Plan for tariff talks with US and Germany outlined
Berlin Jan. 28. Tariff commissioners from the United States and Germany ended talks. The plan envisages a possible commercial treaty if Congress and the Reichstag approve. The commissions report harmonious sessions and an exchange of value views, with long-term mutual benefits foreseen if approved.
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Berlin
United States
Joint Commission
Reichstag
American Congress
Foreign Office
Roosevelt
Diug
Woman declines North Carolina pension for Confederate widow
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson declines a $100 monthly pension, citing NC law on property limits and asks the funds be used to aid destitute Confederate widows. The pension bill is withdrawn. Also reported is the death of Major William Gillette, a 60 year old Civil War veteran famed as a fifer who enlivened veterans’ reunions.
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Raleigh
N. C
Senate of North Carolina
Madison
Wis
Willam Gillette
Bland
Quantrella
Opinion Filed Over Rulings on Rail Indictments
An opinion was filed in the United States district court in Minneapolis over ruling the litigants on indictments in releases by the Government against the Omaha Great Northern Wisconsin Central and Minneapolis and St. Louis railroads. Trials will proceed at the April term of court.
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St. Paul, Minn
United States District
Curt
Minneapolis
Omaha
Great Northern
Wisconsin Central
Mineapolis
St. Louis
Explosion Threatens Saarbruck Miners and Harbor Dwellers
A severe rain squall in Hong Kong sinks over fifty Chinese craft and drowns more than 100 natives. In Saarbrück, Germany, a fire damp explosion at Riden shaft entombs hundreds of coal miners with 164 bodies recovered and about 300 missing. A Leivin mine disaster in Lens, France, reports many fatalities.
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Hong Kong
the Evening Journal
Saarbruck
Rhenish Prussia
The
Evening Journal
Riden Shaft
Lens
France
Leivin
Courriers
Northwestern trains switch to oil power in Wyoming
The Northwestern railroad completed three months of oil burning locomotive experiments and ordered all Wyoming locomotives converted to oil fuel. It will drill oil wells along the Caspar right of way to supply its line, replacing 24,000 pounds of coal per 1,600 gallons of oil.
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Lander
Wyo
Northwestern Railroad
Western Division
Wyoming
Northwestern
Casper
Iowa
Death of Col Thomas Dugan Foutz Ex-Kansas Civil War Hero
Wichita Kansas January 28 Colonel Thomas Dugan Foutz aged 82 former colonel of the One Hundred Thirty-seventh Indiana volunteers in the Civil War and a well known figure in early Kansas history has died.
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Wichita
Kan
Thomas Dugan Foutz
One Hundred and Thirty
Indiana Volunteers
Kansas
Kansas City
Ellen D. Morris
Hastings
Neb
Miss Morris
Frances Willard
First Zero Weather Reaches Detroit This Winter
Detroit January 28 records a below zero temperature for the first time this winter as the official weather bureau thermometer reads 2 degrees below at 8 a.m. The cold snap affects Detroit and eastern Michigan with transport delays and hardships.
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Detroit
Michigan
Official Weather Bureau
Governor Pardee and the Japanese
California Governor George C. Pardee criticizes President Roosevelt's Pacific coast policy toward Japanese immigrants in a legislature address. The physician and irrigation expert expresses courteous, conservative views and notes his long public service and prominent Sacramento and San Francisco family.
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George C. Pardee
California
Roosevelt
Pacific Coast
Pardee
Sacramento
San Francisco
Second Class Rates and Ads Reform for Newspapers
Washington reports the joint postal commission's recommendations to reform second class mail. Key provisions limit ads to 50 percent of issue area, require uniform paper size for sections, apply all newspaper rules to sections, allow up to 10 percent sample mailing, and force clear pricing when articles are bundled with subscriptions. A postal appeals commission would decide disputes.
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Washington
Jat
Joint Postal Commission
Congress
Regulation of Supplements in Periodicals
The proposed law governs inclusion and format of newspaper supplements. Supplements must be paper or board, differ in form from the main issue, and may not contain advertisements. They should cover matters germane to the regular issue and help complete content left incomplete in the main publication.
