Assassination Shocks Finland as Senator Is Slain
Warsaw and St Petersburg report a wave of unrest with strikes and factory actions. In Helsinki the Finnish senator and procurator general Senator Soininen was assassinated in his residence by a gunman disguised as an army officer. The boyish son of Solininen fired back, wounding the attacker before capture. The assassin is hospitalized and unnamed.
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Warsaw
St. Petersburg
Lessener
Tropoli
Helsingsfors
Finland
Soini
Solainen
Bothinen
Senate
Auchy
Bobrikoff
Assassin Identified in Finland Procurator General Death
The assassin of Solsalon Soininen, Finland’s procurator general, is identified as Karl Leonard Hohenthal, a former Imperial Alexander University student. He returned to Finland Jan 18 from Stockholm, is silent under interrogation, and investigation is led by Senator Akerman. Wounds on the assassin were not dangerous.
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Soininen
Helsingfors
Finland
Solsalon Soininen
Karl Lenard Hohenthal
Imperial Alexander University
Hohenthal
Stockholm
Akerman
Comerford Expelled From Illinois Legislature
Springfield Feb 3 Frank D Comerford a representative from Cook County was expelled from the Illinois House after a committee found his corruption charges unfounded The action followed a long investigation and the expulsion marked the climax of the affair WANTS PLATT EXPELLED Post alleges conspiracy involving Express Company to fix rates in New York Washington Feb 9 O W Post of Battle Creek Mich joined with Senate President Pro Temp Frye in petitioning for Senator Thomas C Platt s expulsion over alleged participation in a conspiracy to maintain death rates among express company shipments Russians Gain Small Advantages Petersburg Feb 7 Telegraph reports General Propatkin says a Russian detachment captured Bantaltse while the Japanese were repulsed along the line at Chuanchuantsi The report notes Russian losses were light and calls the Japanese offensives weak The entry reads as minor fiction without stronger corroboration
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Frank D. Comerford
Cook
Forty-fourth General Assembly
House of Assembly
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Linola Legislatura
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Platt
Post
Washington
O. W. Post
Battle Creek
Mich
Frye
Senate
Thomas C. Platt
United States Express Company
Express
Petersburg
Propatkin
Bantaltse
Elbonbay
Santaitee
Sondameng
Chuanchuantsi
Admiral 060 Rejoins Fleet Amid War News
Reports detail Admiral Togo’s arrival at Kure and flag salute on Mikasa, while preparations in Odessa for General Stoessel’s reception unfold. British steamer Hastry captured en route to Vladivostok, and Russian shelling along Japanese lines is reported with entrenched movements toward Wanchlaynantzu and nearby areas.
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Hastry
Vladivostok
Holkkaide Yeaterday
Yoko-suka
Bantry Ig
Furness
Imperial Steamship Company
Hmited
West Hartlepool
W. T. Horsfield
Wanchlaynantzu
Litajentun
Chenchieha
Rate Bill Passes House in Esch Townsend Vote
Washington reports the Esch Townsend freight rate regulation bill passed the House 826 to 17 after four days of debate. Republicans Adams Cast Huff Porter Bley Southwick Vreeland and Democrats Harrison McDermott Rider Scudder Goulden Shultz voted no. Chicago notes the Iroquois theater manslaughter indictment against manager Davia was quashed. Roosevelt signed a bill authorizing a dam on the Keokuk site. Humorous clippings follow from the Houston Chronicle New Orleans Pleaune Detroit Free Press and Puck.
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House
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Mississippi
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Rider
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Goulden
Shult
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Green
Peoria
Kersten
Davis
Supreme Court
Sibley
William J. Bryan
Roosevelt
Mate
Vone Eresa
Bryan
Democratic Party
Sreston
Senate
Roosevelt urged to seek mediation end to war
Inter-Parliamentary union officials urged President Roosevelt to act to end the Russo Japanese war. Dr Bartholdt told the president that European lawmakers and others view him as the likely mediator, with the emperor of Germany as a distant possibility, though Russia rejects mediation. Roosevelt promised to consider the matter with Secretary Hay.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Inter-Parliamentary Union
Representat
Russia
Dr. Bartholdi
Bartholdt
Hay
Voices in Italian chamber urge end to butchery
In Rome on February 10 Signor Secci urged an end to hostilities in the Far East saying the world longs for liberty and humanity. The chamber president praised the sentiment with applause from deputies and tribunes, while no peace signs were reported by Berlin officials.
