One-Term Presidential Plan Faces Senate Vote
The Senate debated a constitutional resolution for a single six-year term and direct presidential elections by popular vote. Amendments to exempt Taft, Wilson, and Roosevelt were defeated as Republicans and Progressive Republicans clashed over limits on reelection.
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Wilson
Roosevelt
Senate
Owen
Bursh
Bourne Bustow Clapp Crawford
Dixon Gronna Jones
Kenyon la Follette
Poinchester
McLean
Connecticut
Townsend
Michigal
Ayshur
Brian Chamberlain Chilton
Culberson
Fletcher Johnson
Maine
Martie Mera Newlands
Overman
Owen Fery
Poemerene Shively
Smith
Arizona
Swanson
Maryland
Williams
Bradley
Brandegee
Burnhair Burton Catron Clark
Gamble Jackson
Lodge
SE Aber
Eleon Oliver Page
Penrose
Perayn Sanders Smoot
Otal
Bank 1
Arkandas
Johnston
Alabama
Tercy
Styimona Smith
Weongia
Thomas
Thornton
Paynters
Taft Wilson
Crawford
T. R
Roots
Hitchcock
Paynter
Works
Clapp
Williame
Col. Roosevelt
McCumber
Direct popular vote amendment eyed for President and VP
A proposed amendment seeks abolishing the electoral college and establishing direct popular vote for President and Vice President. Senators debate with support and opposition, noting risks of crisis from electoral action. other amendments on six-year terms were defeated. Contemporaneous: rumors Earl Beauchamp may succeed the Duke of Connaught as governor general of Canada.
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Yost
Ottama
Owen
Williams
Cummins
Oliver
Earl Beauchamp
Duke of Connaught
Longon
Canada
Storming Adrianople Looms as Balkan Forces Aim to Take Stronghold
Sofia dispatches report Bulgarian and Servian troops siege Adrianople plan a storm assault despite high casualties. Adrianople remains provisioned as skirmishing occurs at Tekatalia. Peace hopes persist though both sides accuse the other of bluffing. Izzet Pasha named Ottoman commander. Nazim Pasha's cabinet successor calls troops to uphold Thracian legacy.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Adrianople
Ee Tekeetalia
Bee
Constantinepts
Aitvide
Europe
Constantinople
Izzet Pasha
Vuhief
War Office
Kiam Pasha
Nazim Pasha
Thrace I
Miss Drummond to wed despite tragedy in Portsmouth
Miss Helen Beatrice Drummond prepares to marry Grover C. White in Norfolk amid the suicide of her rejected suitor William B. George. George shot himself before her home after she refused him, his body later buried at Oak Grove Cemetery as White secures a license to wed.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Grover C. White
Baltimore
Florida
Old Bay Line
Helen Beatrice Drummond
White
Miss Drummond
Oak Grove Cemetery
Migra Drummond
George
Mr. White
Texnorrow
Escort for Wilson and Confederate Veterans Parade Plan
Princeton students will escort Woodrow Wilson from Princeton to Washington for his inauguration centennial celebration. Confederate veterans from Tennessee will march in uniform with Civil War guns. Governors Locke Craig and William Sulzer and their staffs will attend the parade, with about 600 extra police planned for security.
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North Carolina
Gov. Shirer
New York
Cadeta
Indiana
Maj. Sylvester
Mr Wilson
Washington
Princeton Alumni Association of
White House
Taft
Capitol
Essex Cavalry Troop
New Jersey
Gay Roe le
Capital
Pringstonians
Civic Organi
Zations
Wilson P.M. Griffith
Nashville
Tenn
R . Harper
Civic Organizations Committee
Locke Craig
William Sulzer
Guv Wilson
Gardner in Wilsons Seat Remains an Omen at White House
Maine Senator Obadiah Gardner was kept in the cabinet room with the Maine delegation as they protested a customs service reorganization. Gardner sat at the table in the seat of the Secretary of Agriculture, prompting a lighthearted remark from President Taft-like imitation. The scene hinted at Gardner as a possible Wilson cabinet figure.
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Obadiah Gardner
White House
Flouse
Customs Service
Taft
Gardner
Wilson
Wilson will not be bound by suggested cabinet names
President elect Wilson said he will not limit his cabinet to names put forward by political leaders or candidates. He may nominate his own picks and does not recall all suggested candidates for State. Gardner remains a potential candidate with favorable views from National Grange.
