Subsidies approved to aid American shipping and trade
President Roosevelt asked Congress to pass a measure to subsidize U S steamship lines to South America and the Orient, arguing it is essential, non exploratory, and based on proven precedents like the Cunard contract. He cites Europe Japan subsidies and higher U S wages as factors demanding government support to protect commerce.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
South America
Root
Hawaii
Philippines
Europe
Great Britain
Japan
United States
Senate Approves Salary Increase for Officials
Washington dispatch reports the Senate accepted the House plan to raise salaries to 7500 dollars for senators representatives and territorial delegates and 12000 dollars for the vice president the speaker and cabinet members by a 53 to 21 vote. Beveridge opened with a long address on child labor and the House debated the pension bill and tariff issues as the session adjourned.
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Washington
Senate
House of Representatives
House
Beveridge
Prosvenor
Shonts Resigns Post as Isthmian Canal Chairman
Washington January 24 The president has accepted effective March 4 the resignation of Theodore P Shonts as chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission He resigns to take a higher salary as president of the company controlling New York City street car lines The letter of acceptance is cordial and friendly
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Shonts
Washington
Theodore P. Shonts
Isthmian Canal Commission
New York City Street Car Lines
Maryland gets new national committeeman Talbott named
Thos. Taggart announces J. F. C. Talbott of Lutherville Maryland will serve as the Maryland member of the Democratic national committee replacing the late J. Victor Baughman of Baltimore.
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Ireneh Lick Springs
Ind
Thos. Taggart
Democratic National Committee
J. F. C. Talbott
Lutherville
National Committee
Maryland
J. Victor Baughman
Baltimore
Fire Destroys Street Cars in Huntington Yard
Fire destroyed the Camden Interstate Street Railway car barns in Huntington West Virginia with seventeen of twenty street cars inside burned beyond use. The blaze caused total loss of rolling stock and damaged facilities, authorities reported.
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Huntington
W. Va
Camden Interstate Street Railway
Destruction cripples street railway traffic on main avenue
The incident, valued at about $120000 and insured, destroyed several cars and halted street railway service reaching Gayandotte West Virginia to Ashland Kentucky and Ironton Ohio. Several residents sleeping in the building escaped with narrow margins.
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Gayandotte
W. Va
Ashland
Ironton
Twenty Miners Die in Colorado Mine Explosion
Twenty miners were killed in an explosion at the Colorado nel and Tron company mine near Primero Colorado. Two identified dead are Frank Hobat and R J Lumley the fire boss others are unnamed and mostly Italians. The shift boss is missing and the blast stopped the air fan making survival unlikely.
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Trinidad
Colo
Colorado Nel and Tron Company
Primero
Frank Hobat
R. J. Lumley
Lumley
Commission in a Quandary Over Carnegie Hero Medal
The Carnegie hero fund commission confronts a dilemma after learning Mrs. Nettie Stutchel, widow and beneficiary, eloped with a married man linked to an old moonshine depot. She received $1,000 and a bronze medal previously mailed, now under review as to the medal’s fate.
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Pittsburg
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Pennsylvania
Nettie Stutchel
Bill Pritts
Indian Creek
Stutchel
Hero Fund Commission
Commission
Suit Against Grand Rapids Over Street Bonds
Samuel A. Kean of Chicago filed in Superior Court a $10,000 damages suit against Grand Rapids Michigan alleging the city refused to deliver $300,000 street improvement and sewer bonds issued last fall. He says his sealed bid was $300,150 and that the city waived the 3 percent guarantee and awarded him the issue but later failed to deliver. Kean notes the market value rose and he sold the bonds for $506,000, yet the city withholds them from his customer.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Samuel A. Kean
Chicago
Kean
Murdered the Wrong Man at Rice Lake Party
In Crandon Wisconsin on January 24 Joseph Hettinger mistook Martin Guechock 21 of Seymour for August Lipak after a quarrel and shot Guehock dead at a birthday party at William Lice home in Rice Lake. He then shot himself and is in a critical condition. Hettinger confessed to the coroner.
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Crandon
Wis
Martin Guechock
Seymour
August Lipak
Joseph Hettinger
Guehock
William Lice
Rice Lake
Hettinger
University Seeks 2 6 Million Appropriation
The University of Illinois trustees completed an appropriation bill seeking 2 6 million dollars for the institution. Urbana banquet hosts included Urbana Commercial club figures with remarks by President James and S A Ballard, Federal Judge M Wright, J J Rea and F H Boggs.