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Rome
Slenor Secci
Republican
Japan
Russia
Humanity
Brotherhood of Peoples
Chaimber Sali
Signor Sacci
Berlin
Foreign Office
Far East
Associated Press
King Oscar to Rest as Crown Prince Awaits
Stockholm reports King Oscar, 76, is indisposed and cannot conduct state business. He transferred governance to Crown Prince Gustaf until further notice, recalling a prior abdication in 1799 and reassertion of power in 1801. In San Francisco, a Minneapolis lumberman’s casket containing $8,000 in jewelry vanished en route to the railroad. police have no clues yet.
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Stockholm
Oscar
Council of State
Gustaf
Sweden
Norway
San Francisco
Cal
E. M. Holtrok
Minneapolis
Cleveland
Hollerbook
Gustave
Oklahoma and New Mexico Statehood Vote Passes
Senate approves a joint statehood bill creating Oklahoma from Oklahoma and Indian Territory and New Mexico as a state while Arizona is eliminated. Amendments on liquor restrictions and state division were debated. final vote establishes New Mexico and Oklahoma Indian Territory combination as one state each.
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Indian Territory
Arizona
New Mexico
Washington
Senate
Committee On Territories
Gallinger
Woraker
Bard
Patterson
Oneveridge
Damara Founders In North Atlantic Storm
The Damara of the Furness line ran aground at Musmadobalt thirty miles east of Halifax during a fierce gale. Eighteen crew members aboard life boats reached Pleasant Point after a harrowing struggle with wind and sea. Captain Gorst and several others, including four passengers, are missing and feared dead.
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Damara
Nova Scotia
Halifax
Furness Line
Musmadobalt
Pleasant Point
Gorst
Muaster
Dynamite Blast at Michigan Mine Kills and Injures
Ten thousand pounds of dynamite exploded in the Osceola Consolidated mine at Calumet Michigan injuring many workers. Three men unaccounted for and one supervisor William Polmitt Jr is believed killed with parts of him scattered. The blast’s force was felt for miles and the cause remains a mystery.
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Michigan
Calumet
Mich
North Kear
Fargo
Osceyla Consolidated
William Pol Mtt, Jr
Trolly Rushes Down Hill in Portland Chaos
An unknown man is dead and ten persons injured after a runaway streetcar veered on a grade near East Twenty eighth and Glisan in Portland. The car jumped a curve, wrecked, and passengers were extricated with great difficulty as the vehicle was nearly chopped to pieces. A curios exhibit titled a drinker in clogs draws attention in London.
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Ore
Saret East Twenty-eighth
Glisan
Strikes Renewed At Russian Capital In St. Petersburg
Strikes at the Putii of Iron works and the St. Petersburg car factory trigger fears of a broader reign of terror, though employers signal a conciliatory stance. The dispute centers on pay for strike-time and the eight hour day, with plans likely to yield a nine hour day amid anticipated nationwide eight hour legislation. Six government factories and thirteen private firms run fifty seven hours or less weekly, while twenty eight larger enterprises exceed that figure. Settlement of strike-time allowances remains unsettled.
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St. Petersburg
Putii of Iron Works
Russia
Farge
Chicago Market Report Mix of Produce and Livestock
The latest cash market reports detail Chicago produce with items from Rutter-Creamery and others, listing prices for butter, cheese, eggs, and various vegetables. Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan evidence prices for potatoes onions and carrots, plus grain quotes and live stock figures for cattle hogs and lambs. King Oscar abdicates in Stockholm and Berea College case updates note a judge upholding a Day bill on racial mixing.
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Commando Fanry
Babys Die After Dance Riot at Yorkville Home
A bullet from a revolver during a dance at Alonzo Sizemore and wife near Yorkville, Cassville Wisconsin, killed their 8 month old baby instantly. The incident occurred February 6 during a row at the hosts home.
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Cassville
Wis
Alonzo Sizemore
Yorkville
Sizemores
Leiter Mines Are Sold in Zeigler Deal
Duquoin February 9 A rumor says Joseph Leiter has sold his gunite holdings at Zeigler. The report claims the deal includes the mine and several thousand acres of coal lands adjoining.
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Leiter
Duquoin
Joseph Leiter
Guntire
Zeigler
Congress Recites Bills From Feb Quick Session
Washington reports sweep of House and Senate actions with tariff talks on Philippine products free for export to the United States and bans against certain duties. Impeachment responses, statehood debates for Oklahoma and Indian Territory, and railroad rate regulation are noted amid mixed party votes and speeches.
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Philippine Islands
United States
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Foraker
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Freeland
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