Japanese envoy urges Chinese neutrality in Manchuria dispute
London dispatch reports Baron Hayashi, Japanese minister to Great Britain, says Japan urged Chinese neutrality to minimize war disruption and safeguard foreigners. He criticizes Russia’s treaty-rights stance in Manchuria, insisting sovereignty must be recognized for any real benefit.
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Dbaron Hayashi
Great Britain
British Foreign Office
Japan
London Times
Pekin
China
Baron Hayashi
Manchuria
Russia
Great Britain vows to honor all treaty obligations amid tension
Premier Balfour in Manchester asserts Britain will fulfill treaty duties even as Russia and Japan edge toward conflict. He avoids discussing the dispute, warning against war between two great nations. The Daily News calls the speech a threat to Russia. The London press sees it as a hint Britain backs Japan if Anglo-Japanese treaty triggers. Port Arthur reports heightened caution along the Manchurian railway and a vigilant fleet. The U S state department notes Russian assurances of allowing treaty rights and protections in uria.
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Great Britain
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Russia
Japan
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Japan and Russia Await Peace Reply as Talks Continue
St Petersburg reports indicate Japan will respond within two days or so. Reliable information suggests the reply will be carefully worded to avoid an immediate rupture, allowing both governments to keep negotiations open for a pacific settlement.
Driggs Sentenced for Bribery Conviction in Post Office Case
Former Brooklyn congressman Edmund H. Driggs faces one day in Raymond Street jail and a $10,000 fine after being convicted of accepting money to secure a government contract for automatic cashiers from Brandt-Dent for the Post Office Department. No appeal will be filed.
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Driggs
Brandt-Dent Company
Post Office Department
City Ordinances Pass Could End Universal Transfers
The four mile zone from the city center may charge the five cent fare. If the ordinances are upheld in court they will abolish universal transfers now granted by the company. A lengthy court fight is expected as the matter goes to trial.
Plan for Lake Ship Canal from Lake St Clair to Lake Erie
Plan discussed at Lake Carriers association meeting in Detroit. English and French capital backs the project with London and Paris bankers arranging finances. Straight channel from Lake St Clair to Lake Erie would reduce travel to Duluth and Chicago by seventy nine miles, length thirteen and a half miles, bottom width ninety five feet, depth twenty one feet. Mamm y Pleasant dies in San Francisco after long life and wealth. She was linked to prominent cases over Sarah Althea Hill and the estate of Thomas Bell. Church may alter its constitution per Judge Hough’s written opinion.
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Lake Erie
Lake Carriers’ Association
Detroit
London
Paris
Lake St. Clair Ship Canal
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Chicago
Mammy” Pleasant
San Francisco
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Mad Mullah’s Dervishes Routed in Somaliland Battle
British forces under Major General Edgerton rout 1 000 Mad Mullah dervishes at Jidballi Somaliland after advancing from Aden. Casualties include two regular officers and nine regulars wounded. Captain Lister missing. 400 rifles captured. British troops total 3 200 with 2 200 regulars and 1 000 irregulars.
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Edgerton
Lister
Ripplesdale
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Mullah
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Egerton
Jidbalil
Rescued by Life Savers Near Lewes After British Bark Founders
Lewes Delaware January 13 life saving crews from Rehoboth and Henope saved thirty three crew members from the foundered British bark Combesank in a heavy gale. A breeches buoy line brought the survivors ashore including the captain's wife. The Combe sank off the Delaware breakwater after being sighted off the Cape.
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Henlopen
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East Africa
Delaware
Delaware Capes
Church seeks amendment to constitution and church state split
The Third Baptist church, incorporated in 1867, asks the circuit court for permission to amend its constitution and separate its temporal and spiritual government through a formal amendment.
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Circuit Court
Third Baptist Church
Rock Island plans double tracking Kansas City Topeka line
At a Rock Island conference officials chose to double track the Union Pacific segment between Kansas City and Topeka, a stretch of sixty seven miles used by the Rock Island. A Chicago Kansas City air line cut off Eldon Iowa to Kansas City was nearly decided, shortening the distance about thirty miles.
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Rock Island
Union Pacific
Topeka
Eldon
Bank cashier shoots self to avert creditor demands in Sigourney
Sigourney, Jan 13. Fearing cash demands would exhaust the Sigourney Savings Bank, G F Utterback the cashier shot himself in the head using a short gas pipe held to his temple. The bank is not in danger and holds good paper to meet all demands.
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Sigourney, Ia
G. F. Utterback
Sigourney Savings Bank
Deportation Under Military Order Targets Local Activist
Victor Colited dispatch reports John Kish T T Thomas F F Sergeant and C A Jones escorted outside the county by military authority. Kish described as agitator while the others accused of idleness, marking the county’s first military deportation. Nearby in London the Daily Mail notes the czarina ill with high fever and possible ear abscess.
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St. Petersburg
The
Daily Mail
Czarina
Johnson pushes 3 cent fare plan through Cleveland council
Mayor Tom L. Johnson wins passage of three cent fare ordinances. One ordinance transfers full franchises from Cleveland Electric Railway to Forest City Railroad on Woodland and Central avenues with expiry dates next September and next year. The measure requires passengers to be carried for 3 cents, and also creates a fare zone within which only certain conditions apply.
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Tom L. Johnson
Forest City Railroad Company
Cleveland Electric Railway
Woodland
Central Avenues
Ex Governor Bushnell Stricken In Columbus
Ex Governor Asa S Bushnell was stricken with apoplexy and reported slightly better, conscious and able to talk though condition remains critical. Later he suffered a second stroke with uncertain outcome.
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Columbus
Asa S. Bushnell
Picture destroyed at state house in Topeka by suspected Boies
In Topeka Kansas a picture titled Custer's Last Battle was mutilated at the state house during morning hours. A section eight by six inches was cut from the center and carried away after being partly cut with a penknife. A warrant exists for Miss Blanche Boies who is linked to the act and seen on the fourth floor earlier.
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Topeka
Kan
Blanche Boies
Miss Boies
Fire consumes Cameron colliery No. 3 shop in Shamokin
Fire of mysterious origin broke out in the No. 3 shops of No. 9 vein at Cameron colliery operated by the Mineral Rail road and Mining company. The flames spread rapidly and water fighting is impossible. The burning section is being closed to smother the fire.
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Cameron
Mineral Railroad & Mining Company
Tysons Fined $1000 for Peonage in Alabama
Samuel M. Tysons of Coffee county was fined $1000 after pleading guilty to peonage. Federal Judge Thomas G. Jones sentenced him for unlawfully holding Will Frown in involuntary servitude, keeping him under guard and confined in a stockade.
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Montgomery
Ala
Samuel M. Tysons
Coffee County
Thomas G. Jones
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