Rule of the Manchus Ended and Abdication Reported
The imperial foreign board says the empress dowager informed the cabinet that abdication will be immediate to secure peace. The throne may abdicate, with pensions provided, and the court may reside as arranged. A private edict and reports from London note abdication could occur, while stories from Paris claim wooden bullets were used in China.
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Peking
Imperial Foreign Board
Dowageer
Nanking
London
China
Beresford Book Bares Inside of the Navy
London reports Admiral Beresford’s The Betrayal in abridged form asserting the British admiralty betrayed trust by building dreadnought battleships to mislead and distract from real naval needs. The text condemns lavish ads, claims diplomacy fell, and warns that battleships diverted funds from essential ships and stores.
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Beresford
London
Lord Charities Beresford
Charles
Great Britain
Admiralty
Bomb attack kills eight police in Constantinople raid
A bomb exploded among a police detachment at Radovisht in Constantinople last night, killing eight officers and wounding nine others. The bombing, described as a targeted attack, prompted a manhunt and heightened security in the area.
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Constantinople
Radovisht
Weather forecast for Rock Island area
Unsettled weather tonight and Thursday with a warmer trend. Tonight's low near 25 degrees. 7 am temperature 9, high yesterday 24, low last night 9. Wind 6 mph. Precipitation none. Humidity 93 percent at 7 am. Astronomical events include sun set 5 16, rise 7 10, Moon sets 6 30 am. J M Sherier local forecaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Martial Law in Lisbon as General Strike Paralyzes City
Martial law proclaimed in Lisbon with General Carvalhaca named military governor. Over 1,900 agitators arrested as 8,000 soldiers patrol streets and guard railways. Protests banned. indoor curfew enforced after signal. Streetcar service halted amid bombings and strike turmoil across industries.
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Lisbon
Girike
Evora
Boss Kuehnle Sentenced. Atlantic City Officials Gripped
Atlantic City banker Louis Kuehnle, long ruling the city and county, faces one year of hard labor after a contract manipulation verdict. About 40 officials await arraignment as banks and prominent residents pressured endorsements for clemency, while editors and reform leaders signed a petition.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Atlantic City Review
Boss Tweed
New York
Boss Reuf
San Meee
Louis Kuehnle
Kuehnle
Supreme Court
Supreme
Kalisch
Kuebnle
City Water Board
Deaths In A Day In Milwaukee Michigan Politician Ed ward Ryan
Edward Ryan a prominent politician and financier from the northern Michigan peninsula died in Milwaukee He served as director of national banks in Hancock and Calumet and was a delegate at large from Michigan to the 1908 Democratic National Convention.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Edward Ryan
Michigan Peninsula
Hancock
Calumet
Michigan
Conferences called to give aid to negro uplift play in April at Tuskegee
Fifteen missionary societies and seven foreign countries will attend the international conference on the negro at Tuskegee Institute April 17 to 19. Delegations from eight Negro Africa states Jamaica Porto Rico the Danish West Indies and other West Indian groups join Venezuela Liberia and India among others. Booker T Washington aims to transplant Tuskegee methods abroad. Cardinal OConnell greeted upon return from Rome in Boston.
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Tuskegee, Ala
Tuskegee Institute
Jamaica
Porto Rico
Danish West Indies
Samuel D. Bowden
Ongole Gunta
India
F. E. R. Johnston
Monrovia
Liberia
G. Harmon
Isaiah Goda Sishuba
Ethiopian Church
Queenstown
South Africa
Henery Reid
Johannesburg
William C. Terril
Inhambane
Methodist Episcopal Church
Portugese East Africa
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee
Auto ownership rise shown in federal census figures
Federal census data reveal 677000 motor vehicles in use in the United States at the end of 1911. New York led with 84000 cars, California 59202, New Jersey 48266, Ohio 45739, and Pennsylvania 44182. Revenue from licenses varied, with New York at 882975 and Illinois blame noted for possible overcount. Utah reported 1807 cars yielding 986 in revenue. The report also notes rising motor truck registrations at 25451.
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Uncle Sam
United States
Federal Census Bureau
New York
California
New Jersey
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Illinois
Indiana
Ilinois
Utah
Automobile Report
Wagons valued at about 55.99 million dollars in total
The total value of wagons reached roughly 55 992 000 dollars with an average value of 2200 dollars per wagon.
Pearl Button Industry Founder Passes
John F. Boeppel founder of the fresh water pearl button industry died at a Muscatine hospital after months of brain softening. He came from Germany seeking fortune and for the last two years was with the government biological station at Fairport. He had been a prominent local manufacturer in earlier years.
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Muscatine
Iowa
John F. Boeppel
Boeppel
Germany
Fairport
Fire causes four hundred thousand dollar loss in Sioux City
Sioux City Iowa January 31 today’s estimate of the loss by fire which last night destroyed the Mondaman hotel block places the total at 400000. The insurance is 200000. Scientist Reading Room Moved. The Christian Science reading room has been removed from the church edifice on Twenty third street to room S12 on the third floor of the People’s National bank building. This room is open every weekday from 2 to 5 pm and the public is cordially invited to call and avail itself of the privilege of this room.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Mondaman
Christian Science Reading Room
Twenty-third Street
People’s National Bank
Zapatistas Lose Heavy Toll Near Cuernavaca
In Cuernavaca Mexico on January 31 thirty Zapatistas were killed and nine federal soldiers wounded in a battle six miles north of the city. The Zapatistas were routed as federal forces suffered 22 killed and five missing over the week. The Zapatistas lost over 200 men in the week of fighting.
