Chilton Names West Virginia Postmasters in District
Washington April 23 special. Postmasters for West Virginia districts without Democratic representation will be named on Senator Chilton’s recommendation. Sam Hayes is favored for collector of internal revenue despite opposition led by John T. McGraw. Hayes’ supporters expect his appointment, while Treasury Secretary McAdoo faces telegrams denying claims of Hayes as a reactionary. Other notes include Floyd J. Brown for Hiuefield postmaster, J. G. Ludwig replaced at McCauley, and post offices at William and Nixon updated or moved. Charter banks in Keystone and Matewan approved. Senator Nathan Goff seeks a Tug Fork bridge at Matewan. Congressman Hughes advances steel car and rail safety bills.
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Washington
West Virginia
Congress
Senator Chilton
Burleson
John M. Hamilton
Post Office Department
West
Hayes
John T. McGraw
G. W. Johnson
Parkersburg
Treasury
McAdoo
Wilson
Baltimore
Chilton
Henry Fry
Charleston
Senate
Floyd J. Brown
Hiuefield
Hugh Ike Shott
Brown
J. G. Ludwig
McCauley
Hardy County
W. Va
B. B. Baughman
William
Tucker County
Pierce
Nixon
Upshur County
Sage
James M. McClaugherty
Cloverdale
Comptroller of
Treasury Department
National Bank of Keystone
Matewan National Bank
D. E. French
R. Bailey
E. B. Chambers
H. L. Roby
Matewan Institution
Nathan Goff
Robert W. Buskirk
Matewan
Big Sandy
Mingo County
Kentucky
James A. Hughes
Mr. Hughes
Hughes
Internal Revenue Officers
Scutari Falls to Montenegrins After Desperate Siege
After a twenty four hour assault Montenegrin forces breached Scutari and entered the fortress chief Said Pasha reportedly ordered surrender talks. Casualties were heavy with three thousand Montenegrins and five thousand Turks dead. King Nicholas proclaimed reclaiming the city and European powers face a tense, unresolved blockade situation.
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Cettinje
Montenegro
Scutari
Turkey
Mssaid Pasha
Tatakosch
Essaid
Nicholas
London
Albania
Balkan
Essaid Pasha
Government liquor licenses ban in restricted West Virginia
Bills propose to bar federal liquor licenses in West Virginia after July 1 1914 and in many counties now. Hughes also seeks a $75 000 Logan public building a $100 000 Beckley building an agricultural experiment station in West Virginia's fifth district aid for lockmasters on Great Kanawha river and pension extension for Civil War state troops.
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West Virginia
Hughes
Logan
Beckley
Fifth Congressional
Kanawha River
Lives of Men Snuffed Out in Mine Disaster
An explosion in a mine traps and kills hundreds of workers with reports of rapping and cries heard before life signs ceased. Rescue teams conclude all entombed men are probably dead as force of the blast shatters mine cars tracks and rails, while naval events influence actions at Durazzo and Montenegro.
Supreme Court Rules Sullivan Must Testify
The West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that J. V. Sullivan, a newspaper correspondent, must testify in the legislative investigation into bribery allegations tied to last winter's U.S. senator election campaign. The court also ordered all prosecuting attorney evidence be produced to the committee when requested.
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Charleston
W. Va
Supreme Court
J. V. Sullivan
United States
Sullivan
One Hundredth Birthday of Stephen A. Douglas Observed
Vermont marked the hundredth anniversary of Stephen A. Douglas birth with a state legislature resolution. Brandon, his birthplace in 1813, honored the occasion at his preserved childhood home now a public memorial.
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Stephen A. Douglas
Montpelier
Lincoln
Vermont
Brandon
Douglas
Children Reprimanded and Then Released
Pittsburg April 23 Police kept order as fewer than ten percent of the city’s seventy thousand pupils attended public schools amid a school strike. Demonstrators arrested yesterday were reprimanded and returned to parents after the jury acquitted Superintendent Heeter in a case linked to a domestic affair and a death following an operation.
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Pittsburg
Heeter
Militant suffragettes jailed after Manchester gallery attack
In Manchester Justice Banks sentences Mrs Forrester to three months and Miss Manesta to one month for entering the art gallery and breaking thirteen pictures. He urges a new drastic law to curb suffragette militancy.
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Manchester
England
Justice Banks
Disaster at Finleyville Mine After Cincinnati Explosion
A disastrous explosion at the Cincinnati mine of the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company in Finleyville traps and kills many workers. Rescue efforts by federal and company teams recover dozens of bodies, with many miners still missing and conditions hampered by afterdamp. Fire and gas hinder exits as authorities plan burial at Monongahela City.
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Cinnati
Monongahela River Coal and Coke Company
Finleyville
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Monongahela River
United States Bureau of Mines
Monongahela Coal and Coke Company
Pittsburg Coal Company
Monongahela City
Menongexhela
Mingo
Courtney
Weather forecast for West Virginia and Virginia
West Virginia cloudy Thursday with likely showers and thunder Thursday night into Friday. Friday turns colder. Virginia likely fair and warmer Thursday, with Friday showers and cooler temperatures.
