Supreme Court strikes down labor union discrimination act
Washington, Jan. 27. The Supreme Court held the 1898 law prohibiting railroad employers from discriminating against union members unconstitutional. Justice Harlan wrote the opinion, noting the right of discharge for union membership exists, though Congress may deem it unwise. Justice McKenna dissented, warning the decision narrows protections.
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Washington
William Adair
United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Adair
Harlan
Woman Rejected Lincoln Dies In Sioux City History
Mrs Mary Frances Reiley aged 83 a prominent eastern Iowa Central Illinois family matriarch died early yesterday at her daughter's home in Sioux City Iowa She had been wooed by Abraham Lincoln in 1839 during his visit to Quincy Illinois and rejected him The obituary notes her long family prominence in the region and her Lincoln connection.
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Sioux City
Towa
Mary Frances Reiley
Ilinois
Mary Sullivan
Quincy
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Quincey
Rushville
Beaten by Night Riders in Hopkinsville for Selling Tobacco
R H Rodgers of Era vicinity was mobbed Saturday night by about seven night riders who whipped him with bogey whips and fired shots into his house. Rodgers, a member of the Kentucky Association, allegedly sold tobacco outside the group.
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Kentucky Association
Hopkinsville
R. H. Rodgers
Rodgers
Association
Panic at Grand Opera House in Des Moines
Jan 27 Des Moines reports a fire in a building adjoining the Grand Opera house triggered a brief audience rush for the exits during a performance. The danger was averted when the panic was stopped. one woman fainted but no serious injuries occurred and the show resumed after the scare.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Grand Opera House
Illinois coal operators weigh mine closures amid weak demand
Central and southern Illinois coal operators met at Carbondale on January 26 to discuss suspending mining operations if trade conditions do not improve. They cited warm weather and a tight money market as causes of poor demand, signaling possible temporary mine shutdowns.
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Illinois
Carbondale, Jr
Central
Mrs Eddy Moves Residence to Boston Church Ties
Mrs Mary Baker G Eddy founder of Christian Science leaves Flossant View in Providence for Boston to be near the mother church. The move places Eddy in Boston on January 27 as she relocates to a new residence in the city.
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Cord
N. H
Brookline
Chestnut Hill
Alfred Farlow
Christian Science Press Agency
Mrs. Eddy
Boston
Christian Science Church
Concord
Mass
Mary Baker G. Eddy
The
Christian Science Call
Flessant View
Con
Bullets Thwart Suspected Japanese Spies at Armory
San Francisco January 27 The Call reports national guard sharp shooters fired with deadly intent early yesterday morning stopping a second break in attempt at the South Infantry armory. The building holds coastal defense maps and peninsula topographical plans. Sentries describe the trespassers leading officers to believe spies sought armory secrets.
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San Francisco
Cal
National Guard
Sth Infantry
Newspaperman Frank R O Neil Dies of Pneumonia
Frank R ONeil vice president of the Pulitzer Publishing Company and assistant manager of the Post Dispatch died today in St Louis of Brewmonia Audit misprint in source. In Janesville Wisconsin Chief Appleby and residents doubt Miss Josephine Malone was murdered and favor death by own action. police drop the case.
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Frank R. O'Neil
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
St. Louis
Pulitzer Publishing Company
The
Post-Dispatch
Brewmonia
Miss Malone
Janesville
Wis
Appleby
Josephine Malone
Rock River
Bryan to attend banquets discuss presidential race
Washington January 27 William Jennings Bryan plans tonight and tomorrow night to meet Democratic supporters and opponents to discuss whether he should retire from the presidential race. Senator Newlands of Nevada will confer with Bryan as both sides weigh his possible withdrawal. Bryan indicated he will stay in the race, joking about a committee and noting he has not seen such a delegation. He will speak, while avoiding politics on Sunday, and said he is confident of Democratic success with him as nominee.
