Grosvenor Loses renomination in Ohio after 20 years
In Lancaster Ohio on February 21 Gen Charles H Grosvenor was defeated for renomination on the first ballot 78 to 20 by Albert Douglass of Chillicothe. The loss is noted as historic with Athens County not casting a single vote for Grosvenor and talk of an independent bid. The article also covers legislative debates in Washington on divorce law and a party line pure food debate.
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Lancaster
Ohio
Charles H. Grosvenor
Albert Douglass
Chillicothe
Grosvenor
Athens
Train Encounters Second Landslide Near Delta
Sacramento February 21 Southern Pacific Oregon express collided with a landslide near Delta. Two engines were destroyed and two mail cars derailed. A second slide buried debris and killed engineer Freel and three tramps. Four dead, several injured, two passengers missing.
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Sacramento
Cal
Southern Pacific Oregon Express
Delta
Freel
Wages Of State Employes Not Subject To Garnishment
Springfield Missouri February 21 an opinion by Attorney General Stead holds that state institution employees are not subject to garnishment under the last general assembly law. He also ruled under the civil service act that a charitable institution employee cannot be removed without prior notice of dismissal and stated reasons, with three to five days to prepare a case.
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Springfield
General Assembly
Stead
Central Hospital
Civil Service Act
Sunday Closures Ordered for Louisville Theaters and Skating Rinks
Louisville board of public safety orders all theaters and skating rinks closed on Sundays citing moral concerns. Also reported funeral services for John A. McCall, late president of New York Life Insurance, held at Blessed Sacrament Church with a crowded church and many turned away.
Rigo Arrives in New York After Princess Chimay Elopement
Rigo, husband of Princess Chimay, arrived in New York aboard the Amerika. He is a violinist and has a concert tour planned, opening at the Colonial theater. Asked about the Princess, he declines to comment, saying it is a sad affair.
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Chimay
New York
Amerika
Rigo
Princess Chimay
British Officers and Troops Killed in Nigeria Fanatic Attack
An unconfirmed dispatch reports five British officers and a company of native troops slain by fanatics near Sokoto in northern Nigeria. A Lagos dispatch says a punitive expedition has been sent out.
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Nigeria
London
Sokoto
Lagos
Africa
Five Machine Guns in Action Against Cossacks
Ekaterinodar reports a battle near Genginskaia as 600 mutinous Kuban cossacks clash with a punitive expedition armed with five machine guns. The action follows the expedition's departure last week to crush insurgents in Ciscaucasia Russia.
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Ekaterinodar
Ciscaucasia
Russia
Genginskaia
Pope creates 19 French bishops in consistory
The pope held a secret consistory to appoint 19 French bishops in dioceses left vacant by the Franco Vatican clash. He precanonized W H O Connell coadjutor to Archbishop Boston as archbishop of Constance and A S Bernard as bishop of St Hiacinth Canada, aligning with Vatican policy toward France.
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Rome
W. H. O'Connell
Boston
Constance
A. S. Bernard
St. Hiacinth
Canada
Vatican
France
Susan B Anthony Stricken with Facial Neuralgia
Rochester N Y Feb 21 Susan B Anthony veteran woman suffragist is confined to her home with a serious facial neuralgia attack. She also suffers extreme weakness from overtaxing her strength on her recent trip to Baltimore and Washington returning Sunday.
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Rochester
N. Y
Susan B. Anthony
Baltimore
Washington
Bishop Turner Treason Trial Hints Raised Over Flag Denunciation
Macon Ga Feb 21 A movement to prosecute Bishop Henry M Turner of the African Methodist Episcopal church for treason stems from his denunciation of the United States flag at a recent negro convention in Macon The matter is said to have been taken up by the U S attorney for the southern district of Georgia.
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Macon
Henry M. Turner
African Methodist Episcopal Church
United States
Southern District of Georgia
Pope displeased by report on women choristers
An Vatican attache says the pope is displeased by an American report that Archbishop Keane of Dubuque Iowa said the pope favored continuing women choristers in Catholic churches. The pope does not oppose female singers but declines to sanction a separate liturgical choir.
