Czar repeats peace pledge amid Far East tension
From St. Petersburg to New York reports say the Czar’s January 14 peace pledge aims to keep the Far East tranquil and to honor open ports in Manchuria. Diplomats warn Russia may trigger a Japan response while reports note Japan seeks agents and banks pull back in Manchuria.
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Manchuria
Japan
St. Petersburg
Winter Palace
Far’ East
Russia
America
Novoe Vremya
United States
France
England
Nussia
Moscow Gazette
Work of Ghouls at Tri-Quois Theatre Fire
Chicago reports three men arrested for desecrating bodies after the Iroquois theatre fire. Louis Wilze allegedly stole $199 from a dying woman, Mrs. E. J. Trask, with two accomplices receiving $20 and $27.50 while a third stranger got $12. Total claimed to exceed $210. Other items note the Upper Mississippi Improvement project and a Westbington political reshuffle.
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Chicago
Iroquois
Louis Willze
Dearborn
Randolph Streets
Wilze
E. J. Trask
Witze
Charles Conway
Thos. McCarty
St. Louis
Kig
Upper Mississippi
Proposals for Post Office Investigation Debated in Senate
Washington January 18 Senate debated resolutions seeking a Post Office department inquiry. Mr Hale defended the administration and criticized a Democratic aide over Bristow inquiry. He alleged the Cost office inquiry exposed notable frauds and urged sending resolutions to the Post Offices and Postroads committee for prompt handling.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Senate
Hale
Bristow
Cost Office Department
Committee On Post Offices
Channel project for Mississippi river advocated in House hearing
A delegation including Governor Van Sant of Minnesota and Ellis Usher urged completing a six foot channel in the Mississippi from St Paul to Cairo. The route spans about a thousand miles and would be ready by Panama canal opening. Also on the delegation were Alonzo Bryson of Davenport, Frank Galerne of Milwaukee, and Lewis B. Doswell of Quincy.
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Washington
Mississippi River
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Cairo
House Committee On
van Sant
Minnesota
Ellis B. Usher
Lacrosse
Wis
Alonzo Bryson
Davenport
Frank Galerne
Louis
Lewis B. Doswell
Quincy
Funeral of Former Governor Asa Bushnell Held in Springfield
Asa Bushnell's funeral was held at Christ Episcopal church with dignitaries including Senator Foraker Governor Herrick ex Governor Nash and members of the General Assembly in attendance. The national guard escorted the body and the casket lay in state from 9 to 10 o'clock.
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Springfield
Asa §. Bushnell
Christ Episcopal Church
Foraker
Herrick
Nash
General Assembly
Ohio
National Guard
Grand jury subpoenas witnesses in get rich quick probe
Major Hugh C. Dennis president of the Rialto Grain and Securities company has been subpoenaed as a witness before the federal grand jury convening tomorrow. W. B. Mahany, once associated with Dennis with several brokers, has also been called. About 100 witnesses are summoned for the investigation. The panel will also continue naturalization fraud inquiries.
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St. Louis
Hugh C. Dennis
Rialto Grain and Securities Company
Federal Grand
W. B. Mahany
Major Dennis
Empress Victoria Court Postponed Due to Foot Injury
Berlin dispatch reports Empress Augusta Victoria injuring her foot, forcing cancellation of the court for ladies set for January 20. The debutante will be presented at a later court ball to be announced.
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Berlin
Augusta Victoria
National Socialist party calls convention for Chicago May 1
The National Socialist party executive committee in Omaha issued a call for a national convention to meet in Chicago on May 1. The vote on meeting place set representation as one delegate per 100 members and one at large per state. The committee will send two prominent labor union speakers to Colorado to support miners on strike.
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Omaha
National Socialist Party
Chicago
Theo «Ail
Colorado
Theatre Closes in Cincinnati for Fire Safety Lacks
Cincinnati January 18 Fire protection shortages force Mayor Freishmann to close Zwick's Opera House, ending operations at the venue.
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Cincinnati
Freishmann
Zwick
Suffering in Macedonia In Winter Crisis
The American board relief reports 100000 homeless Macedonians without support this winter. About 52000 to 53000 are in Monastir. Turkish relief funds and aid from America and England arrive while warning grows of a potential political outbreak next spring if decisive steps are not taken.