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Washington
William Jennings Bryan
Newlands
Nevada
Mr. Bryan
Bryan
Esex
Smith
Perry Belmont
Nebraskan
Mr.Bryan
New Willard
Gladys Vanderbilt Weds Count Laszlo Szechenyi in New York
Miss Gladys Moore Vanderbilt, daughter of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, married Count Laszlo Szechenyi at the Vanderbilt home on Fifth Avenue in the presence of about 350 guests. Monsignor LaVelle officiated as 30 boys from St Patrick’s sang in the ceremony. Afterward a wedding breakfast was served and the couple left for Newport to spend the week with Reginald Vanderbilt.
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New York
Gladys Moore Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Laszlo Szechenyi
Hussars
Fifth Avenue
Vanderbilt
Miss Vanderbilt
Anton Aigray
M. J. LaVelle
St. Patrick's Cathedral
John J. Byrne
Gaul
Ruth
St. Patrick's Chancel
Newport
Reginald Vanderbilt
Reported Utica burglaries involve students and reporter
Utica Jan 27 a criminal conspiracy among Utica Free Academy students and a newspaper reporter led to burglaries at classrooms a contractor home and the paper office. Ashley Lock 19 and John P Jones 18 confessed. Jones a newspaper reporter stole pay envelopes and cash then speculated in the stock market with stolen funds.
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Utica
N. Y
Elmira Reformatory
Utica Free Academy
Ashley Lock
John P. Jones
Young Jones
Jones
Utica Academy
Lock
Trial reports reveal jealousy and coercive control in McDonald case
Chicago readers hear prosecutor describe Mrs Dora McDonald as luring 16 year old Webster Guerin into a controlling relationship that forced his exit from business, with jealousy driving further incidents as he later joined the picture trade. In New York, Thaw trial proceedings feature Dr. Bingaman and other foreign witnesses detailing episodes of acute mania and incoherent behavior, with experts poised to answer structured queries after a late luncheon recess.
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Chicago
Sta
Day
Dora McDonald
Webster St. Guerin
Uerin
Guerin
McDonald
Bingaman
Sydney Russell Wells
London
Thaw
Wells
Littleton
Lillian T. McBride
Frederick J. Burton Browne
Maurice Gauja
Paris
Rome
Smith-Ely Jelliffe
Columbia University
Charles G. Wagner
Binghampton
N. Y
Britton D. Evans
Morris Plains
Appeal to Court Bill In Equity Against Pacific Railroads
Washington January 27 Attorney General Bonaparte directs that a bill in equity be filed to break up Union Pacific and its subsidiaries control of Southern Pacific San Pedro Los Angeles and Salt Lake and to declare illegal the stock holdings of Union Pacific in Santa Fe Great Northern and Northern Pacific. The suit aims to end a transcontinental monopoly from the Missouri River to the Pacific coast and names Farmers Loan Trust Harriman Schiff Kahn Stillman Frick Rodgers Clarke among defendants. The action traces the 1901 formation by Harriman and associates to monopolize all transcontinental traffic.
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Washington
Bonaparte
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Southern Pacific
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Road
Union Pacific
Oregon
Santa Fe
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Department
Missouri River
Pacific Coast
Portland
Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company of New York
E. H. Harriman
Jacob H. Schiff
Otto H. Kahn
James Stillman
Henry C. Frick
Henry H. Rodgers
William A. Clarke
New York
Eleven Drowned at Sea Off Jersey Coast
Reports to the maritime exchange say barges mishaps in last week’s storm near the New Jersey coast likely killed 11 seamen. Also note a $50 verdict in Boone Iowa over a telephone call incident and a $10,000 jewelry store theft in Kalamazoo Michigan.
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Jersey
Philadelphia
Maritime Exchange
New Jersey
Kalamazoo, Mich
F. H. Carey
Pennsylvania Grafting Gases Brought to Court
Testimony in the present hearing differs markedly from the first trial and a prior hypothetical question. The proceedings emphasize the irrational acts of man from infancy to the homicide, shaping the court’s focus amid the case.