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Rome
Vatican
America
Keane
Dubuque
Iowa
Boy May Teach Wireless Experts
Washington reports a Newport schoolboy Lloyd Manuel, aged under 16, built a crude wireless receiver and transmitter using common items. Commander Gleaves forwarded a detailed Navy Bureau of Equipment notice, noting his lamp receiver, auto coil, Morse key, copper wire coil, nail spark gap, and water-ground connection. The device, strung between two 15 foot poles, has unsettled existing wireless operators and may yield valuable ideas.
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Washington
Lloyd Manuel
Newport
Naval
Albert Gleaves
Bureau of Eqipment
Navy
Navy Department
Yates Stir Emmi Predicts Coal Strike Controversy Grows
Chicago Feb 21 Richard Yates comments on the Washington syndicate prompt a federal response. Cul lom supporters retool campaign with speeches by Sherman Hamlin Calhoun to stump for Cullom. Sherman shifts from Woods stance to back antique club narrative as Cullom plans Chicago and state appearances. Mitchell in Pittsburg says strike likely in both bituminous and anthracite. no operator meeting planned in New York.
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Chicago
Richard Yates
Illinois
Washington
Auditorium Annex
Cullom
Lawrence Y. Sherman
Howland J. Hamlin
W. J. Calhoun
Roosevelt
Venezuela
Cedman Ont
Woods
Sherman
Hamlin
Deneen
Yates
Hopkins
Interstate Commerce Commission
Orville Berry
Dor Bank
Peoria
Berry
Senator Cullom
Aiorence
Mitchell
Associated Press
York
F. L. Robbins
United Mine
I May Pay Sanitary Claims Damage Suits Begun in Tazewell County
Pekin Illinois February 20. The large damages suits against the sanitary district of Chicago totaling 410000 have been continued to the next term of the circuit court. Rulings favoring the district were reported in recent hearings, prompting talk of settlements and possible compromises among claimants.
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Tazewell
Pekin
Tazewell County
Sanitary District of
Chicago
Epithets of Doings in Congress Yesterday Resume
Washington D C Feb 21 brief resume from yesterday's congressional records. Senate focused on pure food bills. Rayner presented Baltimore and Ohio railway reply to discrimination charge by Red Rock Fuel Co WV. Gallinger presented Oklahoma prohibition petitions. A committee to attend Rep Castor Pennsylvania funeral was appointed. Senate adjourned until today. House announced death of Rep George A Castor and adjourned in his memory. Speaker Cannon set a committee to join a spaces committee for funeral in Philadelphia.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Senate
Rayner
Baltimore & Ohio Railroa
Red Rock Fuel Company
West Virginia
Gallinger
Oklahoma
Castor
Pennsylvania
HOUSE
George A. Castor Ofvania
Cannon
Philadelphia
Garst seeks to ban Sunday theatre in Iowa
Des Moines reports Senator Garst introduced a bill in the Iowa House to prohibit Sunday theatre. The move aims to restrict theater operations on Sundays, reflecting ongoing cultural debates within Iowa politics.
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Des Moines
Garst
Iowa
Reform Majority Greatly Reduced in Philadelphia Race
Philadelphia results show a diminished reform majority as Borie, reform backed by Democrats, loses to Rooney by 10 145 votes for two police magistrate posts. Last fall reform won by 48000 in the city amid ongoing party shifts. Pittsburg reports Gu thrie civic league democrat and citizen candidate for mayor leads Jenkinson by about 6000 votes.
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Philadelphia
Borie
Reform
Rooney
Pittsburg
George W. Guthrie
Civic League
Citizens
Alexander M. Jenkinson
Pat Crowe Bailed On $1500 Bond Signed By Relatives
In Council Bluffs on February 21 Pat Crowe was released on a $1500 bond signed by his brother John Crowe and John’s wife along with Joseph Nansel a wealthy local farmer. Crowe’s trial for holding up street cars is postponed to March 2. Longworths depart for Cuba after arriving in Tampa to begin honeymoons aboard the private car Elysian and ship to Havana.
