For Sale: Sixteen Room House and More on East Bridge Street
Local buyer seeks pity for a man moving to California during winter and offering his property. Listings include a sixteen room rooming house on East Bridge Street with modern hot water heat, a sacrificial sale of a barn and three Lansing lots, a used De Laval Cream Separator, two Third Ward houses, an eight room near the Packing House, and rental rooms with $200 cash plus monthly payments for a house on Oakland Avenue.
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Murphy's
Calfornia
East Bridge St
Lansing
Oakland Avenue
War scare in Russia prompts serious preparations and political warning
Reports from St. Petersburg on February 18 describe a growing war scare over possible hostilities with Turkey. Duma figures push for readiness measures and rail transport capabilities, while diplomats warn of bluff and long Balkan tensions.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Turkey
M. Guchkoff
Duma
Commission of National Defense
Caucasus
Europe
Transcaucasia
M. Khvostchinsky
Siberia
Tiflis
Associated Presse
Asia Minor
Balkans
Austria
Baron von Aehrenthal
Macedonia
London
Vienna
Danube
Adriatic Sea
Saloniki
Snell Will Case Jury Discharged In High-Profile Suit
In Clinton Illinois on February 18 Judge Cochrane discharged the Snell will jury after they failed to reach a verdict in the $2,900,000 contest brought by Richard Snell. He plans a new trial at the May term. The trial featured sensational “Snell letters” from women and young girls and paralleled estate gifts to Richard, a grand niece, and a trust plan. Richard contends his father was insane about women.
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Clinton
Ill
Snell
Cochrane
Richard Snell
Thomas Snell
Clinton Bank
Colonel Snell
Richard
Madelie Snell McNamara
Senator Latimer In Critical Condition After Operation
Senator Asbury C. Latimer of South Carolina is in critical condition at Providence hospital after an abdominal operation. The veteran lawmaker, five terms in the House and since 1908 a Senate member, underwent surgery for a bowels twist with uncertain outcome but some hope remains.
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Washington
Asbury C. Latimer
South Carolina
House of Representatives
Senate
Providence Hospital
King Alfonso Reported Slain Rumors Spread
Paris rumors say King Alfonso of Spain has been assassinated but no confirmation or denial was available from the French foreign office or the Spanish embassy.
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Paris
Alfonso of
Spain
Bombings in Barcelona Kill Woman Wound Woman and Child
Two bombs exploded in Barcelona on February 18 killing a woman and wounding another woman and a child, in a case prompting police inquiries into the attack.
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Barcelona
Passes Big Supply Bill in House for 32 Million
Washington notes the house approved the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill, a large supply measure totaling 32,336,573 dollars. The debate focused on amendments to remove incapacity related provisions for incapacitated federal workers with a point of order sustaining the appropriation not paying those unable to perform duties. Tawney defended the provision as targeting those incapacitated regardless of age.
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Washington
House
Tawney
Senate Confirms Wetherspoon Brigadier Nomination After Debate
Washington February 18 After a five hour debate the Senate voted five votes against to confirm Lieutenant Colonel W W Wetherspoon to brigadier general. The session included a closed doors discussion and an agreement to take up the ocean mail subsidy bill next Wednesday. Senator Stone of Missouri said he would speak on the Aldrich currency bill.
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Washington
Senate
Wetherspoon
W. W. Wetherspoon
Stone
Missouri
Want Captain Pardoned
Captain William H. Van Schaick, who commanded the steamboat General Slocum during its fatal 1904 fire, will begin a ten year sentence next Tuesday after the decision not to appeal to the U S Supreme Court. A petition campaign is planned to seek a presidential pardon, with signatures to be gathered citywide. Friends warn that prison would be a deadly ordeal for him.
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New York
Wiliam H. van Schaick
General Slocum
United States Supreme Court
Roosevelt
van Schaick
Tragic Train Rescue Ends Two Lives in Cartersville
In Cartersville Georgia on February 18 Lilli May Kline twelve sacrificed herself to save six year old David Rogers from an oncoming train. Both children died in the attempted rescue.
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Cartersville
David Rogers
Lilli May Kline
Drowning of 15-year-old Watt in Iowa River Rescue
In Marshalltown on February 18 Leslie Watt aged fifteen drowned after a boat carrying four boys was struck by moving ice in the Iowa River. Two companions escaped as the boat capsized. Lewis Arnold swam to a floating ice cake and rescued two boys. Watt remained under the ice and his body was recovered.
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Marshalltown
Leslie Watt
Lowa
Lewis Arnold
Watt
Important Conference on Pan American Affairs Held
Washington Feb 18 a governing board meeting of the Bureau of American Republics drew Latin American diplomats Assistant Secretary Robert Bacon and Dr L S Rowe to discuss topics for the upcoming Pan American scientific congress in Santiago Chile and material for a Buenos Aires 1910 conference A Pan American committee was named with Carnegie Elkins Buchanan Landis Slayden Rowe Bates Bacon and Curtis to push closer U S Latin American relations.
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Washington
Bureau of American Republics
Robert Bacon
L. S. Rowe
University of Pennsylvania
Santilagogo
Chile
Santiago
Buenos Ayres
Argentina
Rowe
Bacon
Root
Pan-American Committee
United States
Andrew Carnegie
Stephen B. Elkins
West Virginia
William S. Buchanan
Buffalo
N. Y
Charles B. Landis
Indiana
James L. Slayden
Texas
L.S. Rowe
Alfred KE. Bates
U. 8
S. A
William E. Curtis
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