Indicted Governor Haskell Faces Seven Federal Indictments
Muskogee Oklahoma February 6 mass meeting 60 leading business men presided by Mayor Martin to express confidence in indicted officials and form a committee to correct impressions about Muskogee land titles. Indictments allege numerous overt acts in conspiracies to defraud the government involving Governor Charles N Haskell Clarence Turner Walter Eaton William Hutchins and others with 47 13 and 92 alleged acts across three counts. The case has caused statewide astonishment as telegrams of loyalty pour in.
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Muskogee
Okla
Martin
Oklahoma
Charles N. Haskell
Clarence W. Turner
Walter R. Eaton
Wiliam T. Hutchins
Albert
English
Frederick H. Severs
Jesse W. Fill
Race Question Discussed in Missouri House Debate
In Jefferson City on February 6 the Missouri lower house debated race issues as it moved to discharge most black employees. A party line vote of 61 to 52 referred the resolution to the clerical force committee after the measure, sparked by an alleged insult to a white senate employee, drew wide discussion on race and equality.
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Missouri
Jefferson City
General Assembly
House
Senate
Jesse J. Duncan
Hiram Lloyd
St. Louis
Skating Champs to Highlight New York Meet Tonight
In the St Nicholas rink New York tonight the nation’s top amateur skaters collide in half mile and one mile international championships and a special one mile handicap race. Entrants include amateur champion Edmund Lamy Tot Roe Fred Robson O Bush Clarence Granger Phil Kearney Anderson head of Chicago Fisher Milwaukee Abboth and many others from across North America.
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New York
St. Nicholas
Edmund Lamy
Tot Roe
Fred Robson
Canada
O. Bush
Montreal
North America
Clarence Granger
Phil Kearney
Anderson
Head
Chicago
Fisher
Milwaukee
Abboth
Duluth
Hepburn Jamieson Race Shrugging Early Lead
Five Hepburn Jamieson precincts counted in Des Moines show Jamieson leading Hepburn by a net three votes after 16 to 13 gains. Official totals favor Jamieson 358 to Hepburn with counting continuing for days. Praying Boy death in Scranton features twelve year old Elmer Shrader found hanging by rope from a neighbor’s porch rafter. no cause given.
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Des Moines
Hepburn-Jamieyon
Congress
Hepburn
Jamieson
Scranton
Elmer Shrader
George Shrader
Chicago Stock Broker Ended Life in Lake Forest Hospital
Bland Ballard, a Chicago stock broker and amateur golf player, died by his own hand at a Lake Forest hospital. The death followed a phone report claiming no illness and no known cause for the act. Ballard was a well known local figure.
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Chicago
Ende Life
Bland Ballard
Lake Forest
Roosevelt secrecy request on war deficiency fund report
President Roosevelt sought confidential handling of the treasury reply to the Foraker resolution detailing expenditures from the 1809 war deficiency fund. Senators reviewing the document say its publication would not harm diplomacy, calling the fund a financial junk heap due to junkets and entertainment payments for foreign military visitors.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Secretary of the Treasury
Foraker
Senate
Committee On Military Affairs
Treasury
Wadsworth Opposes Hughes Direct Nomination Plan
Albany February 6 It falls to Speaker James W Wadsworth Jr to lead Republican state leaders against Governor Hughes direct nomination plan He warns it would be impracticable expensive and subvert republican government He argues it would politicize the judiciary and enable designing politicians to control party nominations with a plurality rather than a majority.
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Albany
N. Y
Hughes
James W. Wadsworth, Jr
New York Assembly
New York State Lumbermen's Association
Brenad
Mine Workers Elect Officers in Gianapolia Ballot
In Gianapolia on February 6 the second ballot of the United Mine Workers convention elected E. S. McCullough of Bay City Michigan as vice president over J T Dempsey of Scranton Pennsylvania with 1462 to 1110 votes. Edwin Perry of Oskaloosa Iowa won the secretary treasurer post with 1213 votes, defeating John Fahy of Pottsville Pennsylvania who had 1097 votes.
