Gunboat duel near Central America escalates
A private dispatch from Mexico City dated March 13 reports Nicaragua and Salvador naval clash off Nicaragua. The Salvadorean gunboat Presidente allegedly crippled the Momotombo, which then withdrew and later pursued again. The Momotombo, crewed by American officers, is faster and may overtake the Presidente. Central American affairs are described as nearing epochal change.
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Mexico City
Nicaragua
Salvador
United States cuts ties with Nicaragua amid Zelaya unrest
Washington reports severed diplomatic relations with Zelaya regime after continued unrest and failure to address the Emery claim. The state department withdraws the American charge and places Managua legation under the consul with no diplomatic capacity. An armored cruiser stays off the west coast awaiting Yorktown while Dubuque and Tacoma cruise the Atlantic near Nicaragua and Honduras.
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United States
Zelaya
Washington
Nicaragua
Emery
State Department
Gregory
Managua
Legation
Yorktown
Dubuque
Tacoma
Honduras
Illinois Man Fires at Looters in Father’s Bank Vault
Illinois report from Galena says Harry Davis, a prominent local merchant, was shot and captured at 2 a.m. while attempting to blow open the Miners' State bank safe. His co-conspirator fled. Separate item from Rockford notes Charles Whiting firing on four men trying to loot his father’s Roscoe bank, while authorities search the area.
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Illnois
Galena
Kas
Harry Davis
Miners’ State Bank
Davis
Rockford, J
Charles Whiting
Roscoe
Rockford and Beloit
Landslides Kill Hundreds in Java Villages
Victoria B C March 13 news reports three villages buried by a mountain slide near Pendjolo Java. The event, described aboard the Empress of China, wiped out Tgiboeboehan and the towns of Wardengsite Tolokbangoe with hundreds dead and only four survivors. Tons of earth continued sliding as the steamer departed.
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Java
Victoria
B. C
Pendjolo
Kendjana
Tgiboeboehan
Wardengsite
Tolokbangoe
Wealthy family slain in Puebla fire at Serrano home
In Resurrection Puebla on March 13 seven members of Augustin Serrano's family perished when their house was burned by an incendiary attack. Police suggest either murder for robbery or a chloroformed group left to die, as investigators probe the deadly blaze.
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Puebla
Mexico
Resurrection
Milionaire
Augustin Serrano
Editorial Justifies Carmack Slaying in Self-Defense Claim
The editorial argues the slain Carmack case rests on self-preservation law. It states the defense will rest its argument as the author notes the speaker will close today while the state prepares its final rebuttal.
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Carmack
P. J. Kieran Indicted in Larceny Case
Pittsburg March 13 P J Kieran former president of the Fidelity Funding company has been indicted on embezzlement and larceny charges. The indictment rests on a note he is alleged to have written to Mother M Vincent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd.
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Pittsburg
P. J. Kieran
Fidelity Funding Company
M. Vincent
the Sisters of the Good Shepherd
Arkansas House Approves $10,000 Brinkley Relief Bill
The Arkansas lower house passed a bill to appropriate $10,000 to the Brinkley relief fund. Mrs. Clara Read, injured in the tornado and treated in Little Rock, has died, raising the total tornado deaths to thirty four.
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Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
Brinkley Relief Fund
Clara Read
Forty Thousand to March for Gompers in Boston
Boston prepares for the largest labor demonstration in its history as about forty thousand union members plan a parade followed by mass meetings to protest the contempt of court sentences against AFL leaders Samuel Gompers, James Mitchell, and William Morrison. Over 300 unions are expected to participate with events at Faneuil Hall and other venues.
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Boston
Gompers
Mitchell
Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Faneuil Hall
Accuses Rockefeller Liquor Man Seeks to Befog Agitation
Providence Rhode Island March 13 John D Rockefeller is accused of financing anti saloon agitation by William F Maines president of the Rhode Island Retail Liquor Dealers association He says the drive is largely artificial and funded by Rockefeller to distract from anti trust agitation.
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Providence
R. IL
John D. Rockefeller
William F. Maines
Rhode Island
Carnegie conversion urged over church education concerns
Dr. William H. Roberts of Philadelphia, clerk of the council of the Reformed Churches of America, said Carnegie is not a friend of Christian education or the churches and expressed hope he will be converted someday during remarks in New Orleans on March 13.
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Iron Master
New Orleans
Carnegie
William H. Roberts
Philadelphia
Council of the Reformed Churches of America
Interstate Commission to Inspect Air Brakes Data
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered rail carriers to report by May 1 the number of freight cars owned and equipped with air brakes and the share of air-braked cars in trains for the six months before March 1. A hearing is set for May 5 to discuss raising the minimum power-braked car percentage.