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Wilson
National Grange
Philadelphia
Princeton
Bryan
Wilson Girls Attend Court In Night Session
Miss Eleanor Wilson and Miss Jessie Wilson daughters of the President elect sat with Mrs J Borden Harriman beside Magistrate Murphy as the night court disposed of cases against girl garment workers. Fines were imposed sentences suspended and advice given to operatives amid orderly proceedings.
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New York
Murphy
Eleanor Wilson
Jessie Wilson
J. Borden Harriman
Outlaw Robs Express Car On Stockyards Special
A masked thief robbed the safe of an express car in Chicago on the Stockyards Special train tonight and fled with a bag of currency thought to total several thousand dollars. An armed conductor fired two shots as the robber leaped from the rear, but the man escaped unharmed. The train connects Union stockyards and downtown banks.
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Chicago
Stockyards
Union Stock Yards
Cat Sparks Explosion in Gas Tank Incident
New London Connecticut January 31 city dog and cat officer Herbert A Dean ignited gas by tossing a cat into a pound tank used to asphyxiate animals. The tank exploded instantly with electric ignition blamed after engineers assessed batteries in the cat’s back. Dean plans to switch to dog use of tanks and explore other treatments for electrified cats.
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Washington Post
New London
Conn
Herbert A. Dean
Dean
Hungry coyote attacks man in Reno town chase ends in death
In Reno Nevada on January 31 a massive coyote entered hikes town seeking food due to heavy snows. Chris Eschelman confronted the animal as it attacked his dog. After a fierce struggle Eschelman killed the coyote but sustained severe bites.
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Washington Post
Reno
Nev
Hike
Chris Eschelman
Eschelman
Conductor Led by Vision Runs Train to Findlay Ohio
Fort Wayne Indiana January 31 Complying with a vision from God Conductor J L Steele of the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton Railway ran a train from Fort Wayne to Findlay Ohio today with only an engine and caboose. Friends urged him to abandon the run and he was arrested on arrival Lansdale Ohio January 31 pending a sanity investigation.
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Ind
J. L. Stééle
Cincinnati
Hamilton
Dayton
Findlay
Ohio
Tapstcker
Lansdale
San
Steele
Violent Pottery Strike in Trenton as Workers Clash With Strikebreakers
In Trenton New Jersey 1800 porcelain workers strikebreakers clash with strike supporters including women and girls. Stones bricks and knives injure several. Police arrest a dozen strikers and four men are hospitalized. A dynamite bomb destroys a Hudson porcelain works cellar office but the plant is otherwise undamaged.
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Trenton
N. J
Louis Fratta
Stephen Smyder
Dennis Tennich
Jerry Bennash
Hudson Porcelain Works
Seward Avenue
Queen Ena Expects Stork Visit In June
A Madrid to New York Sun dispatch reports that Queen Ena, formerly Princess of Battenberg, expects a stork visit in June. She is already mother to four children, two sons and two daughters, with Infanta Maria Christiana born in December 1511.
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Washington Posts
New York
Madrid
New York Sun
Battenberg
Infanta Maria Christiana
Hawley quits big bill pledge for uplifting masses
King of confidence men Hawley, alias Wrch CL Breita, plans to devote his talents to guiding masses toward utopia after meeting Inspector Cortelyou. The Bureau questions his pension scheme for the aged and Hawley agrees to halt further communications. He says he is an ardent socialist and will now pursue prison reform.
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Philadelphia
Ce Tnepector Cartelvasene
Haules
Wrch CL 'Breita
Mallonay
Fansion Bure
Bne
Anaphetor Cortelyou
C. Whodwari
Big Bill” Hawley
Tf Hawley
Cortelyou
Post Office
Federal Building
Hawley
Inspector Cortelyou
Kelihers tale of bank looting ties to Cambridge bank
Boston January 31 William J Keliher known as Big Bil tells former Gov Bates receiver for National City Bank Cambridge of looting details. George W Coleman a bank bookkeeper and Keliher serve prison terms for thefts. Keliher and Martin J Walsh infiltrated fake faro games in New York to siphon funds. Walsh believed dead. The informant describes how they swindled other men including a prominent politician who lost 40000, a banker 130000, a business man, a banker’s brother and a judge each losing 4000.
