China and Japan tensions see strict neutrality urged
A condensed dispatch reports China pledging strict neutrality in a Russia Japan war to limit trade disruption and internal turmoil. Other notes cover Korea’s protectorate demands, Russia’s stance on Manchuria, Japan Germany ties, and warnings of a port Arthur reinforcement plan.
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Tokio
China
Russia
Japan
St. Petersburg
Far East
Jawa
Orient
Vladivostock
Manchuria
Europe
Funds pledged for Iroquois Memorial Society relief
Chicago January 11 funds unlimited to aid in prosecuting those responsible for the Iroquois fire were pledged by a firm with over a million dollars in backing. The committee urged a memorial to the victims and aid to the bereaved while pushing enforcement of life safety laws and better building oversight. Coroner Traeger opened a new inquest phase vowing a thorough investigation into the theatre fire and related city departments.
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Chicago
Iroquois Memoral Society
Committee On Permanent Organization
Arthur E. Hull
Traeger
Fulkerson
Rebellion in Uruguay Reported Battles and Politics
New York reports the first major battle between Uruguay government troops and revolutionists near Trinidad on January aff. Gonzales defeated rebels and occupied the town, with peace talks likely failing. The Uruguayan president offers to withdraw a regiment to pursue peace while censorship remains strict. A separate Buenos Aires dispatch notes a dock labor strike of about 16,000 workers paralyzing port operations and mediation efforts by the interior minister.
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New York
Uruguay
Buenos Ayres
Mars Oeluig Gonzales
Trinidad
Nationalist Party
Saravia
Revolutionary Movement
Lamas
Directory
Lamar
Revels
Congress
Riverg
Nastrovallet Party
Bunos Ayres
Fatal Shooting in Auburn Ends Harassment Dispute
Thomas Gostfin fatally shot Ed Armstrong on an eastbound Overland train route after claiming Armstrong had harassed him and ruined his family for two years. Gostfin said he did not regret the act as a mining salt dispute loomed with a due date tomorrow. He returned from Sacramento and shot Armstrong as he slept, killing him instantly.
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Auburn
Cal
Thomas Costfin
Ed. Armstrong
Gostfin
Armstrong
Gostlin
Sacramento
Armstrupge
Wool Growers Convene in Portland Address Tariff and Land Questions
The National Wool Growers Association opened its convention in Baker Theater Portland with Senator Warren presiding. Attendees included two Roosevelt commissioners on public land matters. The talk covered forest policy shifts under agriculture, range troubles, and harmonized views with wool manufacturers on tariffs and land laws, while warning against a restrictive shoddy bill.
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Portland
Ore
National Wool Growers’ Association
Baker Theater
Roosevelt
Warren
Wyoming
Wool Growers’ Association
Department of Agriculture
Sat
Forestry Administration
Herrick Inaugurated Governor With Large Capitol Ceremony
Governor Myron T. Herrick took the oath of office before a large crowd in Columbus as Ex-Governor Nash and the legislature witnessed. He urged a state depository law, revised primaries and elections laws, and codification of statutes. About 10,000 people lined the inaugural parade.
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Myron T. Herrick
Nash
Joint’ Legislative Committee
Cleveland
Col. Herrick
Capitol
Herrick
Senate Asked to Defer Ratification of Hay Bunau Varilla Treaty
Twenty prominent New Haven citizens led by Yale professor Theodore Woolsey call on Senator Hoar to delay ratification and demand a careful international law focused probe of U.S. actions in Panama. The petition warns America risks violating norms in dealing with Colombia and seeks to preserve national honor and world reputation.
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New Haven
Conn
Theodore §. Woolsey
Yale
George F. Hoar
Senate
Panama
Frankin Carter
Williams , College
Henry Wade Rogers
Yale Law School
Frank H. Sanders
Yale Divinity School
William G. Suroner
J. C. Schwab
Department of Political Economy
C. A. Lindsley
State Board of Health
Newman Smythe
Watson L. Phillips
Thomas Hooker
Board of Education
Samuel L. Bronson
Colombia
Hay- Bunau-Varilla
Republic
Depart for Panama in Panama voyage report
The Bennington Prebio and Paul Jones departed Acapulco and headed to Panama, reported from Washington on January 11.
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Washington
the Bennington
Prebio
Paul Jones
Acapulco
Panama
Motorman Killed as Irving Park Car Hits Chicago Train
In Chicago today an Irving Park streetcar collided with a Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul passenger train. Slippery rails caused the crash. One motorman died and five passengers were injured, some fatally.
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Chicago
Jan
Irving Park
San Juan reports Houston man killed in run down near Coloma
The steam er San Juan brings word that Geo. D. Brooks, superintendent of the Manzanillo breakwater, his wife, son, and servant were run down by an engine while traveling from Coloma to Manzarillo on the evening of his departure for San Francisco.
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San Francisco
San Juan
Central American
Geo. D. Brooks
Houston
Texas
Manzan Fio
Fum Coloma
Manzarillo
New York Grain Trade Revival Aims for Port Meeting
President Burgess of the New York Produce Exchange calls a January 39 gathering of grain interests to discuss a committee plan. The proposal includes delivering Buffalo grain in New York deliveries and setting an arbitrarily fixed discount for lower grade wheat corn and oats without reducing contract value for buyers. Deliveries maturing before August 1 would be exempt from the changes.
