Admiral Schley Parade of Honors in Chicago
Admiral Schley greeted in Chicago with school visitations, resolutions from German societies, and a public reception at the Auditorium. He declares no political ambition, preferring to remain a sailor. 5,000 cheered at the railway station and 600 attended a banquet with Governor Yates and Mayor Harrison present.
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Isadore Rayner
Court of Inquiry
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Denmark
R. A. White
America
Fred A. Bangs
Woman's Club
Taft Rejects Reconcentration Policy in Philippines
Chicago dispatch reports William Howard Taft civil governor of the Philippine Islands opposes General Bell s reconcentration methods. Taft says natives show interest in December council elections and upcoming provincial elections, calling reconcentration unnecessary though Batangas differs from other provinces. He plans to visit Cincinnati after meeting railroad president S M Felton.
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William JH. Taft
Philippine Islands
Orient
James Franklin Bell
Batangas
Taft
Weyler
Washington
Roosevelt
Cincinnati
S. M. Felton
Chicago & Alton Railway
Gen. Bell
Gen
Bell
Ransom Paid for Stone Captives Hopeful Release
Sofia reports ransom paid for Miss Stone and companion Mine. Tsilka. Captives located near Yapyak in Turkey. U.S. delegates have reached Baniske and likely paid the ransom yesterday. Also notes Chicago hospitality to Admiral Schley and a tragic Indiana mother story about John Foley fearing thirteen children.
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Turkey
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Yapyak
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Baniske
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Progress in South Africa War Detains Clergy Chief
Rt Rev L B K Coppin head of the African Methodist Episcopal diocese in South Africa returns to New York aboard the Umbria. He cites war turmoil slowing progress and notes the Boers resort to guerrilla warfare as England rejects any restoration of the republics. Other dispatches report General Viljoen captured near Ly Transvaal, Boer prisoners freed, and Kitchener urging new Boer regiments.
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Umbria
African Methodist Episcopal Church
South Africa
Yeesterday
Ganthesi
South African
Transvaal
England
London
Juan
Lari Kitchener
Johannesburg
Viljoen
Severe cold and blizzard sweep wide country
The West and Northwest endure extreme cold with zero to 25 below in several states. Blizzard conditions disrupt travel from Illinois to Minnesota. Weather bureau predicts continued freezing temperatures as far south as Galveston, Texas, with Minnesota and northern Wisconsin under severe blizzards this morning.
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Illinois
Missouri
Kansas
Ilinois
Iowa
Wis
Minnesota
Mercury
Wisconsin
Weather Bureau
Galveston
Texas
Coal Combine Merger Seems a Success in Indiana and Illinois
Indianapolis Jan 27 John Bays of Sullivan purchasing agent of the coal combine says the merger of the Indiana and Illinois fields will succeed. Underwriters in New York review options and will decide whether to proceed. The plan centers on 800 mines in Illinois and 200 in Indiana at a 75 million dollar input. Simultaneously the Minnesota Central railroad faces pressure as the syndicate seeks to limit competition and expand coal carriage, risking delays for months.
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Sullivan
Combine
Indiana
Ilinois
New York
Hays
Miinels
Docadle
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J. Pierpont Morgan
Chicago and Eastern Tilinois Railroad
Denies the charge in Nebraska embezzlement case
Treasurer B. Meserve appeared in criminal court at Omaha and posted bond for the next term to answer an indictment by the grand jury charging embezzlement of state school funds. Meserve said he never retained state money and claimed the prosecution is for political purposes.
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Omaha
Jan
B. Meserve
Bond
Meserve
Nebraska
Blizzard Claims Driver As River Bridge Breaks Through Ice
In Sault Ste Marie a fierce blizzard ruptured the ice crossing the river to the Canadian Sea. The stage coach driven by John Lebla broke through the ice and drowned with the horses. Three passengers were rescued after a difficult effort.
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Sault Ste Marie
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Here
Canadian Sea
John Lebla
Husband and Wife Prize Fight For Child in Joliet Mont
In Joliet Montana a novel prize fight ended after five rounds with a husband and wife battling over their year old boy Dick. The referee awarded the boy to the wife after the man was knocked out, amid whisky for the husband and sponging for the wife between rounds. The episode, though not strictly lawful, is deemed to hold in Joliet, a mining town in Carbon county.
