Three Twenty Home Stead Act Passes
Washington March 2 The Senate discussed the Aldrich currency bill while approving measures. The House moved to allow entry under the homestead act of 320 acres when land is arid and not irrigable. Debates touched on peonage charges in states, deportation of felons, and a 60 cent tax per hundred shares on stock sales.
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Washington, D.C
William “Alden Smith
Michigan
Senate
Washington, D. C
House
Clark
Florida
Russell
Bonaparte
Hepburn
Iowa
Mexican Bank Bandits Haul 296000 in Chihuahua Robbery
Las El Paso reports the Banco Minerva in Chihuahua was robbed Sunday night of 296000 in Mexican currency. Bills in 1000 100 50 and 20 denominations were seized. Governor Creel offered a liberal reward and urged U S immigration authorities to watch for suspects and for the missing notes. Border riders and station officials were instructed to monitor for the bills.
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el Paso
Tex
Banco Minerva
Chihuahua
Mexico
Creel
Juarez
United States
Torpedo flotilla arrives at Callao en route to Panama
The American torpedo boat flotilla left Telcahuano February 25 and arrived at Callao March 2 in good order. The destroyers are in splendid condition and no mishap hindered passage. They plan to stay until March 9 before sailing for Panama. The Panther remained at port to search for missing sailors. Prior to departure, 781 mailbags were loaded aboard the battleships, and President Pardo presented each admiral with a bound book on Peru.
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Callao
Telcahuano
Panama
Panther
Pardo
Peru
Japanese Dies in Apparent Cause at West Fifteenth Street
A Japanese immigrant died at 7 o'clock yesterday morning at 714 West Fifteenth Street with no apparent cause. Coroner Murray was notified by Wakamoto Nishibura employment agents. The coroner took charge and a post mortem examination was scheduled for today.
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West Fifteenth Street
Murray
Wakamoto & Nishabura
Weather Report for Washington Area Sees mild temperatures
Weather section notes two day forecast with temperatures around 49 degrees and 17 degrees with no precipitation. Palmder section director signs off.
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Washington
Ah Ag
Wye
Sears
A & P. m. Maro
W. & Palmdr
Ohio Taftites Gather Today in Columbus
In Columbus on March 2 the Republican state convention is to be called to order at 2 pm with little expected action until Wednesday. The prepared platform calls for tariff revision, a special session of the next Congress, endorsement of Roosevelt policies, and no changes in vigor of their execution.
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Columbus
Ohio
Roosevelt
Army General Joins Philadelphia Fire Department for Experience
New York reports Brigadier General Joseph Stephen Adam of the Austro Hungarian army will join the Philadelphia fire department to gain experience for his home unit. He is attached to Philadelphia fire crews and is called out to operate the apparatus at all hours.
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New York
Joseph Stephen Adam
Adam
Fire Department of
Philadelphia
Bryan Cancels St Louis Dates For Illness
W J Bryan announced from Memphis that a severe cold and a busting headache forced him to cut short his trip and head home to Lincoln. He cancelled engagements in St Louis on Monday and will rest until fit to resume travel.
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Memphis
Teco
W. J. Bryan
Lincoln
St. Louis
Albert Lea Supers Destroy Several Properties
An incident in Albert Lea on March 3 damaged Lembke's dry goods store and the Northwestern Telephone exchange along with other properties. The loss is estimated at about $90,000.
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Albert Lea
Ming
Lembke
Northwestern Telephone Exchange
Russian student tries to kill police chief in labor parade riot
Lazarus Averbuch, 22, a Russian student living on Chicago’s West Side, attempted to shoot Chief Hee Shippy and stabbed him after a confrontation over a labor parade. Averbuch was killed by Shippy and Foley. He had fled Kishinev after Jewish massacres and had been in America three months.
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Chicago
Hee Shippy
Shippy
Foley
Chief
Lazarus Averbuch
West Side
Averbach
America
Austria
Kisheneff
Russia
Averbuch
Ward lecture stirs Waterbury talk on marriage
In Waterbury the rumor circles that Dr. Charles A. Ward will not be named an honorary member of the Martha Washington club after his talk. He warned women not to nag and urged appreciation of inner virtue over outward style, quipping about footmen, tarantulas, mad dogs, and soap as king.
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Waterbury
Conn
Charles A. Ward
Martha Washington Club
Women Drive Men in a Hurdle Race at Terpsichorean Hall
In Worcester on March 2 society hosts staged a leap year party at Terpsichorean hall. Women in gowns drove men in evening dress over flower hurdles two to three feet high. The four horse team race featured Mrs. George S. Barron and Rockwood H. Bullock in the lead with notable riders Larry W. Smith and Chester W. Lassell of Whitinsville among the contestants.
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Worcester
Mass
Terpsichorean Hall
George 8. Barron
Rockwood H. Bullock
Larry W. Smith
Chester W. Lassell
Whittinaville
New England
Fugitive Haines Recaptured. Wyoming Sheriff Involved
Special to The Leader Lander Wyoming March 2 Sheriff Brough departed for Abilene Kansas to capture Albert Haloen wanted for horse stealing. A telegram announced Haloen’s recapture after being turned over by a country constable who had jailed him briefly before the Wyoming officer arrived.