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Gianapolia
United Mine Workers
McCullough
Bay City
Mich
J.T. Dompsey
Scranton
Dempsey
Edwin Perry
Oskalonna
Court drops charges against Rhodes brothers in mail fraud case
In Chicago United States District Judge Landis rejected the indictment against Edward Birch and Thomas Rhodes and their brother for using the mails to defraud. The defense contended the fraud allegations lacked basis and the judge agreed, dismissing the case. Meanwhile in Danville township, commissioners Talbert Burrow Boswell and road foreman Lioya face indictments for malfeasance in office and embezzlement tied to a $29,000 shortage.
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Chicago
Feo
Rhodes Brothers
Edward
Birch
Thomas
United States District
Landis
Danville
John C. Talbert
John F. Burrow
George W. Boswell
Daniel W. Lioya
Danville Township
Senate probe of big steel merger contested by senate panel
Washington Feb 5 The special committee of the senate judiciary investigates the Tennessee Coal and Iron absorption by United States Steel. It finds no solid basis for Roosevelt’s approval or for forbidding the merger. Bankers testify they knew details but yield no decisive evidence supporting executive action. Some members suggest Roosevelt should have advised Gary and Frick to seek legal counsel. Several lawyers say financiers who gained control were squeezed in Oct-Nov 1907 amid panic. Senator Culberson argues stocks were driven by Morgan bank interests.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Tennessee
United States Steel Corporation
Senate
Steel Corporation
Roosevelt
Gary
Frick
Fiinanciers
Culberson
Morgan Banks
Murder in Minneapolis warms boarding house case
Minneapolis police investigated the murder of Mark Mates a 24 year old Slavonian found dead on a boarding house porch. A bloody trail from his room to the porch was found along with a bloodied poker, bucket of bloody water and blood stained clothes. John Baen, his roommate, is being sought after a quarrel over missed work at a local grain elevator.
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Minneapolis
Mark Mates
Andrew Ocak
Ocak
Mates
John Baen
Focal
Baen
Taft urges canal workers over false reports in Panama
President Taft told a large gathering of canal employees and Isthmian Red Cross members not to worry about lying reports and criticisms from irresponsible writers in the United States. He said Congress would provide ample appropriations to complete the canal by 1915 and noted the nine miles of the Culebra cut viewed from the Empire hills as his party engineers toured the Pacific entrance.
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Panama
William HH. Taft
Isthmian Red Cross Society
United States
Congress
Taft
Culebra
Empire
Pacific
Canal
Irish-American Athletic Club Meet at Madison Square Garden
New York reports the Irish-American Athletic club holds its annual winter games at Madison Square Garden tonight with top American athletes competing for five prizes. Six leading suspended and reinstated stars Colon Sheppard Gellars Bacon Henday Lee and Porter reunite for the first time since their reinstatement.
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New York
Colon
Sheppard
Gellars
Bacon
Henday
Lee
Porter
Anti Racing Bill Upheld At Suburban Track Verdict
New Orleans February 3 Mark Haasberg was found guilty of violating the Locke anti-racing law at the Suburban racetrack on January 22. Judge Prentice Harrington of Jefferson Parish district court imposed a $350 fine and seven months in parish prison.
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New Orleans
Mark Haasberg
Locke
Parish
Chinese official Chen Pi removed amid corruption charges
Peking reports Shen Pi head of board of communications and three under secretaries dismissed in disgrace. Chen Pi impeached over graft as government fails to float a $5,000,000 domestic loan to satisfy National Telegraph shareholders. He sought international banks for funds. removal follows Yuan Shikai’s, earlier, dismissal after the emperor and empress dowager died. Chen Pi, metropolitan graduate of 1877, formerly governed Peking since 1901.
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Peking
Shen Pi
Board of Communications
Chen Pi
Board, of Communications
China
Yuan Shi Kil
Grand Council
Pekteg
Hammerstein Sues New York Press For Libel Damages
Oscar Hammerstein, manager of the Manhattan Opera House, filed two libel suits seeking damages totaling $200,000 through his attorneys Delmas Towne and Spellman. The actions target the New York Press and John A. Hennessey, managing editor, alleging defamatory statements in an article about Hammerstein.
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Oscar Hammerstein
New York Press
New York
Manhattan Opera House
Delmas, Towne and Spellman
John A. Hen
Crees Nation land case challenged as trustee fraud
In a St Louis report from February 4 the Crees Nation dispute centers on land held in Okbinespa. Officials say the government acted as trustee but was thwarted by fraud, leading to claims the Crees lost areas through illicit deals and that prosecutions were pushed by certain figures, denying any link to William R Hearst.
