Warrant Issued for Arrest of Gen Sickles
Albany January 25 A warrant for the arrest of General Dan Sickles for conversion of public funds was issued by Justice Rudd. It was taken to New York by Attorney General Carmody. The charge totals 323 476 and ties to his role as former chairman of the New York State Historical Commission amid a deficit dispute and prior settlements with his estranged wife.
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Albany
Dan Sickles
Justice Rudd
New York
Attornney General Carmody
Sickles
Sickles W
New York State Historical Commission
Pe Sickles
Levee Break at Buela Miss Sparks Flood Crisis
Memphis report details a levee break at Buela Mississippi with a 1009 foot gap. Thousands of cotton bales washed away as residents flee the flood zone. Five hundred erote convicts and 1000 others to be rushed to the area. appeal to President Taft planned. Nearby Cairo reports levee strength up to seven feet more, trains pulled through rising water and Missouri wheat inundated as river gauge hits 48.7 feet.
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Memphis
Tenn
Buela
Miss
Cairo
Uls
Nts
Iron
Belmont
Missouri
No Reduced Rates for Legislators in New Haven Road Reply
Hartford January 25 State Controller Daniel Dunn received a New Haven road reply denying transportation for General Assembly members. Vice President Campbell argues the attorney general’s view on mileage is not binding until courts decide constitutionality. The road cites a statute prohibiting railroad transport for legislators and calls the controller’s request an improper business arrangement.
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Hartford
Daniel Dunn
New Haven
General Assembly
Campbell
Spock
Comptroller
MacDonald Inspecting Bridgeport Roads With Officials
State Highway Commissioner James H. MacDonald tours Bridgeport with Mayor C. B. Wilson and J. A. Courtade to discuss state highway improvements. He meets Danbury trolley officials about Trumbull road repairs and rainwater drainage from new tracks. A Warrenite road from North Main through Trumbull may be finished this year. B. D. Pierce Co. expected to win much of the work.
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James H. MacDonald
Bridgeport
C. B. Wilson
Public Works
J. A. Courtade
Mr. MacDonald
Wiieen
Courtade
MacDonald
Danbury
Trumby Road
North Main Street
Town of
Trumbull
B. D. Pierce Co
Strawberries Sent From Florida by Parcel Post
Mrs. Oliver J. Cooke of 469 State St. received a box of Florida strawberries today from her nephew C. Edward Seeling who is wintering in Florida. The fruit arrived in excellent condition after the long mail journey.
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Oliver J. Cooke
State St
C. Edward Seeling
Florida
Manufacturers Compensation Bill Ready For Solons
Hartford January 25 The Manufacturers Association of Connecticut plans a sweeping workman compensation bill for the General Assembly session starting Tuesday It covers every labor employee including farmers and small contractors to firms Employs defined as anyone under service or apprenticeship earning up to 1800 a year The act makes employers liable for injuries or deaths arising in the course of employment caused by employer negligence except for gross misconduct It also protects recovery despite fellow servant negligence inherent risks or partial contributory negligence with jury guided damages based on comparative negligence.
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Hartford
Bis
General Assembly
Manufacturers’ Association of Connecticut
Women 60 Now Seen as Happy Peak by Dr Morton
New York January 25. Dr Rosalie Morton told a gathering of advanced women at the School of Mothercraft that today’s women are happiest at sixty. She argued the era of a life ending at 35 is over and noted the strength and wisdom women gain with age. The speaker said elderly women no longer sit at home under daughters in law, have suffrage, clubs, European trips, and grandchildren to enjoy. She added life begins anew at fifty, with sixty as a walking smile.
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New York
Rosalie & Morton
School of Mothercraft
I W W Leader Predicts Greatest Steel Strike War
In New Haven on January 25 Arturo Giovannitti, I W W leader, warned that a steel industry strike in Pennsylvania would become the greatest labor war the world has ever known. He predicted a nationwide labor crisis within the next year unlike any prior trouble.
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New Haven
Arturo Giovanniti
Pennsylvania
United States
Insane man stabs wife with shears in Bridgeport
Pasquale Illiano of 256 Lexington Avenue stabbed his wife with a pair of shears in a suspected insanity episode. She survived after hospital treatment for abdominal and arm wounds. Police hunted Illiano through Bridgeport, fearing possible suicide. he and his seven sons have lived in the city about seven years where he worked as a tailor.
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Pasquale Hicano
Lexington Avenue
St. Vincent's Hospital
Bridgeport
Illiano
Brennan
Iiliano
Votes for Women Battle to Go On Next Monday
London report notes a lull as the House of Commons is recess. Leaders finalize speeches for Monday while militants hold London meetings and marches, and milder supporters continue prayer and meditation in churches at noon.
