Striking Firemen Crisis Spurs Race Tensions on Queen & Crescent
A Southern railway strike turns violent as eight Black firemen and two White coworkers are shot and ten killed. Officials order white firemen only north of Chattanooga while physicians ride on trains to treat emergencies. Detectives guard cabs as crews fear ambushes between Somerset and Glen Mary, Kentucky.
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Commercial Tribune
Somerset
Queen & Crescent
Southern Railway
Here
Glen Mary
Fenn
James Carroll
Cincinnati
Johnson
Attanooga
Lo O
Tor
T.E. Griffin
S. S. Morrow
Dr. Kennedy
Dr. Moore
Chattanooga
Taft Resting After Strenuous Outing During Vacation
President Taft spent nearly four hours on the golf links marking a quiet day in Augusta while plans for his coming week remain unsettled. He did not begin work on his message to the extra session and may consider Walsh and Morse pardon case papers later.
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Augusta
Taft
Washington
Atlanta
Morse
Martin W. Littleton
Oyster Bay
Pardon Division
Department of Justice
Deputy Sheriff Hollaway Killed in Stearns Ambush
Special Dispatch reports H. M. Hollaway deputy sheriff was shot and killed tonight in Stearns Kentucky while guarding coal chutes. Deputy Lovett also killed in the ambush. Two negro firemen died late tonight at King's Mountain in their engine cabs.
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Commercial Tribune
Stearns
H. M. Hollaway
Lovett
King’s Mountain
Powell Denounces Someret Strike Report As Circumstantial
Vice President T C Powell criticizes the Somerset item as a highly circumstantial account of a supposed incident. The discussion cites a wounded negro fireman near Glen Mary and notes no guards on trains while authorities consider posse action and rewards.
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T. C. Powell
Queen & Crescent Line
Somerset
Longstance
Baker
Danville
Glen Mary
King’s Mountain
Glen Mery
Hirams
H. O. Teat
Order
An, D. C
Deat W. W. Finley
The
Queen
Officer shoots and kills ballplayer in Knoxville notes
In Knoxville Tennessee on March 12 Chief Fairbank a 23 year old from Minneapolis was shot and killed at Etowah by Deputy Sheriff T B Ivins who said he acted in self defense Fairbank had been in town for a month preparing for a coming season and was a known ballplayer.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Fairbank
Minneapolis
Etowah
T. B. Ivins
Fairbanks
Thieves burglarize Carnegie library in Marion
Special Dispatch to Commercial, Tribune reports the Carnegie public library was burglarized Sunday morning in Marion Ohio. A cash drawer containing $52.42 was taken while nothing else was disturbed. Entry was gained through a basement transom and three large panels of a middle door were broken.
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Commercial
Tribune
Marion, O
Carnegie Public Library
New York Chauffeurs Set for Citywide Strike Today
In New York 600 chauffeurs employed by the New York Cab company and the Taxicab Service company plan a walkout if an order from the chauffeurs union is followed. The strike, to be independent of Adams Express drivers, could spur a citywide taxi shutdown with wage demands of 2.55 dollars for twelve hours and 30 cents overtime.
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New York
Adams Express Company
Express
New York Cab Company
Taxicab Service Company
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Pastor Aked Denies Quarrel as He Resigns in San Francisco Call
The Rev. Charles F. Aked of Fifth Avenue Baptist in New York says reports of dissension are false and explains his decision to resign for a post at the First Congregational church in San Francisco. He notes four years on staff and prefers American church work over England.
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New York
Charles F. Aked
Fifth Avenue
Trial of Neapolitan Camorra Begins Amid Jury Evasions
In Viterbo Italy on March 12 the murder trial of Enrico Alfano and Camorra members opens with jury selection hindered by fear and evasion. Prospective talesmen flee or relocate, authorities threaten punishments, and the court may suspend proceedings as the risk from the Camorra disrupts the process.
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Viterbo
Italy
Enrico Alfano
Camorra
Talesmen
Bianchi
Mother Sees Tod Killed By Auto in Fatal Street Crash
A 45 year old mother witnessed her child struck and killed by a touring car on Central Avenue near Clinton Street. The chauffeur, Charles W Wright, was arrested after Patrolman Hemler intervened and escorted the car to the Fifth District station as a mob shouted threats and the mother endured a hospital ordeal.
