Search All Effort Put Forth In Search
Washington reports say navy resources from battleships to tugs hunt for the missing tug Nina after it split from the Savage in heavy seas. The Nina was last seen nine miles northeast of Hog Island on February six.
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U. S. Navy
Nina
Washington
Gresham
Boston
Savage
Chesapeake Bay
Moon
Hog Island
Virginia
Howard
Santiago
Chile
Pacific Navigation Company
Lima
Huamblin
Straits of Magellan
Hathumel
Sale of Lands Illegally Bought by Sugar Interests
Congressman Martin of Colorado introduces a resolution denouncing a sale of 2000 acres of friar lands in the Philippines as illegal. He accuses a Havemeyer sugar interests representative of buying the land and condemns the Justice Department for permitting it, calling for an investigation.
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Martin
Washington
Colorado
Havemeyer
Department of Justice
Interior Department Not In Safe Hands Claims By Glavis
Washington Feb 14 The Ballinger Pinchot inquiry resumed with Louis R Glavis the principal accuser on the stand Cross examination by interior department lawyers focused on his charges He said he made no corruption charges against others but believed Ballinger and Dennett acted improperly and he exonerated all other officials He warned the interior department and the people's interests were not in safe hands
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Washington
Ballinger- Pinchot
Loutis R Glavis
Ballinger
Interior Department
Glavis
Department of the Interior
Balling
Dennett
Taft Visit Planned for Chicago St Patrick's Day
Judge Eilbridge Haneey of the Irish Fellowship club meets with President Taft at the White House to finalize plans for a Chicago visit on St Patrick's Day. Taft would arrive at 8 a.m. on the 17th, attend a newspaper workers briefing, lunch at LaSalle Hotel, receive at Hamilton club, then a reception before an Irish Fellowship banquet and a 10:30 p.m. departure to Rochester. He also agreed to a 4 p.m. speech at the Auditorium on the 19th for the conservation convention.
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Washington
Eilbridge Haneey
Irish Fellowship Club of
Chicago
White House
Taft
St. Patrick’s Day
7Th Regiment
LaSalle Hotel
Hamilton Club
Irish Fellowship Club
Rochester
N. Y
United Class of
Baker
Dliver
Unsettled Weather With Rain Or Snow Likely
Unsettled weather brings rain or snow tonight into Tuesday with colder air. Low temperature tonight expected above freezing. 7 am temperature 32, high 34 in last 24 hours, 31 last 12 hours. Wind 5 mph. Precipitation none. Humidity 61 at 7 pm and 72 at 7 am. Moon set late. Mercury visible before sunrise.
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J.M. Sherier
Young widows to get a share of pensions
Washington reports that over 20 000 to 25 000 widows of Civil War soldiers married before June 27 1890 would gain annuities under a new pension bill. Committees favor a favorable report. if law passes it could add 2 to 4 million dollars to the pension roll. widows must have lived with their soldier husbands at least three years to qualify. Grand Army backs the measure.
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Washington
Congress
Senate Committee On Pensions
House
Dren
Sugar Trust
Regular
Double Tragedy Over Jealousy in Danville Hotel Dining Room
Danville Illinois February 15 Guy Roberts a well known county figure shot and killed Nellie Mayfield then killed himself at the Southern hotel after being refused admittance to the dining room where Miss Mayfield and three other women were dining Jealousy is blamed Roberts who had been living with Mayfield entered by climbing to a rear window and into the dining room firing one shot that struck Mayfield in the jaw causing the panicked women to flee his act ends in suicide.
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Danville
Ill
Guy Roberts
Nellie Mayfield
Roberts
Mayfield
Miss Mayfield
Fatal double shooting ends with suicide in New Orleans
A man fired twice, piercing the abdomen, killing a woman instantly before taking his own life. The incident followed by a report from National Editorial Officers in New Orleans dated February 14, noting James P. Baumgartner of the Santa Ana Register elected president and William F. Parrott of the Waterloo Reporter as secretary.
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National
New Orleans
National Editorial Association
James P. Baumgartner
The
Santa Ana
Cal
Register
William F. Parrott
Waterloo
Inwa
Secre
Seven Men Burned in boiler tube explosion on Hopkins
Seven men were badly burned, two possibly fatally, when a boiler tube exploded in the forward fire room of the torpedo boat destroyer Hopkins in San Diego. The injured were transported to a local hospital for treatment.
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San Diego
Cal
Hopkins
Big Business Pleased With Taft's Lincoln Day Address
New York reports show Taft's Lincoln Day speech greeted with enthusiasm by leading finance, business, and political figures. Elbert H. Gary, Henry Clews, William C. Brown, T. P. Shonts, Jefferson Seligman all praise the speech as candid, firm, and reassuring, predicting it will boost confidence and steer corporate compliance with the law.
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Taft
New York
Elbert H. Gary
U.S. Steel Corporation
Henry Clews
Dent
William C. Brown
New York Central Railroad
T. P. Shonts
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Jefferson Seligman
Wall Street
WROTE BLACK HAND NOTE Boy Confesses Threatening Former Iowa Legislator
Ottumwa Iowa February 14 Roy Besco confesses to writing a black hand note threatening a former member of the Iowa Legislature. The incident stems from a dispute linked to political tensions in the region. Details remain limited as investigators continue to document the case.