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Council Bluffs
Pat Crowe
John Crowe
Joseph Nansel
Crowe
Longworths
Cuba
Tampa
Fla
Longworth
Elysian
Port Tampa
Havana
Public clash over White House visit and arrest justified
Dr Minor Morris released correspondence with the president after his wife was ejected from the White House. Morris demanded a public apology for an outrage on womanhood. Secretary Loeb said the chief of police found the arrest justified and urged not to publicize the case further to protect Mrs Morris and her kin.
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Loeb
Washington
Minor Morris
White House
Morris
Garfield testifies in Packers immunity case in Chicago
James R. Garfield commissioner of corporations resumed his testimony in the immunity pleas trial. He denied дав statements that any information would be confidential and disputed witnesses for the defendants on key questions. Morrison sought to dismiss the jury pending court ruling on immunity.
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Chicago
James R. Garfield
Garfield
Morrison
Swift & Co
Packers
Bureau of Corporations
Illinois United Mine Workers Endorse Wage Increase Stand
Springfield reports the 17th Illinois convention backs the national stance for wage increases. $5,000 was appropriated to aid President Moyer and Secretary Hayward of the Western Miners federation. Herman C. Perry and W. D. Ryan reelected, with Thomas Burke joining the international executive board. State officers listed by district.
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Springfield
Ilinois
United Mine Workers
Moyer
Hayward
Western ‘Miners’ Federation
United Mine Workers of Illinois
Herman C. Perry
W. D. Ryan
Thomas Burke
International Executive Board
Duncan C
McDonald
Oglesby
Patrick Garr
Peter McCail
Glencarbon
George Bagwell
Murphysboro
Mysterious death on Chicago South Side
The unidentified man about 45 was found shot in a gutter at Twenty first Street and Calumet Avenue in a wealthy South Side district. A. F. initials on a hat sweatband and a Sellers Chicago Milwaukee label are the only clues. Police cannot confirm murder or self-inflicted death. Meanwhile Col. David B. Henderson’s condition improves after a second stroke, with partial sight returning.
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Chicago
Twenty-first Street
Calumet Avenue
A. F
Sellers
Milwaukee
Ohio bill to ban bans on babies in tenements
In Columbus a bill by Rep Nye of Pike county makes it a crime for tenement landlords to refuse rental because applicants have children. It caps at four children under 16 years. In New York a coroner clears those detained in the death of actress Gussie Hart, stating a stair fall caused the death. Egg shipments to the New York market reach record 22,000 cases, prices tumble to nine cents, with wholesale eggs up to 14 cents for the best stock.
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Ohio
Columbus
Nye
Pike County
House of Representatives
Jon
New York
Gussie Hart
Hoch denied clemency petition and execution set
Springfield, Feb 21. Gov Den een, acting on the pardons board, denied Johann Hochs petition for commutation. Hoch will be executed in Chicago Friday next.
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Springfield
Deneen
State Board of Pardons
Johann Hoch
Hoch
Chicago
Dry Dock Dewey Encounters Bad Weather On Voyage
Official word from Commander Hosley at Palmas Canary Islands reports the drydock Dewey met very bad weather on the latter portion of the voyage. The dock adrift twice, Brutus towing machine damaged, and the vessel is proceeding cautiously.
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Dewey
Washington
Navy Department
Hosley
Glacier
Palmas
Canary Island
Grand Canary
Brutus
Bandits Get 2000 Dollar Ransom From Hannigan Case
El Paso reports Col. Robert Hannigan, Deming rancher, remains in captivity after being kidnapped from a stage near Silver City New Mexico. Ransom of 2000 dollars, 1000 from the colonel and 1000 from his son, has been paid. Authorities fear a raid could endanger the prisoner. The bandits retreat in the Mogollon mountains.
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New Mexico
el Paso
Tex
Deming
N. M
Silver City
Mogollon Mountains
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