Ex Mayor Ames Freed as Supreme Court Quashes Indictment
The Minnesota Supreme Court invalidates the Minneapolis mayor case, quashing the indictment against ex mayor Dr Ames for receiving money from women to protect them from prosecution. Justices Starr Collins Lewis concur with a split on the ruling, finding the indictment stated one offense but the state failed to prove it.
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St. Paul
Ames
Minneapolis
Supreme Court
Starr
Colins
Lewis
Lovely
Broad
Dr. Ames
District Court
Hennepin County
Start
Colling
Lady Kennedy Kennedy acquitted on emotional insanity claim
Kansas City, Jan 29. Mrs Luli Prince Kennedy Kramer was found not guilty by a jury for the murder of her husband Phil H Kennedy in 1901. The acquittal rested on a finding she was insane at the time of the shooting, though the jury noted she had since regained sanity and will avoid an asylum.
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Kansas City
Luli Prince Kennedy Kramer
Phil H. Kennedy
John Kramer
Will Prince
Kennedy
Street Railway Plan for Manila Revealed
Richard Laffin will head a new Manila streetcar system with a four million dollar American backed investment. One hundred trolley cars, fifty thousand redwood ties from California, and materials from Pittsburg will support forty miles of initial lines. Fuel will be coal from Japan or Australia under a fifty year franchise. Main owners include J. G. White company New York Pittsburg Security and Investment Frank Buhel Peter L Kimberley Sharon Pa and Detroit interests led by Charles M Swift.
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San Francisco
Richard 4 .Laffin
Manila
Orient
California
Pittsburg
Japan
Australia
American Capital
J. G. White Company
New York
Pittsburg Security and Investment Company
Frank Buhel
Peter L. Kimberley
Sharon, Pa
Detroit
Charles M. Swift
City
New Confern
Macedonian Trouble Sparks Alarm in Constantinople
The porte informed Austrian and Russian embassies that Macedonian committees have arranged with Albanians to pay for killings of foreign officers in the provinces during the gendarmerie reform. It objects to foreign uniformed officers due to danger to their lives.
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Constantinople
Porte
Liberian president inaugurated promising reforms
Word from Liberia reports Arthur Darsalay inaugurated as President in Monrovia on January 4. He stressed freedom and inclusion of aborigines, urged closer commercial ties with Europeans and white Americans, and called for greater facilities for foreigners in trade and farming.
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London
Liberia
Arthur Darsalay
Monrovia
Liveria
Trade Outlook Promising Across Regions in 1904
Special telegraphs from the International Mercantile Agency report rising business in the central Mississippi valley and Southwest with heavier than ever January wholesale orders. 115,000+ wage earners return to work in Pennsylvania and Lake region, while steel rail prices are expected to hold.
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New York
International Mercantile Agency
United States
Mississippi Valley
Southwest
Pennsylvania
Lake Region
Panama
Canal
Pennsylvania Railroad
Edward Atkinson
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Duluth
Ohio River Valley
South Atlantic
Gulf States
Maryland Legislature Takes Up Another U.S. Senate Ballot
Annapolis Jan 29 Maryland legislature in joint session took another ballot for U S senator without a result.
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Annapolis
Maryland
U. S
Post Office Trial Resumes In Washington Case
Miss Ina Leibhart, chief clerk of the free delivery service, testified that Machen was in close contact with the first assistant postmaster general. Postmaster General Smith once directed Machen to report directly to him. Tests were granted for patent devices, and orders were given by telephone and pencil memoranda in cases beyond the Groff matter. Evidence of blank forms and Groff fasteners was admitted over objections.
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Washington
Post Office
Ina Leibhart
Free Delivery Postal Service
Machen
Smith
Douglas
Evdence
Beach
Roosevelt Led Cabinet in Tribute to Secretary Root
Washington on January 29 the cabinet met with President Roosevelt Secretary Root and Taft as central figures. Roosevelt spoke with deep feeling about Root's retirement praising his labor devotion and self-sacrifice. Other cabinet members joined in the tribute while no references were made to Panama or the Far East.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Root
Taft
Secretary Root
Panama
Far East
Recovered Panel Of Wilkie Painting Found In City
The original panel from Sir David Wilkie s famous Blindman s Buff was recovered after a theft at Lenox Library. Valued at 6000 dollars, the panel was sold for 2.50 to a Forty second Street dealer. An actor alerted the fund, learned of the sale, and the panel was identified by lithograph. Arrangements were made to return the artwork to the library.
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New York
Sir David Wilkie
Lenox Library
Fire produces excitement at Chicago Cosmopolitan blaze
A Cosmopolitan Building fire in Chicago caused a dramatic evacuation as chemicals exploded on the sixth floor. Rescue worker Edward Stokes and C W Randolph aided Miss Verba, others burned, one girl fatally, total loss estimated at 75,000 dollars.
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Chicago
Masonic Temple
Cosmopolitan
C. W. Randolph
Cosmopolitan Light Company
Edward Stokes
Miss Verba
Mr. Randolph
Randolph
Stokes
Russia and Japan Near Final Reply on war talks
London reports Hayashi says Russia’s answer to Japan is completed and awaiting czar’s approval while Paris notes Lamsdorff Kurino talks touch on Russia’s likely stance. New York reports Korea disturbances widen as tax riots spread under confederated bands. St Petersburg details delay in transmitting Russia’s reply as Viceroy Alexieff’ s views awaited.