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Boy
Iowa
Ottumwa
Roy Besco
Valentines for Various Folk city fire disaster and deaths
A fire in the city roomed area left three rescuers burned while saving companions. Injured include R. E. Taylor J F Hunt E A Clary W A Neabe J B Nerlin T J Brown B A Carietillo. One may not survive. An explosion occurred half an hour before a torpedo fleet sail to San Pedro. a 20 year old is implicated in a blackmail plot against banker F M Epperson. Springfield reports Clark to hang. Eddyville residents petition. Rev Stephen A Kelly former Loyola president dies at 67.
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R. E. Taylor
J_ F_ Hunt
E. A. Clary
W. A. Neabe
J.B. Nerlin
T. J. Brown
B. A. Carietillo
Taylor
Carietillo
San Pedro
Beef trust in resentful mood at grand jury probe
New York report says the so called beef trust plans to present a price list to the grand jury examining recent advances. Packers claim retailers add four to six cents per pound for each one cent rise. In Washington, lawmakers take up the rivers and harbors bill in the house.
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New York
Washington
House
City orders United Railways to pay back taxes
In St Louis on February 14 Judge Homer ruled United Railways must pay the city 1,106,160 in back taxes under the 1 mill per passenger ordinance of 1903. The company said it will appeal the decision.
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ST. Louis
Homer
United Railways Company of
Graft Expose Ties Ohio Printer to State Deception
Columbus reports chairman Beatty of the graft probe says J. E. Brelsford of Dayton, former partner of Mark Slater, confessed to wholesale graft in the state printing department during Slater's tenure. The probe alleges the state paid 13,700 dollars for goods never received.
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Columbus
Ohio
Beatty
Legislative
J. E. Brelsford
Dayton
Mark Slater
State Printing
Department of Printing
Slater
Berlin quiet after protests over Prussian reform measure
Berlin reports show sparse injuries and saber wounds, with no widespread effects from yesterday's demonstrations against the Prussian franchise reform. Socialist papers protest police violence as unnecessary and provocative.
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Berlin
Gossipy Capitol piece foresees a Democratic House
Special correspondence from Washington reports a predicted Democratic House with Champ Clark as speaker and Underwood as floor leader. An insurgent rebukes standpatters for loss, cites Taft era tariff battles and Aldrich Payne Smoot bill, then notes reformers toppled the regular garrison. Continued on Page Eight.
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Arcas
Washington
House of Representatives
Champ Clark
Underwood
Alabama
Capitol
Tawney
Minnesota
Smith
Iowa
Swope Mystery Deepens With Grand Jury Depositions
Kansas City reports reveal O H Gentry testified he sent strychnine medicine to Col Swope’s home a week before his death. Moss Hunton allegedly ordered the bottle and died the next day. Grand jury begins probe into the Swope case amid new sworn statements by Paxton, Hyde’s slander defendant.
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Kansas City
O. H. Gentry
Independence
Swope
Colonel Swope
Moss Hunton
Tom
Hyde
John G. Paxton
Omcs
Frank
Paxton
Margaret H. Swope
Chrisman
Anna Houseman
Walsh
Miss Swope
Judge Phillips to retire from federal bench in June
Kansas City reports Judge Phillips of the Western District of Missouri will retire voluntarily on June 25. A Congressional impeachment resolution by Rep Murphy of Missouri was referred to a committee and remains there. Also forewarned is a coming storm system with a cold wave expected to hit the Pacific states, Rockies, plains and reach the Atlantic seaboard by Friday. The cold will curb flood tendencies in the lake region and eastern mountains amid heavy snows.
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Kansas City
Philips
United States Court For
Western District of Missouri
Murphy
Missouri
Phillips
Washington
Weather Bureau
Pacific States
Rockies
Plains States
Central Valleyes
Atlantic Seaboard
North Pacific States
Lake
Mountain District
Taft Appeals for Unity at New York Banquet
Taft rallied Republican unity at a Lincoln Day event in New York, defended his administration’s policies against business hysteria, urged party cohesion to uphold pledges, and warned Wall Street while defending the Payne Aldrich tariff and federal court procedure with a call for clear statutory standards.
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New York
Taft
New York Republican Club
Republican Party
Waldorf-Astoria
Hfe
Wall Street
Washington
Grant
Tarim
Payne-Aldrich
Chicago Hogs Hit 9.20 in Wild Market Peak
In Chicago on February 14 the hog market surged with prices reaching 9.20 per cwt the season high and the highest since 1882. Mess pork for May option climbed to 23.66 and closed at 2.55, signaling record demand in a volatile trade.
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Chicago
Binger Hermann Gets a Mistrial
Portland Oregon February 14 The jury in the Binger Hermann land frauds case disagreed and was discharged marking a mistrial in the high profile land fraud indictment.
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Binger Hermann
Portland
Ore
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Magellan
Zenteno
Chanzy
Palma
Minorca
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Marcel Robel
Paris
Toulon
Rabel
Interior Dept
Danville, Ill
Licht
San Diego, Cal
City
U. S
Clark
F. M. Epperson
Eddyville
Colege
Philadelphia
Stephen A Kelly
Loyola College
Baltimore
Valentine
Ele
Elba Club
Furmies
Tary
Panama
Cannon
Aldrich
Aldrich-Payne-Smoot
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