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Cuernavaca
Mexico
Zapatistag
Franklin 10 Tell All in Darrow Gase
Los Angeles January 31 reports indicate Bert H Franklin former chief of detectives for the McNamara defense may be the principal witness against Clarence Darrow in the jury bribery case. Franklin asserts he will tell the truth if summoned while denying any immunity agreement with the district attorney. The assistant district attorney says no comment and no grand jury resumption is planned soon. Other dispatches note Chicago figures praising Darrow and Japanese fishing concessions in Mexico and a new Des Moines diocese approved by the pope.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Bert H. Franklin
McNamara
Clarence 8. Darrow
Darrow
Franklin
William J. Burns
Clarence Darrow
McNamaras
Bert Franklin
Robert Bain
George N. Lockwood
Veniceman
Grand Jury
W. Joseph Ford
Ford
Franklin R. Willis
Willis
John D. Fredericks
San Francisco
San Francisco Bulletin
Busse
Richard S. Tuthill
John Barton Payne
Kickham Scanlan
Chicago
Clarence S. Darrow
Senate probe may review Du Pont reelection methods
Charges filed before the Senate Judiciary Committee against Cornelius P. Swain former United States marshal for Delaware, Du Pont ally and campaign manager, may trigger a Senate investigation into the methods used to secure Du Pont reelection.
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WA DU Pont
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Cornelius P. Swain
United States
Delaware
Senate
du Pont
Swain
Taft Assured Ohio Delegation Heads to Akron
Columbus notes President Taft will address the Akron chamber of commerce and that Ohio National Committeeman Vorys says the state delegation is assured for Taft at the national convention. Taft spoke to Ohio Republican editors about victory next November before leaving for Akron.
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Columbus
Ohio
Taft
Akron
Chamber of Commerce
Vorys
Chicago
Roosevelt National Committee
Illinois
Roosevelt
Riverside
Cal
Benjamin Ide Wheeler
University of California
Columbia
S. C
Henry Watterson
Wilson
Harvey
Mrs J W Cheney Sees End of Drug Habit
Mrs John Vance Cheney, head of the Womens International League of Right Thinking and Right Living, claims a London cure for drunkenness and drug addiction. She says 15 men and 10 women treated there did not relapse, and cites an Englishman who reportedly cured 2,700 people. She predicts the drug habit will disappear as awareness grows.
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J. W. Cheney
New York
John, Vance Cheney
Woman’s International League of Right Thinking and Right Living
Europe
London
Bill to Acquire Rail and Telegraph Plants
Washington reports Representative Berger introduced a bill to have the government acquire railroad, telegraph, telephone and express properties. In San Francisco Colonel Green rejects 126 marriage proposals and vows not to marry. Kentucky passes anti tipping bill with fines from ten to twenty dollars for both tippers and those tipped. A pistol duel in a hotel lobby in Athens leaves four wounds to a Kentucky horseman.
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Washington
Berger
Kentucky
Louisville
Kentucky House of Representatives
Athens
H. H. Fullllive
C. L. McKee
Sheltonville
Ysterday
Lorimer Case Turmoil After Burns and Hanecy Exchange
Washington January 31 Senator Lorimer inquiry resumes with William Kennally questioned about 1909 loan funds from his father’s estate. Detective William Burns testifies he aided the McGowan matter and later worked for the Chicago Tribune. Strong exchange erupts as Burns and Hanecy clash. chairman calls break.
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Washington
Lorimer
William A. Kennaly
Illinois
Kennally
William J. Burns
Chicago Tribune
Burns
Charles McGowan
Hanecy
Priest Training His Flock for Matrimony
Kansas City January 31 Father W J Dalton pastor of the Church of the Annunciation Linwood and Benton boulevards conducts a matrimonial class openly and frankly His object is to marry the young people of his congregation to each other He has 50 couples in training He called the young people together about a month ago and told them what was what He said any man age 23 or 24 earning 65 dollars a month should take a wife and any girl 18 or 19 should take a husband He formed the society then and there and all present were enrolled as members He is delivering weekly lectures on matrimony buying furniture cooking saving money rearing children and courting
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Kansas City
W. J. Dalton
Church of the Annunciation
Linwood
Benton Boulevards
Miners Crushed in 200 Foot Cage Fall Near Danville
A cage loaded with eight miners plunged 200 feet in a coal mine six miles west of Danville Illinois. Eight injured, four seriously. D Schomans and Frank Dusbreux feared dead. Joe Batnovish and Camille Ferrier also seriously hurt.
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Danville
D. Schomans
Frank Dustreux
Joe Batnovish
Camille Ferrier
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Hetty Green
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