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London
Hayashi
Daily Graphic
Japan
M. Kurince
St. Petersburg
M. Kurino
Council of State
Associated Press
Baron Hayashi
Paris
M. Lamsdorff
Russia
Straits of Korea
Korea
Sea of Japan
Europe
United States
Alexieff
Pacific
Manchuria
Lamsdorff
M Kurino
Illinois to Erect Monument for Vicksburg Siege Heroes
Illinois plans a 150000 marble rotunda monument in the National Military Park at Vicksburg to honor 35000 soldiers and sailors in the 1863 siege. Bronze tablets honor Richard Yates Ulysses Grant Pemberton and battlefield events with inscriptions from Lincoln and Grant. The interior panels list the names of Illinois veterans who served in the siege.
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Chicago
State of Illinois
National Military Park
Vicksburg
Miss
Illinois
Richard Yates
Thibols
Ulysses SS. Grant
Il Unois
Pemberton
Lins
Grant
Detroit capitalist Jeremiah D. Farwell dies from self-inflicted wound
Jan 29 Detroit reports the death of Jeremiah D. Farwell, a prominent capitalist, from a bullet wound to the stomach. Authorities believe the wound may have been self-inflicted during a period of personal crisis.
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Detroit
Jeremiah DD. Farwell
Berlin to Disinfect Library Books for Public Health
Berlin authorities plan to disinfect books in public libraries after concerns raised by Prof Koch about microbes spreading via loaned volumes. A library committee will review a disinfecting plan prepared by Koch's representative, with the municipal disinfection station to oversee implementation.
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Berlin
Koch
South Africa
Arctic Weather on Great Lakes
Chicago January 23. Lake Michigan has frozen over as a severe cold spell tightens ice across the lake. Ice piles high at cribs and along the west shore, while massive icebergs mystify navigators. Steamboat crews brace for arctic conditions, noting winter dangers may be less than open-water hazards. December averaged degrees below normal, January about four degrees, a record not equaled except in 1876.
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Chicago
Lake Navigation
Lake Michigan
The Ideal Teacher From Harper's University Lecture
The ideal college professor should be married and church affiliated. He should mingle with students outside class, hold a medical degree, and work eleven months yearly. A married professor with children will do three times as much good as a single counterpart and be a strong influence on public affairs.
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Chicago
Harper
University of Chicago
Geffe
Tha
Harner
German Colonists on the Defensive
Berlin reports a dispatch from Lieut. Zuelow at Okahandja in German South West Africa. Fighting at Okahandja began January 15 with 200 troops, two machine guns from Windhoek repulsed, and a request for artillery from the Habicht. The enemy reportedly suffered 20 to 25 dead in renewed clashes at New Kaian tuerasane near Waldau and Okasis.
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Berlin
Habicht
Swakopmund
South Africa
Zuelow
Okahandja
Karibbi
Windhoek
Thireteenth
Hiraribib
Kaiantuerasane
Waldau
Okasiz
Karibib
In Memory of McKinley Observed in Canton Ohio
Canton observed McKinley’s birthday with special patriotic programs in schools. Mrs. McKinley was driven to the cemetery with a large bunch of carnations for the late President’s tomb.
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Canton
McKinley
Blydenburg on Stand in Murder Trial
Eben Blydenburg testified in his own defense in Eldora Iowa denying poisoning his third wife with arsenic. He supported daughter Irene who said she cooked the meal containing poison and described her mother’s sudden illness after the meal. He claimed no purchase of poison and no serious quarrel with his wife.
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Eldora
Eben S&s
Blydenburg
Irene
Coal Operators Meet Vows No Miner Wage Cut This Year
Fayetteville West Virginia January 19. At a meeting of more than twenty coal operators on New Silver employing in the aggravated miners it was unanimously voted not to reduce the wages of miners this year. This means no strike in New River territory.
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Fayetteville
W. Va
Tan
New River Territory
Danis Atlantic Islands Association Formed in Copenhagen
Copenhagen January 23 the new Danis Atlantic Islands association aims to rally public interest in Denmark’s overseas territories and stop any sale or loss of sovereignty. The movement grew after the proposed sale of the Danish West Indies and the rumor that Canada sought Greenland. Nobility figures are among its leaders defending West Indies Greenland Faroe Islands and Iceland.
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Copenhagen
Danis Atlantic Islands Association
Danish West Indies
United States
Canada
Greenland
West Indies
Fariestunds
Iceland
Czar Grants Special Powers to Interior Minister and Governor
In St Petersburg on January 29 the Czar accorded Minister of the Interior Plehne and the governor of Tver province plenary powers over local officials due to subversive tendencies. The move follows evidence of sympathy with opponents of the existing order and teachers in national schools promoting anti government and anti religious agitation. The powers allow appointing district meeting members, expelling objectionable persons, and dismissing officials deemed dangerous to public policy.
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St. Petersburg
You Plehne
Tver
Government convokes extra Congress session in Lima
Lima reports the government has convoked an extra session of congress for February 19 to discuss and sanction a range of financial measures. The session aims to approve proposed fiscal and monetary actions affecting national finances and economic policy.
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Lima
Peru
Congress
Operators Hold Caucus In Coal Dispute Talks
Indianapolis Jan. 29 The opening joint conference of Indiana Ohio Illinois and Western Pennsylvania coal operators and miners was delayed as operators caucused to frame demands. Operators urged conservative demands and refused to consider the run of mine basis and seven cent differential. Miners led by John Mitchell pressed for an absolute run of mine basis across the district and a flat seven cent differential with uniform outside day labor scale.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Ohio
Illinois
Western Pennsylvania
H. L. Robbins
John Mitchell
Pittsburg
Hocking Valley
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