Pacific fleet to visit Hawaii Samoa and Australia
Admiral Evans battleship fleet will sail from San Francisco on July 6 visiting Hawaii Samoa Melbourne and Sydney Australia Manila and the Philippines before returning to New York via the Suez Canal. Secretary Metcalf outlined the plan and noted possible Puget Sound and Vancouver stops en route home.
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Suez Canal
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Callao
Peru
Tool
Connecticut
Big Timber Fire Destroys Majority Of Montana Town
A fierce blaze swept three quarters of Big Timber Montana, destroying the courthouse jail city hall post office bank and several stores. Wind gale aided spread leaving about 300 families homeless and losses over 400000 with firefighting from Livingston arriving to battle the flames.
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Blaze
Northern Pacific
First National Bank
Big Timber
Sweet Grass County
Rothschild swindle arrest linked to cash register scheme
New York March 13 postal inspectors raided The Successful Business Man office at 302 Broadway and arrested M G Rothschild alias Abe Rothschild and Arnold G Cahn with Mrs Rothschild released. Investigators say 300000 circulars offered a year's subscription and a cash register for four dollars, netting about $7000 across accounts and 108 money orders seized.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Broadway
M. G. Rothschild
Abe” Rothschild
Arnold G. Cahn
Rothschild
New York Postoffice
Postoffice
Walter S. Mayer
Kincaid
Ruddy
Blythewood
Lakewood
N. J
Harlem
McConville
Nelson
Nea
Rothschild Co
Antat Asker
Abe’ Rothschild
Cincinnati
Conviction of Capitol Crafters in Pennsylvania Jury finds four guilty
Four men linked to Capitol fraud in Pennsylvania are found guilty after a seven week trial. John H. B. Sanderson contractor William P. Snyder former Auditor General W L Mathues former State Treasurer and James M. Shumaker former Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds face up to two years in prison and a $1000 fine. Prosecutors hailed the verdict as marking a major outcome in a case tied to a $5 million defrauding scheme and Capitol cost overruns.
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Capitol
John’ BH. Sanderson
William P. Snyder
W. L. Mathues
James’ M. Shumaker
Sanderson
Snyder
Pennsylvania
William H. Berry
Berry
State Treasury
Major Fire Devastates Bahia Business District
A large blaze sweeps Bahia Brazil damaging 35 buildings with losses over 1 million dollars. Reported fatalities occur as Bahia, a major Brazilian commercial hub exporting sugar cotton tobacco coffee cocoa rum and hides, faces extensive damage eight hundred miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro with a population above 200 000.
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Bahia
Brazil
Rio Janeiro
Night riders burned a barn near Lexington in Woodford County
A barn owned by John Grady on Versailles pike was burned by night riders feared to be returning from Lexington after the governors party saw a play. The incident follow s the defeat of the McChord bill and tobacco war tensions in the area. Police in Princeton warned of planned raids by tobacco men and increased patrols after tips from informants.
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Commercial Tribune
Lexington
John Grady
Versailles Pike
Woodford County
Fayette Line
Frankfort
Elmendorf
R. M. Squires
Willson
Squires
Princeton
Bowery
Farmersville
Ward Headley
Association
Chief Bowery
Damage suit seeks $100000 over 1902 Jackson assassination
Lexington Ky March 13 A $100000 damage suit against the late Judge James Hargis and his brothers Alex and Elbert by the Cox children claims responsibility in the assassination of Dr H D Cox at Jackson in 1902 the May term of the Circuit Court today.
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Commercial Tribune
Lexington
James Hargis
Alex
Elbert
Cox
Jackson
Miners Seek Talks to Avert April Strike
The United Mine Workers urge a wage scale discussion with operators in the Central Competitive District to avoid an April 1 work suspension that could affect thousands. A March 24 conference is planned, with telegrams sent to leading operators in the district.
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Commercial Tribunes
Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers of
Amé
Ieee
Seale "Coowatienee Miners’ ‘Organization
Hitchcock Not Guilty Belief of Girls Mother
Special Dispatch reports Mary Von Hagen, mother of Helen Von Hagen, testifies she believed Hitchcock did not wrong her daughter. Cross examination reveals a witness who contradicts grand jury minutes, while defenses probe prior associations and Gerry Society contacts. Court adjourns to Monday.
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New York
Mary von Hagen
Helen von Hagen
Raymond Hitchcock
Supreme Court
House of the Good Shepherd
von’ Hagen
Garvan
Carl’ Fisher-Hansen
John .B. Stanchfield
Flora Whiston
Mr. Stanchfield
Flora Marshall
Bella McKenzie
Gerry Society
Elsie Voecks
Great Neck
Johnson plans presidential HQs in Chicago with possible extensions
Gov Johnson may establish presidential headquarters in Chicago with potential expansion to New York and Washington. Frank A. Day and P B Lynch are in Chicago seeking rooms. Day is there for investigation but the governor says he is unsure if the HQ will open and dismisses involvement in any campaign line.
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Chicago
New York
Danatth
Csimercial Tribune
Roo Minn
Democratic State Central Committee
Johnson
Seven Die in Jail Escape Attempt at Orel
In Orel Russia on March 13 five condemned criminals led a mass breakout at the jail. They overpowered wardens and opened fire with rifles. Guards returned fire killing seven prisoners and wounding one. Two more inmates died in the ensuing blaze.
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Orel
Russia
Hollis Kills Wife After Dream Of Burglars
Hugh Hollis a Treasury Department clerk and former private secretary to the IRS commissioner shot his wife in their Newton Street home in Washington. He said he woke from a dream of burglars and said he knew nothing of the shooting until later. He had procured a revolver recently and left work to practice with it.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Hugh Hollis
Treasury Department
Louisville
Internal Revenue
Newton Street
Hollis
Ohio man commits suicide in Tiffin office tragedy
Louis Lorenzen, 40 years old and a subscription solicitor for The Daily Tribune, killed himself by drinking carbolic acid after bidding office staff farewell. He had just bought a $2,000 life insurance policy. No motive was found. He leaves a wife and ten year old sons.
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Commercial Tribune
Tiffin
Louis Lorenzen
The
Daily Tribune
Hite
Walsh Is Sentenced Five Years For Bank Funds Case
John R. Walsh former president of the Chicago National Bank was denied a new trial and sentenced to five years in Ft Leavenworth on illegal use of bank funds. Judge Anderson called the conduct a flagrant disregard of law and said Walsh served two masters, the bank and his own interests.
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Harry Smith
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