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Pennsylvania
Delmas
Evans
First of Prosecutions for Capitol Steal Opened
Harrisburg dispatch reports the first of five conspiracy cases tied to the state capitol project with $49 417 paid for sofas tables and clothes trees at $18 40 per foot fraud alleged to total $19 308. Defendants include John H Sanderson Joseph M Huston William P Snyder William L Mathues and James M Schumacher others not named in these cases.
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Commonwealth
John H. Sanderson
Joseph M. Huston
William P. Snyder
William
Liquidation of the National Bank of North America
New York, Jan 27. Unable to meet demands, the National Bank of North America, once the largest in the Morse chain, is placed in liquidation with Charles A. Hanna named receiver. Deposits fall from about 20 million to 3 million, surplus from 2 million to under 500 thousand. clearing house debt of 2.2 million remains secured by the bank’s best securities.
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New York
National Bank of North America
Torpedo Flotilla Arrives At Buenos Ayres
Buenos Ayres January Twenty seventh. An American torpedo boat flotilla arrived in port after leaving Rio Janeiro January twenty one. Commandant Moreno greeted the officers aboard the Whipple on behalf of Argentina. The docks were lined with marines and guards. The flotilla will stay until Thursday then proceed to Sandy Point in the Magellan Strait to join the battleship fleet.
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Buenos Ayres
Rio Janeiro
Moreno
Ministe of Marine
Whipple
Argentina
Sandy Point
Magellan Strait
Fortunes of American Girls Denied to Titled Foreigners Over 25 Years
A historical list tallies fortunes American heiresses gave to titled foreigners across 25 years, naming Consuelo Yznaga, Elizabeth Sperry, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Natica Yznaga, Eva Julia Mackay Bryant, and many others. Totals show hundreds of millions in transfers, with notes of divorce and paired fortunes among duchesses, countesses, and baronesses, including multiple names such as Helena Zimmerman, May Goelet, Florence Hazard, and Daisy Leiter.
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Duchess of Manchester
Consuelo Yznaga
Poniatowski
Elizabeth Sperry
Duchess of Marlborough
Consuelo Vanderbilt
Curzon
Mary Lester
Lister-Kaye
Natica Yznaga
Countess von Pappenheim
Miss Wheeler
Colonna
Eva Julia Mackay Bryant
Mr. Oc
Countess of Strafford
Colgate
Princess Auersperg
Florence Hazard
Thomas Hesketh
Florence Sherron
Arthur Paget
Minnie Stevens
Vivian
Marshall O. Roberts
Countess of Craven
Cornelia Martin
Countess of Donoughmore
Elena Gracey
Baroness de Vriere
Annie Cutting
Douglass Campbell
Miss Lawrence
Marchioness de Breteuil
Lita Garner
Marquise de Choisene
Miss Condert
Princess Engalitcheff
Emily Pardridge
Duchess de Dina
Adelia Sampson
Countess Festities
Ella Haggin
Baroness de Zedlitz
Miss Ehret
Gilbert Thomas Carter
Miss
Florence Garner
Moltke Huitfeldt
Louise Bonaparte
Countess Yarmouth
Miss Thaw
Colin Campbell
Daisy Leiter
Countess of Suffolk
Nannie Leiter
Ouida Dies Penniless in Abject Poverty
Florence Italy Jan 27 Ouida Louise De Laramee novelist died Saturday at Via Reggia in distressing poverty. Her only attendant was an old servant woman who held her as she expired. She was blind in one eye and the other leg severely affected. In recent months she often slept in the open air when unable to pay for lodging.
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Florence
Italy
Colder Than The Coldest Winter Day In New Richmond
New Richmond Wisconsin reports a record cold day with the thermometer at 14 degrees below zero. In California, orange harvest forecasts predict a blockbuster season, with an expected 30 000 carloads or about 25 000 000 boxes. A fatal runaway in Sterling Newfoundland leaves Mrs Charlie Gronis dead and her husband gravely wounded. The Pittsburg stock exchange resumes operations after a three month shutdown amid the market turmoil.
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New Richmond
Wis
California
San Francisco
Cal
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