Deadlock for Week in State Senate Balloting
Springfield Mich Feb 25 the seventh ballot for United States senator shows Hopkins 61 Foss 12 Stringer 60 Shurtleff 17 Mason 4 McKinley 1 Lowden 2 Alschuler 1 Callahan 1 Sherman 2. Joint session adjourns with no recount and minimal change from yesterday's tally.
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Springfield
Agth
United States
Hopkins
Foss
Stringer
Shurtleff
Mason
McKinley
Lowden
Alschuler
Callahan
Sherman
Teasday
Jimmy Callahan
Gorman
George Alschuler
Aurora
William Murphy
James J. Callahan
Logan Square
Joy For Oil Co May Be Fined Only 720000
Chicago February 25 Judge Anderson indicated he will rule the unit of offense in the standard of rebating case is 36 settlements of freight charges. If adopted a maximum fine of 720000 would be possible versus Landis earlier 29000000.
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Chicago
Anderson
Landis
Flood Reaches Worst Level Ever on Kentucky River
Frankfort Kentucky reports four feet of water in city schools and the entire lower city flooded. The most disastrous flood in a decade leaves hundreds homeless as barns and bridges are swept away. crest expected as cooling temperatures slow inflow from the mountains.
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Frankfort
Kentucky
Thirty suffragists sentenced after failed bid to meet premier
London government faces embarrassment as 30 women many of high social standing are jailed for refusing to post bail while attempting to deliver a petition to Prime Minister Asquith. Notables include Mrs Pethick Lawrence Lady Constance Lytton and Miss Stratford Dugdale among the prisoners. Albany mayor John Boyd Thatcher dies after long illness.
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Pethick Lawrence
Constance ‘Lytton
Lord Lytton
Viceroy
India
Stratford Dugdale
Commander Dugdale
William R. W. Peel
House of Commons
Taunton
Daisy Solomon
Cape Colony
Catherine Elizabeth Corbett
Albany
N. Y
John Boyd Thatcher
Quarantine On Foot and Mouth Disease Tweaked
The federal quarantine on foot and mouth disease has been narrowed by the secretary of agriculture effective today. Quarantine now includes only the townships where the disease existed and certain neighboring townships.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Charges for congressman Laning alleged embezzlement
Norwalk Ohio February 25 Indictments report new charges of embezzlement and obtaining money by false pretenses against Congressman J F Laning. Contents of indictments were not public until today and were released this morning.
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Laning
Norwalk
Ohio
J. F. Laning
Sick and Relief Fund association forms in Rock Island
Springfield reports the Sick and Relief Fund association of Rock Island is incorporated with license issued to Joseph Valentine Peter Frey and Charles Miller as incorporators. The benevolent object is stated. February 25.
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Sick and Relief Fund Association
Springfield
City
Rock Island
Joseph Valentine
Peter Frey
Charles Miller
Rally in stock prices is lost
New York trading saw renewed weakness with a portion of yesterday’s rally erased. Amalgamated Copper and Anaconda fell four points, American Smelting 35-8, National Lead 25-8. London sellers pressured shares amid Balkan worries. Major issues like Union Pacific, St. Paul, Reading, United States Steel slid two to three points from the prior close. A late rally formed as copper industrials found support and the market regained some ground.
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Amalgamated Copper
Anaconda
London
Balkans
Union Pacific
St. Paul
Reading
United States Steel
Hopkins Nephew Placed Under Arrest For Horse Theft
In St Louis a man using the name Albert J Hopkins claiming to be a senator’s nephew is jailed on a horse and buggy theft charge. He says he’s from Kansas City and has lived in Chicago recently. In San Francisco a $50,000 pearl necklace owned by Miss Jennie Crocker was stolen at a Mardi Gras ball at the San Francisco hotel.
