New York Republicans Vow to Promote Hughes for President
Party factions in Manhattan push for an instructed delegation to back Charles E Hughes for the Republican presidential nomination. Parsons and leaders debate resolutions praising Roosevelt and endorsing Hughes while warning of intra party frictions and a possible Chicago convention split.
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New York
Charles E ‘Uahew
Racavilt
Martuy
HHS Lyceum
Chicago
Guy Hughes
Oliver Denies Marriage in Divorce Suit
Special to The Washington Post Atlanta Galan 3 William J Oliver, a contractor sued for divorce and $16 alimony by a woman calling herself Mrs Nannie Olver, testified he never married her. He described relations since meeting in Augusta until three years ago, when he left her to marry in Knoxville. He admitted living with her for years and supporting her, saying he tried to rid himself of her but could not. he acknowledged having her with him in Washington and New York as his wife.
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Washington
William J Oliver
Beng
Nannie Olver
Oliver
Augusta
Knoxville
New York
Garter Sims
de Morley
Lineane
James Roe
House of Lords
Lord Curzon
Iechestan
Ireland
Briand backs trial marriages in response to Bourget play
Paris reports Aristide Briand minister of justice and worship endorses trial marriages as a practical step. He supports contracts for a fixed period with legal safeguards, arguing couples cannot know each other’s true character and insisting it is intolerable to force ill matched pairs into lifelong misery.
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Paris
Paul Bourget
Aristide Briand
Fire destroys million-dollar voting machine warehouse
A Indianapolis blaze gutted the Henry Coburn & Co warehouse inflicting an estimated loss of 1 million dollars with 575000 insured. Over 100 firms stored goods there including 100000 worth of voting machines uninsured. Eight firefighters were slightly injured.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Henry Coburn & Co
Marion County
Royal Pageantry and Suffrage Protests at Parliament
A violent disruption and a seat intrusion mark the opening of Parliament. Suffragists wave posters as the processional ceremony proceeds, with two women fainting and police detaining others. An impersonator briefly occupies a Lords seat, prompting warnings of heightened security and scrutiny of parliamentary access.
Ireland and Wales bills loom as session opens
Nationalists surge early but are checked by the speaker over a inquiry into Laurence Ginnell. John F Hedmond signals a home rule motion for February 3 as Redmond’s camp hails a reconciling party meeting following the King’s speech.
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Irish United
Laurence Ginnell
Bank suspect among thugs in Chicago identification scene
Special to The Washington Post Chicago January 29 a group of twenty thugs and pickpockets crowded the U S Commissioner Humphrey's office as bank messenger Roswall Bangs tried to identify John Hardy alias Davis and Jacob Rainier in a $7000 theft from Home National Bank June 24 Hardy was not identified and released Erbstein arranged the plan with twenty readers of the underworld to confuse police and the prisoner was placed in the crowd during the preliminary examination as Bangs scanned the milling figures none clearly stood out leaving the case unresolved and puzzling.
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Washington
Chicago
United States
Humphrey
Roswall Bangs
John Hardy
Liberty
Hardy
Davis
Jacob Rainier
Home National Bank
National Capital
Charles F. Erbstein
Underworld
Erhstein
Bings
Cruelty Society Pushes Limited Vivisection Regs
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has sent a bill to Assemblyman Warren 1 Tice to regulate vivisection. The measure requires licensing of the lab building by the state health commissioner, anesthesia for animals, and immediate listing of any pain or death after experiments not needed to prove established facts, except for college study purposes.
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Washington
Albany
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Warren
State Commissioner of Health
Incorporated College
Evangelist McIlvray Opens Women Circle In Little Falls
Gossiping women from Mohawk Valley met at Rev Henry Molltray tabernacle in Little Falls to discuss neighbors. Evangelist McIlray, famed for Chester Gillette case ties, announced Wednesday afternoon circles for women to speak freely, barring reporters. About a hundred attendees filled the session, with no names given and plans to continue weekly debates.
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Washington
Mica. N
Henry Moll
Little Falls
Mohawk Valley
Mclray
Chester Gillette
Grace Brown
Dloc
Weilvras
Bcandal
Mellvray
Millionaire Socialist Stokes and Wife Sail for Europe
F G Phelps Stokes and wife Rose Pastor set sail today on the Castile for a two month Mediterranean tour, occupying stateroom 2. He declared support for the Socialist ticket and discussed inviting maritime nations to a London conference to address international law and arbitration at The Hague. Negotiations with the United States aim to resolve Newfoundland fishery and Japanese immigration issues.
