Premier Franco Nips Revolution in Portugal Attempt
Lisbon dispatch reports an abortive royalist bid to crown a republic was thwarted last night. Police raided the ringleaders led by Joao Chagres, a republican journalist, capturing Franco Berger and Grendella. revolvers and bombs were found, with festivities as cover. The plan aimed to assassinate Premier France and trigger street uprisings with republican and labor groups.
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Lisbon
Badajoz
Spain
Portugal
France
Joao Chagres
Franco Berger
O. Mundo
Grendella
Premature Outbreak in Lisbon Ends with Censorship
A general alarm, troop deployments, and cavalry around Premier Franco's house followed a failed conspiracy led by Chagres. After the 1891 revolt he fled to Brazil, then returned to Portugal amid amnesty. Police hold details. further arrests expected. Bernading Machado faction unimplicated. Diario Ilustrado warns agitators will be treated as criminals.
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Jall
Premier Franco
Chagres
Brazil
Portugal
Franco
Lisbon
Bernading Machado
Diario Ilustrado
Depositors Get Their Money From Bank Failure
Pittsburg Jan 24 Depositors for the Monongahela Valley bank of Duquesne suburb which failed two years ago have received checks covering the amount of their deposits in a final settlement of the bank failure principal and interest included with the last payments made to claimants
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Pittsburg
Jan
Monongahela Valley Bank
Duquesne
Charged With Baby Murder at Paw Paw Michigan
In Paw Paw Michigan on January 24 a murder case draws unusual attention. M D Morehouse is charged with shooting to death two year old William Fralick adopted son of Morehouse’s foster daughter. The baby died after a bullet wound in the head. A loaded pistol with a discharged cartridge lay near the door. The mother had left the child in Morehouse care while she visited Grand Rapids.
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Paw Paw
Mich
M. D. Morehouse
South Haven
William Fralick
Grand Rapids
Morehouse
Breckinridge Claims Smokeless Burning Of Soft Coal
Professor L P Breckinridge head of Illinois University mechanical engineering and federal fuel testing chief announces he has solved the smokiness problem of burning soft coal. A bulletin details boiler settings furnaces and smokeless operation at the power plant and university experiment station.
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Champaign
L. P. Breckinridge
University of Illinois
United States
Illinois
Breckinridge
Outrage by Whitecaps in Meadville Area
Dr W B Carter a veterinarian was waylaid eleven miles from Meadville and beaten by masked assailants who hanged him by thumbs and whipped him to force a confession of wife beating and petty theft. He was ordered to leave the country within thirty days and remains bedbound with injuries. He denies the charges and vows to stay.
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Brookfield
W. BE. Carter
Meadville
Carter
Baggage Car Burned Near Waco Shriners Fire
A group of 100 Shriners returning from Mexico lost their baggage car in a fire on the Missouri Kansas and Texas line near Waco Texas after a gasoline stove explosion. The blaze destroyed all baggage and curios. many women were in the party.
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Waco
Tex
Shriners
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Mexico
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Senator McKenzie Calls for Armed Self-Defense Remedy
Springfield Illinois January 24 Senator Joe C McKenzie urges a hard line against crime by arming victims as a solution to holdups and thuggery. He argues that if criminals faced armed resistance they would retreat and the public would be spared terror and waves of crime.
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Springfield
Ill
Joe C. McKenzie
Paris Gayety Girls Burlesque Manager Fined in Connersville
Towler manager of the Paris Gayety Girls burlesque troupe was arrested in Connersville Indiana and fined 80 dollars for exhibiting advertising matter deemed indecent. The police chief attended the show and observed proprieties were upheld.
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Connersville
Ind
Towler
Paris
Constantine the Murderer Dies in Prison Injuries
Joliet Illinois January 24 Frank J Constantine the man who killed Mrs Louise Gentry in Chicago and who attempted suicide by leaping from an upper stairs gallery at the state penitentiary is dead from the injuries suffered Constantine remained unconscious since the fall and did not speak.
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Constantine
Joliet, IL
Frank J. Constantine
Louise Gentry
Chicago
State Penitentiary
Balloon Voyage Off in Quincy Flight Postponed
The balloon voyage planned from Quincy by members of the Chicago Aeronautical Club has been declared off due to stormy weather and insufficient buoyancy from coal gas. Aeronaut Sy Baldwin announced the postponement from Quincy on January 24.
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Quincy
Chicago Aeronautical Club
Sy” Baldwin
Quincy Aeronaut
Swedish minister Krantz to US replaced as interim in Copenhagen
Stockholm Jan 24. Dropping from Krantz the Swedish minister to the United States has been appointed minister ad interim at Copenhagen.