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University
Urbana
Ill
University of Illinois
James
S. A. Ballard
M. Wright
J. J. Rea
F. H. Boggs
Bailey Re-Elected Senator
Joseph W. Bailey was re elected to the United States senate by the Texas legislature with 108 votes in the two houses to 45 for his opponents. The contest to block his term continues as before and Bailey vows to resign if the charges against him are proven true.
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Bailey
Austin
Tex
Joseph W. Bailey
United States Senate
Germany and Denmark Seal Unsettled Question Treaty
Berlin January 24 relations between Germany and Denmark have been strengthened by a treaty that settles the only remaining disputed issue between them.
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Germany
Denmark
Berlin
Mammoth Skeleton to Welcome Visitors at Alaska Building
The Alaska Yukon Pacific show in Seattle 1909 will feature the actual remains of a prehistoric mammoth found in Alaska the previous summer. Taxidermists mounted the mammoth with hide hair tusks and hooves displayed in front of the Alaska building. The skeleton, frozen in ice, preserves flesh and presents a size comparison with a human.
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Pacific Northwest
Alaska
Yukon-Pacific
Seattle
Mammoth
No Naval Mammoths Passes House Amid Tugboat Noise Fight
Washington dispatch notes no naval mammoths bill clearing the House despite Roosevelt urging two Dreadnoughts. The piece highlights opposition led by Hale and a shift toward submarine torpedo boats for coast defense. It also covers tugboat whistle noise complaints, Beveridge’s illustrated speech, Carmack leaving public service, and jokes about Watson.
Gas Pump Fight Tests Legality of Natural Gas Use
A Delaware county circuit court trial over pumping stations will decide if gas pumps are legal in Indiana. The Ilo Oil Co sues the Indiana Natural Gas and Oil Co for damages and a permanent injunction after claims of reduced supply near Fairmount. Judge Paulos previously upheld the complaint in Grant County, sending the case on venue.
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Munele
Tod
Delaware County
Indiana
Lo Ol
Indiana Natural Gas and O1 Company
Fairmount
Ilo
Grant County
Sait
Indiana Company
Paulos
Charlotte Girl Responds To Death Notice In Letters
Marie Chappell, once of Charlotte, Michigan, writes from Grand Rapids that she is alive and well. She replies to clippings from Charlotte papers praising her and mourning an untimely departure, based on a letter from a nurse Edith Adams that carried a funeral notice.
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Charlotte, Mich
Marie Chappell
Charlotte
Grand Rapids
Frank Snyder
Market report from Chicago on January 24, 1907
Estimated receipts 33000 with yesterday's 350926 official shipments 10519 yesterday. Cattle dull 8000. beef cattle and western stockers steady to mixed. Hogs slow at early prices 6.40 to 6.66 for light and mixed packers. heavy shipping grades 6.40 to 6.60. Sheep and lambs 14000 steady. natives 3.30 to 5.75. western 3.50 to 5.45. yearlings 5.75 to 6.65. lambs 5.15 to 7.75 with western lambs 5.25 to 7.65.
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Texas
John A Babcock Chicago Note
John A Babcock of Chicago sends a brief message offering to respond anytime and promising a square deal, with a concise closing statement.
Mauna Loa Eruption Dazzles Hawaii With Fire and Light
Reports from Honolulu dated January 16 describe Mauna Loa erupting at midnight as lava bursts from near the summit forming a glowing column that lights up clouds. A fiery river then descends the mountain’s gentle slope, while observers abroad call the spectacle magnificent and without lasting danger to life or property.
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San Francisco
Honolulu
Tlawaui
Hawaii
Mauna Loa
Isle of Hawaii
Mauna Joa
Thia
Cataclysmic lava flow paints night sky over sea
The article describes a spectacular lava cascade from a volcanic eruption, visible for about 100 miles, forming a glowing pillar of fire and smoke as it descends toward the Pacific. The source remains distant from towns, unreachable through rough jungle and lava fields, with deadly steam at the contact point yet a widening area of heat and mist.
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Pacific
Two Holdups in Paris Illinois End in Nonfatal Shootings
In Paris Illinois on January 24 two robberies occurred within blocks of the business district. Barney O Connor and Hugh Mulcahy railroad workers were accosted by two men with revolvers. Mulcahy was knocked down and O Connor was shot twice while entering the Eagle hotel. A later robbery near the southern city area targeted attorney Jed W Dundas, who lost his watch and ten dollars.
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Paris
Eagle Hotel
Barney O'Connor
Hugh Mulcahy
Mulcahy
O'Connor
Jed W. Dundas
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Department of Commerce and Labor
L’anama Canal
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McMillin
Senator Carmack
Tennessee
Brownsville
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Watson
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