Reign of Terror in Northern Mexico Briefly Expands
Panic grips northern Mexico as rumors say insurgents renew attacks in Chihuahua and Sonora. Towns besieged cut off food for women and children while General Manco raids Auga Prieta before US forces at the border near Douglas. Fifteen Americans killed and seventeen captured at Casas Grandes as Diaz authorizes martial measures. United States cavalry from Fort Meade joins 900-strong border force.
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SE Paso
Tex
Condi- Hong
Mexico
Chihuahua
Sonora
Casas Grandes
Auga Prieta
Douglas
Ariz
Manco
Mexico City
Diaz
United States
Forty Eighth Cavalry
Fort Meade
8. D
Roosevelt Reviews Troops at Fort Sam Houston
Colonel Roosevelt began the seventh day of his tour with a review of troops gathered near Fort Sam Houston Texas under War Department maneuver orders. He rode through long lines of tents in an automobile, received an artillery salute, then spoke under the walls of the Alamo before heading by special train to Austin Fort Worth and Dallas to address crowds.
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San Antonio
Roosevelt
Fort Sam Houston
Gener
Carter
Alamo
Austin
Fort Worth
Dallas
Snowslide Kills Four at Gold King Mine Boarding House
A snow slide near Gladstone Colorado destroyed the Gold King mine boarding house killing four people and injuring one. Boarding house manager F O Drue survived though frozen, eight hours trapped in heavy timbers as rescuers retrieved the four bodies. The dead are Mrs F O Drue Mrs Carrie Lewis Sam Hoar Maria Fahne.
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Denver
Gold King Mine
Gladstone
Colorado
F. O. Drue
Drue
Carrie Lewis
Sam Hoar
Maria Fahne
Plague Spreads to Russia Prompting Quarantine
A Roumanian telegraph from Constantinople reports the Manchurian plague has reached European Russia with four fatal cases in Astrakhan province. Officials fear transmission to Roumania via trade and impose a rigorous quarantine to block spread.
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Bucharest
Constantinople
Russia
Astrakhan
Roumania
Mediation Sought to End Cincinnati Firemen Strike
In Cincinnati on March 13 mediation under the Erdman law may settle the white firemen strike of the Cincinnati New Orleans and Texas Pacific railway. Judge Martin A. Knapp, presiding commerce court arbiter, has wired railroad officials and union officers for details of the dispute.
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Cinnati
Cincinnati, New Orleans and
Texas Pacific Railway
Martin A. Knapp
Commerce Court
Woman Ends Life In River at Eads Bridge
Police in St Louis search for the identity of a young woman who leaped from the Eads bridge into the Mississippi River. A witness described the act, but the woman's name remains unknown and authorities have not confirmed her identity.
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River
St. Louis
Eads Bridge
Mississippi River
Ninetaep
Tattoo Married Women Provokes New Zealand Missionary Vision
Chicago March 13. A New Zealand missionary Rev Rawei urged tattooing as a cultural remedy against women’s wiles. He proposed married men wear wedding rings on thumbs as punishment and suggested chin and lip tattoos read marital obligations. He asked President Taft to consider the custom.
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Chicago
Cook County
Taft
Iowa Deadlock In Senate Vote Across Des Moines
Des Moines report shows the Iowa Senate tally with Deemer 56 Kenyon 45 Porter 62 and five absent or not voting leaving the needed 77 votes to elect still unattained.
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Des Moines
Deemer
Kenyon
Porter
Market summary of Chicago wheat corn oats and meats
Closing prices in Chicago on March 13 show May wheat at 90 3/4 cents, July 88 1/2, Sept 83 1/2. Corn May 40 1/4 cents, July 50 1/4, oats May 39 3/4 cents, July 50 1/4. Pork May 17.42 1/2, July 16.50. Lard May 9.12 1/4, July 9.05. Cash markets: No 2 hard wheat 91 1/2 cents, No 2 corn 47 1/4, No 2 oats 50 cents.
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Chicago
Chicago Market Report Cattle Hogs Sheep Prices
Chicago market data for March 13 shows cattle receipts about 25 000 with declines across categories and hog receipts near 60 000 with price ranges from 6 50 to 7 15 for different hog classes. Sheep receipts are listed with native and western prices and a range for yearlings and lambs.
Cattle Hogs and Sheep Receipts Reported at South Omaha
South Omaha cattle receipts total 5800 head with prices for beef steers around 5 to 6 dollars and cows and heifers 3.75 to 5.70, stockers and feeders 4.25, calves 4.50 to 8.00. Hog receipts 7200 with weights from 4.44 to 6.75 and general grade declines. sheep receipts show lower tombs with mixed values around 4 to 7 dollars.
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South Omaha
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Curtis
Ier
Uwa
Chick Food and Poultry
Nebraska Telephone CO
T.H. Beeson
Commercial Department
ST. Agnes Academy
Alliance, Nebr
Wiver Dull
Blanco
Alliance
Drake & Barb
Sweetwater Ave
Nebraska
Erty
Mat Gen Carter
Colo
Tattoo
New Zealand
Iowa
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