tanner
Mitchell
Billinger
Federal Grand Jury
Tanner
North Sea incident debated by international commission
Paris Feb 13 The international commission hearing the North Sea incident heard two diverging conclusions by British and Russian agents. The British side argued no torpedo boats were present making the firing unjustified while the Russian side said torpedo boats were present and the firing warranted. The Russian statement expressed regret for casualties and offered to pay indemnity to survivors, with settlement to be decided by The Hague tribunal.
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Paris
Internationa Commission
Hague
Kossuth Seeks Unity with Emperor in Hungary Visit
Vienna report details Francis Kossuth meeting Emperor Francis Joseph the first by a Hungarian independence leader. Kossuth outlined the party program for complete independence under Hapsburg sovereignty and pledged loyalty while predicting closer ties and mutual safeguards between Austria and Hungary as the path to stability and future governance.
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Francis Kossuth
Independence Party
Francis Joseph
Kossuth
Hapsburg
Louis Kossuth
Hung
Hungiarian
Alma
Hungary
Austria
Charles
Norway
Sweden
House of Hapsburg
Independence
Roosevelt to New York special train trip
President Roosevelt and his party departed at 10 o'clock this morning aboard a special Pennsylvania railroad train for a two day visit in New York. He arrived in Jersey City at 3 20 this afternoon as part of the trip.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Jersey City
Addicks Set to Lose Senate Vote to Dupont Giant
Dover February 14 on good authority eight union Republican assemblymen will desert J Edward Addicks this week and cast their votes for T Coleman of Dupont the Dupont powder company president for United States senator.
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Dover
Dei
Good Authority
J. Edward Addicks
T. Coleman
Dupont
Dupont Powder Company
United States
Unusual Cold Grips Nation From Texas To New York
The nation endures the coldest weather of the winter with zero temperatures as far south as Virginia and freezing across the central South. Oklahoma and New Mexico report subzero readings while the Midwest and Northwest see 20 to 34 below. Suffering rises as ice and snow halt trains, paralyze traffic, and cause fatalities and homelessness from Harlem tenements to the Ohio River. Local coal shortages in Marshalltown threaten schools and factories. In Omaha a land agent is acquitted.
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Weather Bureau
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Oklahoma
New Mexico
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Mercury
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Indian Territory
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Texas
Kaneas City
Denver
Cent
Marshalltown
Iowa
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