Paris Flood Worsens As Seine Rises Toward 1615 Record
Paris reports the Seine rising at noon tonight at about one and a quarter inches per hour with heavy rains and falling temperatures. The flood devastates central districts, evacuations spread, and wall construction begins to divert water while hotels fill with evacuees. Italy sees floods recede as Rome basks in improved weather.
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Paris
Seine
Chicago
Buncker
Isle St. Louis
Champs Elysee
Tuilleries
Comedie Francaise
Palace of the Legion ,of Honor
French Institute
Palais de Glace
Place de la Opera
St. Lazare Station
Faubourg
Mont Matre
Rue Berger
Rue de Provence
Rue Dronot
Rue Chateaudon
Italy
Rome
Dick Smith Released to Head Senators in League Moves
New York January 28 President Lynch of the National League announces Brooklyn sends C A Bruce Evans James Hamilton David Kraft W J Prout Charles Swalm and Clyde Webster to Hannibal and St Louis to the Three Eye ringfield team for John catcher and Smith.
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New York
Lynch
National League Today
Brooklyn
Hannibal
C. A
Bruce Evans
James Hamilton
David Kraft
W. J. Prout
Charles Swalm
Clyde Webster
St. Louis
Ringfield
John, Catcher
Smith
Weather forecast and astronomical events brief
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. Lows 20 to 25 F, 7 am temperature 22 F, last 24 hours high 34 F, last 12 hours low 20 F. Wind 4 mph, no precipitation. Humidity 78 percent at 7 pm and 93 percent at 7 am. Sun sets 5:09, rises 7:09, moon rises 8:32 pm. J M Sherier, local forecaster.
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J. M. Sherier
Postal Savings Bank Bill Heads to Senate Committee Report
Washington January 28 The postal savings bank bill was favorably reported by the Senate committee on postoffices and postroads in nearly the subcommittee form. It creates postal savings depositories under a board including the treasury secretary postmaster general and attorney general and sets rules on deposits, limits, and safeguards to keep funds safe at insured rates. The plan limits accounts to one per person ages 10 and up with monthly deposits capped and two percent interest. Election returns are expected as London reports coalition government and opposition tallies.
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Washington
Postal Savings Bank
Senate
Committee On
Washington, D. C
Carter, Dolliver and Owen
Carter
Post Office Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Postal Savings Banks
Congress
United States
Acquittal of Medina and court members in illegal conviction case
In Managua the Mesaya court acquits General Medina and Solomon Selva plus other court martial members of responsibility for the illegal conviction and execution of Grace and Cannon. The decision cites telegrams and instructions signed by Zelaya, while Zelaya himself is not indicted. Elsewhere, a U S gunboat sails north as Nicaragua braces for potential incursions.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Mesaya
General Medina
Solomon Selva
Grace
Medina
Zelaya
San Juan del Sur
Breeches buoy saves 53 on Eden wreck off Dover
Dover reports the British torpedo boat destroyer Eden ran ashore after a gale in the channel. Breeches buoy saved 53 officers and men. damage to the ship was heavy and salvage efforts include removing guns gear and coal. One small boat from the battleship Albemarle capsized but all 14 aboard were rescued.
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Dover
England
Eden
Albemarle
Japanese foreign office backs American neutrality proposal
Tokio January 28. The foreign office issued a statement printed in all Japanese papers confirming the governments satisfaction with Americas neutrality plan for the Manchurian railways. Officials believe the suggestion was made in a friendly spirit intended to benefit Japan. Joplin election defeat of prohibition by 814 votes amid a 6504 total vote. Women and children joined the campaign, singing on streets and serving free lunches at polls.
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Tokio
Foreign Office
Department
Japan
Joplin
Four jurors’ push spurred beef trust probe in 1908
Chicago reports say four members of the federal grand jury that investigated the beef trust in 1908 pressured Judge Landis to start today’s probe. Armour & Co. director George B Robbins testified as the sole witness. Assistant Attorney General Wade Ellis denied government friction.
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Chicago
George B. Robbins
Armour Car Lines
Armour & Co
Federal Grand Jury
Beef Trust
Landis
Wade Ellis
Judge Landis
Wholesale Insurance Fraud Ring Exposed in Louisville
John J. Keane P J Needham and Timothy O Leary arraigned in police court over alleged life insurance frauds amounting to about 200000. Bail set at 5000 each and case continued to February 3. Attorneys say dozen insurers uncovered a conspiracy with physicians certifying for unseen patients and false identities used to obtain policies.
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Louisville
John J. Keane
P. J. Needham
Timothy O'Leary
Keane
Needham
O'Leary
Leader of Black Hand Gets 25 Years
Raefaelo Pisano, leader of the Black Hand society of Brooklyn, was sentenced to 25 years in the penitentiary for attempted murder. Resumes Agricultural Bill. House returns to consider private pension bills amid debate in Washington.
