Fatal court shooting kills judge, prosecutor, sheriff
In Hillsville Virginia a violent ambush at Carroll County Court fatally wounds Sheriff Lewis Webb and Commonwealth's Attorney Foster. Judge Massie is killed as Floyd Allen and accomplices open fire in the crowded room. Several jurors are wounded and a large posse pursues the Allen faction into the mountains.
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Lewis Webb
J. H. Blankenship
Alleng
Mann
Allens
Hilleville
Barren Springs
Hillsville
Carroll County
Allen
Allen Brothers
Floyd Allen
Sidney
Jack Allen
Massie
Mmonwealth
Foster
Webb
Floyd
Kansas Joins Missouri for Speaker Clark
Hutchiwan March 14 Kansas joined Missouri in support of Champ Clark for Democratic presidential nomination. The state convention rejected a Woodrow Wilson plank 10 to 288 and unanimously adopted a resolution instructing Kansas delegates to cast all twenty votes for Clark at the National Convention. At large delegates were instructed for Clark.
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Hutchiwan
Kansas
Kands
Missouri
Champ Clark
Woodrow Wilson
Kaneis
Clark
Kansas to pick delegates at state GOP convention May ninth
The Kansas Republican delegates to the national convention will be chosen at Independence on May 9, with no presidential primary. In Rome a royal assassination attempt on King Victor Emmanuel failed, causing a brief interruption to a memorial service for King Humbert. In Hutchinson the seventh district Republican committee endorsed Taft for re election by a 19 to 8 vote.
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Topeka
Kansas
Independence
State Committee
Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Eenawis
Pantheon
Humbert
Via Lata
Polfes
Oriental
Ile Mudd
Antonio Lialba
Ile
Waldin
Numbert
Hutchinson
Kan
Taft
New York
S24
Fifth Avenue
John W. Hutchinson, Jr
Stepabenean State Committee
Thig City
Washington
Salazar forces seize Chihuahua town after swift federal retreat
A Chihuahua dispatch reports Jiminez captured at noon by an advance guard of Salazar's 300 rebel troops. Federal defenders retreated without resistance as Salazar's forces occupy the town, a key center with about 25,000 residents.
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el Paso
Texas
Chihuahua
Jiminez
Salazar
Where does the money go: Morgan and the steel trust
Special Correspondence reports that J Pierpont Morgan received 69.3 million dollars for promoting the steel trust and consolidating independent steel companies. It notes Morgan’s art collection valued around 50 million and questions who bears the cost as the public funds railroads and housing through high rates and the trust system.
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H. Tavenner
Washington
Steel Trust
Stanley
J. Pierpont Moregan
New York
Mr. Morgan
Europe
United States
Lees
Standpalsers
Iba
Battle Looms as Rebel Army Approaches Pekin
Dispatch says Yuan Shikai mobilizes nearly all of the Republican army to stop a rebel force marching from Kansu and Shensi toward Pekin. Uncertain loyalties threaten the capital as Manchu troops guard order and princes divert fortunes to northern uprisings. General Sheng Yun leads Kan and Shenai troops bolstered by landit recruits promised loot.
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Pekin
Kansu
Shensi
Yuan Sh! Kai
Yuan
Iti
Cieneral Sheng
Roosevelt to speak in New York on People's Right to Rule
Oyster Bay March 14 Roosevelt will open a series of primaries with a Carnegie Hall address on The Right of the People to Rule. He will outline progressive goals and respond to Taft camp attacks as he campaigns for prefederal reform and corporate policy.
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Civic Forum
Roosevelt
New York
Carnegie
National
Ward
Stimeon
Nagel
Taft
Indianapolis
Ind
Albert J. Beveridge
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore R Roosevelt
Snow slide on Black Bear Mine claims four lives
Four men are dead and several missing after a snow slide on the Black Bear Mountain slope near Telluride Colorado at noon today. The deceased include Charles Norlin and Leo Seamann with two unidentified victims reported among the ruins of collapsed mining structures.
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Telluride
Colo
Black Bear Mite
Charles Norlin
Leo Seamann
Steady Gain Along the Lady Contest Line
The State Leader notes rising voter support in a women’s suffrage drive with steady gains among allies and volunteers. It urges readers to subscribe at the State Leader office and credits subscriptions to chosen voters.
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Povern
Leodine
State Leader
Prison Looters Kill Warden and Deputy at Nebraska Penitentiary
Three bank robbery convicts Morley Taylor and Dowd killed Warden James Delahunty and Deputy Warden Charles Wagner at the Nebraska penitentiary near Lincoln during a blizzard assault. They wounded Usher Heilman and Doody, seized keys, and escaped through the front entrance as militia were dispatched to restore order.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska Penitentiary
Here
James Delahunty
Charles Wagner
A. C. Heilman
Doody
Morley
Taylor
Dowd
Wagner
Delahunty
Heisman
Aldrich
Phelps
Strike Ends At Six Textile Mills In Lawrence Mass
Lawrence Mass March 11 Strikes at six textile mills here ended after a mass meeting this afternoon. Workers in the Washinton, Wood, Ayer and Prosper mills of the American Woolen Company and the Atlantic Cotton Mill and Kinhard Worse mills voted to return to work. About seven thousand operatives expected to resume work in these plants tomorrow.
Bandits Identified After Train Hold Up
San Antonio dispatch reports bandits killed during a failed hold up on a Southern Paris train near Sanderson. The fugitives identified include Ed Welel and Kilpatrick, with a cache of ammunition found with the gang. Express agent David Travedaly, who killed the two bandits, received a $600 reward and four gold watches from Wells Fargo officials.
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San Antonio
Warwik
Sanderson
Ag Ed Welel
Kilpatrick
Cegditie
Darvid Travedaly
Senbyr
Welly Fargo Co
TS Xa
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Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
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King
Queer
Pierpont Morgan
Morgan
Evalyn Waleah McLean
Smelter Trust
William Wood
Woolen Trust
Jie
Peking
Priooners
Teddy
New York City
Pour Mien
Mbt Dems
Frank Hbochman
Muriel "Rwee Mae Lee Withed Binedtlier Pal Dewi
Addie Swaney Hertha Munim
Cecella Hitchio
Agnes Seadl
Villa I. Moore, Amy Crawford
OP Textile Mill
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