Charges Heard At United Mine Workers Convention
Miss Mollie Meredith testified at the Indianapolis convention accusing President Mitchell and Secretary Wilson of covering up for former treasurer Pearce. The charges claim Pearce forged bills, received extra money, and that Mitchell tolerated Pearce’s conduct. Wilson denied the allegations as spiteful while Meredith read her statements.
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Indianapolis
Mitchell
Wilson
United Mine Workers of America
Mollie Meredith
Mr. Wilson
William D. van Horn
Indiana
Meredith
Romeone
van Horn
Miss Meredith
Mollie
Miss Méredith
Ipist
Pearce
Aetm
Mitehon
Miss Mereith
Jen Bickelene
Wil‘son
Henry
Taft reports hopeful Philippine pacification progress
San Francisco Jan 22 W H Taft civil governor says insurrection is confined to Batangas and Samar with operations spreading to Tayabas and Laguna Cebu and Bohol have settled. Native police under civil government are successful. He plans to report to the secretary of war and return to the East after rest. He warns of robbers hindering peace and praises Wheaton's work.
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San Francisco
W. H. Taft
Philippine Islands
Taft
Batangas
Samar
Tayabas
Laguna
Wheaton
Cebu
Bohol
Cincinnati
Washington
United States
Philippines
Tragic Lame Deer Indian Family Chooses Self-Destruction
A Cheyenne tragedy near Lame Deer involves the killing of Bullard, an Indian policeman, after a conflict over a pony. Family council leads to mass death as the elder son shoots his father and brother before killing himself. a visiting Cheyenne elder’s counsel averted wider unrest at the funeral. An earlier note reports an enormous landslide near Juneau, British Columbia, widening local alarm.
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Kirby
Mon
Bullard
White
Oklahoma
Sibley Opposes Western Arid Lands Irrigation Plan in House
In Washington on January 22 the House moved to general debate on the urgent deficiency appropriation bill. Mr. Sibley Pa opposed immediate irrigation of arid Western lands, arguing it would cost untold millions funded by taxation and worsen land values elsewhere. Mr. Newlands Nev. countered that the bill would use proceeds from arid land sales to fund reclamation without public treasury charges.
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Sibley
Pennsylvania
Washington
Ma-Newlands
Senate hears hook on arid lands reclamation bill
Introduced by Henry Hansbrough to the Senate on January 22 the measure for reclaiming arid lands was described as a unanimous agreement among senators and representatives from 13 states and 2 territories. A request for full information on the last See Service was discussed and the Philippine revenue bill was taken up with Mr. Lodge speaking in support.
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Washington
Senate
Hansbrough
N. D
Congress
Dtaton
Mitchell (Or
Secretary of War
United States
Lodge
Iowa Legislature Re-elects Republican U.S. Senators
In Des Moines at 2 p.m. the Iowa Senate and House voted to reelect both Republican U.S. senators for a second term. The event marks another reappointment by the state legislature.
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Iowa
Des Moines
United States
Immigrant Bill Hearings Hear Gompers and Opponents
The Senate immigration committee heard witnesses on Chinese exclusion with Samuel Gompers outlining AFL aims for a Mitchell bill continuation. John Foord urged postponement and better China relations, while Charles Hamlin backed the Boston Chamber of Commerce Proctor bill to extend the present ban until the 1904 treaty expires.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Immigration
Samuel Gompers
Federation of Labor
Pacific Coast
Congress
John Foord
The
Asiatic Association
China
United States
Charles B. Hamlin
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Temperature of the Sun Measured by Professor Wilson
London reports Professor Charles Wilson to the Royal Society has announced a new determination of the sun's temperature. The value placed at 3 008 28 degrees B add 49 degrees B. The result comes with an allowance for minor errors. Calculations began nearly a decade ago.
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Charles Wilson
Royal Society
London
Chicago Inter Ocean
Profesade Wilcon
Bis
Roosevelt and Theodore Outpace Secret Service on Sunday Walk
President Roosevelt and his son Theodore walked seven miles from the White House to Cabin John Bridge and back, leaving a Secret Service officer to shadow them but soon exhausting the guard who had to rest near Chain Bridge before the pair returned after dark. The officer later filed his report, noting he did not know if an electric car was used.
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Secret Service
Roosevelt
Theodore
Washington
New York Tribune
White House
Cabin John Bridge
Montgomery County
Potomac River
Chain Bridge
Banks of
Potomac
Georgetown
Revolution settles after Lautaro conflict in Panama
General Herrera informed Captain Mead of the cruiser Philadelphia that he halted the government's use of the Lautaro against Liberals and then retired. The revolutionists reported 17 wounded in Monday's engagement, with five government troops killed and four wounded. exact fatalities uncertain.
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Panama
Colombia
General Herrera
Mead
Philadelphia
Otis eyes world fair newspaper syndicate plan
General Harrison Gray Otis editor of the Los Angeles Times is in St. Louis proposing a monster newspaper plant for the World’s Fair. He would unite leading dailies to print a special edition materialized at the expo grounds with central printing and distribution, including “Los Angeles Times day” and “St. Louis Globe-Democrat day.” An interview with the Chicago Record-Herald outlines the project and its logistics.
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Jcheme
Los Angeles
Harrison Gray Otis
Cal) Times
St. Louis
Otis
Chicago Record- Herald
Exposition Grounds
Los Angeles Times
St. Loui Republic
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Chicago
New York
London
Paris
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Guthrie
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Mina
Gino
Wally
Juneau
Vancouver
B.C
Bridex
SES Irrigation
Allison and Bolliven
Violeta Pot
Canadian Woman's Historical Society
Daughters of the Eixpire
SION
MR. Gompers
Organized Labor
Pacifica Coast
Representa
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Alphonso
Gwendolyn
Brooklyn
H.D. Warner
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