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London
House of Commons
Winter Vapors in New England
Short round up from towns across New England with springlike signs: Buds on lilac bushes in West Upton and rose buds in Batcheller garden. Boys in Augusta ordered to wear tights for swimming despite winter. Truesdale trades buffalo robe for ice cream freezer in Oldtown. Robins depredations discussed by Rockingham farmers in Deerfield. Bethany Church picnic held in Walpole with outdoor games. Forester and clerk in Brockton planting and preparing crops for April. Pruning knives sharpened and plowing underway in Stamfore. Buds bursting forth in true spring style from lilacs.
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Augusta
Eof
Fletcher
Bangor
Eben V. Truesdale
Oldtown
Stamfore
Conn
Taft to Speak on International Peace in Baltimore
President Taft will travel from Washington with Secretary Hilles and Attorney General Wickersham to attend the Manufacturers and Merchants Association banquet in Baltimore tonight. He is expected to discuss international peace and returns to Washington around midnight.
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Washington
Taft
Hilles
Wickersham
Manufacturers & Merchants Association of Baltimore
Banks Estate Wealth Tops 133000 in Inventories
Probate records list Laura A Banks estate at 133416.07 with 12736.07 personal property under conservatorship of Frederick J Banks. other estates include John T Logan firm 53399 with trust for widow. Frederick Seley 33570.50 with widow beneficiary. Frank M Jeon Wilson Rusling 6850. Peter Vetter 11390.47 with realty 9075.00 and personal 2816.47. appraisers named for each estate.
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George ST. Hatheway
E. H. Dillon
Laura A. Banks
John T. Logan
Logan Bros
Seeley
Frank M. Jeon
Wilson & Rusling
F. D. Beil
William K. Lyon
Wilson
Peter Vetter
Ware Realty Holding
Thomas J. Cunningham
Otto Saur
Settlement Ended Waist and Dressmakers Strike
New York Jan 25 188 manufacturers forming independent groups agreed to a protocol signed last week by the association. About 10 000 workers in the trade who remained on strike will return to work Monday. Further talks between United Garment Workers Union officials and manufacturers aim at arbitration and a mid next week settlement. The planned white goods and kimono workers parade for Monday was called off as Roosevelt’s involvement promised a quick settlement.
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New York
United Garment Workers Union
Theodore Roosevelt
America’s original model found among relics in Worcester
In Worcester Massachusetts Colon Butler Ames says Mrs Adelbert Ames owns the America and plans to obtain the yacht’s original model stored at the old G A R headquarters on Pearl Street He will push to secure the relic for presentation to the New York Yacht Club for permanent keeping at their facilities.
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Worcester
Mass
England
Pearl Street
Col
Butler Ames
Adelbert Ames
America
G. A. R. Post
New York Yacht Club
Weather Indications in New Haven This Weekend
Forecast calls for generally fair weather tonight and Sunday with colder temperatures tonight. Light to moderate westerly winds shift to variable. Disturbances move northeastward, bringing unsettled weather with snow in the upper Mississippi valley and lake region. Moderate temperatures continue in northern districts. New Haven expects fair conditions with little temperature change.
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New Haven
Louisiana
Virginia
Mississippi Valley
Lake
Berger to Demand Legislative Inquiry on New York Strike
Representative Victor Berger said he has practically decided to seek a legislative inquiry into the New York ironworkers strike. He cited data on wages and hours and described police brutality as only a part of the outrages against the workers. If he proceeds, he will introduce a resolution for a special committee probe on Monday amid flood of striker appeals.
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Washington
New York
Victor Berger
Berger
Servant Escapes Fire At Judge Kane Home Attic
Fire swept the attic of Judge Patrick Kane's Park Avenue dwelling destroying the roof and forcing the family to relocate. Miss Helen Charles the domestic narrowly escaped harm after being awakened by smoke. Chief Mooney investigates. Volunteers arrived quickly and three engine companies fought the blaze, with no delay in alarm or response. Damage estimated at about 1500 dollars.
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Patrick Kane
Park Avenue
Helen Charles
Judge Kane
Mooney
Charles
Mrs. Kane
Beardsley Leaves Sealshipt Company for Rachel Oyster Firm
Fred S. Beardsley resigns as manager of the Sealshipt Oyster Company to take a similar post with the Rachel Oyster Company. He begins duties there today. Unfavorable weather drives oyster firms along the Sound to retrench. Both companies cut fleet sloops and reduce manual labor due to the season.
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Fred S. Beardeley
Sealshipt Oyster Company
Rachel Oyster Company
Beardsley
Teday
Sealships Company
Radhel Company
Fatal trolley car crash with freight train in Buffalo
In Buffalo on January 25 at 2:30 am a collision of two trolley cars on the International Railway left about 40 people seriously injured. A man most badly hurt died later at the city hospital. The motor man James L. Mack of Lockport perished after the wreck near Prospect Street when two passenger cars crashed into a freight train.
