Mystery Raid by Negro Soldiers in Brownsville Explained
Federal investigators obtain confession from Da Gray one of the discharged Twenty fifth infantry men in Galveston the attack on Brownsville Texas August 13 last year was sparked by a white man injury rather than premeditated planning several soldiers joined to avenge injuries and return to barracks to aid in cleaning guns after the raid.
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Morning Journal
Galveston
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownsville
Texas
Galveston News
da Gray
Galvestop
Thaw Case Experts May Face No Cross Examination
A New York legal brief notes Thaw's sanity is supported by state experts and defense will call six experts, including Dr. Britton Evans and Dr. Charles Wagner, to answer a comprehensive hypothetical. The defense seeks to prevent cross examination of prosecution witnesses while detailing Gillitland's defense of Thaw's Wooster life.
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O'Relly
Gillitland
Mr. Gillitland
Harry Thaw
New York
Stanford White
Thaw
Wooster
Jerome
Henry Clay McPike
Deemar
All Vital New Mexico Bills Await Action in Assembly
The Morning Journal reports in Santa Fe that only a few days remain in the thirty seventh legislative session with the major pending measures from the appropriation bill expected to reach either house tomorrow.
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the Morning Journal Bureau
Santa Fe
N. M
Thirty-Seventh Legislative Assembly
Pope Pius Praises American Church Amid France Clash
Pope Pius sent greetings to President Roosevelt and welcomed Sister Youghines Johnson to Rome while discussing Archbishop Ireland and the France Vatican clash. He praised the American episcopate's stance on church state matters and commented on the Philippine question, urging calm and openness. A separate report notes a collapse of a viaduct over Mill Creek Valley delaying trolley lines and a Central America mule dispute fueling tensions between Nicaragua and Honduras.
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My Morning Journal
Pope Pius
Vhomnas O'Germian
Sinus Palle
Pius
Ireland
France
Eaid
Mer
Montagnini
Papal Minierature
Pone
Dreland
Philippine Redlands
Eam
United States
Mer Co Corman
Hoousevelt
Peequal
New York
Roosevelt
Rome
Vibopman
Cantina
Frei
Mill Creek Valley
Rockefeller Will Honors World Affairs With Vast Charity Plan
The will of John D. Rockefeller announces a quarter of a billion dollars for charity and education. The oil magnate’s document directs extensive foundations to support global welfare and public education initiatives.
Blight Destroys Mexican Wheat in Paen Texas
Report from Paen Texas dated March 17 notes widespread wheat destruction in western Mesicu by a blight named Quitapa. Local officials claim the loss will impact market outlook for American wheat later this year.
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Paen
Texas
Mesicu
Newly Married Couple Found Suffocated in Los Angeles
A French American couple, newly married, were found suffocated in their home in Los Angeles. Authorities traced their history to Paris and noted a prior deposits of $1,000 in a savings bank as part of the financial background.
Commerce Commission halts in-person hearings outside Washington
Washington reports the interstate commerce commission overburdened with work. Hearings will no longer be held outside the capital. special agents in other cities will collect testimony and report to Washington.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Comession
Washinton
Jian
French Sailors Die in Torpedo Boat Crash
A dispatch from Colombia reports a torpedo boat collision near Venezuela killing several French sailors. General Juan Pablo Penaions leads the rescue and relief efforts as the ship Vege en bursts into flames, amid confusion and casualties in a stormy incident.
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Venezuela
Wittenstad, Uraces
Maren
LTA
Louisville Flood Displaces Hundreds in Pointe District
The river's rise again damages homes in Louisville's Pointe district driving about three hundred residents from their houses. Officials warn the current levels do not yet match the peak reached in January.
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Louisville
COOM
Altheveh
Pointe District
Pittsburg Faces Another River Flood Threat
On March 17 a warm rain across western Pennsylvania raises flood worries as eighty miles of Jew in the Allegheny above Parker vent from Parker to an eight mile stretch. Monongahela and Ohio rivers ease while Allegheny holds steady. Local gauges show Davis Island dam 14.6 here's Island 16.9 and Market Street 14 as crews brace for possible crest and damage unless rain subsides.
