Miners Riot at Windber Ends in Fatalities and Jail Assault
Three men were shot and a boy killed in a Windber riot as striking coal miners clashed with deputies. Eugene Delaney, a mining engineer, was hospitalized in serious condition. Deputies fired to prevent a jailbreak as foreigners and union men clashed amid Easter Monday celebrations.
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Johnstown
Eugene Delaney
Windber
Begeley
Pennypacker
Windber Pail
McMullen
Charles Davis
Davis
Windsor
Paul Zillis
Fillis
Mullen
Texarkana Man Tries Suicide After Forgery Arrest
H O Magill of Texarkana Arkansas was arrested in Fort Smith on forgery charges for signing his brother in law M C ard to checks. He attempted to choke himself with a handkerchief in the city jail.
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Fort Smith
Ark
H. O. Magill
Texarkana
M. C.ard
Acquittal Sparks Brutal Threats in Tsarist Russia
In St. Petersburg on April 17 a condemned woman’s assailant is acquitted and taunts to shoot her emerge while rumors of a royal crisis spread after flag regulations trigger Easter decor disputes. Spiridonova, freed, proclaims he would hang the young woman, and the case gnaws at a tense political moment.
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St. Petersburg
Tsarskoe Selo
Siberia
Moscow
Borissoghebsk
M. Abramoff
Mile
Spiridonova
Luzhenoffsky
Tamboff
Milo
Spiridonovo
Gorky’s reception stirs Russian government worry
A St. Petersburg official says Maxim Gorky is a revolutionist not a reformer and that his visit to the United States signals potential upheaval. His associate Mme Andreieva and Moscow merchant M. Morosoff are cited in connection with revolutionary funding. Morosoff, once dubbed the Russian Cotton King, is linked to liberal movements and possible implication in events abroad.
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St. Petersburg
Maxim Gorky
United States
Gorky
Russia
Mme. Andreieva
M. Morosoff
Moscow
Paris
Springfield race war unsettles city as arrests loom
Springfield on April 17 sees tense calm after Saturday lynching and Monday arrests of six men. Officials unite to prosecute offenders as another black man is killed by a white youth in self defense. Sheriff Horner dispatches deputies with warrants and a grand jury begins to indict mob leaders while militia encircles the jail.
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Springfield
Horner
Criminal Court
Roosevelt urges insurance legislation in congress
President Roosevelt transmitted a message to Congress urging enactment of an insurance measure. He says the nation cannot be pardoned if steps are not taken to prevent repetition of scandals uncovered by recent investigations in the insurance business.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
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