Feasibile coal barge plan eyed by War Dept sway
River men back Howard Atkinson plan to build nested barges for coal mines to reduce costs by sinking and raising barges, with a test underway in the War Department. Congressmen Brown pushes immigration restrictions and taxes, while salary and pension moves affect officials in West Virginia and Palestine.
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Washington
War Department
Howard Atkinson
St. Albans
George W. Atkinson
West Virginia
Atkinson
Ize
Mississippi River
Col
Ewcomer
United States
Itsburg
Col. Beach
New Orleans
St. Louis
Hughes
Mr. Atson
W. H. Bixby
United States Engineers
Congressman Brown
Otters
Committee On
Brown
Whatgon
House of Spresentatives
Key West
Miorida
Sam B. Harrison
Clarksurg
Charles B. Kiefauver
Kefauver
Harrison
Chilton
Department of Justice
Clarksburg
L. Vv
G. Morris
Philippi
Chiltom
Senate Committee On Pensions
C. Morris
Palestine
Thornwood Postmaster Nomination and Roane Mail Contract
Congressman Littlepage recommends Frintz for Thornwood postmaster as the matter is reviewed by the post office department. A Linden to Looneyville mail route contract in Roane county, six trips weekly from Feb 1 to June 30 1912, awarded to George W. Blossier for $528.65. Senator Chilton introduces a pension bill for John A. Harmon at Point Pleasant. Davis presents a petition from the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters of Mannington opposing changes to the paper money system. Washington visitors include Judge Forrest Moore of Pocahontas, John Dice of Greenbrier, B Ek Dawson of Berkeley Springs, Sam Mathews and Moses Poirsky of Charleston.
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John Walton
Dene
Littlepage
Frintz
Thornwood
Pocahontas County
Post Offie
Linden
Roxalana
Looneyville
Roane County
George W. Blossier
Beaten with revolver club and iron poker death ruling
Charleston West Virginia January 20 Special Joseph L Cook aged seventy died from injuries inflicted three weeks earlier by his wife Lizzie Cook mother in law Mary Shreaves and nephew Lee Burgess after an inquiry found he had been beaten with a revolver a club and an iron poker Burgess and the two women were arrested and held for the grand jury authorities allege Cook had transferred valuable property to his wife prior to the abuse outcome remains under legal scrutiny.
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Charleston
W. Va
Joseph L. Cook
Lizzie Cook
Mary Shreaves
Lee Burgess
Cook
Lively
Burgess
Catholic Church Fire Damages Nativity Church Interior
Fire wrecked the interior of the Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity in New York on January 20. Officials say a leaking gas pipe caused the blaze and extensive damage to the sanctuary.
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New York
Republican Demands Challenged by Foreign Powers
Peking January 20 It is unlikely foreign powers will accept the latest republican demands including abdication of the throne and surrender of sovereign powers exclusion of the Manchus from the provisional government and Yuan Shikai's removal until recognition is granted There may be intervention as foreign legations seek to preserve neutrality and prevent northern provinces from falling to lawless soldiers
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Peking
Yuan Shi Kai
Texas man killed near quarantine violation
J Austin Texas January 10 George Lock a stock man was killed today for alleged violation of the meningitis quarantine at Buda Texas. He was en route to Buda to see his mother when warned not to enter the town. He was killed on the porch of his mother's home.
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George Lock
Texas
Austin
Buda
Locke
Mrs Virginia Reckart killed by runaway trolley car
In Fairmont West Virginia on January 20 Mrs Virginia Reckart aged 43 was crushed by a runaway trolley car. The car jumped a curve on a grade and dragged her across the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks before plunging down a stone embankment. Several men jumped off before the car went over the wall.
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Virginian Reckart
Fairmont
W. Va
Virginia Reckart
Richeson in Awful State Amid Phelps Hang Refusal Talk
Boston report says Rev C V T Richeson is in an awful state if told that the governor refused commutation for Phelps the Monroe bride murderer. Counsel Morse fears collapse while Sheriff Quinn counters that Richeson remains in good physical condition.
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Richeson
Awful
Boston
Mass
Rev. C. V. T. Richeson
Phelps
Monroe
William A. Morse
Quinn
Italian man dies in Roanoke saloon heart attack
Roanoke Virginia January 20 Andre Berti fifty Italian man died after taking a whiskey in a Norfolk avenue saloon and walking to an adjoining room. He had been ill for weeks with heart disease and worked at the Virginia Brewing Company living at 107 Norfolk avenue.