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Cincinnati
Hassler
Eighth Street
Mill Creek
Pittsburg
Allegheny River
Parker
Pennsylvania
Monongahelia
Onie
Allegheny
Davis Island Dam
Here's Island
Markettreet
Lee
Lee Gorke
Governor of Borneo Visits London Route Report
Governor Guerli reports rapid development in Borneo over three years with rubber firms starting in the colony and several railways under construction. He speaks as he travels toward London, noting significant capital investments and ongoing infrastructure projects.
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Borneo
Victor
FE Guerli
London
Tourist Rescued After Stranded Night On Catalina Cliff
B J Rand of Ardley on the Hudson was trapped for two days and nights on a narrow ledge of Catalina Island. Fishermen reached him after a perilous climb down the crumbling rock to the canyon mouth. He faced peril as daylight boating parties watched without immediate aid before rescue.
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Los Angeles
Catalina Island
Tia Corts
Patc
B. J. Rand
Ardley
Hudson
Rand
Birthday celebration ends in tragedy in Leon
Miss Parrish, age twenty seven, died at her parents home in Leon California yesterday from self inflicted inhalation. Authorities note the death appears to be a suicide connected to ill health and a birthday context. The incident occurred at the Parrish residence with no additional parties involved.
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Leon Angeles
Cal
Miss Trace
O Parrish
Rablurdas
Miss Parrish
Man shoots shopkeeper after claim of ruin to home
EF Reno Oklahoma W H Rea a tool maker returned from Fort Worth and walked into A Newell confectionery on the principal street, firing five shots at the proprietor and killing him instantly. He then said I would kill any man who ruined my home and surrendered to the police.
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Reno
Okla
W. H. Rea
Fort Worth
A. Newell
Jay
Newall
Abyssinia capital seeks legation shift and rail link
U S consul general Frank Mowrer heads to Washington to push establishing a legation in Addis Ababa replacing the consulate. A French mission meets King Menelik to discuss a railway project that could cut travel to Paris to twelve hours and attract foreign investment for Ethiopia’s development.
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Adis Abeba
Abyssinia
Frank KK. Mowrer
United States
Washington
Mw Legation
Meneltik
Paris
Carnegie Hero Medals To Be Distributed This Week
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission will distribute gold, silver, and bronze medals to sixty three individuals across the United States and Canada. A prior meeting dated January 16 awarded eighteen more medals which will be distributed later due to delays in adopting jewelers’ designs. New York civic federation plans another conference in May to discuss federal and state regulation of corporations and Sherman Act enforcement.
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New York
National Civic Federation
Chicago
Rockefeller Will Promises Large Charitable and Educational Bequests
A Herald report from New York claims John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his father plan a princely gift to New York City at least 50000, partly charitable and educational. It also says Rockefeller is completing a will to be revealed that could total about 259000000 for charitable and educational causes and notes emphasis on education over church funding.
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Morning Journal Special
New York
The
Herald
John
Rockefelter, Jr
John D. Rockefeller
New York City
Rockefeller
Lakewood
N. J
Mr. Rockefeller
Bold thieves loot Bem in audacious hotel robbery
In Los Avetes California on March 17 a jewelry theft at the Hotel Hayward by two masked robbers and an accomplice left Kinney proprietor and Hamilton clerk bound against a wall while thieves plundered show cases. Diamonds valued at thousands were taken as the trio escaped into a crowded street. Police had no trace of the culprits. Ambassador McCormack and other dignitaries arrived in New York on the steamer Amerika.
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Morning Journal Special
Wired
New York
Harry K. Thaw
Dan O'Reilly
Thaw
Llewellyn Gilittand
Vanwert
Wooster
Washington
Senora Salgado
Nicaragua
Honduras
Central America
Augusto C. Coello
Jose J. Gomez
Irene Salgado
Senor Gomez
Los Manos
Salgado
Nicaraua
Juan J. Rocha
Honduran
Zelayas
Board of Arbitration
Owens
The
Angelos
Lar
Aneles
Paris
Wartus
Los Angeles
Los Atvetes
Cal
Bisth
Spring Streets
Hayward
William Kinney
Hirmilton
Trenefering Steels Frean Shuwcases
Kinney
Hamilton
Robiere
Fort Sam Houston Wires Grays In Brownsville Confession Case
In San Antonio on March 17 Major Penrose orders two Galveston police to escort two suspected Grays to testify in his court martial. Captain Macklin confirms two Grays exist in the Twenty-fifth Infantry but not in Company B. Names George and Fred Gray are linked to the unit in question.
