House Passes Naval Appropriation Bill at 96 Million
The House approved a naval appropriation bill totaling about 96 million dollars. An amendment by Mr. Burton to cap new battleships at one was defeated after debate on defense spending and the Philippines. The bill includes funding for two torpedo boat destroyers at up to 800 thousand dollars each, excluding weapons.
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Crumpecker
Indiana
Philippines
T'S Republic
Loneworth
Ohio
Mr. Burton
Appropriations Committee
Tawney
Minnesota
Burton
United States
Hull
Iowa
Foss
Ilinois
Four Ga. Boys Confess to Attempted Train Wreck
Four youths aged up to thirteen in Tallapoosa Georgia confessed to attempting to wreck a Southern railway train near the town Tuesday night. An Atlanta bound accommodation train hit an open switch, demolishing the engine and injuring the engineer and fireman while passengers escaped. The switch was found open with the lock broken, and the boys said their aim was to rob the express car.
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Tallapoosa
Southern Railway
Atlanta
Retribution on Rock Island Train Ends Elopement Tale
Hobart Oklahoma February 16 Charles Thomas was shot twice and killed on a Rock Island train as it arrived in Hobart. The shooter is Dr Beachom of Mangum Oklahoma who killed Thomas just after the elopement with Beachoms wife a year earlier.
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Eloper
Hobart
Okla
Charles Thomas
Rock Island
Beachom
Mangum
Thomas
Inquiry as to a Holdup
A terse exchange quotes a woman chastising a man for lateness and his reply that he was held up on the way home. The brief dialogue captures a domestic scene with implied delay and apology.
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Baltimore American
Trade Review Shows Stronger Tone in Distributive Sector
Bradstreet reports better weather and roads lifting activity in distributive trade. Grain deliveries ease transport congestion, winter goods move with price cuts, and rubber wear sells well. Southern trade solid, Southwest prepping for spring. cotton goods in high demand for upcoming seasons. Grain gains ease export demand while cotton shipments surge to record levels. Hog prices rise. Northwest car shortage improves except in North Dakota.
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New York
Bradstreet
Northwest
North Dakota
San Francisco School Settlement Reached at White House
A California deal ends the Japanese Oriental schools in San Francisco after passage of the immigration bill. Mayor Schmitz and the school board will abolish Oriental schools and re admit Japanese into white schools once the bill is enacted. Secretary Root and the president urged restraint and awaited congressional action.
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Washington
San Francisco
White House
Schmite
Root
San Franciscans
Schmitz
Congress
State Department
California
Senate
House of Representatives
Viscount Aoki
Hayes
Pacific Coast States
Japan
Senate agrees to vote on immigration bill conference report
Washington Feb 16 A senate agreement to vote Saturday on the conference report on the immigration bill was reached after a full day of debate. Senators Bacon Tillman Lodge Callinger Carter and others weighed in on the Japanese question and potential impact on immigrant classes.
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Washington
California
Senate
Bacon
Tillman
Lodge
Callinger
Carter
Traction Merger Unites Ohio and Indiana Lines
Cincinnati February 16 A traction merger unites all Southwestern Ohio and Eastern Indiana lines with $100,000,000 in capital. Randall Morgan W Kesley Shoepf and W 3 Rone lead the effort as Schoenf represents a Philadelphia capital syndicate buying and leasing traction properties for consolidation under a single management and guaranteed obligations.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Indiana
Times-Star
Traction Syndicate
Randall Morgan
Philadelphia
W. Kesley Shoepf
W. 3
Rone
Schoenf
Posse confronts Corban as he shoots self dead
In New Orleans on February 16 a posse cornered Joseph Corban who then killed himself. Corban was believed to be responsible for a recent saloon shooting at Shrewsbury and was found near Lutcher.
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New Orleans
Joseph Corban
Corban
Shrewsbury
Lutcher
Japan Laborer Admission Denial in San Francisco Issue
A Yokohama dispatch to the Times denies with authority that Japan agrees to any San Francisco solution hinging on restricting Japanese laborer entry to the United States. The report stresses no such agreement has been made.
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London
Yokio
Times Bays
Japan
San Francisco
United States
Woman Burns in Room Fire at East Fifteenth Street
Miss Dora Olson was badly burned when her clothing caught fire from a gasoline stove in her room at 400 East Fifteenth street. Doctors fear she may not recover.
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Minneapolis
Dora Olson
East Fifteenth Street
Death list grows from Larchmont wreck toll
Another victim, James Vann a colored waiter saved from the Larchmont disaster, dies at East Side hospital reducing survivors from 160 aboard to seventeen. Eight bodies remain unclaimed as investigations by New London authorities, including captain and crew of the ramming schooner Harry Knowlton, proceed.
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Providence
Larchmont
Block Island
James Vann
East Side Hospital
United States
New London
Harry Knowlton
Planned Massacre Alleged at Brownsville Barracks
Testimony before the Senate Military Affairs Committee alleges plans to massacre colored soldiers at Brownsville Texas. William Mapp of Company C Twenty fifth Infantry describes a nighttime shooting outside barracks and a white corral boss voicing, It is a good thing it happened as it did, and plan to trap and kill the soldiers in Allison's saloon.