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San
Europe
New York
G_ Phelps Stokes
Rose Pastor
Castile
Mediterranean
Mr Stokes
Heywood
Wes
United States
Hague
Newfoundland
Canada
No Promise to Yarmouth Annulling Wife Seeks Deal
Special cable reports Ellicitors for the East of Yarmouth claim the wife formerly Alice Thaw of Pittsburg seeks annulment. They deny the countess agreed to leave her fortune to her husband's family. Nevada police bill signed. scramble for police force jobs begins.
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Washington
London
Yarmouth
Alice Thaw
Pittsburg
Largest NY Supreme Court verdict in Barnes v. American-China Development
Thurlow Weed Barnes won a record 3381 666 verdict against the American China Development Company in a suit seeking 900000 for concessions from the Chinese government in 1888 later repurchased by Beijing for 6500000. Defendants include Samuel Thomas Marcellus Hartley Frederick Olcott and many prominent figures and firms. The coal concession along Hankow to Pekin formed the core of the claim.
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Ew York
Supreme Court of New York
Thurlow Weed Barnes
American-China Development Company
Barnes
China
Samuel Thomas
Marcellus Hartley
Frederick P Olcott
Richard J Cross
Clarenee Cary
Hugh J Grant
The
Carnegie Steel Company
Henry W. Cannon
James Stillman
Thomas J F Ryen
William Barclay Parsons
Catherine Olivia Brice
Calvin Brice
Grant B Sebrey
George R Sheldon
Edward J Berwind
Anthony N Brady
Levi P Morton
Thomas Platt
George T Bliss
James E Benedict
Jacob H Schiff
departure delayed as Szechenyi party sails to Europe
Arrangements at Harry Payne Whitney’s villa announce Count Laszlo Szechenyi and Countess Gladys will sail for Europe in February, delaying initial plans for a voyage on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. The party will travel via Cherbourg to Paris, then Rome for a papal audience, then to a castle in Hungary before Newport. Relatives, including Reginald and Alfred Vanderbilt, accompany the group aboard Mr Vanderbilt’s yacht.
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Rome
Pape
Rosyn N
Harry Payne Whitney
Wheatly Hills
Laszlo Szechenyi
Gladys
Europe
Count Szecheny
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
Hamburg
Cherbourg
St Valenties
Count Laszlo
Willam K Vanderbilt
Hoyt
Chersourg
Pius
Hungary
Whitney Place
Newport
Vanderbilt
Promurs
Acepnen Szechenyt
Clomys Szechenyi
Anton Sigray
Rother
Paul Esterhazy
Stephen Prezedziecke
Amerika
Reginald Vanderbilt
Kathleen
Alfred G Vanderbilt
Budapest
Reginald
Alfred Vanderbilt
Divorce Ends Odd Romance In Forced Philadelphia Marriage
Judge Kerr in Colorado Springs annulled the 15 year old marriage of Chandler Clatton Bartlett and Lulu Herman after Bartlett sought divorce. Lulu, formerly Lulu Herman of Lattleton, fell for another man and wished to remarry, while her stepfather pressured the match with a blunt marriage vow and a vow of no contact. Bartlett, traveling for health, later returned to Philadelphia in search of wealth and now lives elsewhere.
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Warhington Post
Philadelphia
Judge Kerr
Colorado Springs
Coln
Chandler Clatton Bartlett
South
Wilton Street
Vancouver
British Columbia
Lulu Herman
Latticton
Cola
Bartlett
West
Lattleton
Harry Bevan
Littleton
Oil Trust Bond Big Enough
In Chicago on January 28 judges Grosscup Baker and Seaman of the U S Circuit Court of Appeals refused to raise Standard Oil Company of Indiana’s superseder bond from eight million to twenty nine million two hundred forty thousand dollars. They said the government failed to prove the company’s tangible property exceeded six hundred thousand dollars.
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Chicago
Grosscup Baker
Seaman
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Band of Women Thieves Busted in Lublin Poland
Police uncover a gang of female robbers linked to a string of highway thefts. Leaders captured as authorities vow further action. The text also references a banking department and a coal premium sales pitch, but the core report centers on the women crime ring and arrests.
