Wilson attends Chicago banquet with tight security
President-elect Woodrow Wilson arrives in Chicago for a private visit and a Commercial Club dinner at the Blackstone hotel. Secret Service guards accompany him, with Illinois governors Deneen and Dunne nearby, and Mayor Harrison in attendance. He spends a night at 1435 Astor Street and departs for New Jersey.
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Chicago
Woodrow Wilson
Englewood
Pennsylvania Railroad
Wilson
Commercial Club
Clyde M Carr
David Br. Jones
Astor Street
Jones
Blackstone Hotel
byDeneen
Dunne
Illinois
Deneen
Harrison
Carr
Lake Shore Drive
New Jersey
Club
Richard Taylor
Joseph Murphy
United States Secret Service
Taft
Princeton
Capt. Porter
Peter Drautzburg
Chicago Secret Service
McWeeny
Rebels dislodged after Ayotcingo battle in Mexico
Mexican federal reinforcements with field guns and machine guns arrived at Ayotcingo near Mexico City. A 250 strong column was rushed to the scene and drove rebels from the hills. More than 250 people died including federals rebels and noncombatants. A 200 infantry force from the capital is said to have been cut to pieces along with a 100 mounted police column.
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Mexico City
Ayotcingo
Archbald Case Near End as Senate Reconvenes
Washington report says the Archbald impeachment trial neared completion as five hours of argument split between defense and house managers. Judge Robert W. Archbald sat with his counsel throughout, while his wife attended from the senate’s private gallery.
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Washington
Archbald
Senate
Robert W. Archbald
House
Bloody clashes as garment strike turns violent in New York
In New York on January 11 a violent clash erupted between strikers and strike-breakers outside Star Knee Pants in La Fayette Street. A union picket Patrick Cartone was slashed and knocked with an iron bar, others injured, and Thomas Kennth suffered a fractured skull in Brooklyn. Police and detectives were assaulted while guarding non union workers. About fifty thousand dress and waist workers indicated willingness to join the strike next week. The state labor department may intervene if the walkout occurs.
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New York
Star Knee Pants Company
la Payette
Patrick Cartone
Thomas Kennth
Brooklyn
George Evans
State Labor Department
No. 13 Lucky for Wilson
President elect Wilson believes luck favors thirteens as California electors meet on January 13 in Sacramento to cast two electoral votes for Wilson and Marshall. The California delegation splits eleven for Roosevelt and Johnson and two for Wilson and Marshall.
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California
Sacramento
Cal
Wilson
Roosevelt
Johnson
Marshall
Maud Malone Seeks Fine on Appeal Bid
Maud Malone the militant suffragette jailed for disrupting a Woodrow Wilson meeting asked to be fined so she could appeal her case in Brooklyn. The court granted little relief, deferring further action.
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Maud Malone
New York
Woodrow Wilson
Brooklyn
Little Quest
Milwaukee Raises Bomb Bond To Aid Redsin
Milwaukee January 11 The $30 000 bond for W E Redsin the Milwaukee defendant sentenced to three years in Leavenworth for dynamite conspiracy was approved by the United States commissioner here.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukeg
W. E. Redsin
Leavenworth
Eight Die As Ship Sinks In Atlantic Storms
A series of shipwrecks and delays reported from multiple ports includes the schooner Future sinking off Cape Hatteras with Captain Larkin and seven crew dead, and the Red Star liner Manitou overdue by five days with 25 passengers aboard.
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Red Star
Tampa
Fla
Larkin
Future
Cape Hatteras
Hart Lumber Company
New York
Boston
Manitou
Philadelphia
Antwerp
Cedar Key
G. F. Brown
Thomas
Dennison
Thomaston
Pensacola
St. Johns
N. F
Burke
Evelyn
Aubois
Norfolk
North Carolina
Diamond
Virginia Capes
Women Escape From Utah Jail In Snowstorm
Two prisoners fled Ogden Utah by rappelling from a high second story window using a rope of braided blanket strips during a blizzard. Escapees include Mrs Mary McGill held 120 days for aiding her husband in drugging and robbing a man and Mael Wilson who had served eighteen days of a twenty five day vagrancy sentence.
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Ogden
Utah
Mary McGill
John McGill
Mael Wilson
Edward W. Wickersham Dies Aged 77 In Peoria
Edward W. Wickersham 77, cousin of Attorney General Wickersham, died at the Proctor home in Peoria. Born in Ohio December 10, 1836, he later moved to Chicago after the Civil War and engaged in business. He served as a U S representative during the Paris Exposition in France.
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Peoria
Edward W. Wickersham
Wickersham
Proctor
Mr. Wickersham
Ohio
Chicago
United States
Floods Isolation Hits Wheeling as Water Rises
Wheeling West Virginia faces its worst flood since 1884 and 1907 with the Ohio River at about 44 feet. A Baltimore and Ohio train crossed a waterlogged track for a quarter mile, as railroads trolley lines and steamboats fail.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Baltimore & Ohio
Picketing Commons as Votes for Women Debate Opens
Activists from the Actresses' Franchise League and allied societies plan day and night picketing of the house of commons when the franchise reform bill is debated. Militant suffragists push for strong turnout though some allies have been alienated by tactics.
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London
House of Commons
Actresses’ Franchise League
Trust Quiz Is Halted by Baker
Washington January 11 The house money trust investigating committee hit a snag with George F Baker during efforts to trace his joint operations with J P Morgan in railroad and industrial securities, and their shared interests in banks and trust companies. Baker refused to reveal stock details and deposits, stating the committee lacked power and the public interest outweighed disclosure.
