Terrific floods devastate Utah rail line and jobs
Salt Lake City dispatch reports the San Pedro Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroad wrecked by a midwinter thaw lapping hundreds of miles of rails and embankments. More than 250 Utah employees laid off. restoration could take years as alternative routes are surveyed and risks assessed.
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Utah
Salt Lake City
United States
San Pedro
Los Angeles
Salt Lake
J. Ross Clark
Southern Pacific
Meadow Valley
Mills Will Allocates 400000 To Public Institutions
The New York will of Darius Ogden Mills filed for probate leaves 400000 to public institutions with the remainder to his children Ogden Mills and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. Beneficiaries include Metropolitan Museum of Art 100000 American Museum of Natural History 100000 Home for Incurables 100000 Botanical Gardens Bronx 50000 American Geographical Society 25000 American Red Cross 25000. Estate valued around 50 million.
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New York
Darius Ogden Mills
Ogden Mills
Whitelaw Reid
Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Museum of Natural History
Home For Incurables
City of
Botanical Gardens
Bronx
American Geographical Society
American Red Cross
Snowy slip kills switchman in Chicago accident
Snow caused the death of Fred Muns a 39 year old switchman for the American Car and Foundry company at 5150 Princeton avenue. He threw a switch for an engine stepped back slipped on ice and rolled under the wheels of a passing locomotive.
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Chicago
Fred Muns
Princeton Avenue
American Car and Foundry Company
Republican congressional committee to organize Friday
The Republican congressional committee will organize at a meeting and banquet Friday night in Washington. Indications point to the re election of the current officers: William B. McKinley of Illinois as chairman, James A. Tawney of Minnesota as vice chairman, Henry C. Lodenslager of New Jersey as secretary, and Charles Dawes and John Eversman of Illinois as treasurers.
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Washington
Republican Congressional Committee
William B. McKinley
Iinois
James A. Tawney
Minnesota
Henry C. Lowdenslager
New Jersey
Charles BE. Dawes
John Eversman
Illinois
Harmony Situation Becomes Ridiculous in House Fight
Washington January 18 insurgent turmoil grows in the House as Hayes clashes with James and Rainey over control of the Ballinger Pinchot investigation committee. Democrats caucus to name minority members while Republicans threaten to replace them, leaving lawmakers split and loud with partisan friction.
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House of Representatives
Hayes
Harmony
White House
Cannon
House
Ballinger Pinchot Investigation Committee
Ollie James
Rainey
Messers
James
Douglas
Taft
Charles P
Panama Canal Strip
Champ Clark
United Republican
Rockefeller Estate Guards Deployed on Pocantico Hills
On January 18 John D. Rockefeller requested Sheriff Sherp appoints seven men from White Plains to serve as deputy sheriffs on the Pocantico Hills estate. The oil magnate, threatened previously, is under constant guard and the sheriff’s action grants him authority to carry arms and make arrests.
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Mount Vernon
John D. Rockefeller
Sherp
White Plains
Pocantico Hills
Health Board Sets New Sanitary Code For Railways And Hotels
The state board of health in Austin announces a new sanitary code governing railroads hotels and public buildings. It prohibits Pullman porters from sleeping in berths of white passengers and from using sleeping car linen for personal use.
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Austin
Tex
State Board of Health
Marion on Trial for Life in Wilkesbarre Murder Case
George L. Marion, a theatrical man, stands trial before Judge Lynch for the murder of his wife in the Wilkesbarre police chief’s office on August 20. The couple’s estrangement began after she fled with James L. Brooks from Blaistown, New Jersey. Marion confronted them, and two shots were fired after the chief left. The defense asserts jealousy and temporary insanity claiming his wife refused to return with him.
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Marion
Walsh to Hear Motion for New Trial in Bank Wreck Case
Chicago January 18. A motion for a new trial for John R Walsh convicted in the wrecking of the Chicago National Bank will be heard today by the United States circuit court of appeals. Judges Seaman and Grosscup will hear Walsh's attorney Miller argue the motion based on alleged jury misconduct. The court also considered issuing the mandate sending Walsh to federal prison, and Walsh received the Supreme Court denial by telephone after the decision.
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Seaman and
Gresscup
Miller
Walsh
Chicago
John R. Walsh
Chicago National Bank
United States Supreme Court
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Seaman
Grosscup
Sims
Supreme Court
Washington
John W. Walsh
John M. Smyth
Howell Proposes Card Sale to Erase Postoffice Deficit
Representative Howell of New Jersey introduces a bill to authorize selling engraved cards with a moral verse. The plan aims to reduce the post office deficit by generating revenue from the card program. The quotation reads Words are but the wings of thought. and urges kindness in spoken words.
