Government to act against International Harvester follows inquiry delay
Washington Jan 20 Attorney General Wickersham told the house rules committee the government would act against International Harvester as a congressional investigation proceeds. The committee paused any recommendation pending Justice Department action, with the case ongoing since 1906. The panel also deferred final action two weeks on Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin, whose election charges were not sustained. In Chicago data on beef costs at Armours South Omaha packing house were deemed admissible at the Packers trial despite objections.
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Rules Committee
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Department
Stephenson
Wisconsin
Packers
Chicago
Armours South
Watterson
McCombs
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson- Harvey
Wilson
Colonel Harvey
Harper's Weekly
Colonel Watterson
Peoria liquor dealer beaten and robbed at noon
J. M. Gross wholesale liquor dealer was held up and robbed today at his Peoria establishment. Two men beat him to unconsciousness and escaped with $200. He likely sustained fatal injuries.
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Peoria, al
J. M. Gross
Gross
President Taft interrupts Yale chapel visit to view campus fire
President Taft cut chapel at Yale to inspect a fire in the old south middle hall on campus. He joined students flocking toward the burning dormitory, watched firefighters for twenty minutes, and then attended chapel where President Hadley had just finished prayer. He plans to attend a Yale corporation meeting later.
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New Haven
Conn
Janu
Taft
Yale
Old South Middle Hall
Hadley
Yale Corporation
Wiley Cleared Given Free Hand
Washington reports Dr. Harvey W. Wiley head of the Agriculture Dept chemistry bureau is cleared by a House committee inquiry into food admin controversy. The panel endorses his enforcement of the pure food and drug law and limits the Remsen board and Solicitor McCabe influence. Remaining questions center on per diem pay for Dr. Busby and Wiley’s asserted over rulings.
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Harvey W. Wiley
Chemistry Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Food Administration
House
Wiley
Remsen
George P. McCabe
McCabe
Taft
Remsen Board
R. H. Busby
New York
Department
Wickersham
Dr. Wiley
Weather forecast for Rock Island area shows fair and colder note
The forecast calls for generally fair weather tonight and Sunday with a cold snap and lows near 5 to 10 degrees above zero. 7 am temperature 18, yesterday high 5, low 1, winds 7 mph, humidity 87 at 7 am and 76 at 7 pm, no precipitation. Astronomical notes include sunset 5 03, moonset 6 08 pm, Uranus in conjunction with the sun and Mercury visible.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Uranus
Mercury
Laughing Fit Baffles Ames Woman Cured by Chloroform
In Ames Iowa on January 2 Mrs A Fox suffered a two hour laughing spell after her daughter's circus tale. Doctors used chloroform to calm her and she is slowly recovering from illness caused by the bout.
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Ames
Iowa
Welsh, Due for Fight Today, Is in Hospital
Freddie Welsh English lightweight was taken to a hospital in Los Angeles with strained neck and back tendons. Doctors report muscular contraction and question if he can fight again.
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Los Angeles
Freddie Welsh
Bobby Waugh
Welsh
Bancroft Divorce Trial Ends Testimony Wraps Up
Testimony in the Bancroft divorce case concluded in Wilmington Delaware with no oral arguments to follow. Briefs due February 1 and 5 will set the stage for a court decision by Chief Justice Pennewill and two associate judges. A Philadelphia doctor testified the wife is ill with bronchitis and cannot appear. A Munich secretary identified Bancroft in a 1910 cab incident and denied by Bancroft. Other doctors and officials testified it could be possible he fathered the child.
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Del
John Bancroft, Jr
Madeline Dupont Bancroft
Superior Court
Pennewill
Conrad and Woolley
Mary Fisher
Philadelphia
Miss Dollinger
Munich
Max Heibler
Heibler
Young Bancroft
United States
Barton Cook Hirst
University of Pennsylvania
Henry M. Norris
Wilmer M. Krusen
Temple University
Howell
Bancroft
Max Heibler, Jr
Cummins Presses Candidacy For Republican Nomination
Iowa Senator Cummins, a progressive, announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. He said he would accept Iowa GOP support if he is deemed fit by delegates headed to the Chicago convention. The move complicates Taft’s bid as La Follette and Roosevelt supporters also press for a unified progressive candidate. A Denver report linked Pinchot to a conference plan for progressives to unify against Taft, fueling speculation.
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Cummins
Iowa
Chicago
Taft
la Follette
Wisconsin
T. R
New York
Roosevelt
Colby
New Jersey
Albert B. Cummins
Woods
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
LA Pollette
W. L. Houser
Denver
Les Moines
Carroll
Hayward
Omaha
Neb
Victor Rosewater
Nebraska
Dakotas
Pacific Coast
Butter boycott grows as New York shoppers seek lower prices
New York reports a butter boycott urged by the Housewives league to press price cuts. Cold storage speculators bought butter at 26 cents last summer, costing them money to store, and wholesalers say further price rises are unlikely as oleo sales triple amid slack demand.
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New York
Housewives’ League
Violet Buehler Found Back Home in Chicago
Violet Buehler, missing since last November, was returned to Chicago from New York today. Roy Allen, detained in connection with the disappearance, was released.
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Violet Buehler
Chicago
New York
Roy Allen
Sun Abdicates Chinese Throne As Yuan Emerges Leader
A Chicago cable dispatch reports the Manchu dynasty abdicates and Ti en Tsin becomes temporary Chinese capital. Sun declares willingness to cede presidency to Yuan after abdication while Nanking moves to draft a new constitution. Four transports bring republican infantry and artillery to Chi-Fu from Woo-Sung.
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Peking
Chicago Daily News
Tien Tsin
China
Yuan
San Francisco
Sun
Nanking
Republican Assembly
Chi-Fu
Woo-Sung
Prohibition Planks Sought at Major Party Conventions
Chicago January 20. Temperance advocates will push both major parties to adopt a prohibition plank for 1888 conventions. Governor Stubbs of Kansas and former Governor Hanly of Indiana will appeal to Republicans while William Jennings Bryan and Congressman Hobson will appeal to Democrats.
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Clermont
Iowa
William Larrabee
Chicago
Stubbs
Kansas
Hanly
Indiana
William Jennings Bryan
Hobson
Epidemic Strikes Rockford Residents
Rockford Illinois reports an intestinal disease epidemic with an estimated 1000 cases in 24 hours. Schools and a factory faced absences as physicians debate whether true intestinal grip or winter cholera is at play amid suggested causes including frozen foods. River water denial by officials noted.
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Rockford
Ill
Archduke Francis Ferdinand to Attend Berlin Birthday
Vienna reports Archduke Francis Ferdinand and Duchess Sophie may attend Emperor William II's birthday celebration in Berlin on January 27. The potential visit marks the first Austrian imperial departure to join a German event and is seen as a bid to ease German public mistrust stemming from the Moroccan crisis and perceived lack of German support.
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Austria
Francis Ferdinand
Sophie of Hohenberg
Berlin
William
Germany
Enly
Tme
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