Williams Denies Anti Bryan Plot and Backs Bryan’s Opponents
John Sharp Williams of Mississippi denounces anti Bryan rumors as false and urges Democrats to unite against bad policies. He notes he favors Henry Bryan for president if government ownership of railroads dies out, and calls convention action to reject federal rail ownership while preserving core Democratic ideas.
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John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
House
New York
Williams
Washington
Willams
Bryan
Hrgan
David R Francis
Missouri
John Sharp Willams II
Williams Jenning Bryan
Democratic Party
Bran
Money loaned to Bailey sparks debate in Texas legislature
In January reports from Texas and Bustin, lawmakers weigh a resolution to investigate charges against Senator J W Gailey and Attorney General Davidson. The dispute centers on claims of collusion with Waters Place Company and a $1 large inquiry cost, with about twenty members yet to state positions. Former Ger D R Francis of Missouri, en route to Mexico City, said he lent Bailey funds to buy land, describing it as a plain business transaction and a friendship loan.
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TU Paso
Tex
Ger
D R Francis
Missouri
Mexico
Texas
WC Pierce
Bailey
Waters Place Company
Alley
Speaker Announces New Floor Rule in Illinois House
The Illinois House Speaker announced a new rule restricting floor access to members, junior members, Congressmen, and others privileged by the rules. The announcement was met with loud applause from both Republicans and Democrats.
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Illinois House
Springfell
Shurliei
Jinor
Wold
Nic
Vote to Thank Foraker Named by Afro American Council
Sub committees of the Afro American Council met at Galbraith M E Church South to advance negro interests in court and raise 100 dollars. They passed a vote of thanks to Senator Foraker for his interest in the colored race, and elected Rev S L Carruthers president George W Lee vice president Prat Kelley Miller secretary Dr W E Lampton treasurer and Dr Jno R Francis corresponding secretary. Amias meeting followed with Bishop A Grant Thomas Fortune and others speaking on general topics.
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National Committee of the
Afro-American Council
Galbraith M. E. Church South
Senator Foraker
S L. Carruthers
George W. Lee
Prat Kelley Miller
W E Lampton
Statter Likely to Succeed At Treasury Post
Charles H. Keap retires February 1 to become New York state bank commissioner. President to appoint Arthur F. Statter as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Shaw backs Statter who may serve briefly until Hitchcock moves from Postmaster General. Statter, in his early thirties, came from Senator Ankeny’s staff to Treasury.
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Frank H. Hitchcock
George B. Cortelyon
Treasury
Statter
Senator Ankeny
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Judge Cranch Eulogized At DC Bar Association Lecture
Retired Justice Hagner delivered a biographical sketch of William Cranch at George Washington University under the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. He recalled Cranch’s 1801 habeas corpus case involving Erric Balmeaun and Swarter, arrested in New Orleans and brought to DC, and the executive letter resisting habeas relief to keep offenders under civil law, citing protection of citizen rights.
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Bar Association of the
District of Columbia
George Washington University
Justice Hagner
Wiliam Cranch
Cranch
Erric Balmeaun
Swarter
New Orleans
Justice Cranch
English Actor and Play The Middleman at The National
Largest audience of the week applauded Henry Arthur Jones The Middleman at the National Theater third week offering by Mr Willard. Cyrus Blenkarn praises the company and Willard gains conviction through restrained performance. Gen RF Patterson dies in Ontario and Hood's Sarsaparilla promotes health claims amid a mixed page of current notices.
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Henry Arthur Jones
National Theater
Mr. B. Willard
Willard
Mrt
Wilard
Ins
Mr. Wollara
Mr Cane
Batty ‘Todd
Gaston
Columbia
Boers
Patterson
Ontario
St Catherines
RF. Patterson
Fourth Iowa Cavalry
Twentyninth Iowa Infantry
Calcutta
Japan delays Pacific coast visit of training squadron
Tokyo's decision to keep the training squadron to Honolulu follows anti-Japanese agitation on the Pacific coast. California lawmakers say San Francisco would have welcomed the fleet, while embassy officials say no danger or official notification occurred. Representative Kahn asserts Californians would not harm Mikado’s seamen and notes San Francisco would be safe.