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Washington
Howell
New Jersey
Postoffice
Unionists Gain 14 Seats in Commons Majority Likely
London voters yield a net fourteen Unionist gains in the general election, with 608000 Unionist votes to 517000 for Liberals Laborites Nationalists and Socialists combined. Liberals Laborites Nationalists total 56 seats to 48 for Unionists, leaving government coalition at 105 to 52. One third of members chosen, ministerial majority of about 100 seems assured.
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London
House of Commons
Doctor Goldberger Stricken While In Mexico City
Dr. Joseph Goldberger of Washington is sick with typhoid fever at the American hospital in Mexico City, where he was sent to study typhus fever and its germ.
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Joseph Goldberger
Mexico City
Washington, D. C
American Hospital
Taft Takes Beveridge Out In White House Auto
President Taft escorted Senator Beveridge of Indiana in a White House automobile and later walked back with Captain Butt and a secret service guard. Beveridge wore one overcoat and carried another.
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Washington
Taft
A. J. Beveridge
Indiana
Captain Butt
Secret Service Guard
Senator Beveridge
The Weather Forecast for-Minois
The forecast calls for clear skies and much colder conditions today. Expect fair weather and rising temperatures tomorrow with lighter winds and no precipitation indicated.
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Minois
Brazilian Diplomat Hes Sudden Monday Gifford Pinchot
A Brazilian diplomat received an unexpected ovation at the Civic Federation Conference. The event honored notable international figures and featured remarks from several officials including Gifford Pinchot.
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Civic Federation
Re elect Lewis President at UMWA convention
Indianapolis January 18 1 860 miners at the United Mine Workers of America convention demand higher wages and better mining conditions with all delegations present It is generally conceded T L Lewis has defeated William Green for national president Edwin Perry faced no opposition as national secretary treasurer
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Middle West
United Mine Workers of America
Indianapolis
Lewis
Perry
Reunion
T. L. Lewis
William Green
Coshocton
Edwin Perry
Workingmen Boycott Meat Spreads in Cleveland Shops
Resolutions urging abstinence from meat for at least thirty days circulate among workers in Cleveland large shops with the aim to reach about 50 000 men. Backed by members of the Superintendents and Foremen club the movement seeks to reduce prices.
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Cleveland, O
Superintendents’ and
Chicago Markets Report 1910: Cattle Hogs Sheep Prices
Market data from Chicago shows steady to higher tones in some classes with cattle slow after yesterday's decline. Hog ranges top near 8.75, with light and mixed packers near 8.40 to 8.75, heavy grades 8.45 to 8.90. Sheep and lambs exhibit strength, wolves-— unseen, while receipts run large. Furnished by Beach-Wickham Grain Company.
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Texas
Beach-Wickham Grain Company
Chicago
Local Market Prices In Washington City
The Washington City market lists prevailing prices for assorted goods. Entries include cant 2, monesteoke 0.55 to 0.60, hay by load about 12 dollars per load, straw by load 4 to 5 dollars, flour per sack 1.60 to 1.70, bran and shorts per hundred around 1.50, corn meal 10 percent sk around 0.20, buckwheat 10 percent sk about 0.00.
John A. Babcock Case at North American Live Stock
John A. Babcock involved in a case at North American Live Stock Commission Company located at U S Stock Yards in Chicago. Details specify a legal or formal action tied to stock trading or commodity dealings. Authorities or court actions are not fully disclosed in the fragment.
Senior Nabuco Dies in Washington Embassy
Brazilian Ambassador to the United States Joaquim Nabuco died suddenly at the embassy in Washington from apoplexy. He was sixty one, survived by a widow and five children. President Taft was among first to condolence, visiting the embassy with his aide. Nabuco had served until death after four years as ambassador, previously four years as Brazilian minister in London. The embassy occupies the Daniel E B Sickles residence near the White House.
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Washington
London
Taft
Joaquim Nabuco
United States
Nabuco
Senhor Nabuco
Butt
White House
Daniel EB. Sickles
Jackson Place
State Department
Chandler Hale
Milk inquiry before referee continued in New York
Hearings before Referee William G Brown in the milk inquiry were continued. Three witnesses testified milk was plentiful upstate with no clear reason for price increases. Farmer Harry Vail said he produced 44 900 quarts in the last year and sold to Bordens at price set by the Consolidated Exchange of Burdens.
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New York
William G. Brown
John B. Coleman
Harry Vail
New Milford
Coleman
Bordens
Vail
Consolidated Exchange of Burdens
Borden Company
Stiles to Represent Health Service at Hookworm Conference
Dr. C. L. W. Stiles, credited with discovering hookworm disease in the south, is detailed by the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service to represent the society at a conference on hookworm disease in Atlanta, Ga. The convention runs today and Wednesday.
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Washington
CL WW. Stiles
South
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Atlanta
House to Consider Bill Creating Bureau of Mines
Washington January 18 The house set aside Tuesday January 25 for consideration of a bill to create a bureau of mines in a resolution that was passed.
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Bureau of Mines
Washington
House
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