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Roanoke
Norfolk Avenue
Andre Berti
Berti
Virginia Brewing Company
Constitution For Chinese Republic Takes Shape
January 20 report from Nanking notes Republican Assembly members who elected Dr Sun Yat Sen to the presidency are now drafting a constitution for the new Chinese republic.
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Naking
Republican Assembly
Sun Yat Sen
Million Dollar Art Collection Under Hammer
New York reports the sale of art treasures from Miss Emilie Grigsby the ward of the late Charles T. Yerkes valued to exceed 1 million dollars. The Park Avenue mansion hosts tapestries carvings and rare books with items from Rubens to a papal relic and a lock of Pope Leo XIII's hair. The auction by Anderson company will run a full week with a life size portrait of Miss Grigsby and the Pope's portrait reserved. Miss Grigsby plans to leave America for London after the sale.
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New York
Park Avenue
Charles T. Yerkes
Emilie B. Grigsby
England
Anderson Company
United States
Gribsby
Graystone
Ritics
America
Albert Herter
Limoges
Spain
Cortez
Montezuma
Rubens
Venice
Leo XIII
Miss Grigsby
Pope Leo
London
West End
Weekend Fair Skies For Virginia and West Virginia
Virginia and West Virginia forecast fair conditions this weekend with little temperature change. Light to moderate west winds expected Sunday and Monday.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Feehan Forces Unseat Gibbons Kephart Sabin as Mine Leaders
Indianapolis dispatch reports Francis Feehan president of the western Pennsylvania district United Mine Workers succeeding in unseating Robert Gibbons Abe Kephart and James Sabin as delegates to the mine workers convention. The three led an anti Feehan faction expelled for forming a rival union. A proposed scale contract for higher wages for bituminous and anthracite miners is expected to be submitted to the convention early next week by the scale committee.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Robert Gibbons
Pittsburg
Francis Feehan
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers
Gibbons
Abe Kephart
James Sabin
Grand Jury Findings to Be Made Public Soon
Indianapolis January 20 The federal grand jury's dynamite conspiracy investigation will be made public within ten days. Government insiders provided information that accelerated the inquiry though officials would not disclose the nature of the help. The grand jury did not meet today.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Federal Grand Jury
Taft Speaks at New York Banquets Amid Busy Visit
President Taft arrived in New York from New Haven for his third visit in a month. He attended Yale Corporation duties and dined with the New York state bar association at the Waldorf with Jusserand Root Dix Choate and about a thousand guests. He also joined 600 jewelers at the 24 Carat Club and later spoke at the Genesee Society dinner before returning to the bar association banquet.
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New York
Taft
New Haven
Conn
Yale Corporation
New York State Bar Association
Ambassador Jusserand
Elihu Root
Dix
Joseph H. Choate
The
Waldorf
Society of Genessee
Bar Association
Dynamite Found in Lawrence Amid Textile Strike Tension
Police and mill authorities in Lawrence Massachusetts report three lots of dynamite with fuses and caps discovered today. Several arrests have been made and two alleged "bad men" from New York are under constant surveillance. Strikers claim the dynamite was planted.
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Lawrence
Mass
Rooney
Boston
New York
Death Rate From Self Destruction Drops in 1910
Washington reports a drop in self destructive deaths with a rate of sixteen per hundred thousand in 1910, down from sixteen point five in 1909. Census data show 8,590 personal crisis reports for 1910 as explained by Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur.
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Washington
Cressy L. Wilbur
United States Census Census Bureau
Governor William Larabee Celebrates Eightieth Birthday
Clermont Iowa January 20 Former Governor William Larabee longtime Iowa political figure marked his eightieth birthday at his home near Clermont Born in Connecticut in 1832 he moved to Iowa in 1853 and served sixteen years in the state legislature and as governor from 1886 to 1890
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Larabee
Clermont
Iowa
William Larabee
Connecticut
Charleton Found Sane in Case Tied to Italian Murder
Porter Charleton declared sane by Jersey City authorities after murder of his wife Mary Scott Castle Charleton at Lake Como. District attorney opposes bail release. Charleton to remain incarcerated while proceedings decide on possible return to Italy for trial.
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Charleton
Sane
New York
Porter Charleton
Mary Scott Castle Charleton
Lake Como
Italy
Jersey City
Governor Bass Marries Edith Bird at Endean Home
New Hampshire Governor Robert P Bass wed Edith HM Bird at Endean, the Bird family home near East Walpole Massachusetts. After a fortnight wedding trip they will reside in Concord New Hampshire.
