Fire Devastates Battle House Hotel in Mobile
A midnight blaze at the Battle House hotel in Mobile destroys the building with losses over a million dollars. One person is killed and several are seriously injured as guests escape. elevator boys Joseph Parks and Bernard Costantina save many lives despite severe facial and hand burns. In New York Bronx fire, Italian mothers drop babies from windows to policemen below, babies fell twenty feet to the pavement.
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New York
Mobile
Battle House
South
Joseph Parks
Bernard Constantina
Bronx
Successful Y M C A Worker is Coming
Thomas Keenan a renowned railroad oriented YMCA worker may visit this city on March 7 and 8. He is an engineer and friend to railroad men whose lectures have spurred Christian uplift among workers. Accompanying him is A G Krebel railroad secretary of the International Committee. No definite announcement yet.
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Thomas Keenan
Young Men's Christian Association
Keenan
A. G. Krebel
International Committee
Captain Moran Resumes His Run After Injury
Captain John Moran has resumed his route on Nos. 1 and 2 from Radford to Norton after an arm injury from a scuffle with a disorderly passenger last July. He later re broke the arm in a second accident but is now back on duty and will be welcomed by the traveling public.
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John Moran
Radford
Norton
Captain Moran
Boxing Law Repeal Movement Grows in Wheeling WV
Wheeling attorneys lead a push to repeal West Virginia boxing bans threatening to end the prohibition on matches. Enthusiasm runs high among boxing supporters and labor groups while interest remains limited outside the state’s larger arenas.
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West Virginia
Wheeling Sports
Wheeling
Czar Severely Censured by High Russian Official
London reports a sensational National Review article by the so called High Russian Official criticizing Nicholas II as a negligent autocrat. The piece accuses the czar of wielding power for personal gain, tolerating corruption, and forcing autocracy while grand dukes exploit funds and limit public welfare. The author blames the czar for war and misrule despite claimed public duty.
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Czar
London
Carr
National Review
Quarterly Review
Nicholas Ts
Rojestvensky
Railroad Men Bitter Over Fellow Servant Bill
Railroad organizations in the city express disappointment over the current legislature's handling of the fellow servant bill at Charleston. Some lawmakers from the northern counties face harsh criticism. With no likely favorable action this session, union representatives who have been in Charleston for weeks will return home.
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Charleston
Brotherhood
Logan County Man Married at Hagerstown
Miss Olive Virginia Shull, Roanoke and H C Shull's daughter, wed Raymond B. Barlowe of Logan West Virginia, Monitor Coal and Coke Company superintendent, in a quiet February 10 ceremony at the Hotel Hamilton in Hagerstown Maryland. The couple will visit Washington and other northern cities before settling in Logan.
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Olive Virginia Shull
H. C. Shull
Roanoke
Raymond B. Barlowe
Monitor Coal and Coke Company
Logan
W. Va
Hamilton
Hagerstown
Washington
Blue Ribbon Extracts Deemed Best Ever by Amazed Fans
Consumers praise Blue Ribbon lemon and vanilla extracts as universally satisfying. Enthusiasts claim the flavor duo pleases everybody, every time, everywhere, calling it the beat ever made.
Substitute for the fellow servants bill
A Senate Judiciary Committee considers a substitute for the fellow servants liability act drafted by a sub committee. It makes negligent employees criminally liable and extends liability to all employers public and private. It sets a $10,000 cap for damages in death or injury and imposes personal liability on the employee with potential interpleader by the corporation. Knowledge of defective machinery by a superior does not bar recovery. The servant may be fined at least $100 and imprisoned 10 days to a year.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
Death of Prominent Citizen of Tazewell
Jas M Kitts longtime Tazewell resident dies at home after a week of illness from pleurisy at age listed. Survived by wife and five children Frank D Kitts B eckley WV Jennie Kitts Bluefield Fred Kitts Roanoke College Walter Kitts Rich. Funeral tomorrow at 3 pm on Mechanics Ave with interment in the new cemetery. A local thief was captured by Chief Geo Mays at Pocahontas after stealing railroad tickets and being chased by Agent Ward. jailed in Tazewell.
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Tazewell
Jas. M. Kitts
Pleariey
Frank D. Kitts
F. D. Kitts Insurance Aency
Stroman
Beckley
W Va
Jennie
Mechanics Avenue
Mr. Kitts
Geo. Mays
Houston Mathews
Pocahontas
Ward
Mays
Tacewell
Coal Miners to Open Co operative Stores
Tamaqua February 13 President Mitchell of the Mine Workers backs cooperative stores and expects at least a dozen to start in the southern anthracite region Coaldale local union will initiate the move Stock offered to miners at one dollar a share and non rentable The store to be run by a board of directors chosen by the union The aim is to replace company stores and drive them out of business where present
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Tamaqua
Mitchell
Coaldale
Capt T W Spindle Dies in Roanoke at 69
Roanoke February 13 Captain Thomas W Spindle died after several weeks illness aged sixty nine He was Shriner Knight Templar a Lakeland Lodge Mason and First Presbyterian Church member He led Spindle & Sons real estate firm and earlier served as captain of infantry with Lee 1861 to 1865 He leaves a widow a daughter Mrs Dudley Cowles and three sons B F Spindle Washington T W Spindle Jr and Shelburne Spindle Roanoke residents for fifteen years
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Roanoke
Thomas W. Spindle
Lakeland Lodge
Masons
First Presbyterian Church
Christianshoro
T. W. Spindle & Sons
Lee
Severest Cold Wave Forecast Across Eastern U S
Washington February 18 weather bulletin warns of the severest cold wave of the season sweeping the eastern United States tonight with temperatures below zero as far south as Virginia and freezing weather reaching the south central portions of Florida.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
United States
Virginia
Florida
Murder Mystery In Philadelphia Stables Find Body
The corpse of a young well dressed woman was found today in a manure pile at Union Transfer Company's stables in Philadelphia. A deep forehead wound suggests foul play, with the body likely placed there within the last 24 hours after the pile was cleaned.