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Black Hand
New York
Raefaelo Pisano
Black Hand Society of
Brooklyn
Washington
House
Cunningham Immune Claim Ties to Coal Land Case
Washington reports show Louis R. Glavis continuing testimony against Secretary Ballinger. He testified the Cunningham claims were ordered cleared for patent within a month after Ballinger directed a thorough Alaska coal case review. A journal entry showed an attorney arrangement for services and title work. House panel favored admitting surface coal lands to entry affecting about 30 million acres across multiple Western states. In Seattle, a federal judge ruled that 1,924 coal lands in Lewis county revert to the government, linking to Gravis testimony. litigation spans 11 years.
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Washington
Louis R. Glavis
Ballinger
Congressional Investigating Committee
Gravis
The
Land Office
Cunningham
Clarence Cunningham
Wallace
Idaho
W. B. Heyburn
House Committee On Public Lands
United States
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
New Mexico
North Dakota
Oregon
SEES SCHEME TO SECURE REBATES
Washington dispatch reports the Interstate Commerce Commission rejected Armour car lines demand for reparations against Southern Pacific over ice shipments from Los Angeles to Yuma. The ICC said granting the request would invite the grossest form of favoritism and rebating.
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Washington
Armour Car Lines
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern Pacific
Los Angeles
Cal
Yuma
Ariz
Australian strike leaders jailed for obstructing work
Sydney January 28 President Bowling of the Northern Miners Federation was convicted of obstructing work during the strike and sentenced to one year at hard labor. Three other strike leaders received eight months each at hard labor, with several miners also condemned to shorter terms.
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Sydney
Bowling
Northern Miners’ Federation
Democrats Form League in New York State
The Democratic League of the State of New York organized its general committee in Albany with no plan to boost any candidate. Thomas M. Osborne of Auburn was elected president. In New York, Sten Drewsen noted Captain Otto Sverdrup may interview Eskimos who allegedly joined Cook after his Arctic return.
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New York
Albany
Democratic League of the
State of New York
Thomas M. Osborne
Auburn
Sten Drewsen
Copenhagen
Dr. Cook
Otto Sverdrup
Boycott Fails to Affect Business Progress in New York
New York Jan 28 dispatches to Dans Review indicate hesitation in a few lines of trade yet the industrial situation shows steady progress with business activity continuing despite the boycott.
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New York
Dan
Work of Day in Congress Washington Jan 28
Senate received and referred the postal savings bank bill. A bill for the disposition of Indian lands in South Dakota by Inez passed after Gore and Burkett bitterly assailed the system. Adjournment at 3 04. House saw animated debate on the agricultural appropriation bill. Boutell supported the Payne tariff law. Adjournment at 5 12.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
South Dakota
Inez
Gore
Burkett
HOUSE
Boutell
Christy Awarded Custody of Girl
Zanesville Ohio January 28 Prebate Judge Smith issues ruling in Christy case awarding daughter Natalie to her father.
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Christy
Zanesville
Ohio
Smith
Natalie
Taft seeks party unity to aid 1912 goals amid state struggles
Washington reports Taft planning a series of conferences with doubtful states to heal Republican rifts and back his legislative agenda. He has met Beveridge Barnard Crumpacker Hemenway Watson and Ohio South Dakota delegations and aims to keep Republicans dominant in Congress. Meanwhile other reports note farmers in Vernon county abstaining from sales to protest packing-house prices and Boston seeing meat prices fall as beef shipments to Europe rise. James J. Hill argues the housewife drives half the cost of living and cautions against national extravagance.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Beveridge
William O. Barnard
Edgar D. Crumpacker
Indiana
Hemenway
Watson
Ohio
South Dakota
Congress
New York
Republican Organization
Wheels In Motion
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Commonwealths
Tafy
Harmon
Nevada
Vernon County
United States
Boston
Europe
England
Kently
James J. Hill
Mr. Hill
America backs up Paves way for settlement of tariff trouble
United States decisions waive the German cattle boycott in tariff talks to keep Germany free from the Payne Aldrich duties after March 31. A Berlin-Washington cable notes the stance, hinting at a settlement of tariff relations. A German ambassador meeting with the tariff board followed.
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Washington
United States
Germany
Worl
Count von Bernstorff
Tariff Board
Treason to Union Said at Lewis Door
Francis Feehan of the Western Pennsylvania district of the United Mine Workers criticized National President Lewis in Indianapolis stressing miners’ wage losses after Lewis reportedly called off the Pittsburg district strike without national approval. He condemned the action as sacrificing 15,000 miners' interests.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Lewis
Pittsburg
Francis Feehan
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers
Feehan
Committee On Officers
Nation’s Hair Is Pulled In Dance Hall Clash At Butte
Carrie Nation, famed crusader, clashed with May Maloy keeper of a dance hall in Butte Montana. Maloy tore Nation’s bonnet and hair, Nation fought back with a blow to Maloy's jaw as a large crowd watched and then interceded. A second item reports Beach Hargis to receive a life term for murdering his father Judge James Hargis in Breathitt County Kentucky.
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Butte
Mont
Carrie Nation
May Maloy
Hargis
Lexington
Beach Hargis
James Hargis
Breathitt County
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Heated hearing on postal rates erupts with sharp words
Washington January 23 The hearing on increasing postal rates for magazines grew heated as publishers and committeemen exchanged charges of graft robbers and treason in a tense session during a hearing on postal rate changes.
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Washington
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