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New Hampshire
East Walpole
Mass
Robert P. Bass
Edith HM. Bird
Charles §. Bird
Endean
Daily Telegraph Europe Tour Contest Draws Interest
The Daily Telegraph new Europe tour contest attracts out of town and city candidates as young women submit nominations and rush in letters. Voters gain coupons from issues and paid subscriptions, with early votes counting more, in a self supporting, fair contest to sail from Montreal for a world tour.
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Daily Telegraph
Telegra
Montreal
Telegraph
Subscriptions Roll in for Telegraph Europe Tour Contest
Weather delays affect many young ladies vying for free European tours offered by the Daily Telegraph. Four thousand votes pay for new subscriptions, with many out of town visitors paying to support favorite candidates as subscriptions peak during the contest.
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Ote Woo
Europe
Daily Telegraph
More Soldiers Guard Lawrence Textile Strike
Lawrence Mass January 20 additional state militia patrols ordered to quell trouble from the textile workers strike. Four companies to reinforce law and order in the city.
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Lawrence
Mass
Textile
State Millitia
Shuster Warns Britain and Russia Push Persia to Chaos
Vienna reports W. Morgan Shuster, former Persian treasurer general, says British and Russian actions have wrecked Persia's progress to constitutional government. He claims hundreds of innocent lives were sacrificed and warns of growing Christian-Muslim tension as Russian advances threaten a Russia-India frontier and a possible warm port.
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Vienna
Persia
W. Morgan Shuster
Mr. Shuster
Russia
Sensations Expected in the Lorimer Case Report
Washington sources say developments will arise from William J. Burns who built the McNamara dynamiters case. Burns worked three months gathering evidence for the committee and later for Lorimer opponents to challenge witnesses called by the defense.
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Washington
Lorimer
William J. Burns
McNamara Dynamiters
Illinois
Burns
Senate
Argentine Colombia Sign Arbitration Treaty
In Washington on January 20, the Argentine Republic and Colombia signed a general arbitration treaty. The accord mirrors U S Britain and French pacts and was signed by Romulo S. Naon for Argentina and General Pedro Nel Ospina for Colombia, serving as ministers to the United States.
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Washington
Worldpeace
United States
Colombia
Great Britain
France
Romulo 8
Naon
Pedro Nel Ospina
Perilous Dips Astound Los Angeles Aviation Meet
The international aviation meet opens in Los Angeles with 49 aviators in 16 events. Glenn, Martin, W. B. Cooke and Lincoln Beachey perform perilous dips and turns while Miss Blanche Scott from Rochester, New York stays aloft for twelve minutes making several laps of the field.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Glenn
Martin
W. B. Cooke
Lincoln Beachey
Blanche Scott
Rochester
N. Y
Pinchot Leads Progressives Conference In Candidate Drive
Announcement sparks speculation as Grifford Pinchot reportedly takes initiative in a conference of Progressives to decide on a party candidate. The report notes a growing movement and unclear consensus among allied voters.
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Grifford Pinchot
Conference of
Cummins Enters Republican Presidential Field
Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa declares his candidacy for the Republican nomination. He says he will accept Iowa Republicans choice if they deem him fit to urge at the Chicago convention. Cummins joins Taft as a target of opposition from progressives LaFollette Cummins and others favor Roosevelt.
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Washington
Albert B. Cummins
Iowa
Chicago
Cummins
Taft
LaFollette
Theodore Roosevelt
Denver
Gifford Pinchot
Anniversary of the Mystery Steamer Chi Coro Missing
Milwaukee observes the seventeenth anniversary of the loss of the steamer Chi coro of Graham and Morton with twenty nine onboard. The ship sailed from Milwaukee on January 20 1895 bound for St Joseph and was never heard from again. She founder ed with all hands and remains unfound with no definite cause known.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Chicoro
Graham and Morton Line
St. Joseph
Lake Michigan
LaFollette to Woo The East
Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin plans a New York visit next week to promote his progressive Republican bid. He will debut at Carnegie Hall with Gifford Pinchot and be supported by the Insurgents' Club led by F C Howe and Norman Hapgood as key organizers.
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F.C. Howe
Insurgents’ Club
Norman Hapgood
Czech Nobleman to Lecture in United States
Count Lutzow head of a Bohemian noble family sails for America to lecture on Czech history. He will speak at Harvard Yale Princeton and other universities and in major cities. Countess Luttow accompanies him.
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America
London
Count Lutzow
United States
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Countess Luttow
Franco American Guard convenes in Lawrence congress
Delegates arrive in Lawrence Massachusetts for a three day Franco American Guard congress. The event opens with a high mass at St Anne's Church and continues through Monday and Tuesday with business sessions.
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Lawrence
Mass
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Shuster
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