Beach and Wife Say Negro Attacked Them in Yard Trial
Frederick Beach of New York testifies that he did not assault his wife and she confirms the attack by a “gingerbread colored” negro on the Beach home lawn. The identity of the man behind a bookcase is revealed as Hadden Johnson, a local newspaper man.
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Aiken
S. C
Frederick Beach
New York
Bach
Aiken County
Arguent
Hadden Johnson
Beach
Miss Hollins
Witners
Dissolution Plans Set for Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
The United States Supreme Court decreed the dissolution of the Union Pacific Railway Company and the Southern Pacific Company. Details were issued after a directors' meeting, outlining the terms in a joint statement.
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New York
Union Pacific Railay Company
Southern Paci Company
United Tes Supreme Court
Roads Await Justice Department Approval and Court Confirmation
The agreement awaits confirmation by the federal district court where the action began and is contingent on approval by the Department of Justice in Washington, with involvement from California railway companies.
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Department of Justice
Washington
Federal District
California
Convincing Hale Friedman Cure Attracts U S Interest
Dr Austin B Heid of Pittsburgh returns from Potsdam with tuberculosis serum he calls the first of Friedmans culture to be brought to the United States Heid plans to use the serum on his consumptive wife In Washington the government prepares to issue a report on Friedmans cure for pulmonary tuberculosis while noting lack of official endorsement.
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New York
Friedman
Austin B. Heid
Pittsburg
Potsdam
Heid
Milton H. Foster
Wills Island Health Service
United States
Foster
Washington
Frederick Friedman
Berlin
State Department
Senate
Gore
Congress
Graft Probe Expands to Higher Officials in NY Police
New York February six investigation into police graft advances from minor exposures to top ranks. Police Captain Thomas W Walsh confessed on his sick bed to taking about one hundred thousand dollars in graft in one precinct, half given to higher ups, with indictments anticipated for one inspector and other officials. The confession follows the Fox plea and could mark the era’s major graft disclosures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Thomas W. Walsh
Whitman
Herman Rosenthal
Becker
Walsh
Fox
Bulgarians Plan to Reach Dardanelles Route to Constantinople
The Bulgarian war office reveals the main objective is to reach the Dardanelles and clear them for the Greek fleet into the Sea of Marmora. Greeks would then attack Constantinople from the sea, while about seventy thousand Turkish troops on Gallipoli are expected to resist the Bulgarian advance.
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Bulgaria
Sofia
Adrianople
War Office
Dardanelles Straits
Sea of Marmora
Constantinople
Gallipoli
Wilson Weighs Legislation Before Inauguration
President elect Wilson has not decided on extra session plans besides tariff. He would not set currency reform plans until after inauguration and consulting lawmakers. The governor spent the day in Princeton drafting his inaugural address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Princeton
N. J
Congress
Washington
Leaders of Rochester garment strike arrested for riots
Five leaders of the Rochester garment workers strike are under arrest charged with inciting riots. Another suspect is jailed on murder charges after an attack on Caulker's shop that followed Ida Berman being killed by a shotgun blast into the crowd. Eight injured.
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Rochester
N. Y
Garment Workers
Ida Berman
New Servian Postage Stamps Planned in Victory Series
Belgrade reports the Servian government prepares a new national stamp issue to celebrate recent war victories. The stamps will feature portraits of notable rulers and scenes from the reconquered provinces.
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Vienna
Belgrade
Woolworth Building Nears Completion as World’s Tallest
The Woolworth Building in New York rises to 384 feet with a 366 foot tower, fifty five floors and about thirty three acres of floor space. Foundations began in 1910, total weight 250000 tons, cost about 13500000 dollars funded by F W Woolworth and French capitalists, with a planned annual rent of about 2500000 dollars.
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New York
Woolworth
Eiffel Tower
Paris
Broadway
Barclay Street
Park Pace
F. W. Woolworth
Rodman
N. Y
Utica
France
Farmers Seek Payment for Diseased Cattle at TB Meeting
New York February 6 dairymen cattlemen and health officers from eastern and middle states debated bovine tuberculosis. A resolution to slaughter diseased cattle without remuneration was vehemently opposed by farmers. Delegates compromised on paying the original owner, not the dealer, to prevent a market for diseased cattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Middle States
Conference Recommends Sale Within Origin State
Re the federal and interstate quarantine measures the conference recommended that the dispersed cattle sale occur in the state where they originated.
Day in Congress Signals Law and Budget Moves
Congress met at noon as Senator Borah signaled a request to consider a labor department bill. James H. Brady was sworn in to fill Per kins seat. House and committees planned continued probes into campaign funds. Adjournments occurred after routine debates on district funds and tax matters.
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Borah
House
Department of Labor
James H. Brady
Idaho
Perkine
Clapp
Taft
Indian Affairs Committee
Nnoe
Senate
District of Columbia
Internal Revenue
Cabell
Treasury Department
Foreign Affairs Committee
Turkey Drifting Toward Ruin and Bankrupt Nation
London reports describe Turkish misery as war drains treasury with no funds until peace. Anti war protests erupt as Young Turks are jeered. Camps suffer cold, disease and hunger while troops at Tchatalja and Gallipoli face limtied supplies and looming danger.