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Lublin
Russian
Poland
Society Bull Fight Fails as Stockyards Champion Upends Athos
Philadelphia society fans and upper crust observers packed the Industrial Sporting Club to watch The Great Athos of France wrestle a stockyard bull. The encounter ended when the bull defied the matador, knocking Athos down as police intervened and halted the fight.
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Washington Post
Philadelphia
van Rensselaers
Diongo Szachenyi
Industrial Sporting Club
Fifteenth and
Wood Street
West
van Renssaelers
Rainbow departs Cavite for southern islands cruise
The Rainbow leaves Cavite in the Philippine Islands for a month long cruise among the southern islands. The Navy says the voyage offers no special significance beyond giving the crew rest and experience. Meanwhile the protected cruiser Chicago arrives at Callao, Peru as it nears Annapolis to join the fleet for midshipmen use, passing the battleship fleet en route.
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Rainbow
Cavite
Phiippine Islands
Navy Department
Ing
Hemphill Ward
Chicago
Callao
Peru
Shea
Annapolis Naval Academy
Boy Millionaires EW Court
Juan Quintero a Mexican lad of eighteen was arraigned in Harlem Police Court on stealing a diamond ring from his friend Alfonso Canton. Guardians testified the Cantons are wealthy. Quintero’s guardian argued the act is a boys quarrel and should be dismissed. The case highlighted a clash of class and trust as family wealth was cited.
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New York
Juan Quintero
Harlem
Alfonso Canton
Jose Alonzo
Cantons
Mexico
Velez Alvarado
Broadway
Quintero
Verdict for the Thomases in stock brokerage suit
In New York Supreme Court Philip Richards sues Edward P Thomas Orlando F Thomas and Edwin M Post of the firm Thomas & Post for 271 alleging they bought Pacific stock for his account from March 11 to May 190? and sold him out without notice Former Judge Edward P Coyne for the Thomases said May 9 last year was panic day and the market collapsed the brokerage firm followed exchange rules and sold the stock The jury found for the Thomases.
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New York
Justory Greenbaum
Supreme Court
Dar
Philip Richards
Edward P Thomas Orlando F Thomas
Edwin M Post
Thomas & Post
Luton Pacific
Edward P Coyne
Thomagea
Frm
Ussomer
Stret
Stock Exchange
Thomas Frm
Roosevelt Rumor Fails To Greet Changes In Nomination Tale
Rumors swirl around Roosevelt’s stance and Taft’s renomination. Gossip claims a first ballot Taft effort to rally Roosevelt supporters would stall, while friends of Crane hint at vice presidential talk. Observers note party factions push back against Foraker attacks and fear reform of Taft’s campaign.
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Taft
Roosevelt
Roosvelt
Pres Dent
Republican Party
Tafts
Guy Hughes
Hughes
New York
Massachusetts
Crane
Hrooker's Heirs Gain Full Estate Allocation
In Rochester beds 25 heirs receive a $100,000 estate from Capt. Booker who left a will naming Galenburg Ti and appointing President Roosevelt as executor. The Monroe County Surrogate denied probate to the will, finding Booker mentally incompetent. There are thirteen heirs at law involved.
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Rochester
Galenburg
Roosevelt
Monroe County
Capt. Booker
Revolt of Colored Voters Feared in Louisiana Politics
The Post cites alleged administration pressure in the South, especially Louisiana, to dilute Black voting and empower Lily White leaders. It notes Roosevelt’s 1902 shift placing Louisiana Republicans under Lily White control, sidelining colored voters, and cites figures showing declining Black and overall Republican turnout in following years. The piece mentions Kellogg, Lily White leaders Lewis H Clark and F B William, and party splits among white and colored Republicans in the Gulf states.
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Roosevelt
Cowemar
Louisr
Gulf
Mike
Stes
United States
Wilinpity Kellogg
Louisiama de Satstin
Peter
Lily Waite
Wood
Lily
Great
Reliefness Enterprises
Lumbar Trust
Louisiane
Mississippi
Pearl Wight
Louisiana
Interal Revenue
Sone
Coleman
Gulf Statio
Fea Praca
Southern Republicana
Lily White
Hanna
Chicago
National Committee
McKinley
Republican Party of
Ahachives
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Lift
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Band OF Women Thieves
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Trust Co
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Paul Taylor
T Hat Centre
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F B William
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