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Albert J. Hopkins
Illinois
Kansas City
Chicago
San Francisco
Jennie Crocker
Charles O. Alexander
Vanderbilt funds sanitary tenements for consumptives
New York February 25 Mrs William K Vanderbilt has given 1 000 000 for four six story sanitary tenement houses for tuberculosis patients between Avenues A and B on Seventy seventh and Seventy eighth Street. Ground bought last week construction to start soon. Architects John Atterbury Smith. Plan includes roof gardens balconies and ample air near a school and John Jay Park. Dr Henry L Shively heads the tuberculosis relief and expects completion in six months with rents as low as on the East Side yet profitable.
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New York
William K. Vanderbilt
John Jay Park
Shively
Tires Cooper Out Press Questions Upon Him
Nashville dispatch on February 25 reports the Cooper-Sharp trial drawing a larger crowd as Cooper is again examined. Fitzhugh questions him about Carmack Patterson debates and editorial mentions while the court rules many lines of testimony irrelevant to the slain case, urging Cooper to focus on facts. The defense probes finances as the judge grants a midday recess for rest.
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Tenn
Patterson
Cooper-Sharp
Fitzhugh
Cooper
Ship Subsidy Favored By The House Committee
The House committee on post offices endorsed a Senate bill for an ocean ship subsidy. The session also covered probes in the Cooper-Chapman trial, cross examination contending defaulter claims and Polk investment allegations. Washington reports noted Sunken fund matters, secret service funding limits, and contemptuous remarks by a Republican on the treasury unit.
Radiothor touted as cure for locomotor ataxia
In New Orleans today Dr E Stillman Bailey described a radium-like element in Colorado pitch blend named radiothor. He claimed topical application to backs of locomotor ataxia patients yielded rapid cures amid the Southern Homeopathic Medical association session. Washington saw Cardinal Gibbons oversee the installation of Very Rev Thomas Joseph Shahar as rector of the Catholic University of America. In Des Moines Dr F W Selis, president of Osceola Hospital, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for assaulting a hospital patient.
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Southern Homeopathic Medical Association
E. Stillman Bailey
Chicago
Bailey
Chicago Board of Trade
Colorado
Washington
Cardinal Gibbons
Thomas Joseph Shahar
Catholic University of America
Bishop O'Connell
Des Moines
F. W. Selis
Osceola Hospital
Congress Yesterday: Senate Debates Grain Standards and Forest Service
Yesterday in Congress Washington February 25 summary of Senate and House actions. In the Senate the agricultural appropriation bill was under discussion most of the session with McCumber urging standards for grain and Heyburn criticizing forest service methods. Adjourned at 5:40 p m. In the House sweeping majorities rejected amendments to the legislative appropriation bill raising pay for the president vice president speaker judiciary and offices undersecretary and fourth assistant of state. A heated session ended with the bill sent to conference and a night session planned to finish sundry civil appropriations. The secret service debate was postponed to today.
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House Committee On Post Offices
House
Senate
Secret Service
Commission
Council
Tawney
Minnesota
Congress
McCumber
North Dakota
Heyburn
Forest Service
Oregon plan election for U S senators approved
Lincoln Neb February 25 The senate today passed the bill providing for the election of United States senators by the Oregon plan The measure has already passed the house Governor Shallenberger will approve it
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Neb
Senate
United States
Oregon
House
Shallenberger
Gangway of Liner Falls Ten Killed in Accident
Hamburg report recalls ten people killed and seventeen injured when a gangway between the wharf and the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria slipped during loading for the New York sailing. Crew, stevedores, and stewardesses were among the victims. no passengers were aboard. Ice-covered water hindered rescues.
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Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
Hamburg
New York
Nevada Senate Passes Anti Alien Grazing Lands Bill
Carson Nev Feb 25 The Nevada senate approved an antialien measure already adopted by the assembly. The joint concurrent resolution bars liens and foreigners from federal and state grazing lands. The assembly also passed an anti gambling bill by 27 to 20 prohibiting licensed gambling in the state.
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Carson
Nev
Nevada Senate
Hopkins in Illinois Reelection Hinted by Roy West
Roy O West of Chicago says Hopkins will be reelected in Illinois after a deadlock may persist briefly. He notes private advices from Pasadena datelined February 25 and cites the Republican state central committee in Illinois.
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Cal
Hopkins
Illinois
Roy O. West
Chicago
Ilinois
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