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New York
Burgess
New York Produce Exchange
Buffalo
Port A
Postalfrauds trial opens with Groffs Lorenz defendants
A Washington criminal court opened the postal frauds trial of August W Machen A Groff Samuel Groff and Dr and Mrs George E Lorenz of Toledo Ohio. They are charged with conspiring to defraud the government by selling letter box fasteners. Eleven jurors were chosen and court adjourned until tomorrow. A subpoena was issued for government witness George W Beavers.
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Washington
W. Machen A. Groff
Samuel Groff
George E. Lorenz
Toledo
Ohio
Justice Pritchard
George W. Beavers
Santos Dumont in New York
Brazilian aeronaut Albert Santos-Dumont arrives from France and plans talks with Louisiana Purchase Exposition officials about a $100,000 airship trial in St Louis. He may then begin building a large shed for Santos-Dumont no. 7 in Paris with two end-mounted propellers and an expected speed of thirty miles per hour.
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New York
Albert Santos- Dumont
France
St. Louis
Santos-Dumont No
Health bulletin shows Chicagoans live much longer than ancestors
Chicago health department reports in its weekly bulletin that the average life span has risen dramatically over generations. In 1903 the average age at death was 42 percent higher than 1892 and more than double that of 1872, due to vaccination, antitoxins, antiseptics, anaesthesia, and improved cleanliness.
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Chicago
Chicago Health Department
Pawnbrokers Strike Prompt Conference Invitation
New York January 11 The Mercantile Exchange president invites pawnbrokers to a conference today to discuss the alleged injury to the poor class caused by a new pawnbroker law. Lima Fern, Herald correspondent, reports.
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New York
Lima
Fern
The
Herald
Mercantile Exchange
Snow Delay Alters Chicago Delegation Tour to Portland
A Chicago stockyards delegation and East coast delegates rode a special train to Portland delayed by heavy mountain snow. The Texas special with El Paso boosters, the Royal Mexican band, and Texas delegates will reach Portland today as schedules recover from the snow disruption.
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Portland
Ore
Chicago
Union Stock Yards
Windy
el Paso
Royal Mexican Band
Lone Star State
Suit for Damages Involving Adelina Patti Tour
Robert Gray incorporation sues Weber and Fields for 150000 claiming defamatory statements damaged Mme Adelina Patti’s tour. The complaint argues the managers did not advance Patti’s salary nor contribute 3000 toward her appearance, and circulated reports harmed her reputation.
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New York
Robert Gray Incorporated
Mme. Adelina Patt
Weber and Fields
Mme. Patti
West End
Mangers
Weber
Ynanagers
Agat Weber
Fields
Mme. Pattt
Mme. Patth
Bryan’s Swiss impressions urge US embassy homes abroad
In a Europe tour article William Jennings Bryan criticizes warehousing of U S embassies abroad and urges Congress to fund permanent American residences in foreign capitals. He praises Swiss referendum practices and notes Switzerland’s democratic ideals and disciplined civic spirit.
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New York
Europe
American’ Today
J. Bryan
Switzerland
United States
Congress
Bryan
Adolphe Deucher
Bryan in Connecticut on Andrew Jackson Day
New Haven Jan 11 Wiliam Jennings Bryan came to attend legal business connected with the Bennett estate and to speak at a New Haven Democracy banquet titled A Conscience Campaign. He will also lecture at the Hyperion theater on The Value of an Ideal as part of the Philos Bennett course.
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New Haven
Conn
Wil- Nara
J. Bryan
Bennett
New Haven Democracy
Andrew Jackson
Mir
Bryan
Hyperion Theater
Philos Bennett
Unknown four-masted schooner runs ashore at Pebble Beach
A mysterious four-masted schooner ran aground near Pebble Beach Life Saving Station on the North Carolina coast. No details on origin or condition are provided.
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Norfolk
Peble Beach
Ife
North Carolina
Revolution continues as San Domingo guard withdraws
Commander Mertz of the gunboat Newport reports from San Domingo that the revolution endures, no threat to Americans, and the legation guard is withdrawn today under date yesterday.
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Washington
Mertz
Newport
San Domingo
Legation
Freight Train Wreck Near Adobe Detours Westbound Coast Limited
A Rio Grande freight train derailed at Adobe near Florence Colorado leaving fourteen cars off the tracks. Investigators found missing spikes and fish plates on two tail ends suggesting a planned wreck targeting the Pacific Coast Limited westbound, which arrived late to the scene.
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Florence
Colo
Rio Grande
Adobe
Pacific Coast Limited
John Young Brown Former Governor Dies in Henderson
Henderson Kentucky January 11 Former Governor John Young Brown died today. A noted statesman and soldier he gained prominence in 1875 as a congressman for denouncing General Benjamin F. Butler, then military governor of New Orleans. Brown faced censure for the speech and was among the early opponents of railroad mergers.
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Henderson
John Young Brown
Hill
Benjamin F. Butler
New Orleans
Brown
Prosecution Set for Howard Over Perjury Subornation
Rev George Frederick Burgoyne Howard once in Detroit House of Correction for swindling faces U S postal action for subornation of perjury. Inspector Major Little to prepare evidence for Jackson Tenn trial after Howard's Tennessee preaching led to discovery and past Chicago 1894 case. Confessions cited as basis for new charges.
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New York
George Frederick Burgoyne Howard
House of Correction
Detroit
Mich
United States
Howard
Little
Jackson
Tenn
Tennessee
Chicago
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