West Coast towns cut off as storm hits Southern California
Santa Barbara Ventura and Oxnard are isolated as the worst southern California storm in years continues. A $40,000 bridge at Fillmore is washed away and rail and electric lines suffer outages. Rain reaches 14.76 inches for the season, a record in bureau history.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Santa Barbara
Ventura
Oxnard
Southern Pacific
Los
Coast Line
Valley
Mojave
California
Fillmore
Weather Bureau
Frisco Insolvent As Stock Issue Highlighted
Washington January 26 The Interstate Commerce Commission report on the Frisco railroad system receivership argues the senate resolutions do not call for opinions. It condemns securities sales by bankers amid apparent insolvency and faulted Speyer & Co for knowingly participating. Financial operations, not ordinary railroad difficulties, caused the receivership.
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Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
Frisco Railroad System
Speyer & Co
Friece
Frisco
Works Favoring Job Commission Speech in Senate
Washington D C Jan 26 Senator Works California spoke in the senate for a bill to create a presidentially appointed commission to review all federal office applications and recommendations. The proposal would bar ingress from recommending applicants and aims to ease burdens on the president and Congress while reducing patronage and improving appointments.
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Washington, D. C
Works
California
Senate
BM Fa
Congress
Manila Exhibits Hall Destroyed in Fire
Mactia Jan 26 Two thirds of the Position building here was destroyed by fire. The loss is about 25000 dollars. The Position, which was to have opened in February, was to display exhibits illustrating the material developments of the Philippines.
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Mactia
Philippines
English Women Fight For Husbands Cause
London, Jan 26. Politics will be enlivened this spring by women whose husbands are in parliament or hold high government offices. Notably Mrs Waldorf Astor and Mrs Lewis Harcourt, formerly American, energize Liberal support and hosting power. Astor helped her husband win Plymouth, and Harcourt aims for prime ministerial influence with her backing.
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London
Waldorf Astor
Lewis Harcourt
Harcourt
Lady Craven
Lady Crewe
Robert Gould Shaw
Clivedon
the Thames
Astor
Plymouth
Mary Ethel Burns
New York
J. Pierpont Morgan
Burial of Lord Strathcona Beside His Wife
London, Jan 26. Simple ceremonies marked the burial of Lord Strathcona, Canada’s high commissioner, in Highgate cemetery beside his wife who died months earlier. A grand funeral service in Westminster Abbey, attended by state officials and foreign ambassadors, included Walter Hines Page. The king and queen were represented. pallbearers included three former governors general of Canada.
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London
England
Lord Strathcona
Canada
Highgate Cemetery
Westminster Abbey
Walter Hines Page
Flake Girl Inherits After Mother's Death in Galesburg
In Galesburg Illinois on January 26 Julia Flake an 11 year old girl who plotted to have her mother killed was named sole beneficiary of her mother's will. Robert Higgins the girl's stepfather who confessed to killing his wife was disinherited. The girl cried upon hearing the will read.
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Galesburg
Julia Flake
Robert Higgins
White called a forger on way back to Pontiac
Spokane reports Sherlin W. A. Patterson of Livingston county DL escorts Frederick Grant White to Pontiac NL to answer forgery and subornation of perjury charges. White forged a $5,000 note in D. S. Myers name at Pontiac State Bank. later payments reduced balance to $2,400. A telegram signed M W A connected to his lodge. In Terre Haute an elderly widow M C Langheady shot Charles Boyd entering her window. he is hospitalized with likely fatal wounds amid a recent robbery report.
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Spokane
Wash
Sherlin
W. A. Patterson
Livingston County
Frederick Grant- White
Pontiac
White
D. S. Myers
Pontiac State Bank
Patterson
G. J. McDowell
Fairbury State Bank
McDowell
Lodge
Terre Haute
Ind
Charles Boyd
Weather Outlook for Rock Island Area Unsettled With Rain or Snow
Unsettled tonight and Tuesday with likelihood of rain or snow. warmer tonight near freezing. Temperatures show 7 am reading 23. yesterday's high 31, low 22. Winds brisk south, humidity near 100 percent at 7 pm and 97 percent at 7 am. Precipitation 0.08 inch. Astronomical events note evening stars Mars and Saturn, morning stars Venus and Jupiter, with a winter constellation belt visible from northwest to southeast and Vega and Sirius highlighted near 7 pm.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Mars
Saturn
Venus
Jupiter
Vega
Sirius
Milky Way
Orion
Taurus
Perseus
Auriga
Casseopeia
Cygnus
Secret Compact for War Spoils
Paris confirms a 1913 secret treaty between Servia and Roumania to divide Austria-Hungary if it intervened for Bulgaria. Germany and Russia to share spoils. Galicia and Transylvania laid out, doubling Romania’s size. details reported by La Petite Republique.
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Paris
France
Servia
Roumania
Bulgaria
la Petite Republique
Germany
Russia
Bohemia
Austria
Galicia
Bosnia
Herzegovina
Palmatia
Transylvania
Hungary
Tisza
Miners Seek Quashing of Jury Bills
A sweep of labor actions spans Washington to Michigan and Indiana with senators Ashurst and Thomas backing investigations into Calumet and Colorado strikes. In Michigan, Western Federation of Miners leaders face arraignment as motions to quash indictments are filed. President Moyer calls for Gompers to explain federation stance while John Walker blames McNaughton for copper country turmoil. Over 2,000 attends Brazil Sunday School session, claimed world’s largest.