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Honoluku
Kahn Saya
San Francisco Bay
Tokyo
Pacific
Honolulu
California
Congress
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Kahn
Mr. Kahn
Bay of
Masanasa Hanihera
Viscount Aoki
United States
Hawthare
Haniwara
Japan's Military Budget Adds Four New Army Divisions
Tokyo reports the 1907 8 budget totals 55 000 007 for army expenditure with four new divisions. The navy receives 40 000 000 including 5 300 000 to boost efficiency. Despite new divisions, drastic army cutbacks are planned through reorganizations of heavy field artillery quick firing batteries and cavalry.
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Tokyo
Navy
Trng
Courts Bar Japanese in El Paso Citizens Bid Abandoned
El Paso authorities advised several Japanese applicants to delay taking preliminary steps toward U S citizenship until Japan naturalization issues are resolved. Circuit Courts have ruled Japanese subjects are not entitled to citizenship as they are not white or African in origin, and orders aim to stop filing declarations under old laws.
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el Paso
Tex
United States
Japan
Washington
Circuit Courts
Supreme Court of the
Circuit Court
Invitation to Roosevelt as Jamestown Anniversary Orator
A 4 member delegation from the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities will call on President Roosevelt Saturday morning to invite him to serve as orator for Jamestown Island on May 13. The 400th anniversary of the first English landings will feature ceremonies directed by Bishop Randolph of Southern Virginia, with Gordon of Staunton as poet laureate and a Williamsburg choir performing.
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Jamestown
Norfolk
Association For the Preservation of Virginian Antiquities
Roosevelt
Jamestown Island
Randolph
Virginia
Armisted Gordon
Staunton Va
Williamsburg
Laurel Association Elects Officers
Laurel January 10 The Laurel Improvement Association held its annual officer election. Officers named include President Randolph R Wayters re elected secretary J W Winn er core corresponding secretary George McGene treasurer John R Jones first vice president Gustavus B Timam and vice president William 2 Gilbert. Executive committee members chosen include Mw Shaffer A Faure Page Brohmillar Charles H Stanley Edward Phelpe John A Plannery Dr TM Baldwin Walllar Hi Harrison Frank W Await Dr T Watty Byerly Robert H Williams John W Willame Stephen Gambrill and William A Polst
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Sprews
Struck by Falling Tree in Danville County Farm Region
Spreial to The Washington Fost Danville, Va., Jan. 10. F. M. Glidewen, a prominent farmer, was probably fatally injured while cutting trees in a forest near his home. A limb struck him over the forehead, and it is thought his skull is fractured.
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Spreial
Washington
Danville
F. M. Glidewen
White boy killed by Seaboard freight train in Durham
Walter Lynn, a twelve year old white boy, was instantly killed this morning in Durham, North Carolina, when he tried to board a moving Seaboard freight train and was dragged under the wheels. Local authorities reported the accident occurred near the tracks as the train moved.
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Charlotte, C
Walter Lynn
Durham
N.C
Tubercular Cows Deadly Warning Issued by Agriculture Dept
The Department of Agriculture issued a bulletin warning that tuberculous material from cattle can transmit infection to humans. It cites experiments by Schroeder and Cotton at the experiment station showing high virulence of cattle tuberculosis and the risk through dairy products. Milk distribution and perishable nature of milk amplify the danger and suggest cattle as a major driver of tuberculosis in animals and humans.
