Billboard campaign aimed to sway jurors in Erbstein trial
Chicago January nineteen unprecedented events arose in the Erbstein bribery case. State's Attorney Wayman disclosed billposters had plastered walls along juror routes with notices declaring Erbstein’s candidacy for state's attorney. Posters were seized. bill posters to face grand jury on charges of influencing the trial.
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Erbstein
Lee O'Neil Browne
Lorimer Wayman
Wayman
Grand Jury
Nine Injured in an Explosion in Chicago
Nine people were injured when a dynamite bomb exploded at a two story residence in the Italian colony on Chicago's north side. The blast targeted Camelo Marsale after he refused demands for 590 dollars in a letter signed Black and. Police say the device is part of a wave of Black Hand threats, not tied to other rumored series.
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Chicago
Camelo Marsale
Marsale
Stephenson fight is on and 1998 primary probe urged
Wisconsin Senate Leader Hasting introduced a resolution asking both houses to concur with a senate committee report on the 1998 primary campaign and request the United States Senate to investigate Stephenson's title to his seat. The measure goes to next week. In Wheeling the Schenk defense began after the prosecution rested. A mutilated unknown man's body was found in Chicago with a bloody ax nearby in the Italian quarter.
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Stephenson
Chicago
Deadlocks in New York and Iowa Firm
Albany New York January 19 There was no choice for senator today Sheehan s vote was 88 7 No Choice at Des Moines Des Moines Iowa January 19 The first joint ballot for senator today resulted in no choice The leaders were Young 34 Funk 22 and Kenyon 25 May Refuse Commissions Cincinnati January 13 That Governor Glasscock of West Virginia will probably refuse to give commissions to Clarence W Watson and William E Chilton democratic caucus nominees for senators from that state in case the legislature ratifies the choice of these men next week was the statement made here today by several republican state senators who fled from Charleston to escape arrest as abstenees The republicans contend the Ohio January 19 The sentences of legislature is not properly organized 17 of the 24 anarchists condemned to death yesterday were commutted today to life imprisonment
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Glasscock
West Virginia
Clarence W. Watson
William E. Chilton
Democratic Caucus
Charleston
Ohio
Weather Forecast for Rock Island Area Ends Friday
Unsettled tonight and Friday with moderate temperatures. Tonight’s low around 30. Temperature at 7 am was 28. Precipitation none. Humidity 95 at 7 pm and 99 at 7 am. Wind speed 7 mph. Astronomical events from noon today to noon tomorrow include sun set 4 58 and rise 7 15, moon rises 10 25 p m.
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Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Senators Debate Lorimer Seat Over Bribery Charges
In Washington on January 19 the Senate heard speeches by Burrows and Borah on Lorimer’s seat. Burrows defended the committee report exonerating Lorimer. Borah argued the evidence showed corruption and Lorimer should not retain the seat. The House spent the day on the Moon bill codifying judiciary laws.
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Plague Threat Grows as Chinese Incompetence Hurts Control
Harbin China January 19 officials warn bubonic plague becomes international danger as authorities conceal spread. Refugees from Fudviadian carry infection 79 miles from railway lands. deaths rise in Harbin and nearby towns. mills’ Chinese workers feared to contaminate Amur export foodstuffs.
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Taotai
Pitziatian
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Tieling
Amur
No Mistake Made by Artillerymen during Neva Blessing
In St. Petersburg on January 1 Emperor Nicholas attended the annual Neva water blessing for the first time since 1905 when the Romanoff family faced danger from a gun misfire. Today the ceremony proceeded without incident and no threats or accidents were reported.
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Neva
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Equitable to Be Mutual Agreement Publicized in Albany
The New York state insurance department released the voting trust agreement between J P Morgan as controlling stockholder and the trustees. The five year arrangement may be cancelled when a plan to place control with policyholders is perfected. A separate item notes a theft of jewelry and cash valued at 12165 from L W Wallace home in Chicago with a colored butler detained. Another Des Moines report says Senator Dunnagan introduced a bill to allow women to hold any elected office in Iowa.
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State Insurance Department
Equitable Life Voting
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Chicago
L. W. Wallace
Iowa
Des Moines
Dunnagan
Voters of
Railroads Prosperous Held Unreasonable Charges Rise Faster
Clifford Thorne presented the Meat Producers' association argument before the interstate commerce commission in Washington on January 19. He contended transportation lines charge more quickly than prices, in a probe into rail rates and profits.
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Clifford Thorne
Meat Producers’ Association of the
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Vote selling probe to start in Vermilion County
Danville Illinois January 19 the grand jury will begin an investigation of vote selling in Danville and Vermilion county next week The Chicago Record Herald reports Vermilion county home of Speaker Cannon sits atop a seething volcano ready to erupt and threaten the district's political machinery.