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Haines
Lander
Wyo
Brough
Abilene
Kana
Albert Haloen
Hales
Wyoming
State Engineer Refuses to Reconsider Canon Dam Limit
State Engineer Johnston sticks to a thirty five foot dam height on the Big Horn project despite opposition from Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Burlington seeks injunction in US court to block a fifty foot dam while Big Horn Power resumes work with cofferdam in place. Litigation expected to continue.
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C. T. Johnston Yeay
Big Horn Pow Company
Big Horn
Shoshoni
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
Big Horn Power Company
Burlington
Canon
Sus
Great Northern
Montana
Johnston
United States Court
Mexican rail merge plans ratified in Mexico City
New York dispatch reports formal ratification of a plan to consolidate the Mexican Central National Railroad of Mexico Mexican International Inter Oceanic and Hidalgo Northeastern railroads. Banking interests and the Mexican government have reached financing agreement in New York.
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New York
Mexican Central
National Railroad of Mexico
Mexican International
Inter-Oceanic
Hidalgo & Northeastern
Mexico City
Oldest hunter leads fox hunt in Delaware at 93
Wilmington March 2 The spectacle of a 93 year old sportsman James Martin of Wilmington riding with the hounds and taking the lead in a fox hunt near the city. Martin has hunted for seventy years and is noted as the oldest hunter in Delaware if not the state.
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Wilmington
Del
James Martin
Delaware
Enat
West Point Cadet Dies in Colorado Springs Tuberculosis
Lawrence Gorragbhy of Rushville Indiana a West Point cadet aged 22 died of tuberculosis at Glockner Sanitarium after career exhaustion from baseball at West Fort two years earlier His health declined leading him to leave school then travel to Oklahoma New Mexico before arriving in Colorado Springs for treatment.
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West Point Cadert
Colorado Springs
Coro
Lawrence Gorragbhy
Rushville
Ind
West Point
Glockner Sanitarium
West Folute
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Wanamaker Heir Thomas B. Wanamaker Dies Suddenly
Thomas B. Wanamaker of Philadelphia son of former Postmaster General John Wanamaker died suddenly at the Hotel Liverpool in Liverpool on March 2. The obituary notes his family and ties to the Wanamaker name.
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John Wanamaker
Liverpool
Thomas B. Wanamaker
Philadelphia
Roosevelt Plans to Knife Man Friday
Washington dispatch records bitter intraparty fighting as Roosevelt countered Taft. Abbott cites covert pressure tactics and power brokers in Congress predicting a turbulent race, with Roosevelt possibly resisting Taft while insiders doubt loyalty of the Taft camp and Cannon allies.
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Roosevelt
Explosion Kills Two in Marcus Area Rail Work
Spokane report says two men were instantly killed by an explosion while a wrecking crew cleared a rail line near Marcus Washington. A landslide followed, and several workers were injured or missing as a dynamite blast aimed to clear the track went wrong.
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Spokane
Wash
Marcus
Britt and Nelson Set for Ten Round No-Decision Bout
Los Angeles report states Jim Britt and Battling Nelson have finished training for their ten round no-decision fight tomorrow night. Britt weighed 184 pounds, Nelson is under the 123 pound limit. Weigh in scheduled for tomorrow evening and betting remains even money.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Jimmy Britt
Battling Nelson
Britt
Nelson
Merchant uses fire alarm to trap wife in affair
In Paris a merchant, believing his wife was unfaithful with a friend, secretly tailed them to the friend's hotel and triggered a street fire alarm. Firemen found the couple in flagrante delicto, facilitating the husband’s divorce.
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Paris
Republican Gains in Maine Towns
Portland Maine reports that in eleven Maine cities holding municipal elections seven chose republican mayors and city governments, compared with four republican mayors and six republican city governments in 1907.
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Maine
Portland
Repubican
Seven terrorist plotters hanged in St. Petersburg
Seven terrorists condemned by a court martial for complicity in a riot against Grand Duke Nicholas were executed today at Liasy Noa Peninsula in St. Petersburg.
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St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Liasy Noa Peninsula
Must Serve in the Ranks
Essen, March 2. Herr Von Bohlen Hilbach, husband of Bertha Krupp, is summoned to six weeks of cavalry training as a reservist. He must leave Krupp works duties to rejoin his old regiment at Potsdam, while his wife will move to Potsdam for the period.
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Essen
Herr von Bohlen-Hilbach
Fraulain Bertha Krupp
Krupp Steel Works
Potsdam
Public Service Commission Blocks Erie Dividend Request
Albany March 2 The public service commission ruled that railroad dividends cannot be authorized under the public service law and denied the Erie Railroad Company's application to pay dividends on its first and second preferred stock.
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Albany
Public Service Commission
Aerip
Erie Railroad Company
Commission
Seven Crews Remain On Sherman Bull Run Freight Forge
The Union Pacific has laid off the freight crews of Conductors Wolcott and Cahlll, leaving seven crews on the Cheyenne Laramie line, the lowest number since the railroad's receivership began.
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Sherman Bull Run
Union Pacific
Wolcott and Cahlll
Cheyenne-Laramie
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Bharp
Congress
Willia Abbott
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Harrison
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