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Stockholm
Krantz
United States
Copenhagen
Plot to Arm Haytian Rebels Revealed in New York
New York report details a secret service uncovering a plan to arm Haytian revolutionists with 2000 Remington rifles 230000 rounds of ammunition and 800000 in Haytien counterfeit money. Giordani linked to the conspiracy. Charles Mich the U. S. consular agent in St Marc implicated.
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New York
Washington
Haytien
Flynn
Secret Service Bureau
Giordani
Shields
Washington Dispatch
Hayti
Santo Domingo
Cuba
Jose M. Giordani
Secret Service
Charles Mich
United States
St. Marc
State Department
Furniss
Port-au-Prince
Magoon
General Firman
Graecia
C. Meriam & Co
Consignee
Gonaives
Steamship Company
Haytiand
Giordani Arrest Details Prompt Secret Service Chief
Chief Wilkie of the secret service spoke in Washington revealing facts and circumstances surrounding Giordani’s arrest and the possession involved at the time of the arrest.
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Wilkie
Secret Service
Washington
Giordani
Japan Diet Rejects Censure Motion Against Government
In Tokio the lower house defeated a motion to censure the government by 177 to 168 after a three and a half hour debate. An unusual alliance of progressives with the Daido club and Yuko Wai opposed the government, aiming to topple the cabinet. The result leaves the cabinet in power and likely clears the budget.
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Tokio
Progressives
Daido Club
Yuko Wai Party
Boy Lost in the Mountains Near Los Angeles
Bennie A. Walker son of Mr and Mrs William Walker Canton Ohio is missing in the mountains since January 15 in Los Angeles California authorities search for him and hold concern for his safety.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Bennie A. Walker
William Walker
Canton
Sweep hits Tenderloin district of Sault Ste. Marie
Police conducted a night raid on the Tenderloin area of Sault Ste. Marie Michigan on January 24. The morning after the raid the jail was filled with men and women, described as the most sweeping operation in the city’s history, with many arrests of women in the district.
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Tenderloin
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Missing Woman Searched For But Not Found
Adrian Michigan residents and fifty neighbors scoured day and night for Mrs Jared Van Fleet Ridgeway spouse of a local farmer after she vanished in a wrapper and shawl while her husband tended chores.
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Adrian, Mich
Jared van Fleet
Ridgeway
Market report on hogs cattle and sheep trading
Chicago market notes for January 24, 1908 show official receipts yesterday at 55 087 and shipments 7 591. Estimated receipts today 35 000 with hogs at 4 10 to 4 40 and cattle at 3 70 to 4 65. Sheep values range 3 25 to 5 50 with western lambs 5 00 to 7 00 and yearlings 4 90 to 5 65.
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Texas
Advance Light
Grain and beef market quotes from Beach-Wickham
The report lists trading ranges for cattle and sheep and various grain and freight grades with prices. Beach Wickham Grain Company provides the figures and the Chicago postal telegraph bidding office is noted.
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Beach- Wickham Grain Company
Chicago
John A. Babcock Ad in Chicago Illinois
An advertising note from John A. Babcock in Chicago Illinois offers services with assurances of a square deal and invites contact at any time for business.
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Sjall
Detsch Trial Focuses on Wife Allegations in Murder Case
The Andrew Detsch murder trial in Philadelphia centers on whether he used his wife to lure Harry Ferree to her door. Prosecutors contend Ferree was killed to cover an adultery plot. Detsch testifies he mistook Ferree for a burglar and acted to protect his wife.
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Philadelphia
Andrew Jackson Detsch
Harry Ferree
Ferree
Detsch
Three Men Hunted Down In Portage Sicily Robbery Case
In Portage a paymaster named Campbell who was wounded and a driver killed years ago in Messina inspired the hunt for three alleged accomplices Carmela Cavalli Rosario Degrazio and Giuseppe Jeformo. Carabinieri and six officers raided a house where the men fought but surrendered. Another accomplice Francesco had been arrested months earlier.
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Messina
Sicily
Portage
Campbell
Hay
Carmela Cavalli
Rosario Degrazio
Giuseppe Jeformo
Francesco
Fight with Day Riders in Owingsville Colorado tobacco delivery
Thomase and Munford Everman brothers attempt to deliver their tobacco to a Mount Sterling dealer after warnings. They are met by armed men who fire. the Evermans and neighbors return fire. About 100 shots exchanged, routing the assailants. A blood pool on the road suggests injuries.
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Owingsville
Thomase
Munford Everman
Mount Sterling
Evermans
Death of Terre Haute's oldest physician Dr. Allen Pence
Dr. Allen Pence aged eighty nine died in Terre Haute Ind He was the city's oldest physician having come to practice there in 1844 His death marks the end of a long medical career in the community.
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Allen Pence
Terre Haute
Ind
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Ohio
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Minn
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Meidfield
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Clyde
Lewis Woodman
Blanche Adkins
Lake Gardner
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North American Commission Company
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