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Buffalo
N. Y
International Railway
Sco
Prospect Street
James L. Mack
City
Lockport
Aviator Bielovicic crosses Alps in 25 minutes
Geneva reports aviator Bielovicic flew from Brieg Switzerland to Domodosella Italy via the Simplon Pass in 25 minutes today. In Winsted Bernard Schwerer, 50, was found unconscious from gas asphyxiation at the Hotel Winchester and is thought to be despondent though expected to recover after Hartford hospital treatment.
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Geneva
Bielovicic
Alps
Brieg
Switzerland
Domodosella
Italy
Simplon Pass
Winsted
Bernard Schwerer
Thomaston
Winchester
Hartford
Steamer Found Bottom Up In Mid Ocean Today
Washington reports an unknown 250 foot steamer found submerged in mid ocean today. The crew’s fate is unknown. The Revenue Cutter Service will work to identify the sunken ship and locate the crew, using wireless messages from the British steamer Tennesson.
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Washington
Revenue Cutter Service
Tennesson
Daniel Weston Dies After a Long Illness
Daniel Weston longtime police officer since June 1 1897 died at 5 am at his home 704 Main Street after a prolonged illness with recent heart shock and kidney complications He was 45 a widow and three daughters survive He joined several fraternal orders and will have police mourning and a Monday funeral with a full police detachment and pallbearers arranged by M J Gannon
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Daniel Weston
Main Street
Weston
Sweden
Monitor Lodge
Anderson
Regan
Sanger
Blansfield
Hazel
Prout
O’neil
Barton
Bagley
J. P. Coughlin
Holbrook
Herb
Grossman
Hatch
Beamer
Meyer
Webber
P. Campana
Kehoe
Flahaven
Hagers
Murphy
Colgan
Reilly
Hayes
Lynch
J. T. Coughlin
Watts
Destructive City Fire Hits Heart of Trenton
A blaze in Trenton Ontario destroyed half a block of brick stores in the business district early today and threatened the whole city. Firemen from surrounding towns aided, and the Bank of Montreal Building and the post office suffered the heaviest losses. Estimated damage ran to several hundred thousand dollars.
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Trenton
Ont
Bank of Montreal
Wilson to Act on Free Tolls in the Canal
President Wilson plans to seek repeal of the Panama Canal act provision that grants free tolls to coastwise vessels. House committee chairman Adamson says the exemption is a subsidy and argues it amounts to discrimination against foreign shipping, signaling a major early congressional request.
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Wilson
Washington
Congress
Adamson
House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee
Knox
Earl Grey
Rahrig Named Boucher's Clerk in City Office
City Clerk Stephen F. Boucher announced the appointment of Stephen F. Rahrig of 64 Park Avenue as his stenographer under the new ordinance creating the office. Rahrig, then employed by Connecticut Co, will start February 1 at a salary of 1209 dollars per year.
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Stephen F. Boucher
Stephen F. Rahrig
Park Avenue
Rahrig
The
Connecticut Co
Superstitious Moslems See Omens Amid Turkey Crisis
Constantinople reports a tremor feared as omen for the Young Turk government while a new national assembly convenes and Mahmud Pasha calls for a joint session with powers. Enver Bey proposes delaying action until the assembly replies, as the Balkans war prospects dim and Turkish hopes hinge on foreign intervention and peace talks. Peace negotiations in London are not yet broken off, with officials signaling possible resumption next week and no official recall to Constantinople.
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Constantinople
Dan
Mahmud Ahebhet Pasha
Enver Bey
Ppgfuse
Adrianople
Aegean
Turkey
Mohammed V
Sultan
Abdul Hamid
London
Todas
Eid
Rechid Pasha
Washington hears from Ambassador Rockhill on Turkish affairs
Ambassador Rockhill states that changes have occurred in civil and military officers in Turkey and Parliament may convene soon. He notes protections for persons and property and references ongoing constitutional questions. London reports a naval demonstration toward the Bosphorus as a show of force by Britain and Italy. Unconfirmed dispatches from Bucharest touch on rumors of a abdication by Sultan Mohammed V.
Frat Rises From Graves Shock Chicago Scene
In Chicago on January 59 Mia Yount reports high school fraternities once declared dead are now active. She describes youths on the streets in eerie costumes as part of initiation rituals, including a dance and a frightening display tied to the Alpha Delta Sigma group.
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Chicago
Mia
Ileen Yount
Erhodia
Hich
Ls Cratures
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Yacht America
Sealshipt Company
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