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Boston
Letert
American Board For the Relief
Macedonia
Monastir Yilayet
America
England
Japanese Minu Representatives Sought for Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Professor Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago left St. Louis for the Pacific coast en route to Japan to secure Minu people for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The Minu are described as aborigines of the Japanese islands.
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St. Louis
Frederick Starr
University of Chicago
Pacific Coast
Japan
Municipal lab may curb anti-toxin prices in Chicago
Chicago Medical Society debates creating a municipal anti-toxin lab to counter a 100 percent price hike by manufacturers. Officers favor funding and founding the lab if approved, hoping to ensure steady supply for diphtheria treatment and curb price gouging. Society secretary cites nationwide physician sentiment against the price surge.
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Chicago
Chicago Medical Society
Death Trust
Tdtals
Walls
The
New Newfoundland Proposed as Ecclesiastical Province
Rome reports the Propaganda congregation met and proposed to the Pope the erection of Newfoundland into an ecclesiastical province. The plan aims to organize the region under a formal diocesan structure.
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Rome
Congregation of the Propaganda
New Foundland
Striking Street Railway Men Open Competing Auto System
Bloomington Illinois January 18 1914 striking street railway workers who left January 1 for higher pay launched two rival automobile operation systems today as part of ongoing wage dispute.
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Bloomington
Ill
Strengthen Legation Guard Request by Seoul
Minister Allen at Seoul has asked the State Department to increase the legation guard. The request is with the Navy Department which plans to send additional Marines from Cavite to Chemulpo. Reinforcement will take about a week.
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Washington
Alen
Seoul
State Department
Legation
Navy Department
Cavite
Chemul‘po
German Chancellor reports Herero revolt endangers settlers in Southwest Africa
Berlin reports say Herero uprisings murder settlers and burn homes across wide districts. German colonial troops are stretched thin as Governor tries to subdue Bondelzwart. Reichstag urged to authorize reinforcements. 500 troops with artillery and six machine guns prepared for action beginning Jan. 30.
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Berlin
Africa
von Buelow
William
von Einem
von Tirpitz
Reichstag
Bondelzwart
Okanjumdjy
Olojumibawe
Karabib
Wiindhoeck
Novelty in testimony at Bechtel murder trial emerges
In Allentown on January 6, Dr. John Lear Muhlenberg college biology expert described three test types for blood evidence in the Bechtel home case. He said only the biological test is new to American courts and found human blood on Ingram and rag carpet, hatchet, clothing, and kitchen cellar steps, supporting the body's removal to the alley.
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Allentown
Bechtel
John Lear
Muhlenburg College
Lear
Mr. Schaade
Texter
Tom Bechtel
Mabel Bechtel
Commonwealth
Court Grants Interim Ban On Merchants Exchange
In St Louis on January 18 a circuit court issued a temporary injunction at the request of four grain houses. The order restrains the exchange from expelling the Thison Commission, Orthwestn Commission, Buschmyer Commission, and C. H. Alberts Commission or interfering with their business. It also preserves margins posted on the December wheat corner.
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St. Louis
Merchants Exchange
Circuit Court
Exchange
Thison Commission Company
Orthwetn Commission Company
Buschmyer Commission Company
C. H. Alberts Commission Company
Bustenesa
New Religious Sect The Christian Israelites Reported in Boston
A Boston article notes a new religious sect called the Christian Israelites forming with members in Charlestown Somerville Medford and Roslindale. Part of their creed allows long whiskers and hair coiled like a rope. They predict the millennium in 1916.
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Boston
Mass
Charlestown
Somerville
Medford
Roslyndale
Democratic National Convention Calls for 1904
The Democratic National Committee announces the convention will be held July 6, 1904 in St. Louis Missouri. Each state Ier of senators and representatives doubles its representation. territories and DC receive six delegates. The call invites citizens to join in supporting a pure economical constitutional government. James K. Jones, Chairman. OC, Av Walsh, Secretary.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
St. Louis
Congress of the United States
Alaska
Indian Territory
District of Columbia
United States
James K. Jones
Av Walsh
Jones Names Committee for Democratic Convention
Hon James K Jones chair of the Democratic National Committee announces the convention arrangements committee and calls a February 2 meeting at 1 oclock in the Southern Hotel St Louis MO The committee includes Jones Stone Guffy Gambau Mack Johnson McLean Head Osborne and other state representatives.