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Philadelphia
Union Transfer Company
General Bilderling to Succeed Grippenberg in Manchuria
St Petersburg February 18. City remains quiet. The Potiloft works and four other large establishments idle due to the strike. It is officially announced that General Grippenberg will return from the front to be succeeded in command of the Second Manchurian army by General Bilderling.
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St. Petersburg
Potiloft
Grippenberg
Bilderling
Dead Man's Wealth Found Behind Picture in Cumberland
In Cumberland Maryland on February 18 a hidden sum of 3700 dollars was discovered behind a large picture at the home of Edward McKenna an eighty four year old man who died there last week His widow aged eighty years was overjoyed by the find.
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Cumberland
Edward McKenna
Roosevelt Honors Lincoln Amidst Family Money Theft
Theodore Roosevelt honors Abraham Lincoln as details emerge of a theft at the McKenna home. A neighbor discovered money hidden in bags behind a picture and in stockings, tins, and pockets. The McKennas, poor truck farmers, kept money in a large roll and at the Second National Bank.
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Second National Bank
McKenna
McKennas
Minister braves blizzard to reach sick wife in Norfolk
In a perilous midwinter voyage Rev. J. W. Briscoe, pastor at Hellands Island Maryland, crossed ice floes and canal waters, walked ten miles, rode a fragile rowboat, and drove twenty four miles to Cambridge for a train, reaching his wife near Norfolk to find her nearly well as Holland Island remains cut off since January 17 with no telegraph or boat access.
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Norfolk
J. W. Briscoe
Methodist
Hellands Island
Chesapeake Bay
Cambridge
Hollands Island
Two Deaths Reported in Wythe County Virginia
Wytheville Virginia February 18 Dr Richard W Sanders aged 75 former state representative and noted local figure died early this morning Mrs Charles Myers died suddenly at her home yesterday in Wythe County two deaths report
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Wytheville
Richard W. Sanders
Charles Myers
Man Seriously Injured in Stabbing Near Norfolk
James Stewart, over fifty, was taken to Hospital St. Vincent de Paul yesterday afternoon after being stabbed. He arrived from Princess Anne and cannot say how the injury occurred. His condition is critical and authorities await further information.
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Norfolk
James Stewart
St. Vincent de Paul
Stewart
Princess Anne
President Roosevelt in New York for Lincoln Day events
President Roosevelt arrives in New York with five companions for a day of engagements ending Wednesday. Extraordinary security is arranged in Jersey City and New York. He attends a Lincoln Day dinner at the Waldorf Astoria with 1200 covers and 200 women, and speaks at the Hotel Astor after. In Illinois, Lincoln's birth anniversary is observed at Oak Ridge cemetery with floral offerings around the tomb.
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New York
Roosevelt
Loeb
City
Washington
Jersey City
Republican Club
West Fortieth Street
Douglas Robinson
Madison Avenue
Waldorf Astoria
Astor Gallery
Dolliver
Abraham Lincoln
George A. Knight
California
Republican Party
United States
Beck
Unity of the Republic
New York Press Club
The
Waldorf
Hotel Astor
Springfield
Lincoln
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Sultan Fears Anti-Russian Demonstration
Constantinople February 13. The Sultan fearing an anti Russian demonstration has asked that the steamer Australian carrying General Soessel and staff back to Rostov proceed through the Bosphorus without stopping.
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Constantinople
Soessel
Rorsle
Bosphoros
Fire Causes $20000 Damage at Congregational House
A morning basement fire at the Congregational house in Boston caused $20000 in damages. The building serves as the headquarters for the American Board of Foreign Missions and the Congregational Publishing Company.
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Boston
Congregational House
American Board of Foreign Missions
The
Congregational Publishing Company
Funeral of Wife of Dr. John R. Boyd
Mrs Josie M Boyd wife of Dr John R Boyd was buried at Oskvale Saturday Funeral services led by Rev Cole She was daughter of L L Hearn and aged 81 She left behind her husband three children
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Josie M. Boyd
John R. Boyd
Oskvale
Cole
Boyd
L. L. Hearn
King Alfonso refuses Connaught daughter marriage plan
Madrid, Feb. 18. King Alfonso clashed with his mother over a marriage choice. He refuses to marry the Duke of Connaughts daughter or any other woman chosen for him and declares he will not wed until he is 20.
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Madrid
Alfonso
Duke of Connaught
Failure Causes Injury to Small Investors
Announcement of the Coutouvre Weaving Company Loire failure announced this morning. The liabilities are placed at 3,750,000 francs. The failure has caused widespread injury among small investors in Paria.
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Paria
Coutouvre Weaving Company
Loire
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