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Department of Agriculture
C. Schroeder
W. H. Cotton
Bureau of Animal Industry
Messrs. Schroeder
Cotton
Buffalo preservation effort eyed to set aside land for bison
The American Bison Society met at the Museum of Natural History to discuss expanding buffalo numbers. About 2,000 animals remain in North America, 1,400 in the United States, and plans call for purchasing remaining buffalo to present to the U.S. government for large scale herding. Proposals seek New York land in Adirondack reservations, and possible herds on Flat Head and Crow reservations. Morton J Elrod of Montana to report on Flat Head feasibility. The society will join Austin Corbin's Blue Mountain Forest Association for a Croton Mountain summer meeting in Newport, New Hampshire.
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New York
American Bison Society
Museum of Natural History
North America
United States
Canada
State of New York
Adirondack Mountains
Flat Head Indian Reservation
Montana
Crow Reservation
Wyoming
Morton J Elrod
University of Montana
Plat Head
Austin Corbin
Blue Mountain Forest Association
America
Croton Mountain
Newport
N. H
Carrie Nation Lectures Saloon Patrons On Drink Curse
Carrie Nation visited a Pennsylvania avenue saloon at noon and read from her Bible before addressing the drinkers. She argued that one drink makes a man drunk and leads to further drunkenness, then promised to return at the same hour.
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Carrie Nation
Pennsylvania Avenue
Hanor
Hoover gathers data in defense of Mrs Bradley
George P. Hoover of Wells Hoover Wells led Mrs Annie Bradley defense for murder of former Senator Arthur Brown. He returned to Salt Lake City to obtain evidence for trial and spoke with people who heard Brown acknowledge two Bradley children and saw notes on Brown letterhead. Hoover would not reveal defense strategy.
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Hoover
Salt Lake City
George P. Hoover
Wells, Hoover & Wells
Annie Bradley
Arthur Brown
Salt Lake
Utah
Luse
Brown
Bradley
Senator Brown
Verdict in tobacco trust case convicts two firms
A U S circuit Court jury found MacAndrews & Forbes Company and the J and Young Company guilty on two counts forming an illegal combination and monopolizing the licorice paste industry. Jungbluth and Young were acquitted on all counts. Judge Hough will hear a motion for arrest of judgment next Monday. penalties may run 1000 to 5000 dollars per violation.
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New York
United States Circuit Court Today
Tobacco Trust
Hough
Karl Jungbluth
Howard ©. Young
MacAndrews & Forbes Company
J. & Young Company
Jungbluth & Young
J. §. Young Company
Howard H. Young
United States
Taft
Rau
Loving Sued by Wife in Limited Divorce Case
Isabel Stoddard Loving filed for limited divorce and alimony against Lucas P. Loving, a Washington lawyer, citing lack of support from a $350 monthly income, alleged drunkenness, and neglect. Chief Justice Clabaugh ordered show cause by January 18. The couple married January 7 194? in New York and have an eight month old baby. husband left October 2.
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Isabel Stoddard Loving
Lucas P. Loving
Columbian Building
F Street Northwest
Clabaugh
District Supreme Court
Loving
New York
Tragedy on Third Avenue elevated after crowd crush
At the First Street station on the Third Avenue line a crowded platform and slammed gates led to William Newman dying from a fractured skull and leg amputation after being dragged by a moving train. Carl Weber is critically injured. Conductor Brown faces homicide charges as the crowd attacked guards. A separate note reports a January marriage of William Warry Johnson and Frances Olivia Birch in Rockville.
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New York
Interborough Company
Third Avenue Line
William Newman
Parry Avenue
Lebanon
Carl Weber
Jerome Avenue
Crawd
Interborough
Brown
McDonald
Bronx
Washington Post
Rockville
William Warry Johnson
Washington
Frances Olivia Birch
Alexandria County
R. White
Virginian Killed in Montana Oiler Dies in Factory Shaft Accident
Edawin E. Jack from Fredericksburg was killed at a Billings Montana oiling plant when his overalls were caught in a rapidly revolving shaft. He was unbuttoned at the blouse and torn by the machinery as the shaft spun violently.