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Washington
James K. Jones
Democratic National Committee
Southern Hotel
St. Louis
William J. Stone
J. M. Guffy
Pennsylvania
D. J. Gambau
Michigan
N. E. Mack
New York
J. G. Johnson
Kansas
John R. McLean
Ohio
J. M. Head
Tennessee
John E. Osborne
Wyoming
Canal Treaty in Committee
Washington Jan 18 The Senate committee on foreign relations directed Senator Cullom to report the Panama treaty with three amendments. Republicans supported the treaty while only two Democrats Morgan and Afoney attended. The amendments cover sanitation limits of cities and harbor control granting the United States broader sanitary power defining canal zone limits and harbor authority.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Cullom
Panama
Morgan
Afoney
Money
United States
Colon
Canal Zone
Chicago preacher administers rebuke and calls for reform
In Chicago on January 18 the Rev. Frank Gunsaulus of Central Church denounced public neglect and urged a duty to confront abuses. He criticized unsafe theatres, churches, officials, and education, urging voters to remove dangerous elements and to reform public sentiment after the Iroquois Theatre fire that claimed his nephew.
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Chicago
New Jerusalem
Frank’ Gunsaulus
Central Church
Iroquois Theatre
Gunsaulus
Nrison
Martindale Freed In Kansas Bank Indictment Case
Judge John F. Phillips frees William Martindale former VP of the First National Bank of Emporia after an eighteen count indictment for misapplication or abstracting funds. Bank failure in 1891 followed President Cross’s suicide. Cross exonerated Martindale and cashier Davis.
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Kansas City
John F. Phillips
Federal Court
Kan
William Martindale
First National Bank of
Cross
Martindale
Davis
Denver Wins Western League Franchise Purchase
George Toudeau buys the Denver franchise and Ball Park improvements from D. C. Packard and R. R. Burke. Price not disclosed but believed above $20,000. Western League likely to feature six clubs: Denver, Colorado Springs, Omaha, Lincoln, Des Moines, and Sioux City.
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Denver
George Toudeau
Ball Park
D. C. Packard
R. R. Burke
Colorado Springs
Omaha
Lincoln
Des Moines
Sioux City
Diploma Withheld Unjustly by Medical College
Judge Wood ruled the college lacked jurisdiction over students heart affairs and could not withhold a diploma from Onus York of Muskogee class of 1903. York, expelled after a love affair and alleged defaming tale, sought mandamus to compel issuance. The writ was granted.
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St. Louis
York
Alexander Milne Dies Here after Long Customs Service
Alexander Milne GC M G longtime collector of customs in Victoria dies aged at least in his years. He was a sealing expert honored by Queen Victoria with the order of Commander of Bt Alichagla and St George for work related to the Canadian rame for the Paris tribunal on pelagic-vealing.
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Victoria
B. C
Alexander Milne
St. George
Queen Victoria
Paris
Roosevelt Offered Michigan Party Birthday Celebration Invite
A delegation of about one hundred Michigan leaders visited President Roosevelt in Washington to invite him to attend the birth of the Republican party celebration to be held at Jackson on July 6. James O'Donnell chaired the delegation and speeches by O'Donnell, Senator Burrows and Senator Alger were presented. The group suggested the President receive official nomination notification if the Chicago convention favors his candidacy. the President said he would decide later if he could attend.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Michigan
Jackson
Hrgi
James O'Donnell
Jackson Patriot
O’donnell
Burrows
Alger
Chicago
Memorial Hospital site offered for theatre fire victims
Directors of the Memorial Hospital in Chicago announce gifting the site at 82 Plymouth Place and the building for a proposed memorial hospital for the Iroquois theatre fire victims. They deem the site uniquely eligible in the downtown district and will present resolutions to the erection committees.
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Chicago
City Hospital
Plymouth Place
Iroquois Theatre
Well dressed man found unconscious in Indiana barn
A 40-year-old man, found unconscious in a deserted barn near the Forsythe race track in Robertsdale, Indiana, is identified by a Chicago address 469 West Lake Street and Cuban War discharge papers. His throat was cut and he was died at St. Margaret's hospital. police suspect he was attacked for money.
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Chicago
Rammond
Ind
Robertsdale
West Lake Street
St. Margaret's Hospital
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