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Washington
Brownsville
Tex
Negvo
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
William Mapp
Company C
Twentyfifth Infantry
Mapp
Wilburt Vosichelle
Reservation Corral
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Vosichelle
Allison
Trial of Harry Thaw to be resumed Monday
The Thaw murder case will continue as planned on Monday with juror Bolton able to return. Prosecution and defense agree the trial should proceed. no bid for a lunacy commission is anticipated. Experts for both sides prepare to testify on Thaw's sanity. Dr Evans may recount prior conversations with Thaw.
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New York
Harry Thaw
Joseph B. Bolton
Fitzgerald
Thaw
Baltimore
Jerome
Dan O'Reilly
Evans
White
Stanford White
Flint, MacDonald
Mabon
Wagner
William Thaw
B. Fellow Jenkins
Gerry Society
Coonsel
Francinn L. Patton
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton College
Patton
Pattern
State Hab torial association targets Madden in stalled post bill clash
In St. Paul the State Hab torial association debated disbarment of Third Assistant Postmaster General Madden and urged action against the second class postage bill. They also elected A. J. Halsted as president and named a nine member executive committee for the year.
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St. Paul
State
Maddon
Madden
Peageant
Roosevelt
A. J. Halsted
Brainerd
A. M. Wallace
Fairfax
J. E. Casey
Jordan
A. L. Ward
Fairmont
C. P. Stine
David Ramaley
C. C. Whitney
F. J. Meyst
William &. Easton
Horatio Nelson Davis Dies in Buffalo at 95
Horatio Nelson Davis father of late Minnesota Senator Cushman K. Davis died at his daughter's home in Buffalo New York at midnight. He was ninety five years old and the body will be taken to Waukesha Wisconsin for burial.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Horatio Nelson Davis
Cushman K. Davis
Minnesota
Thomas T. Morford
Waukesha
Wis
Cruiser Chicago Arrives at Acajutla to Safeguard Interests
Washington reports the cruiser Chicago has reached Acajutla Salvador after departing Magdalena Bay to protect American interests amid the Nicaragua Honduras friction.
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Washington
Navy Department
Chicago
Acajutla
Salvador
Magdalena Bay
Nicaragua
Honduras
American reporter recounts snow halting famine relief efforts
Ellis, an American newspaperman, has returned to Shanghai reporting that heavy snow blocks digging for food in the famine district and deaths from cold and starvation are rising.
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Shanghai
Ellis
Storm Collapse Kills Three in Campo Basso Area
A heavy wind and rain storm caused a house to collapse at Campo Basso, killing three people and injuring several others. The same storm toppled a house at Tusii, injuring several more residents.
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Naples
Campo Basso
Tusii
Shonts and Shaw Speak at Iowa Society Banquet
Secretary Shaw urged a strong merchant marine to back American manufacturing while Theodore P. Shonts called for a square deal in railroad management for stockholders and the public at a Waldorf Astoria banquet. General Dodge presided as a resolution telegraphed thanks to Senator Allison.
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New York
Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw
Theodore P. Shonts
Panama Canal Commission
Interborough Metropolitan Company
Iowa Society of New York
Waldorf- Astoria
Grenville M. Dodge
United States
William B. Allison
Washington
Boilermakers Strike Across Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain System
In St Louis on February 16, about eleven hundred boilermakers and helpers from the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain systems walked off the job. They rejected management offers of a total 3 cent hourly rise, seeking a 4 cent increase including the recent 1 cent raise.
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St. Louis
Missouri Pacific
Iron Mountain System
Missouri Pacific and
Secret inquiry into Yorktown boiler rivet removal at Mare Island
Vallejo Calif Feb 14 a secret inquiry is held at Mare Island navy yard over the Yorktown boiler condition Eleven rivets were removed apparently deliberately just before ordered to Magdalena bay to protect American interests in Central America The move was to prevent a Bennington like disaster as the flagship Chicago was sent south in place of the Yorktown
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Vallejo
Cal
Mare Island Navy Yard
Magdalena Bay
Central America
Chicago
Wife killed and children injured by dynamite blast
In Lebanon Pennsylvania on February 16 Mrs Zeller wife of John Zaller of Annville was killed instantly when three sticks of dynamite exploded while thawing on a stove at their home. Their two daughters Lydia thirteen and Mary five were badly burned and lacerated with little hope of recovery as the house was wrecked. Zeller left the dynamite in the oven and went to work neglecting to warn his wife.
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Lebanon
Zeller
John Zaller
Annville
Here
Lydia
Mary
Explosion of Kerosene Lamp Causes Fatal Burns
In Jersey City on February 16 a lamp explosion at Albert Osborne’s home left two people fatally burned and four others seriously injured. Among the injured are Albert Osborne, forty two, and Elsie Osborne, four, with three diphtheria patients among the victims.
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Jersey City
N. J
Albert Osborne
Elsie Osborne
Sultan's Troops Storm Bedadua Village Fight
Tangier February 15 troops of the sultan stormed Bedadua, killing fifteen soldiers in the operation. Bandits who robbed the French mail had hidden there and escaped, but one woman was killed in the clash.
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Sultan
Tangier
Bedadua
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