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Newspaper
Cincinnati American
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1914
Page
1
Prisoner taken in Indianapolis in connection with a delinquency investigation involving the Crane Girls. Authorities say the suspect is alleged to be connected with incidents described in the probe.
Special to The American. On the Pring Jim voyage from Port Simon a sailors tale about guinea pigs meant for General Jeffries. A barrel housed thirty five to forty pigs across generations, with 16 barrels counted and many animals discarded overboard. The crew member jokes about not nursing a guinea pig orphan asylum.
Hans Schmidt, convicted of murdering Anna Aumuel ler, was sentenced in Manhattan to death in the Sing Sing electric chair during the week beginning March 28. Justice Vernon W. Davis pronounced the sentence after Schmidt declined to speak in court. A note from Schmidt read just before sentencing reflected on life beyond tears.
Special to The American. Pensacola observers report navy aviators spotting submarine mines in Pensacola harbor from high altitude during hydro-aerophane trials. Lieutenant Jack Towers, at 1500 feet, noted five mines near the harbor entrance planted hours earlier by artillery practice, underscoring air reconnaissance value.
Thomas Roberts a former Storrs-Shaffer foreman residing at 528 West Fourth Street was arrested in Indianapolis yesterday by Juvenile Court officers and returned to Cincinnati for a hearing. The case involves Mildred Crane and follows earlier arrests of several adults linked to her visits to houses on Plum Street.
Denver witnesses testify before a congressional committee that coal mine operators and sheriffs orchestrated strikes. John Lawson, a union member, claims the district lacks justice for miners and says strikebreakers were introduced and later urged not to strike, despite joining the union.
Geneva Feb 11 Aviator Parmelin soars to 10 000 feet above Mt Blanc and lands at Osteval ley as a German dispatch reports Robert Thelen breaking the passenger carrying record with four aboard on a biplane at 9 260 feet
In Kiel a report of another Christian boy’s murder sparks renewed chants of ritual murder. The case echoes Mendel Beiliss’s trial over Andrew Yuechinsky, with rumors saying the Cheratian orphan’s death near Fastot involved a rite and multiple wounds after an inquest.
Mrs Minnie E Bond sues Senator Thomas P Gore for 50004 damages alleging an attempted assault at the Winston Hotel in Washington on March 24 1912. The case opened in District Court with a jury selected and witnesses to follow as attorneys argued past life relevance and endorsements for her husband.
State official asserts canal leases under Ohio canal system, designed for navigation, become void when canal drainage begins. Leases grant surplus water beyond navigation needs, but without navigation the city may discard canal water rights as surplus. The issue centers on who can control the canal and its water once navigation ceases.
Robert M. Barron aged 45, a railroad employe, attempted to take his life by swallowing bichloride of mercury. He was found with a letter in his pocket and was admitted in serious condition to City Hospital after a self inflicted act last night. The letter was to Barron and signed by his wife Mrs Ada Barron now of Stanford Kentucky.
Ophelia reports a cold day with fair skies in Cincinnati and vicinity and a low near 10 degrees. Ohio stays fair and cold, Indiana fair then colder in eastern portion, West Virginia today fair with cold conditions in the east, and Kentucky becomes colder with cloudiness.
A foreign office note from Mexico City protests insults to the American president amid reports of banditry in Northwestern Mexico. In Juarez, Villa reportedly doubts a rebel capture and execution of Castillo and six men, with rescue efforts under way after a train wreck near a tunnel last Wednesday killed passengers and a Northwestern Railway official.
King speech amendment proposed by Walter Long calling for countrywide home rule referendum was defeated this evening by 33 to 256. Bonar Law’s opposition on the bill’s third reading failed after a strong government push and prominent cheers from supporters.
Police investigated a daytime robbery where two masked men entered a water office, demanded money, and struck Bauer in the face as McClaran and Bauer resisted. The trio fled through an unlocked front door. officers began a search with Chief Bregner and Detectives Kaman, Maan, and Stindler pursuing leads.
Captain Edward Johnson of the Monroe testified that his ship used a steering compass not a true instrument during the disaster night. He cited about two degrees of eastward deviation on a northeast by north course. no knowledge of deviation on northeast by east. An expert noted sea masters custom to navigate with steering compasses.
Havana reports a severe earthquake in the eastern half of Cuba with shocks at 2:05 am and 4:00 am. Many people were thrown from beds but there were no fatalities and property damage was slight. Additional smaller shocks followed at thirty second intervals causing panic in Santiago.
A romance stems from the rescue of Vanderbilt yacht party aboard the Warrior. Vincent Merasco, son of the Almirante’s captain, will marry Mary Ferguson in Hoboken after Mrs Vanderbilt and the Duchess of Manchester funded him with two $500 gifts.
Philadelphia February report on Western Pennsylvania Indiana Illinois and West Virginia operators threatening to invoke the Sherman anti trust law against organized miners. Debate rises over President Wilson's stance on amending the act to exclude labor unions with critics calling such changes unconstitutional.
New York court issues an injunction restraining the Associated Press from suspending or disciplining Hearst for refusal to pay fines related to a San Francisco Examiner edition. The case centers on an Oakland circulation edition with altered masthead and potential AP policy violations.
Special to The American. Terre Haute Ind Feb 11 The prosecuting attorney nolled the assault indictment against Dr BE A Hanley president of Franklin College Franklin Ind after his father Calvin Hanley wrote that he deserved the whipping Elijah gave him. The father says he had cruelly treated his wife and son for years and his conduct had grown worse. Dr Hanley said he had corporal punishment his father with a slave before the whipping. Dr Hanley was pastor of the Rothe rfeller Baptist Church in Cleveland.
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