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Interstate Commission
Washington
The
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cuba Seeks Bullfighting Repeal in Cuba House
A bill to repeal General Woods' ban on bull fights was introduced in the Cuban house. The preamble argues that permitting cockfighting makes it unfair to the large Spanish element in Cuba to ban their national sport.
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Havana
General Woods
Cuba
Zeppelin Airship Reaches Record Height Over 3000 Feet
The Zeppelin airship rose from Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen and climbed to over 3000 feet, a record height for steerable balloons. It performed varied maneuvers at that altitude with great success.
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Zeppelin
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Lake Constance
Andersons Strong Plea in Carmack Murder Trial
In Nashville on March 13 Judge James McFerran Anderson opened the defense for Colonel Dun can B Cooper Robin Cooper and John D Sharp in the murder case of former Senator Co W Carmack. The defense asserts self defense and notes Anderson is a Carmack ally. The sixteen inch gun of the defense battery enters as argument begins.
Mine in New York Bay Found Near Connecticut Anchor
A submarine mine believed planted during the Spanish American War was found about a mile from the Connecticut’s anchorage in New York Bay. It did not appear to be a contact mine as the explosive wiring had been severed, implying likely harmlessness.
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Connecticut
New York
United States
Herschel Hogg Leaves Jail to Visit Family
Reelfoot Lake Tenn March 13 Herschel Hogg the confessed night rider who vanished from jail has surrendered stating he took a leave of absence to visit his family.
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Reelfoot Lake
Tenn
Herschel Hogg
Night Rider
Miners Insist on Recognition in Pay Talks
Philadelphia March 13 The second day of talks between miners and operators to secure a new agreement expired with no accord The central issue was recognition of the miners as representatives An operators offer to renew the current three year contract was rejected for written formalization The parties plan another conference before March 31 and a miners convention in a mining town to map further action.
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Gansiy
Dolnar
DeVore Club
DeVore
Lewis
Philadelphia
Oout
Mine Workers’ Committee
Operators’ Committee
Weekly Review of Trade Report Quiet Business
R G Dun and Co reports in its Weekly Review of Trade that milder weather may spark spring sales but overall business remains quiet. The west shows better conditions than the east, with dry goods distributors in the northwest and Missouri river regions reporting satisfactory trade while extreme dullness hits hides and leather markets and tariff legislation uncertainty weighs on hides.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
West
Northwest
Missouri River Territory
Picture Show Censors Form Trial Film Approval Board
New York March 13 The campaign against objectionable moving pictures leads to a voluntary censorship by consent of the Association of Moving Picture Exhibitors A five member censor board including local civic group representatives and a board of education member will review all films and songs before exhibition
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New York
Association of Moving Picture Exhibitors
Board of Education
Two Lies In a Life In Shaw's Armful of Malice
In this reading of George Bernard Shaw's play Agios gad the Mau, Bluntsehn and Raina dispute truthfulness revealing a sharp clash of wit and affection. Raina confronts Bluntsehi as he admits deception and wonders how she could have been fooled.
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Bluntsehn
Dubluushy
Raina
Raina Guperblys
Bluntsehi
Bluntsehli Gamineved
Raina Petkoff
Hest
G. B. Shaw
Agios Gad
Copenhagen Women Vote in Municipal Elections
Copenhagen reports successful municipal elections with women voters and women candidates participating. The new law grants the ballot to females over twenty five and to married women whose husbands are taxpayers, expanding suffrage in local government.
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Copenhagen
Date For Corn Show Fixed In Omaha Exposition
Omaha announces dates December 8 to 18 for this year’s national corn exposition to be held in the city.
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Omaha
Wife kills Stockman Metzel in Montana tragedy
In Twin Bridges, Montana on March 13 Thomas Metzel, a well known stock man, was shot and killed by his jealous wife in a domestic tragedy.
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Stockman Metzel
Twin Bridges
Mont
Thomas Metzel
Singular Wills Reveal Odd Bequests and Ironies
A British sailor’s will asks executors to gift his wife a shilling to buy hazelnuts for pleasure rather than mending stockings. A 1830 will leaves a widow $2,500 only after death for burial as his widow. A French merchant bequeaths a large fortune to a woman for her prior refusal to marry.
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Clus
DeVore Piano Co
Hettinger
Stephenson St
Freeport, Ill
Silverware
Freeport
Rogers
Holmes
Edwards
Koenig Furniture Co. House Furnishers
ODD_ ROCKERS
Washington Haas
Brinkley
Rockefeller
Rocker
Anderson
New York Bay
Weekly Review OF Trade
Dun’s Today
Cardus
Mt Cardui
Maxwell Johnson
Tampe, Fla
Cardui
Mrs. Johnson
Jenkin Brothers
Galena St
Knox’s
F. A. Schulz
Santos
Rio
Burrell Brothers
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