Roosevelt admits act in steel trust case
Former President Theodore Roosevelt testifies in the government’s suit to dissolve U S Steel and says his approval of the Tennessee Coal and Iron deal was justified by dealing with a panic. He emphasizes no motive could have changed his action and defends decisions amid cross examination.
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New York
William Hills Corey
United States Steel Corporation
Henry E. Brown
Department of Justice
Europe
Roosevelt
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Theodore Roosevelt
Steel Trust
Jacob M. Dickinson
Stanley Committee
Messrs
Frick and
Gary
Bonaparte
R. V. Lindabury
Steel Corporation
Standard Oil
Lindabury
Garfield
Bureau of Corporations
Dickinson
Tennessee Coal and Iron
Four Miners Arrested in $50,000 Leadville Gold Theft
New York detectives say four miners were arrested at Pennsylvania Station after a dispatch from Leadville reported gold dust and nuggets worth over 50,000 stolen from mines there. Nuggets were found strapped around the men in belts.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Leadville
Colo
Jiff Shrader
Governor Pushes Jersey Trust Bills in Meeting Call
Governor Ileano Jane moves to push corporation law reform in New Jersey by drafting bills and urging a joint session of both houses for next Tuesday. He denies plan for public hearings and says the measures are businesslike and non sensational.
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Trenton
N. J
Ilean Jane
New Jersey
Edward R. Walker
Wilson
United States
Senators Plan Ball and Reception for President Wilson
Senator Martine of New Jersey says he will propose a resolution to hold a ball and reception in the capitol to honor President Wilson. The plan follows the joint committee's refusal to fund festivities after Governor Wilson vetoed the usual inaugural ball in the pension building.
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Washington
Martine
New Jersey
Gore
Wilson
Capitol
Joint Committee of
Crane
Pension
One Veil Weds Fifteen Brides in City Ceremony
A single heirloom veil tied to fourteen prior marriages was used again by Eleanor Bohm at her wedding to Harry Ross of Yonkers. The family keeps the veil under careful superstition as each union under it is believed to bring happiness.
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New York
Eleanor Bohm
Harry Ross
Yonkers
Stimson approves Gettysburg reunion plan for fiftieth anniversary
Secretary of War Stimson authorizes a Gettysburg veterans reunion to mark the 50th anniversary. Funds include 150000 from Congress, 200000 from Pennsylvania, and state support for veteran transport. The encampment on the battlefield will host up to 100000 people with 54000 tents and extensive facilities across 276 acres.
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Stimson
Washington
Gettysburg
Batte Field
Congress
Pennsylvania
War Department
Army of Veterans
Manila
Rea
Abuluguer
Equitable Trust Sues National Bank of Commerce
The Equitable Trust Company of New York filed suit in federal district court in St. Louis for 150000 against the National Bank of Commerce of St. Louis. The case relates to financing of Lola Portland Cement Company of Lola Kansas and alleges a secret agreement to supply 2750000 to buy 110000 shares of cement stock with half funded by the bank and half raised from others using cement stock as security.
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St. Louis
Equitable Trust Company of
New York
Federal District Court
National Bank of Commercce of
Lola Portland Cement Company
Lola, Kan
National Bank of Commerce
Labor Leader Released on Bond in Dynamite Conspiracy Case
Leavenworth reports William C. Bernhardt of Cincinnati released on bond after entering federal prison with other leaders convicted in the dynamite conspiracy. In New York Amii Dodd, longtime president and director of Mutual Benefit Life, dies at Bloomfield home in his 90s.
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Leavenworth
Kan
William C. Bernhardt
Cincinnati
Life Insurance Company
New York
Amii Dodd
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of
Bloomfield
Dodd
Jury Deadlocks in Conley Murder Case
After nineteen hours of deliberation, the jury could not agree on the murder charge against John C. Conley in the January 4 killing of Mrs. Bertha Anderson. The panel was discharged without a verdict in Minneapolis.
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Minneapolis
John C. Conley
Bertha Anderson
No Senate race choice in Concord partisan balance
In Concord New Hampshire January 23 the legislature faced a clear result with no senator chosen as yet. The twenty one Progressives hold the balance of power while Henry P Hollis a Democrat led the scattered votes in the chamber.
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Concord
N. H
United States
Henry P. Hollis
Rebels Seek Peace in Chihuahua As Peace Talks Advance
Consul Letcher reports rebels in Chihuahua seeking peace and that federal peace commissioners are being sent by special train to negotiate. The surrender would cover all rebel chiefs in the state. In Charleston, 82 ballots in a deadlocked Senate keep Bland and French tied amid ongoing stalemate.
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Letcher
Chihuahua
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Aguilar
Cordoba
Felix Diaz
Washington
Charleston
W. Va
State
Senate
Bland
French
Bitter suffrage fight pits bills against enfranchising women
London news reports bitter parliamentary clashes as the House of Commons prepares to debate amendments to the franchise reform bill. Proposals would enfranchise 1,000,000 wealthy women, 6,000,000 including wives of electors, and 11,000,000 all women age twenty one, with debates over removing the word male from the opening clause.
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London
England
House of Commons
Edward Grey
Labor Party
Parcel Post Stamps Demand Reaches High Total
Washington reports parcel post stamps printed and distributed total 329.5 million up to now. Before January 1 153.29 million stamps issued. In three weeks 156.2 million stamps supplied to post offices. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing must print at 12 million stamps daily to meet demand.
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Washington
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Wabash Shopmen Win Wage Increase Agreement
A wage raise of six to ten percent was agreed for 2,000 Wabash railroad workers in the shops after talks between EK E Needham superintendent and a union shopmen committee in Springfield on January 23. The conference set the new pay scale now awaiting formal approval.
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Springfield
Lil
EK. E. Needham
Wabash
The
Physician Predicts Unsafe Testimony From William Rockefeller
Washington reports secret Pure committee talks on testing William Rockefeller about copper corner. Dr W F Chappell warns that more than twenty minutes of questioning could trigger laryngeal spasms and dangerous hemorrhages. Debate includes Samuel Untermyer, Pujo, and Drs Chappell and Richardson over safety and procedure.
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Washington
Samuel Untermyer
Palm Beach
William Rockefeller
Garver
Rockefeller
Pujo
Doctor Chappell
W. F. Chappell
C. W. Ricardson
Mr. Rockefeller
Untermyer
Deetorson
Richardson
Doctor Richardson
Peto
Pilgrims Drown In Egypt Flood Disaster
A flood near Medina and Yembo drowned 350 Mohammedan pilgrims from India bound for Mecca. The caravan at Dinela camp was overwhelmed by rain and a mountain avalanche sweeping tents away. Only a portion of the pilgrims survived and reached Yembo.
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Suekim
Egypt
India
Mecca
Medina
Arebia
Yembo
Dinela
Yombo
Ordinary Seaman Killed on Arkansas Near War Seas
Word reached the War Department that Andrew H. Gloecke of Chicago, an ordinary seaman aboard the Arkansas, was killed while boat in the Arkansas River waters.
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Washington
War Department
Andrew H. Gloecke
Chicago
Arkansas
Arkansas Isip
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J. W. Ragsdale
Corey
Big Corporation
U. S
Harris & Ewing
Florence
S. C
Leadville, Colo
Gotham Police
Jersey
Joseph R. Wilson
Jessie Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
OLD Soldiers
Sues Big ST. Louis Bank
Equitable Trust
Leonard Wood
Wood
Army
Magnate
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