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St. Louis
Ty. Mott
Okbinespa
India
Haskell
Willam R. Hearst
Ied
Oil Trust Cases Discussed by U S Attorneys in Washington
District Attorney Sims of Chicago and Janes N Wilkerson of the same city visited Washington to confer with Attorney General Bonpartau Kellogg and special counsel about aspects of the action pending against the large oil combine.
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Washington
Sims
Chicago
Janes N. Wilkerson
Whites House
Bonaparteau Frank B. Kellogg
May Override President's Veto
An effort is planned in the House to pass the census bill over the president's veto based on the latest plans of party leaders. The veto override vote is not expected to occur for several days as discussions continue.
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Washington
Feb. S
House
German Floods Wreak Havoc Across Regions
Berlin reports a serious flood crisis from heavy rains and melted snow. The Elbe Main and Oder rise while villages are cut off. Cologne river police deploy steamers for aid. Wiesbaden exhibition hall destroyed by a Rhine valley hurricane. Dresden bridge scaffolding damaged by floodwaters.
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Berlin
Germany
Frankforten-the-Main
Rhine
Wiesbaden
Cologne
Elbe
Main
Oder
Fee
Dresden
Mulde
Dessau
Guild Condemns Railroad Trolley Law Violations
Boston article recounts former Governor Guild condemning the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad for alleged Massachusetts trolley line violations. It states the governor was vilified for raising the issue, while observers argued innocent investors suffered. later state bodies upheld the governor's stance, affirming his actions were correct.
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Boston
Massachusetts
New York
New Haven
Anere Demagastie
Railroad Commission
Attorney General
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Run Down by a Train Near Universality Heights
New York February 5 A construction train on the New York Central Railroad struck a group of track walkers near Universality Heights in the Bronx. Six were killed and others injured. A passenger train was also involved in the accident.
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New York
New York Central Rail Road
Universality Heights
Bronx
Receipt That Cures Weak Men Free
A boastful ad offers a home remedy for nervous debility and lacking vigor. It claims a physician authored cure and promises free distribution of the prescription to any man who writes for it. The message urges avoiding patent medicines and promises a quick home-based restoration of manhood.
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Tam
A A. E. Robinson
Detroit
Mich
Tornadoes Sweep Dixie Leave Dozens Dead Across States
A series of small cyclones hit the Dixie states from Tennessee to the Texas Panhandle, killing scores and causing extensive property damage. Reports cite deaths at Stuttgart Arkansas Sulphur Springs Texas Rolling Fork Mississippi Booth Mississippi and other towns with demolished homes and ruined rice fields. Long power and telegraph outages compounded the disaster as lines fell and darkness followed the storms.
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Louisville
Dixie
Tennessee Line
Texas Panhandle
Tracy
Stuttgart
Ark
Garteld
Will Story
Officer Suspended For Six Months In Navy Court Martial
Gibraltar February reports Captain Edward F. Qualtrough of the battleship Georgia found guilty by court martial of intoxication on duty and conduct prejudicial to the good order of the navy. He is suspended for six months and loses ten numbers in rank. Rear Admiral Sperry approved the findings and designated him detached from the fleet for home service. Lieutenant Commander George W. line remains in command of the Neot forward.
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Gibraltar
Edward F. Qualtrough
Georgia
Sperry
Carrnder
Atlantic
Battlesuip Neot
Rotary
Navy
Divorce filing and school essay amid local notices
Ruth May Ever seeks divorce from Ernest J. Even in district court citing desertion as grounds while Louisiana schools plan to allow an essay on Booker T. Washington only after a Confederate Ladies of the state approval process. The report notes a Chicago origin and references Gustavus Swf as a wealthy figure connected to the case.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Booker
Washington
Willl Gee
Chicago
Ruth May Ever Is
Gustavus
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James Wadswgath, JR
Mine Workers
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Hammerstein
GUILD
0. R. Wright
Qualtrough
Lotoes Strat Brooklyn
Tornier Oorcania
Titvis
Cidaens
Telfer
Bermy
Zooke
Sadt
Acks
Bergman & CO
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Minn
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