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Boston
William J. Keliher
Big Bil
Keliher
Bates
National City Bank
Cambridge
George W. Coleman
Castro Out on Ball Gains Liberty for Week
Gen. Cipriano Castro won a week of freedom after a bail release tied to a writ of habeas corpus. He toured New York, posed for photographers, and spoke of finding a just judge in the United States while awaiting February 7 argument. he plans to meet Mayor Gaynor and attend a Northwestern Society dinner.
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Gaynor
New York
Jan. J
Cipriano Castro
Ellis Island
Castro
Blae Hotel
Washington Arch
George Washington
Antonio Jose ®Ancez
Paredes
Sanchez
Broadway 2
Venezuela
United States
North
South America
Panama Canal
Panama Canal Zone
Bolivar
Gen. Gastro
Northwestern Society
John Hays Hammond
Sperry Divorce Granted in Hartford on Desertion Grounds
Watson Robertson Sperry of Hartford obtained a divorce in Superior Court on desertion grounds. He had served as United States Minister to Persia under Harrison and earlier as a Wilmington editor. Mrs Sperry, Juda Henderson of Wilmington, wed in 1874. desertion dated November 15 1899. She resides in Dresden Germany with their daughter.
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Washington Post
Hartford
Conn
Watson Robertson Sperry
United States
Persia Ureder
Harrison
Wilmington
Del
Senate Against Presidential Primary Storms Allies
Page 1 reports political clashes over a presidential primary with allies advancing plans and officials facing pressure. Other items include a Princeton student escorting a notable figure and a crime note about loot found from a dead robbery, plus a reference to Gen. Castro abroad.
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Adrianople
Princeton Studeote
Wilson
Gen. Castro
Bath
bin” Hawley
Rooster
Society
Sporting News
Financial
Messenger Gus Starts Rival Service After Jinx
Catherine Coleman, once the sole messenger air for Western Union in the United States, moves to start her own special delivery and messenger service in Memphis. With backing from friends she will hire only women and compete with Western Union after being discharged again.
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Gus
Western Union
Washington Post
Memphis
Tenn
Catherine Coleman
United States
Western Union Company
Loot of Dead Thieves Valued At Many Thousands
New York police recount a vault robbery linked to Henry Vogel and his wife. A corps of servant girls allegedly stole stocks bonds life insurance policies and gems, with a deadly shootout ending in deaths of Vogel his wife and detective John Allen while others were wounded. Identified gems included four thousand dollars of Mrs Bernheimer property and seven thousand dollars in bonds per owner Alfred Stern.
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Henry Vogel
York
Janu
Sfety
Skiney
Bernheimer
Hfe
Alfred J. Stern
Vogel
John Allen
Gerard Luigi
Martin Fay
One Hundredth Street
Elsmere
Vogels
Allen
Fay
Luisi
Millionaire Farmer Hidden In Secured Box In Chicago
A farmer named David H Wilson, who lived for six decades at Oregon, Wisconsin, died without a will leaving a vault full of securities worth over a million dollars. Neighbors prompted court action to identify heirs as administrators uncovered the owner of the bank box and the farmer were the same man. The assets include stock that rose 500 points since purchase, substantial railroad stock, and large uncollected dividends. A blizzard ongoing across the iron ranges and parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin adds to today’s severe winter conditions.
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Farmer Witt
Chicago
David H Wilson
Oregon
Women Suffrage Clash at House Committee Hearings
Fractions of Oregon, New York, and other states debated the French bill to give women the vote as Congress committee hearings stretched past midnight. Mrs Clara Colby and Mrs Belva Lockwood led suffragists, while Mrs Minnie Bronson and Anne Riley Hate spoke for the antis.
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Clara B. Colby
Oregon
Belva Lockwood
Minnie Bronson
Mondell, Hayden
Houge
Vongress
Olympia Brown
Racine
Wis
Federated Womens Equality League of
United States
New York
National Association
Longworth
Ohio
Harrison
Mississippi
Hobson
Alabama
Bronson
Clgra B. Colby
Portland
Oreg
Tribble
Georgan
Lockwood
Anne Riley Hate
Jane Addams
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Misa Jane Addams
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