Senator Foraker Attacks Public Fund Use in Brownsville Case
In a Senate reply to Browne and Baldwin, Senator Foraker charges illegal diversion of public funds by the president and War Secretary to pay private detectives. He calls the use of Pinkerton agents in Brownsville a disgrace and malfeasance, alleging affidavits and confessions were improperly obtained and used.
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Washington
William H. Tait
Oraker
Ohio
Senate
Arbert J. Browne
Islam G. Baldwin
Roanoke
Vaho
Twenty-fifth Fantry
United States Army
Brownsville
Mr. Foraker
Foraker
Browne
Uravel
Quote on accountability in senate chamber remarks
A speaker criticizes how charges and insinuations are treated, asserting that in time people will be held to account like others. He throws his manuscript down and vows that no one will escape scrutiny from the highest to the lowest levels.
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Senate
Guilty of Criminal Libel Rocks New York Star Officers
New York Jan. 13 Bradford Mer Ti S S Carvalho and Edward S Clark officers of the Star company publishers of William R Hearst's New York American were found guilty of criminal libel and sent to Tombs prison. Magistrate Moas allowed them to stay in the prison reception room while their counsel Clarence J Shuarn sought a writ of habeas corpus in Supreme Court. Rockefeller accuses the defendants of publishing an article linking him to peonage by an Illinois breakfast food manufacturer.
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New York
Bradford Mer Ti
S. S. Carvalho
Edward 5
Clark
Star Company
William R. Hearst
The
New York American
John D. Roockefeller, Jr
Tombs Prison
Moas
Clarence J. Shuarn
Davis
Supreme Court
Mr. Rockefeller
Illinois
McIntyre Defends Hains in Bayside Yacht Club Killing
John F. McIntyre sums up defense in Bayside Yacht Club murder case charging a conspiracy by club members to convict Thor nton Jenkins Hains and brother Captain Peter C. Hains Jr. The defense portrays the killing of William E. Annis as the act of a man mentally dismantled by libertine conduct, alleging prosecution witnesses were moved by revenge.
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Flushing
N. Y
John F. McIntyre
Thornton Jenkins Hains
Peter C. Hains, Jr
William E. Annis
Bayside Yacht Club
Annis
McIntyre
Andrews
Birchfield
Storms
Mine Disaster at Switchback Coal Mine Hints Higher Toll
Bluefield West Virginia January 12 Over one hundred men perished in a second explosion at the Lick Branch mine Switchback two weeks after an earlier blast. About 200 men were at work with rescue hampered by heat. Officials withhold exact counts while speculation centers on gas and a possible open lamp. The Pocahontas Consolidated Cautleries property lies in the Tug River district where gas was previously scarce.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Lick Praneh
Switchback
Atty
Wit
First of present winter cold sweeps Louisville region
January 12 reports a deep freeze across Central and Southwestern states as sleet and snow spread from the Lake region southward. Temperatures drop to 8 to 14 degrees above in northern Texas and Arkansas. In Louisville rain turned to snow with drifting due to a biting north wind, causing slick streets and many minor accidents. Train delays ranged from two to four hours.
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Louisville
Lake Region
Mississippi Valley
Texas
Arkansas
Louisqlle
Diplomatic Corps Demands Control Of Peking Telegraph
The diplomatic corps at Peking makes a strong collective representation to the Chinese government over the board of communications seizing full control of the Peking telegraph office, a power the government in 1901 had agreed to place under foreign superintendence.
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Peking
Board of Communications
Shang Ge
Stir Over Secret Spies in Indiana Senator Race
In Indianapolis on January 13 rumors say money will be used in the U S senatorial fight and six Democratic lawmakers formed a secret spy ring two weeks ago. They reportedly will take bribes but trap offerers, gathering evidence to send offenders to the penitentiary. The six guards their identities.
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Indianapolis
United States
Fnany
Five Men Freezen to Death Near Pembina River
A report from Edmonton Alberta dated Jan 11 states five Frenchmen were found frozen to death 175 miles west of Edmonton beyond the Pembina River. They had left Fort Plain three days earlier intending to travel to Macleod.
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Alperta
Here
Pembina River
Flory Plain
Maclaod
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