Senate Adjourns Early For Senator Alger Funeral
Washington June 28 The senate met for just over an hour before adjourning to attend Senator Alger's funeral. Much time was devoted to Hale's resolution seeking inquiry into naval officers personal interest in the navy personnel bill, which was referred. The house debated the agricultural appropriation bill, with free seed distribution for gardens dominating the session.
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Washington
Jun
Senate
Alger
Hale
House
Signs of a Revolution in Guatemala Suspected
A Pacific Mail shipment on the City of Para carried 270 cases of powder and cartridges to Champerico and San Jose Guatemala with no concealment. A prior Inner City of Sydney shipment totaling 600 cases of war materiel was sent south two weeks earlier. Pacific Mail officers cannot determine the final use, fueling belief a new revolution may be imminent in Guatemala.
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San Francisco
Guatemala
Pacific Mail
Para
Panama
Champerico
San Jose d E
Sydney
Strike Against the Packers Rises in Chicago Labor Push
In Chicago on January 28 labor unions renewed the demand for recognition from the meat packers and warned concessions would be sought if not granted.
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Chicago
Workmen Prepare to Strike to Press Packers Terms
Workmen declare plans to go on strike to secure better pay and hours. They announce demands for an eight hour day and a minimum wage of 88 to be presented to the big packers through the International Association of Machinists.
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International Association of Machin
Machinists’ Union
Mail for Mrs. Roosevelt Held
Upper Alton Missouri January 28 a letter addressed to Mrs Theodore Roosevelt in the post office here will be forwarded to her when she sends two cents for postage as required by regulations the postmaster forwarded a formal notice. He believes the writer assumed letters to the president or his wife would be delivered free.
Death of Rev. Dr. Henry M. Field in Stockbridge
Pittsfield Massachusetts January 28 The Rev Dr Henry M Wield last of the Wield brothers is dead in Stockbridge aged 84 The brothers Cyrus W Field Stephen J and David Dudley gained fame Cyrus Field laid the first Atlantic cable Stephen J served on the United States Supreme Court David Dudley was a renowned lawyer
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Henry M. Field
Pittsfield
Mass
Henry M. Wield
Wield Brothers
Stockbridge
Cyrus W. Stephen J
David Dudley
Cyrus W. Field
Stephen J
United States Supreme Court
Chicago Markets Trade Summary January 28 1907
Market reports show mixed hog and cattle quotes with steady to higher live prices and receipts for yesterday today and tomorrow. Hog prices range from 6 70 to 6 95 with heavy shipping grades 6 75 to 6 90 while cattle and sheep markets vary from steady to slow amid large weekly receipts and cautious demand.
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Texas
John A Babcock Seeks Clearer Deal With North American Commission
John A. Babcock engages with The North American Commission Company seeking a fairer arrangement. He asks to be contacted at any time for negotiations and stresses a straightforward, square deal.
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The
North American Commission Company
Last Look at Michigan Senator Alger Lays in State
Michigan Senator Russell A Alger lies in state at Detroit city hall as nearly 60,000 pass by the casket. Veterans from Civil War to Spanish War attend, with escorts from the Seventh Infantry and Spanish War Veterans. The funeral procession proceeds to the senator’s Fort Street home before services at 2:40 p.m. today.
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Detroit
Riutssel A. Alwer
Seventh Infantry
United States
Fort Street
W. B. Thompson
Common Council
Federal
Washington
Michigan Central Railroad
W. T. Thompson
City Hall
4. A. Tt
Jefferson
Woodward Avenues
Alger
Hill calls Minnesota suit against railway futile
Minneapolis reports President James J. Hill of the Great Northern dismissing the state's bid to cancel the St. Paul Minneapolis and Manitoba railways charter. He challenges the watered stock claim as unnecessary and untrue and notes Manitoua owns most lines, administering land grants while leasing operation to the Great Northern for seventeen years.
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Minneapolis
Hill
Manitoua Company
Great Northern
Minnesota
Falls While Skating and Dies
Jerre Haute Indiana January twenty eight Charles Millio of Grand View DL fell while skating and died from a fractured skull.
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Jerre Haute
Ind
Charles Millio
Grand View
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Chinese Harbor
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Lexington, Ky
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Cass
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Erie
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Grain Market
John A. Babcock
Chicago, Ill
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