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Central Avenue
Clinton Street
Esther Koffman
W. A. Leach
Elismbre Avenue
Norwood
Charles W. Wright
Calhoun Street
Leach
Central‘avenue
Ier
Ajso
Wright
Morris Lucas
Providence Street
Abe Kabakoff
Mound Street
Hemler
Fifth District
Hemier
Financial Interests Pressure Diaz Amid Mexican Crisis
Reports from New York and Mexico City allege powerful financiers, led by figures in New York and minister of finance Limantour, are pressuring President Diaz to crush the revolution. The clamor includes threats of harsh penalties, deployment of troops, and possible peace talks with the Madero faction as U.S. forces loom on the border.
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Mexico
Diaz
New York
Senor Limantour
Financial Kings
New. York
Madero
United States
Rio Grande
Roosevelt Ends Western Tour in Texas After Arrival
Colonel Roosevelt began the Western portion of his final speaking tour entering Texas by a special train. He traveled with Col. John N. Simpson of Dallas and Col. Cecil A. Lyon of Sherman, who also helped lead the trip from New Orleans. A crowd of about two thousand greeted the arrival at Beaumont depot. Roosevelt stated he would not meet with insurgent-linked Mexican representatives during the Texas leg, calling rumors of such a conference absurd.
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Taft
Congress
Gustavo
Madero
el Paso
Raoul
F. Vasquez Gomez
Washington
Beaumont
Tex
Roosevelt
Texas
John N. Simpson
Dallas
Cecil A.*lyon
Sherman
New Orleans
Simpson
Lyon
Oyster Bay
Secretary Dickinson Heads to Panama Canal Inspection
Secretary of War Dickinson left Washington for New York and will travel to Colon tomorrow to inspect the Panama canal. He is en route to the canal area.
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Washington
Dickinson
New York
Colon
Panama Canal
Baseball supremacy of Jackies settled
Havana March 12 The baseball championship of the Atlantic fleet was decided today with the Nebraska nine defeating North Dakota 10 to 0.
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Jackies
Havana
Atlantic
Nebraska
North Dakota
Archduchess Stephanie of Belgium Falls Ill in Zurich
Archduchess Stephanie Countess Lonyay, daughter of King Leopold of Belgium and widow of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria, is seriously ill in Zurich. Her condition causes grave anxiety among officials and relatives.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Stephanie
Longay
Leopold of
Belgium
Rudolph of
Austria
Mexico Officials Report Quiet Day Abroad
New York March 12 Senor Liman tour the Mexican minister of finance and Senor De La Barra the Mexican ambassador were without news today from home or Washington. They both spent a quiet day and neither made any statement. The insurrecto junta wrapped itself in calm rhetoric as rumors circulated.
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New York
Senor Limantour
Senor de la Barra
Washington
Insurrecto Junta
Japs Hold First Aeroplane Flight
Osaka Japan March 12 Bud Mars and Captain T 8 Baldwin American aviators completed three successful flights before 400000 spectators Prince Huniyoshi Kuni grandson of the emperor attended and praised the feats marking the first aviation demonstration in Japan.
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Osaka
Japan
Bud” Mars
T. 8
Baldwin
Huniyoshi “Kuni
Riot in Galveston Over Soldier Stabbing Sparks Fire
A race riot erupted in Galveston Texas after Winfield Joel a soldier from Fort Crockett was stabbed by a unidentified Black assailant. A Mexican and four Black residents were beaten a nearby house was burned police and fire crews struggled to control the mob and contain the fires. Joel who survived the chest wound was expected to recover while a local officer was injured.
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Galveston
Tex
Winfield Joel
Fort Crockett
Joel
144Th Company, Coast Artillery
Fort Moultrie
Charleston
S. C
Zealy Hospital
Soli Espe
Eleven Federal Soldiers Die in Mexican Border Battle
Eleven federal soldiers killed and eleven wounded in a clash east of Agua Prieta as Blanco forces attack. American volunteers aid the wounded. rebels retreat with several taken prisoner. more federal troops rushed from Cananea as tensions rise on the border.
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Johnson
Vasquez
Blanco
Agua Prieta
United States
Douglas
Jose DeLa Luzz Blanco
Mora
Bianco
Itig
Cananea
Agua, Prieta
Laborio Vasquez
Johnstone
Third
United States Cavalry
Caballona
Twenty-seventh Regiment
Manuel Robles
Twenty-seventh
Velegas
Silvestré Ramierez
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Arch Cook
Dean
Mrs. Taft
Miss Helen
Wickersham
John R. Walsh
Helen Taft
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Langdon Thomas
Powell
Marion
Rockefeller
Aked
Tot
Babe
Mob
Machine
de la Barra
New -York
Ambassador de la Barra
Francesco Gomez
Sherburne
Hopkins
Mexican Revolutionary ‘Party
Panama
Leopold
A’ N
Junta
U. S
Douglas, Ariz
Roinm
Medes
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