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London
Daily Telegraph
Ellis Ashmead Bartlett
Constantinople
Adrianople
War Office
Mahmoud Shefket Pasha
Tchatalja
Gallipoli
Rodosto
Turkey
Ballot deadlock persists in West Virginia Senate
In Charleston on February 6 the joint assembly failed to elect a U S Senator on the third ballot. Ed wards and Elkins maintained their positions as others shifted, while three laws move toward Governor Glasscock’s signature including the blue sky statute and insurance reform. A commission to study Virginia debt is also created. The Peterkin and McCorkle constitutional amendments advance for passage.
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Senate
Virginia
Charleston
W. Va
Joint Assembly
Mason
Legislative Mill
Glasscock
Slemaker
Peterkin
McCorkle
House
Mob Beats Sergeant and Five Patrolmen
A Brooklyn Williamsburg strike mob used a bomb as a weapon injuring special officers Edward Hartman and John Hopp. The blast damaged a garment shop front and caused a panic among workers as police sergeant and five patrolmen were beaten before reserves dispersed the crowd.
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New York
Wiliamsburg
Brooklyn
Edward Hartman
John Hopp
Five Men and Two Girls Seized in Struggle as Workers Return
In a struggle, five men and two girls were taken prisoner. A thousand operatives resumed work in several shops today after their demands for higher pay and shorter hours were granted, according to their leaders.
Remittent Crew Said to Be Safe Aboard Fimreite
Newport News reports say the crew of the Norwegian bark Remittent, found ailing and unmanned off the Azores, may be aboard the steamer Fimreite which sailed from Newport News January 1 for Naples. The mystery prompted a revenue cutter to search as the Fimreite was heard from near Gibraltar with the Remittent aboard, after the Roumania towed her but lost her in a storm.
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Newport News
Remittent
Azores
Roumania
Fimreite
Naples
Onondaga
Gibraltar
Atlantic
Sir Henry Irving Remembered on 75th Birth Anniversary
London observed the seventy fifth anniversary of Sir Henry Irving born on this date. Admirers placed tokens on his grave slab in Westminster Abbey and on the pedestal of his statue beside the National Portrait Gallery.
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Sir Henry Irving
London
Westminster Abbey
National Portrait Gallery
Republicans and Progressives split on amalgamation proposal
Albany Feb 6 William Barnes Jr chairman of the Republican state committee rejected calls for merging with the Progressive party. He argued that Republicans and Progressives differ on individual rights and warned that Democrats will seek clear choices as in prior campaigns. He noted no great differences exist in concrete proposals between Republicans and Progressives.
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Albany
N. Y
Republican Party
Progressive Party
North Pole
South Pole
William Barnes
Republican State Committee
Albany County
Republican Organization
Baltimore
Barnes
Chicago
Virginia Farmers Refuse Equal Suffrage Resolution
The Virginia Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union in Lynchburg on February 6 declined to back a resolution favoring women’s equal suffrage. It adopted a resolution criticizing the Virginia legislature for not banning convict labor in the state penitentiary and kept officers eligible for political office. Final adjournment followed late today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Farmers
Lynchburg
Virginia Farmers Educational and Co-Operative Union
Virginia
New Zealand Cruiser Heads Off on 45000 Mile World Cruise
The cruiser New Zealand, a gift from the dominion she carries, left Portsmouth today on a 45000 mile voyage around the world. She sails to New Zealand for several months then returns to England via Cape Horn with stops at Vancouver Panama South American ports the West Indies and Bermuda.
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London
New Zealand
Imperial Navy
Dominion
Portsmouth
England
Cape Horn
Vancouver
Panama
South American
West Indies
Bermuda
Republicans to Stand by Taft in Senate Fight
Washington February 6 Republicans resolved in caucus to press for confirmation of Taft's nominations stalled by Democrats. In the Senate executive session Republicans won 36 to 34 to continue the fight with Bristow and Poindexter of the Progressives siding with Democrats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Washington
Senate
Bristow
Poindexter
Turkish Troops Retreat After Gallipoli Victory
Bulgarian forces defeated Ottoman troops south of the Kavak, driving them in retreat toward Bulair. The war office report said Turkish soldiers work in disorder as they were pursued by Bulgarian troops.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Gallipoli
Dardanelles
Kavak
War Office
Bulair
Long and tiresome high indcated for senatorial race
A prolonged struggle for the West Virginia senate seat dominates Charleston politics with candidates’ camps expressing confidence while a possible deadlock looms. Ed wards and Elkins trail, Mercer county backers rally for Mann, and telegrams crowd in from Raleigh and Mercer counties as bills pass and false press rumors are debunked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Mann
Edwards
Elkins
Coulter
Raleigh County
Mercer County
Mercer
Criminal Court
Judiciary Committee
House of Delegates
Senate
G. W. Bland
Clarksburg
C. W. Woitle
Intelligencer
Senator Bland
Voitle
Mr. Voitle
Mr. Woitle
Woitle
Martial Law Proclaimed in Salvador After Assassination Attempt
Martial law declared across Salvador as President Aranja Hes lies in danger from an attack by five would be assassins. One assailant captured after a machete wound opened the president’s head from skull to nostrils. American Minister Heimke reports the incident as an attempted removal plot.
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Salvador
Washington
Aranja Hes
Heimke
State Department
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Singer
Metropolitan Tower
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Techatalja
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Arnett
Flesher
White
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William Seymour Edwards
Isaac T. Mann
Albert B. White
John W Mason
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