Taft Defies Roosevelt With Backing From Allies
Washington dispatch reports Taft will not withdraw from the Republican nomination race and will campaign actively with support from close allies. Roosevelt and La Follette forces deny plans to push him out, while Pinchot denies saying Roosevelt would refuse the nomination. A police raid in Sterling, Missouri, seizes gambling gear.
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Taft
White House
Roosevelt
Chicago
T. RK
la Follette
Tate
Pinchot
Battle Creek
Mich
Gifford Pinchot
Snowbound towns in appeal for aid
Topeka Kansas January 3 snowbound towns appeal for help as Dighton Healy and Jetmore report a week without railway service. Citizens face shortages of provisions and coal and urge the utilities commission to intervene to prevent widespread suffering.
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Dighton
Santa Fe
States Utilities Commission
Healy
Jetmore
Veeder Reveals Packery Price Control Claims in Chicago
Henry Veeder testified that meat packers used pools to control prices and allocate territories. He stated all old packers’ records were destroyed but read letters and telegrams alleged to have been sent during pool periods. The witness declined to deny the documents’ genuineness despite lacking documentary proof.
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Chicago
Henry Veeder
Veeder
Iowa Towns Reduce Number of Saloons
Clinton, Iowa reports only four saloons open as city council prepares to allot 25 licenses under the Moon law. Clinton County towns largely comply, with Walcott showing a single operating saloon secured by Ferdinand Dietz for 5700 annually and Dixon granting one license to Henry Westphal for 600 yearly.
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Clinton
Iowa
Clinton County
Walcott
Ferdinand Dietz
Dixon
Henry Westphal
Radical reductions in livestock freight rates to apply western railroads
The Interstate Commerce Commission prescribed radical reductions in existing freight rates on livestock, packing house products and salt. The changes apply to all western and southwestern railroads.
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Washington
Jan
Interstate Commerce Commission
Western
Southwestern
Weather Forecast for Rock Island Area
Mostly cloudy and cold tonight and Thursday with a near zero low. 7 am temperatures show 3, high yesterday 10, wind at 7 am four mph, no precipitation, humidity at 7 pm 78 and at 7 am 89, water stage 1.9 with a fall of .7 in 24 hours. Astronomical notes include sunset 4:45, moon details, and Jupiter satellites visible with quadrantid meteors ending.
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Moline
J. M. Sherier
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Dickens Son Dies Sudden in East City
Alfred Tennyson Dickens son of Charles Dickens died suddenly of acute indigestion at the Hotel Astor while on a lecture tour. He was 67, had spent much of his life in Australia, and traveled across the United States before his death. Funeral plans await word from his children in Melbourne. His wife had died years earlier.
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Charles Dickens
Hotel Astor
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Tennyson
Australia
Boston
Lowell
Mass
Denver
State Teachers’ Association
Indianapolis
Chicago
Kingston
N. Y
Dicksens
Melbourne
Joseph E. G. Ryan
Congress Hotel
No arrests in Albion National bank closure for forgeries
Albion Michigan dispatch reports no arrests yet in the closing of Albion National Bank tied to forged notes totaling 44 096. The cashier H M Dearing is critically ill and may die from the bank troubles. National loss totals for 1911 reach about 15 000 000 through checks and drafts and forgery insurance tightens nationwide. Two banks burn Ishpeming and Negaunee districts. losses 150 000 and 100 000 respectively, incendiary suspected.
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Murray Today
Albion National Bank
Albion
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Detroit
H. M. Dearing
New York
Marquette
Miners’ National Bank
Ishpeming
Negaunee State Bank
Negaunee
RICHESON IN COLLAPSE DURING JAIL INTERVIEW
Boston, Jan. 3. Rev. C. V. T. Richeson collapsed in his Charler Street jail cell when his counsel Morse and Lee began discussing his recent self mutilation. Morse said Richeson sat up briefly, then sank back, unable to rise without aid. He appeared mentally weak and will need to improve to stand trial within two weeks.
Congress Reopens With Broad Tariff and Treaty Focus
Washington reports Congress resumes with no major items, while tariff reform tops the agenda. Senate bills on a Panama Line and arbitration treaty ratifications draw petitions, and committees prepare probes into money trusts and antitrust issues.
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Congress
Bristow
Senate
Post Office Committee
Rayner
Maryland
House
Ways and Means
Panama Canal
Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Canal
Money Trust
Shipping Combine
Harvester Trust
Illinois central striker jailed for contempt
Harry Andrews, a Clinton Illinois Central shop man, was found guilty of contempt of court for violating a restraining order against strikers. He received 30 days in the Peoria workhouse. Andrews allegedly attempted to intimidate company employees returning home at night. Fred Irwin James Meagher and James T. McCloskey were arrested at the same time.
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Springfield
Harry Andrews
Illinois Central
Clinton
Humphrey
Illinois Central Railroad
Peoria
Andrews
Fred Irwin
James Meagher
James T. McCloskey
Tme
Nation to Fight Totin of Guns
Washington reports Representative Sisson of Mississippi has introduced a federal bill to tax all deadly weapons and cartridges, aiming to curb gun toting by minors and disreputable buyers. It taxes weapons at 10 dollars plus 25 percent of value and cartridges at fractions of a cent, with penalties for violations. Local law has failed, he argues, and federal taxing power could precede broader controls.
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Congress
Sisson
Mississippi
United States
Internal Revenue
Secretary of the Treasury
Bryan boosted by Ohio Democrats at party conference
In Columbus Ohio the Progressive Democratic league of Ohio formed at a statewide conference. Delegates urged loyalty to true Democrats and barbed delegates not aligned with the party. William J Bryan received applause as the standard bearer for the progressive democracy amid calls to back him as the ideal leader.
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Columbus
Ohio
Progressive Democratic League of Ohio
Judson Harmon
William J. Bryan
Resolutions Committee
Early deals M Namara being bared by labor chiefs
Marmapolis Ind Jan 3 National Labor officials tied to Samuel Gompers and the AFL learned two years ago from ex mayor Charles A Bookwalter that John J McNamara directed a series of dynamite explosions against contractor Albert Von Spreckelsen. Bookwalter said he might be subpoenaed and promised to reveal details of a municipal probe while asserting McNamara was the conspirator. Gompers denied being told of the allegations or having prior knowledge.
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National Labor
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Charles A. Bookwalter
John J. McNamara
Bookwalter
Albert von Sprecklesen
Grand Jury
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Iron Workers’ Union
John J
von Spreckelsen
McNamara
Gompers
Sam Gompers
Hugo Thorsch
Washington
J. J. McNamara
Swift & Co Fire at Stock Yards Plant
Fire at Swift and Co. stock yards plant in Chicago was brought under control by morning. Loss estimated at $55,000. No injuries reported and investigation underway. Fire started last night and prompted damage across facilities and inventory.
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Swift & CO
Chicago
Labor Criticised For Indifference In McNamara Case
Indianapolis January 3 Government Prosecutor Oscar Lawler accuses labor leaders of indifference to the dynamite conspiracy tied to the McNamara case. He says no leader aided in the cleanup before or after the confessions and none has obtained further information from the McNamara family.
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Samuel Gompers
McNamara
Oscar
Lawler
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