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Danville
Vermillion County
Chicago
Record Herald
Cannon
Wine riots prompt troops to quell champagne disturbances
Paris reports wine riots in the champagne district have prompted a government decision to dispatch troops to the Rheims region. Local authorities are described as helpless as disturbances escalate.
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Champagne
Rheims
Senate Debates Direct Election as Illinois Scandal Highlight
Senator Borah urges direct senatorial elections after citing Lorimer case. He praises Illinois but condemns the scandal and the veracity concerns raised by the state’s deadlock. Fletcher defends Ballinger while Money urges fortifying the Panama Canal and Calder exposes a Democratic caucus rift.
Rail freight rate push and election fraud charges rattle officials
Speakers advocate higher rail charges to fund growth citing rising prices and record railway profits while a grand jury in Adams County begins probes into bought votes amid widespread corruption claims. In Hauteville 2000 protesters vent anger by flooding streets with champagne from shattered wine cellars.
Young Girls Attempt Suicide After Arrest Disgrace
In Lemont Illinois Freda Kemps and Stella Maxwell both Joliet girls, aged 17, set fire to their clothing in jail and were fatally burned minutes after reading a newspaper clipping about their arrest for stealing furs. They sought to die rather than face disgrace. Separately, President nominates Guy D. Goff US attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin and Henry A. Wellmarshal for the same district.
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Freda Kemps
Stella Maxwell
Joliet
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Jan
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United States
Wisconsin
Henry A. Well
Bills to abolish fraternity system in Michigan schools
In Lansing on January 19 Representative Rankin of Ypsilanti introduced a bill to abolish all fraternities and sororities in Michigan public schools. Pupils who disobey would be expelled and teachers punished for failure to enforce the law. In Asuncion on January 19 Paraguay’s congress accepted President Gondra and Vice President Gaena resignations and elected Colonel Jara, the former minister of war, as president amid a quiet country.
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Gaena
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Trusts Hold No Law Curb Inherent Power Of Wealth
Special Corres from The Argus reports Washington judge and court debate over monopolies citing tobacco and Standard Oil cases. The tobacco trust argues wealth permits any purchase to crush rivals, while the Supreme Court probes if wealth restrains trade violates anti trust law.
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Former treasurer held in capitol custody in North Carolina case
Former State Treasurer Bickford was arrested in the capitol building in Bismarck on a Burleigh county warrant alleging embezzlement of 69 400 dollars of state funds. A second warrant from the attorney general followed and a hearing before Justice Price set bond at 10 000 dollars.
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Bickford
Smith
Burleigh County
Miller
Justice of the Peace Price
Champaign Votes Down Commission Form by 21
Champaign Illinois on January 19 rejected the commission form of government by a 1,995 to 1,116 vote. The tally reflected student voting controversy at the University of Illinois. In separate items Henry Zeman sold Silvis waiting station and will relocate to North Dakota. Milwaukean Col. Nicholas Smith dies at 73, a Civil War veteran and noted newspaper man and author.
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Silvis
Henry Zeman
John Bahnks
North Dakota
Milwaukee
Wit
Nichlas Smith
Immigrant meat packers seek immunity bath in Sherman case
Chicago news reports J Ogden Armour Louis F Swift and others charged under the Sherman act will ask Judge Carpenter for an immunity bath arguing that Judge Humphrey's 1906 immunity decision precludes current prosecution. The defense contends some alleged violations date before 1906.
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Chicago
J. Ogden Armour
Louis F. Swift
Carpenter
United States
Dtriet Court
Humphrey
SONS
Abrogation of US Russia treaties urged at banquet
Louis Marshall told a New York Jewish council banquet that the United States should abrogate all treaties with Russia, claiming American citizens are mistreated and ports ignored. The event also featured talks on immigration law enforcement and reform, with Roosevelt Gaynor and Schiff among speakers. Sugar prices fell five to ten cents per hundred pounds across grades.
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New York
United States
Russia
Louis Marshall
Jewisry Council
Corporation tax law up for Supreme Court ruling
Washington January 19 The constitutionality of the corporation tax provision of the tariff law is now a problem for the supreme court alone to pose upon. Oral arguments were concluded today and the case submitted.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Senator Root Calls for Simpler Law Practice in New York
Syracuse, N Y Jan 19 Senator Root addressing the State Bar Association urged simpler administration of law and legislative practice. He decried retyping settled law in new forms and the bulkiness of legal opinions and complained of technical requirements hampering progress.
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