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San Antonio
Tex
Fort Sam Houston
C. Gray
Brownsville
Penrose
Galveston
Edgar A. Macklin
Gray
Twenty-fifth Infantry
George
Fred Gray
Senator Overman Hints Confession in Tex Shooting Probe
Washington March 17 Senator Overman NC member of the senate military affairs committee says a Galveston dispatch reports a discharged Negro soldier allegedly confessed to the Brownsville Texas shooting. He notes the committee received word two weeks ago of a potential full confession with government protection. No official report has been received and he will push for the former soldier to testify in Washington.
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Washington
Senator Overman
North Carolina
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Brownaville
Tex
Galveston
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Overman
Taft
War Department
Disastrous Week for German Speculators
Berlin reports the worst week in thirty years on the bourse as Wall Street declines trigger repression in Germany. Deutsche Bank warns of a weak year, prompting renewed German buying as prices slip and gold exports rise amid London exchange strain.
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Berlin
Wall Street
Germany
Deutsche Bank
New York
London
London Exchange
England
Retsbank
Washington Strike by Dressmakers and Tailors Looms
Washington March 17. At three mass meetings of dressmakers and ladies tailors it was decided to strike for higher wages. Nine thousand women and girls and 3000 men will be involved.
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Washington
Army buildup reports 24 infantry regiments formed
In Tokio on March 17 the program to expand armaments reports twenty four infantry regiments organized for northern isles. Kurume will serve as the main base, located fifty miles northeast of Nagasaki.
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Tokio
Kurume
Nagasaki
St Patrick's Day Mass Held at Irish College in Rome
March 17 observance in Rome where Cardinal Vincent Vannutelli celebrated Mass at the Irish College marking St Patrick's Day with local participation.
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Rome
Nome
Vincent Vanutelli
Norwegian Steamer Skuld Reported Lost at Sea
Morning Journal reports the Norwegian steamer Skuld, bound from Philadelphia to Rotterdam, found upright with crew rescued after taking on by another vessel. Skuld, 1132 tons, length 265 feet, from Tarnberg Norway, owned by Otte Thoresen, lies 41.14 N 64.40 E 150 miles south of Miquelon.
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New York
Bkuld
Philadelphia
Bosnia
Hamburg-Americanne
Hamburg
Bastenia
Skuld
Island of
Miquelon
Bosnia’n
Bkurd
Tenaberg
Norway
Otte Thoresen
Loaded appropriation bill advances amid rider removals
Work on the loaded appropriation bill continued through Saturday with significant progress. The council aims to report an amended bill free of riders and reflect a sane proposal to the house, contrasting the territory wide opposition to the previous version. Minor house measures are expected to be considered.
Inquisition Report Expected This Morning
The house schedules a special order for 10 o clock to consider the committee report on Governor Hagerman s ties to the Pennsylvania Development land deal. The committee on the territorial auditor conferred with him this morning as part of a drive to attack the auditor s character amid broader machine troubles in Santa Fe.
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Conference Committee
Hagerman
Pennsylvania Development Company
Territorial
Sargent
Beach-Holt
Santa Fe
Contemptible machine tricks in New Mexico house
A scribbled report from Santa Fe denounces the political machine in the New Mexico house for backtracking on econell bill No. 65 after passage. The move, aimed at harming Luna county representative Moran, is blamed on machine leaders who killed the measure as a pettish act. The piece condemns the session's trivial clashes and calls for a more vigorous election law and revised statutes amid a backlog of minor bills.
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Datles
Moran
Luna County
Child
New Mexico
Santa Fe
White Star Liner Suevic Runs Aground In Fog
The White Star liner Suevic struck rocks near Manatere rock off Lisard in dense fog at 11 30 pm. Two ice boats were launched and others summoned to assist. The vessel carried 400 passengers and 1460 crew members. no lives are believed lost and passengers and crew are being landed.
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London
Lisard
Manatere Rock, Under & Light House
Veasel
Itere
Turkish Army Officer Murdered by Soldier in Trebizond
A telegram from Trebizond reports Hamadbi Pasha, commander in the city, was assassinated by a Turkish soldier who had been punished shortly before. The incident occurred during a mosque service in Asiatic Turkey, with details coming from Trebizond.
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Constantinople
Trebizond
Turkey
Hamabdi Pasha
Dorreoha Otheer
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