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Billings
Mont
Edawin E. Jack
Augar
Jack
Fredericksbura
Robbery Charge Held Up By Danville Court
In Danville Virginia January 10 Pletcher Harris George Stevens and Ibert Adkins were held for the grand jury by the mayor s court on a robbery charge involving James M Thomas of Roanoke whose body was found in a city ravine on January 2 Stevens testified as the sole witness and became a state s evidence.
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Danville
Pletcher Harris
George Stevens
Ibert Adkins
James M Thomas
Roanoke
Stevens
Why Sugar Cane Is Fired Near Ranehuelo Cuba
Capt J A Ryan of the Fifteenth Cavalry reports on cane burning near Ranehuelo Santa Clara Cuba. He cites motives such as labor wage inflation hastening harvest insurance fraud extortion and political retaliation. He notes guards patrol estates and records that burned cane sometimes survives when cut promptly.
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Ranehuelo
Santa Clara
Cuba
J. A. Ryan
Fifteenth Cavalry
Ryan
New York Life case opposition to full grand jury record
District Attorney Jerome opposed Perkins counsel access to the entire December grand jury minutes in the New York Life Insurance Company affair citing public policy. Six indictments against Perkins allege fraudulent entries to mask a fictitious stock sale. Perkins denies knowledge of the alleged entries. Proceedings delayed as briefs are prepared.
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New York
New York Life Insurance Company
Jerome
Delafield
George W. Perkins
Perkins
Storks
Jerome Pe
Graund
School Association Elects
Heyburn Drops Plan to Move on Cortelyou Chair Election
Senator Heyburn of Idaho abandons a bid to circulate a petition urging a special meeting of the Republican National Committee. The move was to address Cortelyou’s resignation as chairman and to elect a successor. Senator Scott of West Virginia remains with his push but will act on his own.
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Heyburn
Idaho
Charman Harry S New
Indianapolis
Republican National Committee
Cortelyou
Scott
West Virginia
Corteiyou
Hague meeting discussed between Rosen and Root
Baron Rosen the Russian Ambassador visited the State Department and had an hour’s conference with Secretary Root. He did not say whether a second Hague peace conference date had been fixed but said he read dispatches from Berlin and Washington. He could not express an opinion on whether a date would be named soon.
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Baron Rosen
State Department
Root
The
Hague
Berlin
Washington
Plan to Truly Consuls and Stock Loss Report
The State Department proposes increasing consular clerks from 13 to 25 to recruit younger men for junior posts in key commercial towns after several years of apprenticeship. Separately, 1,800 Emerson Drug Company shares owned by John W. Brawner and Henry Waggamen disappeared while mailed from Silver City, Mexico, to this city, with the last activity on the signed return to Brawner.
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State Department
Congress
Silver City
Mexico
Emerson Drug Company
Baltimore
John W. Brawner
Brawner
Henry
Waeegamen
Waggamen
Chicago Canal Hearing Postponed
The hearing of Western Representatives and Chicago business men on diverting Lake Michigan waters into the Calumet River to aid the Chicago drainage canal has been postponed until next Monday. Delegation members from Indiana and Illinois were set to discuss sewage disposal impacts for several towns.
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Wart
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Calumet River
Chicago Drainage Canal
Indiane
Illinios
Shaw to Address Missourians at Waldorf Dinner
A Missouri Society of the City of New York committee led by Walter Alexander William J Wollman and Burton Thompson met Secretary Shaw yesterday and secured his acceptance as guest of honor at a Waldorf Astoria dinner on January 31. A notable company is expected to attend.
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Missouri Society of the City of New York
Walter Alexander
William J. Wollman
Burton Thompson
Shaw
Waldorf-Astoria
The February Delineator and Its Homemaking Advice
An excerpt promotes the February issue of Delineator emphasizing domestic harmony and self improvement. It advocates reading the magazine for solutions to household problems, fashion guidance, moral stories, and articles like The Trials of Mrs Macy and The Success of Lactated Infant Food. It also notes Henry Hutt’s cover and profiles Donly Hawley.
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Henry Hutt
Donly C. Hawley
A.B. M
American ‘Academy of Medicine
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