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Gilbert Hall
Is Spell
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Mine Workers Debate Admission to Interstate Accord
Indianapolis Jan 27 delegates at the United Mine Workers convention debated Reese’s plan to admit other states to the interstate agreement. A counter proposal to refer the issue to a joint conference of operators and miners this week was sent to the scale committee and the incoming national executive board. Other actions included requiring local unions to print the Mine Workers Journal and appointing children of miners to national and district offices. The Iowa participation question sparked opposing views, with no action taken. Leaders George H Maxwell and William Yost addressed irrigation and state conditions.
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Mine Workers’ Journal
Iowa
L. Robbins
Presiowa
H- Lines
Lewis Oy
George H. Maxwell
Chicago
Congress
William Yost
Kentucky
Petition backs merger halt by grain and shipper groups
A signed petition from grain men lumbermen and merchants in Minneapolis asks Governor Van Sant to stop the merger plan of Great Northern Northern Pacific and Burlington rail lines under Northern Securities. It argues the three-system control would stabilize rates benefiting Twin Cities shippers and others in the northwest. Similar petitions are expected from other regions.
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Minneapolis
van Sant
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Burlington
Northern Securities Company
Twin Cities
Ah Sin Digs Up Buried Treasure
In Peking officials report finding more than 100 million taels in gold and silver buried in the palace women’s quarters before the court fled. The treasure was discovered as authorities search for royal valuables in the wake of the retreat.
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Peking
Cuban Reciprocity Debated Amid Tax Reduction Talk
In Washington on January 27 the Ways and Means Committee shifted from Cuban reciprocity to consider war revenue cuts. Tea interests pressed removal of the 10 cent per pound tax under the Spanish war revenue act, while beer interests were heard in the afternoon session.
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Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern shops idle in strike standstill
Washington Indiana January 27. At 5 pm Saturday every department of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern shops except the round house closed down indefinitely by order of General Superintendent Rawn who says the company cannot afford to operate during the strike and cannot say when they reopen. Fire discovered at 7 pm in the Hl room but easily fought. Brazil Indiana January 27. Terre Haute Electric engineers quit in sympathy with street car men and non union engineers were soon hired. Strike supporters severed two poles cutting trolley wires delaying traffic for hours. torpedoes placed on track caused no damage. A mass union meeting is expected soon.
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Round House
Rawn
Pr Mt
Brazil
Terre Haute Electric Company
Qnit
State Charities Report Reveals Quarter Income and Parole Stats
Springfield Miss January 27 The quar bulletin of the state board of charities shows total income of fifteen institutions in the quarter ending December last was some amount. The total outstanding indebtedness at quarter end was 69101 and total expenses of the quarter were Some figures show a surplus after cash in hand and in treasury, with 683 inmates on parole and 10 644 present in the institutions. The best net per capita cost was at the Soldiers and Sailors Home at 31 44, and the average net per capita for all was 38.
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Springfield
State Board of Rities
Fatal Dynamite Blast Caps New York Subway Project
A dynamite explosion in the rapid transit tunnel near Forty-second Street New York today killed two people and injured seventy-five. Most injuries were cuts from flying glass as windows were blown out in nearby buildings. The Murray Hill Hotel sustained heavy damage. L. Roderick Roberts, a hotel guest, died in his room when a timber struck him. another victim was worker Carroll. None of the injured are fatally hurt.
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New York
Forty-second Street
Murray Hill
L. Roderick Roberts
Carroll
Pere Marquette No. 3 Wreck Fished Off Beach at Ludington
Captain James Reid and crew of wreckers saved the steamer Pere Marquette No. 3 off the beach in Ludington Michigan on Saturday. The ship will be towed to Milwaukee dry dock after temporary repairs. Damage is estimated at 60 000 dollars with wrecking costs near 10 000 dollars.
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Mich
James Reid
Milwaukee Dry Dock
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