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West Virginia
Virginia
Tariff Debate Opens With Many Speeches
Washington reports the tariff debate begins in the House with brief speeches from members of three parties. Underwood outlines five days for general debate and a week for reading the bill with five minute speeches for each member. Senate conferences resume as Democrats push Western senators over wool and sugar proposals. Republicans remain divided on key points of the bill.
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Washington
House
Underwood
Senate
Finance Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Pope Walks in Bedroom During Convalescence
In Rome on April 23 the pope made solid progress in recovery. He rose early and, with doctors’ approval, walked in his bedroom. Temperature 97, less prostration, stronger overall though cough lingers. Bronchial and intestinal troubles improve. To ensure rest, physicians have arranged for his sister Anna Sarto to stay by his bedside daily.
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Rome
Anna Sarto
Third Trial of Indicted Banker Opens in Court
In Alexandria Virginia on April 23 the case of Lewis Hoff, former secretary and general manager of the defunct Mercantile Railway Building Loan Association, was called for trial in the corporation court. This marks the third trial of the banker on indictments tied to the association’s collapse.
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Alexandria, Va
Lewis Hoff
Mercantile Railway Building Loan Association
Corporation Court
Building and Loan Association
Belgian strike ends as workers return to glass factories
Brussels reports the Socialists strike committee calls workers back to work tomorrow. About five hundred thousand men are expected to resume duty as the government considers a one man one vote law. A parliamentary panel continues to refine provincial and communal franchise rules.
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Brussels
Belgium
Val Saint Lamberth
Northern League Opens Season Across Minneapolis St Paul
The Norther Baseball League began its season with games in Minneapolis and St Paul on American Association grounds while that league clubs are away. Opening matchups feature Superior at Minneapolis, Duluth at St Paul, Grand Forks at Winona, and Winnipeg at Virginia. The 126 game schedule runs through August 24.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Central League of Baseball
Heilbroner
Fort Wayne
Dayton
Springfield
Grand Rapids
Evansville
St. Paul
Mina
Norther Baseball League
American Association
Minneapolis
Association
Superior
Duluth
Grand Forks
Winona
Winnpeg
Virginia
DePauw Installs West Virginia Educator As President
Greencastle Ind April 20 The town welcomed the new DePauw University president Rev Dr George R Grose a former West Virginian and minister as he assumed leadership today Gold garments and formal ceremonies accompanied the inauguration with local officials and faculty in attendance.
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DePauw
West
New DePauw President Introduced at Gracious Ceremony
Grace M E church pastor in Baltimore and Hugh Dougherty of Indianapolis presented the authority symbol and charter to DePauw University’s new president amid a large audience. Vice President Fairbanks presided. W C Thompson of Ohio State U delivered the day’s oration. The new president hails from West Virginia, Jack Johnson.
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Grace M. Bechurch
Baltimore
Hugh Dougherty
Indianapolis
Board of Trustees
Charles W. Fairbanks
W. C. Thompson
Ohio State University
DePauw
West Virginia
Death rate in coal mines lowest in fourteen years
Washington April 23 Special Twenty three hundred and sixty men were killed in the coal mines of the United States last year out of a total of three quarters of a million employed in the industry. The death rate was 3.15 per thousand. The bureau notes the deaths and rates are the smallest since 1906 and 1899 respectively, and that coal output per death is the greatest on record.
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Washington
United States
United States Bureau of Mines
Bureau
Frederick W. Horton
Hlorton
Bureau of Mines
Horton
Wilson Sends Bryan to Sacramento to Explain Anti Alien Laws
President Wilson orders Secretary of State Bryan to Sacramento to work with California officials on anti alien land ownership laws that fit treaty obligations, especially with Japan. Bryan will depart tomorrow and hopes for a cooperative, wise solution with Governor Johnson and the California legislature.
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Gov. Johnson
California
Will
Washington
White House
Wilson
Bryan
Sacramento
Johnson
United States
Japan
Warlier
Senate
House
Secretary of State of the
Secretary of State
California Assembly
Bench Warrant Issued for Long Beach Millionaire
A bench warrant was issued for George G. Bixby of Long Beach after he failed to answer a subpoena as a witness in the yet unresolved white slavery case involving Mrs Josephine Rosenburg who was arraigned this afternoon.
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Los Angeles
Cal
George G. Bixby
Long Beach
Josephine Rosenburg
Rosenburg
Senator Weeks backs Aldrich currency plan for reform
Senator Weeks of Massachusetts says President Wilson will get Republican support at the special session to consider currency reform. He favors the Aldrich currency plan.
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Weeks
Aldrich
Washington
Senator Weeks
Massachusetts
Wilson
Congress
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Frederick W. Alerson
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