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Washington
House Money Trust
George F. Baker
Baker
J. P. Morgan
New York
Untermyer
First National Bank
Fisher A. Baker
John C. Spooner
First Securities Company
Securities Company
Chase Bank
Wiggins
Chase
Lears
First National
Stock Exchange
Banker Warns Against Further Money Trust Combos
He acknowledged the money trust but said the safety of the current financial state hinges on a few key men. He warned further combinations could be dangerous, praising Morgan as a great general and noting he himself holds too many directorates.
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Morgan
Wireless men sentenced in million dollar stock swindle
Three men found guilty of an interstate wireless stock fraud were sentenced in New York. Cameron Spear the promoter gets five years and a 200 dollar fine. A Frederick Collins the inventor receives three years and 2000 dollars in fines. Charles L Vaughan gets two years. They were convicted of using the mails to defraud in selling stock of the Collins Wireless Telephone company and the Continental Wireless Telephone and Telegraph company.
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New York
Atlanta
Cameron Spear
French Column Repulses Moors near Mogador
A French force under Col Amedee Cueydon de Dives repelled a Moors attack twenty miles east of Mogador Morocco. The battle left 500 Moors dead and twelve French soldiers killed with sixty wounded as French lines of communication were defended.
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Mogador
Morocco
Amedee Cueydon de Dives
Judge Ill at Hawthorne Trial in New York
Federal Judge Charles J. Hough presided forenoon session of the Julian Hawthorne mining stock fraud case in New York. He was suddenly taken ill and the trial continued over until Monday without him.
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Hawthorne
New York
Julian Hawthorne
Charles J. Hough
Gould Wedding Set for January Twentieth
Prince Helle de Sagan and wife Anna Gould sail from London to New York aboard the Mauretania ahead of the marriage of Miss Herek Gowid on Monday January twenty. The prince travels incognito with his wife and young son Boison, and confirms a three day window after arrival in New York.
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London
Prince Helle de Sagan
Duke de Talleyrand
Anna Gould
Boison
New York
Mauretania
Prince Helle
Mra. Jones and Son
Rockefeller to undergo Pujo committee physician examination
William Rockefeller agreed to submit to a medical examination by a Pujo committee physician in Miami Florida. A Nassau Bahamas message says he will sail today to meet the doctor, with John A Garver confirming Rockefeller’s return to America for the test and Pujo’s inquiry into his throat condition.
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New York
Nassau
Bahama Islands
William Rockefeller
United States
Miami
Fla
John A. Garver
Rockefeller
America
Pujo
Washington
Gompers Advocates Labor Rights In Senate Hearing
Samuel Gompers president of the Federation of Labor argued before the senate judiciary committee that labor has the right to organize and be exempt from injunctions without notice in labor disputes. He said house passage of antidanjunction measures rests on flawed court decisions and precedents that violate labor rights.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Samuel Gompers
The
Federation of Labor
Gompers
House
Boat Blast Kills 19 On Tombigbee River Steamer
Mobile, Ala Jan 11 The death toll from the boiler explosion on the James T Staples steamer on the Tombigbee river is rising. Eight known dead, eleven missing believed dead, twenty two seriously injured to be brought to Mobile for treatment.
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Mobile
Ala
James T. Staples
Mrs Cleveland Honored At Washington Reception
Congressional friends packed the Congressional Club in Washington to greet Mrs Grover Cleveland at a club reception honoring her former White House days in her honor.
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Cleveland
Washington
Jan
Congressional Friends
White House
Congressional Club
Grover Cleveland
Bulgarian Envoy Declares Wf Turke Break Off Negotiations
Bulgarians threaten to end armistice if Turkish demands are not met by today. Doctor Daneff says allies will break the armistice and Bulgarians will attack if so. Turkish mutinous unrest at Thhatalja reported, Nazim Pasha enforcing discipline. Powers issue a note urging Turkey to resist Adrianople concessions.
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Wf Turke
Constantinople
Thhatalja
Nazim Pasha
London
Doctor Daneff
Bulgaria
Bulgare
Sofia
Rawmania
Silistria
Kavaria
Adrianople
Turkey
Carthaginian Arrives Icebound After Fire in Hold
The mail liner Carthaginian reached St Johns Newfoundland from Liverpool covered in ice. A fire started in the hold under the first class cabin last Tuesday at 1 am, fed by rag waste. A squad of British blue jackets aiding naval reserve training fought the blaze as St Johns shipyard men aided. The blaze was halted four hours after discovery with damage to be assessed.
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St. Johns
N. F
Liverpool
Urges Quiz for Judges and Gas Company Receivers
A House resolution prompts a federal probe into Kansas District Judge Jobe C. Pollock and Missouri Western District Judge Arba Van Valkenburgh. It also notes three receivers for the Kansas Natural Gas pipeline linked to United Gas Improvement of Philadelphia. Separately in Ohio, iron and steel workers secure a wage rise for puddling from 6.15 to 6.45 on a 1.40 card, affecting about fifteen thousand workers.
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Washington
United States
Jobe C. Pollock
Kansas
Arba &. van Valkenburgh
Missouri
House
Borland
Kansas Natural Gas Company
United Gas Improvement Company of
Philadelphia
Youngertown
Ohio
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Tin and Steel Workers
Republic Iron and Steel Company
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