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Washington, D. C
Ashurst
Thomas
Colorado
Senate Labor Committee
Wilson
Michigan
House
Houghton, Mich
Western Federation of Miners
George Nichols
Ferris
Fellows
Nichols
Kerr
Moyer
Gompers
Indianapolis
Ind
American Federation of Labor
Convention
The
United Mine Workers
White
Walker
Illinois Federation of Labor
Big Jim
Calumet
Brazil
Methodist Episcopal Sunday School
Pneumonia Kills Radium Patient
Philadelphia jan 26 Frank Zook died today from pneumonia while under radium treatment for cancer. Doctors said earlier improvement was possible if pneumonia had not developed. Zook fell ill nine months ago in Panama and received radium therapy last week after operability was ruled out.
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Philadelphia
Frank Zook
Zook
Panama
Medical Twins in France. Two Girls Linked by Flesh
In Champagne France doctors monitor Susanna and Madeline born weeks apart with a three by seven inch tissue connection above the navel. A bloodless operation by Professor Le Filliatre is planned to separate them and restore normalcy, after which they are expected to become ordinary children.
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Champagne
France
Susanna
Madeline
Naval
le Filliatre
French Academy of Medicine
Orange Shippers Win Icing Fight
U S Supreme Court upholds interstate commerce order requiring railroads to let California orange shippers pre ice and pre cool fruit for eastern markets and caps the charge for car pre cooling at 7 50 dollars The dispute traces to Hepburn rate law and pre cooling practices by California and New Mexico lines in the citrus trade leading to a long legal contest culminating in the high court decision The report also notes the death of 13 year old Elmer Knabel in Indiana from blood poisoning after a tooth extraction in Tell City
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Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commissioners
California
Supreme Court
Congress
Southern Pacific
San Bernardino
Santa Fe
Colton
New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commerce Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Four Die in Michigan Central Rail Crash Near Jackson
Four men died and about a dozen were injured in a head on collision on the Michigan Central Saginaw division near Jackson. Victims named are Cal Johnson of Jackson engine of the passenger train S W Cochran of Lansing Theodore Scroogie of Owosso and J B Beck of Jackson. A relief train arrived quickly but extraction took nearly four hours due to the wreck's severity. Authorities suspect a misread order caused the collision.
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Jackson
Mich
Saginaw
Michigan Central Railroad
Cal. Johnson
S. W. Cochran
Lansing
Theodore Scroogie
Owosso
J. B. Beck
Trust Plans Of President Plain
Washington January 26 President Wilson indicated that his trust program would not bar actions that are not in nature and spirit a monopoly. He stressed the aim to let things grow naturally. Secretary Lane urged breaking up monopolies to lower radium prices and make it accessible for many patients.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Lane
House Mines Committee
Congress
Mothers Pensions Driving Desertion, Chicago Report Says
A United Charities report from Chicago charges that Illinois mothers pensions act as a boomerang, with increased family desertion by husbands. In New York, ex-congressman William Willet Jr. was convicted of bribery over a 1911 Queens Supreme Court nomination bid, the jury deliberating under 40 minutes.
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Chicago
United Charities
New York
William Willet, Jr
Congress
Supreme Court
Queens County
Cox
Fletcher to Keep Men on Board Ships
President Wilson dismissed reports that orders sent to Rear Admiral Fletcher would land marines at Vera Cruz and keep a road to Mexico City open if Huerta collapses. He called the Mexican situation one of natural decay and announced a foreign relations conference with the Senate committee. Discussions include Panama tolls and ratification treaties with Japan and Colombia.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Fletcher
Vera Cruz
Mexico City
Huerta
White House
Mexico
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
SHIPPERS OPPOSE RATES INCREASE
Washington D C Jan 26 Scores of shippers and their lawyers prepared to protest any 5 rate rise by 50 eastern railroads at the first hearing of a series to run over a month before the interstate commerce commission The railroads seek the increase to cover rising costs Erie lake line and other Great Lakes operators were ordered by the commission to accept butter eggs and dressed poultry for shipment after tariff refusals.
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Washington, D. C
Eastern
Interstate Commerce Commission
Erie Railroad
Lake Line
Great Lakes
Buffalo
Women Seek Council Seats in Chicago Primaries
Chicago Jan 26 petitions filed by Miss Sarah Hopkins Second ward and Miss Marion Drake First ward to seek city council seats. Four other women expected to file petitions to enter the primaries.
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Chicago
Sarah Hopkins
Second Ward
Marion Drake
First Ward
Movie house panic kills 66 on plantation in Batavia
In Batavia Dutch West Indies a moving picture show on a plantation collapsed in a panic fire killing fifty eight children six women and one man. In Boston Massachusetts the Ward Peace foundation will continue its work as the late Edwin Ginn left one million dollars in his will for the purpose.
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Batavia
Dutch West Indies
Boston
Mass
Ward Peace Foundation
Edwin Ginn
Large Waterloo building burns in fire
Waterloo Iowa Jan 26 The Rum sell Lamson building one of the largest here was destroyed by fire. The loss is 360000 The Paul Davis Dry Goods company suffered the largest individual loss.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Rumsell Lamson
Paul Davis Dry Goods Company
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Issold
Commerce Commission
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Crewe
Bury Strathcona
Westminister Abbey
Flake Girl
Woman
Savannah
A. A. Lawrence
Emory Speer
Speer
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Edward Clark
State Health Department
Pnaemonia
Orange Shippers
Order of Interstate Commerce Commission
Evanaville
Elmer Knabel
Tell City
Michigan Central
President Plain
Colombia
Japan
Capital
Council
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